sentations, 129, 293

Aytoun, Professor, 416

B.

213

Bicknell, Mrs., celebrated as an

actress, 137, 200, 205

Bill of complaint, 311

Bilston, 121

Murray, 199, 203
Barber, Alderman, 348
Barrier Treaty, 108

Bath Abbey bells ring in Pope,
137; the amusements there de-
scribed, 137, 138; Bath, 377
Bathurst, Lord, 304, 311, 348, 402
Battersea, Lord Bolingbroke's, 226,
381, 383, 386, 387, 396
Battle of the Frogs and Mice,
translated by Parnell, 234
Bavius, of Grub-street Journal,

John Martyn, F.R.S., 272
Beach, Mary, Pope's nurse, 19, 337
Bead roll of Beauties, 68

Beddington, Hertfordshire, 219
Beggar's Opera, its transcendant
success, 58, 242

Belinda, Mrs., i.e. Mrs. Arabella
Fermor, 440

Bellenden, Margaret, maid of
honour, 199, 204

Bellenden, Mary, maid of honour,
199, 204

Bentley's critical opinion of Pope's
translation of Homer, 196; hence
Pope's epithet, "Slashing Bent-
ley," 241

Berkeley-row. See Berkeley-street
Berkeley-street, 395, 402, 458, 464
Berkeley's letter from Shotover,

406

Berkshire magnates, fox-hunters,

42

Bethell, "Blameless" Hugh, 314,

403 note, 438
Bethell, Slingsby, 456

Betterton portrait, by Kneller,
copied by Pope, 90
Bevan, druggist, Lombard-street,

4 note

Bevis Mount, Pope's visit to, 329-

331

14; the neighbourhood de-
scribed, 18; exchanged for Chis-
wick, 147

Birth of Pope, date controverted, 3
Black crayon hall decoration, 226
Blackmore, Sir Richard, 141, 242
Bladdery swell of management,

288

Blenheim, visited by Pope, 144,

145

Blount of Mapledurham family,

63-72

Blounts, Pope strongly attached
to the Miss, 65; reside in Lon-
don, 72

Blount, Maria Teresa, 76, 402,
465, 427

Blount, Martha, "a very little girl
at twenty-one," 67; malign re-
ports respecting, 229, 231, 337;
Pope's anxieties respecting her,
385, 387, 388, 395

Blount, Edward, desirous Pope
should leave England with him,
146

Blount of Sodington family, 466-

469

Blow unfelt, the tear he never
shed, 269

Blue Ball, Great Wild-street, 37
Bolingbroke's character, 109, 110;

his literary merits examined,
225; return from exile, 224, 226;
metaphysical propositions, 295;
alarmed by landing of the Pre-
tender, 383; ungallant to Mar-
tha Blount, 386; affected by
Pope's death, 388; reasons on
actualities, 389; particulars re-
lative to Atossa, 393; traduces
Pope, 397

Booth, Barton, player, 201, 208
Borlase, Rev. William, 447

479

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

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

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

Coach and six, Pope nearly

drowned in one, 238
Collected edition of Pope's Poems,
160

Congreve, William, rich in sine-
cures, 35; inheritor of Dryden's
fame, 2; his death, 4
Connexion of Pope with the
Blounts examined, 78
Cooper, Samuel, "Vandyke in
miniature," 12; his wife Chris-
tiana, Pope's aunt, 12, 88, 89;
Cooper monument in St. Pancras
Church, 13

Cooper, Mrs. Mary, bookseller, 381
Cope, Mrs., 86

Corinna, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas,
Henry Cromwell's mistress, 373,

443

Court of Dulness, by Lady M. W.
Montagu, 301

Court Poems, published by "shame-
less" Curll, 150, 152
Cowley, in spite of his faults, a
fine poet, 361

Cowper, Ashley, editor of Nor-
folk Poetical Miscellany, 221

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

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

Coffee-house, 22; translation of
Virgil, a perfect epic perform-
ance, 131; sums paid to him as
literary remuneration, 114; win-
dow inscriptions, 186; death and
funeral, 1
Dunciad suggested by Dryden's
Mac Flecknoe, 265; first sketch
of the Dunciad, 254, 264; mys-
terious couplet elucidated, 192,
193, 196; Cibber substituted for
Theobald, 267; Fourth Book
commenced, 367, 369; Dunciad
most finished of all Pope's writ-
ings, 370; the various editions
defined, 256, 258, 263, 265
D'Urfey of tolerable reputation,
42, 43

E.

Eckershall, "Honest Jemmy," 136,
195, 209, 352

Egyptian feast, Pope among the
guests, 390

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

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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 IL, 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
Lansdowne, 35

Lord

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
Grotto described, 169 note, 171,
176, 190, 445-449, 457 ; en-
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

H.

Habits, troublesome, contracted by
Pope, 38

Half-paid poets occasion unpaid
tailors, 277

Halifax, Lord, proffers Pope a

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

I.