Phaedra, ii. 8, 15 n. 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, 108 n. 1;
Spenser, 84; Sprat's Cowley, i. I n. 3; S.'s
Observations on Sorbière's Voyage, ii. 40;
Steele, memorable friendship with, 80-2; 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 n. 5, 126
n. 5; S., maintained acquaintance with, 118;
see SWIFT; sympathy with fellow men,
124 n. 3; Tatler, share in, 91, 152; tautology,
130 n. 5; tavern,' arrived to his pint,' 157;
t., late hours, 123; theatre's lewdness, 221
2.5; 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
n. 1; Warburton's criticism, 127 n. 1;
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 n. 5, 116
n. 2, 200, 236 n. 2, 293 n. 1, ii. 84 nn., 226
n. 2, 287 n. 3; Campaign, 129, 130 n. 5,
iii. 225 n. 7; Cato, ii. 100 n. 2, IOI n. 4,
121 n. 7, 137-42; How are thy servants
bless'd,' 144 n. 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 n. 4.
ADRIAN VI, iii. 335 n. 5.

LIVES OF POETS. III

Adventurer, iii. 67, 333, 358 n. I.
Adventures of Five Hours, i. 15 n. 2.
AESCHYLUS, i. 185, 472 n. 2.
AGAR, Mr., i. 158.

AISLABIE, 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
n. 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
n.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 n. 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

n. 2; ridicule test of truth, 413; Shaftesbury's
Characteristics, 413 n. 1; Table of Modern
Fame, i. 198; Walpole, laughed at by, iii.
420 n. 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

12. I.

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
n. 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.

Alias, iii. 402 n. 6.

ALLEGORICAL PERSONAGES, i. 185, iii.

233.

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 n. 4.
Alpine, iii. 418.

AMERICAN PLANTATIONS, shipping to, ii.
327 n. 2.

AMERSHAM or AGMONDESHAM, i. 249, 256,

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 n. 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 n. 2; letters,
ease of his, 160; Lewis, praises, ii. 273 . 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.,

Sarpedon's speech to Glaucus, 240 n. 1; P.,
weakest in level passages, 239 n. 1; Rome,
time needed to see, i. 95 n. 8; Young's Night
Thoughts, iii. 396 n. 2.

ARRAS, Bishop of, ii. 220 n. 1.
Arsinoe, ii. 165.

Art of Living in London, ii. 398 n. I.
ASCHAM, Roger, Denham, imitated by, i. 78
n. 5; latinity, 87; 'quick wits,' 280.
ASGILL, John, iii. 12.

ASHE, Rev. Dillon, iii. 53 n. 6.

ASHE, Dr. St. George, Bishop of Clogher,
conferred archdeaconry on Parnell, ii. 50;
Swift and Stella, said to have privately
married, iii. 30, 69.

ASKEW, Anne, ii. 171.

ASTON, Miss Molly,' iii. 262 n. 4.
ASTROLOGY, judicial, i. 216, 409.
ATHENIAN SOCIETY, iii. 7.
ATKINSON, Mr., ii. 304 n. 2.

ATTERBURY, Francis, Bishop of Rochester,
Addison's Works, dedication of, ii. 118 n. 3;

A.'s funeral, officiates at, 156; Boyle's tutor, iii.
11 n.4; Clarendon's History, alleged forgeries
in, ii. 18, 23; Cowley, quotes, i. 16 n. 5;
Cragg's funeral, officiates at, iii. 260 n. 1;
daughter dies in his arms, 271 n. 2; death in
exile, 271 n. 2; Dryden's Cleomenes, i. 363
n. 5; D.'s epitaph, 469 n. 10; Duke, buries,
ii. 25 n. 4; Garth's epitaph to St. Évremond,
62 n. 7; Milton's name in Abbey, i. 150;
Paradise Lost, allegory of Sin and Death
superior to Homer, 185 n. 8; P. L., Tonson's
edition of, collects Oxford subscriptions, 198;
Samson Agonistes, urges Pope to 'polish,' 188
n. 8; More's answer to Luther, 112 n. 4;
Philips's epitaph, 150, 314; Pope, advice
to, iii. 134, 145; Dunciad, criticized, 145 n. 3;
P.'s epitaph on him, 271 n. 2; P., gives Bible
to, 141 n. 3; P.'s juvenile epic, advises burning,
89; P.'s lines on Addison, 134; preacher
of Bridewell Hospital, ii. 300; Prior's epitaph,
195 .5; Shakespeare, ignorant of, iii. 139
n. 5; Tale of a Tub, ii. 18 n. 3, iii. 10 n. 5;
Tatler, ii. 23; trial before House of Lords,
300 n. 6, iii. 140; Waller's alliteration, i. 295
n. 3; mentioned, iii. 375.

