Homer) defective in order and connection i. 27. His language finely fuited to his fubject ii. 348. His repetitions defended ii. 357. His poems in a great measure dramatic ii. 372. Cenfured ii. 392.

Hope i. 120.

Horace) defective in connection i. 27. His hexameters not melodious ii. 101. Their defects pointed out ii. 118.

Horror) objects of horror fhould be banished from poetry and painting ii. 366.

House) a fine houfe gives luftre to the owner i. 70. note. Human nature) a complicated machine i. 34.

Humanity) the fineft temper of mind i. 112.

Humour) defined i. 369. Humour in writing diftinguished from humour in character i. 360.

Hyperbole i. 243. ii. 259, &c.

Hippobachius ii. 179.

Iambic verfe) its modulation faint ii. 101.
Iambus ii. 178.

Jane Shore) cenfured i. 466. 478, 479.

Idea) not fo easily remembered as a perception is i. 170, 171. Succeffion of ideas i. 305. Pleasure and pain of ideas in a train i. 313, &c. Idea of memory defined ii. 511. Cannot be innate ii. 516. note. There are no general ideas ii. 516. note. Idea of an object of fight more distinct than of any other object ii. 518. Ideas diftinguished into three kinds ii. 520. Ideas of imagination not fo pleafant as ideas of memory ii. 525.

Ideal prefence i. 90, &c. raifed by theatrical reprefentation i. 96. raised by painting i. 96.

Ideal fyftem ii. 512. note.

Identity of a paffion or of an emotion i. 116.

Fet d'eau i. 253. ii. 442. 444, 445•

Jingle of words ii. 160. 169.

Iliad) criticifed ii. 406, 407.

Images) the life of poetry and rhetoric i. 93. 100. 238. Imagination) the great inftrument of recreation i. 272. Te give play to it has a good effect in gardening ii. 452. Its power in fabricating images ii. 519. 525. Agreeablenefs of ideas of imagination ii. 525.

Imitation) we naturally imitate virtuous actions i. 180. Not those that are vicious i. 181. Inarticulate founds imitated

in words ii. 83. None of the fine arts imitate nature except painting and fculpture ii. 3. The agreeableness of

imitation

imitation overbalances the difagreeableness of the fubject ii. 363. Distant and faint imitations difplease ii. 443, Impreffion) made on the organ of sense i. 1. ii. 509. Succeffive impreffions ii. 15, 16.

Impropriety) in action raises contempt i. 274. Its punish ment i. 343, 344.

Impulfe) a strong impulfe fucceeding a weak, makes a double impreffion: a weak impulfe fucceeding a ftrong, makes fcarce any impreffion ii. 16.

Infinite feries) becomes difagreeable when prolonged i. 294.

note.

Innate idea) there cannot be fuch a thing ii. 516. note. Instinct) we act fometimes by instinct i. 45, 46. 81, &c. Inftrument) the means or inftrument conceived to be the agent ii. 267.

Intellectual pleasure i. 2, 3.
Internal fenfe ii. 505.
Intrinfic beauty i. 197.

Intuitive conviction) of the veracity of our fenfes i. 88. of the dignity of human nature i. 354. ii. 494. of a common nature or standard in every species of beings M. 49°. of this ftandard being invariable ii. 491. and of its being perfect or right ii. 491. Intuitive conviction that the external figns of paffion are natural, and also that they are the fame in all men i. 440, 441.

Intuitive knowledge of external objects i. 88. Inverfion) and inverted ftyle described ii. 49, &'c. Inverfion gives force and liveliness to the expreffion by fufpending the thought till the clofe ii. 76. Inverfion how regulated ii. 81, 82. Beauties of inverfion ii. 81, 82. Inverfion fa vourable to paufes ii. 135. Full fcope for it in blank verse ii. 162.

Involuntary figns) of paffion i. 428. 433, 434.

Ionicus ii. 180.

Joy) its caufe i. 58. 120.

Infectious i. 180. Confidered

with respect to dignity and meannefs i. 357.

Iphigenia of Racine) cenfured i. 423.

Iphigenia in Tauris) cenfured i. 508. ii. 425, 426.

Irony) defined i. 374.

Italian tongue) too fmooth ii. 12. note. Italian words finely diverfified by long and short fyllables ii. 10. note.

Judgment and memory in perfection, feldom united i. 22. Judgment feldom united with wit i. 22.

Julius

Julius Cæfar) of Shakespear cenfured i. 491, 492.

Juftice) of lefs dignity than generosity or courage i. 355

Kent) his skill in gardening ii. 437.

Key-note ii. 94. 104.
Kitchen-garden ii. 430.

Knowledge) intuitive knowledge of external objects i. 88. Its pleasures never decay i. 418.

Labyrinth) in a garden ii. 444.

