Maffei, Scipio, i. 184 Maguiron, Louis de, lines on, i. 286 Malebranche, i. 115; ii. 195 Malherbe, i. 66, 88; ii. 136, 325 Mallet, David, ii. 231, 331 Mandeville, ii. 193. Manetius, Jannot, ii. 221 Mansfield, Earl of, ii. 329 Marcello, i. 132 Marino, i. 32
Marlborough, Duke of, ii. 126, 305, 334 Marlborough, Duchess of, ii. 140 Marmontel, ii. 121 Mason, William, i. 67, 73; ii. 55 Mazarine, Cardinal, ii. 126 Mead, Dr. ii. 316
Medals, national, proposal for,
"Ode to Summer," i. 143 Odin's Hall, i. 353 Ogilvy's Homer, i. 78 Orleans, Duke of, the Regent, ii. 129 Otway, ii. 45
Ovid, i. 23, 139, 282, 339; ii. 25 Oxford, Earl of, ii. 348, 383
Painters seldom good poets, i. 150
Melisoni, the assumed name of Painting, progress of, in England,
Parnell, Dr. i. 143; ii. 383
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,
i. 173 Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, ii. 250, 292
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
Plagiarism, remarks on, i. 86 Plato, i. 115 Pliny, i. 110
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
-Dorset, 48 Swift, 49
Essay on Man, 54 Moral Essays in Five E. pistles, 122 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 208
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
Queensbury, Duke and Duchess Satire, superiority of the moderns
of, ii. 246 Quinault, i. 61 Quintilian, i. 81, 110, 142, 169; ii. 168 "Quixote, Don," Second Part, 1. 137; see Cervantes
Racine, i. 74, 100, 107, 120, 151, 152, 154, 157, 197, 259, 260; ii. 55, 246, 263 Raffaele, i. 101; ii. 387 Rameau's "Dissertation, Ramsay, And. M. ii. 117 Rapin, i. 116; ii. 54 Republican government, its effects on genius, i. 173 Resnel, M. de, ii. 121 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, i. 251, 389 Richardson, Jonathan, i. 252 Samuel, ii. 122 Riches, on the use and abuse of,
Richlieu, Cardinal, ii. 126, 133
Rochefoucault, i. 162; ii. 122,
Rochester, Earl of, i. 153; ii. 46
"Romance of the Rose," i.
Romances, French, i. 278; ori. gin of, ii. 2 Rosa, Salvator, i. 150 Roscommon, i. 85, 192 Rousseau, J. Baptist, i. 66 J. Jaques, i. 305
Rowe, Nich. i. 268
Rubens, i. 111
Schools, public, defended, ii. 375 "Secchia, La Rapita," i. 201 Secker, Archbishop, ii. 356 Seneca, the tragedian, ii. 20 Settle, Elkanah, ii. 41 Sevigné, Madame de, i. 229 Shaftesbury, Lord, i. 110, 123, 135, 171; ii. 58, 97, 198,
Shakespeare, i. 101, 119, 222, 272, 380 Shenstone, ii. 35 Shrewsbury, Duke of, ii. 348 Silhouete, M. de, ii. 121 Somers, Lord, ii. 34 Somerville, i. 19, 243; ii. 55 Sophocles, i. 70, 71, 120, 164, 248; ii. 24, 162 Southerne, i. 255; ii. 394 Spence, Dr. Joseph, i. 147; ii. 174, 232
Spenser, i. 5, 25, 80, 101; ii, 13, 29, 38, 167, 178, 382
Splendid Shilling," i. 242 Spratt, Bishop, i. 154; ii. 110 Stanhope, Dean, ii. 129 Stanley, Thomas, i. 117 Mr. i. 335
Statius, ii. 20 Steele, Sir Richard, i. 84 Stow Gardens, ii. 182 Suckling, Sir John, ii. 45 Swift, i. 236; ii. 49, 199, 223,
242, 307, 331, 339, 379, 392, 400
Tasso, Torquato, i. 77, 188, Voiture, i. 144; ii. 389
Tassoni, Alessandro, i. 201 Tate, Nahum, ii. 235 Temple, Sir William, i. 108 Tempo, M. A. di, i. 333 Teniers, i. 118
Terence, i. 118; ii. 22 Theobald, Lewis, ii. 228, 365 Theocritus, i. 3, 6, 7, 9, 44, 139 Thomassin, i. 116
Thomson, i. 12, 40, 49, 134, 143, 147, 348, 391; ii. 35, 100, 180, 187 Tibbald, see Theobald Tibullus, i. 47; ii. 22 Tickle, Thomas, ii. 204
Tindal, Dr. ii. 333
Voltaire, i. 21, 66, 120, 131,
141, 196, 260, 366; ii. 145, 157, 167, 346, 347, 397
Walsh, William, i. 195
Warburton, Bishop, i. 133, 277;
ii. 121, 169, 181, 386
Trapp, Jos. "Verses on Virgil's Wedrenfel's "De Meteoris Ora-
Wharton, Duke of, ii. 132
Tyrwhit, Thomas, ii. 292, 320, Whitby, Dr. ii. 125
Vanburgh, ii. 393 Vasari, i. 111
Vega, Lopez de, i. 76; ii. 243 Vermander, Charles, i. 150 Vida, i. 89, 185, 227; ii. 54 Villars, Abbé, i. 215
Villon, Francis, i. 338 Vinci, Leonardo da, i. 111 Virgil, i. 6, 9, 11, 26, 33, 49, 53, 56, 96, 100, 127, 187, 388; ii. 22, 163
William the Conqueror, i. 21 Wormius, Olaus, i. 357 Wyat, Sir Thomas, ii. 349 Wycherley, i. 154; ii. 124 Wyndham, Sir William, ii. 394
Young, Dr. i. 134, 148; ii. 213, 240, 396.
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