rised by Nash for his prolix periods, 122
cannot be endured to be considered as the son of a rope-maker,
123
his pretended sordid manners, 124
his affectation of Italian fashions, _ib._
his friends ridiculed, 125
his pedantic taste for hexameter verses, &c., 127
his curious remonstrance with Nash, 126
his lamentation on invectives, 129
his books, and Nash's, suppressed by order of the Archbishop of
Canterbury for their mutual virulence, 120

HAWKESWORTH, Dr., letter on presenting his MS. of Cook's Voyages for
examination, the publication of which overwhelmed his
fortitude and intellect, 199

HENLEY, Orator, this buffoon an indefatigable student, an elegant
poet, and wit, 59
his poem of "Esther, Queen of Persia", 60
sudden change in his character, 62
seems to have attempted to pull down the Church and the
University, 63
some idea of his lectures, _n._ 64
his projects to supply a Universal School, _ib._
specimens of his buffoonery on solemn occasions, 66
his "Defence of the Oratory," _n._ _ib._
once found his match in two disputants, 67
specimen of the diary of his "Oratory Transactions", _ib._
close of his career, _n._ 68
his character, 69
parallel between him and Sir John Hill, 363

HENRY, Dr., the Historian, the sale of his work, on which he had
expended most of his fortune and his life, stopped, and
himself ridiculed, by a conspiracy raised against him, 136

HENRY, Dr., caustic review of his history, _n._ _ib._

HERON, Robert, draws up the distresses of a man of letters living by
literary industry, in the confinement of a sponging-house,
from his original letter, 81

HERRICK, Robert, petulant invective against Devonshire, 215

HILL, Aaron, and his quarrel with Pope, 290

HILL, Sir John, 362-396
parallel between him and Orator Henley, 383
his great work on Botany, _n._ _ib._
his personalities, 364
attacks the Royal Society, 365
his _Inspector_, 367
war of wit with Fielding, 368
and Smart, 370-372
attacks Woodward, who replies with some ridiculous anecdotes, _n._
372
proposes himself as keeper of the Sloane collection, 374
manufactures _Travels_, _n._ 374
his death, 375

HOBBES contemns the Royal Society, 342
praises D'Avenant's poem of "Gondibert", 408-412
his