A.

Admi-

ADDISON, JOSEPH; on burlesque poetry, i. 211
note. His retort upon Edmund Smith, 466.
His complaint of the neglect of Smith's tra-
gedy, 467. His opinion of Rowe, 528. His
birth, parentage, and tutors, 533. Takes
the lead in a "barring-out", 533, 534, and
notes. His early friendship with Steele,
534. His treatment of Steele, in a matter
of debt, 535, and note 4. His success at
college, 535. His fondness for his Latin
compositions, 536. His interviews with
Malbranche and Boileau, ib. note 7.
ration of Boileau for his Latin poems, ib.,
and note. Begins to write English poetry,
537. Dryden's eulogium on his Georgics',
ib. Influence of his introduction to Mon-
Ob-
tague (Halifax) on his prospects, 538.
tains a pension and proceeds on his travels,
538. His 'Dialogue on Medals'; contro-
versy as to where Cato' was written, 539.
and notes 20 21
His Epistle' to Halifax,
539, and note 23. Consequences of the non-
remittance of his pension, ib. Publishes
his Travels,' ib. and notes 25-27. His pro-
jected tutorship to the son of the "proud
Duke ", 540, and note 28. Writes his 'Cam-

paign; his attic study, 540 and note 29.
His rewards, ib. Fate of his opera of Rosa-
mond' 541; its dedication, ib. and notes 32

33.

His Irish secretaryship; contrast be-
tween him and his chief, 542. Swift's com-
ments upon the conjunction of the two, 542,
and notes 35 36. Mr. Macaulay on Addi-
son's Irish Parliamentary career, 543, note

37

His

His reasons for taking fees from his
friends, 543, and note 38. His participa-
tion in The Tatler', 543, and notes 38 39.
Commencement of The Spectator'; its
objects, 544. Addison's view of the effects
of his periodicals, 546, and note 44.
share in Theophrastus', ib. and note 45
His jealous care of Sir Roger de Coverley,
547. Interference of the stamp with the
sale of The Spectator', 548, and note.
Completion of Cato' for the stage, ib.
The author's coquettings relative thereto,
549. Its performance and success, 550.
Why published without a dedication, i.
Dennis's assaults upon it, and Pope's equivo-
cal defence, 550, 551, and notes 56 57 Its
various translations and performances
abroad, 552, and note 63. Addison's share
in 'The Guardian'; his equal love of fame

and profit, ib. and notes 64.66. His silence
on the authorship of 'The Drummer', 553,
and notes 67 68. Short life of his 'Whig
Examiner'; its merits, 554, and notes 69-72
Revival of The Spectator'; his papers in
it, 555. His difficulty in a State crisis, ib.
His Freeholder'; Steele's remark upon it,
556. His infelicitous marriage: character
of his wife, 556, 557, and note 76. Becomes
Secretary of State; cause of his resigna-
tion, 557, and notes 77 78. His further lite-
rary projects; Tonson's sneer at his piety,
558. His quarrel with Steele, ib. Their
pamphleteering skirmishes, 559.
His ap-
proaching end and unexplained interview
with Gay, 561. His deathbed monition to
Lord Warwick, ib. and note 83. His death,
burial-place, and portraits, 562, and note

85

His personal character; his alleged
bashfulness, ih. His literary egotism and
jealousy, 563. His fluency of composition
and anxiety for correctness of style, 564.
His daily life; devotion to Bacchus, &c.,
565, 566, and notes 97 98. Mandeville's
notion of him, 566, and note 100. His
quickness of discernment and moral excel-
lence, 566, 567. His services to religion, ib.
His reputation as a critic, 568. His early
poems, ib. and note 105. Metaphor in his
Letter from Italy', 569. His 'Campaign';
epithet bestowed on it by J. Warton, ib.
and note 107; correctness of its similes,
570, 571. His 'Cato' rather a poetic dia-
logue than a drama, 572. Specimen of
Dennis's criticisms on the tragedy, 573-584,
and note 115 Character of Addison's
translations, 584. His versification, 585.
Value of his criticisms, 586, 587. His merits
as an essayist, 487, 588. Copy of his me-
morial to George I., 589, 590 Pope's
charge against him relative to Tickell's
translation of Homer, ii. 98, 99, and 257,
and notes 93 94. His advice to Pope and
supposed motive, 234, and note 40. Alleged
effect of Pope's Windsor Forest' upon
him, 236. His appreciation of Pope's arti-
fices, and of the object of the comparison
between Philips and Pope, 237, and notes
49 51 53.
Opening of the breach between
*him and Pope, 254. Reported angry inter-
view of the two, 256.
Akenside, Mark; honourable conduct of on
ceasing to study for the dissenting pulpit,
ii. 573. His zeal for liberty, 573, 574, and
note 2. Price demanded by him for his

