OF PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM.
(The first Number shews the Book, the second the VERSE.)
OF MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES.
(The first Number denotes the Book, the second the VERSE and NOTE on it.
Test. Testimonies1.)
A.
DDISON (Mr) railed at by A. Philips, iii.
326.
Abused by J. Oldmixon, in his Prose-Essay
on Criticism, etc. ii. 283.
by J. Ralph, in a London Journal, iii. 165.
Celebrated by our author,-Upon his Dis-
course of Medals-In his Prologue to Cato-
In his Imitation of Horace's Epistle to A-
gustus-and in this Poem, ii. 140.
False Facts concerning him and our Author
related by anonymous persons in Mist's Four-
nal, &c. Test.
Disproved by the Testimonies of
- The Earl of Burlington,
Mr Addison himself, ibid.
Anger, one of the characteristics of Mr Dennis's
Critical writings, i. 106.
1 [The Testimonies of Authors concerning our Poet and his Works, published by P. under the
name of Martinus Scriblerus, but omitted here.]
BANKS, his Resemblance to Mr Cibber in Tra-
gedy, i. 146.
BATES (Julius), see HUTCHINSON (John).
BROOME, Ben Jonson's man, ibid.
BAVIUS, iii. 24. Mr Dennis, his great opinion of
him, ibid.
Bawdry, in Plays, not disapproved of by Mr
Dennis, iii. 179.
BLACKMORE (Sir Richard), his Impiety and Irre-
ligion, proved by Mr Dennis, ii. 268.
His Quantity of Works, and various Opi-
nions of them.
His abuse of Mr Dryden and Mr Pope, ibid.
Bray, a word much beloved by Sir Richard, ii.
Braying, described, ii. 247.
Birch, by no means proper to be apply'd to young
Noblemen, iii. 334.
BL-D, what became of his works, i. 231.
BROOME (Rev. Mr Will.). His sentiments of
our Author's virtue, Test.
Our Author of his, iii. 332.
Brooms (a seller of) taught Mr John Jackson his
trade, ii. 137.
Billingsgate language, how to be used by learned
authors, ii. 142.
BOND, BESALEEL, BREVAL, not living Writers,
but Phantoms, ii. 126.
Booksellers, how they run for a Poet, ii. 31, &c.
Bailiffs, how poets run from them, ii. 61.
Shows, thro' Book ii. And dreaming dreams,
thro' Book iii. Settle appears to him, iii. 35.
Resemblance between him and Settle, iii. 37.
i. 146. Goodman's prophecy of him, iii. 232.
How he translated an Opera, without knowing
the story, 305. and encouraged Farces because
it was against his Conscience, 266. Declares
he never mounted a Dragon, 268. Apprehen-
sions of acting in a Serpent, 287. What were
the Passions of his Old Age, 303, 304. Finally
subsides in the lap of Dulness, where he rests
to all eternity, iv. 20, and Note.
CIBBER, his Father, i. 31. His two Brothers,
32. His Son, iii. 142. His better Progeny,
Cibberian Forehead, what is meant by it, i. 218.
read by some Cerberian, 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 this Poem had Blanks,
they meant Treason, iii. 297.
of opinion that Juvenal never satirized the
poverty of Codrus, ii. 144.
Corncutters Journal, what it cost, ii. 314.
Critics, verbal ones, must have two postulata
allowed them, ii. 1.
CURL (Edm.), his Panegyric, ii. 58.
His Corinna, and what she did, 70.
His Prayer, 80-Like Eridanus, 182.
Much favour'd by Cloacina, 97, &c.
Tost in a Blanket and whipped, 151.
Pillory'd, ii. 3.
Balm of Dulness, the true and the spurious, its Caroline, a curious Flower, its fate, iv. 409, &c.
efficacy, and by whom prepared, iv. 544.
CIBBER, Hero of the Poem, his Character, i. 107.
not absolutely stupid, 109. not unfortunate as
a Coxcomb, ibid. Not a slow writer, but pre-
cipitate, though heavy, 123. His productions
the Effects of heat, tho' an imperfect one,
126. His folly heightened with Frenzy, 125.
He borrow'd from Fletcher and Moliere, 131.
Mangled Shakespear, 133. His head distin-
guished for wearing an extraordinary Periwig,
167. more than for its reasoning Faculty, yet
not without Furniture, 177. His Elasticity and
Fire, and how he came by them, 186. He
was once thought to have wrote a reasonable
Play, 188. The general character of his Verse
and Prose, 190. His Conversation, in what
manner extensive and useful, 192, &c.
designed for the Church, where he should have
been a Bishop, 200. Since inclined to write
for the Minister of State, 213. but determines
to stick to his other talents, what those are,
217, &c.
His Apostrophe to his Works before
he burns them, 225, &c. His Repentance and
tears, 243. Dulness puts out the Fire, 257.
Inaugurates and anoints him, 287. His Crown,
by whom woven, 223. of what composed, i.
