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. I;
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. 1; 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. I, 249 nn. 252 n. 6; George I, praises, 241 m. 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.
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; 'reasons 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. I, 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. 336 n. 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,
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-
BLOUNT, Lister, of Mapledurham, father of Martha and Teresa, iii. 274.
BLOUNT, Mr., of Twickenham, payment for Odyssey, iii. 78 n. 4. BLOUNT, Mr., Garth, carried the Father to, ii. 63 n. 2; Pope, a Whig, iii. 140 n. 5. BLOUNT, Martha, Allens, quarrel with the, iii. 190 n. 3, 195; birth, &c., 274; Boling- broke's rudeness, 190; death, 275; Gay's lines on her, 274; manner and conversation, 275; personal appearance, 274, 275; Pope, becomes acquainted with, 185 n. 7; P.'s be- quest, 190 n. 4, 195; P.'s Characters of Women addressed to her, 175, 274; P., coming in cheered, 190 n. 3; P., influence over, 195; P.'s last illness, 190; P.'s letters to her, 274; P., relations with, 190, 274; Swift's Letter to a Lady on her marriage, 42 n. 5; Warburton's spite to her, 175 n. 2. BLOUNT, Teresa, Pope, acquaintance with, iii. 185 n. 7; P.'s letters to her, 274; personal appearance, 274; wit, 275.
BOARD OF TRADE, literary associations, ii. 184 n. 5.
BOCCACCIO, Homer, composed prose version for Petrarch, iii. 317 n. 2; regretted his writings, i. 290 n. 6. BOCCALINI, ii. 160.
BOCHART, Samuel, i. 229, 230. Boddice, iii. 197.
BOERHAAVE, Dr. Herman, ii. 334 n. 2, 433 22. 4.
BOILEAU, Addison's Latin poems, ii. 82; A., meeting with, i. 471 n. 4, ii. 82 n. 6; Aristotle and Corneille, i. 471 n. 4; celestial interposition, 385; couplets, 443 n. 8, iii. 250 n. 4; declamations round medals, 260 n. 2; Epitre à mes vers, and Pope's Prol. to the Satires, 177; Equivoque, i. 388; great burlesque, i. 323 n. 3; gunpowder, 430; in- scriptions on Lewis XIV's 'Victories,' ii. 184; La Bruyère's Caractères, 93; levity on sacred subject, i. 404 n. 3; Le Lutrin and Rape of the Lock, iii. 234; model to Pope and Johnson, i. 224 n. 1; modern Latin poetry, contempt for, ii. 82, iii. 182; Molière's burial, ii. 220 n. 1; morality, nothing to shock, iii. 301 n. 3; mourir par métaphore,' ii. 315 n. 5; mysteries of religion and verse, i. 182 n. 1; Ode sur la prise de Namur, Pope refers to it, 289 n. 6; Prior's burlesque,
petty lie to Louis XIV, 213;
103 me lise, non pas me loue,' 214 n. 2; rhyme, i. 200; à rien faire or à ne rien faire, 225; Rochester's favourite author, 221; Roscommon borrows from him, 237; Satire sur les Femmes and Pope's Characters of Women, iii. 245; Satire sur l'Homme and Rochester's Satire against man, i. 226; translations, iii. 237 n. 4; quotations, L'Art poétique, i. 6 n. 7, 182 n. 1, 443 n. 8; Épîtres, 404 n. 3, ii. 220 n. 1; Satires, i. 200, 225 n. 2, ii. 315 n. 5. Bois, Mr., i. 17.
