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Abbreviations, in the English Language,
condemned by Swift, in the Tatler, 95; in
letter to Beach, 245.

Academy of Lagado, referred to by Mrs.
Howard, in a letter to Swift, 193, note.
Academy for reforming the English lan-
guage, proposed by Swift, 128.
Account of the Poisoning of Edmund Curll, a
burlesque by Pope, 307.

Acheson, Sir A., and Lady, Irish friends of
Swift, introduced in his Grand Question
Debated, 61; mentioned by him in letter
to Pope, 212; Swift gives an account to
Pope of his "libels" upon Lady Acheson,
214, and note.

Achilles, an opera by Gay, 233, note.
Addison, Joseph, sends his Remarks to Swift,

his intimacy with Swift, revises Swift's
Baucis and Philemon, 16; Secretary of State
for Ireland, 23, and note; figures in Swift's
letters to Esther Johnson, 29; not a Letter.
Writer, 66; at the tavern with Swift, 86,
87; letter from Swift to, 89-91; entertains
Swift and Jervas at his country-place, 96;
coolness with Swift on political grounds,
101; Swift behaves coldly to him at the
coffee-house, at a dinner with Swift and
Steele at his sister's house, 102; his recon-
ciliation with Swift, who dines with him
and Steele at Tonson's, 116; dines, with
Swift, at Lord Bolingbroke's, on Good
Friday, preparing his tragedy of Cato,
at a symposium at Lord Bolingbroke's
with Swift and others, and discusses poli.
tics with them, 135.136; rehearsal of his
Cato described by Swift, 137; letters of
Swift to, on Steele's reflections in the
Guardian, 141-142; involved in the quarrel
between Swift and Steele, 143, and note;
letter from Swift to, congratulating him
on his appointment as Secretary of State,
167.168; his maxim, to excuse nobody, 181;
eulogises Pope's Essay on Criticism, in
Spectator, 282; his acquaintance with Pope

originates with the Essay, 287; letter ad.
dressed by Pope to him (but, in fact, written
to Steele), Prologue to his Cato written by
Pope, defended by Pope from the attacks
of Dennis upon his Cato, 288; fictitions
Correspondence with Pope, causes of es-
trangement from Pope, his patronage of
Tickell's Iliad, satirised by Pope under
the name of Atticus, 289; alleged reason
for his resigning Secretaryship, 290; his
Cato noticed by Pope in a letter to Caryll,
291; disapproves of the revised edition
of the Rape of the Lock, 297; offends Pope
by his preference for Tickell's Iliad, 300;
his Dialogue on Medals inspires one of Pope's
Essays, 322; fictitious letters to him from
Pope, 344, 346; letter from Pope wrongly
printed with superscription to him, 360;
his criticism on the Temple of Fame re-
quested by Pope, 364; his Cato eulogised,
and its acting described, by Pope in a
letter to Caryll, 365-366; his eulogy of
Pope causes the poet to be suspected of
Whiggism, his name omitted, in favour of
Congreve, in Pope's edition of his own
Letters of 1735, 379, and note; his verses on
Liberty noticed by Pope in letter to Jervas,
389; regard and respect for him expressed
by Pope to Jervas, 390; sends to Pope a
poem of Parnell's, 407; curious fatalities
in regard to the dedication of his writings
noticed by Atterbury, in a letter to Pope.
447, note.

Adrian, Roman Emperor, his epigram, Ad
Animam, imitated by Pope, 368.

Adventurer, The, a periodical edited by Dr.
Hawkesworth, his protest against Hunt-
ing in, 287, note.

Eneis, quoted by Swift, 149; by Pope, 435.
Esculapius, Pope's sacrifice to, as reported
by Lord Chesterfield, 335; work by Walsh,
under that title, 353, note.

Æsop, the champion of the Ancients, in the
Battle of the Books, 15, note.
Agriculture, Cicero on, quoted by Pope, 477.
Alcina, Astolfo in the palace of, 416, note.

Alexandriana, lampoons, collected by Dean
Smedley, on Pope, 319.

Alexandrine verses, according to Swift,
brought in by Dryden, and rejected by
Pope, Gay, and Young, 244.245.
Allen, Ralph, the frequent host of Pope, 326;
Pope's quarrel with, 333; a legatee under
Pope's Will, 335; engages to publish
Pope's Correspondence at his sole expense,
343; letter to, from Pope, on pictures,
and on the ill-placed zeal of the ecclesias.
tical Reformers in regard to them, 489,
490; eulogised by Pope, in a letter invi.
ting Warburton to Bath, 507; his illness
lamented by Pope, 510; letter from Pope
to, 510, 511.

