Johnson, Michael, Johnson's father,
Jonson, Ben, his manner of transla-
ting word for word, i. 436; re-
sembled Donne in the ruggedness
of his lines, 27; Cowley indebted
to, 66.
Jortin, John, DD., assisted Pope in
the "Iliad," iii. 89.
Journal to Stella described by Mr.
Forster, iii. 21.
Judgment, Invention, and Imagina-
tion constitute genius, iii. 190.
Justice, Swift's over-mastering sense
of, iii. 49.
Kelly, Secretary to Dr. Atterbury, ii.
289.
Kennett, Dr., his adulatory sermon at
the funeral of the Duke of Devon-
shire, ii. 36.
Ker, Dr. John, quoted, on a mistake
in Milton's Latin, i. 123.
Kilkenny, the Eton of Ireland, ii.
206; Swift at, iii. 4.
Killigrew, Mrs., Dryden's Poem on
the death of, i. 455.
King, Edward, immortalized in Ly-
cidas, i. 102.
King, Dr. William, Archbishop of
Dublin, his intercourse with Swift,
iii. 24.
King, Dr. William, Principal of St.
Mary's Hall, author of Anecdotes of
his own Time, i. 423; iii. 25.
King, William, Life of, ii. 33-37.
Kit Cat Club, the Whig Club, ii. 70.
Kite Serjeant, Mr. Bettesworth,
Swift's satire on, iii. 36.
"Kitty," Duchess of Queensbury,
her respect for Gay, ii. 267.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, Pope's epitaph
on, iii. 205.
Kopernicke, Dr., his information on
Scots in Poland, i. 80.
Kyrl, the Man of Ross, iii. 133.
"Labefactation of principles" in the
Beggar's Opera, ii. 264.
L'Adamo, Andreini's fantastic play,
"Ladies, To all you," Dorset's cele-
brated song, i. 314.
Lady, The, Milton's name in College,
i. 158.
Lake, Dr. Edward, extract from his
diary, i. 11.
Langbain, a detector of plagiarism, i.
246.
Language, Great thoughts cannot be
expressed in mean, i. 214.
Lapidary, The, style," i. 104, 194.
Laracor, Swift's living, iii. 9.
Latin, Milton's, criticised, i. 96, 123.
128.
Latin Poetry, Cowley excels in, i. 15;
Addison's, ii. 92-93.
Latin poets, modern, consulted by
Pope, iii. 141; Atterbury's selec-
tion from, republished by Pope,
142.
Laud, Archbishop, his advice, "not
to book it too hard," i. 103.
Laughter.
"Men have always
laughed the same way,” i. 46.
Laureate, The Oxford, quoted, ii. 288.
Laureat, The Volunteer, Savage so
styles himself, ii. 371; his address
to the Queen so called, Appendix, ii.
La Valterie's Homer, iii. 88.
Lay Monastery, The, Essays by Hughes
and Blackmore, ii. 230; intended
as a sequel to the "Spectator," 232.
Learned, The, so styled by courtesy
and ignorance, i. 46.
Leasowes, The, Shenstone's home in
Hale Owen, iii. 287-288.
Le Brun. The arrogant inscriptions
on his pictures, ii. 178.
Leek, Andrew, Scotch poet and
settler in Poland, i. 510, 511 n.
Lee, Nathaniel, i. 378.
Legion Club, The, the poem in writing
which Swift was seized with his
last illness, iii. 38.
Lemon, Sir William, ii. 399.
L'Estrange, Roger, his answer to
Milton, "No blind guides,” i. 136.
"Letter, Hunting a, to death," i. 299.
Letters, Published collections of, iii.
123; Milton's, quoted, i. 100-125,
157; Pope's, iii. 70, 113, charac-
terized, 158-161; Swift's, 47.
Letter to Avignon, Tickell's party
poem, ii. 299.
Lewis, Erasmus, the intimate friend of
Swift, iii. 25.
Ley, Lady Margaret, Milton's tenth
sonnet addressed to, i. 115.
Liberty, the poem which Thomson
thought his greatest work, iii. 227.
Life, Dryden's celebrated lines on,
380.
Light, Hymn to, Yalden's, ii. 291.
Lincei, the Academy of the, in Rome,
i. 235.
Lintot, Bernard, the publisher of
Pope's Iliad, iii. 85, 86; discovers
fraud in Pope, 121, 122.
Lithgow, Wm., the traveller, quoted,
i. 81.
Little Lives and little Prefaces to a
little edition of English Poets, i. 8.
Littleton, Dr. Adam, his dictionary,
Local Poetry, introduced by Den-
ham, i. 85.
