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COBHAM, Richard Temple, Viscount, 'brave
to the latest breath,' iii. 206 n. 1; friendship,
advantages of his, ii. 313; Gilbert West's
uncle, iii. 328; Pope's intimacy, 205 n. 8,
206; praised by Pope and Thomson, 206 n. 1.
COBHAM, Lady, iii. 206 n. 1, 425.
CODRINGTON FAMILY, iii. 364.
Cofferer, iii. 451 n. I.

COLBATCH, Dr. John, of Trinity College,
Cambridge, ii. 293.

COLE, Rev. William, iii. 431 n. 5.
COLE, William, M.D., ii. 237 n. 5.
COLE, Mr., an Oxford apothecary, ii. 13.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, Asgill's Eng-
lish, iii. 12 n. 5; Burnet's credulity, i. 128
n. 5; Congreve's comedies, ii. 222 n. 5;
Cowley and Donne, i. 21 n. 3, 42 n. 4; C.
and Milton, 56 n. 1; C.'s latinity, 66; C.,
Marini, and Darwin, 69; Cowper and Thom-
son, iii. 298 n. 7; double epithets in Shake-
speare and Milton, 437 n. 1; Dryden's genius,
farce-
223 n. I; D.'s prose, i. 418 n. 5;
tragedy' at funeral, 150 n. 1; Gray's lyrics,
iii. 440 n. 9; G.'s rhymes, 423 n. 4, 434
n. 4; Hacket's Life of Williams, 325; Mil-
ton's Arianism, i. 155 n. 5; M. an aristocrat,
157 n. 3; M.'s Latin verses, 161 n. 4; M.'s
Paradise Lost, 171 n. 4; M.'s Paradise Re-
gained, 147 n. 4, 188 n. 6; M.'s prose works,
104 n. 3; mythology of our eldest poets,
213 n. 2; Pope's choice of words, iii. 217
n. 1; P.'s Iliad, 119 n. 2; Sprat's Life of
Cowley, i. I n. 3; Swift and Rabelais, iii. 51
n. 1; S.'s riddles and trisyllable lines, 66 n. 1;
'talented,' 434 n. 2; Thomson's blank verse,
298 nn.; West, Gilbert, 332 n. 5; Young's
Night Thoughts, 395 n. 4, 399 n. 6.
COLESHILL, i. 249, 276.
COLET, Dean, iii. 317 n. 4.

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Censors, ii. 60
n. 8, 249; Crounian lecture, iii. 415 n. 8;
Dryden's funeral, i. 392 n. 1, 486; Fellows, ii.
236; scheme for giving free advice to poor,
57-60.

COLLIER, Jeremy, attacks the drama, i. 401,
ii. 126 n. 3, 219-23, 241; citizens in comedy,
236 n. 6; Congreve's Double Dealer, 217
n. 5; C.'s Love for Love, 223; C.'s Old
Bachelor, 214 n. 4; C. and Vanbrugh reply
to him, 214, 222; C.'s Way of the World,
sneered at in, 222 n. 2; controversy, formed
for, 220; Defence of the Short View, 222 n. 3;
Dryden, attacks on, i. 364 n. 3, 401 n. 5,
403 n. 5, ii. 222; D.'s reply, i. 401; D.'s
Miscellany, ii. 83 n. 10; Durfey, attacks, 221
2.4;'fierce and implacable Non-juror,' 220;
Hazlitt's and Leigh Hunt's criticisms, 220
22. 5, 223 n. 1; 'horse-play of his raillery,' i.
401, ii. 221 n. 2; Macaulay, praised by, 220
22. 5, 221 n. 1; Short View of the English
Stage, 220; 'spoilt the stage,' 223 n. 1.