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, first Vis- count, Attainder Bill, ii. 292; Battersea, visited like a shrine at, iii. 195 n. 2; 'being of a superior order,' 191 n. 5; Burke on his writings, 408 n. 1; Cato and Booth, ii. 101; 'charged blunderbuss against religion,' iii. 407 n. 4; conversation, inattentive in, 201 n. 2, 209 n. I; Dryden, visits, i. 388 n. 5, 407; established errors useful to maintain society, iii. 163 n. 3; Europe's happiness and liberties, game of his youth, 193 n. 1; Familiar Epistle to the most impudent man living, 195 n. 2; 'feast of reason and the flow of soul,' 135 n. 1; Fenton, promised employment to, ii. 258; Foster's sermon, 387. 1; French idioms, iii. 250; Garth's good nature, ii. 62 n. 3; 'going down the hill,' iii. 189 n. 2; Good Friday dinner to Addison and Swift, ii. 125 n. 2; Granville, 295 n. I; Harley, charges against, iii. 17 n. 3; H., quarrel with, 24, 26; impeached by Walpole, ii. 192 n. 3; intimacy with him, no good man would wish it known to posterity, iii. 206; kindness, difficult to gain or keep, 407; letter, long artificial, 159; 1. to Queen Anne, ii. 188; 1., Prior, 189, 190; 1., Swift, 194 n. 3; Lyttelton, flattered, iii. 449 n. 2; Mallet's edition of his Works, 407, 408 n. 1; M. employed by him to blast Pope's memory, 407; Patriot King, original in British Museum, 193 n. 4; Pope refers to it, 195 n. 1; published, 193 n. 2; school declamation,' 193 n. 1; secret edition burnt, 193; peace mission to Paris, ii. 189; Philips, J., patron of, i. 313, 316, 318; poetry, in youth cultivated, 407; Pope's' Atossa,' iii. 272; P.'s breach of trust, 193, 214, 407; P., con- cealed his opinions from, 169; P.'s deathbed, grief at, 191, 194; P., priest's visit to, enraged by, 191 n. 7; Essay on Man, address to him in, 194 n. I; ascribed to him, 161 n. 2; his share in it, 163, 169; P.'s exaggerated praise of him, 169 n. 3, 206 n. 3; P., friendship with, 191; Iliad, obtained original copy, 119; P.'s last illness, 189; P.'s memory, sets to work to blast, 193, 407; P.'s papers bequeathed to him, 119 n. 3, 192; Sober Advice from Horace, 176 n. 1; P.'s tender heart, 191; P. and trans- lation, 110 n. 2; 'refinement,' 15 n. 3; sacramental test, takes, 13 n. 1; Savage, praised
Swift's bagatelles, iii. 46 n. 1; S. and Duchess of Somerset, 69; S. and Eng- lish living, 62; S.'s exaggeration of danger, 36 n. 1; Free Thoughts on Present State of Affairs, 26 n. 3; S.'s friend, 'descended to be,' 206 n. 3; S., got £10 o Treasury order for, 23 n. 1; Hist. of Four last Years of Queen Anne, 27 n. 5, 28 n. 2; S.'s journey to France, ad- vises against, 39 n. 1; S.'s love of money, 57 2. 1; S. and Pope, confederacy with, 212 n. 3; S. and Stella, 41 n. 5; S., warned never to appear cold by, 7 n. 4; Twickenham,
visits, 135 n. 1; Voltaire on his maximall is for the best,' 144 n. 2; Warburton, hatred of, 167 n. 2, 169; W.'s vindication of Pope, answers, 195.
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, iii. 200. BOLTON, Duchess of, see FENTON, Lavinia. BONA, Cardinal, Divina Psalmodia, ii. 56. BOND, Mr. William, ii. 341 N. 7.
BONSTETTEN, M. de, Gray's friend, iii. 430 n. 3, 431 nn., 445.
BONTEMS, Madame, iii. 287 n. 5. BONWICKE, Ambrose, ii. 258. BOOKSELLERS, generous liberal-minded men,' i. 407 n. 3; mercantile ruggedness,' 407; oppress the genius by which they are supported,' ii. 367.
BOOTH, Barton, the actor, ii. 101. BORDELON, Laurent, iii. 182 n. 4. BORROW, George, Otway, Milton and Butler, i. 248 n. I. BOSCAN, i. 193 n. 6.
BOSCAWEN, Hugh, first Viscount Falmouth, ii. 191, 192.
BOSCAWEN, Mrs., iii. 388.
BOSWELL, James, Critical Strictures, iii. 408 n. 3; Croft's Life of Young, 361 n. 1; Johnson's inattention to minute accuracy, 281 n. 4; Temple and he read Gray all night, 429 n. 4; Thomson's Life, assists Johnson in, 281 nn., 295.
BOSWELL, James, Junior, Pope and Carew, iii. 267 n. 1; Whetstone's epitaph on Dyer, 269 n. 3.
