1712 Ambrose Philips's
Distressed
1720 South Sea Bubble.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
2 vols.
1866.
Warton, Thomas. The Progress of Discontent. 1746. In Poetical Works
of Thos. Warton. Ed. Mant, Richard. 2 vols. Oxford, 1802.
The Triumph of Isis, a Poem occasioned by Isis, an Elegy. n. d. [1749].
Wordsworth, Christopher. Social Life at the English Universities in the
Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, 1874.
Unpublished
Archbishop Secker's Diary. In the MS Collections of the Archbishop's
Library, at Lambeth.
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
man.
1616 Roger L'Estrange born (d. 1672 Sir Richard Steele born (d.
1704).
1729).
1622 Peacham’s Compleat Gentle- 1674 Wood's Historia et antiqui-
tates Universitatis Oxoniensis,
1624 Jacob Boehme died.
1675 Samuel Clarke born (d. 1729).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715). 1675? Ambrose Philips born (d.
1643 John Strype born (d. 1737).
1749).
1644 Milton's Of Education.
1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the Last
1648 Nova Solyma.
Age.
1650 Jeremy Collier born (d. 1726). 1679 Act for disabling Roman
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
Catholics from sitting in Parlia-
1655 Dugdale's Monasticon Angli- ment.
canum, vol. 1.
1679 Burnet's History of the Re-
1656 Dugdale's Antiquities of formation, vol. 1 (vol. II, 1681;
Warwickshire.
vol. III, 1714).
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1681 L'Estrange establishes The
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son.
Observator.
1657 Comenius's Opera didactica 1685 George Berkeley born (d. 1753).
omnia.
1685 John Gay born (d. 1732).
1660 The Restoration.
1685 Cotton's translation of Mon-
1660? Daniel Defoe born (d. 1731). taigne's Essays.
1661 Sir Samuel Garth born (d. 1685 Revocation of Edict of Nantes.
1719).
1685-8 James II.
1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742). 1686 William Law born (d. 1761).
16638 Butler's Hudibras.
1686 Thomas Tickell born (d. 1740).
1664 Matthew Prior born (d. 1721). 1686 Dryden's The Hind and the
1664 Cotton's Scarronides.
Panther.
1665 Burnet's Discourse on Sir 1687 Declaration of Indulgence,
Robert Fletcher of Saltoun. 1687 Montague and Prior's The
1665 The Oxford Gazette (after- Hind and the Panther Trans-
wards The London Gazette) vers'd to the Story of the Coun-
established.
try-Mouse and the City-Mouse.
1667 John Arbuthnot born (d. 1735). 1688 The Revolution.
1667 George Granville, Lord Lans- 1688 Alexander Pope born (d. 1744).
downe, born (d. 1735).
1689 Toleration Act.
1667 Jonathan Swift born (d. 1745). 1689-94 William and Mary.
1667 Sprat's History of the Royal 1690 Temple's Essay on Ancient
Society.
and Modern Learning.
1668 Burnet's Thoughts on Educa- 1691 Langbaine's Account of the
tion (ptd 1761).
English Dramatic Poets.
1669 Chamberlayne's Angliae no- 1691-2 Wood's Athenae Oxonienses.
titia.
1692 John Byrom born (d. 1763).
1672 Joseph Addison
Addison born (d. 1692 L'Estrange's edition of the
1719).
Fables of Aesop (pt 11 in 1699).
## p. 576 (#600) ############################################
576
Table of Principal Dates
mer.
1692 Rymer's Short View of Tra- 1703 Death of Pepys.
gedy (dated 1693).
1703 Defoe's Hymn to the Pillory.
1692–3 Bentley's Boyle Lectures on 1703 Steele's Lying Lover.
The Folly and Unreasonable- 1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783).
ness of Atheism.
1704 Death of Locke.
1693 Locke's Some Thoughts con- 1704 Battle of Blenheim.
cerning Education.
1704 Addison's Campaign.
1694 Bank of England established. 1704 Dennis's Grounds of Criticism
1694 Leslie's Short and easy method in Poetry.
with the Deists.
1704 Swift's A Tale of a Tub and
1694 Strype's Memorials of Cran The Battle of the Books (written
about 1697).
1694 Wotton's Reflections upon 1704 Defoe establishes The Review,
Ancient and Modern Learning. which is carried on till 1713.
1694-1702 William III.
1704-5 Samuel Clarke's Boyle Lec-
1695 Blackmore's Prince Arthur.
tures.
1695 Tanner's Notitia monastica. 1704-35 Rymer's Foedera,
1695 The Flying Post (Whig) be- 1706 Death of Evelyn.
gins to appear.
1706 Act of Succession.
1695 The Post Boy (Tory) begins 1706 Union with Scotland.
to appear.
1707 Echard's History of England,
1696 Aubrey's Miscellanies.
vol. 1.
1696 Toland's Christianity not mys-
1707 Prior's Poems on Several Oc-
terious.
casions (unauthorised ed. ).
1697 Peace of Ryswyk.
1708 Colliers Ecclesiastical His-
1697 Collier's Essays.
tory, vol. I.
1697 Defoe's Essay upon Projects. 1708 Motteur's translation of Rabe-
1698 Andrew Fletcher's Discourse lais (begun by Urquhart).
of Government with relation to 1708 John Philips's Cyder.
Militias.
1708 Swift's Sentiments of
1698 Granville's Heroick Love.
Church of England man; Argu-
1698 Ward's London Spy begins to ment against abolishing Chris-
appear.
tianity; Predictions of Isaac
1699 Society for Promoting Chris Bickerstaff; and Account of
tian Knowledge founded.
Partridge's Death.
1699 Bentley's Dissertation on the 1709 Defoe's History of the Union
Epistles of Phalaris.
of Great Britain.
1699 Garth's Dispensary.
1709 Berkeley's Essay towards a
1699 William King's Dialogues of new theory of vision.
the Dead.
1709 Pope's Pastorals appear in
1700 Death of Dryden.
Tonson's Miscellany.
1700 Pomfret's Choice.
1709 Prior's Poems on Several
1700-31 Strype's Annals of the Re- Occasions.
formation.
1709 Rowe's edition of Shake-
1701 Act of Settlement.
speare.
1701 Defoe's The True-Born Eng. 1709 The Tatler begins to appear.
lishman.
1710 Trial of Sacheverell. Tory
1701 John Philips's Splendid Shil- Ministry.
ling.
1710 Berkeley's Principles of H#-
1701 Steele's Christian Hero.
man Knowledge.
1702 Defoe's Shortest Way with 1710 Ambrose Philips's Pastorals.
the Dissenters.
1710 Swift's City Shower and Bau-
1702 The Daily Courant (first daily cis and Philemon.
paper) founded.
