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Naked Truth, The, or Lucas and La Touche
Set Forth, etc., pamphlet, 191, 192,
356-362 (see Lucas Controversy Pam-
phlets)

Napier, Sir Joseph, on Burke's birth-
place, I

Noel (or O'Neill), Mr, usher at Bal-
litore, 34; ordained, 44
Nonsense Verse, Burke's, 31

North Wall, the, Burke's description, 37
Nugent, Jane Mary, Burke's wife, 211,
404; visits Ballitore, 18, 19; "Jenny,'
397; his annoyance at her being men-
tioned in London Evening Post, 398

O'Halloran, Burke's hedge school-mas-
ter, 8, 215

Ormond Quay, 3 Lower, Burke's
father's residence, 106, 405

Orpen (or Orpin), Richard, enters
T.C.D. with Burke, 20, 21; gains
scholarship, 23

Otway, the dramatist, 167, 302
Ovid, 13, 110

Oxford, 25, 29, 75, 112

Painting, Burke's declamation on, 248
Palmerin of England, 46, 47
Parliament, Irish (1748-1750), 183-185
Passions, debate on, 236, 257, 268
Patriot Parliament, 200, 380-384
Pellisier, Rev. John, D.D., F.T.C.D.,
Burke's tutor, 22, 77

Penal laws; attorneys, 6; marriage, 7
Petronius, 176, 314, 325

Phaeton, Shackleton's poem, 123; criti-

cised by Burke, 108, 109, 122, 127, 150
Philomaths, 8, 9

Philosophy and poetry, debate, 248
Phoenix Park, 35

Plautus, 129

Plutarch, 197, 221, 371

Poems, by Burke, Blackwater, 9, 10, 19,
111; Ballitore, 17, 156; Theocritus'
Idyll, 19; Verse Nonsense, 31; "Soon
as Aurora," 35-37; Astronomy, 40;
Almighty Self Love, 53; "As when
some cloud," 59; on Dr Taylor, 87;
translation of the Second Georgic, 91,
92, 153; Dennis Turning Critick, 131-
133; Damer, 147; "O Yes! O Yes!"
162, 298

Poems on Several Occasions (1748),
Burke's contributions, 146, 150;
Shackleton's Julia and Belinda, 45,
151, 153, 164; Burke's Second
Georgic, 92, 153; Dennis Turning
Critick, 133

Poet's Dream, by R. Shackleton, 140, 150
Pope, Dunciad, 29, 50, 104; Ethic
Epistles, 53; on Wit, 111, 301
Portarlington school, 39
Portora school, 131

Press, liberty of, 197, 370
Prior, Sir James, Life of Burke, on date
of Burke's birth, 1; plagiarism, 14; the
Panegyric on Damer, 54; excerpts from
Burke's letters, 113, 114, 138, 139, 147,
153, 156; Burke and Lucas controversy,
180, 183; Life of Goldsmith, 137
Prior, Sir Thomas, founder of Royal
Dublin Society, 49; Essay on Tar
Water, 49; List of Absentees, 52, 53,
252

Priscus (see Helvidius Priscus)
Prose and poetry, contrasted, 176, 325
Pyrrick dances, 174, 320
Pythagoras, 323

Quinn, in Hamlet, 174

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 9
Ramist philosophy, 28, 29
Ramsay, Mr, 42, 44

