ABBERLEY, i. 328, 329 n. 7. ABERDEEN, Marischal College, iii. 428. ABERGLASNEY, iii. 343.
ABINGDON, Countess of, Dryden's Eleo- nora, i. 441 n. 3.
ABINGDON SCHOOL, iii. 84 n. 2. ABNEY, Sir Thomas, Watts's residence in his family, iii. 304-6.
ABNEY, Mrs. Elizabeth, iii. 306. ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES, i. 233 n. 3. ACADEMIES, i. 233; iii. 16.
ACCADEMIA Della Crusca, i. 232 n. 6. ADAM, Mr. Robert B., of Buffalo, iii. 82
Adamo, by Andreini, i. 133 ». 9.
ADDISON, Miss Charlotte, the poet's daugh- ter, ii. 118, 156.
ADDISON, Gulston, the poet's brother, i. 159 12. 4.
ADDISON, Joseph, Account of English Poets, ii. 83 n. 9, 127; aldermen on stage, 236 . 6; alexandrines and triplets, 145; Atticus,' 124 12. 2, iii. 178; authors' dis- creet suppressions, 136 n. 1; bashfulness, ii. 118; best company in the world,' 119 2. 4; bill of mortality, argument for a Provi- dence, 149 n. 3; birth, &c., 79; bishopric, had eye towards, 112; biters, 69 n. 3; Blois, 85; Boileau, presents Latin poems to, 82; 'borrows out of modesty,' iii. 166; Bouhours, i. 326 n. 4; Button's, frequented, ii. 122; Campaign, the, account of publication, ii. 88; 'Gazette in rhyme,' 128; line in it imi- tated by Pope, 129; Marlborough, 130; simile of the Angel, 130; 'cant,' iii. 436 n. 8;
Cato, altered in MS., ii. 121; attempt to rob him of it, i. 72; Britons arise,' ii. 100; date of writing, 86, 98; dedication, without, 102; Dennis's criticism, 102, 104, 133-44; encomiastic verses, 103; first performance, 99 2. 4, 101, 157; Hughes's part in it, 162; Johnson's estimate, 132; Kemble plays in it, 133 . 4; long run, 101; love scenes, 103; MS. of first four acts seen by Pope and Cibber, 98; Oxford, played at, 103 n. 6, 305 n. 5; packed audience, 100; 'post of honour is a private station,' 101 ». 4; preparatory criticism in its favour, 99; Prince of Wales, played before, 101 n. 4; Prologue, written by Pope, 100, iii. 106; quotations, eight habitual, ii. 133 n. 1; Sewell defends it, 103;
six last lines, 121; smooth, lines too, 145; success due to party rivalry, 133; s. preju- dicial to drama, 133; theatrical exhibition, Pope advised against, 133; translations, 103, 104 n. 1; unity of time and place, 136; Whigs and Tories applaud, 100, 133; Young's verses prefixed to it, iii. 365; character and habits, ii. 118-26; Char- terhouse, 80; Chevy-Chase, 147, 148 n. 1; Christian religion, defence of, 112; Christ- mas and dissenters, 48; 'classic ground,' 86 n. 4; cloistered up in cells of Oxford,' 119 n. 1; coffee-house, dull at, 157; Com- missioner of Appeals, 88; Commissioner of Trade, III. 2; companions, 122; com. pany, reserved in, 119, 123, 157; composi- tion, method of, 121; Congreve, 226 n. 2; conversation, charm of, 119; c. only real between two persons, 118 n. 9, 123 n. 3; correcting, scrupulous in, 121, 157; correct- ness, i. 235, ii. 145; courtship of Countess of Warwick, 110; Cowley's Davideis, quotes, i. 49 n. 3; C.'s wit, 41; Cowper's lines on him, ii. 125 12. 