465. Pomposo, i. 406. PONDICHERRY, v. 124, n. 2. PONSONBY, Hon. Mr., v. 263. POOR, cannot agree, ii. 103; condition of them the national distinction, ii. 130; deaths from hunger in London, iii. 401; education, ii. 188, n. 6: See under STATE; employment under the poor-law, iv. 3; France, in, ii. 390; 'honour, have no,' iii. 189; injured by indiscriminate hospitality, iv. 18; provision for them, ii. 130; rich, at the mercy of the, v. 304; superfluous meat for them, v. 204. POPE, Alexander, Addison's 'familiar day,' iv. 91, n. 1; Adrian's lines, translation of, iii. 420, n. 2; Beggar's Opera, his expectation about the, ii. 369, n. 1; Benson's monument to Milton, v. 95, n. 2; Blair, anecdotes of him by, iii. 402-3; bleeding, advised to try, iii. 152, n. 3; Blount, Martha, i. 232, n. 1. Bolingbroke's present to Booth, v. 126, n. 2; Bolingbroke's enmity, i. 329; Bolingbroke, Lady, described by, iii. 324; 'borrows for want of genius,' v. 92, n. 4; Budgell, Eustace, ii. 229, n. 1; Characters of Men and Women, ii. 84; Cibber's Careless Husband, ii. 340, n. 4; iii. 72, n. 4; condensing sense, art of, v. 345; confidence in himself, i. 186, n. 1; Congreve, dedicates the Iliad to, iv. 50, n. 4; conversation, iii. 392, n. 1; iv. 49; Cooke, correspondence with, v. 37, n. 1; Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2; Crousaz's Examen, i. 137; death, reflection on the day of his, iii. 165; his death imputed to a saucepan, i. 269, n. 1; death-bed confession, v. 175, n. 5; Dodsley, assisted, ii. 446, n. 4; Dryden, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85; in his boyhood saw him, i. 377; n. 1; Dunciad, annotators, its, iv. 306, n. 3; concluding lines, ii. 84; Dennis's thunder, iii. 40, n. 2; resentment of those attacked, ii. 61, n. 4; written for fame, ii. 334; Dying Christian to his Soul, iii. 29; Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate Lady, i. 173 n. 2; epigram on Lord Stanhope attributed to him, iv. 102, n. 4; Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet, iv. 235, n. 2; Epitaphs, Johnson's Dissertation on his, i. 335; Essay on Criticism, ii. 36, n. 1; iv. 217, n. 4; Essay on Man, Bolingbroke's share in it, iii. 402-3; Warburton's comments, ii. 37, n. 1; fame, his, said to have declined, ii. 84; iii. 332; female-cousin, his, iii. 71, n. 5; Fermor, Mrs., describes him, ii. 392; Flatman, borrowed from, iii. 29; friends, his, iii. 347; iv. 50; gentlemen, on the ignorance of, iv. 217, n. 4; Goldsmith's reflection on his 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3; Greek, knowledge of, iii. 403; grotto, his, iv. 9; verses on it, iv. 51; happy, says that he is, iii. 251; Homer, his, attacked by Bentley, iii. 256, n. 4; and Cowper, iii. 257, n. 1; praised by Johnson, iii. 257; and Gray, ib., n. 1; his pretended reason for translating it into blank verse, ii. 124, n. 1; written on the covers of letters, i. 143, n. 1; Iliad, written slowly, i. 319, n. 3; Odyssey, translated by the help of associates, iv. 49; imitations, fondness for, i. 118, n. 5; intimidated by prosecution of P. Whitehead, i. 125, n. 3; Johnson criticises his Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, iv. 16, n. 4; defends him as a poet, iv. 46; Dictionary, apparently interested in, i. 182; estimate of the Dunciad, ii. 84, n. 4; recommends, to Lord Gower, i. 132, n. 1, 133, 143; to J. Richardson, ib.; translates his Messiah, i. 61, 272; 'will soon be deterre,' i. 129; ii. 85; writes his Life, iv. 46-7; labour his pleasure, ii. 99, n. 1; laugh, did not, ii. 378, n. 2; Lewis's verses to him, iv. 307; Lintot, quarrels with, i. 435, n. 4; Lords, gave all his friendship to, iii. 347; 'low-born Allen,' v. 80, n. 5; Mallet paid to attack his memory, i. 329; 'Man never is but always to be blest' ii. 350; Marchmont's, Earl of, anecdotes of him, iii. 342-5, 392, 418; Pope's executor, iv. 51; Memoirs of Scriblerus, v. 44, n. 4; mill, his mind a, v. 265; Miscellanies, transplants an indecent piece into his, iv. 36, n. 4; lines applicable to Gibbon, ii. 133, n. 1; 'modest Foster,' iv. 9; monument proposed in St. Paul's, ii. 239; 'narrow man, a,' ii. 271, n. 2; 'nodded in company,' iii. 392, n. 1; pamphlets against him, kept the, iv. 127; 'paper-sparing,' i. 142; papers left at his death, iv. 51, n. 1; parents, behaviour to his, i. 339, n. 3; parodied by I.H. Browne, ii. 339, n. 1; parsimony, i. 143, n. 1; Pastorals, ii. 84; Patriot King, clandestinely printed copies of the, i. 329, n. 3; pensioners, satirises, i. 375; Philips, Ambrose, attacks, i. 179, n. 4; pleasure in writing, iv. 219, n. 1; Prendergast and Sir John Friend, ii. 183; priests where a monkey is the god, ii. 135, n. 1; Prince of Wales, repartee to the, iv. 50; Radcliffe's doctors, iv. 293, n. 1; Rape of the Lock, ii. 392, n. 8; reading, his, i. 57, n. 1; ii. 36, n. 1; of the modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 2; Rich, anecdote of, iv.

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