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HANNES, Dr., i. 318, ii. 6.
HANNIBAL, death of, iii. 200.
HANOVER CLUB, iii. 320.

HAPPINESS, advantages of nature or fortune
contribute little to, ii. 321.

HARCOURT, Simon, first Viscount, Lord
Keeper, Gay his guest, ii. 273; Gay, praised
by, iii. 258 n. 5; Philips's monument, i. 314;
Pope's epitaph on his son, iii. 259 n. 2.

HARCOURT, Hon. Simon, Pope's epitaph,
iii. 258; Philips's dear youth,' i. 314 n. 5;
Sheffield, praises, ii. 179.

HARDWICKE, Philip Yorke, Lord Chan-
cellor, Dyer's patron, iii. 344 n. 6; Savage,
dismisses information' against, ii. 389; S.,
praised by, 355 n. 3, 389 n. 1; Thomson's
office, iii. 290; Wharton's annuities to Young,
369; Young's dedication to him, 382.
HARDWICKE, second Earl, iii. 252.
HARE, Francis, Bishop of Chichester, iii.
375.

HAREFIELD, i. 93.

HARLEY, Robert, first Earl of Oxford,
Addison's official incapacity, ii. 111 n. 4;
Bolingbroke, quarrel with, iii. 24, 26; Con-
greve retained in places, ii. 225; 'huddled
and obscure,' iii. 137 n. 3; impeachment, ii.
178, 190 n. 1, 192 n. 3; knew neither how
to use power or to wear honours,' iii. 24 n.
3; odd way,' ii. 72; Pope's Essay on
Man, pays for Latin version, iii. 170 n. 3;
P., never proposed pension for, 118; Odyssey,
subscribed for, 142 n. 4; P.'s Parnell dedicated
to him, 137; P.'s religion, regrets, 109 n. 2;
P.'s translation, laments, 110; P.'s versifica-
tion of Donne's Satires, 177;
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and Hanoverians, intrigued with, 17 n. 3, 137
n. 3; Prior's friend and patron, ii. 194, 198,
200; Rowe advised by him to study Spanish,
71; slow and irresolute, iii. 17; Swift ad-
mitted to familiarity, 14, 15; S. and Parnell,
ii. 50, 55; see SWIFT; Tory by necessity or
convenience, iii. 17; Whig, in his heart,
17 n. 2; Whigs, hated by, 17 n. 4.

HARPER, Mr., Dyer's patron, iii. 344.
HARRINGTON, James, author of Oceana, i.
126 n. I.

HARRIS, Joseph, the actor, i. 384 n. 2.
HARRIS, Mr., Fellow of Winchester, iii.
363.

HARRISON, William, editor of Tatler con-
tinuation, ii. 224 n. 3; Young's affectionate
mention of his death, iii. 365.
HARROW, ii. 62.

HART, Charles, the actor, i. 477 n. 2.
HARTE, Rev. Walter, Professor of Poetry
at Oxford, commendatory verses on Fenton's
obscene poems, ii. 263 n. 1; Dryden's versi-
fication, i. 436; Pope's bad rhymes in Essay
on Man, iii. 162 n. 5; P. and Betterton's
Chaucer, 108; P., recommended by, 91 n.
5; P., Prior and Addison, ii. 211 n. 3.
HARTHAM, ii. 17, 18, 23.

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HARVEY, Mr. William J., Dryden's funeral,
i. 486.

HASLINGTON, iii. 75 n. I.

HASSEL, a King's messenger, i. 266.
HASTINGS, Lord, elegies on his death, i.
332 n. 6, 333.

HASTINGS, i. 272.

HATCH, Rev. Edwin, D.D., iii. 360.
HATTON, Charles, ii. 436.

HAWKER, Rev. R. S., of Morwenstow, iii.
360.

HAWKESWORTH, Dr. John, account of him,
iii. 67; Adventurer, edited, 333; Cook's
voyages, payment for, 118 n. 1; Johnson,
relations with, 1, 67; Life of Swift, 1, 31, 67;
publication of his papers, i. 161 n. 1; Watt's
delivery, iii. 307.

