Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton

i. 294; alliteration, 295; Americans tracing
descent, 277 n. 3; 'Amoret,' 253, 284; At
Penshurst, 254; baptism, 249 n. 2; bathos,
270 n. 4; Battle of the Summer Islands,
254 n. 1, 289; Beaconsfield, lives near, 268;
B., monument at, 277; beauty's empire ex-
aggerated, 287; Bermudas, 254; 'best and
worst verses of any great English poet,' 287
n. 5; birth, &c., 249; Buckingham's faction,
joins, 274; B.'s profanity, rebukes, 277;
Chapman's Homer, 283; character by Claren-
don, 277-9;
O Charles I's demand for a
supply, 255, 256; contributes to royal cause,
259; favourably received by king, ib.;
secretly works for him, 259 n. 5;
Charles II's delight in his company, 272 n.
2, 281; C. II, obtained nothing from, 274;
children, 252, 255, 277; Christianity, 277;
Clarendon, enmity to, 274; clergy, rails at,
255; Colshill, 249, 276; commissioner to
treat with king, 259; common degrees of
knowledge,' writes to, 284; Congratulation
upon His Majesty's Happy Return, 13 n. 2,
270, 285, 290; conversation, pleasantness of,
279; convivial power of pleasing,' 281;
'Copernican, a,' 285; Corneille's Pompey,
joins in translating, 282; correction, ten lines
a summer under, 287 n. 4; couplet, sense
concluded in, 81 n. 2; court of James I,
frequents, 250; 'courtly Waller,' 293 n. 1;
cowardice, 263, 267, 279; critical examina-
tion, never had, 249 n. 1; Cromwell, his
cousin, 249 n. 4, 269; C., familiar converse
with, 269; C., had only his recall from, 281;
C., praises, 269, 270, 271; daughter's mar-
riage, 275; death, 277; Denham, debt to,
251; described by Aubrey, 279 n. 1; devo-
tional poetry, 276, 290, 291; 'die like the
stag where he was roused,' 276; double
rhymes, 294; Dryden, praised by, 81 n. 2,
293 n. 6, 296 n. 1; Duchess of Newcastle's
Death of a Stag, 280; early poems not pub-
lished when written, 252; elegance and gaiety
of his verses, 294; Elegy on Cromwell, 270,
334, ii. 32; England, permitted to return to, i.
268; episcopacy, defends, 257; Eton, educated
at, 249; E., provostship, 273, 274; exile in
France, 267; expelled Parliament and im-
prisoned, ib.; Fairfax's Tasso, 251, 293,
296; 'feeble care,' 60; Fenton, his biographer
and editor, 249 n. 1; first poem, 250; fined
£10,000, 267; flattery, 279, 280, 287; f. of
Charles I, Cromwell, and Charles II, 271;
fortune, diminished, 268, 282; Hall Barn,
268; Hampden, his cousin, 249 n. 4; H.,
influenced by, 255, 256, 281; 'He's seldom
old that will not be a child,' iii. 135 n. 3;
hoarder in first years, squanderer in last,
i. 282; Hooker, quotes, 255; Howard, ridi-
cules, 308 n. 2; images from 'superficies of
nature,' 284; images of gallantry, 286; in-
come, 249, 282; James II's kindness and
familiarity, 275; King's Coll., Cambridge,