Raphael's St Paul at Athens, 248
Reformer, the, see Chapter IV, 160-179,

and for Burke's articles, App. II, 297-
329; no. I, revolt against dulness;
depravation of taste and morals;
Boeotia; design of the Reformer;
Gothic barbarism across the channel;
our fallen brethren of England; a
proclamation, 161, 162, 297-299; no. 2,
Sheridan and the Irish stage, 166; his
reforms; objectionable plays, 299;
Farquhar, Cibber, Centlivre, 300;
constituents of good comedy; Van-
brugh, Congreve, Wycherley; appre-
ciation of Ben Jonson, 301; on
tragedy; the "divine Shakespeare";
Otway, Dryden, Rowe, Addison,
Beaumont and Fletcher, 301; no. 3,
actors' faults, 168; their alterations in
plays; the Witches' scene, Macbeth,
303; kissing; stage abuses and buf-
fooneries; the audience; taste for the
vicious and unnatural, 304; hissing
and clapping; stage butchery; spectators
rather than an audience; harlequin-
ades, 305; no. 4, public spirit, 169,
306; home manufactures; "funds for
folly, none for science," 307; poem On
the Several Conditions of Life, 170,
308; the Cold Bath advertisement,
308; no. 5, the Tickler's criticism, 171,
309; a round of the coffee houses, 310;
opinions on the Reformer, 311; no. 6,
the state of literature, 172; learning v.
lucre, 312; no. 7, condition of the
peasantry, 172, 314; the labourers,
316; graziers, 317; a resident land-
lord, 317; no. 8, experience teaches
wisdom; the "Smarts' on the Re-
former, 173, 318; Sir Dilberry Diddle
to Jacky Wagtail, 173, 319; Sheridan
in All for Love; the Pyrrick dance, 174,

320; epigram on Foote, 320; no. 10,
The Suspicious Husband; The Found-
ling; comedies of the day; The Con-
scious Lovers; The Careless Husband,
322; the "Weeping Comedy"; Dry-
den's plots, 174, 324; no. II, an
Easter homily, 175, 323; morality and
revealed religion; infidelity and blind
zeal, 324; no. 12, literary standards;
"spirit"; prose and verse, 176, 325;
the "Damning Critics," 326; no. 13,
the Foolish Miscellany, 177, 327;
smatterers, 177, 328

Religious views, Burke's, 56-59, 175,
252, 323, 404

Restoration dramatists, 166, 300, 301,
320, 321

Rhames, Aaron, the printer, 88
Ringsend, Burke describes, 34, 37
Riots, theatre, 113-121; Black Dog, 143,
247, 251

Roscommon, Lord, poet, 157, 314
Rowe, Nicholas, tragedies, 167

Royal Dublin Society, 49, 89, 147, 169,
307

St James' Parish, Dublin, extracts from
register, 3, 4

Sallust, 24, 100, 129
Sands, Edward, 42
Schism, 59

Schoolmaster's Letter, 191, 336

Sermon on the Mount, Burke's com-
monplace on, 56, 252

Several Conditions of Life, poem, 170, 308
Sforza, Duke of Milan, 315
Shackleton, Abraham, Burke's school-
master, 10, 58; described, 11; opens
Ballitore School, 12-16; Burke's ad-
miration for, 17, 18, 44, 58, 76, 94, 95,
213; poetic allusions to, 17, 159
Shackleton, Richard, Burke's friendship
with, 14-16; educated at T.C.D., 15,
16, 207; description of Burke in
London Evening Post, 14, 15, 402;
correspondence as to this, App. V,
398-401; Ballitore School, 12, 16, 17;
his imitation of Theocritus, 19;
Poems on Several Occasions, 19, 150,
153; flirtation with Juliana Burke, 41,
45; Dulcinea's commands to, 48; poem
on Julia and Belinda, 45, 151, 153,
164; love is self love, 51, 52; admira-
tion for Burke's Damer, 54, 147; dis-
cusses religion with Burke, 56-59;
Zelim, 59; "Have brutes souls?" 67,
70; his faulty syllogism, 70, 71; his
love disappointment, 79; Burke
troubled by his silence, 79-81; sym-
pathises with him, 82; Burke advises
him on reading the classics, 100-102;
Phaeton, 108, 109, 122, 127, 150; The
Poet's Dream, 140, 150; nicknamed

