Pocock, Dr., the orientalist, ii. 6, 12, 22.
POET, 'every good poet needs time, diligence
and doing something every day,' iii. 221 n. 2.
POET-LAUREATE, account of office, i. 481;
appointment, appendage of Lord Chamber-
lain, ii. 382; Cibber, 381 n. 2, 382; Dave-
nant, i. 340; Dryden, ib.; Eusden, ii. 381;
Gray refused office, i. 481, iii. 426; Jonson,
Ben, i. 340, 481; oath of office, ii. 382 n. 1;
Rowe, i. 481, ii. 72; salary, i. 340, 481;
Savage, a candidate, ii. 381; Scott refused
office, i. 482; Shadwell, 383; Southey, ii. 382
n. 1; Tate, 72; Warton, Thomas, i. 482;
Whitehead, W., iii. 426.

Poetical Calendar, iii. 334 n. 1, 337 n. 2, 342.
POETICAL JUSTICE, i. 475, ii. 134.
POETRY, 'imitative art,' i. 19; 'not the pic-
ture of the poet,' 6 n. 8; 'not to write prose
is to write poetry,' iii. 341.

POETS, die poor and obscurely,' i. 247 n. 2;
domesticated in houses of the opulent, iii. 305
n. 2; office, in, ii. 215 n. 8; reading of their
own works, i. 408 n. 5, ii. 76 n. 8, 215 n. 5,
iii. 54 n. 2, 297, 420 n. 2; similitude in their
lives, i. 209 n. 2.

POGGIO, ii. 201 n. 8, 284.
POLAND, Scots in, i. 73.

POLIGNAC, Cardinal, iii. 66 n. 2, 381.
POLITIAN, annexed date to his first composi-
tions, i. 87; Orfeo, ii. 285 n. 1.

Politique aux choux et aux raves, iii. 200 n. 5.
POLWHELE, Rev. Richard, Traditions and
Recollections, iii. 326.

POLYBIUS, i. 87, ii. 77 n. 3.

POMFRET, Rev. John, birth, &c., i. 301 n. 2;
Cambridge, 301; Choice, passage construed
as showing preference for mistress over wife,
ib.; popularity and criticisms, 302; Comp-
ton refused institution to living, 301; death,
302; Johnson inserts him in Eng. Poets, 301
n. I, iii. 302; marriage, i. 302; Poems with
Life prefixed, 301, 302 n. 3; Rector of Maul-
den and Milbrook, 301 n. 2; quotations,
Choice, 301 n. 5.

Poor Robin's Almanack, i. 353 n. 2.
POPE, Rev. Alexander, the poet's grand-
father, iii. 83 n. 2.

POPE, Alexander, the poet's father, buried at
Chiswick, iii. 192 m. 3; death, 134 n. 2, 136,
200 n. 3; first wife, 83 n. 1; fortune, amount
of his, 85, 136 n. 3; will not invest it in
Funds, 85; 'hatter,' 179; linen-draper in the
Strand, 83; London residences, 83 n. 1;
money losses, 109 n. 1; monument in Twicken-
ham Church, 264 n. 2; Papist, 83, 85; retires
to Binfield, 85; sells it, 134; settles at Chis-
wick, 134 n. 2; sets Pope to make verses, 86;
traded successfully, 136.

POPE, Alexander, accident, iii. 143;
Addison's Cato, ii. 100, 101 n. 3, 121, 133;
A.'s charm of conversation, 119; A.'s distrust
of him, iii. 128 n. 2; A.'s good words,
honoured with, 113 . I; A., lines on, 133,

134 n. 1, 178, 402 n. 1; A.'s marriage, ii
155; A.'s official incapacity, 111; A., paid
court to, 102, iii. 129; A.'s poetry and prose,
ii. 145 n. 2; A., quarrel with, 120, 308, iii.
128-34; A.'s tautology, ii. 130 n. 5; A.
and Tickell's Iliad, 307, 309; A.'s writings,
praises, 126 n. 3, 133 n. 2; see also
ADDISON and POPE, forged letters;
Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination,
iii. 412; Alcander, burnt epic, 89; alexan-
drines, i. 468, iii. 231, 232, 249; Allen,
ungrateful testamentary mention of, 195,
214; allowance from father, 108; alone,
loved to be, 209 n. 1; annuities, ii. 174 22. 2,
iii. 118, 190 n. 4; 'art of rhymed language,'
251 n. 3; Art of Sinking, published in
Miscellanies, 1727, 145, 147; letters not
placed at random, ii. 361, iii. 150; passages
from burnt epic inserted, 89 n. 5; relations to
Dunciad, 148 n. 2; mentioned, ii. 309;

