only those he esteemed, 205; Prince of Wales, visited by, 179, 198, 210 n. 2; P. of W., repartee to, 210 n. 2; P. of W., won over by attentions of, 448 n. 8; Prior's Alma, ii. 205; P.'s business qualification, 198; P.'s epitaph, 195 n. 6; prologues, declines writing, 173 n. 5; Prologue to Cato, 100, iii. 106, 129; Prologue to the Satires, Addison attacked in it, 178; Boileau, his model, 177; cancelled leaf, 403 n. 3; Cibber, contemp- tuously mentioned, 184; date of publication, 177; Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, original title, ib.; fragments interwoven into it, 177, 246, 291, 402 n. 1; Hervey's attacks answered, 179, 246 n. 4; Johnson's estimate, 246; Sporus, ib.; suppressed passage, 327; title, origin of, 246 n. 3; property on father's death, 85, 136 n. 3; prose, compared with Dryden's, 222, prosecution in House of Lords, threatened with, 181 n. 3; Protestant, reasons for not becoming a, 140 n. 5; public employment, disqualified for, 109, 118; pub- lications never hasty, 220; puerile produc- tions, 87, 88 n. 2, 89, 91; 'quiet, calm, moral course,' 186 n. 2; Racine, Louis, cor- respondence with, 214; Rape of the
Lock, account of origin and publication, 101-3; bad grammar in it, 249 n. 2; Boi- leau's Lutrin, compared with, 234; Dennis's criticisms, 104, 234, 235; double rhyme, 250 n. I; female sex's little follies, laughed at, 234; Johnson's estimate 232-5; 'ludicrous poetry, most exquisite example of,' 104; moral, charged with wanting, 234; original sketch appeared in Lintot's Misc., 101 n. 2; sale, ib.; supernatural machinery, added later, ib., 104 m. 2; s. m., Addison's dis- approval, 103; s. m., Dennis's criticism, 235; s. m., his pride in, 104; s. m., John- son's praise, 104, 233; s. m., source of idea, 233 n. 4; written fast, 102; reaction
against his school, 251 n. 5; read, taught by aunt to, 83; read well, ii. 215 n. 5; reading, account of his, iii. 90, 94, 216; religion, deist in, 191 n. 8; r., did not intentionally attack, 169; r., gives hint of his, 173; I., immortality, belief in, 191 n. 6, n. 8; r., revelation, belief in, 215; see also POPE, Roman Catholic; religious disabilities, 109, 134 n. 2, 140 n. 5; representative metre, 230-2; resentful, 202, 213; resentment against world, pretended, 211; retouching, always, 221; revision of former works, 188, 221; Rich, Manager,' lines on, ii. 275 n. 5; rhymes, bad, iii. 249; Roman Catholic, lived and died a, 214; R. C., conversion attempted by Atterbury, 140; R. C., priest attends deathbed, 191; R. C., reasons for remaining, 140 n. 5, 214 n. 7; Roscommon, i. 235; Rowe, ii. 69 n. 5, 75; Royal Society, ridiculed, 39; Ruling Passion,' iii. 173; Rundle, ii. 386 n. 3; Rymer, i. 485; Sandys' Ovid, read in childhood, iii. 84; Sappho to Phaon, 88;
Sarpedon, 88 n. 2; Savage's Progress of a Divine, ii. 388 n. 1; S.'s. story, accepts, 439; S.'s tragedy, advice as to, 415 n. 5; S.'s Wanderer, 364; see SAVAGE; sayings, few known, iii. 201; schools, 84, 85, 86 n. I; scripture phrases, 'indecent application' of, 215; Secker, 336 n. 1; sedan chair in boat, 83 n. 4; Selecta Carmina Italorum qui Latine scripserunt, 183 n. 2; self-deception, 212 n. 3; servility, boasts freedom from, 204; Settle, i. 376 n. 2; Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-eight, see POPE, Epilogue to the Satires; Shakespeare, edition of, iii.
