frequently, i. 293; v. early formed, 251; v. 'not always musical,' 284; v., smoothness of, 251, 293, iii. 232; Vipers and treacle,' i. 285; Virgil, repeated lines of, 276; water- drinker, 272; wealth, 249, 252, 278, 282; Wharton, Lady Anne, iii. 367; widower, young, i. 252, 279 n. 4; wife, rich, 252, 278, 279; wit, famed for, 272, 273, 277, 279; witty replies to Charles II, 271; w.r. to James II, 275; w.r. to 'Sacharissa' when old, 253; w. saying on Charles II and Duke of York, 273; would blot any line not containing motive to virtue, 283; zenith of his genius, 290; quota-
tions, At Penshurst, 254 n. 1, 285 n. 6; Congratulation upon His Majesty's Happy Return, 203 n. 4, 267 n. 5, 271 n. 3, 285 n. 3: Epitaph on Lord Andover's son, iii. 135 n. 3; Of the Danger His Majesty escaped at St. Andero, i. 251 n. 2, 252 n. 1, 288 n. 3; Of English Verse, 233 n. 1; Of His Majesty's receiving the News of Buckingham's Death, 288; Of loving at first sight, 287; Of the Queen, 251 n. 6, 289 n. 3; On a war with Spain, 270 n. 1, 290; On the Divine Poems, 276 n. 1; On the Head of a Stag, 285; On the taking of Sallee, 288 n. 8; Panegyric to my Lord Protector, 271 n. 2; Presage of the Ruin of Turkish Em- pire, 275 n. 1; Puerperium, 284; Song, 286 n. 3; Thyrsis: Galatea, 238 n. 3; To Amoret, 253 n. 1; To Chloris, 286; To the King on his Navy, 271 n. 1, 288 n. 7; To the King, 295 n. 8; To Mr. Granville on his Verses to James II, ii. 287 n. 1; To the Sun, i. 285 n. 1; Upon the Death of the Lord Protector, 270 n. 4; Upon His Majesty's re- pairing of St. Paul's, 289; Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace, 237 n. 8, 283 n. 6. WALLER, Benjamin, the poet's eldest son, i. 277.
WALLER, Edmund, the poet's second son, i. 275, 277.
WALLER, Edmund, M.P. in Walpole's time, i. 277 n. 4.
WALLER, Dr. John, of Newtown Pagnell, i. 277 n. 3.
WALLER, Margaret, the poet's daughter, i. 267.
WALLER, Robert, the poet's father, i. 249. WALLER, Stephen, the poet's fourth son, i. 277.
WALLER, William, the poet's third son, i. 277.
WALLER, Mr., the poet's great-grandson at Aberdeen, i. 277 n. 7.
WALLER, Mrs. Anne, the poet's mother, related to Cromwell and Hampden, i. 249 n. 4, 268; royalist, 268; prisoner in her own house, 269.
WALLER, Sir William, i. 109.
WALLER, Major-General, i. 277 n. 7. WALLERS, the Kentish, i. 249.
WALMSLEY, Gilbert, character by Johnson,
ii. 20; Smith and Duckett, 20, 23; letters to Duckett, 23.
WALMESLEY, Miss, iii. IOI n. 2.