COLLINS, William, the poet's father, iii. 334.
COLLINS, William, academic studies and

discipline, contempt for, iii. 334 n. 9; 'af-
fected the obsolete,' 341; appearance, 'de-
cent,' 336; Aristotle's Poetics, plans trans-
lation of, 336; bailiff, 'immured' by, 336;
birth, &c., 334; black-letter books, 337 n. 3;
booksellers, advances from, 336; chaplaincy,
regimental, thinks of getting, 335 n. 2; char-
acter and genius, 337-9; cheerful disposition,
336; clusters of consonants, 341; Cowper's
estimate, 339 n. 3; creditors, pressed by, 335,
336; death, 339; depression of mind, 338,
339 n. 2; diction, 341; Dirge in Cymbeline,
339 n. 4; existence, unknown to Cowper,
339 n. 3; fairies, genii, &c., loved, 337;
first publication, 334, 342; Flanders, 335
n. 2; Gentleman's Magazine, contributed to,
334, 339 n.4; Hist. of the Revival of Learn-
ing, published proposals for, 335; inherited
small property, 335 n. 1; irresolution, 335;
Johnson's affection for him, 339; J., described
in Poetical Calendar by, 337 n. 2; J., first
meets, 336; J., resemblance to, 335 n. 1;
J., visited by, 339; Julius II and Cosmo
de' Medici, 335 . 5; learning, 336, 337,
338 n. 4; legacy from uncle, 336; lite-
rary adventurer, comes to town a, 335;
Magdalen College, Oxford, 334; mental dis-
order, 337, 339, 340; morals, pure, 338;
New College, Oxford, no vacancy at, 334;
Odes, 335 n. 6; Ode to Evening, 341 n. 5;
Ode on the Superstitions of the Highlands,
340; Oriental Eclogues: see Persian Eclo-
gues; Otway and the River Arun, i. 241
n. 3; Oxford degree, iii. 334; O. madhouse,
taken to, 339 n. 2; O., subscriptions in, 335
n. 4; O., suddenly left, 334; O., visits, 339
Persian Eclogues, advertized, 335

n. 2;

n. 6; called 'Irish Eclogues,' 340; Gold-
smith praises them, 339 n. 2, 340 n. 1; pre-
ferred to Odes, 340 n. 1; republished as
Oriental Eclogues, 335 n. 6; written at
piety, 338, 339;
Winchester, 340 n. I;

Poems, reprinted, 341 n. 6; poetic imagina-
tion, 337, 341 n. 6; poverty, 335, 338;
Queen's College, Oxford, commoner of, 334;
Salmon's Modern History, reads, 340 n. 1;
school exercises, 334; studied to live, 337;
table and bottle, snatched relief from, 341;
temperate in eating and drinking,' 341 n. 1;
Testament, only book on travels, 339; Thom-
son's Seasons and Pope's Pastorals, 284 n. 1;
Thomson and Warton, 282 n. 2; tragedies,
planned several, 335; travels to dispel de-
pression, 339; Wartons, the, visited by, 340;
wasted his property, 334 n. 9; Winchester
College, 334, 340 n. 1; Wordsworth praises
him, 341 n. 6; quotations, Epistle to
Hanmer, 335 n. 5, 338 n. 2; Ode on the death
of Thomson, 294 n. 4; Ode to Fear, 337 n.4,
341 n. 5: Ode to Pity, i. 241 n. 3, iii. 341 n. 5.
COLLITON, Mrs., Earl Rivers's mistress, ii.
326 n. 3.

COLMAN, George, the elder, Gay's Polly,

revived, ii. 279 n. 2; Ode to Oblivion and
Obscurity, iii. 427; Savage's Sir Thomas
Overbury, revived, ii. 341 2. 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, iii. 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 n. 6; Amendments upon
Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations,
222 n. I; 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
22. 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
n. 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. 1;
Kilkenny School, 213; Lamb's praise, 218

n. 5, 222 n. 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. 1; 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; Ou-
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 #. 6;
present, when read to Halifax, 126; powers
desert him off stage, ii. 229; Prologue for
John 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; Southey,
criticized by, 232 n. 5; stage, leaves the,
224; Steele's dedications to him, 226 #. 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; Tatler, 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; Judgement of Paris, 234
n. 2; Mourning Bride, 219 n. 5,229; Mourn
ing Muse of Alexis, 230; Ode to Will. III,
231, 232, 299 n. 1; 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.

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. 1; 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. I.
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,
iii. 93.

CORSHAM, ii. 235.

CORY, William Johnson, iii. 82 n. I.

