repent me of them, fince they have been innocent at leaft, and even ingenuous; and, what I am fondeft to recollect, have helped to enliven thofe many years of friendship we have paffed together in this place. I fee indeed, with regret, the approach of that time, which threatens to take me both from it and you. But, however fortune may difpofe of me, fhe cannot throw me to a distance, to which your affection and good wifhes, at leaft, will not follow me. :And for the reft, "Be no unpleafing melancholy mine." The coming years of my life will not, I forefee, in many refpects, be what the paft have been to me. But, till they take me from myself, I must always bear about me the agreeable remembrance of our friend fhip. CAMBRIDGE,. Aug. 15, 1757. I am, Dear Sir, Your most affectionate Friend and Servant. INDEX IN DE X TO THE THREE VOLUMES. A A. RT and NATURE, their provinces in forming a poet, vol. i. p. 271. AGLAOPHON, his rude manner of painting; why preferred to Parrhafius and Zeuxis, ii. 58. ANTIENTS, immoderately extolled, why, ibid. ATELLANE, fable, a fpecies of comedy, i. 182. different from the fatiric piece, 186. the Ofcan language ufed in it, 189. why criticized by Horace, 197. in what fenfe Pomponius the inventor of it, 188. AENEIS, prefigured under the idea of a temple, ii. 44. the deftruction of Troy, an episode, why, i. 122. ATHENAEUS, of the moralizing turn of the Greeks, i. 176. ALLEGORY, the diftinguished pride of ancient VOL. III. poetry, ii. 55. a fine inftance from Virgil, 44. of verbs, ii. 73. his Cato, defended, 74. not ANTIGONE, the chorus of it defended, i. 144. APOTHEOSIS, the ufual mode of flattery in the APHORISMS, Condemned in the Roman writers, ib. AUCTOR, AUCTOR ad Herennium, defines an aphorifm, i. 173. AUGUSTUS, fond of the old comedy, i. 223. n. B. BACON, lord, his idea of poetry, iii. 75. BALZAC, Mr. his flattery of LOUIS LE JUSTE, ii. 57. BENTLEY, Dr. corrections of his cenfured, i. 46. 84. 126. an interpretation of his confuted, 90. a conjecture of his confirmed, ii. 62. BEAUTY, the idea of, how diftinguished from the pathetic, i. 89. Bos, M. de, how he accounts for the effect of tragedy, i. 99. for the degeneracy of taste and literature, 263. what he thought of modern imitations of the ancient poets, iii. 126. BOUHOURS, P. his merit, as a critic, pointed out, ii. III. wherein cenfured, 113. BUSIRIS, in what fenfe a ridiculous character, i. 200. BRUYERE, M. de la, an obfervation of his concerning the manners, iii. 28. BRUMOY, P. his character, i. 115. commende the Athalie and Efther of Racine, 129. juftifies the chorus, ib. accounts for the fententious manner of the Greek ftage, 174, an obfervation R 2 of of his on the imitation of foreign characters, 243. C. CASAUBON, Ifaac, his book on fatiric poetry CHARACTER, the object of comedy, ii. 192. CHARACTERS, of comedy, general; of tragedy, CAESAR, C. Julius, his judgment of Terence, i 219. CRITICISM, the ufes of it, ii. 246. its aim, CICERO, M. Tullius, of the ufe of old words, i., 66. of feif-murder, 148. of poetic licence, 162. of the language of Democritus and Plate, CID, |