WALPOLE, Horace, Academies for refining language, i. 232 n. 6; Addison's character of Somers, ii. 85 n. 1; A.'s poetry, 127 #. 1; A.'s Remarks on Italy, 87 n. 1; A.'s Rosa- mond, 131 n. 5; Akenside's Odes, iii. 420 n. 2; Beaufort, Dukes of, ii. 299 n. 7; Bio- graphia Britannica, i. 146 n. 4; Blount, Martha, iii. 275; Bolingbroke and Lyttelton, 449 n. 2; Bower, 459; Buckingham, Dryden, and Pope, i. 368 n. 9; Buckingham, Duchess of, ii. 173 n. 12; Burlington, iii. 206 n. 2; Cibber's Apology and Careless Husband, 184 n. 2; C.'s pamphlet against Pope, 185 #. 1; Congreve's Mourning Bride, ii. 219 n. 3, 230 n. 1; Craggs's epitaph, iii. 259 n. 4; Critical Review, 452 n. 2; Dodington, 287 n. 2; Dorset, first Earl of, 255 n. 1; Dorset, second Duke of, 255 n. 2; Dryden's Cock and Fox, i. 455 n. 3; D.'s King Arthur, 364 n. 3; D.'s tragedies, 335 ". 4; Dutch infraction of treaties, 355 n.8; Dyer's poems, iii. 345 22.5; epic poems, i. 170 n. 2; Fen- ton's theatric genius,' iii. 397 n. 7; Garth and Darwin, ii. 63 n. 5; genteel comedies, 228 n. 3; Granville's bathos, 290 n. 5; Gray's Bard, iii. 426 n. 2, 436 n. 3, 439 n. I, 440 nn.; G.'s conversation, 430 n. 3; 'Danish Gray,' 441 m. I; G.'s delicacy as to payment, 431 n. 1; Elegy, 436 n. 3, 442, 443; G., estrangement from, 422; G.'s interleaved Linnaeus, 430 n. 1; G.'s knowledge of archi- tecture, 430 n. 2; G.'s Latin poems, 424 n. 3; G.'s letters, 431 n. 7; G. and Oblivion and Obscurity, 427 n. 2; 'Odes,' calls everything G. writes, 423 n.9; Progress of Poesy, 426 n. 2, 436 nn.; G.'s and West's early genius, 424 - Hagley, 351 nn., 450n. 5; Halifax's poems, ii. 47 n. 4; Hertford, Countess of, iii. 287 n. 3; Hughes's' theatric genius,' 397 8.7; 'Hume, however spelt,' 340 n. 2; Jervas's pic- tures, 107 n. 3, 273; Johnson's Addison, ii. 134 n. 1; J.'s Gray, iii. 421 n. 1; J.'s Irene, ii. 136 n. 4; J.'s Lyttelton, iii. 452 n. 3; J.'s Pope, 82 n. 1; J., 'with or without a f a detestable name,' 400 n. 2; Kit-cat club, ii. 61 n. 1; Kitty Dashwood, 312 n.5; Kneller's love of flattery, iii. 265 n. 1; Lyttelton's budget speech, 451 n. 2; L.'s Dialogues of the Dead, 451 n. 4; L.'s Henry II, 453 nn.; L.'s prose and verse, 457 n. 2; Mason's Gray, 442; Methodists, 450 n. 3; Middle- sex, Earl of, ii. 360 n. 2; Milton's 'barbarous prose,' i. 120 n. 3; M.'s L'Allegro and Penseroso, 165 n. 3; M.'s Paradise Lost, 120 n. 3, 170 n. 2; Newcastle, Duchess of, 347 # 1, iii. 209 n. 3; 'Orator' Henley, ii. 428 m. 3; poet-physicians, 63 n. 5; Pope and Boling- broke's Patriot King, iii. 193 n. 3: P.'s Dunciad, 186 n. 6; P.'s Elegy to an Un- | fortunate Lady, 100 n. 4; P.'s letters, 208
2.3; Prior's Henry and Emma, ii. 202 n. 11; Queensberry, Duchess of, 280 n. 3; Roches- ter's poems, i. 222 nn.; Roscommon's poems, 235 n. 2, 240 n. 1; Rowe's Jane Shore, ii. 76 n. 8; R.'s Tamerlane, 78; Royal Society, 39; Savage's story, accepts, 439; Sheffield and Buckingham, 177; S.'s' pious relict,' 167 22. 1; Shenstone's letters, iii. 354, n. 4; S., labouring to write perfect song,' 356 n. 1; S.'s Schoolmistress, 359 n. 1; Strawberry Hill Press and Gray, 426 n. 1, 443; Swift, Cato and Mrs. Oldfield, ii. 100 n. 2; S.'s Four last Years of Queen Anne, iii. 28 n. 2; S.'s Journal to Stella, 23 n. 4; S. and Mrs. Howard, ii. 275 n. 2, iii. 39 n. 3; S. and Vanessa, 70; 'theatric genius,' 397 n. 7; Thomson's Seasons, i. 165 n. 3; T.'s Tancred and Sigismunda, iii. 293 n. 4; Voltaire and Lyttelton, 452 n. 1; Westminster Abbey monuments, 294 n. 5; Young's tragedies, 397 n. 7.
