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LIFE OF JOHNSON
INCLUDING BOSWELL'S JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES
AND JOHNSON'S DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES
IN SIX VOLUMES
VOLUME VI: ADDENDA, INDEX, DICTA PHILOSOPHI, &C.
EDITED BY GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD
M DCCC LXXXVII
CONTENTS
TITLES OF WORKS QUOTED IN THE NOTES
ADDENDA (AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, ETC.)
INDEX
DICTA PHILOSOPH
TITLES OF MANY OF THE WORKS
QUOTED IN THE NOTES.
In my notes I have often given but brief references to the authors whom
I quote. The following list, which is not, however, so complete as I
could wish, will, I hope, do much towards supplying the deficiency.
Most of the poets, and a few of the prose writers also, I have not
found it needful to include, as my references apply equally well to
all editions of their works. The date in each case shows, not the
year of the original publication, but of the edition to which I have
referred.
ADDISON, Joseph, _Works_, 6 vols., London, 1862.
AIKIN, J. and A. L., _Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose_, 1773.
ALBEMARLE, Earl of, _Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham,_ 2 vols.,
London, 1852.
ALMON, John, _Correspondence, etc. of John Wilkes_, 5 vols.,
London, 1805.
ARRIGHI, A., _Histoire de Pascal Paoli_, 2 tom., Paris, 1843.
BACON, Francis, _Philosophical Works_, edited by Ellis, Spedding, and
Heath, 7 vols., London, 1857-62; _Life and Letters_, edited by
Spedding, Ellis, and Heath, 7 vols., London, 1869-74.
BAIN, Alexander, _Life of James Mill_, London, 1882.
BAKER, David Erskine, _Biographia Dramatica_. See REED, Isaac.
BARBAULD, Anna Letitia, _Works_, 2 vols., London, 1825; _Lessons for
Children_, London, 1878.
BARCLAY, Robert, _An Apology_, London, 1703.
BARETTI, Joseph, _Account of Manners and Customs of Italy_, 2 vols.,
London, 1769; _Journey from London to Genoa_, 4 vols., London, 1770;
_Tolondron_, London, 1786.
BARRY, James, _Works_, 2 vols., London, 1809.
BEATTIE, James, _Life_. See FORBES, Sir William.
BELLAMY, George Anne, _An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy_,
5 vols., London, 1786.
BERRY, Miss, _Journal and Correspondence_, 3 vols., London, 1865.
BEST, Henry Digby, _Personal and Literary Memorials_,
London, 1829.
BLACKIE, C., _Etymological Geography_, London, 1875.
BLACKSTONE, Sir William, _Commentaries_, 4 vols., Oxford, 1778.
BLAIR, Hugh, _A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the son of
Fingal_, London, 1765.
BOLINGBROKE, Lord Viscount, _Works, with Life by Dr. Goldsmith_, 8 vols.,
London, 1809.
_Bookseller of the Last Century, being some account of the Life of John
Newbery_. By Charles WELSH, London, 1885.
BOSWELL, James, _British Essays in favour of the brave Corsicans_,
London, 1769; _Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine
and Journal of a Tour to Corsica_, edited by George Birkbeck Hill,
D.C.L., London, 1879; _The Cub at Newmarket_, 1762; _An Elegy on
the Death of an Amiable Young Lady_, with _An Epistle from Menalcas
to Lycidas_, 1761; _The Hypochondriack_, published in the _London
Magazine_, from 1777 to 1783; _Journal of a Tour to Corsica_: see above
under _Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine; Journal of a Tour
to the Hebrides_, first and second editions, 1785; third, 1786; fourth,
1807; _A Letter to the People of Scotland on the present state of the
Nation_, Edinburgh, 1783; _A Letter to the People of Scotland on the
Alarming Attempt to infringe the Articles of the Union and introduce a
Most Pernicious Innovation by Diminishing the Number of the Lords
of Session_, London, 1785; _Letters of James Boswell addressed to the
Rev. W.J. Temple_, London, 1857; _Ode to Tragedy_, 1661 (1761).
_Boswelliana, The Common-place Book of James Boswell_, edited by Rev.
C. Rogers, LL.D., London, Grampian Club, 1876.
_Boulter's Monument_, Dublin, 1745.
BOWEN, Emanuel, _A Complete System of Geography_, 2 vols., London, 1747.
BREWSTER, Sir David, _Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of
Sir Isaac Newton_, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1860.
BRIGHT, John, M.P., _Speeches_, edited by James E. Thorold Rogers,
2 vols., London, 1869.
BRITISH MUSEUM MSS., Letters by Johnson to Nichols, Add. MS. 5159.
BROOME, Herbert, _Constitutional Law_, London, 1885.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas, _Works_, 4 vols., London, 1836.
BRYDONE, Patrick, _Tour through Sicily and Malta_, 2 vols., London, 1790.
BURKE, Edmund, _Correspondence of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke_, 4 vols.,
London, 1844. See PAYNE, E.J., and PRIOR, Sir James.
BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, _History of his own Time_, 4 vols.,
London, 1818; _Vindication of the authority, &c. of the Church and
State of Scotland_, Glasgow, 1673.
BURNET, James (Lord Monboddo), _Origin of Languages_, 6 vols.,
Edinburgh, 1773-92.
BURNET, Thomas, _Sacred Theory of the Earth_, 2 vols., London, 1722.
BURNEY, Dr. Charles, _Present State of Music in France and Italy_,
London, 1771; _Present State of Music in Germany_, 2 vols., London,
1773; _Memoirs_: see D'ARBLAY, Madame.
BURNEY, Frances, _Evelina_, 2 vols., London, 1784. See D'ARBLAY,
Madame.
Burns, Life of. By James CURRIE, in _Works of Burns_, 1 vol., 1846.
BURTON, John Hill, _Life and Correspondence of David Hume_, 2 vols.,
Edinburgh, 1846; _Reign of Queen Anne_, 3 vols, Edinburgh, 1880.
BUTLER, Samuel, _Hudibras_, 2 vols., London, 1806.
CALDERWOOD, Mrs., of Polton, _Letters and Journals_, Edinburgh, 1884.
_Cambridge Shakespeare_. See SHAKESPEARE.
CAMDEN, William, _Remains_, London, 1870.
CAMPBELL, John, Lord, _Lives of the Chancellors_, 8 vols., London, 1846;
_Lives of the Chief Justices_, 3 vols., London, 1849-57.
CAMPBELL, Dr. John, _Hermippus Redivivus; or, The Sage's Triumph over
Old Age and the Grave_, London, 1744.
CAMPBELL, Thomas, _Specimens of the British Poets_, London, 1845.
CAMPBELL, Rev. Dr. Thomas, _Diary of a Visit to England in_ 1775 _by an
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CARLYLE, Rev. Alexander, D.D., _Autobiography_, Edinburgh, 1860.
CARLYLE, Thomas, _French Revolution_, 2 vols., London, 1857; _Oliver
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CARSTARES, Rev. William, _State Papers_, Edinburgh, 1774.
CARTE, Thomas, _History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde_, 3 vols.,
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CHALMERS, Alexander, _General Biographical Dictionary_, 32 vols., London,
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CHALMERS, George, _Life of Ruddiman_, London, 1794.
CHAMBERS, Ephraim, _Cyclopaedia_, 2 vols., London, 1738.
CHAMBERS, Dr. Robert, _History of the Rebellion in Scotland in_ 1745,
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1798.
CRABBE, Rev. George, _Life and Poems_, 8 vols., London, 1834.
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1777.
DODSLEY, Robert, _A Muse in Livery; or, The Footman's Miscellany_,
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_Farm and its Inhabitants, with some Account of the Lloyds of Dolobran_,
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1785; _Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Dr. Samuel
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REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, _Life_: see under LESLIE and NORTHCOTE; _Works_,
3 vols., London, 1824.
RICHARDSON, Samuel, _Correspondence_, 6 vols., London, 1804; _One hundred
and seventy-three Letters written for particular Friends on the most
important occasions_, seventh edition, London, no date.
RITSON, Joseph, _English Songs_, 3 vols., London, 1813.
ROBINSON, Henry Crabb, _Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence_,
3 vols., London, 1869.
ROGERS, Samuel, _Table Talk_, London, 1856.
_Rolliad, The_, London, 1795.
ROMILLY, Sir Samuel, _Memoirs of his Life_, 3 vols., London, 1840.
ROSE, Hugh James, _New General Biographical Dictionary_, 12 vols.,
London, 1840-1848.
RUSKIN, John, _Lectures on Architecture and Painting_, London, 1854;
_Praeterita_, Orpington, 1886.
SACHEVERELL, W., _An Account of the Isle of Man, with a Voyage to
I-Columb-Kill_, London, 1702.
SAVAGE, Richard, _Works_, 2 vols., London, 1777.
SCOTT, Sir Walter, _Life of Swift_, London, 1834; Novels, 41 vols.,
Edinburgh, 1860; _Life_: See under LOCKHART.
SELWYN, George, _Life and Correspondence_. By J.H. Jesse, 4 vols.,
London, 1843.
_Session Papers of Old Bailey Trials for 1758_, London.
SEWARD, Anna, _Elegy on Captain Cook_, London, 1781; _Letters_, 6 vols.,
Edinburgh, 1811.
SEWARD, William, _Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons_, 4 vols., London,
1798; _Biographiana_, 2 vols., London, 1799.
Shakespeare, edited by W.G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright, 9 vols.,
Cambridge, 1864-66.
SHELBURNE, Earl of, _Life_. See FITZMAURICE, Lord Edmond.
SHENSTONE, William, _Works_, 3 vols., London, 1773.
SMART, Christopher, _Poems on Several Occasions_, London, 1752.
SMOLLETT, Tobias, _History of England_, 5 vols., London, 1800; _Travels
through France and Italy_, 2 vols., London, 1766.