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"Blarney," 143; list of his poems as
preferred by Burke, 150; Dedicatory
Ode to Poems on Several Occasions,
152, 154; Burke's criticism of Julia
and Belinda, 164; our "Anacreon,"
163; contributes to the Reformer, 174;
marries Elizabeth Fuller, 178; Burke's
Epithalamium, 178; Dennis' letters to,
referring to Burke's marriage, 211;
and his writing for the "Great Ones,'
212; The Sublime and Beautiful, 212;
oration on Poverty, 141, 251; debates
in Club as a Roman, 241; on the
Decalogue, 242; permitted to wear his
hat, 274; Latin Verses, 191
Shakespeare, 100, 166, 167, 301, 302,
303, 370

Sheer, poem by Shackleton, 140
Sheridan, Dr, "The Irish Hippocrates,"

221

Sheridan, Rev. Thomas, D.D., 113
Sheridan, Thomas, Sch. T.C.D., Smock
Alley theatre, 113, 116; supported by
T.C.D. students, theatre riots, 113-
120; his apology, 121; Burke criticises
him, 122, 164, 168, 174, 299; Dennis'
contest with, 212; All for Love, 174,
320 (see Reformer)

Siris, Bishop Berkeley's, 49
Sisson, the artist, 26; member of Corre-
spondence Club, 26, 72, 78; of the
triumvirate, 78; companionship_with
Burke, 102; portraits of speaker Boyle
and Lord and Lady Ikerrin, 102; of
Richard Shackleton, 103
Slator, John, 38
Smiglecius, 29

Smith, Matthew, correspondence with
Burke, 217-224

Spectator, the, 48, 60, 61, 77, 83, 173,
233; on Fame, 248
Spenser, Edmund, 9
Starkie, Walter, 207

Steele, Sir Richard, the "Weeping "
Comedy, 175, 322

Stratford, Euseby, abuses Ballitore
School, 95

Sublime and Beautiful, The, 40, 45, 52,
136, 141, 166, 178, 248, 392; its in-
fluence on Lessing and Kant, 137;
Dennis' reference to, 142; his criti-
cism, 212; Shackleton's copy, 213
Suspicious Husband, The, Hoadley's play,

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The Tickler, 119, 163, 171, 172, 182,
309, 336

Thoughts on Scarcity, 291

Ticklish points; debates in C.H.S., 235,
237

Tisdall, Michael, 145

Todd, Rev. H., Life of Milton, 206, 266
Triumvirate, club, 78, 88

"U.," a signature of Burke in the
Reformer, 160, 308, 324
Undertakers, the, 183

Utopia, Rev. George Crump's poem, 155

Vanbrugh, 166, 300

Vergil, 22, 24, 40, 92, 100, 153, 167
Victor, Sheridan's manager, 113
Voiture, 60, 106, 209

Walker, Rev. John, D.D., F.T.C.D.,
206

Waller, Edmund, 54, 104, 107, 147
Walsh, John E., Right Hon., Ireland
Sixty Years Ago, 74, 113
Walsh, Richard (“Gallows"), and Black
Dog Riot, 144, 145
Walsh, Ven. Robert, D.D., history of
C.H.S., 204

Wellington, Duke of, at Portarlington
school, 39

Westminster Abbey, 221

Weston, secretary to Earl Harrington,
194

Wilder, Rev. Theaker, F.T.C.D., ex-
amines Burke; Goldsmith's tutor;
anecdotes of, 74-76

Wilson, C. H., Beauties of Burke, 13
Wilson, Peter, advertisement as to the
Cork Surgeon, 388

Woffington, Peg, 181, 221, 223
Wood, Atwell, 145

Woollen trade, 199, 201, 234, 235, 237,
367, 376, 387

Wycherley's plays, 166, 301

Xenophon, 24, 100, 105, 106, 391, 393

Yelverton, Barry, Lord Avonmore,

208

Young, "his fustian tragedies," 166,
300

Zeal for liberty, to be treated tenderly,
193, 358

Zelim (Richard Shackleton), Burke's
letter to, 59

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