DALRYMPLE, Sir John, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, i. 128.
DANCASTLE, Thomas, Pope's amanuensis, iii. 119 n. 5, 154 n. 4.
DANTE, hell marked into divisions,' i. 186 n. 2; 'no flame,' 472 n. 2; sculpture ex- hibiting motion, iii. 105 m. 1: Statius, 92 n. 5.
DANTON, Georges Jacques, iii. 395 n. 4. DARWIN, Charles, Académie des Sciences and Evolution, i. 233 n. 3; composed on backs of old proofs, &c., iii. 203 n. 1; 'fiddle-faddle of geology and the occult sciences,' i. 409 n. 3.
DARWIN, Erasmus, Botanic Garden and Blackmore's Creation, ii. 243 n. 2; Sheffield's epitaph, 178.
DASHWOOD, Sir Francis, ii. 360 n. a. DASHWOOD, Kitty, ii. 312, 314. DATI, Carlo, i. 94.
DAUBIGNY, Lady, i. 253 n. 5, 261, 263, 265.
DAVENANT, Sir William, Bilboa' in first draft of The Rehearsal, i. 369, 483; coup- lets, 81 n. 2; Cowley's verses to him, 38; Dryden's favourite author, 425; D.'s qua- trains and Gondibert, 338, 425, 431; poet- laureate, 340; saved by Milton, 129; Shake- speare, taught Dryden to admire, 341 n. 2; Tempest, 341.
DAVENANT, Dr. Charles, ii. 122. DAVIES, Sir John, Nosce Teipsum, i. 293 n. 3; reasoned in rhyme, 469.
DAVIES, Thomas, author generated by corruption of bookseller,' i. 339 n. 6; Con- duct of the Allies, might have written, iii. 19 n. 6; obscenity of English tragedy, ii. 219 n. 3.
DAVIES, - the old actor, ii. 217 n. 5. DAVIS, Dr., i. 107. DEANE, Admiral, the regicide, iii. 3 n. 3. DEANE, Colonel, iii. 261 n. 3. DEANE, Mr., a priest, Pope's tutor, iii. 86. DEANS, in Devonshire, ii. 300. DEATH, thinking constantly of, iii. 29 n. 1. Decent, iii. 336 n. I.
DEFOE, Daniel, glass-houses, ii. 399 n. 2; kidnapping to American plantations, 327 n. a; Robinson Crusoe, wished longer,' i. 184 n. 1; storm of Nov. 26, 1703, ii. 130 n. 5; What is everybody's business is no- body's business, iii. 181 n. 5.
De Guiana Carmen Epicum, i. 192 n. 4. De gustibus non est disputandum, ii. 217. DELANY, Mrs. Mary, Beggar's Opera and Handel, ii. 278 n. 2; Granville's niece, 288 n. 1; Hammond's Elegies, 312 n. 5; Orrery's Remarks on Swift, iii. 67; Pope's Atossa,' 272; Swift's personal appearance, 56 n. 1. DELANY, Dr. Patrick, account of him, iii. 67; Observations on Orrery's Remarks on Swift, ib.; Swift, giving advice to, 59; S.'s character, 63; S.'s marriage, believed in, 43,
69; S.'s reception in Ireland, 26; S.'s secret reading of prayers, 55.
DELAVAL, Sir Francis, iii. 429 n. 3.
DE LA VALTERIE, Iliad, translated, iii. 114. Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum, i. 12 n. 4. DEMOSTHENES, i. 412.
