only those he esteemed, 205; Prince of
Wales, visited by, 179, 198, 210 n. 2; P. of
W., repartee to, 210 n. 2; P. of W., won
over by attentions of, 448 n. 8; Prior's Alma,
ii. 205; P.'s business qualification, 198; P.'s
epitaph, 195 n. 6; prologues, declines writing,
173 n. 5; Prologue to Cato, 100, iii. 106,
129; Prologue to the Satires, Addison
attacked in it, 178; Boileau, his model, 177;
cancelled leaf, 403 n. 3; Cibber, contemp-
tuously mentioned, 184; date of publication,
177; Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, original title,
ib.; fragments interwoven into it, 177, 246,
291, 402 n. 1; Hervey's attacks answered,
179, 246 n. 4; Johnson's estimate, 246;
Sporus, ib.; suppressed passage, 327;
title, origin of, 246 n. 3; property on
father's death, 85, 136 n. 3; prose, compared
with Dryden's, 222, prosecution in House of
Lords, threatened with, 181 n. 3; Protestant,
reasons for not becoming a, 140 n. 5; public
employment, disqualified for, 109, 118; pub-
lications never hasty, 220; puerile produc-
tions, 87, 88 n. 2, 89, 91; 'quiet, calm,
moral course,' 186 n. 2; Racine, Louis, cor-
respondence with, 214;
Rape of the

Lock, account of origin and publication,
101-3; bad grammar in it, 249 n. 2; Boi-
leau's Lutrin, compared with, 234; Dennis's
criticisms, 104, 234, 235; double rhyme, 250
n. I; female sex's little follies, laughed at,
234; Johnson's estimate 232-5; 'ludicrous
poetry, most exquisite example of,' 104;
moral, charged with wanting, 234; original
sketch appeared in Lintot's Misc., 101 n. 2;
sale, ib.; supernatural machinery, added
later, ib., 104 m. 2; s. m., Addison's dis-
approval, 103; s. m., Dennis's criticism,
235; s. m., his pride in, 104; s. m., John-
son's praise, 104, 233; s. m., source of idea,
233 n. 4; written fast, 102; reaction

against his school, 251 n. 5; read, taught by
aunt to, 83; read well, ii. 215 n. 5; reading,
account of his, iii. 90, 94, 216; religion,
deist in, 191 n. 8; r., did not intentionally
attack, 169; r., gives hint of his, 173; I.,
immortality, belief in, 191 n. 6, n. 8; r.,
revelation, belief in, 215; see also POPE,
Roman Catholic; religious disabilities, 109,
134 n. 2, 140 n. 5; representative metre,
230-2; resentful, 202, 213; resentment
against world, pretended, 211; retouching,
always, 221; revision of former works, 188,
221; Rich, Manager,' lines on, ii. 275 n. 5;
rhymes, bad, iii. 249; Roman Catholic, lived
and died a, 214; R. C., conversion attempted
by Atterbury, 140; R. C., priest attends
deathbed, 191; R. C., reasons for remaining,
140 n. 5, 214 n. 7; Roscommon, i. 235; Rowe,
ii. 69 n. 5, 75; Royal Society, ridiculed, 39;
Ruling Passion,' iii. 173; Rundle, ii. 386
n. 3; Rymer, i. 485; Sandys' Ovid, read in
childhood, iii. 84; Sappho to Phaon, 88;

Sarpedon, 88 n. 2; Savage's Progress of a
Divine, ii. 388 n. 1; S.'s. story, accepts,
439; S.'s tragedy, advice as to, 415 n. 5; S.'s
Wanderer, 364; see SAVAGE; sayings, few
known, iii. 201; schools, 84, 85, 86 n. I;
scripture phrases, 'indecent application' of,
215; Secker, 336 n. 1; sedan chair in boat,
83 n. 4; Selecta Carmina Italorum qui
Latine scripserunt, 183 n. 2; self-deception,
212 n. 3; servility, boasts freedom from,
204; Settle, i. 376 n. 2; Seventeen Hundred
and Thirty-eight, see POPE, Epilogue to the
Satires;
Shakespeare, edition of, iii.

