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. 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.
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,
-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;
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
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,
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
CRAGGS, James, the elder, Postmaster- General, iii. 259 n. 4, 260 n. 1.
CRAIG, James, the architect, Thomson's nephew, iii. 281 n. 5.
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.
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
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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