Calamities and Quarrels of Authors

by Isaac Disraeli

INDEX.

Addison, quarrels with Pope, [313]
disapproves of his satire on Dennis, [315]
aids a rival version of Homer, [316]
satirized by Pope as Atticus, n. [317]
his nervous fear of criticism, [317]
his last interview with Pope, [318-320]
quarrels with Steele on political grounds, [433]
his disbelief in Rowe, [535]
Akenside exhibited as a ludicrous personage by Smollett; his real character cast in the mould of antiquity, n. [114]
severely criticised by Warburton, [264]
Aldrich, Dean, secretly fosters the attacks on Bentley, [378], n. [383]
Amhurst, a political author, his history, [11]
Arnall, a great political scribe, [10]
Ascham, Roger, the founder of English Prose, [19]
Athenæ Britannicæ, one of the rarest works, account of, n. [31]
Athenæ Oxonienses, an apology for, [89]
Atterbury, Bp., on terrors of conscience, [451]
severe remarks on Pope, [535]
Aubrey, gives the real reason for the fears of Hobbes the philosopher, n. [452]
minutely narrates the mode in which he composed his “Leviathan,” n. [459]
Authors by profession, a phrase of modern origin, [8]
original letter to a Minister from one, ib.
Fielding’s apology for them, [11]
Authors, Horace Walpole affects to despise them, [43]
their maladies, [78]
case of, stated, [15]
incompetent remuneration of, [21]
who wrote above the genius of their own age, [84]
ill reception from the public of their valuable works, [85]
who have sacrificed their fortunes to their studies, ib.
who commenced their literary life with ardour, and found their genius obstructed by numerous causes, [87]
who have never published their works, [90]
provincial, liable to bad passions, [128]
Ayre’s Memoirs of Pope, n. [318], [319]
Baker and his microscopical discoveries, n. [366-367]
Rev. Thomas, his collection, [93]
Balguy, Dr. Thos., n. [273]
Barnes, Joshua, wrote a poem to prove Solomon was the author of the “Iliad,” and why, [97]
his pathetic letter descriptive of his literary calamities, ib.
hints at the vast number of his unpublished works, [98]
Bayle, his use of paradox, [247]
his theory of apparitions, n. [451]
Bayne, Alexander, died of intense application, [72]
Bentley, Dr., his controversy with Boyle, [378], [390]
his haughtiness, n. [379]
his dissertation on “Phalaris”, [380] 542
satirized by Dr. Middleton, [531]
Biographia Britannica in danger of being left unfinished, [84]
Birkenhead, Sir J., a newspaper-writer, [416]
Blackstone investigates the quarrel between Pope and Addison, [314]
Bohun, his unjustifiable attack on William of Wykeham, [537]
Bolingbroke, his share in Pope’s “Essay on Man,”, [256]
quarrel with Pope, [321-328]
his “Patriot King” secretly printed by Pope, [321]
his hatred of Warburton, [323-328]
Booksellers in the reign of Elizabeth, [23]
why their interest is rarely combined with the advancement of literature, n. [87]
why they prefer the crude to the matured fruit, [210]
Boyle, his controversy with Bentley, [378-390]
his edition of “Phalaris”, [378-381]
his literary aids, n. [382]
Bramhall opposes Hobbes’ philosophy, [449]
Brereton, Sir W., characterised by Clarendon and Cleveland, n. [418]
Brooke attacks errors in Camden’s “Britannia”, [492]
his work unfairly suppressed, [495]
his severe remarks on Camden, ib.
humorous rhymes on a horse, [497]
his self-defence, [498]
his real motives vindicated, [499]
biographical note, ib.
Brown, Dr., his panegyric on Warburton, and his sorrow for writing it, n. [235]
account of, n. [273]
Brown, Robt., founder of a sect of Puritans, n. [518]
Burnet, Bp., his character attacked, [426]
Burton, his laborious work, [83]
his constitutional melancholy, n. [182]
Cæsalpinus, originally the propounder of a theory of the circulation of the blood, [335]
Calvin’s opinions on government, n. [447]
Calvin, his narrowed sectarianism, [502]
