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Billingfgate language how to be used by learned Au-

thors, ii. 142.

BOND, BESALEEL, BREVAL, not living Writers, but
Phantoms, ii. 126.

Bookfellers, 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
abfolutely ftupid, 109. not unfortunate as a Cox-
comb, ibid. Not a flow writer, but precipitate,
though heavy, 123. His productions the Effects of
Heat, though an imperfect one 126. His folly height-
ened with Frenzy, 125. He borrowed from Fletcher
and Moliere, 131. Mangled Shakespeare, 133. His
Head diftinguished for wearing an extraordinary Peri-
wig, 167. more than for its reafoning Faculty, yet
not without Furniture, 177. His Elafticity, 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 Verfe and Profe, 190. His
Converfation, in what manner extenfive and useful,
192, &c.
Once defigned for the Church, where he
fhould have been a Bishop, 200. Since inclined to
write for the Minifter of State, 213. but determines
to stick to his other talents, what those are, 217, &c.
His Apoftrophe 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 compofed, i. 303. who let him into Court, 300.
who his fupporters, 307. His Entry, Attendants,
and Proclamation, ufque ad fin. His Enthronization,
ii. 1. Paffes his whole Reign in feeing Shows, through
Book ii. And dreaming dreams, through Book iii.
VOL. III.
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Settle

Settle appears to him, iii. 35. Refemblance between
him and Settle, iii. 37. and i. 146. Goodman's
Prophecy of him, iii. 232. How he tranflated an
Opera, without knowing the Story, 305. and encou-
raged Farces because it was against his Conscience,
266. Declares he never mounted a Dragon, 268.
Apprehenfions of acting in a Serpent, 287. What
were the paffions of his Old Age, 303, 304. Finally
fubfides in the lap of Dulnefs, where he refts 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 fome Cerberian, 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 fatirized the Po-
verty of Codrus, ii. 144.

Corncutter's Journal, what it coft, ii. 314.

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

CURLL, Edm. his Panegyric, ii. 58.

-His Corinna, and what fhe did, 70.
his Prayer, 80.-Like Eridanus, 182.
-Much favoured by Cloacina, 97, &c.
-Toft in a Blanket, and whipped, 151.
-Pillory'd, ii. 3.

Carolina, a curious Flower, its fate, iv. 4.09, &c.

i. 12.

D

DULNESS, the Goddefs; her Original and Parents,
Her ancient Empire, 17. Her Public Col-
lege, i. 29. Academy for Poetical Education, 33.
Her Cardinal Virtues, 45, &c.

ductions, and Creation, 55, &c.

Her Ideas, Pro-
Her Survey and
Con-

Contemplation of her Works, 79, &c. And of her
Children, 93. Their uninterrupted Succeffion, 98,
&c. to 108. Her appearance to Cibber, 261. She
manifefts to him her Works, 273, &c. Anoints him,
287, &c. Institutes Games at his Coronation, ii.
18, &c. The manner how she makes a Wit, ii. 47.
A great Lover of a Joke, 34.—And loves to repeat
the fame 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 Patronefs of Party-writing and Railing, 276,
&c. Makes ufe of the heads of Critics as Scales to
weigh the heavinefs of Authors, 367. Promotes
Slumber with the works of the faid Authors, ibid.
The wonderful virtue of fleeping in her Lap, iii. 5,
&c. Her Elyfium, 15, &c. The Souls of her Sons
dipt in Lethe, 23. How brought into the world, 29.
Their Transfiguration and Metempfychofis, 50.
The Extent and Glories of her Empire, and her
Conquefts throughout: he World, iii. 67 to 138.
A Catalogue of her Poetical Forces in this Nation,
139 to 212. Prophecy of her Reftoration, 333, &c.
Accomplishment of it, Book iv. Her appearance on
the Throne, with the Sciences led in triumph, iv.
21, &c. Tragedy and Comedy filenced, 37. Ge-
neral Affembly of all her Votaries, 73. Her Patrons,
95. Her Critics, 115. Her Sway in the Schools,
149 to 180. And Univerfities, 189 to 274. How
The educates Gentlemen in their Travels, 293 to 334.
Conftitutes Virtuofi in Science, 355, &c. Free-
thinkers in Religion, 459: Slaves and Dependents
in Government, 505. Finally turns them to Beafts,
but preferves the Form of Men, 525. What fort
of Comforters fhe fends them, 529, &c. What Or-
ders and Degrees the confers on them, 565. What
Performances the expects from them, according to
their feveral Ranks and Degrees, 583. The power-
ful Yawn the breathes on them, 605, &c. Its P

grefs and Effects, 607, &c. till the Confummation
of All, in the total Extinction of the reasonable
Soul, and Restoration of Night and Chaos, ufq. ad
fin.

Difpenfary of Dr. Garth, ii. 140.

De Foe, Daniel, in what refembled to William Prynn,
i. 103.

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

DENNIS, (John) His Character of himself, i. 106.
-Senior to Mr. Durfey, iii. 173.

-Efteemed 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
difaffected Perfons writ against Stage-plays, ibid.
-His refpect to the Bible and Alcoran, ibid.
-His excufe for Obscenity in Plays, iii. 179.
-His mortal fear of Mr. Pope, founded on Mr.
Curll's affurances, i. 106.

Of opinion that he poisoned Curl, ibid.

His reason why Homer was, or was not in debt,

ii. 118.

His Accufation of Sir R. Blackmore,-

As no Proteftant, ii. 268.

As no Poet, ibid.

His wonderful Dedication to G. D. Esq; iii. 179.
Drams, dangerous to a Poet, iii. 146.

Dedicators, ii. 198, &c.

Dunciad, how to be correctly fpelled, i. 3.

E

EDWARDS (Thomas) iv. 567.

A Gentleman of the last edition, ibid.

EUSDEN (Laurence) i. 104.

Taxed by Oldmixon with Nonfenfe, ibid.

Ears,

Ears, fome people advised how to preserve them, iii.

214.

F

FALSEHOODS, told of our author in Print.

Of his taking verfes from James Moore, Teft. And of his intending to abuse bishop Burnet, ibid. By John Dennis, of his really poifoning Mr. Curll, i. 106.

And of Contempt for the facred Writings, ii. 268. By Edward Ward, of his being bribed by a Dutchefs to fatirize Ward of Hackney in the pillory, iii. 34.

By Mift the Journalist, of unfair proceeding in the undertaking of the Odyffey and Shakespeare, Teft. Difproved by the Teftimony of the Lords Harcourt and Bathurst.

By Mift the Journalist, concerning Mr. Addifon and him, two or three Lies, Test.

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

By Sir Richard Blackmore, of his burlefquing Scripture, upon the authority of Curll, 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 fo decent and chafte in the Diction as the Dunciad, ii. 75.

Friendship, understood by Mr. Dennis to be somewhat elfe in Nifus and Euryalus, &c. iii. 179. French Cooks, iv. 553..

Furius, Mr. Dennis called fo by Mr. Theobald, i. 106. Fleet-ditch, ii. 271. Its Nymphs, 333.

there, ibid.

Discoveries

Flies, not the ultimate Object of human study, iv. 454. Falsehoods and Flatteries permitted to be infcribed on Churches, i. 43.

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Good Nature of our Author; Inftances of it in this work, i. 328. ii. 282.

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