agic
characters, 249; should be nursed in the laps of queens, 250;
anecdotes of, 250-251.
ADDISON, silent among strangers, i. 104.
ADRIANI, his continuation of Guicciardini's History, iii. 180.
ADVICE, good, of a literary sinner, i. 350.
AGATES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244.
AGOBARD, Archbishop of Lyons, i. 21, and note.
AGREDA, Maria, wrote the Life of the Virgin Mary, i. 367.
ALBERICO, vision of, ii. 422.
ALBERTUS MAGNUS, his opinion concerning books of magic, iii. 281;
his brazen man, 282; his entertainment of the Earl of Holland, 290.
ALCHYMISTS, results of their operations, iii. 284; their cautious
secresy, 285; discoveries by, ib.
ALCHYMY, anecdotes of professors of, i. 283-284; Henry VI.
endeavoured to recruit his coffers by, 284; professors of, called
multipliers, 285; books of, pious frauds, ib.; Elias Ashmole rather
the historian of, than an adept in, 286; opinions of modern chemists
on, 287.
ALEXANDRIA, library of, i. 1; Demetrius Phalereus, its industrious
and skilful librarian, ib.; original manuscripts of AEschylus,
Sophocles, and Euripides procured for, ib.: destruction of, 47-57.
AMBASSADORS, anecdotes of frivolous points of etiquette insisted on
by, ii. 195-206.
AMICABLE ceremonies in various nations, ii. 12.
AMILCAR, the author of the Second Punic War, iii. 143.
AMPHIGOURIES, i. 298.
AMUSEMENT, periodical, during study, a standing rule among the
Jesuits, i. 31; various, practised by different celebrated men,
38-41.
ANAGRAMS, i. 298, ii. 229; are classed among the Hebrews with the
cabalistic sciences, 230; Platonic notions of, ib.; specimens of
Greek, ib.; several examples of curious, 231-233; amusing anecdotes
concerning, 234.
ANCILLON and his library, i. 10, and note.
ANDREINI, an actor and author of irregular Italian comedies, ii.
141; a drama of his gave the first idea to Milton of his "Paradise
Lost," ib.
ANECDOTES of European Manners, ii. 30-39; of Abstraction of Mind,
59-62; literary, their importance, 300; Dr. Johnson's defence of,
301; the absurdity of many transmitted by biographers, ib.; general
remarks on, 303.
ANGLESEA, Earl of, his MSS. suppressed, ii. 447.
ANIMALS, influence of music on, i. 272-4.
ANNIUS of Viterbo published seventeen books of pretended
antiquities, iii. 305; and
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