tations, A Better Answer, i. 286 n. 3, ii. 202 n. 10; Alma, i. 200, 218 n. 1, 390 n. 1, ii. 179, 199 n. 3, 205 n. 3, 273 n. 3, iii. 105 n. 3, 204 n. 7; Bannisons la Mélancholie, ii. 199; Carmen Seculare, 184 n. 4, 185, 185 n. 1; Chameleon, 204 n. 11; Despairing Shepherd, The, 202 n. 1; Down Hall, 192 n. 2, 193 n. 2; Epilogue to Phaedra, 15 n. 2; Epistle to Boileau, 203 n. 3; Epistle desiring the Queen's Picture, 191 n. 1; Epistle to Shep- herd, 180 n. 4, 182 n. 6; Female Phaethon, 280 n. 3; For my own Tombstone, 195 n. 5; For my own Monument, 198 n. 2; Henry and Emma, 202 n. 11; Ode to the Queen, 210; On the Taking of Namur, i. 47; Sauntering Jack and idle Joan, ii. 204 n. 12; Secretary, The, 183 n. 3; Solomon, 199 n. 4, 206 n. 1, 207 n. 1, 208 n. 5; To the Countess of Exeter, i. 238 n. 8, ii. 182 n. I.
PRIOR, Robert, ii. 199 n. 4. PRIOR, —,
the poet's uncle, a vintner, ii.
PRITCHARD, Mrs., the actress, ii. 78. PRIVY COUNCIL, Clerks Extraordinary, iii. 329 n. I.
Probationer, iii. 282 n. 5.
PRYNNE, William, i. 201 n. 3, ii. 220. Publisher, iii. 201 n. 6. PULCI, i. 454 n. 4. PULHAM, ii. 265, iii. 80.
PULLEN, Josiah, Vice-Principal of Mag- dalen Hall, ii. 297.
PULTENEY, William, Earl of Bath, ' Curio,' in Akenside's Epistle, iii. 414; duel with Hervey, 178; Gay, assists, ii. 272; Rundle, 386 n. 3.
PUNCTUATION, iii. 453 n. 6.
PURCELL, Henry, Alexander's Feast, declined writing music for, i. 456 n. 4; Dryden's Tem- pest, 341 n. 3; D.'s King Arthur, 364 n. 3. PURITANS, i. 214-6.
PUTEANUS, ERYCIUS, i. 92 n. 4. PUTRID FEVER, iii. 353 n. 2, 416. PUTTENHAM, George, Arte of English Poesie, i. 410.
PYM, John, i. 260, 262, 263.
QUEENSBERRY, Duchess of, account of her, ii. 280 n. 3; celebrated by Prior, Gay and Pope, ib.; Gay's friend, 268 n. 3, 276 n. 3, 280; G.'s flute playing, iii. 228 n. 5.
QUEENSBERRY, second Duke of, Secretary of State, ii. 71, 74:
QUEENSBERRY, third Duke of, Gay's patron, ii. 276 n. 3, 280, 281 n. 6. QUILLET, Abbé, ii. 77.
QUIN, James, the actor, anecdote of Philips and Addison, iii. 314 n. 5; Beggar's Opera, ii. 277 n. 1; 'pause of suspension,' i. 193 2. 1; Thomson, assists, iii. 281 . 1; T.'s Coriolanus, 295.
QUINTILIAN, i. 416, ii. 77, iii. 440 n. 8.
RABELAIS, compared with Swift, iii. 51 n. I, 54 n. 4; learning, i. 212. Race, iii. 301 N. I.
RACINE, amor publicus,' iii. 201 n. 7; Andromaque and Philips's Distrest Mother, 314; Bérénice, translated by Otway, i. 242 n. 4; critics, ii. 239 n. 3; inscriptions to Lewis XIV's 'Victories,' 184; 'le vraisem- blable dans la tragédie,' i. 349 n. 5; remote- ness of place convenient to poets, 360. RACINE, Louis, the son, iii. 214. RACKET, Mrs. Magdalen, Pope's step-sister, iii. 83, 89 n. I.