COSMO DE' MEDICI, iii. 194 n. 1, 335 n. 5.
COTTEREL, Sir Charles, Poliarchus of
Orinda's Letters, i. 238 n. 8.
COTTINGTON, Lord, i. 261 1. 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. 1 ; 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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Buckingham, befriended by, 16; burial, 17;
'business,' denounces, 8 n. 1; '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 n. 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 trifling, 28; c., verses polluted with, 52;
c., warmth of soul shines through, 20 n. 2;
c., 333; Constantia and Philetus, 4; con-
tentment on £500 a year, 67; contractions,
rugged and harsh, 60; conversation, 64;
'Cooley,' 5 n. I; 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, II; Donne, borrows from, 57;
D., his model, 58; dramatic composition,
hints on, 411; 'Dream of a shadow,' 7 n. 1;
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, II; 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,

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; 1. 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, II;
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. 1;
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, 10
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

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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 n. 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
12. 2; - quotations, Anacreontiques, 23,
39 n. 4; Complaint, 8 n. 1, 13 n. 4, 14 n. 5;
Davideis, 26, 27 n. 6, 28 n. 1, 29 m. 3, 49
nn., 50, 50 nn., 51 (3), 52 (7), 52 #2. 3.
53 (3), 54, 54 2. 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 n. 5,
28 n. 2, 29 n. 1, 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. 1; 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; On
the Death of Mr. Crashaw, 39 n. 2, iii. 329
n. 7; On the Death of Sir Henry Wotton, i.
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 n. 1; To Dr. Scar-
borough, 9 n. 3; Second Olympic, 43, 44; First
Nemean, 44; Resurrection, 44 n. 4, 45 n. 1;
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, ii.
221 n. 5; Congreve and Prince of Wales, 225
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 m. 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, 110
n. I, 112 n. 2, 117 n. 3, 275, 276; Johnson on
Lycidas, i. 164 n. 2; J. on pastoral poetry, 97
n. 9; Lives of the Poets, Arbuthnot, the
only man, iii. 273; Collins, only religious
poet, 339 n. 3; Milton, i. 84 n. 1; 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;

M.'s L'Allegro and Penseroso, 165 n. 3; M.'s
Paradise Lost, written with 'immense labour,'
2 n. 5; terrified by it, 181 n. 5; poets in
lower rank of life, ii. 180 n. 3; Pope's Iliad
and bells of rhyme,' iii. 238 n. 3; P.'s
Letters, 157 n. 3; P., lines on, 248 n. 4;
P.'s 'mercy to others,' 241 n.6; P.'s imitators,
248 n. 4; Prior's Alma and Hudibras, ii.
205 n.3; P.'s 'familiar style,' 211 n. 3; P.'s
Henry and Emma, 203 n. 1; P.'s mythology,
202 n. 9; P.'s Solomon, 206 n. 1; religious
poetry, iii. 310 n. 2; Rodney' a Methodist,'
330 n. 3; Swift's letters, 431 n. 7; Thom-
son's description of nature, 301 n. 1; touch
and retouch, to, secret of good writing,
221 n. 2; translated forty lines a day, 117
n. 3.

Cox, Bessy, ii. 199 n. 4, iii. 274.
CRABB, an Oxford wit, ii. 304 n. I.
CRABBE, Rev. George, composition, best
season for, i. 136 n. 1; Wesley's preaching,

39 n. 4.

CRADOCK, Joseph, Dryden's Oedipus, re-
vised, i. 362 n. 5; Milton's Euripides, 154.
CRADOCK, Dr. Zachary, Provost of Eton, i.
274.

CRAGGS, Miss, iii. 76 n. 5.

CRAGGS, James, the younger, Secretary of
State, Addison's death-bed dedication to him,
ii. 118; Fenton, instructed by, 259; Gay,
gives South Sea stock to, 273; old Peter Le
Neve's epitaph on him, iii. 259 n. 4; Pope
and Addison, common friend of, 132; Pope's
Epistle to Addison, 260 n. 2; P.'s epitaph,
259; P., offers to procure pension for, 118;
P.'s South Sea stock, 137 n. 2; South Sea
scheme, involved in, 260 n. 1; Tickell re-
commended by Addison to his patronage,
ii. 310; Westminster Abbey, iii. 259, 260

n. I.

CRAGGS, James, the elder, Postmaster-
General, iii. 259 n. 4, 260 n. 1.

CRAIG, James, the architect, Thomson's
nephew, iii. 281 n. 5.