BOUHOURS, Father Dominic, i. 326, 378 n. 5, 379 n. 3.
BOULTER, Hugh, Archbishop of Armagh, account of him, iii. 322; death, 323 n. I; Irish coinage, 71; Johnson's praise, 322; Philips, A., literary associate and patron of, 322; Swift, reproves, 37.
BOURNE, Vincent, In Miltonum, i. 150 n. 4; verses thanking Addison's physician, ii. 111 n. 5.
BOWEN, Lord, Dryden's Virgil, i. 449 2.3.
BOWER, Archibald, iii. 448 n. 7, 451, 459. BOWLAND FOREST, ii. 57 n. 2. BOWMAN, Mrs., the actress, ii. 215 n. 6. BOWYER, Sir William, i. 479.
BOYLE, Charles, fourth Earl of Orrery, account of him, ii. 258 n. 3; Fenton, his
secretary, 258; Phalaris, i. 332 n. 4, ii. 60 n. 2, iii. II n. 4.
BOYLE, Henry, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 88.
BOYLE, John, fifth Earl of Orrery, ii. 258 n. 4. See ORRERY.
BOYLE, Richard, second son of Earl of Burlington, i. 305 n. 2.
BRACEGIRDLE, Mrs., ii. 215 n. 6, 227 n. 4. BRADFORD, Francis Newport, Earl of, iii.362. BRADY, Dr. Nicholas, Aeneid, versified, i. 453; metrical version of Psalms, ii. 249. BRAGGE, Ben, i. 324.
BRAMHALL, John, Archbishop of Armagh, i. 117.
BRENT, Mrs., Swift's housekeeper, iii. 45 n. I. BRESSE, Mary, Waller's second wife, i. 254. BRETT, Anna Margaretta, Savage's half- sister, ii. 376 n. 2; George I's mistress, 438; marriage, 439.
BRETT, Col., Countess of Macclesfield's second husband, account of him, ii. 438; Addison's companion, 122; anecdotes of him, 377 n. 5, 438; marriage, 323; death,438. BRETT, Mrs., see MACCLESFIELD, Countess of.
BRIDEKIRK, ii. 304.
BRIDGES, Rev. Ralph, iii. 252. BRIDGMAN, Mr., i. 480.
BRIDGEMAN, Sir Orlando, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, i. 127 n. 4.
BRIDGEWATER, John Egerton, first Earl of, lord president of Wales, i. 92.
BRIDGEWATER, John Egerton, second Earl of, Comus, elder brother in, i. 92; Milton's Defensio, 92 n. 3.
BRIGHT, Mr. Henry, Butler's schoolmaster at Worcester, i. 201.
BRISTOL, George Digby, second Earl of, i. 278 n. 2.
BRISTOL, Guildhall, ii. 427 n. 4; Newgate, 421; St. Peter's, 429; Savage at, 414, 417- 29; White Lion, 420.
Britain, iii. 266 n. 3. Broad-piece, i. 259 n. I.
BROCKET, Rev. Lawrence, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, iii. 427, 428 n. 3.
BROÉ, S. de, Histoire de deux Triumvirats, i. 246 n. 3.
BROMLEY, Rt. Hon. William, ii. 45, 48. BROOKE, Henry, author of Gustavus Vasa, iii. 179 n. 6, 292.
BROOME, Richard, Ben Jonson's follower, iii. 81 n. 3.
