Painting, 445, 447, 448, 459, 461, 462.
how it differs from poetry, 404. its mi-
gration, 514. Landscape, 526.
Pancirollus, 505, 533.
Paradise Lost, injuriously treated, 398.
quoted, 526.
Παρήχησις, παρομοίωσις, explained, 415.
Passions, tragic, what, 430.
Past times, preferred to present by Virgil,
534. by Homer, ibid. by Horace, 535.
by Juvenal, ibid. fact denied by Orosius,
ibid. and in appearance, with just founda-
tion, ibid.
Patience, generous, 491. See Averroes.
Paul, Saint, at Athens, 464.
Paulus Jovius, 527.
Pausanias, 462.
Peircefield, 526, 528.
Pericles, adorns Athens, 459.
Period, its character and utility, 416.
ПEρITÉTELα. See Revolution.
Persians, called Barbarians, both by Greeks
and Arabians, 484.
Peter the Great, of Russia, his amazing ef-
forts to civilize his empire, 548. founds
learned academies, both at St. Petersburg
and Moscow, ibid.
Petrarch, 499, 518, 528.
Pharezdacus, sword of, 485.
Pococke, the great Orientalist, 484, 485,
486, 496.
Poetry, of the Arabians, 484-487. of the
latter Latins, 515–521.
Poets, minor, Leo, 516. Bernardus Morla-
nensis, 517. Odilo, ibid.
Poictou, count of. See William.
Political verses, what, 409, 410.
Polydore Virgil, 533.
Polygnotus, painter, 445, 459.
Pompey, Cæsar, 463.
Pontanus, his account of alliteration, 414.
Pope, poet, 416. and a critic also, 392.
Portico, the place where Zeno taught, 461.
painted by Myro and Polygnotus, 462.
the subjects of their pictures, ibid. how
long the pictures lasted, ibid.
Potter's Arch. Græc. 461.
Praise of times, a species of it ill founded,
535. refuted, how, 536, 537. a just
comparison of times to be formed, how,
537.
Precedence, or order of the constitutive
parts of the drama-the fable first, 445,
446. next, the manners, 446. then the
sentiment, ibid. lastly, the diction, ibid.
Prefaces, two excellent ones of Ammonius,
457.
Present times, compared with past, 534.
Phidias, architect and sculptor to Pericles, Prideaux, bishop, 508.
Philanthropy. See Addison.
Philelphus, his account of the Greek lan-
guage of Constantinople in its last times,
475. of the pure Greek, then spoken at
the court, and by the women of quality
in particular, ibid.
Philology, its rise, 387.
Philoponus. See John the Grammarian.
Philosopher, self-taught, 485.
Philosophy, first, 392.
Philosophy and letters, cultivated most,
when, 459, 478.
Philosophy, its rise, 387. its fall, 457.
Photius, character of his work and himself,
469.
Physicians, Greek, translated into Arabic,
552.
Piety, destroyed, how, 538, in what it con-
sists, 539.
Pinelli, a printer at Venice, 410.
Places where the philosophers taught, 461,
462. See Academy, Lycæum, Portico.
Planudes, a Greek monk, studied the Latin
classics, 470. published an Anthology, ib.
Plato, a critic, as well as philosopher, 389.
mentioned, 460. taught in the academy,
461. saying of, 506. translated into
Arabic, 540.
Pleasure, its estimate by Epicurus, 461.
Pliny, 405, 462, 528.
Plutarch, Arabian historians like him, how,
480. quoted, 453, 459, 463, 492, 548,
549.
Priests of Egypt, the consequence of their
leisure, 530.
Priscian, 471.
Printing, 499, 533.
Pronunciation, 405, 408. its importance,
420.
Prose, how decorated, 406, 408, 414. its
peculiar feet, what, 407, 408, 413, 414.
bad writers of it, both in Latin and in
Greek, 410.
Proteus, his fine song, 473.
Psellus, Michael, an able scholar, 469. said
to have commented Menander, ibid.
Pun, described, 443. pun from Horace,
ibid. from Homer, 444. from the em-
peror Charles the Bald, 487.
Quantity verbal, 405. differs from accent,
how, ibid. quantity accentual usurped
the place of syllabic, when and why,
408-410.
