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Dennis, anecdotes regarding, iii. 210.
Dennis's attack upon Pope, ii. 209.

strictures on Pope's Iliad, i. 156.
Dennis, the critic, account of, i. 60.
- Pope's cruel hostility against, iii. 182.
Design of the Essay on Man, iii. 247.
Destruction of Pope's villa, i. 122.
Diary, extract from Dr. Kennet's, i. 72.
Discourse on pastoral poetry, ii. 97–101.
Dogs, anecdotes of, iv. 245.

Doubtful authorship of Tickell's Iliad, i.

101.

Dramatic Licensing Bill, Chesterfield's
speech against the, iii. 235.

Dr. Evans, author of the Apparition and
Vertumnus, iii. 78.

Dr. Kennet's diary regarding Dean Swift,
i. 72.

Dryden and Pope, parallel of the characters
of, iii. 158-163.

Dryden, Pope's interview with, i. 299.
Dryden's couplet in Mac Flecknoe, iii. 69.

poetical threat to Jacob Tonson, iii. 76.
Dryope, the fable of, ii. 37.

Duchess of Cleveland and Wycherley, iv.30.
Duchess of Marlborough's regard for Pope,

i. 301.

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Dunciad, frontispiece to the, iii. 4.

index of persons celebrated in the, iii.
164-166.

letter to the publisher of the, iii. 11.
Martinus Scriblerus of the, iii. 39-45.
notes to the, iii. 167.

preface to the, iii. 5.

Richardus Aristarchus of the hero of

the, iii. 52.

sketch of the, i. 194.

-, Swift's emendations in the, iii. 1.
testimonies of authors concerning the
writer of the, iii. 19-38.

the publisher of the, iii. 5.

(the), to Dr. Jonathan Swift, iii. 53.
time occupied in writing the, iii. 7.

title, subject, and hero of the, iii. 167.
Durfey's last play, prologue designed for
Mr., iv. 249.

Dying Christian (the) to his Soul, ii. 179.

EARL OF CARLISLE (the) on Pope's genius,.
i. 98.

Earl of Dorset, epitaph on, ii. 287.

Earl of Oxford, lines to the Right Hon. the,
iv. 287.

Earl of Stair, memoir of the, iv. 221.
Early translations (Pope's), i. 19.
Edward Blount, family of, i. 337.

Effect of a rural life on poets and their
works, i. 14.

Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate
lady, ii. 180.

Eliza Haywood, account of, iii. 207.
Eloisa and Abelard, memoir of, ii. 251.

to Abelard, ii. 253.
Emendations of Thomson by Pope, i. 245.
English poets, imitations of, ii. 85-94.
Epigram on Burnet and Ducket, iii. 228.
Dr. John Hough, iv. 296.
fulsome epitaphs, iii. 176.
Eusden and Cibber, iii. 180.
the Duke of Marlborough's house, iv.

294.

Vanbrugh the architect, iv. 87.
Broome, iii. 106.
Epigrams by Pope, iv. 291–297.
Epilogue to the Satires, iv. 201.
published, i. 254.

Epistle on Taste, publication of the, i. 208.
to Lord Cobham, i. 218.
Epistles of Pope:-To Mr. Addison, ii. 265;
to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Morti-
mer, 268; to James Craggs, Esq., 271; to
Mr. Jervas, 273; to Miss Blount, 276; to
the same, 279: to Mrs. M. B. on her
birthday, 281; to Mr. Thomas Southern,
283; to Mr. John Moore, 284; to Mr. C.,
St. James's Place, 285.
Epitaph by Lady Mary Montagu, i. 142.
Epitaphs of Pope:-On Charles, Earl of
Dorset, ii. 287; on Sir William Trumbull,
287; on the Hon. Simon Harcourt, 288;
on James Craggs, Esq., 288; intended for
Mr. Rowe, 289; on Mrs. Corbet, 290; on
the monument of the Hon. Robert Digby
and his sister Mary, 290; on Sir Godfrey

Kneller, 291; on General Henry Withers,
292; on Mr. Elijah Fenton, 292; on Mr.
Gay, 293; intended for Sir Isaac Newton,
293; on Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester,
294; on Edmund, Duke of Buckingham,
294; for one who would not be buried in
Westminster Abbey, 295; another, on the
same, 295; on two lovers struck dead by
lightning, 296.

