of his affection, is evident from a deed of the 10th of March, 1717, by which he binds himself in an annuity of Forty Pounds, during the term of six years, to be paid to her yearly on the 25th of March, on condition that the said Teresa should not have married during the said six years, which condition she agreed to. There is a great probability that this agreement was with a view to a connubial settlement, but then Pope was living with his parents, whose old age and habits would probably have little agreed with the taste and inclination of a fashionable young lady."
Verses of and to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, page 148.-The Editor has ascertained that the "Verses written in the Chiosk at Pera," and the Verses addressed to Lady Mary ("In beauty or wit," &c.), first appeared in a Miscellany of Original Poems published in 1720 by Anthony Hammond. Hammond was a friend of Lady Mary, and he states that the poems in his Miscellany were then first published from their original manuscripts. This is in favour of the genuineness of the two poems, though a wrong date is affixed to the "Verses written in the Chiosk at Pera." In the Miscellany these verses are given as "by a Lady," but in the index they are said to be "by the Lady M. W. M." At page 274 of the work appear the "Verses to the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, by Mr. Pope." The Editor still thinks that these verses have little or nothing of Pope's peculiar manner, but he is reminded of the poet's remark to Spence: "There is nothing more foolish than to pretend to be sure of knowing a great writer by his style."
A. POPE's signature in Grub-street Memoirs, 272 Addison, Pope's complimentary letter to, 56; deferential respect paid to Addison, 57; disservice to Pope, 118; misunderstanding with Addison, 126, 127, 128; Cato produced, 93; Pope's ad- verse opinion of Cato, 92; at- tacks Dennis on Addison's ac- count, 95; Addison's non-ap- proval of Pope's interference, 97; Addison's death a monitory knell, 210; than Addison's no brighter page in literature, 131 Adoration of Pope for Martha Blount, 72
Alexander, Prince of Rhodes, 25, 26
Alexander, pseudonym of James Moore-Smythe, addressed to Martha Blount, 439 Alexis, from the same to Teresa Blount, 71, 439
Allen, Ralph, of Prior Park, 322, 357, 369, 378, 383, 384, 396, 402, 453
Allen, Mrs., quarrel with Martha Blount, 377, 380, 384 Anti-Catholic propensities of Pope,
Apology for proneness of resent- ment, 74 Arbuthnot, Dr., introduced by Swift to Pope, 104; could do everything but walk, 104; for- tunate appointments, ib.; ex-
cursive avowed opinion of Bolingbroke, 226; last letter from Hampstead, 311; Pope's reply, 312 Arbuthnot, Mrs. Ann, in no way degenerate from her father, 352, 386, 389; letter to Martha Blount, 429, 430; Pope's be- quests to her, 452, 453 Arbuthnot, George, her brother, 452, 456
Arran, Lady, 84, 85 note Asthma of Pope's immovable, 386 Astrological calculations during Pope's infancy, 2
Atossa, i.e. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 316, 392, 393 Atterbury, Bishop, 120; condoling advice, 162; approving nod, 200, 206; treasonable correspondence, 210; defence not dissimilar to Earl Strafford's, 211; exiled, 214; exchanged, as he averred, for Bolingbroke, 224; his scep- ticism doubtful, 213; dies in France, and is interred in West- minster Abbey, 215
Atticus, a pseudonym for Addi- son, 119
Auction of uncommon curiosities, 249
Aughterlony, 449
Authors and dunces under initials explained, 244
Avowal of love to Teresa Blount,
Axioms in Essay and Epistles pro- found, 416
Ayre, William, absurd misrepre- sentations, 129, 293
Aytoun, Professor, 416
Bible, presented by Atterbury,
Bicknell, Mrs., celebrated as an actress, 137, 200, 205 Bill of complaint, 311 Bilston, 121
Baillie, Grizel, subsequently Lady Binfield, Pope's father retires to,
Murray, 199, 203
Barber, Alderman, 348 Barrier Treaty, 108
Bath Abbey bells ring in Pope, 137; the amusements there de- scribed, 137, 138; Bath, 377 Bathurst, Lord, 304, 311, 348, 402 Battersea, Lord Bolingbroke's, 226, 381, 383, 386, 387, 396 Battle of the Frogs and Mice, translated by Parnell, 234 Bavius, of Grub-street Journal,
John Martyn, F.R.S., 272 Beach, Mary, Pope's nurse, 19, 337 Bead roll of Beauties, 68 Beddington, Hertfordshire, 219 Beggar's Opera, its transcendant success, 58, 242
Belinda, Mrs., ie. Mrs. Arabella
