Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography; Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678
lines on Restoration, 90;
complains to House of exaction of L150 for release of Milton, 91;
elected for third, and last, time member for Hull, 95;
receives fee from Corporation of Hull for attendance at House, 96;
reviled by Parker for taking this payment, 96;
_Flagellum Parliamentum_ attributed to, 97;
goes to Holland, 100;
is recalled, 101;
while in Holland writes to Trinity House and to the Corporation of Hull
on business matters, 101;
goes as secretary to Lord Carlisle on an embassy to Sweden and
Denmark, 106;
public entry into Moscow, 108;
assists at formal reception of Lord Carlisle as English ambassador, 109;
renders oration to Czar into Latin, 109;
Russians object to terms of oration, 109;
replies, 109-12;
returns from embassy, 113;
reaches London, 113;
attends Parliament at Oxford, 116;
_The Last Instructions to a Painter about the Dutch Wars_, 129-35;
bitter enemy of Hyde, 136;
lines upon Clarendon House, 138;
inquires into "miscarriages of the late war," 139;
_The Rehearsal Transprosed_, 151;
its great success, 152;
literary method described by Parker, 162;
called "a droll," "a buffoon," 163;
replies to Parker, 163 _seq._;
intercedes, 168;
abused by Parker in _History of His Own Time_, 170 _n._;
_The Rehearsall Transpros'd_ (second part), 171-2;
pictures Parker, 172 _seq._;
latterly fears subversion of Protestant faith, 179;
his famous pamphlet, _An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary
Government in England_, 180-1, 203-5, 206-8;
gives account of quarrel with Dutch, 186-7;
commendatory verses on "_Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost_" (1674), 199 _n._;
mock speech, _His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of
Parliament_, 200-2;
story of proffered bribe, 209-10;
last letter to constituents, 210;
rarely speaks in the House of Commons, 211;
longest reported speech, 211;
speech reported in _Parliamentary History_ (1677), 211;
"_Debate on Mr. Andrew Marvell's striking Sir Philip Harcourt_,"
etc., 212-14;
friend of Prince Rupert, 214;
lines on setting up of king's statue, 214-15;
"Britannia and Raleigh," 216-19;
dies, 219;
thought to have been poisoned, 219;
this suspicion dissipated, 220;
account of sickness and death, 220-1;
burial, 221;
obsequies, 223;
epitaph, 221;
humour and wit, 163;
not a fanatic, 179;
insatiable curiosity, 182;
power of self-repression, 211;
as poet, 225-30;
as satirist, 228, 230-1;
as prose writer, 231-2;
love of gardens, 227;
appearance described, 232;
Hull's most famous member, 223;
enemies, 224;
portraits of, 224;
statue of, 224;
editions of works, 229.
Marvell, Rev. Andrew (father), 7.
---- Mary (wife), 3, 222-3.
"Marvell's Cottage," 223 _n._
_Marvell's Ghost_ (in _Poems on Affairs of State_), 220 _n._
May, 119.
Mead, William, 191.
Meadows, Philip, 51, 54.
Medway, 139, 187.
_Memorials_ (Whitelock), 29.
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