'art to blot,' i. 424 n. 5, iii. 220 n. 5; artifice,
delight in, 200; asthma, 183, 189; 'Atossa,'
175, 245, 272; attacks, ' mean in retreat' from,
213; Atterbury, friendship with, 140; author
from sixteen, 90; Barbarous Revenge on
Mr. Curll, 313 n. 2; Basset Table, corrected,
ii. 174 n. 4; Bathos, see POPE, Art of Sink-
ing; Bathurst, friendship with, iii. 205; see
BATHURST; Beggar's Opera, ii. 276; Bent-
ley, meets, iii. 213 n. 2; see BENTLEY;
Bentley, Thomas, attacked by, 276; Better-
ton's Chaucer, revised, 108; Billingsgate, his,
202 n. 2; Binfield, 86, 89, 90; birth, &c., 82,
83 n. 1; Blackmore, attacked by, ii. 247; see
BLACKMORE; blank verse and rhyme, iii.
238 n. 3; Blount, Martha and Teresa, be-
comes acquainted with, 185 m. 7; see BLOUNT;
Bolingbroke, admiration for, 191 n. 5, 206 n.
3; B., praised by, 191; see BOLINGBROKE;
books, early love of, 83; b. read with 'undis-
tinguishing voracity,'94; b.,wide acquaintance
with, 216; borrows for want of genius,' 166;
Broome, relations with, 78, 79; see BROOME;
Brunswick dynasty, 209 n. 5; 'Bubo,' 287 #.
2; 'Bufo,' ii. 46, iii. 128 n. 1; burial, 192;
burlesqued Psalm, ii. 247; Burnet, parody
on, iii. 144; cant, his, 210 n. 4; c. of author,
learns, 91; Caroline, Queen, rumour of in-
tended visit, 171; Caryll correspondence, 130
n. 1; Chandos, Duke of, satirizes, 152, 213;
Chapman's Iliad, 115 n. 2; Characters of
Men, see POPE, Epistle to Cobham;
Characters of Women, account of it, 175, 245;
character of Atossa, 272; incorporated into
Ethic Epistles, 245 n. 9; inscribed to Martha
Blount, 274; charity, 57 n. 4, 203, 213;
Chaucer, modernizes, 88; childhood, 83-87;
Chiswick, residence at, 134 n. 2; choice of
words, 217 n. 1; Cibber's allusion to Three
Hours after Marriage, enraged by, 185;
C.'s Careless Husband, 184; C.'s pamphlet,
'dose of hartshorn to him,' 188; C., warfare
with, 184-8; Cleland, letters under name