Landscape) why fo agreeable i. 128. 332. More agreeable when comprehended under one view ii. 441. A landscape in painting ought to be confined to a fingle expreffion i. 299. Contraft ought to prevail in it i. 319, 320. Language) power of language to raife emotions, whence derived i. 93. 100. Language of paffion ch. 17. Ought to be fuited to the fentiments i. 451. 496. 498, 499. broken and interrupted i. 496. of impetuous paffion i. 498. of languid paffion i. 499. of calm emotions i. 499. of turbulent paffions i. 499. Examples of language elevated above the tone of the fentiment i. 511. Of language too artificial or 100 figurative i. 512. too light or airy i. 513. Language how far imitative ii. 3. Its beauty with respect to fignification ii. 4, 5. 18, &c. Its beauty with refpect to founds i. 6, &c. It ought to correfpond to the fubject ii. 24. 342. Its ftructure explained ii. 44, &c. Beauty of language from a refemblance betwixt found and fignifloation ii. 3, 4. 83, &c. The character of a language depends on the character of the nation whofe language it is ii. 150. note. The force of language confifts in raifing complete images i. 100, 101. ii. 329. Its power of producing pleafant emotions ii. 362. Without language inan would fcarce be a rational being ii. 537.

Latin tongue) finely diversified with long and fhort fyllables ii. 168.

L'Avare) of Moliere cenfured i. 489.

Laughter i. 272.

Laugh of derifion or fcorn i. 344.
Law) defined i. 348.

Laws of human nature) neceffary fucceffion of perceptions i. 17. 305. We never act but through the impulse of defire i. 43. 181. An object loses its relish by familiarity i. 118. Paffions fudden in their growth are equally fudden in their decay i. 122.407. Every paffion ceases upon obtaining its

ultimate

ultimate end i. 123. An agreeable caufe produceth always a pleasant emotion, and a difagreeable caufe a painful emo

tion i. 182.

Laws of motion) agreeable i. 204.

Les Freres ennemies) of Racine cenfured i. 473.
Lewis XIV. of France) cenfured i. 335. note.

Lex talionis) upon what principle founded i. 297.

Line) definition of a regular line ii. 522.

Littleness) is neither pleasant nor painful i. 219. Is connected with respect and humility i. 429, 430. note. Livy) cenfured ii. 20.

Locke) cenfured ii. 513. note.

Logic) caufe of its obfcurity and intricacy i. 443.
Logio) improper in this climate ii. 459.

Love) to children accounted for i. 71. The love a man bears to his country explained i. 75. Love produced by pity i 79. Love gradual i. 118. It fignifies more commonly af fection than paffion i. 119. Love inflamed by the caprices of a mistress i. 122. Its endurance i. 123. To a lover abfence appears long i. 166. Love affumes the qualities of its object i. 180. when exceffive becomes felfifh i. 209. confidered with respect to dignity and meannefs i. 356. seldom conftant when founded on exquifite beauty i. 415. ill reprefented in French plays i. 486. when immoderate is filent i. 495.

Love for love) cenfured ii. 409.

Lowness) is neither pleafant nor painful i. 220.

Lucan) too minute in his descriptions i. 237. cenfured ii. 372.

Ludicrous i. 262. may be introduced into an epic poem i. 304.

Lutrin) cenfured for incongruity i. 338. characterised i. 367. Luxury) corrupts our taste ii. 500.

Machinery) ought to be excluded from an epic poem i. 102, 103. ii. 386. does well in a burlefque poem i. 103. Malice) how generated i. 119. Why it is perpetual i. 122. Man) a benevolent as well as a selfish being i. 184. fitted for fociety i. 192. Conformity of the nature of man to his external circumftances i. 220. 252. 257. 330. 446. Man intended to be more active than contemplative i. 358. The different branches of his internal conftitution finely fuited to each other ii. 463. 496.

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Man

Manners) grofs and refined i. 113. The bad tendency of rough and blunt manners i. 445. note. Modern manners make a poor figure in an epic poem ii. 383.

Manufactures) the effect of their productions with respect to morality ii. 453. note.

Marvellous) in epic poetry ii. 392.

Means) the means or inftrument conceived to be the agent ii. 267, &c.

Measure) natural measure of time i. 165, &c. of fpace, i. 173, &c.

Meaux) Bishop of, cenfured i.

300.

Medea) of Euripides cenfured ii. 424.

Melody or modulation defined ii. 99. diftinguished from harmony ii. 101. note. In English heroic verfe are four different forts of melody ii. 124. 149. Melody of blank verfe fuperior to that of rhyme, and even to that of hexameter ii. 163.

Members of a period) have a fine effect placed in an increafing feries ii. 16, 17.

Memory) and judgment in perfection feldom united i. 22. Memory and wit often united i. 22. greater with respect to perceptions than ideas i. 171. Memory ii. 511.

Merry wives of Windfor) its double plot well contrived ii. 399-Metaphor ii. 275, c. In early compofitions of nations we find metaphors much ftrained ii. 284.

Metre ii. 119.

Mile) the computed miles are longer in a barren than in a populous country i. 171.

Milton) his ftyle much inverted ii. 163. The defect of his verfification is the want of coincidence betwixt the pauses of the fenfe and found ii, 167. The beauty of Milton's comparifons ii. 196, 197.

Moderation in our defires contributes the moft to happiness i. 209.

Modern manners) make a poor figure in an epic poem ii. 383.

Modification) defined ii. 529.

Modulation defined ii. 99.

Moloffus ii. 178.

Monofyllables) English, arbitrary as to quantity ii. 121.

Moral duties. See Duties.

Morality) a right and a wrong tafte in morals ii. 492. Aberrations from its true ftandard ii. 498.

Moral