SOUTHEY, Robert, _Life and Correspondence_, 6 vols., London, 1849;
_Life and Works of William Cowper_, 15 vols., London, 1835; _Life of John
Wesley_, 2 vols., London, 1846.
SPENCE, Rev. Joseph, _Anecdotes_, London, 1820.
_Spiritual Quixote_, 3 vols., London, 1773.
STANHOPE, Earl, _History of England_, 7 vols., London, 1836-1854;
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_Life of William Pitt_, 4 vols., London, 1861.
STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn, _Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey_,
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STEELE, Sir Richard, _Apology for Himself and his Writings_, London,
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STEPHENS, Alexander, _Memoirs of Horne Tooke_, 2 vols., London, 1813.
STERNE, Lawrence, _Sentimental Journey_, 2 vols., London, 1775.
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TAYLOR, Jeremy, _Works_, 10 vols., London, 1864.
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_Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain_, originally begun by
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WORDSWORTH, William, _Works_, 6 vols., London, 1857.
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YOUNG, Arthur, _Six Months' Tour through the North of England_, 4 vols.,
London, 1770-1.
ADDENDA
Last summer Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson sold some very interesting
autograph letters written by Johnson to William Strahan, the printer.
I was fortunate enough to find that the purchasers, with but one
exception, were mindful of what Boswell so well describes as 'the general
courtesy of literature[1],' and were ready to place their treasures
at my service. To one of them, Mr. Frederick Barker, of 43, Rowan Road,
Brook Green, I am still more indebted, for he entrusted me not only with
the original letters which he had just bought, but also with some others
that he had previously possessed. His Johnsonian collection is one of
unusual interest. I have moreover to acknowledge my obligations to
Mr. Fawcett, of 14, King Street, Covent Garden; to Messrs. J. Pearson
and Co., of 46, Pall Mall; to Messrs. Robson and Kerslake, of Coventry
Street, Haymarket; to Mr. Frank T. Sabin, of 10 and 12, Garrick Street,
Covent Garden; and to Mr. John Waller, of 2, Artesian Road, Westbourne
Grove. Those of the letters which are undated, I have endeavoured to
assign to their proper places by internal evidence. The absence of a
date is in itself very strong evidence that they belong to a comparatively
early period (see _ante_, i. 122, n. 2).
[Footnote 1: Ante, iv. 246.]
I.
_A letter about a projected Geographical Dictionary by Mr. Bathurst, with
Bathurst's Proposal; dated March 22, probably written in 1753_.[In the
possession of Mr. Frederick Barker, of 43, Rowan Road, Brook Green.]
'SIR,
'I have inclosed the Scheme which I mentioned yesterday in which the work
proposed is sufficiently explained.
'The Undertaker, Mr. Bathurst, is a Physician of the University of
Cambridge, of about eight years standing, and will perform the work in
such a manner as may satisfy the publick. No advice of mine will be
wanting, but advice will be all that I propose to contribute unless it
should be thought worth while that I should write a preface, which if
desired I will do and put my name to it. The terms which I am commissioned
to offer are these:
'1. A guinea and half shall be paid for each sheet of the copy.
'2. The authour will receive a Guinea and half a week from the date of
the Contract.
'3. As it is certain that many books will be necessary, the Authour will
at the end of the work take the books furnished him in part of payment
at prime Cost, which will be a considerable reduction of the price of
the Copy; or if it seems as you thought yesterday no reduction, he will
allow out of the last payment fifty pounds for the use of the Books and
return them.
'4. In two months after his first demand of books shall be supplied,
he purposes to write three Sheets a week and to continue the same
quantity to the end of the work, unless he shall be hindered by want of
Books. He does not however expect to be always able to write according
to the order of the Alphabet but as his Books shall happen to supply him,
and therefore cannot send any part to the press till the whole is nearly
finished.
'5. He undertakes as usual the Correction.
'I am, Sir, Your most humble servant,
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
'March 22nd.
'To Mr. Strahan.'
'PROPOSAL.
'There is nothing more apparently wanting to the English Literature,
than a Geographical Dictionary, which, though its use is almost every day
necessary, not only to Men of Study, but of Trade or publick employment,
yet has been hitherto, not only unperformed, but almost unattempted
among us. Bohun's Dictionary, the only one which has any pretension to
regard, owes that pretension only to its bulk; for it is in all parts
contemptibly defective and is therefore deservedly forgotten. In
Collier's Dictionary, what Geography there is, can scarcely be found
among the crowd of other subjects, and when it is found, is of no great
importance. The books of Eachard and Salmon, though useful for the ends
proposed by them, are too small to be considered as anticipations of this
work, which is intended to consist of two volumes of the same size and
print with Harris's Dictionary, in which will be comprised the following
particulars:
'The situation of every Country with its Provinces and dependencies
according to its present state, and latest observation.
'The description of all remarkable Cities, Towns, Castles, Fortresses,
and places observable for their situation, products or other particulars.
'An account of the considerable Rivers, their Springs, Branches, Course,
Outlets, how far navigable, the Produce and Qualities of their waters.
'The course of Voyages, giving directions to sailors for navigating
from one place of the World to another, with particular attention
to the Traffic of these Kingdoms.
'An account of all the principal Ports and Harbours of the known World,
in which will be laid down the Pilotage, Bearings, depth of water,
danger from Sands or Rocks, firmness or uncertainty of Anchorage, and
degree of safety from particular Winds.
'An exact account of the Commodities of each Country, both natural and
artificial.
'A description of the remarkable Animals in every Country, whether
Beasts, Birds or Fishes.
'An account of the Buildings, whether ancient or modern, and of Ruins
or other remains of Antiquity.
'Remarks upon the soil, air, and waters of particular Places, their
several qualities and effects, the accidents to which every Region is
exposed, as Earthquakes and Hurricanes, and the diseases peculiar to
the Inhabitants or incident to strangers at their arrival.
'The political State of the World, the Government of Countries, and the
Magistracy of Cities, with their particular Laws, or Privileges.
'The most probable and authentic Calculations of the number of Inhabitants
of each place.
'The military state of Countries, their Forces, manner of making War,
Weapons, and naval Power.
'The Commercial State, extent of their Trade, Number and strength of
their Colonies, quantity of Shipping.
'The pretensions of Princes with their Alliances, Relations and
Genealogies.
'The customs of Nations with regard to Trade, and receptions of strangers,
their domestic Customs, as Rites of Marriage and Burial. Their particular
Laws. Their habits, recreations and amusements.
'The religious Opinions of all Nations.
'These and many other heads of observation will be collected, not merely
from the Dictionaries now extant in many Languages, but from the best
Surveys, Local Histories, Voyages, and particular accounts[1], among
which care will be taken to select those of the best authority, as the
basis of the Work, and to extract from them such observations as may
best promote Knowledge and gratify Enquiry, so that it is to be hoped,
there will be few remarkable places in the known World, of which the
Politician, the Merchant, the Sailor, or the Man of Curiosity may not
find a useful and pleasing account, of the credit of which the Reader
may always judge, as the Authors from whom it is taken will be regularly
quoted, a caution which if some, who have attempted such general works,
had observed, their labours would have deserved, and found more favour
from the Publick.'
[Footnote 1: That this is done will appear from the authours' names
exactly quoted.]
This letter must have been written about the year 1753, for Bathurst
is described as a physician of about eight years' standing. He took
his degree as Bachelor of Medicine at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1745,
and did not, it should seem, proceed to the higher degree. In 1757
he was at the Havannah, where he died (_ante_, i. 242, n. i). He was
Johnson's beloved friend, of whom 'he hardly ever spoke without tears
in his eyes' (_ante_, i. 190, n. 2). The Proposal, I have no doubt,
was either written, or at all events revised, by Johnson. It is quite
in his style. It may be assumed that it is in Bathurst's handwriting.
II.
_An apologetical letter about some work that was passing through the
press; undated, but probably written about the years 1753-5_.[In the
possession of Mr. Frederick Barker.]
'DEAR SIR,
'What you tell me I am ashamed never to have thought on--I wish I had
known it sooner--Send me back the last sheet; and the last copy for
correction. If you will promise me henceforward to print a sheet a day,
I will promise you to endeavour that you shall have every day a sheet
to print, beginning next Tuesday.
'I am Sir, Your most, &c.
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
'To Mr. Strahan.'
In all likelihood Johnson is writing about the Dictionary. The absence
of a date, as I have already said, is strong evidence that the letter
was written comparatively early. As the first edition of the Dictionary
was in folio a sheet consisted of four pages. Johnson writing on April
3, 1753 says, 'I began the second vol. of my Dictionary, room being left
in the first for Preface, Grammar, and History, none of them yet begun'
(_ante_, i. 255). As the book was published on April 15, 1755 (_ante_,
i. 290, n. 1), the printing must have gone on very rapidly, when a
start was once made. By _copy_ he means his _manuscript for printing_.
III, IV.
_Two undated letters about printing the Dictionary_.[In the possession
of Mr. John Waller, 2, Artesian Road, Westbourne Grove.]
'DEAR SIR,
'I must desire you to add to your other civilities this one, to go to
Mr. Millar and represent to him the manner of going on, and inform him
that I know not how to manage. I pay three and twenty shillings a week
to my assistants, in each instance having much assistance from them,
but they tell me they shall be able to pull better in method, as indeed
I intend they shall. The Point is to get two Guineas.
'Sir, Your humble Servant,
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
(Address on back.) 'To Mr. Strahan.'
'SIR,
'I have often suspected that it is as you say, and have told Mr. Dodsley
of it. It proceeds from the haste of the amanuensis to get to the end
of his day's work. I have desired the passages to be clipped close, and
then perhaps for two or three leaves it is done. But since poor Stuart's
time I could never get that part of the work into regularity, and
perhaps never shall. I will try to take some more care but can promise
nothing; when I am told there is a sheet or two I order it away. You
will find it sometimes close; when I make up any myself, which never
happens but when I have nobody with me, I generally clip it close, but
one cannot always be on the watch.