RADCLIFFE, Dr. John, physician to the Tories, ii. 57; Pope, advice to, iii. 196 n. 6. RAINOLDS, John and William, i. 377. RALEIGH, Sir Walter, i. 192, ii. 345 n. 4. RALPH, James, iii. 146.
RAMSAY, Allan, the elder, the poet, iii. 282 n. 1, 317 n. I.
RAMSAY, Allan, the son, the portrait- painter, iii. 251 n. 5.
RAMSAY, Andrew Michael, iii. 214 n. 7. RAMUS, i. 148.
RANDOLPH, Thomas, i. 27 n. 3, iii. 81 n. 3. RANK, iii. 21, 61.
RAPIN, Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie, i. 471 n. 4, 472 n. 2, 475 n. 4. RAVENSCROFT, Edward, London Cuckold, i. 382 n. 5.
RAWLINSON, Mr., iii. 372.
RAYNER, William, ii. 267 n. 3. READ, Mrs., ii. 420, 427 n. 4. READING, i. 104.
Redolent, iii. 435 n. 5. Refinement, iii. 15 n. 3. REGGIO, iii. 422 n. 2.
Regii Sanguinis Clamor ad Coelum, i. 117. Rehearsal, newspaper, ii. 94.
Rehearsal, account of it, i. 368-70, 482; authors assisting Buckingham, 282, 368, ii. 33; amendments and additions, i. 369 n. 2; Cibber acts in it, iii. 185; Davenant as 'Bilboa' original hero, i. 369; Davenant's Love and Honour ridiculed, 370 n. 1; Dryden attacked in 'Bayes,' 369; D.'s comedy ridi- culed, 459 n. 5; D.'s French words, 463 n. 8; D.'s jealousy, 396 n. 3; D.'s plays, ridiculed, 336 n. 2, 349 n. 6, 369; D.'s plagiarism, 371 n. 2; D.'s reasoning in verse, 380 n. 3; Epilogue quoted, iii. 429 n. 1; Evelyn's estimate, i. 368 n. 11; Garrick acts in it, 368 n. 8; hero, change in name and original of, 369, 482; Howard and his brothers ridiculed, 337, 369, 482; Key to it, 482; Langbaine afraid to explain allusions, 482; Ormond's loss of Dublin alluded to, 37°; recent stage events mentioned when playing it, 482, iii. 185.
REID, Andrew, iii. 453.
RELIGION, dangerous to be of no church, i. 155; unfitness of poetry for it, 292; see DEVOTIONAL POETRY.
Republic of Letters, iii. 168, 453 n. 5. RESNEL, Abbé, Garth's Dispensary, ii. 63; Pope's Essay on Criticism and Essay on Man, translated, iii. 99, 164.
REVIEWERS, acknowledgements to them improper, iii. 452.
REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, art, first fondness for, i. 2; gratitude, relief from burthen of, iii. 295 n. 3; Johnson's Life of Savage, ii. 436; Pope's painting, iii. 108 n. 2; P.'s personal appearance, 197 n. I; seasons, superior to, i. 137 n. 3; worked at all times, iii. 433 n. 4.
RHEDYCINA, ii. 304 n. I.
RHYME, i. 192-4, 200, and see BLANK VERSE; used by Milton for verse, 154 n. 10, iii. 86 n. 3; word of emphasis, should be, i. 60, iii. 258.
RICCALTOUN, or Riccarton, Rev. Robert, iii. 281.
RICH, John, Manager of Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, Beggar's Opera, ii. 275, 277 n. 3; Dodsley's Toyshop, iii. 213 n. 7; Dunciad, mentioned in, ii. 275 n. 5.
RICH, Sir Robert, iii. 449.
RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the elder, portrait- painter, Art of Criticism as it relates to Painting, i. 2 n. 6; Dyer, his pupil, iii. 343; Explanatory Notes &c. on Paradise Lost with Life, i. 84 n. 2, 129, 134, 136, 138; Paradise Lost, first lighting on, 198; Pope visits him, iii. 188.
RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the younger, iii.
RICHARDSON, Samuel, Cowley, i. 18 n. 2; Clarissa Harlowe, ii. 67 n. 4, iii. 395 n. 3; 'flowered late,' 10 n. 2; Pamela, 354; Sir Charles Grandison and Spectator, ii. 95 n. 2 ; Sir C. G. and Gulliver's Travels, iii. 63 n. I; Young's Crnjectures on Original Composition addressed to him, 368, 386; Y.'s Resigna- tion, lamented in, 388.
RICHMOND, Duke of, son of Charles II, ii. 24.
RICHMOND, Surrey_church, Stella's bap- tism, iii. 9 n. 3; c., Thomson's grave, 294; Merlin's Cave, ii. 396 n. 2, 404 n. 1; Savage lodged there, 344.
RICHMOND, Yorkshire, i. 328. RICHTER, Jean Paul, iii. 62 n. 1. RIDICULE, the test of truth, iii. 413. RILEY, John, the painter, i. 198. RIVERS, Richard Savage, Earl, Savage's reputed father, ii. 322; character, 326 n. 3; death, 326; godfather to Countess of Maccles- field's son, 323, 439; illegitimate children, 439; personal appearance, 429 n. 2; will, 326 n. 3, 327 n. I.
RIVERS, John Savage, second Earl, ii. 326 n. 3.
ROANNE, i. 267, 268 n. 1.
ROBERTSON, Dr. William, Adrian VI, iii. 335 n. 5; Akenside and Edinburgh Medical Society, 411 n. 5; Charles V, price offered for, 118 n. 1.
ROBERTS, J., the bookseller, ii. 435, 436. ROBINSON, Jacob, the bookseller, iii. 168
ROBINSON, John, Bishop of Bristol, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 190 n. 1.
ROBINSON, Dr. Tancred, i. 140 n. 2. ROBISON, Professor John, iii. 441 n. 2. ROB ROY, iii. 400.
ROBOTHAM, Pope's Essay on Criticism, translated, iii. 99.
ROCHESTER, Henry Wilmot, first Earl of, i. 219.
ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, second Earl of, Addison quotes him, i. 224 n. 3; birth, &c., 219; Boileau, favourite French author, 221; 'buffoon conceit,' his, 226; Burnet's Life of him, 219 n. 2, 222; character, 222; Charles II, in favour with, 220; Comptroller of Woodstock Park, 220; conversion by Burnet, 221; Court, devotes himself to the, 219; coward, every man if he durst would be a,' 226; cowardice, charged with, 219, 226; Cowley, his favourite English author, 221; Crowne, 'set up,' 370 n. 7; death, 222; Dorset, 306; Dryden, flattered by, 355 n. 4; Marriage Alamode dedicated to him, 354, iii. 368; D. sends him a Prologue and Epilogue, i. 334. 1; D., turns enemy of, 355; 368, 370, 371; D. attacks him in Pref. to Juvenal, 355; education, 219; epigram on Cowley, 18 n. 2; e. on Dorset, 307 2. I, 355 n. 4, iii. 256 n. 1; Fletcher's Valentinian, alters, i. 223 n. 7; Gentleman of the Bed- chamber, 220; health ruined, 221; ' holiday writer,' not poet, 224 n. 2; horoscope, 219 n. 2; Hume praises his satire, 226 n. 8; Imitations of Horace, 223, 224, iii. 176; infidelity, i. 220, 221; intemperance, 220; 'intervals of study yet more criminal,' 221; lampooned in Essay on Satire, 371; 1. by Otway, 244 n. 3; 1. in Scroop's Defence of Satyr, 226; lampoons Otway, 244; 1. Sir Car. Scroop, 226; libels, amusement in writing, 221; licentiousness, 220, 221; 'lived worthless and useless,' 221; low amours, 220; Marvell praises his satire, 222 n. 5; mountebank, disguised as a, 220; 'noble and beautiful Count,' 222 n. 3; Nothing, 223, 224, 225; Pope's Silence modelled on it, iii. 88; Oxford, M.A. at 14, i. 219; 'peril of sobriety,' 272 n. 2; Poems on Several Occa- sions, 1680, 223 n. 2; P. castrated for Eng. Poets, 223 n. 2, 226 n. 8; poetry, 'glare of character diffused upon,' 222; Prologue to Empress of Morocco, 370 n. 4; riotous frolics, 220, 304 n. 1; Satire against Man, 223, 226; satires and libels fathered on him, 223; 'scholar, greatest, of all the nobility,' 221;