'Pleasures of Imagination', ib. Result of
his medical studies at Leyden, 575. His
controversies on the proposition that 'Ridi-
cule is the test of Truth', ib. and notes 67.
Attacks Pulteney, and agrees to write in
Dodsley's Museum', 576, and note. Lo-
calities in which he practised as a physician,
576. Munificence of his friend Dyson, ib.
and note 10. His 'Discourse on the Dysen-
tery' a "specimen of Latinity", 577. Cause
of his death; Henderson's ludicrous de-
scription of him, i. and note. Character
of his Pleasures of Imagination', 578, 579.
Best memoir of him, 580, note. Three let-
ters (now first published) from him to David
Fordyce, 581-586.

Andrews, Bishop; apposite rebuke of a
brother Bishop by, i. 246.

Arbuthnot, Dr.; eulogium on, ii. 289.
Atterbury, Francis; praises Pope's verses on
Addison, ii. 258. His friendship towards
Pope and last interview with him, 262, 263,
and note 110.
Work edited by him, 293,
and note 186.

B.

Blackmore, Sir Richard; long residence in
college of, ii. 31 His travels; takes a de-
gree at Padua, ib Reproached for having
once taught at a school, 31. How he wrote
his Prince Arthur', 32. Dennis's attack on
the poem, 33, and note 8. Subsequent
friendship of poet and critic, 34. Taken
into favour by William III., ib. and note
What the wits attributed his knighthood to,
35, and note 10. His 'Paraphrase of Job';
Dryden's ridicule of it, ib. and note 11.
Storm raised by his 'Satire against
Wit', 35, and notes 12-15. Oblivion into
which his Eliza' soon fell, 36, and note 17.
His Advice to Poets', and to a Weaver, ib.
and notes 18-20. Superiority of his 'Crea-
tion' over his other works, 37. His periodi-
cal 'The Lay Monastery', 38 and notes 25.

27.

Its chief member described, 38, 39.
Lifelessness of his prose writings, 40. His
observations on Wit, 40, 41. His fierce at-
tack upon A Tale of a Tub', ib. Favour-
able sample of his prose, 41. His Re-
demption', abortive translation of the
Psalms, and epic of Alfred', 43, and notes
36 37. Loses his patients, and takes to writ-
ing medical treatises, 44. Samples of their
style, 45. His death and curious contingent
bequest, 46, and note 38. His indifference
to the assaults of satirists, 46. Enumera-
tion of some of his assailants, ib. note.
Superficial nature of his attainments, 47.
His style; character of his 'Creation,' ib.
Song of Mopas from his 'Prince Arthur',
48-50.

Blount, Martha; Pope's lasting attachment
to, ii. 298. Her parentage; errors of Pope's
biographers regarding her, ib. note. Her
quarrel with the Allens and its supposed
consequences, 302, notes 219 221.
Boileau's interview with Addison, i. 536, note.
His reason for persisting in a
pretty lie",
ii. 16.
Bolingbroke, Lord; originator of Pope's 'Es-
say on Man', ii. 276. Extent of his partici-

Boulter, Archbishop of Dublin; tribute to, ii.
467, and note 28. His liberality to Ambrose
Philips, 468, and notes 29.31.

