WARD, Dr. John, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, i. 199.
WARD, Seth, Bishop of Salisbury, iii. 362. WARING, Swift's chamber-fellow, iii. 3
WARING, Jane, Swift's Varina, iii. 3 n. 2, 55 2.4.
WARTON, Rev. Dr. Joseph, Addison's Cam- paign, ii. 128; A.'s classical mottoes, 96 n. 2; Akenside's Greek, iii. 416 n. 2; ballad opera, ii. 283 n. 1; Blount, Martha, iii. 274; Bolingbroke's writings, 408 n. 1; Broome, 80 n. 6; Collins's Eclogues, 340 n. 1; C.'s Odes, 335 n. 6; C.'s school fellow, 334 n. 5, 340 n. 1; C.'s uncle, 336 n. 3; C., visits, 340; Congreve's Mourning Bride, ii. 230 n. 1; 'curiosa felicitas,' iii. 236 n. 1; Dobson on Pope's learning, 216 n. 3; Dryden's 'com- mon words,' i. 420 n. 2; Duchess of Bolton, ii. 277 п. 6; - Essay on Pope, dedicated to Young, iii. 383; praised by Johnson, 236; 'good-nature of his criticism,' ii. 128; Head Master of Winchester, iii. 84 n. 5, 277 n. 2, 334; Hudibras's learning, i. 212 n. 6; Johnson, estrangement with, iii. 236 n. 2; J.'s version of Pope's Messiah, 226 n. 3; Mallet's Amyntor and Theodora, 406 n. 5; M.'s Verbal Criticism, 402 n. 2; Oblivion and Obscurity, 427 n. 2; Odes, 335 n. 6; pasto- ral comedy, ii. 284 n. 8; Pitt, C., iii. 277; poets, ranked according to learning, ii. 120 n. 5; Pope's affected contempt of Kings, iii. 209 n. 5; Essay on Criticism, 98 n. 2; P.'s frugality and charity, 203 n. 4; P.'s epithets, 250 n. 3; Iliad and Chapman, 115 n. 3; P.'s lines to Thomson, 291 n. 9; Macer, 313 n. 2; Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 227 n. 2; P. and Philips's Distrest Mother, 314 n. 4; Rape of the Lock, 233 n. 4; P.'s slanders on Addison, 103 n. 5, 133 n. 2; P. and Twyford school, 84 2.5; Prior's Hans Carvel, ii. 201 n. 8; Statius, iii. 92 n. 5; Theobald's Shake- speare, 138 n. 5; Thomson's genius, pointed out, 300 n. 2; T.'s Greek, 282 n. 2; transla- tions of Ovid, 145 n. 1; Vida's Art of Poetry, 278 n. 2; Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, 1. 454 n. 1; Young, iii. 394 п. 4, 395 п. 2, 397 п. 3.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas, Collins, visits, iii. 340; C., visited at Oxford by, 339 n. 2; Milton's Minor Poems, i. 84 n. 2, 108 n. 6; Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen, ii. 162 n. 6; poet-laureate, ureate, i. 482; Pope and Milton's minor poems, iii. 236 n. 2; P.'s Temple of Fame, 226 n. 2; words out of common order, 341 n. 3.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas, the elder, father of the two Wartons, iii. 236 п. 2, 263 n. 1. WARWICK, Countess of, Addison's court- ship and marriage, ii. 110, 154; will and burial, 155.
WARWICK, Earl of, Addison's stepson and pupil, ii. 110; A.'s deathbed, 117; Pope and
Addison quarrel, iii. 133; epitaph, ii. 117 n. 2; irregular life, 117.
WARWICK, Robert Rich, second Earl of, 1. 254 n. 1.
