Translations, observations on, iv. 350. a production of moderns, ibid. the pro-
gress of, 351. early cultivated in England, 353. its progress in England,
ibid. the progress of, viii. 334. unknown in Greece, ibid. not much read in
Italy, 335. state of, in France, ibid.
Translator, character of a good translator, vii. 417.
Trapp's Sermons, case of the abridgment of, v. 462.
Travels, directions for writing works of, iv. 406. specimen of the common me-
thod of writing journals of travels, 433.
Treacle, Zachary, complaint against his idle wife, iv. 193. his wife's answer
and complaints against her husband, 231.
Trees, the want of, in a good part of Scotland, ix. 7.
Troilus and Cressida, observations on Shakespeare's play of, v. 172.
Trumbull, sir William, Pope's epitaph on him, viii. 350.
Truth, its high original and vast importance, ii. 455. its easy entrance into the
mind when introduced by desire and attended with pleasure, iii. 278. a
steady regard to the lustre of moral and religious truth, a certain direction to
happiness, 345. the crime of the violation of, iv. 206. the want of it in his-
torians lamented, ibid. exemplified in an Englishman's and a Frenchman's
account of the capture of Louisburg, 207. how far ridicule the test of it,
viii. 470.
Trypherus, his character, ii. 466.
Tucker, Dr. his proposals concerning America considered, vi. 259.
Turenne, marshal, his saying of the importance of immediately correcting our
mistakes, ii. 158.
Turk, characterized as a husband, i. 114.
Turpicola, her history, iii. 382.
Twelfth Night, observations on Shakespeare's comedy of, v. 161.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, observations on Shakespeare's comedy of, v. 155.
Tyrconnel, lord, takes Savage into his house, and promises him a pension of
two hundred pounds a year, viii. 124. his quarrel with Savage, 132.
Tytler's Historical Inquiry concerning Mary Queen of Scots, review of, vi. 80.
Vafer, his character of an insidious flatterer, iii. 268.
Vagario, his character, ii. 133.
Vagulus, his account of Squire Bluster, iii. 175.
Valdesso, his excellent remark upon resigning his commission, ii. 141.
Vanessa, her unhappy partiality for Swift, and death, viii. 209. by her will
orders the poem of Cadenus and Vanessa to be published, 210.
Van Homrigh, Mrs. See Vanessa.
Vanity of authors, represented in the case of Misellus, ii. 78. excessive, ex-
emplified in the character of Mr. Frolick, 290. its tendency to idleness,
iii. 231.
Venice, account of the quarrel between that state and Paul the fifth, vi. 267.
Venustulus, the manner of his addresses to Tranquilla, iii. 66. his unmanly
and timid conduct exposed, 98.
Verecundulus, the infelicities he sustained through his habitual bashfulness and
timidity, iii. 245.
Versification, remarks on its rules, ii. 404, 413. the peculiarity of Milton's, in
his Paradise Lost, 414. See Virgil.
Vice, the descriptions of it in writing should be always calculated to excite dis-
gust, ii. 20. the essence of, considered, vi. 71.
Vitious intromission, case of, v. 470.
Victoria, her letter on the foolish anxiety to excel merely in the charms of
external beauty, iii. 116. on the mortifications arising from the loss of it, 130.
Vida, his remarks on the propriety of Virgil's versification, ii. 434. his Art of
Poetry translated by Christopher Pitt, vi. 71.
Vines, first planted by Noah, v. 312. progress of the cultivation of, ibid. or-
dered to be destroyed by an edict of Domitian, ibid. of France, superiour to
the mines of America, 319.
Virgil, in what respect superiour in pastoral poetry, ii. 181. remarks on the
judicious propriety of his versification, 183. why preferred to Homer by
Scaliger, ii. 440. the plan of his neid formed upon the writings of Homer,
iii. 77. account of the Sortes Virgilianæ, vii. 6. specimen of sir John Den-
ham's translation, 63. Milbourne's criticisms on Dryden's translation, 333.
vain attempts to translate Virgil by Brady, 336. Æneid, translated by
Christopher Pitt, viii. 364. this translation contrasted with Dryden's, ibid.
Virtue, to be pursued by virtuous means, i. 71. the various attacks on it, 20.
such conduct not to be repented of for the event, iv. 273. the representations
of it in works of fancy should be always exact and pure, ii. 20. the dif-
ference between speculative and practical virtue, 68. the errour of substi-
tuting single acts of it for habits, 138. obstructed by confounding the praise
with the practice of goodness, 139. united with industry supplies the ge-
nuine sources of hope, 493. virtue and truth often defeated by pride and
obstinacy, 411. the constant pursuit of it the highest excellence, iii. 365.
the danger of mistaking the love for the practice of virtue, exemplified in
Savage, viii. 144.
