"Apology for Smectymnuus," 72

"Arcades," 44

"Areopagitica, the," 78; argument of, 79-82

Arian opinions of Milton, 159, 191

Ariosto, Milton borrows from, 164

Artillery Walk, Milton's last house, 144

"At a Solemn Music," 33

Aubrey's biographical notices of Milton, 14, 15, 19, 24, 129, 144, 145

B.

Ball's Life of Preston, 23

Barbican, Milton's house in the, 96

Baroni, Leonora, admired by Milton, 62

Beddoes, T.L., on Milton and Vondel, 170

Benrath on Ochino's "Divine Tragedy," 171

Blake on Milton, 179

Bradshaw, Milton's praise of, 120

Bread Street, Milton born in, 16

Bridgewater, Lord, "Comus" written in his honour, 45

Bright, John, his admiration for Milton, 164.

British Museum, copy of Milton's poems in, 97; proclamation against Milton's books preserved in the, 139

Buckhurst, Lord, his admiration of "Paradise Lost," 177

C.

Caedmon, question of Milton's indebtedness to, 169

Calderon's "Magico Prodigioso" compared with "Comus," 54; with "Paradise Lost," 163

Cambridge in Milton's time, 22

Cardinal Barberini receives Milton, 62

Caroline, Princess, her kindness to Milton's daughter, 195

Chalfont St. Giles, Milton's residence at, 173

Chappell, W., Milton's college tutor, 24

Charles I., illegal government of, 30; expedition against the Scots, 67; execution of, 100; alleged authorship of "Eikon Basilike," 105-107; a bad king, but not a bad man, 110

Charles II., restoration of, 138; favour to Roman Catholics, 188

Christ's College, Milton at, 22

"Christian Doctrine," Milton's treatise on, 99, 190-193

"Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes," 132

Clarke, Deborah, Milton's youngest daughter; her reminiscences of her father, 195

Clarke, Mr. Hyde, his discoveries respecting Milton's ancestry, 14, 15

Clarke, Sir T., Milton's MSS. preserved by, 129

Coleridge, Milton compared with, 41; on Milton's taste for music, 63; on "Paradise Regained," 178

Comenius, educational method of, 76

Commonwealth, Milton's views of a free, 136

"Comus," production of, 38, 44, 46; criticism on, 53-55

"Considerations on the likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church," 133

Copernican theory only partly adopted in "Paradise Lost," 158

Cosmogony of Milton, 157

Cromwell, Milton's character of, 121; Milton's advice to, 122

D.

Dante and Milton compared, 160

Daughters, character of Milton's, 142