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Bowles, asperses the Blounts, 77;
most poetical of Pope's editors,
177; clearly defined Pope's lite-
rary character, 413; his critical
observations valuable, 414
Boyhood, Pope's rhymes in, 24
Bridgman, Stowe Gardens di-
rector, 170

Bristol, void of civilised company,
357

Broome, Rev. William, Pope's co-
translator of the Odyssey, 202,
209, 217, 233, 234, 242
Brown, Dr. John, 461
Brutus, an epic poem, 362
Budgell, Eustace, 270, 373
Bufo, character of Lord Halifax,

411

Buncle, John, i.e. Rev. W. Amory,

149

Burnet, Bishop, Lady M. W.
Montagu's tutor, 178; satire on
Bishop Burnet, by Pope and
Gay, 241

Bushy Park, 132, 390
Bustles in London, as a porpoise in
a storm, 348

Busy idle reading public, 244
Butler, of Sussex, 287, 288
Button's Coffee-house, Great Rus-
sell-street, 57, 94, 114, 117, 118,
124, 372, 441
"B'ye-fore George !" Goldsmith's
usual exclamation, 203
Byron's end of fame, 41

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C.

Cabbages and turnips, 411
Cæsar of Bennington family, 288

note

Campbell, James, 462

Canons, Timon's Villa, 289, 291
Caroline, Princess, maids of honour,

135

479

Castle-yard, Holborn, now Castle-
street, 456

Catholic families, Pope's inti-
macy with the most opulent,

Caroline, Queen, her visit avoided
by Pope, 314, 315; Pope's sar-
casin on the Queen's death, 348
Caryll family, 52, 86, 165, 201, 207,

230

63

Catholics prohibited within ten
miles of London, 382
Caution and management illus-
trated, 411

Cave of Spleen, 131
Chalmers, Alexander, notes on
Pope's letters, 66 note
Chandos, Duke of, 289, 290
Chapman's translation of Homer,
consulted by Pope, 111
Characters of Women, 316
Charles-street, residence of Martha
Blount, 149

Chaucer's robust intellect, 362
Cheney, or Cheyne, "huge of size,"
201, 207

Cheselden, the surgeon, 385, 389
Chesterfield, Earl of, 390 note;
402, 409

Chiswick, Pope and his mother's
residence, 147
Chloe, 316

Christina, wife of Samuel Cooper,
Pope's mother's sister, 12
Chronology of Pope's writings, 469-
472

Church or cavalier, Pope no martyr
for either, 145

Cibber, Colley, excites Pope's hos-
tility, 157, 158; substituted for
Theobald, in the Dunciad, 373;
his Apology "one of the most
delightful gossiping books,"
375; poet laureate, 271; desig-
nated" that feather of a wit,"
369, 371; letter to Pope, 372;
verses on Pope's death, 391
Cleland, Colonel, 260
Cleland, " Pope Alexander's man
William," 258, 263, 290
Cleland, John, fabricator of Lady
M. W. Montagu's letters, 148,
262

Cloris, an unfortunate lady, Mrs.
Weston, 79

note

Cowper, Judith, subsequently Mrs.
Madan, 220, 222, 223, 247
Cowper, William, author of "The
Task," 223

Cox, Bessy, Prior's Chloe, 205
Craggs, elder, repartee to Arthur
Moore, 70 note; proffered pen-
sion to Pope, 110
Croker, John Wilson, 393 note
Cromwell, Henry, characterised by

Gay, 36; a" slovenly beau," 40;
Pope's letters to him, surrepti-
tiously obtained and sold by his
mistress, Mrs. Thomas, 318, 320,
326; his death, 45
Cross Inn, Oxford, 405
Crousaz's system not understood
by Pope, 356

Curll, "dauntless," piratical pub-
lications of Pope's letters, 149,
317, 363, 441, 443
Cypress-tree planted by Pope, 17

D.

Dartneuf, "grave joker," distin-
guished epicure, 201, 207
Dates, Pope's mischievously erro-
neous, 123, 167, 336, 337
Dawley, Lord Bolingbroke's resi-
dence, 227, 333, 351

Days of beauty, days of greatness,
73

Dean of St. Patrick's, a title made

immortal by Swift, 100
Death-bed penitential fervour, 390
Death of Pope imperceptible to his
attendants, 391
Delany, Dr., 256, 315
Descriptive poetry depreciated by
Pope, 18

Desperately wild and wicked, 76
Dennis's abuse of Pope, 51; Pope
satirises Dennis, 95; Dennis's
character of Pope, 152; com-
ments on Pope's Iliad, 197; his
thunder amalgamated with Ros-
coe's fear, 318

Devil Tavern, Fleet-street, 59
Dick Distich, Pope so charac-
terised in the Guardian, 408
Didappers, authors long under
water, 243

Digby, Hon. Robert, 223; his last
letter to Pope, 443
Dirty Patty Blount, 77 note
Disney, Colonel "Duke," reaps

his opima spolia, 136; parti-
culars respecting him, 202 note
Dissimulation of Pope attributed
to bodily weakness, 410
Dodsley, Robert, commenced book-
seller by Pope's assistance, 409;
prosecuted as a hint to Pope,

350

Doe or Roe, 275

Doncastle, John, Pope's Homeric
copyist, 112, 147, 464
Douce, Francis, 442
Downhill of life, 305