of, 152, 153, 204 n. 7; coffee, 197, 199;
cold, sensitive to, 197; Collier, ii. 222 n. 4;
commendation in verses not to be bought, iii.
205 n. 2; commentators, editors, and critics,
dislike of, 138, 253; company, silent in, 201
n. 2; comparisons upon unnatural footing, i.
448 n. 1; composed on backs of letters, iii.
203; c. in bed, 209; composition, methods
of, 218, 219, 221; compositions, read to his
friends, 217; confidence in himself, 89; Con-
greve, friendship with, 205; conversation, did
not excel in, 201; c., fell asleep in, 198 n. 4;
c., never at leisure for, 208; coronations and
royal marriages, left unsung, 219; corrected
silently in later editions, 221; correction, as
pleasant as writing, 218 n. 1; 'correctness,'
93, 221 n. 4; Cotton, Sir John, visits, 76;
Court, relations with, 118 n. 4, 148, 150, 171;
'Courts, never sees,' 210; Cowley, earliest pro-
duction not equal to, 87; C.'s metaphysical
style, i. 68; see COWLEY; Craggs and Fen-
ton, ii. 259; see POPE, epitaphs; Crashaw,
i. 69; Creech, 447 n. 2; criticism, his
poetical, iii. 222 n. 2; c., intimidated by,
153; c., pretended insensibility to, 188, 209;
c., writes with contempt of, 91; Cromwell
correspondence, history of publication, 93 n.
1, 145, 156 n. 2; C., intimacy with, 92;
'curiosa felicitas,' 236; 'deacon of the craft,'
220 n. 3; death, 192; d. imputed to saucepan,
200; dedication flattery, attacks, i. 399 n. 4;
deformity, iii. 97, 178 n. 2, 196, 197; de-
lirious, 190; Denham, i. 79 n. 7, 293 n. 6;
Dennis, tried to get subscriptions for, iii. 95
n. 6; D., warfare with, ii. 102, and see
DENNIS; De Quincey's estimate of him, iii.
251 n. 5; De Senectute, translated, 89;
'devilish trick, will play some,' 128 n. 2;
Devonshire, Duke of, attacks, ii. 30 n. 1;
dictionary makers, iii. 201; diligence, un-
wearied, 217; 'disease, life a long,' 197;
Dodington, 287 n. 2; Dodsley, assisted, 213;
Donne's Satires, versified, 177; Dorset, imi-
tated, i. 308; see DORSET; double rhymes,
iii. 250; drawings, his, 107 n. 5; dress, 197,
198; dressing and undressing, needed help,
197; drinking, 'can neither eat nor drink,'
209 n. 1; sipped up a dram, 199 n. 2,
see POPE, Wine; dropsy, 189; drunk, 199
n. 2; Dryden, borrows from, i. 61 n. 2,
iii. 264, 269 n. 1; D., censures, 220 n. 5; D.,
defended, ii. 120; D., distinguished from, iii.
220-3; Don Sebastian, i. 362 n. 6; D.'s
haste in writing, 423 n. 4; Hind and Panther,
praises, 443; Iliad, praises, 389 n. 1; D.'s
language, 420 n. 2; Limberman, 362 n. 2;
D.'s 'nameless stone,' 393 n. 1; D.'s 'native
fire,' 387 n. 1; D. 'never out of his hands,'
iii. 87 n. 1; D., praises, 220; D., reverence
for, 220 nn.; D., saw in boyhood, 87; D.'s
sea terms, i. 434 n. 2; D.'s variety, 469; D.'s
versification, 293, 465; D. considered as his
model, iii. 87, 220, 248; D.'s Virgil, i. 449;

-

Duckett's caricature, iii. 136;
Dunciad, history of publication, 145-52;
additions to it, 145 m. 2; alterations, 186,
242; announced in Daily Journal, 146 n.
4; Art of Sinking, connexion with, 148 n. 2,
150; Bentley inserted, 242, 276; blasted
characters it touched, 146; Cibber attacked,
184; C. substituted as hero, 186; con-
cluding lines, 146 n. 5; criticism of it,
241, 242; dedication in Savage's name, ii.
360, iii. 147-9; design not moral, 241;
Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, hint for it taken
from, i. 383, iii. 241; Duckett and Burnet,
151; editions, Dublin edition, 1728, 146 n.
4; first e. 1728, 145 n. 2, 146 n. 4; 'first
correct edition,' 1729, 145 n. 2, 148 n. 3, 150
n. 3; presented by Walpole to King and
Queen, 148, 150; edition of 1743, 186, 188
n. 5; editions, number of lines in different,
145 n. 2; e., recent prices obtained, 149 n. 3;
'false editions,' 149; fame, written for, 241
n. 4; Florist, the,' 242; fourth book added,
145 n. 2, 183, 184; George II, reflections on,
148 n. 4; Gray's criticism, 242 n. 8; gross-
ness of images, 242; Hill, Aaron, inserted,
151; immortality conferred on bad poets,
147 2. 4; Injunction against printers, 149 n.
2; Key to the Dunciad, 146 n. 4, 148 n. 4;
Moore's formation and dissolution,' 242;
names at first expressed by letters, 146; n.
inserted in 1729 ed., 150; nominal publishers,
three peers, 148 n. 6; Osborne inserted, 187;
prefatory letter to 1729 ed., 152; Prologo-
mena and Notes, 145 n. 2, 150; success pro-
moted by outcries of 'Dunces,' 147; Swift,
complete edition addressed to, 151; Theobald,
its first hero, 145, 186; Traveller, the,' 242;
war of pictures and libels on it, 152 n. 3;
Watts attacked, 311 n. 2; eating, over-
indulgence in, 199; education, 83-86, 113;
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady,
100, 226; Eloisa to Abelard, date of
publication, 105 n. 2; epithets from Comus
and Penseroso, 236 n. 2; example of his
imagination, 247; Johnson's estimate of it,
105, 235; line imitating Addison's Campaign,
ii. 129; 'not much his favourite,' iii. 105;
suggested by Prior's Nut-brown Maid, 105;
Tennyson finds human feeling in it, 235 n. 4;