250; language's growth and poets, 233 n. 1;
last illness, 276; letter to Portland, 264;
Lincoln's Inn, 250 m. I; love verses, 287;
'lucky trifles,' 284; marriages, 252, 254,
277, 278; memory, 279 n. 2; metaphysical
poets, contrasted with, 22, 333; monarchy,
friend to, 281; Morley, Dr., friendship with,
278, 280; mythology, 295; narrowness in
his nature, 279; obsolete verb terminations,
294; Of the Danger His Majesty (being
Prince) escaped at St. Andero, 250, 252,
288; Of Love, 284; Of His Majesty's re-
ceiving the News of Buckingham's Death,
251, 288; Of the Queen, 251 n. 6, 289; old
age, 276, 290, 291; On her passing through
a crowd, 285; On the taking of Sallee, 254,
288; On a War with Spain, 269, 289, 430
n. 5; Panegyric to my Lord Protector, 271,
289; Paris, English table at, 268, 282;
Parliament, enters, 250; 1640, 255; Long
Parliament, 256-9; 1661, 272; 1685, 275;
'delight of the House,' 272; graceful way
of speaking,' 278; never laid its business to
heart,' 280; 'nursed in parliaments,' 278; -
passionate and resentful, 281; pathos and
sublimity, absent, 294; personal appearance,
281 n. 6; philosophical pedantry, free from,
284; 'pleas of Waller,' 40 n. 3; Poems,
editions of, 252 n. 3; P., first collected, 251
n. 2; 'poets discreetly blot,' 237 n. 8, 283
n. 6, iii. 136 n. 1; political principles, laxity
of, i. 281; Pope's Essay on Criticism, 293
n. 6; P.'s imitation of a conceit, 285 n. 5;
praise, lavish of, 287, ii. 287 n. 1; Presage
of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire, i. 275;
preterite, retains final syllable of, 294; Re-
hearsal, helps in, 282, 368 n. 3; rhymes on
weak words, 294; Roscommon's Art of
Poetry, 237 n. 8; royalist plot, 260-7,
282; 'rump jewel,' 268; 'Sacharissa,' 252,
253, 254; Sacharissa's and Amoret's Friend-
ship, 286; St. Evremond, praised by, 272;
St. James's Park and Pope's Windsor Forest,
iii. 225; sea fight, describes, i. 430; ship
money judgement, 256, 281; simile, far-
fetched, 290; s. of the Palm, 285; sobriety,
272; speech against Clarendon, 274; s. on
episcopacy, 257; s. on grievances, 255; Stock-
dale's Life, 267 n. 4; 'subjects often unworthy,'
283; sweetness, 79 n. 7, 293; Tasso, reads,
275; tenth Muse,' 278; thoughts easily
understood, 284; t. over-expanded, 286; To
the Earl of Northumberland, 254; To the
King on his Navy, ib., 288; To my Lady
Morton, 268 n. 2; To the Queen, 251; To
the Queen Mother, 254; To Sir T. Higgons,
&c., ii. 242 n. 8; translation from Aeneid,
i. 373 n. 7; transpositions, 283 n. 3; Turks,
enmity to the, 275; Upon His Majesty's
repairing of St. Paul's, 254, 288; Verses
writ in the Tasso of Her Royal Highness,
287; versification, improved, 22, 75, 293
n. 1, 465, ii. 209 n. 6; v., 'do' used too

552

frequently, i. 293; v. early formed, 251; v.
'not always musical,' 284; v., smoothness of,
251, 293, iii. 232; Vipers and treacle,'
i. 285; Virgil, repeated lines of, 276; water-
drinker, 272; wealth, 249, 252, 278, 282;
Wharton, Lady Anne, iii. 367; widower,
young, i. 252, 279 n. 4; wife, rich, 252, 278,
279; wit, famed for, 272, 273, 277, 279; witty
replies to Charles II, 271; w.r.to James II, 275;
w.r. to 'Sacharissa' when old, 253; w. saying
on Charles II and Duke of York, 273; would
blot
any line not containing motive to virtue,
283; zenith of his genius, 290;
tions, At Penshurst, 254 n. 1, 285 n. 6;
quota-
Congratulation upon His Majesty's Happy
Return, 203 n. 4, 267 n. 5, 271 n. 3, 285
n. 3; Epitaph on Lord Andover's son, iii.
135 n. 3; Of the Danger His Majesty escaped
at St. Andero, i. 251 n. 2, 252 n. 1, 288
n. 3; Of English Verse, 233 n. 1; Of His
Majesty's receiving the News of Buckingham's
Death, 288; Of loving at first sight, 287;
Of the Queen, 251 n. 6, 289 n. 3; On a
war with Spain, 270 n. 1, 290; On the
Divine Poems, 276 n. 1; On the Head of
a Stag, 285; On the taking of Sallee, 288
n. 8; Panegyric to my Lord Protector, 271
n. 2; Presage of the Ruin of Turkish Em-
pire, 275 n. 1; Puerperium, 284; Song,
286 n. 3; Thyrsis: Galatea, 238 n. 3; To
Amoret, 253 n. 1; To Chloris, 286; To the
King on his Navy, 271 n. 1, 288 n. 7; To
the King, 295 n. 8; To Mr. Granville on his
Verses to James II, ii. 287 n. 1; To the Sun,
i. 285 n. 1; Upon the Death of the Lord
Protector, 270 n. 4; Upon His Majesty's re-
pairing of St. Paul's, 289; Upon Roscommon's
Translation of Horace, 237 n. 8, 283 n. 6.
WALLER, Benjamin, the poet's eldest son,
i. 277.