137; Fenton assists in it, ii. 260 n. 1; Gay
corrects press, 268 n. 5; Johnson's estimate,
iii. 139; Malone's criticism, 139 n. 2; Theo-
bald's attack, 138; Shakespeare and Otway,
i. 247 n. 7; S., inscription, his, iii. 201; S.'s
style, ii. 69 n. 5; Sheffield, flatters, iii.
204 n. 7; S.'s Essay on Poetry, il. 175; S.'s
Works, corrected, 177 n. 1; 'shop of con-
dolence or congratulation, never opened, a,'
iii. 219; Short Club, 196; short-sighted,
107; Silence, 88, 108 n. 4; similes, 229;
slept in company, 198; Sober Advice from
Horace, &c., 176 n. 1, 276; South Sea losses,
137; Southerne, i. 367 n. 1; Spectator, con-
tributed to, iii. 100 n. 1; Spencer's Faerie
Queen, ii. 162 n. 5, iii. 87 n. 1; spider,
compares himself to a, 196; spirit-drinking,
199 n. 2, 200 n. 2; 'splendid acquaintance,
ambitious of,' 90; 'Squire Pope, the great
poet,' 172 n. 3; stage, would not write for,
89 n. 6; Statius's Thebais, 88, 92, 108 n. 4;
stature, low, 196, 197 n. 1; stays, wore, 83 n. 4,
197; stockings, many pairs of, 197; story-teller,
good, 201 n. 2; Stradling versus Stiles,
144 n. 5; stratagem, hardly drank tea with-
out a,' 200; study, early plan of, 86 n. 2,
94; s., excessive, 196; suicide, treated with
respect, 226; suppressed passages, reprinted,
135; suspects himself surrounded by enemies,
211; Swift, alleged MS. Life of, 214;
S.'s allowance to guests, 58; S.'s birth, I;
S.'s eyes, 55 n. 5; Four last Years of Queen
Anne, 28 n. 2; Gulliver's Travels, 38 n. 5;
S. and Ireland, 50 n. 3; S.'s mind, corrupts,
62; S.'s visit, 37 n. 3, 40; Vive la bagatelle,'
46 n. 1;
taste, formed at sixteen, 86 n. 2;
Tate, i. 437 n. 4, 453 n. 2; Temple's Essays,
reads, iii. 90; Temple of Fame, account
of publication, 104; Chaucer's House of
Fame, imitated from, 226; Dennis's criticism,
105; Johnson's criticism, 225; modern monu-
ments at Westminster, compared to, 226
n. 2; motion exhibited by sculpture,' 105;
Steele praises it, 225;
tender heart,

191; theatre of his time, censures, 314 n. 4;
theatricals with school fellows, 84; Theobald,
praised by, 146 n. 1; see THEOBALD; Thom-
son's Agamemnon, first night, 291; T. poeti-
cal epistle to, 291; T.'s Seasons, MS. altera-
tions, 301 n. 1; T.'s Sophonisba, writes

part of Prologue, 288; thrashing, why he
escaped, 181 n. 5, 320 n. 2; Tickell's Iliad
and Addison, ii. 308, iii. 132; T.'s Prospect
of Peace, ii. 306 n. 3; see TICKELL; Tindal,
i. 136 n. 2, iii. 12 n. 7; titled names annexed
to works, 205; Tories, suspected by, 113;
T., under no necessity to be grateful to, 130;
tragedy, juvenile, 89; translation, ceases, 142;
translations, juvenile, 88; Trapp's Virgil, i.
453 n. 2; travel, desire for, iii. 216; triplets,
i. 468, iii. 249; Trumball, friendship and
correspondence with, 90; Twickenham,
settles at, 134; see also TWICKENHAM ;
Umbra, ii. 122 n. 6; 'unclassic ground,' 86
n. 4; Universal Prayer, not mentioned by
Johnson, iii. 219 n. 3; U. P., quoted by
Cowper, 241 n. 6; universe, his favourite
volume,' 216; valetudinarian indulgences,
198; verses, 'getting out,' 134 n. 1; v.
when a boy set to make, 86;
sification, criticized by Johnson, 248-51;
c. by Cowper, 248 n. 4; c. by Pattison, 94
n. I, 244 n. 9, 251 n. 3; c. by Rogers, 248
n. 5; c. by Tennyson, 248 n. 4; c. by Vol-
taire, ib.; c. by Wordsworth, ib.; Dryden,
learnt it from, 220; early formed, 88;
'great rule is to be musical,' 248 n. 3;
pauses, want of, 248 n. 5; 'too uniformly
musical,' 248; uniformity, 219; thousand
years may elapse before his equal appears,
251 n. 3; 'Vice too high,' 175; Virgil

