Rhodes, Isle of, story of the dragon which ravaged it, vii. 30. Rhodoclia, her remarks on the amusements and pleasures of the town, iv. 296.
Richard II. observations on Shakspeare's play of, ii. 149. Richard III. observations on Shakspeare's play of, ii. 156. Richardson's, Samuel, Treatise on Painting, gave the first fondness of that art to sir Joshua Reynolds, ix. 2. His character of Lovelace taken from the Lothario of the Fair Penitent, x. 62. Charac- terized as a writer, 62.
Riches, the folly of pursuing them as the chief end of our being, iv. 374. The true use of, v. 319. The general desire of them whence it proceeds, 384. The peace of life too often destroy- ed by incessant and zealous strugglings for them, 385. The arts by which they are gained frequently irreconcileable with virtue, 386. Not the cause of happiness, vii. 248. The general de- sire for, 292. Not so dangerous as formerly, 292. Hope of, more than the enjoyment, 293. What it is to be rich, 293. Avarice always poor, 293. Story of Tom Tranquil, a rich man, 295. Best obtained by silent profit and industry, 395. Not the cause of happiness, exemplified in the history of Ortogrul of Basra, 395.
Riches (hereditary), advantages and disadvantages of, iii. 248. The general ill effects of, i. 16.
Ridicule, the business of comedy, iii. 4.
Riding, honours due to the lady who undertook to ride 1000 miles in 1000 hours, and performed it in about two-thirds of the time, v. 21. An equestrian statue proposed to be erected to her memory, 23. Difficulties respecting a proper inscription, 23. Righteousness considered, vii. 358.
Rio verde, translation of the two first stanzas of that song, i. 162. Riots, in London (1780), description of, xii. 422. Roarer, his character, vi. 24.
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, Life of, ix. 201. earl of Rochester, 201. Born April 10, 1647, 201. Educated at Burford School, 201. Entered at Wadham College, 201. Travelled into France and Italy, 201. Entered into the sea- service, 201. Early given to intemperance, 202. Gentleman of the bedchamber, and comptroller of Woodstock Park, 202. Men- tioned by Wood as the greatest scholar of all the nobility, 203. His favourite authors, Boileau and Cowley, 203. Pursues a life of drunken gaiety, 203. Becomes acquainted with Dr. Burnet, which produced a total change of his manners and opinions, 203. Died at the age of thirty-four, July 26, 1680, 204. His charac- ter, 204. Many things imputed to him which he is supposed not to have written, 204. The first edition of his works printed the year after his death, Antwerp in the title-page, 204. Character of his works, 205. His poem on Nothing criticised, 205. His Praise of Satire criticised, 206. His Satire against Man criticised, 207. Takes E. Settle under his protection, 350. Rolt's Dictionary of Commerce, Preface to, ii. 259.
Romances, the general design of them, iv. 20. Those of the former and present age compared, 22. Romans, their donatives rather popular than virtuous, vii. 13. Made no standing provision for the needy, 13. Their history has long found employment for the studious, and amusement for the idle, ii. 319. When poor, robbed mankind; when rich, robbed one another, 324.
Rome, supplied by Sicily with corn, ii. 385. Afterwards supplied with corn from Africa and Egypt, 385.
Romeo and Juliet, observations on Shakspeare's play of, ii. 166. Rona, account of the island of, viii. 280.
Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, his life, ix. 211. Son of James Dillon, earl of Roscommon, born in Ireland, 211. Edu- cated in Yorkshire, at his uncle's, lord Strafford's, 211. Sent to Caen, to study under Bochart, 212. Is said to have had pre- ternatural intelligence of his father's death, 212. The credit to be given to such intelligence, 212. Travels into Italy, 213. - At the Restoration returns to England, is made captain of the band of pensioners, and addicts himself to gaming, 213. Goes to Ireland, and made captain of the guards, 214. Attacked by three ruffians, on his return from the gaming-table, is rescued by a half-pay officer, to whom he resigns his commission in the guards, 214. Returns to England, and marries a daughter of the earl of Burlington, 214. Forms a plan of a society for reforming our language, 214. Purposes to retire to Rome, but is attacked by the gout, and, with the assistance of a French empirick, dies in 1684, and is buried in Westminster-Abbey, 216. His poetical character, 216. Dryden's opinion of Roscommon's Essay on translated Verse, 218. His Art of Poetry praised, 219. Account of his other pieces, 221. Mrs. Philip's opinion of some of his works, 221.