1710–12 Hearne's edition of Leland's
1702–14 Anne.
Itinerary
a
linto The Examina
It twintiin.
## p. 577 (#601) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
577
1711 Bentley's edition of Horace. 1716 Hearne begins publication of
1711 Pope's Essay on Criticism.
a series of English chronicle
1711 Occasional Conformity Act.
histories.
1711 Shaftesbury's Characteristics. 1717 Sittings of Convention close.
1711 Swift's Conduct of the Allies. 1717 Hoadly's Preservative against
1711 2 January. Last number of the principles and practices of
The Tatler.
the non-jurors and Sermon on
1711 First number of The Spec- the nature of Christ's Kingdom.
tator, March 1.
1717 Pope's Works.
1712 Arbuthnot's Art of Political 1717-19 Law's Three Letters to the
Lying.
Bishop of Bangor.
1712 Blackmore's Creation.
1718 Society of Antiquaries insti-
1712 Clarke's Scripture Doctrine tuted.
of the Trinity.
1718 Prior's Poems on Several Oc-
1712 Dennis's Essay on. . . Shake- casions.
speare.
1719 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
1712 Ambrose Philips's Distressed 1720 South Sea Bubble.
Mother.
1720 Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier
1712 Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Captain Singleton.
published in Lintot's Miscel- 1721-42 Sir Robert Walpole in
lany.
power,
1712 Whiston's Primitive Chris- 1721 Parnell's Poems on Several
tianity revived.
Occasions.
1712 Last number of The Spectator 1721 Death of Prior.
appears, December 6.
1721 Ramsay's Poems.
1712 The Examiner established. 1721 Strype's Ecclesiastical Me-
1712–13 Arbuthnot's History of morials.
John Bull.
1722 Defoe's Journal of the Plague
1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
Year, Moll Flanders, Colonel
1713 Addison's Cato.
Jacque.
1713 Anthony Collins's Discourse of 1722 Steele's Conscious Lovers.
Free-Thinking.
1723 Mallet's William and Mar.
1713 Bentley's Remarks on a late garet.
Discourse of Free-Thinking. 1723 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
1713 Berkeley's Three Dialogues. and Law's Remarks upon it.
1713 Arthur Collier's Clavis Uni. 1724 Atterbury's plot. '
versalis.
1724 Burnet's History of my own
1713 Gay's Rural Sports.
time (vol. 11, 1734).
1713 Pope's Windsor Forest and 1724 Defoe's Roxana.
Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day. 1724 Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscel-
1713 Swift's Cadenus and Vanessa. lany; and The Evergreen.
1713 Lady Winchilsea's Poems. 1724 Swift's Drapier's Letters.
1714 Gay's Shepherd's Week. 1725 Pope's edition of Shakespeare.
1714 Schism Act.
1725 Pope's translation of Homer's
1714-27 George I.
Odyssey (Vols. 1-III) appears.
1715 Jacobite rising.
1725 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd.
1715 Gay's Trivia.
1726 Bentley's edition of Terence.
1715 Pope's edition of Homer's 1726 Butler's Sermons.
Iliad, vol. I, appears. (Vol. II, 1726 Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
1716; vol. iii, 1717; vol. iv, 1718; 1726 First number of The Crafts-
vols. V, VI, 1720. )
man appears, 5 December.
1715 Tickell’s translation of Ho 1727 Death of Newton.
mer's Iliad, Book i.
1727 Gay's Fables.
c. 1715 Carey's Sally in our Alley. 1727 The Occasional Writer (by
1716 Septennial Act.
Bolingbroke and others).
E. L. IX.
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578
Table of Principal Dates
1727-60 George II.
1740 North's Lives of the Norths.
1728 Gay's Beggar's Opera.
1740 Prior's History of his own
1728 Pope's Dunciad.
time.
1729 Death of Congreve.
1741 Memoirs of Scriblerus.
1729 Gay's Polly.
1741 Middleton's Life of Cicero.
1729 Law's Serious Call.
1742 Pope's Dunciad (with the
1729 Swift's Modest Proposal.
addition of Book iv).
1730 Tindals Christianity as old 1744 Dodsley's Old Plays.
as the Creation.
1744 Zachary Grey's edition of
1730-7 The Grub Street Journal. Butler's Hudibras.
1731 Swift's On the Death of 1744 Johnson's Life of Sarage.
Dr Swift (published 1739). 1744-6 The Harleian Miscellany.
1731 The Gentleman's Magazine 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.
established.
I-III.
1748 Dodsley's Poems by Sereral
1732 Bentley's edition of Paradise Hands.
Lost.
1748 Middleton's Free Inquiry into
1732 Berkeley's Alciphron.
miraculous powers.
1732 Granville's Works.
1748 Tanner's Bibliotheca Britan-
1732 Neal's History of the Puritans. nico-Hibernica.
1732-5 Pope's Moral Essays.
1749 Bolingbroke's Idea of a
1733 Walpole's Excise Scheme.
Patriot King and Letters on
1733 Popo's Essay on Man, Epistles Patriotism.
1749-50 Law's Spirit of Prayer.
1733-7 Pope's Imitations of Horace. 1751 Death of Bolingbroke.
1735 Bolingbroke's Dissertation 1752 Bolingbroke's Letters on the
upon Parties.
Study and Use of History
1735 Pope's Epistle to Dr Arbuth- published.
not.
1753 Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir
1736 Porteous Riots in Edinburgh. William Wyndham published.
1736 Butler's Analogy.
1760-1820 George III.
1737 Pope's Correspondence (au- 1762 Locke's Of the conduct of the
thoritative edition).
Understanding.
1737 Whiston's translation of 1763 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's
Josephus.
Letters published.
1737 Wilkins's Concilia.
1766-8 Swift's Journal to Stella
1738 Swift's Complete collection of published.
genteel and ingenious conversa- 1766-70 Henry Brooke's Fool of
tion.
Quality.
1738 Warburton's Divine Legation 1773 Fergusson's Poems.
of Moses.
1776 Herd's Ancient and Modern
1739 Bentley's edition of Manilius. Scottish Songs.
1739 Blomefield's History of Nor- 1784 George Bubb Dodington's
folk began to appear (completed Diary (1748/9-61) published.
1775).
1819-21 Hogg's Jacobite Relics of
1740 Cibber's Apology.
Scotland.
1740 Law's Appeal to all that 1848 Lord Hervey's Memoirs of the
doubt.
- reign of George II published.
