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 *Hyde Park Corner, 234. is said to have lisped in numbers, ibid. his father left off business with twenty thousand pounds, but living on the principal, greatly reduced it before his death, 235. at twelve years of age, forms a plan for his own education, ibid. his primary and principal purpose was to be a poet, ibid. his first performance, the Ode to Solitude, at twelve years of age, 236. made a version of the first book of the Thebais, at fourteen, ibid. at fifteen years of age studies French and Italian, 236. destroyed many of his puerile productions, 237. at sixteen introduced to sir W. Trumbull, which ended in friendship, ibid. his life, as an author, to be computed from this time, when he wrote his Pastorals, 238. verses written by Wycherley in his praise, ibid. his letters to Mr. Cromwell, published in a volume of miscellanies, by Curll, 239. early encouraged by Mr. Walsh, ibid. frequents the company of wits, at Will's coffee-house, ibid. his Pastorals first published in Tonson's Miscellany, in 1709, 240. his Essay on Criticism written 1709, and severely attacked by Dennis, ibid. his essay translated into French by Hamilton, Robotham, and Resnel, and commented on by Warburton, 243. his Messiah first published in the Spectator, 244. his verses on the unfortunate lady badly employed, ibid. story on which the Rape of the Lock was founded, 245. the great merit of that poem, 246. that poem attacked by Dennis, as also the Temple of Fame, 247. writes the epistle from Eloisa to Abelard, ibid. Windsor Forest, 1713, 248. writes a narrative of the frenzy of John Dennis, ibid. account of the ironical comparison between the pastorals of Philips and Pope, published in the Guardian, ibid. studies the art of painting under Jervas, 249. supposed to have painted a picture of Betterton, ibid. proposes a translation of the Iliad, by subscription, in six quarto volumes, at six guineas, 250. sells the copy to B. Lintot, 251. is greatly terrified at the undertaking, 252. is objected to by some for being too much a tory, and by others for want of a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language, ibid. greatly assisted by former translators, 253. history of the notes to the Iliad, ibid. the life of Homer, written by Parnell, 254. the Iliad took him five years in translating, ibid. six hundred and fifty-four copies of the Iliad subscribed for, and he gained five thousand three hundred and twenty pounds four shillings by this work, 255. sinks a considerable part of his money for annuities, 256. extracts from the first translation and the printed compared, 257. story of his reading the translation of the Iliad to lord Halifax, 263. Addison and he become rivals, 266. contest between Pope's and Tickell's translations of the Iliad, 268. his own account of the jealousy of Addison, 269. purchases his house at Twickenham, 1715, ibid. forms his grotto at Twickenham, 270. publishes a quarto edition of his works in 1717, ibid. loses his father in 1717, ibid. the publication of the Iliad completed in 1720, 271. his publications censured by Burnet, Ducket, and Dennis, ibid. purposes to become rich by the South Sea bubble, and luckily escapes without much loss, ibid. in 1721, he published the poems of Dr. Parnell, and an edition of the works of Shakespeare, ibid. deficiencies of his edition of Shakespeare exposed by Theobald, 272. merits of this edition of Shakespeare, ibid. publishes proposals for a translation of the Odyssey, in five volumes, five pounds five shillings, ibid. assisted in the translation by Fenton and Broome, 273. examined before the lords on the trial of bishop Atterbury, ibid. Atterbury presents a bible to Pope at their last interview, ibid. translated only twelve books of the Odyssey, ibid. Pope's translation in the British museum, ibid. eight hundred and nineteen copies subscribed for and completed in 1725, 274. a criticism on the Odyssey, published by Spence, ibid. establishes a friendship with Spence, ibid. is visited by Voltaire, 275. joins with Swift in publishing three volumes of miscellanies, ibid. Dunciad published in 1728, ibid. history of the Dunciad, ibid. Mr. Pope executed in effigy by the Dunces, 278. publishes a poem on Taste, 1731, 280. loses his mother at the age of ninety-three, 281. calls Curll before the house of lords for publishing some letters of noblemen to him, ibid. Curll's account of his obtaining the letters, 282. publishes a volume of letters, 1737, 283. publishes the first part of the Essay on Man, 1733, 285. history of the Essay on Man, 286. the essay attacked by Mr. Crousaz, as immoral, and defended by*