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n. 3; perfection, seldom struggled after, 464;
'persecution of fools,' 355 1. 1; Persius, trans-
lation of, 332 n. 4, 385, 447; personal ap-
pearance, 394 n. 3; Pindaric style, criticizes,
48 n. 3; placability, 395: plagiarism, i.
341, 347, 348 12. 2, 367, 371, 424, 460;

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Plays, celerity of performance, 367;
contract to furnish three a year, 367 n.
3; 'false magnificence,' 458; first play, 335,
336; gains from them, 366, 405, 484; im-
morality, their, defends, 347, 415; repents of
it, 399, 401; last play, 365, 386 n. 5; noisy
lines, 462; only play he wrote for himself,'
361; order of production, 335, 342 n. 1, 356
n. 4, 358 n. 7, 367 n. 4; plagiarism, 424,
and see DRYDEN, plagiarism; 'secure of
being heard,' 335; three best plays, 362 n. 6;
twenty-eight plays, 336, 371; play-
writing, discontinued, 363; p., resumed, 385,
446; please, wrote only to, 337; 'pleasure
not the only end of poesy,' 348; poems,
almost all occasional, 424; p. written hastily,
iii. 220, 223; poet, how far judge of own
works, i. 340; poetic license, 359; poetical
justice, 475, ii. 134 n. 3; poet laureate, i.
340, 405, 481, 482, ii. 169; p. 1., loss of
office, i. 365 n. 3, 383; p. l., income, 484;
Pope, compared with, iii. 220-3; P.'s
favourite plays, i. 362 n. 6; P.'s lines on
his versification, 465, iii. 232; P.'s praise,
220; see POPE, Dryden; poverty, i. 332,
404, 405, 423, 484; precipice of absurdity,
delighted to approach, 460; predecessors,
discredits, 349; prefaces of criticism,
349, 366, 412 n. 5, 418, 456 n. 2, ii. 146; to
Epistles of Ovid, i. 373; Fresnoy's Art of
Painting, 387; Juvenal, 355, 361, 385;

priests, malignity to, 348, 403; printed
play bills, 337; profanity, 404; prologues,
price for his, 367; Prologue to All for Love,
362; P. to Don Sebastian, 383 n. 2; P. to
The Prophetess, 384 n. 2; P. at University
of Oxford, 333; P. and Epilogue to Love
Triumphant, 386 n. 5; P. and Epilogue to
the Pilgrim, 456 n. 3; prose, compared with
Pope's, iii. 222; p., style, i. 418; quatrains,
338, 425, 430, ii. 316; Queen Mary's death,
silent on, 183; rants of Maximin,' i. 348,
462; ratiocination, favourite exercise, 459;
read badly, 363 n. 4, 408 n. 5; reasoning in
verse, 380, 469; receipt to Thurloe, 334 n.
3; r. to Tonson, 363 n. 5, 406; reconcilia-
tion after provocation, ii. 168 n. 3; 'redolent
of spring,' iii. 435; refined the language, i.
419; regular life, 398 n. 4; Rehearsal, satirized
in, 368, 371 n. 2, 380 n. 3, 396 n. 3, 459 n.
5, 463 n. 8, 482; Religio Laici, 442; reļi-
gion, disobeyed not disbelieved, 404; I.,
human excellence praised in language of,
359; r. and mythology, intermingled, 427,
439, 445, 462; repartee to 'airy stripling,'
364; r. to his wife, 397 n. 1; Republicans,
wrote against, 358; residence in Gerard

Street, 389; revenue, mostly casual, 405;
revision, negligent in, 465 n. 2; rhyme, a
constraint, 468 n. 2; r. circumscribes luxu-
riant fancy, iii. 417 n. 5; r., lines on, i. 193
n. 6; rhymes, his, 468; rhymed tragedy,
first, 336; Rival Ladies, ib.; Rochester,
relations with, 354; see ROCHESTER; Roman
Catholic, constancy as a, 481, 484; R. C.,
sincere, 394; see DRYDEN, conversion; Ros-
common's Essay on Translated Verse, 236;
see ROSCOMMON; Royal Society,434; Rymer,
praised by, 337; R.'s Tragedies of the Last
Age, 471; R. on Shakespeare, 485; salary
ill paid, 205 n. 3, 207 n. 5, 386 n. 3, 484;
sallies of sentiment, wild and daring, 460;
saturnine humour, 397; Satyr to his Muse,
attacked in, 374, 393 n. 4, 397 n. 2, 398
n. 2; school translation, 447; secretary to Sir
Gilbert Pickering, 334 n. 3; Secret Love,
340; Settle, attacked by, 350-4, 374, 375; S.'s
Empress of Morocco, attacks, 342-6, 401; and
see SETTLE; Shadwell, satirizes, 383;
Shakespeare, his character of, 412, iii. 139;
S., plays altered from, i. 341, 356; S.'s plots,
347; S., 'refined' language of, 419 n. 1; S.,
remarks on, 178 n. 1, 180 n. 3, 245 n. 3, 485;
S., 'taught to admire,' 341 n. 2; S.'s tragedies,
472, 474, 476, 478; Sheffield's Essay of

