Mohocks, the,11.
Moll Flanders,188,190.
Montagu, Lady M. W.,14,42,44,57,198-202.
Montague, Charles, Earl of Halifax,65,66.
Monument, the,192.
Moral Essays, the,55,et seq.
Moralties or Essays, Letters, etc.,206.
Mrs. Veal, Apparition of,186.
Namur, Taking of,70.
Night Piece on Death,107,108.
Night Thoughts,76,81.
Northern Star, the,104.
Ocean,76.
Ode on St. Cecilia's day,40.
Opera, Italian,127.
Oxford, Harley, Earl of,49.
Parallel in the Manner of Plutarch,206.
Parnell, Thomas,107.
Parties, Dissertation on,221.
Partridge, John,161.
Party feeling, excess of,19,20.
Pastoral Ballad,116.
Pastorals(Pope's),29,191;
(Philips'),98.
Patriotism, Letters on,221.
Patriot King, the,219,221.
Patronage of Literature,5,6.
Peace of Ryswick, the,126.
Persian Tales, the,100.
Peterborough, Earl of,45.
Phalaris, Dissertation on the Epistle of,160,208.
Philips, Ambrose,11,98.
Philips, John,101.
Plague, History of the,189.
Pleasures of Imagination, the,117.
Plot and No Plot, a,193.
Poetry, Rhapsody on,157.
Polly,74.
Polymetis,206.
Pope, Alexander, a representative poet,27;
his life,28-64;
and Dennis,191,195;
and Cibber,96;
and Lady M. W. Montagu,14,42,44,57,199;
and Spence,205;
and Arbuthnot,209.
Pope, Epistle to,81.
Pope's Translation of Homer, Spence's Essay on,206.
Pope, Mrs.,44,59.
Prior, Matthew,5,65-72.
Progress of Wit, the,105.
Projects, Essay on,182.
Prospect of Peace, the,109.
Public Spirit of the Whigs, the,143.
Querist, the,224.
Ramsay, Allan,120.
Rape of the Lock, the,31.
Reader, the,144.
Religion, Condition of,9.
Religion, Natural and Revealed,244.
Religious Courtship, the,189.
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy,126.
Revenge, the,79.
Review, the(Defoe's),185.
Rise of Women, the,108.
Robinson Crusoe,180,187,189.
Rosamond,128.
Roscommon'sEssay on Translated Verse,29.
Rowe, Nicholas,102.
Roxana,188,189.
Royal Convert, the,103.
Ruin of Great Britain, Essay towards Preventing the,223.
Ruins of Rome, the,115.
Rule Britannia,95.
Savage, Richard,246.
Schoolmistress, the,115,116.
Scriblerus, Martin, Memoirs of,178,222.
Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity, the,244.
Seasons, the,86,87,88-92.
Sentiments of a Church of England Man,162.
Serious Call,216,233.
Shaftesbury, Lord,19,52,212-215.
Shakespeare, Pope and Theobald's Editions of,39;
Rowe's Edition,132;
Warburton's Edition,241.
Sheffield, John, Earl of,29,40.
Shenstone, William,115,205.
Shepherd's Week, the,73.
Shortest Way with Dissenters, the,184.
Siege of Damascus, the,245.
Siris,224,228.
Sir Thomas Overbury,246.
Social Condition of the time,10.
Social State of Ireland, Essay on the,224.
Solomon,67,71.
Somerville, William,40,112.
Sophonisba,87.
South Sea Company, the,21.
Spectator, the,11,14,16,19,20,98,117,125,127,128,141,142.
Spence, Joseph,59,205.
Spleen, the,244.
Splendid Shilling, the,101.
Stage defended from Scripture, etc., the,194.
Stage Entertainments, Absolute Unlawfulness of,194,232.
Steele, Sir Richard,125,136-150.
Stella, Journal to,164,166.
Study of History, Letters on the,221.
Swift, Jonathan,34,42,44,48,49,50,51,62,151-175.
Swift, on the Death of Dr.,154.
Tale of a Tub, the,153,158,209.
Tales of the Genii,206.
Tamerlane,103.
Tancred and Sigismunda,88.
Tatler, the,125,140,148,162.
Tea Table, the,144.
Tea Table Miscellany, the,120.
Temple, Sir William,152,160,208.
Temple of Fame, the,33.
Tender Husband, the,137.
Theatre, the,144.
Theobald, Lewis,39,47,48.
Theory of Vision, Essay towards a new,221,225.
Thomson, James,44,47,85-95.
Tickell, Thomas,35,109-111,135.
Tour through Great Britain,190.
Town Talk,144.
Trivia,11,73.
True Born Englishman, the,184.
Trumbull, Sir William,29,34.
Ulysses,103.
Ungrateful Nanny,121.
Universal Passion,80.
Vanhomrigh, Hester,164,222.
Verbal Criticism,118.
Vida'sScacchia Ludus,32.
Vision of Mirza, the,146.
Voltaire,5,41.
Walpole, Sir Robert,6,8,21,41,79.
Walsh, William,28,247.
Wanderer, the,247.
Warburton, Bishop,55,56,62,230,239-241.
Wardlaw, Lady,120.
Warton, Joseph,63.
Watts, Isaac,131.
Welcome from Greece, a,75.
Welsted, Leonard,47.
Wesley, Charles,131.
Wesley, John,67.
Whig Examiner, the,162.
William and Margaret,118.
Winchelsea, Countess of,247.
Windham, Sir W., Letter to,217,221.
Windsor Forest,30.
Women, position of,14,15.
Wood's Halfpence,169,170.
World, the,203.
Wycherley, William,28.
Yalden, Thomas,248.
Young, Edward,15,76-83.
Zara,106.
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