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 Curiosities, the extravagant love of, exposed, iv. 315. arts practised by collectors, 316. the advantage of collections made with prudence, 317.

Curll, Mr. called before the lords for publishing letters between Pope and several noblemen, and discharged, viii. 281.

Custom, to conquer it requires the utmost efforts of fortitude and virtue, iv. 229. the folly of continuing bad ones, and the difficulty of breaking them, 230.

Cymbeline, observations on Shakespeare's play of, v. 172.

Dæmonologie, system of, adopted by such as courted the favour of king James, v. 57.

Davenant, sir William, his life saved by the intercession of Milton, who is afterwards saved by the intercession of Davenant, vii. 97. in conjunction with Dryden, alters Shakespeare's Tempest, 252. the quickness of his fancy, ibid.

Davideis, written by Cowley when at Cambridge, vii. 3. designed to be extended to twelve books, only four of which were completed, 42. various specimens of, 43. said by Rymer to be superior to the Jerusalem of Tasso, 47.

Dead, prayer for, propriety of, ix. 194. apparitions of the dead, discussed, 197.

Deaf and dumb, account of Braidwood's academy at Edinburgh for, ix. 160.

Death, a voyage, vii. 25. the due contemplation of, a proper method for suppressing fear, ii. 85. the instructions arising from the near views of it, 259. the dispositions of mind suitable to that instructive and awful season, 261, 262. the different sentiments we then form of men and things; and particularly as to friends, rivals, and enemies, ibid. the immediate effects of death awful and important, 367. the impressions made by it too generally transient, 368. the remembrance of it when it predominates in our minds a great and animating incentive to virtue, 369. considerations on it, v. 164. the desire of the most decrepid to live one year longer, and the credit they give to it, iv. 271. as described by the author of the Origin of Evil, vi. 61.

Debtors, considerations on the imprisonment of, iv. 213. creditors' reasons for imprisonment of, ibid. should be obliged to surrender their property, 214. frequently occasioned by compulsive traffick, 215. he who trusts a man he designs to sue, is criminal, 215. loss to the community by their imprisonment computed, 260. more confined in England than in the monasteries in other countries, 262. other mischiefs of imprisonment, ibid. the infamy ought to be transferred from the unfortunate debtor to the remorseless creditor, 263. the miserable life they lead, iv. 14. the danger of being bail for, exemplified in the character of Serenus, 35.

Dedications. v. 430. Dr. James's dictionary, ibid. the Female Quixote, 431. Shakespeare illustrated, 432. Payne's game of draughts, 435. evangelical history of Christ, 436. Angell's stenography, 440. Baretti's dictionary, 441. Kennedy's chronology, 442. Hoole's Tasso, 443. Gwynn's London and Westminster improved, 444. Ascham's works, 445. Adams on the globes, ibid. bishop Pearce's works, 447.

Definition, in what respect not the province of man, iii. 93. the neglect of it prejudicial to the writers of plays, 94.

Dejection of spirit frequently increased by vain terrours, ii. 282.

Demochares, his character, ii. 478.

Denham, sir John, born at Dublin in 1615, vii. 57. son of sir John Denham of Essex, chief justice of the exchequer in Ireland, and afterwards one of the barons of the exchequer in England, ibid. educated in London, and went to Oxford, 1631, ibid. more given to dice and cards that study, ibid. removed to Lincoln's inn, ibid. divides his study between law and poetry, ibid. employed in carrying on the king's correspondence, 58. conveys James duke of York from London into France, ibid. resides in France, 59. the remains of his estate sold by parliament, ibid. rewarded for his loyalty by being made surveyor of the king's buildings, and knight of the Bath, ibid. died March 19th, 1688, and buried in Westminster abbey near Cowley, 60. his character as a poet, ibid.

Dennis, John, enraged by Pope's Essay on Criticism, viii. 240. attacks the Rape of the Lock, and the Temple of Fame, 247. Pope writes a narrative of his frenzy, 248. attacks Addison's Cato, vii. 456. Savage's epigram on him, viii. 128.