Poetry, ii. 175, 176; S.'s Essay on Satire,
175; S.'s lines on him, i. 372; Sigismunda
and Guiscardo, 455; simple and elemental
passions, not much acquainted with, 457;
simplicity, no pleasure in, 458; single-poem
poets, iii. 221 n. 2; Sir Martin Marall, i.
340; snuff, takes, 408 n. 5; society for re-
fining language, 232; sons, 332 n. 4, 393;
Southey's estimate, 458 n. 2; Spanish critics,
debt to, 411 n. 3;
Spanish Friar,
account of publication, 356; his fondness
for it, 357 n. 1; 'given to the people,' 361
n. 5; Protestant play, 357 n. 1; Queen
Mary and unhappy expressions,' ib.; two
plots praised by Addison, 356 n. 9;
specimens of every mode of poetry, 469;
Spenser, his master,' 426 n. 1; stage, 'genius
not dramatic,' 335, 367, 435, 459 n. 4; S.,
kept possession for many years of, 335; s.,

most profitable market for poetry,' 435;
State of Innocence, 358-60; Stillingfleet,
controversy with, 378,483; 'stillness invades
the ear,' 334, iii. 224 n. 4; suicide, as cata-
strophe in poetry, 397; Swift's malevolence,
8; see SWIFT; Tacitus, translation of, i. 372;
Tasso's Aminta, 296 n. 1; technical terms,
178 n. 4, 433, 462; Tempest, 341; Theodore
and Honoria, 455; third day for a play,'
365 n. 8; Threnodia Augustalis, 438; Tillot-
son's prose, 418 n. 5; Tonson, relations with,
405, 407; tragedies, his, eighteenth century
estimate of, 335 n. 4; translation, discourse
on, 373, 421, 436; translations, his, 372,
385, 446-54; Trinity College, Cambridge,
332, 333; triplets, 466, 468; Troilus and

Cressida, 356; 'tuned the numbers of Eng-
lish poetry,' 419; Tyrannic Love, 348, 369,
462; unevenness of compositions, 464; Varil-
las's History of Heresies, translated, 379;
versification, date of settling his, 436; early
formed, 426; establishment of new versifica-
tion due to him, 421; examination of his versi-
fication, 465-9; Hind and Panther, ' most
correct specimen,' 443;
vice, abetted

only with pen, 398; village words,' 420 n.
2; vindictive, naturally, 400 n. 5; Virgil his
'master,' 426 n. 1; V. and Statius, 415;

Virgil, translation of, 386, 387, 447,
449; abusing priests and religion, 403;
Addison's contributions to it, 449, ii. 83;
Cato, line taken from it, 122; compared
with other versions, i. 453, iii. 279; Con-
greve's aid in correction, ii. 226 n. 2; dedi-
cations, i. 387, 480 n. 1; Johnson's estimate,
449, 453; Milbourne's attack, 449-53;
praised by Addison, iii. 129 n. 6; Conington,
i. 454 n. 2; FitzGerald and Tennyson, 449
n. 3; Pope, 449; printed by subscription,
iii. 109; profits, i. 387 n. 4; sickness and
want, written in, 448 n. 5; success, 481;
Swift's sneers, 449 n. 3, 454 n. 2 ; William III
and Aeneas's portrait, 480; W.III, attacks on,
387 n. 6; Wordsworth's criticism, 449 n. 3;
versions of Pollio, &c., in Miscellany, 447;