ATTERBURY, Mary (Mrs. Morice), daughter
of the Bishop, iii. 271 n. 2.
AUBIGNEY, see DAUBIGNY.

AUBREY, John, Butler, friendship with, i.
201 n. 10; B.'s pall-bearer, 207 n. 1; credi-
bility, 230; Roscommon's second sight, 230;
Rota Club, 126 n. 1; satirical wits, 206 n. 5;
Waller, 279 n. I.

AUGURELLUS, Aurelius, Gratiarum Con-
vivium, ii. 52 n. 9.

AUGUSTUS, advice to his successor, iii. 103
n. 5; Rome, i. 469; Virgil's Aeneid, 326.
AUTHORS, affectation of production of works
by chance, ii. 214; critics treated with con-
tempt, iii. 91; gentlemen first, ii. 226; judge-
ment of their own works, i. 147, ii. 206;

BAILLIE, Lady Grisell, iii. 283 n. 2, 287 n. 1.
BAGOT, Hervey, i. 305 n. 5.

BAKER, William, grandson of younger Ton-
son, i. 486.

BALAGUER, Mr., ii. 306 n. 1.
BALLAD OPERA, ii. 282.

BALLER, Rev. Joseph, ii. 267 n. 2.
BAMFIELD, Col., i. 73 n. 3.
BAMPTON, i. 312.

BANGOR CONTROVERSY, ii. 329.
BANISTER, Rev., iii. 84 n. 2.

BANKS, Anne, Waller's first wife, i. 252.
BANKS, Professor Sir John, Swift's loss of
mind, iii. 48 n. 2.

BARBAULD, Mrs., i. 132 n. 4.

BARBER, Alderman John, account of him,
i. 207 n. 6; Arbuthnot's epicurism, iii. 274;
Butler's monument, i. 207; offers bribe for
commendation in Pope's writings, iii. 205
n. 2; printed Sheffield's Works, ii. 177 n. 1;
printer of The Gazette, 30 n. 6; Swift and
Lady Somerset, iii. 69; Swift's printer, 26

BARETTI, Joseph, Anguillara's Ovid, iii.
237 n. 1; Berni's 'rifacimento,' i. 455 n. 2;
Milton's Italian poetry, 161 n. 3; pastoral
plays in Italy, ii. 285 m. 1; Salvini's Homer,
iii. 237 n. 2.

BARKER, James, Young's footman, iii. 389.
BARNES, Joshua, account of him, iii. 81
n. 2; Anacreon, ii. 89; Cowley's 'Mistresses,'
i. 6; Greek, 'unoculus inter caecos' in, 138
n. 2; Jeffreys, ode in praise of, ii. 89 n. 4;
Lines on Death of Queen Anne, iii. 81.
BARN-ELMS, i. 16.

BARNES, Rev. William, iii. 298 n. 6.
BARNSTAPLE, ii. 267.

BARROW, Rev. Dr. Isaac, i. 418 n. 5.

BARROW, Dr. Samuel, Latin verses on
Paradise Lost, i. 183 n. 2.

BARRY, Mrs. Ann Spranger, iii. 409 n. 4.

BARRY, Mrs. Elizabeth, played in Congreve's
Old Bachelor, ii. 215 n. 6; Otway's Orphan,
i. 245 n. 2; Smith's Phaedra, ii. 19 n. 1.
BARRYMORE, Elizabeth, Countess of,
daughter of Earl Rivers, ii. 326 n. 3, 439.
BARTON, Catherine, Sir Isaac Newton's
niece, ii. 42 n. 2.

BATEMAN, Edmund, tutor of Christ Church,
ii. 409 n. 2.

