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DALRYMPLE, Sir John, Memoirs of Great
Britain and Ireland, i. 128.

Dancastle, Thomas, Pope's amanuensis,
iii. 119 n. 5, 154 n. 4.

DANTE, hell marked into divisions,' i. 186
n. a; 'no flame,' 472 n. 2; sculpture ex-
hibiting motion, iii. 105 m. 1: Statius, 92
n. 5.

DANTON, Georges Jacques, iii. 395 n. 4.
DARWIN, Charles, Académie des Sciences
and Evolution, i. 233 n. 3; composed on
backs of old proofs, &c., iii. 203 n. 1;
'fiddle-faddle of geology and the occult
sciences,' i. 409 n. 3.

DARWIN, Erasmus, Botanic Garden and
Blackmore's Creation, ii. 243 n. 2; Sheffield's
epitaph, 178.

DASHWOOD, Sir Francis, ii. 360 n. 2.
DASHWOOD, Kitty, ii. 312, 314.
DATI, Carlo, i. 94.

DAUBIGNY, Lady, i. 253 n. 5, 261, 263,
265.

DAVENANT, Sir William, Bilboa' in first
draft of The Rehearsal, i. 369, 483; coup-
lets, 81 n. a; Cowley's verses to him, 38;
Dryden's favourite author, 425; D.'s qua-
trains and Gondibert, 338, 425, 431; poet-
laureate, 340; saved by Milton, 129; Shake-
speare, taught Dryden to admire, 341 n. 2;
Tempest, 341.

DAVENANT, Dr. Charles, ii. 122.

DAVIES, Sir John, Nosce Teipsum, i. 293
n. 3; reasoned in rhyme, 469.

DAVIES, Thomas, author generated by
corruption of bookseller,' i. 339 n. 6; Con-
duct of the Allies, might have written, iii.
19 n. 6; obscenity of English tragedy, ii.
219 n. 3.

DAVIES,—, the old actor, ii. 217 n. 5.
DAVIS, Dr., i. 107.

DEANE, Admiral, the regicide, iii. 3 n. 3.
DEANE, Colonel, iii. 261 n. 3.

DEANE, Mr., a priest, Pope's tutor, iii. 86.
DEANS, in Devonshire, ii. 300.
DEATH, thinking constantly of, iii. 29 n. I.
Decent, iii. 336 n. I.

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DEFOE, Daniel, glass-houses, ii. 399 n. 2;
kidnapping to American plantations, 327
n. a; Robinson Crusoe, wished longer,' i.
184 n. 1; storm of Nov. 26, 1703, ii. 130
n. 5; What is everybody's business is no-
body's business, iii. 181 n. 5.

De Guiana Carmen Epicum, i. 192 n. 4.
De gustibus non est disputandum, ii. 217.
DELANY, Mrs. Mary, Beggar's Opera and
Handel, ii. 278 n. 2; Granville's niece, 288
n. I; Hammond's Elegies, 312 n. 5; Orrery's
Remarks on Swift, iii. 67; Pope's 'Atossa,'
272; Swift's personal appearance, 56 n. 1.
DELANY, Dr. Patrick, account of him, iii.
67; Observations on Orrery's Remarks on
Swift, ib.; Swift, giving advice to, 59; S.'s
character, 63; S.'s marriage, believed in, 43,

69; S.'s reception in Ireland, 26; S.'s secret
reading of prayers, 55.

DELAVAL, Sir Francis, iii. 429 n. 3.

DE LA VALTERIE, Iliad, translated, iii. 114.
Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum, i. 12 n. 4.
DEMOSTHENES, i. 412.

DENHAM, Sir John, account of himself, i.
70 n. a; Anatomy of Play, 71 n. 2; arrest,
order for his, 74 n. 2; Aubrey, acquaintance
with, 74 n. 1; birth, &c., 70; burlesque,
grave, 76; Butler, lampooned by, 72 n. 3,
74 n. 5, 75, 83; concatenated metre,' 81;

