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J.
Jacobite riot at Oxford, 1715, 145;
Jacobite insurrection, 113
Jervas, Kneller's pupil, instructs
Pope in painting, 89; paints
picture of the Miss Blounts, 66
note; portrait of Addison, 124;
portrait of Pope, now at Ma-
pledurham, 425; his house in
Cleveland-row, Pope's town re-
sidence, 136; epistle to Jervas,
154; other references, 166, 316,
351, 352
Johnson's, Dr. Samuel, London, a
poem, admired by Pope, 346;
his biography of Savage quoted,
359; his biography of Pope ad-
mirable for minuteness of detail,
405

483

dern gardening," 19; succeeds
Bridgman, 170, 354
Key, Rev. D., 447; Rev. W. Key,
of Ackworth, 425
Key to the Lock, 108

King, William, D.D., Jacobite
Principal of St. Mary Hall,
Oxford, 385

Kingston, "my Lady Duchess
drunk," 135

K.

Kennett, Bishop White, diary
quoted, 103

Kent, William, "inventor of mo-

Kueller paints for Pope a portrait
of Lady M. W. Montagu, 189;
fooled by the wits to the top
of his bent, 201, 207; Kneller
and Jervas's portraits of Pope
praised, 408

Knights of the Bathos, 270
Kyrle, John, the Man of Ross, 291

L.

Lælius, i.e. Bolingbroke, 292
Landscape gardening, Pope ex-
celled in, 19

Lawless, Cadell's shopman, 78, 406
Lawton, John, 200, 206
Leave you to your wine! 409
Legacies bequeathed by Pope, 382
Leicester House, 240, 350
Lent wit like lost money, 333
Lepell, Mary, subsequently Lady

Hervey, 5; walks by moonlight
with Pope, 135; cornet from
birth in her father's regiment,

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202

Millennium, Pope's fancies respect-
ing, 235

Milton, familiar with forest scenery,
19; window lines at Chalfont St.
Giles, 346

Misanthropy of Swift, 235
Molière's Tartuffe, the original of
Cibber's Nonjuror, 158
Money, Pope's constant grasping,
injurious to his fame, 395
Montagu, Lady M. W., Pope's
bright particular star, 134; Ec-
logues, 152, 179; toast of the
Kit-Cat Club, 179; Pope's dar-
ling theme, 178, 190; portrait
painted by Kneller, for Pope,
189; Pope's legacy-hunting fic-
tion, 410

Monuments in Twickenham church
described, 403, 404
Moore, Arthur, "a venal politi-
cian," 70, 199, 245
Moore-Smythe, James, the "phan-
tom" of the Dunciad, 70, 71, 245,
247, 270, 272, 276
Most impudent man living, i.e.
Warburton, 400

Mother of Pope, his affection to-
wards her, 13; her death, 303;
portrait pencilled by Richard-
son, 303; obelisk raised to her
memory, 304

INDEX.

Murray, William, subsequently
Earl of Mansfield, 348, 352, 357,
363, 386, 402

P.

Page, Judge, 306; hard words or
hanging, 425

Paper, Pope's shabby economy,

N.

112

Nash, Beau, at Bath, solicits Pope Papists in Pope's time a proscribed

class, 17

to write an inscription, 138
Needle ceasing to tremble, rusts,

78

Nelson, Mrs. M., designated by
Henry Cromwell, Sappho, 40,
195 note; letter to Teresa Blount,
431, 432

Newton, bust of Sir Isaac, by
Guelfi, 451

Nichols, John, 262
Noblemen bottle-holders to a poet,

258

Nonjuror, characters indicated,

159 note

Norris, Dr. Robert, narrative
quoted, 95
Nurse, Pope's, notice of her death,
191, 337

0.

Oakley Bower, Lady Hervey's, 406
Obelisk memorial of Pope's mo-
ther, 304, 316
October Club, 133
Odyssey, involves Pope in diffi-
culties, 232, 234, 317; Essay on,
by Spence, 236
Oldmixon's horse discharges a
debt, 140; repudiation of Pope's
libel, 150
Oldsworth, quickest translator in
England, 141

485

Oliver, William, M.D., of Bath, 173
Ornamental gardening, Pope's effi-
ciency in, 176

Orrery, Earl of, 365, 449
Overturned in coach and six, 238
Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of,
"L feeble and procrastinating," 109,
200, 206

Oxford, Pope's journey on horse-
back, 139, 144, 405

Parnell a bar's length before
other poets, 99; his excellence
and inebriety, 105; Poems edited
by Pope, 216
Parody on the First Psalm, 153,

154

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163; a Deist, believing in a fu- | Rackett family particularised, 459,
ture state, 390 note; misrepre-
sented by Warburton, 92
Pope monuments in Twickenham
Church, 403, 404

Radcliffe's sensible advice to Pope,

Pope's paternal descent, 6, 319;
no trace of Pope's grandfather,
7; his father perverted to Popery,
6; Pope's pedigree repudiated,
7, 320; asserts his descent, 5;
death of Pope's father, 160, 161,