'I am Sir, Your most, &c.
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
These letters refer to the printing of the _Dictionary_, of which
Dodsley and Millar were two among the proprietors, and Strahan the
printer. Francis Stuart or Stewart was one of Johnson's amanuenses
(_ante_, i. 187). In 1779 Johnson paid his sister a guinea for an old
pocket-book of her brother's (_ante_, iii. 418), and wrote on April
8,1780 (_ante_, iii. 421):--'The memory of her brother is yet fresh
in my mind; he was an ingenious and worthy man.' In February 1784 he
gave her another guinea for a letter relating to himself that he had
found in the pocket-book (_ante_, iv. 262). A writer in the _Gent. Mag._
for 1799, p. 1171, who had been employed in Strahan's printing-works,
says that 'Stewart was useful to Johnson in the explanation of low cant
phrases; all words relating to gambling and card-playing, such as
_All-Fours_, _Catch-honours_ [not in Johnson's Dictionary], _Cribbage_
[merely defined as _A game at cards_], were said to be Stewart's
corrected by the Doctor.' He adds that after the printing had gone
on some time 'the proprietors of the _Dictionary_ paid Johnson through
Mr. Strahan at the rate of a guinea for every sheet of MS. copy delivered.
The copy was written upon quarto post, and in two columns each page.
Johnson wrote in his own hand the words and their explanation, and
generally two or three words in each column, leaving a space between
each for the authorities, which were pasted on as they were collected
by the different amanuenses employed: and in this mode the MS. was so
regular that the sheets of MS. which made a sheet of print could be
very exactly ascertained.' The same writer states that Stewart in a
night ramble in Edinburgh with some of his drinking companions 'met with
the mob conducting Captain Porteous to be hanged; they were next day
examined about it before the Town Council, when, as Stewart used to say,
"we were found to be too drunk to have any hand in the business." He
gave an accurate account of it in the Edinburgh Magazine of that time.'
V.
_A letter about Miss Williams, taxes due, and a journey; undated, but
perhaps written at Oxford in 1754_.[In the possession of Mr. Frederick
Barker.]
'SIR,
'I shall not be long here, but in the mean time if Miss Williams wants
any money pray speak to Mr. Millar and supply her, they write to me
about some taxes which I wish you would pay.
'My journey will come to very little beyond the satisfaction of knowing
that there is nothing to be done, and that I leave few advantages here
to those that shall come after me.
'I am Sir, &c.
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
'My compliments to Mrs. Strahan.
To Mr. Strahan.'
Miss Williams came to live with Johnson after his wife's death in 1752
(_ante_, i. 232). The fact that Strahan is asked to supply her with
money after speaking to Mr. Millar seems to show that this letter was
written some time before the publication of the _Dictionary_ in April
1755. Millar 'took the principal charge of conducting its publication,'
and Johnson 'had received all the copy-money, by different drafts, a
considerable time before he had finished his task' (_ante_, i. 287).
His 'journey' may have been his visit to Oxford in the summer of 1754.
He went there, because, 'I cannot,' he said, 'finish my book [the
Dictionary] to my mind without visiting the libraries' (_ante_, i. 270).
According to Thomas Warton 'he collected nothing in the libraries for
his _Dictionary_' (_ib_ n. 5). It is perhaps to this failure that the
latter part of the letter refers, Johnson's visit, however, was one of
five weeks, while the first line of the letter shews that he intended
to be away from London but a short time.
VI.
_A letter about 'Rasselas,' dated_ Jan. 20, 1759.[In the possession of
Mr. Frederick Barker.]
'When I was with you last night I told you of a story which I was
preparing for the press. The title will be
"The Choice of Life
or
The History of ... Prince of Abissinia."
'It will make about two volumes like little Pompadour, that is about
one middling volume. The bargain which I made with Mr. Johnson was
seventy five pounds (or guineas) a volume, and twenty five pounds for
the second edition. I will sell this either at that price or for sixty[2],
the first edition of which he shall himself fix the number, and the
property then to revert to me, or for forty pounds, and I have the
profit that is retain half the copy. I shall have occasion for thirty
pounds on Monday night when I shall deliver the book which I must
entreat you upon such delivery to procure me. I would have it offered
to Mr. Johnson, but have no doubt of selling it, on some of the terms
mentioned.
[Footnote 2: 'Fifty-five pounds' written first and then scored over.]
'I will not print my name, but expect it to be known.
I am Dear Sir, Your most humble servant,
SAM. JOHNSON.
Jan. 20, 1759.
Get me the money if you can.'
This letter is of unusual interest, as it proves beyond all doubt that
_Rasselas_ was written some weeks before _Candide_ was published (see
_ante_, i. 342, n. a). Baretti, as I have shewn (i. 341, n. 3), says
that 'any other person with the degree of reputation Johnson then
possessed would have got L400 for the work, but he never understood
the art of making the most of his productions.' We see, however, by
this letter that Johnson did ask for a larger sum than the booksellers
allowed him. He received but one hundred pounds for the first edition,
but he had made a bargain for one hundred and fifty pounds or guineas.
Johnson, the bookseller, seems to have been but in a small way of
business as a publisher. I do not find in the _Gentleman's Magazine_
for 1758 any advertisement of books published by him, and only one in
1759 (P. 339). Cowper's publisher in 1778 was Joseph Johnson of St.
Paul's Churchyard. (Cowper's _Works_ by Southey, i. 285; see also
Nichols' _Literary Anecdotes_, iii. 461-464.)
By 'little Pompadour' Johnson, no doubt, means the second and cheaper
edition of _The History of the Marchioness de Pompadour_. The first
edition was published by Hooper in one volume, price five shillings
(_Gent. Mag_. for October 1758, p. 493). and the second in two volumes
for three shillings and sixpence (_Gent. Mag_. for November, 1758,
p. 543).
Johnson did not generally 'print his name.' He published anonymously his
translation of _Lobos Voyage to Abyssinia; London; The Life of Savage;
The Rambler_, and _The Idler_, both in separate numbers and when
collected in volumes; _Rasselas; The False Alarm; Falkland's Islands;
The Patriot;_, and _Taxation no Tyranny_; (when these four pamphlets
were collected in a volume he published them with the title of _Political
Tracts, by the Authour of the Rambler_). He gave his name in _The Vanity
of Human Wishes, Irene_, the _Dictionary_, his edition of _Shakespeare_,
the _Journey to the Western Islands_, and the _Lives of the Poets_.
VII.
_A letter about George Strahan's election to a scholarship at University
College, Oxford, and about William Strahan's 'affair with the University';
dated October 24, 1764_.[In the possession of Mr. Frederick Barker.]
'SIR,
'I think I have pretty well disposed of my young friend George, who, if
you approve of it, will be entered next Monday a Commoner of University
College, and will be chosen next day a Scholar of the House. The
Scholarship is a trifle, but it gives him a right, upon a vacancy, to
a Fellowship of more than sixty pounds a year if he resides, and I
suppose of more than forty if he takes a Curacy or small living. The
College is almost filled with my friends, and he will be well treated.
The Master is informed of the particular state of his education, and
thinks, what I think too, that for Greek he must get some private
assistance, which a servitour of the College is very well qualified
and will be very willing to afford him on very easy terms.
'I must desire your opinion of this scheme by the next post, for the
opportunity will be lost if we do not now seize it, the Scholarships
being necessarily filled up on Tuesday.
'I depend on your proposed allowance of a hundred a year, which must
the first year be a little enlarged because there are some extraordinary
expenses, as
Caution (which is allowed in his last quarter). . 7 0 0
Thirds. (He that enters upon a room pays two
thirds of the furniture that he finds, and
receives from his successor two thirds of what
he pays; so that if he pays L20 he receives
L13 6s. 8d., this perhaps may be) 12 0 0
Fees at entrance, matriculation &c., perhaps 2 0 0
His gown (I think) 2 10 0
________
L 23 10 0
'If you send us a Bill for about thirty pounds we shall set out
commodiously enough. You should fit him out with cloaths and linen,
and let him start fair, and it is the opinion of those whom I consult,
that with your hundred a year and the petty scholarship he may live
with great ease to himself, and credit to you.
'Let me hear as soon as is possible.
'In your affair with the university, I shall not be consulted, but I
hear nothing urged against your proposal.
'I am, Sir,
'Your humble servant,
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
'Oct. 24, 1764.
'My compliments to Mrs. Strahan.
'To Mr. Strahan, Printer, in New Street, Shoe-lane, London.'
My friend, Mr. C. J. Faulkner, Fellow and Tutor of University College,
has given me the following extracts from the College records:--
'Oct. 30-31, 1764. Candidatis examinatis electi sunt Gulielmus Jones
et Georgius Strahan in vacuas Exhibitiones Dmi Simonis Benet Baronetti.'
Gulielmus Jones is the famous oriental scholar, Sir William Jones, whose
portrait adorns the Hall of his ancient College (_ante_, ii. 25, n. 2).
On April 16, 1767, is found the election of 'Georgium Strahan, sophistam
in perpetuum hujus Collegii Socium.'
He vacated his fellowship in 1773.
The value of a Bennet scholarship in 1764 was ten pounds a year, with
rooms added, the rent of which was reckoned as equal to two pounds more.
A fellowship on the same foundation was worth about twenty pounds, with
a yearly dividend added to it that amounted to about thirty pounds.
'Fines' (_ante_, iii. 323) and other extra payments might easily raise
the value to more than sixty pounds.
The 'caution' is the sum deposited by an undergraduate with the College
Bursar or Steward as a security for the payment of his 'battells' or
account. Johnson in 1728 had to pay at Pembroke College the same sum
(seven pounds) that George Strahan in 1764 had to pay at University
College. _Ante_, i. 58, n. 2.