entertaining, niggardly in, 203; epic,
plans an, 188, 386; Epilogue to Jane Shore, ii.
70 n. 5; Epilogue to the Satires, account
of, iii. 179, 246 n. 3; copy for the press, 221;
Fox and Hervey lampooned in it, 180; 'low-
born Allen,' ib.; Savage's comparison of the
two Dialogues, 246; third Dialogue aban-
doned, 181 n. 3; Epistle to Arbuthnot,
see Prologue to the Satires; Epistle to
Bathurst, account of, 172; Buckingham's
end, i. 205 n. 4, iii. 246; dialogue, 'perplexed
and obscure,' 173; Ethic Epistles, incorpo-
rated into, 245 n. 9; the man of Ross,' 172;
monied interest of Whigs satirized, 172 n. 2;

two years' work, a, 246 n. 10; Epistle
to Burlington, account of, 152; Ethic Epistles,
incorporated into, 160 n. 4, 245 n. 9; 'Good
sense,' 246; Epistle to Cobham, account
of, 173, 245; Clodio,' 245; Ethic Epistles,
incorporated into, 245 n. 9; 'the Gem and
the Flower,' 245; Epistle on Education,
inserted in Dunciad (bk. iv), 183 n. 5;
Epistle to Jervas, 108; Epistle to a Lady, see
POPE, Characters of Women; Epistles, re-
arrangement of four, 245 n. 9; Epitaph
on Atterbury, 271 n. 2; Edmund Duke of
Buckingham, 270; Mrs. Corbet, 262; Craggs,
259; Hon. Robert Digby, 263; Dorset, 254,
256; Fenton, 267; Gay, 268; Hon. Simon
Harcourt, 258; himself, 271; Kneller, 264;
Sir Isaac Newton, 270; Rowe, 261; Sir
William Trumball, 257; General Henry
Withers, 266; epitaphs, 254-72; bor-
rows in them from Ariosto, 272; b. from
Bembo's distich on Raphael, 265; b. from
Carew, 267 n. 1; b. from Crashaw, 267 n. 5,
269 n. 3; b. from Dryden, 264; b. from
himself, ib.; b. from Rochester, 256 n. 1;
'epitaphs to be let,' i. 36; Johnson's favourite,
iii. 262; mixed languages and styles, 260,
270; Warburton's favourite, 271;
'Esquire,' 140 n. 2; -Essay on Criticism,
Addison, criticized by, 95, 99, 229 n. 1;
anonymous publication, 95 n. 5, 98 n. 2;
'Appius,' 95 n. 6; books, shows wide ac-
quaintance with, 216; 'bull' in it, 97; classical
learning, its, 94 n. 6; corrected it, 221; dates
of writing and publication, 95 n. 1, 229 n. 2;
Dennis attacked by, 95-98; editions, 98 n. 2;
invention displayed, 247; irregular collection
of thoughts,' 99 n. 3; Johnson's estimate,
228-32; Locke's reasoning pervades it, 90 n. 1;
Milton not mentioned, i. 198, iii. 229 n. 2;
sale, 98; simile of student to Alpine traveller,
229; 'sober and subdued style,' 87 n. 5;
'sound an echo to the sense,' 230, 232; speaks
'too freely of brother moderns,' 95 n. 2; trans-
lations, 99; Walsh praised, i. 329; Warbur-
ton's Commentary on it, iii. 99; ' Wit,' used in
different senses, 96 n. 4; written fast, 102 n. 3;
Wycherley, authorship ascribed to, i. 72;

Essay on Man, history of publication,
iii. 160-3; additions to it, 162 n. 4; anony-
mously published, 160, 161; authorship as-
cribed to every one save Pope, 161; a. avowed,
163; a. disguised, 161 n. 4, 162 n. 5; bad
rhymes, 162 n. 5; Blackmore's Creation, re-
semblance to, ii. 254 n. 3; Bolingbroke, ad-
dressed to, iii. 161 n. 1, 194 n. 1; B.'s doctrines,
215; B.'s share in it, 163, 169; complete
Essay published, 163 n. 1; corrections in sub-
sequent editions, 162; Crousaz, attacked by,
167; dates of publication, titles, &c., 161 n. 4,
163 n. 1; doctrines current at time, 163 n. 2;
d., their tendency not at first discovered, 164,
168; Johnson's estimate of it, 242-5; Latin
version, tried to obtain, 170; Mallet's blunder

n. 2;

