*sequeretur, 165.
in Theatro, March 8, 1771, 166.
insula Kennethi inter Hebridas, 167.
Skia, ibid.
ode de Skia insula, 168, 169.
Spes, 385.
versus collari capræ domini Banks inscribendi, ibid.
ad fœminam quandam generosam quæ libertatis causæ in sermone patrocinata fuerat, ibid.
jactura temporis, 170.
[Greek: Eis Birchion], ibid.
[Greek: Eis to tês Elissês peri tôn oneirôn Ainigma], ibid.
in Eliza enigma, 171.
Latin versions of four collects in the Liturgy, ibid.
Psalmus cxvii, 172.
Latin version of "Busy curious thirsty Fly," ibid.
Latin version of three sentences on the monument of John of Doncaster, 173.
translation of a song in Walton's Complete Angler, ibid.
version of Pope's verses on his own Grotto, 174.
Græcorum epigrammatum versiones metricæ, 175.
Pompeii epigrammata, 186.
Epicteti epigramma, 190.
e Theocrito, ibid.
e Euripidis Medea, 191.
Septem Ætates, ibid.
Geographia metrica Templemanni Latine redditus, ibid.
translation of Dryden's epigram on Milton, 193.
epilogue to the Carmen Seculare of Horace, 194.
translation of a Welsh epitaph, ibid.
Poet, the general knowledge necessary for, i. 221.
ancients exceptionable teachers of morality, ii. 142.
the forbearance due to young ones, iv. 223.
advertisement to the edition of the Lives of the Poets, of 1783, viii. 1.
metaphysical, what, vii. 14.
critical remarks on this kind of writing, 18.
Dryden's opinion on the question, whether a poet can judge well of his own productions, 251.
do not make the best parents, exemplified in Dr. Young, viii. 443.
Poetry, Miscellaneous, i. 115, 154.
a dissertation on, i. 220.
early writers in possession of nature, their followers of art, 221.
harmony the end of its measure, ii. 422.
the parallel of with painting, iv. 249.
the essay, characterized, 376.
observations on affectation in, 377.
on occasional compositions, vii. 311.
a simile described, vii. 454.
on the neglect of poetical justice, 455.
similes in poetry considered, viii. 329.
that sound should seem the echo of the sense, considered, 330.
Poetry, poetical devotion cannot often please, vii. 136.
characterized, 137.
Poetry, pastoral, the peculiar beauties of it, ii. 176.
the difficulty of succeeding in it, 178, 180.
mere nature to be principally regarded, ibid.
wherein the perfection of it consists, 184.
generally the first productions of a poet, viii. 325.
Poetry, epick, critical remarks on, iii. 250.
what it is, vii. 125.
Poetry, lyrick, its origin and manner, iii. 249.
Policy, too frequently supported by the arts of intrigue and fraud, ii. 372.
Politeness, rules for estimating its advantages, ii. 465.
its amiable influence on the manners, ibid.
Politian, his poetical composition censured for his vanity and self-esteem, iii. 103.
Polyphilus, his character, ii. 96.
Pomfret, John, his life, vii. 222.
son of the Rev. Mr. Pomfret, rector of Luton, ibid.
educated at Cambridge, ibid.
rector of Malden, Bedfordshire, ibid.
obstructed in institution to a valuable living, from a passage in his Choice, ibid.
dies of the small pox, in 1703, aged 36, ibid.
character of his poems, ibid.
Pompeius, epigrammata, i. 186.
Pontanus, Scaliger's opinion of, ii. 15.
the instructive inscription on his tomb, ii. 141.
Pope, Alexander, his account of N. Rowe, vii. 415.
his letter to Broome on the death of Fenton, viii. 60.
with Arbuthnot supposed to have assisted Gay in writing Three Hours after Marriage, 64.
his account of the origin and success of the Beggars' Opera, 67.
a conversation with Addison on Tickell's translation of Homer, viii. 267.
Fenton and Broome assist him in the translation of the Odyssey, 273.
his life, 233.
born in London, May 22, 1688, ibid.
his father grew rich by the trade of a linendraper, ibid.
both his parents papists, ibid.
of a tender and delicate constitution, and of a gentle and sweet disposition, ibid.
from his pleasing voice called the little nightingale, ibid.
received his first education under a Romish priest in Hampshire, from whence he was removed first to Twyford, near Winchester, and again to a school near*
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