WATTS, Dr. Isaac, Abney, Sir Thomas, lived with, iii. 304; birth, &c., 302; Casi- mir's Odes, i. 46 n. 1; charity, iii. 307; Cowper, praised by, 310 n. 3; Dacian Battle, 310; death, 309; devotional poetry, 310; Dissenters, 'takes his lot with,' 302; D., taught 'graces of language,' 306; diversity of attainments, 310; Divine Songs for Children, Children, 307 n. 8; Doctor of Divinity, 309; Dunciad, inserted in, 311 n. 2; 'gentle, modest, and inoffensive, 307; Haberdashers' Hall con- gregation, 304 n. 1; Hartopp, Sir John, lives with, 304; Hughes, his school fellow, ii. 164 n. 2, iii. 303; H., advice to, ii. 159 n. 5; illness, iii. 304; Improvement of the Mind, 309; 'instruction for all ages,' 310; Johnson inserts him in Eng. Poets, 302; J.'s venera- tion, 302 n. 1, 303; latinity, 302, 303; Logic, 304 n. 3, 308; method of study, 304; Milton's Paradise Lost and Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, 311 n. 3; ministry, called to the, 304; m., methods of his, 307; non- conformity, to be imitated in all but, 311; Odes, his, 303; 'orthodoxy united with charity, 308; Our God, our help in ages past, 311 n. 3; Philosophical Essays, 308 n. 1; 'piety diffused over his works,' 309; 'Pindaric folly,' 303; poetry, criticism of his, 310; Pope's Homer, 251; preaching, 307; Rowe's academy in Little Britain, 303; ser- mon, first, 304; Southampton Free-school, 302; Southey's paper, 302 n. 1; stature, low, 307; 'teacher of a congregation,' ib.; temper, quick, ib.; tenderness to children and poor, ib.; University education, refuses, 302; verse-maker from fifteen to fifty, 303; quotations, 303 п. 7.
WATTS, Isaac, the poet's father, iii. 302, 304.
WATTS, Mr., the printer, ii. 307 n. 7. WAYNFLETE, William of, ii. 300 n. 2. WEBB, Mr. C. C. J., iii. 19 n. 2. WEBBE, William, Discourse of English
WEDDERBURNE, Alexander, Lord Lough- borough, Mallet, iii. 410 n. 2; Shenstone's pension, 353 n. 1; Young's Revenge, quotes against Frankli 397 п. 5. Weekly Miscellany, ii. 388.
WELSTED, Leonard, i. 78. n. 4, iii. 276. WELSTED, Robert, editor of Pindar, iii. 328 n. 2.
WELWOOD, James, M.D., Rowe's Life, ii. 73.
WELWYN, iii. 376, 391. WENTWORTH, see STRAFFORD. WESLEY, Rev. John, Blackmore's Creation, ii. 238 n. 6; Cowley's Age of Anacreon, i. 39 n. 4; Gray's character, iii. 431 n. 5;
Leasowes, 351 n. 2; Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead, 451 n. 4; Paradise Regained, i. 188 n. 7; Thomson's Edward and Eleo- nora, iii. 292 n. 3; travelled on foot, 6
WESLEY, Rev. Samuel, Blenheim, cele- brated, ii. 186 n. 2; Dunciad, inserted in, iii. 311 n. 2; epigram on Butler's monument, i. 208 n. 1.
WEST, Gilbert, Clerkship of Privy Council, iii. 328, 330; Cobham, Lord, his uncle, 328; Coleridge's criticism, 332 n. 5; commission in army, 328; death, 331; Elegy on a Black- bird, wrongly ascribed to him, 333; English Poets, poems omitted in, 331 n. 4; Eton, 328; Gibbon's estimate, 332 n. 3; 'grave without its terrors,' 331; Graeco-Gothic school, 332 n. 5; Hanover, goes with George I to, 328; Imitations of Spenser, 331 n. 4, 332; 'infidelity, listened to blandish- ments of,' 330; Institution of the Garter, 331 n. 4, 332; learning, 329; lost his son, 331; Lyttelton, friendship with, 329; mar- riage, ib.; methodist, called a, 330; Ob- servations on the Resurrection, 329; Oxford, matriculates at, 328; O., D.C.L. by diploma, 329; parentage, &c., 328; Paymaster of Chelsea Hospital, 331 n. 1; piety, 329; Pindar, translation of, 329, 331, 332; P., quotations, 331, 332; Pitt, friendship with, 329; Pope's bequest, 330 n. 1; Prince of Wales' (George III) education offered to him, 330; Townshend, Lord, his patron, 328; West Wickham, life at, 329.
