Mallet and Marlborough papers, 405 n. 6; Milton's Hist. of Britain, i. 146 n. 1; M.'s prose writings, 120 n. 3; pronunciation of his name, iii. 340 n. a; Restoration plays, i. 335 n. 4; Rochester's satire, 226 n. 8; 'ruling passion,' iii. 173 n. 6; Scotticisms, 402 n. 5; Spenser's Fairy Queen, i. 183 n. 4; style, not English, iii. 52 n. 2; Swift's style, ib.; Temple's unpolluted writings, i. 235. 3; toleration, paradoxical and salu- tary, 108 n. 4; Waller's versification, 293 n. 1; W.'s poems, 294 n. 8; Warburton and his gang, iii. 167 n. 2.
HUME, Sir Patrick, first Lord Marchmont, iii. 283 n. 2.
HUME, Mrs., Thomson's grandmother, iii. 281 n. 4.
HUMPHRIES, Mr., ii. 415 n. 3.
HUNT, Leigh, Collier's attack on Drama, ii. 220 n. 5; Congreve at Ilam, 212 n. 3; C.'s Doris, 233 n. 8; C.'s Incognita, 214 n. 2; C.'s Love for Love, 218 n. 6; C.'s plots, 219 n. 1; C.'s Tatler, 224 n. 3; C.'s Way of the World, 223 n. 6; Pindaric and Ben Jonson, 234 n. 5; wit of Congreve's time, 216 n. 3; wit for wit's sake, 228 n. 2; Young and Congreve's will, 227 n. 4.
HURD, Bishop, Addison and Pope, iii. 133 n. 1; Cowley's Works, edits, i. 18 n. 2; C.'s 'mistresses,' 37 n. 4.
HUSSEY, Rev. John, marginal notes on Boswell's Johnson, ii. 341 n. 2, 435 n. 1, iii. 361 n. 1, 458.
HYDE, Thomas, the orientalist, ii. 12 n. 1. HYDE, see Clarendon.
HYPOCRISY, 'less mischievous than open impiety,' iii. 55.
IGNORAMUS, an, i. 375 n. 2.
ILAM, ii. 212 n. 3.
ILAY, Lord, iii. 155 n. 4.
IMITATIONS OF POEMS, i. 224, iii. 176,
ING, Mr., of Staffordshire, iii. 323. INOCULATION, ii. 250.
Inservi Deo et laetare, iii. 325.
Intellects, iii. 338 n. 5.
Interlope, ii. 238 n. I.
Invisibilia non decipiunt, iii. 379.
I pensieri stretti ed il viso sciolto, i. 93. IRELAND AND IRISH, Church, First Fruits and Twentieths, iii. 14; coinage, 34, 71;
English gentry and savage old Irish,' I n. 7; 'fair people, a,' 403 n. 1; Keeper of Records in Birmingham's Tower, ii. 152; Lords Jus- tices, 310 n. 8; 'most obscure and enslaved country,' iii. 28 n. 3; 'no man visits where he cannot drink,' 47; Scotch, compared with the, 403 n. 1; Swift, her debt to, 50; trade and manufacture, freeing of, 50 n. 4; Wood's halfpence, 33-37, 72.
'ISAAC BICKERSTAFF,' iii. 12, 13. ITALIAN ACADEMIES, i. 93 n. 7, 232.
ITALIAN LEARNING, in Milton's time, i. 95 n. 6.
ITALIAN OPERA, account of it, ii. 165; Beggar's Opera, driven out by, 278; 'exotic and irrational entertainment,' 160; opposi- tion to English opera, 161; prevalent taste for it in Addison's time, 88.
ITALIAN POETRY, in Milton's time, i. 161 n. 3.
JACKSON, Rev. William, expires in dock quoting Venice Preserved, i. 246 n. 2. JAGO, Richard, account of him, iii. 333 n. 4; Edge-hill, 349 n. 1; Elegy on a Blackbird, 333.
