21, 55, 502; refused to admit Mil-
ton's name into Westminster Ab-
bey, 158.

Stapylton, Sir Robert, his translation
of Juvenal, i. 463.

Steele, Sir Richard, made gazetteer,

ii. 36; his benevolence to Savage,
323; anecdotes of 324-325; con-
troversy with Swift, iii. 23; at-
tempts to reconcile Addison and
Pope, 103.

Stella, Esther Johnson, Swift invites
her to Ireland, iii. 9; marries her,
26; Journal to, 21.

Stepney, George, i. 319, 321.
Stercovius, John, the Pole, executed
under the influence of James VI., i.
511.

St. Evremond, Charles de, i. 277.
St. Genevieve, Pope's early tragedy
founded on the legend of, iii. 67.
Stillingfleet, Ed., Bishop of Worces-
ter, i. 397.

Stream, flowing, described by Cowley

in "unequalled lines," 1, 71; Den-
ham, verses on, 85.
Style, Waller's, "the same at twenty

as at fourscore," i. 255; a good
English, to be attained by "days
and nights given to the volumes
of Addison," ii. 154; purity and
simplicity distinguished Swift's,
iii. 41, 42; definition of a good
style, 50; Dryden's and Pope's
compared and described by Vol-
taire, 169.

Suetonius, quoted on Rome adorned
by Augustus, i. 482.
Surrey, Henry, Earl of, his transla-
tion of Virgil without rhyme, i.

192.

Swift, Jonathan iii. 3-40; his charac-

ter, 40-50; not appreciated justly
by Johnson, 4; "writes like a

gentleman and goes to Heaven with
a very good mien," 14; his love of
simplicity, 16, 41; his report of
Dryden, 385; his efforts in behalf
of Pope's Iliad, 103. The Dun-
ciad addressed to, 119; his in-
fluence in Ireland, 31-37; his een-
sure of Halifax, ii. 54; his Proposal
for correcting, etc., etc., the English
Tongue, i. 235, iii. 16; joins Pope
in his Miscellanies, 113.

Swift, Mrs. Abigail, mother of Jona-
than, iii. 7.

Tale of a Tub, iii. 8, 10, criticised,

41.

Tasso, protected by Manso, i. 105;

his praise of Guarini, 300.
Tate, Nahum, his death, ii. 81.
Tatler, The, commenced, ii. 100.
Tax, imposed on the Scotch settlers
in Poland, i. 502, 510.
Tediousness the most fatal of all
literary faults, ii. 196.

Tempest, The, Dryden's alteration of
Shakespeare's play, i. 360.

Temple of Fame, Pope's. The idea

taken from Chaucer's House of
Fame, iii. 80; has a thousand
beauties, 172.

Temple, Sir William, his patronage

and employment of Swift, iii. 5-8;
his Essay on Ancient and Modern
Learning, 11.

Theriaca, The, Nicander's Poem, i,

289.

Theobald, Lewis, ii. 260; detects
the faults in Pope's Shakespeare,
iii, 109; his edition of Shakespeare
114.

Theocritus, his Rustic Poems imitated
by Virgil, iii. 254.

Thomas, Mrs. (Corinna), i. 406, sells
Pope's Letters, iii. 113.

Thomson, James, Life of, iii. 221-230;

his poems criticised, 233-236; his
letter to his sister, 231-233; his
pension, 388.
"Thoughts close, and looks loose."
Sir H. Wotton to Milton, i.
103.

Thoughts, great, cannot be expressed

in mean language, i. 214.
Tickell, Thomas, ii. 295-300; Addi-
son's friendship with, 299; his
version of the Iliad, iii. 104.
Addison thought it had more of
Homer than Pope's, 104; Pope
believed this to have been the
work of Addison, 105; charged
with the publication of Addison's
Works, ii. 122.

"Time effaces the fictions of opinion,
and confirms the determinations of
nature" (Cicero), i. 212.

Tonson, The famous family of pub-
lishers, i. 165, 421; their edition
of Milton, 92.

Tractatulus de Carmine Dram. Poeta-
rum, etc., by E. Philips, i. 110,

111.

Tragedies of the Last Age, Rymer's,
Dryden's observations on, i. 484-

493.

Translation, good, described, i. 73,

84, 86; slavish, 436; Dryden's
390, 403-405, 463; Prior's, ii. 425;
Pope's, iii. 66, 181, 184.
Transubstantiation, Sheffield's saying
on, ii. 168.

Trapp, Joseph, D.D., his Æneid, i.
468; his anger at Dryden's "holy
Butcher," 419.

Treaty, the Scotch, Cowley on, i. 10.
Trinity College, plays acted in the
Hall of, i. 97,
99.
Trissino, Giovanni, his influence on
Milton, i. 103.

Trivia, or the art of walking in the
'streets of London, ii. 269.
Troilus and Cressida. Dryden alters
from Shakespeare, i. 377.
Trumbal, Sir William, an early
patron of Pope, iii. 68; Pope's
epitaph on, 198.

Truth, Hooker's saying on the deduc-
tion of, iii. 75.

Tuke, Sam, author of The Adventures
of Five hours, i. 18.
Tyrconnel, Lord, his treatment of
Savage, ii. 347, 357.

Urry, Mr. John, ii. 26.
Usher, Archbishop, account of, i. 112,

232.

Utrecht, Peace of, Prior and the ne-
gotiations for the, ii. 182-183.

Van Homrigh, Esther, Swift's "Va-
nessa," iii. 27, 28.

