The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and index

Page 308. Note to v. 51. "It seems almost too extravagant a stroke to

make Avidien charge his friends for the game which he sent them as presents." Several critics have pointed out quite justly that this is a misinterpretation of the line

"Sell their presented partridges and fruits,"

which no doubt means that Avidien and his wife sell the game and fruits which have been sent to them as presents.

338. Note to v. 106. The epigram on Tweedledum and Tweedledee is wrongly ascribed to Pope or Swift. The real author was Doctor Byrom. See Vol. IV., p. 445, where the epigram is given at length.

350. Note to v. 13. I think the interpretation I have given of the couplet is wrong. It means "Edward and Henry . . . closed their long glories with a sigh, but obtained at last the grati. tude of base mankind however unwillingly paid."

409. Note 2. 'Imitation of Horace,' Book ii., Satire 6. "The Emperor of Austria" should, of course, have been “The Emperor.” 411. Note to v. 184. Through a lapse of memory I have stated wrongly that the Prince of Wales had a house in Lincoln'sInn-Fields. His house was in Leicester Fields.

438. Satires of Dr. Donne Versified.' Satire iv. 134. "Who got his pension rug." I explained this as probably meaning "who got a bare covering by his pension." I find, however, that Grose, in his 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,' says that "rug" is a cant word meaning "all right"; so that the meaning would seem to be, "who got his pension right and tight."

468. Epilogue to Satires. In Mr. Croker's note to v. 123 "the Duchess of Kent" should be " Duchess of Kendal."

VOL. IV.

319. Editor's note, 3 d., v. 153. It is I who am in error, not Pope. Misled by the identity of name as given in Pope's note, I believed him to be referring to Nicholas Hapзfield, of New College, Oxford, whose works answer to the description in the text. My friend Archdeacon Farrar, however, has pointed out to me that the person really referred to is De Lyra, a Franciscan of the thirteenth century, and in his day a famous theologian.

342. Editor's note s., v. 94. I have perhaps said rather too absolutely that "the history in this couplet is not quite accurate." The Ostrogoths indeed never invaded Latium, but if by Latium Pope meant Italy, he would have been thinking of the

The

invasion of the Ostrogoths under Theodoric in 487 A.D
first invasion of Spain, answering to the irruption of the
Dunces into the polite world, was, as I have stated in the note,
under the Vandals and Alans, but these were afterwards dis-
possessed by the Visigoths, who established themselves in
Spain, till they were in turn overborne by the Saracens in the
beginning of the eighth century.

Page 343. Editor's note a to v. 106. "How could the Antipodes in the time of Gregory I. have known anything of the burning of Virgil, when Gregory himself did not know of the existence of Antipodes?" The answer to the puzzle as I have stated it affords a curious instance of Pope's love of mystification and equivocal mcanings. He is alluding not, as seems to be the case at first sight, to Virgil the poet, but to Virgilius, Bishop of Salzburg, who put forward a theory of the rotundity of the earth, and assured his contemporaries that there were people like themselves walking under their feet. This theory was attacked as heretical by Boniface, Archbishop of Maintz, who held that it involved a belief in another world of men, another Fall, and another Redemption. Virgilius, however, seems to have explained his theory to the satisfaction of the Pope, and so far from being punished, he was canonised after his death. The controversy arose in the early part of the eighth century, and therefore long after the death of Gregory 1st, to whose burning of the Pagan authors Pope alludes in his note on v. 102.

343. Editor's note aa to v. 118. I have said that Pope's note as to the wars in England about the right time of celebrating Easter is not to be taken literally, as the method of celebrating Easter was settled at the First Council of Nicæa. Dean Milman speaks of the ruling of the Council of Nice as if it had been accepted by the whole Christian Church ('History of Latin Christianity,' vol. i. p. 44), but afterwards, describing the introduction of Christianity into England, he appears to leave it to be inferred that the Roman usage and the Eastern in this respect had continued to be separate; and what Pope, at any rate, is alluding to is the fierce controversy that arose between the Scotch and Roman monks in England in consequence of this diversity of usage.-' History of Latin Christianity,' vol. ii. p. 246. 357. Editor's note ss to v. 200. For "Magdalen and Clare Hall," read "Margaret and Clare Hall."

