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INDEX.

sincerity of Swift in, 20; his eulogy of
Pope's Ethics in, 345.

Lectures on the Four Georges, by the same, his
character of Lady Suffolk, quoted, 228,

note.

Legion Club, The, a satirical poem by Swift,

remark on, 62, note; referred to by Mrs.
Whiteway and Swift (in a humorous
joint-letter to Sheridan), 254-255.
Leibnitz Gottfried Wilhelm, his Theodikée,
used by Bolingbroke, and by Pope in the
Essay on Man, 327.

Leicester, Swift's visits to, 4; his uncom.
plimentary character of, 70.

Leicester House, the Opposition Court of
the Prince and Princess of Wales held
at, Swift a welcome guest at, 43.
Lely, Sir l'eter, a portrait of Lady Giffard
by, referred to by Swift, 253.
Lepell, Mary, (Lady Hervey),commemorated

by Gay, in his Verses to Pope, 300; one of
the Maids of Honour who took Pope under
their protection, Pope's walk with, 301;
Pope's commemoration of (in his Court.
Ballad), 305; alluded to by Pope, 430.
L'Estrange, Sir Roger, why his political
friends should buy him out of Purgatory,

373.

Letcombe, near Berkshire, retreat of Swift
in 1714, Swift visited by Pope and Parnell
at, 387.

Letter on the Sacramental Test, A, by Swift,

against Noncomformity, referred to, 18.
Letter to a Noble Lord on Occasion of Some
Libels Written and Propagated at Court,
Pope's reply to Lord Hervey's Epistle,
noticed, 275, 331.

Letter to the Editor of the Letters on the Spirit
of Putriotism, addressed to Bolingbroke by
Warburton, 336.

Letters of Abelard and Heloisa, noticed, 303,
301, and note,

Letters of the Heroines, by Ovid, referred to,

3J1.

Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, by St. John,
Lord Bolingbroke, entrusted to Pope, and
published by him without authorisation,
C35, 336.

Letters to John Murray, &c., by Lord Byron,
referred to, 337, note.

Letters of Pope, the Collected, an account
and criticism of, 242-246.

Letters of Swift, the Collected, an account
of, 66, 67.

Letter-writing, Pope's opinion on the use
of, 504.

Lewis, Erasmus, Secretary to Lord Dart.

mouth, an intimate friend of Swift, Swift
talking politics with, 101; references to,

535

109, 110, 133, 140, 145; letter from Swift
to, 267-263, extracts from letter to Swift
from, 269, 270, note.

Liberty, Verses on, of Addison, quoted by
Pope, 389.

Ligue La, the first title of the Henriade of
Voltaire, noticed by Pope, 462.
Lilliput, High-heels and Low.heels, Big.
endians and Little-endians in, alluded to
by Mrs. Howard, 193; the Voyage to,
Swift thinks, will bear woodcuts better
than the Brobdingnagians, suggestions
by him for illustrating, 203.
Lintot, Bernard, one of Pope's publishers,
various translations from the Latin poets,
and first edition of the Rape of the Lock,
inserted by Pope in the Miscellanies of,
Windsor Forest, &c., published by, 284;
Rape of the Lock, 299; sums received by
Pope for his Iliad and Odyssey, from, 299,
300; Pope's relation of his journey and
dialogue with, 305, 303.

Lions, at the Tower, The, Pope invited by
Lord Lansdowne to see, 405.

Little Language, used between Swift and
Esther Johnson, referred to, 35, 133.
Lives of the Poets, The, by Samuel Johnson,
Cunningham's edition of, referred to, 6;
the biography of Pope the best in the
series of, 333. (For various references to,
see under Johnson.)

Logg, Dr. (or Legg), confessor, or chaplain,
to the Blounts, humourously character.
ised by Pope, 433.

Long, Mrs. Anne, Swift's reference to,
"the most beautiful person of the age she
lived in," a notice of her, 103, and note.
Longitude, proposed method for finding,
alluded to by Swift, 128.