137; Fenton assists in it, ii. 260 n. 1; Gay corrects press, 268 n. 5; Johnson's estimate, iii. 139; Malone's criticism, 139 n. 2; Theo- bald's attack, 138; Shakespeare and Otway, i. 247 n. 7; S., inscription, his, iii. 201; S.'s style, ii. 69 n. 5; Sheffield, flatters, iii. 204 n. 7; S.'s Essay on Poetry, il. 175; S.'s Works, corrected, 177 n. 1; 'shop of con- dolence or congratulation, never opened, a,' iii. 219; Short Club, 196; short-sighted, 107; Silence, 88, 108 n. 4; similes, 229; slept in company, 198; Sober Advice from Horace, &c., 176 n. 1, 276; South Sea losses, 137; Southerne, i. 367 n. 1; Spectator, con- tributed to, iii. 100 n. 1; Spencer's Faerie Queen, ii. 162 n. 5, iii. 87 n. 1; spider, compares himself to a, 196; spirit-drinking, 199 n. 2, 200 n. 2; 'splendid acquaintance, ambitious of,' 90; 'Squire Pope, the great poet,' 172 n. 3; stage, would not write for, 89 n. 6; Statius's Thebais, 88, 92, 108 n. 4; stature, low, 196, 197 n. 1; stays, wore, 83 n. 4, 197; stockings, many pairs of, 197; story-teller, good, 201 n. 2; Stradling versus Stiles, 144 n. 5; stratagem, hardly drank tea with- out a,' 200; study, early plan of, 86 n. 2, 94; s., excessive, 196; suicide, treated with respect, 226; suppressed passages, reprinted, 135; suspects himself surrounded by enemies, 211; Swift, alleged MS. Life of, 214; S.'s allowance to guests, 58; S.'s birth, I; S.'s eyes, 55 n. 5; Four last Years of Queen Anne, 28 n. 2; Gulliver's Travels, 38 n. 5; S. and Ireland, 50 n. 3; S.'s mind, corrupts, 62; S.'s visit, 37 n. 3, 40; Vive la bagatelle,' 46 n. 1; taste, formed at sixteen, 86 n. 2; Tate, i. 437 n. 4, 453 n. 2; Temple's Essays, reads, iii. 90; Temple of Fame, account of publication, 104; Chaucer's House of Fame, imitated from, 226; Dennis's criticism, 105; Johnson's criticism, 225; modern monu- ments at Westminster, compared to, 226 n. 2; motion exhibited by sculpture,' 105; Steele praises it, 225; tender heart,
191; theatre of his time, censures, 314 n. 4; theatricals with school fellows, 84; Theobald, praised by, 146 n. 1; see THEOBALD; Thom- son's Agamemnon, first night, 291; T. poeti- cal epistle to, 291; T.'s Seasons, MS. altera- tions, 301 n. 1; T.'s Sophonisba, writes
part of Prologue, 288; thrashing, why he escaped, 181 n. 5, 320 n. 2; Tickell's Iliad and Addison, ii. 308, iii. 132; T.'s Prospect of Peace, ii. 306 n. 3; see TICKELL; Tindal, i. 136 n. 2, iii. 12 n. 7; titled names annexed to works, 205; Tories, suspected by, 113; T., under no necessity to be grateful to, 130; tragedy, juvenile, 89; translation, ceases, 142; translations, juvenile, 88; Trapp's Virgil, i. 453 n. 2; travel, desire for, iii. 216; triplets, i. 468, iii. 249; Trumball, friendship and correspondence with, 90; Twickenham, settles at, 134; see also TWICKENHAM ; Umbra, ii. 122 n. 6; 'unclassic ground,' 86 n. 4; Universal Prayer, not mentioned by Johnson, iii. 219 n. 3; U. P., quoted by Cowper, 241 n. 6; universe, his favourite volume,' 216; valetudinarian indulgences, 198; verses, 'getting out,' 134 n. 1; v. when a boy set to make, 86; sification, criticized by Johnson, 248-51; c. by Cowper, 248 n. 4; c. by Pattison, 94 n. I, 244 n. 9, 251 n. 3; c. by Rogers, 248 n. 5; c. by Tennyson, 248 n. 4; c. by Vol- taire, ib.; c. by Wordsworth, ib.; Dryden, learnt it from, 220; early formed, 88; 'great rule is to be musical,' 248 n. 3; pauses, want of, 248 n. 5; 'too uniformly musical,' 248; uniformity, 219; thousand years may elapse before his equal appears, 251 n. 3; 'Vice too high,' 175; Virgil