Epitaphs to the memory of Pope, i. 300.
Equestrian excursions of Pope and others,
i. 112.

Erasmus complimented by Pope, ii. 213.
Erinna, iv. 273.

Essay on Criticism, publication of the, i. 58;
account of the, ii. 187, 189.
Essay on Man, an, iii. 243.
——, appearance of the, i. 209.
Eugene, anecdote of Prince, iii. 295.
Exchequer tallies, as formerly used, iv.
150.

Excise Bill, account of the, iv. 71.

Gildon's praise of Philips' pastorals, iii. 232.
Godfrey Kneller, epitaph on Sir, ii. 291.
Godolphin, account of the Earl of, iv. 18.
Goldsmith's description of a day in Bath,
i. 113.

Granville's (George), early writings, ii. 105.
Gray's opinion of Pope, iv. 303.
Great tempest in November, 1703, ii. 118.
Grotto at Crux-Easton, lines on a, iv. 276.
Grotto erected by Pope at Twickenham, i.

125.

Gulliver (Mary) to Capt. L. Gulliver, iv.281.
Gulliver's Travels published, i. 187.

HALES (DR. STEPHEN), memoir of, iv. 45.
Halifax, memoirs of the Earl of, iv. 124.
Hallam on Milton's blindness, iii. 127.
Hamilton, memoir of the Duchess of, iv, 32.
Handel refuses to compose for Pope's
Eurydice, iii. 122.

Harley, Earl of Oxford, memoir of, ii. 269.
Heathcote (Sir Gilbert), account of, iv. 70.

Exordium to the fourth book of the Dun- Heidegger, the ugly, anecdote of, iii. 193.

ciad, iii. 233.

Extemporaneous lines, iv. 272.

FABLE (the) of Dryope, ii. 37.

Fair sex, l'ope's depreciation of the, iv. 28.
Falkland, account of the second Viscount,
iii. 289.

Fall of Bolingbroke's administration, i, 86.
False imagery of Pope, ii. 262.
Fame, the Temple of, ii. 145-169.
Family of Edward Blount, Pope's friend, i.
337.

Fantastic glory, perishable nature of, illus-
trated, iii. 297.

Farewell to London, a, iv. 269.
Fenton and Broome assist Pope in his
Odyssey, i. 171.

Fenton, epitaph on Mr. Elijah, ii. 292.
Flatman imitated by Pope, ii. 178.
Fleet Ditch, Cunningham's history of the,
iii. 213.

Foster (Dr. James), notice of, iv. 209.
Fragment of a poem, iv. 240.
Frontispiece to the Dunciad, iii. 4.
Frugality, Bernard Mandeville on, iii. 222.

GAGE (Mr.), and Lady Mary Herbert, iv.

73.

Gaming at Court long since discontinued,
iii. 195.

Garden and grotto, plan of Pope's, i. 332
-334.

Garth's Dispensary criticised by Pope, i. 246.
Garth (Dr.), complimented by Pope, ii. 109.
Gay's acquaintance with Pope, i. 64.
Gay's appointment in the Duchess of
Monmouth's household, i. 65.
Gay, epitaph on, ii. 293.

lines to Mr., iv. 272.

Gay's poetical application for an outfit, i.66.
"Welcome from Greece," i. 157.
Gay period of Pope's life, i. 109.
Gazetteers, as described in the Dunciad,
iii. 189.

Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, me-
moir of, iv. 35.

Henry Cromwell's (Mr.), acquaintance with
Pope, i. 29.

Henry Disney (Colonel), i. 162.
Henry Withers (Lieut. General), i. 162.
Herbert (Lady Mary), and her relatives,
account of, iv. 73.

Heroine of Pope's elegy, mystery regarding
the, ii. 183.

of the Rape of the Lock, 183.
Hervey, memoir of Lord John, iv. 125.
Heywood's interludes, description of, iii.178.
Hill (Aaron), account of, iii. 216.

