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THIRLBY, Rev. Dr. Styan, iii. 116, 138
n. 5.

THOMAS, Mrs. Elizabeth, Dryden's funeral,
i. 389 n. 6; D.'s astrological predictions,
409 n. 4; Pope's letters to Cromwell, iii. 93,
145.

THOMAS, Mr. Moy, Savage's story, ii. 437.
THOMPSON, Captain Edward, editor of
Marvell, iii. 401 n. 3.

THOMSON, Mrs. Beatrix, the poet's mother,
iii. 281, 282, 283 n. 2.

THOMSON, James, Agamemnon, Cibber
(Theo.) and Savage, ii. 341 n. 6; 'endured,
not favoured,' iii. 291; first night, ib.; read
to actors, 297 n. 5; 'spirit of liberty' in it,
179 n. 6, 291 n. 3; Alfred, advertised,

293 n. 1; played before Prince of Wales,
293; Rule Britannia, 293 n. 1; written
with Mallet, 292, 404, 406; 'Amanda,'
298 n. 4; Autumn, date of publication,
287; Jedburgh recollections, 282; price ob-
tained, 284 n. 3; read aloud at Hagley, 290
n. I; 'bard more fat than bard beseems,'
294 n. 6; benevolence, 297; Binning, Lord,
entered family of, 287; birth, &c., 281;
blank verse, 298; Britannia, 179 n. 6, 284
n. 3, 286; buried in Richmond Church, 294;
Caroline, Queen, dedication to, 286 n. 9;

Castle of Indolence, date of publication
and price, 293 n. 7; 'lazy luxury' of opening,
294; lines attributed to Lyttelton, 294 n. 6;
Lyttelton mentioned in it, 448 n. 5; Words-
worth praises it, 298 n. 6, 300 n. 2;
character, 294, 297; c. described by Savage,
298; c. not to be gathered from his works,
297; cheerful among select friends, 294;
'Cloud of words,' 300 n. 2; Collins's Ode
on his death, 294 n. 4; Collins and Dyer,
classed with, 341 n. 6; commission on public
offices, witness before, 290 n. 5; Compton,
Sir Spencer, present from, 285; copyrights,
history of his, 284 n. 3; Coriolanus,

2. 7;

produced for sisters' benefit, 294; Quin
and Lyttelton's Prologue, 295; Shakespeare's
and Thomson's plays jumbled together, 294
'Crown'd with the sickle,' 290
n. I; death, 294; debts, 294 n. 9, 295;
description of nature, 282 n. 1, 299; diction,
300; Dodington, dedicates Summer to, 287;
Edinburgh University, 282; education, ib.;

Edward and Eleonora, prohibited by
Licenser, 292; published, 292 n. 2; praised
by Wesley, 292 n. 3; Freemason, 297
n. 7; friends, beloved by, 294; friendship,
constancy of, 298; 'gentle spirit,' 294 n. 4;
Greek tragedies, 282 n. 2; Hagley, 290 n. 1,
295,450 n. 6; Hammond, ii. 314 n. 3; Hert-
ford, Countess of, visits, iii. 287; Hertford,
Lord, carouses with, 287; Hill, Aaron, courts,
284; see HILL; Hymn, The, 284 n. 3; indi-
gence, 284, 291; indolence, 290 n. 5, 297; Jed-
burgh School, 282; Johnson's character descri-
bed in Thomson's, 297 n. 4; juvenile poems,