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CRASHAW, Richard, Cowley's Elegy on
him, i. 39; Epitaph on Mr. Ashton, iii. 267
n. 5; Marino, his model, i. 69; meta-
physical poet,' 68; omitted in Lives of the
Poets, 22 n. 4; 'poet and saint,' 39 n. 2, iii.
329; Pope borrows from him, 267, 269 n. 3;
P.'s criticism, i. 69.

CRAWLEY, Mr. Justice, i. 256, 281.
CREECH, Thomas, Dryden and his Horace,
i. 396; Juvenal's thirteenth Satire, translated,
447.

CRISP, Sir Nicholas, i. 261, 263.

Critical Review, account of it, iii. 452 n. 2;
Lyttelton praised in it, 452, 453 m. 2.

CRITICS, iii. 91 n. 5.

CROFT, Rev. Sir Herbert, Bart., account of
him, iii. 361 n. 1; Chatterton's papers, ib.;
exchanged bar for church, 393; Family Dis-
courses, 361 n. 1; Young's Life, described

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by Burke, ib.; Y's Life, praised by Boswell,
ib.; Johnson's alterations, ib., 393.

CROFTS, William, Lord, Duke of Mon-
mouth in his charge, i. 278 n. 2; embassy to
Poland, 73; Waller's rival in rich match,
252, 278.

CROFTS, Mr., see CROFTS, Lord.

CROMWELL, Elizabeth, the Protector's aunt,
i. 268 n. 7.

CROMWELL, Henry, 'critic and poet,' ac-
count of him, iii. 92 n. 3; Gay's What d'ye
call it, ii. 271; Pope's correspondence, iii.
92, 93, 145.

CROMWELL, Sir Henry, the Protector's
grandfather, i. 249 n. 4.

CROMWELL, Oliver, Charles II, compared
with, i. 271; 'commenced monarch,' 115;
Cowley, bespattered by, 11 n. 3; 'discourses
in cant of the times,' 269; lucky day, ii. 218;
Milton's Defensio Secunda, i. 118; refuses
the Crown, 270; 'versed in ancient history,'
269; verses on his death by Waller, Dryden,
and Sprat, 270, 334, 425, ii. 32; Waller,
familiar converse with, 269.

CROMWELL, Richard, i. 125.

CROTCH, Dr. William, ii. 234 n. 2.
CROUNE, William, M.D., iii. 415 n. 8.
CROUSAZ, Jean Pierre de, account of him,
iii. 164, 165; Essay on Man, censured, 164,
167.

CROWNE, John, borrowed play,' iii. 314
n. 4; Dryden's jealousy, i. 396 n. 3; D.,
set up against, 370 n. 7; Hierusalem, ib.;
Settle's Empress of Morocco, 342 n. 5.
CRUMPTON, Mr., schoolmaster at Solihul,
iii. 349.

CUMBERLAND, Richard, iii. 443.
CUMBERLAND, William, Duke of, ii. 274.
Curiosa felicitas, iii. 236 n. 1.
CURIOSITY, ii. 113 n. 5, 371 n. I.

CURLL, Edmund, convicted of publishing
obscene pamphlets, iii. 155 n. 2; industry in
preserving national remains, ib.; Halifax's
Works and Life, ii. 41 n. 1; Key to the
Dunciad, advertised, iii. 146 n. 4; 'new terror
of death,' 155 n. 2; pilloried, ib.; Pope's
Letters, published, 93, 145, 155, 156; P.'s
Sober Advice, 276; prosecuted in House of
Lords, 155; Rochester's poems, i. 223 n. 2;
Savage and Steele, causes quarrel between, ii.
333 n. 2; Young's Works, his edition of, iii.
364, 370.

CUST, Francis Cockayne, K.C., ii. 375 n. 1,
376 n. 1, 440.

DACIER, Madame, translation of Homer, iii.
114, 115.

DAGGE, Mr., Keeper of Newgate, Bristol,
ii. 420 n. 2, 423, 424 n. 1, 429.
Daily Courant, ii. 385, 386 n. I.
Daily Journal, ii. 346 n. 1, iii. 146 n. 4.
Daily Post, ii. 346 n. 1, 350 n. 2, 354 n. 2.
Daisied, iii. 434 n. 2.

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