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INDEX OF NAMES
The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject occur on at
least two immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a rule,
given in the case of writers whose work is treated in other volumes. ]
1
Abbey and Overton, English Church in
the 18th century, 326
Abelard, 71
Abercromby, Patrick (1656–1716? ), 552
Aberdeen, 372, 374 ; Marischal college,
129
Aberdeenshire, 372, 373
Abingdon or Habington, Thomas (1560–
1647), 530
Ablancourt, Nicolas Perrot d', 267
Academic, The, 414
Académie Française, 397
Account of the sickness and death of Dr
Woodward, 132
Account of the state of learning in the
Empire of Lilliput, 132
Acheson, Lady, in Swift's Grand Question
debated, 119
Act of Settlement, 200
of Succession, 197
of Supremacy, 197
Adam, 28, 60, 327
Thomas, 313
Adams, Jean, 374
person, in Joseph Andrews, 408
Adamson, Henry (d. 1639), 554
John (d. 1653), 542, 554
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), 5, 26, 27,
41, 43 ff. (main entry), 67, 75, 78, 86,
94, 125, 142, 151, 165, 166, 170 ff. ,
180 ff. , 220, 237, 442
Campaign, The, 44
Cato, 63, 64, 77, 171, 184
Dialogues upon. . . Ancient Medals, 43
Dissertatio de Romanorum poetis, 43
Drummer, The, 172
Essay on Travel, 44
First Vision of Mirza, 63
Musae Anglicanae, 43
«On the Pleasures of the Imagination,'
61
Oratio de nova philosophia, 43
Remarks on Italy, 44
Travels in Italy, 94
Lancelot, 38
See, also, Spectator, The, and Tatlet, The
Aelfrio, Homilies, 402
Aeneas, 45, 60, 256, 257
Aesop, 102, 275, 391
Africa, 19
Agrigentum, 332
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius, 315
Ainsworth, Robert (1660–1743), 526, 568
Airy, O. , 203, 209
Aitken, George A. , 12
Aix, 162
Akenside, Mark, 190, 220, 475; Hymn to
the Naiads, 191; Pleasures of the Ima-
gination, 62
Aldrich, Henry (1647-1710), 528
Alexander, Sir William, earl of Stirling
(15677-1640), 554
Allam, Andrew (1655–1685), 351
Allen, Lord, 121
Alsop, Vincent (d. 1703), 503
America, 19, 212
South, 23
American philosophy, 281
Ames, Joseph (1689–1759), Typographical
Antiquities, 356
Amesbury, 163
Amhurst, Nicholas, 220, 411
Amitiez de Ami et Amile, Li, 39
Amsterdam, 197, 199, 306, 515, 519
Anderson, George (1676 ? -1756), 547
James (1662–1728), 552
James (1739–1808), 560
Robert, 187
Andronicus, Livius, 270
Anglia, 106
Anglicans, 100
Anglo-Saxon chair, at Oxford, 413
Annand, William (1633–1689), 545
Anne, queen, 30, 44, 72, 78, 96, 97, 103,
113, 124, 130, 131, 139, 150 ff. , 155,
160, 161, 169, 175, 177, 180, 200, 202,
205, 208, 216, 217, 219, 222, 228, 231,
232, 309, 394, 395, 407, 408
Annet, Peter (1693-1769), 288, 504; Re-
surrection of Jesus examined, 294
Anstis, John (1669–1744), 355
Anstruther, Lady Margaret, 369
Answerall, Lady, in Swift's Complete Col-
lection of. . . Conversation, 106
Antiochus, in The Tatler, 38
Antiquaries, Scottish Society of, 372
>
6
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580
Index of Names
Antiquaries, Society of, 352, 357, 358 Astell, Mary (1668–1731), 244; Serious
Apollo, 257
proposal to the Ladies, 404
Apostolical Constitutions, 221
Atalantis Major, 13
Applebee, John, 16, 22
Athenaeum, The, 106
Aquila, 330
Athenian Gazette (Dunton's), 5
Arabian Nights, The, 106
Mercury (Dunton's), 5, 34, 41,
Arabic chair, at Cambridge, 413
92
literature, 291
Athenians, the, 223
Arachne, in Ovid's Metamorphoses, 160 Atkyns, Sir Robert (1647-1711), Glocester.
and Pallas, 115
shire, 353
Arbuthnot, Archibald, 563
Atossa, in Pope's Characters of Women,
Charles, 469
82, 89
George, 133
Atterbury, Francis (1662–1732), 131, 147,
John (1667-1735), 72, 78, 96, 98, 153, 176, 196, 234, 333, 334, 337,
124, 127, 129 ff. (main entry), 152, 340
161, 163, 171, 220, 249, 446, 447, 464, Attercliffe, 393
466
Attic dramatists, 330
Account of the. . . death of Dr Woodward, Atticus, T. Pomponius, 198
132
Atwit, colonel, in Swift's Complete Col.
Art of Political Lying, 131, 136
lection of . . . Conversation, 106
Brief account of Mr John Ginglicutt': Aubrey, John (1626–1697), 267, 351 (main
Treatise, 133, 138
entry)
Essay concerning the effects of Air. . . 133, Brief Lives, 308, 351
138
Miscellanies, 351
concerning the nature of Ailments, Monumenta Britannica, 354
133, 138
Perambulation of Surrey, 351, 353
Examination of Dr Woodward's Account Aucassin et Nicolette, 39
of the Deluge, 129
Audrey, Saint, 343
History of John Bull, 131, 133, 137 Augustine, St, City of God, 318
Humble Petition of the Colliers, 132 Auld Guidman, The, 360
John Bull in his Senses, 131
Auld Reekie, 379
still in his Senses (and Auld Rob Morris, 360
Appendix), 131
Wife ayont the Fire, 360
Know Yourself, 133, 138
Aurelius, Marcus, 300
Law is a Bottomless Pit, 130
Austen, Jane, 338
Lewis Baboon turned Honest, 131 Austin, William (f. 1662), 429
Miscellaneous Works, 133
Austria, 232
On the Usefulness of Mathematical Avery, captain, 21
Learning, 130, 138
Avignon, 245
Reasons humbly offered by the Company Awa Whigs Awa, 377
. . . of Upholders, 132
Ayloffe, John, 266
Sermon. . . at the Mercat Cross, 130, 138 Ayton, Sir Robert, 555
Tables of. . . Measures, Weights and Coins, Azores, 175
130, 132
Arbuthnott, Viscount, 129
Baboon, Lewis, in Arbuthnot's History
Archaeologia, 358
of John Bull, 134, 135
Archangel, 240
Philip, in Arbuthnot's History of
• Ardelia' (Winchilsea, Anne, countess of), John Bull, 134
169.