Voltaire's estimate of him, 457 n. 4;
Waller, acknowledges his debt to, 293 n. 6,
296 n. 1; W., had more music than, 465;
Walsh's criticism, praises, 328; W., writes
Preface for, 330; want of time, his excuse,
348; 356; wants a heart,' 385 n. 1; way-
laid and beaten, 371, ii. 179; Westminster
Abbey, funeral and monument in, i. 393,
486, iii. 261; Westminster School, i. 332,
416, 447 n. 5; The Wild Gallant, 336;
Will's Coffee-house, presides at, 408, iii. 93;
wit, eccentric violence of his, i. 460; Words-
worth's estimate of him, 465 n.4; W.'s favour-
ite poems, 455 nn.; Wycherley, iii. 91 n.3;
younger writers, presides over, i. 396, 409;

quotations, Absalom and Achitophel (1.
156), ii. 217 n. 1; (1. 230), i. 410 n. 3; (1. 559),
206 n. 1; (1. 819), 370 n. 3; (1. 833), ii. 168
n.6; (1.877), 175 n. 5; (1. 1028), i. 437 n. 2;
(Pt. ii. 1. 405), 374 n. 7; Address to Lord
Chancellor Hyde, 428, 429; Alexander's
Feast, 457 n. 1; All for Love, 361 n. 7, ii.
257 n. 5; Annus Mirabilis, i. 352, 354, 410,
431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 460, 463; Astraca
Redux, 426, 427, 437 n. 2, 464 n. 2, ii. 232
n. 3; Britannia Rediviva, i. 379 n. 3, 446
n. a; Conquest of Granada, 351, 353, 354,
461, 462, iii. 351 n. 4; Don Sebastian, i.
363 n. 2, 424, 461; Eleonora, 440, 441;
Epilogue to Conquest of Granada (Pt. ii), 349
n. 3; Epilogue to the Pilgrim, 401 n. 6;
Epistle to Congreve, 395 n. 2, ii. 224 n. 2;
Epistle to John Driden, i. 331 n. 3, ii. 58 n.
2, 240 n. 3; Epistle to Kneller, iii. 337 n. 1;

Epistle to Motteux, i. 403 n. 3; Epistle to
Roscommon, 193 n. 6, 235 n. 4, 236 n. 2;
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Crom-
well, 463; Hind and Panther (i. 1-8), 444;
(i. 57), 463; (i. 253), 404 n. 3'; (i. 160–5),
444; (i. 256), ii. 232 n. 3; (i. 308-26),

i.

444; (i. 554-72), 445; (ii. 535), 469 n. 3;
(iii. 96), 463 n. 1; (iii. 221), 377 n. 4; (iii.
247), 207 n. 5; Iliad, 388 n. 7, iii. 222 n.
6; Indian Emperor, i. 350 n. 4; Juvenal,
iii. 241 n. 7; Mac Flecknoe, i. 383 n. 5;
Medal, 438, ii. 218 n. 4; Ode on the death of
Mrs. Killigrew, i. 238 n. 2, 399 n. 2, 410 n.
3, 463 n. 5, ii. 233 n. 7, iii. 264 n. i, 269
n. 1; Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, i. 440;
Palamon and Arcite, 468; Panegyric on the
Coronation of Charles II, 428, 464 n. 1;
Prologue to Amboyna, 356 n. 2; Prologue to
Aurengzebe, 360 n. 6; Prologue to the Pil-
grim, ii. 235 n. 5; Prologue to the Prophetess,
i. 463 n. 3; Prologue to Tyrannic Love, 460
n. 3; Prologue to the University of Oxford,
333; Religio Laici, 442; State of Innocence,
359 n. 1; Threnodia Augustalis, 404 n. 3,
417, 438, 439; Tyrannic Love, 458, 460,
461; Virgil, Aeneid, 387 n. 6, ii. 225 n. 4,
iii. 35 n., 279 n. 1; Georgics, i. 387 n. 6,
403 n. 4, 450-2.

Dryden's Miscellany, account of it, i. 330 n. 3,
ii. 83 n. 10; Collier, denounced by, 83 n. 10;
contributors, Addison, 83; Duke, 24 n. 4;
Prior, 183 n. 3; Tickell, 305 n. 3; Yalden,
301 n. 5; Walsh, i. 330 Dryden's versions
of Virgil, 447 nn.; Virgilian translation, ii.
83, n. 5. See Tonson's Miscellany.