WEST, Rev. Dr. Richard, the poet's father, iii. 328.
WEST, Richard, Gray's friend, iii. 423, 423
WEST, Richard, Chancellor of Ireland, iii. 423 n. 4.
WESTCOTE, William Henry Lyttelton, Lord, iii. 328 nn., 361 п. 1, 457.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Addison's funeral, ii. 156; Butler's monument, i. 208; Congreve's funeral and monument, ii. 227; cost of burial, i. 207 n. 1; Cowley's funeral, 17; Craggs's funeral and epitaph, iii. 259, 260 n. 1; Den- ham, i. 75; Dryden's funeral and monument, 390-3, 486, iii. 261; Gay's funeral and epitaph, ii. 281, iii. 268; Kneller's monu- ment, 264; Milton's monument, i. 150; monuments, FitzGerald on, 314 n. 6; m., Walpole on, iii. 294 n. 5; Newton, Sir Isaac, 270; Oldfield, Mrs., ii. 336 n. 1; Philips's ('Cider') monument, i. 150, 314; Prior's monument, ii. 195; Roscommon's funeral, i. 234; Rowe's funeral and monument, ii. 74, iii. 261; Stepney's epitaph, i. 310; Thom- son's monument, iii. 294; Withers, General, 266.
WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY, i. 106 n. 2. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, Addison's funeral, ii. 156; Busby detains promising boys, 11;
election to University scholarships, i. 65, ii. 2 n. 1, 41; Freind, Head Master, iii. 343 n. 4; Latin pronunciation, i. 133 n. 3; Lewis, an usher, iii. 343 n. 8; Locke and South, i. 332 п. 4; poets at school, Blackmore, ii. 235; Cowley, i. 3, 65; Dryden, 332; Duke, ii. 24; Dyer, iii. 343; Halifax, ii. 41; Hammond, 313; Hill, Aaron, 339 n. 2; King, 26; Prior, 181; Rowe, 66; Smith, 1, 11; Stepney, i. 309; Under Masters, iii. 347.
WEST WICKHAM, iii. 329, 330. WHARTON, Lady Anne, iii. 367, 376. WHARTON, Philip, Duke of, All Souls College, donation to, iii. 369; 'Clodio' in Pope's Epistle to Cobham, 245 n. 7; Young's patron, 364, 368, 369.
WHARTON, Thomas, Marquis of, Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland, Addison, his secretary, ii. 89; character, 90; Hughes's dedication, 161; Lillibullero, 90 n. 2; Young's patron, iii. 367, 368.
WHARTON, Thomas, M.D., Gray's corre- spondent, iii. 421 n. 4.
Whatever is received is received in propor- tion to the recipient, iii. 19. What is everybody's business is nobody's business, iii. 181 n. 5.
WHATLEY, Rev. Robert, iii. 284 n. 4. WHETSTONE, Sir Bernard, Kt., i. 309
WHETSTONE, George, iii. 269 п. 3. WHISTLER, Anthony, Shenstone's friend, iii. 354 n. 4, 358 n. 1, 359.
WHISTON, Rev. William, ii. 81 n. 4, 122
WHITE, Rev. Gilbert, of Selborne, iii. 334 п. 9, 339 п. 2, 341 n. I.