HAWKINS, Sir John, Akenside's character,
iii. 416 n. 1; Beggar's Opera and crime, ii.
278 n. 6; Blackmore's Creation, 244 n. 1;
Cowley and music, i. 26 n. 2; Dryden and
music, 456 n. 4; Pope's annuity, iii. 119 n.
1; P.'s Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 228 n. 5;
P.'s portrait of Betterton, 107 n. 5.

HAWKINS, William, Professor of Poetry
at Oxford, iii. 359; Virgil's Aeneid, trans-
lated, i. 454 n. I.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, Congreve's monu-
ment, ii. 227 n. 3.

HAZLITT, William, Congreve's characters,
ii. 216 n. 4; C.'s Mourning Bride, 230 n. 1;
Collier's attack on stage, 223 n. 1; Collins's
Ode to Evening, iii. 341 n. 5; Gray's 'Pin-
daric Odes,' 440 n. 9; Hammond's Elegies,
ii. 315 n. 6; Savage and Chatterton, 434 n.
2; Shenstone and Gray, iii. 354 n. 3; S.'s
Pastoral Ballad and Schoolmistress, 359 n. 1;
Thomson's poetry, 298 n. 7.

HEARNE, Thomas, Aldrich, i. 312 n. 5;
Blackmore, ii. 235 n. 7, 238 n. 6; Burgess,
the preacher, 300 n. 8; claret, price of, iii.
59 n. 1; Cowley's relaxation of loyalty, i. 9
n. 4; Garth's oration over Dryden's corpse,
391 n. 1; Kennett's Whiggism, ii. 30 n. 1;
King, William, 31 n. 6; Lancaster, Dr.,
151; Lechmere, Lord, I n. 4; Parker, 'learn-
ed Dick,' 10 n. 4; Pope's filial piety,
iii. 154 n. 4; Dunciad, attacked in, 113 n. 2;
P.'s Greek and Latin, ib.; Rowe, ii. 72 n.
3; Tickell's fellowship, 304 n. 2; Urry,
John, of Christ Church, 21 n. 4.

HEARNE, Mrs., Stella's niece, iii. 43 n. 4.
HEATHCOTE, Sir John, iii. 344.

HEDELIN, François, ii. 5.

HEDGES, Sir Charles, ii. 88.

HEINSIUS, i. 114 2. 4.

HELVOETSLUYS, iii. 371.

HEMISTICHS, i. 63, ii. 208, iii. 399.
HENDERSON, John, the actor, iii. 416 n. 1.
HENDERSON, John, of Pembroke College,
Oxford, iii. 359.

HENLEY, John ('Orator'), account of him,
ii. 428 n. 3; distich on Pope's Homer and
Broome, iii. 81; P. and Savage, ii. 428;
Whitehead's Manners, mentioned in, iii.
181 n. 2.

HENLEY IN ARDEN, iii. 358 n. I.

HENRIETTA MARIA, Queen, Cowley fol-
lows her to Paris, i. 6; St. Albans, Lord,
relations with, 6 n. 3, 282 n. 3; Waller
celebrates her arrival in England, 251 n. 5.
HERBERT, Charles, Sheffield's natural son,
ii. 173 n. 10.

HERBERT, George, letters, his, iii. 159;
omitted by Johnson, i. 22 n. 4.

HERBERT, Mrs., Butler's wife, i. 204.
HEREFORD Cathedral, i. 314.
HEROIC POEM, hero may be unfortunate,

i. 176.

HEROIC VERSE, i. 192.

HERRING, Thomas, Archbishop of Can-
terbury, ii. 278.

HERRINGMAN, Dryden's publisher, i. 346

n. 2.

HERTFORD, Frances, Countess of, invita-
tions to poets, iii. 287; Savage's pardon, ii.
352, 353; Thomson's Spring dedicated to
her, iii. 287.

HERTFORD, Algernon, Earl of, iii. 287.
HERVEY, John, brother of Cowley's friend,
i. 36 n. 8.