Bacon, Francis, 47, 351, 381, 385, 386,
Arianism, 295, 297
388, 396
Ariosto, 338, Orlando Furioso, 61
Advancement of Learning, 388
Aristarch, 191
De Augmentis, 388
Aristophanes, 336
Essays, 44
Aristotle, 51, 59, 60, 64, 383, 386
Henry VII, 227
Armstrong, John (1709-1779), 556
New Atlantis, 388
Arpall, William (1715 ? -1741 ? ), 433 Baden, treaty of, 228
Arnold, Matthew, 31, 169
Baillie, Lady Grizel (1665–1746), The
As I came in by Edinburgh town, 363
Ewe-buchtin's bonnie, 364; Were na my
Ascham, Roger, The Scholemaster, 55 Heart licht, 364
Ascyltus, 266
Robert, 549
Asgill, John, 11
Sir William, of Lamington, 549
Ashburnham, Lady, 125
Baker, E. A. , 327
Ashe, St George, 166
Henry (1698-1774), 24, 25, 433
Ashmole, Elias (1617-1692), 355, 413; Thomas (1656–1740), 354; Reflec-
Antiquities of Berkshire, 353
tions on Learning, 354
Aspasia (Lady Elizabeth Hastings), 38 Balaam, Sir, in Pope's Epistles, 81
Assoucy, Charles Coypeau de, 256 Baloanquhall, Walter, 542
6
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Index of Names
581
1
Balfour, Sir Andrew (1630–1694), 558
Balguy, John (1686–1748), 504; Founda-
tion of Moral Goodness, 299
Baller, Joseph, 164
Balzac, Honoré, 20; Chef d'Euvre in.
connu, 39
Bangor, 309, 310
Bangorian controversy, 17, 19, 309
Banishment of Poverty, The, 366
Bannatyne MS. , 361, 365, 367, 369
Barber, Mary (1690 ? –1757), 106, 484
Barbones parliament, 386
Barclay, John (1582-1621), 555
John, Dialogue betwixt William
Lickladle and Thomas Cleancogue, 373
Robert, 545; Religious Societies of
the Commonwealth, 307
William (1570? –1630? ), 558
Barnabas, Gospel of, 291
Barnstaple, 160
Baron, Robert (1593 ? -1639), 542
Basedow, Johann Bernhard, 401
Bath, 34, 163, 167, 172
Sir William Pulteney, earl of, 88,
162, 219, 220, 223, 224, 250 ff.
Marquis of, Papers, 96, 99, 141.
See, also, Longleat Papers
Bathurst, Allen Bathurst, ist earl, 79,
152, 228
Battle of Falkirk Muir, 378
Baur, F. C. , 291
Baxter, Andrew (1686-1750), 504
Richard, Reliquiae Baxterianae,
307, 383; Saints' Everlasting Rest,
269
William (1650–1723), 526
Bayes, in Buckingham's Rehearsal, 147
Bayle, Pierre, 211
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, earl of,
243
Beattie, James (1735–1803), The Minstrel,
374; To Mr Alexander Ross, 374
Beaumont, Francis, 140, 145
Lady, 328
Beccaria, Marquis de, Dei Delitti e delle
Pene, 302
Bedford, 169
level, 343
Bedford, Arthur (1668–1745), 528
Bedfordshire, 145
Bee and the Spider, The, in Swift's Battle
of the Books, 102
Beef-steak club, 139
Beets, Heinrich, 515
Behmen, Jacob. See Boehme.
Behmenists, 306
Behn, Mrs Aphra, 18, 174
elgian writers, 314
Belgrade, 244
Bell, John (1691-1780), 560
Thomas (A. 1672), 545
Bellenden, Mary, 250
Bellers, John (1654–1725), Proposals for
Raising a Colledge of Industry, 406
Bellum grammaticale, 551
Beltrees, Renfrewshire, 364
Benedict, abbot of Peterborough, 349
Bentham, James (1708–1794), History of
Ely Cathedral, 354
Jeremy, 299, 301, 409
Bentley, Richard (1662–1742), 80, 86, 88,
103, 132, 138, 139, 297, 329 ff. (main
entry), 381, 382, 411, 412
• Confutation of Atheism,' 331
Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris,
329, 330, 333, 338, 391
Epistola ad Millium, 330, 331
Horace, 336, 337
Manilius, 338
Milton, 338, 339
Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free.
thinking, 292, 293, 337
Terence, 338
Bergerac, Cyrano de, Histoires comiques,
106; Voyage à la Lune, 106
Berkeley, Charles, 2nd earl of, 93
Elizabeth, countess of, 93
George (1685–1753), 171, 279 ff.
Alciphron, 282, 283, 286, 301, 302
Analyst, The, 282
Common-place Book, 280, 283, 287
De motu, 280
Essay towards a new theory of vision,
61, 280, 283, 284
towards preventing the ruin of
Great Britain, 280
Miscellany, 282
Principles of human knowledge, 280,
284, 286, 287
Querist, The, 282
Siris, 282, 287
Theory of Vision, 282, 284
Three Dialogues between Hylas and
Philonous, 131, 280, 286
Verses on the prospect of planting arts
. . . in America, 281
Bermuda, 281
Bernard, Edward (1638–1696), 356
Bess the Gawkie, 374
Bessy Bell and Marie Gray, 368
Betterton, Thomas, 144
Betty, in Phillips's Don Quixote, 269
Beveridge, William (1637-1708), 528
Bevil junior, in Steele's Conscious Lovers,
64
Bible, the, 42, 118, 393, 402
Greek Testament, 336
Hebrew, 330
New Testament, 294, 330
Old Testament, 296
Psalms, 63, 78
Bible society, 247
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 35, 39, 40, 46 ff. , 50,
51, 54, 94
Big Endians, 229
Bigg, Charles, 321,
324
Binfield, 67, 68, 161, 167
Binning, Hugh (1627-1653), 542
Birnie, Pat, 366
Blackall, Offspring, 41
Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791), 556
Blackmore, Sir Richard (d. 1729), 29,
78, 177, 178, 180–1 (main entry)
Alfred, 180
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582
Index of Names
9
Blackmore, Sir Richard (cont. )
Arthur, 180
Creation, 180, 181, 184
Eliza, 180
Blackwell, Thomas (1660 ? -1728), 547
Thomas (1701–1757), 552
Blair, Hugh (1718-1800), 560
Robert, 167
Blenheim, 44, 150, 151, 155, 182
Bliss, Philip, 342
Blomefield, Francis (1705–1752), History
of Norfolk, 353
Blount, Charles (1654-1693), 288, 289
Anima Mundi, 288
Great is Diana of the Ephesians, 288
Miscellaneous Works, 289
Oracles of Reason, 289
Two first books of Philostratus, 288
Martha, 71, 72, 82
Teresa, 71
Thomas (1618-1679), 528
Blunden, Humphrey, 515
Blythesome Bridal, The, 363 ff.