sea, service at, 219; Settle, protects, 370; Sheffield, praises, ii. 179; S., quarrel with, i. 219, ii. 168; songs, i. 224; Tennyson quotes lines on Vanity of Human Reason, 223 n. 5; Town, the, would be in contra- diction to,' 370 n. 7; travels abroad, 219; Verses to Lord Mulgrave, 223; Wadham College, 219; wit, his, 222; witty sayings, 221 n. 3, 307 n. 1, 387 n. 2; quotations,
An Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace, 307 n. 1; Nothing, 224 n. 3, 225, 225 n. 4; Satire against Man, 223 n. 5, 226 n. 4; To Sir Car Scroop, 226 n. 5; Trial of the Poets for the Bays, 244. ROCHESTER, Laurence, Earl of, Clarendon's Hist., editor of, ii. 22; Dryden's salary, i. 207 n. 5; protest against Macclesfield divorce bill, ii. 322 n. 4.
RODNEY, Admiral, iii. 330 n. 3.
ROGERS, Samuel, Pope's and Cowper's Homer, iii. 276; Pope's Imitations of Horace, lines repeated by him, 247 n. 3; P.'s versifi- cation, 248 n. 5.
ROLLESTON, Professor George, iii. 360. ROLT, Richard, iii. 412 n. 2.
ROMAN CATHOLICS, disabilities, iii. 85 n. 6, 140 n. 5.
ROME, Milton's visit, i. 95, 97; time neces- sary for seeing it, 95 n. 8.
ROSCOMMON, Elizabeth, Countess of, the poet's mother, i. 229.
ROSCOMMON, James Dillon, third Earl of, the poet's father, i. 229, 230.
ROSCOMMON, Robert Dillon, second Earl of, i. 229 n. 3.
ROSCOMMON, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, antiquities and medals, i. 231; Art of Poetry, 237, 240 n. 1; birth, &c., 229; blank verse, 237; Caen, 229, 230; Captain of the Guards at Dublin, 232; Captain of Pensioners, 231; correctness, his, 235; death, 234; Dies Irae, version of, 238; D. I., repeats two lines on death-bed, 234; Dryden, his friend, 232; D., praised by, 235 n. 4, 236, 238 n. 1; D. borrowings, mutual, 238 n. 2; Dublin adventure, 231; education, 229, 230; Essay on Translated Verse, 235-7; gaming, 231; Horace, versions of, 237, 238, ii. 6; Irish rebellion, i. 229; Ireland, visits, 231; latinity, 229; marriage, 232; Master of Horse to Duchess of York, ib.; On the Death of a Lady's Dog, 238; Paradise Lost, praises, 198; Pastor Fido, scene translated from, 238, 239; Philips's Katherine, account of him, 239; Poems, published, 235 n. 1; P., criti- cized by Johnson, 239; P., do not form a single volume, 235; poetical character de- scribed by Fenton, 234; political verses, 238; Pope, praised by, 235; presentiment of father's death, 230; Prologue to Pompey, 238, 239; Rome, proposed retirement to, 234; ruling passion,' iii. 173 n. 6; Shef- field's Essay on Poetry, ii. 175 n. 4; society
for refining language, i. 232; 'sound a com- ment to the sense, iii. 230 n. 4; Strafford, his uncle and godfather, i. 229; travels, 231; 'unspotted lays,' 235; Virgil's Eclogue, VI, version of, 238; Waller, borrows from, ib.; Westminster Abbey, 234; will, 234 n. 3; quotations, Dies Irae, 234, 238 n.2; Essay on Translated Verse, 237, 237 n. 6, ii. 175 n. 4, iii. 173 n. 6, 230 n. 4; Ghost of the House of Commons, i. 240 n. 1; On the Death of a Lady's Dog, 238 n. 3; Pastor Fido, 239; Prologue to Pompey, 239 n. 5; Ross's Ghost, 240 n. I.