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Cooper's Hill, published, 72; criticized,
77-9; four celebrated lines, 78; imitations
of it, 78 n. 1; praised by Dryden, 77 n. 4,
78; parodied by Pope, 78 n.4; Pope, praised
by, 77 n. 4, 78 n. 2; P.'s Windsor Forest
derived from it, iii. 225; reported not his
own, i. 72; Swift's Apollo's Edict, 78 n. 4;
couplets, 81, 419; Davenant's Gondi-
bert, parodies, 76, 425 m. 3; death and burial,
75; dreaming young man,' 70; Dryden,
praised by, 79 n. 7, 293 n. 6; Duke of York,
conveys to France, 73; Elegy on Cowley, 75,
77, iii. 66 n. a; estates sold by Parliament,
i. 74; Evelyn on him, 74 n. 3; eye, his, 70
n. I; Farnham Castle, 71; France, exile in,
73; gaming, 70, 71; imprisonment, 72 n.6;
King's correspondence, carries on, 72, 73;
Lincoln's Inn, 70; 'lofty Denham,' 17 n. 7;
lunacy, 75, 82; 'majestic Denham,' 79 n. 7,
293 n. 6; marriage, 75, 82; merry fellow,'
75; metrical version of Psalms, 75; of
Justice, 74, 82 n. 6; Of Prudence, 74; On
Fanshaw's translation of Pastor Fido, 77;
order of the Bath, 74; Oxford, retreats to,
72; Pembroke, Earl of, entertained by, 74;
Peters, Hugh, 72; Poland, embassy to, 73;
Pope, imitated by, 76; P., praised by, 17 n. 7,
79 nn.; rhymes, 81, 82; Sessions of Poets,
satirized in, 72 n. 3; sheriff of Surrey, 71; simile
of poets and eastern kings, 76; Sophy, 71;
Speech of the close Committee, 76; strength,'
79, 293; surveyor of King's Buildings, 74;
Swift's Battle of the Books, 79 n. 3; transla-
tion, 77, 79, 373; translations, Cato Major,
73, 79; t. second book of Aeneid, 71, 79;
Trinity College, Oxford, 70 n. 6; triplets,
81; versification, 22, 80, 251, 333; Virgil,
burlesqued, 71 n. 3; Wood's account of him,
70; quotations, Cooper's Hill, 78, 80;
Destruction of Troy, 81, 82; Elegy on Cowley,
56, 80; Journey into Poland, 73 n. 6; On
Fanshaw's Translation of Pastor Fido, 77;
On Mr. John Fletcher's Works, 76, 82 n. 2;
On Strafford, 80.

DENHAM, Sir John, the poet's father, i. 70.
DENHAM, Lady, the poet's wife, i. 82, 83.
DENHAM, Miss, the poet's sister, i. 280

n. I.

DENNIS, John, Addison's Cato, ii. 99, 102,
133, iii. 106; 'Appius' in Essay on Criti-
cism, 95 n. 6; Blackmore's Prince Arthur,

attacks, ii. 238; B.'s Creation, praises, 243;
B., praised by, 239; Blenheim, celebrated,
186 n. 2; Chevy Chase and Addison, 147;
coffee-house wits, 307 n. 6; Congreve's
Way of the World, 223 n. 6; criticism,
his, Johnson praises, 133; Landor ranks it
above Dryden's, 144 n. 4, iii. 222 n. 2;
Southey praises it, ii. 144 n. 4; - Dryden,

flatters, i. 396 n. 5; D. and Milton, 359 n. 2;
Hill's lines on him, ii. 133 n. 6; 'horseplay
in his raillery,' 144; Italian opera, 165; Para-
dise Lost, i. 198; Phaedra, intended tragedy,
ii. 16; poetical justice, 99, 134, 135;
Pope, their enmity,102, iii. 91,95,98, 104, 105,
106, 113 n. 2, 129, 136, 151; P.'s deformity,
jeers at, 97; Essay on Criticism, attacks,
95-8; Prol. Sat., attacked in, 204 n. 4; Rape
of the Lock, criticizes, 151, 234, 235; Temple of
Fame, 104 n. 3, 105; Windsor Castle, 104
n. 3, 225;
Remarks on Cato, ii. 134-44;
Remarks upon Mr. Pope's Homer, &c.,
iii.
104 n. 3; Rowe, describes, ii. 74 n. 1;
Savage's epigram on him, 362; Unity of
Place, 140; Walsh and Pope, iii. 97; Wy-
cherley and Pope, 91; W., praises, ii. 144
22. 4.

DE QUINCEY, Pope, why a great poet, iii.
251 22. 5.

DERBY, Countess of, i. 93.

