369, 375-377 403-405, 407-409, 443-444, 481. 483.
Caryll, Mrs., extract from letter of, to Mar. tha Blount, 293. Catholic, true conception of the meaning of a, 437, and note.
Cato, a tragedy of Addison, expected, 135; Swift at a rehearsal of, 137; Pope writes the Prologue for, and publishes in the Guardian, 284; verses quoted from, Den- nis's criticisms upon, Johnson's defence of the alleged violation of "poetic jus- tice" in, 88 and note; allusions by Pope to (Epistle to Arbuthnot), 288; 291; 365; 366.
Catullus, Ode to Lesbia, quoted, 315, note. Causeries de Lundi,of Sainte-Beuve,an eulogy of Pope's Essay on Criticism quoted from, 283.
Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland, a Sermon of Swift on, 65.
Cellbridge, a village on the Liffey, the re- treat of Herter Vanhomrigh, 36. Censor, The, Theobald's, quoted by C. W. Dilke, 432, note.
Challenge, The, a Court-ballad by Pope, quoted, 306.
Chandos, Duke of, Lord-Lieut. of Ireland,
Swift's complaint to Mrs. Pendarves against, 240; 8 vift's epigram upon quo. ted by Scott, 249, note.
Chapman, George, the dramatist, his trans. lation of the Iliad used by Pope, 290; followed in his deviations from the Greek by Pope, claims to have restored the genuine sense of the Homeric epics, author of seventeen dramas, 354, and note.
Character of Mrs. Johnson, Swift's sketch of Esther Johnson, her beauty and manners, eulogised in, 9 10; Swift narrates the cir. cumstances of the removal of Esther John. son and Mrs. Dingley to Ireland in, 13; re. cords his reception of the news of the death of Esther Johnson in, 52. Charactères de Bruyère, noticed by Pope in a letter to Judith Cowper as the work of a master had an imitation of the work of Theophrastus, 456, and note. Characters of Men, a Moral Essay of Pope, no. ticed, 322.
Characters of Women, quoted, Johnson's eu- logy of both Essays, especially of the latter, 822.
Charles XII., King of Sweden, the Swedish envoy informs Swift of his fears for the safety of, the great forbearance of the Turks towards, 135, and note.
Bolingbroke, referred to by Scott, 213,
Chesterfield, Lord, quoted by Pulteney, 261, note; visits with Pope the Duchess of Marlborough and Stowe, 333; his remark on Pope's theology, 335, note; his character of Pope, 345, note; in coun pany with Swift, Arbuthnot, and Pulten. ey, 467, note; Pope's praise of the discern. ment and judgment of, 505.
Cheyne, Dr. George, his Essay of Health and a Long Life, according to Pope, in great favour, at its first appearance, with women, his Essay goes through many editions, high praise given by Haller to, his Essay on Regimen, Natural Method of Curing the Diseases of the Body and the Disorders of the Mind Depending on the Body, the leading Medical Reformer of the earlier half of the last century, noticed by Hor. ace Walpole, 452, and note; Pope reports to Martha Blount an interview with, 503, note.
China, Swift reports his mania for as cured, 103.
Chiswick, Pope removes from Binfield to, writes his Eloisa and Elegy at, 301, 302. Chloe, Pope's character of Mrs. Howard (Lady Suffolk) in his Characters of Women, under that name, quoted, 322.
Christ, attempted picture of crucifixion of, by Pope, 370.
Christiani Morientis Ad Animam, an imitation by Pope of an epigram of the Emperor Hadrian, 369.
Christianity, An Argument Against Abolition of, an ironical piece by Swift, taken seriously by most of its readers, 19. Christina, Queen of Sweden, Martha Blount compared by Pope with, 396. Christian Religion, likely to be abolished by the Legislature, according to Pope, 433. Church, the best reason with some people for going to, 433.
Churches, The, compared by Pope to Banks, 412.
Cibber, Colley, Poet-Laureate, Lady B, Germaine's opinion of, 57; origin of Pope's quarrel with, his place in the Dunciad, 308; substituted for Louis Theobald, as the occupant of the throne of Dulness, Carruthers on his Apology for his Life, 320, and note; Pope learns that he intends to publish an "abnsive pamphlet," his Non-juror obtains` for him the Laureateship, author of twen- ty-five Plays, publishes two Expostulatory Letters in his defence, 509, and note.
Chatham, Lord, his report of a visit to Lord Cicero, on Agriculture, quoted by Pope, 477.