4; Craggs, dedication to, 118; critic, considered as, 127, 144; criti- cism of his poetry, 127-44; death, 118, 156; death bed, 116-8; dedication, servile ab- surdity of a, 89; 'describer of life and manners,' 148; Despairing Shepherd' in Rowe's Colin's Complaint, 76 n.7; logues on Medals, account of publication, 86; Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, its model, i. 340; Latin poets, ii. 121; dic- tionary, designs, 108 n. 8, 113; Dorset's wit, i. 306 n. 7; dramatic rhyme, 338 n. 1 ; drinking with Dryden, 389 n. 5: see ADDI- SON, wine; Drummer, The, ii. 106; Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel,i. 373; D.'s Aureng- zebe, 360 n. 7; D.'s Don Sebastian, 363 n. 1 ; D.'s Oedipus, 362 n. 5; D.'s Spanish Friar, 356 n. 9; D., depreciated, ii. 120; D.'s sentiments, i. 363 n. 1; D.'s technical terms, 178 n. 4; D., verses to, ii. 83, 127; D.'s versification, debased, 145; D.'s Virgil, praises, iii. 129 n. 6; his share in it, i. 449, ii. 83; Durfey and Charles II, 221 1. 4; encouraged a man in his absurdity, 124; Englishman, The, iii. 366; Epilogue to Distrest Mother, attributed to him, 315; Epilogue to Granville's British Enchanters, ii. 294 n. 2; Essay, 'wildness' of an, i. 235
n. 4; estate in Indies, lost, ii. 152; fable of poem, i. 54 n. 1; familiar day, his, ii. 122; fees and friends, 90; flatterers, endured, 120 n. 3; follies rather than crimes, detects, 125; Freeholder, 109; gaiety dissociated from vice, 125; garret, lodged in, 87 n. 6; Garth's Dispensary, 61 n. 5; G.'s religion, 62 n. 7, 63 n. 1; Gay, in last illness summoned, 117; George I, memorial to, 108 n. 9; 'good company,' timid and awkward in, 119 n. 1; Good Friday, dines at Bolingbroke's on, 125 n. 2; Granville, 'takes off,' 294 n. a; great writers propagating immorality, i. 399 n. 1; Guardian, ii. 104; Guilt's chief foe,' iii. 371; Hacket's, Bishop, motto, 325; Halifax and Dorset's numbers,' ii. 287 n. 3; Halifax, his patron, 84; H., praises, 46; H., quotes, 42 n. 8; Hanover mission, 88; Haymarket, lodges in, 87 n. 6; hemistichs, 145 n. 4; Hoadly, 329 n. 3; Holland House, 156; holy orders, diverted from, 84; Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, i. 448 n. 1; House of Commons, failure in, ii. 111; H. C., un- opposed election to, 118; Hudibras, i. 217 nn.; human life, read volume of, ii. 121; human nature, knowledge of, 124; humour, 119, 148; Iliad and Aeneid, iii. 222 n. 5; invention, a painful action, 218 n. 3; Ire- land, time in, ii. 89–91, 152; Italian opera, 15 n. 3, 165, 166; Italy, visits, 86; 'Joe,' called by Philips, iii. 314 n. 5; Keeper of Irish Records in Birmingham's Tower, ii. 89, 152; knowledge, presented in alluring form, 146; lampoons, condemns, iii. 318 n. 5; late hours, i. 409 n. 2, ii. 123; latinity, 12 12. 3, 82, 83, 84, 121; learning, 120; Letter from Italy, 86, 128; Lichfield school, 80; literary attacks, left unanswered, 104; 'little Dicky,' 115, 155; loan to friend, 156; Lover, The, contributed to, 95 n. 8; Mag- dalen College, demy of, 82, 151; M. C., fellowship, 87 n. 6, 151; M. C., rooms in, 151; marriage to Countess of Warwick, 110, 154; merit, high opinion of his own, 120; m., universally acknowledged, 118; meta- phor, broken, 128; Milton's daughter, i. 159; M., 'language sunk under,' 190; M.'s Paradise Lost and Spectators, see under MILTON; M.'s place among poets, 170 n. 1; M.'s