Longleat, Mrs. Pendarves refers to a visit
to Lady Weymouth at, 237, note; Pope
going to take a trip to, 403.

Lowell, James Russell, a critic of Pope,
referred to, 337.

Love for Love, a comedy of Congreve, re.
ferred to, 103, note.

Lucian, the Greek Satirist, a volume of,
appears in the portrait of Swift by Jervas,
32; Swift indebted to, in Gulliver's Travels,
47, note.

Lucretius, De Rerum Naturd, used by Swift
in the Tate of a Tub, 15.
Lutrin, the satirical poem by Boileau, a
model of the Rape of the Lock, 297.
Luke, St., referred to as a painter by Popo,
370.

M

Macaulay, Lord, his representations of the
positions of Swift and Esther Johnson at
Moor Park (in Ed. Rev. and his Hist. of
England) disputed by Forster, 6, note; an
adverse critic of Pope, 337; criticises
Croker's Boswell in Ed. Rev., 340.
Macfarland, Mrs., immolating her lover,
Pope (in letter to Lady M. W. Montagu)
refers to, 417.

Mac Flecknoe, The, a Satire by Dryden, a
model of the Dunciad, 318.

Macchiavelli, Nicolo, Il Principe, quoted by
Swift, 196.

Machinery, in Poetry, explained by Pope to
Miss Fermor, 382.

Macrobius, Saturnalia, used by Pope in
translating the Iliad, 385.

Madonna, Pope attempts a picture of the,
370.

Mahomet, his Paradise, referred to by Pope
in letter to Lady M. W. Montagu, 419.
Maids of Honour, Swift threatens a History
of, 30; how regarded by Swift, 60, note.
Maintenon, Mde. de (Frances d'Aubigné),
Lord Bolingbroke's second wife a niece
of, 323.

Malherbe, François de, the French poet, his
authority as not using hiatus, quoted by
Pope, Balzac's witty allusion to his
tyranny in Grammar, Boileau's high
praise of, 358, and note.

Mallet, David, letter on Warburton from

Lord Bolingbroke to, quoted, publishes
for Bolingbroke a revised edition of
Bolingbroke's Letters on Patriotism, 336;
one of the best correspondents of Pope (in
describing landscape scenery), two letters
from referred to, 347-

Mandeville, Bernard de, the influence of his
Fable of the Bees on the Essay on Man,
noticed, 327.

Manley, Mrs., a novelist and play-writer,
succeeds Swift in the editorship of the
Tory periodical, The Examiner, 26; Addi.
son's character in the Memoirs of Europe
by, Swift's remarks to Addison on the
book, 91.

Mapledurham, on the Thames, the residence

of the Blounts, 291; a portrait of Teresa
and Martha Blount by Jervas at, 292;
the original of letter of Pope to Martha
Blount, on his journey to Oxford, at, 409,

note.

Mapp, Mrs., the famous "bone-setter." a
story of, by Pulteney, in a letter to Swift,
262, note, 263.

Marble-Hill, near Richmond, the residence

of Mrs. Howard, afterwards Lady Suffolk,
referred to by Pope, 465.
Marchmont, Lord, an executor of Pope,

Lord Bolingbroke writes to, requesting
the immediate destruction of the printed
copies of his Treatises, 336; his remark
to Pope in regard to Warburton as editor,
338.
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of,
satirised by Swift in the Examiner, 27;
figures in the journal-letters, 29; refer.
ences to, 83, 86, 90, 127; Swift has de.
fended him from many "hard things said
against him," 144; Swift's reflections in
his forthcoming History, on the personal
courage of, objected to by the historian's
friends, 269, note.

