virtuous living possible, i. 260;
its effect on Dryden, 438.
Powel, Mary, Milton's first wife, i.

115; death of, 126.
Precocity, Milton's, not equal to
Cowley's, i. 96; Granville's, ii.
275; Thomson's, iii. 221; Watt's,
240.
Presbyterians, Swift's attitude to-
wards the Irish, iii. 36.
Price, Samuel, Watts's faithful assis-
tant, iii. 241.

Prior, Matthew, ii. 175-201 ; his
youth, note by Austin Dobson, 425-

427.

Procrastination, Horace's verse on,
translated by Cowley, i. 71.
Projects, Milton's three great, i. 129;
MS. sketches of, 130.

Prose, Dryden's, equal to his poetry,
i. 434; Fox's admiration for, ibid.
Pullen, Josiah, tutor of Magdalen
College, Oxford, ii. 287.

Quack, story of the, in Essay on Trans-
lated Verse, i. 239.
Queensberry, Duke and Duchess of,

their patronage of Gay, ii. 267.
Quincunx, the, planted by Pope, iii.
106.

Quin, the actor, his benevolence to

Thomson, iii. 231.

Quixote, Don, Hudibras derived from
and compared with, i. 207; Sir
Roger de Coverley compared to,
ii. 104-105; copied by Pope, iii. 141.
Quotations, Johnson's method of deal-

ing with, i. 347; examples of im-
perfect, i. 204, 429; iii. 75, 177.

Race, or flavour of poems sometimes
removed by revision, iii. 236.
Rackett, Mrs. Magdalen, Pope's half-
sister, iii. 61.

Rerum Memorabilium, etc., the list of

lost inventions by Pancirollus, i. 49.
Resnel, his translation of the Essay on
Man into French, iii. 127.

Rhyme, no necessary adjunct of true
poetry, said Milton, i. 193; Dry-
den's defence of, 357.

Riccalton, Mr., Thomson's friend and
tutor, iii. 221.

Richardson, Jonathan, artist and

author, "the fondest of Milton's
admirers," i. 144; iii. 279.
Richardson, Jonathan, son of the
artist, iii. 146.

Richardson, Samuel, novelist, the

moral power of his genius, ii. 77.
Rivers, Earl, the father of Savage, ii.
316-320.

Robin, Poor, the

matick," i. 374.

"Philomathe-

Salmon, Thomas, his attack on Burnet,
ii. 46; his Review quoted, 317.
Salsili, Giovanni, friend of Milton, i.
105.

Sanctity, Osborne's saying on an ap-
pearance of, i. 233.

Sandys, George, his translation of
Ovid, i. 72, 391; Dryden's opinion
of, 436.

Sannazaro, quoted, i. 48.

Satan, not Adam, the hero of Para-
dise Lost, i. 179.

Satire, Essay on, verses attributed to

Dryden, written by Duke of Buck-
inghamshire, i. 389.

Satires, Hall's, Virgidemiarum, ad-
mired by Pope, iii. 192.
Saumaise, Claude de, or Salmasius, i.
122.

Savage, Richard, ii. 315-417; speech
of, at his trial, 340; his satire on the
clergy, 376.

"Savage, The Noble," Dryden's lines
on, 474.

Savoy, The, account of, i. 16; Cowley

promised the Mastership of, 16.
Sayings, clever, "fly loose about the

world, and are assigned succes-
sively to those whom it may be the
fashion to celebrate, i. 280.
Scaliger, Julius, his favourite odes of
Horace, i. 42.

"Scaligero, malim cum, errare, quam
cum clavio recte sapere," i. 428.
Scarborough, Sir Charles, gives secu-
rity for Cowley, i. 12.

Scotch lords, the, Swift's abuse of, iii.

23.

Scots, the, in Poland, i. 80, 503-511;

their cleverness and perseverance,
506; decrees concerning, 506-507.
Scott, Sir Walter, his mistake con-
cerning the author of the Hist. Poet.
de la Guerre entre les Anciens et

les Modernes, iii. 12; quoted on the
Philomaths, ibid.; his comparison of
the results to Swift and Steele of
their political pamphlets, 23; on
Otway's
́s poems, i. 250.

Scriblerus Club, iii. 140; memoirs of
the, ibid.

Scroop, Sir Car, his Praise of Satire
quoted, i. 224; Rochester's lam-
poon, ibid.

Scudamore, Sir James, i. 103.