WHITE, Rev. Mr., of Nayland, ii. 252. WHITEFIELD, Rev. George, Pembroke College, Oxford, member of, iii. 359; preaches to Bristol prisoners, ii. 424 n. 1. WHITEHEAD, Paul, Addison and Philips's magistracy, iii. 321 n. 4; Manners, 180. WHITEHEAD, William, poet-laureate, iii. 426, 444.
WHITELOCKE, Bulstrode, i. 259, 270 n. 2. WHITEWAY, Mrs. Martha, Swift's cousin, iii. 1 n. 3, 48 n. 4; last face Swift knew, 48; Legion Club, to have half profit, 46 n. 4; Stella's deathbed, 42 n. 1; Swift's birthday, 49 п. 2.
WHITSHED, William, Chief Justice of Ireland, iii. 34. WIDOWS, marriage with, i. 131 п. 3. WIELAND, ii. 201 n. 8. WIGSTONE MAGNA, iii. 348 n. 1. WILCOX, the bookseller, ii. 260 n. 4. WILKES, John, 'Elkanah Settle,' i. 375
WILKINS, Rev. Dr. John, Warden of Wadham, Royal Society, ii. 33, 38; Sprat's patron, 32, 39.
WILKS, Robert, the actor, described in Tatler, ii. 334 n. 1; Johnson celebrates his virtues, 334; Savage, kindness to, 331, 335, 337-
WILLIAM III, described by Johnson, ii. 66 n. 7; Dorset, his favourite, i. 306; Dryden's Virgil, attacked in, 387 n. 6; D.'s V., Aeneas's portrait resembling him, 480; Garth's praise, ii. 67 n. 1; literature, indifference to, i. 384 n. 4, ii. 85, 239; 'lucky day,' 218; 'Mouse Montagu, 43; poetry liberally patronized by his ministers, 85, 298; Prior's praise, 185; reformation of stage, 223 n. 1; 'resplendent qualities, 185; Sheffield, relations with, 171; 'supplied copious materials for verse or prose, 185; Swift, relations with, iii. 4, 8; 'Tamer- lane' in Rowe's play, ii. 66, 78; Temple and Triennial Bill, iii. 4; tossed in open boat, i. 306; 'worthless scoundrel,' ii. 66 п. 7. William and Margaret, iii. 401 n. 3. WILLIAMS, Anna, ii. 318 n. 3. WILLIAMS, Sir C. H., iii. 454 п. 6. WILLOUGHBY, Warwickshire, ii. 299 п. 4. WILMINGTON, Earl of, see COMPTON, Spencer.
WILSON, Charles, Esq.,' i. 389 п. 6. WILSON, John, The Cheats, i. 382 n. 3. WILSON, Professor John ('Christopher North '), Dryden's heroic plays, i. 338 n. 1; Pope's correctness,' iii. 93 n. 3; Pope and Dryden, 248 п. 2.
WILSON, Mr., a schoolmaster, iii. 411. WIMBORNE, ii. 180. WIMPOLE, ii. 195.
WINCHESTER COLLEGE, Dobson's Latin version of Prior's Solomon, iii. 170 n. 2; elections to New College, 334 n. 7; Harris, a Fellow, 363; poets at school, Collins, 334, 340 n. 1; Otway, i. 241; Philips, J., 312; Pitt, iii. 277; Somervile, ii. 317; Young, iii. 363; - Pope and Twyford, 84 n. 5; Warton, Joseph, Head Master of, 84 n. 5, 277 п. 2; Young's father, a Fellow, 362. WINCHMORE HILL, i. 249 n. 2.
WINDHAM, Right Hon. William, iii. 228
WINDOW TAX, 1. 202 n. 5. WINTER of 1740, iii. 209.
WIT, definitions of, i. 19, 36 n. 2, 68; fashions, has its, 18; 'discordia concors,' 20; 'intellection,' equivalent before Cowley to, 36; 'mixed wit,' 41; Pope's Essay on Criticism, different senses in, iii. 96 п. 4. WITHER, George, i. 237 n. 3. WITHERS, General Henry, iii. 266. WITNEY, ii. 25.
