friendship we have passed together in this place. I see indeed, with regret, the approach of that time, which threatens to take me both from it, and you. But, however fortune may dispose of me, she cannot throw me to a distance, to which your affection and good wishes, at least, will not follow me.
"Be no unpleasing melancholy mine.”
The coming years of life will not, I foresee, in many respects, be what the past have been to me. But, till they take me from myself, I must always bear about me the agreeable remembrance of our friendship.
CAMBRIDGE, Aug. 15, 1757.
ADDISON, Mr. his judgment of the double sense of verbs, i. 359. his Cato, defended, 102. not too poetical, ib. its real defects, ib. his criti- cism on Milton proceeds on just principles, 393. how far defective, 396.
AENEIS, prefigured under the idea of a temple,
i. 333. the destruction of Troy, an episode, why, i. 139.
AGLAOPHON, his rude manner of painting; why preferred to Parrhasius and Zeuxis, i. 346. ALLEGORY, the distinguished pride of ancient poetry, i. 343. a fine instance from Virgil, 333. ANCIENTS, immoderately extolled, why, i. 346. ANTIGONE, the chorus of it defended, i. 158. APHORISMS, condemned in the Roman writers, i,
184. why used so frequently by the Greeks, 185. APOLLONIUS Rhodius, why censured by Aristopha- nes and Aristarchus, i. 267.
APOTHEOSIS, the usual mode of flattery in the Au- gustan age, i. 333.
ARISTOTLE, his opinion of Homer's imitations, i. 67. of Euripides, 116. of the business of the chorus, 145. of the sententious manner, 186. his fine Ode, corrected, 188. n. translated, 189. of the origin of tragedy, 194. a passage in his poetics explained, 123. his censure of the Iphigenia at Aulis, considered, 131. he was little known at Rome in Cicero's time, 191. why Horace differs from him in his account of Aeschy- lus's inventions, 240. a supposed contradiction between him and Horace reconciled, 263. his judgment of moral pictures, 375. his admiration of an epithet in Homer, on what founded, ii. 126. ART and NATURE, their provinces in forming a poet, i. 273.
ATELLANE FABLE, a species of Comedy, i. 192.
different from the satyric piece, 195. the Oscan language used in it, 198. why criticised by Ho- race, 206. in what sense Pomponius, the In- ventor of it, 198.
ATHENAEUS, of the moralizing turn of the Greeks, i. 187.
AUCTOR ad Herennium, defines an aphorism, i. 184. AUGUSTUS, fond of the old Comedy, i. 228. n.
BACON, Lord, his idea of poetry, ii. 178.
BALZAC, Mr. his flattery of LOUIS LE JUSTE, i. 344,
BEAUTY, the idea of, how distinguished from the pathetic, i. 110.
BENTLEY, Dr. corrections of his censured, i. 71, 72, 106, 142. an interpretation of his confuted, 110. a conjecture of his confirmed, 349.
Bos, M. de, how he accounts for the effect of Tra- gedy, i. 119. for the degeneracy of taste and literature, 264. what he thought of modern imi- tations of the ancient poets, ii. 224.
BOUHOURS, P. his merit as a critic, pointed out, i. 393. wherein censured, 395.
BRUMOY, P. his character, i. 133. commends the
Athalie and Esther of Racine, 145. justifies the chorus, ib. accounts for the sententious manner of the Greek stage, 185. an observation of his on the imitation of foreign characters, 247. BRUYERE, M. de la, an observation of his concern- ing the manners, ii. 135.
BUSIRIS, in what sense a ridiculous character, j.
CAESAR, C. Julius, his judgment of Terence, i. 225. CASAUBON, Isaac, his book on satyric poetry re- commended, i. 194. an emendation of his con- firmed, 208.
CHARACTER, the object of comedy, ii. 56. of what sort, 40. of what persons, ib. plays of, in what faulty, 48. instances of such plays, 53.
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