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Huns, iii. 90.

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Visigoths, iii. 94.

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Walpole, sir Robert, praised by our author,
ii. 314.

Withers, George, i. 296.
Wynkin de Werde, i. 149.
Ward, Edw. i. 233. iii. 34.
Webster, ii. 258.
Whitefield, ibid.

Warner, Thomas, ii. 125.
Wilkins, ibid.

Welsted, Leonard, ii. 207. iii. 170.

Woolston, Thomas, iii. 212.

Wormius, iii. 188.

Wasse, iv. 237.

Walker, hat-bearer to Bentley, iv. 206. 273.

INDEX

OF MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES.
[The first number denotes the book, the second
the verse and note on it. Test. Testimonies. Aр.
Appendix.]

A

ADDISON (Mr.) railed at by A. Philips, iii. 326.
-abused by J. Oldmixon, in his Prose
Essay on Criticism, &c. ii. 283.
-by J. Ralph, in a London Journal, iii. 165.
-Celebrated by our author,-Upon his Discourse
of Medals-In his Prologue to Cato-In his Imi-
tation of Horace's Epistles to Augustus-and in
his Poem, ii. 140.

False facts concerning him and our author related
by anonymous persons in Mist's Journal, &c. Test.
--Disproved by the testimonies of

-The Earl of Burlington,

-Mr. Tickell,

-Mr. Addison himself. ib.

Anger, one of the characteristics of Mr. Dennis's
critical writings, i. 106.

-Affirmation, another: Test.

[To which are added by Mr. Theobald, illna-
ture, spite, revenge, i. 106.]

Altar of Cibber's Works, how built, and how found-
ed, 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.
Alehouse, the birth-place of Mr. Cook, ii. 138.

-one kept by Edw. Ward, i. 233.

-and by Taylor the water-poet, iii. 19.
Arnal, William, what he received out of the trea-
sury for writing pamphlets, ii. 315.
Aristotle, his friends, and confessors, who, iv.
192.

-How his Ethics came into disuse, ibid.

Bedlam, i. 29.

B

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, ib.

Bawdry, in plays, not disapproved of by Mr.
Dennis, iii. 179.
Blackmore, (sir Rich.) his impiety and irreli-
gion, 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 effi-
cacy, 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 pre-
cipitate, though heavy 123. His productions
the effects of heat, though an imperfect one,
126. His foily heightened with frensy. 125.
He borrowed from Fletcher and Moliere, 131.
mangled Shakespeare, 133.

the minister of state, 213. but determines t
stick to his other talents; what those are, 217
&c His apostrophe to his works before he
burns them, 225, &c. His repentance 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 enthroniza-
tion, ii. 1. passes his whole reign in seeing
shows, through book ii. and dreaming dreams,
through book iii. Settle appears to him, ii.
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.
Cibberian forehead, what is meant by it, i. 218.
His son, iii. 142. His better progeny, i. 228.

35.

Cooke (Tho.) abused by Mr. Pope, ii. 138.
-read by some Cerberian, ibid. note.
Concanen, (Mat.) one of the authors of the
Weekly Journals, ii. 299.

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

of opinion that Juvenal never satirized the
poverty of Codrus, ii. 144.

Cornoutter's Journal, what it cost, ii. 314.
Critics, verbal ones, must have two postulata
allowed them, ii. 1.

Catcalls, ii. 231.

Curl, Edm. his panegyric, ii. 58.

-His Corinna, and what she did, 70.
-his prayer, 80.-Like Eridanus, 182.
-much favoured by Cloactua, 97, &c.
-tost in a blanket, and whipped, 151.
-pillory'd, ii. 3.

Carolina, a curious flower, its fate, iv. 409, &c.

D.