WOGAN, Sir Charles, iii. 93 п. 5.
WOGAN, William, Captain of Westminster
WOLFE, Major-General James, Gray's Elegy, iii. 441 n. 2.
WOLLASTON, Rev. William, Religion of Nature, ii. 425 п. 2.
WOMEN, education in seventeenth and early eighteenth century, i. 143 n. 3; literature in Milton's age, aspired not to, 143; reading, iii. 98 n. 2.
WOOD, Anthony à, Addison, Lancelot, ii. 79 n. 4; Athenae Oxonienses, subscription copies, iii. 109 n. 5; Azaria and Hushai, i. 374; Blackmore, ii. 235; Butler, i. 201; Denham, 70; Dorset, 303; 'industry,' ib.; Life of Milton, 84 n. 2; Milton at Cam- bridge, 88 n. 6, 90 n. 1; Milton's house visited by foreigners, 135; M. and West- minster Assembly, 106; M.'s personal ap- pearance, 151 2.2; Rochester, 221, 222 n. 3; Walsh, 328, 329; Yalden's birth, ii. 297 n. 2; Young's father and grandfather, iii. 362. WOOD, William, account of him, iii. 33 n. 3; 'Wood's halfpence,' 33, 34, 71, 72. WOODCOCK, Captain, Captain. Milton's father-in- law, i. 116.
WOODCOCK, Catherine, Milton's second wife, 'more a favourite,' i. 131; 'poor sonnet to her memory,' 116.
WOODFALL, William, ii. 341 n. 3. WOODHAY, Berkshire, iii. 362. WOODSTOCK PARK, i. 220 n. 4. WOODWARD, Dr. John, 'the Fossilist,' ii.
WOOLLEN ACт, ііі. 345 п. 1. WOOLLEN INdustry, iii. 346 п. 2. WORDSWORTH, William, Akenside at Hampstead, iii. 414 n. 5; A., borrows motto from, 420 n. 2; Brothers, line like prose, i. 193.1. 3; Dryden's ardour and ear, 465 n. 4; D.'s 'night,' 337 n. 3; D.'s translations from Boccaccio, 455 nn.; D.'s Virgil, 449 n. 3; Dyer's Fleece and Ruins of Rome, iii. 345 п. 4, 347 n. 1; D., sonnet on, 347 n. 1; Gray's coldness, 294 n. 1; G.'s Elegy, 441 n. 2; G., estimate of, 440 n. 9; G., poetical diction, 435 n. 4; G.'s Sonnet on the Death of West, 423 n. 4; 'immortal style, not growth of mere genius,' i. 162 n. 6; meta- physical poets, 67; Milton, an aristocrat, 157 n. 3; M.'s Comus and Samson Agonistes, 188 n. 8; M.'s notions on women, 145 n. 2; M.'s Paradise Regained, 147 п. 4; Μ., sonnet to, 132 n. 4; M.'s sonnets, 169 n. 5; Pope and Dryden, iii. 222 n. 6, 276; P.'s early style, 87 n. 5; P.'s Homer, 276; P.'s images of external nature, 300 n. 2; P. 'took plain when heights within reach,' 341 n. 6; P.'s versification, 248 n. 4; sepulchral memo- rials, 263 n. 4; Thomson's blank verse, 298 n.6; T.'s Castle of Indolence and Seasons, 300 n. 2; T., Collins and Dyer, 341 n. 6; Tickell and Johnson, ii. 311.4; quotations, Sonnets, 1. 126 n. 1, 132 п. 4, 169 п. 5. WORDSWORTH, Bishop, Milton's Latin verse, i. 95 n. 4, 113 п. 6. Works
WORLD, judgement must be accepted, iii. 210; wickedness exaggerated, ii. 430 n. 2.
