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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

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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, 78 n. 1, ii. 342
n. 3, iii. 343 n. 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. 1; 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.'

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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 n. 5;
P.'s forged letters, 92 n. 1, 93 n. 1, 130 n. 1,
155 n. 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 n. 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.

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

Essay, i. 235 n. 4.

I.

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

ETHEREGE, Sir George, i. 340 n. II.
ETON COLLEGE, Allestree, Provost, i. 273
n. 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. 1; 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 22. I.

EVELYN, John, Barberini, Cardinal, i. 95
n. I; 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, 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 n. 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 n. 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 n. 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;

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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
n. 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 n. 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.

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

n. 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

n. 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
n. 1; burlesque, i. 218 n. 3; Cibber, iii. 187
n. 2; 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 2. 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 n. 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 2. I; War-
burton's learning, 169 n. 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 n. 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 n. 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 n. 6; G.'s sterility, 431 n. 2; Meta-
physical Poets,' i. 21 n. 3; Lycidas and
Comus, 164 n. 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 n. 2; Wesley's 'pure
undying English,' ii. 150 n. 1; Wimpole, 195

12. 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. I.
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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FORTESCUE, Miss Lucy, see LYTTELTON,
Lady.

FORTESCUE, William, Master of the Rolls,
ii. 355 n. 3, iii. 144.

FORTESCUE, Mr. G. K., i. 485.
FORT ST. GEORGE, i. 159.
Fossilist, ii. 271 n. 6.

FOSTER, Elizabeth, Milton's grand-daughter,
account of her, i. 159; anecdotes of Milton,
131 n. 5, 139 n. 1, 159; Birch, Dr., visited
by, 159 n. 2; Comus played for her benefit,
160; Johnson's Prologue for it, 150 n. 1, 160.
FOSTER, Dr. James, Nonconformist preacher,
ii. 387 n. 1, iii. 307.

FOSTER, Lord Chief Justice, i. 304 n. 3.
FOSTER, Thomas, i. 159.

FOULKES, Rev. Peter, of Christ Church,
Oxford, ii. 13.

FOWEY, ii. 291.

FOWKE, Martha, Thomson's' Mira,' iii. 286
22.3.

Fox, Charles James, Burke and Salmasius,
i. 112 n. 1; Dryden's prose and Burke's, 418
22. 5; music, no relish for, iii. 228 n. 5;
Paradise Lost, i. 183 n. 4.

Fox, George, ii. 220 n. 5.
Fox, Henry, first Lord Holland, Pope,
attacks, iii. 449; P., lampooned by, 180.
Fox, Sir Stephen, ii. 324 n. 4, 436.
FRANCINI, i. 94.

FRANKLIN, Benjamin, compared by Wed-
derburne to 'Zanga' in Young's Revenge, iii.
397 n. 5; Defoe and Swift, influenced by,

52 n. 2.

FRANKLIN, Richard, the bookseller, iii. 407.
FREDERIC THE GREAT, i. 177 n. 4.
Freethinker, The, iii. 322.

FREIND, John, editor of Demosthenes, ii.

13.

FREIND, Dr. Robert, head master of West-
minster, ii. 30, 195 n. 5, iii. 343.

FRENCH WORDS, use of, i. 464.

FRIENDSHIP, not always sequel of obliga-
tion, iii. 295; veracity not secured by it, 207;
unequal friendships, easily dissolved, 422.
FULFORD, William, editor of The Oxford
and Cambridge Magazine, iii. 360.

FULLER, Thomas, birthplace, same as Dry-
den's, i. 331 n. 3; a good hypocrite,' iii. 55
n. 2; saying regarding learning, ii. 156.

GALILEO, i. 96, 97 n. 1.
GALLIARD, Mr., ii. 160 n. 5.
GALLIGASKINS, i. 324.

GAOL-FEVER, ii. 345 n. 4, 346 n. I.
GARCILASSO, i. 193 n. 6.

GARDEN HOUSE, i. 98 n. 2, 126 n. 6.
GARRICK, David, 'Alfred' in Mallet's play,
iii. 404 n. 6, 405; 'Bayes' in Rehearsal, i.

368 n. 8; Britannia, Mallet's, prologue in,
iii. 408 n. 2; Congreve and Shakespeare, ii.
229 n. 2; death 'eclipsed the gaiety of
nations,' 21; Dryden, extolls, i. 464 n. 5;
D.'s Observations on Rymer's Tragedies, 471;
Epilogue to Distrest Mother, iii. 316; Gray's
Odes, 426; Johnson's Prologue to Comus,
speaks, i. 160 n. 6; J. writes him a prologue,
243 n. 2; King Lear, adhered to Tate's
version, ii. 249 n. 5; Mallet, fooled by, iii.
405; Odes, his bad, 184 n. 2; Otway's
Friendship in Fashion, revives, i. 243 n. 2;
Philips and Addison, anecdote of, iii. 314 n.
5; Tancred' in Thomson's play, 293 n. 2;
Walmsley's table, Johnson's companion at,
ii. 21.

