Addison, Life, ii. 89-122; his cha-
racter and habits, 122-130; his
works criticised, 130-153; at the
Charter House, 90; at Oxford, 91;
his first poems, 93; his travels, 95,
96; writes "The Campaign," 97-
132; his parliamentary career, 99;
made keeper of records in Birming-
ham's Tower, 98; commences the
"Spectator," 100; writes in the
"Tatler," 90,91; creates "Sir Roger
de Coverley," 104-5; his tragedy
"Cato," 106-110, 135-149; his mar-
riage, 115; made Secretary of State,
116; writes in the "Old Whig,"
119; his interview with Gay in his
last illness, 122; with Lord War-
wick, 122; in respect to intellec-
tual wealth had not a guinea in his
pocket, but could draw for £1,000,
123; his conversation, 124; his
reading, 125; his "familiar day,"
126; his versification, 150; a good
English style to be attained by
study of Addison, 153; gave to
Dryden the Arguments of the
Books of the Æneid, i. 465; sus-
pected of having written Tickell's
translation of the Iliad, 297-299;
his attitude towards Pope, iii. 81,
82, 101; quarrel with Pope, 102-
105, 137, 138; his derision of one
of Pope's lines, 172.
Addison, Lancelot, Addison's father,
ii. 89.
Adone, Marini's poem, the longest in
the world, i. 27.
Advice to a Son, Osborne's popular
book, the sale of, forbidden, i. 233.
Agamemnon, Thomson's second tra-
gedy, ii. 228; Johnson present at
the first representation of, 229.
"Airy nothing." It seems as reason-
able to be the champion as the poet
of an, i. 9.
Akenside, Mark, life, iii. 359-363;
his youthful performances, 360;
his study of physic, ibid.; no
everyday writer," ibid.; his works
criticised, 363-366.
Alabaster, William, his tragedy of
Roxana," i. 97.
Albion and Albanius, an opera by
Dryden, i. 579, 402.
Aldrich, Dr. Henry, i. 326; E.
Smith's lampoon on, ii. 18.
Alexander's Feast, Dryden's ode for
St. Cecilia's Day, 1697, i. 455.
Alexandrines, Cowley's novel use of,
i. 72; first used by Spenser, 479;
the metre of French tragedy, ibid.;
Drayton's poem in, 480.
Alfred, Blackmore's epic poem, ii.
226, 236.
Alfred, the Masque, by Thomson, in
which was the song Rule Britannia,
iii. 230.
Algarotti's description of Milton's
grandeur, i. 180.
All for Love, or the World Well
lost, Dryden said was the only
play "he wrote for himself," i.
Allegro, L', and Il Penseroso, published
i. 119; criticised, 169, 170.
Allen, Mr., desires to become ac-
quainted with Pope, iii. 122; offers
to pay for the publication of Pope's
Letter, ibid.; account of, 139;
Pope's ingratitude to, 151; patron
and father-in-law of Bishop War-
burton, iii. 131.
Alliteration in verse, practised by
Waller, i. 299; ridiculed by Shake-
speare, ibid.
Alma, Prior's poem in imitation of
Hudibras, ii. 196.
Altar-piece at Newtown, said to be
painted by John Dyer, iii. 279.
Alterations of the text by an editor
unjustifiable, iii. 228.
Amboyna, i. 377; Dryden's play
written in the second Dutch war,
377.
America, Cowley thinks of retreating
to, i. 12, 19.
Ames, Dr. W., account of, i. 111.
Anacreon, Cowley's, compared to
Pope's Homer, i. 46.
Anacreontiques, Cowley's, charac-
terized, i. 46, 47.
Anatomy, The, of Play, by Denham,
i. 78.
Ancient and Modern Learning, Con-
troversy concerning, iii. 11.
Andreini, his fantastic play seems to
have suggested "Paradise Lost,"
i. 143.
Andrews, Bishop, his witty answer
to the king on his rights, i. 254.
"Angel, The," Addison's simile of, ii.
Anne, Queen, said to have been
courted by Sheffield, ii. 169.
Annus Mirabilis, i. 357; criticised and
quoted, 445-451.
Apple, the red streak, introduced by
Scudamore, i. 103.
Aragon, Scaliger's saying that he
would rather have written certain
odes than be king of, i. 42.
"Arbiter Elegantiarum," this phrase
attributed to Dr. Harrington, ii.
102.
Arbuthnot, Dr., Epistle to, iii. 137;
account of, ibid.
Arcades, Milton's, written and acted,
i. 102.
Areopagitica, Milton's, i. 118; quoted
on the visit to Galileo, 106.