Drayton's Polyolbion justly
praised, 374 note
Drew, Sarah, 186

Dryden seen by Pope at Will's

Eloisa to Abelard, 413
Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire, 260
Elizabeth's accession, or Queen's

day, anti-Papal processions, 55
note; 440

Englefield, of Whiteknights, 67
English Poetry, History of, medi-
tated by Pope, 360, 361
Englishman, periodical paper, by
Steele, 121

Epic writers, their incapacity, 43
Epistle to Jervas, 154; Epistles

and Moral Essays praised, 289
Equivocation no lie? 154
Erinna [Judith Cowper], "blush-
ing in her bays," 217, 220, 222,
223, 247

Essay on Criticism, by Pope, 49,
50; criticised by Dennis, 51
Essay on Man, Pope's magnum
opus, 291-299, 393 note; abused
by Mallet, 293

Ethic Epistles, revised edition, 387
Euthanasia, 312
Evans, Abel, epigrammatist, 201,

208

481

Evasion, a lie guarded, 324
Every day another yesterday, 39
Exeter 'Change, Gay lay there in
state, 300 note

F.

Fanny, Lord, sobriquet of Lord
Hervey, Vice-Chamberlain, 301,
306, 373
Faulkner, George, printer, Dublin,

362

Fenton, Elijah, Pope's co-transla-
tor in the Odyssey, 217, 233, 234
Fermor, Mrs. Arabella, 107, 108
Fielding, Henry, satire entitled

Pasquin, 341; parodies of poets
in Tom Thumb, ib.; his family
relieved by Allen, 402, 453
Floyd, Biddy or Bridget, letter to
Martha Blount, 430
Fontainebleau, 351

Ford, Charles, gazetteer, 201, 207
Fortescue, Pope's "unfee'd coun-

sel," 136, 300, 325, 331, 332, 334,
388, 395

Fox, Henry, Lord Holland, desig-
nates Pope as a licentious lam-
pooner, 344

G.
Garden at Twickenham, plan of,
445, 446

Garrick, David, 137
Garth's Dispensary, 34; extracts
from Pope's copy, with correc-
tions, 342; commends Pope's
Homer, 117; advice as to pro-
posed amendments, 125
Gay, John, amanuensis to Aaron
Hill, 156; mock pastorals com-
mended, 94; congratulatory
poem to Pope, the Return from
Troy, 197-202; epicurean ha-
bits, 58; Beggar's Opera helps
him to a luxurious home, 58;
his writings indelicate, 59;
Gay's death affects Pope, 300;
pecuniary conditions of Gay
and Goldsmith compared, 59

Gay, Joseph, a name assumed by
Captain Breval, 156
Geneva described by Mallet, 436,

437

George I., coronation of, 71
George II., satirised by Pope, 348;
characterised as Solyman the
Magnificent, 343; his opinion of
the triumvirate, Bolingbroke,
Chesterfield, and Carteret, 364

note

Gerard, Lady, 385 note
Gildon's Life of Wycherley, 130;
Pope depreciated in his Art of
Poetry, 236

Gilliver, Lawton, Pope's publisher,
258, 273, 292

Glover, "Leonidas," 854, 425
Gower's, Lady, inscribed tree, 18
Grange, Lord, of infamous cele-
brity, 193, 194
Granville, subsequently

Lord

Lansdowne, 35
Gray, Thomas, approbation of
Pope, 345, 370
Greene, Rev. Henry, 45
Green-room society agreeable to
Pope, 137

Grey, Arthur, Lady Murray's
footman, 203

en-

Grotto described, 169 note, 171,
176, 190, 445-449, 457;
graved plan, 175; Over-door in-
scription, 445; names of donors
of the materials, 445-449
Grub-street Journal, 271; the edi-

tors named, 272; Grubiana, 274
Guardian, by Steele, why discon-
tinued, 121

Gulliver's Travels, 237, 238, 239,
252, 253

the Whigs, 46; characterised as
Bufo, 411

Hall-grove, near Bagshot, 459, 461
Hambleton's, Widow, coffee-house,

37

Hamilton, Anthony, 50
Hampton, translator of Polybius,

291

Handel's excellence questioned, 88
Hardbound brains, 444
Hat, indicative of principles, 45
Hatless, the phrase defined, 36
Haverstock-hill, Steele's residence,

60

Hearne's, Thomas, the Oxford an-
tiquary, scurrility on Pope's
Homer, 14 note

Henley, Orator, 350, 358
Hertford, Countess of, 425
Hervey, Lord, "the silken baron,"
5, 301, 306, 373
Hesiod's maxim: half more than
the whole, 195
Hewitt, John, rustic lover killed by
lightning, 186

Hill, Aaron, characterised as a
vain projector, 282; castigatory
reply to Pope, 285
Hippocrene's water, 238
Homer translated by Pope, 111,
113, 114

Homeric window inscriptions, 186
Homer's bust, by Bernini, 451
Homer's trumpet in Pope's lips

dwindles to a Jew's trump, 197
Hooke, Nathaniel,Roman historian,
390, 440
Hooke, Miss Betty, 465
Horace, Pope's imitations whence
suggested, 299

Horne, Old, Thames boatman, 382
Howard, Mrs., George II.'s mis-

tress, afterwards Duchess of
Suffolk, 199, 203, 329, 412
Howe, Sophia, maid of honour,
199, 205

Hyde, Lady Jane, 144

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