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hints at the vast number of his unpublished works, 98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. 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, THE END.