Blackstone, Sir William, ii. 237 | Cataline, ii. 127
Blackwell, Professor, i. 129, 173" Cato, tragedy of," i. 256
Blount, Miss, ii. 389 Boccace, i. 64, 183, 332; ii.
Bocchini, Bartholomeo, i. 202 Buffon, i. 148
Boileau, i. 62, 65, 95, 100, 148, 150, 154, 160, 189, 197, 203, 231, 236, 240, 263; ii. 54, 139, 150, 211, 222, 257, 286, 310, 392 Bolingbroke, Lord, i. 112, 116, 256, 321; ii. 19, 58, 115, 141, 184, 223, 265, 288, 305, 331, 357, 383, 400 Bonnecorse, M. de, i. 209 Bononcini, i. 77 Bos Du, i. 100 Bossu, i. 109, 115 Bossuet, i. 148
Bracciolini, Francesco, i. 201 Bridgewater, Lady, ii. 385 Browne, Hawkins, ii. 49, 55 Bruneleschi, i. 183 Bruni, Antonio, i. 294 Bruyere, La, i. 109, 162; ii. 122 Buckingham, Sheffield, Duke of, i. 69, 191, 329. Budgell, Eustace, ii. 234 Burlington, Earl of, ii. 172, 194 Burman, i. 169
Burnet, of the Charterhouse, i. 115, 266
Burnet, Bishop, ii. 225
Busby, Dr. ii. 126
Catullus, i. 308; ii. 22 Caylus, Count de, i. 364 Cervantes, i. 127, 242; ii. 398 Chandos, Duke of, ii. 185 Chapelain, M. i. 88; ii. 216 Charles II. age of, i. 153; ii. 47 Charles V. of France's library, ii. 10 Charlemagne, i. 177 Charron, ii. 122, 128 Chateaubrun, i. 259 Chaucer, i. 253, 332, 338, 394, 395; ii. 7
Chesterfield, Earl of, ii. 357 Chrysoloras, Emanuel, i. 64; ii. 230
Cibber, Colley, ii. 370 Cicero, i. 115, 116, 385 Clarendon, Lord, ii. 330 Clarke, Dr. Samuel, ii. 125, 184, 231 Claudian, ii. 20
Clergy, ignorance of, in early ages, i. 174 Clifford, Mat. ii. 41 Cobb, Mr. i. 69
Collins, William, i. 67 Colman, George, ii. 327 Commentators, remarks on, ii. 230 Congreve, i. 101, 118; ii. 223 Cornbury, Lord, ii. 331 Corneille, i. 88, 100, 111, 119, 152, 157, 258; ii. 344, 390 Correctness, remarks on, i. 196
Butler, Samuel, ii. 240, 363, Cowley, i. 76, 80; ii. 7, 8, 39, 349
Craggs, Mr. Secretary, ii. 204,
Cambridge, R.O. "Scribleriad," Crebillon, i. 148, 259; ii. 130,
Carew, i. 85 "Carmina Quadragesimalia," i. 48 Carrache, Annibal, i. 83 Caryl, Mr. i. 214
Fielding, Henry, ii. 122, 398
Flatman, Thomas, i. 85, 87 Fleury, Cardinal, ii. 134
Cumberland, William, Duke of, Fontaine, La, i. 118, 144; ii.
Dandilly, M. i. 88
Dante, i. 77, 182, 250, 333;
ii. 221, 371 Davila, the historian, ii. 130 Death, the prevalence of the ruling passion at, ii. 135 Demosthenes, i. 385 Denham, i. 30, 34 Desbillons, J. ii. 393. Des Cartes, i. 115; 1. 391 Dialogues, remarks on, ii. 197 Dionysius, i. 110, 166 Domenichino, i. 83 Donatus, i. 88
Donne, Dr. ii. 348 Dorset, Earl of, ii. 48 Drayton, i. 25, 292 Dryden, i. 10, 50, 60, 80, 90,
101, 109, 111, 143, 149, 192, 253, 255, 284, 340, 362; ii. 7, 8, 11, 16, 132,
220, 241, 377 Durer, Albert, i. 130 Dyer, i. 34; ii. 55
5, 150, 245, 393 Fontenelle, i. 3, 157; ii. 51, 108 Fracastorius, i. 187; ii. 54 France, state of its learning in early times, i. 176; origin of the French drama, ii. 343 Fresnoy, ii. 385 Fuentes, Alonzo de, i. 187
Furetiere, M. de, i. 88
Gay, John, i. 92, 243; ii. 244 Genius, early, instances of, i. 76; when at the highest, instanced in Virgil, Horace, Racine, Corneille, Boileau, Moliere, Congreve, Raphael, Shake- spear, Milton, Spenser, and Dryden, 100; true genius rare, 108; list of geniuses who have at once enjoyed in full vigour, a sublime and splendid imagination, a solid and pro- found understanding, and an exact and tenacious memory, 115; list of real poetical ge- niuses who succeeded Pope, 134; influence of government upon genius, 172; five ages of the world in which the human mind has exerted itself in a won- derful manner, 180; geniuses apparently most original borrow from each other, ii. 51; in- stances of singularities in men of genius, 125; list of men of wit who had extensive learning, 398 Gerbert,
Fairfax's Tasso, ii. 38 Fenelon, ii. 176, 385 Fenton, Elijah,i. 144, 290;ii. 270 Fermor, Mrs. Arabella, i, 214 Ee a
Gerbert, i. 176 Gildon, i. 152 Giotto, the disciple of Cimabue, i. 183 Glover's "Leonidas," i. 184; ii. 395