GARRICK, Mrs., iii. 437 n. 2.

GARTH, Sir Samuel, M.D., Addison, de-
fended by, ii. 61; A. and Granville, friend
of, 62; 'best-natured ingenious wild man,'
62 n. 3; birth, &c., 57; College of Physicians,
fellowship, ib.; C. P., censorship, 60; Con-
greve, praised by, 241 n. 3; criticism, at-
tempted, 62 n. 1; deathbed reply to Addison,
62 n. 7; death and burial, 62;
Dis-
pensary, account of it, 57, 59; corrected in
every edition, 64; criticisms, 63; example
of great burlesque, i. 323; Garth did not
write his own Dispensary,' ii. 60 n. 3;
Doctor of Physic, 57; Dryden's funeral
oration, i. 391, 487; D., praised by, ii. 58
n. 2; Epilogue to Cato, 62 n. 5; epitaph for
St. Évremond, 62 n. 7; Examiner, criticized
in, 61; generosity, 57, 58 nn.; Godolphin,
poem to, 61; good Christian without know-
ing it, 63; Harveian Oration, 60; Kit-Cat
club, member of, 61; knighted with Marl-
borough's sword, ib.; Leyden, 57 n. 2;
Marlborough, Duchess of, present from, 61
n. 6; no physician knew his art more or
trade less,' 59 n. 3; Ovid's Metamorphoses,
edited, 61; Papist, assertion that he died a,
63 n. 2; personal character, 62; Peterhouse,
Cambridge, 57; Phalaris controversy, 60 n.
2; physician to George I, 61; Pope's 'early
encourager,' 62; P.'s Iliad and Halifax, iii.
126; P.'s Pastoral dedicated to him, ii. 62
n. 4; P., praised by, 62 n. 4, 63; Prior's
Poems, subscribed for, 194 n. 1; quacks,
attacks, 60; Radcliffe, 57 n. 4; 'religion of
wise men,' 63 n. 1; runs 'foot-match, 62 ".
3; Sheffield, suppresses praise of, 179;
suicide, suspicion of, 62 n. 2; Swift's sarcastic
mention, 63 n. 1; To die is landing on some
silent shore,' 63 n. 6, iii. 263 n. 2; weary
of having his shoes pulled off and on,' ii. 62
n. 2; 'well natur'd Garth,' 62 n. 4; Whig,
zealous, 60, 62; Whigs, physician to, 57;
William III, praises, 67 n. 1; quota-
tions, Dispensary, 59 n. 3, 60 n. 2, 63 n. 6,
179, 240 n. 4, 300 n. 8, iii. 263 n. 2; Pro-
logue to Tamerlane, ii. 67 n. 1.

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GARTH, William, the poet's father, ii. 57 n. 2.

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ii. 22, 23.

GATAKER, Thomas, Of the Nature and Use
of Lots, i. 215.

GAUDEN, Dr. John, i. 197.
GAULMIN, Gilbert, i. 112 n. I.
GAULTIER, Abbé, ii. 188.

GAY, John, Achilles, ii. 281; Addison's last
illness, summoned in, 116; Apparition, An,
284; apprenticed to silk mercer, 267; Ar-
buthnot, visited by, 272 n. 6; ballad opera,
invented, 282; Barnstaple School, 267;

Beggar's Opera, account of it, 275-8; airs
adapted by him, iii. 228 n. 5; Congreve,
couplet adapted from, ii. 234 n. 2; favourite
songs on fans, &c., 277; first night, 276; long
run, 101 n. 5, 277; moral or immoral?, 278;
political allusions, 279 nn.; Polly,' 277;
reception, 277, 278; birth, &c., 267;