BATH, Earl of, see GRENVILLE, Sir John.
BATH, Allen, Ralph, Mayor of, iii. 195 n. 4;
Broome's tomb, 80; Congreve's journey, ii.
227; Dorset's death, i. 306; hospital, iii. 196;
Lady Macclesfield, ii. 378; Shenstone's visits,
iii. 350.

BATHURST, first Earl, Burke's speech, men-
tioned in, iii. 205 n. 8; described by John-
son, 205 n. 8; Dunciad, one of nominal
publishers, 148 n. 6; Epistle to Bathurst,
complains of, 173 n. 4; Essay on Man and
Bolingbroke, 163 n. 4; Pope's Iliad, 113
2. 4; P.'s over-eating, 200 n. 2; Prior's Alma,
ii. 205 n. 4; P. and Lewis, 198 n. 2; un-
spoiled by wealth,' iii. 205 n. 8.
BATHURST, Dr. Ralph, President of Trinity
College, Oxford, ii. 6.

BAUDIUS, on Erasmus, i. 155.

BAXTER, Richard, 198, iii. 311 n. 3.
BEACONSFIELD, i. 268, 277.

BEAMINSTER, ii. 32 n. 2.

BEATTIE, Dr. James, Addison's prose, ii.
150 n. 1; Blackmore's paraphrases, 240 n. 2;
Gray's debt to Dryden, iii. 435 n. 5; G., visited
by, 428; Johnson's regard for him, 428 n. I.
BEAUFORT, Henry Somerset, second Duke
of, ii. 299.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, King and No
King, i. 476 n. 3, 478, iii. 212 n. 3; Rollo,
Duke of Normandy, i. 246 n. 1, 475 n. 3,
479; plots in Spanish stories, 347.

BECCLES, ii. 265.

BECKETT, Mr., the bookseller, iii. 284 n. 3.
BECKINGHAM, Charles, Savage's Life, ii.
354 n. I.

BEDDOES, Thomas Lovell, iii. 360.
BEDDOES, Dr. Thomas, iii. 360.
BEHN, Afra, i. 242 n. 1, 399.
BELCHFORD, iii. 344..

BELL, Mr., Thomson's brother-in-law, iii. 296.
BEMBO, Cardinal, Epitaph on Raphael, iii.
265 n. 2.

BENEFIT OF CLERGY, ii. 350 n. 2.
Benlow and Dallison's Reports, ii. 65.
BENNET, see ARLINGTON.

BENSON, William, Dobson's Paradisus
Amissus, iii. 170 n. 3; Milton's monument,
i. 150; Thomson, advice to, iii. 283 n. 2.
BENTHAM, Jeremiah, father of Jeremy
Bentham, i. 126 n. 6, iii. 85 n. 6.

BENTHAM, Jeremy, Luctus on George II's
death, iii. 312 n. 2; Milton's house, i. 126
n. 6; Paradise Lost, frightened by, 181 n. 5;
Watts's Logic, iii. 308 n. 4.

BENTLEY, Dr., astrology, i. 409 n. 3; Cobb,
the Pindarist, reply to, iii. 227; deterred
from printing by war taxes, ii. 154; English
tongue might be made immutable, iii. 16 n.
4; episcopacy, argument for, i. 258 #. 1;
Horace, Comments on, 413 n. 1; Newton's
epitaph, iii. 270 n. 2; Paradise Lost, edition
of, i. 181, 188, 198, ii. 261 n. 3, 293 n. 3;
Phalaris controversy, i. 332 n. 4, ii. 27, iii.
II n. 4; Pope's dislike to him, 213 n. 2; P.'s
Prol. Sat. and Dunciad, attacked in, 138 2.6,
242, 276; P.'s Iliad, will not call it Homer,'
213 n. 2; P.'s Sober Advice from Horace,
176 n. 1, 276; Rowe's Lucan, ii. 77 n. 5;
'to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle,' 60 n. 2;
verses on death of Prince George of Den-
mark, 46 n. 2; verses, his English, i. 38, ii.
272 n. 1; Warburton's learning, iii. 165 . 3.
BENTLEY, Richard, junior, designs for
Gray's Poems, iii. 425, 443; Pope's Sober
Advice, 176 n. 1, 276.

BENTLEY, Thomas, the nephew, iii. 276.
BENTLEY, the bookseller, i. 247 n. 4.
BÉRANGER, Chantez, pauvre petit,' iii. 196
1. 5.

