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Lord Mayor's Show, i. 85.

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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.

190.

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,

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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.

P.

Pope (Mr), [his Life], Educated by Jesuits-by a
Parson-by a Monk-at St Omer's-at Oxford
-at home-no where at all, Test. init.
father a Merchant, a Husbandman, a Farmer,
a Hatter, the Devil, ibid.

His

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.

282.

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.

Politics, very useful in Criticism, Mr Dennis's,
i. 106. ii. 413.

Pillory, a post of respect, in the opinion of Mr
Curl, iii. 34-

and of Mr Ward, ib.
Plagiary described, ii. 47, &c.

Priori, Argument a priori not the best to prove
a God, iv. 471.

Poverty and Poetry, their Cave, i. 33.
Profaneness not to be endured in our Author,
but very allowable in Shakespear, i. 50.
Party-writers, their three Qualifications, ii. 276.
Proteus (the fable of), what to be understood by
it, i. 31.

Palmers, Pilgrims, iii. 113.

Pindars and Miltons, of the modern sort, iii. 164.

Q.

QUERNO, his resemblance to Mr Cibber, ii. 15.
Wept for joy, ibid.
So did Mr C. i. 243.

R.

Resemblance of the Hero to several great Au-
thors,

To Querno, ut supra.

To Settle, iii. 37.

To Banks and Broome, i. 146.

Round-house, ii. prope fin.

RALPH (James), iii. 165. See Sawney.
ROOME and HORNECK, iii. 152.

S.

Shakespeare, to be spelled always with an e at
the end, i. 1. but not with an e in the middle,
ibid. An Edition of him in marble, ibid.
Mangled, altered, and cut by the Players and
Critics, i. 133. very sore still of Tibbald, ibid.
Sepulchral Lies on Church Walls, i. 43.
SETTLE (Elkanah), Mr Dennis's account of him.
iii. 37.
And Mr Welsted's, ibid. Once pre-
ferred to Dryden, iii. 37. A Party-writer of
Pamphlets, ibid. and iii. 283. A writer of
Farces and Drolls, and employed at last in
Bartholomew fair, iii. 283.

Sawney, a Poem: The author's great ignorance
in Classical Learning, i. 1.
In Languages, iii. 165.

ib.

Swiss of Heaven, who they are, ii. 358.
A slipshod Sibyl, iii. 15.
Silenus described, iv. 492.
Scholiasts, iii. 191. iv. 211, 232.

Supperless, a mistake concerning this word set
right with respect to Poets and other tempe-
rate Students, i. 115.

Sevenfold face, who master of it, i. 244.
Soul (the vulgar Soul), its office, iv. 441.
Schools, their homage paid to Dulness, and in
what, iv. 150, &c.

T.

Pub-

TIBBALD, not Hero of this Poem, i. init.
lished an edition of Shakespear, i. 133. Author,
secretly, and abettor of Scurrilities against Mr
P. Vid. Testimonies and List of Books.
Thule, a very Northern Poem, puts out a fire, i.
258.

Tailors, a good word for them, against Poets
and ill Paymasters, ii. 118.

Thunder, how to make it by Mr Dennis's receipt,
ii. 226.

Travelling described, and its advantages, iv. 293,
&c.

V.

Verbal Critics. Two points always to be granted
them, ii. 1.

Venice, the City of, for what famous, iv. 308.
University, how to pass thro' it, iv. 255, 289.
UPTON (John), a Renegado Scholiast, writes
notes on the FIRE-SIDE, iii. 173.

W.

WARD Edw.), a Poet and Alehouse-keeper in
Moor-fields, i. 233. What became of his Works,
ibid.

His high opinion of his Namesake, and his
respect for the Pillory, iii. 34.
WELSTED (Leonard), one of the authors of the
Weekly Journals, abused our Author, &c. many
years since, ii. 207. Taken by Dennis for a
Didapper, ibid. The character of his Poetry,
iii. 170

Weekly Journals, by whom written, ii. 280.
Whirligigs, iii. 57.

His Praises on himself above Mr Addison, Wizard, his Cup, and the strange Effects of it,

iv. 517, &c.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

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VERSE.

IMITATIONS OF HORACE.

[OF the following Imitations of Horace the first two are rather imitations of Swift, Horace merely supplying the text for the travesty. For (as previous editors have not failed to point out), no styles could be found less alike one another than the bland and polite style of Horace and the downright, and often cynically plain, manner of Swift. With Pope the attempt to write in Swift's style was a mere tour de force, which he could indeed carry out with success through a few lines, but not further, without relapsing into his own more elaborate manner. Swift's marvellous precision and netteté of expression are something very different from Pope's pointed and rhetorical elegance. The latter was as ill suited by the Hudibrastic metre patronised by Swift, as was the comic genius of Butler himself by the wider, but nowise easier, garment of the heroic couplet. As it was Swift, and not Horace, whom Pope imitated in the first two of the following pieces, it is needless to follow Warton into a comparison between them and previous attempts at a real version of Horace. The Ode to Venus, which was first published in 1737, more nearly approaches the character of a translation.]

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BOOK I. EPISTLE VII.1

Imitated in the Manner of Dr SWIFT.

IS true, my Lord, I gave my word,
I would be with you, June the
third;

Chang'd it to August, and (in short)
Have kept it-as you do at Court.
You humour me when I am sick,
Why not when I am splenetic?
In town, what Objects could I meet?
The shops shut up in ev'ry street,
And Fun'rals black'ning all the Doors,
And yet more melancholy Whores :
And what a dust in every place!
And a thin Court that wants your Face,
And Fevers raging up and down,
And W* and H ** both in town?!

"The Dog-days are no more the case. 'Tis true; but Winter comes apace: Then southward let your Bard retire,

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[Horace's Epistle, which serves as the groundwork of the above, is addressed to Mæcenas, and intended as an excuse and a justification for his protracted absence from Rome.

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