WALLER, Edmund, the poet's second son,
i. 275, 277.

WALLER, Edmund, M.P. in Walpole's
time, i. 277 n. 4.

WALLER, Dr. John, of Newtown Pagnell,
i. 277 n. 3.
WALLER, Margaret, the poet's daughter,
i. 267.

WALLER, Robert, the poet's father, i. 249.
WALLER, Stephen, the poet's fourth son,
i. 277.
WALLER, William, the poet's third son,
i. 277.

WALLER, Mr., the poet's great-grandson at
Aberdeen, i. 277 n. 7.

WALLER, Mrs. Anne, the poet's mother,
related to Cromwell and Hampden, i. 249
n. 4, 268; royalist, 268; prisoner in her
own house, 269.

WALLER, Sir William, i. 109.

WALLER, Major-General, i. 277 n. 7.
WALLERS, the Kentish, i. 249.
WALMSLEY, Gilbert, character by Johnson,

INDEX

ገ. 2 ;

ii. 20; Smith and Duckett, 20, 23; letters to
Duckett, 23.

WALMESLEY, Miss, iii. 101 n. 2.

WALPOLE, Horace, Academies for refining
language, i. 232 n. 6; Addison's character of
Somers, ii. 85 n. I; A.'s poetry, 127 n. 1;
A.'s Remarks on Italy, 87 n. 1; A.'s Rosa-
graphia Britannica, i. 146 n. 4; Blount,
mond, 131 n. 5; Akenside's Odes, iii. 420
n. 2; Beaufort, Dukes of, ii. 299 n. 7; Bio-
Martha, iii. 275; Bolingbroke and Lyttelton,
449 n. 2; Bower, 459; Buckingham, Dryden,
and Pope, i. 368 n. 9; Buckingham, Duchess
of, ii. 173 n. 12; Burlington, iii. 206 n. 2;
Cibber's Apology and Careless Husband, 184
n. 2; C.'s pamphlet against Pope, 185 n. 1;
Congreve's Mourning Bride, ii. 219 n. 3,
230 n. 1; Craggs's epitaph, iii. 259 n. 4;
Critical Review, 452 n. 2; Dodington, 287
n. 2; Dorset, first Earl of, 255 n. 1; Dorset,
second Duke of, 255 m. 2; Dryden's Cock
and Fox, i. 455 n. 3; D.'s King Arthur,
364 n. 3; D.'s tragedies, 335 %. 4; Dutch
infraction of treaties, 355 n. 8; Dyer's poems,
iii. 345 n. 5; epic poems, i. 170 n. 2; Fen-
ton's theatric genius,' iii. 397 n. 7; Garth
and Darwin, ii. 63 n. 5; genteel comedies,
228 n. 3; Granville's bathos, 290 n. 5;
Gray's Bard, iii. 426 n. 2, 436 n. 3, 439 n. I,
440 nn.; G.'s conversation, 430 n. 3; 'Danish
Gray,' 441 n. 1; G.'s delicacy as to payment,
431 n. 1; Elegy, 436 n. 3, 442, 443; G.,
estrangement from, 422; G.'s interleaved
Linnaeus, 430 n. 1; G.'s knowledge of archi-
tecture, 430 n. 2; G.'s Latin poems, 424 n. 3;
G.'s letters, 431 n. 7; G. and Oblivion and
Obscurity, 427 n. 2; 'Odes,' calls everything
G. writes, 423 n. 9; Progress of Poesy, 426 n.
2, 436 nn.; G.'s and West's early genius, 424
Hagley, 351 nn., 450n. 5; Halifax's
poems, ii. 47 n. 4; Hertford, Countess of, iii.
287 n. 3; Hughes's' theatric genius,' 397 n. 7;
'Hume, however spelt,' 340 n. 2; Jervas's pic-
tures, 107 n. 3, 273; Johnson's Addison, ii. 134
n. 1; J.'s Gray, iii. 421 n. 1; J.'s Irene, ii.
136 n. 4; J.'s Lyttelton, iii. 452 n. 3; J.'s
Pope, 82 n. 1; J., with or without a t,
a detestable name,' 400 n. 2; Kit-cat club, ii.
61 n. 1; Kitty Dashwood, 312 n.5; Kneller's
love of flattery, iii. 265 n. 1; Lyttelton's
budget speech, 451 n. 2; L.'s Dialogues of the
Dead, 451 n. 4; L.'s Henry II, 453 nn. ;
L.'s prose and verse, 457 n. 2; Mason's
Gray, 442; Methodists, 450 n. 3; Middle-
sex, Earl of, ii. 360 n. 2; Milton's barbarous
prose,' i. 120 n. 3; M.'s L'Allegro and
Penseroso, 165 n. 3; M.'s Paradise Lost, 120
n. 3, 170 n. 2; Newcastle, Duchess of, 347 2.
1, iii. 209 n. 3; 'Orator' Henley, ii. 428 n. 3;
poet-physicians, 63 n. 5; Pope and Boling-
broke's Patriot King, iii. 193 n. 3; P.'s
fortunate Lady, 100 n. 4; P.'s letters, 208
Dunciad, 186 n. 6; P.'s Elegy to an Un-