Dulness, the goddess; her original and parents,
i. 12. Her ancient empire, 17. Her public col-
lege, i. 29. Academy for poetical education,
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 uninterupted succes-
sion, 98, &c. to 108. Her appearance to Cib-
ber, 261. She manifests to him her works, 273,
&c. Anoints him, 287, &c. Institutes games at
his coronation, ii. 18, &c. The manner how she
makes a vit, ii. 47. great lover of a joke,
34. And loves to repeat the same over again,

122.
His head distin-

guished for wearing an extraordinary perriwig,
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 man-
ner extensive and useful, 192, &c. Once de-
signed for the church, where he should have
been a bishop, 200. Since inclined to write for

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 railing,
276, &c. Makes use of the heads of critics
as scales to weigh the heaviness of authors,
367. Promotes slumber with the works of the
said authors, ibid. The wonderful virtue of
sleeping in her lap, iii. 5, &c. Her elysium,
15, &c. The souls of her sous dipt in Lethe,
How brought into the world, 29. Their

23.

transfiguration and metempsychosis, 50. The
extent and glories of her empire, and her con-
quests throughout the world, iii. 67 to 138. A
catalogue of her poetical forces in this nation,
139 to 212. Prophecy of her restoration, 333,
&c. Accomplishinent of it, book iv. Her ap-
pearance on the throne, with the sciences led in
triumph, iv. 21, &c. Tragedy and Comedy
silenced, 37. General assembly of all her vo-
taries, 73. Her patrons, 95. Her critics, 115.
Her sway in the schools, 149 to 180. And uni-
versities, 189 to 274. How she educates gentle-
men in their travels, 293 to 334. Constitutes
virtuosi in science, 355, &c. Freethinkers in
religion, 459. Slaves and dependents in gover-
ment, 505. Finally turns them to beasts, but
preserves the form of men, 525. What sort of
comforters she sends them, 529, &c. What
orders and degrees she confers on them, 565.
What performances 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 ex-
tinction of the reasonable soul, and restoration of
Night and Chaos, usq. ad fin.
Dispensary of Dr. Garth, ii. 140.

-by John Dennis, of his really poisoning Mr
Curll, i. 106.

-and of contempt for the sacred writings, ii.

268.

-by Edward Ward, of his being bribed by a
dutchess to satirize Ward of Hackney in the
pillory, iii. 34.

by Mist the journalist, of unfair proceeding
in the undertaking of the Odyssey and Shake-
speare, Test.

-disproved by the testimony of the lords Har-
court and Bathurst.

-by Mist the Journalist, concerning Mr. Addi-
son and him, two or three lies, Test.

-By Pasquin, of his being in a plot, iii. 179
-By sir Richard Blackmore, of his burlesquing
scripture, upon the authority of Curll, ii. 268.
Falsehood and flatteries permitted to be inscribed
on churches, i. 43.

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 Dunciad, ii. 75.

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

De Foe, Daniel, in what resembled to William French cooks, iv. 553.
Prynn, i. 103.

De Foe, Norton, a scandalous writer, ii. 415.
Dennis, (John) his character of himself, i. 106.
-senior to Mr. Durfey, iii. 173.

-esteemed by our author, and why, ibid.
-his love of puns, i. 63.

-and politics, i. 106. ii. 413.

-his great loyalty to king George, how
proved, i. 106.

-a great friend to the stage-and to the
state, ii. 413.

-how he proves that none but nonjurors
and disaffected persons writ against stage-plays,

ibid.

-His respect to the Bible and Alcoran, ibid.
-His excuse for obscenity in plays, iii. 179.
-His mortal fear of Mr. Pope, founded on Mr.
Curll's assurances, i. 106.

-Of opinion that he poisoned Curll, ibid.
His reason why Homer was, or was not in
debt, ii. 118.

His accusation of sir Richard Blackmore,-
-as no protestant, ii. 268.

-as no poet, ibid.

Furius, Mr. Dennis called so by Mr. Theobald, i.
106.

Fleet-ditch, ii. 271. Its nymphs, 333. Discove-
ries there, ibid.

Flies, not the ultimate object of human study, iv.
454
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 miserable fate of their works,
ibid.

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Dennis, his wonderful Dedication to G. D. Esq. Handel, an excellent musician, banished to Ireland

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Heydeggre, a strange bird from Switzerland, i.

290.

Horace, censured by Mr. Welsted, Test.