303. who let him into Court, 300. who his
Supporters 307. His Entry, Attendants, and
Proclamation, usque ad fin. His Enthroniza-
an, ii. 1. Passes his whole reign in seeing
DULNESS, the Goddess; her Original and Pa-
rents, i. 12. Her ancient Empire, 17. Her
public College, 29. Academy for Poetical
Education, 33. Her Cardinal Virtues, 45, &c.
Her Ideas, Productions, and Creation, 55, &c.
Her Survey and Contemplation of her Works,
79, &c. And of her Children, 93. Their un-
interrupted Succession, 98, &c. to 108. Her
appearance to Cibber, 261. She manifests to
him her Works, 273, &c. Anoints him, 287,
&c. Institutes Games at his Coronation, ii. 18,
&c. The manner how she makes a Wit, ii. 47.
A great lover of a Joke, 34.-And loves to
repeat the same over again, 122.
Her ways
and means to procure the Pathetic and Ter-
rible in Tragedy, 225, &c. Encourages Chat-
tering and Bawling, 237, &c. And is Patroness
of Party-writing and railing, 276, &c. Makes
use of the heads of Critics as Scales to weigh
the heaviness of Authors, 367. Promotes Slum-
ber with the Works of the said Authors, ibid.
The wonderful virtue of sleeping in her lap, iii.
5, &c. Her Elysium, 15, &c. The Souls of
her Sons dipt in Lethe, 23. How brought into
the world, 29. Their Transfiguration and Me-
tempsychosis, 50. The Extent and Glories of
her Empire, and her Conquests throughout the
World, iii. 67 to 138. A Catalogue of her
Poetical Forces in this Nation, 139 to 212.
Prophecy of her Restoration, 333, &c. Accom-
plishment of it, Book iv. Her appearance on
the Throne, with the Sciences led in triumph,
iv. 21, &c. Tragedy and Comedy silenced,
37 General assembly of all her Votaries, 73.
Her Patrons, 95. Her Critics, 115. Her sway
in the Schools, 149 to 180. and Universities,
189 to 274.
How she educates Gentlemen in
their Travels, 293 to 334-Constitutes Virtuosi
in Science, 355, &c. Freethinkers in Religion,
459. Slaves and Dependents in Government,
505. Finally turns them to Beasts, but pre-
serves the form of Men, 525. What sort of
Comforters she sends them, 529, &c. What
Orders and Degrees she confers on them, 565.
What Performances she expects from them,
according to their several Ranks and Degrees,
583. The powerful Yawn she breathes on
them, 605, &c. Its Progress and Effects, 607,
&c. till the Consummation of All, in the total
Extinction of the reasonable Soul, and Resto-
ration of Night and Chaos, usq. ad fin.
Dispensary of Dr Garth, ii. 140.
De Foe, Daniel, in what resembled to William
Prynne, i. 103.
De Foe, Norton, a scandalous writer, ii. 415.
DENNIS (John), his Character of himself, i. 106.
Senior to Mr Durfey, iii. 173.
Esteemed by our Author, and why, ibid.
His love of Puns, i. 63.
And Politics, i. 106. ii. 413.
His great Loyalty to King George, how
A great Friend to the Stage
and to the State, ii. 413.
How he proves that none but Non-jurors
and disaffected persons writ against Stage-
plays, ibid.
His respect to the Bible and Alcoran, ibid.
His excuse for Obscenity in Plays, iii. 179.
His mortal fear of Mr Pope, founded on
Mr Curl's assurances, i. 106.
Of opinion that he poisoned Curl, ibid.
By John Dennis, of his really poisoning Mr
Curl, i. 106.
- And of contempt for the sacred writings, ii.
268.
- By Edward Ward, of his being bribed by a
Duchess to satirize Ward of Hackney in the
pillory, iii. 34.
- By Mist the Journalist, of unfair proceed-
ing in the undertaking of the Odyssey and
Shakespear, Test.
- Disproved by the testimony of the Lords
Harcourt and Bathurst.
- By Mist the Journalist, concerning Mr Ad-
dison and him, two or three Lies, Test.
By Pasquin, of his being in a Plot, iii. 179.
By Sir Richard Blackmore, of his burlesqu-
ing Scripture, upon the authority of Curl, ii.
268.
Fleas and verbal Critics compar'd, as equal
judges of the human frame and wit, iv. 238.
Fletcher, made Cibber's Property, i. 131.
Mac Fleckno, not so decent and chaste in the
Diction as the Dunciad, ii. 75.
Friendship, understood by Mr Dennis to be
somewhat else in Nisus and Euryalus, &c. iii.
Good nature of our author; Instances of it in
this work, i. 328. ii. 282.
Good Sense, Grammar, and Verse, desired to
give place for the sake of Mr Bes. Morris and
his Works, iii. 168.
His reason why Homer was, or was not in GILDON (Charles), abused our Author in many
His Accusations of Sir R. Blackmore,
As no Protestant, ii. 268.
As no Poet, ibid.
Printed against Jesus Christ, i. 296.
GILDON and DENNIS, their unhappy difference
lamented, iii. 173.
His wonderful Dedication to G. D. Esq. Gentleman, his Hymn to his Creator, by Wel-
Drams, dangerous to a Poet, iii. 146.