n.3; Prior's Henry and Emma, ii. 202 n. 11;
Queensberry, Duchess of, 280 n. 3; Roches-
ter's poems, i. 222 nn.; Roscommon's poems,
235 n. 2, 240 n. 1; Rowe's Jane Shore, ii.
76 n. 8; R.'s Tamerlane, 78; Royal Society,
39; Savage's story, accepts, 439; Sheffield
and Buckingham, 177; S.'s' pious relict,' 167
n. 1; Shenstone's letters, iii. 354 n. 4; S.,
'labouring to write perfect song,' 356 n. 1;
S.'s Schoolmistress, 359 n. 1; Strawberry
Hill Press and Gray, 426 n. 1, 443; Swift,
Cato and Mrs. Oldfield, ii. 100 n. 2; S.'s
Four last Years of Queen Anne, iii. 28 n. 2;
S.'s Journal to Stella, 23 n. 4; S. and Mrs.
Howard, ii. 275 n. 2, iii. 39 n. 3; S. and
Vanessa, 70; theatric genius,' 397 n. 7;
Thomson's Seasons, i. 165 n. 3; T.'s Tancred
and Sigismunda, iii. 293 n. 4; Voltaire and
Lyttelton, 452 n. 1; Westminster Abbey
monuments, 294 n. 5; Young's tragedies,
397 n. 7.

WALPOLE, Sir Robert, Broome, flattered by,
iii. 80 n. 1; Committee of Secrecy, ii. 188
n. 5, 191, 192; Gay's appointment, 270 n. 5;
G.'s Beggar's Opera, &c., satirized in, 279
nn., 281 n. 5, 282 n. 3; G.'s Polly, prohibits,
279 n. 2; good temper and placability, 193
n. I; happier hour, his,' iii. 148 n. 5; im-
prisoned in Tower, ii. 292 n. 3; Johnson

honoured his memory,' 363 n. 5; literary
merit and Philips's appointment, iii. 322
n. 6; nation's 'clamours for liberty,' 289;
'no thirster for blood,' ii. 193; 'obscenity to
politics, range of his mind from,' 372; Peer-
age Bill, 114; Philips's, Ambrose, lines to
him, iii. 324 n. 7; poets in office, ii. 215 n.8;
Pope dines with him, iii. 148 n. 5; P.'s
Dunciad, presents to King and Queen, 148,
150; P.'s Odyssey, subscribes for, 142 n. 4;
Queen Caroline and Mrs. Howard, ii. 275
n. 2; Savage, relations with, 363, 391, 406,
408, and see SAVAGE; Secret Committee to
inquire into his conduct, iii. 447; Swift's
sneers at him, 25 n. 6; S., speech against,
25; S.'s Treasury order, 23 n. 1; Thomson's
Agamemnon and Britannia, attacked in,
286, 291 n. 3; T.'s dedication to him, 286
n. 9; Wood's patent, 33 n. 4, 34 n. 4;
Young's dedications, 369, 372; Y.'s pen-
sion, 390.