as to authorship, 403; 'manual of piety,' 164;
a mighty maze,' 162; Mill, J. S., acted on
imagination of, 244 n. 9; part of larger essay-
scheme, 160, 183; philosophy, criticized by
Johnson, 242-4; ph. c. by Pattison, 244 n. 9;
quoted, no work more often, 244 n. 9; recep-
tion, 162; revelation, no animus against, 165
n. 2; Savage's Wanderer, resemblance to, ii.
365 n. 1; subject not proper for poetry, iii.
242; Swift forced to read twice in places, 244
n. 10; S. never doubted authorship, 162 n. 1;
time under consideration, 160; translations,
164; versification, criticized, 244; Voltaire
praises it, 222 n. 6, 242 n. 10; Warburton's
vindication, 167, 168; Young's allusion, 165
essay-scheme, 183; Ethic
Epistles, rearrangement of four Epistles in,
245 n. 9; revised edition, suppressed, 188
n. 4; title changed to Moral Essays, 245
n. 9;
ethics, system of, planned, 160,
171, 183; Eusden, ii. 381 n. 2; expletives,
iii. 250; fame said to have declined, 251 n. 5;
f., riches and success, professed contempt of,
212; fastest written poems pleased most, 102
n. 3; favourite couplet, 250; female attend-
ance required, 197, 199; Fenton's death and
character, ii. 265; F.'s Ode to Gower, 264:
see FENTON; Fermor, Mrs., describes him,
iii. 103 n. 1; 'filial piety,' 154; flattery,
boasts of never practising, 204 n. 7, 205;
Folly of Ambition, planned poem on, 188
n. 3; fool to fame,' 210; forged letters, his,
93 n. 1, 155 n. 1, 208 n. 4; f. 1. to Addison,
95 n. 2, 106 n. 6, 113 n. 1, 128 n. 2, 130 #. I,
207 n. 1; f. 1., Blount, ii. 74 n. 5, iii. 159
n. 10; Fox, attacked by, 180, 449; Fragment
of a Satire, 402 n. 1; French idioms, admits,
250; F. and Italian studies, 88; friends'
criticism, listened to, 220; f. older than him-
self, 214; friendship, liberal and constant in,
213, 214; frugal and economical, 47 n. 1, 203
n. 4; Gammer Gurton, 184 n. 2; Garth's
Dispensary, ii.64; see GARTH;
Gay, ad-

vice to, 273, 280 n. 5; G.'s character, 282; G.
and Duchess of Queensberry, 280 n. 3; Fables,
iii. 327; G.'s posthumous comedy and Fables,
ii. 281 n. 6; Shepherd's Week, 269; Three
Hours after Marriage, assists in, 271, 272 n. 3,
iii. 185; Trivia subscriptions, ii. 283 n. 10;
What d'ye call it, 271; -'gay,' had been,
iii. 185 m. 7; genius, his, 217; Gildon, 204
n. 4; 'going down the hill,' 189; good heart,
202 n. 1; good sense, 216; Gorboduc, 255
n. 1; grammar, violates, 249; Granville's
Heroic Love, ii. 290; G.'s 'Mira,' 295 #. 1;
see GRANVILLE; Great, the, affected scorn
of, iii. 211; increased admiration for them,
205; lived among them, 171; Greek, know-
ledge of, 113, 115, 253; G. and Latin taught
together, 84; grotto, 134, 135; Guardian,
papers in, ii. 104 n. 6, iii. 100 n. 1, 107, 113,
196 n. 4, 221 n. 5, 319; guest, troublesome,
198; hair, fallen away, 198; Halifax, read