burns, 282; letter to sister, 295-7; letter-
writing, negligent in, 295 n. 5; Liberty,
dates of several parts, 289 n. 6; failure, its,
289; Johnson could not read it, 301;
Lyttelton shortens it, 290; original text
restored, 290 n. 2; 'spirit of liberty pre-
valent' in it, 179 n. 6; two years writing it,
289; L., Britannia and The Seasons, pun on,
292; lies in bed, 297 n. 3; Lives of
Thomson, 281 n. 1; London, comes to, 283;
Lyttelton, his friend and patron, 293, 294,
448; Mallet, relations with, 283, 284 n. 1,
292; many-twinkling,' 437 n. 2; Millan
and Millar, 284 n. 3; Milton's Areopagitica,
ed. 1738, 292 n. 1; M., laboured imitations
of, i. 165 n. 3; M., more read than, iii. 300
n. 2; ministry, the, intended for, 282; 'Mira's'
verses, 286; 'nature, recalled nation to study
of,' 300 n. 2; 'no line which, dying, he
could wish to blot,' 301; opposition, adherent
of the, 286; 'Otway's tender woe,' i. 248
n. I; payments received, iii. 284 n. 3; pen-
sion from Prince of Wales, 291, 404, 448;
personal appearance, 294; Philips's, John,
blank verse, i. 319 n. 2, iii. 377; Poem on the
Death of Sir Isaac Newton, 284 n. 3, 286;
poetic imagination, 341 n. 6; 'poetical
posture of affairs, 291; poet's eye, 298;
Pope, lines describing, 197 n. 1; P., friend-
ship with, 291; see POPE; Prince of Wales,
his patron, 291, 292 n. 4; Princess of Wales,
dedication to, 292 n. 4; probationary exer-
cise, 282; Prologue to Mallet's Mustapha,
406; Quin, assisted by, 281 n. 1; Q., intimacy
with, 295; read his verses badly, 297; re-
visals, altered and enlarged in, 300; Riccal-
toun, education assisted by, 281; robbed of
letters of recommendation, 283; Rule Bri-
tannia, 293 n. 1; Rundle, befriended by, ii.
387, iii. 285, 288; Savage, intimacy with, ii.
341 n. 6, 387, iii. 297; S.'s unfinished tragedy,
ii. 415; Scotch accent, iii. 297 n. 5; Scotland,
never returned to, 296n. 1;
Seasons, alter-
ations and additions, 287 n. 5, 301 n. 1; blank
verse suited to subject, 299; 'boarding-school
misses,' attraction for, 300 n. 2; copyright,
284 n. 3; dedications, 286 n. 4; description
of nature, 299; editions, 286 n. 4, 287 n. 5,
300 n. 3; interleaved copy with MS. altera-
tions, 301 n. 1; Lyttelton's projected correc-
tions, 290 n. 1; Mallet, imitated by, 401,
410; Pope's Pastorals, first hint from, 284
n. I; scenery, 282, 299; Swift's criticism, 298
n. 6; text, 300 n. 3; translated into French,
287 n. 5; Walpole's criticism, i. 165 n. 3;
Wordsworth's praise, iii. 300 n. 2; see also
THOMSON, Autumn, &c.; Secretary of

-

the Briefs, 289, 290; silent in company,
294; sisters and brother, 281 n. 5; sisters,
love for his, 295; Sophonisba, account
of publication, 284 n. 3, 288 n. 1; date of
acting, 288 n. 1; dedicated to Queen Caro-
line, 286 n. 9; 'O Sophonisba, Sophonisba,

O!', 288; Prologue by Pope and Mallet,
ib.;
spirit of liberty, poems partaking
of prevalent, 179 n. 6; Spring, account of
publication, 284 n. 3; dedicated to Countess
of Hertford, 287; subscription, 292; Summer,
date of publication, 286; dedicated to Doding-
ton, 287; surveyor-general of the Leeward
islands, 293, 459; Talbot, Lord Chancellor,
his patron, 285, 288, 289; Tancred and
Sigismunda, 293; temper, never to be agi-
tated, 283 n. 4; theatre, anecdote of him
at, 291; tragedy, not qualified for, 293;
travels abroad, 288 n. 5, 289; tutor to
Charles Talbot, 288; Walpole, Sir R.,
attacks, 286, 291 n. 3; W., dedication to, 286
n. 9; Westminster Abbey, monument, 294;

Winter, account of publication, 284;
dedicated to Sir Spencer Compton, ib.;
popularity, 285; preface, dedication and
poetical praises prefixed, 286; Riccaltoun's
Winter put design into his head, 281 n. 6;

Wordsworth, praised by, 300 n. 2, 341
n. 6; Young and Dodington, 377; Works,
collected editions of his, 284 n. 3, 286, 287,
289, 290 n. 2, 294 n. 5; quotations,
Alfred, Rule Britannia,' 293 n. 1; Britannia,
286 n. 8, 291 n. 2; Castle of Indolence, 197
n. 1, 294 n. 6, 338 n. 1; Seasons, Autumn,
i. 319 n. 2, iii. 282 n. 1, 290 n. 1, 377;
Spring, 298 n. I, 437 n. 2; Summer, 287
n. 2, 298 n. 5; Winter, ii. 314 n. 3, iii. 284
n. 6, 299 n. 3; Tancred and Sigismunda, i.
248 n. 1; To the Memory of Lord Talbot,iii.
285 nn.

