Lord Mayor's Show, i. 85. O. OLDMIXON (John) abused Mr Addison and Mr abused Mr Eusden and my Lord Chamber- Odyssey, Falshoods concerning Mr P. s pro- Disproved by those very Proposals, ibid. Oranges, and their use, i. 236. Opera, her advancement, iii. 301. iv. 45, &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, Madmen, two related to Cibber, i. 32. MOORE (James), his story of six Verses, and of The Lord Bolingbroke, Test. Earl of Peterborough, ibid. Dr Arbuthnot, ibid. His Plagiarisms, some few of them, ibid. Erasmus, his advice to him, ii. 50. according to himself, ii. 268. how allied to Dulness, iii. 15. May-pole in the Strand, turned into a Church, MORRIS (Besaleel), ii. 126. iii. 168. Monuments of Poets, with Inscriptions to other P. Pope (Mr), [his Life], Educated by Jesuits-by a His His Death threatened by Dr Smedley, ibid. Poverty, never to be mentioned in Satire, in the 282. Personal abuses not to be endured, in the opinion Personal abuses of others. Mr Theobald of Mr Politics, very useful in Criticism, Mr Dennis's, Pillory, a post of respect, in the opinion of Mr and of Mr Ward, ib. Priori, Argument a priori not the best to prove Poverty and Poetry, their Cave, i. 33. Palmers, Pilgrims, iii. 113. Pindars and Miltons, of the modern sort, iii. 164. Q. QUERNO, his resemblance to Mr Cibber, ii. 15. R. Resemblance of the Hero to several great Au- 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. S. Shakespeare, to be spelled always with an e at Sawney, a Poem: The author's great ignorance ib. Swiss of Heaven, who they are, ii. 358. Supperless, a mistake concerning this word set Sevenfold face, who master of it, i. 244. T. Pub- TIBBALD, not Hero of this Poem, i. init. Tailors, a good word for them, against Poets Thunder, how to make it by Mr Dennis's receipt, Travelling described, and its advantages, iv. 293, V. Verbal Critics. Two points always to be granted Venice, the City of, for what famous, iv. 308. W. WARD Edw.), a Poet and Alehouse-keeper in His high opinion of his Namesake, and his Weekly Journals, by whom written, ii. 280. His Praises on himself above Mr Addison, Wizard, his Cup, and the strange Effects of it, iv. 517, &c. 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.] BOOK I. EPISTLE VII.1 Imitated in the Manner of Dr SWIFT. IS true, my Lord, I gave my word, Chang'd it to August, and (in short) "The Dog-days are no more the case. 'Tis true; but Winter comes apace: Then southward let your Bard retire, My Lord, your Favours well I know; 5 'Tis with Distinction you bestow; And not to ev'ry one that comes, Just as a Scotsman does his Plums. "Pray take them, Sir,-Enough's a "" 16 [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. |