WALSH, Joseph, the poet's father, i. 328.
WALSH, William,' best critic in the nation,'
i. 328; birth, &c., ib.; courtier and M.P.,
ib.; death, 329; Dryden, reverenced, ib.;
D., preface from, 330; Dryden's Misc., con-
tributed to, ib.; familiarity with greater
men,' ib.; gentleman of the horse, 328;
Horace, imitation of, 330; 'Knowing Walsh,'
329; Letters and Poems, 330, iii. 159; ostler
of inn, i. 328 n. 4; 'pages of inanity,' 330
n. 4; Pope, advice to, iii. 93; P., corre-
sponds with, i. 329; P., encouraged, 329, iii.
93, 97; Sheffield, praises, ii. 179; Wadham

College, Oxford, i. 328; well-dressed, 328,
iii. 97; Whig, a, i. 328 n. 7; William III,
ode to, ib.; Works, list of, 330.
WANSTEAD, iii. 422 n. 7.

WAR of 1763, unsung, ii. 186.
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Glouces-
ter, Addison, ii. 127 n. 1; Akenside, warfare
with, iii. 413; Allen's niece, married, 169;
arrogance, 167; bishopric, 169; Blackmore,
ii. 236 n. 5; Blount, Martha, spite to, iii.
175 n. 2, 190 n. 3; B., takes no notice of,
195 n. 4; Bolingbroke, mutual aversion, 167
n. 2, 169; B.'s Patriot King, 193 n. 1;
Churchill's lines on him, 167 n. 2; 'con-
temptuous superiority,' 166; 'critical per-
spicacity,' 233; Fielding, complimented by,
169 n. 6; 'flounders well,' 233 n. 1; Gib-
bon's estimate, 167 n. 2; Gray's Progress of
Poesy and Bard, 426; 'great writer,' ii. 127;
Hume attacks him, iii. 167 n. 2; Johnson
applies passage in Savage's Wanderer to
him, ii. 366 n. 4; J. describes him, iii. 165;
learning, 165 n. 3; Lyttelton, 451 n. 2;
Mallet, attacks, 403 n. 3, 404 n. 2; Manley's,
Mrs., Atlantis, ii. 187 n. 5; Memoirs of Scri-
blerus, iii. 182; Milton, 'present fashion' for,
i. 199; Page, Judge, ii. 348 n. 2; Pope,
and Addison, iii. 133 n. 1; P., antagonist at
first of, 166, 167 n.5; P.'s Billingsgate, 202 n.
2; P.'s borrowings, 166; Characters of Women,
175 n. 3; P.'s collection of libels, 209 n. 4;

Dunciad, project to make him editor, 188
n. 5; fourth book added at his request, 183;

- Epilogue to the Satires, gave title to, 246
n. 3; Epistles to Bathurst and Burlington,
245; Epitaph on Buckingham, 271;
Essay on Man, authorship, 161; Boling-
broke's share in it, 163 n. 3; defends it, 164
n. 2, 167, 168; time under consideration, 160
n. 5; P.'s eye, 197 n. 1; P., first meeting
with, 167 n. 3, 168 n. 3; P.'s Guardian on
Philips's Pastorals, 107 n. 2; P.'s judgement
and imagination, a16 n.6; P.'s legacy to Allen,
196 n. I; P.'s life, intended writing, 83 n. 6;
P. made a philosopher by him, 165 n. 2; P.'s
monument, 192; Odyssey, shares of Broome
and Fenton, 77; P. and Patriot King, 194;
Prologue to the Satires, its title, 403 n. 3;
Rape of the Lock and Addison, 103 n. 4; its
preternatural agents, 233; - P.'s revision of
Works, aids in, 188; P.'s Roman Catholicism,
214 n. 7; P., roused from senile insensibility to
praise, 194 n. 2; P.'s Works, bequest of
property in, 170; gratified private spite in
notes, 1702.1; preacher at Lincoln's Inn,
169; 'sneaking parson,' 195 n. 4; Theobald's
Shakespeare, supplies notes to, 167; Tickell's
Iliad and Pope, ii. 109; Vindication of Pope's
Essay on Man, iii. 168 n. 5; Voltaire attacks
him, 167 n. 2; 'warm language,' his, 77;
Watts and the Dunciad, 311 n. 2.

WARD, Mr. Edward, High Church poet and
tavern-keeper, ii. 299 n. 6.

WARD, Dr. John, Professor of Rhetoric at
Gresham College, i. 199.

WARD, Seth, Bishop of Salisbury, iii. 362.
WARING, Swift's chamber-fellow, iii. 3

n. 2.

WARING, Jane, Swift's Varina, iii. 3 n. 2,
55 n. 4.

