Mr. Addison himself, ibid. Anger, one of the characteristics of Mr. Dennis's Critical writings, i. 106.

Affirmation, another: Test. [To which are added by Mr. Theobald, Ill-nature, Spite, Revenge, i. 106.]

Altar of Cibber's Works, how built, and how founded, i. 157, &c. Eschylus, iii. 313.

Asses, at a Citizen's gate in a morning, ii. 247.

Appearances, that we are never to judge by them, especially of Poets and Divines, ii. 426.

Banks, his resemblance to Mr. Cibber in tragedy, i. 146.

Bates (Julius), see Hutchinson (John). Broom, Ben Jonson's man, ibid. Bavius, iii. 24. Mr. Dennis his great opinion of him, ibid. Bawdry, in Plays, not disapproved of by Mr. Dennis, iii. 179. Blackmore (Sir Richard), his impiety and irreligion, proved by Mr. Dennis, ii. 268.

his quantity of Works, and various opinions of them.

his abuse of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope, ibid.

Bray, a word much beloved by Sir Richard, ii. 260.

Braying, described, ii. 247.

Birch, by no means proper to be applied to young noblemen, iii. 334. Bl-d, what became of his works, i. 231.

Broome (Rev. Mr. Will.).

His sentiments of our author's virtue, Test. our Author of his, iii. 332. Brooms (a seller of), taught Mr. John Jackson his trade, ii. 137. Billingsgate language, how to be used by learned authors, ii. 142. Bond, Besaleel, Breval, not living writers, but phantoms, ii. 126. Booksellers, how they run for a poet, ii. 31, &c.

Bailiffs, how poets run from them, ii. 61.

Bridewell, ii. 269.

Bow Bell, iii. 278.

Balm of Dulness, the true and the spurious, its efficacy, and by whom prepared, iv. 544.

C.

CIBBER, Hero of the Poem, his character, i. 107. Not absolutely stupid, 109. Not unfortunate as a coxcomb, ibid. Not a slow writer, but precipitate, though heavy, 123. His productions the effects of heat, though an imperfect one, 126. His folly heightened with frenzy, 125. He borrowed from Fletcher and Molière, 131. Mangled Shakespear, 133. His head distinguished for wearing an extraordinary periwig, 167; more than for its reasoning faculty, yet not without furniture, 177. His elasticity and fire, and how he came by them, 186. He was once thought to have wrote a reasonable play, 188. The general character of his verse and prose, 190. His conversation, in what manner extensive and useful, 192, &c. Once designed for the Church, where he should have been a bishop, 200. Since inclined to write for the Minister of State, 213; but determines to stick to his other

His re

talents, what those are, 217, &c. His apostrophe to his works before he burns them, 225, &c. pentance and tears, 243. Dulness puts out the fire, 257. Inaugurates and anoints him, 287. His crown, by whom woven, 223; of what composed, i. 303; who let him into Court, 300; who his supporters, 307. His entry, attendants, and proclamation, usque ad fin. His enthronization, ii. 1. Passes his whole reign in seeing shows, through Book ii. And dreaming dreams, through Book iii. Settle appears to him, iii. 35. Resemblance between him and Settle, iii. 37, and i. 146. Goodman's prophecy of him, iii. 232. How he translated an opera, without knowing the story, 305; and encouraged farces because it was against his conscience, 266. Declares he never mounted a dragon, 268. Apprehensions of acting in a serpent, 287. What were the passions of his old age, 303, 304. Finally subsides in the lap of Dulness, where he rests to all eternity, iv. 20, and Note. Cibber, his father, i. 31. His two brothers, 32. His son, iii. 142. His better progeny, i. 228. Cibberian Forehead, what is meant by it, i. 218.

read by some Cerberean, ibid. Note.

Cooke (Tho.), abused by Mr. Pope, ii. 138. Concanen (Mat.), one of the authors of the Weekly Journals, ii. 299.

declared that when this poem had blanks, they meant treason, iii. 297.

of opinion that Juvenal never satirised the poverty of Codrus,

ii. 144.

Corncutter's Journal, what it cost, ii.

314.

Critics, verbal ones, must have two postulata allowed them, ii. 1. Cat-calls, ii. 231.

Curl (Edm.), his panegyric, ii. 58.