Virtuoso, his character distinctly drawn, ii. 385. the advantages he is capable
of communicating to others, 391. his excessive fondness for curiosities often
the evidence of a low genius, 392.
Visionary schemes, the effects of, i. 292.
Vivaculus, his letter on Virtuosos, iii. 329.
Ulinish, account of, ix. 67.
Ulva isle, account of, ix. 138. the mercheta mulierum paid there, 139.
Ulysses, the discovery of, improper for a picture, iv. 283.
Uneasiness of mind, often relieved by comparing our lot with that of others,
iii. 367.
Union, the difficulty of, either between nations or smaller communities, iv. 16.
Universities, the superiority of the English, to their academies, and foreign
universities, iv. 248.
Universal History, writers of, i. lix.
Voltaire, his visit to Congreve, viii. 30. pays a visit to Pope, 274. Young's
epigram on him, 435.
Vossius, Isaac, delighted in having his hair combed for many hours together,
vii. 229.
Voyages, introduction to the World Displayed, a collection of, v. 210. abstract
account of, in search of new countries, ví. 180.
Upton, Mr. observations on his critical observations on Shakespeare, v. 142.
Usefulness, publick, should be the object of our diligent endeavours, iii. 112,
Wainscot, Tom, complaint of his son's becoming a fop, and neglecting business,
iv. 428.
Waller, Edmund, his life, vii. 178. born at Colshill, in Hertfordshire, March
3, 1605, ibid. his father left him three thousand five hundred pounds a year,
ibid. educated at Eton, and removed to King's college, Cambridge, ibid.
returned to parliament in his eighteenth year, ibid. wrote his first poetry in
his eighteenth year, 179. wrote poetry almost by instinct, ibid. marries Mrs.
Banks, a great heiress, ibid. loses his wife, who leaves one daughter, ibid.
addresses lady Dorothea Sidney, under the name of Sacharissa, who rejects
his addresses, ibid. celebrates lady Sophia Murray, under the name of
Amoret, 181. supposed to have taken a voyage, ibid. marries a lady of the
name of Bresse, or Breaux, by whom he has five sons and eight daughters,
182. being returned to the parliament of 1640, makes a noisy speech on
imaginary grievances, ibid. no bigot to his party, 184. his speech on episco-
pacy, ibid. sends 1000 broad pieces to the king when he set up his standard,
186. continues to sit in the rebellious conventicle, and to speak against their
proceedings, 187. nominated one of the commissioners to treat with the king
at Oxford, ibid. engaged in a plot against parliament, ibid. the manner in
which the plot was discovered, 189. he and Tomkyns taken up, both of
whom confess the whole plot, 190. a day of thanksgiving appointed for
deliverance from the plot, 191. earl of Portland and lord Conway taken up,
on the declaration of Waller, for being concerned in the plot, are examined
several times by the lords, and admitted to bail, ibid. Tomkyns and Chaloner
executed for the plot, 193. tried and condemned, and, after a year's im-
prisonment, and a fine of ten thousand pounds, is banished, 194. obtains,
from Cromwell, permission to return, ibid. received by Cromwell as a kins-
man, 195. writes his famous panegyrick on Cromwell, ibid. writes a poem
on the death of Cromwell, 196. writes again on the restoration of Charles
the second, ibid. returned to parliament for Hastings, 197. obtains from the
king the provostship of Eton, but Clarendon refuses to put the seal to the
grant, from his not being a clergyman, 198. his opposition to Clarendon on
that account, ibid. kindly treated by James the second, 199. prepares for
his latter end, 200. died October 21, 1687, and was buried at Beaconsfield,
201. account of his descendants, ibid. his character by Clarendon, ibid.
declared he would blot from his works any line that did not contain some
motive to virtue, 206. his works characterized, ibid. specimen of his trans-
lation of Pastor Fido, 216.
Walmsley, Gilbert, some account of, vii. 380.
Walpole, Horace, travels through France into Italy with Gray, where they
quarrel, and each pursues his journey separately, viii. 476.
Walsh, William, his life, vii. 243. born at Aberley, Worcestershire, 1663, 243.
entered gentleman commoner at Oxford, 1678, ibid. the best critick in the
nation, ibid. member of parliament for Worcestershire, ibid. gentleman of
the horse to queen Anne, ibid. a zealous friend to the revolution, ibid. cor-
responded with Pope, on the pastoral comedy of the Italians, ibid. supposed
to have died in 1709, 244. account of his works, ibid. an early encourager of
Pope, viii. 239.