HERVEY, John, Lord, duel with Pulteney,
iii. 178; Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor
of Divinity, 179 n. 1, 246 n. 4; Gay and
Duchess of Queensberry, ii. 280 n. 3; G.'s
Polly, 279 n. 2; George II's advice to him,
iii. 148 n. 4; Johnson not fair judge where
a Hervey concerned, 179 n. 3; Lyttelton's
appearance, 454 n. 4; L.'s speeches, 447 n.
4; Pope's father, a hatter, 179; P.'s 'Sporus,'
246; P., warfare with, 178, 180; Verses
to the Imitator of Horace, 178 n. 5, 246

n. 4.

HERVEY, William, Cowley's elegy, i. 36,
65.

HESSUS, Eobanus, iii. 114 n. 3.
HEYNE, iii. 319 n. 5.
HIGHGATE SCHOOL, ii. 66.

HILL, Aaron, Blackmore's Prince Arthur,
ii. 239 n. 6; Creation, 340 n. 1; Dennis,
lines on, 133 n. 6; Gay and Duchess of Mon-
mouth, 268 n. 2; Happy Man, 342; Mal-
let's Eurydice, iii. 402; Plain Dealer, ii.
341 n. 7; Pope's Bathos, 361 n. 4; P. and
Dennis, iii. 95 n. 6; P.'s Dunciad, inserted in,
151, 213; prose, his, ii. 340 n. 1; Savage's

Bastard ascribed to him, 377 n. 1; S., be-
friends, 341; S.'s first Volunteer Laureat
ascribed to him, 382 n. 3; S.'s Miscellany, con-
tributed to, 342; S.'s right to a pension, 406
n. 2; S.'s story, inserts in Plain Dealer, 328 n.
2, 341; S.'s tragedy, 339, 340; Thomson, no-
tices, iii. 284; T.'s Winter, verses prefixed to,
286; T., verses to, 285; Tyrconnel, praises,
ii. 358 n. 1; Voltaire's Zaïre, translated, 341
n. 7; Westminster School, 339 n. 2.
HILL, Major-General John, ii. 31.
HINCHINGBROKE, Edward, Lord, i. 232

n. I.

Histoire des imaginations extravagantes de
M. Oufle, iii. 182 n. 4.

HOADLY, Benjamin, Bishop of Winchester,
All for Love, at Blenheim House, sees, ii.
396 n. 1; Bangor controversy, 329 n. 3;
Whig meeting at the Trumpet, 157.

HOADLY, Benjamin, the younger, M.D.,
Pope's deathbed, iii. 191 n. 8; Suspicious
Husband, 184 n. 2.

HOADLY, Dr. John, son of the bishop, ii.
157.

HOBBES, Thomas, Iliad, iii. 115, 252; Mil-
ton and Salmasius, i. 112; Sheffield's re-
ligion, ii. 174.

HODGES, Dr., i. 248 n. 2.

HOGARTH, William, ii. 398 n. 3.

HOGG, James, the Ettrick shepherd, i. 267

n. 4.

HOLLAND, third Lord, favourite lines of
Pope, iii. 247 n. 3.

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, flowers of poetry
on border line of sublime and ridiculous, i.
460 n. 3.

HOLSTEIN, keeper of Vatican library, i. 94,
95 n. I.

HOLYDAY, Barten, translator of Juvenal, i.
373, 422, 446.

HOME, John, author of Douglas, iii. 340.

HOMER, Cambridge large Homer, iii. 252;
Cowper on English translations, 275; few
passages of doubtful meaning, 114; Iliad,
not written without immense labour,' i. 2 n.
5; I. and Paradise Lost, 175; I. prose trans-
lation suggested, iii. 114 n. 2; I. quoted,
129 n. I; liberty of borrowing from him, i.
92; Odyssey, quoted, 100 n. 2, ii. 49;
translated into English by Chapman, Hobbes,
and Ogilby, iii. 115; French by La Valterie
and Dacier, 114; by Sald, 115 n. 3; Italian
by Salvini, 237; Latin by Hessus, 114;
Iliad translations by Broome, Ozell, and
Oldisworth, 76; I. Dryden, Mainwaring,
Tickell, 132; I. Hall, 115 n. 3; I. Pope,
109; Odyssey, translation by Pope, Fenton,
and Broome, ii. 259, iii. 76, 139.
Honest, ii. 263 n. I.

Honesta res est laeta paupertas, iii. 433 n. I.
Honied, iii. 434 n. 2.

