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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, —,

180.

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.

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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.

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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.

188.

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

n. 3.

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.

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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

of.

Sacred, iii. 256.

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.

Countess

of,

Rochester's

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

n. I.

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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