Johnson wrote four letters to George Strahan, when he was a boy at
school, and one letter when he was at College. (See Croker's _Johnson_,
pp. 129, 130, 161, 168.) In this last letter, dated May 25, 1765, he
writes: 'Do not tire yourself so much with Greek one day as to be afraid
of looking on it the next; but give it a certain portion of time,
suppose four hours, and pass the rest of the day in Latin or English.
I would have you learn French, and take in a literary journal once a
month, which will accustom you to various subjects, and inform you what
learning is going forward in the world. Do not omit to mingle some
lighter books with those of more importance; that which is read _remisso
animo_ is often of great use, and takes great hold of the remembrance.
However, take what course you will, if you be diligent you will be a
scholar.'
George Strahan attended Johnson on his death-bed, and published the
volume called _Prayers and Meditations composed by Samuel Johnson_.
_Ante_, i. 235, n. i; iv. 376, n. 4.
William Strahan's 'affair with the University' was very likely connected
with the lease of the University Printing House. From the 'Orders of
the Delegates of the Press,' 1758, I have been permitted to copy the
following entry, which bears a date but six days later than that of
Johnson's letter.
'Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1764. At a meeting of the Delegates of the Press.
'Ordered,
'That the following articles be made the foundation of the new lease
to be granted of the moiety of the Printing House; that a copy of them
be delivered to Mr. Baskett and Mr. Eyre, and that they be desired to
give in their respective proposals at a meeting to be held on Tuesday
the sixth of November.' (P. 41.)
The chief part of the lease consisted of the privilege to print Bibles
and Prayer Books. I conjecture that Strahan had hoped to get a share in
the lease.
VIII.
_A letter about a cancel in Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands
of Scotland', dated Nov. 30_, 1774.[In the possession of Messrs. Pearson
and Co., 46, Pall Mall.]
'SIR,
'I waited on you this morning having forgotten your new engagement; for
this you must not reproach me, for if I had looked upon your present
station with malignity I could not have forgotten it. I came to consult
you upon a little matter that gives me some uneasiness. In one of the
pages there is a severe censure of the clergy of an English Cathedral
which I am afraid is just, but I have since recollected that from me
it may be thought improper, for the Dean did me a kindness about forty
years ago. He is now very old, and I am not young. Reproach can do
him no good, and in myself I know not whether it is zeal or wantonness.
Can a leaf be cancelled without too much trouble? tell me what I shall
do. I have no settled choice, but I would not wish to allow the charge.
To cancel it seems the surer side. Determine for me.
'I am, Sir, Your most humble servant,
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
'Nov. 30, 1774.
'Tell me your mind: if you will cancel it I will write something to fill
up the vacuum. Please to direct to the borough.'
Mr. Strahan's 'new engagement' was in the House of Commons at Westminster,
to which he had been elected for the first time as member for Malmesbury.
The new Parliament had met on Nov. 29, the day before the date of
Johnson's letter (_Parl. Hist_, xviii. 23).
The leaf that Johnson cancelled contained pages 47, 48 in the first
edition of his _Journey to the Western Islands_. It corresponds with
pages 19-30 in vol. ix. of Johnson's _Works_ (ed. 1825), beginning
with the words 'could not enter,' and ending 'imperfect constitution.'
The excision is marked by a ridge of paper, which was left that the
revised leaf might be attached to it. Johnson describes how the lead
which covered the Cathedrals of Elgin and Aberdeen had been stripped
off by the order of the Scottish Council, and shipped to be sold in
Holland. He continues:--'Let us not however make too much haste to
despise our neighbours. Our own cathedrals are mouldering by unregarded
dilapidation. It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the
time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence, and we are in danger
of doing that deliberately, which the Scots did not do but in the
unsettled state of an imperfect constitution.'
In the copy of the first edition in the Bodleian Library, which had
belonged to Gough the antiquary, there is written in his hand, as a
foot-note to 'neighbours': 'There is now, as I have heard, a body
of men not less decent or virtuous than the Scottish Council, longing
to melt the lead of an English Cathedral. What they shall melt, it
were just that they should swallow.' It can scarcely be doubted that
this is the suppressed passage. The English Cathedral to which Johnson
refers was, I believe, Lichfield. 'The roof,' says Harwood (History of
Lichfield, p. 75), 'was formerly covered with lead, but now with slate.'
Addenbroke, who had been Dean since 1745, was, we may assume, very old
at the time when Johnson wrote. I had at first thought it not unlikely
that it was Dr. Thomas Newton, Dean of St. Paul's and Bishop of Bristol,
who was censured. He was a Lichfield man, and was known to Johnson (see
_ante_, iv. 285, n. 3). He was, however, only seventy years old. I am
informed moreover by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, the learned editor
of _Documents illustrating the History of St. Paul's_, that it is
very improbable that at this time the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's
entertained such a thought.
My friend Mr. C. E. Doble has kindly furnished me with the following
curious parallel to Johnson's suppressed wish about the molten lead.
'The chappell of our Lady [at Wells], late repayred by Stillington,
a place of great reverence and antiquitie, was likewise defaced, and
such was their thirst after lead (I would they had drunke it scalding)
that they tooke the dead bodies of bishops out of their leaden coffins,
and cast abroad the carkases skarce throughly putrified.'--Harington's
_Nuga Antiquae_, ii. 147 (ed. 1804).
In the postscript Johnson says 'Please to direct to the borough.' He
was staying in Mr. Thrale's town-house in the Borough of Southwark.
(See _ante_, i, 493.)
IX.
_A letter about apprenticing a lad to Mr. Strahan, and about a
presentation to the Blue Coat School, dated December 22_, 1774. [In
the possession of Messrs. Robson and Kerslake, 25, Coventry Street
Haymarket.]
'Sir,
'When we meet we talk, and I know not whether I always recollect what
I thought I had to say.
'You will please to remember that I once asked you to receive an
apprentice, who is a scholar, and has always lived in a clergyman's
house, but who is mishapen, though I think not so as to hinder him
at the case. It will be expected that I should answer his Friend
who has hitherto maintained him, whether I can help him to a place.
He can give no money, but will be kept in cloaths.
'I have another request which it is perhaps not immediately in your
power to gratify. I have a presentation to beg for the blue coat
hospital. The boy is a non-freeman, and has both his parents living.
We have a presentation for a freeman which we can give in exchange.
If in your extensive acquaintance you can procure such an exchange,
it will be an act of great kindness. Do not let the matter slip out
of your mind, for though I try others I know not any body of so much
power to do it.
'I am, Sir, Your most humble Servant,
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
'Dec. 22, 1774.'
The apprentice was young William Davenport, the orphan son of a clergyman.
His friend was the Rev. W. Langley, the master of Ashbourne School.
Strahan received him as an apprentice (_ante_, ii. 334, n. i). See also
Nichols' _Literary Anecdotes_, vol. iii. p. 287.
The 'case' is the frame containing boxes for holding type.
X.
_A letter about suppressions in 'Taxation no Tyranny! dated March 1,
1775_.[In the possession of Mr. Frank T. Sabin, 10 & 12, Garrick Street
Covent Garden.]
'SIR,
'I am sorry to see that all the alterations proposed are evidences of
timidity. You may be sure that I do [? not] wish to publish, what those
for whom I write do not like to have published. But print me half a
dozen copies in the original state, and lay them up for me. It concludes
well enough as it is.
'When you print it, if you print it, please to frank one to me here, and
frank another to Mrs. Aston at Stow Hill, Lichfield.
'The changes are not for the better, except where facts were mistaken.
The last paragraph was indeed rather contemptuous, there was once more
of it which I put out myself.
'I am Sir, Your humble Servant,
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
'March 1, 1775.'
This letter refers to _Taxation no Tyranny_, which was published before
March 31, 1775, the date of Boswell's arrival in London (_ante_, ii.
311). Boswell says that he had in his possession 'a few proof leaves
of it marked with corrections in Johnson's own hand-writing' (ib. p.
313). Johnson, he says,' owned to me that it had been revised and
curtailed by some of those who were then in power.' When Johnson writes
'when you print it, if you print it,' he uses, doubtless, _print_ in
the sense of _striking off copies_. The pamphlet was, we may assume, in
type before it was revised by 'those in power.' The corrections had been
made in the proof-sheets. Johnson asks to have six copies laid by for
him in the state in which he had wished to publish it. It seems that the
last paragraph had been struck out by the reviser, for Johnson says 'it
was rather contemptuous.' He does not think it needful to supply anything
in its place, for he says 'it concludes well enough as it is.'
Mr. Strahan had the right, as a member of Parliament, to frank all
letters and packets. That is to say, by merely writing his signature on
the cover he could pass them through the post free of charge. Johnson,
when he wrote to Scotland, used to employ him to frank his letters,
'that he might have the consequence of appearing a parliament-man among
his countrymen' (_ante_, iii. 364). It was to Oxford that a copy of the
pamphlet was to be franked to Johnson. That he was there at the time is
shown by a letter from him in Mrs. Piozzi's _Collection_ (vol. i. p.
212), dated 'University College, Oxford, March 3, 1775.' Writing to her,
evidently from Bolt Court, on February 3, he had said: 'My pamphlet has
not gone on at all' (ib. i. 211). Mrs. Aston (or rather Miss Aston) is
mentioned _ante_, ii. 466.
XI
_A letter about 'copy' and a book by Professor Watson, dated Oct. 14,
1776'_.[In the possession of Mr. H. Fawcett, of 14, King Street, Covent
Garden.]
'SIR,
'I wrote to you about ten days ago, and sent you some copy. You have
not written again, that is a sorry trick.
'I am told that you are printing a Book for Mr. Professor Watson of
Saint Andrews, if upon any occasion, I can give any help, or be of any
use, as formerly in Dr. Robertson's publication, I hope you will make
no scruple to call upon me, for I shall be glad of an opportunity to
show that my reception at Saint Andrews has not been forgotten.
'I am Sir, Your humble Servant,
'SAM. JOHNSON.'