THOMSON, Rev. Thomas, the poet's father,
iii. 281, 282.

THOMSON, Dr., attended Pope, iii. 189.
THOMSON, Mr., the poet's brother-in-law,
iii. 297 n. I.

THRALE, Henry, Grosvenor Square, house
in, ii. 398 n. 4; Southwark election, 212 n. I
Worsdale, iii. 158 n. 5.

THRALE, Mrs., see PIOZZI.

THUCYDIDES, 'more said than done,' i. 211.
THWAITES, Mr., ii. 87 n. 3.

THYER, Mr. R., editor of Butler's Genuine
Remains, i. 205, 208, 213, iii. 110 n. 1.
THYNNE, Thomas, of Longleat, ii. 293.
TIBULLUS, ii. 149 n. 4, 202 n. 9.
TICHMERSH, i. 331.

TICKELL, Thomas, Addison, associated in
office with, ii. 304, 310; A.'s biographer and
editor, 118, 124, 310; A.'s Drummer and
Old Whig omitted in his edition, 106, 116;
A., elegy on, 117, 310; A., friendship with,
306, 310; A.'s Rosamond, verses in praise of,
305; A.'s Spectators, 105, 108; A. and
Tatler, 91; birth, &c., 304; Boileau and
Addison's Latin poems, 82; Colin and Lucy,
311 n. 4; death, 310; Dryden's Misc., con-
tributes to, 305 n. 3; George I, flatters, 307
n. 2; Halifax, 47; Hanoverian succession,
supports, 310; Iliad, version of Bk. i,

307-9; agreement with bookseller for whole
poem, 307 n. 7; Addison's corrections, ib.;
Pope regarded Addison as author, 308;
praised by Addison, 307, iii. 132; rival of
Pope's Iliad, ii. 307, iii. 131; Ireland,
with Addison in, ii. 310; Kensington Gardens,
311; Lancaster, Dr., 151; Letter to Avignon,
310; 'Magdalen's peaceful bowers,' 298 n. 2;
marriage, 304; mythology, 311; Odyssey,
began version of, iii. 132 n. 4; operas, at-
tacks, ii. 165; Oxford epigram, 304 n. 1;
Oxford, M.A. degree, 304; personal cha-
racter, 311; Philips's Pastorals, iii. 319n. 4;
Pope's Epistle to Addison, and Tickell's To
Addison, &c., resemblance in, ii. 305; Pro-
logue to Cato, ib.; Prospect of Peace, 306;
Queen's College, Oxford, 304; Royal Pro-
gress, 307; Secretary to Lords Justices of
Ireland, 306 n. 1, 310; Sir Roger de Coverley
and the girl, 96 n. 3; Spectator, contributed
to, 307, 311; S., lines praising, 125 n. 3;
Steele's attacks, 309 n. 1, 310 n. 4; Swift
acknowledges his kindness, 306 n. 1; Under-
Secretary of State, 310; 'Whiggissimus,'
306; Young, friendship with, iii. 370;
quotations, Colin and Lucy, ii. 311 . 4;
Iliad, 309 n. 6; On a Picture of Charles I,
306 n. 1; On Queen Caroline's Rebuilding
the lodgings of the Black Prince and Henry V
at Queen's College, 304 n. 1; Prologue to the
University of Oxford, 305 n. 5; Prospect of
Peace, 125 n. 3, 151, 185, 306 n. 3, iii. 319
n. 4; Royal Progress, ii. 47 n. 2, 311 n. 3;
To Mr. Addison on his Opera of Rosamond,
165, 305.

TICKELL, Mrs. (Clotilda Eustace), the
poet's wife, ii. 304 n. 4, iii. 47 n. 2.

TICKELL, Rev. Richard, the poet's father,
ii. 304.

TICKELL, Richard, the poet's grandson, ii,
304 n. 4.