Camden recommends Jonson to Raleigh, n. [476]
his industry, and his great work the “Britannia”, [491]
Brooke points out its errors, [492]
his works suppressed through Camden’s interest, [495]
his exasperation, ib.
his powerful picture of calumny, [496]
his quiet adoption of Brooke’s corrections, [499]
Campanella and his political works, [351-352]
Carey, Henry, inventor of “Namby Pamby”, [101]
“Carey’s Wish,” a patriotic song on the Freedom of Election, by the author of “God save the King,” n. [102]
“Sally in our Alley,” a popular ballad, its curious origin, [103]
author of several of our national poems, [104]
his miserable end, ib.
Carte, Thomas, his valuable history, [110-111]
the first proposer of public libraries, [111]
its fate from his indiscretion, [112]
Cartwright, Thomas, chief of the Puritan faction, [505]
progress of his opinions, [506]
his great popularity, ib.
forsakes his party, [508-509]
Caryll’s voluminous commentary on Job, n. [392]
Castell, Dr., ruined in health and fortune by the publication of his Polyglott, n. [189]
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Charles the Second’s jest at the Royal Society, n. [311]
an admirer of Hobbes’s ability in disputation, n. [448]
Chatterton, his balance-sheet on the Lord Mayor’s death, n. [25]
Churchill’s satire on Warburton, [240], [242], [243], [246]
Churchyard, Thomas, an unhappy poet, describes his patrons, [26]
his pathetic description of his wretched old age, ib.
Cibber, his easy good-nature, [306]
his reasonable defence of himself, n. [305-307]
his “Essay on Cicero,” n. [306]
apology for his Life, [307]
attacks on himself, [305], [308]
unjustly degraded, [312]
Clarendon, Lord, his prejudice against May, [434]
his opinion of Hobbes’s philosophy, n. [438]
Clergy fight in the great civil wars, n. [422]
Cleland, biographical note on, [282]
Cleveland’s character of a journal-maker, [416]
Cole, Rev. William, his character, [90]
his melancholy confession on his lengthened literary labours, [92]
his anxiety how best to dispose of his collections, [93]
Collins, Arthur, historian of the Peerage, [85]
Collins, Wm., the poet, quits the university suddenly with romantic hopes of becoming an author, [172]
publishes his “Odes” without success, and afterwards indignantly burns the edition, [180]
defended from some reproaches of irresolution, made by Johnson, [181]
anecdote of his life in the metropolis, [182]
anecdotes of, when under the influence of a disordered intellect, [183]
his monument described, [184]
two sonnets descriptive of Collins, [185]
his poetical character defended, [186]
Contemporaries, how they seek to level genius, [206]
Cooper, author of “Life of Socrates,” attacked by Warburton, n. [272]
Cooper, Bishop, attacked by Mar-Prelates, n. [513], [514]
Copyrights, Lintot’s payments for, [328-333]
Corbet, his humorous introduction to Ben Jonson, n. [475]
Cotgrave, Randle, falls blind in the labour of his “Dictionary”, [73]
Court of Charles II. satirised by Marvell, [393]
its characteristics, [414]
Cowel incurs by his curious work “The Interpreter” the censure of the King and the Commons on opposite principles, [193]
Cowley, original letter from, n. [36]
his essays form a part of his confessions, [37]
describes his feelings at court, ib.
his melancholy attributed to his “Ode to Brutus,” by which he incurred the disgrace of the court, [40]
his remarkable lamentation for having written poetry, [41]
his Epitaph composed by himself, [42]
Critic, poetical, without any taste, how he contrived to criticise poems, [143]
Criticisms, illiberal, some of its consequences stated, [140]
Cross attacks the Royal Society, [344-346]
Crousaz dissects Pope’s “Essay on Man”, [256]
Curll, and his publication of Pope’s letters, [292]
D’Avenant, his poem of “Gondibert”, [404]
history of its composition, n. [404] 544
