rovincial, their situation at variance with their feelings,
214

POPE, Alex., his opinion of "the Dangerous Fate of Authors", 214
the Poet Prior, 216

POPE, Alexander, his high estimation of Warburton, 257, 273
Warburton's edition of his works, 263, 270
his miscellaneous quarrel, 278, 291
collects libels on himself, _n._ 273
literary stratagems, 280
early neglect of his "Essay on Criticism," _n._ 280
the real author of the "Key to the Lock," _n._ 280
hostilities between him and others, 282
the finest character-painter, _n._ 283
his personal sufferings on Cibber's satire, 285
his first introduction to Dennis, _n._ 286
narrative of the publication of his letter to Curll, 292, 300
his attacks on Cibber, 301, 312
his condemned comedy, _n._ 301, 307
quarrels with Addison, 313
urges an attack on his _Cato_, _n._ 315
believes him to have employed adverse critics, _n._ 316-317
satirizes Addison as Atticus, _n._ 317
his last interview with Addison, 318, 320
surreptitiously prints Bolingbroke's "Patriot King", 321
his bookselling account with Lintot, 329
his earliest satire, 333-335
his satires and their effects, 535

PRIDEAUX'S "Connection of Old and New Testament", 84

PRINCE'S "Worthies of Devon", _ib._

PRIOR, curious character of, from a Whig satire, 216
felicitated himself that his natural inclination for poetry had
been checked, 217
attacked for his political creed, 429

PROCLAMATION issued by James I. against Cowel's book, "The
Interpreter," a curious document in literary history, 195

PRYNNE, a voluminous author without judgment, but the character of
the man not so ridiculous as the author, 146
his intrepid character, 147
his curious argument against being debarred from pen and ink, _n._
148
his interview with Laud in the Tower, _n._ 149
had a good deal of cunning in his character, _n._ 150
grieved for the Revolution in which he himself had been so
conspicuous a leader, 148
his speeches as voluminous as his writings, _n._ 151
seldom dined, _n._ 152
account of his famous "Histriomastix", _ib._
Milton admirably characterises Prynne's absurd learning, _n._
_ib._
how the "Histriomastix" was at once an elaborate work of many
years, and yet a temporary satire--the secret history of the