DULNESS, the Goddess: her original
and parents, i. 12. Her ancient
empire, 17. Her public college, i.
29. Academy for Poetical Educa-
tion, 33. Her cardinal virtues, 45,
&c. Her ideas, productions, and
creation, 55, &c. Her survey and
contemplation of her works, 79,
&c. And of her children, 93. Their
uninterrupted succession, 98, &c.,
to 108. Her appearance to Cibber,
261. She manifests to him her
Works, 273, &c. Anoints him, 287,
&c. Institutes games at his coro-
nation, ii. 18, &c. The manner
how she makes a wit, ii. 47. A
great lover of a joke, 34. And loves
to repeat the same over again, 122.
Her ways and means to procure the
pathetic and terrible in Tragedy,
225, &c. Encourages chattering
and bawling, 237, &c. And is
patroness of party-writing and rail-
ing, 276, &c. Makes use of the
heads of critics as scales to weigh
the heaviness of authors, 367. Pro-
motes slumber with the Works of
the said authors, ibid. The won-
derful virtue of sleeping in her lap,
iii. 5, &c. Her Elysium, 15, &c.
The souls of her sons dipped in
Lethe, 23. How brought into the
world, 29. Their transfiguration
and metempsychosis, 50. The ex-
tent and glories of her empire, and
her conquests throughout the world,
iii. 67 to 138. A catalogue of her

VOL. IV.-POETRY.

poetical forces in this nation, 139
to 212. Prophecy of her restora-
tion, 333, &c. Accomplishment
of it, Book iv. Her appearance on
the throne, with the Sciences led
in triumph, iv. 21, &c. Tragedy
and Comedy silenced, 37. General
assembly of all her votaries, 73.
Her patrons, 95. Her critics, 115.
Her sway in the schools, 149 to
180; and universities, 189 to 274.
How she educates gentlemen in
their travels, 293 to 334; consti-
tutes Virtuosi in Science, 355, &c.
Freethinkers in religion, 459.
Slaves and dependents in Govern-
ment, 505. Finally turns them to
beasts, but preserves the form of
men, 525. What sort of com-
forters she sends them, 529, &c.
What orders and degrees she con-
fers on them, 565.
What per-
formances she expects from them,
according to their several ranks and
degrees, 583. The powerful yawn
she breathes on them, 605, &c. Its
progress and effects, 607, &c. ; till
the consummation of all, in the
total extinction of the reasonable
Soul, and restoration of Night and
Chaos, usq. ad fin.
Dispensary of Dr. Garth, ii. 140.
De Foe, Daniel, in what resembled to
William Prynne, i. 103.

De Foe, Norton, a scandalous writer,
ii. 415.

Dennis (John), his character of him.
self, i. 106.

Senior to Mr. Durfey, iii. 173.
Esteemed by our Author, and

Falsehoods disproved by the testi-
mony of the Lords Harcourt and
Bathurst.

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- By Mist the Journalist, concern-
ing Mr. Addison and him, two or
three lies, Test.

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-

By Pasquin, of his being in a
plot, iii. 179.

- By Sir Richard Blackmore, of
his burlesquing Scripture, upon
the authority of Curl, ii. 268.
Fleas and verbal Critics compared,
as equal judges of the human frame
and wit, iv. 238.

Fletcher, made Cibber's property, i.
131.

Mac Fleckno, not so decent and
chaste in the diction as the Dun-
ciad, ii. 75.

Friendship, understood by Mr. Dennis
to be somewhat else in Nisus and
Euryalus, &c., iii. 179.

French Cooks, iv. 553.

Furius, Mr. Dennis called so by Mr.
Theobald, i. 106.
Fleet-ditch, ii. 271.

333.

Its Nymphs,
Discoveries there, ibid.

Flies, not the ultimate object of
human study, iv. 454.
Falsehoods and Flatteries permitted
to be inscribed on churches, i. 43.

G.

GOOD nature of our Author; instances
of it in this work, i. 328, ii. 282.
Good Sense, Grammar, and Verse,
desired to give place for the sake of
Mr. Bes. Morris and his Works,
iii. 168.

Gildon (Charles), abused our Author
in many things, Test. i. 296.

- Printed against Jesus Christ, i.
296.
Gildon and Dennis, their unhappy
difference lamented, iii. 173.
Gentleman, his Hymn to his Creator,
by Welsted, ii. 207.

Gazetteers, the monstrous price of
their Writings, ii. 314; the mise.
rable fate of their Works, ibid.