871. Editor's note 5 z to v. 618. The note to this verse in the text is ironical. Though the passage from the 'State Poems' is as old as 1704, Pope's allusion is to Walpole's ineffectual Convention with Spain, and to the forced inaction of Admirals Vernon and Haddock, owing to Walpole's lukewarm conduct of the War.

VOL. IX.

Page 20. Note 2. A note of Chalmers is quoted in which he says: 'The reader will search in vain for this last passage in the Book of Job. The first clause occurs in chap. xxiv. v. 12. "They have dreamed," &c., is not in the book of Psalms, although something like it is in the prophecy of Isaiah.' Lord Beauchamp has pointed out that in the Vulgate, with which Pope would have been more familiar than the English version, Psalm lxxv. 6, reads, " Dormierunt somnium suum: nihil invenerunt." The verse is found in Psalm lxxvi. 5, of the English Bible: "The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands."

180. Note 1. I have explained the abbreviated words in the text,
'Sir Tho. San. himself,' as if they meant 'Sir Thomas Lyttel-
ton (father of Pope's correspondent), Sandys, and Wyndham
himself.' But I am now inclined to think 'Sir Tho. San.' is
Sir Thomas Sanderson, one of the secretaries to the Prince
of Wales, and a prominent member of the Opposition.
545. Note 1. "Hertfordshire" should be "Herefordshire."

421.

423.

VOL. X.

For "Præsigenda," read " præfigenda."

Note 1. ('Latina' suggested as a correction for 'Lavina.') "A curious proof of Pope's own want of practice in Latin verse composition. For Bentley would never have suggested an emendation involving a false quantity.” In making this observation I overlooked what Pope says in his prefatory note: "At si quæ sint in hisce castigationibus, de quibus non satis liquet, syllabarum quantitates, #poλeyóueva nostra Libro ipsi præfigenda, ut consulas moneo." I cannot, however, discover Pope's meaning. Bentley pointed out false quantities made by other scholars, but he did not make them himself. See on this point Professor Jebb's 'Bentley' in the Men of Letters series, p. 215.

Since writing the above words, Professor Jebb, whose opinion I asked, has kindly sent me the following remarks: "The words in the prefatory note to the 'Virgilius Restauratus' are clearly meant, I think, as a sarcastic allusion to Bentley's 'Dissertation on the Metres of Terence,' in which he justified, on metrical grounds, the very numerous changes which he made in that poet's text, and also in the 'Fables of Phædrus.' If the 'Latina' for 'Lavina' was not the satirist's blunder, it was perhaps intended to suggest that Bentley's metrical subtleties might lead to errors which would be manifest in a metre so familiar as the hexameter. The Terence (with Phædrus) was published in 1726, and the 'Virgilius Restauratus' was doubtless especially aimed at that book."

INDEX TO POPE'S WORKS.

AARON.

AARON, Pietro, account of Pope
Leo X., ii. 79

A Short Way with Dissenters, by
Defoe, iv. 929

ABB3 Court, Lord Halifax's
country house, iii. 260, 390
ABDY, Sir Robert, vi. 325
ABELARD, Epistle to, i. 89, 179,
238; beauty and renown as a
teacher, ii. 219; poetical
genius, ii. 220; 'abominable'
character of his Historia Cala-
mitatum, ii. 224; Autobio-
graphy, ii. 226-229; intellec-
tual gifts, ii. 228; condemned
for heresy, ii. 228, 237; death
and final interment with Eloisa,
ii. 256

Absalom and Achitophel, Dry-
den's pocin of, ii. 80, 164,
175, 245, 348, 365, 410; iii.
55, 103, 145, 4S0; iv. 316,
341

Abuses Stript and Whipt, by
George Wither, iv. 323
ACHESON, Lady, Swift's libels
on, for her amusement, vii. 138,
139; domestic squabbles, vii.
139; Swift s character of, vii.