Warton, Thomas. The Progress of Discontent. 1746. In Poetical Works
of Thos. Warton. Ed. Mant, Richard. 2 vols. Oxford, 1802.
The Triumph of Isis, a Poem occasioned by Isis, an Elegy. n. d. [1749].
Wordsworth, Christopher. Social Life at the English Universities in the
Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, 1874.
Unpublished
Archbishop Secker's Diary. In the MS Collections of the Archbishop's
Library, at Lambeth.
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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
man.
1616 Roger L'Estrange born (d. 1672 Sir Richard Steele born (d.
1704).
1729).
1622 Peacham’s Compleat Gentle- 1674 Wood's Historia et antiqui-
tates Universitatis Oxoniensis,
1624 Jacob Boehme died.
1675 Samuel Clarke born (d. 1729).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715). 1675? Ambrose Philips born (d.
1643 John Strype born (d. 1737).
1749).
1644 Milton's Of Education.
1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the Last
1648 Nova Solyma.
Age.
1650 Jeremy Collier born (d. 1726). 1679 Act for disabling Roman
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
Catholics from sitting in Parlia-
1655 Dugdale's Monasticon Angli- ment.
canum, vol. 1.
1679 Burnet's History of the Re-
1656 Dugdale's Antiquities of formation, vol. 1 (vol. II, 1681;
Warwickshire.
vol. III, 1714).
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1681 L'Estrange establishes The
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son.
Observator.
1657 Comenius's Opera didactica 1685 George Berkeley born (d. 1753).
omnia.
1685 John Gay born (d. 1732).
1660 The Restoration.
1685 Cotton's translation of Mon-
1660? Daniel Defoe born (d. 1731). taigne's Essays.
1661 Sir Samuel Garth born (d. 1685 Revocation of Edict of Nantes.
1719).
1685-8 James II.
1662 Richard Bentley born (d. 1742). 1686 William Law born (d. 1761).
16638 Butler's Hudibras.
1686 Thomas Tickell born (d. 1740).
1664 Matthew Prior born (d. 1721). 1686 Dryden's The Hind and the
1664 Cotton's Scarronides.
Panther.
1665 Burnet's Discourse on Sir 1687 Declaration of Indulgence,
Robert Fletcher of Saltoun. 1687 Montague and Prior's The
1665 The Oxford Gazette (after- Hind and the Panther Trans-
wards The London Gazette) vers'd to the Story of the Coun-
established.
try-Mouse and the City-Mouse.
1667 John Arbuthnot born (d. 1735). 1688 The Revolution.
1667 George Granville, Lord Lans- 1688 Alexander Pope born (d. 1744).
downe, born (d. 1735).
1689 Toleration Act.
1667 Jonathan Swift born (d. 1745). 1689-94 William and Mary.
1667 Sprat's History of the Royal 1690 Temple's Essay on Ancient
Society.
and Modern Learning.
1668 Burnet's Thoughts on Educa- 1691 Langbaine's Account of the
tion (ptd 1761).
English Dramatic Poets.
1669 Chamberlayne's Angliae no- 1691-2 Wood's Athenae Oxonienses.
titia.
1692 John Byrom born (d. 1763).
1672 Joseph Addison
Addison born (d. 1692 L'Estrange's edition of the
1719).
Fables of Aesop (pt 11 in 1699).
## p. 576 (#600) ############################################
576
Table of Principal Dates
mer.
1692 Rymer's Short View of Tra- 1703 Death of Pepys.
gedy (dated 1693).
1703 Defoe's Hymn to the Pillory.
1692–3 Bentley's Boyle Lectures on 1703 Steele's Lying Lover.
The Folly and Unreasonable- 1703? Henry Brooke born (d. 1783).
ness of Atheism.
1704 Death of Locke.
1693 Locke's Some Thoughts con- 1704 Battle of Blenheim.
cerning Education.
1704 Addison's Campaign.
1694 Bank of England established. 1704 Dennis's Grounds of Criticism
1694 Leslie's Short and easy method in Poetry.
with the Deists.
1704 Swift's A Tale of a Tub and
1694 Strype's Memorials of Cran The Battle of the Books (written
about 1697).
1694 Wotton's Reflections upon 1704 Defoe establishes The Review,
Ancient and Modern Learning. which is carried on till 1713.
1694-1702 William III.
1704-5 Samuel Clarke's Boyle Lec-
1695 Blackmore's Prince Arthur.
tures.
1695 Tanner's Notitia monastica. 1704-35 Rymer's Foedera,
1695 The Flying Post (Whig) be- 1706 Death of Evelyn.
gins to appear.
1706 Act of Succession.
1695 The Post Boy (Tory) begins 1706 Union with Scotland.
to appear.
1707 Echard's History of England,
1696 Aubrey's Miscellanies.
vol. 1.
1696 Toland's Christianity not mys-
1707 Prior's Poems on Several Oc-
terious.
casions (unauthorised ed. ).
1697 Peace of Ryswyk.
1708 Colliers Ecclesiastical His-
1697 Collier's Essays.
tory, vol. I.
1697 Defoe's Essay upon Projects. 1708 Motteur's translation of Rabe-
1698 Andrew Fletcher's Discourse lais (begun by Urquhart).
of Government with relation to 1708 John Philips's Cyder.
Militias.
1708 Swift's Sentiments of
1698 Granville's Heroick Love.
Church of England man; Argu-
1698 Ward's London Spy begins to ment against abolishing Chris-
appear.
tianity; Predictions of Isaac
1699 Society for Promoting Chris Bickerstaff; and Account of
tian Knowledge founded.
Partridge's Death.
1699 Bentley's Dissertation on the 1709 Defoe's History of the Union
Epistles of Phalaris.
of Great Britain.
1699 Garth's Dispensary.
1709 Berkeley's Essay towards a
1699 William King's Dialogues of new theory of vision.
the Dead.
1709 Pope's Pastorals appear in
1700 Death of Dryden.
Tonson's Miscellany.
1700 Pomfret's Choice.
1709 Prior's Poems on Several
1700-31 Strype's Annals of the Re- Occasions.
formation.
1709 Rowe's edition of Shake-
1701 Act of Settlement.
speare.
1701 Defoe's The True-Born Eng. 1709 The Tatler begins to appear.
lishman.
1710 Trial of Sacheverell. Tory
1701 John Philips's Splendid Shil- Ministry.
ling.
1710 Berkeley's Principles of H#-
1701 Steele's Christian Hero.
man Knowledge.
1702 Defoe's Shortest Way with 1710 Ambrose Philips's Pastorals.
the Dissenters.
1710 Swift's City Shower and Bau-
1702 The Daily Courant (first daily cis and Philemon.
paper) founded.
1710–12 Hearne's edition of Leland's
1702–14 Anne.