Marlborough, Duchess of (Sarah), her opin-
ion of Gulliver's Travels, 46; puts up
monument to Congreve in Westminster
Abbey, 103, note; supplanted in the
Queen's favour by her relative and de-
pendant, Mrs. Masham, 123, note; an anec.
dote of the meanness of, 138; figures in
the Rape of the Lock as Thalestris, 299; as
Atossa in the Characters of Women, 322;
entertains Pope and Lord Chesterfield,
pays court to the former, 333.
Marrowfat, Dr., at the "Visitation Dinner,"
described by Goldsmith in his Citizen of
the World (LVIII.), 212, note.

Marshall, Judge, an executor of Hester
Vanhomrigh, takes copies of her MS.
letters before they were destroyed, 38.
Martyn, Dr. John, a Cambridge Professor,
a reputed editor of the Grub-Street Journal,
mentioned, 321.

Masham, Mrs. (afterwards Lady), Swift's
notices of her in the journal-letters, 29;
her "lying-in" troubles at Kensington
Palace, 31; comes to town to "lie in,"
Swift expresses a fervent wish for "a
good time" for, dines with, 122, 123; &
notice of, 123, note; one of a riding-party
with Swift, Arbuthnot, &c., 125; makes
the Queen send to Kensington for pre-
served ginger for Swift, 132; accident at
Windsor, and Swift's anxieties as to the
consequences to, 133; her great friendship
for Swift, sheds tears at his approaching
departure from England, entertains him
at a dinner, speaks to the Queen for him,
140; informs Mrs. Howard as to the
duties of bed-chamber woman, 228;
Swift endeavours to effect a reconciliation
between Lords Bolingbroke and Oxford
at the residence of, at St. James's, 264.
Masquerades, introduced by Heydegger,
426, note.

INDEX.

M.D., initials used by Swift in letters to
Esther Johnson, conjectured meaning of,
93, note.

Mead, Dr. Richard, Pope under the medical

treatment of, 499, 503.

Medals, The, Swift's ironical allusion (in
his Verses on his own death) to the Queen
Caroline's forgetting omitted in the re.
vision of Dr. King, omitted passage
quoted, 64, note; Swift's complaints to
Lady Suffolk that the Queen has not sent
him them, 226.

Medley, The, a periodical of the day, noticed
by Swift as amalgamated with the Flying
Post, in consequence of the newspaper.
tax, 129, note,

Meditation on a Broomstick, a parody by
Swift, 21, note.

Memoirs of Europe, by Mrs. Manley, ridi.
culed by Swift, 91.

Merry Andrew, alleged origin of the term,
404, note.

Messiah, The, an Eclogue or Pastoral poem by
Pope, originally published in the Specta
tor, Steele's high praise to the author of,
its models, the justness of the general
eulogy of, by the critics, first questioned
by Wordsworth, 283, 284.

Middleton, Dr. Conyers, a witness to the
deism of Pope, 328; Pope expresses his
satisfaction that Warburton has aban.
doned the field of controversy to, 506.
Milton, John, his Paradise Lost quoted by
Swift; Warton's assertion as to Swift's
indifference to, controverted by Nichols,
161; his Hymn to the Nativity referred to,
281; his Par. Lost quoted by Pope, 439,
and note; Par. Regained quoted by Pope,
448; his Ccmus, Par. Lost, quoted, 448,
note.

Mirror of Magistrates, The, by Thos. Sack.

ville, assisted by Thomas, referred to,
423, note.

Misanthropy of Swift, defined by himself, as
general, not particular, 185.
Miscellanies, The, jointly contributed to by
Swift, Pope and Arbuthnot, 43; Swift
desires Sheridan to send him to Twicken.
ham his Verses to Stella for insertion in,
205, 206; the greater part contributed by
Swift who refuses remuneration for, 209;
Pope's Pastorals and his imitations of
Chaucer, &c., appear in Tonson's, 278,
281; his translations of Statius and Ovid
and the Rape of the Lock appear in Lin.
tot's, 284; Pope contributes further trans.
lations and adaptations from Chaucer
and Homer to Steele's, 299; refers to
Tonson's, 356; and to his specimens of his

537

Homeric translations in Steele's, 379; an.
nounces to Swift the completion of their
joint-labours in, refers to the character
to 470; Ford's remark upon, 470, note.
Miss, in the first half of the last century, of
uncomplimentary meaning, 79.