profaned pen, 116 n. 2; M.'s 'unfettered numbers,' 200; mixed wit, 41; morality, ii. 125, 149; Musae Anglicanae, 84; music, no relish for, 89 n. 1; mythology in poetry, dislikes, 311 n. 3, iii. 225, 261 n. 5, 319 n. 2, 436 n. 6; 'oblique strokes,' ii. 124; Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 127; official in- capacity, 109, 111, 198; Old Whig, 115, 155; Ormond, relations with, 152; Otway's Venice Preserved, i. 245 n. 7; O.'s tender- ness, 248 n. I; Oxford degrees, ii. 151; parallel of Princes and Gods, 144; 'parson in tye wig,' 123; party-lying, 94 n. 5; party zeal, 92, 118; passions on side of truth, sets,
126 n. 3; payments received, Drummer, 106; pp., Spectator, 108 n. 1; Peace of Ryswick, Latin verses on, 82, 85; Peace of Utrecht, iii. 106 n. 2; pension for travelling, ii. 85; p. on retirement, III; Perrault, iii. 230 n. 1; Philips's, A., magistracy, 321 n. 4; P.'s Pastorals, 318 n. 5, 319; P., solicits Swift on behalf of, 313 n. 3; P., see PHILIPS, Ambrose; Philips's, J., Splendid Shilling, i. 313 n. 3; philosophy brought to dwell in clubs and assemblies, ii. 93 n. 4; Pindaric writers, i. 48 n. 3; Pleasures of the Imagination, ii. 148, iii. 412 n. 2; Poem to his Majesty, 365; poetical justice, ii. 134 n. 3; poetry, calmness and equability, 127; P., want of vigour, 145; 'poets waiting at his levee,' 126; political academy, iii. 200 "2.5; political opponents, kindness for, ii. 118; p. o., reverenced by, 125; Pope, account of quarrel with, iii. 128; P., advice to, 110; P., alleged jealousy of, 103; P.'s charges, innocent of, 133 n. 1; P. and Dennis's Remarks on Cato, ii. 102, iii. 106; Essay on Criticism, praises, 95, 99, 229n.1; Guardian on Philips's Pastorals, 107, 319; Iliad, 110, 126, 129 n. 6; P.'s lines on him, 133 n. 4, 178; Pastorals, stroke aimed at, 319 n. 2; P., paid court to, by, 129; P., praised by, ii. 126 n. 3; Rape of the Lock, machinery, iii. 103; 'Sisyphus and the Stone,' 231 n. 2; Windsor Forest, pained by, 106; - popularity of his poetry, ii. 211 n.3; poverty and ridicule, iii. 204 n. 2; Present State of the War, ii. 107; Pretender's poverty, ridicules, 109; 'priest in his heart,' 112; Prior's Examiner, answers, 187; P.'s Poems, did not subscribe to, 118 n. 7; professions and practice, 125; profits, eager for, 106; Prologue to Smith's Phaedra, 15 n. 2, 20; Prologue to Steele's Tender Husband, 89; prose, model of middle style, 149; Psalms, versions of, 112, 127 n. 3, 144 2. 6; public opinion, chief architect of, 95 n. a; Queen's College, Oxford, 82, 151; religion, his, 148; Remarks on Ovid, 148; Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, 86; reputation, causes of his, 126; return to England, 87; rhymes, often dissonant, 145; Rochester's Nihil, i. 224 1. 3; Rosamond, account of production and publication, ii. 88; criticized by Johnson, 131; dedicated to Duchess of Marlborough, 89; Tickell's lines on it, 305; its versification, 145; - Rowe's levity, 75; R.'s Pharsalia, 73 n. 1; Royal Society, 39; Sacheverell, chamber-fellow with, 83; St. James's Place, lodges in, 122 n. 9; salaries, official, 88 n. 4, 90, 152; San Marino, 87; secretary to Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, 89, 111 n. 2, 118, 152; secretary to Regency, 108, iii. 367; Secretary of State, ii. 111, 155; Shadwell, i. 383 n. 4; Shakespeare, omits, ii. 46 n. 1, 84 n. 6; Sheffield's Essay, 179; signatures to Specta- tors and Guardians, 105, 154; Sir Roger de Coverley, 96; Smalridge, iii. 11 n. 2; Smith's