DRYDEN, John, the poet's son, Husband
his own Cuckold, i. 393; Juvenal, Sat. xiv,
translated, 385; death, 393.

DRYDEN, Sir John, the poet's uncle, i.
331 n. 6.

DRYDEN, Mary, the poet's mother, i. 331
n. 6.

DUBLIN, Blind Quay, iii. 36 n. 3; Bull
Alley, Bride Street, 1 n. 5; Hoey's Alley,
ib.; Newgate, 31 n. 1; St. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, 54 n. 1; St. Patrick's Hospital, 45 n. 1,
64 n. 2; St. Werburgh, 1 n. 5.

Du Bois, Abbé, ii. 188 n. 3.

DUCK, Stephen, i. 190 n. 1, ii. 404 n. I.
DUCKETT, George, account of him, ii. 17
n. 5, 23; Clarendon's Hist., alleged forgeries,
18, 20; Dunciad, libelled in, iii. 151; Pope,
caricatures, 136; Smith, friendship with,
ii. 17, 20; Walmsley, friendship with, 20,
23.

DU FRESNOY, i. 387 n. I.

DUKE, Rev. Richard, birth, ii. 24 n. 2;
burial attended by Atterbury and Prior, 25
n. 4; death, 25; Dryden's Miscellany, con-
tributed to, 24 n. 4; ecclesiastical prefer-
ment, 25; Fifteen Sermons, &c., 24 n. 8;
friendship with Otway, 24; Marriage of
George, Prince of Denmark, and the Lady

Anne, 25; Review, The, 24; Swift's account
of him, 25 n. 4; translations, 24; Trinity
College, Cambridge, 24, 25; tutor to Duke of
Richmond, 24; Westminster School, 24.
DU MOULIN, Peter, i. 117.

DUNBAR, Charles, Surveyor General of the
Leeward Islands, iii. 460.

DUNCES, iii. 146 n. 5.

DUNCOMBE, John, editor of Correspondence
of John Hughes, ii. 164, iii. 343 n. 2.
DUNKIRK, ii. 31.

DURFEY, Thomas, i. 245 n. 4, ii. 46 n. 2, 221

n. 4.

DYER, Sir James, Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas, iii. 269 n. 3.

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DYER, Rev. John, birth, &c., iii. 343;
'buried in woollen,' 345; death, ib.; ec-
clesiastical preferment, 344; Fleece, 344,
345, 346; Grongar Hill, i. 78 n. 1, ii. 342
2. 3, iii. 343 . 8, 345, 347; happiest of
his productions,' 345; Heathcote's leisure,'
344 n. 4; Hughes's Correspondence, letters
in, 343; imagination, praised by Gray, 345 n.
4; i., p. by Wordsworth, 341 n. 6, 345 n. 4, 347
n. I; Italy, travels to, 344; legal profession,
abandons, 343; marriage, 344; orders, en-
tered into, ib.; poetry with painting, min-
gled, 343; Richardson's pupil, ib.; Ruins
of Rome, 344, 345; Savage's verses to him,
343 n. 6; wanderings in South Wales, 343;
Westminster School, ib.; wool, exportation
of, 346 n. 2; quotations, Fleece, 344 nn.,
346 nn.; Ruins of Rome, 345.

DYER, Robert, the poet's father, iii. 343.
DYER, Samuel, member of Literary Club,
iii. 308, 343 n. I.

DYSON, Jeremiah, Akenside's friend and
patron, iii. 413, 414.

EACHARD, Rev. John, D.D., i. 322 n. I.
EARL'S-CROOMB, i. 202.
EAST BURY, iii. 376.

EAST GRINSTEAD, i. 303, ii. 185.
EASTHAMPSTEAD, ii. 262, iii. 257, 267.
ECHARD, Rev. Laurence, ii. 292.
Eclogue, iii. 317.

EDGE HILL, iii. 358 n. I.
Edinburgh Miscellany, iii. 401 n. I.
EDINBURGH, High School, Mallet, janitor,
iii. 400; University, Akenside a member,
411; U., Mallet, a member, 400, 402 n. 6;
Medical Society, 411 n. 5; U., Thomson,
a member, 282.

EDNAM, iii. 281.

EDSTON, ii. 317.

EDUCATION, Cowley's plan, i. 12 n. 1, 99;
Johnson's views, 99; Milton's plan, 99.