— ver-

and Homer, 253; virtue, confined to his
narrow circle, 212; v., lofty ideas of his own,
150 n. 1; v., talks too often, 96; voice, 40 n.
3, 83 n. 5; Voltaire, visited by, 144; Waller,
conceit resembling, i. 285 n. 5; W., early
read, iii. 87 n. 1; W., mentions of, i. 270 n.
4, 289 n. 6, 293 n. 6, iii. 232; Walpole,
Sir R., treated with consideration by, 171;
see WALPOLE; Walsh, encouraged by, i.
329, iii. 93, 97, see WALSH; Warburton,
first meeting with, 167 n. 3, 168 n. 3; W.,
letter to, 168; W., lived in closest intimacy
with, 169; W., property in his works left to,
170; see also WARBURTON; Warton's
Essay on Pope, 236, 383; weakness of body,
83, 197; Whetstone, George, borrows from,
269 n. 3; Whig, a,' 140 n. 5; W., sus-
pected of being, 113; Wife of Bath, 88 n.
4; will, 170 n. 1, 190 n. 4; Will's Coffee-
house, 93; Windsor Forest, life in, 90 n. 5 ;

Windsor Forest, account of, 105;
Addison's alleged pain from it, 106; alexan-
drine in it, 249 n. 4; Cooper's Hill, resem-
blance to, 225; criticized, ib.; date of com-
position, 105 n. 5; dedicated to Granville,
ii. 292, iii. 105; Trumball praised in it, 90
n. 2; want of plan, 225; wine, drank
his bottle, 201 n. 2; w., poor head for, 199
n. 2; w., sparing of his, 203; w., sweet,
loves, 199 n. 1; woollen, burial in, 345 2.
I; words selected and combined, ready at
his call, 219; Wordsworth's estimate, 341

n. 6; Works, 1717 ed., 135; world, mur-
murs at, 212; w., professed contempt of,
210; writing, learnt by imitating print, 84;
writing-box set on bed, 209; Wycherley,
mutual flattery, 91; W., offended by criti-
cism of his poems, 92; see WYCHERLEY;
'Years following years,' &c., 247 n. 3;
Young's Busiris, 397 n. 2; Y. friendship
requested by, 383; Y.'s Night Thoughts,
praised in, 382, 383; see YOUNG;
quo-
tations, Dunciad, (i. 2), 148 n. 4; (i. 6),
ib.; (i. 19), 13 n. 2, 151 n. 5; (i. 89),
i. 376 n. 2; (i. 103), ii. 381 n. 2; (i. 105),
i. 437 n. 4; (i. 141), 347 n. 1, 450 ». 5; (i.
145), iii. 311 n. 2; (i. 293), i. 237. 3; (ii.
205), iii. 276; (ii. 399), i. 136 n. 2; (ii.
419), ii. 399 n. 1; (iii. 87), iii. 250 n. 6; (iii.
169), i. 78 n. 4; (iii. 257), ii. 86 n. 4; (iii.
261), 275 n. 5; (iii. 325), i. 150 n. 1; (iii.
326), iii. 327, (iii. 331), 78 n. 4; (iv. 27),
ii. 348 n. 2; (iv. 111), i. 150 n. 1; (iv. 115-
8), iii. 138 n. 1; (iv. 175), ii. 202 . 11;
(iv. 223), iii. 343 n. 4; (iv. 560), 336 n. 3;
original MS., i. 453 n. 2, ii. 282 n. 5; Elegy
to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, iii.
101 n. 1; Eloisa to Abelard, ii. 129 n. 7;
Epilogue to the Satires, (i. 3), iii. 221 m. 4;
(i. 29), 148 n. 5; (i. 37), 215 n. 1; (i. 45),
448 n. 1; (i. 65), ìi. 428 n. 3; (i. 69–72),
iii. 180 n. 2; (i. 102), 215 n. 1; (i. 131), ii.
387 n. 1; (i. 136), iii. 180 n. 1 ; (ii. 71), ii.
386 n. 3; (ii. 77), iii. 128 n. 1; (ii. 86), ii.
276 n. 4; (ii. 92), iii. 179 n. 5; (ii. 105),
261 n. 3; (ii. 166), 180 n. 2; (ii. 197), 410
n. 2; (ii. 226), ii. 242 n. 2; (ii. 228), i. 289
n. 6; (ii. 250), iii. 266 n. 3; Epistle to
Addison, ii. 305 n. 4, iii. 260 n. 2; Epistle
to Jervas, i. 387 n. 1, 468 n. 3, ii. 54 n. 3,
iii. 108. 2, 216 n. 4, 236 n. 1; Epistle to
Oxford, ii. 50 n. 7; Epitaph on Buckingham,
iii. 270; E., Corbet, Mrs. 262; E., Craggs,
259; E., Digby, 263; E., Dorset, i. 307 m. 1,
iii. 254; E., Fenton, ii. 262 n. 5, iii. 267;
E., Gay, 268; E., Harcourt, 258; E., himself,
271 n. 3; E., John Hughes and Sarah Drew,
i. 295 n. 3; E., Kneller, iii. 264; E., Newton,
270; E., Rowe,i. 393 n. 1, iii. 261; E., Trum-
ball, 257; E., Withers, 266; Essay on
Criticism, (1.34), ii. 236 n. 6; (l. 141), iii. 236
n. 1; (11. 219-32), 229 n. 3; (1. 289), i. 21 n.
2; (1. 297),68; (1. 347),61 n. 2; (1. 360), 79 μ.
7, 293 n. 6; (1. 364), iii. 230 n. 4; (l. 370),
232; (1.391), ii. 306 n. 3; (l. 420), 175 n. 1;
(1. 458), i. 449 n. 4, ii. 222 n. 4; (1. 502), iii.
97; (1. 585), 95 n. 6; (1. 618), ii. 60 n. 3; (L.
693), iii. 98 n. 3; (1. 723), ii. 175 n. 6; (1.735),
i. 235 n. 3; Essay on Man, (i. 5), iii. 162;
(i. 16), i. 171 n. 3; (i. 277), iii. 164 m. 2;
(i. 293), 162; (ii. 101), 248 n. 5; (iii. 305),
i. 39 n. 2; (iv. 293), ii. 239 n. 1; (iv. 383-6),
iii. 194; Farewell to London, ii. 63 n. 1,
75 n. 1, iii. 128 n. 1; Iliad, (i. 1–34), 120-
2; (i. 291), 222 n. 6; (ii. 1–18), 122; (ii.