Rota club, account of, and the members, ix. 121. Rowe, Nicholas, the first who had three nights of a new play, ix. 347. His life, x. 60. Born at Little Beckford, Bedfordshire, 1673, 60. Educated at Westminster, under Busby, 61. A stu- dent of the Middle-Temple, 61. At twenty-five produced the Ambitious Step-mother, 61. Tamerlane in 1702, 61. Fair Penitent in 1703, 62. Ulysses in 1706; Royal Convert, 1708, 63. The Biter, a comedy, 1706, 64. Jane Shore, 1714, 64. Lady Jane Grey, 1715, 64. Publishes an edition of Shakspeare in 1709, 65. Under-secretary to the duke of Queensberry, 65. Advised by lord Oxford to study Spanish, 66. Succeeded N. Tate as Poet-Laureat, 66. Land-surveyor of the customs, 66. Clerk of the council to the prince of Wales, 66. Secretary of the presentations, 66. His life, as prefixed to his translation of Lucan's Pharsalia, by Dr. Welwood, 66. Died Dec. 6, 1718, and buried in Westminster-Abbey, 69. The testimony of Pope in his favour, 69. Chiefly considered as a tragick authour and translator, 70. Character of his works, 71. Pope's epitaph intended for him, with the Visitor's criticisms, xi. 206. Observations on his edition of Shakspeare's works, ii. 116.
Royal Society, supposed to have been established to divert the at- tention of the people from publick discontent, x. 86. into, What have they done? vii. 354.
Rudeness to convenience, the progress of, vii. 252.
Ruling passion, M. Crousaz's observations on Pope's opinion of it,
Rum, account of the island of, viii. 367. Land there not more than 24d. an acre, 368.
Rupert, Prince, driven by admiral Blake into the Tagus, xii. 44. Afterwards into Carthagena, 45. His fleet destroyed by Blake in the harbour of Malaga, 45.
Rural elegance, observations in the praise of, xi. 275.
Rural situation, a sketch of its peculiar pleasures and advantages, v. 408.
Ruricola, his observations upon the prevalence of a fond appetite for news, iv. 387.
SABRINUS Georgius, de sacerdote furem consolante epigram- ma, x. 180.
Sacharissa, that character designed by Waller for lady Dorothea Sidney, ix. 232.
Salmasius, employed by Charles II. to write in defence of his father and monarchy, ix. 108. His character, 108. Publishes his De- fensio Regis in 1649, 108. Answered by Milton, 108. Leaves a reply to Milton, which was published by his son, 110. Sampson Agonistes, characterized, ix. 178. Critical remarks on the beauties and improprieties of that dramatick piece, v. 431. Sanderson, Dr. Robert, bishop of Lincoln, his critical nicety in pre- paring his lectures, iv. 130.
Sannazarius, his inducements to the piscatory eclogue, iv. 236. Sarpi, Father Paul, his life, xii. 3. Born at Venice, 1552, 3. Edu- cated under his mother's brother, 3. Studies logick under Ca- pella of Cremona, 3. Takes the order of Servites, 1566, 4. Publick professor of divinity at Mantua, 4. His great acquisi- tions in every branch of knowledge and literature, 5. Several charges laid against him in the Inquisition, which passed over, 5. Refused a bishopric by Clement VIII. 5. The part he took in the quarrel between Paul V. and the Venetians, 6. Attacked by five ruffians employed by the Pope, and receives fifteen stabs, 8. Retires to his convent, and writes the History of the Council of Trent, 8. Died 1623, 9. His character, 10.
Satire, Lord Rochester's praise of, criticised, ix. 207. Savage, Richard, his life, xii. 281. Born Jan. 10, 1697, a son of earl Rivers by the countess of Macclesfield, 283. Left to the care of his mother, who abandons him, 283. Committed to the care of a poor woman, to be brought up as her own son, 284. Lady Mason, his grandmother, takes some care of him, 285. His godmother, Mrs. Lloyd, left him 300l. which was never
paid him, 285. Placed at a small grammar-school near St. Al- ban's, 285. Lord Rivers on his death-bed inquires particularly of him, and is assured by his mother that he was dead, by which he loses 6000l. left him by his father, 286. His mother at- tempts to send him to America secretly, 287. His mother places him with a shoemaker in Holborn, 288. On the death of his nurse, discovers his parents, 288. Applies to his mother, who resolves to neglect him, 288. Became an authour through neces- sity, 289. Publishes his first Poems against the bishop of Bangor, 289. Writes his first play, Woman's a Riddle, in his eighteenth year, 290. At twenty-one writes Love in a Veil, 291. Is patron- ized by sir Richard Steele, 291. Story of his going with sir R. Steele, and writing a pamphlet, which he sells for two guineas, to raise money, 292. Steele proposes to marry one of his natural daughters to Savage, 293. Steele discards him, 293. Through the intercession of Wilks obtains 507. from his mother, 295. Fre- quents the stage, becomes acquainted with Mrs. Oldfield, who allows him 50%. a year during her life, 296. Mr. Wilks occasion- ally allows him a benefit, which is counteracted by his mother, 297. Writes the tragedy of Sir Tho. Overbury, 298. Cibber corrects the tragedy, 299. Experiences the friendship of Aaron Hill, who writes the prologue