Quintilian, a eritic, 390. his character as
such, ibid. quoted, 404, 406, 408, 417,
418, 420.
Quixote, don, a character not merely ima-
ginary, 530. made probable, how, ibid.
resembled by whom, ibid.
Raphael, 453.
Readings, various. See Various.
Refinement, no good from too much, 404.
Regulus, 401.
Revolution, dramatic, wepiwéteia, described,
429, 431, 446.
Reynolds, sir Joshua, 392.
Rhetoric, cultivated by the Greek philoso-
phers, why, 460, 461. that and logic
elegantly illustrated, 460.
Rhyme, differs from rhythm, how, 515. its
origin, description, and use, ibid. samples
of it, 516, 517. not unknown to the
capital classics, though perhaps casual,
516.
Rhythm, 406. differs from metre, how,
ibid. constitutes musical time, both the
common and triple, ibid. 407. differs
from rhyme, how, 515.
Richard Cœur de Leon, a troubadour poet,
503. his name of Lion given to other
heroes, 511. preferred by Bohadin to
his colleague, the king of France, ibid.
intercourse between him and Saladin,
ibid. his letter to Saladin, 512. Saladin's
answer, ibid. Richard basely seized by
a duke of Austria, and redeemed, 513.
his death, and generous behaviour to the
person who had mortally wounded him,
ibid.
Richard the Third, of Shakspeare, 418.
his manners, both morally and poetically,
bad, why, 435. See Macbeth.
Robert of Reading, and Adelard, two
learned monks, 488.
Roger de Hoveden, 513.
Roman empire, Western and Eastern, 454.
different duration of the one and the
other, ibid.
Rome, 454, 465, 471, 507.
Roscommon, lord, 392.
Rufus, William, 505. sample of his man-
ners, ibid. laughs at a monk, ibid.
Rules, defended, 448-452. rules or ge-
nius, which of the two prior, 450.
Russia, short account of its princes, and
their efforts to civilize, till the time of
Peter the Great, 546-548. the acade-
mies founded there by that great prince,
549. various publications from the press
there in Greek and Latin, 548-551.
Virgil's Georgics published there in
Greek hexameters, and a sample given,
550.
Sæculum Obscurum, Ferreum, &c. 456.
Saladin, his extraordinary character and
behaviour under a variety of incidents,
480-484. his affability, 480. his con-
versation, 481. his justice, ibid. his se-
verity, 481, 482. 483. his liberality,
483, 484. his contempt of money, ibid.
his intercourse and correspondence with
Richard Cœur de Leon, 511-513.
Salisbury cathedral, its elegance, 513.
Salisbury, John of. See John.
Salvator Rosa, 403, 526.
Samson, Agonistes, 430, 446.
Sanctius, a capital grammarian, account of
him, 393.
Sannazarius, his fine eclogues, 519. lived
at the beginning of a better and improv-
ing age, 520. describes his beautiful
villa, 527.
Saunderson, bishop, three books he always
studied, and had with him, what, 508.
Scholiasts, 391, 469, 476.
Schoolmen, their age, 508. their character,
ibid. their titles, ibid.
Schultens, 478, 484.
Scribleriad, fine quotations from, 520, 521.
Scriptor ad Heren, 415, 416, 420, 438.
Self, no man quotes himself for a villain,481.
Selim, emperor, 496.
Sentences, 416, 417. rule for compound
sentences, 417.
Sentiment, in a general sense, diávoia, 436,
437. in a more limited sense, γνώμη,
437, 438. sentiment in a general sense,
illustrated by examples, 437. in a more
limited sense, illustrated by examples,
437-439. without a reason, and with
one, 438. some, of evil tendence, ibid.
Severity. See Saladin, 481, 483.
Shaftesbury, lord, a critic, 392, 401. his
rule about monosyllables, 417.
Shakspeare, quoted, 403, 415, 416, 430,
438, 439, 442. his merit and demerit,
whence, 450-452. reasons Socratically,
though probably ignorant of Socratic rea-
soning, 451. quoted, ibid. 503. his pa-
troness, who, 394.
Simonides, 443.
Simplicius, 457.
Socrates, 459, 460.
Socratic reasoning, in Shakspeare, in Xe-
nophon, in Aristotle, 451. its mode, ibid.
Solomon, 485. thought a magician for his
wisdom, ibid.