'Oct. 14, 1776.'
The' copy' or MS. that Johnson sent is, I conjecture, _Proposals for
the Rev. Mr. Shaw's Analysis of the Scotch Celtick Language_ (_ante_,
iii. 107). This is the only acknowledged piece of writing of his during
1776. The book printing for Professor Watson was _History of the Reign
of Philip II_, which was published by Strahan and Cadell in 1777. This
letter is of unusual interest, as showing that Johnson had been of some
service as regards one of Robertson's books. It is possible that he
read some of the proof-sheets, and helped to get rid of the Scotticisms.
'Strahan,' according to Beattie, 'had corrected (as he told me himself)
the phraseology of both Mr. Hume and Dr. Robertson' (_ante_, v. 92,
n. 3). He is not unlikely, in Robertson's case, to have sought and
obtained Johnson's help.
XII.
_The following letter is published in Mr. Alfred Morrison's 'Collection
of Autographs', vol. ii. p. 343._
'To Dr. TAYLOR. Dated London, April 20, 1778.'
'The quantity of blood taken from you appears to me not sufficient.
Thrale was almost lost by the scrupulosity of his physicians, who never
bled him copiously till they bled him in despair; he then bled till he
fainted, and the stricture or obstruction immediately gave way and from
that instant he grew better.
'I can now give you no advice but to keep yourself totally quiet and
amused with some gentle exercise of the mind. If a suspected letter
comes, throw it aside till your health is reestablished; keep easy and
cheerful company about you, and never try to think but at those stated
and solemn times when the thoughts are summoned to the cares of futurity,
the only cares of a rational being.
'As to my own health I think it rather grows better; the convulsions
which left me last year at Ashbourne have never returned, and I have by
the mercy of God very comfortable nights. Let me know very often how you
are till you are quite well.'
This letter, though it is dated 1778, must have been written in 1780.
Thrale's first attack was in June, 1779, when he was in 'extreme danger'
(_ante_, iii. 397, n. 2, 420). Johnson had the remission of the
convulsions on June 18, 1779. He recorded on June 18, 1780:--
'In the morning of this day last year I perceived the remission of
those convulsions in my breast which had distressed me for more than
twenty years. I returned thanks at church for the mercy granted me,
which has now continued a year.'--_Prayers and Meditations_, p. 183.
Three days later he wrote to Mrs. Thrale:--
'It was a twelvemonth last Sunday since the convulsions in my breast
left me. I hope I was thankful when I recollected it; by removing
that disorder a great improvement was made in the enjoyment of life.'
--_Piozzi Letters_, ii. 163. (See _ante_, iii. 397, n. 1.)
He was at Ashbourne on June 18, 1779 (_ante_, iii. 453).
On April 20, 1778, the very day of which this letter bears the date,
he recorded:--
'After a good night, as I am forced to reckon, I rose seasonably....
In reviewing my time from Easter, 1777, I found a very melancholy
and shameful blank. So little has been done that days and months are
without any trace. My health has, indeed, been very much interrupted.
My nights have been commonly not only restless, but painful and fatiguing.
....Some relaxation of my breast has been procured, I think, by opium,
which, though it never gives me sleep, frees my breast from spasms.'
--_Prayers and Meditations_, p. 169. See _ante_, iii. 317, n. 1.
For Johnson's advice about bleeding, see _ante_, iii. 152; and for
possible occasions for 'suspected letters,' _ante_, i. 472, n. 4;
and ii. 202, n. 2.
_Mr. Mason's 'sneering observation in his "Memoirs of Mr. William
Whitehead"'_
(Vol. i, p. 31.)
I had long failed to find a copy of these _Memoirs_, though I had
searched in the Bodleian, the British Museum, and the London Library, and
had applied to the University Library at Cambridge, and the Advocates'
Library at Edinburgh. By the kindness of Mr. R. H. Soden Smith and Mr.
R. F. Sketchley, I have obtained the following extract from a copy in
the Dyce and Forster Libraries, in the South Kensington Museum:--
'Conscious, notwithstanding, that to avoid writing what is _unnecessary_
is, in these days, no just plea for silence in a biographer, I have some
apology to make for having strewed these pages so thinly with the
tittle-tattle of anecdote. I am, however, too proud to make this apology
to any person but my bookseller, who will be the only real loser by the
'Those readers, who believe that I do not write immediately under
his pay, and who may have gathered from what they have already read,
that I am not so passionately enamoured of Dr. Johnson's biographical
manner, as to take that for my model, have only to throw these pages
aside, and wait till they are new-written by some one of his numerous
disciples, who may follow his master's example; and should more anecdote
than I furnish him with be wanting (as was the Doctor's case in his
life of Mr. Gray), may make amends for it by those acid eructations
of vituperative criticism, which are generated by unconcocted taste and
intellectual indigestion.'--_Poems by William Whitehead_, York, 1788
(vol. iii, p. 128).
With this 'sneering observation,' which Boswell might surely have passed
over in silence, the Memoirs close.
_Michael Johnson as a bookseller._
(Vol. i, p. 36, n. 3.)
Mr. R. F. Sketchley kindly informs me that in the Dyce and Forster
Libraries at the South Kensington Museum there is a book with the
following title:--
_S. Shaw's 'Grammatica Anglo--Romana', London, printed for Michael
Johnson, bookseller: and are to be sold at his shops in Litchfield and
Uttoxiter in Stafford-shire; and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire,
1687._
Mr. C. E. Doble tells me that in the proposals issued in 1690 by Thomas
Bennet, St. Paul's Churchyard, for printing Anthony a Wood's _Athenae
Oxonienses_ and _Fasti Oxonienses_, among 'the booksellers who take
subscriptions, give receipts, and deliver books according to the
proposals' is 'Mr. Johnson in Litchfield.'
_The City and County of Lichfield_.
(Vol. i, p. 36, n. 4.)
'The City of Litchfield is a County of itself, with a jurisdiction
extending 10 or 12 miles round, which circuit the Sheriff rides every
year on Sept. 8.'--_A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain_,
ed. 1769, ii. 419.
Balliol College has a copy of this work containing David Garrick's
book-plate, with Shakespeare's head at the top of it, and the following
quotation from _Menagiana_ at the foot:--
'_La premiere chose qu'on doit faire quand on a emprunte un livre, c'est
de le lire, afin de pouvoir le rendre plutot' (sic)_.
_Felixmarte of Hircania_.
(Vol. i, p. 49.)
'"He that follows is _Florismarte of Hyrcania_" said the barber. "What!
is Signor Florismarte there?" replied the priest; "in good faith he shall
share the same fate, notwithstanding his strange birth and chimerical
adventures; for his harsh and dry style will admit of no excuse. To the
yard with him, therefore." "With all my heart, dear Sir," answered the
housekeeper; "and with joyful alacrity she executed the command.'"
--_Don Quixote_, ed. 1820, i. 48.
Boswell speaks of _Felixmarte_ as the old Spanish romance. In the
_Bibliografia dei Romanzi e Poeini Cavallereschi Italiani_ (2nd ed.,
Milan, 1838), p. 351, it is stated that in the Spanish edition it is
called a translation from the Italian, and in the Italian edition a
translation from the Spanish. The Italian title is _Historia di Don
Florismante d'Ircania, tradotta dallo Spagnuolo_. Cervantes, in an
edition of _Don Quixote_, published in 1605, which I have looked at,
calls the book _Florismarte de Hircania_ (not _Florismante_). It should
seem that he made his hero read the Italian version.
_Palmerin of England and Don Belianis_.
(Vol. i, p. 49, n. 2; and vol. iii, p. 2.)
'"Let _Palmerin of England_ be preserved," said the licentiate, "and
kept as a jewel; and let such another casket be made for it as that
which Alexander found among the spoils of Darius appropriated to preserve
the works of the poet Homer....Therefore, master Nicholas, saving your
better judgment let this and _Amadis de Gaul_ be exempted from the
flames, and let all the rest perish without any farther inquiry." "Not
so neighbour," replied the barber, "for behold here the renowned
_Don Belianis_." The priest replied, "This with the second, third,
and fourth parts, wants a little rhubarb to purge away its excessive
choler; there should be removed too all that relates to the castle
of Fame, and other impertinencies of still greater consequence; let them
have the benefit, therefore, of transportation, and as they show signs
of amendment they shall hereafter be treated with mercy or justice; in
the meantime, friend, give them room in your house; but let nobody read
them."'
--_Don Quixote_, ed. 1820, i. 50.
_Mr. Taylor, a Birmingham manufacturer_.
(Vol. i, p. 86.)
'John Taylor, Esq. may justly be deemed the Shakspear or Newton of
Birmingham. He rose from minute beginnings to shine in the commercial
hemisphere, as they in the poetical or philosophical. To this uncommon
genius we owe the gilt button, the japanned and gilt snuff-box, with
the numerous race of enamels; also the painted snuff-box. ... He died
in 1775 at the age of 64, after acquiring a fortune of L200,000. His son
was a considerable sufferer at the time of the riots in 1791.'
--_A Brief History of Birmingham_, 1797, p. 9.
_Olivia Lloyd._
(Vol. i, p. 92.)
I am, no doubt, right in identifying Olivia Lloyd, the young quaker,
with whom Johnson was much enamoured when at Stourbridge School, with
Olive Lloyd, the daughter of the first Sampson Lloyd, of Birmingham,
and aunt of the Sampson Lloyd with whom he had an altercation (_ante_,
ii. 458 and _post_, p. liii). 'A fine likeness of her is preserved by
Thomas Lloyd, The Priory, Warwick,' as I learn from an interesting
little work called _Farm and its Inhabitants, with some Account of
the Lloyds of Dolobran_, by Rachel J. Lowe. Privately printed, 1883,
p. 24. Her elder brother married a Miss Careless; ib. p. 23. Johnson's
'first love,' Hector's sister, married a Mr. Careless (_ante_, ii. 459).