Eikon Basilike, authorship, i. 197; Milton
charged with interpolation, 110, 111 n. 4;
Royston, the publisher, 485.

ELDON, Lord Chancellor, Newcastle Gram-
mar School, iii. 411 n. 3; sacramental test,
13 n. I.

ELECTOR PALATINE, Parliamentary allow-
ance, i. 261 n. 2.

ELEGIES, ii. 231 n. 4, 316.3

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ELIZABETH, Queen, had a wise council,'
i. 275; 'lives in Spenser's song,' 238 n. 8.
ELIZABETHAN POETS, art of modulation,
i. 293.

ELLIS, Professor Robinson, Threnodia Au-
gustalis, i. 438 n. 2.

ELLIS, Dr. Welbore, Bishop of Kildare, ii.
80.

ELLIS, Sir William, Granville's tutor, ii.
286.

ELLWOOD, Thomas, Milton, introduced to,
i. 131 n. 2; M., reads to, 132; M., takes house,
at Chalfont for, 140; Paradise Lost and
'Paradise Found,' ib.; Paradise Regained
shown to him, 147; Waller's pleasure in
his conversation, 276 n. 2.

ELSTOB, Lucy, Mallet's second wife, see
MALLET, Mrs. Lucy.

ELWIN, Rev. Whitwell, Ayre's Life of Pope,
iii. 100 n. 4, 403 n. 3; Pope's early letters,
208 n. 4; P.'s early poems, 88 n. 2; P.'s
Essay on Man and bad rhymes, 162 1.5;
P.'s forged letters, 92 n. 1, 93 n. 1, 130 n. 1,
155 m. I; P.'s letter to Racine, 214 n. 7; P.'s
Windsor Forest, date when written, 105 n. 5;
Prior and Lord Harley, ii. 194 n. 3; War-
burton's insincerity, iii. 167 n. 3.

ELYS, Mr. Edmund, of Exeter College,
Oxford, i. 42 n. I.

Englishman, The, ii. 105, iii. 366, 368.

English Poets, account of plan, xxv n.,
Goldsmith's omission, i. 301 n. 1; Johnson's
Poets,' ii. 65 n. 1; Johnson's anger at
insertion of obscene piece, ib.; J.'s di-
rections, iii. 365 n. 1; J. not responsible for
selection, 331 n. 4; J. recommends insertion
of four poets, i. 301 n. 1, iii. 302; J. regrets
omissions, ii. 264 n. 8, 295 n. 6, iii. 279,
425 n. 3; poets passed over, i. 301 n. 1;
Rochester's Poems castrated at Johnson's
request, 223 n. 2; Thomson's inclusion ap-
parently due to Johnson, iii. 281 n. 1,
302 12. I.

ENSOR, iii. 344.

EPIC POETRY, i. 170.
EPICTETUS, ii. 423.
EPISCOPACY, i. 257, 258.

EPITAPHS, definition, iii. 254; mixed lan-
guages or styles, 260, 270; mythology un-
suitable, 261; names, without, i. 36, iii. 257,
262; private virtue, the best subject, 262 n.
2; writer not upon oath, 254 n. 4; want of
discrimination, 263 n. 4; see under POPE.
ERASMUS, magis habuit quod fugeret quam
quod sequeretur,' i. 155; praised in Essay
on Criticism, iii. 98.

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EQUALITY OF MANKIND, ii. 394 n. 3.
ERROL, thirteenth Earl of, iii. 422 n. 4.
ERYTHRAEUS, i. 295.

Essay, i. 235 n. 4.

I.

Essay on Satire, i. 371. See SHEFFIELD.
ESSEX, Arthur Capel, Earl of, i. 221 n.

ESSEX, Robert Devereux, third Earl of, i.
104, 267.

ETHEREGE, Sir George, i. 340 n. II.

ETON COLLEGE, Allestree, Provost, i. 273
12. 5; Antrobus, Mr., a master, iii. 421;
Broome, 75; Dobson, Waller's school-
master, i. 249 n. 6; George, Dr., Head
Master, iii. 421; Godolphin, Dr. Provost,
ii. 199 n. 2; Gray, iii. 421; Lyttelton, 446;
Prior seeks Provostship, ii. 199 n. 2; Provost-
ship, i. 273; Waller, 249; W., Provostship,
fails to obtain, 273; Walpole, Horace, iii.
422; West, Gilbert, 328.