Mist's Journal, Theobald (according to Pope)
"crucifies Shakspeare once a week "in,
313.

Mob, a newly-introduced word, Swift pro-
tests against, 95, note.

Modest Proposal for Preventing the Poor People
in Ireland from being a Burden to their
Parents or Country, and Making them Bene-
ficial to the Country, an ironical Essay by
Swift, quoted, 53-55.

Mohawks, or Mohocks, unpunished licen.
tious savagery and insolence of (in the
London streets),noticed by Swift in letters
to Esther Johnson, 31, 126, 127.
Mohun, Lady (widow of Lord Mohun, the
hero of a duel with the Duke of Hamil.
ton), her marriage with Col. Mordaunt,
her third husband, alluded to by Pope in
a letter to Lady M. W. Montagu, 426.
"Moll," the familiar name of Mary Van.
homrigh, used by Swift, 135, 145, 146, 147,
note, 152.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, resents
Pope's innuendoes, 275, note; his free
expressions of admiration for, 292; com.
memorated by Gay (in verses to Pope),
rivalled by Mary Bellenden in beauty, 300,
note; the Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard de li.
cated by Pope to, 302; authoress of the
Town.Eclogues, 307; her correspondence
with Pope referred to, 343, 344, 348; letters
from Pope to, 413-416, 416-419, 424-427;
Pope regrets the absence of, 443.
Montagu, Edward Wortley, husband of Lady
M. W. Montagu, Swift in the company
of, 99; references of Pope to, 414, 426,
415;
official letter of, quoted, 425,

note.

Montaigne, Michel de, his device to induce
ladies to keep his Essays in their closets
alluded to by Swift, 77; referred to by
Bolingbroke, 217, note; his denunciations
of the cruelties of hunting quoted by
Pope, 285; Pope quotes a remark of,

375.

Moor Park, the residence of Sir Wm.
Temple, Swift finds an asylum at
the household of, Esther Johnson's posi.
tion at, 5; Swift returns to, his life at.
7.11; his reminiscences of, in letter to
John Temple, 258.

Moore, Thos., Life and Letters of Byron,
quoted, 337, note.

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Moral Essays, of Pope, noticed, 322, 324, 324-
330.

Moralist, The: A Philosophical Rhapsody, by
Lord Shaftesbury, republished in his
Characteristics, one of the sources of Ths
Essay on Man, referred to, 327.
More, Sir Thomas, uses the proverbial
phrase "Tale of a Tub," 131, note; his
Utopia (on the evils resulting from the
conversion of arable into pasture land),
quoted, 53, note.

Mose, Mrs., the mother of Esther John-
son, her second marriage, 11; Swift's
only sister lives at Farnham with, 132,

note.

Motte, Benjamin, the publisher of Gulliver's

Travels, letter from Swift to, 43, 68, 207-209;
his final settlement with Swift, purchases
the copyright of Gulliver and Miscellanies,
224 and note; recommended by Swift,
216; letter from Swift to, noticed,314, note.
Mourning Bride, The, a tragedy by Congreve,
referred to, 103, note.

Muses' Mercury, The, a periodical, an allusion
to by Pope, 356.

N

Nash, Richard, (commonly known as Beau
Nash), autocrat of Bath in the last cen-
tury, his reign of nearly fifty years, his
request to Pope for a set of verses, des-
cribed by Goldsmith, 305, note; Pope
makes his acquaintance at Bath, remarks
on his impudent air, notice of by Dilke,
his behaviour to the Duchess of Queens.
berry related by Goldsmith, 402, and
note.

