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AFTER THE DUNCIAD, 1728.

An Essay on the Dunciad. Octavo, printed for J. Roberts. (In this book, p. 9, it was formally declared, "That the complaint of the "aforesaid Libels and Advertisements was forged "and untrue; that all mouths had been silent, except in Mr Pope's praise; and nothing against "him published, but by Mr Theobald.")

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Sawney, in blank verse, occasioned by the Dunciad; with a Critique on that poem. By J. Ralph (a person never mentioned in it at first, but inserted after), printed for J. Roberts, octavo. A complete Key to the Dunciad. By E. Curl, 12mo. price 6d.

A second and third edition of the same, with additions, 12mo.

The Popiad. By E. Curl, extracted from J. Dennis, Sir Richard Blackmore, &c. 12mo. price 6d.

The Curliad. By the same E. Curl.

The Female Dunciad. Collected by the same Mr Curl, 12mo. price 6d. With the Metamorphosis of P. into a stinging Nettle. By Mr Fox

ton, 12mo.

The Metamorphosis of Scriblerus into Snarlerus. By J. Smedley, printed for A. Moore, folio, price 6d.

The Dunciad dissected. By Curl and Mrs Thomas, 12mo.

An Essay on the Taste and Writings of the present times. Said to be writ by a gentleman of C. C. C. Oxon, printed for J. Roberts, octavo. The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric, partly taken from Bouhours with new Reflections, &c. By John Oldmixon, octavo.

Remarks on the Dunciad. By Mr Dennis, dedicated to Theobald, octavo.

A Supplement to the Profund. Anon. by Matthew Concanen, octavo.

Mist's Weekly Journal, June 8. A long letter, signed W. A. Writ by some or other of the Club of Theobald, Dennis, Moore, Concanen, Cooke, who for some time held constant weekly meetings for these kind of performances.

Daily Journal, June 1. A Letter signed

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Daily Journal, August 8.

Letter charging

the Author of the Dunciad with Treason. Durgen: a plain satire on a pompous satirist. By Edward Ward, with a little of James Moore. Apollo's Maggot in his Cups. By E. Ward. Gulliveriana secunda. Being a Collection of many of the Libels in the News-papers, like the former Volume, under the same title, by Smedley. Advertised in the Craftsman, Nov. 9, 1728, with this remarkable promise, that "any thing "which any body should send as Mr Pope's or "Dr Swift's, should be inserted and published as theirs."

Pope Alexander's supremacy and infallibility examined, &c. By George Ducket, and John Dennis, quarto.

Dean Jonathan's Paraphrase on the fourth chapter of Genesis. Writ by E, Roome, folio, 1729.

Labeo. A paper of verses by Leonard Welsted, which after came into One Epistle, and was published by James Moore, quarto, 1730. Another part of it came out in Welsted's own name, under the just title of Dulness and Scandal, folio, 1731.

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There have been since published: Verses on the Imitator of Horace. Lady (or between a Lady, a Lord, and a Court'squire). Printed for J. Roberts, folio.

An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity, from Hampton-court (Lord H-y) Printed for J. Roberts also, folio.

A Letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope. Printed for W. Lewis in Covent-garden, octavo. P.

INDEX

OF PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM.

(The first Number shews the Book, the second the VERSE.)

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INDEX

OF MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES.

(The first Number denotes the Book, the second the VERSE and NOTE on it.
Test. Testimonies1.)

A.
DDISON (Mr) railed at by A. Philips, iii.
326.

Abused by J. Oldmixon, in his Prose-Essay
on Criticism, etc. ii. 283.

by J. Ralph, in a London Journal, iii. 165.
Celebrated by our author,-Upon his Dis-
course of Medals-In his Prologue to Cato-
In his Imitation of Horace's Epistle to Au-
gustus-and in this Poem, ii. 140.

False Facts concerning him and our Author
related by anonymous persons in Mist's Four-
nal, &c. Test.

Disproved by the Testimonies of
The Earl of Burlington,

Mr Tickel,

Mr Addison himself, ibid.

Anger, one of the characteristics of Mr Dennis's
Critical writings, i. 106.

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1 [The Testimonies of Authors concerning our Poet and his Works, published by P. under the
name of Martinus Scriblerus, but omitted here.]

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His abuse of Mr Dryden and Mr Pope, ibid.
Bray, a word much beloved by Sir Richard, ii.
260.