WARTON, Rev. Dr. Joseph, Addison's Cam-
paign, ii. 128; A.'s classical mottoes, 96
n. 2; Akenside's Greek, iii. 416 n. 2; ballad
opera, ii. 283 n. 1; Blount, Martha, iii. 274;
Bolingbroke's writings, 408 n. 1; Broome,
80 n. 6; Collins's Eclogues, 340 n. 1; C.'s
Odes, 335 n. 6; C.'s school fellow, 334 n. 5,
340 n. I; C.'s uncle, 336 n. 3; C., visits,
340; Congreve's Mourning Bride, ii. 230
n. I; 'curiosa felicitas,' iii. 236 n. 1; Dobson
on Pope's learning, 216 n. 3; Dryden's 'com-
mon words,' i. 420 n. 2; Duchess of Bolton,
ii. 277 n. 6; Essay on Pope, dedicated
to Young, iii. 383; praised by Johnson, 236;
good-nature of his criticism,' ii. 128;
Head Master of Winchester, iii. 84 n. 5, 277
n. 2, 334; Hudibras's learning, i. 212 n. 6;
Johnson, estrangement with, iii. 236 n. 2; J.'s
version of Pope's Messiah, 226 n. 3; Mallet's
Amyntor and Theodora, 406 n. 5; M.'s
Verbal Criticism, 402 n. 2; Oblivion and
Obscurity, 427 n. 2; Odes, 335 n. 6; pasto-
-ral comedy, ii. 284 n. 8; Pitt, C., iii. 277;
poets, ranked according to learning, ii. 120
n.5;
Pope's affected contempt of Kings,
iii. 209 n. 5; Essay on Criticism, 98 n. 2; P.'s
frugality and charity, 203 n. 4; P.'s epithets,
250 n. 3; Iliad and Chapman, 115 n. 3; P.'s
lines to Thomson, 291 n. 9; Macer, 313 n. 2;
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 227 n. 2; P. and
Philips's Distrest Mother, 314 n. 4; Rape of
the Lock, 233 n. 4; P.'s slanders on Addison,
103 n. 5, 133 n. 2; P. and Twyford school,
84 n. 5;
Prior's Hans Carvel, ii. 201
n. 8; Statius, iii. 92 n. 5; Theobald's Shake-
speare, 138 n. 5; Thomson's genius, pointed
out, 300 n. 2; T.'s Greek, 282 n. 2; transla-
tions of Ovid, 145 n. 1; Vida's Art of Poetry,
278 n. 2; Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics,
i. 454 n. 1; Young, iii. 394 n. 4, 395 n. 2,
397 n. 3.

WARTON, Rev. Thomas, Collins, visits, iii.
340; C., visited at Oxford by, 339 n. 2;
Milton's Minor Poems, i. 84 n. 2, 108 n. 6;
Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen, ii.
162 n. 6; poet-laureate, i. 482; Pope and
Milton's minor poems, iii. 236 n. 2; P.'s
Temple of Fame, 226 n. 2; words out of
common order, 341 n. 3.

WARTON, Rev. Thomas, the elder, father
of the two Wartons, iii. 236 n. 2, 263 n. I.
WARWICK, Countess of, Addison's court-
ship and marriage, ii. 110, 154; will and
burial, 155.

WARWICK, Earl of, Addison's stepson and
pupil, ii. 110; A.'s deathbed, 117; Pope and

Addison quarrel, iii. 133; epitaph, ii. 117
n. 2; irregular life, 117.

WARWICK, Robert Rich, second Earl of,
i. 254 n. 1.