Itinerary
a
linto The Examina
It twintiin.
## p. 577 (#601) ############################################
Table of Principal Dates
577
1711 Bentley's edition of Horace. 1716 Hearne begins publication of
1711 Pope's Essay on Criticism.
a series of English chronicle
1711 Occasional Conformity Act.
histories.
1711 Shaftesbury's Characteristics. 1717 Sittings of Convention close.
1711 Swift's Conduct of the Allies. 1717 Hoadly's Preservative against
1711 2 January. Last number of the principles and practices of
The Tatler.
the non-jurors and Sermon on
1711 First number of The Spec- the nature of Christ's Kingdom.
tator, March 1.
1717 Pope's Works.
1712 Arbuthnot's Art of Political 1717-19 Law's Three Letters to the
Lying.
Bishop of Bangor.
1712 Blackmore's Creation.
1718 Society of Antiquaries insti-
1712 Clarke's Scripture Doctrine tuted.
of the Trinity.
1718 Prior's Poems on Several Oc-
1712 Dennis's Essay on. . . Shake- casions.
speare.
1719 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
1712 Ambrose Philips's Distressed 1720 South Sea Bubble.
Mother.
1720 Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier
1712 Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Captain Singleton.
published in Lintot's Miscel- 1721-42 Sir Robert Walpole in
lany.
power,
1712 Whiston's Primitive Chris- 1721 Parnell's Poems on Several
tianity revived.
Occasions.
1712 Last number of The Spectator 1721 Death of Prior.
appears, December 6.
1721 Ramsay's Poems.
1712 The Examiner established. 1721 Strype's Ecclesiastical Me-
1712–13 Arbuthnot's History of morials.
John Bull.
1722 Defoe's Journal of the Plague
1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
Year, Moll Flanders, Colonel
1713 Addison's Cato.
Jacque.
1713 Anthony Collins's Discourse of 1722 Steele's Conscious Lovers.
Free-Thinking.
1723 Mallet's William and Mar.
1713 Bentley's Remarks on a late garet.
Discourse of Free-Thinking. 1723 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
1713 Berkeley's Three Dialogues. and Law's Remarks upon it.
1713 Arthur Collier's Clavis Uni. 1724 Atterbury's plot. '
versalis.
1724 Burnet's History of my own
1713 Gay's Rural Sports.
time (vol. 11, 1734).
1713 Pope's Windsor Forest and 1724 Defoe's Roxana.
Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day. 1724 Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscel-
1713 Swift's Cadenus and Vanessa. lany; and The Evergreen.
1713 Lady Winchilsea's Poems. 1724 Swift's Drapier's Letters.
1714 Gay's Shepherd's Week. 1725 Pope's edition of Shakespeare.
1714 Schism Act.
1725 Pope's translation of Homer's
1714-27 George I.
Odyssey (Vols. 1-III) appears.
1715 Jacobite rising.
1725 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd.
1715 Gay's Trivia.
1726 Bentley's edition of Terence.
1715 Pope's edition of Homer's 1726 Butler's Sermons.
Iliad, vol. I, appears. (Vol. II, 1726 Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
1716; vol. iii, 1717; vol. iv, 1718; 1726 First number of The Crafts-
vols. V, VI, 1720. )
man appears, 5 December.
1715 Tickell’s translation of Ho 1727 Death of Newton.
mer's Iliad, Book i.
1727 Gay's Fables.
c. 1715 Carey's Sally in our Alley. 1727 The Occasional Writer (by
1716 Septennial Act.
Bolingbroke and others).
E. L. IX.
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578
Table of Principal Dates
1727-60 George II.
1740 North's Lives of the Norths.
1728 Gay's Beggar's Opera.
1740 Prior's History of his own
1728 Pope's Dunciad.
time.
1729 Death of Congreve.
1741 Memoirs of Scriblerus.
1729 Gay's Polly.
1741 Middleton's Life of Cicero.
1729 Law's Serious Call.
1742 Pope's Dunciad (with the
1729 Swift's Modest Proposal.
addition of Book iv).
1730 Tindals Christianity as old 1744 Dodsley's Old Plays.
as the Creation.
1744 Zachary Grey's edition of
1730-7 The Grub Street Journal. Butler's Hudibras.
1731 Swift's On the Death of 1744 Johnson's Life of Sarage.
Dr Swift (published 1739). 1744-6 The Harleian Miscellany.
1731 The Gentleman's Magazine 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.
established.
I-III.
1748 Dodsley's Poems by Sereral
1732 Bentley's edition of Paradise Hands.
Lost.
1748 Middleton's Free Inquiry into
1732 Berkeley's Alciphron.
miraculous powers.
1732 Granville's Works.
1748 Tanner's Bibliotheca Britan-
1732 Neal's History of the Puritans. nico-Hibernica.
1732-5 Pope's Moral Essays.
1749 Bolingbroke's Idea of a
1733 Walpole's Excise Scheme.
Patriot King and Letters on
1733 Popo's Essay on Man, Epistles Patriotism.
1749-50 Law's Spirit of Prayer.
1733-7 Pope's Imitations of Horace. 1751 Death of Bolingbroke.
1735 Bolingbroke's Dissertation 1752 Bolingbroke's Letters on the
upon Parties.
Study and Use of History
1735 Pope's Epistle to Dr Arbuth- published.
not.
1753 Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir
1736 Porteous Riots in Edinburgh. William Wyndham published.
1736 Butler's Analogy.
1760-1820 George III.
1737 Pope's Correspondence (au- 1762 Locke's Of the conduct of the
thoritative edition).
Understanding.
1737 Whiston's translation of 1763 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's
Josephus.
Letters published.
1737 Wilkins's Concilia.
1766-8 Swift's Journal to Stella
1738 Swift's Complete collection of published.
genteel and ingenious conversa- 1766-70 Henry Brooke's Fool of
tion.
Quality.
1738 Warburton's Divine Legation 1773 Fergusson's Poems.
of Moses.
1776 Herd's Ancient and Modern
1739 Bentley's edition of Manilius. Scottish Songs.
1739 Blomefield's History of Nor- 1784 George Bubb Dodington's
folk began to appear (completed Diary (1748/9-61) published.
1775).
1819-21 Hogg's Jacobite Relics of
1740 Cibber's Apology.
Scotland.
1740 Law's Appeal to all that 1848 Lord Hervey's Memoirs of the
doubt.
- reign of George II published.