572-81), 122; (iii. 476), 115; (v. 1-18),
123; (viii. 687-end), 124; (xiii. 1005), 230
12. 4; (xvii. 642), 239 n. 1; (xxiv. 934),
205 n. 6; Imitations of Horace, Epistles, (i.
1. 16), ii. 236 n. 5; (i. 1. 25), iii. 90 n. 1;
(i. 1. 27), 449 n. 1; (i. 6. 3), i. 447 n. 2;
(i. 6. 63), iii. 12 n. 7; (i. 6. 87), 397 n. 2;
(i. 6. 127), 46 n. 1; (i. 7. 65), 137 n. 2;
(ii. 1. 26), ii. 126 n. 2; (ii. 1. 69), iii. 176 n.
3; (ii. 1. 75), i. 18 n. 2; (ii. 1. 91), iii. 184
n. 2; (ii. 1. 99), i. 187 n. 4; (ii. 1. 172),
143 n. 3; (ii. 1. 213), 235 n. 3, iii. 220 n. 5;
(ii. 1. 216), 133 n. 1; (ii. I. 217), ii. 126
n. 3; (ii. 1. 221), iii. 50 n. 3; (ii. 1. 267), i.
465 n. 4, iii. 232 n. 2; (ii. 1. 172), i. 143 n.
3; (ii. 1. 276), 247 n. 7; (ii. 1. 280), 424 n.
5, iii. 220 n. 5; (ii. 1. 334), ii. 101 n. 2; (ii.
1. 354), 396 n. 2; (ii. 1. 385), 85 n. 2, 239
n. 5; (ii. 2. 52), iii. 113 n. 4; (ii. 2. 64),
85 n. 6; (ii. 2. 68), 118 n. 3; (ii. 2. 72-75),
247 n. 3; (ii. 2. 76), 117 n. 3; (ii. 2. 112),
ii. 236 n. 4; (ii. 2. 137), i. 321 n. 2; ii. 404
n. I; (ii. 2. 240), iii. 344 n. 4; Satires, (ii.
I. 13), 198 n. 4; (ii. 1. 19), 188 n. 1; (ii. 1.
23), ii. 237 n. 4; (ii. 1. 59), iii. 175 n. 3,
192 n. 5; (ii. 1. 75), 186 n. 3; (ii. 1. 81),
ii. 348 n. 2; (ii. 1. 99), 265 n. 3; (ii. 1. 123),
iii. 135 n. 1; (ii. 2. 49), 202 n. 2; (ii. 2. 134),
137 n. 2; (ii. 2. 135), 134 n. 2; (ii. 2. 161),
ib.; Macer, 313 n. 2, 314 n. 4; Moral
Essays, (i. 5), 187 n. 4; (i. 54) 152 n. 6;
(i. 174), 173 n. 6; (i. 246), 345 n. 1; (i.
262), 206 n. 1; (ii. 2), 263 n. 4; (ii. 76), ii.
227 n. 3; (ii. 83), 199 n. 4; (ii. 283), iii.
274; (iii. 213, 339) 173 nn. 2, 3; (iii. 279), 172
n. 4; (iii. 299), i. 205 n. 4; (iii. 338), iii.
173 n. 4; (iv. 41), 216 n. 5; (iv. 69), ii.
314 n. 4: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, iii. 227
n. 2, 228 n. 4; Pastorals, (i. 7), 258 m. 4;
(ii. 74), i. 285 n. 5; (iv. 49), iii. 224 n. 4;
Prologue to Cato, 248 n. 5, 314 n. 4; Pro-
logue to the Satires, 1. 39, ii. 206 n. 2; 1. 47,
iii. 146 n. 1; l. 97, ii. 428 n. 3; 1. 99, iii.
322 n. 4; l. 127, 85 n. 4, 210 n. 6; 1. 131,
197 n. 2; 1. 135, ii. 294 n. 1; L. 137, 62 n.
4; 1. 139, 175 n. 6; 1. 151, iii. 204 n. 4; 1.
157, 143 n. I; l. 159, 138 n. 6; 1. 179, 313
n. 5; 1. 181, 325 n. 1; l. 197, ii. 120 n. 3;
1. 198, i. 76; 1. 201, ii. 124 n. 2; 1. 231, 46
n. 4; 1. 239, iii. 128 n. 1; 1. 248, i. 392 n.
1; 1. 259, ii. 280 n. 3; 1. 388, iii. 82 n. 3;
1. 392, ii. 155; Rape of the Lock, (i. 1), iii. 248
n. 4; (iii. 153), iii. 250 n. 1; (iii. 165), ii. 187
2. 5; (iv. 57), iii. 249 n. 2; (v. 63), ii. 165;
Temple of Fame, i. 306 n. 6; Three Gentle
Shepherds, ii. 122 n. 6; To Mr. Southerne, i.
367 n. 1; Umbra, ii. 122 n. 6; Windsor
Forest, 1. 257, iii. 90 n. 2; 1. 271, i. 79 n. 7;
1. 279, 17 n. 7; 1. 291, ii. 295 n. 1; 1. 329, iii.
225 n. 7; 1. 425, ii. 294 n. 8.