and Homer, 253; virtue, confined to his narrow circle, 212; v., lofty ideas of his own, 150 n. 1; v., talks too often, 96; voice, 40 n. 3, 83 n. 5; Voltaire, visited by, 144; Waller, conceit resembling, i. 285 n. 5; W., early read, iii. 87 n. 1; W., mentions of, i. 270 n. 4, 289 n. 6, 293 n. 6, iii. 232; Walpole, Sir R., treated with consideration by, 171; see WALPOLE; Walsh, encouraged by, i. 329, iii. 93, 97, see WALSH; Warburton, first meeting with, 167 n. 3, 168 n. 3; W., letter to, 168; W., lived in closest intimacy with, 169; W., property in his works left to, 170; see also WARBURTON; Warton's Essay on Pope, 236, 383; weakness of body, 83, 197; Whetstone, George, borrows from, 269 n. 3; Whig, a,' 140 n. 5; W., sus- pected of being, 113; Wife of Bath, 88 n. 4; will, 170 n. 1, 190 n. 4; Will's Coffee- house, 93; Windsor Forest, life in, 90 n. 5 ;
Windsor Forest, account of, 105; Addison's alleged pain from it, 106; alexan- drine in it, 249 n. 4; Cooper's Hill, resem- blance to, 225; criticized, ib.; date of com- position, 105 n. 5; dedicated to Granville, ii. 292, iii. 105; Trumball praised in it, 90 n. 2; want of plan, 225; wine, drank his bottle, 201 n. 2; w., poor head for, 199 n. 2; w., sparing of his, 203; w., sweet, loves, 199 n. 1; woollen, burial in, 345 2. I; words selected and combined, ready at his call, 219; Wordsworth's estimate, 341
n. 6; Works, 1717 ed., 135; world, mur- murs at, 212; w., professed contempt of, 210; writing, learnt by imitating print, 84; writing-box set on bed, 209; Wycherley, mutual flattery, 91; W., offended by criti- cism of his poems, 92; see WYCHERLEY; 'Years following years,' &c., 247 n. 3; Young's Busiris, 397 n. 2; Y. friendship requested by, 383; Y.'s Night Thoughts, praised in, 382, 383; see YOUNG; quo- tations, Dunciad, (i. 2), 148 n. 4; (i. 6), ib.; (i. 19), 13 n. 2, 151 n. 5; (i. 89), i. 376 n. 2; (i. 103), ii. 381 n. 2; (i. 105), i. 437 n. 4; (i. 141), 347 n. 1, 450 ». 5; (i. 145), iii. 311 n. 2; (i. 293), i. 237. 3; (ii. 205), iii. 276; (ii. 399), i. 136 n. 2; (ii. 419), ii. 399 n. 1; (iii. 87), iii. 250 n. 6; (iii. 169), i. 78 n. 4; (iii. 257), ii. 86 n. 4; (iii. 261), 275 n. 5; (iii. 325), i. 150 n. 1; (iii. 326), iii. 327, (iii. 331), 78 n. 4; (iv. 27), ii. 348 n. 2; (iv. 111), i. 150 n. 1; (iv. 115- 8), iii. 138 n. 1; (iv. 175), ii. 202 . 11; (iv. 223), iii. 343 n. 4; (iv. 560), 336 n. 3; original MS., i. 453 n. 2, ii. 282 n. 5; Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, iii. 101 n. 1; Eloisa to Abelard, ii. 129 n. 7; Epilogue to the Satires, (i. 3), iii. 221 m. 4; (i. 29), 148 n. 5; (i. 37), 215 n. 1; (i. 45), 448 n. 1; (i. 65), ìi. 428 n. 3; (i. 69–72), iii. 180 n. 2; (i. 102), 215 n. 1; (i. 131), ii. 387 n. 1; (i. 136), iii. 180 n. 1 ; (ii. 71), ii. 386 n. 3; (ii. 77), iii. 128 n. 1; (ii. 86), ii. 276 n. 4; (ii. 92), iii. 179 n. 5; (ii. 105), 261 n. 3; (ii. 166), 180 n. 2; (ii. 197), 410 n. 2; (ii. 226), ii. 242 n. 2; (ii. 228), i. 289 n. 6; (ii. 250), iii. 266 n. 3; Epistle to Addison, ii. 305 n. 4, iii. 260 n. 2; Epistle to Jervas, i. 387 n. 1, 468 n. 3, ii. 54 n. 3, iii. 108. 2, 216 n. 4, 236 n. 1; Epistle to Oxford, ii. 50 n. 7; Epitaph on Buckingham, iii. 270; E., Corbet, Mrs. 262; E., Craggs, 259; E., Digby, 263; E., Dorset, i. 307 m. 1, iii. 254; E., Fenton, ii. 262 n. 5, iii. 267; E., Gay, 268; E., Harcourt, 258; E., himself, 271 n. 3; E., John Hughes and Sarah Drew, i. 295 n. 3; E., Kneller, iii. 264; E., Newton, 270; E., Rowe,i. 393 n. 1, iii. 261; E., Trum- ball, 257; E., Withers, 266; Essay on Criticism, (1.34), ii. 236 n. 6; (l. 141), iii. 236 n. 1; (11. 219-32), 229 n. 3; (1. 289), i. 21 n. 2; (1. 297),68; (1. 347),61 n. 2; (1. 360), 79 μ. 7, 293 n. 6; (1. 364), iii. 230 n. 4; (l. 370), 232; (1.391), ii. 306 n. 3; (l. 420), 175 n. 1; (1. 458), i. 449 n. 4, ii. 222 n. 4; (1. 502), iii. 97; (1. 585), 95 n. 6; (1. 618), ii. 60 n. 3; (L. 693), iii. 98 n. 3; (1. 723), ii. 175 n. 6; (1.735), i. 235 n. 3; Essay on Man, (i. 5), iii. 162; (i. 16), i. 171 n. 3; (i. 277), iii. 164 m. 2; (i. 293), 162; (ii. 101), 248 n. 5; (iii. 305), i. 39 n. 2; (iv. 293), ii. 239 n. 1; (iv. 383-6), iii. 194; Farewell to London, ii. 63 n. 1, 75 n. 1, iii. 128 n. 1; Iliad, (i. 1–34), 120- 2; (i. 291), 222 n. 6; (ii. 1–18), 122; (ii.