TILLOTSON, John, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, prose praised by Addison, ii. 113; by
Dryden, i. 418 n. 5; public table, iii. 29
n. 2; Restoration drama, ii. 220 n. 3; Ser-
mons, quoted, iii. 301 n. 3; Sprat, attacked
by, ii. 34 n. 4.

TINDAL, Matthew, the deist, i. 136 #. 2,
iii. 12, 364.

TISDALL, Rev. Dr. William, iii. 41 n. 2.
TOBACCO, i. 316.

TOLAND, John, the deist, Life of Milton,
i. 84 n. 2; Özell's and Pope's Iliads, iii. 76;
'prompt at priests to jeer,' i. 136 n. 2;
Swift, ridiculed by, ib. iii. 12.

TOмKIS, Thomas, Albumazar, i. 90 n. 5.
TOMKYNS, Nathaniel, i. 260, 262, 263,
265.

TOMKYNS, Rev. Thomas, i. 141 n. 1, 485.
TOM THUMB, i. 325 n. 3, ii. 147. 4.
TONSON, Jacob, Addison at Rotterdam, ii.
98 n. 5; A. and Countess of Warwick, 110;
A. looking to bishopric, 112; A.'s weakness

for wine, 158; Dryden's Aeneid and William
III, i. 480; D.'s contracts and receipts, 363
22. 5, 388, 405; D.'s letters sent through
him, 480; D., relations with, 407; D.'s
suspicion of rivals, 396 n. 3; Iliads of Dry-
den, Mainwaring, and Tickell, iii. 132; Kit-
cat club secretary, ii. 61 n. 1; Ovid's Meta-
morphoses, 1717, 61 n. 7; Paradise Lost,
i. 142, 160 n. 4, 198, 486, iii. 109 n. 5;
Pharsalia, projected translation of, ii. 161;
Philips, A., employs, iii. 313; Pope's de-
scription of him, i. 407 n. 6; P.'s Shake-
speare, iii. 137; Rehearsal key, i. 482;
Spectator, purchases copy of, ii. 108 n. 1;
Young's Paraphrase on Job, iii. 370.

TONSON, Jacob, nephew, i. 160 n. 4.
TONSON, Jacob, great-nephew, i. 160 n. 4,
405 n. 4.

TONSON, Richard, i. 160 n. 4, 405 n. 4.
TONSONS, the, i. 160 n. 4, 405 m. 4, iii. 315.
Tonson's Miscellany, account of it, ii. 83
22. 10; Philips's Pastorals, iii. 94, 312 n. 4;
Pope's Pastorals, 91 n. 1, 94, 312 n. 4.

TOOKE, Benjamin, the bookseller, iii. 10 n.6.
TORCY, Monsieur de, ii. 188, 190.

TORRE, M., firework maker, iii. 440 n. 6.
TOVEY, Rev. D. C., Johnson and Gray's
style, iii. 444; Savage's Wanderer, passage
in, ii. 399 n. 4.

Town, the, i. 370 n. 5.

TOWNSHEND, Charles, second Viscount,
Beggar's Opera, ii. 279 n. 1; Gilbert West's
patron, iii. 328.

Town-talk, ii. 162 n. 9.

TRADE AND MANUFACTURE, meanness and
irreverence adhering to, iii. 346.

TRAGEDY, ancient and modern compared,
i. 189; Dryden's remarks, 471-9.

TRANSLATION, iii. 237-9; adaptation suc-
ceeds to it, i. 224; 'babbles dialect of France,'
464 n. 4; better than original, ii. 77 n. 3;
French and Italian, iii. 237; 'great pest of
language,' i. 190 n. 4; Greeks, unknown to,
iii. 236; Latin translations, 237; poetical
translations of ancient writers, i. 421; pre-
sents 'wrong side of tapestry,' 472 n. 1;
struggling for liberty, 373; verbal transla-
tion, ib.; translating for booksellers, iii.
314 2. I; translator's obligations to taste of
age, 239 n. 1; Virgil difficult to translate,
i. 448; see IMITATIONS OF POEMS.

Transpire, iii. 250 n. 5.

TRAPP, Rev. Dr. Joseph, account of him,
i. 453 n. 2; Aeneid, version of, 453; Dry-
den's criticism, 414; D.'s Virgil, 403 n. 4;
Oxford epigram, ii. 304 n. 1; Praelectiones
Poeticae, i. 453; Smith's Pocockius, ii. 12;
tragedy, his, i. 453.