Hill's criticism on Pope's writings, iii. 217.
Hill's poetical rejoinder to Pope, i. 204.
History of the Pitt diamond, iv. 63.
Homage paid to Pope by Warburton, i. 261.
Homer, translation of, by Pope, in bed, i.
89.

Horace, Satires and Epistles of, imitated,
iv. 127; Satire I., 128; Satire II., 140.
Horace, Sober Advice from, iv. 301.
Hostility of the poet against Cibber, i. 148.
Hough (Dr. John), notice of, iv. 296.
House (the) where Pope was born, ii. Ad-
vertisement.

Howe (Miss Sophia), notice of, iv. 268.
Huggins, the warden of Fleet prison, iv.

202.

Hugh Bethell, letter of, i. 344.
Hylas and Egon, a pastoral, ii. 113.
Hymn, translation of a Latin, iv. 280.

IMITATIONS and translations of Pope, ii. 13.
Imitations of English poets, ii. 85-94.
Imitations of Horace, origin of the, i.
212; iv. 127.

Imitations of Pope, iv. 300.
Impromptu to Lady Winchilsea, iv. 246.
Index of persons celebrated in the Dun-
ciad, iii. 164-166.

Infancy of Pope, i. 15.

Interludes written by John Heywood, iii.178.

Intimacy of the Misses Blount with the
poet, i. 48.

Isaac Newton (Sir), epitaph intended for,
ii. 293.

Italian opera, introduction of, into England,
iii. 237.

JACOB (GILES) and his works, iii. 226.
Jacob Tonson, the bookseller, iii. 57.
James Craggs, Esq., epitaph on, ii. 288.
James Moore Smythe, history of, iii. 199.
Jane Shore,, epilogue to Mr. Rowe's, iv.
247.

January and May, or the Merchant's Tale,
ii. 52.

Japhet Crook, memoir of, iv. 68.

Jenkins' ear cut off by a Spanish captain,
iv. 202.

Jervas, Epistle to Mr., ii. 273.

Jervas, the portrait-painter, memoir of, ii.
273.

John Locke's philosophy forbidden at Ox-
ford, iii. 129.

Johnson's censure of Pope's egotism, i.

226.

Johnson's criticism on Pope's verse, il. 201.
Johnson's good and pious men, i. 38.
Juvenile composition of Cowley, ii. 10.

Kit-cat Club, history of the, iv. 293.
Kyrle (Mr. John), the Man of Ross, iv. 58.

LADY MARY MONTAGU, lines to, iv. 271.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's acquaint-
ance with Pope, i. 129.

dealings with Ruremonde, iii. 80.
revenge on Pope, i. 200.

treatment of her sister, i. 145.
Lady Rich, notice of, iv. 259.
Lansdowne (Lord), account of, ii. 105.
Landscape-gardening, Pope's opinion upon,

i. 124.

Lamentation of Glumdalclitch, iv. 278.
Last days of Pope, i. 295.

Last moments of Lord Cobham, iv. 16.
Last will and testament of Alexander Pope,
i. 325-329.

of Martha Blount, i. 331.

Last words of Narcissa, iv. 15.
Latin poems edited by Pope. i. 262.
Law (William), account of, iii. 221.

Lecture on Pope by the Earl of Carlisle, i.
98.

Le Nôtre (M.), account of, iv. 84.
Lepell (Mrs.) and Pope, i. 112.
Lepell's (Miss Mary) cornetcy, i. 163.
Letter from Mr. G. Arbuthnot to Martha
Blount, i. 330.

of the Earl of Oxford to Pope, ii. 269.
to Arabella Fermor, on her marriage,
ii. 222.

sent by Pope to Steele, with his
"Dying Christian to his Soul," ii. 178.
to the publisher of the Dunciad, iii.
11.
Letters, characteristics of Pope's, i. 244.
of Lord Cobham to Pope, iv. 16.