-did not know what he was about when he
wrote his Art of Poetry, ibid.

Henley (John the orator) his tub and eucharist,
ii. 2. His history, iii. 199. His opinion of
ordination and Christian priesthood, iii. 199.
His medals, ibid.

Haywood (Mrs.) What sort of game for her. ii.
157. Won by Curll, 187. Her great respect for
him. The offspring of her brain and body (ac-
cording to Curll), ibid. Not undervalued by be-
ing set against a jordan, 165.
Hints, extraordinary ones, ii. 268.

Horneck and Roome, two party-writers, ii 152.

Hutchinson (John) with his man Julius, a sub- [ Odyssey, falsehoods concerning Mr. P's Proposals
minister of the rites of Dulness, iii. 215.
for that work, Test.

334.

never bowed the knee to Sense.

-disproved by those very Proposals, ibid.

-cuts down the groves of the Academy, iii. Owls and opium, i. 271.

-defiles the high places of Geometry.

-and tramples on the fallen Dagon of Newto-
nian Philosophy, iii. 216.

I

Index-Learning, the use of it, i. 279.
Journals, how dear they cost the nation, ii. 314.
Jus Divinum, iv. 188.

Impudence, celebrated in Mr. Curll, ii. 159. 186.
-in Mr. Norton De Foe, ii. 415.

-in Mr. Henley, iii. 199.
-in Mr. Cibber, jun. iii. 139.
-in Mr. Cibber, sen. passim.
L

Lord Mayor's show, i. 185.

Libeller, a Grub-street critic run to seed, iv. 567.
Library of Bays, i. 131.

Liberty and monarchy, mistaken for one another,
iv. 181.

Lud (King), ii. 349.

Log (King), i. ver. ult.

Lintot (Bernard), ii. 53.

Laureate; his crown, of what composed, i. 303.
Lycophron, his dark lanthorn, by whom turned,
iv. 6.

M

Madmen, two related to Cibber, i. 32.
Magazines, their character, i. 42.
Moliere, crucified, i. 132.

Moore (James) his story of six verses, and of ridi-
culing bishop Burnet in the Memoirs of a Parish
Clerk, proved false, by the testimonies of
-the lord Bolingbroke, Test.
-Hugh Bethel, esq, ibid.
-earl of Peterborough, ibid.
-Dr. Arbuthnot, ibib.

-his plagiarisms, some few of them, ibid. and
ii. 50. What he was real author of (beside the
story above mentioned) Vide list of scurrilous
papers.

-Erasmus his advice to him, ii. 50.
Milbourne, a fair critic, and why, ii. 349.
Madness, of what sort Mr. Dennis's
was, according

to Plato, i. 106.

-according to himself, ii. 268.

-how allied to Dulness, iii. 15.

Mercuries and magazines, i. 42.

Oranges, and their use, i. 236.

Opera, her advancement, iii. 301. iv. 45, &c.
Opiates, two very considerable ones, ii. 370. Their
efficacy, 390, &c.

Osborne, bookseller, crowned with a jordan, ii. 190.
Osborne (Mother) turned to stone, ii. 312.
Owls, desired to answer Mr. Ralph, iii. 166.

Р

Pope, Mr. his Life. Educated by Jesuits-by a par.
son-by a monk-at St. Omer's-at Oxford-at
home-no where at all. Test. init. His father a
merchant, a husbandman, a farmer, a hatter,
the Devil, ib.