EUGENE, Prince, i. 408 n. 5.

EURIPIDES, Alcestis, material agency of
allegorical persons, i. 185; Dryden's remarks,
473, 474, 476; forces himself into grandeur,
ii. 208; Milton's fondness, i. 154; Phaedra,
476.

EUSDEN, Laurence, poet laureate, i. 482, ii.
381, iii. 184 n. I; satirized in Dunciad, i.
237 n. 3, ii. 381 n. 2; s. in Session of the
Poets, 381 n. 2.

EUSTACE, Lady, iii. 47 n. 2.
EUSTACE, Miss Clotilda, ii. 304 n. 4. See
TICKELL, Mrs.

EUSTATHIUS, iii. 76, 115.

EUSTON, Earl of, Young's 'Altamont,' iii.
385.

EVANS, Oxford wit, ii. 304 n. 1.

EVELYN, John, Barberini, Cardinal, i. 95
n. 1; Charles II's sons, ii. 24 n. 3; Cooper's
coinage designs, i. 202 n. 4; Cowley, visits,
16 n. 1; C.'s funeral, 17 n. 8; dates not
always trustworthy, 368 n. 11; daughters'
learning, 157 n. 5; Denham, 74 n. 3; Digby,
Sir Kenelm, 4 n. 6; Diodati, John, visits,
97 n. 6; Dryden, meets, 386 n. 5; D.'s Con-
quest of Granada, 348 n. 9; D.'s Evening
Love, 346 n. 2; D.'s Wild Gallant, 336 n. 2;
gaming at Court, 231 n. 2; Geneva, 97 n.
5; Hamlet, 337 n. 4; Inquisition at Milan,
96 n. 5; Knights of the Bath, 74 n. 4;
Milton, John and Christopher, 85 n. 5; Mon-
mouth, Duchess of, ii. 268 n. 2; nobility
and literature, i. 221 n. 1; Padua, ii. 235 n.
8; 'Pindarics' at the Encaenia, i. 48 n. 4;
regicides, meets mangled quarters of, 268
n. 4; Rehearsal, 368 n. 11; Sprat's Observa-
tions on Sorbière's Voyage, helps in, ii. 40;
S.'s preaching, 34 n. I; theatres in Charles
II's reign, i. 399 n. 3; Tuke, Sir Samuel, his
cousin, 15 n. 2; Waller, meets, 268 nn.;
Westminster pronunciation of Latin, 133
n. 3.

Examiner, account of it, ii. 29 n. 9, 187;
Garth criticized, 61, 187; sets Steele's politics
on fire, 105; Swift's papers, 29 n. 9, 187,
iii. 16.

Exasperation, iii. 294 n. 2.

EXETER, Earls of, i. 331 m. 3, ii. 181, iii.
369, 370.

EXCISE BILL, iii. 447 n. 6.
EYE, iii. 80.

FABLES, ii. 283.

FAIRBAIRN, Rev. Dr. A. M., iii. 411 m. 4.
FAIRFAX, Edward, Godfrey of Bulloigne, i.
251 n. 3, 293, 296-300.

FALKLAND, Henry Cary, third Viscount,
Prologue for Congreve's Old Batchelor, ii. 214,
n. 7.

FALKLAND, Lucius Cary, second Viscount,
'lustre cast by his notice,' i. 6; every man
proud to praise him, 36; Sortes Virgilianae,
9 n. I.

FALMOUTH, Hugh Boscawen, second Vis-
count, ii. 314 n. 3.

FALSEHOODS, of convenience or vanity, ii.

213.

FANE, Mr., Rowe's son-in-law, ii. 74.
FANSHAWE, Sir Richard, i. 77, 239, 373.
FARMER, Dr., Master of Emmanuel Col-
lege, Cambridge, iii. 75 n. 4.

FARNHAM CASTLE, i. 71, 72 n. I.
FARQUHAR, George, Constant Couple, ii.
216 n. 1; Dryden's funeral, i. 391 n. 1,
392.

FAULKNER, George, Dublin printer, iii.
36 n. 3, 48 n. I.

FAWKES, Francis, iii. 337 n. 2.

Feague, to, ii. 137 n. 2.

FEELING FOR OTHERS, iii. 208 n. 2.