POPE, Mrs. Editha, the poet's mother, de-
scent, &c., iii. 82; Cooper, the painter, con-
nexion of, i. 202 n. 4; death and burial,

iii. 154, 192, 200 n. 3; Pope's affection, 154;
Roman Catholic, 83; register of baptism,
154 n. 3; transcribed for Pope, 154 n. 4;
Voltaire's talk, shocked at, 144.

POPE, Mrs. Magdalen, first wife of Pope's
father, iii. 83 n. 1.

Pope's Miscellany, iii. 79 n. 4.

PORDAGE, Samuel, Azaria and Hushai, i.
374 n. 7; Medal Reversed, 375 n. 3.
PORSON, Richard, Congreve and Aristo-
phanes, ii. 222 n. 5.

PORTER, Mrs., the actress, ii. 101.
PORTER, Miss Lucy, iii. 309 n. I.
PORTLAND, Jerome Weston, second Earl of,
i. 263, 264, 265, 266.

PORTLAND, William Bentinck, first Earl of,
iii. 4.

PORTLAND, Duchess of, anecdotes of Pope,
iii. 202 n. 2, 272.

PORTSMOUTH, Duchess of, i. 248 n. 2,

37I.

Possunt quia posse videntur, i. 137.

POST OFFICE, opening letters, iii. 211 n. 4.
POVERTY, topic of ridicule, ii. 109, iii. 204.
POWELL, John, Esq., Barrister-at-law, ii.
415.

POWELL, Mary, Milton's first wife, mar-
riage, i. 104; leaves him, 105, 131; recon-
ciliation, 107; death, 116.

POWELL, Mr., Milton's father-in-law, i. 104,
107.

POWER, Thomas, of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, iii. 183 n. 1.

POYNTZ, Stephen, diplomatist, iii. 455

28. I.

Prank, to, iii. 430 n. 1.
Pravity, i. 179.

PRAYER, i. 156.

PREACHING, iii. 307.
PRESBYTERIANS, i. 106, 210.

PRESCOTT, William Hickling, i. 145 n. I.
Present State of Wit, ii. 152, and see GAY.
PRETERITE, pronunciation of final syllable,
i. 294, 419 n. 2.

PRICE, Professor Bartholomew, iii. 360.
PRICE, Mrs. Lucy, wife of Mr. Justice Price,
ii. 330 n. 4.

PRICE, Samuel, Watts's assistant, iii. 304.
PRICE, Mr., ii. 423 n. I.

PRICE, Mrs., Waller's sister, i. 262.