Broome, William; birth and education of, ii.
411, and notes. His share in the transla-
tion of the Odyssey', and remuneration,
412, and notes 7-13. Pope's treatment of
him in The Dunciad', 413, and notes 14 15.
His marriage and various church prefer-
ments, 415, and notes 18-20. His Poems and-
Odes of Anacreon, ib. His death and
burial-place, ib. and note 22. Character
of his poetry; his frequent imitations, ib.
and note 23. Henley's distich on his aid to
Pope, 416, and note 24. Copy of his will,
417, 418.

Buckingham, Edmund, Duke of; Pope's Epi-
taph on, ii. 357.

His

Buckingham, John, Duke of. See Sheffield.
Butler, Samuel; bitter lines on Sir John Den-
ham by, i. 102. His reprehensible conduct
on the occasion of Sir John's lunacy, ib.
His birth, parentage, and college career,
197. His various employments, 198.
position at the Restoration, and marriage,
199. Publication of the first part of Hudi-
bras', ib. Pepy's nice confessions relative
to the work ib. note 6. Publication of the
second Part, and copies of its three title-
pages, 200, and note 7. Court neglect of
the author; his alleged benefactors, ib.
Discreditable story of Villiers, Duke of Buck-
ingham, ib. Hudibras, Part 3 issued, 201.
His death, and interment at a friend's ex-
pense ib. Oldham, Dryden, Dennis, and
Cibber's complaints of the neglect he suf-
fered, 202, notes 18 19. His monument, 203.
His posthumous works, spurious and genu-
ine, ib. and note 20. His last friend; his
personal appearance and portraits, 204, and
notes. Character of 'Hudibras', ib. Ex-
tent of the author's obligation to Cervantes,
ib.

Defects in the construction of his work,
205. Exuberance of his wit, 207. His ex-
tensive learning, 208. Why Hudibras'
cannot be fully appreciated in modern times,
208-210. Its diction and metre, 210, 211.
Dryden and Addison on its versification, ib.

notes.

Collier, Jeremy; Dryden's reply to the cen-
sures of, i. 850. Controversy created by
his attack upon the stage, ib. note. Ability
of his work, ii. 20. His superiority to his
antagonists, 21.

Collins, William; birth, birth-place, and first
published verses of, ii. 483, and note. His
sudden departure from college, ib. His ar-
rival in London and unsettledness of habit,
ib. Commencement of Johnson's intimacy
with him, 484. His accession to wealth, and
attack of insanity, ib. and note. Romantic
character of his genius, 485. General
blamelessness of his conduct; affliction of
his latter days and death, 485, 486, and
note 9. His own derogatory, opinion of his
'Eclogues', 486, and notę 11. Nature of
his disorder, ib. Defects of his diction and
character of his writings, 487, and notes.
Congreve, William; antiquity of the ancestry
of, ii. 15. Doubts as to his birth-place;
Southerne's insinuation regarding it, ib.
and notes. His celerity in his studies, 16.
His first literary performance, ib. and note

5

His 'Old Bachelor'; occasion of its
composition, ib. Its production, on the
stage, and profitable results, 17. Character
of the comedy, ib. Production of his
'Double Dealer'; its reception by the
critics, 18, and notes. His Elegy on Queen
Mary, and reward for it, ib., and note 8.
His Love for Love', and 'Mourning Bride':
popularity of the latter, 18, 19, and notes
9 10 His attempts to cope with Jeremy
Collier, 19. Indefensibility of his comedies,
20. His last play, and disgust at its recep-
tion, 21.
His enjoyments in private life and
political consistency, 22. Liberality of the
Tories to him on their accession to power,
ib. Literary honours paid to him; Voltaire's
visit to him, 22, and notes 14-16. His de-
privation of sight and other afflictions, 23,
and note 17. His last days, funeral, and
bequest to the Duchess of Marlborough, ib.
and note 16. Her mode of keeping him in
remembrance, ib. note 17. Originality of
his comedies; feebleness of his non-drama-
tic compositions, 24. Admired passage from
his Mourning Bride', 25. Johnson's way
of proving its superiority to any passage
in Shakespeare, i. note. Specimens of his
funeral, congratulatory and miscellaneous
verses, 26, 27, and notes 25 28. Merited neg-
lect into which they have fallen, 27. Praise
due to him "for the cure of our Pindaric
madness", 28, and note 27. Pope's dedica-
tion of his 'Homer' to him, ii. 310, and
note 238
Corbet, Mrs.; Pope's Epitaph on, ii. 351, and
note 289

