Akenside, Mark, life, iii. 359-363;
his youthful performances, 360;
his study of physic, ibid.; “no
everyday writer," ibid.; his works
criticised, 363-366.
Alabaster, William, his tragedy of
Albion and Albanius, an opera by
Dryden, i. 579, 402.
Aldrich, Dr. Henry, i. 326; E.
Smith's lampoon on, ii. 18.
Alexander's Feast, Dryden's ode for
St. Cecilia's Day, 1697, i. 455.
Alexandrines, Cowley's novel use of,
i. 72; first used by Spenser, 479;
the metre of French tragedy, ibid.;
Drayton's poem in, 480.
Alfred, Blackmore's epic poem, ii.
226, 236.
Alfred, the Masque, by Thomson, in
which was the song Rule Britannia,
iii. 230.
Algarotti's description of Milton's
grandeur, i. 180.
All for Love, or the World Well
lost, Dryden said was the only
play “he wrote for himself,” i.
381.
Allegro, L', and Il Penseroso, published
i. 119; criticised, 169, 170.
Allen, Mr., desires to become ac-
quainted with Pope, iii. 122; offers
to pay for the publication of Pope's
Letter, ibid.; account of, 139;
Pope's ingratitude to, 151; patron
and father-in-law of Bishop War-
burton, iii. 131.
Alliteration in verse, practised by
Waller, i. 299; ridiculed by Shake-
speare, ibid.
Alma, Prior's poem in imitation of
Hudibras, ii. 196.
Altar-piece at Newtown, said to be
painted by John Dyer, iii. 279.
Alterations of the text by an editor
unjustifiable, iii. 228.
Amboyna, i. 377; Dryden's play
written in the second Dutch war,
377.
America, Cowley thinks of retreating
to, i. 12, 19.
Ames, Dr. W., account of, i. 111.
Anacreon, Cowley's, compared to
Pope's Homer, i. 46.
Anacreontiques, Cowley's, charac-
terized, i. 46, 47.
Anatomy, The, of Play, by Denham,
i. 78.
Ancient and Modern Learning, Con-
troversy concerning, iii. 11.
Andreini, his fantastic play seems to
have suggested "Paradise Lost,"
i. 143.
Andrews, Bishop, his witty answer
to the king on his rights, i. 254.
"Angel, The," Addison's simile of, ii.
Art and Nature. Of some composi-
tions "it is impossible to say
whether they are the production
of Nature, so excellent as not to
want the help of Art, or of Art so
refined as to resemble Nature," ii.
63.
Art of Poetry, Roscommon's transla-
tion of Horace, i. 240.
Art of Sinking in Poetry, published in
Pope's "Miscellany," iii. 113.
Arthur, King, Dryden's opera, i.
383.
Arthur, King, Milton's early design
of celebrating, i. 130.
Ascham, Roger, his Latin verses, i.
96; his saying, "Open flatterers
and privy mockers,” 285.
Askew, Ann, her saying on transub-
stantiation, ii. 168.
Assembly, the Westminster, i. 116.
Astrea Redux, written, i. 354; criti-
cised and quoted, 440-442.
Astrology, extensively believed, i.
213, 214; ridiculed by Swift, iii.
12.
Atossa, Pope's name for the Duchess
of Marlborough, iii. 136.
Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Ro-
chester, i. 158; his friendship
with Pope, iii. 110; Pope's appear-
ance at his trial, ibid.; Pope's
Epitaph on him and his daughter,
211; denies the calumny concern-
ing the publication of Clarendon's
"History," ii. 22; his plot, 289.
Atticus, Pope's satire on Addison
under this name, iii. 138.
Aubrey, his story of Lord Roscommon,
i. 232.
Aureng Zebe, or the Great Mogul, i.
Autobiography, fragment of Swift's,
iii. 3.
Aymesham, or Agmondesham, Waller
sat for in Parliament, i. 254, 260.
"Babylonish dialect," Butler's de-
scription of the speech of Hudibras,
i. 192.
Backsword, the, Milton's skill with,
Bacon, Lord, on Scots in Poland, i.
81; Blackmore's conceit in com-
paring himself to, ii. 237.
Badius, his commentary on Man-
tuan's Bucolics, iii. 255.
Bangor, Dr. Hoadly, Bishop of, ii.
322.
Banks, Mrs., Waller's rich wife, i.
Barber, Mr. Alderman, account of,
i. 205; erects a monument to
Butler, ibid.
Barber, Mrs., one of Swift's poor
friends, iii. 33; his kindly effort
to assist her, 39.
Barberini, Cardinal, his attention to
Milton, i. 104.
Barbican, Milton's house in, i. 119.
Bardsey, the birthplace of Congreve,
ii. 205.
Barn-elms, Cowley's first home in
Surrey, i. 19.
Barring-out, story of Addison lead-
ing one at school, ii. 90.
Bastard, The, poem by Savage, ii.