JAMES I, a clothworker, i. I n. 4; conver- sation with Bishops Andrews and Neile, 250. JAMES II, began a holy war at home,' i. 275; Charles II's papers against Church of England, 483; commands against Dutch, 304; Dorset, despised by, 305 n. 3; Dry- den's Virgil allusions, 387 n. 6; Eikon Basilike, 197; 'left like a whale upon the strand,' 275; literary merit, rewarded with- out loving, 384 n. 4; Spanish Friar, for- bids, 357 . I; Waller treated with kindness and familiarity, 275; W.'s epigram on him, 273.
JAMES, Dr. Robert, ii. 21.
JAMES, John, of Queen's College, Oxford, iii. 308 n. 4.
JANE, Dr., Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, ii.
JANES or JEANS, John, the fossilist, ii. 271 ጸ.6.
JEFFERIES, Cambridge bookseller, iii. 116
JEFFREYS, John, second baron, i. 390. JERMYN, Sir Thomas, i. 256.
JERSEY, Edward Villiers, first Earl of, ii. 184, 185 n. 8.
JERVAS, Charles, Arbuthnot's jest, iii. 273; Don Quixote, 107 n. 3; infidelity, 273; pictures, 107 n. 3, 273; Pope and Addison, attempted reconciliation of, 130; Pope 'honoured with his good deeds,' 113 n. 1; P., his pupil, 107; Swift's portrait, 55 n. 5. JESUITS, Latin and Greek taught together, iii. 84 n. 2.
Jesuit's Perspective, The, i. 2 n. 6. JODRELL, Richard Paul, iii. 252. Johnny Armstrong, iii. 439.
JOHNSON, Elizabeth, Dr. Johnson's wife, Epilogue to Distrest Mother, iii. 316 n. 1; Gay's poetry, ii. 282 n. 6.
JOHNSON, Esther (Stella), account of her, iii. 9; baptism, 9 n. 3; character, 42; dean- ery, lived near, 29; d., lodges in it when Swift in England, 30 n. 6; d., improper for her to die there, 37 n. 5; death, 40, 42; de- licacy, small failure of, 62 n. 4; flatters by acquiescence invincibly wrong opinions, ii. 124; fortune bequeathed to charitable uses, iii. 64; illness, 37; Ireland, invited to, 9; Johnston, signs her name, 9 n. 3; Journal to Stella, 23; lived in different house from Swift, 9, 30; 'lodgings, lived always in,' 9 n. 6; marriage, alleged private, 30, 41, 43, 69; m., Tisdall's proposal of, 41 n. 2; morning, never seen in, 9 n. 5; parentage, 9, 74; servant to Temple's sister, 74; spell- ing, her, 42; Swift's letters to her decrease, 31 n. 6; S., never saw without witness, 9, 30 n. 7; S.'s public table, regulated, 29; S. and Vanessa, 33; Temple's legacy, 9, 74; 'too late,' 42; Vanessa's death, effect on her of, 32; verses on Swift's birthday, 42 n. 4; wit, her, 42.
JOHNSON, or MOSSE, Mrs., Stella's mother, iii. 74.
JOHNSON, Michael, Johnson's father, Bur- net's and Sprat's sermons, ii. 37; sale of Ab- salom and Achitophel, i. 373.