BROOME, William, Anacreon, translations from, iii. 80; Barnes, line resembling, 81; birth, &c., 75; buried in Bath Abbey, 80; Cambridge life, 75; C., LL.D. degree, 79; character described by Ford, 75; Charles Chester,' M.D., 80; death, 80; ecclesiastical preferment, 79, 80; Eton, 75; Fenton, friend and associate of, ii. 261, 265; Ford,
his friend, 261, iii. 75; Gent. Mag., con- tributed to, So; Henley's distich, 81; 'Homeric lyre,' 276; Iliad, translation with Ozell and Oldisworth, 76; I., versifies parts in style of Milton,' 76 n. 4; see BROOME, Pope's Iliad; King's Coll., Camb., no vacant scholarship, 75; marriage, 79; Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 261; Miscellany of Poems, iii. 79; Odyssey, Bks. xi and xii, version of, ii. 260 n. 1; payments received, Miscellaneous Poems, iii. 79 n. 5; p. 1., Pope's Odyssey, 78;
Pope's advice, 221 n. 2; Bathos and Dunciad, attacked in, 78, 79; P.'s enemies, attacked by, 79 n. 2, 81; P., extravagant compliments to, 79 n. 4; P., coldness with, 78; Iliad, aided in notes, 76, 77 n. 2, 115, 116; P., introduced to, 76; P.'s letter to him on Fenton's death, ii. 265; P.'s Miscellanies, contributed to, iii. 76; Odyssey, his part in, ii. 259, iii. 76–8, 140, 141, 142 n. 2, 231 n. 2, 241; P., reconciled with, 79; Shakespeare, 139 n. 5; P.'s tool and dupe, 77 n. 3; rector of Pulham, ii. 265, iii. 80; rhymes, faulty, 80 n. 7; St. John's College, Cam- bridge, 75; Walpole, flattered, 80 n. 1;
quotations, Epistle to Fenton, 80 n. 1, 81; Melancholy, 80 n. 7; To Mr. Pope upon the edition of his Works, 1725, 79 n. 4, 139 n. 5; To Mr. Pope, who corrected my Verses, 79 n. 4.
BROUNCKER, Lord, i. 83.
BROWN, Sir George, Sir Plume' of Rape of the Lock, iii. 102.
BROWN, Hawkins, Imitations of Eng. Poets, On Tobacco, iii. 209 n. 5.
BROWN, Thomas, Dryden's dislike of priests, i. 403; D.'s funeral, burlesque verses on, 381 n. 3; D.'s Life of Xavier, 379; Reasons of Mr. Bayes's changing his religion, 381, 382; Reasons of Mr. Hains the player's conversion, 381.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas, 'Do the devils lie?' i. 269 n. 6; Pembroke College, Oxford, member of, iii. 359, 360; Religio Medici and Dryden's Religio Laici, i. 442. BROWNING, Robert, iii. 360.
BROWNLOW, Anne, Lord Tyrconnel's sister, ii. 440.
BRUEYS, Le Grondeur and L'Avocat Patelin, i. 242 n. 2.
BRUTUS, THE TROJAN, iii. 188. BUBB, Oxford wit, ii. 304 n. I. BUCER, Martin, i. 196.
BUCKHURST, Lord, see sixth Earl of DORSET. BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, first Duke of, i. 288.
BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, second Duke of, Butler, attacked by, i. 205 n. 7, 206; B., neglects, 205; Chancellor of Cambridge, 205; Cowley's lease of Queen's lands, 16, 67; C.'s pall-bearer, 17 n. 8; Dryden, attacked by, 205 n. 4, 206 n. 1, 368 n. 9; D., attacks, 368; philosopher's stone, 206 n. 2; Pope,
attacked by, 205 2. 4; profanity, 277; Re- hearsal, The, 368; Rochester, praised by, 303 n. 8; Sprat, his chaplain, ii. 33.
BUCKINGHAM, Catharine, Duchess of, Shef- field's wife, account of her, ii. 173; divorced from Earl of Anglesey, 28; Pope's 'Atossa,' 173 n. 12, iii. 273; P.'s Odyssey, sub- scribed for, 142 n. 4; pride, her, ii. 167 n. 1, 173 nn. 7, 12.
BUCKINGHAM, Edmund Sheffield, second Duke of, ii. 173; Pope's epitaph on him, iii. 270.
BUCKINGHAM, John Sheffield, Duke of, see SHEFFIELD.
BUCKLEY, Samuel, publisher of Daily Cou rant, ii. 385 n. 2.
BUCKNILL, Sir John Charles, M.D., iii. 4 n. 7. BUDGELL, Eustace, account of him, iii. 325; Addison, lodged in same house as, ii. 122, iii. 325; A., stamped himself' into acquaintance with, 325; calls Addison cousin, 315, 325; Bee, The, ii. 96 n. 5; Bentley and Boyle, iii. II n. 4; Devonshire man, 326; Epilogue to Distrest Mother, 315; Moral Characters of Theophrastus, ii. 95; place, gets a, iii. 316 n. 1; Pope's Three Gentle Shepherds, one of, ii. 122 n. 6; 'Sir Roger de Coverley,' 96; suicide, iii. 326.