Burlington, befriended by, 272; Captives,
The, 274; Commissioner of the Lottery, 270
n. 5; conversation, inattentive in, iii. 201 n.
2; Court, hankers after the, ii. 270 n. 2, 280
n. 5; C., neglected by, 275; death, 281, iii.
154; dedication to Bolingbroke, ii. 270; d.
to Duke of Cumberland, 274; d. to Pope,
268; described by Pope, 282; Dione, 284;
Distrest Wife, 282; eat too much, 281 n. 2;
epitaph by Pope, iii. 268; e. on himself, 268
n. 1; Fables, ii. 274, 280 n. 3, 281, 283, iii.
327; Fan, The, ii. 283; Fenton's advice to
buy annuity, 274; flute, played on, iii. 228
n. 5; Gay's Chair, ii. 267 n. 2; general
favourite, 268; gentleman usher to Princess
Louisa, 274; good-natured and inoffensive,
282 n. 5; Gulliver's Travels, criticizes, iii.
38 n. 5; G. T., his 'echo' of, ii. 284;
Hanover, House of, offended, 270; Harcourt
Lord Keeper, praises, iii. 258 n. 5; H., visits,
ii. 273; hare with many friends,' 268 n. 6,
275 n. 1; hopeful, but easily depressed, 272;
Howard, Mrs., pays court to, 275, iii. 39
n. 3; Johnny Gay,' ii. 282 n. 5; Journey to
Exeter, 272 n. 6; Key to the What d'ye call
it, attacked in, 271; laughed at world, iii.
61 n. 4; loved rather than respected, ii. 268;
'natural man without design,' 282; Otway's
'tenderness,' i. 248 n. 1; Parnell's literary
gains, ii. 268 n. 6; Pastorals, praised by
Goldsmith, Southey and Wordsworth, 269 n.
3; see GAY, Shepherd's Week; payments
received, Beggar's Opera, 273 n. 4, 275 n. 5,
277 n. 3, 280; Fables, 275 n. 5; Polly, 280;
Pope's Shakespeare, 268 n. 5; subscription
edition of his poems, 273; What d'ye call it,
271 n. 2; Polly, performance prohibited,
279; published by subscription, 280 n. 2;
Pope, friendship with, 268, 274, iii. 154; P.'s
Memoirs of a Parish Clerk, hand in, 144 n.
4; P.'s Odyssey, 139 n. 6; P.'s Shakespeare,
assists in, ii. 268 n. 5; see POPE; Mr. Pope's
Welcome from Greece, iii. 112 n. 2; posthu-

mous works, ii. 281; poultice eaten for
hunger, 272 n. 6; Present State of Wit,
ascribed to him, 29 n. 4, 125 n. 4, 152;
Prince and Princess of Wales present at his
What d'ye call it, 271; Princess of Wales,
verses on her arrival, 270; P. W., reads
Captives to, 274; property at death, 282;
Pulteney takes him to Aix, 272; Queensberry,
Duke and Duchess of, befriended by, 280;
Queen Caroline, message to, 275; Rehearsal
at Gotham, 282; Rural Sports, 268, 283;
secretary to Duchess of Monmouth, 268;
secretary to Hanover embassy, 270; Shep-
herd's Week, 269, 270; sisters' benefit, 281;
South Sea losses, 274; sportsman, success as
a, 268 n. 3; standing army, attacks, 361 n.
3; Steele and Addison, 122 n. 5; S. 'puffs'
Pastorals, 269 n. 4; subscription edition of
poems, 273; subscriptions for Polly, 279;
Swift and Pope's Miscellanies, shares in, iii.
38 n. 2; Swift's grief at his death, ii. 281;
S.'s lines on him, 275 n. 1; see SWIFT;
'terror of ministers,' 280 n. 1;
Three

Hours after Marriage, account of it, 271;
Arbuthnot and Pope assist, 271, iii. 274;
driven off stage, ii. 223 n. 1, 272; mummy and
crocodile, 272, iii. 185;
Tickell's Iliad,

ii. 307 n. 7; timid temper, 282; Trivia, 283;
'Twas when the seas were roaring, 271 n. I ;
Walpole, satirizes, 279 n. 1, 281 n. 5, 282 n. 3;
want of economy, 280; Westminster Abbey,
281, iii. 268; What dye call it, ii. 271, 272;
Wife of Bath, 269; will of his own, without,
268 n. 6; wine, left off, iii. 203 n. 2; Withers,
praises, 266 n. 2; quotations, Beggar's

Opera, ii, 72 n. 4, 234 n. 2, 277 n. 1, 281 n.
1; Epilogue to Three Hours after Marriage,
271 n. 6; Epigrammatical Petition, 270 n.
2; Epistles, Journey to Exeter, 252 n.6; To
a Lady Occasioned by the arrival of the
Princess of Wales, 270 n. 7; To Lintot, 83
n. 10, 174 n. 7, 231 n. 4; To Lowndes, 122
n. 5, 361 n. 3; Fables, Dedication to Duke of
Cumberland, 274 n. 5; Hare and Many
Friends, 268 n. 6; To Laura, 280 n. 3;
Pope's Welcome from Greece, 179, 273 n. 3,
307 n. 7, iii. 92 n. 3, 112 n. 2, 258 n. 5, 265
n. I, 266 n. 2, 274; Prologue to the Shep-
herd's Week, ii. 270 n. 5; P. to Rural Sports,
267 n. 4; Trivia, 284 n. 1; Verses to be
placed under the picture of Sir Richard
Blackmore, 242 n. 1, 249 nn.; Wine, 46

12. 2.

GAY, John, Esq., of Frithelstock, ii. 267

n. 2.

GAY, William, the poet's father, ii. 267 n. 2.
GAZETTE, ii. 270 n. 7.

GAZETTEER, THE, ii. 30 n. 5, 187 n. 1.
GENERAL FUND, ii. 44.
GENEVA, i. 97.

GENIUS, definitions, i. 2 n. 5; qualities con-
stituting it, iii. 247.

Gentleman's Journal, ii. 214 n. 7.

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