140

ADDERLEY, Dr., x. 107
ADDISON, Joseph, attributes edi-
torship of Lintot's Miscellany
to Pope, i. 11; counsels Pope
to translate the lid, i. 35, 45;
translation of Ovid, i. 140, 180,
190, 191, 202, 205, 206, 207, 362;
vision of the Three Roads of
Life, i. 202, 205, 206, 207, 210,
212; translation from Sanna-
zarius, i. 217; anecdote of, and
Pope, 1. 234; praise of Philips'
Pastorals, i. 251, v. 88; Cam-
paign, i. 251-254, 255, 279, 322,
829, 314, 816, il 257, vi. 7, 63,
69 Epilogue to the British

VOL. V.

ADDISON.

Enchanters, 1. 273, 276, 821;
Prologue to his Cato, by Pope,
i. 826; accused by Pope to
Spence of double-dealing in re-
gard to Cato, i. 327; verses to
the Princess of Wales, i. 327;
Life of, by Dr. Hurd, i. £27;
Warton, quoted, as to his jea-
lousy of Pope, i. 329; praise of
Tickell, 1. 330; Letter from
Italy, i. 140, 206, 340, 312, 361,
ii. 78-83; letter to Lord Hali-
fax, i. 346, 367; translation
from Claudian, L 360, 362,
364; lines to William IIL,
1365; paper in praise of
the Essay on Criticism, ii. 5,
8, 12, 16, 17, 18, 23, 55; attri-
buted by Pope to Steele, ii. 17;
caused an exaggerated estimate
of the poem, i 18; a great
author, ii. 28; Taller of, ii. 34;
Spectator of, ii. 34, 394, 408;
ease in writing the result of
labour, il 56, 61; Cato attri-
buted by envy to another, ii.
72; advice to Pope in regard
to the Rape of the Lock, ii. 116;
Pope's charge, founded there-
on, refuted, ii. 122, 126; on the
use of fabulous machinery in
nock heroic poems, ii. 124;
Pope's treacherous and frau-
dulent practice towards, ii.
125; generous dealing with
Dennis, ii. 125; warning to
Lady M. W. Montagu, against
Pope, ii. 126; raillery at the
foibles of women, ii. 127, 151,
159; version of the 4th Georgic,
ii. 140; Rosamond, ii. 156;
raillery at the manners of beaux,
ii. 172, 246; Verses on the lay-
House, ii. 451; early objection
to Pope's illnatured satire, iii.
27, 23; allegory of Public
Crelit in the Spectator, iii. 122;
papers on the Pleasu es of Ina-
gination, iii. 166; Dialogue on
Medals, iii. 201, 203, 204, 205, iv.
35; death, iii. 206: Warburton's
covert reflection on, iii. 206;
origin and cause of Pope's
satire on, in the character
of Atticus, fii. 231-237:
Pope's pretended letters to,
fil. 233; marriage with Lady
Warwick, iii. 234, ix. 354;
praise of Pope, L 234;
satirised as Attiens, fil. 26;
charged with political dis

ADDISON.

honesty by Pope and War
burton, ii. 863; study of
French, iii. 379; 'courtly stains,'
iii. 450; denounced Italian
opera, iv. 84; judgment on
Pope's Essy on Criticism, iv.
56 on Pope's translation of
the Iliad, iv. G60, 63; verses to
Sir Godfrey Kneller, iv. 824 ;
opinion of, as to the effect of
a tolling bell, iv. 332; on the
use of cat-calls in theatres, iv.
332; paper on play-houses, iv.
348; Secretary of State, iv.
479, 488; praise of An Essay on
Criticism, v. 44; withdrew
from Will's Coffee-house and
established Button's, v. 79;
repudiated Pope's Narrative
of Dr. Norris, v. 86; dis
couraged the enlargement of
the Rape of the Lock, v. 95: re-
puted jealousy of Pope, v. 158;
various accounts of Pope's
satire on, v. 159-161; success
of his Cato, vi. 7; inven-
tory of Rich's movables in
the Tatler, vi. 85; Rosamund,
vi. 155; Pope's account to
Caryll of his tragedy of Cato,
vi. 181; Pope's account of to
Spence, vi 182; connexion
with the Guardian, vi. 189; his
Upholsterer in the Tatler, vi.
192; praise of Pope, vi. 208;
Jervas's picture of, vi. 220, 414;
Pope's request that he would
correct the Temple of Fame, vi.
$95; Pope's falso dealing with,
in connexion with Dr. Norris's
Narrative, vi. 399; repudiation
of the Narrative to Lintot, vi.
400; encouragement from, to
Pope to translate the Iliad, vi
400, 401; published letters to
Pope of doubtful authenticity,
vi. 401; Pope published letters
to, fabricated after his death,
vi. 398, 402, 404, 406, 408; com-
mendation of Pope's Homer, vi.
410; Curll's advertisement of
his letters, vi. 420, 448; letter
to Swift in praise of Bishop
Ashe of Derry, vii. 9; Swift's
unbroken friendslup with, vil
25; Chief Secretary for Ireland,
vii. 26, 450; bestowal of Irish
appointments on Budgell, vil
S5, 456; Swift's subission to

