England, Church of, alluded to, 372, 418.
Englefield, the papist family of, Pope's
earlier acquaintance with, Mr. Engle-
field's incivility to Pope's family, noticed
by Pope, 367.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, superior
to the Essay on Criticism in brilliancy and
wit, 281.
English Language, The, Swift on the cor-
ruptions of, 95, note; proposes the reform
of, 128; Pope, in a letter to Bolingbroke,
on,
Enthusiasm, Letter on, by the Earl of Shaftes.
bury, attributed to Swift by his corre.
spondent Col. Hunter, Swift deprecates
the reputation of its authorship (in letter
to Hunter whom he suspects to be the
auther), complains of the imputation in
his Apology for the Tale of a Tub, 88, and
note; Pope to Bolingbroke on, 461, 462.
Epistle of Mary Gulliver, a parody, by Pope,
quoted, 316.
Epistle to Arbuthnot, by Pope, referred to,
275; satire of Addison in, quoted, 289:
satire of Lord Hervey in, 332; Pope deter.
mines to finish, 509.
Epistle to a Doctor Divinity, by Lord Hervey,
a satire on Pope, 331.
Epistle to a Lady, by Gay, addressed to the
Princess of Wales, quoted, 401.
Epistle to the Pisos, of Horace, compared
with the Essay on Criticism by Sainte.
Beuve, 283.
Epistles, moral or satirical poems, addressed
to various eminent personages, noticed
and quoted, 321, 322, 330.
Epistles of the Heroines, of Ovid, Pope's Sappho
to Phaon, imitated from, 284; a model of
the Eloisa to Abelard, 304.
Epitaph, on Gay, by Pope, in Westminster
Abbey, criticised by Swift in letter to
Lord Orrery, 233.
Epitaphs, on his friends, by Pope, one on
himself, placed by Warburton in the
Twickenham church, quoted, 331; on
Mrs. Whitworth, on the public way, at
Twickenham, referred to by Pope and by
Theobald, 432, and note.
Erasmus, Desiderio, commemorated in Essay
on Criticism, 282; Im. of Hor. Sut. II., 1.,
482, note.
Erick or Herrick, Abigail, the wife of God.
win and the mother of Jonathan Swift, 2.
Erinna, Judith Cowper celebrated by Pope
under that name, 312, 454.
Essay Concerning Aliments, by Dr. Arbuthnot,
referred to, 177, note.
Essay on Criticism, noticed and quoted, 281.
Essay on Flesh Eating, by Plutarch, quoted
by Pope in the Guardian, the most remark.
able moral treatise of Antiquity, 286,
note.
Essay on Gardening, by Pope, in the Guardian,
310, 311; by Horace Walpole, referred to,
309, note.
Essay on Man, The, by Pope, inspired by
Lord Bolingbroke, identity of thought in
the writings of the latter with that of,
external as well as internal evidence
of Bolingbroke's influence on, first
appeared anonymously, the authorship
for some time concealed even from
the author's friends, the Fourth Book
published two years later, gradual increase
of popularity, alterations of opening
verses made by Pope quoted, translated
into French, assailed by De Crousaz,
defended by Warburton, 324-326; Opti.
mism the leading principle of, the
various sources of, the fundamental prin.
ciple of logically leads to Fatalism, the
deism, not the Optimism of, objected to
by De Crousaz, and unsuccessfully denied
by Warburton, Warburton's original
opinion of, Pope sends to Louis Racine
an apology for, also to Caryll, the
merits of particular parts of, (except.
ing Shakspeare and Milton) no poem
so often quoted, its ethics deserving of
high praise, in particular its rebuke of
human arrogance, its cosmopolitan pre.
cepts quoted, the last edition in Pope's
life-time, in 1743, with Warburton's Com.
mentary and Notes, and Dedication to
Bolingbroke, instance of alteration and
doubtful improvement in, quoted, 327.
330.