its merits and defects, [405-408]
a club of wits satirize it, [409]
and its author, [412]
and occasion it to be left unfinished, [413]
Davies, Myles, a mendicant author, his life, [30]
Decker quarrels with Ben Jonson for his arrogance, [475-487]
ridicules him in his “Satiromastix”, [482-487]
Dedication, composed by a patron to himself, n. [30]
Dedications, used in an extraordinary way, n. [30]
De Lolme’s work on the Constitution could find no patronage, and the author’s bitter complaints, [200]
relieved by the Literary Fund, n. [201]
Denham falsely satirized, n. [429]
Dennis, John, distinguished as “The Critic”, [52]
his “Original Letters” and “Remarks on Prince Arthur,” his best productions, [52]
anecdotes of his brutal vehemence, [53]
curious caricature of his personal manners, [54]
a specimen of his anti-poetical notions, n. [55]
his frenzy on the Italian Opera, [57]
acknowledges that he is considered as ill-natured, and complains of public neglect, ib.
more the victim of his criticisms than the genius he insulted, [58]
his insatiable vengeance toward Pope, [286]
his attack on Addison’s “Cato”, [315]
his account with the bookseller Lintot, [331]
Drake, Dr. John, a political writer, his miserable life, [11]
Drayton’s national work, “The Polyolbion,” ill received, and the author greatly dejected, [210]
angry preface addressed “To any that will read it”, [211]
Drummond of Hawthornden, his love of poetry, [213]
conversation with Jonson, [475]
Dryden, in his old age, complains of dying of over-study, [204]
his dramatic life a series of vexations, [205]
regrets he was born among Englishmen, [206]
remarkable confession of the poet, ib.
vilified by party spirit, [427]
compares his quarrel with Settle to that of Jonson with Decker, n. [477]
Dunciad, Pope’s collections for, [278]
early editions of, n. [283]
rage of persons satirized in, n. [284]
satire on naturalists in, [342]
Dunton the bookseller satirized by Swift, [430]
Dyson defends Akenside, [265]
Eachard’s satire on Hobbes and his sect, n. [439]
Edwards, Thomas, author of “Canons of Criticism”, [261]
biographical notice, n. [532]
anecdotes of his critical sagacity, n. [262-263]
origin of his “Canons of Criticism”, [532]
Evans, Arise, a fanatical Welsh prophet, patronised by Warburton, n. [240]
Evelyn defends the Royal Society, [340]
Exercise, to be substituted for medicine by literary men, and which is the best, n. [68]
False rumours in the great Civil War, [421]
Farneworth’s Translation of Machiavel, [84]
Fell, Dr., an opponent of the Royal Society, [350]
ungenerous to Hobbes, [450]
rhymes descriptive of his unpopularity, [451]
Fielding attacks Sir John Hill, [368-369]
Filmer, Sir R., writes to establish despotism, n. [449]
Folkes, Martin, President of the Royal Society, n. [364] 545
attacked by Sir John Hill, n. [366]
Fuller’s “Medicina Gymnastica,” n. [71]
Garth, Dr., and his Dispensary, [429]
Gay acts as mediator with Pope and Addison, [320]
his account with Lintot the bookseller, [330]
Gibbon, Ed., price of his copyright, [87]
Gildon supposed by Pope to have been employed by Addison to write against him, [316]
Glanvill a defender of the Royal Society, [244]
Glover, Leonidas, declines to write a Life of Marlborough, n. [325]
Goldsmith’s remonstrance on illiberal criticism, from which the law gives no protection, [142]
Granger’s complaint of not receiving half the pay of a scavenger, [85]
Greene, Robert, a town-wit, his poverty and death, [23]
awful satirical address to, n. [119]
Grey, Dr. Zachary, the father of our commentators, ridiculed and abused, [104]
the probable origin of his new mode of illustrating Hudibras, ib.
Warburton’s double-dealing with him, n. [259]
Guthrie offers his services as a hackney-writer to a minister, [8]
Hackett executed for attacks on the church, n. [518]