JOHNSON, Samuel, accuracy, inattentive to minute, i. 368 n. 10, iii. 281 n. 4; attacks, only once replied to, i. 400 n. 4; Collins and the booksellers, iii. 336 n. 2; C., con- tributed to The Poetical Calendar, account of, 337 12. 2; confidence in himself, i. 94 n. 2; conjecture, kept things floating in, iii. 200 12. 5; character, drew from his own, in describing Dryden, i. 417 n. 1, 457 1. 3; Pope, iii. 216 n. 2; Savage, ii. 429 1. 3; Thomson, iii. 297 n. 4; Dies Irae, i. 292 n. 1, iii. 310 n. 2; Dissertation on Pope's Epitaphs, 254 n. 1; Drury Lane Prologue, 445; Essay on Epitaphs, 254 n. 1; friends' defects, inclined to palliate, ii. 433 n. 4; good principles without good practice, allowed too much credit to, 200 n. 5, 432 n. 3; Greek epigram, Latin version of, 202 n. 2; Hampton's Polybius reviews, i. 87 n. 4; 'incredulus odi,' iii. 438 n. 8; - Irene and Cato, ii. 133 n. 4; price sold at, i. 342 n. 2; Walpole alludes to it, ii. 136 n. 4; — Ju- venal, imitations of, i. 447 2. 3; knowledge, varied and ready for use, iii. 217 n. 4; Latin poetry, modern, proposed history of, 182 2. 7 letter to Gent. Mag. on Savage, ii. 435; library in Inner Temple Lane, iii. 156 n. 4; 1., sale of, i. 320 n. 2; lie, use of word, iii. 77 n. 6; Lives of the Poets, see Lives of the Poets; loans, small, disliked being asked for repayment, ii. 81 n. 5 ; London, date of publication, iii. 179 n. 4; Gray praises it, 444; spirit of liberty pre- valent when written, 179 n. 6; man- kind, worse in commerce, more kindly, ii.
430 n. 2; Medea chorus, two versions of, iii. 444 2. I; memory, strength of, i. 226 n. 3, 228 n. 1, ii. 65 n. 1; metaphysical dis- tresses,' 69 n. 6; monument in St. Paul's, iii. 260 n. 3; music, no relish for, 228 n. 5; nature from between houses of Fleet Street, i. 178 n. 1; old man in his talk, nothing of the, 291 2. 1; paraphrases in quotation marks, 279 . 3; pathetic in poetry, never liked to speak of, ii. 69 n. 6; payment re- ceived for Irene, i. 366 n. 2; p. r. Life of Savage, ii. 367 n. 1, 435; p. r. Lives of the Poets, xxv, ii. 367 n. 4; p. r. London, 367 n. 1, iii. 180 n. 4; poetry, pleasure in writing, 218 n. 3; Politian's poems, proposed edition of, 182 n. 7; Pope's Messiah, Latin version of, 226 n. 3; P.'s representative metre, paro- dies, 231; P.'s statements, trusts, ii. 307 n. 4; porter's knot, advised to buy a, 260 n. 4; poverty, never sneered at, iii. 283 n. 5; Rambler, ladies' names in, 311 n. 1; title suggested by Wanderer, ii. 364 n. 2; rapi- dity of composition, iii. 314 n. 1; Rasselas and Gray's Distant Prospect of Eton, 435 n. 2; reading, before eighteen, 94 n. 2; resolu- tions, renews neglected, i. 156 n. 3; Royal Society Transactions, improved arrangement, ii. 39; Rowe's Fair Penitent, repeats pas- sages from, 67 n. 3; seasons, effect of, ridicules, i. 137, iii. 433; second sight, i. 230 . 2; shoes worn out, ii. 409 n. 2; Solihul mastership, unsuccessful application for, iii. 349 n. I; solitude, dread of, ii. 431 22. I; 'starved into civility,' 272 n. 5; subor- dination, broken down, i. 233 n. 2; sub- scriptions to his Shakespeare, ii. 404 n. 3; talk his best, rule to, i. 162 n. 6; 'thought more than he read,' iii. 216 n. 2; Thrale's election, ii. 212 2. 1; translating for book- sellers, iii. 314 n. 1; triplet in London, 249 n. 4; Ursa Major,' 445; vocation to active life, 212 n. 2; vows, dislike of, i. 61 n. 1 'without or without at a detestable name,' iii. 400 n. 2; quotations, Drury Lane Prologue, i. 243 n. 2, 303 n. 6, iii. 337 n. 1; London, ii. 393 n. 1, 402 n. 3, 410 n. 2, 414 22. 1, iii. 283 n. 5; Prologue for Comus, i. 160 n. 6; Vanity of Human Wishes, 323 n. 4, ii. 321 nn., iii. 48 n. 3, 394 n. 5. JOHNSTON, Arthur, i. 150 n. 1. JOHNSTONE, Dr. James, of Kidderminster, iii. 454 n. 5.
