235, 246
Lydgate, John, 255
Lyttelton, Lord, 243

_Macbeth_, Shakespeare's, 16, 118, 122, 229
Mackenzie, Sir George, 206
Malherbe, Chretien Guillaume de, 205
Mallet, David, 243
Mammon, 140, 172
Manoa, 51
Manso, 88
Marlowe, Christopher, 190
Marot, Clement, 173
Marvell, Andrew, 67, 73, 162, 256
Masson, Professor David, 133
Meredith, George, 118
Metaphors, Milton's use of, 13-14, 213, 234
Michael, 97, 129, 135, 156-57, 167, 253
"Miltonics," the, 245
Miracle plays, 101
Moloch, 140, 254
_Monstrous Regiment of Women_, Knox's, 142
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 57
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de, 62
More, Henry, 227
More, Sir Thomas, 57, 69
Morus, Alexander, 70
Moryson, Fynes, 15

_Nativity, Ode on the Morning of Christ's_, 181, 199
Nicodemus, Apocryphal Gospel of, 164
_Night Thoughts_, Young's, 243
_Nightingale, Sonnet to the_, 30

Occleve, Thomas, 255
_Odes_, Gray's, 238
_Olaus Magnus_, 100
_Old Wives' Tale_, Peele's, 185
_Original Poems_, Dr. Joseph Beaumont's, 176
Ovid, 206, 208

_Paradise Lost_, 28, 32, 45, 52, 58, 72-3, 79, 81 _seq._, 122-24, 127,
133, 140, 143, 150, 153, 158-64, 168, 176, 179, 188, 191, 195, 206,
208, 210, 213-14, 217, 223-24, 235, 237, 239-42, 245, 252, 254, 256
Characters of, 132-69
Chronology of, 110-11
Cosmography of, 107-10
Criticisms of, by Addison, 157-58
Bentley, 157
Coleridge, 127, 151, 173
De Quincey, 82, 103, 120, 192
Dryden, 240
Johnson, 127, 149, 175
Landor, 137, 212-13, 239
Pattison, 83, 101
Pope, 141
Voltaire, 84
Descriptive scenes in, 120-22, 155-58, 225-26
Sources of, 18, 95, 106
Theme of, 81-9, 91-4, 97-106, 127-28
Theology of, 85-7, 126-27, 128-32
Verse of, 179 _seq._, 191-98
_Paradise Regained_, 86, 120, 146-47, 158-59, 161, 163, 211, 228
Parker, Samuel, 67
Parliament, the Long, 56, 140
_Passion, The_, 181
Pattison, Mark, 54, 83, 101
Peele, George, 185, 190
Philips, John, 242, 244
Phillips, Edward, 160
_Phillips, Lives of Edward and John_, Godwin's, 185
Philosophical poetry, 227
_Pilgrim's Progress_, Bunyan's, 156
Pitt, Christopher, 242
_Platonick Song of the Soul_, More's, 227
_Pleasures of the Imagination_, Akenside's, 243
_Pleasures of Melancholy, The_, Warton's, 243, 245
Plutarch, 59
_Poetics_, Boileau's, 178
Pope, Alexander, 141, 203, 242, 247, 251-52, 254
Powell, Mary, 7, 54, 142, 260
_Power of Harmony, The_, Cooper's, 243
Prelatical controversy, 70
Proper names, po