Locke, his approval of Prince Arthur,
ii. 225.
Logic, A new scheme of, Milton's, i.
Logic, Dr. Watts's, iii. 245.
London, Johnson's poem, published
the same day as Pope's First Dia-
logue, iii. 139.
London, The, a ship described in
Annus Mirabilis, i. 372.
Longinus, his treatise, De Sublimitate,
i. 427; his saying of Euripides, ii.
Longueville, Mr., i. 199, 204.
Lopez de Vega, his rapid composi-
tion, i. 386.
Lots, The Virgilian, Cowley consults,
on the Scotch treaty, i. 11; Gataker
On Lots, 213.
Louis XIV., his saying about patron-
age, iii. 20.
Loveday's Letters, iii. 123.
Love, Dryden's description of, quoted,
i. 472.
Love Triumphant, Dryden's last
drama, i. 383.
Lucian's True History, Swift indebted
to, iii. 32.
Lucretius, quoted, on Memmius, ii.
10.
Ludlow Castle, Comus acted at, i.
101; Butler steward of, 201.
Luke, Sir Sam., Butler in his service,
i. 201.
Lycidas, i. 102; criticisms on, 167,
168.
Lyttelton, George, Life of, iii. 387-
395.
Macaulay, his letter quoted, on
"Little Dickey," ii. 119.
Macclesfield, Countess of, the mother
of Savage, ii. 316, 365.
Mac Flecknoe, Dryden's satire on the
"True Blue Protestant Poet," i.
402.
Mac Swinney, Owen, his meagre ac-
count of Dryden, i. 424, 433.
Macer, Pope's character of, sup-
posed to apply to A. Philips, iii.
259.
Magdalen Coll., Oxf., Addison at, ii.
91, 92; Yalden at, 287; Collins, a
Demy of, 271.
Maidment's Letters, quoted, on Scots
in Poland, i. 81.
Maimbourg, his Histoire de la ligue
translated by Dryden, i. 397.
Malherbe, saying of, quoted, i. 442.
Malone, "his pious enthusiasm" dis-
played in "Life of Dryden," 351.
Mancini, author of Poems translated
by Denham, i. 82.
Mandeville, Bernard, his description
of Addison as a 66
wig," ii. 128.
Manso, Marquis of Villa, his pleasing
Life of Tasso, i. 105; Milton's
poem to, 106.
Mantuan, his Bucolics, iii. 255.
"Margaret," Milton's "Honoured,"
i. 115, n.
Marini, G. B., the Italian poet, i.
27; protected by Manso, 105.
Marriage, Dissolution of, for the first
time by Act of Parliament only, ii.
317.
Marriage, Swift's Letter to a Lady on
her, characterized, iii. 35.
Marvel, Andrew, befriends Milton in
parliament, i. 138.
Mary, Queen, poetical celebration of,
ii. 178.
Masson, Prof. David, on the Meta-
physical Poets, i. 22; his Life of
Milton, 92; quoted on Milton's
tract Of Education, 109; on Hobbes,
122; on Milton's New Scheme of
Logic, 156; on the Nosce Teipsum,
298.
Maty, Dr., on the editorship of Ham-
mond's "Elegies," ii. 304.
"Maximin, The Rants of," Dryden
May, Thomas, his Latin poems, and
Hist. of the Parliament, extolled,
i. 15; his translation of the Phar-
salia, 72.
Medals, Dialogues on, Addison's, ii.
Medal, The, Dryden's poem, i. 395;
criticised, 453; quoted, 454.
Medal, The, reversed, an attack on
Dryden, i. 394.
Medea, Seneca's, i. 431, 432; Ovid's
lost play of, ibid.
Melancthon, Sabinus a scholar of, ii.
198.
Memory, Johnson's, i. 224.
Merah and Michol, the prototypes
of Scott's Minna and Brenda, i.
63.
Mercuries, The, account of, ii. 103.
Mesnager, the French minister, ii.
182.
