Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes.
“Curiosities of Literature,” vol. iii. p. 303-4.
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hints at the vast number of his unpublished works, [98]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]
543
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]
546
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]
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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]
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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.