FELL, Dr. John, Dean of Christ Church,
i. 312.

FELLOW-COMMONERS, ii. 42 n. I.

FELLOWSHIP ELECTION, interference by
Government, i. 88 n. 4.

FELLTHAM, Owen, i. 421.

FELTON, Henry, D.D., Dissertation on
Reading the Classics, i. 64 n. 3, ii. 24

n. 8.

FENELON, Dialogues des Morts, iii. 452
n. 1; Telemachus, 275.

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FENTON, Elijah, Advice to Painters' and
Tatler, ii. 242; anecdotes of him, 261, 263;
amiability, 262, iii. 267; birth, &c., ii. 257;
Bolingbroke's unfulfilled promises, 258;
Broome, friendship with, 261, 266; brotherly
affection, 263; Cambridge degrees, 257 n. 4;
commoner of nature,' 257; Court attend-
ance, 260; Craggs, Secretary, instructs, 259;
death, 262, 265; described by Broome,
263 n. 1; d. by Pope, 265; 'died of great
chair and two bottles of port a day,' 262
n. 5; Dryden's alexandrines and triplets, i.
468; Epistle to Lambarde, ii. 264; Epitaph
by Pope, 262, iii. 267; Fair Nun, ii. 264
n. 3; fat and indolent, 262, 265; 'Fenton-
ism or laziness,' 262 n. 5; fishing, ib.;
Florelio, 259 n. 1, 263; Gay, advice to,
274; Homeric lyre,' iii. 276; 'honest
Fenton,' ii. 263 n. 1; inoffensive and un-

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ambitious, 263 12. 1; indecent pieces, ib.;
Jesus College, Cambridge, 257 n. 4; Jor-
tin's notes to Pope's Iliad, iii. 116; lie
a-bed and be fed with a spoon,' ii. 262;
Mariamne, 260; Marlborough, praises, 259;
Milton, editor and biographer of, i. 84, 121,
ii. 261; nonjuror, 257, 258; Ode, An, 263;
Ode to Lord Gower, 264; Ode to the Sun,
263; Odyssey, blank verse versions, 260, 264
n. 5; Paraphrase on Isaiah, 264;
payments received, Mariamne, 260; Pope's
Odyssey and Shakespeare, 260 n. 1, iii. 78;
personal appearance, ii. 262; poems, published
collection of, 259; poor but honest, 266;

Pope's alexandrines, iii. 249 n. 4; P. and
Betterton's Chaucer, 108; P.,'feared more than
loved' by, ii. 262 n. 2; P., praised by, 263, 265;
P., recommended to Craggs and Lady Trum-
ball by, 259, 262; Odyssey, share in, 259, iii.
76-8, 140-2; Shakespeare, helps in, ii. 260
1. 1; P., weekly chronicles his only news of,
266 n. 2;

'pretty verses' inserted in first
edition, 264 n. 8; Queen Anne, praises,
258; Roscommon, i. 229, 231, 234; school-
master, ii. 258; secretary to Lord Orrery in
Flanders, ib.; Southerne, friendship with,
259, 260; theatric genius,' iii. 397 n. 7;
'too much handling of verses,' ii. 64 n. 2;
translations, 264; Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
257 n.4; tutor to fifth Lord Orrery, 258; t. to
Lady Trumball's son, 262; vanity of print-
ing, 265 . 3; versification, peculiar system
of, 260; Waller's biographer and editor, i.
249 n. 1, ii. 261; quotations, An Ode,
263 n. 5; Ode to Lord Gower, 264 n. 7;
Ode to the Sun, 258 n. 7; Odyssey, Bk. xi,
264 n. 5; Paraphrase on Isaiah, 264.

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FENTON, John, the poet's father, ii. 257

22. 2.

FENTON, Lavinia, Duchess of Bolton,
'Polly' in Beggar's Opera, ii. 277.

FERMOR, Miss Arabella, iii. 101, 102 n. 4.
FERMOR, Mrs., the Abbess, iii. 103, 199

22. I.

FERRARA, Court of, iii. 318 n. 4.
FICORINI, ii. 86 n. 3.
FIDDES, Richard, ii. 178.

