[The firft Number denotes the Book, the fecond the VERSE and NOTE on it. Teft. Teftimonies. Ap. Appendix.]
DDISON (Mr.) railed at by A. Phillips, iii. 326.
A -Abufed by J. Oldmixon, in his Profe
Effay on Criticism, &c. ii. 283.
-by J. Ralph, in a London Journal, iii. 165.
Celebrated by our Author,-Upon his Difcourfe of Medals-In his Prologue to Cato-In his Imitation of Horace's Epistle to Auguftus-and in this Poem, ii, 140.
Falfe Facts concerning him and our Author related by anonymous Perfons in Mift's Journal, &c. Teft. -Difproved by the teftimonies of
The Earl of Burlington,
-Mr. Tickell,
-Mr. Addison himself, ib.
Anger, one of the characteristics of Mr. Dennis's Critical writings, i. 106.
-Affirmation, another: Teft.
[To which are added by Mr. Theobald, Ill-nature, Spite, Revenge, i. 106.]
Altar of Cibber's Works, how built, and how found
Affes, at a Citizen's gate in a morning, ii. 247. Appearances, that we are never to judge by them, efpecially of Poets and Divines, ii. 426. Alehouse, the Birth-place of Mr. Cook, ii. 138. -one kept by Edw. Ward, i. 233. --and by Taylor the Water-poet, iii. 19.
ARNAL, William, what he received out of the Treafury for writing Pamphlets, ii. 315.
ARISTOTLE, his Friends and Confeffors, whom, iv.
-How his Ethics came into difuse, ibid.
BANKS, his Refemblance to Mr. Cibber in Tragedy, i. 146.
BATES (Julius) fee HUTCHINSON (John).
BROOM, Ben Jonfon's man, ibid.
BAVIUS, iii. 24. Mr. Dennis his great opinion of him, ib.
Bawdry, in Plays, not difapproved of by Mr. Dennis, iii. 179.
BLACKMORE, (Sir Rich.) his Impiety and Irreligion, proved by Mr. Dennis, ii. 268.
His Quantity of Works, and various Opinions of them-His abufe of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope, ibid.
Bray, a word much beloved by Sir Richard, ii. 260. Braying, defcribed, ii. 247.
Birch, by no means proper to be applied to young Noblemen, iii. 334.
BL-D, what became of his works, i. 231.
BROOME, (Rev. Mr. Will.) His fentiments of our author's virtue, Test.
Our author of his, iii. 332.
Brooms (a feller of) taught Mr. John Jackson his trade,
Billingsgate language how to be used by learned Au-
BOND, BESALEEL, BREVAL, not living Writers, but Phantoms, ii. 126.
Bookfellers, how they run for a Poet, ii. 31, &c. Bailiffs, how poets run from them, ii. 61.
Bridewell, ii. 269.
Bow-bell, iii. 278.
Balm of Dulness, the true and the fpurious, its efficacy, and by whom prepared, iv. 544.
CIBBER, Hero of the Poem, his Character, i. 107. not abfolutely ftupid, rog. not unfortunate as a Cox- comb, ibid. Not a flow writer, but precipitate, though heavy, 123. His productions the Effects of Heat, though an imperfect one 126. His folly height- ened with Frenzy, 125. He borrowed from Fletcher and Moliere, 131. Mangled Shakespeare, 133. H's Head diftinguished for wearing an extraordinary Peri- wig, 167. more than for its reafoning Faculty, yet not without Furniture, 177. His Elafticity, and Fire, and how he came by them, 186. He was once thought to have wrote a reasonable Play, 188. The general character of his Verfe and Profe, 190. His Conversation, in what manner extenfive and useful, 192, &c. Once designed for the Church, where he fhould have been a Bishop, 200. Since inclined to write for the Minifter of State, 213. but determines to stick to his other talents, what thofe are, 217, &c. His Apoftrophe to his Works before he burns them, 225, &c. His Repentance and tears, 243. Dulness puts out the Fire, 257. Inaugurates and anoints him, 287. His crown, by whom woven, 223. of what compofed, i. 303. who let him into Court, 300. who his fupporters, 307. His Entry, Attendants, and Proclamation, ufque ad fin. His Enthronization, ii. 1. Passes his whole Reign in seeing Shows, through Book ii. And dreaming dreams, through Book iii. VOL. III.