6

BERKELEY, Bishop, Addison's Cato, ii.
IOI nn., 157; Garth's death-bed, 62 n. 7; Kil-
kenny school, 213 n. 3; Lord Orrery, iii. 67 ;
Rape of the Lock, 104; Steele's extravagance,
ii. 150; Swift's alleged marriage, iii. 69;
S.'s good nature and agreeableness, 56 n. 1;
'wit of no party,' ii. 225 n. 4.

BERKELEY, Charles, second Earl of, iii. 8.
BERKELEY, Elizabeth, Countess of, iii. 13.
BERKELEY, George Monck, Swift's alleged
marriage, iii. 69; S.'s belief in Revelation, 54
n. 4; S. and Orrery, 67; S.'s private devo-
tions, 55 n. 1; Stella's niece, 43 n. 4.
BERNARDI, Major John, iii. 258 n. 3.
BERNI, Francesco, i. 455.
BEROALDS, the, i. 455.

BERRY, Miss Mary, iii. 134 n. 2.

'Best to sit next the chimney when the
chamber smokes,' i. 234.

BETHEL, Mr., iii. 199 n. 2.

BETTERTON, Thomas, Dryden's Troilus and
Cressida, i. 356 n. 6; Milton's escape, 129
New Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, ii.
218; Pope's portrait of him, iii. 107; P.
revises his modern version of Chaucer, 108.

BETTESWORTH, Sergeant, iii. 44, 314 n. 2.
BEZA, Ad Musas, Iocus, ii. 52 n. 8; Hessus's
Iliad, iii. 114 n. 3.

BIBLE, The, 'best translation in the world,'
iii. 236 n. 3.

Billingsgate, i. 323, 360 n. 7, iii, 202 n. 2.
BINFIELD, iii. 85, 86, 89, 90, 134.
BINNING, Lord, iii. 287.

Biographia Britannica, ‘Vindicatio Britan-
nica, i. 146 n. 4.

BIOGRAPHY, penury of English, i. 1.
BIRCH, Rev. Dr. Peter, Waller's son-in-law,
i. 275, 276, 277.

BLACKHEAD, Stephen, ii. 35, 36.

BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, Accomplished
Preacher, ii. 252; Addison, praised by, 243,
246 n. 3; Advice to the Poets, 242; birth,
&c., 235; bye-word of contempt,' 252;
Alfred, 242 n. 1, 249, 250; A., dedication
to, 240, 241 n. 5; Cheapside, language of, 238,
241; C., resided in, 236; city bard,' 236
n. 6; College of Physicians, 236, 249; com-
position, manner and times of, 237; Con-
greve, complimented by, 241 n. 3; see CON-
GREVE; 'copy-money,' took no, 237 n. 1;

Creation, account of it, 242; Addison's
Spacious Firmament, compared to, 243 n. 4;
Darwin's Botanic Garden not modelled on
it, 243 n. 2; inserted in Eng. Poets by John-
son, 242, iii. 302; Johnson's criticism, ii.
254; Pope's Essay on Man, passage resem-
bling, 254 n. 3; praised by Addison and
Dennis, 243; p. by Cowper, 244 n. I ; p. by
Southey, 243 n. 2; — critics, attacks of,
235 n. 2, 239, 253; death, 252; Dennis,
attacked by, 238; D., praised by, 243; D.,
praises, 239; doctor of physic, 235; drama-
tists, attacks, 240; Dryden, attacked by, i.
386, 402, 403, ii. 235 n. 5, 236 n. 6, 237 n.
4, 239 n. 4, 240; D., attacks, i. 402, ii. 241;
Eliza, 242, 250 n. 4; Essays, 246; Garth,
attacked by, 240 n. 4; Gay, ridiculed by,
242 n. 1, 249 nn. 252 n. 6; George I, praises,
241 n. 5 Hanoverian succession, 240;
Hearne, described by, 235 n. 7; Hippocrates,
censures, 251; Hist. of the Conspiracy against
Will. III, 252; 'honest, very,' 240; inocu-
lation, attacks, 250; Instructions to Van-
derbank, 242 n. 6; Just Prejudices against
the Arian Hypothesis, 252; King Arthur,
i. 402 n. 2, ii. 239, 241, 250 n. 4, 251 n. 1;
Kit-cat Club, poem on, 242; knighted, 239;
Latin verses, 237; Lay Monastery, 244;
literature, small, 253; Locke and Molyneux,
praised by, 238 nn., 251 n. 1; magnanimity
as an author, 253; 'Maurus,' 235 n. 5, 240
n. 3, 252 n. 6; Nature of Man, 249;
Natural Theology, 252; Oxford, M.A.
degree, 235; O., reversionary bequest
to, 252 n. 5; Padua degree, 235; Para-
phrase on Job, 240; physician, practised as
a, 236, 241 n. 3, 250; p. to William III,
239; P., native genius more valuable than
learning, 252; placability, 239; poets united
against him, 241; poet sinks, man rises,'
239; Pope, attacked by, 236 nn., 237 nn.,
239 n. 5, 240 n. 2, 250 nn., 252 n. 6, 381 n.