Essay on Propriety in the Thought and Ex.
pression of Poetry, by Aaron Hill, noticed
by Roscoe, 491, note.
Eugenia, a Defence of Women, by Wm. Walsh,
noticed by Johnson, in his Lives of the
Poets, 353, note.
Eugenio, a poem, by Thomas Beach, referred
to, 244, note.
Eustathius, Archbishop of Thessalonica, the
most considerable Commentator on the
Homeric Epics, used and referred to by
Pope, 385.
Evans, Dr. Abel, an Epigrammatist and
friend of Pope, mentioned by Pope, and
noticed by Bowles, 422, and note.
Examiner, The, a political periodical, Swift's
first overt act of apostasy from Whiggism
appears in, under his management asserts
its superiority (in ability) over its politi.
cal rivals, the Duke of Marlborough held
up to ridicule and detestation by Swit
in, 26, 27; the Tory rival of Steele's
Guardian, 116, note; reported by Swift to be
"deadly sick," 129; Swift denies to
Addison that he is the editor of, 142,
declares to Steele that he seldom reads,
Steele writes to Swift that he believes
him to be an "accomplice" of, the
latter asseverates that he had had no
hand in writing any of the papers of, 143.
Fable of the Bees, The, of Bernard de Mande.
ville, the Essay on Man indebted to, 327.
Fables, The, of Gay, Swift's encomium on,
written for the young Duke of Cumber.
land, 227; a Second Series of (left by
Gay), Swift prophesies no good of, 234.
Faith, Modes of, 291, 436.
Familiar Epistle to the Most impudent Man
Living, addressed by Lord Bolingbroke to
Dr. Warburton, 326.
Fan, The, a satirical piece, by Gay,
alluded to by Swift in letter to Mrs. Pen.
darves, 239; Pope's allusion to, in letter
to Gay, its use in China, 370.
Farewell to London, verses by Pope, quoted,
301, note.
Faulkener, Alderman, a Dublin publisher,
a friend of Swift, 59; Swift complains of
his Works hav ng been printed without
his consent by, 246, note.
Favourites, ladies at Court, as, usual fate
of, 229.
Fenton, Mrs., only sister of Swift, her un.
suitable marriage opposed by him, left
dependent upon him, lives with Lady
Giffard at Moor Park, 11; mentioned by
Swift in letter to Esther Johnson, dies at
Farnham in the house of Esther John.
son's mother (1739), her brother's re.
ported harshness to, 182, and note.
Fermor, Arabella, her quarrel with her
lover Lord Petre, the heroine of the Rape
of the Lock under the name of Belinda,
resents her first presentment in the
original edition of the poem, Pope ap.
peases her anger by an improved edition,
296, 297; marries Mr. Perkins, her por.
trait at Tusmore, Mrs. Piozzi's report of
an interview with the niece of, 298; let.
ters from Pope to, 381-383, 383-384.
Fit of the Spleen, an imitation of Shakspeare,
by Judith Cowper, published afterwards
in the London Magazine (1787), praised by
Pope, 455.
Flams, term applied by Swift to the verses
written by Ambrose Philips on Miss
Carteret, 187, and note.
Flannap (Sir R. Walpole), a character in the
Travels of Gulliver, introduced by Pope
in the Epistle of Mary Gulliver, 316.
Flying Island, The, in the voyage to Laputa,
alluded to by Swift in letter to Pope, 197;
its illustration suggested to Motte, the
publisher, by Swift, 203.
Flying Post, The, a newspaper, referred to by
Arbuthnot in letter to Pope, 393.
Floyd, Mrs., mentioned in a letter of Swift,
the subject of some lively verses of his, 87,
and note.
Fontainebleau, Bolingbroke's life at, de.
scribed by Pope to Swift, 493.
Fontenelle, Bernard de, Hester Vanhomrigh
delighted with the Dialogues des Morts of,
147.
Ford, Charles, a friend and publishing
agent of Swift in Dublin, editor of a
Government newspaper, 59; conveys the
MS. of Gulliver's Travels, with mysterious
secrecy, to Motte, the publisher, 67.