Sophist, able decision of, 499.
Sophocles, 400, 430, 450, 452, 455, 459,
469, 470.
Speech, perfect coincidence of all its parts,
Spencer, 415, 416.
Spelman, 455, 531.
Spon, 467.
Statues, fine Grecian ones, destroyed by the
barbarian Crusade, when they sacked
Constantinople, 472. the statues enume-
rated and described. See Nicetas.
Style, its importance, 417. defended against
vulgar objections, 418, 419, 461.
róa. See Portico.
Stobæus, character of his work, 468, 469.
Stoic philosophy, 460, 485, 487.
Stories, strange, see Tales, 465, 470, 471.
Strabo, fine MS. of, at Moscow, 551.
Strageris, the ancient Stageira; the city
where Aristotle was born and buried,
523.
Stuart, (Antiquities of Athens,) 459, 466,
Suidas, emended ably by Toupe, 396, 465.
character of his work, 468, 469.
Sultan of Egypt, fine story of him and his
vizir, 494.
Sydenham, excellent translator, why, 395.
Sylla, his cruelty and devastation at Athens,
463.
Synesius, 462, 466.
Tacitus, 458.
Tales, Arabian and Turkish, 484.
Tales, absurd and strange, 493, 498, 499.
their estimate, see Bacon, lord Verulam.
Taste, to be acquired, how, 401, 453. rose
in the West of Europe, through what
causes, 477. See below, Vulgar.
Taylor, 397.
Tempe, Thessalian, 525.
Terence, 410, 430.
Vaucluse, the delight of Petrarch, 528.
Verses Leonine, 455, 507, 516, 517.
Versus Politici, 409, 410.
Virgil, 395, 397, 401, 402, 403, 407, 414,
435, 452, 454, 473, 499, 516, 519, 525,
533, 534, 539, 543. curious account of a
various reading in him, from A. Gellius,
396. quoted, 543. sample of his Georgics
in Greek hexameters, 550.
Virtue, how estimated by Zeno, 460. how
by Epicurus, 461.
Ulysses, 441.
Vulgar, their admiration, whence, 401. their
taste, for what, 525.. (See Ox and Ass.)
true taste, to them incomprehensible, 526.
Terminus, the god, enigma concerning him, Wallis, 488.
Tragic drama, differs from epic, how, 427.
its proper character, 430. tragic passions,
what, ibid.
Translation and translators, 394, 395. three
capital ones, (Casaubon, Carter, Syden-
ham,) and why, 395. others, respectable,
ibid.
Triclinius, scholiast, 470.
Troubadours, character of those poets, and
the subjects of their poetry, 502. princes
were of the number. See Richard Cour
de Leon and William of Poictou, 503.
etymology of the name, 502. mentioned,
517.
Troy, its taking, 402, 404, 477.
Truce of God, what, 531.
Truth, immutable, 450, 452. in truth rules
and genius coincide, 452.
Walsingham, historian, 455.
War, holy, 482, 501, 532. See Crusades,
Crusaders.
Warton, Dr. Warton and brother, both Eng-
lish critics, 394.
Waverly, historian, 516.
Westminster, that and Oxford, places of
education from high antiquity, 501.
Wheeler, the traveller, 467.
Whole and parts, 389, 399, 419. a whole
described, 421. beginning, middle, and
end, defined, ibid. whole illustrated from
Euclid, ibid. from Virgil's Georgics, 421
-424. from the Menexenus of Plato,
424. from a modern sonnet, 425, 426.
ought to pass through all written compo-
sitions, as it passes through all nature,
425.
William, duke of Normandy, the Conqueror,
visits the Confessor, Edward, ibid. pre-
fers Ingulphus in the church, ibid. 501.
his character, 504. his taste, ibid. 505.
his spirited reply, 505. speech to his son
Henry, 506.
William, count of Poictou, a troubadour,
503. his licentious manners, ibid. his
treatment of two bishops, ibid. at last
turns bigot, ibid.
Women of quality, purity of their Greek at
Constantinople during a late age, and of
their Latin at Rome during the republic,
475. many women famous for literature
among the Arabians, 542.
Wyvil, bishop of Salisbury, 455.
Turks, 476, 542. Turkish envoy, story of, Xenophon, his instance of Socratic reason-
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