THE FIRST NUMBER DENOTES THE BOOK, THE SECOND THE VERSE AND NOTE ON IT. TIST. TESTIMONIES. AP. APPENDIX. Banks, his resemblance to Mr. Cibber in Tragedy, i. 146. Bates (Julius) fee Hutchinfon (John). Broom, Ben Jonfon's man, ibid. Bavius, iii. 24. Mr. Dennis his great opinion of him, ib. Bawdry, in plays, not difapproved of by Mr. Dennis, iii. 179. Blackmore, (Sir Rich.) his impiety and irreligion, proved by Mr. Dennis, ii. 268. his quantity of works, and various opinions of them-His abufe of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope, ibid. Bray, a word much beloved by Sir Richard, ii. 260. Braying, defcribed, ii. 247. Birch, by no means proper to be applied to young noblemen, iii. 334. Bld, what became of his works, i. 231. Broome, (Rev. Mr. Will.) His fentiments of our author's virtue, Teft. Our author of his, iii. 332. Brooms (a feller of) taught Mr. John Jackfon his trade, ii. 157. Billingfgate language, how to be used by learned authors, i. 142. Bond, Befaleel, Breval, not living writers, but phantoms, ii. 126. Book fellers, how they run for a poet, ii. 31, &c. Baniffs, how poets run from them, ii. 61. Bridewell, ii. 269. Bow-bell, iii. 278. Balm of Dulnefs, the true and the fpurious, its efficacy, and by whom prepared, iv. 544. C Cibber, hero of the poem, his character, i. 107. not abfolutely ftupid, 109. Not unfortunate as a coxcomb, ibid. Not a flow writer, but precipitate, though heavy, 123. His productions the effects of heat, though an imperfect one, 126. His folly heightened with frenzy, 125. He borrowed from Fletcher and Moliere, 131. Mangled Shakspeare, 133. His head diftinguished for wearing an extraordinary periwig, 167. more than for its reafoning faculty, yet not without furniture, 177. His elasticity, and fire, and how he came by them, 187. He was ence thought to have wrote a reasonable play, 188. The general character of his verfe and profe, 190. His converfation, in what manner extenfive and useful, 192, &c. Once defigned for the Church, where he should have been a Bishop, 200. Since inclined to write for the Minister of State, 213. but determines to ftick to his other talents; what thofe are, 217, &c. His apoftrophe to his works before he burns them, 225, &c. His repentance and tears, 243. Dulnefs puts out the fire, 257. Inaugurates and anoints him, 287. His crown, by whom woVen, 223. of what compofed, i. 303. who let 6 him into court, 300. who his fupporters, 307 His entry, attendants, and proclamation, ufque ad fin His enthronization, ii. 1. Paffes his whole reign in feeing shows, through book ii. And dreaming dreams, through book ini. Settle appears to him, iii. 35 Refemblance between him and Settle, iii. 37. and i. 146. Goodman's prophecy of him, iii 232. How he translated an opera, without knowing the ftory, 305. and encouraged farces because it was against his conscience, 266. Declares he never mounted a dragon, 268. Apprehenfions of acting in a ferpent, 287. What were the paffions of his old age, 303, 304. Finally fubfides in the lap of Dulnefs, where he refts to all eternity, iv. 25. and note. Cibber, his father, i. 31. His two brothers, 33. His fon, iii. 142. His better progeny, i. 228. Ciberian forehead, what is meant by it, i. 218. -read by fome Cerbetian, ibid. note. Cooke (Tho.) abused by Mr. Pope, ii. 138. Concanen (Mat.) one of the authors of the Weekly Journals, ii. 299. declared that when his poem had blanks, they meant treafon, iii. 297. of opinion that Juvenal never fatirized the poverty of Codrus, ii. 144. Corncutter's Journal, what it coft, ii. 314. Critics, verbal ones, must have two postulata allowed them, ii. I. Cat-calls, ii. 231. Curll (Edm ) his panegyric, ii. 58. his Corinna, and what fhe did. 70. Carolina, a curious flower, its fate, iv. 409, &c. 12. Dulnefs, the goddefs; her original and parents, i Her ancient empire, 17. Her public col lege, i. 29. Academy for poctical education, 33. Her cardinal virtues, 45, &c. Her ideas, productions, and creation, 55, &c. Her furvey and contemplation of her works, 79, &c. And of her children, 93. Their