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 *Holborn, 83. writes in justification of the king's murder, ibid. writes remarks on the articles of peace between Ormond and the Irish rebels, ibid. suspected of having interpolated the Icon Basilike, 84. answers Salmasius's Defensio Regis, 85. his blindness laid to the charge of Salmasius's book, 86. loses his wife in childbed, 87. marries a daughter of captain Woodcock, who also dies in childbed in the first year, ibid. various answers to the Defensio Populi, ibid. writes his Defensio Secunda, 88. instance of his flattery to Cromwell, ibid. supposed to have written the declaration of the reasons for a war with Spain, 89. attempts to collect a Latin dictionary, which is afterwards made use of in a new edition of Littleton, ibid. compiles a history of England to the conquest, 90. designs his Paradise Lost, ibid. sketch of the original plan, 91. continues to write in favour of a commonwealth, even to within a few weeks of the restoration, 95. at the restoration concealed himself in Bartholomew close, ibid. his defence burned by the common hangman, 96. his prosecution stopped by the intercession of Davenant, whose life Milton had saved, 97. removes to Jewin street, and marries Elizabeth Minshul, 98. is said to have had an offer of continuing in his place, ibid. Accidence commenced Grammar, 1661, 99. employs Elwood the quaker to read Latin to him, ibid. takes a house in Artillery walk, ibid. wrote his Paradise Lost only between the autumnal and vernal equinoxes, 101. was of opinion that the world was in its decay, 102. imagined the climate too cold for flights of imagination, ibid. his daughters were not taught to write, 104. lives unmolested after the restoration, 106. retires to Chalfont during the plague, ibid. the next year returns to Bunhill fields, ibid. a complete copy of Paradise Lost first seen, 1665, ibid. obtains a license, and sells the copy for five pounds, and five pounds at the sale of one thousand three hundred copies of each of the first three editions, ibid. causes of the supposed neglect of the Paradise Lost, 107. books of various languages read to him by his daughters and friends, 109. publishes his history of England three years after Paradise Lost, ibid. publishes Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, in the same year, 110. publishes his Artis Logicæ plenior Institutio, 1672, 111. publishes a Treatise on true Religion, etc. ibid. reprints his juvenile poems with some additions, ibid. his last publication was Familiar Epistles in Latin, some academical exercises, ibid. died Nov. 10, 1674, and buried at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, 112. a monument erected to his memory in Westminster abbey by Mr. Benson, ibid. his person described, ibid. his domestick habits described, ibid. his salary, as Latin secretary, two hundred pounds a year, 114. received one thousand pounds, for his Defence of the People, and lost very considerable sums of money, ibid. left one thousand five hundred pounds to his widow, ibid. account of his great learning, ibid. his theological opinions, 115. his political notions, 116. he thought woman made only for obedience, and man for rebellion, ibid. account of his family, ibid. Comus acted April 5, 1750, for the benefit of a granddaughter of Milton. Dr. Johnson wrote a prologue, 118. account of his poetical works, ibid. character of his Lycidas, 119. character of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, 121. many of their images borrowed from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 122. Masque of Comus characterized, 123. his Sonnets characterized, 125. his Paradise Lost characterized, ibid. his Paradise Regained characterized, 139. his Samson Agonistes characterized, ibid. Philips's Parody on him characterized, 233. his Paradise Lost becomes popular through Addison's remarks, 471.

Mince pies and plumporridge, animosities excited by the use of, vii. 153.

Mind, the productions of, proceed step by step, v. 372. the freest part of man, 391. the tranquillity of it, from what sources generally derived, ii. 25. its extensive powers displayed, 201. the rise and progress of its dispositions and faculties, iii. 216. shown in the gradations from pleasure to ambition and avarice, 219. the medicines most suitable to its distempers, often unpleasing to the taste, 255.

Mines, alone, not the source of wealth, v. 317.

Minim, Dick, his history, iv. 325. his opinion of many of the poets, 326. becomes a critick, 328. forms a plan for an academy of criticism, 329. presides in a critical society, 330. his advice to a student, 331.