Dunciad, how to be correctly spell'd, i. 1.
EDWARDS (Thomas), iv. 567.
A Gentleman of the last edition.
EUSDEN (Laurence), i. 104.
Tax'd by Oldmixon with Nonsense, ibid.
Ears, some people advised how to preserve them,
FALSEHOODS told of our Author in Print.
Of his taking Verses from James Moore,
Test.
- And of his intending to abuse Bishop Bur-
net, ibid.
for him. The Offspring of her Brain and
Body (according to Curl), ib. Not undervalued
by being set against a Jordan, 165.
Hints, extraordinary ones, ii. 268.
HORNECK and ROOME, two Party-writers, iii.
152.
HUTCHINSON (John) with his man JULIUS, a
subminister of the rites of Dulness, iii. 215.
-never bowed the knee to Sense.
cuts down the groves of the Academy, iii.
334.
defiles the high places of Geometry,
and tramples on the fallen Dagon of New-
tonian Philosophy, iii. 216.
Lord Mayor's Show, i. 85.
OLDMIXON (John) abused Mr Addison and Mr
Pope, ii. 283. Falsify'd Daniel's History, then
accused others of falsifying Lord Clarendon's;
proved a Slanderer in it, ibid.
abused Mr Eusden and my Lord Chamber-
lain, i. 104.
Odyssey, Falshoods concerning Mr P. s pro-
posals for that work, Test.
Disproved by those very Proposals, ibid.
Owls and Opium, i. 271.
Oranges, and their use, i. 236.
Opera, her advancement, iii. 301. iv. 45, &c.
Opiates, two very considerable ones, ii. 370.
Their Efficacy, 390, &c.
OSBORNE, Bookseller, crowned with a Jordan, ii.
OSBORNE (Mother), turned to stone, ii. 312.
Libeller [see EDWARDS, Tho.], a Grub-street Cri- Owls, desired to answer Mr Ralph, iii. 166.
tic run to seed, iv. 567.
Library of Bays, i. 131.
Liberty and Monarchy mistaken for one another,
Madmen, two related to Cibber, i. 32.
Magazines, their character, i. 42.
Molière, crucify'd, i. 132.
MOORE (James), his story of six Verses, and of
ridiculing Bishop Burnet in the Memoirs of
a Parish Clerk, proved false, by the Testi-
monies of
The Lord Bolingbroke, Test.
- Hugh Bethel, Esq. ib.
Earl of Peterborough, ibid.
- Dr Arbuthnot, ibid.
His Plagiarisms, some few of them, ibid.
and ii. 50.
What he was real author of (beside
the Story above mentioned.) Vide List of
scurrilous Papers.
Erasmus, his advice to him, ii. 50.
MILBOURNE, a fair Critic, and why, ii. 349.
Madness, of what sort Mr Dennis's was, accord-
ing to Plato, i. 106.
according to himself, ii, 268.
how allied to Dulness, iii. 15.
Mercuries and Magazines, i. 42.
May-pole in the Strand, turned into a Church,
ii. 28.
MORRIS (Besaleel), ii. 126. iii. 168.
Monuments of Poets, with Inscriptions to other
Men, iv. 131, &c.
Pope (Mr), [his Life], Educated by Jesuits-by a
Parson-by a Monk-at St Omer's-at Oxford
His
-at home-no where at all, Test. init.
father a Merchant, a Husbandman, a Farmer,
a Hatter, the Devil, ibid.
His Death threatened by Dr Smedley, ibid.
but afterwards advised to hang himself or cut
his throat, ibid. To be hunted down like a wild
beast, by Mr Theobald, ibid. unless hanged
for Treason, on information of Pasquin, Mr
Dennis, Mr Curl, and Concanen, ibid.
Poverty, never to be mentioned in Satire, in the
opinion of the Journalists and Hackney-writers
-The Poverty of Codrus, not touched upon
by Juvenal, ii. 143. When, and how far Po-
verty may be satirized, Letter, p. 357. When-
ever mentioned by our Author, it is only as an
Extenuation and Excuse for bad Writers, ii.
Personal abuses not to be endured, in the opinion
of Mr Dennis, Theobald, Curl, &c. ii. 142.
Personal abuses on our Author, by Mr Dennis,
Gildon, &c. ibid.-By Mr Theobald, Test.-
By Mr Ralph, iii. 165.-By Mr Welsted, ii.
207-By Mr Cooke, ii. 138-By Mr Concanen,
ii. 299-By Sir Richard Blackmore, ii. 268-
By Edw. Ward, iii. 34-and their Brethren,
passim.
Personal abuses of others. Mr Theobald of Mr
Dennis for his poverty, i. 106. Dr Dennis of
Mr Theobald for his livelihood by the Stage,
and the Law, i. 286. Mr Dennis of Sir Richard
Blackmore for Impiety, ii. 268. D. Smedley
of Mr Concanen, ii. 299. Mr Oldmixon's of
Mr Eusden, i. 104. Of Mr Addison, ii. 283.
Mr Cook's of Mr Eusden, i. 104.
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