Allworthy, in Tom Jones, suggested by the
character of Ralph Allen, 507.
Ambassadors, denounced by Swift as a new
word brought in by the War, 95, note.
Amicis Prodesse, Nemini Nocere, a sentence
in Cicero's De Officiis, admired by Pulteney
as a motto, and approved by Swift, 261, note.
Aminta, of Tasso, noticed by Pope, one of
the great store-houses of the English
poets in xvi. and xvii. centuries, 352, and

note.

Amphion, Pope's comparison of himself to,
429.

Amusement, denounced by Swift as a new
word, 95.

Andromache, Swift's witty derivation of, 58.
Anne, Queen, described by Swift as a female
Jehu and Nimrod, 29; her frequent at-
tacks of gout, her select preachers, 31;
a Whig, her new favourite Mrs. Masham,
82, and note; resolves to dismiss the pre-
mier, Godolphin, 81; prorogues Convoca.
tion, 87; dismisses the Court-physician,
Radcliffe, at her Accession, for his rash
candour, 97, note; grants the first.
fruits, and twentieths to the Irish Church,
100; delays to give the Treasurer's Staff
to Harley, 107; has a "dunce" to preach
before her at Windsor, 118; holds a Draw.
ing-room in her bed-chamber, pays £1000
a month for the dinners at the "Green
Cloth," meets Swift in company with
Miss Forester and Arbuthnot, 120; pre.
sent at the private marriage of Abigail
Hill, 123, note; orders £20,000 to be fur.
nished for the continuation of the building
of Blenheim, 124; takes too little exercise,
in Swift's opinion, her illness alarms
Swift and the Tory Cabinet, 128, 130;
sends preserved ginger to Swift, 132; her
portrait presented by her to the Duchess of
Marlborough and despoiled and given away
by the Duchess, 138; is, at length, reluc-

tantly persuaded by Harley and Mrs.
Masham to give the Deanery of St.
Patrick's to Swift, 140, 141; defended by
Swift from the charge of making a bad
Peace, 265, 267; under the disguise of
Belinda, in Key to the Lock, 298; her death
excites great concern at Oxford, 389.
Annual Register, The, letter of Pope to the
Duchess of Hamilton first appears in, 432.
Apoilo's Lord Mayor and Aldermen, the
Oxford Dons satirised by Pope under these
names, 506.

Apology for his Own Life, by Colley Cibber,
noticed by Mr. Carruthers, 320, note.
Arabian Author, an, on Humaneness, quoted
by Pope, 286.

Arabian Tales, criticised by Atterbury, 411.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, figures in Swift's letters
to Esther Johnson, 29; chief author of
Martinus Scriblerus, 33; his letter to Swift
on that satire, in ridicule of Medicine, 35;
author of Gulliverian pamphlets, Gulliver
Decyphered, &c., 45, note; could have added
many things to Gulliver, if he had been in
the secret of its publication, 4; acts as
Swift's chaperon at Windsor, 120; dines
with Swift and Berkeley, 140; letter from
Swift to, 149-151; the only physician who
understood Swift's "case," 261; becomes
acquainted with Pope, 287; Epistle ad.
dressed by Pope to, 289; welcomes
Pope's Iliad, 300; contributes to the Swift
and Pope Miscellanies, 314; his character
of Curll, 307, note; supplies Notes to the
Dunciad, 319; his bon-mot on Jervas, 370,
note; letters from Pope to, 386-389, 397-398;
a letter to Pope from, 398, note; his
letter to Swift on Gay, 400, note; his ben.
mot on the "South-Sea Bubble," 443, 444;
alleged by Pope to have contributed to
the satire, Treatise of the Bathos, 492; his
daughter mentioned by Pope, as having
the character of her father, 494; Epistle
by Pope to, noticed in a letter to Warbur.
ton, 509.

Arcadia, of Sydney, Swift probably derived
his "Stella" from, 25, note.
Ardelia, Swift's poetic name for Lady Win.
chelsea, 87, note.

Ariosto, his Orlando Furioso imitated by Gay,
300.

Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 15, note.

Ars Pun-ica, the Art of Punning, by Swift and
Sheridan, 58.

Art of Criticism in Painting, by Jon. Richard.
son, noticed by Roscoe, 480, note.

Art Poétique, of Boileau, a model of Pope's
Essay on Criticism, 281.

Articles of Religion, supposed by Pope to be