uninterrupted fucceffion, 98, &c. to 108. Her appearance to Ciober, 261. She manifefts to him her works, 273, &c. Anoints him, 287, &c. Inftitutes games at his coronation, ii. 18, &c. The manner how the makes a wit, ii. 47. A great lover of a joke, 34. And loves to repeat the fame over again, 122. Her ways and means to procure the pathetic and terrible in tragedy, 225, &c. courages chattering and bawling, 237, &c, And is patronnefs of party-writing and railing, 276, &c. Makes ufe of the heads of critics as fcales to weigh the heavinefs of authors, 367. Promotes flumber with the works of the faid authors, ibid. The wonderful virtue of deeping inher lap, iii. 5,&c. Her Elyfium,15, &c. The fouls of her fons dipt in Lethc, 23. How brought into the world, 29. Their transfiguration and metempsychosis, 50. The extent and glories of her empire, and her conquefts throughout the world, iii. 67 to 138. A catalogue of her po En etical forces in this nation, 139 to 212. Pro- De Foe, Daniel, in what refembled to William De Foe (Norton) a fcandalous writer, ii. 415. Efteemed by our author, and why, ibid. And politics, i. 106. ii 413. His great loyalty to King George, how A great friend to the ftage-and to the How he proves that none but Nunjurors ibid. His refpect to the Bible and Alcoran ibid. - Of opinion that he poifoned Curll, ibid. in debt, ii. 118. Hisaccufation of Sir Richard Blackmore,- As no poet, ibid. By Mift the Journalist, of unfair pro Difproved by the teftimony of the Lords By Mift the Journalist, concerning Mr. 179. By Pafquin, of his being in a plot, iii. By Sir Richard Blackmore, of his bur- Fleas and verbal critics compared, as equal judges Mac Flecknoe, not fo decent and chaste in the dic Friendship, understood by Mr. Dennis to be fome. Furius, Mr. Dennis called fo by Mr. Theobald, i Fleet-ditch, ii. 271. Its nymphs, 333. Discove. Flies not the ultimate object of human study, iv. 454. G Good nature of our author; inftances of it in this Good fenfe, grammar, and verfe, defired to give Gildon (Charles) abufed our author in many Printed against Jefus Chrift, f. 296. Gentleman, his Hymn to his Creator, by Welfted, His wonderful Dedication to G. D. Efq. Gazetteers, the monftrous price of their writings, ii. 314. the miferable fate of their works, ibid. H Handel, an excellent musician, banished to Ireland, Did not know what he was about when Haywood (Mrs.) What fort of game for her, ii. 157. Won by Curll, 187. Her great refpect Index-learning, the use of it, i. 279. Impudence, celebrated Mr. Curll, ii. 159. 186. Lord Mayor's fhow, i. 185 Libeller, a Grub-street critic run to feed, iv. 567. Liberty and Monarchy, mistaken for one another, Lud (King), ii. 349. Log (King), i. ver. ult. Laureate; his crown, of what composed, i. 103. M Madmen, two related to Cibber, i. 32. Moore (James) his ftory of fix verses, and of ri- Earl of Peterborough, ibid. His plagiarifms, fome few of them, ibid. Erafmus his advice to him, ii. 50. according to himself, ii. 268. May-pole in the Strand, turned into a church, ii. Morris (Befaleel) ii. 126. iii. 168. Monuments of poets, with infcriptions to other Medals, how fwallowed and recovered, iv. 375. Nodding defcribed, ii. 391. Needham's i. 324. Nus, where wanted, iv. 244. Pope, ii. 283. Falfified Daniel's Hiftory, then abufed Mr. Eufden and my Lord Cham- Odyffey, Falfchoods concerning Mr. P.'s Propo- -Difproved by those very Proposals, ibid. Oranges, and their use, i. 236. Opera, her Advancement, iii. 301. iv. 45, &c. Ofborne, bookfeller, crowned with a Jordan, ii. Ofborne (Mother) turned to stone, ii. 312. P Pope, Mr. his Life. Educated by Jefuits-by a -His death threatened by Dr. Smedley, ibid. - Gildon, &c. ibid.-By Mr. Theobald, Test.- Perfonal abuses of others. Mr. Theobald of Mr. Pillory, a pot of refpe&t, in the opinion of Mr. —and of Mr. Ward, ibid. Priori, Arguments à priori not the best to prove a Poverty and poetry, their cave, i. 33. Profaneness, not to be endured in our author, but Oldmizen (John) abused Mr. Addison and Mr. Party-writers, their three qualifications, ii. 276. |