is literary judgment, vii. 98:
description of Dr. Baloardo,

ADMIRALTY.

vil. 154; preference of Tickell's
Homer to Pope's, vii. 417; ac-
count to Dr. Berkeley of Garth's
final views of religion, viii. 28;
Pope's satirical verses on,
ix. 39; Remarks on Italy of,
ix. 874; Secretary of State,
ix. 388: accused by Pope
of jealousy, x. 172; well in-
clined to join in the Memoirs of
Scriblerus, x. 272; tautology a
frequent fault of, x. 385; joint
author of Tickell's Iliad, X.
388; poem to Sacheverell
quoted in the Pathos, x. 388
ADMIRALTY, the, Whitehall,
built by Ripley, iv. 25
ADOLPHUS, Latin fables, 1.

115

ADOLPHUS, General of the
Visigoths, iv. 342
ADONIS, a character, iii. 135
ADRIAN, the Roman Emperor,
his verses spoken before death,
Pope's version, vi. 393
Adriani Morientis in Animam,
Prior's version of, vi. 186;
Pope's various versions of, con-
sidered, vi. 187, 897
ADRIANOPLE, Lady M. W.
Montagu's description of, ix.
372

Advancement of Learning, Lord
Bacon's, ii. 141, 142, 358; viii.
447

ADVERTISEMENT to Pope's trans-
lations, i. 39; Temple of Fame,
1. 187; Messiah, i. 303; Epistle
to Dr. Arbuthnot, iii. 239; to
the Satires of Pope, lii. 278, 287;
to Epistle to Augustus, Imita-
tions of Horace, iii. 347; the
Dunciad (Publisher's), iv. 13;
to the complete edition of the
Dunciad, iv. 237; edition
printed in the Journals, iv. 237;
Pope's, in reply to Curll, and
Curll's in rejoinder, vi. 422,
423; Pope's correspondence
with Bishop Atterbury, vi. 447;
Curll's, to the public, of Pope's
Correspondence, vi. 447; Pope's
of an edition of his Corre-
spondence, viii. 378; of Prior
against a spurious collection of
his poems, from the Gazette, x.

465
Advice to an Author, Lord
Shaftesbury's, ii. 37
ALIAN, the historian, ii. 62, viii.
107, x. 303
ESCHYLUS, 1 199, ix. 27, x.
542; use of metaphor, v.
55

Esop's Bear Garden, iv. 828
Esor, arguments for his descent
from the Satyrs, x 414; his
shape and stature, x. 528,
529

ETNA, Mount, 1. 93, 291, ii. 438,
x. 284; Virgil's description, x.
870: Blackinore's translation,
x. 871

AFFECTATION, a handmaid of
Spleen, ii. 168.

ALLEN.

AGHRIM, Ode on the Battle of,
X. 382

AGRIPPA, X. 417

AIKEN, Dr., on Warburton's
Commentary on the Essay on
Man, ii. 465; on An Essay on
Criticism, 42
AIKIN, Miss, vi. 387

KMAN, Mr., the painter, Mal-
'let's epitaph on, x. 85
AISLABIE, Mr., Chancellor of
the Exchequer, his political
corruption, iii. 143

AISLABY, Mr., impeachment
of the Earl of Stialford, x.
176

AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, Vii. 37
AKENSIDE, Pleasures of the Imagi
nation, and Epistle to Curio,
ii. 123

ALAND, Judge Fortescue, iii.

