J. Jacobite riot at Oxford, 1715, 145; Jacobite insurrection, 113 Jervas, Kneller's pupil, instructs Pope in painting, 89; paints picture of the Miss Blounts, 66 note; portrait of Addison, 124; portrait of Pope, now at Ma- pledurham, 425; his house in Cleveland-row, Pope's town re- sidence, 136; epistle to Jervas, 154; other references, 166, 316, 351, 352 Johnson's, Dr. Samuel, London, a poem, admired by Pope, 346; his biography of Savage quoted, 359; his biography of Pope ad- mirable for minuteness of detail, 405
483
dern gardening," 19; succeeds Bridgman, 170, 354 Key, Rev. D., 447; Rev. W. Key, of Ackworth, 425 Key to the Lock, 108
King, William, D.D., Jacobite Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 385
Kingston, "my Lady Duchess drunk," 135
K.
Kennett, Bishop White, diary quoted, 103
Kent, William, "inventor of mo-
Kueller paints for Pope a portrait of Lady M. W. Montagu, 189; fooled by the wits to the top of his bent, 201, 207; Kneller and Jervas's portraits of Pope praised, 408
Knights of the Bathos, 270 Kyrle, John, the Man of Ross, 291
L.
Lælius, i.e. Bolingbroke, 292 Landscape gardening, Pope ex- celled in, 19
Lawless, Cadell's shopman, 78, 406 Lawton, John, 200, 206 Leave you to your wine! 409 Legacies bequeathed by Pope, 382 Leicester House, 240, 350 Lent wit like lost money, 333 Lepell, Mary, subsequently Lady
Hervey, 5; walks by moonlight with Pope, 135; cornet from birth in her father's regiment,
202
Millennium, Pope's fancies respect- ing, 235
Milton, familiar with forest scenery, 19; window lines at Chalfont St. Giles, 346
Misanthropy of Swift, 235 Molière's Tartuffe, the original of Cibber's Nonjuror, 158 Money, Pope's constant grasping, injurious to his fame, 395 Montagu, Lady M. W., Pope's bright particular star, 134; Ec- logues, 152, 179; toast of the Kit-Cat Club, 179; Pope's dar- ling theme, 178, 190; portrait painted by Kneller, for Pope, 189; Pope's legacy-hunting fic- tion, 410
Monuments in Twickenham church described, 403, 404 Moore, Arthur, "a venal politi- cian," 70, 199, 245 Moore-Smythe, James, the "phan- tom" of the Dunciad, 70, 71, 245, 247, 270, 272, 276 Most impudent man living, i.e. Warburton, 400
Mother of Pope, his affection to- wards her, 13; her death, 303; portrait pencilled by Richard- son, 303; obelisk raised to her memory, 304
Murray, William, subsequently Earl of Mansfield, 348, 352, 357, 363, 386, 402
P.
Page, Judge, 306; hard words or hanging, 425
Paper, Pope's shabby economy,
N.
112
Nash, Beau, at Bath, solicits Pope Papists in Pope's time a proscribed
class, 17
to write an inscription, 138 Needle ceasing to tremble, rusts,
78
Nelson, Mrs. M., designated by Henry Cromwell, Sappho, 40, 195 note; letter to Teresa Blount, 431, 432
Newton, bust of Sir Isaac, by Guelfi, 451
Nichols, John, 262 Noblemen bottle-holders to a poet,
258
Nonjuror, characters indicated,
159 note
Norris, Dr. Robert, narrative quoted, 95 Nurse, Pope's, notice of her death, 191, 337
0.
Oakley Bower, Lady Hervey's, 406 Obelisk memorial of Pope's mo- ther, 304, 316 October Club, 133 Odyssey, involves Pope in diffi- culties, 232, 234, 317; Essay on, by Spence, 236 Oldmixon's horse discharges a debt, 140; repudiation of Pope's libel, 150 Oldsworth, quickest translator in England, 141
Oliver, William, M.D., of Bath, 173 Ornamental gardening, Pope's effi- ciency in, 176
Orrery, Earl of, 365, 449 Overturned in coach and six, 238 Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, "L feeble and procrastinating," 109, 200, 206
Oxford, Pope's journey on horse- back, 139, 144, 405
Parnell a bar's length before other poets, 99; his excellence and inebriety, 105; Poems edited by Pope, 216 Parody on the First Psalm, 153,
154
461
163; a Deist, believing in a fu- | Rackett family particularised, 459, ture state, 390 note; misrepre- sented by Warburton, 92 Pope monuments in Twickenham Church, 403, 404
Radcliffe's sensible advice to Pope,
Pope's paternal descent, 6, 319; no trace of Pope's grandfather, 7; his father perverted to Popery, 6; Pope's pedigree repudiated, 7, 320; asserts his descent, 5; death of Pope's father, 160, 161,
165
Pope's pecuniary position on his
father's decease, 166 Pope's Pastorals, 28, 46, 49 Pope's sword tied with a cord, 137; his head adopted by "shame- less" Curll as a sign, 324; full- length portrait of Pope, 407 Pope, Rev. Alexander, minister of Reay, N.B., 9, 10, 462 Portland, Duchess of, 393 Poyntz, Peterborough's nephew- in-law, 330 note, 331 Pretender, Atterbury's attempt to proclaim him, 110; "Poor and timid," 214; threatened inva- sion of England, 382 Prior, Matthew, 200, 205, 339 Prior Park, Bath, 379 Prodigal Son, drawing by Pope,
462
Prompter, a periodical paper, by
Aaron Hill, 287 Pulteney, William, created Earl of Bath, 353
Q.