572-81), 122; (iii. 476), 115; (v. 1-18), 123; (viii. 687-end), 124; (xiii. 1005), 230 12. 4; (xvii. 642), 239 n. 1; (xxiv. 934), 205 n. 6; Imitations of Horace, Epistles, (i. 1. 16), ii. 236 n. 5; (i. 1. 25), iii. 90 n. 1; (i. 1. 27), 449 n. 1; (i. 6. 3), i. 447 n. 2; (i. 6. 63), iii. 12 n. 7; (i. 6. 87), 397 n. 2; (i. 6. 127), 46 n. 1; (i. 7. 65), 137 n. 2; (ii. 1. 26), ii. 126 n. 2; (ii. 1. 69), iii. 176 n. 3; (ii. 1. 75), i. 18 n. 2; (ii. 1. 91), iii. 184 n. 2; (ii. 1. 99), i. 187 n. 4; (ii. 1. 172), 143 n. 3; (ii. 1. 213), 235 n. 3, iii. 220 n. 5; (ii. 1. 216), 133 n. 1; (ii. I. 217), ii. 126 n. 3; (ii. 1. 221), iii. 50 n. 3; (ii. 1. 267), i. 465 n. 4, iii. 232 n. 2; (ii. 1. 172), i. 143 n. 3; (ii. 1. 276), 247 n. 7; (ii. 1. 280), 424 n. 5, iii. 220 n. 5; (ii. 1. 334), ii. 101 n. 2; (ii. 1. 354), 396 n. 2; (ii. 1. 385), 85 n. 2, 239 n. 5; (ii. 2. 52), iii. 113 n. 4; (ii. 2. 64), 85 n. 6; (ii. 2. 68), 118 n. 3; (ii. 2. 72-75), 247 n. 3; (ii. 2. 76), 117 n. 3; (ii. 2. 112), ii. 236 n. 4; (ii. 2. 137), i. 321 n. 2; ii. 404 n. I; (ii. 2. 240), iii. 344 n. 4; Satires, (ii. I. 13), 198 n. 4; (ii. 1. 19), 188 n. 1; (ii. 1. 23), ii. 237 n. 4; (ii. 1. 59), iii. 175 n. 3, 192 n. 5; (ii. 1. 75), 186 n. 3; (ii. 1. 81), ii. 348 n. 2; (ii. 1. 99), 265 n. 3; (ii. 1. 123), iii. 135 n. 1; (ii. 2. 49), 202 n. 2; (ii. 2. 134), 137 n. 2; (ii. 2. 135), 134 n. 2; (ii. 2. 161), ib.; Macer, 313 n. 2, 314 n. 4; Moral Essays, (i. 5), 187 n. 4; (i. 54) 152 n. 6; (i. 174), 173 n. 6; (i. 246), 345 n. 1; (i. 262), 206 n. 1; (ii. 2), 263 n. 4; (ii. 76), ii. 227 n. 3; (ii. 83), 199 n. 4; (ii. 283), iii. 274; (iii. 213, 339) 173 nn. 2, 3; (iii. 279), 172 n. 4; (iii. 299), i. 205 n. 4; (iii. 338), iii. 173 n. 4; (iv. 41), 216 n. 5; (iv. 69), ii. 314 n. 4: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, iii. 227 n. 2, 228 n. 4; Pastorals, (i. 7), 258 m. 4; (ii. 74), i. 285 n. 5; (iv. 49), iii. 224 n. 4; Prologue to Cato, 248 n. 5, 314 n. 4; Pro- logue to the Satires, 1. 39, ii. 206 n. 2; 1. 47, iii. 146 n. 1; l. 97, ii. 428 n. 3; 1. 99, iii. 322 n. 4; l. 127, 85 n. 4, 210 n. 6; 1. 131, 197 n. 2; 1. 135, ii. 294 n. 1; L. 137, 62 n. 4; 1. 139, 175 n. 6; 1. 151, iii. 204 n. 4; 1. 157, 143 n. I; l. 159, 138 n. 6; 1. 179, 313 n. 5; 1. 181, 325 n. 1; l. 197, ii. 120 n. 3; 1. 