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INDEX OF NAMES
The letters ff. after an entry imply that references to the same subject occur on at
least two immediately succeeding pages. Birth and death dates are not, as a rule,
given in the case of writers whose work is treated in other volumes. ]
1
Abbey and Overton, English Church in
the 18th century, 326
Abelard, 71
Abercromby, Patrick (1656–1716? ), 552
Aberdeen, 372, 374 ; Marischal college,
129
Aberdeenshire, 372, 373
Abingdon or Habington, Thomas (1560–
1647), 530
Ablancourt, Nicolas Perrot d', 267
Academic, The, 414
Académie Française, 397
Account of the sickness and death of Dr
Woodward, 132
Account of the state of learning in the
Empire of Lilliput, 132
Acheson, Lady, in Swift's Grand Question
debated, 119
Act of Settlement, 200
of Succession, 197
of Supremacy, 197
Adam, 28, 60, 327
Thomas, 313
Adams, Jean, 374
person, in Joseph Andrews, 408
Adamson, Henry (d. 1639), 554
John (d. 1653), 542, 554
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), 5, 26, 27,
41, 43 ff. (main entry), 67, 75, 78, 86,
94, 125, 142, 151, 165, 166, 170 ff. ,
180 ff. , 220, 237, 442
Campaign, The, 44
Cato, 63, 64, 77, 171, 184
Dialogues upon. . . Ancient Medals, 43
Dissertatio de Romanorum poetis, 43
Drummer, The, 172
Essay on Travel, 44
First Vision of Mirza, 63
Musae Anglicanae, 43
«On the Pleasures of the Imagination,'
61
Oratio de nova philosophia, 43
Remarks on Italy, 44
Travels in Italy, 94
Lancelot, 38
See, also, Spectator, The, and Tatlet, The
Aelfrio, Homilies, 402
Aeneas, 45, 60, 256, 257
Aesop, 102, 275, 391
Africa, 19
Agrigentum, 332
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius, 315
Ainsworth, Robert (1660–1743), 526, 568
Airy, O. , 203, 209
Aitken, George A. , 12
Aix, 162
Akenside, Mark, 190, 220, 475; Hymn to
the Naiads, 191; Pleasures of the Ima-
gination, 62
Aldrich, Henry (1647-1710), 528
Alexander, Sir William, earl of Stirling
(15677-1640), 554
Allam, Andrew (1655–1685), 351
Allen, Lord, 121
Alsop, Vincent (d. 1703), 503
America, 19, 212
South, 23
American philosophy, 281
Ames, Joseph (1689–1759), Typographical
Antiquities, 356
Amesbury, 163
Amhurst, Nicholas, 220, 411
Amitiez de Ami et Amile, Li, 39
Amsterdam, 197, 199, 306, 515, 519
Anderson, George (1676 ? -1756), 547
James (1662–1728), 552
James (1739–1808), 560
Robert, 187
Andronicus, Livius, 270
Anglia, 106
Anglicans, 100
Anglo-Saxon chair, at Oxford, 413
Annand, William (1633–1689), 545
Anne, queen, 30, 44, 72, 78, 96, 97, 103,
113, 124, 130, 131, 139, 150 ff. , 155,
160, 161, 169, 175, 177, 180, 200, 202,
205, 208, 216, 217, 219, 222, 228, 231,
232, 309, 394, 395, 407, 408
Annet, Peter (1693-1769), 288, 504; Re-
surrection of Jesus examined, 294
Anstis, John (1669–1744), 355
Anstruther, Lady Margaret, 369
Answerall, Lady, in Swift's Complete Col-
lection of. . . Conversation, 106
Antiochus, in The Tatler, 38
Antiquaries, Scottish Society of, 372
>
6
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580
Index of Names
Antiquaries, Society of, 352, 357, 358 Astell, Mary (1668–1731), 244; Serious
Apollo, 257
proposal to the Ladies, 404
Apostolical Constitutions, 221
Atalantis Major, 13
Applebee, John, 16, 22
Athenaeum, The, 106
Aquila, 330
Athenian Gazette (Dunton's), 5
Arabian Nights, The, 106
Mercury (Dunton's), 5, 34, 41,
Arabic chair, at Cambridge, 413
92
literature, 291
Athenians, the, 223
Arachne, in Ovid's Metamorphoses, 160 Atkyns, Sir Robert (1647-1711), Glocester.
and Pallas, 115
shire, 353
Arbuthnot, Archibald, 563
Atossa, in Pope's Characters of Women,
Charles, 469
82, 89
George, 133
Atterbury, Francis (1662–1732), 131, 147,
John (1667-1735), 72, 78, 96, 98, 153, 176, 196, 234, 333, 334, 337,
124, 127, 129 ff. (main entry), 152, 340
161, 163, 171, 220, 249, 446, 447, 464, Attercliffe, 393
466
Attic dramatists, 330
Account of the. . . death of Dr Woodward, Atticus, T. Pomponius, 198
132
Atwit, colonel, in Swift's Complete Col.
Art of Political Lying, 131, 136
lection of . . . Conversation, 106
Brief account of Mr John Ginglicutt': Aubrey, John (1626–1697), 267, 351 (main
Treatise, 133, 138
entry)
Essay concerning the effects of Air. . . 133, Brief Lives, 308, 351
138
Miscellanies, 351
concerning the nature of Ailments, Monumenta Britannica, 354
133, 138
Perambulation of Surrey, 351, 353
Examination of Dr Woodward's Account Aucassin et Nicolette, 39
of the Deluge, 129
Audrey, Saint, 343
History of John Bull, 131, 133, 137 Augustine, St, City of God, 318
Humble Petition of the Colliers, 132 Auld Guidman, The, 360
John Bull in his Senses, 131
Auld Reekie, 379
still in his Senses (and Auld Rob Morris, 360
Appendix), 131
Wife ayont the Fire, 360
Know Yourself, 133, 138
Aurelius, Marcus, 300
Law is a Bottomless Pit, 130
Austen, Jane, 338
Lewis Baboon turned Honest, 131 Austin, William (f. 1662), 429
Miscellaneous Works, 133
Austria, 232
On the Usefulness of Mathematical Avery, captain, 21
Learning, 130, 138
Avignon, 245
Reasons humbly offered by the Company Awa Whigs Awa, 377
. . . of Upholders, 132
Ayloffe, John, 266
Sermon. . . at the Mercat Cross, 130, 138 Ayton, Sir Robert, 555
Tables of. . . Measures, Weights and Coins, Azores, 175
130, 132
Arbuthnott, Viscount, 129
Baboon, Lewis, in Arbuthnot's History
Archaeologia, 358
of John Bull, 134, 135
Archangel, 240
Philip, in Arbuthnot's History of
• Ardelia' (Winchilsea, Anne, countess of), John Bull, 134
169.
