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he is but I ascribe to him, as his characteristic gift, in a large sense, the faculty of expression. He expresses what all feel and cannot say, and his sayings pass into proverbs among his people, and his phrases become household words and idioms of their daily speech, which is tesselated with the rich fragments of his language, as we see in foreign lands the marbles of Roman grandeur worked into the walls and pavements of modern palaces."

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INDEX

Addison, Joseph, 34, 147, 182,
241, 262, 331-2, 472, 482,
524, 549, 556, 724; his
Campaign," 18, 77, 363.
and The Tatler, 32; and
The Spectator, 51, 73; and
Windsor Forest,' 76-7;
and Dennis, 88; and Pope's
Iliad," 97, 141-2, and
The Rape of the Lock,"
113-4; and Philips, 119; and
Pope and Jervas, 129 et sqq.,
140-1; his portrait, 155;
Pope's distrust of, 166
et sqq., his death, 273;
his Cato, 77, 79 et sqq., 86
et sqq., 114, 141, 153, 167,
401

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Aislabie, John, 250, 257
Allen, Ralph, 643, 645, 705;

and Pope's correspondence,
544-5; Pope's letter to,
546-7, 581, 593, 604, 621-2,
631-2, 639, 641-2, 649,
673 et sqq., 681, 687, 690;
Pope's couplet on, 582;
visits Pope, 596; Pope's
visit to, 609; and Savage,
612; his gifts to Pope,
621 et sqq., 671; his illness
and Pope's proposed visit
to, 633 et sqq.; and Pope's
investments, 641-2; and
Fielding, 674-5; and
Martha Blount, 678 et sqq.;
his illness, 682; Pope's
invitation to, 688; visits

Pope, 689; Pope's legacy
to, 688-9; and the Letters
on Patriotism, 703
Allen, Mrs., 596, 622-3, 636,

639, 645, 669, 673, 677 et
sqq., 688 et sqq.
Anne, Queen, 125–6, 128, 132,

147, 242, 261, 324, 532, 585
Arbuthnot, Dr., 77, 90, 122,
128, 147, 165, 173, 275,
311, 377, 380, 385, 403-4,
415, 487, 508, 524, 527,
600, 668, 683; short ac-
count of, 89; Pope's letters
to, 123-4; and Lord Oxford,
125; and Queen Anne's
death, 126; collaborates
with Pope and Gay, 194
et sqq.; and Pope's health,
224; and the Bishop of
Rochester, 281; Swift's
high opinion of, 314, 324
and "Gulliver's Travels,"
329; and the Scriblerus
Club, 331, 333; and Gay,
381; and Martha Blount's
illness, 437; Lady M. W.
Montagu's letter to, 461-
2; his ill-health, 499;
letter to Pope, 499, 500;
Pope's visit to, 501; and
the "Epistle to," 508,
510; his death, 537; his
correspondence with Pope,
556; his daughter, 604
Arbuthnot, George, 635, 671,
677-8, 681-2, 698

Arbuthnot, Mrs., 634, 636,
671, 677-8, 696
Argyll, Duke of, 211, 589
Argyll, Duchess of, 211, 240
Atterbury, Francis, Bishop,
89, 203, 216, 226, 242, 253-
4, 264-5, 272, 279 et sqq. ;
360, 395-6, 600
Aylesbury, Earl of, 241
Ayre, 169

Bacon, Francis, 282, 388
Bacon, Montague, 174–5, 197
Barber, Mrs., 275, 454 et sqq.,
459, 506

Bathurst, Lord, 127, 226, 230-
I, 311, 326, 373, 382, 386,
419, 449, 546, 573, 627,
633; Pope's visits to, 213,
266-7, 495, 502, 606, 639;
lends Pope his house, 225;
short account of, 229;
Pope's letters to, 236-7,
378, 536; and Pope's
frugal meal, 325; and
Pope's health, 432; and
"Epistle" to, 438 et sqq.;
and the " Essay on Man,"
471; his "classic temple,"
547-8; Pope's proposed
letter to, 607; Pope's
affection for, 626; and
Pope's will, 698; his pro-
fligacy, 710

Beach, Mary (Pope's nurse),
315-6

Beaumont and Fletcher, 560
Bedford, Duke of, 657
Bellenden, Mary. See Duchess
of Argyll

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"Bee, The," 399
Behn, Mrs. Aphra, 570
Belsunce, M. de, Bishop of
Marseilles, 479

Bentley, Richard, 160, 346,
453, 518-9, 567, 652
Bishop of

Benton,

D.,

Gloucester, 589

Berkeley, Dr., Bishop of
Cloyne, 81, 115, 395, 524
Berkeley, Hon. George, 495,

530, 712

Berry, Duc de, 60

Bethel, Hugh, 380, 402-3,
415-16,432,487,497-8, 547,
575, 610, 625, 648, 681,
691, 704