198, i. 76; 1. 201, ii. 124 n. 2; 1. 231, 46 n. 4; 1. 239, iii. 128 n. 1; 1. 248, i. 392 n. 1; 1. 259, ii. 280 n. 3; 1. 388, iii. 82 n. 3; 1. 392, ii. 155; Rape of the Lock, (i. 1), iii. 248 n. 4; (iii. 153), iii. 250 n. 1; (iii. 165), ii. 187 2. 5; (iv. 57), iii. 249 n. 2; (v. 63), ii. 165; Temple of Fame, i. 306 n. 6; Three Gentle Shepherds, ii. 122 n. 6; To Mr. Southerne, i. 367 n. 1; Umbra, ii. 122 n. 6; Windsor Forest, 1. 257, iii. 90 n. 2; 1. 271, i. 79 n. 7; 1. 279, 17 n. 7; 1. 291, ii. 295 n. 1; 1. 329, iii. 225 n. 7; 1. 425, ii. 294 n. 8.
POPE, Mrs. Editha, the poet's mother, de- scent, &c., iii. 82; Cooper, the painter, con- nexion of, i. 202 n. 4; death and burial,
iii. 154, 192, 200 n. 3; Pope's affection, 154; Roman Catholic, 83; register of baptism, 154 n. 3; transcribed for Pope, 154 n. 4; Voltaire's talk, shocked at, 144.
POPE, Mrs. Magdalen, first wife of Pope's father, iii. 83 n. 1.
Pope's Miscellany, iii. 79 n. 4.
PORDAGE, Samuel, Azaria and Hushai, i. 374 n. 7; Medal Reversed, 375 n. 3. PORSON, Richard, Congreve and Aristo- phanes, ii. 222 n. 5.
PORTER, Mrs., the actress, ii. 101. PORTER, Miss Lucy, iii. 309 n. I. PORTLAND, Jerome Weston, second Earl of, i. 263, 264, 265, 266.
PORTLAND, William Bentinck, first Earl of, iii. 4.
PORTLAND, Duchess of, anecdotes of Pope, iii. 202 n. 2, 272.
PORTSMOUTH, Duchess of, i. 248 n. 2,
Possunt quia posse videntur, i. 137.
POST OFFICE, opening letters, iii. 211 n. 4. POVERTY, topic of ridicule, ii. 109, iii. 204. POWELL, John, Esq., Barrister-at-law, ii. 415.
POWELL, Mary, Milton's first wife, mar- riage, i. 104; leaves him, 105, 131; recon- ciliation, 107; death, 116.
POWELL, Mr., Milton's father-in-law, i. 104, 107.
POWER, Thomas, of Trinity College, Cam- bridge, iii. 183 n. 1.
POYNTZ, Stephen, diplomatist, iii. 455
Prank, to, iii. 430 n. 1. Pravity, i. 179.
PRAYER, i. 156.
PREACHING, iii. 307. PRESBYTERIANS, i. 106, 210.
PRESCOTT, William Hickling, i. 145 n. I. Present State of Wit, ii. 152, and see GAY. PRETERITE, pronunciation of final syllable, i. 294, 419 n. 2.
PRICE, Professor Bartholomew, iii. 360. PRICE, Mrs. Lucy, wife of Mr. Justice Price, ii. 330 n. 4.
PRICE, Samuel, Watts's assistant, iii. 304. PRICE, Mr., ii. 423 n. I.
PRICE, Mrs., Waller's sister, i. 262.