Cowley, Abraham; character of Sprat's Life
of, i. 37. His birth and parentage ib., and
note 2. His first impulse to poetry, 38.
His 'Learned Puerilities', and early ap-
pearance in print, 39. His settlement at
Cambridge, subsequent ejection, and re-
moval to Oxford, 40. Goes to Paris; his
confidential services to Charles and his
Queen there, ib. His reasons for publishing
his Mistress', 41. His return, seizure, and
imprisonment 43. Comes to terms with the
ruling powers, 43, 44, and note 18. Becomes

His

a Doctor of Physic, 45. Poetic results of
his botanical studies, ib. Character of his
Latin poetry, 43, and notes 20 21. Neglected
by the Court, 46, 47. Failure of his comedy
on the stage, 47, and notes 22 23. Publishes
his Complaint', ib. Poetic witticisms at
his expense, 48. His retirement to Chertsey,
ib. and note 26. His troubles in his re-
treat, 49, and note 28. His death and fune-
ral, 50, and notes 31 32. His various por-
traits, note 33. Specimens of his metaphy-
sical poetry and of that of contemporary
writers, 55-65. His fertility of invention,
66. Character of his complimentary verses,
68, 69. Excellence of his Anacreontiques',
70, 71. Hyperbolic style of his Mistress',
71, 72. Intenability of a theologian's cen-
sure on this work, 72. Criticisms on his
Pindarique odes, 72-76. His misapprehension
of Pindar's style, 77, 78, and note 41.
'Davideis'; neglect into which it has fallen,
78, 79. Infelicity of his choice of subject,
79, 80. Examples of his similes, 80, 81.
Costume bestowed by him on the Angel
Gabriel, and criticism thereon, 82, 83. His
intended close of the 'Davideis', 83, note.
Comparison of his poem with Tasso's 'Jeru-
salem', 84, 85. His obligations to Donne,
86, 87, and notes 49 50 Ideas borrowed
from Cowley by other poets, 87, and note 51.
His negligence of diction, 87, 88. His own
defence of his peculiar versification, 90.
His use of hemistichs in supposed imitation
of Virgil, 91, 92, and notes. His prose es-
says; Charles Lamb's eulogy thereon, 92,
and note 56 Merits justly ascribable to
him, 92, 93. Dryden's verdict on his style,
93, note. Copy of his will, and notices of
his legatees, 94-96, and notes 61.65 His use
of the Alexandrine, 402; see also additional
note ii. 619.

Cowper, William; exclamation of, relative to
Johnson's Life of Milton', i. Preface, xii.
Line of Cowley's paraphrased by him, 87,
note 51. His remarks on Johnson's criti-
cisms on Prior, i. 628, note, 630, note, 633,
note. His opinion of Dryden and Pope, ii.
322, note. His remark on Johnson's criti-
cism on Watt's poetry, 457, note 19.
Craggs; Pope's epitaph on, ii. 349.
Crispe, Sir Nicholas; loyality of, to Charles
the First, i. 255. His ill-advised plot, 256,
and notes 24 25.

Croft, Herbert; Burke's remarks on the Life
of the poet Young, by, i. Preface xxii. His
insensibility to Burke's sarcasm, ib. See
Young.

Cunningham, Allan: characteristic anecdote
of, i. Preface xxvii.

D.

Denham, Sir John; birth, parentage, and edu-
cation of, i. 99. His propensity to gaming
and abortive penitence, 99, 100, and note 2.
Publishes The Sophy', and subsequently
'Cooper's Hill', 100. His services to the
royal cause, 101. His humorous plea for
George Withers, ib. note 6. Despoiled of
his estate by the Parliament, ib. Appoint-
ment conferred on him, and scandal con-