BULLOCK, Christopher, ii. 330. Bulls, iii. 97.
BUNYAN, John, passed over by Hume, i.
235 n. 3.
BURFORD, i. 219.
BURGESS, Anne, see HUGHES, Mrs.
BURGESS, Daniel, the preacher, ii. 300; 'thorough paced doctrine,' 301 n. I. BURGHFIELD, iii. 62 n. 3.
BURGHLEY, William Cecil, first Lord, bene- factor of St. John's, Cambridge, ii. 181 n. 7; mentioned, iii. 372.
BURGHLEY, Lord, Young's pupil, iii. 369. BURKE, Edmund, Addison on immortality, ii. 149 n. 4; Beggar's Opera, 277 n. 1; Board of Trade and literature, 184 n. 5; Boling- broke's writings, iii. 408 n. 1; Chatham and Woollen Act, joke on, 345 n. 1; Croft's Life of Young, 361 n. 1; Dryden's extravagant panegyrics, i. 400 n. 1; D., style formed on, 418 n. 5; Hist. of Four last Years of Queen Anne, iii. 28 n. 2;. Journal to Stella, 23 n. 4; mankind, thinks better of, ii. 430 n. 2; meta- physic,' i. 68; music, no relish for, iii. 228 n. 5; Swift's sermons, 54 n. 3; 'where mystery begins justice ends,' ii. 387 n. 1. BURLEIGH, Mrs., the bookseller, ii. 247 n. 4. BURLESQUE, i. 216, 218, 323.
BURLINGTON, Richard Boyle, first Earl of, i. 232.
BURLINGTON, Richard Boyle, third Earl of, architecture, knowledge of, iii. 206 n. 2; Gay, assists, ii. 272; Pope's intimacy with him, iii. 199 n. 2, 206; P.'s Dunciad, one of
nominal publishers of, 148 n. 6; Walpole, praised by, 206 n. 2.
BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, accident, iii. 143 n. 3; Buckingham's chemi- cal pursuits, i. 206 n. 2; Dryden, satirized by, 380 n. 2; Duchess of York's Italian de- ception, ii. 287 n. 6; Eikon Basilike, i. 197; funeral sermon on Young's father, iii. 363;
Hist. of my own Times, Granville an- swers, ii. 292; parodied by Pope, iii. 144;
impartiality, protests, ii. 292 n. 7; inaccuracy, i. 128; knight errant against popery, iii. 20 n. 3; Life and Death of Rochester, i. 222; Milton's escape, 128; Monk, calumnies on, ii. 292; Paradise Lost, i. 198; playhouses in Dryden's time, 365 n. 7; Reflections on Varillas's History, 379 n. 4; Rochester's conversion, 220, 221; ser- mon before House of Commons, ii. 37; Sprat's rival, 37; Swift, disliked by, iii. 20; Dissentions in Athens and Rome, ascribed to him, 10; ' venomously nice in his commendations,' i. 280 n. 2; Waller's parlia- mentary eloquence, 280; Wharton, Lady Anne, iii. 367.
BURNET, Thomas, Judge of the Common Pleas, Granville's criticism on Hist. of my own Times, answers, ii. 293; Mohawk, a, iii. 136 n. 4; Pope's Iliad, criticized, 136; P.'s Dunciad, inserted in, 151.
BURNEY, Dr. Charles, iii. 297 n. 3. BURNEY, Dr. Charles, junior, Johnson's Cicero, purchased, i. 320 n. 2; Milton's Greek poetry, 91 n. 9.
BURNEY, Frances, Hawkesworth's talk, iii. 67; Johnson accuses her of writing Scotch, 187 n. 3; proof sheets of Life of Pope, 82 n. 1. BURNS, Robert, Addison's Vision of Mirza and 'How are thy servants bless'd,' ii. 144 n. 6; not indebted for praise to charitable con- sideration of origin, 180 n. 3; Paradise Lost, Satan its hero, i. 176 n. 3; Pastoral Poetry, iii. 317 n. 1; Poet's Epitaph, ii. 434 n. 1; Shenstone's Elegies, iii. 355 n. 1; Young's Night Thoughts, 395 n. 4.
