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INDE X.

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Abstract ideas

Bstract idea) defined iii. 402. of different kinds iii. 403. Abstraction) power of iii. 401. Its use iii. 402. 403. Abstract terms) ought to be avoided in poetry i. 294. iii. 198. Cannot be compared but by being per fonified iii. 6. Personified iii. 65. Defined iii. 402. The use of abstract terms iii. 405.

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Accent) defined ii. 361. The musical accents that are necessary in an hexameter line ii. 376. A low

Rules for ac How far af Accent and pause

word must not be accented ii. 405.
centing English heroic verse ii. 415
fected by the pause ii. 422. &c.
have a mutual influence ii. 428.

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Action) what feelings are raised by human actions i. 48.49.276. We are impelled to action by defire i. 55. Some actions are ultimate, some are means leading to an end i. 57. Actions great and elevated, low and groveling i. 276. Emotions occafioned by propriety of action ii. 13. Occasioned by impropriety of action ii. 14. Human actions produce a great variety of emotions ii. 28. Human actions considered with respect to dignity and meanness ii. 35. We are conscious of internal action

tion as in the head iii. 377. Internal action may
exist without our being conscious of it iii. 377.
Actor) bombast action i. 308. An actor ought to feel
the passion he represents ii. 153.

Admiration) defined i. 320.
Affectation) defined ii. 11.

Affection) to children accounted for i. 82. To blood-
relations accounted for i. 83. To property accounted
for i. 84. Affection to children endures longer
than any other affection i. 150. Opinion and be-
lief influenced by affection i. 199. Affection defi-
ned ii. 87. iii. 394-

Agamemnon) of Seneca censured ii. 193.
Agreeable emotions and passions i. 127. &c.
Alcestes) of Euripides censured iii. 286. 289.
Alexandre of Racine) censured ii. 177.

Allegory iii. 108. &c. More difficult in painting than

in poetry iii. 129. In an historical poem iii. 248.

All for Love) of Dryden censured ii. 202.
Ambiguity) occasioned by a wrong arrangement ii.
297.

Amynta) of Tasso censured ii. 167.
Amor patriæ) accounted for i. 88.

Amphibrachys ii. 460.

Amphimacer ii. 460.

Analytic) and synthetic methods of reasoning compa-

red i. 31.

Anapæstus ii. 460.

Anger) explained i. 95. &c.

Sometimes exerted a-
And even against things

gainst the innocent i. 191.
inanimate i. 191. Not infectious i. 221. Has no

dignity in it ii. 33-

Animals)
Animals) distributed by nature into claffes iii. 356.

Antibacchius ii. 460.

Anticlimax ii. 345.

Antispastus ii. 461.

Antithesis ii. 73. 262. Verbal antithesis ii. 268.

Apoftrophe iii. 87. &c.

Appearance) in poetry, things ought to be described

as they appear, not as they are in reality iii. 172. Appetite) defined i. 59. Appetites of hunger, thirst, animal love, arise without an object i. 73. Appetite for fame or esteem i. 237.

Architecture ch. 24. iii. 294. Grandeur of manner in architecture i. 294. The situation of a great house ought to be lofty ii. 7. A playhouse or a mufic-room fufceptible of much ornament ii. 9. What emotions can be raised by architecture iii. 297. Its emotions compared with those of gardening iii. 297. Every building ought to have an expreffion fuited to its destination iii. 298. 338. Simplicity ought to be the governing tafte iii. 300. Regularity ought to be studied iii. 301. External form of dwelling-houses iii. 324. Divisions within iii. 324. 340. A palace ought to be regular, but in a small house convenience ought chiefly to be studied iii. 326. The form of a dwelling-houfe ought to be suited to the climate iii. 327. Pro

priety ought to be studied in architecture iii. 338. Governed by principles which produce oppofite ef fects iii. 342. Different ornaments employed by it iii. 342. Allegorical or emblematic ornaments iii. 347. Architecture inspires a taste for neatness and

regularity iii. 350.

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Architrave iii. 344.

Ariosto) censured iii. 264.

Aristæus) the episode of Aristæus in the Georgics

cenfured ii. 457.

Army) defined iii. 405.

Arrangement) the best arrangement of words is to

place them as much as possible in an increasing se-
ries ii. 251.

Articulate sounds) how far agreeable to the ear ii.

240.

Artificial mount iii. 313.

Afcent) pleasant, but defcent not painful i. 273.

Athalie) of Racine censured ii. 193.

Attention) defined iii. 396. Impression which objects

make depends on the degree of attention iii. 396.
Attention not always voluntary iii. 398

Attractive emotions ii. 133.
Attractive object i. 226.

Attributes) transferred from one subject to another

iii. 100. &c.

Avarice) defined i. 52.


Avenue) to a house iii. 312.
Aversion) defined ii. 87. iii. 395.

Bacchius ii. 460.

Barren scene) defined iii. 266.
Base) of a column iii. 346.

Baflo-relievo iii. 347.

Batrachomuomachia) censured ii. 42.

Beauty, ch. 3. i. 241. Intrinfic and relative i. 244.

Beauty of fimplicity i. 247. of figure i. 248. of

the circle i. 251. of the square i. 251. of a regu-

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lar polygon i. 252. of a parallelogram i. 252. of
an equilateral triangle i. 253. Beauty, whether a
primary or secondary quality of objects i. 260. Dif-
tinguished from congruity ii. 8. Great beauty sel-
dom produces a conftant lover ii. 101. Beauty
proper and figurative iii. 388..

Belief) fortified by a lively narrative or a good histo-
rical painting i. 122. influenced by passion i. 196.
iii. 55. 89. influenced by propensity i. 199. in.
fluenced by affection i. 199.

Benevolence) joins with self-love to make us happy i.
228. inspired by gardening iii. 320..
Blank verse ii. 381.435. Its aptitude for inversion ii,
438. Its melody ii. 439. &c.

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Bombast i. 303. Bombast in action i. 308.
Burlesk) machinery does well in a burlesk poem i. 125.
Burlesk diftinguished into two kinds ii. 41.

Cadence ii. 348. 362.

Capital) of a column iii. 346.

Careless Husband) its double plot well contrived iii.

253.

Cascade i. 314.

Cause) resembling causes may produce effects that
have no resemblance: and causes that have no re-
semblance may produce resembling effects ii. 337.
&c. Cause defined iii. 406.

Chance) the mind revolts against misfortunes that hap-
pen by chance iii. 232.

Character) to draw a character is the master-piece of
description iii. 182.

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