JOHNSTONE, Dr. John, of Birmingham, iii. 454 n. 5.
JOHNSTONE, Governor, iii. 400 n. 2. JONES, Mrs. Bridget, of Llanelly, ii. 415. JONES, Sir William, i. 99 n. 1.
JONSON, Ben, actor, unsuccessful, i. 242; his 'art,' 303 n. 6; Broome, iii. 81 n. 3; Clarendon praises him, i. 56 n. 6; courts, conversant in, 464 n. 3; Cowley's obliga- tions to him, 58; Digby, Sir Kenelm, cele- brates, 4 n. 6; dramatic poetry, hints on,
411; favourite poet of his time, 58 n. 2; humour, 347 2. 3; 'Pindaric,' ii. 234 n. 5; plots, made his own, i. 347; poet-laureate, 340; ruggedness, 426; Shakespeare, verses on, 355 n. 4; son of Ben Jonson,' 280; Spenser, 190; translations, 373, 421; wo- men's poets, ii. 6 n. 1; Young on his learn- ing, iii. 386; quoted, i. 421 n. 5, ii. 6.
JORTIN, Rev. John, D.D., dying words, iii. 116 n. 4; Pope's Iliad, notes to, 116; Smith, anecdote of, ii. 20 n. 1; Swift's latinity, iii.
JOWETT, Benjamin, composition, uncer- tainty of, iii. 433 n. 4; Rochester's 'Vanity of Human Reason,' i. 223 n. 5.
JULIUS II, iii. 335 n. 5.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, income of West- minster justices, iii. 321 n. 4.
JUVENAL, character of his Satires, i. 447; Third Satire, Johnson's imitation of, 447 n. 3; T. S., Oldham's, iii. 176 n. 5; Tenth Satire, Johnson's imitation of, i. 447 n. 3; translation by Dryden and others, 311, 385, 447; t. by Stapylton and Holiday, 446; quotations, 115, iii. 154 n. 1, 241. Juvenilia, publication of, i. 161 N. 1. JUXON, Bishop, i. 111.
KATT, or Cat, Christopher, ii. 61 12. 1. KEAN, Edmund, King Lear, restored last scene, ii. 249 n. 5; 'two penny tearmouth,' 334 n. 3.
KELLY, George, Atterbury's amanuensis, ii. 300.
KEMBLE, John, 'Cato,' in Addison's play, ii. 133 n. 4; Congreve's Double Dealer, re- vised and played, 217 n. 2; Coriolanus, preserved some of Thomson's play in, iii. 294 n. 7; King Lear, adhered to Tate's ver- sion, ii. 249 n. 5; 'Oswyn' in Mourning Bride, 219 n. 5.
KEMPE, Mr. Charles Eamer, iii. 360. KENNETT, White, Bishop of Peterborough, ii. 30, iii. 130.
KENRICK, Roger, verger of St. Patrick's, iii. 49 n. 2.
KENT, Countess of, i. 203.
KENT, William, the artist, iii. 199 ». 2. KER, John, i. 113.
KIDGELL, John, author of The Card, iii. 389. KILKENNY SCHOOL, ii. 213, iii. 2. KILLIGREW, Harry, i. 304 n. 5.
KING, Edward, Milton's 'Lycidas,' i. 88 11. 4,92.
KING, Ezekiel, father of William King, the poet, ii. 26.
KING, Sir John, father of Edward King,
KING, William, Principal of St. Mary Hall, Anecdotes of his own Time, i. 407 n. 5; Bol- ingbroke and Dryden, 407; Miltonis Epi- stola and Templum Libertatis, iii. 179 n. 6; Pope's drinking and gluttony, 199 n. 2, 200
n. 2; Swift's Hist. of the Four last years of Queen Anne, 27.
KING, William, Archbishop of Dublin, 'excellent bishop,' ii. 51 n. 8; ordained Parnell under canonical age, 50; Swift's character of him, iii. 27 n. 2; S., disputes with, 27; S.'s letter to him, 59 n. 4; Whar- ton's true patriotism, ii. 90 n. 2.