Hanmer, Sir T., his edition of Shakespeare, n. [242], n. [258]
Hardouin supposes the classics composed by monks in the Middle Ages, [249-252]
Harrington and his “Oceana”, [449]
Harvey, Dr., and his discovery of the circulation of the blood, [335]
Harvey, Gabriel, his character, [117]
his device against his antagonist, n. [119]
his portrait, [121]
severely satirised by Nash for his prolix periods, [122]
cannot be endured to be considered as the son of a rope-maker, [123]
his pretended sordid manners, [124]
his affectation of Italian fashions, ib.
his friends ridiculed, [125]
his pedantic taste for hexameter verses, &c., [127]
his curious remonstrance with Nash, [126]
his lamentation on invectives, [129]
his books, and Nash’s, suppressed by order of the Archbishop of Canterbury for their mutual virulence, [120]
Hawkesworth, Dr., letter on presenting his MS. of Cook’s Voyages for examination, the publication of which overwhelmed his fortitude and intellect, [199]
Henley, Orator, this buffoon an indefatigable student, an elegant poet, and wit, [59]
his poem of “Esther, Queen of Persia”, [60]
sudden change in his character, [62]
seems to have attempted to pull down the Church and the University, [63]
some idea of his lectures, n. [64]
his projects to supply a Universal School, ib.
specimens of his buffoonery on solemn occasions, [66]
his “Defence of the Oratory,” n. ib.
once found his match in two disputants, [67]
specimen of the diary of his “Oratory Transactions”, ib.
close of his career, n. [68]
his character, [69]
parallel between him and Sir John Hill, [363]
Henry, Dr., the Historian, the sale of his work, on which he had expended most of his fortune and his life, stopped, and himself ridiculed, by a conspiracy raised against him, [136]
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Henry, Dr., caustic review of his history, n. ib.
Heron, Robert, draws up the distresses of a man of letters living by literary industry, in the confinement of a sponging-house, from his original letter, [81]
Herrick, Robert, petulant invective against Devonshire, [215]
Hill, Aaron, and his quarrel with Pope, [290]
Hill, Sir John, [362-396]
parallel between him and Orator Henley, [383]
his great work on Botany, n. ib.
his personalities, [364]
attacks the Royal Society, [365]
his Inspector, [367]
war of wit with Fielding, [368]
and Smart, [370-372]
attacks Woodward, who replies with some ridiculous anecdotes, n. [372]
proposes himself as keeper of the Sloane collection, [374]
manufactures Travels, n. [374]
his death, [375]
Hobbes contemns the Royal Society, [342]
praises D’Avenant’s poem of “Gondibert”, [408-412]
his quarrels, [436]
peculiarities of his character, [437]
his sect, [438]
his real opinions, [439]
his “Leviathan”, [440-448]
feared and suspected by both parties, n. [442]
no atheist, n. [445]
his continual disputations, [448-450]
his terror of death, [451]
the real solution of his fears, [452]
his disciples in literature, n. [455]
his pride, [456]
his mode of composition, n. [459]
his contented poverty, and consistent conduct, ib.
characteristics of his writings, [461]
his passion for mathematics, [464]
leads to a quarrel with Dr. Wallis, [465-473]
Home and his tragedy of “Douglas”, [79]
Howel, nearly lost his life by excessive study, [74]
Hume, his literary life mortified with disappointments, [202]
wished to change his name and his country, [204]
his letter to Des Maiseaux requesting his opinion of his philosophy, [202]
Hurd, Bishop, biographical note on, [253]
imitates Warburton’s style, n. [269]
Icon Libellorum. See [Athenæ Britannicæ].
Johnson, Dr., his aversion to Milton’s politics, [425]
Jones, Inigo, ridiculed by Ben Jonson, n. [477]
Jonson, Ben, his quarrel with Decker, [475]
his conversation with Drummond of Hawthornden, [475], [535]
his general conviviality, n.

