Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, her birth, parentage, and early life, 21, 22; her marriage, 22; her letters, 21, 23, 28; has her son inoculated for smallpox, 23, 24; Pope's admiration for, 23-25; quarrels with Pope, 25, 26; a favorite of George I., 26; her later life, 27-30; Horace Walpole's words concerning, 30, 52, 53. More, Hannah, her words concerning Dr. Edward Young, 20; her youth, 171, 172; her pension, 172; acquaintance with Garrick and Johnson, 173, 174; her tragedy of _Percy_, 174; as a worker, 175; her _C[oe]lebs_, 175, 176; her goodness, 175-178; Thackeray's reference to, in _The Newcomes_, 177, 178; her age, 180. _Mysteries of Udolpho_, Radcliffe's, 284, 285. Necker, Madame, 123, 124. Newton, Rev. John, of Olney, and William Cowper, 245. _Night Thoughts_, Young's, 15, 16, 18-30. _Northanger Abbey_, Jane Austen's, 269. Nugent, Dr., 114. _Ode to Evening_, Collins's, 163. Ossian's Poems, 221-227; the Ossianic Hermitage, 257, 258. _Percy_, Hannah More's tragedy, 174. _Persuasion_, Jane Austen's, 268, 269. Pitt, William, 192-195. Pope, Alexander, his admiration for Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 23-25; familiar couplets of, 31; his infirmity and personal appearance, 31, 32; his birth and early years, 33, 34; and the Blounts, 34; his poetic methods, 35-39: his _Essay on Criticism_, 36; his _Windsor Forest_, 36; his _Rape of the Lock_, 36, 39-42; writes for the _Spectator_, 38, 39; his translation of Homer, 43-45; his house and friends at Twickenham, 45-50; his last days, 48-51, 53. Porter, Jane, her _Thaddeus of Warsaw_, 283, 284; her _Scottish Chiefs_, 284. _Pride and Prejudice_, Jane Austen's, 268. Radcliffe, Ann Ward, her _Mysteries of Udolpho_, 284, 285. _Rambler, The_, 98. Ramsay, Allan, 228. _Rape of the Lock_, Pope's, 36, 39-42. _Rasselas_, Dr. Johnson's, 105-108. Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 108-111. Richardson, Samuel, a printer and book-seller, 62; his friends, 63, 64; as a writer of letters, 63-66; the father of the novel, 66, 67; assists Dr. Johnson, 102. Robertson, Dr., 230. Roche, Maria Regina, her _Children of the Abbey_, 282, 283. Rogers, Samuel, his _Pleasures of Memory_, 301, 302, 307-309; compared with Burns, 302, 303; his career and character, 303-307. Rousseau, J. J., 154. Rowley Poems, The, 208. Ruskin, John, on Gibbon's style, 128. _Sandford and Merton_, Day's, 271-273. Savage, Richard, and Dr. Johnson, 92, 94. Scott, Walter, his opinion of Jane Austen, 266; his translation of _Leonora_, 298. _Scottish Chiefs_, Jane Porter's, 284. _Selborne, Natural History of_, White's, 260-262. Shenstone, William, 158-160, 180. Sheridan, Thomas Brinsley, 195-202; as an orator, 199, 200; his end, 201, 202, 219. Smibert, John, his painting of Berkeley and family, 7. Smith, Adam, 230. Sophia, grand-daughter of James I. and mother of George I., 57. Southey, Robert, and Coleridge, 311, 312.