Treacle, i. 285 n. 4.

TREATY OF RYSWICK, ii. 183 n. 7.
TREVANION, John, M.P., ii. 291 n. 4.
TRIENNIAL BILL, iii. 4 n. 4.
TRINCALOS, i. 90 n. 5.

TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin, Berkeley and
Congreve, members, ii. 213 nn.; discipline
and fellowship, iii. 5 n. 4; entrance exami-
nation, ii. 49 n. 5; Parnell, a member, 49;
Swift, a member, 213 n. 4, iii. 2.

TRIPLETS, history and criticism, i. 466,
468; Addison's use of them, ii. 145; Cowley's,
i. 63; Dryden's, 466; Johnson's, iii. 249 n.
4; Pope's, i. 468, iii. 232, 249; Prior's, ii.
209; Swift's censure and ridicule, i. 467 n. 5,
iii. 249 n. 3; Waller's sparing use of them,
i. 294.

TRISINO, i. 193 n. 6.

TRISTRAM, Thomas, Vida's De Arte Poetica,
iii. 278.

TROTTER, Mr., of Fogo, Thomson's grand-
father, iii. 281 n. 4.

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TURENNE, ii. 169.

TURNERS, the, Pope's ancestors, iii. 82.
TWICKENHAM, church, monuments to Pope
and his father, iii. 192, 264 n. 2; Mrs. Pope's
burial, 154 n. 3; Kneller's manor and burial,
264 n. 2; Pope's villa, 134, 135; Radnor's,
Lord, garden, 167 n. 3.

TWYFORD, near Winchester, iii. 84, 85.
TYERS, Thomas, ii. 207 n. 3, iii. 83.
TYRCONNEL, John Brownlow, Viscount,
parentage, &c., ii. 357 n. 2, 440; Savage,
intercedes for, 352 n. 2, 358 n. 1; S., received
into his family, 358; S., recommends as
poet-laureate, 381 n. 2; S.'s Volunteer Lau-
reate, presents, 384 n. 3; S.'s Wanderer dedi-
cated to him, 352 n. 2, 368, 370; S., quarrel
with, 368, 375, 376, 401; Walpole's sup-
porter, 363.

TYRCONNEL, Lady, ii. 370.

UFTON COURT, near Reading, iii. 101 n. 2.
UNITIES, the, ii. 76, 136.

Universal Visiter, iii. 254 n. I.
UNIVERSITIES, whipping at, i. 88 n. 5.
UPHAM, near Winchester, iii. 362.
UPTON, Anthony, Irish judge, ii. 28.
URRY, Mr. John, ii. 21.

USHER, James, Archbishop of Armagh,
learning, i. 102 n. 4, 215 n. 5; Milton's
attack, 102; Roscommon's education, 229.

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Ut clavis portam, sic pandit epistola pectus,
iii. 206 n. 6.

VAILLANT, the bookseller, iii. 406.
VALENTIA, Lady, Lyttelton's daughter, iii.
456.

VALETUDINARIANS, iii. 198.!

VANBRUGH, Sir John, answers Collier, ii.
222; Fletcher's Pilgrim, i. 456 n. 3; mana-
ger of Haymarket Theatre, ii. 224 n. 1;
Provoked Wife and Relapse, 216 n. I.
VANE, Sir Henry, the elder, i. 256.
VANE, Sir Henry, the younger, i. 127 n. 4,
149 n. 2.

VANESSA, See VANHOMRIGH, Esther.
VANHOMRIGH, Bartholomew, Vanessa's
father, iii. 31 n. 3.

VANHOMRIGH, Esther (Vanessa), iii. 31, 70.
VANHOMRIGH, Mrs., Vanessa's mother, iii.
31 n. 3, 70.

VARILLAS, i. 379, ii. 26.

VARRO, i. 435 n. 2.

VAVASSEUR, Francis, i. 113 n. 6.

Velvet-green, iii. 436 n. 7.
VENICE, i. 97, 246 n. 2.
VENNER, Thomas, i. 66.

VERNON, Thomas, of Twickenham, iii. 134

22. 2.