Letters of Pope:-to the Duchess of Ha-
milton, iv. 34; on Congreve's death, i. 4;
the poet's parentage, 5; his first verses,
16; sees Dryden, 17; residence in Wind-
sor Forest, 18; Wycherley's death-bed,
27; rhyming epistle addressed to Henry
Cromwell, 31; letter to ditto, 32; fame
and glory, 34; Cromwell's visit to
Windsor, 35; Durfey's poems, 36; to
Teresa Blount, 41, 44; to the Misses
Blount, 44; lines to Teresa Blount, 45;
to Martha Blount, 46; original and
altered letter to the Misses Blount, 46;
to Teresa Blount, 49; to both, 50; pic-
turesque epistle to Martha, 51; tender
declaration, 51; description of Blenheim,
53; death of his father, 54; defence of
his Essay on Criticism, 62; to Dean
Swift, 69; to Steele, 73; his attempts as
an artist, 85; declines government pa-
tronage, 88; to the Misses Blount, 91;
regarding Tickell's translation of Homer,
93; to Teresa Blount, 104; letter to
Jervas, 119; farewell to Windsor Forest,
120; to Mr. Edward Blount, on removing
to Twickenham, 125; consultation upon
gardening, 128; to Lady M. W. Mon-
tagu, 130, 131, 132; to the Duke of
Buckingham, describing Stanton Har-
court, 136; account of two lovers killed
by lightning, 140; to Bishop Atterbury,
154; to Humphrey Wanley, 166; chides
Swift's misanthropy, 174; farewell to
Atterbury, 176: sketch of Bolingbroke,
180; against violent partizanship, 181;
publication of the Dunciad, 199; on the
death of his mother, 216, 217; to Martha
Blount, on the death of Gay, 218; reply
to Dr. Arbuthnot, 224; to Richardson
the painter, 239; Young's absence of
mind, 248; account of Lord Peterbo-
rough's proceedings, 256; on his own
mental and bodily condition, 257; mode
of passing his time, 257; thanks War-
burton for defending him, 260; gentle
rebuke to Savage, 264; his last letter to
Swift, 271; efuses the honorary degree
offered by Oxford University, 274; asks
Warburton's aid for a new edition of the
Dunciad, 280; to Martha Blount, on her
treatment at Prior Park, 286; anticipates
his demise, 287; to Bolingbroke and
Marchmont, 288, 292; his last letter to
Martha Blount, 290; his last letter to
Warburton, 293; to Mr. Edward Blount,
336.

Letter-writing, Sprat's definition of, i. 243.
Liberality of Pope's publisher, Bernard
Lintot, i. 94.

Life and death of William Arnall, iii. 217.
Lines by Cooke to the memory of Concanen,
iii. 203.

occasioned by some verses of the
Duke of Buckingham, iv. 251.

on a grotto at Crux-Easton, iv. 276.
on Congreve's death, i. 4.

on Pope's grotto atTwickenham,iv.273.

Lines on the Countess of Burlington cut- Memoirs and Notices of Celebrated Per-
ting paper, iv. 275.

written in Windsor Forest, iv. 273.

to Lady Mary Montagu, iv. 271.

to Lord Bathurst, iv. 289.

to Mr. Gay, iv. 272.

to the author of Successio, ii. 12.

--to the Man-Mountain, iv. 264.

to the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford,
iv. 287.

Lintot and Curll, the booksellers, iii. 174.
List of Pope's works, i. 339-342.
Lombard-street, the birth-place of Pope, i.

3.

London, a farewell to, iv. 269.
Looking-glass, the, iv. 275.

Lord Bathurst, lines to, iv. 289.
Lord Hervey attacked by Pope, i. 220.
Lord Mayor's day, description of, ii. 177.

MACER, a Character, iv. 253.

Magazines, attack upon, in the Dunciad
notes, iii. 175.

Mallet's traduction of Pope, i. 305.

Mandeville (Bernard), singular notions of,
iii. 222.

Manley (Mrs.), account of, ii. 238.
Man-Mountain, lines to the, iv. 264.
Man of Ross, account of the, iv. 58, 74.
Mansfield (Lord), memoir of, iv. 157.
Maple-Durham House, inhabitants of, i.

40.