HOOD, Admiral, Viscount Bridport, iii. 328

22. 2.

HOOKE, Abbé, iii. 191 n. 8.
HOOKE, Nathaniel, account of him, iii. 191
n. 7; Bolingbroke's opinions and Pope, 169;
Pope's deathbed, suggests priest, 191.
HOOKER, Richard, all truth out of any
truth, iii. 99; quoted by Waller, i. 255.
HOOLE, John, translator of Tasso, i. 296.
HORACE, cheerfulness, iii. 207 n. 2; Cow-
ley's version of Epis. i. 2. 40, i. 62; 'cu-
riosa felicitas,' iii. 236 n. 1; 'dignus vindice
nodus,' ii. 284 n. 3; Gray's Bard and pro-
phecy of Nereus, iii. 438; G.'s Ode on Ad-
versity and 'O Diva, gratum quae regis
Antium,' 435; Hughes's paraphrases of Odes,
ii. 159 n. 4, 160 n. 3; 'Incredulus odi,'
16, iii. 438; 'inventore minor,' ii. 205;
Jonson's, Ben, Ars Poetica, i. 421 n. 5;
Lucilius, ii. 205; mens divinior,' 282 n. 7;
'Monumentum exegi aere perennius,' sung
over Dryden's corpse, i. 391 n. 1, 487; Pindar,
43 n. 3, iii. 227 n. 4; Pope's Imitations of
Horace, 175, 246; Rochester's imitation of
Sat. i. 10, i. 224; Roscommon's version of
Ars Poetica, 237; R.'s version of Odes (i. 22,
iii. 6), 238; Scaliger's two favourite odes,
35 . 1; similes, ii. 130; Walsh's imitation
of Odes (iii. 3), i. 330 n. 6; quotations,

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Ars Poetica (1. 12), iii. 346 n. 1; (1. 409), ii.
2; Epistles (i. 2. 69), 211 n. 2; (i. 7. 28),
iii. 41 n. 5; (ii. 1. 50), 176 n. 3; (ii. 2. 12),
ii. 9; (ii. 2. 137), i. 137 n. 2; Odes (i. 35. 1),
iii. 435 n. 7; (ii. 1. 7), ii. 116 n. 3; (iii. 24.
31), 318 n. 1; (iv. 2. 7), i. 43 n. 3; Satires
(i. 5. 44), ii. 3; (ii. 1. 60), 265 n. 3.

HORNE, George, Bishop of Norwich, iii.
395 n. 6.

HORNER, Francis, Collins's Ode on the
Superstitions of the Highlands, iii. 340 n. 3;
Cowley's Essays, i. 64 n. 2.

HORTE, Dr. Josiah, Archbishop of Tuam,
iii. 303.

HORTON, in Buckinghamshire, i. 91, 93.
HORTON, in Northamptonshire, ii. 41.
HOUGH, Dr., President of Magdalen Col-
lege, Oxford, ii. 297.

ridi-

HOWARD, Edward, Dryden's brother-in-
law, i. 307 n. 5, 393 n. 3; British Princes,
308 n. 2; Rehearsal, ridiculed in, 482;
culed by Dorset and Waller, 308 n. 2.
HOWARD, Lady Elizabeth, Dryden's wife,
account of her, i. 393; D.'s funeral, 390;
'I wish I were a book,' 397 n. 1; scholar of
Purcell, 341 n. 3.

HOWARD, Mrs. Henrietta, afterwards Coun-
tess of Suffolk, courted by Gay and Pope,
ii. 275 n. 2, iii. 39 n. 3; Pope overeats at
her table, 200 n. 2; power not lodged with
her, ii. 275 n. 2, iii. 39; Swift pays court
to her, 39, 73; S.'s ingratitude, ii. 275 n. 2.
HOWARD, John, Dryden's brother-in-law,
i. 482.