Queensberry family honour Gay with a splendid funeral, 300; the Duchess's letters to Swift, 409
Queen's-day, anti-Romish proces- sion, 55 note, 440
R.
Rackett, Mrs. Magdalen, Pope's half-sister and legatee, 16 note, 382, 452, 454, 456, 458
28
Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd ad- mired by Pope, 94
Rape of the Lock, 62, 102, 105, 416; characters defined, 107; Key to the Lock, 108 Reed, Isaac, 262 Remainder of Pope's publications unsaleable, 457 Reynolds's meeting with Pope in an auction-room, 23 Richardson, the artist, Pope's asso- ciate, 303, 346, 386; Richard- son, junior, 377 Robertson, the historian, erro- neous estimate of Ossian, 117 note; solicitude while dying re- specting his fruit-trees, 390 note Robinson, Mrs. Anastasia, Countess of Peterborough, her marriage avowed, 329 note Robinson's Coffee-house fray, 42
note
Rogers deterred from the pur- chase of Pope's villa, 168 Rollinson, William, 201, 209, 452 Rosamond's shade toasted in spring
water, 145, 219
Roscoe's edition of Pope's works, compared with the Mapledur- ham manuscripts, 419-424 Rose, Sir George, 394 Rose-street, Covent-garden, resi- dence of "dauntless" Curll, 322, 441; adopts Pope's head as a sign, 324 Roubiliac's bust of Pope, 417 Rousham, Colonel Dormer's seat,
405
Rumpatur, quisquis rumpitur in- vidiâ, 307
Rustic lovers killed by lightning, 186, 189
S.
Sanctified prude, i. e. Teresa Blount, 77
Santlow, Mrs., Marlborough's mis- | Shakspeare Restored, by Theobald, tress, afterwards Mrs. Barton Booth, 137, 200, 205 Sappho, an orthodox lady, 38, 40, 44. See Mrs. M. Nelson, 195 note; 431, 432 Sappho, Pope's, Lady M. W. Mon- tagu, 218, 302, 309 Satire, Pope's proneness to, 24 Satirists eternise scribblers, 237 Satis beatus ruris honoribus, 227 Savage, Richard, 264, 272, 274, 322 note, 358; particulars of his midnight brawl with Sinclair,
read, 54, 296
Shakspeare's Plays, edited by Pope, 217, 231, 232, 236 Shakspeare's Plays, edited by Theobald, 232
232, 266
Shelley's Alastor commended, 90 Sherwin, Rev. Dr., 305, 808 Sleeping at the dinner-table, 409 Smedley, Jonathan, Chaos of Odd Scraps, 251, 267 Smollett's meeting of Grub-street authors, 140
Snuff taken by Dryden and Pope, 408; Parthenissa, i.e. Martha Blount, a snuffer, 440; Pope's snuff-box bequeathed to his namesake, 461
Sober Advice from Horace fla- grantly indecent, 315 Southcote, Thomas, Abbé of
Avignon, 28, 86, 306, 315, 349 South Sea Scheme, Pope's infatu- ation, 195
Spectacles obstinately rejected by Swift, 350
Spectator, Pope's verses in, 60 Spence, Rev. Joseph, 236, 387, 388, 405; rivals Pope as a land- scape gardener, 402 Sprat, Bishop, amenities and fa- miliarities of correspondence de- fined, 338
Stage, Pope fascinated by the, 137 Stanhope, Sir William, succeeding
occupier of Pope's villa, 168, 458 Stanton Harcourt described, 182- 185
State Dunces, by Paul White- head, 349
Statius, Pope's translation revised by Henry Cromwell, 35 Steele's commendatory letter to Pope, 57; Poetical Miscellanies, 109; Englishman, a periodical paper, 121
Steevens, George, editor of Addi- tions to Pope's works, 197 note, 388 Stella, 237, 240, 241
Stoneham, Rev. Thompson, 90, 463 Stonor, 85 note
Stowe, Lord Cobham's seat, visited by Pope, 316, 331, 376
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