DENHAM, Sir John, account of himself, i 70 n. 2; Anatomy of Play, 71 n. 2; arrest, order for his, 74 n. 2; Aubrey, acquaintance with, 74 n. 1; birth, &c., 70; burlesque, grave, 76; Butler, lampooned by, 72 n. 3, 74 n. 5, 75, 83; concatenated metre,' 81;
Cooper's Hill, published, 72; criticized, 77-9; four celebrated lines, 78; imitations of it, 78 n. 1; praised by Dryden, 77 n. 4, 78; parodied by Pope, 78 n.4; Pope, praised by, 77 n. 4, 78 n. 2; P.'s Windsor Forest derived from it, iii. 225; reported not his own, i. 72; Swift's Apollo's Edict, 78 n. 4;
couplets, 81, 419; Davenant's Gondi bert, parodies, 76, 425 n. 3; death and burial, 75; dreaming young man,' 70; Dryden, praised by, 79 n. 7, 293 n. 6; Duke of York, conveys to France, 73; Elegy on Cowley, 75, 77, iii. 66 n. 2; estates sold by Parliament, i. 74; Evelyn on him, 74 m. 3; eye, his, 70 n. 1; Farnham Castle, 71; France, exile in, 73; gaming, 70, 71; imprisonment, 72 #.6; King's correspondence, carries on, 72, 73; Lincoln's Inn, 70; 'lofty Denham,' 17 n. 7; lunacy, 75, 82; 'majestic Denham,' 79 n. 7, 293 n. 6; marriage, 75, 82; merry fellow,' 75; metrical version of Psalms, 75; Of Justice, 74, 82 n. 6; Of Prudence, 74; On Fanshaw's translation of Pastor Fido, 77: order of the Bath, 74; Oxford, retreats to, 72; Pembroke, Earl of, entertained by, 74; Peters, Hugh, 72; Poland, embassy to, 73; Pope, imitated by, 76; P., praised by, 17. 7, 79 nn.; rhymes, 81, 82; Sessions of Poets, satirized in, 72 n. 3; sheriff of Surrey, 71; simile of poets and eastern kings, 76; Sophy, 71; Speech of the close Committee, 76; strength,' 79, 293; surveyor of King's Buildings, 74; Swift's Battle of the Books, 79 n. 3; transla tion, 77, 79, 373; translations, Cato Major, 73, 79; t. second book of Aeneid, 71, 79; Trinity College, Oxford, 70 n. 6; triplets, 81; versification, 22, 80, 251, 333; Virgil, burlesqued, 71 n. 3; Wood's account of him, 70; quotations, Cooper's Hill, 78, 80; Destruction of Troy, 81, 82; Elegy on Cowley, 56, 80; Journey into Poland, 73 n. 6; On Fanshaw's Translation of Pastor Fido, 77; On Mr. John Fletcher's Works, 76, 82 n. 2; On Strafford, 80.
DENHAM, Sir John, the poet's father, i. 70. DENHAM, Lady, the poet's wife, i. 82, 83. DENHAM, Miss, the poet's sister, i. 280
DENNIS, John, Addison's Cato, ii. 99, 102, 133, iii. 106; 'Appius' in Essay on Criti cism, 95 n. 6; Blackmore's Prince Arthur,
attacks, ii. 238; B.'s Creation, praises, 243; B., praised by, 239; Blenheim, celebrated, 186 n. 2; Chevy Chase and Addison, 147; coffee-house wits, 307 n. 6; Congreve's Way of the World, 223 n. 6; criticism,
his, Johnson praises, 133; Landor ranks it above Dryden's, 144 n. 4, iii. 222 n. 2; Southey praises it, ii. 144 n. 4; - Dryden, flatters, i. 396 n. 5; D. and Milton, 359 n. 2; Hill's lines on him, ii. 133 n. 6; horseplay in his raillery,' 144; Italian opera, 165; Para- dise Lost, i. 198; Phaedra, intended tragedy, ii. 16; poetical justice, 99, 134, 135; Pope, their enmity, 102, iii. 91, 95, 98, 104, 105, 106, 113 n. 2, 129, 136, 151; P.'s deformity, jeers at, 97; Essay on Criticism, attacks, 95-8; Prol. Sat., attacked in, 204 n. 4; Rape of the Lock, criticizes, 151, 234, 235; Temple of Fame, 104 n. 3, 105; Windsor Castle, 104 n. 3, 225;
Remarks on Cato, ii. 134-44; Remarks upon Mr. Pope's Homer, &c., iii. 104 n. 3; Rowe, describes, ii. 74 n. 1; Savage's epigram on him, 362; Unity of Place, 140; Walsh and Pope, iii. 97; Wy- cherley and Pope, 91; W., praises, ii. 144
DE QUINCEY, Pope, why a great poet, iii. 251 12.5.
DERBY, Countess of, i. 93.
