MILTON, John, the poet's father, disinherited,
i. 85; music, skill in, i. 195; resides with the
poet, 104; scrivener, 85, 195.

112 n. 4;

MILTON, John, the poet's grandfather, i. 85.
MILTON, John, Accidence commenced Gram-
mar, i. 132; Act of Oblivion, not excepted
from, 128, 129; Addison's lines on him, 116
n. 2; adjutant-general, design of making him,
109; affable deportment, 151 n. 2;
L'Allegro, criticized, 165-7; lay in a sort of
obscurity,' 165 n. 3; 'pleasure, every man
reads with,' 165; published, 108; set to
music by Handel, 165 n. 3; written at
Horton, 91 n. 7;
Animadversions upon
the Remonstrant's Defence against Smectym-
nuus, 103 n. 3; Apology against a modest
Confutation, ib.; Arcades, 93; Areopagitica,
106 n. 2, 107, iii. 292 n. 1; arguments to
justify inclination, i. 105; Arian, 155. 5;
aristocrat, 157 n. 3; Arminianism, tends to,
154; arms, 84 n. 4; assassination, fears, 140
n. 2; Athenian tragedians, 189 n. 1, 471 n. 3;
authority, repugnance to, 157; Barberini,
introduced to, 94; Bible, entries in his, 86
n. 4, 158 n. 1; birth, &c., 84-86; blank verse,
192-4,200,319; 'blind adder spitting poison,'
blindness, appearance of eyes
in, 151 n. 4; compassion for it, 130; course
of his day when blind, 152; date of loss of
sight, 114 n. 1, 139; Latin Secretary, con-
tinued, 116, 119 n. 7; want of sight supplied
by readers, 144; 'borrows out of pride,'
iii. 166; Bourne's, V., lines on him, i. 150
n. 4; Brief Hist. of Moscovia, 149 n. 3;
burning of his books, 127; Calvinist, at first
a, 154; Cambridge, attacks on career
at, 103; Christ's College, enters, 86; 'corporal
correction,' 88; degrees of B.A. and M.A., 4
n. 8, 12 n. 3, 89; no fellowship, 88; leaves
University, 91; no kindness for it, 89; terms
kept, 88, 89 n. 5; University exercises, 88,
161; Chalfont, retires to, 140; Character
of the Long Parliament, 146 n. 3; Christianity,
convinced of truth of, 155; Church of Eng-
land, designed taking orders in, 91; C. E.,
threatened in Lycidas with extermination, 92;
C. E., respectful mention of, 148; Church
government, 102, 155; Church-outed,' 91
n. 4; Church property, grasped,' 153; clergy-
man must subscribe slave,' 91; climate of
England too cold for imagination, 138; Cola-
sterion, 106 n. 3, 196; composition, hours of,
138, 152; c., methods of, 135, 139; c., winter
best time for, 136; Comus, criticized,

167-9; dawn of Paradise Lost, 167; deriva-
tion, its, 92; deficient as a drama, 168; pre-
sented at Ludlow, 92; played for benefit of
Milton's granddaughter, 160; set to music,
92 n. 4; Shelley reads it, 167 n. 6; slow in
becoming known, 167 n. 4; written at Horton,
91 n. 7;
confidence in himself, 94, 102,
144, 194; contemporaries, neither courted nor
supported by, 194; contemporary ignorance of