KING, William, of Christ Church, D.C.L., Animadversions on a Pretended Account of Denmark, ii. 27; Art of Cookery, 29; Art of Love, ib.; birth, &c., 26; buffooning way,' 31 n. 6; Christ Church, Oxford, 26; death, 31; described by Hearne, 31 n. 6; Dialogues of the Dead, &c., 27 n. 6; Doc- tors' Commons, advocate at, 27, 28; Ex- aminer, contributed to, 29; friendship with Swift and Prior, 30; Gay's estimate of him, 29 n. 4; Gazetteer, 30; History of the Hea- then Gods, ib.; Irish appointments, 28; Journey to London, 27; judgements in court of Delegates, 28; Lambeth, resided at, 31; Mully of Mountown, 29; Phalaris contro- versy, 27; 'principles pure and orthodox,' 31; public festivity on surrender of Dunkirk, ib.; read and noted 22,000 books and MSS., 26; Reflections upon Varilla's Hist. of Heresy, 26 n. 8; Royal Society, satirized, 27; Ru- finus, 30; Sacheverell, 29; secretary to Princess Anne, 27 n. 4; self-indulgence and neglect of business, 28, 31; Swift, befriended by, 30 n. 5; Tatler, contributed to, 332 n. 1; Tenison, annoys, 31; Transactioner, 28; Useful Transactions in Philosophy, 29 n. 4; Voyage to the Island of Cajamai, 29; West- minster School, 26; wrote verses in tavern after he could not speak, 31 N. 4.
KING, Lord Chancellor, iii. 218 n. 3. KIRKBY, iii. 344.
KIT-CAT CLUB, ii. 61.
KNELLER, Sir Godfrey, buried in garden, iii. 264 n. 2; flattery, swallowed any gross, 265 n. 1; Gay, laughed at by, ib.; Kit-Cat club portraits, ii. 61 n. 1; Pope's epitaph, iii. 264; portrait of Betterton, 107 n. 5; Twickenham Church, desires monu- ment in, 264 n. 2; Westminster Abbey monu. ment, ib., 265 n. 2.
KNELLER, Lady, Pope's epitaph, iii. 264 n. 2. KNIGHT, Payne, iii. 427 n. 2. KNOLLES, Mr., i. 230.
KYRLE, John, the Man of Ross, iii. 172.
Labor ipse voluptas, iii. 218 n. 3. LA BRUYÈRE, ii. 93, 95.
LA CROIX, iii. 313 n. 4.
Lacrymae Cantabrigienses, iii. 81 n. 2, 312, 318.
Lacrymae Musarum, i. 332 n. 6.
LACY, John, the player, i. 382 n. 3.
LA FONTAINE, Epitaphe, quoted, i. 225 1. 2; Hans Carvel, story of, ii. 201 2. 8; Waller, praises, i. 272 n. 3.
LAMB, Charles, Congreve and Farquhar, ii. 222 n. 5; Congreve's Love for Love, 218 n. 5; C.'s Way of the World, sees, 223 n. 6; C. and Voltaire, 226 n. 6; Cowley, in child- hood reads, i. 2 n. 4; C., line suggested by, 37. 3; Dodingtonian smoothness,' iii. 287 n. 2; Donne and Cowley, i. 20 n. 2; Fair- fax's and Hoole's Tasso, 296 n. 3; Johnson's criticism, 183 n. 3, 296 n. 3; Milton's De- fensio, 112 n. 4, 118 n. 1; Paradise Lost and Johnson, 183 n. 3; Parnell's Contentment, line resembling, ii. 56; Philips's 'Namby Pamby' lines, iii. 327; Prior's Henry and Emma, ii. 202 n. 11; Shenstone's School- mistress, iii. 359 n. 1; Southey's 'Volunteer Laureate' to the Devil, ii. 384 n. 1; Steele, 151; Venice Preserved, i. 246 n. 1. LAMB, Mary, ii. 219 n. 5. LAMBERTON, or Lamerton, ii. 65. LAMOTTE, Charles, D.D., i. 369. LANCASTER, Dr., Provost of Queen's Col- lege, Oxford, ii. 82, 151.