PRINCE OF WALES (Frederic, father of
George III), Cato, claps, ii. 101 n. 4; driven
from palace, iii. 404; godfather to Young's
son, 378; Hammond, his equerry, ii. 313;
Lyttelton, his secretary, iii. 447; Mallet's
Mustapha dedication, 406; M., his under-
secretary, 404, 448; patron of authors, ii.
392, iii. 291, 404, 448; Pope sleeps while he
talks, 198; P., visits, 179, 198, 210 n. 2; see
POPE; Savage's dedication, fails to reward,
ii. 397, 408; S., praised by, 387 n. 2; Thom-
son's Alfred acted before him, iii. 293; T.,
pensions, 291, 404, 448; T., praised by, 291,

m

292 n. 4; walks with 'all his nobles' by the
river, 291 n. 2.

PRINCE OF WALES (George III), his educa-
tion, iii. 330 n. 4.

PRINCESS OF WALES, Augusta (mother of
George III), Thomson's Edward and Eleonora
dedication, iii. 292 n. 4; Young, clerk of her
closet, 391.

PRIOR, Mr. George, the poet's father, ii.
180 n. I.

PRIOR, Matthew, academy for fixing lan-
guage, ii. 185; alehouse, drinking in, 199
n. 4, 200; Alma, 193, 205; ambassador at
Paris, 189, 190, 196; arrest, at Canterbury,
188; a. on Tory downfall, 191; Bessy Cox,
199 n. 4; birth, &c., 180; Brother,' a, 197;
brought up by uncle, a vintner, 180; business
qualities, 198; Butler, i. 218 n. 1 ; Cambridge,
degree, ii. 181; C., visits, 195; Carmen
Seculare, 185, 203; Chameleon, 204; 'Chloe,'
his, 199; City and Country Mouse, i. 380,
443, ii. 182; College Exercise, see PRIOR,
The Deity; college, in amorous pedantry
exhibited the,' 211; college verses, 181;
Commissioner of Customs, 189 n. 1, 196;
Commissioner of Trade, 184, 189 n. 1, 196;
committed to close custody, 193; Committee
of Secrecy, examined before, 189, 191, 192;
companion, Swift on him as a, 200 n. 4; con-
versation, factious in, 197 n. 1; c. of Oxford,
Bolingbroke, Pope and Swift, strained' by,
200; 'correctness,' his, 207, 208; couplets,
209; Cowley's Pindaric Odes, i. 47; Cowper's
estimate of him, ii. 211 n. 3; deafness, 194;
death, 195; debts contracted as ambassador,
191; described in Characters of the Court of
Queen Anne, 197 n. 1; Deity, The, 181, 182
n. 3, 186; diction, 209; dines at Lord
Keeper's, 200 n. 2; Dorset, his patron, i. 309
n. 5, ii. 181, 186; Down Hall, 194; Dryden's
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, and Dorset, i. 340;
Dryden's Miscellany, contributes to, ii. 183
n. 3; Duke's funeral, 25 n. 4; early impulse
to write verses, 181 n. 4; Epilogue to Lucius,
204; Epilogue to Phaedra, 15 n. 2, 20, 204,
iii. 315; Epistle to Boileau, ii. 186, 203;
epitaph, 195, iii. 343 n. 4; Eton Provostship,
candidate for, ii. 199 n. 2; evenings, manner
of spending, 200; Examiner, contributes to,
187; excepted from Act of Grace, 193;
'failings (Dorset's) had their beauties,' 10
n. 1; Fine by degrees and beautifully less,'
202 n. 11; French extempore lines, 199;
gentleman of William III's bedchamber, 183;
Halifax, jealous of, 182; H.'s impeachment,
voted for, 185, 191 n. 4; Hans Carvel, 201;
Harley, Lady, at Cambridge, 195 n. 1 ; health
declined, 194; hemistichs, 208; Henry and
Emma, 186, 202, iii. 105; Hist. of my own
Time, ii. 180 n. 1, 195 n. 6; Horace, reads,
181, 183 . 3; improvidence, 193 n. 5, 194;
invention, no effort of, 207; 'life, irregular,
negligent and sensual,' 200; Ladle, The, 201;