De-

him, 144 22. 2; controversies, begins, 101; c.,
ends, 119; controversial merriment,' 104;
country, weary of, 93; courts Dr. Davis's
daughter, 107; Cowley, borrows from, 58;
C., valued, 56, 154; Cripplegate Church, 149;
Cromwell, appeals to, 116 n. 2; C., praises,
110 n. 4, 118; daughters, harsh to, 139 n. 1,
159; d. knew no language save English, 199;
d. lived apart, 153 n. 8; d.'s' mean education,'
157, 159; d. read to him, 144, 199; d. sent out
to learn embroidery, 145; d.'s signatures, 159
n. 6; d.'s taught at home, 199; d. writing,
139, 159; day, arrangement of, 145 n. 1;
death, 149; Declaration of reasons for war
with Spain, 119; decrepitude of nature, 137;
De Doctrina Christina, 155 n. 5, 196;
Defensio Populi Anglicani, account of publi-
cation, 112; answers to it, 116; burnt by
common hangman, 127; criticisms of it, 112
n.4; latinity, 112; 'reward' for it, 114, 153;
widespread reputation, 114 n. 4;
fensio Secunda, 117, 118; dictated his poems,
135, 138 n. 3, 139; diction, copiousness and
variety of, 191; d., uniformity of, 189; diffi-
culties vanished at his touch, 194; Diodati,
friendship with, 88, 97; 'divine, poor and
fanciful,' 199; divorce tracts, 105, 196; Doc-
trine of Divorce, ib.; domestic habits, 134,
151; domestic relations, arbitrary in, 157;
double epithets, iii. 437 n. 1; dramatic
rhyme controversy, i. 339 n. 6; dramatic
writing, would not have excelled in, 189;
dress, 134; Dryden's distich, 95 n. 2; D.'s
improvements, would have profited by, 318;
D. visits him, 154, 358 n. 7; early diligence
in writing, 162; early rising, 152 n. 2; edu-
cates his nephews, 98; education, scheme of,
90, 99; Eikon Basilike, 110; Elegies, 87;
Ellwood, relations with, 132, 140, 147; Eng-
land, leaves, 93; E., returns to, 96; epic poem,
plans, 120, 121; episcopacy, attacks, 102;
Epitaphium Damonis, 97; escape, reasons for
his, 130; Euripides, delight in, 154; Familiar
Epistles in Latin, 149; family, account of his,
158; see MILTON, daughters; fashion to ad-
mire him, iii. 426; father resides with him,
i. 104; father-in-law, shelters, 107; fencer,
dexterous, 151; Fire of London, 153 n. 6;
firearms in verse, 430; 'flattery, his,' 118;
Florence, 93, 94, 97; foreign idiom, English
words with, 190; foreign languages, reads,
154; Forest Hill in Oxfordshire, 104 n. 6;
fortune not much his care, 152; see MILTON,
property; French Ambassador's account of
him, 112 n. 4; friends in House of Commons
at Restoration, 129; funeral, 149; Galileo,
visits, 96; Geneva, 97; German not included
in his reading, 154 n. 2; 'gigantesca sub-
limita,' 177 n. 4; gout, 149; granddaughter's
account of him, 159; Gray's Inn, 'day of
festivity' at, 101; Gray's Progress of Poesy,
iii. 438; Greek and Latin writers, reads, i. 91,
154; Greek poetry, his, 91 n. 9; Grotius,

visits, 93; hair like that of Adam in Par.
Lost, 151; 'hard study and spare diet,' 101;
Harefield, 93; Hebrew, reads, 154; H. Bible
read to him, 145 n. 1, 152; H. prophets, in-
fluenced by, 188 n. 8; 'hell grows darker at his
frown,' 104; heresy, untainted by, 155; hermit,
his companion, 96; History of Britain, 120,
145; Holy Spirit, nightly visited by, 194 n. 2;
Homer, could almost repeat, 154; H., least
indebted to, 194; honest man, wishes to live
and die an, 131; 'honeysuckle lives,' 84 n. 1;
Horton, residence at, 91, 93; 'human nature,
knew only in the gross,' 189; Iconoclastes,
account of it, III n. 1; I. burnt at Restora-
tion, 127 n. 5; 'imagination, never fails to fill
the,' 178; income after Restoration, 153 n. 6;
incontinence, accused of, 104; indigence,
never reduced to, 153; ingratitude, Johnson's
charge of, 140; Inns of Court, plans chambers
in, 93; In Proditionem Bombardicam, 162
n. 1; In Quintum Novembris, 162 n. 1;
invective, 112 n. 4, 118; investments, 153;
Italian academies, received by, 93; I. dis-
position of words, 190; I., read, 154; I.
poets, influenced by, 92; I., well versed in,
187; I. verses, his, 95, 161; Italy, visits,
93-97; Jesuit plot, 96; judgement of own
works, 39, 147; Judgement of Martin Bucer
concerning Divorce, 105, 196; -Juvenilia,
criticized, 161; J., reprinted, 149; King
Arthur, designed epic on, 103 n. 2, 121; 'lady
of his college,' 151; 'language sunk under
him,' 190; Latin Dictionary, began a, 120; L.
elegiac poets, 161 n. 5; L., only one man,
and that man blind, could write, 119; L.
pronunciation, 133; L. prose, his, 118; L.,
read aloud to in, 132, 145; L., solecisms in,
113, 118 m.; L. verses, 108, 161; latinity,
his, 12, 13, 66, 87, 95 nn., 154, 161;
Latin Secretary, appointed, 110; discharged
duties in blindness, 116, 119; salary, 153;
lost place at Restoration, 126; offered con-
tinuance of office, 131; learning, 132,
154, 416; Letters of State, published by
Edward Phillips, 84 n. 2, 195; printing pro-
hibited, 149 n. 3;
Letter to Senate of
Dantzig, 73 n. 6; Ley, Lady Margaret, 105;
liberty, views on, 157; library, sells, 153;
Licenser, the, and Hist. of Britain, 146; L.
and Letters of State, 149 n. 3; L. and Paradise
Lost, 141, 485; literature, unquestionably
great, 154; 'little things, never learnt art of
doing with grace,' 163; Lives of him, 84 n.
2; Logic, book of, 147; 'long choosing and
beginning late,' 134; Lucca, 97; Lyci-
das, published, 92; Cassandra in Agamemnon,
passage recalling, 92 n. 9; Cowper, praised
by, 164 n. 2; criticized, 163-5; 'im-
piety,' 165; Italian influence, 92; 'ma-
lignity to the Church,' ib.; pastoral and
therefore disgusting,' 163; patriot passion,'
165 n. 1; read without pleasure if author
unknown, 165; real passion absent, 163,