Forester, Miss, a Maid of Honour to Queen
Anne, accompanies Swift and Arbuthnot
in a riding.party, character by Swift of,
married at the age of thirteen to Sir John
Downing, divorced at the age of fifteen,
120, 121.
Forster, John, the most elaborate bio.
grapher of Swift, prints a facsimile of tho
registry of the results of Swift's examina.
tion at the Dublin University, letter to
Worral from Swift (on Swift's love.
affair with Betty Jones) quoted by, 4,
and note; letter from Sir W. Temple to
Southwell quoted by, Macaulay's repre
sentation of Swift's and Esther Johnson's
position ac Moor Park criticised by.
letter from Swift to John Temple quoted
by, 6, 7, and notes; early letter from Swift
to Mrs. Johnson quoted by, refutes
charge against Swift of harshness to his
sister, 11, and note; notice of the Tale of a
Tub by, 14; MS. copy of the Baucis and
Philemon found at Narford, and account
of the poem, by, 16, 17; remarks on dif.
ferences between the original and printed
poem, 18, note; an unprinted letter of
Swift to Philip's quoted by, 23; fac-simile
of Swift's Notebooks, letter of Lord Halifax
to Swift, given by, 24, and notes; con.
jectures the origin of Swift's name of
"Stella" for Esther Johnson, the original
spelling of the Journal to Stella first re.
stored by, 25, notes; MS. of Swift's Diary
at Holyhead, formerly in possession of, 50,
note; opportunity of inspecting a large
number of unpublished letters of Swift
afforded to, the large interleaved paper
copy of Gulliver, in manuscript, noticed
by, 67, 68.
Fortescue, Wm., a friend of Pope, 371,
and note; a judge, and Master of the
Rolls, life-long friendship between Pope
and, Pope addresses First Satire of
Second Book of Horace to, a remark of
Bowles on the Pope-letters to (first part
of them first published in Polwhele's
History of Devon, second part by Miss
Warner), 394, note; letters from Pope to,
394-395, 465, 466-467; Pope, in letter to
Martha Blount, refers to, 501.
Fountaine, Sir Andrew, Forster discovers
MS. of Swift's Baucis and Philemon at the
house of (at Narford), 16; mentioned by
Swift, 111.
Fox, George, the founder of the Society of
Friends, gives the name of "Steeple.
Houses" to churches, the steeple-houses
and pulpits why offensive to, his Journal
quoted by Elwin, 473.
Fragments and Essays, by Lord Bolingbroke,
their ideas correspond with Pope's Essay
on Man, 327.
France, flight of the heads of the Tory and
Jacobite factions to, 35; reception of
Gulliver's Travels in, 43; Col. Hunter, a
correspondent of Swift, a prisoner in, 85;
intended visits of Swift to, 207, 226;
Boling broke's exile in, 323; Pope's report
of Bolingbroke's life in, 493.
French, Gulliver's Travels translated into,
43; letters in, from Swift to the Abbé
Desfontaines, 44, from Swift to Hester
Vanhomrigh, 168-170; Swift's difficulty
in conversing in, 213; Essay on Criticism,
Essay on Man, and Rape of the Lock trans.
lated into, 283, 297, 325.
Frederick, Prince of Wales, gives to Pope
some marble heads of poets for his Library,
und urus for his Grotto, 495.
Frogs and Mice, Battle of the, translated by
Dr. Parnell from the Greek, 406, note;
eulogised by Pope, 428.
Frogs, when first imported into Ireland,
406, note.
Froude, Philip, a friend of Swift and Addi.
son, a Government official, author of two
tragedies, referred to by Swift, 86, and
Fuller, Dr. Thomas, on John Coryate, the
Odcombe traveller, 472, note.
Gabrielle, d'Estrées ("la belle Gabrielle"),
the heroine of the Henriade, alluded to by
Pope, 463.
