l, without any taste, how he contrived to criticise
poems, 143

CRITICISMS, illiberal, some of its consequences stated, 140

CROSS attacks the Royal Society, 344-346

CROUSAZ dissects Pope's "Essay on Man", 256

CURLL, and his publication of Pope's letters, 292

D'AVENANT, his poem of "Gondibert", 404
history of its composition, _n._ 404
its merits and defects, 405-408
a club of wits satirize it, 409
and its author, 412
and occasion it to be left unfinished, 413

DAVIES, Myles, a mendicant author, his life, 30

DECKER quarrels with Ben Jonson for his arrogance, 475-487
ridicules him in his "Satiromastix", 482-487

DEDICATION, composed by a patron to himself, _n._ 30

DEDICATIONS, used in an extraordinary way, _n._ 30

DE LOLME'S work on the Constitution could find no patronage, and the
author's bitter complaints, 200
relieved by the Literary Fund, _n._ 201

DENHAM falsely satirized, _n._ 429

DENNIS, John, distinguished as "The Critic", 52
his "Original Letters" and "Remarks on Prince Arthur," his best
productions, 52
anecdotes of his brutal vehemence, 53
curious caricature of his personal manners, 54
a specimen of his anti-poetical notions, _n._ 55
his frenzy on the Italian Opera, 57
acknowledges that he is considered as ill-natured, and complains
of public neglect, _ib._
more the victim of his criticisms than the genius he insulted,
58
his insatiable vengeance toward Pope, 286
his attack on Addison's "Cato", 315
his account with the bookseller Lintot, 331

DRAKE, Dr. John, a political writer, his miserable life, 11

DRAYTON'S national work, "The Polyolbion," ill received, and the
author greatly dejected, 210
angry preface addressed "To any that will read it", 211

DRUMMOND of Hawthornden, his love of poetry, 213
conversation with Jonson, 475

DRYDEN, in his old age, complains of dying of over-study, 204
his dramatic life a series of vexations, 205
regrets he was born among Englishmen, 206
remarkable confession of the poet, _ib._
vilified by party spirit, 427
compares his quarrel with Settle to that of Jonson with Decker,
_n._ 477

DUNCIAD, Pope's collections for, 278
early editions of, _n._ 283
rage of persons satirized in, _n._ 284
satire on naturalists in, 342

DUNTON the bookseller sa