But he has a notable talent at burlesque; his genius slides so naturally into it, that he hath burlesqued Homer without designing it.[502]

MR POPE TRICKED HIS SUBSCRIBERS.

'Tis indeed somewhat bold, and almost prodigious, for a single man to undertake such a work; but 'tis too late to dissuade by demonstrating the madness of the project. The subscribers' expectations have been raised in proportion to what their pockets have been drained of.[503]

Pope has been concerned in jobs, and hired out his name to booksellers.[504]

NAMES BESTOWED ON MR POPE.

An Ape.--Let us take the initial letter of his Christian name, and the initial and final letters of his surname, viz., A P E, and they give you the same idea of an ape as his face,[505] &c.

An Ass.--It is my duty to pull off the lion's skin from this little ass.[506]

A Frog.--A squab short gentleman--a little creature that, like the frog in the fable, swells, and is angry that it is not allowed to be as big as an ox.[507]

A Coward.--A lurking, way-laying coward.[508]

A Knave.--He is one whom God and nature have marked for want of common honesty.[509]

A Fool.--Great fools will be christened by the names of great poets, and Pope will be called Homer.[510]

A Thing.--A little abject thing.[511]

INDEX

OF

PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM.

THE FIRST NUMBER SHOWS THE BOOK; THE SECOND, THE VERSE.

Ambrose Philips, i. 105; iii. 326.

Attila, iii. 92.

Alaric, iii. 91.

Alma Mater, iii. 388.

Annius, an antiquary, iv. 347.

Arnall, William, ii. 315.

Addison, ii. 124, 140.

Atterbury, iv. 246.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, i. 104; ii. 268.

Bezaleel Morris, ii. 126; iii. 168.

Banks, i. 146.

Broome, ibid.

Bond, ii. 126.

Brown, iii. 28.

Bladen, iv. 560.

Budgel, Esq., ii. 337.

Bentley, Richard, iv. 201.

Bentley, Thomas, ii. 205.

Boyer, Abel, ii. 413.

Bland, a gazetteer, i. 231.

Breval, J. Durant, ii. 126, 238.

Benlowes, iii. 21.

Bavius, ibid.

Burmannus, iv. 237.

Benson, William, Esq., iii. 325; iv. 110.

Burgersdyck, iv. 198.

Boeotians, iii. 50.

Bruin and Bears, i, 101.

Bear and Fiddle, i. 224.

Burnet, Thomas, iii. 179.

Bacon, iii. 215.

Barrow, Dr, iv. 245.

Cibber, Colley, Hero of the Poem, passim.

Cibber, sen., i. 31.

Cibber, jun., iii. 139, 326.

Caxton, William, i. 149.

Curll, Edm., i. 40; ii. 3, 58, 167, &c.

Cooke, Thomas, ii. 138.

Concanen, Matthew, ii. 299, Centlivre, Susannah, ii. 411.

Caesar in Aegypt, i. 251.

Chi Ho-am-ti, Emperor of China, iii. 75.

Crousaz, iv. 198.

Codrus, ii. 144.

Congreve, ii. 124.

Chesterfield, iv. 43.

Defoe, Daniel, i. 103; ii. 147.

Defoe, Norton, ii. 415.

De Lyra, or Harpsfield, i. 153.

Dennis, John, i. 106; ii. 239; iii. 173.

Dunton, John, ii. 144.

D'Urfey, iii. 146.

Dutchmen, ii. 405; iii. 51.

Doctors, at White's, i. 203.

Douglas, iv. 394.

Ducket, iii. 179.

Eusden, Laurence, Poet Laureate, i. 104.

Evans, Dr, ii. 116

Flecknoe, Richard, ii. 2.

Faustus, Dr, iii. 233.

Fleetwood, iv. 326.