165

Pope's pecuniary position on his

father's decease, 166
Pope's Pastorals, 28, 46, 49
Pope's sword tied with a cord, 137;
his head adopted by "shame-
less" Curll as a sign, 324; full-
length portrait of Pope, 407
Pope, Rev. Alexander, minister of
Reay, N.B., 9, 10, 462
Portland, Duchess of, 393
Poyntz, Peterborough's nephew-
in-law, 330 note, 331
Pretender, Atterbury's attempt to
proclaim him, 110; "Poor and
timid," 214; threatened inva-
sion of England, 382
Prior, Matthew, 200, 205, 339
Prior Park, Bath, 379
Prodigal Son, drawing by Pope,

462

Prompter, a periodical paper, by

Aaron Hill, 287
Pulteney, William, created Earl
of Bath, 353

Q.

Queensberry family honour Gay
with a splendid funeral, 300;
the Duchess's letters to Swift,
409

Queen's-day, anti-Romish proces-
sion, 55 note, 440

R.

Rackett, Mrs. Magdalen, Pope's
half-sister and legatee, 16 note,
382, 452, 454, 456, 458

28

Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd ad-
mired by Pope, 94

Rape of the Lock, 62, 102, 105, 416;
characters defined, 107; Key to
the Lock, 108
Reed, Isaac, 262
Remainder of Pope's publications
unsaleable, 457
Reynolds's meeting with Pope in
an auction-room, 23
Richardson, the artist, Pope's asso-
ciate, 303, 346, 386; Richard-
son, junior, 377
Robertson, the historian, erro-
neous estimate of Ossian, 117
note;
solicitude while dying re-
specting his fruit-trees, 390 note
Robinson, Mrs. Anastasia, Countess
of Peterborough, her marriage
avowed, 329 note
Robinson's Coffee-house fray, 42

note

Rogers deterred from the pur-
chase of Pope's villa, 168
Rollinson, William, 201, 209, 452
Rosamond's shade toasted in spring

water, 145, 219

Roscoe's edition of Pope's works,
compared with the Mapledur-
ham manuscripts, 419-424
Rose, Sir George, 394
Rose-street, Covent-garden, resi-
dence of "dauntless" Curll, 322,
441; adopts Pope's head as a
sign, 324
Roubiliac's bust of Pope, 417
Rousham, Colonel Dormer's seat,

405

Rumpatur, quisquis rumpitur in-
vidiâ, 307

Rustic lovers killed by lightning,
186, 189

S.

Sanctified prude, i. e. Teresa
Blount, 77

INDEX.

Santlow, Mrs., Marlborough's mis- | Shakspeare Restored, by Theobald,
tress, afterwards Mrs. Barton
Booth, 137, 200, 205
Sappho, an orthodox lady, 38, 40,
44. See Mrs. M. Nelson, 195
note; 431, 432
Sappho, Pope's, Lady M. W. Mon-
tagu, 218, 302, 309
Satire, Pope's proneness to, 24
Satirists eternise scribblers, 237
Satis beatus ruris honoribus, 227
Savage, Richard, 264, 272, 274,
322 note, 358; particulars of his
midnight brawl with Sinclair,

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read, 54, 296

Shakspeare's Plays, edited by Pope,
217, 231, 232, 236
Shakspeare's Plays, edited by
Theobald, 232

232, 266

Shelley's Alastor commended, 90
Sherwin, Rev. Dr., 305, 808
Sleeping at the dinner-table, 409
Smedley, Jonathan, Chaos of Odd
Scraps, 251, 267
Smollett's meeting of Grub-street
authors, 140

Snuff taken by Dryden and Pope,
408; Parthenissa, i.e. Martha
Blount, a snuffer, 440; Pope's
snuff-box bequeathed to his
namesake, 461

Sober Advice from Horace fla-
grantly indecent, 315
Southcote, Thomas, Abbé of

Avignon, 28, 86, 306, 315, 349
South Sea Scheme, Pope's infatu-
ation, 195

Spectacles obstinately rejected by
Swift, 350

Spectator, Pope's verses in, 60
Spence, Rev. Joseph, 236, 387,
388, 405; rivals Pope as a land-
scape gardener, 402
Sprat, Bishop, amenities and fa-
miliarities of correspondence de-
fined, 338

Stage, Pope fascinated by the, 137
Stanhope, Sir William, succeeding

occupier of Pope's villa, 168, 458
Stanton Harcourt described, 182-
185

State Dunces, by Paul White-
head, 349

Statius, Pope's translation revised
by Henry Cromwell, 35
Steele's commendatory letter to
Pope, 57; Poetical Miscellanies,
109; Englishman, a periodical
paper, 121

Steevens, George, editor of Addi-
tions to Pope's works, 197 note, 388
Stella, 237, 240, 241

Stoneham, Rev. Thompson, 90, 463
Stonor, 85 note

Stowe, Lord Cobham's seat, visited
by Pope, 316, 331, 376

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