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