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Aaron Hill, i. 202.
Barnard (Sir John), iv. 150.
Bathurst (Lord), iv. 65.
Bubb Dodington, iv. 93.
Burlington (Earl of), iv. 92.
Carleton (Lord), iv. 214,
Centlivre (Mrs.), iii. 220.
Chandos (Duke of), iv. 17.
Chartres (Francis), iv. 48, 67.
Chesterfield, iv. 215.

Cibber (Theophilus), iii. 225.
Clarke (Dr. Samuel), iv. 101.
Cobham (Lord), iv. 14.
Craggs (James), ii. 271.

Crook (Japhet), iv. 68.

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sons,-continued.

Hales (Dr. Stephen), iv. 45.

Halifax (the Earl of), iv. 125.
Hamilton (the Duchess of), iv. 32.

Heathcote (Sir Gilbert), iv. 70.
Henley, Orator, iii. 229.

Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, iv.35.
Hervey (Lord), iv. 125.

Jervas, the portrait-painter, ii. 273.
Le Nôtre, the garden-designer, iv. 84.
Man of Ross (the), iv. 74.

Mansfield (Lord), iv. 157.

Montagu (Mr. E. W.), and his son, iv.
154.

Montagu (Lady Mary W.), iv. 136.
Mornington (Lord), iv. 221.

Newcastle, the Duke of, iv. 73.
Oglethorpe, General, iv. 185.
Oxford, the Earl of, ii. 269.
Page, Sir Francis, iii. 236.
Pelham (the Hon. Mr.), iv. 213.
Pembroke (Thomas, Earl of), iv. 83.

Queensberry (the Duchess of), iv. 43.
Ralph (James), iii. 227.

Rich (Lady), iv. 259.

Richmond, (the Duchess of), iv. 69.
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, iv. 36.
Settle, Elkanah, iii. 224.
Shippen, Will, iv. 134.
Skerrett (Miss), iv. 70.
Stair (the Earl of), iv. 221.
Suffolk (the Countess of), iv. 40.
Sunderland (the Earl of), iv. 259.
Tofts, the opera singer, iv. 291.
Trumbull (Sir William), ii. 96. 103.
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, iv. 76.
Vulture Hopkins, iv. 52, 68.
Walter (Peter), iv. 72.

Yonge (Sir William), iv. 115.
Merchant's Tale (the), ii. 52.
Messiah, a sacred eclogue, ii. 139.
Methuen, Sir Paul, i. 162.

Michael Paxton's defalcations, iv. 271.
Milbourne (Luke), singular conceit of, iii.
218.

Milton's blindness, Hallam on, iii. 127.
Mint (the) in Southwark, a sanctuary for
debtors, iv. 103.

Miscellanies, Pope's, iv. 244.
Miss Blount, Epistle to, ii. 276.

Mist and Ridpath, the journalists, iii. 188.
Money transaction with the Duchess of
Marlborough, i. 302.

Montagu (Mr. E. W.) and his son, memoir of,
iv. 154.

Montagu (Lady M. W.), memoir of, iv. 136.
-, reason assigned by her for Pope's
malignity, i. 139.

Monument on Fish-street-hill, inscription
on the, iv. 62.

Monument to Mary Beach, the poet's nurse,
ii. 15.

to Pope in Twickenham Church, i.
311.

to Pope's parents in Twickenham
Church, iv. 120.

Moore's (James) lampoon against Pope, i.

193.

Moral Essays, Warburton's explanation
about Pope's, iv. 1.

Mordington (Lord), memoir of, iv. 221.
Motteux (P. A.), notice of, by Dryden, iii.

220.

Motto to Pope's Satires, iv. 104.

to the Rape of the Lock, ii. 223.
Mummy of Cheops, a king of Egypt, iii.

240.

Musgrove (Sir Christopher), anecdote of,
iv. 50.

Music, English, rage for, during twenty
years, iii. 147.

Mystery about Pope's correspondence, i.
228-236.

Mystery as to the heroine of Pope's elegy,
ii. 183.

NAMESAKE, singular visit of a, to the
poet, i. 7.

Narcissa's last words, iv. 12.