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164 n. 2; 'touchstone of poetic taste,' 164
n. 2; written at Horton, 91 n. 7;
'magis habuit quod fugeret quam quod se-
queretur,' 155; Manso, visits, 96, 97; Man-
cus, 121; 'marriage afforded not much of his
happiness,' 131; see MILTON, wife; Marvel,
friendship with, 129; mean, by a mean
employment could not become, 109; 'meta-
physic style,' tries, 22;
Minor Poems,
repulsive harshness, 162; Pope discovers
them, iii. 236 n. 2; unmentioned for seventy
years, i. 108 n. 6; mistake, disliked
admitting, 117; 'monarchy, trappings of a,'
156; monkish historians, 146 n. 2; monu-
ment should be first in St. Paul's, 149 n. 7;
mother, death of, 93; music in his academy,
135 n. 4; m., skill in, 135, 151 n. 2, 152;
Naples, 96, 97; nature, through the spec-
tacle of books, 178; new language, wrote a,
190; Notes on Griffith's Sermon, 126; nun-
cupative will, 135 n. 3, 153 n. 8; Observa-
tions upon the Articles of Peace with the
Irish Rebels, 110; Of Prelatical Episcopacy,
102; Of Reformation in England, 101 n. 6;
Of true Religion, &c., 148; Oliverian, ardent,
116 n. 2; On the likeliest Means to remove
Hirelings out of the Church, 90, 125; 'our
wives read Milton,' 143 n. 3; Ovid's Meta-
morphoses, delight in, 154; Papist, assertion
that he died a, 155 n. 2; Papists, no liberty
of worship for, 148; Paradise Lost,