LANDOR, Walter Savage, Addison's sim- plicity, ii. 150 n. 1; Cowley's latinity, i. 66; Dryden's Alexander's Feast, 457 n. 2, iii. 226 n. 7; D., lines on, i. 416 n. 4, 458 n. 2; D.'s Religio Laici, 442 n. 6; epitaphs, iii. 268 n. 4; Gray's Bard, 439 n. 8; G.'s Elegy, 445; Johnson's Life of Milton, i. 84 n. 1, Milton's Comus and Johnson,
168 n. 1; M. and Euripides, 154 n. 4; M. and Italian poetry, 161 n. 3; In Quintum Novembris, 162 n. 1; M.'s latinity, 95 n. 5; Mansus, 96 n. 3; Paradise Lost, 170 n. 1, 176 n. 3, 183 n. 2, 186 n. 1, 188 n. 2; M.'s prose, 103 n. 1; M.'s rhythm, 191 n. 4; M.'s second epithet after substantive, 190 n. 5; Sonnets, 169 n. 5; Nature in Johnson, Dryden and Milton, 178 n. 1; Petrarch's and Boccaccio's regret for their poetry, 290 n. 6; Pope, Dryden and Dennis, their poetical criticism, ii. 144 n. 4, iii. 222 n. 2; St. Cecilia's music book, 226 n. 7; Shenstone's epitaph, 349 n. 6. LANGBAINE, Gerard, account of him, i. 339 2. 8; dramatic rhyme controversy, 339; Dryden, seldom favours, 362; D.'s dis- like of priests, 403; D.'s plagiarism, 341, 348 n. 2; D.'s plays, order of, xxvi; D.'s Tempest, 341 n. 3; D.'s Troilus and Cres- sida, 356; Milton, ignorant of, 144 n. 2; plagiarism, great detector of,' 242; Rehear- sal, allusions in, 482.
LANGTON, Bennet, iii. 78. LANGUAGE, academies for refining, i. 232, ii. 185, iii. 16.
LANSDOWN, Battle of, ii. 286.
LANSDOWNE, George Granville, Baron, see GRANVILLE.
LAPIDARY STYLE, i. 94, 193. LARACOR, iii. 9, 57.
LATIN, Latin verses by Englishmen, i. 87; modern Latin poetry, iii. 182; pronunciation,
LE BRUN, Lewis XIV's 'Victories' at Versailles, ii. 184.
LE CLERC, Bibliothèque Universelle, iii. 308 n. 5.
Le Comte de Gabalis, iii. 233 n. 4. LECHMERE, Nicholas, Baron, ii. 1, 11, 191. LECOUVREUR, Adrienne, ii. 336 n. 1. Lecture, ii. 144 n. I.
LEE, Lady Elizabeth, see YOUNG, Lady Elizabeth.
LEE, Sir Henry, of Ditchley, iii. 376.
LEE, Nathaniel, 'Bedlam tragedy,' i. 357 n. 5; Dryden and Milton, 359 n. 2; D., wrote Duke of Guise and Oedipus with, 357, 362; 'gigantic poet, the,' 357 . 5; 'gods jostle in the dark,' iii. 420 n. 2; pathetic reading, i. 357 n. 5; Rival Queens, ib.; 'theatric genius grew stark mad,' iii. 397 n. 7. LEE, Colonel, iii. 376.
LEEDS, Duke of, i. 399 n. 5. LEEPER, Mr. R. R., iii. 64 12. 2.
LEGGE, Henry Bilson, Chancellor of Ex- chequer, iii. 452 n. 5.
LEICESTER, Robert Sidney, second Earl of, i. 2 n. 4, 252.
LEIGH, Lady Margaret, see LEY. LELAND, John, i. 88 n. 1.
LEMAN, Sir William, of Northall, Bart., ii. 412 n. 3, 439.