Cirencester, Pope's visits to, 333, 439, 449. City Shower, The, a satirical poem by Swift, published in the Tatler, Swift inquires from Esther Johnson the opinion in Ire. land of, reports to her its popularity in London, noticed by Steele in the Tatler, 98, 99, and note; Swift remarks his ridicule of the Alexandrine verse in, quotation by Scott from, 244, 245, note. Clarissa, poetic name of Lady Masham in the Rape of the Lock, 298. Clarke, Dr. George, Judge-Advocate under George I., entertains Pope at Oxford, Pope's remark on ecclesiastical contro- versy to, 391; often met by Pope at Oxford, purchases copies of the Cartoons of Raf. faelle from Jervas, sends Jervas to Paris and Italy, 420, and note.
Clifton, village of, near Bristol, Pope visits
the Hot Wells of, 332; described by Pope 500-502.
Clogher, Bishop of, Dr. Ashe, a friend of Swift, officiates at the (alleged) marriage of Swift, 37, and note; mentioned in let- ters of Swift, 90, 93, 137.
Cobham, Lord, Pope's visits to, at Stowe, 478, 496, 497.
College Green Club, the Irish Parliament so termed by Swift, 256.
Collins, Anthony, his Discourse of Free. Thinking assailed by Swift in a pamphlet, 19.
Comte de Gabalis, a witty romance by the Abbé de Villars, one of the models of the Rape of the Lock, notice by Warton of, 297, and note; alluded to by Pope, in a letter to Arabella Fermor, 382.
Comus, of Milton, quoted, 448, note. Conduct of the Allies, a pamphlet of Swift, re- ferred to, 129, note.
Congreve, William, at Kilkenny School with Swift, 2; visit of Swift to, almost blind and never free from gout; bad dietetics of, his comedies, monument in Westminster Abbey put up by the Duchess of Marl. borough to, allusion by Gay to, 178, note; 103 and note; his letters to Lady M. W. Montagu in Turkey sent with Pope's, 424. Convocation (of Clergy) in Ireland, Swift complains of the ingratitude of, 123. Cooper, J. G., letters of Pope to the Misses
Blount republished by, (in 1737), 429,
Cooper's Hill, a poem by Denham, the model of Pope's Windsor Forest, 284. Cope, Robert, letter of Swift to, 173-175. Corisca, a heroine of the Pastor Fido, 352. Coronations, compared by Pope to Puppet Shows and Harlequinades, 475.
Coryate, John, travels of, alluded to by Pope (in letter to Lord Bathurst), pub. lishes an account of his eccentric travels, under the title of Coryate's Crudities, Fuller's remark about his appearance, 472, and note.
Court News, The, and Newspapers, full of feastings given to the Royal Family, &c., 477.
Court of Death, The, a Fable of Gay, Gout assigned a prominent place at, 404, note. Cowper, Judith, Pope's freedom of style in correspondence with, 292; celebrated by Pope as Erinna, her identity unknown until the investigations of C. W. Dilke, niece of Lord Chancellor Cowper and aunt of the poet, beginning of cor. respondence of Pope with, eulogises Pope in some verses, verses To a Lady on her Birthday sent by Pope to, extract from a letter from Pope to, marries Mr. Madan, 312; letters from Pope to, 453-454, 454-456 457.459.
Coxe's Memoirs, referred to by Bowles, intro. duction of Bolingbroke to George II. sta. ted in, 493, note.
Craftsman, The, Bolingbroke's letters to, under the title of Remarks on the History of England, 323.
Craggs, The Hon. James, Secretary of State, letter from Pope to (in reference to Mrs. Weston), one of Pope's principal friends, fills several confidential public employ ments, epitaph of Pope in Westminster Abbey upon, extract from letter to Pope from, 362-363, and note; Addison's Works dedicated to, 447, note.
Craik, Henry a, biographer of Swift, ro.
marks on Swift's university examination, 4; on the Tale of a Tub, 13; on Swift and Hester Vanhomrigh, 29; his remarks on a portrait of Swift by Jervas, 32, note; a summary of the conflicting evidenca for and against Swift's marriage drawn up by, holds the reality of the marriage, 37; Swift's Journal at Holyhead first print. ed by, 49; his remarks on and paraphrase of Swift's Modest Proposal, 54, 55; an inter. esting letter of Swift's to Arbuthnot first published by, 67.