account of publication, 141; Adam and Eve,
174, 180, 181 n. 5; Addison's Spectators,
170 n. 1, 171 nn., 172 nn., 173 nn., 174
n. 2, 175 nn., 176 n. 3, 177 n. 3, 178 nn.,
180 n. 1, 181 n. 5, 186 n. 5, 187 n. 6, 188
n. I, 190 nn., 198, ii. 108, 146; 'age too
late for heroic poesy,' i. 137; admired and
laid down, 183; 'aggregated soil,' 186 n. 3;
allegorical persons, 185; allegory of Sin and
Death, 185, iii. 376; angels, i. 173; 'appre-
ciation, reward of consummated scholarship,'
183 n. 4; Art of English poetry to be learned
from it, 191; beauties, no end to selecting,
180; Bentley's edition, 181; characters, 'all
John Milton,' 171 n. 4; choice of subject,
121; complete copy perused by Ellwood,
140; composition, method of, 135; contem-
porary neglect, 144, 198, ii. 147 n. 2; copy-
right, history of, i. 141, 142; date of
composition, 134 n. 2, 139; descriptions
of nature, 178; design fulfils Aristotle's
requirements, 175; diction, 190-1; d. mod-
elled on Virgil, 179 n. 1; Dryden's criticisms,
176 n. 3, 178 n. 4, 187 n. 4; D.'s
State of Innocence, 358 n. 7, 359 n. 2;
editions, 141, 142, 198, 199, ii. 147 n. 2;
egotism, intense, i. 171 n. 4; episodes, 175;
'equivocations,' 188; Eve, the unfallen, his
ideal woman, 145 n. 2, 157 n. 5; ‘exotic style,'
191 n. 3; fable, 171, 174; faults, 180-8;
Fenton's edition, ii. 261 n. 3; flats among
Milton's elevations,' i. 187; greatest of heroic

! 119; Syriac, read, 145, 154 n. 3; System of
Divinity, 120 n. 4; temperate in eating and
drinking, 151, 160 n. 1; Tenure of Kings
and Magistrates, 110 n. 3; Tetrarchordon,
105, 196; theatre, delight in, 90; 'thinking
in him,' 209 n. 3; Thirty-nine Articles, ap-
peals to, 148; A., twice subscribed, 91 n. 4;
tobacco, smokes pipe of, 152; toleration, his
principle of, 148; Tractate of Education, 90,
196; Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiasti-
cal Cases, 125; Trinity College, Camb. MSS.,
121 n. 5, 162 n. 5; unpremeditated verse,'
139; Venice, 97; vernal fertility,' 87; versi-
fication, 190; voice, tuneable, 151 n. 2;
visited by persons of quality and foreigners,
135; wants, few, 153; Westminster Abbey
monument, 150; Westminster Assembly and
Stationers' Company, 106 n. 2; wife, his
first, 104, and see POWELL, Mary; w., second,
116, and see WOODCOCK, Catherine; w.,
third, 131; see MINSHULL, Elizabeth; wives,
all virgins, 131; woman, notions on, 145 n.
2; w., made only for obedience,' 157; w.,
one tongue enough for a,' 199; w., 'Turkish
contempt' for, 157; w., writing unnecessary
for, 159 n. 6; Wordsworth's Sonnet, 132 n.
4; world, mingled little in the,' 189; Wot-
ton's advice, 93; Young, Thomas, his tutor,
86;
quotations, L'Allegro, 167 n. 2;
At a Solemn Music, 440 n. 1; Elegiarum
Liber (i. 9), 88, (i. 89), 89 n. 3; (iv. 29),
86 n. 6; (v. 5), 136 n. 3; Epitaphium Da-
monis, 96 n. 1, 97 n. 9; Il Penseroso, 167
n. 2; In Salmasii Hundredam, ii. 109;
Lycidas, i. 163 n. 3, 164, iii. 86 n. 3; Man-
sus, i. 96 n. 3; Paradise Lost (i. 25), 171 n.
3; (i. 105), iii. 72; (i. 592), 275; (i. 594),
i. 141 n. 2; (i. 650), 186 n. 8; (ii. 496), 269
n. 6; (ii. 719), 104 n. 4; (iv. 52), iii. 295
n. 3; (iv. 299), i. 145 n. 2; (iv. 301), 151
n. I; (iv. 343), 163 n. 1; (iv. 989), 184
n. 6; (v. 5), ii. 261 n. 3; (vi. 221), i. 172;
(vi. 595), 185 n. 3; (vi. 656), 185 n. 2; (vi.
856), 187 n. 3; (vii. 25), 140 n. I; (vii. 30),
183 n. 4; (vii. 463), iii. 391; (vii. 507), i.
179 n. 4; (viii. 191), 100 n. 2; (viii. 454),
ii. 200; (ix. 20), i. 139 n. 3; (ix. 22), ii.
209 n. 3; (ix. 25), i. 121, 134, 176 n. 2;
(ix. 27), 121 n. 3; (ix. 44), 137 n. 6; (ix.
233), 157 n. 5; (xi. 8), 180 n. 4; Paradise
Regained, 86 n. 5, 152 n. 8, 155 n. 3; Son-
nets (viii), 94 n. 4; (xxi), 101 n. 4; (xxii),
114 n. 4, 125 n. 5.

