revived, ii. 279 n. 2; Ode to Oblivion and
Obscurity, iii. 427; Savage's Sir Thomas
Overbury, revived, ii. 341 n. 3.
COLONIES, ii. 393.
COMBER, Dr. Thomas, Master of Trinity
College, Cambridge, i. 4.

.
COMMINS, Eustace, ii. 138.
COMMON READER, finally decides claims
to poetical honours, iii. 441.
COMPOSITION, methods of, ii. 218.
COMPTON, Henry, Bishop of London, i.
301, ii. 35, iii. 252.
COMPTON, Sir Spencer, afterwards Earl of
Wilmington, Broome, praised by, iii. 80 n. 1;
Thomson's patron, 284, 285; Young's fourth
Satire dedicated to him, 372.
Comus of Erycius Puteanus, i. 92 n. 4.
CONCANEN, Matthew, iii. 166, 260 n. 2,
413 n. 4.
CONGLETON, ii. 49.
CONGREVE, Richard, the poet's grand-
father, ii. 212.

CONGREVE, William, Addison and Halifax,
ii. 84; A.'s lines on him, 226 n. 2 ; A.'s Ode to
William III, 127 1. 6; Amendments upon
Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations,
222 n. 1; anecdote, 221 n. 5; Art of Pleas-
ing; 233; author, early an, 213; -Beg-
gar's Opera, couplet imitated in, 234 n. 2;
shown to him, 276; birth, &c., 212;
Birth of the Muse, 232 ; Blackmore, attacked
by, i. 402; B., mutual praise, ii. 241 ; Blenheim,
celebrated, 186 n. 2; blindness, 224 n. 3, 227;
carriage accident, 227; Collier controversy,
214, 219–23; commissioner for licensing
coaches, 215; commissioner for wine licences,
215 n. 8; companion, agreeable, 224 n. 2;
contemporary writers, honoured by, 226;
cuckoo in August, 228 n. 1: customs, place
in, 215; death, 227; dedications to him, 226;
Doris, 233 ; Double Dealer, 217, 223 n. 1;
Dryden's character, describes, i. 394, 483;
D., defended against Addison, ii. 120; D.'s
Epistle to him, 224 n. 2; D., line borrowed
from, 232; D.'s intended monument, i. 393 ;
D., praises, 456; D., recommended by, ii.
215; D.'s variety, i. 469 n. 4; D.'s Virgil, ii.

.
226 n. 2 ; early genius, 219; easy writing,
8 n. 2; 'friendly Congreve,' 224 n. 2 ; Garth,
praises, 241 n. 3; Gay's lines on him, 224
». 2, 231 n. 4; .genteel comedy,' 228 n. 3;
Goldsmith, praised by, 228 n. 3; gout, 227;
Halifax, his patron, 215, 217, 225; Harley,
protected by, 225; Haymarket Theatre,
manager of, 224 n. 1; Hazlitt's criticisms,
216 n. 4, 230 n. 1; Horace, imitations of,
233; Hunt's, Leigh, criticisms, 214 n. 2,
216 n. 3, 218 n. 6, 219 n. 1, 223 n. 6, 228
1. 2, 233 n. 8; Ilam, visits, 212 n. 3; Iliad,
translations, iii. 205 n. 6; Impossible Thing,
ii. 264 n. 3; Incognita, 214; Judgement of
Paris, 224 n. 1; jump, great, 227 n. I;
Kilkenny School, 213; Lamb's praise, 218

n. 5, 222 1. 5; Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre,
218 n. 6; literary indolence, 225; literature,
226; Love for Love, 218, 223; Macaulay's
criticisms, 223 n. 6, 230 n. I; man of fashion,
rather than of wit, would be thought, 226;
Marlborough, friendship and legacy to younger
Duchess of, 227; Memoirs of Congreve, 212
n. 5; Middle Temple, 213; Miscellaneous
Poems, 225, 234; monument, 212, 227;