HOWARD, John, prison reformer, ii. 426 n. 3.
HOWARD, Sir Robert, Dryden's brother-in-

law, Committee, The, i. 382 n. 4; Conquest
of China by the Tartars, 480; corruption
of poet, (generation of statesman,' 339 n. 6;
dramatic rhyme controversy with Dryden,
338, 339; Dryden's Annus Mirabilis, ad-
dressed to him, 338; Dryden's marriage,
393 n. 4; Duke of Lerma, 338, 339; Indian
Queen, 336; Milton, converses with, 156 n. 4
Rehearsal, supposed to be 'Bilboa' in, 369,
482; 'Sir Positive' in Shadwell's Sullen
Lovers, 482.

Howe, Charles, Devout Meditations, iii.
385.

HOWE, Baroness, Pope's quincunx, de-
stroyed, iii. 134 n. 2.

HOWELL, James, Familiar Letters, iii.
159; Milton's Divorce Doctrine, i. 106;
Parnell's Hermit, story of, ii. 53, 55; San-
nazaro's famous hexastic,' i. 41 n. 6.
HOWITT, Mary, iii. 33 n. 3.

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HUGHES, Mrs. Anne (Burgess), the poet's
mother, ii. 159.

HUGHES, John, Addison's Cato, ii. 99, 162;
Apollo and Daphne, 162; birth, &c., 159;
Blackmore, visits, 236 n. 4; Calypso and
Telemachus, 161; cantatas, 160; Correspon-
dence, 159 n. 1, iii. 343; Court of Neptune,
ii. 159; death, 164; dedication to Lord
Chancellor Cowper, 164; d. to Duke of
Wharton, 161; d. to Earl of Halifax, 159;
Duke of Gloucester's birthday, celebrates,
159; Duncombe's Memoir of him, 159 n. I;
Essay on the Pleasure of being deceived, 160;
education, 159; Horace, paraphrases of, 159,
160; House of Nassau, 160; Lay Monastery,
contributed to, 244; ministry, intended for
the, 159 n. 5; music and painting, 159; Ode
to the Creator of the World, 161; Ode on
Music, 160; Ordnance office, place in, 159;
Peace of Ryswick, ib.; Pharsalia, translates,
161; Pope's estimate of him, 165; Secretary
to the Commissions of the Peace, 163; Siege
of Damascus, 162 n. 4, 163, 164; Spenser,
edited, 162; Steele's Essay on him, 164;
Swift's low estimate of his poems, ib.; Tat-
ler, Spectator and Guardian, contributed to,
161; theatric genius,' iii. 397 n. 7;
translations, Fontenelle's Dialogues des Morts,
ii. 160; Molière, 161; Vertot's Revolution
of Portugal, ib.;
Watt's schoolfellow,

159 n. 3, iii. 303; W.'s advice, ii. 159 n. 5;
W., praised by, 164 n. 2; quotations
On the Birthday of Lord Chancellor Parker,
163 n. 2; Ode to Lord Chancellor Cowper,
163 n. 2.

HUME, David, Bolingbroke's Works, iii.
407 n. 7; Burnet's inaccuracy, i. 128 n. 5;
Charles II, no true generosity, 248 n. 2; C.ii's
'unexampled lenity,' 127 n. 3; Cowley, 59
n. I; curiosity, ii. 371 n. 1; Dryden's plays,
i. 335 n. 4; eloquence must submit to public
verdict, ii. 16 n. 3; Hudibras, i. 212 nn. 1, 6;
Lyttelton's Hist. of Henry II, iii. 453 n. 1 ;

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Mallet and Marlborough papers, 405 n. 6;
Milton's Hist. of Britain, i. 146 n. 1; M.'s
prose writings, 120 n. 3; pronunciation of
his name, iii. 340 n. 2; Restoration plays,
i. 335 n. 4; Rochester's satire, 226 n. 8;
ruling passion,' iii. 173 n. 6; Scotticisms,
402 n. 5; Spenser's Fairy Queen, i. 183 n.
4; style, not English, iii. 52 n. 2; Swift's
style, ib.; Temple's unpolluted writings,
i. 235 2. 3; toleration, paradoxical and salu-
tary, 108 n. 4; Waller's versification, 293
n. 1; W.'s poems, 294 n. 8; Warburton and
his gang, iii. 167 n. 2.

HUME, Sir Patrick, first Lord Marchmont,
iii. 283 n. 2.

HUME, Mrs., Thomson's grandmother, iii.

281 n. 4.