DERING, Sir Edward, i. 239.

DERRICK, Samuel, Dryden's Fables, i. 408;
Life of Dryden, 331, 332; presence of mind,
ii. 399 n. I.

DESAGULIERS, Dr., iii. 161 n. 2.
DES CHAMPS, ii. 104.

DESCRIPTIVE POEMS, iii. 225.

DES FONTAINES, iii. 73.

DESMARÊTS, i. 174 n. 2.

DEVENISH, Mr., ii. 74.

DEVONSHIRE, first Duke of, ii. 30.

DEVONSHIRE, third Duke of, ii. 30 n. I.
DEVONSHIRE, fourth Duke of, iii. 444.
DEVOTIONAL POETRY, i. 291-2, iii. 310.
See SACRED POETRY.

DIBBEN, Thomas, ii. 203 n. 6.

DIDACTIC POETRY, ii. 295.

Dies Irae, i. 234, 292 12. I.

DIGBY, Sir Kenelm, i. 4, 377.
DIGBY, Hon. Mary, iii. 263.

DIGBY, Hon. Robert, Pope's epitaph, iii. 263.
Dignity of Kingship Asserted, i. 125 n. 6.
DILETTANTI CLUB, ii. 360 n. 2.
DILLY, Charles, the bookseller, iii. 305
n. 3.

DILLY, Edward, the bookseller, xxv n. 2.
DINGLEY, Mrs., iii. 9, 23.

DIODATI, Charles, i. 91 n. 9, 93 n. 2, 97.
DIODATI, John, i. 97.
DIONYSIUS, iii. 236 n. 4.

Dissipation, iii. 338 12. 2.
DITCHLEY, i. 219.
Divaricate, i. 422 n. 4.
DIVORCE BILLS, ii. 322 n. 4.
DIXON, Canon R. W., iii. 360.

DOBLE, Mr. C. E., anonymous publication
of Essay on Man, iii. 163 n. 1; Pope's Sober
Advice and Thomas Bentley, 276; Johnson's
Cicero, i. 320 12. 2; Walmesley's letters to
Duckett, ii. 23.

DOBSON, William, account of him, iii. 170
n. 3; Latin version of Paradise Lost, i. 191
n. 4, iii. 170; 1. v. of Prior's Solomon and
Pope's Essay on Man, 170; Pope's learning,
216.

DOBSON, Mr., Waller's Schoolmaster, i. 249
n. 6.

DODINGTON, George Bubb, Lord Melcombe,
described by Thomson and Walpole, iii. 287
1.2; 'Dodingtonian smoothness,' ib.; Dorset-
shire seat, 376, 377, 387; Johnson, offered
friendship to, 287 n. 2; Love thy country,'
&c., 387; Pope's 'Bubo,' 287 1.2; Thomson's
bad reading, 297; T.'s Summer dedicated
to him, 287; Young's patron, 372, 376,
377.

DODSLEY, Robert, account of him, iii. 213
n. 7; Akenside's Pleasures of Imagination,
412; Collection of Poems, 333 n. 4, 345 n. 4,
358 n. 1, 359, 423 n. 9, 424 n. 7, 435 n. I;
Dyer's Fleece, 344; Gray's Elegy, printed,
443; G.'s Progress of Poesy, not scholar
enough to understand, 436 n. 3; G.'s Prospect
of Eton College, published, 423 . 9; im-
prisoned by House of Lords, 181; Johnson's
London, published, 180 n. 4; Pope's charity,
213; P.'s copy for the press, 221; P.'s last
illness, 190; P.'s papers, 192; P. and War-
burton's first meeting, 167 n. 3; Public
Virtue, 418 n. 2; Shenstone's friend and
biographer, 353; Toyshop, 213 n. 7; Young's
Night Thoughts and Brothers published, 381,
395 n. 3, 397 n. 6.

Dodsley's Miscellany, see DODSLEY, Collec-
tion of Poems.

DOLBEN, Sir Gilbert, i. 449 n. I.

DOLMAN, Miss, Shenstone's cousin, iii. 349

n. 6.

DOLMAN, Rev. Mr., of Brome in Stafford-
shire, iii. 349, 350.

DOMENICHI, Lodovico, i. 455.
Donaldson v. Beckett, iii. 284 n. 3.