WALPOLE, Sir Robert, Broome, flattered by, iii. 80 n. 1; Committee of Secrecy, ii. 188 n. 5, 191, 192; Gay's appointment, 270 n. 5; G.'s Beggar's Opera, &c., satirized in, 279 nn., 281 n. 5, 282 n. 3; G.'s Polly, prohibits, 279 n. 2; good temper and placability, 193 n. I; 'happier hour, his,' iii. 148 n. 5; im- prisoned in Tower, ii. 292 n. 3; Johnson
honoured his memory,' 363 n. 5; literary merit and Philips's appointment, iii. 322 n. 6; nation's clamours for liberty,' 289; 'no thirster for blood,' ii. 193; 'obscenity to politics, range of his mind from,' 372; Peer- age Bill, 114; Philips's, Ambrose, lines to him, iii. 324 n. 7; poets in office, ii. 215 n. 8; Pope dines with him, iii. 148 n. 5; P.'s Dunciad, presents to King and Queen, 148, 150; P.'s Odyssey, subscribes for, 142 n. 4; Queen Caroline and Mrs. Howard, ii. 275 n. 2; Savage, relations with, 363, 391, 406, 408, and see SAVAGE; Secret Committee to inquire into his conduct, iii. 447; Swift's sneers at him, 25 n. 6; S., speech against, 25; S.'s Treasury order, 23 n. 1; Thomson's Agamemnon and Britannia, attacked in, 286, 291 n. 3; T.'s dedication to him, 286 n. 9; Wood's patent, 33 n. 4, 34 n. 4; Young's dedications, 369, 372; Y.'s pen- sion, 390.
WALSH, Joseph, the poet's father, i. 328. WALSH, William, 'best critic in the nation,' i. 328; birth, &c., ib.; courtier and M.P., ib.; death, 329; Dryden, reverenced, ib.; D., preface from, 330; Dryden's Misc., con- tributed to, ib.; familiarity with greater men,' ib.; gentleman of the horse, 328; Horace, imitation of, 330; 'Knowing Walsh,' 329; Letters and Poems, 330, iii. 159; ostler of inn, i. 328 n. 4; 'pages of inanity,' 330 n. 4; Pope, advice to, iii. 93; P., corre- sponds with, i. 329; P., encouraged, 329, iii. 93, 97; Sheffield, praises, ii. 179; Wadham
College, Oxford, i. 328; well-dressed, 328, iii. 97; Whig, a, i. 328 n. 7; William III, ode to, ib.; Works, list of, 330. WANSTEAD, iii. 422 n. 7.
WAR of 1763, unsung, ii. 186.
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Glouces- ter, Addison, ii. 127 n. 1; Akenside, warfare with, iii. 413; Allen's niece, married, 169; arrogance, 167; bishopric, 169; Blackmore, ii. 236 n. 5; Blount, Martha, spite to, iii. 175 n. 2, 190 n. 3; B., takes no notice of, 195 n. 4; Bolingbroke, mutual aversion, 167 n. 2, 169; B.'s Patriot King, 193 n. 1; Churchill's lines on him, 167 n. 2; con- temptuous superiority,' 166; 'critical per- spicacity,' 233; Fielding, complimented by, 169 n. 6; 'flounders well,' 233 n. 1; Gib- bon's estimate, 167 n. 2; Gray's Progress of Poesy and Bard, 426; 'great writer,' ii. 127; Hume attacks him, iii. 167 n. 2; Johnson applies passage in Savage's Wanderer to him, ii. 366 n. 4; J. describes him, iii. 165; learning, 165 n. 3; Lyttelton, 451 n. 2; Mallet, attacks, 403 n. 3, 404 n. 2; Manley's, Mrs., Atlantis, ii. 187 n. 5; Memoirs of Scri- blerus, iii. 182; Milton, 'present fashion' for, i. 199; Page, Judge, ii. 348 n. 2; Pope, and Addison, iii. 133 n. 1; P., antagonist at first of, 166, 167 n. 5; P.'s Billingsgate, 202 n. 2; P.'s borrowings, 166; Characters of Women, 175 n. 3; P.'s collection of libels, 209 n. 4;