Settle appears to him, iii. 35. Refemblance between him and Settle, iii. 37. and i. 146. Goodman's Prophecy of him, iii. 23z. How he tranflated an Opera, without knowing the Story, 305. and encou- raged Farces because it was against his Confcience, 266. Declares he never mounted a Dragon, 268. Apprehenfions of acting in a Serpent, 287. What were the paffions of his Old Age, 303, 304. Finally fubfides in the lap of Dulnefs, where he refts to all Eternity, iv. zo. and Note.
CIBBER, his Father, i. 31. His two Brothers, 32. His Son, iii. 142. His better Progeny, i. 228. Cibberian Forehead, what is meant by it, i. 218. --read by fome Cerberian, ibid. Note.
COOKE (Tho.) abufed by Mr. Pope, ii. 138. CONCANEN, (Mat.) one of the Authors of the Weekly Journals, ii. 299.
-declared that when this Poem had Blanks, they meant Treason, iii. 297.
-of opinion that Juvenal never fatirized the Po- verty of Codrus, ii. 144.
Corncutter's Journal, what it coft, ii. 314.
Critics, verbal ones, muft have two Poftulata allowed them, ii. I. Cat-calls, ii. 231.
CURLL, Edm. his Panegyric, ii. 58.
His Corinna, and what the did, 70. his Prayer, 80.-Like Eridanus, 182. -Much favoured by Cloacina, 97, &c. Toft in a Blanket, and whipped, 151. -Pillory'd, ii. 3.
Carolina, a curious Flower, its fate, iv. 499, &c.
DULNESS, the Goddefs; her Original and Parents, Her ancient Empire, 17. Her Public Col- lege, i. 29. Academy for Poetical Education, 33. Her Cardinal Virtues, 45, &c.
ductions, and Creation, 55, &c.
Her Ideas, Pro- Her Survey and
Contemplation of her Works, 79, &c. And of her Children, 93. Their uninterrupted Succeffion, 98, &c. to 108. Her appearance to Cibber, 261. She manifefts to him her Works, 273, &c. Anoints him, 287, &c. Institutes Games at his Coronation, ii. 18, &c. The manner how the makes a Wit, ii. 47. A great Lover of a Joke, 34.-And loves to repeat the fame over again, 122. Her ways and means to the Pathetic and Terrible in Tragedy, 225, procure &c. Encourages Chattering and Bawling, 237, &c. And is Patronefs of Party-writing and Railing, 276, &c. Makes ufe of the heads of Critics as Scales to weigh the heavinefs of Authors, 367. Promotes Slumber with the works of the faid Authors, ibid. The wonderful virtue of fleeping in her Lap, iii. 5, &c. Her Elyfium, 15, &c. The Souls of her Sons dipt in Lethe, 23. How brought into the world, 29. Their Transfiguration and Metempfychofis, 50. The Extent and Glories of her Empire, and her Conquefts throughout: he World, iii. 67 to 138. A Catalogue of her Poetical Forces in this Nation, 139 to 212. Prophecy of her Restoration, 333, &c. Accomplishment of it, Book iv. Her appearance on the Throne, with the Sciences led in triumph, iv. 21, &c. Tragedy and Comedy filenced, 37. Ge- neral Affembly of all her Votaries, 73. Her Patrons, 95. Her Critics, 115. Her Sway in the Schools, 149 to 180. And Univerfities, 189 to 274. How the educates Gentlemen in their Travels, 293 to 334. Conftitutes Virtuofi in Science, 355, &c. Free- thinkers in Religion, 459. Slaves and Dependents in Government, 505. Finally turns them to Beafts, but preferves the Form of Men, 525. What fort of Comforters the fends them, 529, &c. What Or- ders and Degrees the confers on them, 565. What. Performances the expects from them, according to their feveral Ranks and Degrees, 583. The power- ful Yawn, the breathes on them, 605, &c, Its Pro-
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