Narcissa, the poetic name given by Pope to
the Duchess of Hamilton, in his Characters
of Women, 322.

Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris on the Frenzy of
J. D. [John Dennis], a satire by Pope,
288.

National Gallery of Portraits, The, a por.
trait of Swift by Jervas in, 32, and note;
of Ann Oldfield in, 37, note; of Pope by
Jervas in, 292; earliest portrait of Pope
by Jervas and another by Hoare in, 317,
318.

Newgate Pastorals, the composition of,
suggested by Swift to Pope, 162.
Newman, F. W., his Essays on Diet referred
to, 53; his Iliad of Homer, referred to, 301,
note.

Newmarket, the "annual cheat" at, stig.
matised by Pope (in his Grateful Address of
the Houyhnhnms), 317.

Nowsham, Mrs., a correspondent of Pope,

marries (as second husband) Mr. John
Knight, (as third husband) Mr. Nugent,
478, note.

Newspapers, a stamp-tax on, by the Tory
Cabinet, noticed by Swift, 128, 129, note.
Nichols, John, Literary Anecdotes, contro.
verts Warton's remark as to Swift's quo.
tations from Milton, 161, note; an account
of Hills, the pirate-publisher, by, 356, 357,
note.

"Noll," condemned by Swift, as too much
of a cant word for poetry, 245
Nonjuror, The, a comedy by Cibber (in imi.
tation of Tartuffe), gives offence to Pope,
308; alluded to by Pope, 438, and note;
obtains for its author the laureateship,
509.

Notes and Queries (Feb. 5, 1881), King's
omission of Swift's ironical reference to
the Queen (Caroline) in his Verses on his
Own Death remarked in, the omitted verses
quoted in, 61.

Nugent, Mrs., a correspondent of Pope,
(see under Knight and Newsham), 478,
note.

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Observations on the Second Iliad, by Pope, re-
ferred to by him, 292, note.
Observator, The, a periodical, its collapso
alluded to by Swift, 123, note.
Occasional Conformity, the Bill against,
extraordinary excitement regarding, a
favourite measure of the Tories, 75, and
note; Swift writes, but does not print, a
pamphlet in opposition to, 80.

October Club, The, a sort of caucus of the ultra.
Tories, the original members of; places
of meeting of, reconstituted as a Literary
Club, 33.

Ode to Temple, by Swift, quoted, 7.

Ode to Congreve, by Swift, quoted, 8.
Ode on Solitude, An, said to be Pope's earliest
attempt in Poetry, 277.

Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day, an early
poem of Pope, 284.

Odyssey (see under Homer).

Of False Taste, a poetical Essay by Pope,

321.

Of the Use of Riches, a poetical Essay by
Pope, 321.

Ogilby, John, Pope's first acquaintance
with Homer made in the English version
of, 277.

Ogygia, the Island of Kalypso, an allusion
by Pope to, 418, and note.
Old Bachelor, The, a comedy of Congreve,
referred to, 103, note.

INDEX.

Oldfield, Mrs., an eminent actress, takes
the part of Cato's daughter in Cato, con.
temptuous reference of Swift to, buried
in Westminster Abbey, a portrait in the
National Gallery, at South Kensington,
of, 137, and note; noticed by Pope in the
part of Cato's daughter, 366.
Oldfox, in Wycherley's Plain-Dealer, an allu.
sion by Pope to, 357.

Oldham, John, a writer of dramas, con.
temptuous reference of Pope to the pre-
sentation of Gorboduc by, 423.

Old Wells, Bristol, described by Pope, 500.
Ombre, a fashionable Spanish game at
cards, Swift complains of his losses at,

134.

On the Science of a Connoisseur, an Essay on
Pictures, by Jon. Richardson, eulogised
by Roscoe, 480, note.