_Henry Porter, of Edgbaston_.
(Vol. i, p. 94, n. 3.)
In St. Mary's Church, Warwick, is a monument to--
'Anna Norton, Henrici Porter
Filia
Nuper de Edgberston in Com. Warw. Generosi;
Vidua Thomae Norton....
Haec annis et pietate matura vitam deposuit.
Maii 14, 1698.'
_A Brief Description of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary in Warwick_,
published by Grafton and Reddell, Birmingham; no date.
_Mrs. Williams's account of Mrs. Johnson and her sons by her former
marriage_. (Vol. i, p. 95.)
The following note by Malone I failed to quote in the right place. It
is copied from a paper, written by Lady Knight.
'Mrs. Williams's account of Mrs. Johnson was, that she had a good
understanding and great sensibility, but inclined to be satirical. Her
first husband died insolvent [this is a mistake, see _ante_, i. 95,
n. 3]; her sons were much disgusted with her for her second marriage;
... however, she always retained her affection for them. While they
[Mr. and Mrs. Johnson] resided in Gough Square, her son, the officer,
knocked at the door, and asked the maid if her mistress was at home.
She answered, "Yes, Sir, but she is sick in bed." "Oh," says he, "if
it's so, tell her that her son Jervis called to know how she did;" and
was going away. The maid begged she might run up to tell her mistress,
and, without attending his answer, left him. Mrs. Johnson, enraptured
to hear her son was below, desired the maid to tell him she longed to
embrace him. When the maid descended the gentleman was gone, and poor
Mrs. Johnson was much agitated by the adventure; it was the only time
he ever made an effort to see her. Dr. [Mr.] Johnson did all he could
to console his wife, but told Mrs. Williams: "Her son is uniformly
undutiful; so I conclude, like many other sober men, he might once in
his life be drunk, and in that fit nature got the better of his pride."'
_Johnson's application for the mastership of the Grammar School at
Solihull in Warwickshire_.
(Vol. i, p. 96.)
Johnson, a few weeks after his marriage, applied for the mastership of
Solihull Grammar School, as is shown by the following letter, preserved
in the Pembroke College MSS., addressed to Mr. Walmsley, and quoted by
Mr. Croker. I failed to insert it in my notes.
_'Solihull, the 30 August 1735._
'SIR,
'I was favoured with yours of the 13th inst. in due time, but deferred
answering it til now, it takeing up some time to informe the Foeofees
of the contents thereof; and before they would return an Answer, desired
some time to make enquiry of the caracter of Mr. Johnson, who all agree
that he is an excellent scholar, and upon that account deserves much
better than to be schoolmaster of Solihull. But then he has the caracter
of being a very haughty, ill-natured gent., and that he has such a way of
distorting his Face (which though he can't help) the gent, think it
may affect some young ladds; for these two reasons he is not approved
on, the late master Mr. Crompton's huffing the Foeofees being stil in
their memory. However, we are all exstreamly obliged to you for thinking
of us, and for proposeing so good a schollar, but more especially is,
dear sir,
'Your very humble servant,
'HENRY GRESWOLD.'
_Johnson's knowledge of Italian_.
(Vol. i, p. 115.)
Boswell says that he does not know 'at what time, or by what means
Johnson had acquired a competent knowledge of Italian.' In my note
on this I say 'he had read Petrarch "when but a boy."' As Petrarch
wrote chiefly in Latin, it is quite possible that Johnson did not
acquire his knowledge of Italian so early as I had thought.
_Johnson's deference for the general opinion_.
(Vol. i, p. 200.)
Miss Burney records an interesting piece of criticism by Johnson. 'There
are,' he said, 'three distinct kinds of judges upon all new authors or
productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce
entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who
know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above
the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them
rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed
by the rules.'--_Mine. D'Arblay's Diary_, i. 180. Later on she writes:
--'The natural feelings of untaught hearers ought never to be slighted;
and Dr. Johnson has told me the same a thousand times;' ib. ii. 128.
_Johnson in the Green Room_.
(Vol. i, p. 201.)
Mr. Richard Herne Shepherd, in _Watford's Antiquarian_ for January,
1887, p. 34, asserts that the actual words which Johnson used when
he told Garrick that he would no longer frequent his Green Room were
indecent; so indecent that Mr. Shepherd can only venture to satisfy
those whom he calls students by informing them of them privately. For
proof of this charge against the man whose boast it was that 'obscenity
had always been repressed in his company' (_ante_, iv. 295) he brings
forward John Wilkes. The story, indeed, as it is told by Boswell, is
not too trustworthy, for he had it through Hume from Garrick. As it
reaches Mr. Shepherd it comes from Garrick through Wilkes. Garrick, no
doubt, as Johnson says (_ante_, v. 391), was, as a companion, 'restrained
by some principle,' and had 'some delicacy of feeling.' Nevertheless,
in his stories, he was, we may be sure, no more on oath than a man is
in lapidary inscriptions (_ante_, ii. 407). It is possible that he
reported Johnson's very words to Hume, and that Hume did not change
them in reporting them to Boswell. Whatever they were, they were spoken
in 1749 and published in 1791, when Johnson had been dead six years,
Garrick twelve years, and Hume fourteen years. It is idle to dream that
they can now be conjecturally emended. But it is worse than idle to
bring in as evidence John Wilkes. What entered his ear as purity itself
might issue from his mouth as the grossest obscenity. He had no delicacy
of feeling. No principle restrained him. When he comes to bear testimony,
and aims a shaft at any man's character, the bow that he draws is drawn
with the weakness of the hand of a worn-out and shameless profligate.
Mr. Shepherd quotes an unpublished letter of Boswell to Wilkes, dated
Rome, April 22, 1765, to show 'that the two men had become familiars,
not only long before Wilkes's famous meeting with Dr. Johnson was brought
about, but before even the friendship of Boswell himself with Johnson
had been consolidated.' It needs no unpublished letters to show that. It
must be known to every attentive reader of Boswell. See _ante_, i. 395,
and ii. 11.
_Frederick III, King of Prussia_.
(Vol. i, p. 308.)
Boswell should have written Frederick II.
_Boswell's visit to Rousseau and Voltaire_.
(Vol. i, p. 434; and vol. ii, p. 11.)
_Boswell to Andrew Mitchell, Esq., His Britannic Majesty's
Minister at Berlin_.
'Berlin, 28 August, 1764.
... 'I have had another letter from my father, in which he continues of
opinion that travelling is of very little use, and may do a great deal
of harm. ... I esteem and love my father, and I am determined to do what
is in my power to make him easy and happy. But you will allow that I
may endeavour to make him happy, and at the same time not to be too hard
upon myself. I must use you so much with the freedom of a friend as to
tell you that with the vivacity which you allowed me I have a melancholy
disposition. I have made excursions into the fields of amusement, perhaps
of folly. I have found that amusement and folly are beneath me, and that
without some laudable pursuit my life must be insipid and wearisome.....
My father seems much against my going to Italy, but gives me leave to go
from this, and pass some months in Paris. I own that the words of the
Apostle Paul, "I must see Rome," are strongly _borne in_ upon my mind. It
would give me infinite pleasure. It would give taste for a life-time,
and I should go home to Auchinleck with serene contentment.'
After stating that he is going to Geneva, he continues:--
'I shall see Voltaire; I shall also see Switzerland and Rousseau. These
two men are to me greater objects than most statues or pictures.'
--Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 318.
_Superficiality of the French writers_.
(Vol. i, p. 454.)
Gibbon, writing of the year 1759, says:--
'In France, to which my ideas [in the _Essay on the Study of Literature_]
were confined, the learning and language of Greece and Rome were
neglected by a philosophic age. The guardian of those studies, the
Academy of Inscriptions, was degraded to the lowest rank among the
three royal societies of Paris; the new appellation of _Erudits_ was
contemptuously applied to the successors of Lipsius and Casaubon; and
I was provoked to hear (see M. d'Alembert, _Discours preliminaire a
l'Encyclopedie_) that the exercise of the memory, their sole merit,
had been superseded by the nobler faculties of the imagination and the
judgment.'
--_Memoirs of Edward Gibbon_, ed. 1827, i. 104.
_A Synod of Cooks_.
(Vol. i, p. 470.)
When Johnson spoke of 'a Synod of Cooks' he was, I conjecture, thinking
of Milton's 'Synod of Gods,' in Beelzebub's speech in Paradise Lost,
book ii. line 391.
_Johnson and Bishop Percy_.
(Vol. i, p. 486.)
Bishop Percy in a letter to Boswell says: 'When in 1756 or 1757 I
became acquainted with Johnson, he told me he had lived twenty years
in London, but not very happily.'
--Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 307.
_Barclay's Answer to Kenrick's Review of Johnson's
'Shakespeare.'_
(Vol. i, p. 498.)
Neither in the British Museum nor in the Bodleian have I been able to
find a copy of this book. _A Defence of Mr. Kenricks Review_, 1766,
does not seem to contain any reply to such a work as Barclay's.
_Mrs. Piozzi's 'Collection of Johnson s Letters.'_
(Vol. ii, p. 43, n. 2.)
MR. BOSWELL TO BISHOP PERCY.
'Feb. 9, 1788.
'I am ashamed that I have yet seven years to write of his life. ... Mrs.
(Thrale) Piozzi's Collection of his letters will be out soon. ... I saw
a sheet at the printing-house yesterday... It is wonderful what avidity
there still is for everything relative to Johnson. I dined at Mr.
Malone's on Wednesday with Mr. W. G. Hamilton, Mr. Flood, Mr. Windham, Mr.
Courtenay, &c.; and Mr. Hamilton observed very well what a proof it was
of Johnson's merit that we had been talking of him all the afternoon.'
--Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 309.
_Johnson on romantic virtue_.
(Vol. ii, P. 76.)
'Dr. Johnson used to advise his friends to be upon their guard against
romantic virtue, as being founded upon no settled principle. "A plank,"
said he, "that is tilted up at one end must of course fall down on the
other."