Ariosto, his Epitaph on himself,
quoted, iii. 213, translated by
Matthew Arnold, 213, 214.
Art and Nature. Of some composi-
tions "it is impossible to say
whether they are the production
of Nature, so excellent as not to
want the help of Art, or of Art so
refined as to resemble Nature," ii.
63.
Art of Poetry, Roscommon's transla-
tion of Horace, i. 240.
Art of Sinking in Poetry, published in
Pope's "Miscellany," iii. 113.
Arthur, King, Dryden's opera, i.
Arthur, King, Milton's early design
of celebrating, i. 130.
Ascham, Roger, his Latin verses, i.
96; his saying, "Open flatterers
and privy mockers," 285.
Askew, Ann, her saying on transub-
stantiation, ii. 168.
Assembly, the Westminster, i. 116.
Astrea Redux, written, i. 354; criti-
cised and quoted, 440-442.
Astrology, extensively believed, i.
213, 214; ridiculed by Swift, iii.
Atossa, Pope's name for the Duchess
of Marlborough, iii. 136.
Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Ro-
chester, i. 158; his friendship
with Pope, iii. 110; Pope's appear-
ance at his trial, ibid.; Pope's
Epitaph on him and his daughter,
211; denies the calumny concern-
ing the publication of Clarendon's
"History," ii. 22; his plot, 289.
Atticus, Pope's satire on Addison
under this name, iii. 138.
Aubrey, his story of Lord Roscommon,
i. 232.
Aureng Zebe, or the Great Mogul, i.
Author to be Let, a satirical pamphlet
by Savage, ii. 348.
Autobiography, fragment of Swift's,
iii. 3.
Aymesham, or Agmondesham, Waller
sat for in Parliament, i. 254, 260.
"Babylonish dialect," Butler's de-
scription of the speech of Hudibras,
i. 192.
Backsword, the, Milton's skill with,
i. 159.
Bacon, Lord, on Scots in Poland, i.
81; Blackmore's conceit in com-
paring himself to, ii. 237.
Badius, his commentary on Man-
tuan's Bucolics, iii. 255.
Bangor, Dr. Hoadly, Bishop of, ii.
322.
Banks, Mrs., Waller's rich wife, i.
206.
Barber, Mr. Alderman, account of,
i. 205; erects a monument to
Butler, ibid.
Barber, Mrs., one of Swift's poor
friends, iii. 33; his kindly effort
to assist her, 39.
Barberini, Cardinal, his attention to
Milton, i. 104.
Barbican, Milton's house in, i. 119.
Bardsey, the birthplace of Congreve,
ii. 205.
Barn-elms, Cowley's first home in
Surrey, i. 19.
Barring-out, story of Addison lead-
ing one at school, ii. 90.
Bastard, The, poem by Savage, ii.
365-369.
Bathurst, Epistle to Lord. Pope's
poem On the Use of Riches, iii. 132.
Battle of the Books, probably written
at Moor-park, iii. 10; its resem-
blance to the "Combat des Livres,"
11.
Baudius, Dominic, i. 161; his saying
on Erasmus, 162.
Bayes, the name under which Dryden
was satirized in the "Rehearsal,"
i. 388-399.
Beaconsfield, estates at, bought by
Waller, and afterwards by Burke, i.
274.
Beatitude, the eighth, ii. 263.
Beggar's Opera, extraordinary success
of Gay's, ii. 263-266.
Behn, Aphra, Mrs., her fulsome ad-
dress to Eleanor Gwyn, i. 415.
Bennet, Mr., afterwards Earl of
Arlington, Cowley's letters to, i.
Benson, Mr. Wm., erects monument
to Milton, i. 158; incites Pope to
translate Par. Lost into Latin prose,
iii. 131.
Bentley, Dr. Richard, his verses, i.
45; quoted on Paradise Lost, 195;
satirized by Swift, iii. 11; his dis-
pute with Boyle, ibid.
Bergen, Dryden's description of the
attempt on the Dutch fleet at,
quoted, i. 446.
Berkeley, Earl of, his treatment of
Swift, iii. 9.
Bermingham's Tower, Wm. King,
keeper of the records in, ii. 35;
Addison also, 98.
Beroald, Filippo, i. 470.
Betterton, Thomas, Pope supposed
to have painted a portrait of, iii.
83; his famous answer to Tillot-
son, ibid.; his story of Milton's
escape, i. 138.
Bettesworth, a lawyer satirized by
Swift, iii. 36, 37.
Bible, Diodati's, i. 107; Milton's, en-
tries in, 126.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, Steele publishes
the "Tatler" under this name
which Swift had made famous, iii.
12, 14.
