book being as extraordinary as the book itself, 153

PURITANS, origin of their name, _n._ 504

RALEIGH, Sir W., an opposer of Puritanism, _n._ 508

REFORMATION, the, under Elizabeth, 501

RIDICULE described, 114
it creates a fictitious personage, _ib._
a test of truth, 264, 267

RITSON, Joseph, the late poetical antiquary, carried criticism to
insanity, 51

RITSON, Isaac, a young Scotch writer, perishes by attempting to
exist by the efforts of his pen, 75
his extemporary rhapsody descriptive of his melancholy fate, 76

ROYAL SOCIETY, the, 335, 361
encounters much opposition when first established, _ib._

RUFFHEAD'S Life of Pope, 290

RUSHWORTH dies of a broken heart, having neglected his own affairs
for his "Historical Collections", 85

RYMER'S distress in forming his "Historical Collections", 85

RYVES, Eliza, her extraordinary literary exertions and melancholy
end, 107

SALE, the learned, often wanted a meal while translating the Koran,
_n._ 189

SAVAGE the Poet employed by Pope to collect materials for notes to
the _Dunciad_, _n._ 279

SCOT, Reginald, persecuted for his work against Witchcraft, 198

SCOTT, of Amwell, the Quaker and poet, offended at being compared to
Capt. Macheath by the affected witticism of a Reviewer, 143
his extraordinary "Letter to the Critical Reviewers," in which he
enumerates his own poetical beauties, _ib._

SELDEN compelled to recant his opinions, and not suffered to reply
to his calumniators, 198
refuses James I. to publish his defence of the "Sovereignty of the
Seas" till Grotius provoked his reply, _ib._
opinions on bishops, _n._ 502

SETTLE, Elkanah, the ludicrous close of a scribbler's life, 146
the hero of Pope's earliest satire, 333
manages Pope burnings, 334

SHAFTESBURY, Lord, on the origin of irony, _n._ 436
his character of Hobbes, _n._ 437
his conversation with Hobbes in Paris on his work, "The
Leviathan," _n._ 441

SHUCKFORD, "Sacred and Profane History Connected", 85

SLOANE, Sir Hans, his peculiarities of style, 358-360

SMART and his satire, "The Hilliad", 371-372

SMOLLETT confesses the incredible labour and chagrin he had endured
as an author, 13

SOCRATES ridiculed by Aristophanes, 266

SOUTH'S poignant reflection on the Royal Society, 342

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