Godeau, M. i. 88 Godstow Nunnery, lines on the ruins of, i. 20 Gravina, J. Vincentius, i. 129, 369 "Grandison, Sir Charles," i. 271 Gray, i. 30, 134, 355, 371;
11. 55, 174, 224, 349, 405 Greek language, introduction of into Europe, i. 64 Grocyn, William, i. 64 Guido, i. 83
Guy of Arezzo, i. 183
Horace, i. 26, 98, 100, 162, 163, 168, 282, 377; ï. 22, 108, 266, 290, 305, 335 Hume, David, ii. 31, 66, 122, 158 Hurd, Dr. i. 98, 109; ii. 32
Jervas, the painter, ii. 385 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, i. 120,
146, 192, 195; ii. 113 Jonson, Ben, i. 90, 93; ii. 349 Juvenal, ii. 213
Kennet's "edition of Vida, "i. 185 Kent, William, ü. 175 King, Archbishop, "Origin of Evil," ii. 58, 96, 121 King, Dr. of St. Mary Hall, ii. 140 Kneller, Sir Godfrey, ii. 387 Knight's "Life of Erasmus, "i. 180 Kyrle, John, the Man of Ross, 11. 170
Language, impossibility of fixing, i. 148
Hegemon, the author of Parodies, Lansdown, Lord, ii. 223
Helvetius, i. 148
Henault, President, i. 22 Herbert, i. 85
Hercules, (the Farnesian,) i. 343 "Hermippus Redivivus," i. 216 Herodotus, i. 115 Hervey, Lord, i. 298; ii. 250 Hill, Aaron, ii. 186 Hobbes, i. 153; ii. 122, 272 Hogarth, i. 118
Homer, i. 26, 120, 126, 127, 181, 187, 200, 276, 364; ii. 160, 366 Hooke, Nath. ii. 140
Lee, Nat. ii. 45
Legacy-hunters, ii. 321 Leibnitz'"Theodicée,” ii. 58 Leo X. intimation of T. Warton's History of, i. 182 Lippi, Lorenzo, i. 202 Livy, i. 115
Locke, i. 113, 160; ii. 125, 271 Longinus, i. 110, 170 Loris, William de, i. 337 Lowth, Bishop, i. 13 Lucan, ii. 20
Lucretius, i. 50; ii. 22, 98, 100, 112, 162, 328 Lully, the musician, i. 61
Melancthon, ii. 126, 263
Meleager, ii. 397
Painters seldom good poets, i. 150
Melisoni, the assumed name of Painting, progress of, in England,
Metastasio, i. 65
Meun, John de, i. 297 Middleton, Dr. ii. 253, 315 Milton, i. 6, 25, 26, 35, 90, 101, 115, 149, 153, 173, 176, 193, 253, 272, 274, 349; . 43, 110, 151, 166, 178, 202, 250, 347, 349 Minturnus, i. 187 Moliere, i. 100, 145, 209; ii. 124 Monarchy, its effects on genius,
Parnell, Dr. i. 143; ii. 383
Parodies, remarks on, ii. 373 Pafcal, M. ii. 122 Patru, i. 189; ii. 393 Perizonius, i. 169 Perrault, i. 125 Perrier, Du, i. 156 Peterborough, Lord, ii. 176, 290 Petrarch, i. 64, 183, 332; ii. 222 Petre, Lord, i. 214 Petronius, i. 168 Phædrus, ii. 28 Phalereus, Demetrius, ii. 335 Philips, Edward, i. 193 Philips, Ambrose, ii. 234
Poetry, pastoral, i. 3; what dis- criminates poetry from history, 47; descriptive, 49; the ode, 62; resemblances not thefts, 86; scarcity of great poets, 108; epic poetry, 120; rhymes, 142; alexandrine verses, 143; an "Art of Poetry" a com- mon subject, 187; Boileau's the best, 189; the English lan- guage the least poetic of any, 197; origin of heroi-comic poetry, 200; use of parodies, 231; poets ever enemies to su- perstition and slavery, 239; epic poems, 274; translations of Latin and Greek poets, 285; epistles, 292; history of poetry, 331; list of Roman poets un- exceptionably excellent, ii. 28; didactic and descriptive poetry, 54; remarks on antithesis, 145; rhyme and blank verse, 149; independent spirit of poets, 206; remarks on the persons of vari- ous poets, 221; list of poets who wrote elegantly in Latin, 349 Poggius, ii. 5 Politian, ii. 54
POPE. Works criticised in this
Essay Pastorals, i. 2
Messiah, 10
Windsor Forest, 19 Lyric Pieces, 50 Ode on Solitude, 76 The Dying Christian to his Soul, 84
Satires and Epistles of Ho- race, 265
Donne's Satires, 348 One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty- Eight, 351 Dunciad, 365
Imitations of Horace and Miscellanies, 379 Epitaphs, 396
Prose Works, 397 POPE. His first poetical efforts, i. 77; Alcander, 80; profits of the Iliad and Odyssey, 105; preface to the Iliad, 111; at- tachment to painting, 149; his genius unfit for the epic, 274; his translation of Homer, 400; general character as a poet, 401
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