ROTA CLUB, THE, i. 126 n. I. ROUBILIAC, Louis, iii. 197 n. I. ROUSSEAU, ii. 334 n. 3.
ROWE, John, the poet's father, ii. 65, 66. ROWE, Nicholas, Addison and Pope, ii. 75; Ambitious Step-mother, 66; author's nights, i. 366; birth, &c., ii. 65; Biter, The, 69, 75; character described by Welwood, 73; c. by Pope and Addison, 74, 75; clerk of the Prince of Wales's council, 72; Colin's Complaint, 76 n. 7, 111, iii. 356; comedy, ii. 69, 75; death, 74; epitaph by Pope, iii. 261; established church, sincere member of, ii. 73; Fair Penitent, 67; funeral at West- minster Abbey, 74; Harley's advice to study Spanish, 71; heart, had no,' 75; Highgate School, 66; income, 70 n. 4; Jane Shore, 69, 76; Lady Jane Grey, 19, 70, 76; land- surveyor, 72; laughed all day long,' 75 n. 1; lay in bed all day, sat up all night, 74 n. 1; marriages and children, 74; Middle Temple, 66; mythology, 68; negligence or hurry, works free from, 70; obscene poem in Eng. Poets, 65 n. 1; payments received for Jane Shore and Lady Jane Grey, 70 n. 3; personal appearance, 73; Pharsalia, version of, 73, 77, 162; poet laureate, 72, 381 n. 2; Pope's Epilogue to Jane Shore, 70 n. 5; Presentations, the, office at, 72; prologues and epilogues, his own, 70; reading of own tragedies, 76 n. 8; Royal Convert, 68; Shakespeare, edition and life of, 70; S.'s style, imitates, 69; S., compared with, 76 n. 8; S.'s Merchant of Venice, 290 n. 3; Swift, befriended by, 72 n. 1, iii. 21 n. 1; Tamerlane, ii. 66, 78; tragedies, 76; trans- lations, 77; Ulysses, 68; Under-Secretary of State, 71, 74; Welwood's Life of him, 65 n. 1, 73; Westminster Abbey, monument and epitaph, 74, iii. 261; Westminster School, ii. 66; Whig, keen, 71; quota- tions, Lady Jane Grey, 69 n. 5; Jane Shore, 69 n. 6.
ROWE, Rev. Thomas, dissenting minister and schoolmaster, ii. 159 n. 3, iii. 303, 304. ROWE, Mrs. (Anne Devenish), the poet's second wife, ii. 74, iii. 261 n. 3.
ROWLAND, Rev. John, i. 117 n. I. Roxana, i. 88.
ROYAL SOCIETY, account of origin, ii. 33,
38; Akenside, a Fellow, iii. 415; Cowley's election, i. II, 12 n. 1; Dryden's election, 434 n. 3; instituted to divert people from public discontent, ii. 94; ridiculed by Butler, i. 208; г. by Pope and Addison, &c., ii. 39; Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 33, 39. ROYSTON, Richard, Warden of Stationers' Company, i. 485.
RUFFHEAD, Owen, Life of Pope, iii. 100 n. 4, 190 n. 3; Pope's projected epic, 189. RULING PASSION, iii. 173.
RUNDLE, Thomas, Bishop of Derry, ortho- doxy attacked, ii. 386; praised by Swift, Pope, and Savage, 386 n. 3; Thomson and Lord Chancellor Talbot, iii. 285, 288.