MILTON, Mary, the poet's daughter, i. 158,
159 n. 6.

MILTON, Mary, the poet's niece, i. 158.
MILTON, Sarah, the poet's mother, i. 85, 93.
MILTON, Thomas, the poet's nephew, i. 158.
MILTON, Mrs., granddaughter of Christo-
pher Milton, i. 158 n. 6.

MINCHIN, Anne, Parnell's wife, ii. 50.
MINSHULL, Elizabeth, Milton's third wife,
her character, i. 131; administratrix of Mil-

ton's estate, 153; anecdotes of Milton, 136
n. I, 139 n. 3, 154 n. 6; death, 153; indig-
nant at suggestion of Milton borrowing,
194 n. 2; oppressed his children, 131; parts
with right in Paradise Lost, 142; retires to
Nantwich, 153; 'straitened gentility,' 160 n.
4; wants to ride in her coach, 131.

'MIRA,' see FowкE, Martha, and NEW-
BURGH, Countess of.

Miscellanea Aulica, i. 8.

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, by Swift
and Pope, iii. 38, 144, 147.

MISERY, 'general lot of mankind,' ii. 321;
'proceeds from small vexations continually
repeated,' iii. 234.

Miss, iii. 101 n. 2.

Mist's Journal, ii. 266 n. 2.

MITFORD, Rev. John, Gray's Bard, iii.
438 n. 9; Mason's Gray, 442; Thomson's
Seasons, interleaved copy of, 301 n. 1.
MOHAWKS, iii. 136 n. 4.

MOHUN, Lord, ii. 322 n. 3.

MOLESWORTH, Richard, third Viscount, iii.

405.

MOLESWORTH, Robert, first Viscount, ii.
27, iii. 405 n. 2.

MOLIÈRE, Amphytryon and Dryden, i. 363;
church intolerance on death, ii. 220 n. 1;
translations, Fourberies de Scapin by Otway,
i. 242; Misanthrope by Hughes, ii. 161 n. 3.
MOLYNEUX, Sir Thomas, M.D., ii. 238,
251 n. 1, 755.

MONK, General, Astraea Redux, praised in,
i. 426; Granville's vindication, ii. 292; pre-
ferred by Milton to Stuart king, i. 126 n. 2.
MONMOUTH, Duchess of, ii. 268.

MONMOUTH, Duke of, Crofts lends him his
surname, i. 278 n. 2; landing interrupts
Dryden's Albion and Albanius, 365 n. 1;
Sheffield, quarrel with, ii. 169.

MONTAGU, Mr. George, Halifax's father,
ii. 41.

MONTAGU, Dr., Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge, ii. 41.

MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley, Addison's
company, ii. 119 n. 4; A. and Pope, 120
n. 3, iii. 128 n. 2; Basset Table, ii. 174 n.
4; Bolingbroke, Swift and Pope, iii. 212
1. 3; Congreve's wit, ii. 228 n. 2; Gay and
Duchess of Queensberry, 280 n. 3; G.'s good
nature, 282 n. 6; Hervey's verses against
Pope, her share in, iii. 178 n. 5; Lady
Oxford's table 'infested' by her, 202; 'no
modest man ever made his fortune,' ii. 44
n. 1; Orrery, iii. 67; Persian Tales, 313
n. 4; Pope, all sound and no sense,' 83 n. 5;
P., correspondence with, 202 n. 2; P., makes
love to her, ib.; P.'s Satires, attacked in,
ib., 213 n. 4; P. and Swift, her insolent
mention of, 39 n. 3, 178 n. 5; Savage's
dedication, ii. 343.

MONTAGU, Mrs., 'champion of Shake-
speare,' iii. 388; Johnson's Lyttelton, 351

400.

MOOR PARK, iii. 4, 6.

MOORE, David, i. 158 n. 4.
MOORE, Edward, ii. 433 n. 4.
MOORE, Rev. Edward, D.D., iii. 360.
MOORE, Sir Garret, i. 70.