Dunciad, project to make him editor, 188 n. 5; fourth book added at his request, 183; - Epilogue to the Satires, gave title to, 246 n. 3; Epistles to Bathurst and Burlington, 245; Epitaph on Buckingham, 271; Essay on Man, authorship, 161; Boling- broke's share in it, 163 n. 3; defends it, 164 n. 2, 167, 168; time under consideration, 160 n.5; - P.'s eye, 197 n. 1; P., first meeting with, 167 n. 3, 168 n. 3; P.'s Guardian on Philips's Pastorals, 107 n. 2; P.'s judgement and imagination, 216 n.6; P.'s legacy to Allen, 196 n. I; P.'s life, intended writing, 83 n. 6; P. made a philosopher by him, 165 n. 2; P.'s monument, 192; Odyssey, shares of Broome and Fenton, 77; P. and Patriot King, 194; Prologue to the Satires, its title, 403 n. 3; Rape of the Lock and Addison, 103 n. 4; its preternatural agents, 233; P.'s revision of Works, aids in, 188; P.'s Roman Catholicism, 214 n. 7; P., roused from senile insensibility to praise, 194 n. 2; P.'s Works, bequest of property in, 170; gratified private spite in notes, 170n. 1; preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 169; 'sneaking parson,' 195 n. 4; Theobald's Shakespeare, supplies notes to, 167; Tickell's Iliad and Pope, ii. 109; Vindication of Pope's Essay on Man, iii. 168 n. 5; Voltaire attacks him, 167 n. 2; warm language,' his, 77; Watts and the Dunciad, 311 N. 2.
WARD, Mr. Edward, High Church poet and tavern-keeper, ii. 299 n. 6.
WARD, Dr. John, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, i. 199.
WARD, Seth, Bishop of Salisbury, iii. 362. WARING, Swift's chamber-fellow, iii. 3
WARING, Jane, Swift's Varina, iii. 3 n. 2, 55 n. 4.
WARTON, Rev. Dr. Joseph, Addison's Cam- paign, ii. 128; A.'s classical mottoes, 96 n. 2; Akenside's Greek, iii. 416 n. 2; ballad opera, ii. 283 n. 1; Blount, Martha, iii. 274; Bolingbroke's writings, 408 n. 1; Broome, 80 n. 6; Collins's Eclogues, 340 n. 1; C.'s Odes, 335 n. 6; C.'s school fellow, 334 n. 5, 340 n. I; C.'s uncle, 336 n. 3; C., visits, 340; Congreve's Mourning Bride, ii. 230 n. 1; 'curiosa felicitas,' iii. 236 n. 1; Dobson on Pope's learning, 216 n. 3; Dryden's 'com- mon words,' i. 420 n. 2; Duchess of Bolton, ii. 277 n. 6; Essay on Pope, dedicated to Young, iii. 383; praised by Johnson, 236;
good-nature of his criticism,' ii. 128; Head Master of Winchester, iii. 84 n. 5, 277 n. 2, 334; Hudibras's learning, i. 212 n. 6; Johnson, estrangement with, iii. 236 n. 2; J.'s version of Pope's Messiah, 226 n. 3; Mallet's Amyntor and Theodora, 406 n. 5; M.'s Verbal Criticism, 402 n. 2; Oblivion and Obscurity, 427 n. 2; Odes, 335 n. 6; pasto- ral comedy, ii. 284 n. 8; Pitt, C., iii. 277; poets, ranked according to learning, ii. 120 n. 5;
Pope's affected contempt of Kings, iii. 209 n. 5; Essay on Criticism, 98 n. 2; P.'s frugality and charity, 203 n. 4; P.'s epithets, 250 n. 3; Iliad and Chapman, 115 n. 3; P.'s lines to Thomson, 291 n. 9; Macer, 313 n. 2; Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 227 n. 2; P. and Philips's Distrest Mother, 314 n. 4; Rape of the Lock, 233 n. 4; P.'s slanders on Addison, 103 n. 5, 133 n. 2; P. and Twyford school, 84 n. 5; Prior's Hans Carvel, ii. 201 n. 8; Statius, iii. 92 n. 5; Theobald's Shake- speare, 138 n. 5; Thomson's genius, pointed out, 300 n. 2; T.'s Greek, 282 n. 2; transla- tions of Ovid, 145 n. 1; Vida's Art of Poetry, 278 n. 2; Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, i. 454 n. 1; Young, iii. 394 n. 4, 395 n. 2, 397 n. 3.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas, Collins, visits, iii. 340; C., visited at Oxford by, 339 n. 2; Milton's Minor Poems, i. 84 n. 2, 108 n. 6; Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen, ii. 162 n. 6; poet-laureate, i. 482; Pope and Milton's minor poems, iii. 236 n. 2; P.'s Temple of Fame, 226 n. 2; words out of common order, 341 n. 3.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas, the elder, father of the two Wartons, iii. 236 n. 2, 263 n. I. WARWICK, Countess of, Addison's court- ship and marriage, ii. 110, 154; will and burial, 155.