DONNE, Dr. John, Cowley borrows from
him, i. 57, 58, 68; Coleridge, praised by, 21
2. 3; 'Done, for not keeping accent, deserves
hanging,' 22 n. 2; Drury, Mrs., had never
seen, 441 m. 3; Dryden's estimate, 19, 68;
'favourite poet of the time,' 58 n. 2; Lamb,
praised by, 20 n. 2; metaphysical poet, 22,
68; Night, 33; philosophical allusions, i.
23, 285 . 1; Pope's estimate, 19 n. 3; P.'s
versification of Satires, iii. 177; rugged-
ness, i. 22, 426; 'Twin compasses' and Omar

DISSENTERS, Fund for education of minis-
ters, iii. 411 n. 4; taught the graces of
language, 306; 'teacher of a congregation' or
'minister,' 307 n. I.

Khayyam, 34 12. 2; wit, 19; quotations, 23–4,
26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 57:

DONNE, John, the younger, i. 425 n. 3.
Don Quixote, applause for what he has
omitted to write,' iii. 136 n. 1; Boiardo and
Ariosto, i. 454 n.4; fees, ii. 9on.4; Hudibras,
compared with, i. 209; hypocrite and bold-
faced sinner, iii. 55 n. 2; licenser of plays, ii.
279 n. 2; 'may be found in descent from
a king,' 180; Memoirs of Scriblerus, resem-
blance to, iii. 182; pastoral poetry, i. 164
n. 2, iii. 318 n. 3; scholar's life, ii. 357 n. 1;
Sydenham, recommended by, 236; wished
longer,' i. 184 n. I.

DORCHESTER, Catharine Sedley, Countess
of, i. 308 n. 3, ii. 173.

DORMER, Mr., of Oxfordshire, i. 252.
DORSET, Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of,
Addison, praised by, i. 306 n. 7; affection of
the public, 306; Anne, Princess, conducts to
Nottingham, 306; 'best-good man with the
worst-natured muse,' 307 n. 1, iii. 256 n. 1;
birth, i. 303; Blackmore, satirized by, ii. 241
n. 2; Burnet, described by, i. 303 nn., 305
2.3, 307 n. 1; character, 303, 306; Charles II,
despised, 305 n. 3; confused with first Duke,
309 n. 5, 340 n. 4, ii. 181 n. 3, iii. 312 n. 6;
Corneille's Pompey, i. 282; death, 306; Do-
rinda, 308; drunken frolic, 303; Dryden,
bounty to, 307, 384; D.'s Essay of Dramatic
Poesy, character in, 307 2. 4, 340; D.'s Essay
on Satire dedicated to him, 385; D.'s flattery,
307, 308 n. 1; D.'s funeral, 392 n. 1; dull in
company, 303 n. 5; embassies to France,
305; failings had their beauties,' 304 n. 2,
ii. Io n. I; favourite of Charles II, i. 303;
favourite of William III, 306; fights against
Dutch, 304, 307 n. 4; garter, 306; gentle-
man of the bedchamber, 305; 'gentleman
had the better of the satirist,' 307 n. 5;
Halifax's patron, 309; 'holiday-writer,' 224
n. 2; Howard, Edward, lampoons, 307 n. 5,
308; Hudibras known at Court through
him, 204; inherits Earl of Middlesex's es-
tates, 305; invincible indolence, 306 n. 3;
longest composition, 307; lord chamberlain
of William III's household, 306; marriages,
305; Nell Gwynne, 305 n. 3; 'never in the
wrong,' 307; Parliament, enters, 303; patron
of genius, 306, 309 n. 5, ii. 42, 181; Pope's
epitaph, i. 307 n. 1, iii. 254; P.'s estimate, i.
224 n. 2, 308 n. 1; P., quoted by, 306 n. 6;
Prior's character of him, 303, 304 n. 2, 307
nn., ii. 10 n. 1; P.'s patron, 181, 186; Revolu-
tion, concurs in, i. 306; Rochester's epigrams
on him, 306, 307 n. 1, 355 n. 4, iii. 256 n. 1;
R., praised by, i. 303 n. 8; Satires, little
personal invectives, 307; 'Seven Bishops,'
countenances, 305; Shadwell's laureateship,
384 n. 2; Stepney's patron, 309; succeeds to
Earldom, 305; Swift, described by, 303 n. 5;
To all you Ladies now at land, 305; tossed
in open boat with William III, 306; travels in

Italy, 303; tried for robbery, 304 n. 3; wit,
306 n. 7.