Crinoline, remarks of Swift on, 31, and note. Criticism, An Essay on, Pope's, compared with the earliest productions of other poets, ad. miration (sometimes extravagant) of its critics, its models, its principles, quota- tions from, 281-282; attacked by John Dennis, praised by Addison, hyperbolical praises of later eulogists, Johnson's eulogy of, quoted, Sainte-Beuve's remarks on,
quoted, 282-283; Pope's intention to re- publish a small number of copies of, 509. Croker, The Rt. Hon. Wilson, quotes the Suffolk Correspondence on the duties of Mrs. Masham, Bed.chamber woman to Queen Anne, Memoirs of the Reign of George 11. (by Lord Hervey) edited by, 228, note; an ad- verse critic of Pope, 337; critique by Macaulay (in the Edinburgh Review) on, proposes a new edition of Pope but does not live to complete it, 340.
Cromwell, Henry, a correspondent of Pope,
notice of, his correspondence with Pope chiefly noticeable as having been the first published of the Pope Letters, 295, 296; letter from Pope to, 359-360.
Crousaz, Jean Pierre de, a Swiss theologian, his assault upon the Essay of Man, Pope's remark on, in a letter to Warburton, 325, 326; denounces not the Optimist fallacies but the deism of that Essay, 327. Curll, Edmund, the bookseller and publish.
er, alluded to by Swift in a letter to Pope, Swift has long had a design upon the ears of, Swift's incredulity as to the poisoning of, publishes a volume of Town-Eclogues, Scott's remark upon the story of his pois. oning, 161, and note; Swift (in a letter to Lady Betty Germaine), expresses his indig. nation at the indulgence of the House of Lords to (but is at a loss to understand how he could get access to Pope's letters), Lady Betty Germaine's reference to, his boast of the superior number of his friends, his lines upon Pope, Scott's remark on l'ope's trick upon, 247, and note; origin of Pope's quarrel with, his interview with Pope, vehemently vituperated by Pope in various pamphlets, especially in A Full and True Account, &c., and A Strange but True Relation, &c., his character and ap. pearance, his conspicuous place in the Dunciad, 307, and note.
Dacier, Mde., her translation of the Iliad used by Pope, 299, 385.
Daily Post, The, the first edition of the Dun. riad advertised in, 318, note.
Daniel, Richard, Dean of Armagh, Swift's estimate of, as a poet, 213; appears as a witness in a law.suit, referred to by Scott 213, and note.
Davila, Enrico Catterino,hisStoria di Francia, read by Swift and Hester Vanhomrigh, referred to by the latter in letter to Swift 145, and note.
Day of Judgment, The, a satirical set of verses
by Swift, preserved by Lord Chesterfield, quoted, 61-62, note.
Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's, The, their revenues stated by Swift, in letter to Gay, 222.
Dawley, a residence of Lord Bolingbroke, near Uxbridge, Swift's visit to, in 1726, 43; sold by Bolingbroke, 270; 323, 493. Debate on Black and White Horses, A, a parody by Pope, in Miscellanies, 314. Defence of Lord Carteret, a pamphlet by Swift, 231.
De Foe, Daniel, on the Tale of a Tub, 14; A Short and Easy Method with Dissenters, an ironical pamphlet hy, referred to, 19. Delany, Dr., a friend of Swift, 58; his din- ners, 235; his house at Delville, 243, Swift remarks upon the expense of visit. ing him from Dublin, 251,
Delia, a Shepherdess in Pope's Pastorals, 279.
Dennis, John, on the Italian Opera, 23; pro.
voked by Pope's satire in the Essay on Critic. ism, author of a tragedy on the story of Virginia and Appins Claudius, retaliates on Pope in a vituperative pamphlet, 282; criticises Addison's Cato, assailed by Pope with a vituperative satire, 288; criticises Belinda's action in the Rupe of the Lock, 298; satirised by Pope as "Sir Tremen. dous," in Three Hours after Marriage, 308; Pope expresses pity for, in letter to Hill, 485.
Desfontaines, Abbé, translates and adapts the Travels of Gulliver, reports to Swift the popularity of the book in France, and invites him to Paris, Swift's ironical reply to, misstates certain facts in the Drapier Letters, Scott's remark on the translation of, writes a continuation of the Voyages, in his Preface apologises for the indecorum of expression in the original, and assures his readers that he has accommodated the incidents to French taste, afterwards editor of the Journal des Sçavans and the assailant of Voltaire, 44, 45, and note. Devil, The, his circuit compared by Pope with that of the lawyers, 394. Dialogues des Morts, Les, of Fontenelle, re.