DERING, Sir Edward, i. 239.
DERRICK, Samuel, Dryden's Fables, i. 408; Life of Dryden, 331, 332; presence of mind, ii. 399 n. I.
DESAGULIERS, Dr., iii. 161 n. 2. DES CHAMPS, ii. 104.
DESCRIPTIVE POEMS, iii. 225.
DES FONTAINES, iii. 73.
DESMARETS, i. 174 n. 2.
DEVENISH, Mr., ii. 74.
DEVONSHIRE, first Duke of, ii. 30. DEVONSHIRE, third Duke of, ii. 30 n. 1. DEVONSHIRE, fourth Duke of, iii. 444. DEVOTIONAL POETRY, i. 291-2, iii. 310. See SACRED POETRY.
DIBBEN, Thomas, ii. 203 n. 6. DIDACTIC POETRY, ii. 295.
Dies Irae, i. 234, 292 n. I.
DIGBY, Sir Kenelm, i. 4, 377. DIGBY, Hon. Mary, iii. 263.
DIGBY, Hon. Robert, Pope's epitaph, iii. 263. Dignity of Kingship Asserted, i. 125 n. 6. DILETTANTI CLUB, ii. 360 n. 2.
DILLY, Charles, the bookseller, iii. 305 n. 3.
DILLY, Edward, the bookseller, xxv n. 2. DINGLEY, Mrs., iii. 9, 23.
DIODATI, Charles, i. 91 n. 9, 93 n. 2, 97. DIODATI, John, i. 97. DIONYSIUS, iii. 236 n. 4.
Dissipation, iii. 338 n. 2. DITCHLEY, i. 219. Divaricate, i. 422 n. 4. DIVORCE BILLS, ii. 322 n. 4. DIXON, Canon R. W., iii. 360.
DOBLE, Mr. C. E., anonymous publication of Essay on Man, iii. 163 n. 1; Pope's Sober Advice and Thomas Bentley, 276; Johnson's Cicero, i. 320 n. 2; Walmesley's letters to Duckett, ii. 23.
DOBSON, William, account of him, iii. 170 n. 3; Latin version of Paradise Lost, i. 191 n. 4, iii. 170; 1. v. of Prior's Solomon and Pope's Essay on Man, 170; Pope's learning, 216.
DOBSON, Mr., Waller's Schoolmaster, i. 249 n. 6.
DODINGTON, George Bubb, Lord Melcombe, described by Thomson and Walpole, iii. 287 n. 2; 'Dodingtonian smoothness, ib.; Dorset- shire seat, 376, 377, 387; Johnson, offered friendship to, 287 n. 2; Love thy country,' &c., 387; Pope's 'Bubo,' 287 n. 2; Thomson's bad reading, 297; T.'s Summer dedicated to him, 287; Young's patron, 372, 376, 377.
DODSLEY, Robert, account of him, iii. 213 n. 7; Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination, 412; Collection of Poems, 333 n. 4, 345 n. 4, 358 n. 1, 359, 423 n. 9, 424 n. 7, 435 n. 1; Dyer's Fleece, 344; Gray's Elegy, printed, 443; G.'s Progress of Poesy, not scholar enough to understand, 436 n. 3; G.'s Prospect of Eton College, published, 423 n. 9; im- prisoned by House of Lords, 181; Johnson's London, published, 180 n. 4; Pope's charity, 213; P.'s copy for the press, 221; P.'s last illness, 190; P.'s papers, 192; P. and War- burton's first meeting, 167 n. 3; Public Virtue, 418 n. 2; Shenstone's friend and biographer, 353; Toyshop, 213 n. 7; Young's Night Thoughts and Brothers published, 381, 395 n. 3, 397 n. 6.
Dodsley's Miscellany, see DODSLEY, Collec- tion of Poems.
DOLBEN, Sir Gilbert, i. 449 n. I. DOLMAN, Miss, Shenstone's cousin, iii. 349 12. 6.
DOLMAN, Rev. Mr., of Brome in Stafford- shire, iii. 349, 350.
DOMENICHI, Lodovico, i. 455. Donaldson v. Beckett, iii. 284 n. 3.