Gage, Miss, daughter of Mr. Gage, owner of
Sherbourne Castle, marries Mr. Weston of
Sutton, separates from and afterwards
(by Pope's mediation) reconciled to her
husband, dies in 1725, the heroine of the
Elegy of Pope, 302, and note.
Gage, Mr., Pope meets at Bath, 402.
Galland, Antoine, translator of the Arabian
Tales, noticed, 441, note.
Gardening, Essay on, by Horace Walpole,
referred to, 309, note.
Gardening, absurdly artificial styles of,
ridiculed by Pope, in the Guardian, 810,
311.
Garth, Sir Samuel, M.D. (author of the Dis.
pensary, a satire), figures in the journal.
letters of Swift, 29; his bon-mot on Cato,
366; on Dr. Radcliffe, 431, and note.
Gay, John, a member of the October Club,
letter to Swift on Gulliver's Travels from
45, 46; Swift's correspondence with
the Duchess of Queensberry and, extracts
from letters of Swift to, 55, 56; letter
from Swift to, quoted, 60; Eclogues of
dedicated to Bolingbroke, 177; extracts
from letter to Swift from (on Congreve,
Pope, the South Sea Bubble, Opera, &c.),
178, 179, note; letters from Swift to, 176-173,
219-223; his Opera bought by Swift for six.
pence, 201; his second Opera (Polly) pro.
hibited by the Lord Chancellor, complains
of persecution in the cause of virtue, 212,
and note; his congratulatory verses to
Pope on the completion of the Iliad
quoted, 300; a poem on Wine attributed to,
verses upon Hills, the publisher, by, 357,
note; writes Pastorals during time of
"divine service," and spends his money
on dress, Pope's consequent anxiety as to
his redemption from Purgatory, 374; let.
ters from Pope to, 369-370, 371; Pope's re.
membrances to, as the "true genuine
shepherd," 336; loses his Secretaryship
to the Hanoverian Embassy, and con-
tinues his contributions to Martin Scrib.
lerus, 397, 398, and note; letter of Pope to,
399-401; going to France with Pulteney,
429; Pope sends to Bishop Atterbury two
volumes of the Works of, 441; at Bath,
with Dr. Arbuthnot, 465; extract from
letter to Fortescue from, 466, note.
George I., King of England, satirised in
Voyage to Lilliput, 45; Swift's hopes of
preferment raised by the death of, 49;
giving audience to his Vice-Chamberlain,
304.
George II., ironical eulogy of, by Pope in
his Imitations of the Satires of Horace, 331.
Gerard, Lady, widow of Sir W. Gerard, of
New Hall, Lancashire, a friend of Martha
Blount, 334, note, mentioned in letters of
Pope, 498, 501, 503.
Germaine, Lady Betty, daughter of Lord
Berkeley, meets Swift first at the
Castle, Dublin, in later years corresponds
with him, 11; extracts from letters to
him from, 57; invites him to Drayton, 94;
Swift's account of a dinner with, 112;
letter from him to, 246-250.
Gery, Mrs., wife of the incumbent of Let-
combe, Swift a guest in the house of,
Swift's reference to (letter to Miss
Vanhomrigh), Molly Gery an old ac-
quaintance of Swift's at Farnham, 387,
Ghosts, the Island of, in Gulliver's Travels,
Swift does not know how to illustrate,
in a wood-cut, 209.
Gibbon, Edward, his remarks on Pope's
Iliad, 301, note; on the romance-view of
the Pastoral Life, 352, note; his temporary
conversion, at the age of sixteen, to
the Papal Church, 435, note.
Giffard, Lady, a sister of Sir W. Temple, at
the head of the household at Moor Park,
Swift's occasional quarrels with, 5; Swift
will not see her until she asks his pardon,
she quarrels with him about the publica.
tion of Temple's Works, much at Court, 94,
and note; in debt to Esther Johnson, 104.