WATTS, Dr. Isaac, Abney, Sir Thomas,
lived with, iii. 304; birth, &c., 302; Casi-
mir's Odes, i. 46 n. 1; charity, iii. 307;
Cowper, praised by, 310 n. 3; Dacian
Battle, 310; death, 309; devotional poetry,
310; Dissenters, 'takes his lot with,' 302; D.,
taught 'graces of language,' 306; diversity of
attainments, 310; Divine Songs for Children,
307 n. 8; Doctor of Divinity, 309; Dunciad,
inserted in, 311 n. 2; 'gentle, modest, and
inoffensive,' 307; Haberdashers' Hall con-
gregation, 304 n. 1; Hartopp, Sir John, lives
with, 304; Hughes, his school fellow, ii. 164
n. 2, iii. 303; H., advice to, ii. 159 n. 5;
illness, iii. 304; Improvement of the Mind,
309; instruction for all ages,' 310; Johnson
inserts him in Eng. Poets, 302; J.'s venera-
tion, 302 n. 1, 303; latinity, 303, 303;
Logic, 304 n. 3, 308; method of study, 304;
Milton's Paradise Lost and Baxter's Call to
the Unconverted, 311 n. 3; ministry, called
to the, 304; m., methods of his, 307; non-
conformity, to be imitated in all but, 311;
Odes, his, 303; orthodoxy united with
charity, 308; Our God, our help in ages
past, 311 n. 3; Philosophical Essays, 308
n. I; 'piety diffused over his works,' 309;
'Pindaric folly,' 303; poetry, criticism of his,
310; Pope's Homer, 251; preaching, 307;
Rowe's academy in Little Britain, 303; ser-
mon, first, 304; Southampton Free-school,
302; Southey's paper, 302 n. 1; stature,
low, 307; teacher of a congregation,' ib.;
temper, quick, ib.; tenderness to children
and poor, ib.; University education, refuses,
302; verse-maker from fifteen to fifty, 303;
quotations, 303 n. 7.

WATTS, Isaac, the poet's father, iii. 302,
304.

WATTS, Mr., the printer, ii. 307 n. 7.
WAYNFLETE, William of, ii. 300 n. 2.
WEBB, Mr. C. C. J., iii. 19 n. 2.

WEBBE, William, Discourse of English
Poetrie, i. 410 n. 7.

Wedderburne, Alexander, Lord Lough-
borough, Mallet, iii. 410 n. 2; Shenstone's
pension, 353 n. 1; Young's Revenge, quotes
against Franklin, 397 n. 5.

Weekly Miscellany, ii. 388.

WELSTED, Leonard, i. 78 n. 4, iii. 276.
WELSTED, Robert, editor of Pindar, iii.
328 n. 2.

WELWOOD, James, M.D., Rowe's Life,
ii. 73-

WELWYN, iii. 376, 391.
WENTWORTH, see STRAFFORD.
WESLEY, Rev. John, Blackmore's Creation,
ii. 238 n. 6; Cowley's Age of Anacreon, i
39 n. 4; Gray's character, iii. 431 m. 5;

Leasowes, 351 n. 2; Lyttelton's Dialogues
of the Dead, 451 n. 4; Paradise Regained,
i. 188 n. 7; Thomson's Edward and Eleo-
nora, iii. 292 n. 3; travelled on foot, 6

n. I.

WESLEY, Rev. Samuel, Blenheim, cele-
brated, ii. 186 n. 2; Dunciad, inserted in,
iii. 311 n. 2; epigram on Butler's monument,
i. 208 n. I.

WEST, Gilbert, Clerkship of Privy Council,
iii. 328, 330; Cobham, Lord, his uncle, 328;
Coleridge's criticism, 332 n. 5; commission
in army, 328; death, 331; Elegy on a Black-
bird, wrongly ascribed to him, 333; English
Poets, poems omitted in, 331 n. 4; Eton,
328; Gibbon's estimate, 332 n. 3; grave
without its terrors,' 331; Graeco-Gothic
school, 332 n. 5; Hanover, goes with
George I to, 328; Imitations of Spenser,
331 m. 4, 332; 'infidelity, listened to blandish-
ments of,' 330; Institution of the Garter,
331 n. 4, 332; learning, 329; lost his son,
331; Lyttelton, friendship with, 329; mar-
riage, ib.; methodist, called a, 330; Ob.
servations on the Resurrection, 329; Oxford,
matriculates at, 328; O., D.C.L. by diploma,
329; parentage, &c., 328; Paymaster of
Chelsea Hospital, 331 n. 1; piety, 329;
Pindar, translation of, 329, 331, 332; P.,
quotations, 331, 332; Pitt, friendship with,
329; Pope's bequest, 330 n. 1; Prince of
Wales' (George III) education offered to
him, 330; Townshend, Lord, his patron,
328; West Wickham, life at, 329.
WEST, Rev. Dr. Richard, the poet's father,
iii. 328.

WEST, Richard, Gray's friend, iii. 423, 423
n. 4, 424 n. 2.
WEST, Richard, Chancellor of Ireland, iii.
423 n. 4.