WARWICK, Earl of, Addison's stepson and pupil, ii. 110; A.'s deathbed, 117; Pope and
Addison quarrel, iii. 133; epitaph, ii. 117 n. 2; irregular life, 117.
WARWICK, Robert Rich, second Earl of, i. 254 n. I.
WATTS, Dr. Isaac, Abney, Sir Thomas, lived with, iii. 304; birth, &c., 302; Casi- mir's Odes, i. 46 n. 1; charity, iii. 307; Cowper, praised by, 310 n. 3; Dacian Battle, 310; death, 309; devotional poetry, 310; Dissenters, 'takes his lot with,' 302; D., taught 'graces of language,' 306; diversity of attainments, 310; Divine Songs for Children, 307 n. 8; Doctor of Divinity, 309; Dunciad, inserted in, 311 n. 2; gentle, modest, and inoffensive,' 307; Haberdashers' Hall con- gregation, 304 n. 1; Hartopp, Sir John, lives with, 304; Hughes, his school fellow, ii. 164 n. 2, iii. 303; H., advice to, ii. 159 n. 5; illness, iii. 304; Improvement of the Mind, 309; instruction for all ages,' 310; Johnson inserts him in Eng. Poets, 302; J.'s venera- tion, 302 n. 1, 303; latinity, 302, 303; Logic, 304 n. 3, 308; method of study, 304; Milton's Paradise Lost and Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, 311 n. 3; ministry, called to the, 304; m., methods of his, 307; non- conformity, to be imitated in all but, 311; Odes, his, 303; 'orthodoxy united with charity, 308; Our God, our help in ages past, 311 n. 3; Philosophical Essays, 308 n. 1; piety diffused over his works,' 309; 'Pindaric folly,' 303; poetry, criticism of his, 310; Pope's Homer, 251; preaching, 307; Rowe's academy in Little Britain, 303; ser- mon, first, 304; Southampton Free-school, 302; Southey's paper, 302 n. I; stature, low, 307; teacher of a congregation,' ib.; temper, quick, ib.; tenderness to children and poor, ib.; University education, refuses, 302; verse-maker from fifteen to fifty, 303; quotations, 303 n. 7.
WATTS, Isaac, the poet's father, iii. 302, 304.
WATTS, Mr., the printer, ii. 307 n. 7. WAYNFLETE, William of, ii. 300 n. 2. WEBB, Mr. C. C. J., iii. 19 n. 2. WEBBE, William, Discourse of English Poetrie, i. 410 n. 7.
Wedderburne, Alexander, Lord Lough- borough, Mallet, iii. 410 n. 2; Shenstone's pension, 353 n. 1; Young's Revenge, quotes against Franklin, 397 n. 5.
Weekly Miscellany, ii. 388.
WELSTED, Leonard, i. 78 n. 4, iii. 276. WELSTED, Robert, editor of Pindar, iii. 328 n. 2.
WELWOOD, James, M.D., Rowe's Life,
ii. 73- WELWYN, iii. 376, 391.
WENTWORTH, see STRAFFORD.
WESLEY, Rev. John, Blackmore's Creation, ii. 238 n. 6; Cowley's Age of Anacreon, i. 39 n. 4; Gray's character, iii. 431 m. 5;
Leasowes, 351 n. 2; Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead, 451 n. 4; Paradise Regained, i. 188 n. 7; Thomson's Edward and Eleo- nora, iii. 292 n. 3; travelled on foot, 6
WESLEY, Rev. Samuel, Blenheim, cele- brated, ii. 186 n. 2; Dunciad, inserted in, iii. 311 n. 2; epigram on Butler's monument, i. 208 n. I.