'--William Seward, _Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons_, ii. 461.'
_'Old' Baxter on toleration_.
(Vol. ii, p. 253.)
The Rev. John Hamilton Davies, B.A., F.R.H.S., Rector of St. Nicholas's,
Worcester, and author of _The Life of Richard Baxter of Kidderminster,
Preacher and Prisoner_ (London, Kent & Co., 1887), kindly informs me,
in answer to my inquiries, that he believes that Johnson may allude
to the following passage in the fourth chapter of Baxter's Reformed
Pastor:--
'I think the Magistrate should be the hedge of the Church. I am against
the two extremes of universal license and persecuting tyranny. The
Magistrate must be allowed the use of his reason, to know the cause,
and follow his own judgment, not punish men against it. I am the less
sorry that the Magistrate doth so little interpose.'
_England barren in good historians_.
(Vol. ii, p. 236, n. 2.)
Gibbon, writing of the year 1759, says:
'The old reproach that no British altars had been raised to the muse of
history was recently disproved by the first performances of Robertson
and Hume, the histories of Scotland and of the Stuarts.'
--_Memoirs of Edward Gibbon_, ed. 1827, i. 103.
_An instance of Scotch nationality_.
(Vol. ii, p. 307.)
Lord Camden, when pressed by Dr. Berkeley (the Bishop's son) to appoint
a Scotchman to some office, replied: 'I have many years ago sworn that
I never will introduce a Scotchman into any office; for if you introduce
one he will contrive some way or other to introduce forty more cousins
or friends.'
--G. M. _Berkeley's Poems_, p. ccclxxi.
_Mortality in the Foundling Hospital of London_.
(Vol. ii, p. 398.)
'From March 25, 1741, to December 31, 1759, the number of children
received into the Foundling Hospital is 14,994, of which have died
to December 31, 1759, 8,465.'--_A Tour through the Whole Island of
Great Britain_, ed. 1769, vol. ii, p. 121. A great many of these died,
no doubt, after they had left the Hospital.
_Mr. Planta_.
(Vol. ii, p. 399, n. 2.)
The reference is no doubt to Mr. Joseph Planta, Assistant-Librarian
of the British Museum 1773, Principal Librarian 1799-1827. See Edwards'
_Lives of the Founders of the British Museum_, pp. 517 sqq.; and
Nichols's _Illustrations of Literature_, vol. vii, pp. 677-8.
'_Unitarian_'.
(Vol. ii, p. 408, n. 1.)
John Locke in his _Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of
Christianity_ quotes from Mr. Edwards whom he answers:--'This gentleman
and his fellows are resolved to be Unitarians; they are for one article
of faith as well as One person in the Godhead.'
--Locke's _Works_, ed. 1824, vi, 200.
_The proposed Riding School for Oxford_.
(Vol. ii, p. 424.)
My friend, Mr. C. E. Doble, has pointed out to me the following passage
in _Collectanea_, First Series, edited by Mr. C. R. L. Fletcher, Fellow
of All Souls College, and printed for the Oxford Historical Society,
Oxford, 1885.
'The _Advertisement to Religion and Policy, by Edward Earl of Clarendon_,
runs as follows:--
"Henry Viscount Cornbury, who was called up to the House of Peers
by the title of Lord Hyde, in the lifetime of his father, Henry Earl
of Rochester, by a codicil to his will, dated Aug. 10, 1751, left
divers MSS. of his great grandfather, Edward Earl of Clarendon, to
Trustees, with a direction that the money to arise from the sale or
publication thereof, should be employed as a beginning of a fund for
supporting a Manage or Academy for riding and other useful exercises
in Oxford; a plan of this sort having been also recommended by Lord
Clarendon in his Dialogue on Education. Lord Cornbury dying before
his father, this bequest did not take effect. But Catharine, one of
the daughters of Henry Earl of Rochester, and late Duchess Dowager
of Queensbury, whose property these MSS. became, afterwards by deed
gave them, together with all the monies which had arisen or might arise
from the sale or publication of them, to [three Trustees] upon trust
for the like purposes as those expressed by Lord Hyde in his codicil."
'The preface to the _Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, written by
himself_., has words to the same effect. (See also _Notes and Queries_,
Ser. I. x. 185, and xi. 32.)
'From a letter in _Notes and Queries_, Ser. II. x. p. 74, it appears
that in 1860 the available sum, in the hands of the Trustees of the
Clarendon Bequest, amounted to L10,000. The University no longer needed
a riding-school, and the claims of Physical Science were urgent; and in
1872 the announcement was made, that by the liberality of the Clarendon
Trustees an additional wing had been added to the University Museum,
containing the lecture-rooms and laboratories of the department of
Experimental Philosophy.' Vol. i. p. 305.
_Boswell and Mrs. Rudd._
(Vol. ii, p. 450, n. 1.)
In Mr. Alfred Morrison's _Collection of Autographs_, vol. i. p. 103,
mention is made among Boswell's autographs of verses entitled _Lurgan
Clanbrassil_, a supposed Irish song.'
I have learnt, through Mr. Morrison's kindness, that 'on the document
itself there is the following memorandum, signed, so far as can be made
out, H. W. R.:--
"The enclosed song was written and composed by James Boswell, the
biographer of Johnson, in commemoration of a tour he made with Mrs.
Rudd whilst she was under his protection, for living with whom he
displeased his father so much that he threatened to disinherit him.
"Mrs. Rudd had lived with one of the Perreaus, who were tried and
executed for forgery. She was tried at the same time and acquitted.
"My father having heard that Boswell used to sing this song at the Home
Circuit, requested it of him, and he wrote it and gave it him. H.W. R."'
"Feb. 1828."
Christopher Smart.
(Vol. ii, p. 454, n. 3.)
Mr. Robert Browning, in his Parleyings with Christopher Smart, under
the similitude of 'some huge house,' thus describes the general run of
that unfortunate poet's verse:--
'All showed the Golden Mean without a hint
Of brave extravagance that breaks the rule.
The master of the mansion was no fool
Assuredly, no genius just as sure!
Safe mediocrity had scorned the lure
Of now too much and now too little cost,
And satisfied me sight was never lost
Of moderate design's accomplishment
In calm completeness.'
Mr. Browning goes on to liken one solitary poem to a Chapel in the house,
in which is found--
'from floor to roof one evidence
Of how far earth may rival heaven.'
_Parleyings with certain People of Importance in their Day_ (pp. 80-82),
London, 1887.
_Johnsons discussion on baptism--with Mr. Lloyd, the Birmingham Quaker_.
(Vol. ii, p. 458.)
In _Farm and its Inhabitants_ (_ante_, p. xlii), a further account is
given of the controversy between Johnson and Mr. Lloyd the Quaker, on
the subject of Barclay's _Apology_.
'Tradition states that, losing his temper, Dr. Johnson threw the volume
on the floor, and put his foot on it, in denunciation of its statements.
The identical volume is now in the possession of G. B. Lloyd, of Edgbaston
Grove.
'At the dinner table he continued the debate in such angry tones, and
struck the table so violently that the children were frightened, and
desired to escape.
'The next morning Dr. Johnson went to the bank [Mr. Lloyd was a banker]
and by way of apology called out in his stentorian voice, "I say, Lloyd,
I'm the best theologian, but you are the best Christian.'" p. 41. It
could not have been 'the next morning' that Johnson went to the bank,
for he left for Lichfield on the evening of the day of the controversy
(_ante_, ii. 461). He must have gone in the afternoon, while Boswell
was away seeing Mr. Boulton's great works at Soho (ib. p. 459).
Mr. G. B. Lloyd, the great-grandson of Johnson's host, in a letter
written this summer (1886), says: 'Having spent much of my boyhood
with my grandfather in the old house, I have heard him tell the story
of the stamping on the broad volume.'
Boswell mentions (ib. p. 457) that 'Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, like their
Majesties, had been blessed with a numerous family of fine children,
their numbers being exactly the same.' The author of _Farm and its
Inhabitants_ says (p. 46): 'There is a tradition that when Sampson
Lloyd's wife used to feel depressed by the care of such a large family
(they had sixteen children) he would say to her, "Never mind, the
twentieth will be the most welcome."' His fifteenth child Catharine
married Dr. George Birkbeck, the founder of the Mechanics' Institutes
(ib. p. 48).
A story told (p. 50) of one of Mr. Lloyd's sons-in-law, Joseph Biddle,
is an instance of that excess of forgetfulness which Johnson called
'morbid oblivion' (_ante_, v. 68). 'He went to pay a call in Leamington.
The servant asked him for his name, he could not remember it; in
perplexity he went away, when a friend in the street met him and
accosted him, "How do you do, Mr. Biddle?" "Oh, Biddle, Biddle, Biddle,
that's the name," cried he, and rushed off to pay his call.'
The editor is in error in stating (p. 45, n. 1) that a very poor poem
entitled _A bone for Friend Mary to pick_, is by Johnson. It may be
found in the _Gent. Mag._ for 1791, p. 948.
_Lichfield in 1783._
(Vol. ii, p. 461.)
C. P. Moritz, a young Prussian clergyman who published an account of
a pedestrian tour that he made in England in the year 1782, thus describes
Lichfield as he saw it on a day in June:--
'At noon I got to Lichfield, an old-fashioned town with narrow dirty
streets, where for the first time I saw round panes of glass in the
windows. The place to me wore an unfriendly appearance; I therefore
made no use of my recommendation, but went straight through and only
bought some bread at a baker's, which I took along with me.'--_Travels
in England in 1782_, p. 140, by C. P. Moritz. Cassell's National Library,
1886.
The 'recommendation' was an introduction to an inn given him by the
daughter of his landlord at Sutton, who told him 'that the people in
Lichfield were, in general, very proud.' Travelling as he did, on foot
and without luggage, he was looked upon with suspicion at the inns,
and often rudely refused lodging.
