manifests to him her works, i. 147, &c. Anoints him, ib. &c. Institutes games at his coronation, ii. 149. &c. The manner how she makes a wit, ii. 150. A great lover of a joke, 149.-And loves to repeat the same over again, 151. Her ways and means to procure the pathetic and terrible in tragedy, 155, &c. Encourages chattering and bawling, ib. &c. And is patroness of party-writing and railing, 156, &c. Makes use of the heads of critics as scales to weigh the heaviness of authors, 158. Promotes slumber with the works of the said authors, 159. The wonderful virtue of sleeping in her lap, iii. 160, &c. Her elysium, ib. &c. The souls of her sons dipped in Lethe, 161. How brought into the world, ib. Their transfiguration and metempsychosis, ib. The extent and glories of her empire, and her conquests throughout the world, iii. 162. A catalogue of her poetical forces in this nation, 163 to 165. Prophecy of her restoration, 167. Accomplishment of it, book iv. Her appearance on the throne, with the Sciences led in triumph, iv. 170. Tragedy and Comedy silenced, ib. General assembly of all her votaries, 171. Her patrons, ib. Her critics, 172. Her sway in the schools, 172, 173. And universities, 174, 175. How she educates gentlemen in their travels, 176. Constitutes virtuosi in science, 177. Free-thinkers in religion, 179. Slaves and dependents in government, ib. Finally turns them to beasts, but preserves the form of men, 180. What sort of comforters she sends them, ib. What orders and degrees she confers on them, ib. What performances she expects from them, according to their several ranks and degrees, 181. The powerful yawn she breathes on them, ib. Its progress and effects, ib. till the consummation of all, in the total extinction of the reasonable soul, and restoration of Night and Chaos, usq. ad fin. 182. Dispensary of Dr. Garth, ii. 153. De Foe, Daniel, in what resembled to William Prynn, i. FALSEHOODS, told of our author in print, -Of his taking verses from James Moore, Test. -And of his intending to abuse bishop Burnet, ib. By John Dennis, of his really poisoning Mr. Curl, i. 142. -And of contempt for the sacred writings, ii. 156. -By Edward Ward, of his being bribed by a duchess to satirize Ward of Hackney in the pillory, iii. 161. -By Mist the journalist, of unfair proceeding in the undertaking of the Odyssey and Shakspeare, Test. -Disproved by the testimony of the Lords Harcourt and Bathurst. -By Mist, the journalist, concerning Mr. Addison and him, two or three lies, Test. -By Pasquin, of his being in a plot, iii. 164. -By Sir Richard Blackmore, of his burlesquing Scripture, upon the authority of Curl, ii. 156. Fletcher, made Cibber's property, i. 143. Mac Fleckno, not so decent and chaste in the diction as the Dunciad, ii. 151. Friendship, understood by Mr. Dennis to be somewhat else in Nisus and Euryalus, &c, iii. 164, French cooks, iv. 180. Furius, Mr. Dennis called so, by Mr. Theobald, i. 142. Fleet-ditch, ii. 156. Its nymphs, 158. Discoveries there, ib. Flies, not the ultimate object of human study, iv. 178. Falsehoods and flatteries permitted to be inscribed on churches, i. 140. Good-nature of our author; instances of it in this work, i. 148; ii. 156. Good sense, grammar, and verse, desired to give place for the sake of Mr. Bez. Morris and his works, iii. 164. GILDON (Charles) abused our Author in many things. Test. i. 147. -Printed against Jesus Christ, i. 147. GILDON and DENNIS, their unhappy difference lamented, iii. 164. Gentleman, his Hymn to his Creator, by Welsted, ii. 155. Gazetteers, the monstrous price of their writings, ii. 157, the miserable fate of their works, ib. HANDEL, an excellent musician, banished to Ireland by the English nobility, iv. 171. Heydeggre, a strange bird from Switzerland, i. 147. -Did not know what he was about when he wrote his HENLEY (John the Orator) his Tub and Eucharist, ii. 149. His history, iii. 165. His opinion of ordination and christian priesthood, ib. His medals, ib. HAYWOOD (Mrs.) What sort of game for her, ii. 153. Won by Curl, 154. Her great respect for him, 153. The offspring of her brain and body (according to Curl, ib. Not undervalued by being set against a jordan, 153. Hints, extraordinary ones, ii. 156. HORNECK and ROOME, two party-writers, iii. 163. Index-learning, the use of it, i. 147. Journals, how dear they cost the nation, il. 157. Jus Divinum, iv. 173. Impudence, celebrated in Mr. Curl, ii. 153, 154. -in Mr. Norton de Foe, ii. 160. in Mr. Henley, iii. 165. in Mr. Cibber, jun. iii. 163. in Mr. Cibber, sen. passim. Lord-Mayor's show, i. 141. Log (King), i. 148. Lintot (Bernard), ii. 150. Laureate, his crown of what composed, i. 