TERENCE, why his plays ill received, i. 224. fell short of Menander in the elegance of his expres- sion, 225: a remarkable instance of humour in the Hecyra, ii. 62. the characteristic of his co- medies, his Hecyra vindicated, i. 354, 355. a passage in his Andrian compared with one in Shakespear's Twelfth-Night, ii. 144: his opinion of the necessary uniformity of moral description, 194. TRAGEDY, the Author's idea of, ii. 30. conclusións, concerning its nature, from this idea, 31. attri- butes, common to it and comedy, 42. attributes peculiar to it, 45.
admits pure poetry, i. 101. why its pa- thos pleases, 119. on low life, censured, ii. 84. a modern refinement, 86. accounted for, 87. TRAPP, Dr. his interpretation of communia, i. 134. his judgment of the chorus, 146.
TRUTH in POETRY, what, i. 255. may be followed too closely in works of imitation, ib.
VARRO, M. Terentius, assigns the distinct merit of Cæcilius and Terence, i. 353.
VATRY, Abbé, his defence of the ancient chorus, i. 148.
VICTORIUS, of the satyric Metre, i. 219.
VIRGIL, his method in conducting the Aeneis justi- fied, i. 139. his address in his flattery of Augus
tus, 332., his introduction, to the third Georgic explained, 333. three verses in the same, spu- rious, 341. n. his moral character, vindicated, 403. his poetical, vol. ii. Discourse on poetical imitation, throughout; his book of games defend.. ed from the charge of plagiarism, 187. why few comparisons in his works, but what are to be found in Homer, 201.
UNCTI, the meaning of, in the Epistle to Augustüs, i. 349.
VOLTAIRE, M. de, his judgment of machinery, what, ii. 166. n.
UPTON, Mr. his criticism on the satyrs, examined, i. 202.
WARBURTON, Mr. his edition of Mr, Pope; Intr. to i. 26. and of Shakespear, Ded. to Epistle to Au- gustus, 287. and 80. his judgment of the intricacy of the comic plot, ii. 39. of the scene of the drama, 55. of comic humour, 61. of the double sense in writing, i, 365. of the similarity in reli- gious rites, ii. 165.
WHOLE, its beauty consists not in the accurate finishing, but in the elegant disposition, of the parts, i. 69.
WIT, ancient, licentious, i. 230, why, 231. 1. WORDS, old
ones, their energy, how revived, i. 89.
XENOPHON, an elegant inaccuracy in a speech in the Cyropaedia, i. 99. n. his fine narration of a circumstance in the story of Panthea, unsuited to the stage, 143. his symposium explained, 235. n. a conversation on painting from the Memorabilia, translated, 375.
ZEUXIS, his pictures, in what repute under the Em- perors, i. 346.
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