FIELDING, Henry, Addison's Remarks on
Italy, ii. 87 n. 1; Amelia, dedicated to
Ralph Allen, iii. 169 n. 6; Bolingbroke, 193
12. 1; burlesque, i. 218 n. 3; Cibber, iii. 187
n. a; Dryden's scorn of satire, i. 371 n. 1;
Increase of Robbers, ii. 350 n. 4; Italian
opera, 166; Joseph Andrews, Rev. William
Young, original of 'Parson Adams,' iii. 392 ;
Lee, i. 357 n. 5; Lucian, Cervantes, and
Swift, iii. 63 n. 3; Lyttelton's benevolence,
456 n. 1; L.'s Persian Letters, 446 n. 9;
Mallet, 404 n. 1; Methodists, 330 n. 3;
Moore and Dunciad, 242 n. 1; Page, Judge,
ii. 348 n. 2; pious frauds,' i. 379 n. 1;
Plays and Licensing Act, iii. 292 n. 1; Pope
and the bad poets, 147 n. 4; P.'s Homer,

275; P.'s 'Man of Ross,' 172 n. 3; P.'s
spies, ii. 362 n. 1; Steele and Addison, 81
n. 2; subscription editions, iii. 112 12. 4;
Thomson's Sophonisba, 288 n. 3; Tom
Jones, Allen the original of ‘Allworthy,' 169
n. 6; dedication to Lyttelton, 330 n. 3, 450
n. 3; Tom Thumb, Young ridiculed in, 376;
translating for booksellers, 314 22. I; War-
burton's learning, 169 12. 6; Westminster
Justice, salary as, 321 n. 4.

FIELDING, Sir John, ii. 278 n. 6.
FIERA, Baptista, iii. 317 n. 4.
FINCH, Lord, ii. 43 12. 2.

FINCH, Mr. Heneage, iii. 323 n. 5.
FINCH, Sir Heneage, i. 130 n. 3.
FINCH, Mr., Warden of All Souls, i. 376
n. 3.

FIRE OF LONDON, booksellers' losses, i.
141 n. 4; Milton's house burnt, 153 n. 6.

FIRTH, Professor C. H., Barebones Parlia-
ment and the Records, i. 215 n. 1; Crom-
well's 'lucky day,' ii. 218 n. 3; C.'s alleged
refusal of the crown, i. 270 n. 3; Johnson's
Life of Milton, 84 n. 2.

FITZGERALD, Edward, 'Cider' Philips's
monument, i. 314 n. 6; Cowley and Donne,
21 n. 3; Cowper's Homer, iii. 276; Donne
and Omar Khayyam, i. 34 22. 2; Dryden's
prose, 418 n. 5; D.'s Virgil, 449 n. 3; Gay
and Westminster Abbey, ii. 281 n. 3; Gray's
Elegy, iii. 445; G.'s Prospect of Eton College,
434 . 6; G.'s sterility, 431 n. 2; Meta-
physical Poets,' i. 21 n. 3; Lycidas and
Comus, 164 22. 2; Milton's similes and
Tennyson, 179 n. 1; M.'s verse and Virgil,
191 n. 4; Paradise Lost, 183 n. 2; Purcell's
music for King Arthur, 364 n. 3; School for
Scandal and Congreve, ii. 228 n. 3; Shen-
stone, quotes, iii. 355 22. 2; Wesley's 'pure
undying English,' ii. 150 n. 1; Wimpole, 195

n. 2.

Fitzosborne Letters, iii. 51 n. 2.
FLECKNOE, Richard, i. 383 n. 5.
FLEETWOOD, General, iii. 304 n. 3.
FLEETWOOD, William, Bishop of Ely, Pre-
face to his Sermons reprinted in Spectator,
ii. 92; burnt by common hangman, 153;
Reasonable Communicant, 154.

FLEMING, Abraham, translator of Virgil,
i. 192 n. 3.

FLETCHER, John, Knight of the Burning
Pestle, iii. 401 n. 3; Pilgrim, i. 456 n. 3.
FLORENCE, i. 94, 97, iii. 422.
FLOYD, Thomas, ii. 399 n. 1.
FONTENELLE, Dialogues des Morts, ii. 160,
iii. 452 n. I.

FOOTE, Samuel, i. 243 n. 2.
Foppery, iii. 433 n. 3.

FORD, Charles, Harley and Bolingbroke,
iii. 24 n. 4; Pope and Swift's Miscellanies,
38 n. 2.

FORD, Rev. Cornelius ('Parson Ford'), ii.
261, iii. 75.

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