etical forces in this nation, 139 to 212. Prophecy of her restoration, 333, &c. Accom. plishment of it, book iv. Her appearance on the throne, with the sciences led in triumph, iv. 21, &c. Tragedy and Comedy filenced, 37. General affembly of all her votaries, 73. Her patrons, 95. Her critics, 115. Her fway in the schools, 149 to 180. And universities, 189 to 274. How the educates gentlemen in their travels, 293 to 334. Conftitutes virtuofi in Lcience, 355, &c. Freethinkers in religion, 459. Slaves and dependents in government, 505. Finally turns them to beafts, but preferves the form of men, 525. What fort of comforters she fends them, 529, &c. What orders and degrees fhe confers on them, 565. What performances the expects from them, according to their feveral ranks and degrees, 583. The powerful yawn the breathes on them, 605, &c. Its progress and effects, 607, &c. till the confummation of all in the total extinction of the reasonable foul, and reftoration of Night and Chaos, ufq. ad fin. Difpenfary of Dr. Garth, ii. 140. De Foc, Daniel, in what refembled to William Prynn, i. 103. De Foe (Norton) a fcandalous writer, ii. 415. Dennis, (John) his character of himself, i. 106. Senior to Mr. Durfey, iii. 173. Efteemed by our author, and why, ibid. his love of puns, i. 63. And politics, i. 106. ii 413. His great loyalty to King George, how proved, i. 106. A great friend to the stage-and to the ftate, ii. 413. How he proves that none but Nunjurors and difaffected perfons writ against ftage-plays, ibid. His refpect to the Bible and Alcoran ibid. His excufe for obscenity in plays, iii. 179. His mortal fear of Mr. Pope, founded on Mr. Curil's affurances, i. 106. Of opinion that he poifoned Curll, ibid. His reafon why Homer was, or was not in debt, ii. 118. Hisaccufation of Sir Richard Blackmore,- As no poet, ibid. | Falfehoods, by John Dennis, of his really poisoning Mr. Curll, i. 106. And of contempt for the Sacred Writ ings, ii. 268. By Edward Ward, of his being bribed by a Duchefs to fatirize Ward of Hackney in the pillory, iii. 34 By Mift the Journalist, of unfair pro ceeding in the undertaking of the Odyssey and Shakspeare, Test, Difproved by the testimony of the Lords Harcourt and Bathurst. By Mist the Journalist, concerning Mr. Addifon and him, two or three lies, Teft. --- By Pasquin, of his being in a plot, iii. 179. By Sir Richard Blackmore, of his bur lefquing Scripture upon the authority of Curll, ii. 268. Fleas and verbal critics compared, as equal judges of the human frame and wit, iv. 238. Fletcher, made Cibber's property, i. 131. Mac Flecknoe, not fo decent and chafte in the dic. tion as the Dunciad, ii. 75. Friendship, understood by Mr. Dennis to be fomewhat elfe in Nifus and Euryalus, &c, iii. 179. French cooks, iv. 553 Furius, Mr. Dennis called fo by Mr. Theobald, i 106. Good nature of our author; inftances of it in this work, i. 328. ii. 282. Good sense, grammar, and verfe, defired to give place for the fake of Mr. Bef. Morris and his works, iii. 168. Gildon (Charles) abufed our author in many things, Teft. i. 296. Printed against Jesus Christ, i. 296. Gildon and Dennis, their unhappy difference lamented, iii. 173. Gentleman, his Hymn to his Creator, by Welfted, ii. 207. His wonderful Dedication to G. D. Esq. Gazetteers, the monftrous price of their writings iii. 179. Drams, dangerous to a poet, iii. 146. Dedicators, ii. 198. Dunciad, how to be correctly spelled, i. 1. Edwards, (Thomas) iv. 567. A gentleman of the last edition, ibid. Eufden, (Laurence) i. 104, Taxed by Oldmixon with nonsense, ibid. Ears, fome people advised how to preserve them, iii. 214. F Falfehoods, told of our author in print. Of his taking verfes from James Moore, Test. And of his intending to abuse Bishop Burnet, ibid. ii. 314. the miferable fate of their works, ibid. H Handel, an excellent musician, banished to Ireland, Did not know what he was about when he wrote his Art of Poetry, ibid. Henley (John the Orator) his Tub and Eucharist, ii. 2. His Hiftory, iii. 199. His opinion of Ordination and Chriftian Priesthood, iiis 199. His medals, ibid, Haywood (Mrs.) What fort of game for her, ii. 157. Won by Curll, 187. Her great refpe&t for him. The offspring of her brain and body (according to Curll), ibid. Not undervalued by being fet against a Jordan, 165. Of manners gentle, of affections mild, With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, POPE'S EPITAPH ON GAY. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY MUNDELL AND SON, ROYAL BANK CLOSE, Anno 1794. THE LIFE OF GAY. JOHN GAY was born at or near Barnstaple in Devonshire, in 1688. His family was ancient, and had been long in poffeffion of the estate of Goldworthy in that county; but being much reduced, he was born, as he himself tells us in his Rural Sports, without profpect of hereditary riches. But I, who ne'er was bleft by fortune's hand, He was educated at the Free School of Barnstaple, by Mr. Luck, a master of good reputation, and author of a volume of Latin and English verses, from whom he acquired a taste for claffical litera ture and poetry. His fortune being infufficient to support the rank of a gentle:nan, and inadequate to the expence of a liberal education, he was fent to London, and placed apprentice with a silk mercer in the Strand. The restraint and fervility of his occupation foon became his averfion; and in a few years, his mafter, upon the offer of a small confideration, willingly confented to give up his indentures. He was now at leisure to indulge his propensity to poetry; and as genius concurred with incli nation, he foon produced his Rural Sports, a Georgic, printed in 1711, which he inscribed to Pope, who was then rifing faft into reputation. This performance procured him the acquaintance of Pope, who found fuch attractions in his manners and conversation, that he received him into his inmost confidence; and a friendship was formed between them, which lafted till their separation by death, without any known abatement on either part. The fame year he published, in profe, The Prefent State of Wit, containing a character of the perio dical papers of the time. His reputation was now fo greatly advanced, that he attracted the notice of the Duchess of Monmouth, who, in 1712, appointed him her Secretary, with a handsome salary. The kindness of the Duchefs was very feasonable; for it relieved him from the importunities of want, occafioned by improvident thoughtlessness, and afforded him leisure to pursue his poetical ftudies; of which he made so good ufe, that the fame year he produced Trivia; or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, one of the happiest of his poetical performances. The fame year appeared The Mobocks, a tragi-comical Farcè, as it was acĺed near the Watch-house in Covent Garden, which is generally fuppofed to have proceeded from his pen. In 1713, when Steele hegan "The Guardian," affited by Addison and other wits, he contributed to it, Nos. 11, and 149. The fame year he brought on the flage, at Drury-Lane, his Wife of Bath, a Comedy, which was acted with very indifferent success; and on its revival, with some alterations, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, in 1756, he had the mortification to fee it again rejected. . In 1714 he published The Shepherd's Week, in fix paftorals, with a Proeme, in obfolete language, and a Prologue, addressed to Bolingbroke, who was then high in reputation and influence among the Tories. It was written at the inftigation of Pope, and defigned to degrade the compositions of A. Philips, his rival in pastoral poetry, by fhewing, that if it be neceffary to copy nature with minuteness, rural life must be exhibited, such as groffness and ignorance have made it. The execution of the plan exceeded the expectation of Pope, for the effect of reality and truth became confpicuous, VOL. VIII. R |