[475]
his play “The Poetaster”, [476-481]
his powerful satire on Decker, [482-487]
his bitter allusions to his enemies, [487-488]
Kennet’s, Bishop, Register and Chronicle, [87]
Kenrick, Dr., a caustic critic, treats our great authors with the most amusing arrogance, [141]
an epigram on himself, by himself, n. [142]
King, Dr., his payments as an author, [332]
biographical notice of, n. [358]
ridicules the Transactions of the Royal Society, [358], [361] 547
aids in attacking Bentley, [384]
his satirical Index to Bentley’s Characteristics, n. [386]
Lawson, Dame, a noted female Puritan, n. [519], [525]
Lee, Nat., his love of praise, [213]
Leland, the antiquary, an accomplished scholar, [172]
his “Strena,” or New Year’s Gift to Henry VIII.; an account of his studies, and his magnificent projects, [174]
doubts that his labours will reach posterity, [175]
he values “the furniture” of his mind, ib.
his bust striking from its physiognomy, [177]
the ruins of his mind discovered in his library, ib.
the inscription on his tomb probably had been composed by himself, before his insanity, [178]
thoughts on Eloquence, [255]
Libels abounded in the age of Elizabeth, [503]
Lightfoot could not procure the printing of his work, [192]
Lintot’s account-book, [328-333]
Literary Property, difficulties to ascertain its nature, [16]
history of, ib.
value of, n. ib.
Literary quarrels from personal motives, [529-539]
Lloyd’s, Bishop, collections and their fate, [93]
Logan, the history of his literary disappointments, [78]
dies broken-hearted, ib.
his poetic genius, [80]
Lowth, Bishop, attack on pretensions of Warburton, n. [235-246], n. [252-268]
M’Donald, or Matthew Bramble, his tragical reply to an inquiry after his tragedy, [77]
Macdiarmid, John, died of over-study and exhaustion, [74]
Mallet, his knowledge of Pope and Warburton, n. [242]
his attacks on Warburton, n. [271]
employed by Bolingbroke to libel Pope, ib.
anecdote of his egotism, [324]
employed by the Duchess of Marlborough on a Life of the Duke, n. [325]
M’Mahon and his anti-social philosophy, n. [456]
Marston, John, satirised by Ben Jonson, n. [477]
Martin Mar-Prelate’s libels issuing from a moveable press carried about the country, [116]
a party-name for satirists of the Church, [510]
their popularity, [513-516]
their secret printings, [515]
opposed by other wits, [517]
authors of these satires, n. [505], n. [518], [520], [523]
curious rhymes against, [524-528]
Marvell attacks the intolerant tenets of Bishop Parker, [392]
severity of his satire on the Court of Charles II., n. [393]
comments on the early career of Parker, [394-395]
origin of quarrel, [396]
his noble defence of Milton, [399]
his rencontre with Parker in the streets, [401]
his political honesty, [402]
his generous criticism on Butler, [434]
Maskell, Rev. W., history of the Mar-Prelate controversy, n. [503]
date of its origin, and opinion on its authors, n. [505]
Melancholy persons frequently the most delightful companions, n. [182]
Menassah, Ben Israel, his treatise “De Resurrectione Mortuorum,” n. [252]
Mickle’s pathetic address to his muse, [207]
his disappointments after the publication of the “Lusiad” induce him to wish to abandon his native country, [208]
Middleton, Dr. Conyers, quarrel with Bentley, [530]
and with Warburton, [532]
548
Milton’s works the favourite prey of booksellers, [17]
vilified by party spirit, [424-425]
Mortimer, Thomas, his complaint in old age of the preference given to young adventurers, [75]
Motteux, Peter, and his patron, [30]
Mughouse, political clubs, n. [32]
Nash, Tom, the misery of his literary life, [23]
threatens his patrons, [24]
silences Mar-Prelate with his own weapons, [116]
his character as a Lucianic satirist, [120]
his “Have with you to Saffron Walden,” a singular literary invective against Gabriel Harvey, [120]
Needham, Marchmont, a newspaper writer in the great Civil War, [420]
Newspapers of the great Civil War, [415], [422]
Newton, of a fearful temper in criticism, n. [140]
Newton’s “Optics” first favourably noticed in France, [84]
Ockley, Simon, among the first of our authors who exhibited a great nation in the East in his “History of the Saracens”, [163]
his sufferings expressed in a remarkable preface dated from gaol, [187]
dines with the Earl of Oxford; an original letter of apology for his uncourtly behaviour, [189]
exults in prison for the leisure it affords for study, n. ib.
neglected, but employed by ministers, [196]
Oldmixon asserts Lord Clarendon’s “History” to have been interpolated, while himself falsifies Daniel’s “Chronicle,” n. [10]
Palermo, Prince of; and his Palace of Monsters, n. [243]
Paper-wars of the Civil Wars, [415], [422]
Parker, Bishop of Oxford, his early career, [394-395]
the intolerance of his style, [397]
attacks Milton, [399]
and Marvell in the streets, [401]
his posthumous portrait of Marvell, [402]
Parr, Dr., his talent and his egotism, n. [236]
his defence of Warburton, n. [239]