- Mourning Bride, acted, 218; tomb scene,
229; 'tuneful nonsense,' iii. 397 n. 7;
Mourning Muse of Alexis, ii. 217 n. 6,,230;
Ode on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, 232 ; Ode for
St. Cecilia's Day, 232; official salaries, 226;
Old Batchelor, 212, 214, 216, 236 n. 6; On-
denarde, song on, 225 n. 2; parties, lived
with men of all, iii. 205 n. 6; Pindaric
madness, cured, ii. 234; pipe office, place in,
215; - PLAYS, characters · fictitious and
artificial,' 228; ch., wicked, 222 n.5; dialogue,
228; likely to live, 234; pleasure in alliance
with vice, 222; plots, improbable, 216 ». 5;
P., 'soon puzzle,' 219 n. 1; written before
twenty-eight, 219 n. 6; poems, never
quoted, 234; Pope's Iliad, dedicated to him,
226, iii. 205; his two lines in it, 205 n. 6;
present, when read to Halifax, 126; powers
desert him off stage, ii. 229; Prologue for
Jobn Dryden Jr., i. 393 n. 6; Queen Mary
at his plays, ii. 217; reads plays badly, 215;
Rowe's Biter, 69 n. 4; Secretary to Jamaica,
215 n. 8, 225; Semele, 224 n. 1; Shake-
speare, compared with, 229 n. 2; Sheridan,
compared with, 228 n. 3;' sits smiling at
the goal,' 224 n. 1; song for Southerne's
Maid's Last Prayer, 214 n. 6; Sonthey,
criticized by, 232 n. 5; stage, leaves the,
224; Steele's dedications to him, 226 n. 3;
S., praised by, 216 n. 4, 222 n. 4, 233;
'sweetness of manners,' 224 n. 2; Swift's
lines on him, 215 n. 8,226 n. 2 ; see SWIFT;
Tale of a Tub, iii. 51 n. 1; Taller, con-
tributed to, ii. 224; Tories, retained in
places by, 225; Translations, 233; Trinity
College, Dublin, 213; Verses to Lady Gethin,
233; Voltaire on his plays, 228 n. 3; V.,
visited by, 226; Walpole gives him a place, 215
n. 8; Way of the World, 223; Westminster
Abbey, 227; Whig, always a, 225; William
III, his hero, 231; wit, his, 228; Young's
lines on him, 224 n. 1; quotations,
Birth of the Muse, 232 ; Epilogue to the
Way of the World, 217 n. 4; Epistle to
Halifax, 234 n. 1; Fudgement of Paris, 234
n. 2; Mourning Bride, 219 n.5,229; Mourn-
ing Muse of Alexis, 230; Ode to Will. III,
231, 232, 299 1. I; Of Pleasing, 233 n. 10,
241 n. 3; Tears of Amaryllis, 231; Verses
to Lady Gethin, 233 n. 7:

CONGREVE, William, the poet's father, ii.
212, 213
CONINGSBY, iii. 344.
CONINGSBY, Thomas, Earl, ii. 191, 192.

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CONINGTON, Professor John, Dryden's Vir-
gil, i. 454 n. 2; Pitt's Aeneid, iii. 279 n. 4;
Pope's Iliad, 276; P.'s Imitations of Horace,
247 n. I; P.'s 'Sisyphus and the stone' and
Johnson's parody, 231 n. 4; Tickell's Iliad,
ii. 309 n. 6.
Conjunctive, ii. 171 n. 7.
Conversation, i. 398 n. 3.
CONWAY, Edward, second Viscount, i. 260,
263, 264, 266.

Cooke, Thomas, Battles of the Poets, ii.
362 n. I.
COOPER, John Gilbert, ii. 127 n. I.
COOPER, Samuel, the painter, i. 202.
COOPER, M., the bookseller, iii. 443.
COPYRIGHT, Act of Queen Anne, i. 324
n. 3; Donaldson v. Becket and Millar v.
Taylor, iii. 284 n. 3.
CORBET, Andrew, of Shropshire, ii. 80.
CORBET, Mrs., Pope's epitaph, iii. 262.
CORBETT, Sir Uvedale, iii. 262 n. 1.
CORK, Mary, Countess of, ii. 312 n. 5.
CORNEILLE, Cinna, i. 474 n. 2; Le Cid
and Richelieu, ii. 102; Pompey, i. 471 n. 4.
CORNISH, Alderman Henry, i. 265 n. 3.
CORNWALLIS, Charles, third Baron, ii. 436.
CORNWALLIS, Charles, first Earl, iii. 80.
CORRECTION OF COMPOSITIONS, ii. 243.
CORRECTNESS, in verse, i. 235, ii. 145, 208,

jii. 93.