WEST, Gilbert, Clerkship of Privy Council, iii. 328, 330; Cobham, Lord, his uncle, 328; Coleridge's criticism, 332 n. 5; commission in army, 328; death, 331; Elegy on a Black- bird, wrongly ascribed to him, 333; English Poets, poems omitted in, 331 n. 4; Eton, 328; Gibbon's estimate, 332 n. 3; grave without its terrors,' 331; Graeco-Gothic school, 332 n. 5; Hanover, goes with George I to, 328; Imitations of Spenser, 331 n. 4, 332; 'infidelity, listened to blandish- ments of,' 330; Institution of the Garter, 331 n. 4, 332; learning, 329; lost his son, 331; Lyttelton, friendship with, 329; mar- riage, ib.; methodist, called a, 330; Ob- servations on the Resurrection, 329; Oxford, matriculates at, 328; O., D.C.L. by diploma, 329; parentage, &c., 328; Paymaster of Chelsea Hospital, 331 n. 1; piety, 329; Pindar, translation of, 329, 331, 332; P., quotations, 331, 332; Pitt, friendship with, 329; Pope's bequest, 330 n. 1; Prince of Wales' (George III) education offered to him, 330; Townshend, Lord, his patron, 328; West Wickham, life at, 329.
WEST, Rev. Dr. Richard, the poet's father, iii. 328.
WEST, Richard, Gray's friend, iii. 423, 423 n. 4, 424 n. 2.
WEST, Richard, Chancellor of Ireland, iii. 423 n. 4.
WESTCOTE, William Henry Lyttelton, Lord, iii. 328 nn., 361 n. 1, 457.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Addison's funeral, ii. 156; Butler's monument, i. 208; Congreve's funeral and monument, ii. 227; cost of burial, i. 207 n. 1; Cowley's funeral, 17; Craggs's funeral and epitaph, iii. 259, 260 n. 1; Den- ham, i. 75; Dryden's funeral and monument, 390-3, 486, iii. 261; Gay's funeral and epitaph, ii. 281, iii. 268; Kneller's monu- ment, 264; Milton's monument, i. 150; monuments, FitzGerald on, 314 n. 6; m., Walpole on, iii. 294 n. 5; Newton, Sir Isaac, 270; Oldfield, Mrs., ii. 336 n. 1; Philips's (Cider') monument, i. 150, 314; Prior's monument, ii. 195; Roscommon's funeral, i. 234; Rowe's funeral and monument, ii. 74, iii. 261; Stepney's epitaph, i. 310; Thom- son's monument, iii. 294; Withers, General, 266.
WESTMINSTER Assembly, i. 106 n. 2. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, Addison's funeral, ii. 156; Busby detains promising boys, 11;
election to University scholarships, i. 65, ii. 2 n. 1, 41; Freind, Head Master, iii. 343 n. 4; Latin pronunciation, i. 133 n. 3; Lewis, an usher, iii. 343 n. 8; Locke and South, i. 332 n. 4; poets at school, Blackmore, ii. 235; Cowley, i. 3, 65; Dryden, 332; Duke, ii. 24; Dyer, iii. 343; Halifax, ii. 41; Hammond, 313; Hill, Aaron, 339 n. 2; King, 26; Prior, 181; Rowe, 66; Under Smith, I, II; Stepney, i. 309; Masters, iii. 347.
WEST WICKHAM, iii. 329, 330. WHARTON, Lady Anne, iii. 367, 376. WHARTON, Philip, Duke of, All Souls College, donation to, iii. 369; 'Clodio' in Pope's Epistle to Cobham, 245 n. 7; Young's patron, 364, 368, 369.
WHARTON, Thomas, Marquis of, Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland, Addison, his secretary, ii. 89; character, 90; Hughes's dedication, 161; Lillibullero, 90 n. 2; Young's patron, iii. 367, 368.
WHARTON, Thomas, M.D., Gray's corre- spondent, iii. 421 n. 4.
Whatever is received is received in propor- tion to the recipient, iii. 19.