in revenge for Bishop Hurd’s criticism, publishes his early works of irony, [531]
Patin, Guy, his account of Hobbes, n. [445]
Pattison, a young poet, his college career, [98]
his despair in an address to Heaven, and a pathetic letter, [101]
Penry, one of the writers of Mar-Prelate tracts, n. [505], n. [518]
his career, [520]
his execution, [521]
his petition and protest, n. [521]
rhymes on his death, ib.
Phalaris, Epistles of, [378]
Phillips asperses Pope, [316]
Pierce, Dr. T., his controversies, [537]
Poets, mediocre Critics are the real origin of mediocre, [212]
Nat. Lee describes their wonderful susceptibility of praise, [213]
provincial, their situation at variance with their feelings, [214]
Pope, Alex., his opinion of “the Dangerous Fate of Authors”, [214]
the Poet Prior, [216]
Pope, Alexander, his high estimation of Warburton, [257], [273]
Warburton’s edition of his works, [263], [270]
his miscellaneous quarrel, [278], [291]
collects libels on himself, n. [273]
literary stratagems, [280]
early neglect of his “Essay on Criticism,” n. [280]
the real author of the “Key to the Lock,” n. [280] 549
hostilities between him and others, [282]
the finest character-painter, n. [283]
his personal sufferings on Cibber’s satire, [285]
his first introduction to Dennis, n. [286]
narrative of the publication of his letter to Curll, [292], [300]
his attacks on Cibber, [301], [312]
his condemned comedy, n. [301], [307]
quarrels with Addison, [313]
urges an attack on his Cato, n. [315]
believes him to have employed adverse critics, n. [316-317]
satirizes Addison as Atticus, n. [317]
his last interview with Addison, [318], [320]
surreptitiously prints Bolingbroke’s “Patriot King”, [321]
his bookselling account with Lintot, [329]
his earliest satire, [333-335]
his satires and their effects, [535]
Prideaux’s “Connection of Old and New Testament”, [84]
Prince’s “Worthies of Devon”, ib.
Prior, curious character of, from a Whig satire, [216]
felicitated himself that his natural inclination for poetry had been checked, [217]
attacked for his political creed, [429]
Proclamation issued by James I. against Cowel’s book, “The Interpreter,” a curious document in literary history, [195]
Prynne, a voluminous author without judgment, but the character of the man not so ridiculous as the author, [146]
his intrepid character, [147]
his curious argument against being debarred from pen and ink, n. [148]
his interview with Laud in the Tower, n. [149]
had a good deal of cunning in his character, n. [150]
grieved for the Revolution in which he himself had been so conspicuous a leader, [148]
his speeches as voluminous as his writings, n. [151]
seldom dined, n. [152]
account of his famous “Histriomastix”, ib.
Milton admirably characterises Prynne’s absurd learning, n. ib.
how the “Histriomastix” was at once an elaborate work of many years, and yet a temporary satire—the secret history of the book being as extraordinary as the book itself, [153]
Puritans, origin of their name, n. [504]
Raleigh, Sir W., an opposer of Puritanism, n. [508]
Reformation, the, under Elizabeth, [501]
Ridicule described, [114]
it creates a fictitious personage, ib.
a test of truth, [264], [267]
Ritson, Joseph, the late poetical antiquary, carried criticism to insanity, [51]
Ritson, Isaac, a young Scotch writer, perishes by attempting to exist by the efforts of his pen, [75]
his extemporary rhapsody descriptive of his melancholy fate, [76]
Royal Society, the, [335], [361]
encounters much opposition when first established, ib.
Ruffhead’s Life of Pope, [290]
Rushworth dies of a broken heart, having neglected his own affairs for his “Historical Collections”, [85]
Rymer’s distress in forming his “Historical Collections”, [85]
Ryves, Eliza, her extraordinary literary exertions and melancholy end, [107]
550
Sale, the learned, often wanted a meal while translating the Koran, n. [189]
Savage the Poet employed by Pope to collect materials for notes to the Dunciad, n. [279]
Scot, Reginald, persecuted for his work against Witchcraft, [198]
Scott, of Amwell, the Quaker and poet, offended at being compared to Capt. Macheath by the affected witticism of a Reviewer, [143]
his extraordinary “Letter to the Critical Reviewers,” in which he enumerates his own poetical beauties, ib.
Selden compelled to recant his opinions, and not suffered to reply to his calumniators, [198]
refuses James I. to publish his defence of the “Sovereignty of the Seas” till Grotius provoked his reply, ib.
opinions on bishops, n. [502]
Settle, Elkanah, the ludicrous close of a scribbler’s life, [146]
the hero of Pope’s earliest satire, [333]
manages Pope burnings, [334]
Shaftesbury, Lord, on the origin of irony, n. [436]
his character of Hobbes, n. [437]
his conversation with Hobbes in Paris on his work, “The Leviathan,” n. [441]
Shuckford, “Sacred and Profane History Connected”, [85]
Sloane, Sir Hans, his peculiarities of style, [358-360]
Smart and his satire, “The Hilliad”, [371-372]
Smollett confesses the incredible labour and chagrin he had endured as an author, [13]