BURTON, Rev. John, B.D., Genuineness of Clarendon's Hist. Vindicated, ii. 18; Oldis- worth's character of Smith, 1.
BURTON, Dr. John Hill, Collins's Ode on the Superstitions of the Highlands, iii. 340 n. 3; Thomson's scenery, 282 n. I.
BURTON, Robert,' poverty the Muses' patri- mony,' i. 400 n. 2; sapiens dominabitur astris,' 137 n. I.
BURTON, Rev. John, D.D., head master of Winchester, iii. 334.
BUSBY, Rev. Dr., head master of Westmin- ster, account of him and his scholars, i. 332 n. 4; Dryden's reverence for him, 332, 447 n. 5; Johnson, praised by, 416, ii. 66; poets educated by him, i. 332 n. 4; promising boys detained, ii. II; transmitted scholars to Christ Church, i. 312.
BUSH, Mr., secretary to Earl of Berkeley, iii. 8.
BUTE, third Earl of, iii. 427. BUTE, Lady, iii. 202 n. 2.
BUTLER, Samuel, Aubrey, friendship with, i. 2012. 10, 207 n. I; authorities for his life, 201; birth, &c., 201; Buckingham, neg- lected by, 205; 'bye-paths of literature,' 212; Cambridge, 201, 202 n. 2; Charles II's reported bounty, 205; Clarendon's unful- filled promises, 204; clerk to Mr. Jefferys, J.P., 202; Common law, studies, 204; com- monplace book, 213; Cooper, Samuel, friendship with, 202; Countess of Kent, in service of, 203; death, 206; Dryden's lines on him, 207 n. 5; education, 201, 202; Elephant in the Moon, 208 n. 5; extrava- gant panegyrics, 400 n. 1; funeral, 207; Genuine Remains, 208 n. 4; 'glory and scandal of his age,' 207 n. 4; gout, 206 n. 6;
Hudibras, abrupt ending, 206; Addi- son's criticism, 217 nn.; admired for wrong parts, 217 n. 4; another Hudibras would not obtain same regard, 218; astrology satirized, 216; 'bear and fiddle,' 211; begun in Sir Samuel Luke's service, 203; bullion which will last, 214 n. 2; composition, 213; court, admired at, 204; dialogue, 211; diction, 217; discontinuity of action, 211; doggerel rhymes oftenest quoted, 217 n. 4; Don Quixote, contrasted with, 209; 'drum ecclesi- astic,' 217 n. 4; Dryden's criticism, 217 n. 2; English only read it, 209 n. 4; first part published, 204; Grey's edition, 214 n. 2; Hudibras's flagellation, 216; H., representa- tive of Presbyterians, 210; Hume's estimate of it, 212 nn.; humour often lost, 214; learn- ing, 212 n. 6; moon, description of, 217 n. I, iii. 300 n. 1, 417; paucity of events, i. 211; Pepys finds it silly, 204 un. ; perishable part, 213; 'pious frauds,' 379 n. 1; plan, wants, ii. 205; Prior's Alma, compared with, ii. 205; probability required by bur- lesque, violates, i. 216; proverbial axioms, i. 213; Puritan scruples, 214-6; Ralpho, Independent enthusiast, 210; reputation in eighteenth century, 214 n. 2; royalists, ap- plauded by, 204; second part published, 204; seldom read, 214 n. 2; Sidrophel and Whacum, 211; Sir Samuel Luke, 203; third part published, 206; 'true as the dial to the sun,' 217 n. 1; versification, 217; Voltaire's estimate, 209 n. 4, 214 n. 2; Withers, Pryn, and Vickars,' 452 n. 5; 'Hudibras,' fashion of calling him, 201 n. 1; 'interred on tick,' 207 n. 4; knowledge of human nature, 213; Longueville, his friend and patron, 201, 206, 208 n. 3; Luke, Sir Samuel, enters family of, 203; marriage, 204; Milton and Salmasius, 113 n. 7; monument in Westminster Abbey, 208; music and painting, his amusements, 202; 'name can
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