Hutchinson (John) with his man Julius, a sub- | Odyssey, falsehoods concerning Mr. P's Proposals 334. disproved by those very Proposals, ibid. -never bowed the knee to Sense, -defiles the high places of Geometry. and tramples on the fallen Dagon of Newto- I Index-Learning, the use of it, i. 279. Impudence, celebrated in Mr. Curll, ii. 159. 186. Lord Mayor's show, i. 185. Libeller, a Grub-street critic ran to seed, iv. 567. Liberty and monarchy, mistaken for one another, · Lad (King), ii. 349. Log (King), i. ver. ult. Lintot (Bernard), ii. 53. Laureate; his crown, of what composed, i. 503. M Madmen, two related to Cibber, i. 32. Moore (James) his story of six verses, and of ridi- -his plagiarisms, some few of them, ibid. and -Erasmus his advice to him, ii. 50. Oranges, and their use, i. 236. Opera, her advancement, iii. 301. iv. 45, &c. Osborne, bookseller, crowned with a jordan, ii. 190. P Pope, Mr. his Life. Educated by Jesuits-by a par. His death threatened by Dr. Smedley, ibid. Personal abuses not to be endured, in the opinion of Politics, very useful in criticism, Mr. Dennis's, i. Madness, of what sort Mr. Dennis's was, according Pillory, a post of respect, in the opinion of Mr. to Plato, i. 106. -according to himself, ii. 268. -how allied to Dulness, iii. 15. Mercuries and magazines, i. 42. Curll, iii. 34. -and of Mr. Ward, ibid. May-pole in the Strand, turned into a church, Priori, arguments à priori not the best to prove a ii. 28. Morris (Besaleel), ii. 126. iii. 168. God, iv. 471. Poverty and Poetry, their cave, i. 33. Monuments of poets, with inscriptions to other Profaneness, not to be endured in our author, but Medals, how swallowed and recovered, iv. 375. Nodding, described, ii. 391. Nous, where wanted, iv. 244. Oldmixon (John) abused Mr. Addison and Mr. -abused Mr. Eusden and my Lord Chamber- very allowable in Shakespeare, i. 50. Palmers, pilgrims, iii. 113. Pindars and Miltons, of the modern sort, iii. 164. Q R Resemblance of the hero to several great authors, Round house, ii. prope fin. Ralph (James), iii. 165. See Sawney. Roome and Horneck, iii. 152. S Shakespeare, to be spelled always with an e at the end, i. 1. but not with an e in the middle, ibid. An edition of him in marble, ibid. mangled, altered, and cut by the players and critics, i. 133. Very sore still of Tibbald, ibid. Sepulchral lies on church-walls, i. 43. Settle (Elkanah), Mr. Dennis's account of him, iii. 37. And Mr. Welsted's, ibid. Once preferred to Dryden, iii. 37. A party-writer of pamphlets, ibid. and iii. 283. A writer of farces and drolls, and employed at last in Bartholomewfair, iii. 283. Sawney, a Poem; the author's great ignorance in University, how to pass through it, iv. 255. 289. classical learning, i. 1. W Ward (Edw.) a poet and alehouse-keeper in Moorfields, i. 233. What became of his works, ibid. -His high opinion of his namesake, and his respect for the pillory, iii. 34. Welsted (Leonard), one of the authors of the Weekly Journals, abused our author, &c. many years since, ii. 207. Taken by Dennis for a didapper, ibid. The character of his poetry, i 170. Weekly Journals, by whom written, ii. 280. Schools, their homage paid to Dulness, and in what, Wizard, his cup, and the strange effects of it, i iv. 150, &c. 517, &c. THE LIFE OF PITT, BY DR. JOHNSON. CHRISTOPHER PITT, of whom whatever I shall relate, more than has been already published, I owe to the kind communication of Dr. Wharton, was born in 1699, at Blandford, the son of a physician much esteemed. He was, in 1714, received as a scholar into Winchester College, where he was distinguished by exercises of uncommon elegance, and, at his removal to New College in 1719, presented to the electors, as the product of his private and volun tary studies, a complete version of Lucan's poem, which he did not then know to have been translated by Rowe. This is an instance of early diligence which well deserves to be recorded. The suppression of such a work, recommended by such uncommon circumstances, is to be regretted. It is indeed culpable to load libraries with superfluous books; but incitements to early excellence are never superfluous, and from this example the danger is not great of many imitations. When he had resided at his college three years, he was presented to the rectory of Pimpern in Dorsetshire (1722), by his relation, Mr. Pitt, of Stratfield Say in Hampshire; and, resigning his fellowship, continued at Oxford two years longer, till he became master of arts (1724). He probably about this time translated Vida's Art of Poetry, which Tristram's splendid edition had then made popular. In this translation he distinguished himself, both by its general elegance, and by the skilful adaptation of his numbers to the images expressed; a beauty which Vida has with great ardour enforced and exemplified. He then retired to his living, a place very pleasing by its situation, and therefore likely to excite the imagination of a poet; where he passed the rest of his life, reverenced for his virtue, and beloved for the softness of his temper and the easiness of his manners. Before strangers he had something of the scholar's timidity or distrust; but when he became familiar he was in a very high degree cheerful and entertaining. His general benevolence procured general respect; and he passed a life placid and honourable, neither too great for the kindness of the low, nor too low for the notice of the great. |