Socrates ridiculed by Aristophanes, [266]
South’s poignant reflection on the Royal Society, [342]
Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, [337-339]
his aversion to Milton, [424]
Steele, his paradoxical character, [168]
satirized by Swift, [429-431]
why he wrote a laughable comedy after his “Christian Hero”, [169]
his ill choice in a wife of an uncongenial character, [170]
specimens of his “Love Despatches,” n. ib.
finely contrasts his own character with that of Addison, n. [172]
introduces Pope to Addison, [314]
manages a friendly interview between them after a long disseverance, [319]
his political creed loses him Addison’s friendship, [433]
Steevens, G., satirizes Sir John Hawkins, [535]
Stillingfleet, Bishop, his end supposed to have been hastened by Locke’s confutation of his metaphysical notions, n. [140]
Stockdale, Perceval, his character an extraordinary instance of the illusions of writers in verse, [218]
draws a parallel between Charles XII. and himself, [224]
Stowe, the chronicler, petitions to be a licensed beggar, [29]
Strutt, the antiquary, a man of genius and imagination, [86]
his spirited letters on commencing his career of authorship, [88]
Stuart, Dr. Gilbert, his envious character; desirous of destroying the literary works of his countrymen, [131]
projects the “Edinburgh Magazine and Review;” its design, ib.
his horrid feelings excited by his disappointments, [132]
raises a literary conspiracy against Dr. Henry, [135]
dies miserably, [139]
Stubbe and his attacks on the Royal Society, [346]
his early history, [347]
influenced by Dr. Fell in his attacks, n. [350]
specimens of them, [356]
Systems of Opinions, often fallacies in practice, [461]
551
Subscriptions once inundated our literature with worthless works, [29]
Temple, Sir W., Essay on Learning, [378]
Theobald, his payments from, and literary arrangements with Lintot, [331-332]
Tickell’s Homer, [316]
Toland, a lover of study, [157]
defends himself from the aspersion of atheism or deism, [150]
accused of an intention to found a sect, [159]
had the art of explaining away his own words, ib.
a great artificer of title-pages, [160]
his “Pantheisticon”, [161]
projects a new office of a private monitor to the minister, [163]
of the books he read and his MSS. n. [166]
his panegyrical epitaph composed by himself, [167]
Locke’s admirable foresight of his character, [168]
the miserable payment for his life of literary labour, [332]
Tonson, Jacob, bickerings with Dryden, n. [171]
his bookselling career, ib.
Udall, John, a writer in the Mar-Prelate controversy, n. [505], n. [518]
his character and career, [521-523]
Wagstaffe, Dr., his character of Steele, n. [429-432]
his satirical works, n. [431]
Wakefield, Gilbert, his works unsuccessful because of his politics, n. [435]
Wallis, Dr., his curious narrative of a dialogue between Hobbes and the Countess of Devonshire, n. [455]
his quarrel with Hobbes, [465-473]
his power of deciphering secret writing, [472]
his real opinion of Hobbes, n. [473]
Walpole, Horace, his literary character, [43]
instances of his pointed vivacity against authors, n. [43]
why he attacked the fame of Sydney, and defended Richard III., [45]
his literary mortifications, acknowledged by himself from his original letters, [47]
how Gray treated him when invited to Strawberry-hill, n. [46]
extraordinary letter of, expressing his contempt of his most celebrated contemporaries, [49]
Walsingham, Sir Francis, originally favours the Puritans, n. [508]
Warburton, dishonest criticism on Gray’s “Hudibras”, [105]
and his quarrels, [233-277]
his early career, [239]
his traffic in dedications, [241]
his contemptuous criticism on Pope and Addison, [244]
his miscellaneous reading, [245], [246]
his love of conjecture, [247]
Divine Legation, n. [250], [267]
unhappy in his labours, n. [252]
his coarseness of invective, n. [224], [268]
his contemptuous criticisms, [258], [269]
conjectural criticism on Shakspeare, [260]
his edition of Pope, [263], [270], [271]
his literary recruits, [274]
defends Pope against Bolingbroke, [321]
influenced Pope through his religion, n. [323]
his opinion of Hobbes, n. [444]
offends Edwards in a contest, [532]
552
Ward, Dr. Seth, his double opinion of Hobbes’ Works, n. [465]
Ward, Dr., his quarrel with Dr. Pierce, [536]
Wharton, Henry, sunk under his historical studies, [74]
Whitgift, Archbishop, his controversies with Cartwright the Puritan, and ultimate friendship with him, n. [509]
William of Wykeham attacked by Bohun, [537]
Wood, Anthony, his character, [94]
an apology for the “Athenæ Oxonienses”, [92]
the writers of a party whom he abhorred frequently refer to him in their own favour, [99]
defines Marvell’s style, [392]
gives Bishop Parker’s early history, [394]
his prejudice against Lake, [423]
Woodward the actor attacked by Hill, [372], and note
Works, valuable, not completed from deficient encouragement, [84]
Wotton’s reflections on learning, [378]