Nell Gwynne, anecdote of, iii. 188.
New Atalantis, the authoress of the, ii. 238.
Newcastle, memoir of the Duke of, iv. 73.
New Dunciad, appearance of the, i. 276.
New-year odes of Colley Cibber, iii. 176.
Notes to Gay's "Welcome from Greece,"
i. 162.

Notes to the Dunciad, iii. 167.

OBELISK to the memory of Pope's mother,
i. 217.

Obscure poets and publishers, iii. 201.
Ode on Solitude, written at the age of
twelve, i. 19; ii. 9.

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, ii. 170.
Ogilby and the Duchess of Newcastle,
iii. 185.

Oglethorpe (General), memoir of, iv. 185.
Old English poets, Pope's opinions on the,
i. 267.

Oldfield (Mrs.), account of, iv. 19.
Oldmixon, censure of, by Pope, iii. 214.
Opinion of Pope on new buildings, i. 121.
Orator Henley, memoir of, iii. 239.
Original copy of Pope's Homer in the
British Museum, i. 90.

Origin of the Dunciad, i. 197.

Imitations of Horace, iv. 127.
Rape of the Lock, i. 83; ii. 223.

Osborne, the bookseller, iii. 207.

Oxford University, the philosophy of Aris-
totle expelled from, iii. 239.

Ozell (John) and Theobald, iii. 192.

PAGE (Sir Francis), the "Hanging Judge,"
iii. 236.

Pane of glass inscribed by Pope, at Nune-
ham Courtney, i. 137.

Parallels of the characters of Dryden and
Pope, iii. 158-163.

Parentage of Pope, i. 229.

Parents, monument to Pope's, iv. 120.
Parnell's works, edited by Pope, i. 168.
Partidge, the prophet, account of, ii. 249

Pastoral poetry, Pope's discourse on, ii.
97-101.

Pastorals (Pope's), great pains taken with,
i. 23.

Patronage extended to English poets, i. 56.
Pelham (the Hon. Mr.), account of, iv. 213.
Pembroke, account of Thomas, Earl of,
iv. 83.

Pension declined by Pope, i. 56.

Personages alluded to in the Rape of the
Lock, ii. 219.

Personal deformity, impromptus on the
attacks upon Pope's, iii. 205, 206.
Persons celebrated in the Dunciad, index
of, iii. 164-166.

Peterborough's (Lord) announcement of
his marriage, i. 251.

Peter Walter, memoir of, iv. 72.
Phaon, Sappho's address to, ii. 44.
Philips (Ambrose), and his pastorals,
iii. 231.

Philips's threat against Pope, i. 78.
Pitt diamond, history of the, iv. 63.
Plagiarisms of Pope, ii. 132; iii. 150, 194,
296; iv. 22.

Plan of Pope's garden and grotto, i. 332-

334.

Poem, a fragment of a, iv. 240.
Poem of Sandy's Ghost, iv. 254.

Windsor Forest. i. 67; ii. 122.
Politeness on the death-bed, anecdotes of,
iv. 13.

Pomona and Vertumnus, ii. 40.
Pope and Bolingbroke's similarity of sen-
timent, iii. 243.

attacked by Curll, the bookseller,
i. 150.

declines going abroad, i. 120.

(Mrs.), death of, i. 216.

on the immortality of the soul, i. 296.
threatened with a government prose-
cution, i. 254.

Pope's and Tickell's Homer compared, i. 96.
attack on Everard Ward, iii, 66.

compliment to Erasmus, ii. 213.
compliments to the Prince of Wales,

i. 259.

defective knowledge of Latin prosody,
ii. 19.

description of his publisher, Lintot,
i. 115.

dramatic attempts in conjunction with
others, i. 146.

edition of Shakespear, i. 169.
efforts in behalf of Warburton, i. 262.
Epistles to celebrated personages.
[See Epistles.]

favourite couplet, iii. 103.

gallant apology for his attack upon
the fair sex, iv. 28.

gratitude to Warburton, iii. 246.
Homer, liberal subscriptions towards,
1. 86.

imitation of Flatman, ii. 178.

- indignation regarding his descent, i. 5.
inscription in honour of the Prince of
Wales, i. 114.

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