Boileau, his opinion of epick poetry, ii. 356. His fentiments on the power of diction, vii. 164. Bolingbroke, Lord, fuppofed to have declared his opinions to Mr. Hooke, though he concealed them from Pope, iv. 70. Pope leaves his MS. papers to him, 87. Burns 15co copies of the Patriot King, printed by Pope, without his knowledge, 88. Employs Mallett to traduce the memory of Pope, and Warburton defends it, 88. Leaves his works to Mallett, 284. Bombafine, Mrs. her character, v. 74. Books, the study of them not fufficient to conftitute literary eminence, vii. 86. Obfervations on the multiplication of, viii. 343. Compilations in general useless, 343. Multiplication of books distracts choice, and difappoints enquiry, 376. Of travels, moft generally read of any, and in general disappoint their readers, 386. How they tend to the civilization of mankind, ix. 150. The various motives to reading, 152. Bookfellers, their treatment of authors complained of, viii. 222. Royle, Robert, philosophy much improved by his discoveries, vi. 225. His opinion of the best expedients for promoting manufactures, vii. 352. Bracelet, obfervations on the re-appearance of it, viii. 155. Propofal to make them a mark of distinction of the character or temper of the wearer, 156. Proper emblems for foldiers to wear on bracelets, 158. Braidwood, Mr. account of his academy at Edinburgh for the deaf and dumb, x. 520. Brazil, account of the Indians on that coast, iv. 423. Brevity, on what occafions it is neceffary and useful in an author, v. 5. Brodeus, Græcorum epigrammatum verfiones metricæ, xi. 407. fchool, 10. Objected to as a fervant, because she could read and work, 101. Goes to London, and an account of the various places fhe engaged in there, 102. 113. Five hundred pounds left her by her mistress, with which the refolves to retire into the country, and teach poor girls to read and write, 116. Broome, William. born in Chefhire, iii. 414. Educated upon the foundation at Eton, and fent to St. John's College, 414. In conjunction with Ozell and Oldisworth, tranflates the Iliad, 415. Aflifts Pope in the notes to the Iliad, 415. Some pieces of his poetry in Pope's Mifcellanies, 415. Affifts Pope in the tranflation of the Odyffey, 415. Affitted Pope in the notes to the Iliad, iv. 26. And in the tranflation of the Odyffey, 48. Wrote all the notes to the Odyffey, 49. Wrote the notes to Pope's Odyffey, 129. Browne, Edward, M. D. his life, iv. 603. Son of Sir T. Browne, born at Norwich, 1642, 603. Educated at Norwich, first entered at Cambridge, and remoyed to Oxford, 603. Travelled through Germany, Germany, Auftria, Hungary, and Theffaly, 1668 and 1669, 603. Published his Travels, 603. Phyfician to Charles II. and Bartholomew Hofpital, 603. Aflifts in the tranflation of Plutarch's Lives, 603. Prefident of the College of Phyficians, and died 1708, 604. Brown, Thomas, anfwers Dryden's Hind and Panther, ii. 352. Some account of him, 353 Browne, Sir Thomas, his life, iv. 581. Defcended from a family in Cheshire, and born at London, 1605, 581. Educated at Winchester, 581. Deprived of part of his fortune by a guardian, 582. Entered Gentleman Commoner at Oxford, 1623, 582. Practifed Phyfick in Oxfordshire, 582. Goes to Ireland with his father-in-law, 582. Travels through France and Italy, 582. Created M. D. at Leyden, 583. Returns to London about 1634, 583. Wrote Religio Medici, 1635, 583. Hiftory of that publication, 584. Tranflated in:o Latin, Italian, German, Dutch, and French, 588. Settled at Norwich, 1636, 589. Incorporated M. D. at Oxford, 1637, 589. Married Mrs. Mileham, 1641, 589. Printed his Enquiry into Vulgar Errors, 1646, 595. Writes his Hydriotaphia, 1658, 592. His Account of the Belief of the Antients of a Future State, 593. His Treatise on the Garden of Cyrus, 594. His partiality to quincunx figures, 594. Two collections of his pofthumous works, one published by Dr. Tenifon, the other, 1722, 596. Account of thefe collections, 596. Chofen Honorary Fellow of the College of Phyficians, 166, 601. Knighted by Charles II. 1671, 601. Died at Norwich, 1682, 601. His epitaph, 6c2. His character by Mr. Whitefoot, 604. Remarks on his ftyle of writing, 611. Some expreffions in his works tending to deism and atheism, accounted for, 612. Browny (the fairy), account of, x. 448. Brun, Le, faying of Prior to the king of France on the paintings of, iii. 132. Buccarelli, the propriety of his attack of Fort Egmont confidered, x. 73. Buckingham, Edmund, Duke of, Pope's epitaph on him, with the Vifitor's criticifms, iv. 157. Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, characterizes Dryden under the character of Bayes, in the Rehearsal, ii. 342. His life, iii. 119. Son of Edmund Earl of Mulgrave, was born 1649, 119. Not fatisfied with his tutor, undertakes his own education at twelve years of age, 119. Served under Prince Rupert, in the war against the Dutch, 119. Commanded an independent troop of horse, 120. Had a quarrel with the Earl of Rochester, 120. Served at fea in the Dutch war, 1672, 120. Obtains a Garter, and made Gentleman of the Bed-chamber, 121. Entered into the French fervice, 121. Lieutenant of Yorkshire, and Governor of Hull, 121. Sent with 2000 men to the relief of Tangier, 121. Accepts places under King James, whom he attends to maf, 121. Acquiefces in the Revolution, 123. Made Marquis of Normanby, 1694, 124. Re ceived into the Cabinet Council, with a penfion of 3,000l. 124. Said to have courted Queen Anne, when young, 124. Made Lord, Privy Seal, 124. Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of York fhire, 124. Made Duke of Normanby, and after of Buckingham. fhire, 124. Joined the Tories, 124. Offered the Chancellorship, 124. Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold, 124. After the Queen's death, oppofed the Court, 124. Died Feb. 24, 1720-21, 125. His character, 125. Story of a workman extorting his bill on the leads of Buckingham-house, 125. His character as a writer, 126. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 176. Bucolus, his account of Mrs. Bufy's economical character and conduct, vi. 426. Budgel, Euftace, writes the Epilogue to Philips's translation of Racine's Andromache, iv. 191. Buller of Buchan, account of the extraordinary cavity there, x. 334. Burke, Edmund, review of his Philofophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, x. 199. Burman, Peter, his life, iv. 480. Born at Utrecht, 1668, 480. Educated at Utrecht, and admitted into the University in his thirteenth year, 481. His quick acquirement of learning, 481. Becomes a pupil under Grævius, 482. Studied Philofophy at Leyden, 483. Doctor of Laws, 1688, 484. Travelled into Switzerland and Germany, 484. Collector of the Tenths, 1691, 484. Vifits Paris, 1714, where he is introduced to Montfaucon, 485. Profeffor of History, Eloquence, and the Greek Language, at Leyden, 1715, 487. Chief Librarian at Leyden, 488. Died March 31, 1741, 489. His character, 489. Catalogue of fome of his works, 491. Burnet, Gilbert, Obfervations on Dryden's Answer to his Remarks on Varillas, ii. 351. Business, the neglect of it foolish and pernicious, vii. 240. The folly of a man's attempting to do too much bufinefs himself, by which all is neglected: exemplified in the hiftory of Jack Whistler, viii. 72. Very feldom reckoned a pleasure, 405. Buffle, Lady, her character expreffive of the active scenes of a country life, v. 325. Bufy, Mrs. the particularities of her character, vi. 426. Butler, Samuel, affifted Buckingham in writing the Rehea fal, ii. 342. His life, 177. The fon of a farmer at Strenfham, Worcesterfhire, born 1612, 177. Not known whether he was of either Univerfity, 178. Clerk to a Juftice of the Peace in Worcestershire, 179. Amuled himself in Mufick and Painting, 179. Taken into the family of the Countess of Kent, 179. Afterwards into the family of Sir S. Luke, 17. Secretary to the Earl of Carbury, and Steward of Ludlow Castle, 180. Married Mrs. Herbert, 180. Part I. of Hudibras published, 1663. Part II. 1664, 180. Suppofed to have been Secretary to the Duke of Buckingham, when Chancellor of Cambridge, 181. Story of his being to be introduced to the Duke of Bucks, by Mr. Wycherly, 181. Part III. of Hudibras published, 1678, 182. Died 1680, and interred in the church-yard of Covent-Garden, 182. Reported to have received 100 7. a year of the Treafury, 182. Copy of his monument in Weltminster-Abbey, 183. Three vols. of his Potthumous Works published, 183. Two vols. more, lately by Mr. Thyer, of Mancheler, 183. He ridiculed the eftablishment eftablishment of the Royal Society, 183. Character of his Hudi bras, 184. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 175. C. CADENCY, in poetick numbers confidered, vi. 143. Calumnies, the difficulty in fuppreffing, iv. 339. Camilla, her affected difrelifh of the difpofitions and conduct of her own sex exposed, vi. 279. 281. Canaries, Ilands of, account of the firft difcovery and settlement of, ix. 380. John de Cerda crowned King of the Canaries, 381. Candidus, his hiftory, ix. 41. Cannon, two obfervations on the danger of, iïï. 120. Cantilinus, his low taste cenfured, vii. 218. Capel, Edward, obfervations on his edition of Shakespear, ix. 283. Captator, a legacy-hunter, his hiftory, vii. 327. 