Buckingham, befriended by, 16; burial, 17;
business,' denounces, 8 n. I; 'character of
writing not his own,' 56; Charles II, praised
by, 17; Chaucer, no taste for, 2 n. 4; Chert-
sey, 16, 17, 126 n. 6; Chronicle, 'unrivalled
and alone,' 37; C., centum amicas enumerat,'
6 n. 8; Clarendon, praised by, 56, 58 n. 3 ;
Coleridge's criticisms, 21 n. 3, 42 n. 4, 56 12. 1,
69; College, imaginary, 99; commodious
allusions,' 33; company, his own, the worst
in the world, 16 n. 5; comparisons and allu-
sions, far-fetched, 29; Complaint, 14 ; com-
pliance with men in power, 10; conceits
drawn from recesses of learning, 23; c. slight
and trilling, 28 ; C., verses polluted with, 52;
C., warmth of soul shines through, 20 n. 2;
C., 333; Constantia and Philetus, 4; con-
tentment on 6500 a year, 67; contractions,
rugged and harsh, 60; conversation, 64;

Cooley,' 5 n. 1; court, the, neglected by,
13, 207 n. 5;.C., weary of, 15; Cowley's
verse keeps fair Orinda young,' 238 n. 8;
critical abilities,' 38; Cromwell, verses on
death of, 10, 11; Cutter of Coleman Street,
13 n. 3, 14, 42 n. 2, 66; Davenant, verses
to, 38 ; Davideis, Addison, quoted by,
49 n. 3 ; affections never moved, 55; allu-
sions, 52 ; characters, 54, 55; date of com-
position, 4; Dryden borrows from it, 49 n. 5,
354; D.'s commendation,63; Gabriel's dress,
53; hemistichs, 63 ; 'implex fable,' 54; 'in-
ferences instead of images,' 51; monosyllabic
lines, 61; neglected, 49; notes to it, 38, 54
n. 2 ; Rymer praises it, 49 n. 4, 55; sacred
subject, 49; Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata,
compared with, 55 ; unfinished, 49; wit and
learning squandered on it, 55 ; death,
17; deciduous laurel,' 56; Denham's lines
on him, 56, 80, iii, 66 n. 2 ; diction, i. 58;
Digby, Sir Kenelm, dedication to, 4; Doctor
of Physic, 10, 11; Donne, borrows from, 57;
D., his model, 58; dramatic composition,
hints on, 411; ‘Dream of a shadow,' 7 n. I;
Dryden's criticisms, 18 n. 2, 47 n. 4, 58 n. 6,
63; Duke of York's Theatre, share in, 66;

education, sordid and hospital-like,' 86 n. 8;
Elegy on Crashaw, 39; Elegy on Hervey,
36, 163; Elegy on Wotton, 36, 57; English,
pure and genuine, 21 n. 3 ; Essays, 64;
Evelyn, visited by, 16 n. 1; Falkland, obtains
notice of, 6; F., verses to, 36; ‘familiar and
festive, greatest in the, 40; filial gratitude,
2; France, residence in, 6, 8, 10, 11; Gibbon,
quoted by, 12 n. 2 ; 'God the first garden
made,' 12 n. 2 ; grammar rules, could not
retain, 3, 65; Gray's criticisms, 35 n. 2, 68;
Grotius, copied, 57; Guardian, The, 're-
peated' at Cambridge, 5; G., fitted for stage
as Cutter of Coleman Street, 14; • Heleonora,'
6 n.8; Horace, Epis. i. 2. 40, version of, 62;
Hume's criticism, 59 n. 1; Hymn to Light,
ii. 301; hyperboles, enormous and disgusting,
i. 27; indelicate and disgusting, sometimes,

CORSHAM, ii. 235.
Cory, William Johnson, iii. 82 n. I.
COSMO DE' Medici, iii. 194 n. I, 335 n. 5.
COTTEREL, Sir Charles, Poliarchus of
Orinda's Letters, i. 238 n. 8.
COTTINGTON, Lord, i. 261 n, 2.
COTTON, Charles, i. 323.
Cotton, Sir John, of Madingley, Cam-
bridge, iii. 76.

COUPLETS, i. 81, 419, 443, ii. 209.
COURTHOPE, William John, editor of Pope's
Works, metaphysical poets,' i. 69 ; Pope's

Atossa,' iii. 272; P.'s Characters of Women,
175 n. 3; P.'s lines to Thomson, 291 n. 9;
P.'s Pastorals, 225 n. I ; P.'s Prologue to the
Satires, 246 n. 4.