Bacon, Francis, 47, 351, 381, 385, 386,
Arianism, 295, 297
388, 396
Ariosto, 338, Orlando Furioso, 61
Advancement of Learning, 388
Aristarch, 191
De Augmentis, 388
Aristophanes, 336
Essays, 44
Aristotle, 51, 59, 60, 64, 383, 386
Henry VII, 227
Armstrong, John (1709-1779), 556
New Atlantis, 388
Arpall, William (1715 ? -1741 ? ), 433 Baden, treaty of, 228
Arnold, Matthew, 31, 169
Baillie, Lady Grizel (1665–1746), The
As I came in by Edinburgh town, 363
Ewe-buchtin's bonnie, 364; Were na my
Ascham, Roger, The Scholemaster, 55 Heart licht, 364
Ascyltus, 266
Robert, 549
Asgill, John, 11
Sir William, of Lamington, 549
Ashburnham, Lady, 125
Baker, E. A. , 327
Ashe, St George, 166
Henry (1698-1774), 24, 25, 433
Ashmole, Elias (1617-1692), 355, 413; Thomas (1656–1740), 354; Reflec-
Antiquities of Berkshire, 353
tions on Learning, 354
Aspasia (Lady Elizabeth Hastings), 38 Balaam, Sir, in Pope's Epistles, 81
Assoucy, Charles Coypeau de, 256 Baloanquhall, Walter, 542
6
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Index of Names
581
1
Balfour, Sir Andrew (1630–1694), 558
Balguy, John (1686–1748), 504; Founda-
tion of Moral Goodness, 299
Baller, Joseph, 164
Balzac, Honoré, 20; Chef d'Euvre in.
connu, 39
Bangor, 309, 310
Bangorian controversy, 17, 19, 309
Banishment of Poverty, The, 366
Bannatyne MS. , 361, 365, 367, 369
Barber, Mary (1690 ? –1757), 106, 484
Barbones parliament, 386
Barclay, John (1582-1621), 555
John, Dialogue betwixt William
Lickladle and Thomas Cleancogue, 373
Robert, 545; Religious Societies of
the Commonwealth, 307
William (1570? –1630? ), 558
Barnabas, Gospel of, 291
Barnstaple, 160
Baron, Robert (1593 ? -1639), 542
Basedow, Johann Bernhard, 401
Bath, 34, 163, 167, 172
Sir William Pulteney, earl of, 88,
162, 219, 220, 223, 224, 250 ff.
Marquis of, Papers, 96, 99, 141.
See, also, Longleat Papers
Bathurst, Allen Bathurst, ist earl, 79,
152, 228
Battle of Falkirk Muir, 378
Baur, F. C. , 291
Baxter, Andrew (1686-1750), 504
Richard, Reliquiae Baxterianae,
307, 383; Saints' Everlasting Rest,
269
William (1650–1723), 526
Bayes, in Buckingham's Rehearsal, 147
Bayle, Pierre, 211
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, earl of,
243
Beattie, James (1735–1803), The Minstrel,
374; To Mr Alexander Ross, 374
Beaumont, Francis, 140, 145
Lady, 328
Beccaria, Marquis de, Dei Delitti e delle
Pene, 302
Bedford, 169
level, 343
Bedford, Arthur (1668–1745), 528
Bedfordshire, 145
Bee and the Spider, The, in Swift's Battle
of the Books, 102
Beef-steak club, 139
Beets, Heinrich, 515
Behmen, Jacob. See Boehme.
Behmenists, 306
Behn, Mrs Aphra, 18, 174
elgian writers, 314
Belgrade, 244
Bell, John (1691-1780), 560
Thomas (A. 1672), 545
Bellenden, Mary, 250
Bellers, John (1654–1725), Proposals for
Raising a Colledge of Industry, 406
Bellum grammaticale, 551
Beltrees, Renfrewshire, 364
Benedict, abbot of Peterborough, 349
Bentham, James (1708–1794), History of
Ely Cathedral, 354
Jeremy, 299, 301, 409
Bentley, Richard (1662–1742), 80, 86, 88,
103, 132, 138, 139, 297, 329 ff. (main
entry), 381, 382, 411, 412
• Confutation of Atheism,' 331
Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris,
329, 330, 333, 338, 391
Epistola ad Millium, 330, 331
Horace, 336, 337
Manilius, 338
Milton, 338, 339
Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free.
thinking, 292, 293, 337
Terence, 338
Bergerac, Cyrano de, Histoires comiques,
106; Voyage à la Lune, 106
Berkeley, Charles, 2nd earl of, 93
Elizabeth, countess of, 93
George (1685–1753), 171, 279 ff.
Alciphron, 282, 283, 286, 301, 302
Analyst, The, 282
Common-place Book, 280, 283, 287
De motu, 280
Essay towards a new theory of vision,
61, 280, 283, 284
towards preventing the ruin of
Great Britain, 280
Miscellany, 282
Principles of human knowledge, 280,
284, 286, 287
Querist, The, 282
Siris, 282, 287
Theory of Vision, 282, 284
Three Dialogues between Hylas and
Philonous, 131, 280, 286
Verses on the prospect of planting arts
. . . in America, 281
Bermuda, 281
Bernard, Edward (1638–1696), 356
Bess the Gawkie, 374
Bessy Bell and Marie Gray, 368
Betterton, Thomas, 144
Betty, in Phillips's Don Quixote, 269
Beveridge, William (1637-1708), 528
Bevil junior, in Steele's Conscious Lovers,
64
Bible, the, 42, 118, 393, 402
Greek Testament, 336
Hebrew, 330
New Testament, 294, 330
Old Testament, 296
Psalms, 63, 78
Bible society, 247
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 35, 39, 40, 46 ff. , 50,
51, 54, 94
Big Endians, 229
Bigg, Charles, 321,
324
Binfield, 67, 68, 161, 167
Binning, Hugh (1627-1653), 542
Birnie, Pat, 366
Blackall, Offspring, 41
Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791), 556
Blackmore, Sir Richard (d. 1729), 29,
78, 177, 178, 180–1 (main entry)
Alfred, 180
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582
Index of Names
9
Blackmore, Sir Richard (cont. )
Arthur, 180
Creation, 180, 181, 184
Eliza, 180
Blackwell, Thomas (1660 ? -1728), 547
Thomas (1701–1757), 552
Blair, Hugh (1718-1800), 560
Robert, 167
Blenheim, 44, 150, 151, 155, 182
Bliss, Philip, 342
Blomefield, Francis (1705–1752), History
of Norfolk, 353
Blount, Charles (1654-1693), 288, 289
Anima Mundi, 288
Great is Diana of the Ephesians, 288
Miscellaneous Works, 289
Oracles of Reason, 289
Two first books of Philostratus, 288
Martha, 71, 72, 82
Teresa, 71
Thomas (1618-1679), 528
Blunden, Humphrey, 515
Blythesome Bridal, The, 363 ff.