DORSET, Charles Sackville, second Duke of,
see MIDDLESEX, Earl of.

DORSET, Lionel, seventh Earl and first
Duke, confused with Charles, sixth Earl, i.
309 n. 5, 340, ii. 181, 186, iii. 312 n. 6;
Philips's verses to him, 312; Prior's dedica-
tion, i. 303 n. 2; Savage, compliments, ii.
337; Young's dedication, iii. 372; 'universal
patron,' 312.

DORSET, Thomas Sackville, first Earl of,
Gorbuduc, i. 415 n. 5, iii. 255 n. I.

DOUGLAS, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Salis-
bury, iii. 19 n. 6.

DOWDESWELL, William, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, iii. 451 n. 2.

DOWNE, Earls of, iii. 82.

DOWNES, John, the prompter, Roscius
Anglicanus, Cowley's Cutter of Coleman
Street, i. 14; Granville's British En-
chanters, ii. 289 n. 4; G.'s She Gallants, 290

12. 2.

DRAKE, Dr., ii. 236 n. 1.

DRAMA, attacked by Collier, ii. 220; Puri-
tans, censured by, i. 365, ii. 219. See also
THEATRE.

DRAMATIC RHYME, i. 336, 337, 339, 414,
436.

DRAPER, the bookseller, ii. 243, iii. 316

n. I.

DRAYTON, Michael, i. 467.

DRIDEN, John, the poet's cousin, i. 393
n. 3.

DRIFT, Adrian, Prior's secretary, ii. 180
n. I, 199 n. 4.

DRURY LANE THEATRE, Johnson's Pro-
logue on the opening, i. 243 n. 2. See
LONDON, Drury Lane.

DRYDEN, Charles, the poet's son, Chamber-
lain to the Pope, i. 393, 479; Juvenal, Sat.
vii, translated, 385; Dryden's funeral, 390;
death, 393.

DRYDEN, Lady Elizabeth, the poet's wife,
see HOWARD, Lady Elizabeth.

DRYDEN, Erasmus, the poet's father, i. 331.
DRYDEN, Sir Erasmus, Bart., the poet's
grandfather, i. 331.

Absalom and Achi-

DRYDEN, Erasmus Henry, the poet's son,
i. 393, 394 n. 1, 481.
DRYDEN, John,
tophel, published, i. 373; attacked by Collier,
401 n. 5; Settle and Pordage, 374, 374 n. 7;
Johnson's criticism, 436; second part, share
in, 376, 437;
Addison's Cato, ii. 98
n. 5; A., drinks with, i. 389 n. 5; A.'s Fourth
Georgic, ii. 83; advise, ready to, i. 396;
Albion and Albanius, 358;
Alexander's
Feast, account of publication, 388, 480;
'best of all my poetry,' 456 n. 4; fortnight's
labour, 456; Goldsmith's criticism, 456 n. 4;
Gray's praise, iii. 226 n. 7; Johnson's criti-
cism, i. 439, 456; Landor's disparagement,

457 . 2; Pope's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day,
compared with, iii. 227; P.'s praise, ii.
264; alexandrines, i. 63, 466 n. 7, 469;
All for Love, 361, ii. 396 n. 1; Almanzor,
see DRYDEN, Conquest of Granada; Am-
boyna, i. 355; Amphitryon, 363; Ana-
baptist, bred an, 331; Annus Mira-