COURTNEY, Lady Frances, Roscommon's
wife, i. 232.
COURTNEY, Mr. W. P., ii. 314 n. 3.
Court of DELEGATES, ii. 28 n. 2.
COURT OF THE MARCHES, i. 203.
Cousin, iii. 326.
Cowley, Abraham, adaptations of ancient
poetry, i. 224 n. 1; Addison's Account of
English Poets and Spectator, 41 n. 5; Against
Hope, 33; agricultural colleges, anticipates,
12 n. 1; Alexandrines, 63, 466 n. 4, 467;
American plantations, plans retirement to,
10; Anacreontiques, 39, 40; 'Anglorum
Pindarus,' 18 n. 2; arrested and imprisoned,
9; Barn-elms, 16; 'beloved by every Muse,'
64; Bentley, imitated by, 38; birth, &c., 1,
2; borrowed little,' 56; botany, studies, 12;

;

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32; Jersey, lines from, 38; Johnson, line
altered by, 461 ; Jonson, obligation to, 58 ;
just estimate of own performances, 39;

Juvenilia, lisp'd in numbers,' 3; J., alone
genuine, iii. 91; J., Pope's compared with,
87; Lamb, praised by, i, 20 n. 2, 64 n. 2 ;
L., phrase borrowed by, 37 n. 3 ; ' language
not always pure,' 58 n. 6; Latin poems, 12,
13, 66; learned puerilities,' 3; learning, 56,
416; lease of queen's lands, 16, 67; letters,
to Arlington, 8; 1. to Sprat, 16; love, only
once in, 6 ; 1., poets must pay some duties to,
6; l. verses, 6, 7, ii. 202; Love's Riddle, i. 4;
loyalty, 5, 9, 11, 13;. melancholy,' 14;
metaphysical poet, criticized as, 19-35; m. p.,
best and last of the race, 35; Milton borrows
from him, 58; M., favourite poet with, 56,
154; mind capacious and replenished by
study, 55; Miscellanies, 35-9; 'mixed wit,'
41; mother's solicitation, 2, 3; - Mistress,
published, 6; 'airy nothing,' 7; conceits, 41;
no lover will commend it,

40; 'plays round
the head,' 42; passage borrowed from Donne,
57; Preface, 6; Motto, 35 n. 2 ; Muse,
45, 46; Naufragium Joculare, 4; neglected
in eighteenth century, 18 n. 2, 214 n. 2;
Nemean Ode, 43; noble lines, 59; Ode on
Wit, 36; Ode upon His Majesty's Restora-
tion, 13; Odes'imparted to English numbers,'
64; Oldham's lines on him, 13 n. 4; Olympic
Ode, 43, 44; Oxford, sheltered at St. John's
College, 5; O., doctor of physic at, 11;
pathetic, never, 56 ; philosophical allusions,
285 n. 1; Pindaric Odes, 42-8, ii. 32 ;
Poems, 1656 edition, i. 9; 'poesy,' defines,
6 n. 8; Poetical Blossoms, 3 n. 6, 4 n. I;
Pope borrows from him, 39 n. 2 ; P., com-
pared with, 40 n. 2; P.'s Imit. Hor. Epis.
18 n. 2; P.'s Windsor Forest, 17 n. 7;
posthumous fame, poet's happiness in, io
n. 2; praised and neglected too much, 18;
Prefaces, 38 ; 'profane and lascivious verses,'
42; Puritan and Papist, 5; pursues thoughts
to last ramifications, 45; Pyramus and
Thisbe, 4; Reason, 38; Rehearsal, helps in,
282 ; 'representative versification,' 61; re-
publicans and Oliverians,' speaks for, 9 n. 4;
retirement, wish for, 10; retires to country,
15, 16 n. 5; rhymes, on unimportant words,
60 ; Rochester's epigram, 18 n. 2, 221 n. 3 ;
R.'s favourite poet, 221; royal correspondence,
conducts, 6; Royal Society, 11; sacred
poetry, 50 n. 1; St. Albans, Earl of, be-
friended by, 13 n. 4,16; ‘Savoy-missing,' 13,
15; Scarborough, Dr., 9, 11 ; Scotch treaty,
8; secretary to Jermyn, 6, 8; 'selection,
negligent or unskilful, 55; sentiments, his
own, 56 ; 'small house and large garden,'
67 ; Smith imitates him, ii. 12; Spenser,
early delight in, i. 2 ; Sprat, his friend, editor
and biographer, 1, ii. 33 ; S.'s Hist. of Royal