Binfield, Pope's home from twelve
to twenty-seven or twenty-nine
years of age, iii. 64-106.
Biography, Contemporary, difficulty
of writing, ii. 120-121; "It will
be proper rather to say nothing
that is false, than all that is true,"
121.
Birch, Dr. Peter, marries Waller's
daughter, i. 280.
Birch, Dr. Thomas, his account of
the Royal Society, i. 15.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, ii. 223-242;
"England's arch-poet," 236; mag-
nificent in his designs, but careless
in performance, 239; his libel on
Dryden, i. 417.
Blakeney, Robert, Swift's faithful
servant, iii. 30.
Blenheim, Lord Lyttelton's poem, iii.
387.
Blenheim, the victory of, celebrated
by Addison, ii. 97; by Prior, 180.
Blindness, Milton's, i. 122, 125.
"Blot, discreetly," Pope's admira-
tion for those who, i. 79.
Blount, Martha, her unkindness in
Pope's last illness, iii. 147; her
arrogance towards Mrs. Allen,
Boccalini, a writer whose satire cost
him his life, ii. 158.
Bochart, pastor at Caen, under whom
Roscommon studied, i. 232.
Boiardo, his "Orlando Inamorato," i.
469.
Boileau, his criticism of epic poems
describing contests with super-
natural powers, i. 404; the labour
expended on his Equivoque, 406;
wrongly said to be the first French
writer who mentioned gunpowder,
445; Addison and, ii. 92; his loose
notions on veracity, 206.
Bolingbroke, Lord, and Savage, ii.
380; he is said to have supplied
the doctrine in Pope's "Essay on
Man," iii. 126; his attendance on
Pope during his last illness, 148;
Pope's papers left to him, 149.
"Book, That, is good in vain which
the reader throws away," i. 469;
fine description of a great, ibid.;
Laud's advice, "not to book it too
hard," 103.
Books, Battle of the, Swift's, iii. 10, 11.
Books, bought by Milton at Venice,
i, 107; Cowley leaves his to Sprat,
502; some of Pope's early favourites,
iii. 67.
Borrowing, Warburton on various
authors' reasons for, iii. 129.
Bossu, on the first duty of poets,
i. 174.
Bouhours, Dominique, his Life of
Xavier translated by Dryden, i.
397.
Boulter, Dr. Hugh, Archbishop of
Armagh, iii. 32; sneered at by
Pope as "the one Bishop to whom
A. Philips seemed a Wit," 258.
Bower, Archibald, friend of Lord
Lyttelton, iii. 390.
Brady, Dr. Nicholas, his translation
of the Eneid, i. 468.
Bramhall, Dr. John, a great antago-
nist of Hobbes, i. 126.
Brett, Mrs., formerly Countess of
Macclesfield, ii. 316-365.
Bridgewater, Earl
Comus, i. 101.
British Enchanter, Granville's best
work, ii. 283.
Brooke, Miss, afterwards Lady Den-
ham, i. 82.
Broome, William, iii. 53-57; Henley's
ludicrous distich on, 57; Pope's
letter to, on Fenton's death, ii.
251; and Fenton, their share in
Pope's translation of the "Odys-
sey," iii. 110.
"Brother," title of the sixteen mem-
bers of the Tory Club, to which
Prior and Swift belonged, ii. 190.
Brown, Sir George, the Sir Plume
of The Rape of the Lock, iii. 78.
Brown, Thomas, "of facetious
memory," i. 397; his pamphlets
on Dryden's conversion, 399-400.
Browne, Sir T., his Religio Medici, i.
458.
Bruyère, Jean de la, his Manners of
the Age, ii. 101-102.
Bryant, his idea that Cowley's
Merah and Michol are the origi-
nals of Scott's Minna and Brenda,
i. 63.
Buckhurst, Lord, afterwards Earl of
Dorset, i. 286, 313-315.
Buckingham, Edmund, Duke of,
Pope's epitaph on, iii. 210, 211.
Buckingham House, built by Shef-
field, ii. 169.
Buckingham, Villiers, Duke of, erects
a monument to the memory of
Cowley, i. 21; Butler secretary to,
203; his neglect of Butler, 204.
Bucks, Character of a Duke of, by
Butler, i. 204; curious mistake
concerning, ibid. n.
Budgel, Eustace, said to have written
the famous epilogue to The Distrest
Mother, iii. 253.
Bufo, Pope ridicules Halifax under
this name,
ii. 54.
Bulloigne, Godfrey of, by Edward
Fairfax, quoted, i. 301-305.
Burgess, Daniel, preacher, ii. 289.
Burlesque, nature of the pleasure
derived from, i. 215.
Burlington House, built by Denham,
i. 82.
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