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Amyntas a pastoral elegy xi
87 American colonies, a refuge for the disaffected, x, 394 Amours (Ovid’s) translations from, xii, 257 Amphitryon, or the two Sosias, a comedy, viii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 letter and verses on, ib. 5 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 7 prologue to, ib. 12 epilogue to, ib. 106 Amyntas, a pastoral elegy, xi, 139 Anabaptists, account of, x, 145 Anachronism of Virgil defended, xiv, 176 Ancient political satire of Reynard the fox, x, 155 viii Ancient armour, rivetted after put on, xi, 363 British custom, xviii, 120 Ancients, excelled by the English in dramatic writing, xv, 396 ceremonies observed by, on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34, 44 Andronicus, Livius, first author of a play in Roman republic, xiii, 54 account of, ib.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

AND A PROPHECY Exodus xii
A LAST MERCIFUL WARNING (Exodus xi. 1-10) THE PASSOVER: AN EXPIATION AND A FEAST, A MEMORIAL AND A PROPHECY (Exodus xii.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren


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