Braying, described, ii. 247.

Shows, thro' Book ii. And dreaming dreams,
thro' Book iii. Settle appears to him, iii. 35.
Resemblance between him and Settle, iii. 37.
i. 146. Goodman's prophecy of him, iii. 232.
How he translated an Opera, without knowing
the story, 305. and encouraged Farces because
it was against his Conscience, 266. Declares

he never mounted a Dragon, 268. Apprehen-
sions of acting in a Serpent, 287. What were
the Passions of his Old Age, 303, 304. Finally
subsides in the lap of Dulness, where he rests
to all eternity, iv. 20, and Note.
CIBBER, his Father, i. 31. His two Brothers,
32. His Son, iii. 142. His better Progeny,

i. 228.

Cibberian Forehead, what is meant by it, i. 218.
read by some Cerberian, ibid. Note.
COOKE (Tho.), abused by Mr Pope, ii. 138.

Birch, by no means proper to be apply'd to young CONCANEN (Mat.), one of the authors of the
Noblemen, iii. 334.

BL-D, what became of his works, i. 231.

BROOME (Rev. Mr Will.).

His sentiments of

our Author's virtue, Test.
Our Author of his, iii. 332.
Brooms (a seller of) taught Mr John Jackson his
trade, ii. 137.

Billingsgate language, how to be used by learned
authors, ii. 142.

BOND, BESALEEL, BREVAL, not living Writers,
but Phantoms, ii. 126.

Booksellers, how they run for a Poet, ii. 31, &c.
Bailiffs, how poets run from them, ii. 61.

Bridewell, ii. 299.

Bow bell, iii. 278.

Weekly Journals, ii. 299.

declared that when this Poem had Blanks,
they meant Treason, iii. 297.

of opinion that Juvenal never satirized the
poverty of Codrus, ii. 144.

Corncutters Journal, what it cost, ii. 314.
Critics, verbal ones, must have two postulata
allowed them, ii. 1.

Cat-calls, ii. 231.

CURL (Edm.), his Panegyric, ii. 58.

His Corinna, and what she did, 70.
His Prayer, 80-Like Eridanus, 182.
Much favour'd by Cloacina, 97, &c.
Tost in a Blanket and whipped, 151.
Pillory'd, ii. 3.

Balm of Dulness, the true and the spurious, its Caroline, a curious Flower, its fate, iv.
efficacy, and by whom prepared, iv. 544.

CIBBER, Hero of the Poem, his Character, i. 107.
not absolutely stupid, 109. not unfortunate as
a Coxcomb, ibid. Not a slow writer, but pre-
cipitate, though heavy, 123. His productions
the Effects of heat, tho' an imperfect one,
126. His folly heightened with Frenzy, 125.
He borrow'd from Fletcher and Moliere, 131..
Mangled Shakespear, 133. His head distin-
guished for wearing an extraordinary Periwig,
167. more than for its reasoning Faculty, yet
not without Furniture, 177. His Elasticity and
Fire, and how he came by them, 186. He
was once thought to have wrote a reasonable
Play, 188. The general character of his Verse
and Prose, 190. His Conversation, in what
manner extensive and useful, 192, &c. Once
designed for the Church, where he should have
been a Bishop, 200. Since inclined to write
for the Minister of State, 213. but determines
to stick to his other talents, what those are,
217, &c.
His Apostrophe to his Works before
he burns them, 225, &c. His Repentance and
tears, 243. Dulness puts out the Fire, 257.
Inaugurates and anoints him, 287. His Crown,
by whom woven, 223. of what composed, i.
303. who let him into Court, 300. who his
Supporters 307. His Entry, Attendants, and
Proclamation, usque ad fin. His Enthroniza-
tion, ii. 1. Passes his whole reign in seeing

D.

409, &c.