DONNE, Dr. John, Cowley borrows from him, i. 57, 58, 68; Coleridge, praised by, 21 n. 3; 'Done, for not keeping accent, deserves hanging,' 22 n. 2; Drury, Mrs., had never seen, 441 m. 3: Dryden's estimate, 19, 68; 'favourite poet of the time,' 58 n. 2; Lamb, praised by, 20 n. 2; metaphysical poet, 22, 68; Night, 33; philosophical allusions, i. 23, 285 n. 1; Pope's estimate, 19 n. 3; P.'s versification of Satires, iii. 177; rugged- ness, i. 22, 426; 'Twin compasses' and Omar
DISSENTERS, Fund for education of minis- ters, iii. 411 n. 4; taught the graces of language, 306; teacher of a congregation' or 'minister,' 307 2. I.
Khayyam, 34 22. 2; wit, 19; quotations, 23-4, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 57.
DONNE, John, the younger, i. 425 n. 3. Don Quixote, applause for what he has omitted to write,' iii. 136 n. 1; Boiardo and Ariosto, i.454 n. 4; fees, ii. 9on.4; Hudibras, compared with, i. 209; hypocrite and bold- faced sinner, iii. 55 n. 2; licenser of plays, ii. 279 n. 2; 'may be found in descent from a king,' 180; Memoirs of Scriblerus, resem- blance to, iii. 182; pastoral poetry, i. 164 n. 2, iii. 318 n. 3; scholar's life, ii. 357 n. 1; Sydenham, recommended by, 236; wished longer,' i. 184 n. I.
DORCHESTER, Catharine Sedley, Countess of, i. 308 n. 3, ii. 173.
DORMER, Mr., of Oxfordshire, i. 252. DORSET, Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of, Addison, praised by, i. 306 n. 7; affection of the public, 306; Anne, Princess, conducts to Nottingham, 306; 'best-good man with the worst-natured muse,' 307 n. 1, iii. 256 n. 1; birth, i. 303; Blackmore, satirized by, ii. 241 n. 2; Burnet, described by, i. 303 nn., 305 n.3, 307 n. 1; character, 303, 306; Charles II, despised, 305 n. 3; confused with first Duke, 309 n. 5, 340 n. 4, ii. 181 n. 3, iii. 312 n. 6; Corneille's Pompey, i. 282; death, 306; Do- rinda, 308; drunken frolic, 303; Dryden, bounty to, 307, 384; D.'s Essay of Dramatic Poesy, character in, 307 2. 4, 340; D.'s Essay on Satire dedicated to him, 385; D.'s flattery, 307, 308 n. I; D.'s funeral, 392 n. 1; dull in company, 303 n. 5; embassies to France, 305; failings had their beauties,' 304 n. 2, ii. 10 n. 1; favourite of Charles II, i. 303; favourite of William III, 306; fights against Dutch, 304, 307 n. 4; garter, 306; gentle- man of the bedchamber, 305; 'gentleman had the better of the satirist,' 307 n. 5; Halifax's patron, 309; 'holiday-writer,' 224 n. 2; Howard, Edward, lampoons, 307 n. 5, 308; Hudibras known at Court through him, 204; inherits Earl of. Middlesex's es- tates, 305; invincible indolence, 306 n. 3; longest composition, 307; lord chamberlain of William III's household, 306; marriages, 305; Nell Gwynne, 305 n. 3; 'never in the wrong,' 307; Parliament, enters, 303; patron of genius, 306, 309 n. 5, ii. 42, 181; Pope's epitaph, i. 307 n. 1, iii. 254; P.'s estimate, i. 224 n. 2, 308 n. 1; P., quoted by, 306 n. 6; Prior's character of him, 303, 304 n. 2, 307 nn., ii. 10 n. 1; P.'s patron, 181, 186; Revolu- tion, concurs in, i. 306; Rochester's epigrams on him, 306, 307 n. 1, 355 n. 4, iii. 256 n. 1; R., praised by, i. 303 n. 8; Satires, little personal invectives, 307; 'Seven Bishops,' countenances, 305; Shadwell's laureateship, 384 n. 2; Stepney's patron, 309; succeeds to Earldom, 305; Swift, described by, 303 n. 5; To all you Ladies now at land, 305; tossed in open boat with William III, 306; travels in
Italy, 303; tried for robbery, 304 #. 3; wit, 306 n. 7.