World, The, iii. 448 n. 7. WORRALL, Rev. John, Swift's friend, iii. 29. WORSDALE, James, the painter, iii. 158. WOTTON, Sir Henry, advice to Milton, i. 93; Cowley's Elegy, 36; Provost of Eton, 274.
WOTTON, William, D.D., iii. 11. WOTTON, near Henley-in-Arden, ii. 318. WoTY, William, iii. 337 n. 2. WOWERUS, De Umbra, i. 225, ii. 302. WREN, Sir Christopher, Sprat's Observa- tions on Sorbière's Voyage, ii. 33, 40.
WRIGHT, Dr. W. Aldis, Cowley and Trinity College, Cambridge, i. 65; degrees at Cam- bridge by mandamus, iii. 415 n. 3; Dryden and Trinity College, Cambridge, i. 332 n. 5. WRIGHT, Rev. Dr., of Dorsetshire, i. 135 n. 3.
WRIGHT, Dr., M.D., purchaser of Waller's estate, i. 267 п. 3.
WRIGHT, the printer, iii. 193 п. 4.
WRITING, 'to write without reward suffi- ciently unpleasing,' i. 206; writing with ease only acquired by diligence, 162.
WYCHERLEY, William, Butler and Duke of Buckingham, i. 205; character, iii. 91; Dryden, praised by, 91 n. 3; 'greatest Eng- lish comic ic wit,' ii. 144 n. 4; 'manly Wycher- ley,' i. 402; Pope, friendship and quarrel with, iii. 91, 92, 96 n. 5; P.'s Essay on Criticism claimed for him, i. 72 n. 5; Rochester, mentioned by, 303 п. 8.
WYTHYHAM, iii. 254.
ΧENOPHON, Memorabilia, iii. 358.
YALDEN, John, the poet's father, ii. 297. YALDEN, Rev. Thomas, Addison, friendship with, ii. 298; anecdote of him and Hough, 297; Atterbury's plot, arrested for, 300; birth, &c., 297; Congreve, charged with plagiarizing, 299; Conquest of Namur, 298; Cowley's Pindarics, 301; D.D., 299; death, 301; Dryden's Misc., contributed to, 301 n. 5; Duke of Gloucester's death, poem on, 299; ecclesiastical preferment, 299, 300; High Churchman, 299; Hymn to Darkness, 301; Hymn to Light, 302; Johnson inserts him in English Poets, iii. 302; Magdalen College, ii. 297, 298 n. 2, 299, 300; Mag- dalen College School, 297; Magdalen Hall, ib.; Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, iii. 227 n. 1; Ovid's Art of Love, ii. 303 n. 1; Oxford Laureat, satirized in, 298; poems never before collected, 297 n. 1; Squire Bickerstaff Detected, 303 n. 1; Tickell's Oxford, praised in, 298 n. 2; Waynflete's Lecturer, 299 п. 4.
YALE, Elihu, Governor of Madras, i. 159 n. 4.
YORKE, See HARDWICKE.
• YOUNG, Arthur, Madden and Dublin So- ciety, ii. 131 n. 1.