RUPERT, Prince, ii. 169 n. I.
RUSKIN, John, 'all beautiful work the easy result of long practice,' i. 162 n. 6; irregular measure, condemns, 47 n. 6; link with Milton, iii. 87 n. 2; original minds, their debts and gifts, 66 n. 2.
RUSSEL, Milton's landlord, i. 98. RUSSEL, Mr., the undertaker, i. 390. RUSSELL, William, Lord, ii. 34 n. 4. RYAN, J., M.D., iii. 416 n. 2. RYE, iii. 371.
RYMER, Thomas, criticism, contrasted with Dryden's, i. 413; c., Dryden's and Pope's estimate of it, 485; Cowley's Davideis, 49, 55; Dryden's Night,' 337; Edgar, 485; Foedera, ib.; Milton, his neglect of, 485; Paradise Lost, 198; Shakespeare, reflections on, 485; Short View of Tragedy, 484; Tragedies of the last Age, 471; tragedy, his remarks on, 471-9; Virgil, mends, 337 n. 3; Waller's epitaph, 277.
RYSBACH, John Michael, the sculptor, ii. 195 n. 5.
SABINUS, Georgius, ii. 208.
SACHARISSA, i. 252, 284. See SIDNEY, Lady Dorothea.
SACHEVERELL, Rev. Dr. Henry, Addison's Account of English Poets addressed to him, ii. 83; A.'s college friend, 83 n. 9, 84; A., attacked by, 84 n. 3; contributes to Dryden's Misc. and Musae Anglicanae, 83, 84; lady's fan, displayed on, 277 n. 5; Magdalen College, 83 n. 9, 298; Tale of a Tub and Smalridge, iii. II; Tory reaction, part in, 50 n. 2; trial, his, ii. 29 n. 8; t., theatres injured by it, i. 373 n. 12; Whiggish verses to William III, ii. 84 n. 3; mentioned, 29, 37, 45.
SACKVILLE, Charles, see Dorset. SACKVILLE, Richard, iii. 255 n. 2. SACKVILLE, Thomas, see DORSET, first Earl
SACRED POETRY, i. 49, 75, 182, ii. 264, iii. 393. See DEVOTIONAL POETRY.
SAFFI, Milton's Italian Sonnets, i. 161 n. 3. ST. ALBANS, Henry Jermyn, first Earl of,
Cowley's 'master' and patron, i. 6, 8, 13 n. 4, 16, 36 n. 8, 67; table at Paris, 268 n. 3, 282; mentioned, 256.
ST. ALBANS, ii. 325.
ST. ANNE'S HILL, i. 17.
ST. CECILIA'S DAY, Odes for, i. 388 n. 4, ii. 160 n. 4, iii. 226 n. 7, 227 n. I. SAINTE BEUVE, Gray's melancholy, iii. 431 n. 2;, 'Laboremus,' 218 n. 3. SAINT-ÉVREMOND, i. 272, ii. 62 n. 7. ST. GEORGE, i. 325.
ST. GLUVIAS, iii. 429.
ST. IVES, Cornwall, i. 256 n. 6. ST. JOHN, see BOLINGBROKE. ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL, i. 86.
SALD, French translator of Iliad, iii. 115 n. 3. SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, iii. 362. SALISBURY, James, fourth Earl of, i. 365. SALISBURY, Countess of, iii. 367.
SALMASIUS, controversy with Milton, i. 111- 5; death, 115; latinity, 113, 115; learning, III, 112 n. 1; married to a scold, 113; pay- ment for Defensio Regis, 111; pride, 112 22.1; Queen Christina, 114, 115.
SALMON, Rev. Thomas, ii. 37. SALSILLI, i. 95.
SALTASH, i. 275.
SALVINI, Italian version of Cato, ii. 103; Homer, iii. 237.
SANDWICH, Edward Montagu, first Earl of, i. 219.
SANDWICH, John Montagu, fourth Earl of, i. 222 n. 3. SANDWICH, daughter, ii. 168 n. 4.