332. Caffles in the Hebrides, account of, x. 508. Evidences of the fictione of chivalry having had the manners of feudal times for their bafis, 511. Catacombs, vifited by Raffelas, xi. 138. Catalogue of the Harleian Library, plan of the catalogue, ix. 337. General ufe of catalogues, 339. Cato, rather a poem in dialogue than a play, iii. 90. Extracts from Progrefs of the Account of those Cattle, the importance of the breeding of, x. 3oz. breeding of, from the time of Abraham, 302. bred in the islands of Sky, 414. Cave, Edward, his life, iv. 521. Born in Warwickshire, 1691, 521. Educated at Rugby School, 522. At first encouraged by his matter, but afterwards, being charged with ftealing a cock, lofes all his master's favour, 522. Lives with a Collector of Excife, 523. Comes to London, and lives fome time with a Timber-merchant, 523. Apprenticed to Collins, a printer, 523. After two years, fent to conduct a printing-houfe, and manage a weekly paper, at Norwich, 524. Writes in Mift's Journal, 524. Gets a small place in the Poft-office, 524. Engaged in feveral small publications, 524. Lofes his place in the Poft-office, 525. Purchases a fmall printingoffice, and begins the Gentleman's Magazine, 525. Spent much money in projects, 526. Died 1754, 527. Infcription at Rugby, written by Dr. Hawkefworth, to the memory of Cave's father, himself, and brother, 527. His character, 528. A Caves, fome remarkable ones in the ifles of Sky, described, x. 402. Cecilia, St. Pope's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, iv. 114. Cellini, Cellini, Benvenuto, account of a book called his Life, ix. 360. After lying a century and an half in MS. published at Naples, in 1730, 360. His extraordinary character, 361. Cenfure, our fondness for it derived from an imagined fuperiority, v. 8. Ón what occafions it becomes equitable and laudable, 319. Chairman, his complaint on charging the fat people no more than thin ones, viii. 112. Character, not to be drawn from a perfon's own letters, iv. 96. Characters, the general inclination to copy thofe of other perfons confidered, vii. 145. The variety of, in England, exemplified by the company in a stage-coach, ix. 55. The folly of affuming, 57. Charieffa, her reflections upon the fashionable follies of modifh life, vi. 183, 188. Charity, the discharge of its duties fhould be regulated and adjufted by the rules of justice, vi. 62. Introduced by Revelation, viii. 13. No account of it in antient times tranfmitted to us, 13. Roman donatives rather popular than virtuous, 13. Of Mahometans tranfplanted from Chriflianity, 14. Of the prefent age commended, 14. Danger of its abating, 15. Danger from the competitions between different hofpitals, 16. If no want, no charity, 359. Charity Schools, the false notion of the mifchief of them, viii. 100. Charles I. tries the Sortes Virgiliana, ii. 11. Charged with inferting a prayer in the Icon Bafilike, taken from Sidney's Arcadia, which is, however, fuppofed to have been interpolated by Milton, 105. Charles II. employs Salmafius to write in defence of Charles I. and Monarchy, ii. 105. Paffes an Act of Oblivion to all except the Regicides, 119. Charles XII. of Sweden, the vanity of a warrior exemplified in him, xi. 337. Charters, their extent and authority, x. 107. Chartophylax, his character, vii. 218. Charybdis, her difpofition to profufe expences, vi. 282. Chatterton Controverfy, Dr. Johnson's opinion of it, xi. 208. Chaucer, Geoffry, January and May; and the Prologue to the Wife of Bath, put into modern English, by Pope, iv. 5. Described in the affembly of bards, xi. 166. His fpeech as Prefident of the affembly of bards for the admission of Milton, 186. Cheerful man characterized, ii. 150. Cheynel, Francis, his life, iv. 501. Born at Oxford, 1608, 501. Entered at that Univerfity, 1623, 501. Fellow of Merton College, 502. Takes orders in the church of England, 502. Refused his degree of B. D. for difputing concerning Predeftination, 502. Account of the difputes at Merton College, 504. Presented to a valuable living near Banbury, 504. Has a difpute with Archbishop Laud, 504. Declares himself a Prefbyterian, and a friend of the Parliament, 505. His houfe plundered, and living forfeited, 505. Retires into Suffex, 506. His behaviour to Chillingworth, when a prifoner to the Parliament's troops, 507. In the army of Effex, thews himself equally brave as learned, 508. Is prefented by Parliament to the living of Petworth, 509. Sent by the Parliament, with fix others, to reform the Univerity, 509. Fixes a Scruple-shop at |