Phaedra, ii. 8, 15 12. 3, 16, 20; S., proposed Hist. of the Revolution to, 14; see SMITH; Socrates, projected tragedy on, 112; Somers, dedications to, 85, 86, 127, iii. 365; Spacious Firmament, ii. 127 n. 3, 243 n.4; Spec- tator, share in it, 92-8, 105, 108, 153, 154, 157; many written very fast, 121; revives it, 107; sold copy to Tonson, IOS n. 1; Spenser, 84; Sprat's Cowley, i. 1 n. 3; S.'s Observations on Sorbière's Voyage, ii. 40; Steele, memorable friendship with, So-2; see STEELE; Stepney, sends Dialogues on Medals to, i. 309 n. 6; subscriptions to collected Tatlers, ii. 152; Swift's Baucis and Philemon, corrected, iii. 65 n. 4; S.'s 'good nature,' 59 n. 5; S., kept in his place by, ii. 152, iii. 21; S.'s lines on him, ii. 86 . 5, 126 1.5; S., maintained acquaintance with, 118; see SWIFT; sympathy with fellow men, 124 n. 3; Tatler, share in, 91, 152; tautology, 130 1.5; tavern,' arrived to his pint,' 157; t., late hours, 123; theatre's lewdness, 221 n. 5; theatre tickets, 100 n. 3; 'thinks justly but faintly,' 127; Tickell's patron, 305, 310; T.'s Prospect of Peace, 306; see TICKELL; Tillotson's prose, 113; timidity of sober hours, 123; timorous taciturnity, 118; To Sir Godfrey Kneller, 144; translation, on, i. 373. 1; translations, his, ii. 145; travels abroad, 85-7; Trial of Count Tariff, 107; truth shown in a thousand dresses, 149; tutor to a travelling squire, 86; Two Children in the Wood, 147 n. 3; Under-Secretary of State, 88, 152; valued himself more on poetry than on prose,' 145 n. 2; versification, 145; Virgil's Fourth Georgic, translated, 83; V., Dryden, praised by, 83; Vision of Mirza, 144 n. 6; Waller, criticizes, i. 287 n. 5; W., lines on, ii. 128; Walpole's criticism, 127 12. I; Warburton's criticism, 127 2. I; Westminster Abbey, midnight funeral in, ii. 156; Whig Examiner, 107, iii. 16; Whig- gism, once shown in Spectator, ii. 92; Whigs in Ireland, 90 n. 3; will, 155; William III, poem to, 85, 127; wine, weakness for, 123, 157; wit, on side of virtue and religion, 125; wits, humanity of greatest, i. 394 n. 5; women's learning, 157 n. 5; Yalden, friend- ship with, ii. 298; Young's Death of Queen Anne, &c., inscribed to him, iii. 367; Y.'s verses on his death, 370; quotations,
Account of English Poets, i. 41 . 5, 116 n. 2, 200, 236 n. 2, 293 n. 1, ii. 84 nn., 226 11. 2, 287 n. 3; Campaign, 129, 130 n. 5, iii. 225 n. 7; Cato, ii. 100 n. 2, 101 n. 4, 121 72. 7, 137-42; 'How are thy servants bless'd,' 144 1. 6; Letter from Italy, 86 n. 4, 128; Verses to Kneller, 158.
ADDISON, Dean Lancelot, the poet's father, ii. 79, 151.
ADDISON, Mrs., the poet's mother, iii. 326. ADDISON, Miss, the poet's sister, ii. 79 12. 4. ADRIAN VI, iii. 335 #. 5.
Adventurer, iii. 67, 333, 358 n. 1. Adventures of Five Hours, i. 15 n. 2. AESCHYLUS, i. 185, 472 n. 2. AGAR, Mr., i. 158.
FAISLABIE, John, Chancellor of Exchequer, iii. 25.