Opera, Italian, The, Dennis's denunciation

of, a good story told by Swift of a Mrs.
Malaprop and the, 23; Swift reports the
rage for us at its height, notices a castrato
(Nicolini) as the reigning favourite of,
87.

Optimism, the characteristic doctrine of
the Essay on Man, the sources from which
Pope and Bolingbroke drew their beliefs
in, the essential fallacy and weakness of
the ordinary, a true and a false, 227;
Warburton's perception of the essential
weakness of the creed of, 328, note.
Origin of Evil, The, a treatise on, by Dr.
King, referred to, 327.

"the

Orkney, Lady, Swift's intimacy with,
wisest woman he ever saw," the oracle of
Lord Oxford, formerly mistress of King
William III., £20,000 rental settled by the
King upon, "squints like a dragon," her
bad understanding with her sister-in-law
the Duchess of Hamilton, 131, and note;
an unflattering reference by Pope to (in
letter to the Duchess of Hamilton), 423.
Orlando Furioso, of Ariosto, imitated by Gay,
300, note; the adventures of Astolfo in,
alluded to by Pope, 416, and note.
Ormond, The Duke of, a friend of Swift,
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in the Tory
Government, 26; compromised in the
Jacobite intrigues, 35; competitor with
the Duke of Shrewsbury for Vice.Royalty,
92; Swift high in the regard of, 97;
entertains Swift and Lord Oxford at a
dinner, assures Swift of St. Patrick's
Deanery, arranges with the Queen as to
the preferments of Dromore and St.
Patrick's, 139, 141; Swift expresses to
Pope his affection and fears for, 158.
Orrery, Lord, a biographer of Swift, origi.

539

nates the story of Swift's ignominious
career at the Dublin University, publishes
his Remarks on the Life and Writings of
Swift in 1751, Mrs. Delany's observations
upon it, 3, and note; his description of
Hester Vanhomrigh, Mrs. Delany's com.
ment upon it, 36, note; the first to
assert the marriage of Swift, 37, note; hig
representation of the character of Swift's
connexion with Hester Vanhomrigh, 39;
letters from Swift to, 233-234, 250.252;
Swift invites him to consider the misery
and poverty of the people on his estates,
251; Pope at the house of, 496.

Ovid, the story of Baucis and Philemon
(Metamorphoses viii.), parodied by Swift, 16;
Pope makes the acquaintance of, in the
version of Sandys, 277; parts of his
Metamorphoses and Letters of the Heroines
translated by Pope, 284; the latter poem
a model of the Eloisa, which, also, prob.
ably is indebted to the romance of Byblis
and Ianthe of, 304.

Owl and the Nightingale, The, an early English
poem, referred to, 280.

Oxford, Lord, see under Harley.
Oxford, the University of, Swift takes the
degree of Master of Arts at, does not for.
get his good reception at, 7; Pope's visit
to, 305, 311; his character of the members
of, concern at the Queen's death at, 389;
his visit (to consult books for his version
of the Iliad) to, 391; his life at, meets Dr.
Clarke and sees Jervas's copies of Raf.
faelle's Cartoons at, 420; Pope (letter to
Warburton) declares he will not accept
an honorary degree unless Warburton
also receives one from, 504, 505, 506; War.
barton's comments on the refusal of a
degree to him by, 506, note.

P

Paine, Thomas, Replies to his Age of Reason
by Gilbert Wakefield, 339, note.

Palladio Andrea, an eminent Italian archi.
tect, his Trattato del L'Architectura referred
to by Pope, 410.

Palmerston, Lord, correspondence of Swift
with, referred to by Scott, 258.
Pamphlets, a War of, recorded by Swift, 92.
Papist, Swift's first reference to Pope as a,
27; Pope, in his youth, alternately
Protestant and, 435; professes himself
to be not a, 436.

Papists, laws against, put in force, 202,
note; laws against harbouring, allusion
to, 304; a proclamation issued for putting
the laws into execution against, 511.

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