Bethel, Slingsby, 402
Bickfords, The, 244
Bicknell, Mrs., 240

Binfield, 3, 15, 22, 25, 35, 67,
90, 93, 98-9, 117, 126, 144,
165, 174
Blackmore, Sir Richard, 6, 46,
189, 345-6, 348, 351, 355,
359, 449

Blount, Hon. Edward, 178,
242, 308, 394, 521
Blount, Family of, 55
Blount, Sir John, 445
Blount, Mrs., 380, 391, 417,

479, 515, 551, 573
Blount, Martha, 56, 60, 210,

299, 308, 357, 418, 488, 499,
532, 639, 699 et sqq., 719;
and The Rape of the
Lock," 64; and Pope's

Epistle "to, 65-6; Pope's
flirtation with, 129; Pope's
correspondence with, 132,
138, 143, 211 et sqq.,
225, 274, 298-9, 606; is
taken with the small-pox,
133; Pope's affection for,
134-5, 171, 187, 605; her
name of Parthenissa, 138;
Pope's presents to, 173;
leaves Mapledurham, 179;
meets Pope at the Caryll's,
193; and lines in "Eloisa,'
207; and the death of
Pope's father, 215; Pope's
estrangement from, 217 et
sqq., 236; and the South
Sea Bubble, 250; rumours
concerning her and Pope,
316 et sqq.; Pope's separa-

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tion from, 373 et sqq.; and
Swift, 375 et sqq.; and
Pope's charges against
Teresa, 390 et sqq.; her
health, 403; and Gray's
death, 437; goes to Bath,
501 et sqq., 574; and The
Epistle to a Lady," 511 et
sqq.; her reported engage-
ment to Pope, 518; visits
Lady Suffolk, 530; Pope's
opinion of, 548-9, 594, 604;
her gaiety in London, 609,
610; her mother's illness
and death, 673-4; her
quarrel with Mrs. Allen,
678 et sqq.; Pope's last
letter to, 689, 690; her
neglect of Pope, 695;
Pope's legacy to, 698; her
death, 704; Swinburne's
description of, 704-5
Blount, Teresa, 56, 308, 357,

376, 488; Pope's flirtation
with, 129; Pope's corre-
spondence with, 132, 138,
143, 172, 187, 211-12; and
her sister's illness, 133;
Pope's affection for, 134–5;
and the Coronation of
George I., 136; her name
Zephalinda, 137; Pope's
presents to, 172; leaves
Mapledurham, 179; men-
tions his friendship for Lady
Mary Montagu, 182; meets
Pope at the Caryll's, 193;
Pope's estrangement from,
217 et sqq., 236; reconcilia-
tion with Pope, 247-8; and
the South Sea Bubble, 250;
and rumours concerning
Martha, 316; and Pope's
charge against, 390 et sqq.;
her death, 704
Boileau, 42, 110, 146
Bolingbroke, Lord, 120, 128,

143, 241, 262, 281, 286, 324,
326, 415, 484, 494, 532, 542,

VOL. II

552, 575, 590, 599, 600, 604,
607, 614-15, 621, 677, 699 ;
his nickname, 99; and
Oxford, 121-2, 158-9, 171;
account of his exile, 285;
corresponds with
with Pope,
294, 617-18; and England's
literature, 295-6; and
Swift and Pope's philo-
sophy, 315; visited by
Voltaire, 327; and “Gulli-
ver's Travels," 328; and
Pope's 'Dulness," 344;
Pope's visit to, 372, 380,
501-2; and the " Essay on
Man," 397; his “Essay on
Human Knowledge," 422;
Swift's opinion of, 431;
suggests "Imitation of
Horace," 447-8; suggests
"Essay on Man,” 469 et sqq.,
473, 577; on style, 483; his
poverty, 487; and The
Characters of Women," 517;
Pope's affection for, 531;
goes to France, 536; his
deprivation, 580; visits
Pope, 593; and Pope's last
days, 695; Pope's legacy
to, 698; and Pope's manu-
scripts, 701 et sqq.

Borlase, Dr., 622
Boswell, James, 580, 718
Boulter, Bishop, 507
Bounce (Pope's dog), 502, 552,

623, 691, 707

Bowles, Rev. W. Lisle, 208,

582, 718-19, 721
Breval, John Durant, 358
Bridge, Rev. Ralph, 14
Bridgman, Charles, 231
Bridgewater, Elizabeth,

Countess of, 186
Broome, William, 133, 236,
244, 284, 291, 293, 311, 319
et sqq., 337, 345, 349, 385,
400-1, 716
Brown, Sir George, 63, 68, 159,
244, 271

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