VERTOT, ii. 161.

VESEY, Mrs., iii. 452 n. 3.
VICARS, John, i. 452.

VICTOR, Benjamin, Hist. of the Theatres,
ii. 274 n. 3; 'Man of Ross,' iii. 172.
VIDA, De Arte Poetica, iii. 278.
Villare Anglicanum, ii. 65 n. 3.
VILLIERS, Lady Mary, Granville's wife, ii.
293 n. 7.

VIRGIL, Augustus and Aeneid, i. 326;
Carteret, quoted by, iii. 35 n. 4; composition,
method of, i. 424, iii. 218; correctness, 221
n. 2; descriptions, i.51; dictio Virgiliana,'
448 n. 1; Dryden's master in Latin, 426 n. 1;
Eclogues, iii. 316; Greek critics, unmentioned
by, 236 n. 4; Harley, quoted by, ii. 225;
hemistichs, i. 63; Homer, compared with,
447; H., refinements on, iii. 239; 'plague
of translators,' i. 448 n. 2; Pope's Iliad, men-
tioned in Pref. to, iii. 275; P.'s Pastorals and
Eclogues, 319; Priam's javelin, 242; repre-
sentative versification, i. 62; similes, iii. 230
n.2; Sortes Virgilianae, i. 9 n. 1; Statius sacri-
ficed to his manes, 348 n. 4; sunt lacrymae
rerum,' iii. 445; translations, Bowen,
i. 449 n. 3; Dryden, 447; Ogilby, 450 n. 5;
Aeneid, Brady, 453; Hawkins, 454 n. 1;
Phaer, 466; Pitt, iii. 279; Strahan, i. 454
n. 1; Trapp, 453; Vicars, 452 n. 5; Aen.ii,
Denham, 71; Aen. ii and iv, Surrey, 192;
Aen. iv, Waller, 373 n. 7; Eclogues and
Georgics, Fleming, 192 n. 3; Warton, 454
n. 1;
quotations, Eclogues, i. 6 n. 8,
iii. 201 n. 7; Georgics, i. 6 n. 6, 191 n. 4,
276 n. 6; Aeneid (i. 462), iii. 445; (i. 563),

35 n. 4; (i. 567), ii. 225; (ii. 204), iii.
201 n. 5; (v. 231), i. 137 n. 4; (vi. 426),
iii. 348 n. 3; (x. 746), 458; (xii. 896),
i. 51.

VOLTAIRE, Addison and Boileau, ii. 82
n. 6; A.'s Campaign, 129 n. 2; A.'s Cato,
104 n. 1, 137 n. 1; A.'s reward if a French-
man, III n. 2; Algarotti, i. 177 n. 4; blank
verse, 200; Congreve's 'foppery,' ii. 226; C.'s
plays, 228 n. 3; Dryden's coach and six,'
iii. 223 n. 1, 438 n. 3; D., praises, i. 457 n. 4;
English men of letters, consideration paid to,
iii. 137 n. 5; Garth's Dispensary, ii. 63 n. 5;
'Gentleman of the King's Chamber,' iii. 452
n. I; Homer and Ariosto, i. 183 n. 4;
Hudibras, 209 n. 4, 214 n. 2; Lebossu's
Traité sur le Poëme épique, ii. 5 n. 3; Le-
couvreur and Mrs. Oldfield, 336 n. 1; letters
to friends, iii. 206 n. 6; Lyttelton, attacked
by, 452 n. I; Mémoires de l'Académie
Française, i. 321 n. 1; Molière and Bruey's
Le Grondeur, 242 n. 2; M. and the Church,
ii. 220 n. 1; moral and characters in poem,
i. 171 n. 2; Otway's tenderness, 248 n. 1;
O.'s Orphan, 245 n. 2 ; O.'s Venice Preserved,
246 n. 1; Paradise Lost and Italian farce seen
by Milton, 133; P.L., love treated as a virtue,
174 n.1; P.L.' Sin and Death,' ridiculed, iii.
376;
- Pope's deformity, 144 n. 2, 178 n.
2; P., Dryden compared with, 222 n. 6, 223
n. 1; Essay on Man, 164 n. 1, 222 n. 6, 242 n2.
10; P.'s letter to Louis Racine, 214 n. 7; P.
on Milton's blank verse, i. 200; P.'s opinion
of him, iii. 144; Rape of the Lock and Le
Lutrin, 234 n. 2; P.'s versification, 248 n. 4;
P., visits, 144; Prior's Epistle to Boileau,
ii. 203 n. 3; P.'s Solomon, 203 n. 3, 205 n.
7, 207 n. 2; Rabelais, 212 n. 5; Ramus,
148 n. 1; rhyme, 192 n. 8; Salmasius and
Milton, 112 n. 4; Swift's 'Academy,' iii. 16
n. 3; S.'s Gulliver's Travels, 38 n. 5; S.
and Horace, 66 n. 1; S., Pascal and Rabelais,
51 n. 1, 54 n. 4; S.'s Tale of a Tub, 11 n.6;