bilis, account of publication, 338; Johnson's
examination of it, 430-5; lines without
meaning, 461; mean image in it, 463; Pepys's
praise, 430 n. 2; Seneca, line borrowed
from, 435; Settle's ridicule, 352, 354;
'another and the same,' 418; Antony's dying
speech to Cleopatra, 361 n. 7; Aristotle's
rules for tragedy, 472-9; 'Art to blot,'
wanted, 424 n. 5, iii. 220 n. 5; Assignation,
i. 355; Astraea Redux, published, 334;
'forced conceits,' its, 426, 427; astrology,
216, 409, 481, ii. 218; Aurengzebe, i. 360;
ballads, fond of, 416 n. 4; 'Bayes' in Re-
hearsal, 337, 368, 369, 482; beaten for
another's rhymes,' 372; Beaumont and
Fletcher, 347, 474, 476, 478; birth, &c.,
331; Blakesley, 332 n. 1; blank verse, 200,
414; Boccaccio, borrows from, 455; Boling-
broke, visited by, 388 2. 5, 407; 'book-
learning,' 417; 'borrows for want of leisure,' iii.
166; brink of meaning, treads upon,' i. 460;
Britannia Rediviva, 383 n. 1, 446; Buck-
ingham, his enemy, 368; Burnet, attacked
by, 365 n. 7, 379, 398 n. 4; Busby, Dr., re-
verenced, 332; Cambridge, 333; celestial
interposition in epic, 385; Chapman's versi-
fication, 415; character, described by Congreve,
394, 483; Charles II's 'character,' 364; C.,
neglected by, 386 n. 3; C., praises, 127 12. 3,
418, 439 n. 3, 464 n. 3; C., praised by, 347;
Chaucer, 414, 455; chops logic in heroic
verse,'352; Churchill's lines on him,469 n. 10;
City and Country Mouse, sheds tears over, ii.
182; 'claps of multitudes, placed happiness in,'
i. 346; Clarendon, verses to, 428; Cleomenes,
363; Cock and the Fox, 455; Collector of
Customs, 484; comedies, 459; comedy and
morality, 415; comic and tragic scenes,
alternated, 357; common words, 420 n. 2;
company, dull in, 397, iii. 201; 'Complaint
of Life,' i. 361; complaints, mostly general,
400; composition, rapidity of, 397; c., ne-
gligent in, 464; conceits in early productions,
333, 426, 428; confidence in himself, 371,
396; Congreve, familiarity with, 394, 395;
C.'s plays, ii. 215, 217 n. 2, 223 n.6;
Conquest of Granada, account of, i. 348-50;
criticized by Clifford and Settle, 350-4;
'noisy lines,' 462; ridiculed in Rehearsal,
349 n. 6;
conversation, sluggish in,
397; conversion to Roman Catholicism, 376;
c. satirized, 381; Corneille's Cinna and
Aristotle, 474 n. 2; corrections after publi-
cation, rarely introduced, 465 n. 2; cor-
ruption of a poet, generation of statesman,'
339 n. 6; couplets, 443, 468, 469, iii. 250

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n. 4; Court, the, i. 384 n. 5, 464 n. 3;
Cowley's authority almost sacred to him,
333 n. 1; C.'s Chronicle, could have sup-
plied knowledge, not gaiety of, 38; C.'s
Cutter of Coleman Street, 14; C.'s Pindarics,
47 n. 4; Cowper's criticism, 464 n. 5; critic,
severe, the greatest help, 464 n. 6; criticism,
adverse, affected by, 355, 370, 400; c., his,
410, 418; C., father of English,' 410;
c., often precipitate, 217; c., too scholastic,
ii. 146; c., inferior to Dennis in, iii. 222
n. 2; Cymon and Iphigenia, i. 455; 'Dali-
lahs of the Theatre,' 462; Davenant, colla-
borates with, 341; D.'s quatrains, influenced
by, 338, 425, 431; death, 389, 486; - dedi-
cations, his, 366, 399; d. to Dr. Busby, 332
n. 4; Charles II, 483; Earl of Chesterfield,
387; Lord Clifford, 387, 404 n. 4; Earl of
Dorset, 385; Marquis of Halifax, 364; Lord
Mulgrave, 361, 387, 410 n. 4; Duke of New-
castle, 347; Dukes of Ormond, 397 n. 4,
408 n. 2; Earl of Orrery, 336, 339; Earl of
Rochester, 354, iii. 368; Earl of Salisbury,
i. 365; Sir Charles Sedley, 355; Duchess of
York, 359;
Defence of an Essay of
Dramatic Poesy, 338 n. 2; degrees of B.A.
and M.A., 333 n. 4; Denham, more vigour
than, 465; D., praises, 79 n. 7, 293 n. 6;
Dennis, converses with, 14, 359 n. 2; D.,
flattered by, 396 n. 5; Derrick's Life, 331,
408; 'description of the ships,' 350; diffi-
culties, recommends works by representation
of, 338; discontent, 400; Don Sebastian,
362, 385; Donne, 19, 68; Dorset's bounty,
307, 384; dramatic criticisms, 347, 349, 412,
471; d. immorality, 399; d. poetry, dis-
continued, 363; d. rhyme, defends, 336-9,
414, 436; Duke's Company, the, 362 n. 5;
Duke of Guise, 335 n. 1, 357; Dutch, the,
attacks, 356, 359 n. 1, 387 n. 6; earlier
dramatists, 347, 424 n. 7; early poems, 332;
Elegy on Lord Hastings, 332, 334 2. 2;
Eleonora, 440-2; English poetry's debt to
him, 469; epic poem, designs, 361, 385;
e. poetry, 181 n. 5, 385; Epilogue to All for
Love, 362; E. to Conquest of Granada, 349;
E. to Husband his own Cuckold, 393 n. 6;
Epistle to John Driden, 456 n. 1; epitaph,
393 n. 2; e., Atterbury's proposed, 469
n. 10; Essay of Dramatic Poesy, 339, 340,
411, 412, 416, 465 n. 2; Essay of Heroic
Plays, 425 n. 2; Essay on Satire, 385 n. 7,
411 n. 5; Essay on Satire (verses), waylaid
and beaten as author, 371; see SHEFFIELD;
Evening's Love, 346 n. 2; Fables,
account of publication, 388; contract, &c.,
with Tonson, 405; description and criticism,
454; Pope's Chaucer, iii. 88; Preface, i. 401,
455; sale, 143 n. 5, 408; - Faerie Queen,
211 n. 4; fishing, fond of, 408 n. 5; flattery,
his, 307, 359, 366, 384, 387, 398, 399, 400 n. I;
French better critics, worse poets, 411 n. 3; F.
heroic verse, 421 n. 3; F. words, uses, 372