Iliad to, 126; H., 'sullen coldness' to, 127;
see HALIFAX; handwriting, 84; happy, says
he is, 207 n. 2; 'hard as thy heart and as thy
birth obscure,' 178; Harley, adverse criticism
of, ii. 72,iii. 137 n. 3; see HARLEY; headaches,
197; health, weak from birth, 83, 94, 196,
197; h. injured by study, 196 n. 6; Henley,
attacks, ii. 428 n. 3; Hervey, attacks, iii. 179,
180 n. 2; see HERVEY; high rank, pleasure
in enumerating acquaintances of, 204; high
value of himself, 208; Hill, Aaron, mean in
retreat before, ii. 361 n. 4, iii. 151, 213; His
Highness's dog, 205; Howard, Mrs., pays court
to, ii. 275 n. 2, iii. 39 n. 3; Hughes, ii. 165;
human feeling, wanting in, iii. 235 n. 4;
'ignorant of everything but art of versifica-
tion,' 94 n. I, 244 n. 9;- -Iliad, history
of publication, 108-18; Addison first ad-
vised task, 129 n.6; bad rhymes and triplets,
249 n. 3; begun, 108 n. 4, 117; Broome aids
in notes, 76; Burnet's Homerides, attacked
in, 136; Cowper's Iliad, compared with,
276; criticisms of it, Addison, 129 n.6, 132;
c. by Arnold, Matt., 239 n. 1, 240 n. 1, 276;
c. by Bentley, 213 n. 2; c. by Coleridge,
119 n. 2; c. by Conington, 276; c. by
Cowper, 238 n. 3, 276; c. by Fielding, 275;
c. by Gibbon, 119 n. 2, 275; c. by Gray,
119 n. 2; c. by Johnson, 119 n. 2, 236-40,
252; c. by Pattison, Mark, 119 n. 2; c. by
Rogers, 276; c. by Southey, 119 n. 2; c. by
Swift, 249 n. 3; c. by Tennyson, 251 n. 5;
c. by Theobald, 146 n. 1; c. by Wordsworth,
276; c. by Young, 275, 386; critics' names
survive in Dunciad, 136; dedicated to Con-
greve, ii. 226, iii. 205; Dryden's Iliad, passage
compared with, 222 n. 6; editions and sale,
111-112; epithets to satisfy metre, 250;
finished 117; frightened at undertaking, 112;
Greek called in question, 113; 'Homerical,'
criticized as not, 238, 275, 276; King, Prince
and Princess of Wales subscribers, 118 n. 4;
language drawn from all sources, 251; Life
of Homer by Parnell, 116; literal Greek
departed from, 239 n. 1; method of translat-
ing it, 112 n. 3, 219 n. 2; 'modern graces'
admitted, i. 39; name of poet, would entitle
him to, iii. 252; narrative and descriptive
passage, weakest in, 239 n. 1; 'noblest version
of poetry world has ever seen,' 119; notes,
76, 115, 116, 240; original MS. in. Brit. Mus.,
119, 459; o. MS., transcripts of it compared
with printed version, 120-5; parts most
corrected read easiest, 126 n. 1; patent for
it, 140; Preface, quoted, 204 n. 7; profits,
118; Proposals, 117 n. 2, 129; 'public ear,'
took possession of, 238; publication of Bks.
I-IV, 126, 131; p. delayed, ii. 192 n. 3; p.
completed, iii. 136; rate of progress, 112,
117; reads part to Halifax, 126; refinements
to suit taste of age, 239 n. 1; representative
metre, 230 n. 4; revision 221; 'rhyme, could
translate it more easily into,' 238 n. 3; Sar-