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tout est bien,' exemplified in Shaftesbury,
Bolingbroke, and Pope, 144 n. 2; unities,
the, ii. 136 n. 4; Warburton, iii. 167 n. 2;
Young's dedication and epigram, 376, 395

2.4.

VOSSIUS, Isaac, i. 114 n. 6.
VYSE, Rev. Dr., i. 479.

'Wagstaffe, William,' i. 325 n. 3, ii. 147.
WAKEFIELD, Gilbert, Pope's Iliad, iii. 113
n. 4; P.'s Odyssey, ii. 260 n. 2.

WALES, Lord President of, i. 92; Court of
the Council of the Marches, 203.

WALKER, John, Exercises for Improvement
of Elocution, iii. 419.

WALKER, Dr. Anthony, i. 197.
WALKER, Mr., of the Temple, i. 140 n. 2.
WALKING, fashion of, iii. 6 n. 1.

WALLER, Edmund, Addison's lines on him,
i. 293 n. 1, ii. 128; alexandrines and triplets,

i. 294; alliteration, 295; Americans tracing
descent, 277 n. 3; 'Amoret,' 253, 284; At
Penshurst, 254; baptism, 249 n. 2; bathos,
270 n. 4; Battle of the Summer Islands,
254 n. 1, 289; Beaconsfield, lives near, 268;
B., monument at, 277; beauty's empire ex-
'best and
daggerated, 287; Bermudas, 254;
worst verses of any great English poet,' 287
n. 5; birth, &c., 249; Buckingham's faction,
joins, 274; B.'s profanity, rebukes, 277;
Chapman's Homer, 283; character by Claren-
Charles I's demand for a
don, 277-9;
supply, 255, 256; contributes to royal cause,
259; favourably received by king, ib.;
secretly works for him, 259 n. 5;

Charles II's delight in his company, 272 n.
2, 281; C. II, obtained nothing from, 274;
children, 252, 255, 277; Christianity, 277;
Clarendon, enmity to, 274; clergy, rails at,
255; Colshill, 249, 276; commissioner to
treat with king, 259; common degrees of
knowledge,' writes to, 284; Congratulation
upon His Majesty's Happy Return, 13 n. 2,
270, 285, 290; conversation, pleasantness of,
279; convivial power of pleasing,' 281;
'Copernican, a,' 285; Corneille's Pompey,
joins in translating, 282; correction, ten lines
a summer under, 287 n. 4; couplet, sense
concluded in, 81 n. 2; court of James I,
frequents, 250; 'courtly Waller,' 293 n. 1;
cowardice, 263, 267, 279; critical examina-
tion, never had, 249 n. 1; Cromwell, his
cousin, 249 n. 4, 269; C., familiar converse
with, 269; C., had only his recall from, 281;
C., praises, 269, 270, 271; daughter's mar-
riage, 275; death, 277; Denham, debt to,
251; described by Aubrey, 279 n. 1; devo-
tional poetry, 276, 290, 291; die like the
stag where he was roused,' 276; double
rhymes, 294; Dryden, praised by, 81 n. 2,
293 n. 6, 296 n. 1; Duchess of Newcastle's
Death of a Stag, 280; early poems not pub-
lished when written, 252; elegance and gaiety
of his verses, 294; Elegy on Cromwell, 270,
334, ii. 32; England, permitted to return to, i.
268; episcopacy, defends, 257; Eton, educated
at, 249; E., provostship, 273, 274; exile in
France, 267; expelled Parliament and im-
prisoned, ib.; Fairfax's Tasso, 251, 293,
296; 'feeble care,' 60; Fenton, his biographer
and editor, 249 n. 1; first poem, 250; fined
£10,000, 267; flattery, 279, 280, 287; f. of
Charles I, Cromwell, and Charles II, 271;
fortune, diminished, 268, 282; Hall Barn,
268; Hampden, his cousin, 249 n. 4; H.,
influenced by, 255, 256, 281; He's seldom
old that will not be a child,' iii. 135 n. 3;
hoarder in first years, squanderer in last,
i. 282; Hooker, quotes, 255; Howard, ridi-
cules, 308 n. 2; images from superficies of
nature,' 284; images of gallantry, 286; in-
come, 249, 282; James II's kindness and
familiarity, 275; King's Coll., Cambridge,