MOORE, James, Dunciad, satirized in, iii.
242; Lyttelton, courted, 448; Pope's Macer,
according to Warton, 313 n. 2; World, The,
448 n. 7.

MOORE, Thomas, firstrate comedies by
young men, ii. 216 n. 1.

MOORE, Sir Thomas, grandson of Milton's
sister, i. 158 n. 4.

MORALITIES, i. 122 n. I.
MORE, Alexander, i. 117.

MORE, Hannah, Johnson and Rowe's Jane
Shore, ii. 69 n. 6; Prior's Solomon, 207 n. 3.
MORE, Dr. Henry, Divine Dialogues and
Parnell's Hermit, ii. 53.

MORHOF, Daniel Georg, iii. 159.
MORITZ, C. P., Travels in England, ii. 147

n. 2.

MORLEY, Dr. George, Bishop of Winches-
ter, i. 278, 280.

MORRICE, Sir William, Secretary of State,
i. 129.

MORRIS, Dr. John, ii. 6 n. 2.

MOSSE, Stella's stepfather, iii. 74.

MOTTE, Benjamin, the bookseller, Curll
before House of Lords, iii. 155 n. 3; Pope's
Art of Sinking, 145 n. 2; Yalden's confes-
sion, ii. 300 n. 7.

MOTTEAUX, Peter Anthony, editor of Gentle-
man's Journal, ii. 214 n. 7.

MOUNTFORT, Mrs., the actress, ii. 215 n. 6.
MOYLE, Walter, i. 408.

Mrs., applied to unmarried ladies, ii. 50
n. 3, iii. 101 N. 2.

MULGRAVE, Edmund, second Earl of, ii.
167.

MULGRAVE, John, third Earl of, see SHEF-

ii. 183; Eton boys use it as a crib, 12 n. 2;
Hannes, a contributor, i. 318 n. 5; Smith's
Pocockius, ii. 12.

MUSIC, great men without relish for, iii.
228 n. 5.

MYSTERIES, i. 121.

MYTHOLOGY, 'criticism disdains to chase
schoolboy to his commonplaces,' iii. 436;
'dark and dismal regions,' 228; 'despicable'
mythological fictions, ii. 202; Dryden never
learnt to forbear it, i. 427; Epitaphs, might
spare our, iii. 261; imagination exhausted,
attention wearied, 189; neglect, common
fate of mythological stories, ii. 68, 290;
'puerilities of obsolete mythology,' 294,
iii. 439; tedious and oppressive, i. 213;
' vain to plead example of ancient poets,"
295; ii. 16, 283, 311.

NAISH, Mr., ii. 79.

Namby Pamby, iii. 23 n. 4, 324, 326.
NANTWICH, i. 153.

NAPLES, i. 96, 97.

NASH, Richard ( Beau'), ii. 422.

NASH, Rev. Dr., Hist. of Worcestershire,
i. 201, 202.

NATURE, theory of decrepitude of, i. 137.
NEALE, Mr., father of Edmund Smith,
ii. I.

NEILE, Richard, Bishop of Durham, i. 250.
NEMESIAN, iii. 316.

NEWBURGH, Countess of, Granville's
'Mira,' ii. 289, 295 n. I.

NEWBURY, Second battle of, ii. 288.
NEWCASTLE, Margaret, Duchess of, dictates
at night, iii. 209 n. 3; Dryden praises her,
i. 347; Waller's remark on her Hunting of
a Stag, 280.

NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of,
Dryden's Mock Astrologer dedicated to him,
i. 346; D.'s Sir Martin Marall ascribed to
him, 340 m. II: treatise on horsemanship,
347.

NEWCASTLE, John Holles, Duke of, i.

n. 5.

NEWSPAPER TAX, ii. 98, 154.

NEWTON, Sir Isaac, epitaph, iii. 270;
Halifax, friendship with, ii. 42; no intel-
lectual decay, i. 291.

NEWTON, Thomas, Bishop of Bristol, Addi-
son's funeral, ii. 156; Milton's granddaugh-
ter's benefit, i. 160; Paradise Lost with Life
and Paradise Regained, edits, 84 n. 2, 160
n. 3, 199; public table, iii. 29 n. 2.

NEWTON, Thomasine, Pope's grandmother,
iii. 82 n. 5.