AKENSIDE, Mark, Aldermanly discretion' deficient in, iii. 416 n. 1; alexandrines 'set upright, like one of his,' 416 n. 1; birth, &c., 411; blank verse, 417; Cambridge degree, 415; conversation, 416; Crounian lecturer, 415; death, 416; diction, 418; dis- senting ministry, intended for, 411; Dyer's Fleece, 346; Dyson, friendship with, 414; Edinburgh University, 411; Epistle to Curio, 414, 419; established, no friend to anything, 413; Fenton's Ode to Gower, ii. 264 n. 7; F.R.C.P., iii. 415; F.R.S., 415; Gent. Mag., verses in, 412 n. 1; Gray, criticized by, 420 n. 2; Greek, his, 416 n. 2; Gulstonian lec- turer, 415; halt in gait, 411 n. 2; Hamp- stead, 414; latinity, 416; Leyden, studied physic at, 412, 414; liberty, outrageous zeal for, 411; light the tapers,' &c., 420 n. 2; medical practices at Northampton and Bloomsbury, 414,414 n. 6; medical writings, 412 n. 5, 415, 416 n. 2; Newcastle Grammar School, 411; Odes, collected, 414; O. criti- cized, 419; Ode to Thomas Edwards, 413 2. 4; payment received for Pleasures of Imagination, 412 n. 3; Peregrine Pickle, physician in, 411 n. 5, 416 n. 1, 419 n. 3; physician to Queen Charlotte, 411 n. 5; P., St. Thomas's Hospital, 415; p., success as 415; P., supercilious and unfeeling,' 415 2.6; - Pleasures of Imagination, account of publication, 412; Gray's criticism, 416 n. 4; Johnson's criticism, 416-9; J. could not read it, 417 2. 3; immortality of soul, 419; Pope's advice to Dodsley, 412; revision and additions, 413, 418; Rolt's impudent claim, 412 n. 2; Wordsworth's motto from it, 420 n. 2; read his verses badly, 420 12. 2; ridicule test of truth, 413; Shaftesbury's Characteristics, 413 n. 1; Table of Modern Fame, i. 198; Walpole, laughed at by, iii. 420 . 2; Warburton, warfare with, 413;
quotations, Hymn to Cheerfulness, 420 n. 2; Odes, ii. 12, iii. 414 n. 5; Ode on the Winter Solstice, 420 n. 2; Pleasures of Ima- gination, 418 nn., 419 n. 2, 420 n. 2.
AKENSIDE, Mark, the poet's father, iii. 411. AKENSIDE, Mrs. Mary, the poet's mother, iii. 411.
AKERMAN, Keeper of Newgate, ii. 424
ALABASTER, Dr. William, i. 88. ALBERTI, Leandro, Descrizione di tutta l'Italia, ii. 87 n. I.
ALDRICH, Dr. Henry, Dean of Christ Church, Clarendon's History, one of editors of, ii. 18, 22, 23; Philips, John, under him, i. 312, 318 12. 4; Smith's expulsion, ii. 13.
ALDWINCLE, i. 331. ALEXANDRINES, history of introduction, i. 466; Addison's use of them, ii. 145; Cowley, common in, i. 63; Dryden's use of them, 63, 466, 469; Pope's use of them, iii. 231, 232 n. I, 249; Prior's use of them, ii. 209; Swift censures them, i. 467, iii. 249 n. 3; Waller, not used by, i. 294; Young, excluded by, iii. 399 n. 3.
ALGAROTTI, Addison's 'classic ground,' ii. 86 n. 4; appartenait à l'Europe,' i. 177 n. 4 ; 'arbiter elegantiarum,' ii. 93 n. 3; 'gigantesca sublimità Miltoniana,' i. 177 n. 4; Gray's Bard, iii. 438.
ALLEGORICAL PERSONAGES, i. 185, iii.
ALLEN, Ralph, Amelia dedicated to him, iii. 169 n. 6; Atterbury's Bible, 141 n. 3; Blount, Martha, visits him, 195; 'low-born,' 180; Mayor of Bath, 195 n. 4; Pope, friend- ship with, 157; P. and Savage, ii. 428 n. 4; P.'s servant's legacy, iii. 196 n. 2; P.'s will, contemptuous mention in, 195, 196, 214; Squire Allworthy, of Tom Jones, 169 n. 6; Warburton married his niece, 169.
ALLEN, Mrs., Blount, Martha, quarrel with, iii. 195.
ALLESTREE, Dr. Richard, Provost of Eton, i. 273 n. 5.
ALLITERATION, i. 295, iii. 439.
ALPHONSO II of Ferrara, iii. 318 n. 4. ALPHRY, Mr., of Gray's Inn, i. IOI ». 4. Alpine, iii. 418.
AMERICAN PLANTATIONS, shipping to, ii. 327 n. 2.
AMERSHAM or AGMONDESHAM, i. 249, 256, 277.
AMESBURY or AMBROSBURY, ii. 79. AMHURST, Nicholas, ii. 433 n. 4. Aminta, ii. 284. See TASSO. AMORET, i. 253. See MURRAY, Lady Sophia.