HUMPHRIES, Mr., ii. 415 n. 3.

HUNT, Leigh, Collier's attack on Drama,
ii. 220 n. 5; Congreve at Ilam, 212 n. 3;
C.'s Doris, 233 n. 8; C.'s Incognita, 214 n.
2; C.'s Love for Love, 218 n. 6; C.'s plots,
219 n. 1; C.'s Tatler, 224 n. 3; C.'s Way
of the World, 223 n. 6; Pindaric and Ben
Jonson, 234 2. 5; wit of Congreve's time,
216 n. 3; wit for wit's sake, 228 n. 2; Young
and Congreve's will, 227 n. 4.

HURD, Bishop, Addison and Pope, iii.
133 n. 1; Cowley's Works, edits, i. 18 n. 2;
C.'s 'mistresses,' 37 n. 4.

HUSSEY, Rev. John, marginal notes on
Boswell's Johnson, ii. 341 n. 2, 435 n. 1, iii.
361 n. 1, 458.

HYDE, Thomas, the orientalist, ii. 12 n. 1.
HYDE, see CLArendon.

HYPOCRISY, 'less mischievous than open
impiety,' iii. 55.

IGNORAMUS, an, i. 375 n. 2.

ILAM, ii. 212 n. 3.

ILAY, Lord, iii. 155 n. 4.

IMITATIONS OF POEMS, i. 224, iii. 176,
247, 332.

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ING, Mr., of Staffordshire, iii. 323.

INOCULATION, ii. 250.

Inservi Deo et laetare, iii. 325.

Intellects, iii. 338 n. 5.

Interlope, ii. 238 n. I.

Invisibilia non decipiunt, iii. 379.

I pensieri stretti ed il viso sciolto, i. 93.
IRELAND AND IRISH, Church, First Fruits
and Twentieths, iii. 14; coinage, 34, 71;
English gentry and savage old Irish,' I n. 7;
'fair people, a,' 403 n. 1; Keeper of Records
in Birmingham's Tower, ii. 152; Lords Jus-
tices, 310 n. 8; 'most obscure and enslaved
country,' iii. 28 n. 3; 'no man visits where he
cannot drink,' 47; Scotch, compared with
the, 403 n. 1; Swift, her debt to, 50; trade
and manufacture, freeing of, 50 n. 4; Wood's
halfpence, 33-37, 72.

'ISAAC BICKERSTAFF,' iii. 12, 13.
ITALIAN ACADEMIES, i. 93 n. 7, 233.

ITALIAN LEARNING, in Milton's time, i. 95
n. 6.

ITALIAN OPERA, account of it, ii. 165;
Beggar's Opera, driven out by, 278; 'exotic
and irrational entertainment,' 160; opposi-
tion to English opera, 161; prevalent taste
for it in Addison's time, 88.

ITALIAN POETRY, in Milton's time, i. 161
18.3.

JACKSON, Rev. William, expires in dock
quoting Venice Preserved, i. 246 n. 2.
JAGO, Richard, account of him, iii. 333 ~. 4;
Edge-hill, 349 n. 1; Elegy on a Blackbird,
333.

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JAMES I, a clothworker, i. I n. 4; conver-
sation with Bishops Andrews and Neile, 250.
JAMES II, began a holy war at home,' i.
275; Charles II's papers against Church of
England, 483; commands against Dutch,
304; Dorset, despised by, 305 m. 3; Dry-
den's Virgil allusions, 387 n. 6; Eikon
Basilike, 197; 'left like a whale upon the
strand,' 275; literary merit, rewarded with-
out loving, 384 n. 4; Spanish Friar, for-
bids, 357 n. I; Waller treated with kindness
and familiarity, 275; W.'s epigram on him,
273.

JAMES, Dr. Robert, ii. 21.

JAMES, John, of Queen's College, Oxford,
iii. 308 n. 4.

JANE, Dr., Regius Professor of Divinity at
Oxford, ii. 4.

JANES or JEANS, John, the fossilist, ii. 271
n. 6.

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JEFFREY, Francis, Lord Jeffrey, Journal to
Stella, iii. 23 n. 4; punctuation, 453 n. 6.
JEFFREYS, George, first Baron, Lord Chan-
cellor, Barnes's Ode to him, ii. 89 n. 4;
Settle's panegyric, i. 376.