148. Madmen, two related to Cibber, i. 140. MOORE (James) his story of six verses, and of ridiculing Bishop Burnet in the Memoirs of a Parish-clerk, proved false, by the testimonies of -The Lord Bolingbroke, Test. - Hugh Bethel, Esq. ib. Earl of Peterborough, ib. - Dr. Arbuthnot, ib. His plagiarisms, some few of them, ib. and ii. 150. What he was real author of (beside the story abovementioned.) Vide list of scurrilous papers. Erasmus, his advice to him, ii. 150. Profaneness, not to be endured in our author, but very allowable in Shakspeare, i. 141. Party-writers, their three qualifications, ii. 156. MILBOURN, a fair critic, and why, ii. 158. Madness, of what sort Mr. Dennis's was according to Plato, i. 142. -According to himself, ii. 156. Mercuries and Magazines, i. 140. May-pole in the Strand, turned into a church, ii. 149. Monuments of poets, with inscriptions to other men, iv. 172. Medals, how swallowed and recovered, iv. 177. Nodding, described, ii. 159. Needham's, i. 148. Νοῦς, iv. 174. OLDMIXON (John) abused Mr. Addison and Mr. Pope, ii. 156. Falsified Daniel's History, then accused others of falsifying Lord Clarendon's; proved a slanderer in it, ib. - abused Mr. Eusden and my Lord Chamberlain, i. 142. Odyssey, falsehoods concerning Mr. P.'s proposals for that work, Test. Disproved by those very proposals, ib. Owls and opium, i. 147. Oranges and their use, i. 146. Opera, her advancement, iii. 167. iv. 170. Opiates, two very considerable ones, ii. 159. Their efficacy, 159. Owls, desired to answer Mr. Ralph, iii. 163. POPE (Mr.) his life] Educated by Jesuits-by a parson-by a monk at St. Omer's-at Oxford-at home-no where at all, Test, init. His father, a merchant, a husbandman, a farmer, a hatter, the devil, ib. -His death threatened by Dr, Smedley, ib. but afterwards advised to hang himself, or cut his throat, ib. To be hunted down like a wild beast, by Mr. Theobald, ib. unless hanged for treason, on information of Pasquin, Mr. Dennis, Mr. Curl, and Concanen, ib. Poverty, never to be mentioned in Satire, in the opinion of the journalists and hackney-writers-The poverty of Codrus, not touched upon by Juvenal, ii. 153. When, and how far poverty may be satirised, letter, p. 125. Whenever mentioned by our author, it is only as an extenuation and excuse for bad writers, ii. 156. Personal abuses not to be endured, in the opinion of Mr Dennis, Theobald, Curl, &c. ii. 152. Personal abuses on our author, by Mr. Dennis, Gildon, &c. ib.-by Mr. Theobald, Test.-By Mr. Ralph, iii. 163. -By Mr. Welsted, ii. 164.-By Mr. Cooke, ii. 152.-By Mr. Concanen, ii. 157.-By Sir Richard Blackmore, ii. 156.-By Edward Ward, iii. 161.-and their brethren. passim. Personal abuses of others. Mr. Theobald of Mr. Dennis for his poverty, i. 142. Mr. Dennis of Mr. Theobald for his livelihood by the stage, and the law, i. 147. Mr. Dennis of Sir Richard Blackmore for impiety, ii. 156. Dr. Smedley of Mr. Concanen, ii. 157. Mr. Oldmixon's of Mr. Eusden, i. 142. Of Mr. Addison, ii. 156. Mr. Cook's of Mr. Eusden, i. 142. Politics, very useful in criticism, Mr. Dennis's, i. 142; ii. 159. Pillory, a post of respect, in the opinion of Mr. Curl, iii, 161 and of Mr. Ward, ib. Plagiary, described, ii. 150, &c. Priori, Argument a priori not the best to prove a God, iv. 178. Poverty and poetry, their cave, i. 140. His praises of himself above Mr. Addison, 164. Swiss of heaven, who they are, ii. 158. Silenus described, iv. 179. Scholiasts, iii. 165. iv. 174. Supperless, a mistake concerning this word set right with respect to poets and other temperate students, i. 143. Sevenfold Face, who master of it, i. 146. Soul (the vulgar soul) its office, iv. 178. Schools, their homage paid to dulness, and in what, iv. 172. TIEBALD, not hero of this poem, i. init. Published an edition of Shakspeare, i. 143. Author secretly, and abettor of scurrilities against Mr. P. Vide Test. and List of Books. Thule, a very Northern Poem, puts out a fire, i. 147. Tailors, a good word for them, against poets and ill paymasters, ii. 151. Thunder, how to make it by Mr. Dennis's receipt, ii. 155. Traveling described, and its advantages, iv. 175. WARD (Edw.) a poet and alehouse-keeper in Moorfields, i. 146. What became of his works, ib. His high opinion of his namesake, and his respect for the pillory, iii. 161. WELSTED (Leonard) one of the authors of the weekly journals, abused our author, &c. many years since, ii. 155. Taken by Dennis for a Didapper, ib. The character of his poetry, iii. 164. Weekly journals, by whom written, ii. 156. Wizard, his cup, and the strange effects of it, iv. 179. IMITATIONS OF HORACE. EPISTLE VII. IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR. SWIFT. 