1. 6, 463; Fresnoy's Art of Painting, trans-
lated, 386; friendship, his, 483; full-re-
sounding line,' 293, 465, iii. 232; funeral,
i. 389-92, 486; Garth, praises, ii. 58 n. 2;
general topic, rarely writes on, i. 376; ' genius,
every age has a kind of universal,' 2 n. 5 ; g.,
his vigorous, 457; g., superior to Pope in,
iii. 222; 'good rhymist but no poet,' i. 154;
Gorboduc, wrongly describes, 415; grand,
the, and the new, endeavoured after, 461;
Granville's Heroic Love, praises, ii. 290;
Gray's favourite poems, i. 455 n. 11, and
see GRAY; Guarini's Pastor Fido, 296 n. 1;
habits, 408; Halifax's lines on him, 385
n. 1; hastiness of productions, 348, 356, 359,
423 n. 4, 465; 'heroic poem, greatest work
of human nature,' 170 n. 2; Heroic Stanzas
on the Death of Oliver Cromwell, 270, 334,
425; high value of own performances, 395;

Hind and Panther, date of publica-
tion, 380; described and criticized, 442-6;
parodied in City and Country Mouse, 380,
443, 444 n. I, ii. 42, 182; ridiculed by
Thomas Brown, i. 382; Supreme Being
called Pan, 445; 'sunk into neglect,' 446;

historiographer, 383 n. 3, 405, 481;
Howard, Sir Robert, controversy with, 339;
H.'s Indian Queen, joined in, 336; Hudi-
bras's versification, 217; human nature, pene-
trating remarks on, 429; humane and com-
passionate, 483; Iliad, 388, 414, iii.
132, 253. I; compared with Pope's, 222 n. 6;
inaccuracies,
Pope's debt to it, 238;
415; income, 405, 484; inconstancy, charged
with, 334; Indian Emperor, 336, 339, 350,
430 n. 3, 436; inherited estate, 331, 484;
inhumanity, charged with, 394 n. 5, 483;
irreverence of religion, 404, 436; James II,
allusions in Virgil to, 387 n. 6; jealousy of
rivals, 396; jest, unable to resist temptation
of, 463; Johnson's fondness for his memory,
iii. 223; J. gathered materials for his Life, i.
331 n. 1; J.'s leniency, 132 n. 1, 378; J.'s
mind formed to relish his excellencies, 330
n. 1; J., resemblance in his character to,
417 n. I, 457 n. 3; Jonson's dramatic criti-
cism, 411 n. 1; J.'s plots, 347; J.'s verses
to Shakespeare, 355 n. 4; Juvenal, version
of, 385, 394, 447; King Arthur, 358 n. 6,
364; King's Company, the, his agreement
with, 362 n. 5, 365 n. 8, 367 n. 3; know-
ledge, compared to Pope's, iii. 222; k. not due
to books, i. 417; labour, not lover of, 413,
465, iii. 220; lampoons, seldom answered, i.
400 n. 5; landlord, kind, 332 n. 1; Landor's
lines on him, 416 n. 4, 458 n. 2; last
effort' of his poetry, 456 n. 3; Latin writers,
remarks on, 415, 416; Laurus,' ii. 241
n. 2; learning, not equal to Milton's and
Cowley's, i. 416; Lee, plays written in con-
junction with, 357, 362; letter to his sons,
479; licentiousness of works, 398; Life, not
written by contemporaries, 331; Life of