War, should be conducted by rules consistent with the universal interest of
maukind, ii. 374. different feelings on the approach of, iv. 163. deplorable
case of the ladies losing their gallants, ibid. the raising and training an equal
number of women recommended, 164. women capable of being defeated, as
Braddock, without seeing his enemies; of surrendering Minorca, without a
breach; and of looking at Rochfort, 165. every man ought to fight as the sin-
gle champion, 173. the duty of thinking as if the event depended on a man's
counsel, ibid. proposal for erecting a fort on Salisbury plain, resembling
Brest, arming it with beef and ale, and using our soldiers to attack it, 174.
asses, bulls, turkeys, geese, and tragedians, to be added by way of accustom-
ing the soldiers to noises equally horrid with the war-cry, 175. diminution of
the love of truth one of the calamities of war, 238. every method of pacifica-
tion to be tried before war is engaged in, vi. 199. its miseries little attended
to by many, ibid. princes think it necessary to assign some reason for, but
frequently a very unsatisfactory one, 463.
Warbois, witches of, conviction of, commemorated in a sermon at Huntingdon,
v. 57.
Warburton, W. bishop of Gloucester, observations on his notes on Shakespeare,
v. 141. view of the controversy between him and M. Crousaz, on Pope's
Essay on Man, 202. his literary and critical character, viii. 288. defends
Pope's Essay on Man against Crousaz, 289. commences a friendship with
Pope, 290. erects a monument to the memory of Pope, 305.
Warner, Tim, account of his good sort of woman to his wife, iv. 440.
Warriour, the vanity of his wishes, i. 17.
Warton's Essay on Pope, review of, vi. 37.
Watering places, observations on, and on a select set at one of them, iv. 379.
Watts, Dr. Isaac, his life, viii. 380. born at Southampton, 1674, ibid. began
with Latin at four years of age, ibid. educated in a dissenting academy, ibid.
a maker of verses from fifteen to fifty, ibid. leaves the academy at twenty
years of age, 381. tutor to sir John Hartopp's son, ibid. becomes preacher
at twenty-four years of age, ibid. sir Thomas Abney takes him into his house,
ibid. his character as a preacher, 383. his moral character, 384. his works
characterized, 385. received an unsolicited diploma of D.D. from Edinburgh
and Aberdeen, in 1728, 386. died 1748, ibid. his character, ibid.
Wealth, the contempt of it represented in various instances, iii. 111, 112.
wrong notions of its usefulness corrected, 115. why the object of general de-
sire, 121. the real importance and influence of it shown in the case of disap-
pointed expectations, 228.
Weather, causes why an Englishman's conversation is first on the weather, iv.
182. a more noble topick than generally supposed, 183. influences the tem-
per, ibid. the folly of submitting to such influence, ibid.
West, Gilbert, his life, viii. 396. educated at Eton and Oxford, ibid. designed
for the church, but obtains a commission in the army, ibid. resigns his com
mission, and appointed clerk extraordinary of the privy council, under lord
Townshend, 1729, ibid. settles at Wickham, in Kent, ibid. publishes his Ob-
servations on the Resurrection, 1747, ibid. created LL.D. at Oxford, 1748,
397. frequently visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, ibid. clerk of the privy council
and treasurer of Chelsea hospital, ibid. died 1756, 398. his works charac-
terized, ibid.
Wharton, lord, his vile character, vii. 426.
Whatever is, is right, true sense of that assertion of Mr. Pope, v. 205.
Whirler, Jack, his history, iv. 204.
Whisperer, his character, iii. 186.
Whitefoot, his character of sir Thomas Browne, vi. 494.
Whitehead, Paul, summoned before the lords for his poem called Manners, viii.
Wife, an idle one described, iv. 194. cautions in choosing one, 440.
Wilkes, John, considerations on his being rejected by the house of commons as
representative for Middlesex, vi. 156.
Wilks, Mr. the actor, instances of his generosity, viii. 107. occasionally allows
a benefit to Savage, 109.
Wills, the necessity of making them, exemplified in the story of Sophia Heed-
ful, iv. 435.
William the third, king, supplied copious materials for prose and verse, viii. 3.
Williams, Zachariah, his attempt to ascertain the longitude, v. 295.
Williams, Anna, proposals for printing her essays, v. 354.
Winbury, miss, Pope's unfortunate lady, viii. 327. said to have been in love
with Pope, ibid.
Winter, an ode, i. 121. winter's walk, 122. the season of seriousness and ter-
rour, ii. 376. and of retirement and study, 377. the horrours of it in the polar
countries, iii. 367.
Winter's Tale, observations on Shakespeare's comedy of the, v. 161.
Wishes, vain, the folly of indulging them, ii. 346.
Wit, its original, ii. 109. wherein it differeth from learning, ibid. the mutual ad-
vantages of their being united, 112. the folly of affecting that character, 127.
the means necessary to the production of a person eminent for the character
of a wit, iii. 480. has its changes and fashions, vii. 14. Pope's description er-
roneous, 15. properly characterized, ibid. exuberance of, condemned, 31.
sir R. Blackmore's account of, viii. 44.