WESTCOTE, William Henry Lyttelton, Lord,
iii. 328 nn., 361 n. 1, 457.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Addison's funeral,
ii. 156; Butler's monument, i. 208; Congreve's
funeral and monument, ii. 227; cost of burial,
i. 207 n. 1; Cowley's funeral, 17; Craggs's
funeral and epitaph, iii. 259, 260 n. 1; Den-
ham, i. 75; Dryden's funeral and monument,
390-3, 486, iii. 261; Gay's funeral and
epitaph, ii. 281, iii. 268; Kneller's monu-
ment, 264; Milton's monument, i. 150;
monuments, FitzGerald on, 314 n. 6; m.,
Walpole on, iii. 294 n. 5; Newton, Sir Isaac,
270; Oldfield, Mrs., ii. 336 n. 1; Philips's
(Cider') monument, i. 150, 314; Prior's
monument, ii. 195; Roscommon's funeral,
i. 234; Rowe's funeral and monument, ii. 74,
iii. 261; Stepney's epitaph, i. 310; Thom-
son's monument, iii. 294; Withers, General,
266.

WESTMINSTEr Assembly, i. 106 n. 2.
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, Addison's funeral,
ii. 156; Busby detains promising boys, 11;

election to University scholarships, i. 65, ii.
2 n. 1, 41; Freind, Head Master, iii. 343
n. 4; Latin pronunciation, i. 133 n. 3;
Lewis, an usher, iii. 343 n. 8; Locke and
South, i. 332 n. 4;
poets at school,
Blackmore, ii. 235; Cowley, i. 3, 65; Dryden,
332; Duke, ii. 24; Dyer, iii. 343; Halifax,
ii. 41; Hammond, 313; Hill, Aaron, 339
n. 2; King, 26; Prior, 181; Rowe, 66;
Smith, 1, 11; Stepney, i. 309;
Under
Masters, iii. 347.

WEST WICKHAM, iii. 329, 330.
WHARTON, Lady Anne, iii. 367, 376.
WHARTON, Philip, Duke of, All Souls
College, donation to, iii. 369; 'Clodio' in
Pope's Epistle to Cobham, 245 n. 7; Young's
patron, 364, 368, 369.

WHARTON, Thomas, Marquis of, Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, Addison, his secretary, ii.
89; character, 90; Hughes's dedication,
161; Lillibullero, 90 n. 2; Young's patron,
iii. 367, 368.

WHARTON, Thomas, M.D., Gray's corre-
spondent, iii. 421 n. 4.

Whatever is received is received in propor-
tion to the recipient, iii. 19.

What is everybody's business is nobody's
business, iii. 181 n. 5.

WHATLEY, Rev. Robert, iii. 284 n. 4.
WHETSTONE, Sir Bernard, Kt., i. 309

n. 2.

WHETSTONE, George, iii. 269 n. 3.

WHISTLER, Anthony, Shenstone's friend,
iii. 354 n. 4, 358 n. 1, 359.

WHISTON, Rev. William, ii. 81 n. 4, 122

2. II.

WHITE, Rev. Gilbert, of Selborne, iii. 334
n. 9, 339 n. 2, 341 n. I.

WHITE, Rev. Mr., of Nayland, ii. 252.
WHITEFIELD, Rev. George, Pembroke
College, Oxford, member of, iii. 359;
preaches to Bristol prisoners, ii. 424 n. I.
WHITEHEAD, Paul, Addison and Philips's
magistracy, iii. 321 n. 4; Manners, 180.
WHITEHEAD, William, poet-laureate, iii.
426, 444.

WHITELOCKE, Bulstrode, i. 259, 270 n. 2.
WHITEWAY, Mrs. Martha, Swift's cousin,
iii. I n. 3, 48 n. 4; last face Swift knew, 48;
Legion Club, to have half profit, 46 n. 4;
Stella's deathbed, 42 n. 1; Swift's birthday,
49 n. 2.

WHITSHED, William, Chief Justice of
Ireland, iii. 34.

WIDOWS, marriage with, i. 131 n. 3.
WIELAND, ii. 201 n. 8.

WIGSTONE MAGNA, iii. 348 n. I.
WILCOX, the bookseller, ii. 260 n. 4.
WILKES, John, Elkanah Settle,' i. 375
n. 6.

WILKINS, Rev. Dr. John, Warden of
Wadham, Royal Society, ii. 33, 38; Sprat's
patron, 32, 39.

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