What is everybody's business is nobody's business, iii. 181 n. 5.
WHATLEY, Rev. Robert, iii. 284 n. 4. WHETSTONE, Sir Bernard, Kt., i. 309
WHETSTONE, George, iii. 269 n. 3. WHISTLER, Anthony, Shenstone's friend, iii. 354 n. 4, 358 n. 1, 359.
WHISTON, Rev. William, ii. 81 n. 4, 122
WHITE, Rev. Gilbert, of Selborne, iii. 334 n. 9, 339 n. 2, 341 n. I.
WHITE, Rev. Mr., of Nayland, ii. 252. WHITEFIELD, Rev. George, Pembroke College, Oxford, member of, iii. 359; preaches to Bristol prisoners, ii. 424 n. I. WHITEHEAD, Paul, Addison and Philips's magistracy, iii. 321 n. 4; Manners, 180. WHITEHEAD, William, poet-laureate, iii. 426, 444.
WHITELOCKE, Bulstrode, i. 259, 270 n. 2. WHITEWAY, Mrs. Martha, Swift's cousin, iii. 1 n. 3, 48 n. 4; last face Swift knew, 48; Legion Club, to have half profit, 46 n. 4; Stella's deathbed, 42 n. 1; Swift's birthday, 49 n. 2.
WHITSHED, William, Chief Justice of Ireland, iii. 34.
WIDOWS, marriage with, i. 131 n. 3. WIELAND, ii. 201 n. 8.
WIGSTONE Magna, iii. 348 n. I. WILCOX, the bookseller, ii. 260 n. 4. WILKES, John, Elkanah Settle,' i. 375
WILKINS, Rev. Dr. John, Warden of Wadham, Royal Society, ii. 33, 38; Sprat's patron, 32, 39.
WILKS, Robert, the actor, described in Tatler, ii. 334 n. 1; Johnson celebrates his virtues, 334; Savage, kindness to, 331, 335, 337.
WILLIAM III, described by Johnson, ii. 66 n. 7; Dorset, his favourite, i. 306; Dryden's Virgil, attacked in, 387 n. 6; D.'s V., Aeneas's portrait resembling him, 480; Garth's praise, ii. 67 n. 1; literature, indifference to, i. 384 n. 4, ii. 85, 239; 'lucky day,' 218; Mouse Montagu, 43; poetry liberally patronized by his ministers, 85, 298; Prior's praise, 185; reformation of stage, 223 n. 1; 'resplendent qualities,' 185; Sheffield, relations with, 171; 'supplied copious materials for verse or prose," 185; Swift, relations with, iii. 4, 8; Tamer- lane' in Rowe's play, ii. 66, 78; Temple and Triennial Bill, iii. 4; tossed in open boat, i. 306; 'worthless scoundrel,' ii. 66 n. 7. William and Margaret, iii. 401 n. 3. WILLIAMS, Anna, ii. 318 n. 3. WILLIAMS, Sir C. H., iii. 454 n. 6. WILLOUGHBY, Warwickshire, ii. 299 n. 4. WILMINGTON, Earl of, see COMPTON, Spencer.
WILSON, Charles, Esq.,' i. 389 n. 6. WILSON, John, The Cheats, i. 382 n. 3. WILSON, Professor John (Christopher North'), Dryden's heroic plays, i. 338 n. 1 ; Pope's correctness,' iii. 93 n. 3; Pope and Dryden, 248 n. 2.
WILSON, Mr., a schoolmaster, iii. 411. WIMBORNE, ii. 180.
WINCHESTER COLLEGE, Dobson's Latin version of Prior's Solomon, iii. 170 n. 2; elections to New College, 334 n. 7; Harris, a Fellow, 363;
Collins, 334, 340 n. I; Otway, i. 241; Philips, J., 312; Pitt, iii. 277; Somervile, ii. 317; Young, iii. 363; -Pope and Twyford, 84 n. 5; Warton, Joseph, Head Master of, 84 n. 5, 277 n. 2; Young's father, a Fellow, 362. WINCHMORE HILL, i. 249 n. 2. WINDHAM, Right Hon. William, iii. 228 n. 5.
WINDOW TAX, i. 202 n. 5. WINTER of 1740, iii. 209.