6 reasons

2; P., attacks, 247; - Prince Arthur,
first published work, 237; Cibber's Love's
Last Shift, mentioned in, 238 n. 7; Dennis,
attacked by, 238; Hill's contempt for it,
239 n. 6; Macaulay refers to it, 238 n. 2;
Pope's note on it, 250 n. 4; popularity, 238;
praised by Wesley, 238 n. 6; Preface, 240;
Song of Mopas, 238, 255; written by 'catches
and starts,' 237; - - private life, 236, 253;
Psalms, metrical version of, 249;
poetically,' 254; Redemption, 249, 250 n. 4;
republican, 238 n. 6; residence, 236; St.
Edmund Hall, Oxford, 235; Satire against
Wit, i. 402, ii. 241; school, kept a, 235;
Smith, attacked by, 17 n. 1, 236 n. 5; Swift,
praised by, 240 n. 4; S., attacked by, 240
n. 4, 246 n. 3; Sydenham's advice, 236;
Tale of a Tub, 247; transmitted knowledge,
250; travels, 235; Treatise of Consumptions,
250, 251 n. 5; Treatise on the Spleen, 248,
250; Treatise upon the Small Pox, 250, 251
n. 4; Westminster School, 235; Whig, a,
240; William III and the Muses, 239 n. 7;
Wit, account of, 246; wits, malignity of
the, 239, 252; wrote for fame, 237;
quotations, Creation, 243 n. 4, 248 n. 1,
254 n. 3; Kit-Kats, 239 n. 7; Paraphrase
on Job, 240 n. 2; Prince Arthur, 241 n. 2,
255; Satire against Wit, i. 402, ii. 241
n. 6.

BLACKMORE, Robert, the poet's father, ii. 235.
BLACKSTONE, -, Otway's friend, i. 247 n. 4.
BLACKSTONE, Sir William, Lawyer's Fare-
well to his Muse, iii. 359; liberty of the
press, i. 108 n. 5; Pembroke College, Oxford,
member of, iii. 359; Pope's charges against
Addison, confutes, 133 n. 2.

BLADEN, Col. Martin, iii. 336 n. 3.

BLADEN, Martin, of Wigan, Esq., iii. 336n. 3.
BLAIR, Dr. Hugh, Pope anecdotes, iii. 113
n. 4, 163 n. 4.

BLAKE, William, angel that murdered the
infant, ii. 56; Philips's Pastorals, drawings
for, iii. 316 n. 3.

BLAKENEY, Robert, Swift's butler, iii. 36.
BLAKESLEY, i. 332 n. 1.

BLAND, Dr. Henry, ii. 104.
BLANDFORD, Marquis of, elegies on, ii. 231,

BLANK VERSE, history and estimate by
Johnson, i. 191-4; Akenside's superiority,
iii. 417; but it is blank verse,' 406; Cowper
on its difficulty, 238 n. 3; 'crippled prose'
unless tumid and gorgeous, ii. 319; difficulty,
iii. 238 n. 3; distresses of rhyme,' i. 139;
Dryden's time, not understood in, 338 n. 1;
'lapidary style,' 193; Milton's 'to be ad-
mired rather than imitated,' 194; Paradise
Lost and Philips's Cyder, 319; Pope found it
less easy than rhyme, iii. 238 n. 3; rhyme un-
fettered verse,' 377; Shenstone's 'blank verses
like those of his neighbours,' 358; 'super-