-His death threatened by Dr. Smedley, ibid.
but afterwards advised to hang himself, or cut
his throat, ibid. To be hunted down like a
wild beast, by Mr. Theobald, ibid. unless hanged
for treason, on information of Pasquin, Mr.
Dennis, Mr. Curll, and Concanen, ibid.
Poverty, never to be mentioned in satire, in the
opinion of the journalists and hackney writers→→→
The poverty of Codrus, not touched upon by
Juvenal, ii. 143. When, and how far poverty
may be satirized, Letter, p. vi. Whenever men-
tioned by our author, it is only as an extenuation
and exeuse for bad writers, ii. 282."
Personal abuses not to be endured, in the opinion of
Mr. Dennis, Theobald, Curll, &c. ii. 142.
Personal abuses on our author, by Mr. Dennis,
Gildon, &c. ibid.-By Mr. Theobald, Test.-By
Mr. Ralph, iii. 165.-By Mr. Welsted, ii. 207.-
By Mr. Cooke, ii. 138.-By Mr. Concanen, ii.
299. By sir Richard Blackmore, ii. 268.-By
Edw. Ward, iii. 34.-and their brethren, passim.
Personal abuses of others. Mr. Theobald of Mr.
Dennis for his poverty, i. 106. Mr. Dennis of
Mr. Theobald for his livelihood by the stage, and
the law, i. 286. Mr. Dennis of sir Richard
Blackmore for impiety, ii. 268. Dr. Smedley,
of Mr. Concanen, ii. 299. Mr. Oldmixon's of
Mr. Eusden, i. 104. Of Mr. Addison, ii. 283.
Mr. Cooke's of Mr. Eusden, 104.

Politics, very useful in criticism, Mr. Dennis's, i.
106. ii. 413.

Pillory, a post of respect, in the opinion of Mr.
Curll, iii. 34.

-and of Mr. Ward, ibid.

Plagiary described, ii. 47 &c.

May-pole in the Strand, turned into a church, Priori, arguments à priori not the best to prove a

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God, iv. 471.

Poverty and Poetry, their cave, i. 33.

Profaneness, not to be endured in our author, but
very allowable in Shakespeare, i. 50.
Party-writers, their three qualifications, ii. 276.
Proteus (the fable of), what to be understood by
it, i. 31.

Palmers, pilgrims, iii. 113.

Pindars and Miltons, of the modern sort, iii. 164.
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Querno, his resemblance to Mr. Cibber, ii. 15.
wept for joy, ibid. So did Mr. C. i. 243.
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Resemblance of the hero to several great authors,
To Querno, ut supra. To Settle, iii. 37.
To Banks and Broome, i. 146.

Round house, ii. prope fin.
Ralph (James), iii. 165. See Sawney.
Roome and Horneck, iii. 152.

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Shakespeare, to be spelled always with an e at the end, i. 1. but not with an e in the middle, ibid. An edition of him in marble, ibid. mangled, altered, and cut by the players and critics, i. 133. Very sore still of Tibbald, ibid. Sepulchral lies on church-walls, i. 43. Settle (Elkanah), Mr. Dennis's account of him, iii. 37. And Mr. Welsted's, ibid. Once preferred to Dryden, iii. 37. A party-writer of pamphlets, ibid. and iii. 283. A writer of farces and drolls, and employed at last in Bartholomewfair, iii. 283.

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Tibbald, not hero of this poem, i. init. Published an edition of Shakespeare, i. 133. Author, secretly an abettor of scurrilities against Mr. P. Vide Testimonies, and List of Books.

Thule, a very northern poem, puts out a fire, i. 258.

Taylors, a good word for them, against poets and ill paymasters, ii. 118.

Thunder, how to make it by Mr. Dennis's receipt, ii. 226.

Travelling described, and its advantages, iv. 293, &c. V

Verbal critics. Two points always to be granted them, ii. 1.

Venice, the city of, for what famous, iv. 308.

Sawney, a Poem; the author's great ignorance in University, how to pass through it, iv. 255. 289. classical learning, i. 1.

-in languages, iii. 165.

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Ward (Edw.) a poet and alehouse-keeper in Moorfields, i. 233. What became of his works, ibid.

-His high opinion of his namesake, and his respect for the pillory, iii. 34. Welsted (Leonard), one of the authors of the Weekly Journals, abused our author, &c. many years since, ii. 207. Taken by Dennis for a didapper, ibid. The character of his poetry, ii 170.

Weekly Journals, by whom written, ii. 280.
Whirligiggs, iii. 57.

Schools, their homage paid to Dulness, and in what, Wizard, his cup, and the strange effects of it, ir.

iv. 150, &c.

517, &c.

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