14; the neighbourhood de- scribed, 18; exchanged for Chis- wick, 147
Birth of Pope, date controverted, 3 Black crayon hall decoration, 226 Blackmore, Sir Richard, 141, 242 Bladdery swell of management,
Blount of Sodington family, 466- 469
Blow unfelt, the tear he never shed, 269
Blue Ball, Great Wild-street, 37 Bolingbroke's character, 109, 110;
his literary merits examined,1 225; return from exile, 224, 226; metaphysical propositions, 295; alarmed by landing of the Pre- tender, 383; ungallant to Mar- tha Blount, 386; affected by Pope's death, 388; reasons on actualities, 389; particulars re- lative to Atossa, 393; traduces Pope, 397
Booth, Barton, player, 201, 208 Borlase, Rev. William, 447
Castle-yard, Holborn, now Castle- street, 456
Catholic families, Pope's inti- macy with the most opulent,
Catholics prohibited within ten miles of London, 382 Caution and management illus- trated, 411
Cave of Spleen, 131 Chalmers, Alexander, notes on Pope's letters, 66 note Chandos, Duke of, 289, 290 Chapman's translation of Homer, consulted by Pope, 111 Characters of Women, 316 Charles-street, residence of Martha Blount, 149
Chaucer's robust intellect, 362 Cheney, or Cheyne, "huge of size," 201, 207
Cheselden, the surgeon, 385, 389 Chesterfield, Earl of, 390 note; 402, 409
Chiswick, Pope and his mother's residence, 147 Chloe, 316
Christina, wife of Samuel Cooper, Pope's mother's sister, 12 Chronology of Pope's writings, 469- 472
Church or cavalier, Pope no martyr for either, 145
Cibber, Colley, excites Pope's hos- tility, 157, 158; substituted for Theobald, in the Dunciad, 373; his Apology "one of the most delightful gossiping books," 375; poet laureate, 271; desig- nated" that feather of a wit,” 369, 371; letter to Pope, 372; verses on Pope's death, 391 Cleland, Colonel, 260 Cleland," Pope Alexander's man William," 258, 263, 290 Cleland, John, fabricator of Lady M. W. Montagu's letters, 148,
Cloris, an unfortunate lady, Mrs. Weston, 79
Coach and six, Pope nearly drowned in one, 238 Collected edition of Pope's Poems,
Congreve, William, rich in sine- cures, 35; inheritor of Dryden's fame, 2; his death, 4 Connexion of Pope with the Blounts examined, 78 Cooper, Samuel, "Vandyke in miniature," 12; his wife Chris- tiana, Pope's aunt, 12, 88, 89; Cooper monument in St. Pancras Church, 13
Cooper, Mrs. Mary, bookseller, 381 Cope, Mrs., 86
Corinna, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Henry Cromwell's mistress, 373,
Court of Dulness, by Lady M. W. Montagu, 301
Court Poems, published by "shame- less" Curll, 150, 152 Cowley, in spite of his faults, a
Cowper, Ashley, editor of Nor- folk Poetical Miscellany, 221
Cowper, Judith, subsequently Mrs.
Madan, 220, 222, 223, 247 Cowper, William, author of "The Task," 223
Cox, Bessy, Prior's Chloe, 205 Craggs, elder, repartee to Arthur Moore, 70 note; proffered pen- sion to Pope, 110 Croker, John Wilson, 393 note Cromwell, Henry, characterised by
Gay, 36; a "slovenly beau," 40; Pope's letters to him, surrepti- tiously obtained and sold by his mistress, Mrs. Thomas, 318, 320, 326; his death, 45 Cross Inn, Oxford, 405 Crousaz's system not understood by Pope, 356
Curll, "dauntless," piratical pub- lications of Pope's letters, 149, 317, 363, 441, 443 Cypress-tree planted by Pope, 17
Dartneuf, 66 grave joker," distin- guished epicure, 201, 207 Dates, Pope's mischievously erro- neous, 123, 167, 336, 337 Dawley, Lord Bolingbroke's resi- dence, 227, 333, 351
Days of beauty, days of greatness,
Dean of St. Patrick's, a title made immortal by Swift, 100 Death-bed penitential fervour, 390 Death of Pope imperceptible to his attendants, 391 Delany, Dr., 256, 315 Descriptive poetry depreciated by Pope, 18
Desperately wild and wicked, 76 Dennis's abuse of Pope, 51; Pope satirises Dennis, 95; Dennis's character of Pope, 152; com- ments on Pope's Iliad, 197; his thunder amalgamated with Ros- coe's fear, 318
Devil Tavern, Fleet-street, 59 Dick Distich, Pope so charac- terised in the Guardian, 408 Didappers, authors long under water, 243
Digby, Hon. Robert, 223; his last letter to Pope, 443 Dirty Patty Blount, 77 note Disney, Colonel " Duke," reaps his opima spolia, 136; parti- culars respecting him, 202 note Dissimulation of Pope attributed to bodily weakness, 410 Dodsley, Robert, commenced book- seller by Pope's assistance, 409; prosecuted as a hint to Pope, 350
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