ferred to by Hester Vanhomrigh in letter to Swift, her delight in reading, 147,
Digby, The Hon. Robert, letter from Pope to, quoted, 311; notice of, 422; letter to Pope from, quoted, 440, note; letters from Pope to, 422-424, 437.438, 439.440, 449.451. Dilke, C. W., first to identify the "Unforta. nate Lady" of Pope's Elegy with Mrs. Weston, 302; minutely investigates the
chronology, and examines the genuine. ness, of Pope's Correspondence, leaves co. pious and minute manuscript notes, 341; his accidental discovery of the original source of Pope's manufactured letters, 342, 343; MS. note on Richard Nash in Roscoe's edition of Pope, 1847 (in British Museum), 402, note; MS. note on a letter of Pope to Martha Blount, 409, note; MS. note on a letter of Pope to Lady M. W. Montagu, 413, note; remark of, on letter of the same to same, 416, note; quotes from letter of Mr. Wortley, 425, note; remarks on Lady Masham, 426, note; on a letter of Pope to the Misses Blount, 429, note; on a passage in the same letter, 431, note; on letter from Pope to the Duchess of Hamil. ton, quotes Theobald's Censor, 432, notes; MS. note on Pope's alleged danger under the Government Proclamation against the Pretender, 511, note.
Dilworth, publishes a Life of Pope in 1759, 336, note.
Dingley, Mrs. Rebecca, a relative of the Temples, resident at Moor Park, figures frequently in Swift's Correspondence, 5; Swift prevails on her and Esther Johnson to join him in Ireland, 12; in Dublin 80. ciety, 18; resides with "Stella" at Trim, 34; a witness against the (alleged) mar. riage of Swift, 37, note; Swift gives Dr. Tisdall message to, 76; Swift on the blun. ders of, 79; references of Swift, in his let- ters to Esther Johnson, to, 88, 99, 103, 111, 116; letter to Swift from, referred to, 205; Swift writes to John Temple on behalf of, "sunk with age and unwieldness," 257-
ironical piece by him in a letter to
258. Directions to Servants, an Swift, referred to by Gay, 60. Discourse of the Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome, a politi. cal brochure by Swift, 12. Discourse of Free Thinking, A, by Anthony Collins, a pamphlet of Swift upon, 19. Discourse to Prove the Antiquity of the English Tongue, a satire by Swift, 58, and note. Discovery of Joseph to his Brethren, a picture by one of the Italian Masters, an engrav. ing from, promised to Pope, 489. Disraeli, Isaac, takes part in the Pope con. troversy raised by Bowles, 340.
Distich Dick, a satire upon himself by Pope in the Guardian, 347.
Diversion, the predecessor of Amusement, 170,
Divine Legation of Moses, The, by Wm. War. burton, the first volumes of, published be.
fore his vindication of the Essay on Man, 325.
Don Juan, Pope (in his letters to the Misses Blount) characterised by Carruthers as a, 292; Byron's referred to by Professor A. W. Ward, 304, note.
Donellan, Mrs., a friend of Swift and Mrs. Pendarves, alluded to, 242.
Donne, Dr. John, Dean of St. Paul's, his Satires imitated by Pope, 330. Dorinda, and Dress, epigram of Swift on, addressed to Hester Vanhomrigh, 164. Dorset, Duke of, Lord Lieut. of Ireland, Swift's complaint against, in letter to Lady B. Germaine, 249; and to Pulteney,
Double.Dealer, The, a comedy of Congreve, 103, note.
Dragon, The, the familiar name of Harley (Lord Oxford) in the Scriblerus Club, an allusion to by Swift in letter to Dr. Arbuthnot, 149, 150.
Drapier, The, a pseudonym of Swift, ad- dressed by Lady B. Germaine, as the, 58; apostrophised under that name by Pope, in the Dunciad, 319.
Drapier Letters, The, of Swift, addressed to the people of Ireland, 41, 42. Drawing-room, at Windsor, account of a, by Swift, 120.
Dryden, John, a relative of Swift, 2; a. bounds in triplets, imitated by all the bad versifiers of Charles II. reign, though his near relative blamed as well as pitied by Swift, finishes his Plays in great haste under pressure of poverty, brought in the Alexandrine verse, 244; the chief favourite and study of Pope, his estimate of Walsh, 277; his authority quoted by Pope, 354; condemns the use of hiatus in poetry, but seldom observes his own rule, 358; as a poet cannot be "saved under some hun. dreds of masses," 273; lines upon his turning to translation quoted by Pope, 408; his Gorboduc compared by Pope with his own, 423.
Dublin, the birth-place of Swift, Esther Johnson and Mrs. Dingley dislike, 12; Swift resides alternately at Laracor and at, 18; returns to, on taking possession of his Deanery, his annoyances at, 34; Hester Vanhomrigh follows him to, 36; Swift's friends in, 58, 59; buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral in, 65; his dislike for, 147, how it looks to Hester Vanhomrigh, 157; in what superior to London, 235; printers and publishers of, 245, 246, and note. Dublin, University of, Swift an undergradu. ate at, 2.4, and note; never quite forgets
his humiliations at, 7; the Prince of Wales proposed by Swift to be Chancellor of, 205.