LE MOYNE, i. 337 n. 3.
LE NEVE, Peter, the herald, iii. 259 n. 4. LEO X, iii. 335.
LERIDA, iii. 368.
LESLIE, Dr. Charles, ii. 94. 2.
L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger, edited The Ob- servator, ii. 94; No Blind Guides, i. 126. Let, to be, ii. 359 n. 2.
LETCOMBE, iii. 5 n. 3, 26 n. 2.
LETTERS and LETTER-WRITING, iii. 159, 206-8.
LETTSOM, Dr., iii. 415 n. 6.
LEVETT, Robert, iii. 156 n. 4.
LEWIS XIV, Bajazet in Rowe's Tamerlane, ii. 66; Prior, shows favour to, 190; suitors and vacant place filled, iii. 21.
LEWIS, David, Miscellaneous Poems by several Hands, iii. 343, 347.
LEWIS, Edmund, usher of Westminster School, iii. 347.
LEWIS, Erasmus, account of him, ii. 273 ». 3; drunk with Bess Cox, 199 n. 4; Harley's
steward, 273; praised by Gay, Swift and Arbuthnot, 273 . 3; Prior's friend, 193 n. 5, 194 n. 1, 273 3; Swift's Four last Years of Queen Anne, iii. 27 n. 5; S. and Harley, 15 n. 3; S.'s recall, 24 n. 1; Under-Secretary of State, ii. 273 n. 3.
LEWIS, F., translates mottoes for Rambler, iii. 181 n. 1.
LEWIS, Sir John, ii. 212 n. 5.
LEWIS, William, the bookseller, iii. 98 n. 2. LEWIS, old Mr., secretary to fourth Earl of Orrery, ii. 258 n. 3, iii. 28.
Lewis's Miscellany, see LEWIS, David. LEY, Lady Margaret, i. 105. LEYDEN, iii. 412.
LIBANIUS, iii. 236 n. 4. LIBERI, Pietro, ii. 242 n. 8.
LIBERTY, ardour in men of genius entering world for, iii. 446; clamours for it, i. 157, iii. 289; unnecessary and outrageous zeal' for it, 411.
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, i. 108, ii. 361. LICENSING ACT for plays, iii. 292. LICENSING ACTS, i. 107 n. 6, 141 m. 1. Licentious, ii. 205 n. 1.
LILLO, George, George Barnwell, i. 248 n. 1; Elmerick, ii. 314 n. 2.
LILLY, William, the astrologer, i. 216 n. 3. Linguae Romanae Dictionarium, i. 120 n. 6. LINTOT, Bernard, Account Book, payments to Broome, iii. 79 n. 5; p. to Pope, 101 n. 2, 104 n. 4, 108 n. 4; p. to Rowe, ii. 70 n. 3; p. to Smith, 15 n. 5; Dennis's Remarks upon Cato, published, 143 n. 1; 'great sputtering fellow,' iii. 142 n. 6; Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, 1712, 76 n. 7; Oldisworth's translations, 76 n. 3; Pope's Dunciad, attacked in, 142 n. 6; P.'s Iliad, published, III, 118; P.'s Odyssey, published, 140 n. 2, 142; Theobald's Plato's Dialogue of the Immortality of the Soul, ii. 143 n. I. LINTOT, Henry, son of Bernard, Pope's letters sent to him, iii. 156.
Lintot's Miscellany, Broome's pieces, iii. 76; Pope's Rape of the Lock, 101 ». 2; P.'s Silence, 88 n. 7.
Liquidate, ii. 100 n. I.
LISTER, Dr. Martin, A Journey to Paris, ii. 27. LITERARY CLUB, ii. 197 n. 3.
LITTLE BARFORD or BECKFORD, ii. 65 n. 2. LITTLE HORKESLEY, i. 70 n. 3.