DULNESS, the Goddess; her Original and Pa-
rents, i. 12. Her ancient Empire, 17. Her
public College, 29. Academy for Poetical
Education, 33. Her Cardinal Virtues, 45, &c.
Her Ideas, Productions, and Creation, 55, &c.
Her Survey and Contemplation of her Works,
&c. And of her Children, 93. Their un-
79,
interrupted Succession, 98, &c. to 108. Her
appearance to Cibber, 261. She manifests to
him her Works, 273, &c. Anoints him, 287,
&c. Institutes Games at his Coronation, ii. 18,
&c. The manner how she makes a Wit, ii. 47.
A great lover of a Joke, 34.-And loves to
repeat the same over again, 122. Her ways
and means to procure the Pathetic and Ter-
rible in Tragedy, 225, &c. Encourages Chat-
tering and Bawling, 237, &c. And is Patroness
of Party-writing and railing, 276, &c. Makes
use of the heads of Critics as Scales to weigh
the heaviness of Authors, 367. Promotes Slum-
ber with the Works of the said Authors, ibid.
The wonderful virtue of sleeping in her lap, iii.
5, &c. Her Elysium, 15, &c. The Souls of
her Sons dipt in Lethe, 23. How brought into
the world, 29. Their Transfiguration and Me-
tempsychosis, 50. The Extent and Glories of
her Empire, and her Conquests throughout the
World, iii. 67 to 138. A Catalogue of her
Poetical Forces in this Nation, 139 to 212.
Prophecy of her Restoration, 333, &c. Accom-

plishment of it, Book iv. Her appearance on
the Throne, with the Sciences led in triumph,
iv. 21, &c. Tragedy and Comedy silenced,
37. General assembly of all her Votaries, 73.
Her Patrons, 95. Her Critics, 115. Her sway
in the Schools, 149 to 180. and Universities,
189 to 274. How she educates Gentlemen in
their Travels, 293 to 334-Constitutes Virtuosi
in Science, 355, &c. Freethinkers in Religion,
459. Slaves and Dependents in Government,
505. Finally turns them to Beasts, but pre-
serves the form of Men, 525. What sort of
Comforters she sends them, 529, &c. What
Orders and Degrees she confers on them, 565.
What Performances she expects from them,
according to their several Ranks and Degrees,
583. The powerful Yawn she breathes on
them, 605, &c. Its Progress and Effects, 607,
&c. till the Consummation of All, in the total
Extinction of the reasonable Soul, and Resto-
ration of Night and Chaos, usq. ad fin.
Dispensary of Dr Garth, ii. 140.

De Foe, Daniel, in what resembled to William
Prynne, i. 103.

De Foe, Norton, a scandalous writer, ii. 415.
DENNIS (John), his Character of himself, i. 106.
Senior to Mr Durfey, iii. 173.

Esteemed by our Author, and why, ibid.
His love of Puns, i. 63.

And Politics, i. 106. ii. 413.

His great Loyalty to King George, how

proved, i. 106.

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A great Friend to the Stage

and to the State, ii. 413.

How he proves that none but Non-jurors
and disaffected persons writ against Stage-
plays, ibid.

His respect to the Bible and Alcoran, ibid.
His excuse for Obscenity in Plays, iii. 179.
His mortal fear of Mr Pope, founded on
Mr Curl's assurances, i. 106.

Of opinion that he poisoned Curl, ibid.

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Good nature of our author; Instances of it in
Good Sense, Grammar, and Verse, desired to
this work, i. 328. ii. 282.
give place for the sake of Mr Bes. Morris and
his Works, iii. 168.

His reason why Homer was, or was not in GILDON (Charles), abused our Author in many
debt, ii. 118.

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His Accusations of Sir R. Blackmore,

As no Protestant, ii. 268.

As no Poet, ibid.

things, Test. i. 296.

Printed against Jesus Christ, i. 296.
GILDON and DENNIS, their unhappy difference
lamented, iii. 173.

His wonderful Dedication to G. D. Esq. Gentleman, his Hymn to his Creator, by Wel

iii. 179.

Drams, dangerous to a Poet, iii. 146.

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sted, ii. 207.

Gazetteers, the monstrous price of their Writ
ings, ii. 314. the miserable fate of their Works,
ibid.

H.

HANDEL, an excellent musician, banished to Ire
land by the English Nobility, iv. 65.
Heydeggre, a strange bird from Switzerland, i.

290.

HORACE, censured by Mr Welsted, Test.

Did not know what he was about when be
wrote his Art of Poetry, ibid.
HENLEY (John the Orator), his Tub and Eucha
rist, ii. 2. His History, iii. 199. His opinion
of Ordination and Christian Priesthood,
His Medals, ibid.

HAYWOOD (Mrs), What sort of Game for her, i
157. Won by Curl, 187. Her great resped

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