PRINCE OF WALES (Frederic, father of George III), Cato, claps, ii. 101 n. 4; driven from palace, iii. 404; godfather to Young's son, 378; Hammond, his equerry, ii. 313; Lyttelton, his secretary, iii. 447; Mallet's Mustapha dedication, 406; M., his under- secretary, 404, 448; patron of authors, ii. 392, iii. 291, 404, 448; Pope sleeps while he talks, 198; P., visits, 179, 198, 210 n. 2; see POPE; Savage's dedication, fails to reward, ii. 397, 408; S., praised by, 387 n. 2; Thom- son's Alfred acted before him, iii. 293; T., pensions, 291, 404, 448; T., praised by, 291,
292 n. 4; walks with 'all his nobles' by the river, 291 n. 2.
PRINCE OF WALES (George III), his educa- tion, iii. 330 n. 4.
PRINCESS OF WALES, Augusta (mother of George III), Thomson's Edward and Eleonora dedication, iii. 292 n. 4; Young, clerk of her closet, 391.
PRIOR, Mr. George, the poet's father, ii. 180 n. I.
PRIOR, Matthew, academy for fixing lan- guage, ii. 185; alehouse, drinking in, 199 n. 4, 200; Alma, 193, 205; ambassador at Paris, 189, 190, 196; arrest, at Canterbury, 188; a. on Tory downfall, 191; Bessy Cox, 199 n. 4; birth, &c., 180; Brother,' a, 197; brought up by uncle, a vintner, 180; business qualities, 198; Butler, i. 218 n. 1 ; Cambridge, degree, ii. 181; C., visits, 195; Carmen Seculare, 185, 203; Chameleon, 204; 'Chloe,' his, 199; City and Country Mouse, i. 380, 443, ii. 182; College Exercise, see PRIOR, The Deity; college, in amorous pedantry exhibited the,' 211; college verses, 181; Commissioner of Customs, 189 n. 1, 196; Commissioner of Trade, 184, 189 n. 1, 196; committed to close custody, 193; Committee of Secrecy, examined before, 189, 191, 192; companion, Swift on him as a, 200 n. 4; con- versation, factious in, 197 n. 1; c. of Oxford, Bolingbroke, Pope and Swift, strained' by, 200; 'correctness,' his, 207, 208; couplets, 209; Cowley's Pindaric Odes, i. 47; Cowper's estimate of him, ii. 211 n. 3; deafness, 194; death, 195; debts contracted as ambassador, 191; described in Characters of the Court of Queen Anne, 197 n. 1; Deity, The, 181, 182 n. 3, 186; diction, 209; dines at Lord Keeper's, 200 n. 2; Dorset, his patron, i. 309 n. 5, ii. 181, 186; Down Hall, 194; Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, and Dorset, i. 340; Dryden's Miscellany, contributes to, ii. 183 n. 3; Duke's funeral, 25 n. 4; early impulse to write verses, 181 n. 4; Epilogue to Lucius, 204; Epilogue to Phaedra, 15 n. 2, 20, 204, iii. 315; Epistle to Boileau, ii. 186, 203; epitaph, 195, iii. 343 n. 4; Eton Provostship, candidate for, ii. 199 n. 2; evenings, manner of spending, 200; Examiner, contributes to, 187; excepted from Act of Grace, 193; 'failings (Dorset's) had their beauties,' 10 n. 1; Fine by degrees and beautifully less,' 202 n. 11; French extempore lines, 199; gentleman of William III's bedchamber, 183; Halifax, jealous of, 182; H.'s impeachment, voted for, 185, 191 n. 4; Hans Carvel, 201; Harley, Lady, at Cambridge, 195 n. 1 ; health declined, 194; hemistichs, 208; Henry and Emma, 186, 202, iii. 105; Hist. of my own Time, ii. 180 n. 1, 195 n. 6; Horace, reads, 181, 183 . 3; improvidence, 193 n. 5, 194; invention, no effort of, 207; 'life, irregular, negligent and sensual,' 200; Ladle, The, 201;