'lean carcase,' 200 n. 2; letter to Swift, 194;
Lewis, 273 n. 3; Lewis XIV, in favour with,
190; Lines to the Hon. Charles Montagu,
210 n. 6; Loo, attends William III at, 184;
love verses, 202; low company, delight in,
199; 'Matt's Peace,' 189 n. 7; merry with
friends, 198 n. 2; modern air,' 210 n. 6;
mythology, 202, 204; never low, seldom sub-
lime, 208; no 'nightly visitations' of the
Muse, 209; obscure origin, 180, 189 n. 2,
190; Ode to the King, 183, 203; Ode to the
Queen, 186 n. 8, 204 . I; Odes, difficulty of
altering, 210 n. 5; On a Picture of Seneca,
182; On the Taking of Namur, 203; opinions,
right,' 200; Oxford, Earl of, adherence to,
194, 198; Oxford, Bolingbroke, Pope and
Swift, his friends, 200; Oxford, second Earl
of, befriended by, 194; paraphrase of 1 Cor.
xiii, 205; Parliament, enters, 185; Paulo
Purgante, 201; peace mission to Paris, 188;
p. m. with Bolingbroke, 189, 196; peace ne-
gotiations at his house, 188; personal ap-
pearance, 197 n. 1, 200 n. 2; Pindaric in-
fatuation, 210; plagiarism, 207; Poems,
1718 ed., 194; P., subscribers at Universities,
iii. 110 . I; poet in rhymes' dances in fet-
ters,' i. 200; Pope's Eloisa to Abelard and
Alma, iii. 105 . 3; P.'s Philomede' re-
sembles his character, ii. 199 n. 4, iii. 245;
P. and Sheffield, 204 n. 7; popularity, ii.
211 n. 3; poverty, his, 193; p., exaggerated,
194 n. 3; private character, 197; Prologue
before the Queen, 204; prose writings, 195
n. 6; Protagenes and Apelles, 201; Queen
Mary, elegy on, 183; Queensberry, Duchess
of, 280 n. 3; repartees, 184, 198; rhymes,
208; St. John, recommended to Queen by,
188; see BOLINGBROKE; St. John's College,
Cambridge, 180 n. 2, 181, 193, 195; 'satire,
did not launch into,' 182 n. 4; Sauntering
Jack and Idle Joan, 204;
secretary to
embassy at Hague congress, 1691, 183, 196;
Treaty of Ryswick, ib.; Paris embassy, 184;
s. in Ireland, 183 n. 3, 196; Solomon,
206, 207, 209; Spenser, imitations of, 204,
209, 210 n. 3; subscription edition of poems,
194; Swift, friendship with, 195 %. 3, 200;
S. reads aloud his verses, iii. 54 . 2; see
SWIFT; Tales, ii. 201; tavern, taken out of
a, 181; t., 'revived,' the, 211; tediousness,
203, 204, 207; Thief and Cordelia, 207;
Tory, turned a violent, 71 #. 5, 197; 'trade,
versed in matters of,' 189; translations, 205;
triplets and alexandrines, 209; Under-Secre
tary of State, 184; variety of writings, 201;
Versailles pictures of Lewis XIV's Victories,
184; versification, 205, 209; Waller, imitates,
i. 286 n. 3; Westminster Abbey monument,
ii. 195; Westminster School, 181, 196;
Whig, a strong, 71 n. 5; forsook the Whigs,
185; did not care to converse with them, 197;

will, his, 195 n. 5, 199 n. 4; William III,
pleases, 183; W. III, praises, 185;

quo-

tations, A Better Answer, i. 286 n. 3, ii. 202
n. 10; Alma, i. 200, 218 n. 1, 390 n. 1, ii. 179,
199 n. 3, 205 n. 3, 273 n. 3, iii. 105 n. 3, 204
n. 7; Bannisons la Mélancholie, ii. 199;
Carmen Seculare, 184 n. 4, 185, 185 n. 1;
Chameleon, 204 n. 11; Despairing Shepherd,
The, 202 n. 1; Down Hall, 192 n. 2, 193
n. 2; Epilogue to Phaedra, 15 n. 2; Epistle
to Boileau, 203 n. 3; Epistle desiring the
Queen's Picture, 191 n. 1; Epistle to Shep-
herd, 180 n. 4, 182 n. 6; Female Phaethon,
280 n. 3; For my own Tombstone, 195 n. 5;
For my own Monument, 198 n. 2; Henry
and Emma, 202 n. 11; Ode to the Queen, 210;
On the Taking of Namur, i. 47; Sauntering
Jack and idle Joan, ii. 204 n. 12; Secretary,
The, 183 n. 3; Solomon, 199 n. 4, 206 n. 1, 207
n. I, 208 n. 5; To the Countess of Exeter, i.
238 n. 8, ii. 182 n. I.

PRIOR, Robert, ii. 199 n. 4.

PRIOR,, the poet's uncle, a vintner, ii.

180.

PRITCHARD, Mrs., the actress, ii. 78.

PRIVY COUNCIL, Clerks Extraordinary, iii.
329 n. I.

Probationer, iii. 282 n. 5.

PRYNNE, William, i. 201 n. 3, ii. 220.
Publisher, iii. 201 n. 6.
PULCI, i. 454 n. 4.
PULHAM, ii. 265, iii. 80.

PULLEN, Josiah, Vice-Principal of Mag-
dalen Hall, ii. 297.

PULTENEY, William, Earl of Bath, ' Curio,'
in Akenside's Epistle, iii. 414; duel with
Hervey, 178; Gay, assists, ii. 272; Rundle,
386 n. 3.

