Billingfgate language how to be used by learned Au-
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.
Balm of Dulness, the true and the spurious, its efficacy, and by whom prepared, iv. 544.
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. X
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.
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,
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.
EDWARDS (Thomas) iv. 567.
A Gentleman of the last edition, ibid.
EUSDEN (Laurence) i. 104.
Taxed by Oldmixon with Nonfenfe, ibid.
Ears, fome people advised how to preserve them, iii.
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.
Flies, not the ultimate Object of human study, iv. 454. Falsehoods and Flatteries permitted to be infcribed on Churches, i. 43.
Good Nature of our Author; Inftances of it in this work, i. 328. ii. 282.
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