JEFFREYS, George, poet and dramatist, ii.
103.

JEFFREYS, John, second baron, i. 390.
JERMYN, Sir Thomas, i. 256.

JERSEY, Edward Villiers, first Earl of, ii.
184, 185 n. 8.

JERVAS, Charles, Arbuthnot's jest, iii. 273;
Don Quixote, 107 n. 3; infidelity, 273;
pictures, 107 n. 3, 273; Pope and Addison,
attempted reconciliation of, 130; Pope
'honoured with his good deeds,' 113 n. 1;
P., his pupil, 107; Swift's portrait, 55 n. 5.
JESUITS, Latin and Greek taught together,
iii. 84 n. 2.

Jesuit's Perspective, The, i. 2 n. 6.
JODRELL, Richard Paul, iii. 252.
Johnny Armstrong, iii. 439.

JOHNSON, Elizabeth, Dr. Johnson's wife,
Epilogue to Distrest Mother, iii. 316 n. 1;
Gay's poetry, ii. 282 n. 6.

JOHNSON, Esther (Stella), account of her,
iii. 9; baptism, 9 n. 3; character, 42; dean-
ery, lived near, 29; d., lodges in it when
Swift in England, 30 n. 6; d., improper for
her to die there, 37 n. 5; death, 40, 42; de-
licacy, small failure of, 62 n. 4; flatters by
acquiescence invincibly wrong opinions, ii.
124; fortune bequeathed to charitable uses,
iii. 64; illness, 37; Ireland, invited to, 9;
Johnston, signs her name, 9 n. 3; Journal
to Stella, 23; lived in different house from
Swift, 9, 30; lodgings, lived always in,' 9
n. 6; marriage, alleged private, 30, 41, 43,
69; m., Tisdall's proposal of, 41 m. 2;
morning, never seen in, 9 n. 5; parentage,
9, 74; servant to Temple's sister, 74; spell-
ing, her, 42; Swift's letters to her decrease,
31 n. 6; S., never saw without witness, 9,
30 n. 7; S.'s public table, regulated, 29;
S. and Vanessa, 33; Temple's legacy, 9, 74;
'too late,' 42; Vanessa's death, effect on her
of, 32; verses on Swift's birthday, 42 n. 4;
wit, her, 42.

JOHNSON, or MOSSE, Mrs., Stella's mother,
iii. 74.

JOHNSON, Michael, Johnson's father, Bur-
net's and Sprat's sermons, ii. 37; sale of Ab-
salom and Achitophel, i. 373.

JOHNSON, Samuel, accuracy, inattentive to
minute, i. 368 n. 10, iii. 281 n. 4; attacks,
only once replied to, i. 400 n. 4; Collins
and the booksellers, iii. 336 n. 2; C., con-
tributed to The Poetical Calendar, account
of, 337 n. 2; confidence in himself, i. 94
n. 2; conjecture, kept things floating in, iii.
200 n. 5;
character, drew from his
own, in describing Dryden, i. 417 n. 1, 457
n. 3; Pope, iii. 216 n. 2; Savage, ii. 429
n. 3; Thomson, iii. 297 n. 4; Dies
Irae, i. 292 n. 1, iii. 310 n. 2; Dissertation
on Pope's Epitaphs, 254 n. 1; Drury Lane
Prologue, 445; Essay on Epitaphs, 254 n. 1;
friends' defects, inclined to palliate, ii. 433
n. 4; good principles without good practice,
allowed too much credit to, 200 n. 5, 432
n. 3; Greek epigram, Latin version of, 202
n. 2; Hampton's Polybius reviews, i. 87 n. 4;
'incredulus odi,' iii. 438 n. 8;
Irene and

Ju-

Cato, ii. 133 n. 4; price sold at, i. 342 n. 2;
Walpole alludes to it, ii. 136 n. 4;
venal, imitations of, i. 447 n. 3; knowledge,
varied and ready for use, iii. 217 n. 4; Latin
poetry, modern, proposed history of, 182
n. 7; letter to Gent. Mag. on Savage, ii.
435; library in Inner Temple Lane, iii. 156
n. 4; 1., sale of, i. 320 n. 2; lie, use of
word, iii. 77 n. 6; Lives of the Poets, see
Lives of the Poets; loans, small, disliked
being asked for repayment, ii. 81 n. 5;
London, date of publication, iii. 179 n. 4;
Gray praises it, 444; spirit of liberty pre-
valent when written, 179 n. 6; man-
kind, worse in commerce, more kindly, ii.