PUNCTUATION, iii. 453 n. 6.

PURCELL, Henry, Alexander's Feast, declined
writing music for, i. 456 n. 4; Dryden's Tem-
pest, 341 n. 3; D.'s King Arthur, 364 n. 3.
PURITANS, i. 214-6.

PUTEANUS, ERYCIUS, i. 92 n. 4.
PUTRID FEVER, iii. 353 n. 2, 416.
PUTTENHAM, George, Arte of English
Poesie, i. 410.

PYM, John, i. 260, 262, 263.

QUEENSBERRY, Duchess of, account of her,
ii. 280 n. 3; celebrated by Prior, Gay and
Pope, ib.; Gay's friend, 268 n. 3, 276 n. 3,
280; G.'s flute playing, iii. 228 n. 5.

QUEENSBERRY, second Duke of, Secretary
of State, ii. 71, 74.

QUEENSBERRY, third Duke of, Gay's patron,
ii. 276 n. 3, 280, 281 n. 6.
QUILLET, Abbé, ii. 77.

QUIN, James, the actor, anecdote of Philips
and Addison, iii. 314 n. 5; Beggar's Opera,
ii. 277 n. 1; 'pause of suspension,' i. 193
n. I; Thomson, assists, iii. 281 n. 1; T.'s
Coriolanus, 295.

QUINTILIAN, i. 416, ii. 77, iii. 440 n. 8.

RABELAIS, compared with Swift, iii. 51
n. I, 54 n. 4; learning, i. 212.
Race, iii. 301 n. I.

RACINE, amor publicus,' iii. 201 n. 7;
Andromaque and Philips's Distrest Mother,
314; Bérénice, translated by Otway, i. 242
n. 4; critics, ii. 239 n. 3; inscriptions to
Lewis XIV's 'Victories,' 184; 'le vraisem-
blable dans la tragédie,' i. 349 n. 5; remote-
ness of place convenient to poets, 360.
RACINE, Louis, the son, iii. 214.

RACKET, Mrs. Magdalen, Pope's step-sister,
iii. 83, 89 n. I.

RADCLIFFE, Dr. John, physician to the
Tories, ii. 57; Pope, advice to, iii. 196 n. 6.
RAINOLDS, John and William, i. 377.
RALEIGH, Sir Walter, i. 192, ii. 345 n. 4.
RALPH, James, iii. 146.

RAMSAY, Allan, the elder, the poet, iii.
282 n. 1, 317 n. I.

RAMSAY, Allan, the son, the portrait-
painter, iii. 251 n. 5.

RAMSAY, Andrew Michael, iii. 214 n. 7.
RAMUS, i. 148.

RANDOLPH, Thomas, i. 27 n. 3, iii. 81 n. 3.
RANK, iii. 21, 61.

RAPIN, Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise
of Poesie, i. 471 n. 4, 472 n. 2, 475 n. 4.
RAVENSCROFT, Edward, London Cuckold,
i. 382 n. 5.

RAWLINSON, Mr., iii. 372.

RAYNER, William, ii. 267 n. 3.
READ, Mrs., ii. 420, 427 n. 4.
READING, i. 104.

Redolent, iii. 435 n. 5.
Refinement, iii. 15 n. 3.
REGGIO, iii. 422 n. 2.

Regii Sanguinis Clamor ad Coelum, i. 117.
Rehearsal, newspaper, ii. 94.

Rehearsal, account of it, i. 368-70, 482;
authors assisting Buckingham, 282, 368, ii.
33; amendments and additions, i. 369 n. 2;
Cibber acts in it, iii. 185; Davenant as
'Bilboa' original hero, i. 369; Davenant's
Love and Honour ridiculed, 370 n. 1; Dryden
attacked in 'Bayes,' 369; D.'s comedy ridi-
culed, 459 n. 5; D.'s French words, 463 n. 8;
D.'s jealousy, 396 n. 3; D.'s plays, ridiculed,
336 n. 2, 349 n. 6, 369; D.'s plagiarism,
371 n. 2; D.'s reasoning in verse, 380 n. 3;
Epilogue quoted, iii. 429 n. 1; Evelyn's
estimate, i. 368 n. 11; Garrick acts in it,
368 n. 8; hero, change in name and original
of, 369, 482; Howard and his brothers
ridiculed, 337, 369, 482; Key to it, 482;
Langbaine afraid to explain allusions, 482;
Ormond's loss of Dublin alluded to, 370;
recent stage events mentioned when playing
it, 482, iii. 185.

REID, Andrew, iii. 453.

RELIGION, dangerous to be of no church,
i. 155; unfitness of poetry for it, 292; see
DEVOTIONAL POETRY.