pedon's speech, 240 m. I; subscription, pub-
lished by, 109, 110, 118, 130, 134; subscrip-
tions collected by Philips, 320; s. promoted
by Swift, 130; subscribers, 110 n. 1, 118;
Tickell's version, compared with, ii. 309, iii.
132; translations consulted by Pope, 114,
237; t. c., Chapman's Homer, 115, 252;
t. c., Congreve's Andromache's Lamenta-
tion, 205 n. 6; t. c., Dryden's Iliad, Bk. 1,
237, 253; t. c., Hobbes's Homer, 115,
252; t. c., Ogilby's Homer, 115; t. c.,
Hessus, Dacier, and De La Valterie, 114;
'tuned the English tongue,' 238; unequalled
by any age or nation, 236; verse sometimes
made for sake of another, 250; versions by
Dryden, Mainwaring, Pope and Tickell,
design of printing together, 132; versification,
237-9; Virgil, Milton and Fénelon's
Telemachus, 275; written on backs of letters,
203; imagination, his, 247; Imitations
of English poets, 88; Imitations of
Horace, account of, 175; criticisms, 247;
printer's bill for Epis. ii. 1, 176 n. 2; written
as relaxation, 246; importance, idea of
own, 211; important, pleased himself with
being, 181; impure ideas, delight in, 242;
income, 203; independence, 202, 219; in-
tellectual character, 216; i. eminence, desired,
94; intelligence ever on the wing, 216; in-
vention, 247; irritability, 209, 213; January
and May, 88 n. 4; jocular with inferiors, 202;
John Hughes and Sarah Drew, ii. 273 n. 2;
Johnson's Dict. interested in, iii. 201 n. 7;
judgement, 247; j. compared with his imagi-
nation, 216 n. 6; kings, affected contempt of,
209; kings in wit may want discerning
spirit,' ii. 85 n. 2; Kneller, Sir Godfrey, and
Lady, iii. 264 n. 2; labour, his pleasure, 218;
language, colours of, 247; last illness, 189-
92, 403 n. 3; last sacrament, receives, 192;
latinity, 88, 201 n. 7; laugh, did not,
202; learning, 94, 113, 215, 222, 244 n. 9;
Letter to a Noble Lord, 179 n. 3;
Letters, affection hidden in affectation, 214 n.
3; criticized by Johnson, 159, 206-12; c. by
Cowper and Gray, 157 n. 3; c. by Pattison,
Mark, 157 n. 3; c. by Swift, 160 n. 2; c. by
Walpole, 208 n. 3; Curll's edition of Literary
Correspondence, 155-8; Letters of Mr.
Alexander Pope and Several of his Friends,
158 n. 2; early letters, 208 n. 4; full of be-
nevolence and fondness,' 206; 'premeditated
and artificial,' 208, 214 n. 3; 'reputation
always in his head' when writing, 160; letters
to Addison, 130 n. 1, and see POPE, forged
letters; 1. to the Blounts, 274; 1. to Bridges,
Rev. Mr., 252; 1. to Broome, ii. 265; 1. to
Cromwell, iii. 93, 145; 1. to Halifax, 127;
1. to Swift, 211, 212; 1. to Warburton, 168;
libels against him, bound, 209 n. 4; lies and
forgeries, ii. 307 n. 4, iii. 155 n. 1; 'lisp'd in
numbers,' i. 3, iii. 85, 210 n. 6; little
affected hypocrite,' 95; 'little nightingale,'

83; lived with people of superior health and
strength,' 199 n. 2; 'Lo where Maeotis
sleeps,' &c., 250; Locke, reads, 90; London,
visits to, 88; long life with pain not wished
for, i. 306 n. 6; long-lived stock, came of,
iii. 200 n. 3; Lyttelton suppressed Boling-
broke's panegyric of, 449 n. 2; see LYTTEL
TON; Macer, 313 n. 2; 'maddish way,'
89 n. 1; Mainwaring, ii. 215 . 3, iii. 132;

Mallet, cancelled allusion to, 403 n. 3;
M., courted by, 402; Mustapha, 406 n. 2;
M.'s obligations to him, 407 ». 2; M. paid 'to
blast his memory,' 407; M.'s Verbal Criti-
cism, 401 n. 6; M., visited by, 403; see
MALLET ; Manley, Mrs., ii. 187 n. 5;
Marlborough, Duchess of, relations with, iii.
175, 272; melody of his metre, i. 453, iii.
248; Memoirs of a Parish Clerk, 144;
Memoirs of Scriblerus, 181; memory, 217;
Merlin's cave, ii. 396 n. 2; Messiah,

published in Spectator, iii. 100; 'From
ev'ry face he wipes off ev'ry tear,' 100
n. 3, 215 n. 1; Isaiah, its original, 226
n. 3; Johnson's Latin version, 226 n. 3;
Steele's part in it, 100; Virgil's Pollio,
excels, 226; Milbourne, i. 388 n. 1,

449 n. 4; Milton, borrows from, iii. 100 n. 3,
236 n. 2; M.'s escape, i. 129; M.'s minor
Poems, introduced to, iii. 236 n. 2; Paradise
Lost, i. 187 n. 4, 189 n. 3, 191 n. 3, 200;
mind, investigating and aspiring, iii. 217;
Mischiefs of Arbitrary Power, poem planned
on, 188 n. 3; Miscellanies, joined with Swift
in, 38, 144, 145, 158; mistakes, pleasure in
acknowledging, 213 n. 6; Mist's Journal,
attacked in, ii. 266 n. 2; money, lover of,
iii. 78; m., not enough to buy books, 109;
monotony of his heroic metre, 248 n. 4;
Montagu, Lady M. W., mean in retreat'
before, 213; see MONTAGU; Monument of
London, 173; monument in Twickenham
Church, 192; Moral Essays, title of Ethic
Epistles changed to, 245 n. 9; moral, a,
even in love verses, i. 283 n. 2; music, insen-
sible to, iii. 228; 'musical finesse,' 248 n. 4;
Narrative of the Frenzy of John Dennis,
106; nature, external, 224 n. 5, 300 n. 2;
nightingale, his sister,' 197 n. 1; noble
friends, 205; obscure birth, his allusions to,
178, 179; Ode for St. Cecilia's Day,
Addison imitated in it, ii. 127; altered for
music, iii. 228 n. 5; best line, 228 n. 1;
Congreve's Ode, resemblance to, ii. 233;
Dryden's Ode, compared with, iii. 226-8;
Steele's request, written at, 226;
Ode on
Solitude, 87;