Gifts of Preaching, Dr. Wilkins's, recom.
mended to Swift by Archbishop King, 33,
Gil Blas, and the Archbishop of Granada,
allusion to, 364, note.
Gilchrist, J., editor of the Quarterly Review,
one of the combatants in the Pope Con-
troversy, 340,
Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Magicians, vis-
ited by Gulliver, alluded to by Pope, 470,
and note.
Giumdalclitch, the Brobdingnagian Maid of
Honour, Lamentation of, a parody by
Pope, quoted, 315-316.
uttony, the selfish cruelty of, remarked
upon by Pope, 285.
mes and Sylphs, who, explained by Pope
in a letter to Miss Fermor, 382.
dolphin, Lord, the Whig Premier, Swift's
introduction to, 12; characterised by
Swift as the worst dissembler of his Cabi.
net, 92; Swift regards it as a good jest
to hear the Tory Ministers talk of his
death with pity, 131.
Golden Age, The, ironically applied to the
South Sea Bubble period by Digby, 440,
Goiden Age Restored, The, by William Walch,
noticed, 353, note,
Goldsmith, Oliver, his description of
"Visitation Dinner" in the Citizen of the
World, 212, note; his Life of Richard Nash,
quoted, 305, note; letter from Pope to Par.
nell published in Life of Parnell by, 334,
note; his Life of Nash quoted by Dilke,
402, note.
Gorboduc, by Thos. Sackville, the first
regular English tragedy, Pope claims to
have derived great credit from his edition
of, compares it with that of Dryden and
Oldham, and accuses them of ignorance
of the sex as well as sense of, 423, and
note.
Gout, frequent mention in the corre.
spondence of the last century of, promi.
nent place assigned in Gay's Court of
Death to, 403, 404, note.
Grace and Right Honourable, Pope's criticism
on the prefixes of, 477.
Grund Question Debated, The, a poem by
Swift, quoted, 61, note,
Granville, Mary, her parentage and corre-
spondence noticed, 237, note.
Great Britain, Swift anathematises the
term, 271.
Gregg, a Government official, sentenced to
death on the charge of traitorous corre.
spondence with the French Government,
referred to by Swift, 84, and note.
Green Cloth, The, at Windsor, Swift dines
at, "the best table in England," costs the
Queen £1,000 a month, designed to enter.
tain Foreign Ministers and people of
quality, 120; noisy company of people
from the Races at, 121.
Grierson, Mrs., a Dublin friend of Swift,
dies at the age of twenty-seven, famed
for her extraordinary learning, 59, 223, 224.
Griffiths, Miss, a correspondent of Lady M.
W. Montagu, 426.
Grildig, the Brobdingnagian name of
Gulliver, lamentation of Glumdalclitch
over, 315, 316.
Grotto, The, at Twickenham Villa, de.
scribed, 309, and note; in a letter from
Pope to Edward Blount, 310, 467-469;
opinions of his critics upon, intended
verses for an inscription on, 468, 469, and
note.
Grub Street Journal, The, Pope's assaults
upon his enemies in, its reputed editors,
321.
Grub Street, literature of, extinguished by
taxation, 128-129, note.
Grumbler, The, a weekly periodical, on Gay,
referred to, 407.
Guarini, Battista, his Il Fido Pastor,
its surprising discoveries the effec
of design, a great store-house of the
English poets of the xvi. and xvii.
centuries, 352, and note.
Guardian, The, a daily paper, founded by
Steele, noticed by Swift, 136; Swift com.
plains to Addison and Steele of being
attacked by the latter in, 141-144, and notʊ;
Pope's rival (Philips) highly eulogised
in, Pope inserts ironically eulogistic
notice of Philip's Pastorals in, quoted,
278-280, and note; Pope contributes a
number of papers (on various subjects) to,
the most meritorious of them his Essay
on "Sport," and on the cruelties of But-
chering, 284-286; publishes his Prologue
to Addison's Cato in, 288; inserts a carica-
ture of himself, under the name of "Dick
Distich," in, 347; Steele writes to Pope of
his design to bring out, and asks him to
contribute to, 363, note; Pope assures
Caryll that he writes very seldom for, 367.