Secondine, Cowley's use of this ex-
pression in place of "fecondine," as
Johnson has it, i. 53.
Sedley, Sir Charles, i. 377.
Selden, John, account of, i. 200; em-
ploys Butler, ibid.
Self-confidence, importance of, in
literary matters, iii. 167.
Settle, Elkanah, the City poet, i. 361,
394; Dryden's character of, i. 362;
his revenge, 371; known only as
the rival and antagonist of Dryden,
394.

66 Shadow, the dream of a," Pindar's
expression, i. 9.
Shadwell, J., poet laureate after the
Revolution in place of Dryden, i.
401; ridiculed in" Mac Flecknoe,"
402.

Shakespeare, Milton's epitaph on, i.
98; sale of his works, 152; his use
of alliteration, 299; Dryden's ac-
count of, 427; Pope's edition of,
iii. 108-9.

Sharpe, Dr. John, Archbishop of
York, iii. 14.

Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire,
ii. 165-172.

Shenstone, William, iii. 285-292.
Sherburne, Sir E., on the superiority
of literal translation, i. 437.
Shiels, Robert, author of Cibber's
Lives of the Poets, ii. 303.

Sidney, Lady Dorothea, Waller's
Sacharissa, i. 256.

Similes, bad and good, iii. 175, 176.
Simmons, Sam, Paradise Lost sold to,
i. 150, 151.

Skinner, Daniel, receives Milton's

treatise for publication, i. 161.
Smart, Christopher, his play the last
acted at either University, i. 99.
Smith, Edmund, ii. 3-26; his nick-
name, Rag, 19; Philips on, i. 333-
341.

Snuffers, The Golden, title of sermon,
ii. 289.

Socrates, his saying on what we have
have to learn, i. 110.
Somerville, William, ii. 309-311.
Sophocles, his mode of improving the
tragic drama, i. 489.

"Sound should seem an echo of the
sense," Pope's precept considered,
iii. 176.

Southerne, the play-writer, i. 384.
South Sea Bubble, Pope's connection
with the, iii. 108.
Spanheim, Frederick, i. 107.
Spectator, The, commenced, ii. 100;
criticised, 100-106; influence of,
104.

Spence, Joseph, his criticism of
Pope's Odyssey, iii. 111; his anec-
dotes, ibid.

Spenser, Edmund, dedication of his
poem, i. 162; Jonson's saying that
"in affecting the ancients, he writ no
language," 191; Dryden's opinion
of, 208; followed Petrarch, iii.
254.

Splendid Shilling, The, Philips' poem,
i. 326, 330.

Sporus, the name under which Pope
satirized Lord Hervey, iii. 138.
Sprat, Thomas, D.D., ii. 41-47; in
connection with Cowley, i. 1, 20,

21, 55, 502; refused to admit Mil-
ton's name into Westminster Ab-
bey, 158.

Stapylton, Sir Robert, his translation
of Juvenal, i. 463.

Steele, Sir Richard, made gazetteer,
ii. 36; his benevolence to Savage,
323; anecdotes of 324-325; con-
troversy with Swift, iii. 23; at-
tempts to reconcile Addison and
Pope, 103.

Stella, Esther Johnson, Swift invites
her to Ireland, iii. 9; marries her,
26; Journal to, 21.
Stepney, George, i. 319, 321.
Stercovius, John, the Pole, executed
under the influence of James VI., i.
511.

St. Evremond, Charles de, i. 277.
St. Genevieve, Pope's early tragedy
founded on the legend of, iii. 67.
Stillingfleet, Ed., Bishop of Worces-
ter, i. 397.

Stream, flowing, described by Cowley

in "unequalled lines," 1, 71; Den-
ham, verses on, 85.
Style, Waller's, "the same at twenty

as at fourscore," i. 255; a good
English, to be attained by "days
and nights given to the volumes
of Addison," ii. 154; purity and
simplicity distinguished Swift's,
iii. 41, 42; definition of a good
style, 50; Dryden's and Pope's
compared and described by Vol-
taire, 169.

Suetonius, quoted on Rome adorned
by Augustus, i. 482.
Surrey, Henry, Earl of, his transla-
tion of Virgil without rhyme, i.

192.