DORSET, Charles Sackville, second Duke of, see MIDDLESEX, Earl of.
DORSET, Lionel, seventh Earl and first Duke, confused with Charles, sixth Earl, i. 309 n. 5, 340, ii. 181, 186, iii. 312 m. 6; Philips's verses to him, 312; Prior's dedica- tion, i. 303 n. 2; Savage, compliments, ii. 337; Young's dedication, iii. 372; 'universal patron,' 312.
DORSET, Thomas Sackville, first Earl of, Gorbuduc, i. 415 n. 5, iii. 255 n. I.
DOUGLAS, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Salis- bury, iii. 19 n. 6.
DOWDESWELL, William, Chancellor of the Exchequer, iii. 451 n. 2.
DOWNE, Earls of, iii. 82.
DOWNES, John, the prompter, Roscius Anglicanus, Cowley's Cutter of Coleman Street, i. 14; Granville's British En- chanters, ii. 289 n. 4; G.'s She Gallants, 290
DRAKE, Dr., ii. 236 n. 1.
DRAMA, attacked by Collier, ii. 220; Puri- tans, censured by, i. 365, ii. 219. See also THEATRE.
DRAMATIC RHYME, i. 336, 337, 339, 414, 436.
DRAPER, the bookseller, ii. 243, iii. 316
DRAYTON, Michael, i. 467.
DRIDEN, John, the poet's cousin, i. 393 n. 3.
DRIFT, Adrian, Prior's secretary, ii, 180 n. I, 199 n. 4.
DRURY LANE THEATRE, Johnson's Pro- logue on the opening, i. 243 n. 2. See LONDON, Drury Lane.
DRYDEN, Charles, the poet's son, Chamber- lain to the Pope, i. 393, 479; Juvenal, Sat. vii, translated, 385; Dryden's funeral, 390; death, 393.
DRYDEN, Lady Elizabeth, the poet's wife, see HOWARD, Lady Elizabeth.
DRYDEN, Erasmus, the poet's father, i. 331. DRYDEN, Sir Erasmus, Bart., the poet's grandfather, i. 331.
DRYDEN, Erasmus Henry, the poet's son, i. 393, 394 n. 1, 481. DRYDEN, John,
Absalom and Achi- tophel, published, i. 373; attacked by Collier, 401 n. 5; Settle and Pordage, 374, 374 #7; Johnson's criticism, 436; second part, share in, 376, 437; Addison's Cato, ii. 98 n. 5; A., drinks with, i. 389 n. 5; A.'s Fourth Georgic, ii. 83; advise, ready to, i. 396; Albion and Albanius, 358; Alexander's Feast, account of publication, 388, 480; 'best of all my poetry,' 456 n. 4; fortnight's labour, 456; Goldsmith's criticism, 456 n. 4; Gray's praise, iii. 226 n. 7; Johnson's criti- cism, i. 439, 456; Landor's disparagement,
457 n. 2; Pope's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, compared with, iii. 227; P.'s praise, ii. 264; -alexandrines, i. 63, 466 n. 7, 469; All for Love, 361, ii. 396 n. 1; Almanzor, see DRYDEN, Conquest of Granada; Am- boyna, i. 355; Amphitryon, 363; Ana- baptist, bred an, 331; Annus Mira-
bilis, account of publication, 338; Johnson's examination of it, 430-5; lines without meaning, 461; mean image in it, 463; Pepys's praise, 430 n. 2; Seneca, line borrowed from, 435; Settle's ridicule, 352, 354;
'another and the same,' 418; Antony's dying speech to Cleopatra, 361 n. 7; Aristotle's rules for tragedy, 472-9; Art to blot,' wanted, 424 n. 5, iii. 220 n. 5; Assignation, i. 355; Astraea Redux, published, 334; 'forced conceits,' its, 426, 427; astrology, 216, 409, 481, ii. 218; Aurengzebe, i. 360; ballads, fond of, 416 n. 4; 'Bayes' in Re- hearsal, 337, 368, 369, 482; 'beaten for another's rhymes,' 372; Beaumont and Fletcher, 347, 474, 476, 478; birth, &c., 331; Blakesley, 332 n. 1; blank verse, 200, 414; Boccaccio, borrows from, 455; Boling- broke, visited by, 388 n. 5, 407; book- learning,' 417; 'borrows for want of leisure,'iii. 166; brink of meaning, treads upon,' i. 460; Britannia Rediviva, 383 n. 1, 446; Buck- ingham, his enemy, 368; Burnet, attacked by, 365 n. 7, 379, 398 n. 4; Busby, Dr., re- verenced, 332; Cambridge, 333; celestial interposition in epic, 385; Chapman's versi- fication, 415; character, described by Congreve, 394, 483; Charles II's 'character,' 364; C., neglected by, 386 n. 3; C., praises, 127 1. 