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
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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