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250; language's growth and poets, 233 n. I;
last illness, 276; letter to Portland, 264;
Lincoln's Inn, 250 n. 1; love verses, 287;
'lucky trifles,' 284; marriages, 252, 254,
277, 278; memory, 279 n. 2; metaphysical
poets, contrasted with, 22, 333; monarchy,
friend to, 281; Morley, Dr., friendship with,
278, 280; mythology, 295; narrowness in
his nature, 279; obsolete verb terminations,
294; Of the Danger His Majesty (being
Prince) escaped at St. Andero, 250, 252,
288; Of Love, 284; Of His Majesty's re-
ceiving the News of Buckingham's Death,
251, 288; Of the Queen, 251 n. 6, 289; old
age, 276, 290, 291; On her passing through
a crowd, 285; On the taking of Sallee, 254,
288; On a War with Spain, 269, 289, 430
n. 5; Panegyric to my Lord Protector, 271,
289; Paris, English table at, 268, 282;
Parliament, enters, 250; 1640, 255; Long
Parliament, 256-9; 1661, 272; 1685, 275;
'delight of the House,' 272; 'graceful way
of speaking,' 278; 'never laid its business to
heart,' 280; 'nursed in parliaments,' 278;
passionate and resentful, 281; pathos and
sublimity, absent, 294; personal appearance,
281 n. 6; philosophical pedantry, free from,
284; pleas of Waller, 40 n. 3; Poems,
editions of, 252 n. 3; P., first collected, 251
n. 2; poets discreetly blot,' 237 n. 8, 283
n. 6, iii. 136 n. 1; political principles, laxity
of, i. 281; Pope's Essay on Criticism, 293
n. 6; P.'s imitation of a conceit, 285 n. 5;
praise, lavish of, 287, ii. 287 n. 1; Presage
of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire, i. 275;
preterite, retains final syllable of, 294; Re-
hearsal, helps in, 282, 368 n. 3; rhymes on
weak words, 294; Roscommon's Art of
Poetry, 237 n. 8; royalist plot, 260-7,
282; rump jewel,' 268; 'Sacharissa,' 252,
253, 254; Sacharissa's and Amoret's Friend-
ship, 286; St. Evremond, praised by, 272;
St. James's Park and Pope's Windsor Forest,
iii. 225; sea fight, describes, i. 430; ship
money judgement, 256, 281; simile, far-
fetched, 290; s. of the Palm, 285; sobriety,
272; speech against Clarendon, 274; s. on
episcopacy, 257; s. on grievances, 255; Stock-
dale's Life, 267 n. 4; 'subjects often unworthy,'
283; sweetness, 79 n. 7, 293; Tasso, reads,
275; 'tenth Muse,' 278; thoughts easily
understood, 284; t. over-expanded, 286; To
the Earl of Northumberland, 254; To the
King on his Navy, ib., 288; To my Lady
Morton, 268 n. 2; To the Queen, 251; To
the Queen Mother, 254; To Sir T. Higgons,
&c., ii. 242 n. 8; translation from Aeneid,
i. 373 n. 7; transpositions, 283 n. 3; Turks,
enmity to the, 275; Upon His Majesty's
repairing of St. Paul's, 254, 288; Verses
writ in the Tasso of Her Royal Highness,
287; versification, improved, 22, 75, 293
'do' used too
n. 1, 465, ii. 209 n. 6; v.,

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