3, 418, 439 n. 3, 464 n. 3; C., praised by, 347; Chaucer, 414, 455; chops logic in heroic verse,'352; Churchill's lines on him,469 n. 10; City and Country Mouse, sheds tears over, ii. 182; 'claps of multitudes, placed happiness in,' i. 346; Clarendon, verses to, 428; Cleomenes, 363; Cock and the Fox, 455; Collector of Customs, 484; comedies, 459; comedy and morality, 415; comic and tragic scenes, alternated, 357; common words, 420 n. 2; company, dull in, 397, iii. 201; 'Complaint of Life,' i. 361; complaints, mostly general, 400; composition, rapidity of, 397; c., ne- gligent in, 464; conceits in early productions, 333, 426, 428; confidence in himself, 371, 396; Congreve, familiarity with, 394, 395; C.'s plays, ii. 215, 217 n. 2, 223 n.6; Conquest of Granada, account of, i. 348-50; criticized by Clifford and Settle, 350-4; 'noisy lines,' 462; ridiculed in Rehearsal, 349 n. 6; conversation, sluggish in, 397; conversion to Roman Catholicism, 376; c. satirized, 381; Corneille's Cinna and Aristotle, 474 n. 2; corrections after publi- cation, rarely introduced, 465 n. 2; cor- ruption of a poet, generation of statesman,' 339 n. 6; couplets, 443, 468, 469, iii. 250
n. 4; Court, the, i. 384 n. 5, 464 n. 3; Cowley's authority almost sacred to him, 333 n. 1; C.'s Chronicle, could have sup- plied knowledge, not gaiety of, 38; C.'s Cutter of Coleman Street, 14; C.'s Pindarics, 47 n. 4; Cowper's criticism, 464 n. 5; critic, severe, the greatest help, 464 n. 6; criticism, adverse, affected by, 355, 370, 400; c., his, 410, 418; c., father of English,' 410; c., often precipitate, 217; c., too scholastic, ii. 146; c., inferior to Dennis in, iii. 222 n. 2; Cymon and Iphigenia, i. 455; 'Dali- lahs of the Theatre,' 462; Davenant, colla- borates with, 341; D.'s quatrains, influenced by, 338, 425, 431; death, 389, 486; dedi- cations, his, 366, 399; d. to Dr. Busby, 332 n. 4; Charles II, 483; Earl of Chesterfield, 387; Lord Clifford, 387, 404 n. 4; Earl of Dorset, 385; Marquis of Halifax, 364; Lord Mulgrave, 361, 387, 410 n. 4; Duke of New- castle, 347; Dukes of Ormond, 397 n. 4, 408 n. 2; Earl of Orrery, 336, 339; Earl of Rochester, 354, iii. 368; Earl of Salisbury, i. 365; Sir Charles Sedley, 355; Duchess of York, 359; Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 338 n. 2; degrees of B.A. and M.A., 333 n. 4; Denham, more vigour than, 465; D., praises, 79 n. 7, 293 n. 6; Dennis, converses with, 14, 359 n. 2; D., flattered by, 396 n. 5; Derrick's Life, 331, 408; description of the ships,' 350; diffi- culties, recommends works by representation of, 338; discontent, 400; Don Sebastian, 362, 385; Donne, 19, 68; Dorset's bounty, 307, 384; dramatic criticisms, 347, 349, 412, 471; d. immorality, 399; d. poetry, dis- continued, 363; d. rhyme, defends, 336-9, 414, 436; Duke's Company, the, 362 n. 5; Duke of Guise, 335 n. 1, 357; Dutch, the, attacks, 356, 359 n. 1, 387 n. 