Wits, in the time of Charles the second characterized, i. 23. affected, the mean-
ness of their character, iii. 171, 318. seldom rewarded by their superiours,
vii. 174.
Witchcraft, history of, v. 55.
Withers, gen. Hen. Pope's epitaph on him, viii. 357.
Wolsey, the rise and fall of, i. 14.
Women, lord Bacon's severe reflection on beautiful, ii. 186. infelicities peculiar
to, 190. the want of attention to their inquiries censured, iii. 102. their de-
plorable case in the beginning of a war, by losing their gallants, iv. 164. re-
commended to follow the soldiers to camp, ibid. capable to become soldiers,
165. an army of, might have been defeated, as Braddock, without seeing the
enemy, surrendered Minorca, without a breach, and looked at Rochefort, ibid.
a good sort of one characterized, 440. the danger they are in when they lay
aside their religion, iv. 3. the fortitude of, described, i. 71.
Wonder, an instance of the desire of man to propagate a, vii. 2.
Wood's halfpence, their history, viii. 210.
Word to the wise, prologue to, i. 117.
World, Milton supposed it to be in its decay, vii. 103. this opinion was refuted
by Dr. Hakewill, ibid.
World displayed, a collection of voyages, introduction to, v. 210.
Wormwood, Dick, his story, iv. 396.
Writing, the rage for, iv. 155.
Wycherley, W. a man esteemed without virtue, and caressed without good-humour, viii. 238. wrote verses in praise of Pope, ibid.
Xerxes, the vanity of a warriour exemplified in him, i. 18.
Yalden, Thomas, his life, viii. 80. born at Exeter, in 1671, ibid. educated at Oxford, ibid. his readiness at composition, ibid. became doctor of divinity, 1707, 81. rector of Chalton and Cleanville, ibid. preacher of Bridewell, 1698, 82. charged with a dangerous correspondence with Kelly, ibid. his papers seized, but no criminality appearing, was discharged, ibid. died July 16, 1736, ibid. account of his poems, 83.
York, description of, i. 323.
Young, Edward, his life, by Herbert Croft, viii. 416. born at Upham, near Winchester, 1681, ibid. account of his father, ibid. queen Mary was godmother to him, 417. educated at Winchester college, ibid. entered at New College, 1703, ibid. law fellow of All Souls', 1708, ibid. bachelor of civil laws, 1714, and Dr. 1719, 418. speaks the Latin oration, when the foundation of the Codrington library was laid, ibid. published his Epistle to lord Lansdown, 1712, 420. poem on the Last Day published, 1713, ibid. account of some pieces omitted in his works, 421. patronised by lord Wharton, 424. Busiris brought on the stage, 1719, 425. the Revenge, 1721, ibid. has two annuities granted him by lord Wharton, ibid. attempts to get into parliament for Cirencester, 427. takes orders, and becomes a popular preacher, ibid. account of his satires, 428. acquired more than three thousand pounds by the Universal Passion, 430. chaplain to George the second, 433. writes the Brothers, ibid. presented to the living of Welwyn, 1730, 435. married lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter to the earl of Lichfield, 1731, ibid. his wife died 1741, 437. his Philander and Narcissa supposed to be intended for Mr. and Mrs. Temple, ibid. the occasion of the Night Thoughts real, ibid. his son defended from the reports of his ill behaviour to his father, 440. the character of Lorenzo not designed for his son, 441. his letter to Pope, 442. none of his writings prejudicial to the cause of virtue and religion, 447. the Brothers brought on the stage, 1753, 448. gives one thousand pounds to the society for the propagation of the gospel, ibid. his letter on original Composition, ibid. history and account of his poem called Resignation, 451. his friendship for his housekeeper, 453. died 1765, ibid. many untruths mentioned of him in the Biographia, ibid. story of his straying into the enemy's camp, with a classick in his hand, 454. the archbishop of Canterbury's letter to him, 455. appointed clerk of the closet to the princess dowager, 1761, ibid. not the Parson Adams of Fielding, 456. his epitaph, 457. his poems characterized by Dr. Johnson,
Youth, the proper employment of, i. 238. modesty and active diligence its amiable ornaments, ii. 47. often deluded and ruined by profuseness and extravagance, 128. too easily ensnared by early immersion in pleasure, 205. a time of enterprise and hope, iii. 26. delighted with sprightliness and ardour, 36. the dangers to which it is often exposed, iv. 324. their fond opinion of their own importance, 411. the forbearance due to young actors on the stage of life, iv. 223.
Zephyretta, her character, ii. 90.
Zoroaster, supposed to have borrowed his institutions from Moses, iv. 161.
Zosima, her epitaph, v. 266. her history, ii. 55.
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