'lean carcase,' 200 n. 2; letter to Swift, 194; Lewis, 273 n. 3; Lewis XIV, in favour with, 190; Lines to the Hon. Charles Montagu, 210 n. 6; Loo, attends William III at, 184; love verses, 202; low company, delight in, 199; 'Matt's Peace,' 189 n. 7; merry with friends, 198 n. 2; modern air,' 210 n. 6; mythology, 202, 204; never low, seldom sub- lime, 208; no 'nightly visitations' of the Muse, 209; obscure origin, 180, 189 n. 2, 190; Ode to the King, 183, 203; Ode to the Queen, 186 n. 8, 204 . I; Odes, difficulty of altering, 210 n. 5; On a Picture of Seneca, 182; On the Taking of Namur, 203; opinions, right,' 200; Oxford, Earl of, adherence to, 194, 198; Oxford, Bolingbroke, Pope and Swift, his friends, 200; Oxford, second Earl of, befriended by, 194; paraphrase of 1 Cor. xiii, 205; Parliament, enters, 185; Paulo Purgante, 201; peace mission to Paris, 188; p. m. with Bolingbroke, 189, 196; peace ne- gotiations at his house, 188; personal ap- pearance, 197 n. 1, 200 n. 2; Pindaric in- fatuation, 210; plagiarism, 207; Poems, 1718 ed., 194; P., subscribers at Universities, iii. 110 . I; poet in rhymes' dances in fet- ters,' i. 200; Pope's Eloisa to Abelard and Alma, iii. 105 . 3; P.'s Philomede' re- sembles his character, ii. 199 n. 4, iii. 245; P. and Sheffield, 204 n. 7; popularity, ii. 211 n. 3; poverty, his, 193; p., exaggerated, 194 n. 3; private character, 197; Prologue before the Queen, 204; prose writings, 195 n. 6; Protagenes and Apelles, 201; Queen Mary, elegy on, 183; Queensberry, Duchess of, 280 n. 3; repartees, 184, 198; rhymes, 208; St. John, recommended to Queen by, 188; see BOLINGBROKE; St. John's College, Cambridge, 180 n. 2, 181, 193, 195; 'satire, did not launch into,' 182 n. 4; Sauntering Jack and Idle Joan, 204; secretary to embassy at Hague congress, 1691, 183, 196; Treaty of Ryswick, ib.; Paris embassy, 184; s. in Ireland, 183 n. 3, 196; Solomon, 206, 207, 209; Spenser, imitations of, 204, 209, 210 n. 3; subscription edition of poems, 194; Swift, friendship with, 195 %. 3, 200; S. reads aloud his verses, iii. 54 . 2; see SWIFT; Tales, ii. 201; tavern, taken out of a, 181; t., 'revived,' the, 211; tediousness, 203, 204, 207; Thief and Cordelia, 207; Tory, turned a violent, 71 #. 5, 197; 'trade, versed in matters of,' 189; translations, 205; triplets and alexandrines, 209; Under-Secre tary of State, 184; variety of writings, 201; Versailles pictures of Lewis XIV's Victories, 184; versification, 205, 209; Waller, imitates, i. 286 n. 3; Westminster Abbey monument, ii. 195; Westminster School, 181, 196; Whig, a strong, 71 n. 5; forsook the Whigs, 185; did not care to converse with them, 197;
will, his, 195 n. 5, 199 n. 4; William III, pleases, 183; W. III, praises, 185;
tations, A Better Answer, i. 286 n. 3, ii. 202 n. 10; Alma, i. 200, 218 n. 1, 390 n. 1, ii. 179, 199 n. 3, 205 n. 3, 273 n. 3, iii. 105 n. 3, 204 n. 7; Bannisons la Mélancholie, ii. 199; Carmen Seculare, 184 n. 4, 185, 185 n. 1; Chameleon, 204 n. 11; Despairing Shepherd, The, 202 n. 1; Down Hall, 192 n. 2, 193 n. 2; Epilogue to Phaedra, 15 n. 2; Epistle to Boileau, 203 n. 3; Epistle desiring the Queen's Picture, 191 n. 1; Epistle to Shep- herd, 180 n. 4, 182 n. 6; Female Phaethon, 280 n. 3; For my own Tombstone, 195 n. 5; For my own Monument, 198 n. 2; Henry and Emma, 202 n. 11; Ode to the Queen, 210; On the Taking of Namur, i. 47; Sauntering Jack and idle Joan, ii. 204 n. 12; Secretary, The, 183 n. 3; Solomon, 199 n. 4, 206 n. 1, 207 n. I, 208 n. 5; To the Countess of Exeter, i. 238 n. 8, ii. 182 n. I.
PRIOR, Robert, ii. 199 n. 4.
PRIOR,, the poet's uncle, a vintner, ii.
PRITCHARD, Mrs., the actress, ii. 78.
PRIVY COUNCIL, Clerks Extraordinary, iii. 329 n. I.
Probationer, iii. 282 n. 5.
PRYNNE, William, i. 201 n. 3, ii. 220. Publisher, iii. 201 n. 6. PULCI, i. 454 n. 4. PULHAM, ii. 265, iii. 80.
PULLEN, Josiah, Vice-Principal of Mag- dalen Hall, ii. 297.
PULTENEY, William, Earl of Bath, ' Curio,' in Akenside's Epistle, iii. 414; duel with Hervey, 178; Gay, assists, ii. 272; Rundle, 386 n. 3.