AMUSEMENTS OF THE STUDIOUS, iii. 135. ANACREON, his Dove, i. 284.
ANDREWS, Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester,
ANGLESEY, Arthur Annesley, first Earl of, Eikon Basilike, i. 197; Milton's Character of Long Parliament, &c., given to him, 146; Restoration, part in, 129 n. 3, 146 n. 4. ANGLESEY, James, third Earl of, ii. 28. ANGUILLARA, Ovid, translated, iii. 237. ANNE, Princess, conducted by Dorset to Nottingham, i. 306; courted by Sheffield, ii. 172. See ANNE, Queen.
ANNE, Queen, dismisses Halifax, ii. 44; Prior's obscure birth, 189 n. 2; slow to act, iii. 17; Swift, attacked by, 69; S., and bishopric, 10, 68; Tale of a Tub, shown to her, 10; Young's godmother, 362; Y.'s Last Day dedicated to her, 366.
ANNE, Princess, daughter of George II, ii. 293.
ANNESLEY, see ANGLESEY.
Annual Register, Gray's death, iii. 429 ». 3; indecent writing, ii. 126 n. 3. ANTAEUS, ii. 229.
Anti-Lucretius, see POLIGNAC. Antiperistasis, i. 23 n. 2.
ANTROBUS, Mr., Gray's uncle, an Eton master, iii. 421.
Aphorism, ii. 251.
APOLLONIUS, i. 337 n. 3.
Apophthegm, ii. 251.
APOTHECARIES, contest with Physicians, ii. 58.
AQUINAS, St. Thomas, iii. 19 n. 2, 375. Arbiter elegantiarum, ii. 93 n. 3.
ARBUTHNOT, John, M.D., Bessy Cox's, bowl of punch at, ii. 199 n. 4, iii. 274; character, 177, 273-4; Chesterfield, praised by, 273; Christianity, patron of, 273; Cowper, praised by, 273; death, 177; despised the world, 61 n. 4; Gay, advice to, ii. 273; G.'s death, 281; G.'s Three Hours after Marriage, aids in, 271, iii. 274; G., visits, ii. 272 n. 6; gluttony, iii. 274; ill-natured jest, liked, 274; inattention, king of, 201 22. 2; letters, ease of his, 160; Lewis, praises, ii. 273 n. 3; Memoirs of Scriblerus, iii. 181, 182; music, skill in, 228 n. 5, 273; piety, imperfect, 273; Pope's Dunciad notes, wrote part of, 151; P.'s irregular life, 199 n. 2; P.'s Miscellany, 38 n.2; P. and Swift's unacknowledged obliga- tions to him, 273; Prior's 'Chloe,' ii. 199 n. 4; profession, skill and generosity in his, iii. 273; raillery, ii. 63 n. 1; repartee to Jervas, iii. 273; Swift's exaggeration of danger, 36 n. 1; friendship with, 59 n. 5; Gulliver's Travels, 38 n. 5, 73; praised by, 274; at Tory downfall, 26 n. 4; walk, could do everything but, 274.
ARGYLE, John, second Duke of, Beggar's Opera, ii. 276; Will's Coffee House, fre- quented, i. 408 n. 6.
ARIOSTO, 'darling and pride of Italy,' i. 454; epitaph on himself, iii. 272; levity, i. 187 'pravity,' 179.
ARISTOTLE, catastrophe from change of will, i. 365 n. 5; Ethics, courage, iii. 99 n. 5; Poetics, fable of epic, i. 54 n. 1, 174 n. 2, 175; poetry, TÉXYN μμNTIKŃ, 19 n. 2; Smith, studied by, ii. 5; tragedy, rules for, i. 472-9; unity of place not mentioned in, ii. 140; wonderful, the, iii. 172 n. 4.
ARLINGTON, Henry Bennet, first Earl of, Cowley's letters to him, i. 8.
ARNE, Thomas, Addison's Rosamond, music for revival of, ii. 89 n. 1; Rule Britannia, iii. 293 n. I.
ARNOLD, Matthew, Chapman's Homer, iii. 115 n. 2; Gray's style, 445; Milton and Homer, i. 183 n. 1; Paradise Lost, 194 n. 1; Pope's Iliad and Cowper's, iii. 276; P.,
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