YOUNG, Rev. Dr. Edward, Addison's Cato, verses prefixed to, iii. 365; A.'s death, ii. 117 п. 3, 118; see ADDISON; alexandrines, excluded, iii. 249 n. 3; All Souls College, 363, 364, 370; 'Altamont,' 385; antithesis, 398; Aquinas, 375; bargain-driving, not his talent, 397 n. 3; battle-field, present at, 390; Biographia Britannica, life, 389; birth, &c., 362; blank verse, 388; bombast, censures, 395 n. 2; books, method of reading, 392; Brothers, The, 375, 385, 397 п. 6; 'Bru- netta and Stella,' 394 n. 6; Busiris, 368, 397; Card, The, ridiculed in, 389; Centaur not fabulous, &c., 385, 389; chaplain to George II, 375; charity school, founded, 389; Clerk of Closet to Princess Dowager, 391; Codrington Library oration, 363; Coleridge's estimate, 399 n. 6; composed at night or on horseback, 395 n. 3; composi- tion, labour and revision in, 399; conceits, 398; Congreve 'smiling at the goal,' ii. 224 n. 1; C.'s legacy to younger Duchess of Marlborough, 227 n. 4; Conjectures on Ori- ginal Composition, iii. 368, 386, 388; Corpus College, Oxford, 363; Court favour, be- sieged, 384; Croft's Life, 362-93; D.C.L., 363; dedications, his, 382, 384; Queen Anne, 366; Queen Caroline, 375; George II, 386; Duke of Chandos, 375; Duke of Dor- set, 372; Duke of Newcastle, 368, 385; Duke of Wharton, 368; Dodington, 372; Countess of Salisbury, 367; Lady Eliz. Ger- maine, 372; Lord Chancellor Parker, 370; Sir Robert Walpole, 369, 372; Sir Spencer Compton, 372; 'dedications wash an Aethiop white,' 369; Dodington's verses and letter to him, 387; D., visits, 377; epilogue, his only, 375; Epistle to Lord Lansdowne, 364, 365; epitaph, his, 392; Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk, 384; Epitaph on his footman, 389; Essay on Lyric Poetry, 373, 374; Fielding, ridiculed by, 376; 'fool at forty,' &c., 371, 384; 'foolish youth,' 364; Force of Religion, 367, 394 п. 2; Foreign Address, 377; 'froths and bubbles, 399 n. 6; funeral, 389; George I's accession, poem on, 367; G. I., congratulates, 371; George II, sermon addressed to, 386; Grafton, Duke of, his patron, 372, 378; Horace and Juvenal, 394 n. 7; housekeeper, his, 389, 391; Howe's Devout Meditations, letter prefixed to, 385; Imperium Pelagi, 375; see Mer- chant, The; inscriptions in garden, 379; Instalment, The, 372; 'involuntary bur- lesque,' 374; Ireland, visited, 368; John- son's criticism of his poems, 393-9; Jonson, Ben, 386; Last Day, 365, 393, 398; legacies to housekeeper and hatter, 389; letter to Pope, 383; Life in Dict. Nat. Biog. by Leslie Stephen, 361 n. 1; Lintot, 142 n. 6; Love of Fame, see Universal Passion; lyrics, 373-6, 395; marriage, 371, 376, 381; Mer- chant, The, 396; MSS. to be burnt, directs,
389; New College, Oxford, 363; night, de- scription of, 399 п. 6; - Night Thoughts, advertised in Gent. Mag., 395 n. 3; Arnold's criticism, 396 n. 2; autobiographical pass- ages, 384; blank verse suited to them, 395; dates of writing and publication, 381, 395 n. 3; Goldsmith and Gray criticized by, 396 n. 2; 'inscribed to great or growing names,' 382; Johnson's criticism, 395; renzo, 379; Philander and Narcissa,' 377; popularity on Continent, 384, 395 n. 4; Pope praised, 382, 383; Scotch, great readers of it, 395 n. 4; simile of cluster of grapes, 398; Sunt lacrymae rerum,' its motto, 445; title 'not affected,' 395 n. 3; wished to be known by it, 384; Ocean, 373, 375, 396; Ode to the King, 373; Old Man's Relapse, 385; orders, entered into, 375; Oxford epigram, included in, ii. 304 n. 1; Paraphrase on Job, iii. 370, 395; Parliamentary candidate, 370; 'patrons, weary of courting earthly,' 382;