SANDYS, George, Ovid's Metamorphoses, version of, i. 63, 373; praised by Dryden, 421; p. by Pope, iii. 84; Sandys's Ghost, ii. 61 n. 7. SAN MARINO, ii. 87.
SANNAZARO, i. 41 n. 6, iii. 318.
Sapiens dominabitur astris, i. 137 n. I. SARGEAUNT, Mr. J., iii. 347. Satire Ménipée, i. 209 n. 4.
SAUNDERS, Rev. William, ii. 417 n. 1, 420
SAUNDERS, Dr., iii. 454 n. 2. SAURIN, M., iii. 293 n. 4.
SAVAGE, Ann, Countess of Macclesfield's illegitimate daughter, ii. 324 n. 1, 439. SAVAGE, Miss Bessy, ii. 439. SAVAGE, Mr. John, ii. 342 n. 6.
SAVAGE, Richard, acquaintance with him, title to poetical reputation, ii. 358; acted in his tragedy, 340; allowance from friends, 413, 415, 416, 422, 427; American planta- tions, 327; attentive mind, 430; author, by necessity, 329; Author to be let, 326, 359, 360, 373, bailiffs, 333 n. 1; Bangor contro- versy, 329; Bastard, 377, 378; beggary and extravagance, 356; benefitted those more miserable than himself, 427; birth, alleged date of, 323, 439; blank verse, 341 . I; Bolingbroke, 392; born to be supported by
others,' 431; borrows small sums, 400; Bristol, 414, 417-29; burial, 429; Cave, letter to, 425; censure, could never bear, 369; Character, A, see Epistle on Authors; character and mode of life, 429-33; cheer- fulness, 405, 409, 422; coffee-houses, talks politics in, 387, 392; colonies, 393; comedies, 330; composed in fields or streets, 338; con- fidence in himself, 403; confidences, betrayed, 431; conversation, 405, 430; corrections, minute in, 367; country life, dreams of, 410; criminals, converses with, 426; criticism of his Works, 433; death, 429; 'debauchery, acquainted with all scenes of,' 390; debts, 405, 411, 419, 427; debtor's prison at Bristol, 421-9; dedications, flattery of his, 343; d. to Prince of Wales, 397; d., Lansdowne, 330 n. 5; d., Montagu, Lady M. W., 343; d., Tyrconnel, 352 n. 2, 368; dependence, feels miseries of, 411; despair, not his character to, 392; disappearances, regular, 391, 398; distress, ridiculed, 374; dress, 398, 401 n. 1, 402, 409, 411, 418; Duck preferred to him, 404; elections and Daily Courant, 385; epigram on Dennis, 362; Epistle on Authors, 355 n. 3, 392; Esquire,' 428 n. 6; esteem, his, an uncertain possession, 359; evidence of his story examined, 437; excuses for him by Johnson, 381, 433; e., his own, 399; fail- ure, &c., never due to himself, 379; familiarity with persons of rank, 370; fatal tavern fray, 344, 345; alluded to, 388 n. 4; his view of it, 356; faults, effects of misfortunes, 364; favours, demanded as rights, 400; fees for viewing gardens, 395; fields, retired into the, 405; filial duty,' 342 n. 2; flattery, 343; Fleet, liberties of the, 411; fortitude, 353, 376; Foster, friendship with, 387; freemason, iii. 297 n. 7; friends, daily decreasing, ii. 418; f., new succession of, 400, 405; friend- ship, uncertain, 431; Genius of Liberty, 385 n. i; Gentleman's Magazine, contributes to, 355 n. 3, 382, 384, 387 n. 1, 415, 428 n. 6, 439; George I, elegy on, 344; Gibson, Bishop, 387; 'golden part of his life,' 358; goodness, knew necessity of,' 432; gratifica- tion of every appetite, 367, 391, 426, 431; Hardwicke, Lord, 389 n. 1; Hertford, Countess of, befriended by, ii. 352, iii. 287 n. 4; Hill, Aaron, befriended by, ii. 339, 341; homeless, 338, 398, 405; ‘human nature, in favour of,' 