6; earlier dramatists, 347, 424 n. 7; early poems, 332; Elegy on Lord Hastings, 332, 334 n. 2; Eleonora, 440-2; English poetry's debt to him, 469; epic poem, designs, 361, 385; e. poetry, 181 n. 5, 385; Epilogue to All for Love, 362; E. to Conquest of Granada, 349; E. to Husband his own Cuckold, 393 n. 6; Epistle to John Driden, 456 n. 1; epitaph, 393 n. 2; e., Atterbury's proposed, 469 n. 10; Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 339, 340, 411, 412, 416, 465 n. 2; Essay of Heroic Plays, 425 n. 2; Essay on Satire, 385 n. 7, 411 n. 5; Essay on Satire (verses), waylaid and beaten as author, 371; see SHEFFIELD; Evening's Love, 346 n. 2; Fables, account of publication, 388; contract, &c., with Tonson, 405; description and criticism, 454; Pope's Chaucer, iii. 88; Preface, i. 401, 455; sale, 143 n. 5, 408; - Faerie Queen, 211 n. 4; fishing, fond of, 408 n. 5; flattery, his, 307,359, 366, 384, 387, 398, 399, 400 n. 1; French better critics, worse poets, 411 n. 3; F. heroic verse, 421 n. 3; F. words, uses, 372
n. 6, 463; Fresnoy's Art of Painting, trans- lated, 386; friendship, his, 483; full-re- sounding line,' 293, 465, iii. 232; funeral, i. 389-92, 486; Garth, praises, ii. 58 n. 2; general topic, rarely writes on, i. 376; ' genius, every age has a kind of universal,' 2 n. 5; g., his vigorous, 457; g., superior to Pope in, iii. 222; 'good rhymist but no poet,' i. 154; Gorboduc, wrongly describes, 415; grand, the, and the new, endeavoured after, 461; Granville's Heroic Love, praises, ii. 290; Gray's favourite poems, i. 455 n. 11, and see GRAY; Guarini's Pastor Fido, 296 n. 1; habits, 408; Halifax's lines on him, 385 n. I; hastiness of productions, 348, 356, 359, 423 n. 4, 465; 'heroic poem, greatest work of human nature,' 170 n. 2; Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell, 270, 334, 425; high value of own performances, 395;
Hind and Panther, date of publica- tion, 380; described and criticized, 442-6; parodied in City and Country Mouse, 380, 443, 444 n. 1, ii. 42, 182; ridiculed by Thomas Brown, i. 382; Supreme Being called Pan, 445; 'sunk into neglect,' 446;
historiographer, 383 n. 3, 405, 481; Howard, Sir Robert, controversy with, 339; H.'s Indian Queen, joined in, 336; Hudi- bras's versification, 217; human nature, pene- trating remarks on, 429; humane and com- passionate, 483; Iliad, 388, 414, iii. 132, 253 n. 1; compared with Pope's, 222 n. 6; Pope's debt to it, 238; inaccuracies, i. 415; income, 405, 484; inconstancy, charged with, 334; Indian Emperor, 336, 339, 350, 430 n. 3, 436; inherited estate, 331, 484; inhumanity, charged with, 394 n. 5, 483; irreverence of religion, 404, 436; James II, allusions in Virgil to, 387 n. 6; jealousy of rivals, 396; jest, unable to resist temptation of, 463; Johnson's fondness for his memory, iii. 223; J. gathered materials for his Life, i. 331 n. 1; J.'s leniency, 132 n. 1, 378; J.'s mind formed to relish his excellencies, 330 n. 1; J., resemblance in his character to, 417 n. 1, 457 n. 3; Jonson's dramatic criti- cism, 411 n. 1; J.'s plots, 347; J.'s verses to Shakespeare, 355 n. 4; Juvenal, version of, 385, 394, 447; King Arthur, 358 n. 6, 364; King's Company, the, his agreement with, 362 n. 5, 365 n. 8, 367 n. 3; know- ledge, compared to Pope's, iii. 222; k. not due to books, i. 417; labour, not lover of, 413, 465, iii. 220; lampoons, seldom answered, i. 400 n. 5; landlord, kind, 332 n. 1; Landor's lines on him, 416 n. 4, 458 n. 2; 'last effort' of his poetry, 456 n. 3; Latin writers, remarks on, 415, 416; Laurus,' ii. 241 n. 2; learning, not equal to Milton's and Cowley's, i. 416; Lee, plays written in con- junction with, 357, 362; letter to his sons, 479; licentiousness of works, 398; Life, not written by contemporaries, 331; Life of