Milton, i. 93-195; his own account
of his family, 93; the true name
of his mother, 94; lesser pensioner
at Christ's, 95; his custom of dating
his compositions, 95;
his Latin
verses, 96; his college exercises,
97, 157; not expelled, 97; his dis-
like to academical instruction, 99;
his reasons for not taking orders,
100; his comprehensive reading,
101; his Cambridge degrees, 98;
M.A. also of Oxford, 101; starts
on his travels, 102; his desire to
leave something so written to after-
times, as that they should not wil-
lingly let it die, 103; reception at
Florence, 104; at Rome, 104; at
Naples, 105; visits Galileo, 106;
returns to England, 107; as a
schoolmaster, 108; his Tract of
Education, 109; his manner of life,
111, 144, 147, 163; his contro-
versial writings, 111, 128, 135;
his marriages, 115, 126, 140; his
writings on divorce, 116, 117; his
controversy with Salmasius, 122-
125; his blindness, 125; entries in his
Bible, 126; his MSS. at Cambridge,
130; early sketch of Paradise Lost,
131-134; made Latin Secretary,
121, 129; dismissed, 136; his
curious ear for music, 142; busy
with Paradise Lost, 142-149; com-
pelled to employ a reader, 153;
death, 157; called "the lady" of
his college, 158; his books, 161;
his opinions, 161-163; his daugh-
ters, 164; his diction, 191; his
versification, 192; on rhyme, 193;
"his work not the greatest of heroic
poems, only because it is not the
first," 195; his will, 512.
Milton, Anne, Milton's daughter,
married Ed. Philips, i. 94.
Milton, Christopher, i. 94; his family,
164.
Milton, Elizabeth, Milton's third
wife, i. 514.
Minna and Brenda (Scott's), their
prototypes found in Merah and
Michol, i. 63.
Mistress, The, Cowley's, " plays round
the head but comes not at the
heart," i. 49.
"Monster, A Faultless," Sheffield
borrowed this idea from Scaliger,
ii. 171.
Montague, Charles, afterwards Earl
of Halifax, ii. 51-56.
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, ii.
Montague, Sir James, his memoran-
dum concerning Prior, ii. 425.
Monument, old inscription on the,
ascribing the Great Fire to the
Catholics, iii. 133.
Moor Park, Swift's residence at Sir
Wm. Temple's house at, iii. 5;
"The Tale of a Tub" and "Battle
of the Books" written at, 8.
Mopas, The Song of, in Blackmore's
"Prince Arthur," ii. 240-242.
Moral, Bossu thinks the poet's first
work is to find a, i. 174.
More, or Morus, a French minister
supposed by Milton author of
the Regii Sanguinis, i. 127, 128,
Morhoff, Daniel, Professor of poetry
at Rostock, iii. 123.
Morley, Dr., Waller's tutor, i. 285.
Morrice, Sir William, befriends Mil-
ton in parliament, i. 138.
Mosely, Humphrey, Milton's pub-
lisher, i. 119.
Mother, Cowley's, i. 4; Milton's, 94,
102; Swift's, iii. 7; Pope's, 61,
Namby Pamby, Pope's nickname for
A. Philips, iii. 260.
Nash, "Beau," his generosity to
Savage, ii. 409.
Nash, Dr., his edition of " Hudibras,"
i. 199.
Nationalism, Irish, the spirit of,
roused by Swift, iii. 37.
Nature and Art, i. 473; ii. 63.
Nell Gwynne, in The Conquest of
Granada, i. 369.
"Nemæan Ode," Cowley's version of
Pindar's, i. 50.
Newcastle, Duke of, his treatise on
horsemanship, i. 367.
Newton, Dr., Bishop of Bristol, his
contribution to the benefit of Mil-
ton's granddaughter, i. 165; his
strictures on Johnson's "Lives of
the Poets," ibid.
Newton, Sir Isaac, his friendship
with Halifax, ii. 52; succeeded
Cowley as Fellow of Trinity, i. 6;
Pope's epitaph on, iii. 209-210;
Thomson's poem on his death, 225.
Nicander, his Theriaca, i. 289.
Night, Donne's description of, i. 40;
Dryden's referred to, 40, 356.
Nightingale, Pope when young called
a little, iii. 62.
Nihil, Latin poem by Passerat, i.
Norris, Henry, "Little Dickey," ii.
Norwich, Psalm tune by Milton's
father, i. 94.
Nosce Teipsum, or, Poem on the Soul of
Man, i. 298.
Notes, should not be extended by
transcriptions from books easily
consulted, ii. 249.
"Occasional composition," advan-
tages and disadvantages of, i. 439.
October Club, Swift's Letter to, iii.
16.
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, Dryden's
first, i. 405, 455; second, "Alex-
ander's Feast," 455, 471; Pope's
iii. 173.
Ode on Solitude, Pope's first produc-
tion, iii. 65.
Odes, Horace's, Scaliger's favourites
among,
i. 42.
Odyssey, Pope assisted by Fenton
and Broome in the translation of
the, iii. 54, 109.
Ogilby, John, account of, iii. 62.
Okehampton, Lyttelton, M.P. for,
iii. 387.
Old age, mental vigour in, examples
of, i. 295.
Oldfield, Mrs., the actress, on Rowe's
reading of her parts, ii. 85; her
generosity, 328.
Oldham, John, satirist, complains
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