Swift, Jonathan iii. 3-40; his charac-
ter, 40-50; not appreciated justly
by Johnson, 4; "writes like a

gentleman and goes to Heaven with
a very good mien," 14; his love of
simplicity, 16, 41; his report of
Dryden, 385; his efforts in behalf
of Pope's Iliad, 103. The Dun-
ciad addressed to, 119; his in-
fluence in Ireland, 31-37; his cen-
sure of Halifax, ii. 54;
his Proposal
for correcting, etc., etc., the English
Tongue, i. 235, iii. 16; joins Pope
in his Miscellanies, 113.

Swift, Mrs. Abigail, mother of Jona-
than, iii. 7.

Tale of a Tub, iii. 8, 10, criticised,

41.

Tasso, protected by Manso, i. 105;

his praise of Guarini, 300.
Tate, Nahum, his death, ii. 81.
Tatler, The, commenced, ii. 100.
Tax, imposed on the Scotch settlers
in Poland, i. 502, 510.
Tediousness the most fatal of all
literary faults, ii. 196.

Tempest, The, Dryden's alteration of
Shakespeare's play, i. 360.

Temple of Fame, Pope's. The idea

taken from Chaucer's House of
Fame, iii. 80; has a thousand
beauties, 172.

Temple, Sir William, his patronage

and employment of Swift, iii. 5-8;
his Essay on Ancient and Modern
Learning, 11.

Theriaca, The, Nicander's Poem, i.

289.

Theobald, Lewis, ii. 260; detects
the faults in Pope's Shakespeare,
iii, 109; his edition of Shakespeare

114.
Theocritus, his Rustic Poems imitated
by Virgil, iii. 254.

Thomas, Mrs. (Corinna), i. 406, sells
Pope's Letters, iii. 113.

Thomson, James, Life of, iii. 221-230;

his poems criticised, 233-236; his
letter to his sister, 231-233; his
pension, 388.

66 Thoughts close, and looks loose."
Sir H. Wotton to Milton, i.

103.

Thoughts, great, cannot be expressed

in mean language, i. 214.
Tickell, Thomas, ii. 295-300; Addi-
son's friendship with, 299; his
version of the Iliad, iii. 104.
Addison thought it had more of
Homer than Pope's, 104; Pope
believed this to have been the
work of Addison, 105; charged
with the publication of Addison's
Works, ii. 122.

"Time effaces the fictions of opinion,

and confirms the determinations of
nature" (Cicero), i. 212.

Tonson, The famous family of pub-
lishers, i. 165, 421; their edition
of Milton, 92.

Tractatulus de Carmine Dram. Poeta-
rum, etc., by E. Philips, i. 110,

111.

Tragedies of the Last Age, Rymer's,
Dryden's observations on, i. 484-

493.

Translation, good, described, i. 73,

84, 86; slavish, 436; Dryden's
390, 403-405, 463; Prior's, ii. 425;
Pope's, iii. 66, 181, 184.
Transubstantiation, Sheffield's saying
on, ii. 168.

Trapp, Joseph, D.D., his Æneid, i.
468; his anger at Dryden's "holy
Butcher," 419.

Treaty, the Scotch, Cowley on, i. 10.
Trinity College, plays acted in the
Hall of, i. 97, 99.

Trissino, Giovanni, his influence on
Milton, i. 103.

Trivia, or the art of walking in the
streets of London, ii. 269.
Troilus and Cressida. Dryden alters
from Shakespeare, i. 377.
Trumbal, Sir William, an early
patron of Pope, iii. 68; Pope's
epitaph on, 198.

Truth, Hooker's saying on the deduc-
tion of, iii. 75.

Tuke, Sam, author of The Adventures
of Five hours, i. 18.
Tyrconnel, Lord, his treatment of
Savage, ii. 347, 357.

Urry, Mr. John, ii. 26.
Usher, Archbishop, account of, i. 112,

232.

Utrecht, Peace of, Prior and the ne-
gotiations for the, ii. 182-183.

Van Homrigh, Esther, Swift's "Va-
nessa," iii. 27, 28.

Varillas, his Hist. Heresies, i. 397;
his answer to Burnet quoted, 398;
his account of Wicliffe confuted by
King, ii. 33.

Vavassor, on a mistake in Milton's
Latin i. 123.

Versification, Prior's saying on, i. 83;
Cowley's 68, 72; "lax and lawless
styled Pindarism," 56; "loose
and long" defended by Cowley,
70; Waller's, 298; Dryden's de-
scribed by Pope, 478; Prior's, ii.
199; Pope's extraordinary power
of, iii. 191.

Vesbiam Ad, Sannazaro's verses, i. 48.
"Vice too high to be exposed,"

Pope's quotation from Horace, iii.