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,
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,
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,
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,
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.
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,
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.
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
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,
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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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