Lives of the Poets, account of publication, &c., xxv n. 2; Congreve, finished, May, 1780, ii. 212 n. 1; Cowley, finished, July, 1778, i. I n. 1; finished work, March, 1781, iii. 82 n. 1, 457 n. 3; Johnson dilatory and hasty by turns, ib.; J. grew weary, 361 n. 1; J. reaches contemporaries, ii. 116; Milton, finished, in six weeks, i. 84 n. 1; Pope, last written, iii. 82 n. 1; Swift begun, Sept. 1780, ib.; reprinting, 429 n. 4; Addison, 'most taking,' ii. 79 n. 1; Congreve, 'best of
the little lives,' 212 n. 1; Cowley, 'best of the whole,' i. I n. 1; Cowper's criticisms, 84 12. I, iii. 273, 310 n. 3, 339 n. 3; Dyer, S. Dyer's portrait inserted, 343 n. 1; easiness of style, i. 276 n. 4; Gray, clamour raised by, iii. 421 n. 1; Lyttelton, attacked by blue stockings, 452 n. 3, 457; Johnson tried to get it written for him, 361 n. 1, 457; Milton, authorities for, i. 84 n. 2; condemned by Cowper and Mark Pattison, 84 n. 1; praised by Landor, ib., 181 n. 1; Pope, criticisms of, iii. 82 n. 1; proof sheets, ib.; Roscommon, Johnson's earlier life, i. 229 n. 1; Rowe, example of Johnson's memory, ii. 65 n. 1; Savage, account of, 435, 436; French trans- lation, 434 n. 2; Shenstone and Lyttelton, angered tribe of blues, iii. 351 n. 6; Thomson, Boswell's assistance in, 281 n. 1, 295; inser- tion due to Johnson, 281 n. 1; uncommon or learned words, i. 276 n. 4; Waller, authorities, &c., I n. 1, 249 n. 1; criticized by Lamb, 296 n. 3; praised by Boswell, 249 n. 1; Young, Johnson's part in Croft's life, iii. 361 n. 1, 393. LLOYD, Robert, iii. 427 n. 2.
LLOYD, Mrs., Savage's reputed godmother, ii. 328 12. I.
LOCAL POETRY, i. 77, 78 n. I.
LOCKE, John, Blackmore, ii. 238, 251 n. 1; Commissioner of Appeals, 88; deprived of Studentship at Christ Church, i. 312 n. 4; Dryden's schoolfellow, 332 n. 4; Human Understanding and Pope, iii. 90; H. U. and Watts, 308, 309; hypothesis in medicine, ii. 251 n. 1; poetry, despised, 238 n. 6.
LOCKE, Mr., of Norbury Place, i. 193 1. 2. LOCKER, Mr., clerk of Leathersellers' Com- pany, ii. 113.
LOCKIER, Francis, Dean of Peterborough, Dryden and City and Country Mouse, ii. 182 n. 4; D., and Sheffield's Essay on Satire, 179. LOIRE, river, i. 268 n. 1.
LONDON, Aldersgate, Milton's garden house, i. 98; Artillery Walk, Milton's house, 133; Barbican, Milton's house, 108; Bartholomew Close, Milton hiding in, 127; Batson's Coffee- house, ii. 236 n. 5; Berkeley Square, Martha Blount's house, iii. 275; Bloomsbury Square, Akenside's practice, 414 n.6; B. S. and Steele's house, ii. 150; Bread Street, Milton's house, i. 86, 135 n. 2, 153 n. 6; Bridewell Hospital, Atterbury and Yalden preachers, ii. 300; Bridgewater House, its orchards, i. 108 n. 8; British Museum reading-room, iii. 427 n. 1; Buckingham House, ii. 178; Bull, Tower Hill, i. 247 n. 2; Butcher Row, iii. 181 n. 2;
BUTTON'S COFFEE-HOUSE, account of, ii. 122; Addison frequented it, ib., 308; astronomical lectures, 122 n. 11; 'high flyers,' iii. 131; 'nest of heresy and schism,' ii. 122 n. 11; Pope frequented it, 308; P. and Philips, iii. 107 n. 2, 320; Savage's Miscellany, subscriptions, ii. 342; Tickell's Iliad, 307 n. 6, iii. 131; Whiston and Steele,
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