Odyssey, account of publi-
cation, 139-42; Fenton and Broome, his
confederates, ii. 259, iii. 76-78, 140, 141;
his own part in it, 77 n. 5, 141, 142; notes
by Broome, 241; original MS. in Brit. Mus.,
141, 383; patent for it, 140; Pitt's version of
Bk. XXIII, had help of, 279 n. 3; praise,
same general, as Iliad, 241; profits, 142;

Proposals, 139; Spence's criticism of it, 142;
Sisyphus and the stone, 231; subscribers to
it, 142; translators' shares concealed, 77 n. 3,
141; - Of the Use of Riches, see Epistle to
Bathurst; on Receiving from Lady F. Shirley
a Standish, 181 n. 3; operas, attacks, ii.
165; opposition, entangled' in the, iii. 179,
448; its atmosphere congenial to his self-
deception, 212 n. 3; original composition,
abandoned, 188; Otway's death, i. 247; O.'s
tragedies, 247 n. 7, 248 n. 1; Ovid's Metam.,
reads at school, iii. 85; Oxford, Earl of,
anecdotes when visiting, 197-9, 202, 209;
Oxford, visits, 78 n. 1, 143 n. 1, 367; Page,
Judge, ii. 348 n. 2; painting, studies, iii.
107; papers, fate after death, 192; 'paper-
sparing,' 203 n. 1, 383; 'Paracelsus, studied
in academy of,' 216; Parnell and Harley, ii.
50; P.'s Hermit, 55; P.'s intemperance, 51,
55; P.'s Poems, edits, 52, 54, iii. 137; parsi-
mony, his, 203; Pastorals, account of,

90; age at which composed, ib., 224 n. 6;
Johnson's criticism of them, 224; date of
publication, 88 n. 2, 94; handed about in
MS., 94; last, his favourite, 224; Philips's
Pastorals, compared with, 319; Preface, 90;
Tonson's Misc., published in, 91 m. 1, 94;
Trumball, first Pastoral addressed to, 90 n. 2,
258 n. 4; versification, 224 n. 5, 225 n. 1,
248 n. 4; Patriot King, unjustifiable
impression of, 193, 200, 449 n. 2; refers to
it, 195 n. 1; payments received, Essay
on Criticism, 108 n. 4; Iliad, 118; Lintot's
payments, 108 n. 4; Ode on St. Cecilia's Day,
ib.; Odyssey, 142; Rape of the Lock, 101 n.
2, 108 n. 4; Shakespeare, 138; Statius and
Vertumnus and Pomona, 108 n. 4; Temple
of Fame, 104 n. 4, 108 n. 4; To a Lady on
presenting Voiture, &c., ib.; Windsor Forest,
ib.;
peculiarities, petty, 197; pension,
rejected, 118, 204 n. 7; personal appear-
ance, 196-8; described by Broome, 197 *.
7; Dennis, 97; himself, 196 n. 4, 197 n. 7,
198 n 1; Reynolds and Roubiliac, 197 #. 1;
Thomson, ib.; Warton, 197 n. 7;
sonal habits, 197-200, 202, 203, 209; Philips,
Ambrose, malevolence, perpetual and reci-
procal, 213, 319; P., threatened at Button's
by, 320; see also PHILIPS, Ambrose; philo-
sophy, ignorant of, 244 n. 9; poems, kept
long in his hands, 220 n. 1, 221; poet,
principal purpose to be a, 86; p., was Pope
a, 251; poetical prudence,' 219; p.schemes,
always in his head, 208; poetry, business of
his life,' 217; p. always voluntary, 219; p., pro-
fessed contempt for his own, 208; poets'
tombs,' i. 150 n. 1; political parties, con-
versed with men of both, iii. 109, 113, 179;
popularity, ii. 211 n. 3, iii. 251. 5;
portraits, 196 n. 3; p. seen everywhere,
137 n. 5; possessions, delighted in talking of
his, 204; Post-office clerks, suspects, 211;
poverty, topic of his ridicule, 204; praised

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