430 n. 2; Medea chorus, two versions of, iii.
444 n. I; memory, strength of, i. 226 n. 3,
228 n. 1, ii. 65 n. 1; metaphysical dis-
tresses,' 69 n. 6; monument in St. Paul's, iii.
260 n. 3; music, no relish for, 228 n. 5;
nature from between houses of Fleet Street,
i. 178 n. 1; old man in his talk, nothing of
the, 291 n. 1; paraphrases in quotation
marks, 279 n. 3; pathetic in poetry, never
liked to speak of, ii. 69 n. 6; payment re-
ceived for Irene, i. 366 n. 2; p. r. Life of
Savage, ii. 367 n. 1, 435; p. r. Lives of the
Poets, xxv, ii. 367 n. 4; p. г. London, 367
n. 1, iii. 180 n. 4; poetry, pleasure in writing,
218 n. 3; Politian's poems, proposed edition
of, 182 n. 7; Pope's Messiah, Latin version
of, 226 n. 3; P.'s representative metre, paro-
dies, 231; P.'s statements, trusts, ii. 307
n. 4; porter's knot, advised to buy a, 260
n. 4; poverty, never sneered at, iii. 283 n. 5;
Rambler, ladies' names in, 311 n. 1; title
suggested by Wanderer, ii. 364 n. 2; rapi-
dity of composition, iii. 314 n. 1; Rasselas and
Gray's Distant Prospect of Eton, 435 n. 2;
reading, before eighteen, 94 n. 2; resolu-
tions, renews neglected, i. 156 n. 3; Royal
Society Transactions, improved arrangement,
ii. 39; Rowe's Fair Penitent, repeats pas-
sages from, 67 n. 3; seasons, effect of,
ridicules, i. 137, iii. 433; second sight, i.
230 n. 2; shoes worn out, ii. 409 n. 2;
Solihul mastership, unsuccessful application
for, iii. 349 n. I; solitude, dread of, ii. 431
n. I; 'starved into civility,' 272 n. 5; subor-
dination, broken down, i. 233 n. 2; sub-
scriptions to his Shakespeare, ii. 404 n. 3;
talk his best, rule to, i. 162 n. 6; 'thought
more than he read,' iii. 216 n. 2; Thrale's
election, ii. 212 n. 1; translating for book-
sellers, iii. 314 n. 1; triplet in London, 249
n. 4; Ursa Major,' 445; vocation to active
life, 212 n. 2; vows, dislike of, i. 61 n. 1;
' without or without at a detestable name,'
iii. 400 n. 2; quotations, Drury Lane
Prologue, i. 243 n. 2, 303 n. 6, iii. 337 n. 1;
London, ii. 393 n. 1, 402 n. 3, 410 n. 2, 414
n. I, iii. 283 n. 5; Prologue for Comus, i.
160 n. 6; Vanity of Human Wishes, 323
n. 4, ii. 321 nn., iii. 48 n. 3, 394 n. 5.
JOHNSTON, Arthur, i. 150 n. 1.
JOHNSTONE, Dr. James, of Kidderminster,
iii. 454 n. 5.

JOHNSTONE, Dr. John, of Birmingham, iii.
454 n. 5.

JOHNSTONE, Governor, iii. 400 n. 2.
JONES, Mrs. Bridget, of Llanelly, ii. 415.
JONES, Sir William, i. 99 n. 1.

JONSON, Ben, actor, unsuccessful, i. 242;
his 'art,' 303 n. 6; Broome, iii. 81 n. 3;
Clarendon praises him, i. 56 n. 6; courts,
conversant in, 464 n. 3; Cowley's obliga-
tions to him, 58; Digby, Sir Kenelm, cele-
brates, 4 n. 6; dramatic poetry, hints on,

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