'Tis true, my lord, I gave my word, "The dog-days are no more the case." "Tis true, but winter comes apace: Then southward let your bard retire, Hold out some months 'twixt sun and fire, And you shall see, the first warm weather, Me and the butterflies together. My lord, your favours well I know; "Tis with distinction you bestow; And not to every one that comes, Just as a Scotsman does his plums : "Pray take them, sir.-Enough's a feast : Eat some, and pocket up the rest." What, rob your boys? those pretty rogues ! Now this I'll say, you'll find in me A weasel once made shift to slink Nor one that temperance advance, All that may make me none of mine. SATIRE VI. THE FIRST PART IMITATED IN THE YEAR 1714, BY DR. SWIFT, THE LATTER PART ADDED AFTERWARDS. I'VE often wish'd that I had clear Well, now I have all this and more, I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, "If I ne'er got or lost a groat, As thus, 'Vouchsafe, O gracious Maker! I must, by all means come to town, "Tis for the service of the crown. "Lewis, the dean will be of use, Send for him up, take no excuse." The toil, the danger of the seas, Great ministers ne'er think of these ; Or let it cost five hundred pound, No matter where the money's found. It is but so much more in debt, And that they ne'er consider'd yet." "Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town." I hurry me in haste away, Not thinking it is levee-day; And find his honour in a pound, Hemm'd by a triple circle round, Chequer'd with ribbons blue and green : How should I thrust myself between ? Some wag observes me thus perplext, And smiling, whispers to the next, thought the dean had been too proud, Tells me I have more zeal than wit: get a whisper, and withdraw : "Tis (let me see) three years and more, And chose me for an humble friend ; And question me of this and that; As, "What's-o'clock?" And, "How's the wind?" "Whose chariot's that we left behind?" Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs; Or, "Have you nothing new to-day From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay?" My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down "How think you of our friend the dean? What, they admire him for his jokes-- 66 I know no more than my Lord Mayor, They stand amazed, and think me grown The closest mortal ever known. Thus in a sea of folly toss'd, A neighbour's madness or his spouse's, A man of merit or a miser? Whether we ought to choose our friends, Our friend Dan Prior told, you know, A tale extremely à propos : He did his best to seem to eat, And cried," I vow you're mighty neat. May yield, God knows, to strong temptation. Behold the place, where if a poet Our courtier walks from dish to dish, "An't please your honour," quoth the peasant, A crust of bread, and liberty !" BOOK IV.-ODE I. TO VENUS. AGAIN! new tumults in my breast? As in the gentle reign of my queen Anne. Nor circle sober Fifty with thy charms. Mother too fierce of dear desires! Turn, turn to willing hearts your wanton fires. To number five direct your doves, There spread round MURRAY all your blooming loves ; Noble and young, who strikes the heart To charm the mistress, or to fix the friend. Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind : To him each rival shall submit, Make but his riches equal to his wit. Then shall thy form the marble grace, (Thy Grecian form) and Chloë lend the face: His house embosom'd in the grove, Sacred to social life and social love, Shall glitter o'er the pendent green, Where Thames reflects the visionary scene: Thither, the silver-sounding lyres Shall call the smiling Loves, and young Desires; the vernal garlands bloom no more. And all the kind deceivers of the soul! Steals down my cheek, the involuntary tear? Why words so flowing, thoughts so free, Stop, or turn nonsense, at one glance of thee? Thee, drest in fancy's airy beam, Absent I follow through the extended dream; Now, now I seize, I clasp thy charms, And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms; And swiftly shoot along the Mall, Or softly glide by the canal, Now shown by Cynthia's silver ray, And now, on rolling waters snatch'd away. PART OF THE NINTH ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK. A FRAGMENT. LEST you should think that verse shall die, Above the reach of vulgar song; Though daring Milton sits sublime, Sages and chiefs long since had birth Ere Cæsar was, or Newton named; Those raised new empires o'er the earth, And these, new heavens and systems framed. Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. They had no poet, and are dead. In vain they schemed, in vain they bled! |