Society, 39; see SPRAT; sublime, rarely, i. 56;
Swift's Battle of the Books and Cadenus and

Vanessa, 40 n. 3 ; 'tenderness and innocent
gaiety,' 16 n. 4; translation freed from ser.
vility, 64, 373, 422 ; Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, 4, 5, 65; triplets, 63, 466 *. 4;
Take's Adventures of Five Hours, i. 15
n. 2; Verses on the government of Crom-
well, 63; versification, 59-63; weakness on
ill success, 14; Westminster Abbey, 17;
Westminster School, 3, 4, 65; What he
wrote was all his own,' 56 ; 'Who now reads
Cowley?', 18 n. 2; Wood, praised by, 18
n. 2;

quotations, Anacreontiques, 23,
39 n. 4; Complaint, 8 n. 1,13 n. 4, 14 %. 5;
Davideis, 26, 27 n. 6, 28 n. I, 29 n. 3, 49
nn., 50, 50 nn., 51 (3), 52 (7), 52 n. 3,
53 (3), 54, 54 n. 2, 58, 60, 61 (3), 62 (5), 354;
Dedication to Love's Riddle, 4 n. 5; Dedica-
tion to Naufragium Joculare, 4 n. 7; Mis-
tress, 8 n. 2, 23 n. 2, 23 n. 3, 25 (4), 27 *. 5,
28 n. 2, 29 n. I, 29 n. 2, 30 (2), 31, 32 (3),
33 (2), 57, 67. ESSAYS IN VERSE AND
PROSE, Claudian's Old Man of Verona, 12
n. 2; The Garden, 12 n. 2, 16 n. 6; of
Solitude, 16 n. 5; Ode upon Liberty, 60;
Horace Epis., 62. MISCELLANIES, Prologue
to the Guardian, 5 n. I; Tree of Knowledge,
23; To a Lady who made Poesies for Rings,
24; Friendship in absence, 27 n. 4; Motte,
35 n. 2; Of Wit, 36; On the Death of Mr.
William Hervey, 37 nn., 65, 163 n. 5; OR
the Death of Mr. Crashaw, 39 n. 2, iii. 329
n. 7 ; On the Death of Sir Henry Wotton, í.
57 n. 1, ii. 12 n. 5; Use of Reason, i. 38;
In Imitation of Horace, i. 5, 28 n. 4; Ode to
the Royal Society, ii. 39. PINDARIC ODES,
Life and Fame, i. 7 1. I; To Dr. Scar.
borough, 9 n. 3; Second Olympic, 43, 44; First
Nemean, 44 ; Resurrection, 44 16. 4, 45 R. );
Muse, 45, 46; To the New Year, 46; Ode
to Mr. Hobbes, 461 n. 1.
COWPER, Lord Chancellor, ii. 163,164, iii. 19.
COWPER, Mary, Countess, Comedies, íi.
221 n.5; Congreve and Prince of Wales, 223
n. 2; Duchess of Monmouth, 268 n. 2.

Cowper, William, Addison's satire, ii. 125
n. 4; authors and critics, i. 410 n. 6; Black
more's Creation, ii. 244 n. 1; blank verse,
i. 75 n. 6, 192 n. 8, 200, iii. 238 n. 3 ; b.v.,
superior to Thomson's, 298 n. 7; Dryden and
Pope, 222 n. 6; D.'s genius and carelessness,
i. 464 n. 5; Garth, borrows from, ii./63 ih. 6;
genius, definition of, i. 2 n. 5; God made
the country,' 12 n. 2 ; Gray's letters, iii. 431
n. 7; G.'s sublimity, 439 n. 4; Homer, LIO
n. 1, 112 n. 2, 117 n. 3, 275, 276; Johnson on
Lycidas, i. 164 n. 2 ; J. on pastoral poetry, 97

Lives of the Poets, Arbuthnot, the
only man, iii. 273; Collins, only religious
poet, 339 n. 3; Milton, i. 84 n. I; Watts,
iii. 310 n. 3;

Loss of the Royal George,
i. 434 n. 2 ; Milton's Elegies, translations of,
86 n. 6, 89 nn., 90 n. 7; M.'s Epitaphium
Damonis, 97 n. 9; M.'s fine ear, 191 n. 4;

n. 9;