Duchess, invitation to Pope by a, 304, note. Du Guernier, the Rape of the Lock illustra. ted by engravings after, 299.
Dulness, The Progress of, original title of the Dunciad, 318.
Dust-Plague, The, Arbuthnot's verses on, sent by him to Swift, 386, note.
Eclogues, of Virgil, one of the models of Pope's Pastorals, 278, 279.
Edinburgh Review, The, article on Wilson Croker's ed. of Boswell's Life of Johnson in, referred to, 340.
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, by Pope, quoted, 302, note.
Eloisa to Abelard, a poem of Pope, quoted, 302-303; enthusiastic eulogy by the critics of, the materials and models used by Pope for, their alleged Latin letters assumed to be authentic by many French critics, Mde. Guizot's remarks upon them, Elwin's criticism of them, Professor Ward's ob- servations upon Hallam's charge against Pope in reference to representation of Eloisa, 303-4, and note.
Elwin, Rev. Whitwell, editor of Pope, Wakefield's suggestion for the reading of a verse in the Rape of the Lock, Pope's reply to a criticism of Dennis on the conduct of Belinda quoted by, 298, 299, notes; criticises the Latin letters of Helo- isa and Abelard,303, note; his Introduction to Works of Pope referred to, 318, note; War- burton on Optimism, Louis Racine's ver- ses on the Tout Est Bien philosophy quoted by, 328, notes; letter of Pope to Caryll on Essay on Man, quotel by, 329, note; an adverse critic of Pope, accounts for Vol. taire's admiration of the Essay, and quotes his opinion of it, 337, and note; his charac. ter of Warburton, 338; characterises War. ton's edition of Pope, and that of Bowles, 339; materials for an edition of Pope (collected by Wilson Croker) used by, his edition the most comprehensive of all the editions of Pope, his estimate of the Rape of the Lock and the Eloisa, 340; indicates some literary and philosophical faults too lightly passed over by former critics, but makes too little allowance for the age and education of Pope, 341; Gay's verses upon Hills, the bookseller and printer, quoted by, 357, note; relates the money.investments of the
elder Pope, 377, note; remarks on the omission of names of Pope's papist friends in favour of Congreve and Craggs, 379, note; on a letter of rope and Parnell to Gay, 380, note; notice of l'arnell by, letter of Swift to Miss Vanhomrigh quoted by, 386, 387; notices of Thomas Hanmer, John Barber, the Bill of Schism, and Pro. clamation against the Pretender, 388, 389, notes; refers to Philips's charge against Pope, as recorded by the latter, 390, note; quotation of Pope's reported reply to Clarke on sectarian controversy by, 391, note; remarks on the laws against the papists, the Siege of Barcelona, and Pope's curiosity, 292, 293, notes; letter of Arbuthnot to Swift, and Gay's Epistle to a Lady, quoted by, 401, 402, notes; Burnet's Homerides, Lord Lands. downe's imprisonment in the Tower, and Rich's theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields noticed by, 404, 405, notes; Johnson's remarks on the character of Dr. Parnell, frogs unknown in Ireland till the xvIII, century, the Grumbler newspaper, Bishop of Salisbury's death, noticed by, 406, 407, notes; remarks on Jervas's copies of Raffaelle's Cartoons, 420, note; letter from Pope to Lord Oxford, Pope's strange assertion as to dedication of his works, noticed by, 444, 445, notes; remarks upon Pope's flattery of Lord Oxford, quotes Spence and Lewis on the character of Lord Oxford, 445, 449, note; Young's remark on the Henriade of Voltaire quoted by, 462, note; (supposed) correspondence of Pope with Voltaire noticed by, 464, note; the marriages of the daughters of Edward Blount related by, 467, note; re. mark on the Pope-Swift volume of Mis. cellanies by, 469, note; on the Marco-Aurelio of Guevara, a Spanish bishop, 474, note; on Pope's propensity to disparage. ment of alterations not suggested by him- self, 472, note; George Fox on steeple houses, Walpole's toleration of Noncom. formists, noticed by, 473, note; Lord Bathurst's reason for abstention from the House of Lords, quoted by, 474, note; on Pope's disclaimer of the Essay on Man, and his studied ambiguity in regard to belief in future existence (in the Essay), 482, notes; on the non-Christian inspiration of certain verses of the Essay, 483, note.
Employments, in Ireland, exclusively in English hands, 235.
Encyclopædia Britannica, article on Swift in, referred to, 39.
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