Guelfi, G., an Italian sculptor, artist of
a statue to Craggs in Westminster Abbey,
alluded to by Pope in letters to Mr. and
Mrs. Knight, 475, and note.
Guevara, Antonio de, a Spanish Bishop, his
Marco Aurelio alluded to by Pope, 470, and
note.
Guizot, Mde., her remarks on the Heloisa
of the Latin Letters of Heloisa and Abe.
lard, 303, note.
Gulliver, The Travels of Lemuel, Dr. Barrett
infers Swift's authorship of a Collego
exercise from its resemblance to a pas
sage in, 3; published anonymously in
1726, under the title (in full) of The Tra.
vels into Several Remote Nations of the World
by Lemuel Gulliver, excites extraordinary
sensation, printed editions abound in
England and Ireland, the first classical
work of fiction to appear periodically
a newspaper, goes through many
revisions, references in letters (before
publication) to, 43; translated in France
by the Abbé Desfontaines at the sugges
tion of Voltaire, its popularity in France,
correspondence of the Abbé and Swift
respecting, letter from Gay to Swift re-
porting universal popularity of, 44-46;
Swift's ironical complaint to the publisher
on account of certain excisions or altera-
tions in, 46, 47; critical remarks upon,
Swift publishes maps in, a copy (in the
South Kensington Museum) of the first edi.
tion of, manuscript revisions of the author,
a revised passage quoted, 47, theories as
to the purpose of, the author's own decla.
ration of the object of, letter to Motte (the
publisher) from the author supplying hints
for the illustration of, 48; letter from
Swift to Pope upon, 184-185; extracts from
letter of Mrs. Howard to Swift respecting,
193, note; letter from Swift to Mrs. Howard
allusive to, 194-195; extracts from letter
of Lord Peterborough to swift reporting
an universal mania regarding, 196, note;
Swift wishes his friends to give out that
his book has been unwarrantably altered
by his publisher, 198; allusions (in a
letter to Mrs. Howard) to, 193-199; Pope's
parodies on, 315-317; refers to them, in a
letter to Swift, 470.
Gulliver Le Nouveau, a continuation of the
Travels, by Desfontaines, Scott's notice of,
45, note.
Habeas Corpus, Writ of, suspended by the
Government, during the panic from the
expected rising of the Jacobites, 511,
Halifax, Lord, makes the acquaintance of
Swift, 12; his letter to Swift in reply to
a request for preferment quoted, Swift's
remark upon, 24, and note; out of office,
26; figures in the Journal Letters, 29;
Swift burns all the letters (but one) re.
ceived from, 248; Pope refers to subscrip.
tion to the Iliad by, 372.
Hallam, Henry, his remark upon the Eloisa
of Pope criticised by Prof. A. W. Ward,
303, note.
Haller, Albrecht von, the Swiss physiolo.
gist, his praise of Dr. Cheyne's Essay of
Health and a Long Life, 452.
Hamilton, The Duchess of, grief of, at the
death of her husband in a duel with Lord
Mohun, Swift's description of, 131, note;
letter from Pope to, 432-434, her portrait
alluded to by Pope, compared by him
to an elephant, 432, 433.
Hamilton, Anthony, translates (but does not
publish) the Essay on Criticism into French,
283, note.
Handel, Georg Friedrich, alluded to by
Gay, 179, note.
Hanmer, Thos., Speaker of the House of
Commons, his name how treated by Swift,
388.
Harcourt, The Hon. Simon, son of the Lord
Chancellor (the first Lord Harcourt), a
friend of Pope, referred to in Pope's
letters, 380, 391, 404, 410.
Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford and Morti.
mer, succeeds Lord Somers in the pre.
miership, 26; complains that he can
keep no secret from Swift, 23; a con-
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