Varillas, his Hist. Heresies, i. 397;
his answer to Burnet quoted, 398;
his account of Wicliffe confuted by
King, ii. 33.

Vavassor, on a mistake in Milton's
Latin i. 123.

Versification, Prior's saying on, i. 83;
Cowley's 68, 72; "lax and lawless
styled Pindarism," 56; "loose
and long" defended by Cowley,
70; Waller's, 298; Dryden's de-
scribed by Pope, 478; Prior's, ii.
199; Pope's extraordinary power
of, iii. 191.

Vesbiam Ad, Sannazaro's verses, i. 48.
"Vice too high to be exposed,"

Pope's quotation from Horace, iïï.

135.

Villare, The, Index Villaris, ii. 75;
257.

Vines and quincunx, planted by Pope,

iii. 106.

Virgil, his style compared with Ho-
mer's, i. 464; Dryden's translation
of, 465-469; his method of compo-
sition, iii. 166; Pope follows him,
256.
Virgiliana, Sors. Cowley's transla-

tion of King Charles's choice, i. 11.
Volscius, Prince, ludicrous scene with

in the Rehearsal, i. 388.
Voltaire, his fine saying on the

subject of Paradise Lost, i. 143; on
rhyme, 193; his visit to Congreve,
ii. 214; his Letter of Consolation
to Pope, iii. 112; his manner of
distinguishing the styles of Pope
and Dryden, 169.
Volunteer Laureat, Poem by Savage,
ii. 423-424.

Waller, Edmund, Life, i. 253-282;

his Works criticised, 287-300; his
character, 282-287; his vigorous old
age, 294-295; the smoothness of
his verse, 298; Addison on, ii. 131;
Fenton's splendid edition of his
works, i. 231, ii. 249; his praise of
Granville's boyish verses, 275; his
saying on the merit of suppression
in authors, iii, 107.
Walmsley, Gilbert, Johnson's affec-
tionate tribute to his character, ii.
24, 25.

Walpole, Sir Robert, his harshness to

Prior, ii. 186; his encouragement
and desertion of Savage, 351, 379,
395; presents the Dunciad to
the King and Queen, iii. 116;
opposed by Lyttelton, 388.
Walsh, William, i. 345-347; Pope's
tribute to, 346, iii. 70.
Wanderer, The, Savage's poem, ii.
353-355; Pope's pleasure in read-
ing, ibid.

Warburton, Wm., Bishop of Glouces-

ter, his character, iii. 128; supplied
the best notes in Theobald's Shake-
speare, 129; on the "Essay on
Man," 125; his low opinion of
Addison, ii. 130; Pope's printed
works bequeathed to him, iii. 150.
Warren, or Waring, Swift's chamber

fellow at Dublin, iii. 4.

Warton, Joseph, his Essay on Pope's
writings cited as an example of ex-
cellent criticism, iii. 181.
Warwick, Countess dowager of, Ad-
dison's wife, ii. 115.

Warwick, Lord, Addison's dying in-
junction to, ii. 122.

Watts, Dr. Isaac, iii. 239-248.
West, Gilbert, Life, iii. 263-267;
"Poet and Saint," 264.
Westminster Assembly, i. 116, n.
Wharton, the Marquis of, in Ireland,
ii. 98-99.

Whig Examiner, The, Addison's fine
papers in, ii. 113.

Whitehead, Paul, his poem, Manners,
iii. 140.

Wilkins, Dr. John, ii. 41.

Wilks, Mr., the actor, his generous
disposition, ii. 323, 326.

Will, Cowley's, i. 22-501; Milton's,
160, 512.

William III. and Sheffield, ii. 168;
learns to cut asparagus from Swift,
his fear of triennial parlia-

iii. 5;
ments, 6.
Will's coffee house, i. 43; Pope early

began to frequent, iii. 70.

Windsor Forest, written by Pope in
his fourteenth year, iii. 66; pub-
lished 81; criticised, 171, 172.
Winstanley, W., "poor Robin," i.
374.

Winter, one of Thomson's earliest
efforts, iii. 223; Wordsworth calls
it "a work of inspiration," ibid.

Wisdom and amusement, " Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way," i. 46.

Wit, changes its fashion, i. 22; a kind of discordia concors, 24; Sydney Smith on, ibid.; described by Pope, ibid.; this word used for "intellection," 43; "mixed wit," 48; inferior, when it turns on a play of words, 85.

Withers, General Henry, Pope's Epitaph on, iii. 206.

Wollebius, a Basle divine, i. 111. Women, their enormous influence for good or for evil, iii. 180. Woodcock, Catherine, Milton's second wife, i. 126.

Wood's halfpenny, account of the scheme for forcing his patent upon Ireland, iii. 29.

Woodward, Dr., the Fossilist, ii. 260.

World, The, in its decay, i. 146.

Wortley, Lady Mary, her disputes with Pope, iii. 155.

Wotton, Sir Henry, Cowley's elegy on, i. 43, 65; his directions to Milton, 102. Wowerus, his book, De Umbra, i. 223; quoted, ii. 290.

Wren, Sir Christopher, deputy to Denham, i. 81.

Wycherley, Mr., an early friend of Pope, iii. 69.

Xavier, Francis, Bouhour's Life of, translated by Dryden, i. 397.

Yalden, Thomas, Life of, ii. 287-291. Years, Cowley's beautiful poem on the procession of the, i. 51. York, Psalm tune by Milton's father, i. 94.

Young, Edward, Life by Croft, iii. 295-341; Johnson's criticism of his poems, 341-345; Thomas, Milton's tutor, i. 95.