PUNCTUATION, iii. 453 n. 6.
PURCELL, Henry, Alexander's Feast, declined writing music for, i. 456 n. 4; Dryden's Tem- pest, 341 n. 3; D.'s King Arthur, 364 n. 3. PURITANS, i. 214-6.
PUTEANUS, ERYCIUS, i. 92 n. 4. PUTRID FEVER, iii. 353 n. 2, 416. PUTTENHAM, George, Arte of English Poesie, i. 410.
PYM, John, i. 260, 262, 263.
QUEENSBERRY, Duchess of, account of her, ii. 280 n. 3; celebrated by Prior, Gay and Pope, ib.; Gay's friend, 268 n. 3, 276 n. 3, 280; G.'s flute playing, iii. 228 n. 5.
QUEENSBERRY, second Duke of, Secretary of State, ii. 71, 74.
QUEENSBERRY, third Duke of, Gay's patron, ii. 276 n. 3, 280, 281 n. 6. QUILLET, Abbé, ii. 77.
QUIN, James, the actor, anecdote of Philips and Addison, iii. 314 n. 5; Beggar's Opera, ii. 277 n. 1; 'pause of suspension,' i. 193 n. I; Thomson, assists, iii. 281 n. 1; T.'s Coriolanus, 295.
QUINTILIAN, i. 416, ii. 77, iii. 440 n. 8.
RABELAIS, compared with Swift, iii. 51 n. I, 54 n. 4; learning, i. 212. Race, iii. 301 n. I.
RACINE, amor publicus,' iii. 201 n. 7; Andromaque and Philips's Distrest Mother, 314; Bérénice, translated by Otway, i. 242 n. 4; critics, ii. 239 n. 3; inscriptions to Lewis XIV's 'Victories,' 184; 'le vraisem- blable dans la tragédie,' i. 349 n. 5; remote- ness of place convenient to poets, 360. RACINE, Louis, the son, iii. 214.
RACKET, Mrs. Magdalen, Pope's step-sister, iii. 83, 89 n. I.
RADCLIFFE, Dr. John, physician to the Tories, ii. 57; Pope, advice to, iii. 196 n. 6. RAINOLDS, John and William, i. 377. RALEIGH, Sir Walter, i. 192, ii. 345 n. 4. RALPH, James, iii. 146.
RAMSAY, Allan, the elder, the poet, iii. 282 n. 1, 317 n. I.
RAMSAY, Allan, the son, the portrait- painter, iii. 251 n. 5.
RAMSAY, Andrew Michael, iii. 214 n. 7. RAMUS, i. 148.
RANDOLPH, Thomas, i. 27 n. 3, iii. 81 n. 3. RANK, iii. 21, 61.
RAPIN, Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie, i. 471 n. 4, 472 n. 2, 475 n. 4. RAVENSCROFT, Edward, London Cuckold, i. 382 n. 5.
RAWLINSON, Mr., iii. 372.
RAYNER, William, ii. 267 n. 3. READ, Mrs., ii. 420, 427 n. 4. READING, i. 104.
Redolent, iii. 435 n. 5. Refinement, iii. 15 n. 3. REGGIO, iii. 422 n. 2.
Regii Sanguinis Clamor ad Coelum, i. 117. Rehearsal, newspaper, ii. 94.
Rehearsal, account of it, i. 368-70, 482; authors assisting Buckingham, 282, 368, ii. 33; amendments and additions, i. 369 n. 2; Cibber acts in it, iii. 185; Davenant as 'Bilboa' original hero, i. 369; Davenant's Love and Honour ridiculed, 370 n. 1; Dryden attacked in 'Bayes,' 369; D.'s comedy ridi- culed, 459 n. 5; D.'s French words, 463 n. 8; D.'s jealousy, 396 n. 3; D.'s plays, ridiculed, 336 n. 2, 349 n. 6, 369; D.'s plagiarism, 371 n. 2; D.'s reasoning in verse, 380 n. 3; Epilogue quoted, iii. 429 n. 1; Evelyn's estimate, i. 368 n. 11; Garrick acts in it, 368 n. 8; hero, change in name and original of, 369, 482; Howard and his brothers ridiculed, 337, 369, 482; Key to it, 482; Langbaine afraid to explain allusions, 482; Ormond's loss of Dublin alluded to, 370; recent stage events mentioned when playing it, 482, iii. 185.
REID, Andrew, iii. 453.
RELIGION, dangerous to be of no church, i. 155; unfitness of poetry for it, 292; see DEVOTIONAL POETRY.
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