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Francis Xavier, 378, 379; Life of Lucian,
372; Life of Plutarch, 333, 372; Life of
Polybius, 372; Limberman, 356 n. 4, 362;
literature, extent of his, 416, 417; 'little
Bayes,' 381; lived in familiarity with highest
persons, 397; 'long majestic march,' 465, iii.
232; longitude, note referring to, i. 434; loss
of offices, 384; love, his conception of, 458;
Love Triumphant, 365, 386 n. 5, 474 n. 2;
Mac Flecknoe, 383, iii. 241; Maimbourg's
Hist. of the League, i. 378, 483; marriage,
393; Marriage Alamode, 354, iii. 368; M.
A. and Maiden Queen, comic scenes acted
as one play, i. 357 n. 3; Medal, The, 375,
437; memory, tenacious, 483; Milbourne,
attacked by, 388, 449-52;
Milton's blank

verse, 200; M.'s borrowings from Spenser and
Chaucer, 190 n. 1, 194 n. 4; 'gives him leave
to tag his verses,' 358 n. 7; M., lines on,
95 n. 2, 198; M.'s rhymes, 162 n. 4; M.'s
verdict on him, 154; M.'s view of nature, 178;
M., visits, 358 n. 7; Paradise Lost, praises,
198; 'devil the hero,' 176 n. 3; 'flats among
elevations,' 187; old words, 190 n. 1;
mind, comprehensive by nature, 457; m.,
curious and active, 417; 'mixed wit,' sparing
in, 41 n. 5; Mock Astrologer, see Evening's
Love; modesty and laziness, 395, ii. 169
n. Io; money, wrote for, i. 372, 423, 447,
iii. 220; monosyllables, i. 61 m. 2;
6 monster
of immodesty,' 365 n. 7; music, inarticulate
poetry, iii. 248; m., knew little about, i. 456
n. 4; mythology, 427, 439, 462;
" name
necessary to success of every literary per-
formance,' 372; nature, his view of, 178
1. 1; negligence, faults of, 464; New-
castle, Duke and Duchess of, 347; night,
description of, 337, 436, iii. 399 n. 6;
Notes and Observations on the Empress of
Morocco, i. 34a n. 5 i Ode on the death of
Mrs. Killigrew, Alexander's Feast, compared
with, 456; grotesque image, 463 n. 5; imi-
tated by Congreve, ii. 233; 'noblest ode lan-
guage has produced,' i. 439;- Ode on St.
Cecilia's Day (the first), 439; Ode on St. Ce-
cilia's Day (the second), see Alexander's Feast;
Oedipus, 356 n. 4, 362; old religion, the,'
376 n. 3; ordination, solicited, 403; Ormond,
sups with, 397; Ormond, Duchess of, present
from, 408; Otway, 248 n. 1, 458; Ovid and
Claudian, 415, iii. 223 n. 1; Ovid's Epistles,
i. 372, 405 n. 3, 414 n. 3, 436; Oxford,
lines in praise of, 333; Palamon and Arcite,
455; Panegyric on the Coronation, 334 n. 7,
428; Papists, writes against, 357; see DRYDEN,
Roman Catholics; pathos, wanting in, 458;

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payments received, Alexander's Feast,
408; Cleomenes, 363 n. 5; Fables, 388, 406,
408; Ovid, 405 n. 3; Virgil, 387 n. 4; rate
of payment, 405 n. 3; 250 guineas for 10,000
verses, iii. 118 n. 1; see also DRYDEN, plays;
pedantic ostentation,' i. 462; people,
wrote for the, iii. 220; Pepys sees him, i. 335

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