365-369.
Bathurst, Epistle to Lord. Pope's
poem on the Use of Riches, iii. 132.
Battle of the Books, probably written
at Moor-park, iii. 10; its resem-
blance to the "Combat des Livres,"
11.
Author to be Let, a satirical pamphlet Baudius, Dominic, i. 161; his saying
by Savage, ii. 348.
Bayes, the name under which Dryden
was satirized in the "Rehearsal,"
i. 388-399.
Beaconsfield, estates at, bought by
Waller, and afterwards by Burke, i.
274.
Beatitude, the eighth, ii. 263.
Beggar's Opera, extraordinary success
of Gay's, ii. 263-266.
Behn, Aphra, Mrs., her fulsome ad-
dress to Eleanor Gwyn, i. 415.
Bennet, Mr., afterwards Earl of
Arlington, Cowley's letters to, i.
Benson, Mr. Wm., erects monument
to Milton, i. 158; incites Pope to
translate Par. Lost into Latin prose,
iii. 131.
Bentley, Dr. Richard, his verses, i.
45; quoted on Paradise Lost, 195;
satirized by Swift, iii. 11; his dis-
pute with Boyle, ibid.
Bergen, Dryden's description of the
attempt on the Dutch fleet at,
quoted, i. 446.
Berkeley, Earl of, his treatment of
Swift, iii. 9.
Bermingham's Tower, Wm. King,
keeper of the records in, ii. 35;
Addison also, 98.
Beroald, Filippo, i. 470.
Betterton, Thomas, Pope supposed
to have painted a portrait of, iii.
83; his famous answer to Tillot-
son, ibid.;
his story of Milton's
escape, i. 138.
Bettesworth, a lawyer satirized by
Swift, iii. 36, 37.
Bible, Diodati's, i. 107; Milton's, en-
tries in, 126.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, Steele publishes
the "Tatler" under this name
which Swift had made famous, iii.
12, 14.
Binfield, Pope's home from twelve
to twenty-seven or twenty-nine
years of age, iii. 64-106.
Biography, Contemporary, difficulty
of writing, ii. 120-121; "It will
be proper rather to say nothing
that is false, than all that is true,"
Birch, Dr. Peter, marries Waller's
daughter, i. 280.
Birch, Dr. Thomas, his account of
the Royal Society, i. 15.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, ii. 223-242 ;
"England's arch-poet," 236; mag-
nificent in his designs, but careless
in performance, 239; his libel on
Dryden, i. 417.
Blakeney, Robert, Swift's faithful
servant, iii. 30.
Blenheim, Lord Lyttelton's poem, iii.
Blenheim, the victory of, celebrated
by Addison, ii. 97; by Prior, 180.
Blindness, Milton's, i. 122, 125.
"Blot, discreetly," Pope's admira-
tion for those who, i. 79.
Blount, Martha, her unkindness in
Pope's last illness, iii. 147; her
arrogance towards Mrs. Allen,
Boccalini, a writer whose satire cost
him his life, ii. 158.
Bochart, pastor at Caen, under whom
Roscommon studied, i. 232.
Boiardo, his "Orlando Inamorato," i.
Boileau, his criticism of epic poems
describing contests with super-
natural powers, i. 404; the labour
expended on his Equivoque, 406;
wrongly said to be the first French
writer who mentioned gunpowder,
445; Addison and, ii. 92; his loose
notions on veracity, 206.
Bolingbroke, Lord, and Savage, ii.
380; he is said to have supplied
the doctrine in Pope's "Essay on
Man," iii. 126; his attendance on
Pope during his last illness, 148;
Pope's papers left to him, 149.
"Book, That, is good in vain which
the reader throws away," i. 469;
fine description of a great, ibid.;
Laud's advice, "not to book it too
hard," 103.
Books, Battle of the, Swift's, iii. 10, 11.
Books, bought by Milton at Venice,
i. 107; Cowley leaves his to Sprat,
502; some of Pope's early favourites,
iii. 67.
Borrowing, Warburton on various
authors' reasons for, iii. 129.
Bossu, on the first duty of poets,
i. 174.
Bouhours, Dominique, his Life of
Xavier translated by Dryden, i.
397.
Boulter, Dr. Hugh, Archbishop of
Armagh, iii. 32; sneered at by
Pope as "the one Bishop to whom
A. Philips seemed a Wit," 258.
Bower, Archibald, friend of Lord
Lyttelton, iii. 390.
Brady, Dr. Nicholas, his translation
of the Eneid, i. 468.
Bramhall, Dr. John, a great antago-
nist of Hobbes, i. 126.
Brett, Mrs., formerly Countess of
Macclesfield, ii. 316-365.
Bridgewater, Earl
Comus, i. 101.
British Enchanter, Granville's best
work, ii. 283.
Brooke, Miss, afterwards Lady Den-
ham, i. 82.