430; improvidence, 367, 372, 391, 401, 411, 419, 431; 'incommodious inmate,' 400; inconsistency of writings and conversa- tion, 370; independent spirit, 401, 409, 422, 432; ingratitude, 334, 416, 431; 'injured nobleman,' 337; insolence, 433; intellectual arrogance, 402; invitation, complied with every, 405; irregular life, 400, 431; 'Iscariot Hackney, 359; Johnson's character, described in Savage's, 429 n. 3; J.'s farewell, 414; J., intimacy with, 434 n. 2, 435; J., nightly perambulations with, 398 n. 4; Jones, Mrs.,
poems to, 415 n. 3; knowledge, acquired in conversation, 430; late hours, 417; legacies, loss of, 325, 327; letters, 420, 421, 423, 425; liberty, jealous of his, 369; licentious poems, 380 n. 3, 388 n. 1; literary hypocrisy, 362; life and human nature, critic of, 371; life, knowledge of, 358, 395, 430; Life, 1727, 345 n. 1, 354; lived at other men's tables, 364; loan, refusal resented as affront, 400; London, leaves, 413; L., resolves to return to, 415, 418, 419; London and Bristol De- lineated, 424, 427; Love in a Veil, 330; Macclesfield, Countess of, claimed as mother, 329; M., attacks on, 358 n. 1, 366, 376; M., threatens with lampoons, 357; walks before her house, 329, 351; see MACCLESFIELD, Countess of; memory, 429; middle state of life,' 395; Miscellaneous Poems and Trans- lations, 328 n. 1, 342 n. 3, iii. 343 n. 8; miseries of want, ii. 329; 'modest inoffensive man,' 347; morality and piety, writings tend to propagate, 380; murder-trial, 346-51, 355; name, passed under another, 328 n. 1; Nash, Beau, befriended by, 422; natural equality of mankind, 394; Nature in Per- fection, 358 n. 1, 376 n. 2; neglect and con- tempt, 402; Newgate, 345, 350, 354; notoriety, desired, 386; obstinacy, 425; Oldfield, Mrs., wears mourning for, 336; see OLDFIELD; orphan's part played too long, 329 n. 2; Page, Judge, satire on, 355; parentage, discovers his, 328; pawns books, 368; payments received, 341, 367; penniless, periodically, 391; pension from Countess of Macclesfield, 335; p. from Mrs. Oldfield, 336, 383; p. from Queen Caroline, 383, 390, 391, 398, 408, 409; p. from Lord Tyrconnel, 358; personal appearance, 429; plans, quickly formed, quickly laid aside,390; Poet's Depend- ence on a Statesman, 391 n. 4; Poet Laureate- ship, 381; Pope, befriended by, 363, 41 2 n. 2, 413 nn., 415, 419 n. 1, 427 n. 3, 428, iii. 214; P.'s Dunciad dedication, ii. 360, 362, iii. 147; P., ingratitude to, ii. 415 n. 6, 428; P.'s spy, 362; see POPE; popular controversy, rushes into, 386; poverty, 398, 409, 418, 419; Prince of Wales, dedication to, 392, 395, 397, 408; Princess Anne's marriage, 385; Pro- gress of a Divine, 380 n. 3, 388, 390, 433 n. I; Progress of a Freethinker,' intended writing, 390; prosecuted for obscenity, 389; prosecutes Daily Courant, 385-6; prosperity, never enjoyed with moderation, 373, 376; public opinion, deferred to, only when favourable, 379; Public Spirit, 392-7; Queen Anne's last ministry, advocate of, 392; Queen Caro- line, elegy on, 382, 407; see SAVAGE, pen- sion and Volunteer Laureate'; reading, little, 430; reconciliation, never solicited, 376, 401; relation's kindness, 337; relieves woman who gave evidence against him, 355; resentful, 355, 401, 431, 433; Richmond, 344, 392; Rivers, Earl, claims as father,
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