258

ALBEMARLE Keppel 1st Earl
of, iii. 313

ALBEMARLE, George Monk
Duke of, marriage, iv. 325
ALBERTus Magnus, x. 277
ALBION, i. 359, 367; x. 485
ALBUTIUS, a character, iii. 308
ALCEUS, L. 94, 101, 216
Alcander, Prince of Rhodes,
Pope's only epic poem, i. 32;
burned with the approval of
Bishop Atterbury, v. 16, ix. 8;
used by Pope to exemplify
Bathos, x. 362
ALCIBIADES, X. 478
ALCINOUS, garden of, in the
Odyssey, x. 531

ALDO Minutio, the Venetian
printer, iii. 181

ALDRICH, Dr., Bishop Atter-
bury's defence of, ix. 63
ALDROVANDUS, X. 278
ALEXANDER the Great, i. 211,
anecdote of, iv. 90, x. 283,
846, 415, 528; poem of, by Nat
Lee, x. 371, 376; claim to
divine origin, il 360, 444;
personal appearance, iii.
250

ALEXANDER VI., Pope, ii. 360
Alexander's Feast, Dryden's, ii.
57, 179

ALEXANDRINE verse, opinions of
Dryden and Swift on, i. 338;
Swift's warfare against, 1. 338;
disquisition on, ii. 27; Dryden's
frequent use of, v. 22, vi.

ALL Souls College, Oxford, 1.
265: vi. i.
ALLATIUS, Leo, vil. 452
ALLEGORY, a cause of Meta-
physical writing, v. 56; en-
couraged by Neo-Platonisin,
v. 56; decline and fall of, v.

AFRICAN Co. and the Duke of
Chandos, iii. 184
Agamemnon, Thomson's play, Allegro of Milton, 1. 841
Z. 73
ALLEN, Lord, vil. 107; strange

AMPLIFICATION.

conduct to Dean Swift, vh
180, 302; Swift's pamphlet
against, vii. 196

ALLEN, Lady, Pope's commis-
sion to, vii. 167
ALLEN, Ralph, of Prior Park,
Bath, iii. 10, 11; letters from
Pope to, in praise of Mr.
Bethell, fii. 305; on the medi-
cal profession, iii. 334; on
changing the epithet of low-
born,' applied to him, to 'lum-
ble,' il 470, ix. 194: proposal
to pay for the publication of
Pope's correspondence, v. 291;
Squire Allworthy of Tom Jones,
v. 338; Warburton's maringe
with his niece, v. 838; rule-
ness to Martha Blount, v. 310;
temporary quarrel with Pope,
v. 311; letter from Pope to,
vii 187; hospitality at Bath,
vii. 490; post-master at Bath,
viii. 440; letters from Pope to,
in regard to his correspondence
with Swift, viii. 451, 456, 483,
498, 501 Pope's will in regard
to, viii. 523; comment thereon,
viil 524, ix. 172; correspond-
ence with Pope, ix. 187-202;
some account of, ix. 187; ori-
gin of his friendship with
Pope, ix. 188, 189; Pope on
Queen Caroline's death, ix
193;
last visit to Pope, ix.
197; efforts for Mr. Hooke,
ix. 201; subscriptions for
Pope's letters raised by, ix.
201;
Warburton's introduc-
tion to by Pope, ix. 220, 329;
conduct to Martha Blount,
ix. 32 x. 156, 217, 244
ALLEN, Mrs., on Queen Caroline's
death, iii. 464; wife of Ralph,
quarrel with Martha Blount,
viii. 523, ix. 196; conduct as
a hostess, to Ma tha Blount,
ix 332. (See EARL, Miss)
Alley, The, in imitation of
Spenser, by Pope, i. 14; the
poem, iv. 425; mistaken criti-
cism of, iv. 425, 427
Alma, Prior's poem, ii. 218; 17.
58; merits as judged by
Pope, and by the author, x

330
Almanach des Gourmands, as to
the moles of cooking robins,
iii. 307

ALPEU, or Paroli, a term of the
game of basset, iv. 473
Aurs, The, i. 288

ALSOP, Antony, account of his
life and writings, iv. 358
Ambitious Step-Mother of Rowe,
i. 294

AMELIA, Princess, daughter of
George II., iii. 291; ix. 251
AMESBURY, Vil 77, 199; viil
515; ix. 934
AMIENS, Dr., vil. 427
Aminta, coinedy of Tasso, L

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