THE END.

Transcriber Notes

Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are highlighted and listed below.

Archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation is preserved, including the author’s use of “wont” instead of “won’t”.

Author’s punctuation style is preserved, except where noted below.

Sections in Greek will yield a transliteration when the pointer is moved over each line, e.g. ΚΤΗΜΑ ΕΣ ΑΕΙ

Transcriber Changes

The following changes were made to the original text:

[Page 11]: Added missing word (He passed through a youth of iniquity, and was expelled from his college for his irregularities)

[Page 21]: Was ’ingratisude’ (it seems a national ingratitude to limit the existence of works for their authors)

[Page 23]: Was ’roya’ (passed off in currency their base metal stamped with a royal head)

[Page 40]: Was ’discontentd’ (he retired discontented into Surrey.”)

[Page 62]: Was smudged ’brothe’ (envied their Ciceronian brothers.)

[Page 63]: Added period (he then requested the Bishop of London.)

[Page 89]: Was ’prosspects’ (his imagination delighted to expatiate in its future prospects)

[Page 105]: Was ’Hubidras’ (might have served as the model of Grey’s Hudibras.)

[Page 118]: Added quote (“Harvey, the happy above happier men, I read)

[Page 187]: Was ’sorows’ (the oriental student pathetically counts over his sorrows)

[Page 215]: Removed quote (O people currish, churlish as their seas—)

[Page 230]: Changed comma to period (he gave a new turn to our studies.)

[Page 281]: Added quote (“and the weekly clubs held to consult of hostilities against the author;”)

[Page 289]: Was ’nor’ (Is not Word-catching more serviceable in splitting a cause, than explaining a fine poet?)

[Page 327]: Was ’damagogue’ (which such a political demagogue as Bolingbroke never forgave)

[Page 328]: Added quote (which I have noticed in the “Quarrels of Warburton.”)

[Page 350]: Was ’petulent’ (which closed this life of toil and hurry and petulant genius)

[Page 399]: Was ’ut’ (he was glad to make use of anything rather than sit out;)

[Page 403]: Was ’Philosoper’ (while the Philosopher keenly retorts on the Club)

[Page 420]: Added missing i (I give a short narrative of the political temper of the times, in their unparalleled gazettes.)

[Page 434]: Added quote (From age to age, &c.”)

[Page 436]: Was ’montrous’ (his monstrous egotism)

[Page 469]: Changed comma to period (than in his younger days.)

[Page 471]: Removed quote (you are older already than Methuselah.)

[Page 481]: Added quote (‘Barmy froth, inflate, turgidous, and ventosity are come up.’)

[Page 483]: Was ’searchin’ (Mine enemies, with sharp and searching eyes)

[Page 487]: Added period (Nor the Untrussers.)

[Page 497]: Removed quote (Now, to show himself as good a painter as he is a herald)

[Footnote 20]: Extra comma removed (his Bibliographia Poetica.)

[Footnote 140]: Was ’afterwardss’ (As City Poet afterwards Settle composed the pageants)

[Footnote 140]: Was ’Mayor’ (songs for the Lord Mayor’s Shows from 1691 to 1708)

[Footnote 140]: Original split across lines as ‘im,’ and ‘poverished,’ (Towards the close of his career he became impoverished)

[Footnote 150]: Changed period to comma (by Indignatio,” 1772)

[Footnote 157]: Added quote (“that last foible of superior genius.”)

[Footnote 163]: Was ’Manasseh’ (which Menasseh Ben Israel has written his treatise)

[Footnote 183]: Was ’infallibilty’ (to the standard of your infallibility)

[Footnote 186]: Added quote (“Letter to Warburton,” p. 4.)

[Footnote 195]: Added quote (Prince Eugene, “who came hither for that purpose.”)

[Footnote 202]: Was ’Irishmant o’ (had a tall Irishman to attend him)

[Footnote 291]: Added quote (And changed his skin to monumental brass.”)

[Footnote 324]: Added missing word (It may be inscribed in the library of the student)

[Footnote 353]: Was ’caligraphy’ (this beautiful specimen of calligraphy may still be seen)

[Footnote 353]: Was ’hi’ (it produced his sudden dismissal from the presence of Charles II. when at Paris)

[Footnote 354]: Added quote (but, chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.”)

[Footnote 367]: Added quote (“Il disoit qu’il faisoit quelquefois des ouvertures)

[Footnote 369]: Added period (The story his antagonist (Dr. Wallis) relates is perfectly in character.)

[Footnote 418]: Changed comma to period (in a countercuffe given to Martin Junior.”)

[Index]: Was ’Gilden’ (Gildon supposed by Pope to have been employed by Addison to write against him, [316])

[Index]: Added period (Johnson, Dr., his aversion to Milton’s politics, [425])

[Index]: Was ’132’ (Lightfoot could not procure the printing of his work, [192])