payments received, Brothers, 397 п. 6; Night Thoughts, 395 n. 3; Revenge, 397 n. 3; Universal Passion, 372; pen- sioner, 366, 373, 390; Philips, Ambrose, and Julius Caesar, 323 n. 7; 'Pindaric Ode,' 376, 377; poems excluded from author's edition, 365, 372,373, 376, 377, 384, 385; Pope's advice to him when reading for orders, 375; P.'s coarse criticism, 399 n. 6; P.'s epic plan, 189 n. 1, 386; P.'s Essay on Man, 161 п. 2, 165 п. 2, 382; P.'s Iliad, 275, 386; P.'s humorous description of him, 396 n. 9; see POPE; Portland, Duchess of, letters to, 399 n. 6; preached before House of Commons, 375; preacher, popular, 370; preaching, anecdote of his, 370; preferment, solicits, 207 п. 2, 384, 390, 391; Pretender, the, attacks, 385; Queen Anne, his godmother, 362; Queen Caroline, flatters, 371; Rector of Welwyn, 376, 379, 390, 391; Reflections on the publick Situation of the Kingdom, 385; Resignation, 388, 396; Revenge, The, 368, 397; Richardson, Letter to, 368, 386; R., laments, 388; St. James's, preaches at, 390;
Satires, dates when written, 370, 371; dedications, 372; Goldsmith's criticism, 394 n. 8; Johnson's criticism, 394; Preface, 371, 372; published under title of The Universal Passion, 371, 394 n. 3; Swift's estimate of them, 371, 394 п. 8; Savage's Misc., subscribes to, ii. 342 n. 6; Sea-piece, iii. 376; Settle, i. 375 n. 4; Shakespeare, iii. 399 n. 6; similes, 398; skull with lamp, 378; Society for Propagation of Gospel, rospel, gift gilt to, 385; son, his, 378; see YOUNG, Frederic; South Sea losses, 372; Southey's estimate, 393 n. 1;
style, no uniformity of, 393, 399; Swift, anecdote of, 368; S.'s conversation, 60 nn.; S.'s Gulliver's Travels, 38 n. 5; S., men- tioned by, 394 n. 8; Thomson's Autumn, mentioned in, 377; Tickell, friendship with, 370; T.'s Iliad, ii. 308; Tindal, the deist, disputed with, iii. 364; tragedies, 368, 396; translation, 'never condescended' to, 394; True Estimate of Human Life, 375, 378; Tscharner's visit, 391; tutor to Lord Burgh- ley, 369; Two Epistles to Mr. Pope, 376; Universal Passion, see Satires and Love of Fame; versification, 399; Voltaire, dedica- tion to, 376; V., epigram on, ib.; V., not mentioned by, 395 n. 4; Walpole, Sir R., flatters, 369, 372, 373; Warton's Essay on Pope, dedicated to him, 383; Wharton, Duke of, his patron, 364, 368, 369, 370; wife's death lamented in Night Thoughts, 377; w., inscribed no monument to her memory, 392; see YOUNG, Lady Elizabeth; will, his, 389; Winchester, 363; Wish, A, 373; Works, own edition of his, 384; quota- tions, Epistle to Pope, i. 375 n. 4; Instal- ment, iii. 369, 372, 373; Last Day, 378, 398 n. 4; Letter to Mr. Tickell, ii. 308 п. 4, iii. 370; Merchant, 398; Night Thoughts, 165 п. 2, 380, 382, 383, 384, 398 π. 3; Ocean, 395 n. 2; Resignation, 388, 389, 396 n. 4; Revenge, 397 n. 5; Sea-piece, 376; Satires, ii. 224 n. 1, iii. 369, 371, 399, 436 n. 7; Wish, 373, 374-
YOUNG, Rev. Edward, the poet's father, iii. 362, 363, 367.
YOUNG, Lady Elizabeth (Lee), the poet's wife, marriage, iii. 376; Queen Caroline godmother to her daughter, 371; death, 377; monument, 392.
YOUNG, Elizabeth, Thomson's 'Amanda,' iii. 298 n. 4.
YOUNG, Frederic, the poet's son, birth, iii. 381; Johnson visits him, 399 n. 6; not 'Lorenzo' in Night Thoughts, 379; Oxford career, 381; Prince of Wales, his god- father, 378; Dr. Young's epitaph, writes,
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