Francis Xavier, 378, 379; Life of Lucian, 372; Life of Plutarch, 333, 372; Life of Polybius, 372; Limberman, 356 n. 4, 362; literature, extent of his, 416, 417; 'little Bayes,' 381; lived in familiarity with highest persons, 397; 'long majestic march,' 465, iii. 232; longitude, note referring to, i. 434; loss of offices, 384; love, his conception of, 458; Love Triumphant, 365, 386 n. 5, 474 n. 2; Mac Flecknoe, 383, iii. 241; Maimbourg's Hist. of the League, i. 378, 483; marriage, 393; Marriage Alamode, 354, iii. 368; M. A. and Maiden Queen, comic scenes acted as one play, i. 357 n. 3; Medal, The, 375, 437; memory, tenacious, 483; Milbourne, attacked by, 388, 449-52; Milton's blank
verse, 200; M.'s borrowings from Spenser and Chaucer, 190 n. 1, 194 n. 4; 'gives him leave to tag his verses,' 358 n. 7; M., lines on, 95 n. 2, 198; M.'s rhymes, 162 n. 4; M.'s verdict on him, 154; M.'s view of nature, 178; M., visits, 358 n. 7; Paradise Lost, praises, 198; 'devil the hero,' 176 n. 3; 'flats among elevations,' 187; old words, 190 n. 1; mind, comprehensive by nature, 457; m., curious and active, 417; mixed wit,' sparing in, 41 n. 5; Mock Astrologer, see Evening's Love; modesty and laziness, 395, ii. 169 n. 10; money, wrote for, i. 372, 423, 447, iii. 220; monosyllables, i. 61 n. 2; monster of immodesty,' 365 n. 7; music, inarticulate poetry, iii. 248; m., knew little about, i. 456 n. 4; mythology, 427, 439, 462; name necessary to success of every literary per- formance,' 372; nature, his view of, 178 n. I; negligence, faults of, 464; New- castle, Duke and Duchess of, 347; night, description of, 337, 436, iii. 399 n. 6; Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, i. 342 n. 5; Ode on the death of Mrs. Killigrew, Alexander's Feast, compared with, 456; grotesque image, 463 n. 5; imi- tated by Congreve, ii. 233; 'noblest ode lan- guage has produced,' i. 439;- Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (the first), 439; Ode on St. Ce- cilia's Day (the second), see Alexander's Feast; Oedipus, 356 n. 4, 362; ·old religion, the,' 376 n. 3; ordination, solicited, 403; Ormond, sups with, 397; Ormond, Duchess of, present from, 408; Otway, 248 n. 1, 458; Ovid and Claudian, 415, iii. 223 n. 1; Ovid's Epistles, i. 372, 405 n. 3, 414 n. 3, 436; Oxford, lines in praise of, 333; Palamon and Arcite, 455; Panegyric on the Coronation, 334 n. 7, 428; Papists, writes against, 357; see DRYDEN, Roman Catholics; pathos, wanting in, 458;
payments received, Alexander's Feast, 408; Cleomenes, 363 n. 5; Fables, 388, 406, 408; Ovid, 405 n. 3; Virgil, 387 n. 4; rate of payment, 405 n. 3; 250 guineas for 10,000 verses, iii. 118 n. 1; see also DRYDEN, plays;
'pedantic ostentation,' i. 462; people, wrote for the, iii. 220; Pepys sees him, i. 335
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