Broome, William, iii. 53-57; Henley's
ludicrous distich on, 57; Pope's
letter to, on Fenton's death, ii.
251; and Fenton, their share in
Pope's translation of the "Odys-
sey," iii. 110.
"Brother," title of the sixteen mem-
bers of the Tory Club, to which
Prior and Swift belonged, ii. 190.
Brown, Sir George, the Sir Plume
of The Rape of the Lock, iii. 78.
Brown, Thomas, "of facetious
memory," i. 397; his pamphlets
on Dryden's conversion, 399-400.
Browne, Sir T., his Religio Medici, i.
458.
Bruyère, Jean de la, his Manners of
the Age, ii. 101-102.
Bryant, his idea that Cowley's
Merah and Michol are the origi-
nals of Scott's Minna and Brenda,
i. 63.
Buckhurst, Lord, afterwards Earl of
Dorset, i. 286, 313-315.
Buckingham, Edmund, Duke of,
Pope's epitaph on, iii. 210, 211.
Buckingham House, built by Shef-
field, ii. 169.
Buckingham, Villiers, Duke of, erects
a monument to the memory of
Cowley, i. 21; Butler secretary to,
203; his neglect of Butler, 204.
Bucks, Character of a Duke of, by
Butler, i. 204; curious mistake
concerning, ibid. n.
Budgel, Eustace, said to have written
the famous epilogue to The Distrest
Mother, iii. 253.
Bufo, Pope ridicules Halifax under
this name, ii. 54.
Bulloigne, Godfrey of, by Edward
Fairfax, quoted, i. 301-305.
Burgess, Daniel, preacher, ii. 289.
Burlesque, nature of the pleasure
derived from, i. 215.
Burlington House, built by Denham,
i. 82.
Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, i. 221;
his account of Waller in parlia-
ment, 277; ridiculed by Pope, iii.
Burton, Dr. John, his denial of
Ducket's calumnious story, ii. 22.
Busby, Dr. Richard, i. 326; tutor
to Dryden, 352; his excellence as
a master, ii. 76; his care of his
scholars, 16, 33, 176.
Butler, Samuel, Life of, i. 199-204; his
works criticised, 206-215; his lam-
poon on Sir John Denham, 82;
Oldham's "complaint" on, 205.
Button's, the coffee-house frequented
by Addison, ii. 126.
Cabinet Council, Raleigh's, published
by Milton, i. 134.
Caen, Protestant University at, 232.
Callières, François de, author of the
Hist. Poet. de la Guerre entre les
Anciens et les Modernes, iii. 12 n.
Cambridge, Milton at, i. 95-101;
Milton on his leaving, 98, 113.
Campaign, The, Addison's, ii. 97, 132-
Captives, The, Gay's tragedy, ii.
Carbury, Butler secretary to, i. 201.
Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Shel-
donianum, etc., i. 56.
Carmen Seculare, Prior's celebration
of King William, ii. 179.
Carmina Lyricorum, quoted, i. 54.
Carteret, Lord, an old friend of Swift's,
iii. 30.
Carvel, Hans, the origin of his Adven-
tures, ii. 193.
Caryl, Mr. Secretary, and his nephew
Pope's correspondent, iii. 178.
Casa, his Galateo, or Book of Manners,
ii. 181.
Casimir, Mathias, quoted, i. 54.
Castiglione, his Cortigiano called "the
Golden Book," ii. 101.
Castle of Indolence, Thomson's poem,
Wordsworth's praise of, iii. 250.
Cato, Addison's tragedy, ii. 106;
acted, 108; criticised, 110, 135-150;
translations of, 110.
Centos, Philips perhaps copied these
in the "Splendid Shilling," i.
Cibber, Colley, actor and poet laureate,
author of Apology, i. 424; his ac-
count of Dryden, 424; enthroned
in place of Theobald in the Dun-
ciad, iii. 143-145; his pamphlets
against Pope, 144, 146; violent
dispute between the two, 145.
Cibber's Lives of the Poets, the work of
Robert Shiels, ii. 303.
Cicero on the effect of Time, i. 212.
Cid, Corneille's, Addison's Cato com-
pared to, ii. 109.
Circumduction. This word used by
Johnson as if quoted from Hooker,
iii. 75.
City Mouse and Country Mouse, written
by Prior and Montague to ridicule
Dryden's "Hind and Panther," i.
399, 459; Pope on, ibid.; ii. 176.
Chalfont, Milton at, during the plague,
i. 149.
Chandos, the duke of, Pope's treat-
ment of, iii. 120.
Chapman, George, his translation of
Homer, i. 287; iii. 88.
Characters and Manners of the Age,
Bruyère, ii. 102, 104.
Charles I., bust of, in Hammersmith
Church, i. 266.
Charles II., Dryden's intellectual
character of, more applicable to
himself, i. 433.
Charterhouse, Addison and Steele at
the, ii. 90.
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