and epilogue to the tragedy of Overbury, 300. Acts the part of Overbury, 300. Seventy gui- neas left for Savage, by Mr. Hill's publishing his case in the Plain Dealer, 302. His flattery of lady M. W. Montagu in his dedication to his volume of Poems, 303. Adds to his reputa- tion by his poem on the death of Geo. I. 304. Account of his killing Mr. James Sinclair, 305. His trial and defence, 308. Is found guilty of murder, 309. He obtains a pardon, although it had been greatly obstructed by his mother, 310. Further ac- counts of his mother's enmity, 311. Meets the principal evi- dence against him in distress, and divides his only guinea with her, 314. His own opinion of the killing of Sinclair, 315. Lived a life of want and plenty, 316. Threatens to publish a narrative of his mother's conduct, in hopes of extorting a pension from her, 317. Received into the family of lord Tyrconnel, who promises him a pension of 2001. a year, 317. Writes the Author to be Let, 318. The part he had in the Dunciad, 321. His epigram on Dennis, 322. Receives twenty guineas for a pa- negyrick on sir R. Walpole, 322. Laments the misery of living at other men's tables, 323. Publishes the Wanderer, with the character of that poem, 324. His peculiar attention to correct- ness in printing, 326. Sells the copy of the Wanderer for ten guineas, 326. His quarrel with lord Tyrconnel, 328. Writes the Triumph of Health and Mirth, 330. Closely studies the great, 331. Again turned adrift on the world, 333. Too much elevated by good fortune, 334. His mother continues her ill treatment of him, 336. The resentment between lord Tyrcon- nel and him kept up for many years, 337. Publishes the Bastard, a Poem, 338. This poem obliges his mother to retire from Bath to London, 339. Ready to accept the praises of the people, and
to find excuses for their censure, 340. Imputed none of his mi- series to himself, 341. Mistook the love, for the practice of virtue, 342. His actions precipitate and blamable, his writings tended to the propagation of morality and piety, 342. Exerts all his interest to be appointed poet laureat, but is disappointed, 343. Becomes volunteer laureat to the queen, for which the queen sends him 507. and leave to continue it annually, 344. Copy of the first volunteer laureat, 344. Accused of influencing elections against the court, 348. An information against him in the King's Bench, for publishing an obscene pamphlet, 349. Writes the Progress of a Divine, 350. Satirized in the Weekly Miscellany, and defended in the Gentleman's Magazine, 352. The information dismissed by sir Philip Yorke, 353. Purposes writing the Progress of a Freethinker, 354. His practice to con- ceal himself from his friends, whilst he spent the queen's pension, 354. Sir R. Walpole promises him the first place vacant, not exceeding 2001. a year, 355. Extracts from his poem on the Poet's dependence on a Statesman, 356. Extracts from an Epistle upon Authours, never published, 357. Dedicates a poem on Publick Spirit to the prince of Wales, for which he received no reward, 360. For a great part of the year lived by invitations, and lodged by accident sometimes in summer on a bulk, and in winter in a glass-house, 366. Wherever he went could not conform to the economy of a family, 368. As his affairs grew desperate, his reputation declined, 369. Proposes to publish his works by subscription, but not so much encouraged as he either expected or merited, spent the money he received, and never pub- lished his poems, 369. His universal acquaintance, 370. By the death of the queen, loses both his prospect of preferment and his annuity, 371. Purposes writing a new tragedy, on the story of sir John Overbury, 371. Writes a poem on the death of the queen, on her subsequent birth-day, with extracts from it, 372. His friends send him into Wales, on a promise of allowing him 501. a year, 375. Forms enchanting prospects of a country life, 376. Takes a lodging in the liberties of the Fleet, and receives one guinea a week of his friends' subscription, 376. Sets off for Wales in July 1739, spends all his money before he reaches Bris- tol, gets a fresh remittance, arrives at Bristol, where he is well received, and stays for some time, and at last goes to Swansea, the place of his destination, 381. His annuity greatly diminished, 382. Completes his tragedy, 382. Returns to Bristol, where 301. is subscribed for him, 383. Becomes neglected at Bristol, 384. Arrested at Bristol, and his Letter to a Friend on that occa- sion, 387. Is very kindly treated by the keeper of the prison, 392. His poem London and Bristol delineated, 393. His Letter to a friend, who advised him not to publish London and Bristol delineated, 394. Postpones the publication, 395. Dies in prison, Aug. 1, 1743, and buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's, Bristol, 398. His person described, 398. His character, 398. Allowed 201. a year by Pope, xi. 161.
Savecharges, Sukey, her complaint, vii. 215. By marriage articles
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