WIT, definitions of, i. 19, 36 n. 2, 68; fashions, has its, 18; 'discordia concors,' 20; intellection,' equivalent before Cowley to, 36; mixed wit,' 41; Pope's Essay on Criticism, different senses in, iii. 96 n. 4. WITHER, George, i. 237 n. 3. WITHERS, General Henry, iii. 266. WITNEY, ii. 25.
WOGAN, Sir Charles, iii. 93 n. 5.
WOGAN, William, Captain of Westminster School, ii. 11 n. 3.
WOLFE, Major-General James, Gray's Elegy, iii. 441 n. 2.
WOLLASTON, Rev. William, Religion of Nature, ii. 425 n. 2.
WOMEN, education in seventeenth and early eighteenth century, i. 143 n. 3; literature in Milton's age, aspired not to, 143; reading, iii. 98 n. 2.
WOOD, Anthony à, Addison, Lancelot, ii. 79 n. 4; Athenae Oxonienses, subscription copies, iii. 109 n. 5; Azaria and Hushai, i. 374; Blackmore, ii. 235; Butler, i. 201; Denham, 70; Dorset, 303; industry,' ib.; Life of Milton, 84 n. 2; Milton at Cam- bridge, 88 n. 6, 90 n. 1; Milton's house visited by foreigners, 135; M. and West- minster Assembly, 106; M.'s personal ap- pearance, 151 n. 2; Rochester, 221, 222 .3; Walsh, 328, 329; Yalden's birth, ii. 297 n. 2; Young's father and grandfather, iii. 362.
WOOD, William, account of him, iii. 33 n. 3; Wood's halfpence,' 33, 34, 71, 72. WOODCOCK, Captain, Milton's father-in- law, i. 116.
WOODCOCK, Catherine, Milton's second wife, ' more a favourite,' i. 131; 'poor sonnet to her memory,' 116.
WOODFALL, William, ii. 341 n. 3.
WOODHAY, Berkshire, iii. 362.
WOODSTOCK PARK, i. 220 n. 4.
WOODWARD, Dr. John, 'the Fossilist,' ii.
WOOLLEN ACT, iii. 345 n. 1. WOOLLEN INDUSTRY, iii. 346 n. 2. WORDSWORTH, William, Akenside Hampstead, iii. 414 n. 5; A., borrows motto from, 420 n. 2; Brothers, line like prose, i. 193 n. 3; Dryden's ardour and ear, 465 n. 4; D.'s night,' 337 n. 3; D.'s translations from Boccaccio, 455 nn.; D.'s Virgil, 449 n. 3; Dyer's Fleece and Ruins of Rome, iii. 345 n. 4, 347 n. 1; D., sonnet on, 347 #. I; Gray's coldness, 294 n. 1; G.'s Elegy, 441 n. 2; G., estimate of, 440 n. 9; G., poetical diction, 435 n. 4; G.'s Sonnet on the Death of West, 423 n. 4; immortal style, not growth of mere genius,' i. 162 n. 6; meta- physical poets, 67; Milton, an aristocrat, 157 n. 3; M.'s Comus and Samson Agonistes, 188 n. 8; M.'s notions on women, 145 #. 2; M.'s Paradise Regained, 147 n. 4; M., sonnet to, 132 n. 4; M.'s sonnets, 169 n. 5; Pope and Dryden, iii. 222 n. 6, 276; P.'s early style, 87 n. 5; P.'s Homer, 276; P.'s images of external nature, 300 n. 2; P. 'took plain when heights within reach,' 341 n.6; P.'s versification, 248 n. 4; sepulchral memo- rials, 263 n. 4; Thomson's blank verse, 298 n.6; T.'s Castle of Indolence and Seasons, 300 n. 2; T., Collins and Dyer, 341 n.6; Tickell and Johnson, ii. 311 n.4; quotations, Sonnets, i. 126 n. 1, 132 n. 4, 169 n. 5.
WORDSWORTH, Bishop, Milton's Latin verse, i. 95 n. 4, 113 n. 6.
Works of the Learned, iii. 168 n. 1. WORLD, judgement must be accepted, iii. 210; wickedness exaggerated, ii. 430 n. 2.
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