_Richard Baxter's doubt_.
(Vol. ii, p. 477.)
The Rev. J. Hamilton Davies [See _ante_, p. xlix. 1] informs me that
there can be no doubt that Johnson referred to the following passage
in _Reliquiae Baxterianae_, folio edition of 1696, p. 127:--
'This is another thing which I am changed in; that whereas in my
younger days I was never tempted to doubt of the Truth of Scripture
or Christianity, but all my Doubts and Fears were exercised at home,
about my own Sincerity and Interest in Christ--since then my sorest
assaults have been on the other side, and such they were, that had I
been void of internal Experience, and the adhesion of Love, and the
special help of God, and had not discerned more Reason for my Religion
than I did when I was younger, I had certainly apostatized to Infidelity,'
&c.
Johnson, the day after he recorded his 'doubt,' wrote that he was
'troubled with Baxter's _scruple_' (_ante_, ii. 477). The 'scruple'
was, perhaps, the same as the 'doubt.' In his _Dictionary_ he defines
_scruple_ as _doubt; difficulty of determination; perplexity; generally
about minute things_.
_Oxford in 1782_.
(Vol. iii, p. 13, n. 3.)
The Rev. C. P. Moritz (_ante_, p. liv) gives a curious account of
his visit to Oxford. On his way from Dorchester on the evening of
a Sunday in June, he had been overtaken by the Rev. Mr. Maud, who seems
to have been a Fellow and Tutor of Corpus College[3], and who was
returning from doing duty in his curacy. It was late when they arrived
in the town. Moritz, who, as I have said, more than once had found
great difficulty in getting a bed, had made up his mind to pass the
summer night on a stonebench in the High Street. His comrade would not
hear of this, but said that he would take him to an ale-house where
'it is possible they mayn't be gone to bed, and we may yet find company.'
This ale-house was the Mitre.
'We went on a few houses further, and then knocked at a door. It was
then nearly twelve. They readily let us in; but how great was my
astonishment when, on being shown into a room on the left, I saw
a great number of clergymen, all with their gowns and bands on, sitting
round a large table, each with his pot of beer before him. My travelling
companion introduced me to them as a German clergyman, whom he could not
sufficiently praise for my correct pronunciation of the Latin, my
orthodoxy, and my good walking.
'I now saw myself in a moment, as it were, all at once transported
into the midst of a company, all apparently very respectable men, but
all strangers to me. And it appeared to me extraordinary that I should
thus at midnight be in Oxford, in a large company of Oxonian clergy,
without well knowing how I had got there. Meanwhile, however, I took
all the pains in my power to recommend myself to my company, and in the
course of conversation I gave them as good an account as I could of
our German universities, neither denying nor concealing that now and
then we had riots and disturbances. "Oh, we are very unruly here,
too," said one of the clergymen, as he took a hearty draught out of his
pot of beer, and knocked on the table with his hand. The conversation
now became louder, more general, and a little confused. ... At last,
when morning drew near, Mr. Maud suddenly exclaimed, "D-n me, I must
read prayers this morning at All Souls!" "D-n me" is an abbreviation
of "G-d d-n me," which in England does not seem to mean more mischief
or harm than any of our or their common expletives in conversation,
such as "O gemini!" or "The deuce take me!" ... I am almost ashamed
to own, that next morning, when I awoke, I had got so dreadful a
headache from the copious and numerous toasts of my jolly and reverend
friends that I could not possibly get up.
--_Travels in England in 1782_, by C. P. Moritz, p. 123.
[Footnote 3: No such person appears in the _Catalogue of Graduates_.]
_Dr. Lettsom_.
(Vol. in, p. 68.)
Boswell in an _Ode to Mr. Charles Dilly_, published in the _Gent.
Mag._ for 1791, p. 367, says that Dr. Lettsom 'Refutes pert Priestley's
nonsense.'
_William Vachell_.
(Vol. iii, p. 83, n. 3.)
Mr. George Parker of the Bodleian Library informs me that William
Vachell had been tutor to Prince Esterhazy, and that for many years
he held the appointment of 'Pumper,' or Lessee of the baths at Bath.
In 1776 and 1777 he paid as rental for them to the Corporation L525.
He died on November 26, 1789. According to Mr. Ivor Vachell (_Notes
and Queries_, 6th S. vii. 327), it was his eldest son who signed the
Round Robin.
_Johnson and Baretti_.
(Vol. iii, p. 96, n. 1.)
Baretti in his _Tolondron_, p. 145, gives an account of a difference
between himself and Johnson. Johnson sent to ask him to call on him,
but Baretti was leaving town. When he returned the time for a
reconciliation had passed, for Johnson was dead.
_English pulpit eloquence_.
(Vol. iii, p. 248.)
'Upon the whole, which is preferable, the philosophic method of the
English, or the rhetoric of the French preachers? The first (though
less glorious) is certainly safer for the preacher. It is difficult
for a man to make himself ridiculous, who proposes only to deliver
plain sense on a subject he has thoroughly studied. But the instant
he discovers the least pretensions towards the sublime or the pathetic,
there is no medium; we must either admire or laugh; and there are so
many various talents requisite to form the character of an orator that
it is more than probable we shall laugh.'
--_Memoirs of Edward Gibbon_, ed. 1827, i. 118.
_Bishop Percy's communications to Boswell relative to Johnson_.
(Vol. iii, p. 278, n. 1.)
'JAMES BOSWELL TO BISHOP PERCY.
"9 April, 1790.
"As to suppressing your Lordship's name when relating the very few
anecdotes of Johnson with which you have favoured me, I will do anything
to oblige your Lordship but that very thing. I owe to the authenticity
of my work, to its respectability, and to the credit of my illustrious
friends [? friend] to introduce as many names of eminent persons as I
can... Believe me, my Lord, you are not the only bishop in the number
of great men with which my pages are graced. I am quite resolute as to
this matter."
'--Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 313.
_Sir Thomas Brown's remark 'Do the devils lie? No; for then Hell could
not subsist._'
(Vol. iii, p. 293.)
This remark, whether it is Brown's or not, may have been suggested by
Milton's lines in _Paradise Lost_, ii. 496-9, or might have suggested
them:--
'O shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures rational.'
_Johnson on the advantages of having a profession or business_.
(Vol. iii, p. 309, n. 1.)
'Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest as well as the most
virtuous persons were to be found amongst those who united with a
business or profession a love of literature.'
--Seward's _Biographiana_, p. 599.
_Johnson's trips to the country_.
(Vol. iii, p. 453.)
I have omitted to mention Johnson's visit to 'Squire Dilly's mansion
at Southill in June, 1781 (_ante_, iv. 118-132).
_Citations of living authors in Johnson's Dictionary_.
(Vol. iv, p. 4, n. 3.)
Johnson cites _Irene_ under _impostures_, and Lord Lyttelton under
_twist_.
_Dr. Parrs evening with Dr. Johnson_.
(Vol. iv, p. 15.)
The Rev. John Rigaud, B.D., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, has
kindly sent me the following anecdote of the meeting of Johnson and
Parr:--
'I remember Dr. Routh, the old President of Magdalen, telling me of an
interview and conversation between Dr. Johnson and Dr. Parr, in the
course of which the former made use of some expression respecting the
latter, which considerably wounded and offended him. "Sir," he said
to Dr. Johnson, "you know that what you have just said will be known
in four-and-twenty hours over this vast metropolis." Upon which Dr.
Johnson's manner altered, his eye became calm, and he put out his hand,
and said, "Forgive me, Parr, I didn't quite mean it." "But," said the
President, with an amused and amusing look, "_I never could get him to
tell me what it was Dr. Johnson had said!_" He spoke of seeing Dr.
Johnson going up the steps into University College, dressed, I think,
in a snuff-coloured coat.'
Dr. Martin Joseph Routh, who was President of Magdalen College for
sixty-four years, was born in 1755 and died on December 22, 1854.
'_Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris_.'
(Vol. iv, p. 181, n. 3.)
Malone's note on _The Rape of Lucrece_ must have been, not as I
conjectured on line 1111, but on lines 1581-2:--
'It easeth some, though none it ever cured,
To think their dolour others have endured.'
With these lines may be compared Satan's speech in _Paradise Regained_,
Book i, lines 399-402:--
'Long since with woe
Nearer acquainted, now I feel by proof,
That fellowship in pain divides not smart,
Nor lightens aught each man's peculiar load.'
_Richard Baxter's rule of preaching_.
(Vol. iv, p. 185.)
The Rev. J. Hamilton Davies [See _ante_, p. xlix.] has furnished me
with the following extract from _Reliquiae Baxterianae_, ed. 1696, p. 93,
in illustration of Johnson's statement:--
'And yet I did usually put in something in my Sermon which was above
their own discovery, and which they had not known before; and this I
did, that they might be kept humble, and still perceive their ignorance,
and be willing to keep in a learning state. (For when Preachers tell
their People of no more than they know, and do not shew that they excel
them in knowledge, and easily overtop them in Abilities, the People
will be tempted to turn Preachers themselves, and think that they have
learnt all that the Ministers can teach them, and are as wise as
they------). And this I did also to increase their knowledge; and
also to make Religion pleasant to them, by a daily addition to their
former Sight, and to draw them on with desire and Delight.'
_Opposition to Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Royal Academy_.
(Vol. iv, p. 219, n. 4.)
'JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ., TO BISHOP PERCY.
'12 March, 1790.
'Sir Joshua has been shamefully used by a junto of the Academicians.
I live a great deal with him, and he is much better than you would
suppose.'
--Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 313.
_Richard Baxter on the possible salvation of a Suicide_.
(Vol. iv, p. 225.)
The Rev. J. Hamilton Davies writes to me that 'Dr. Johnson's quotation
about suicide must surely be wrong. I have no recollection in any of
Baxter's _Works_ of such a statement, and it is in direct contradiction
to all that is known of his sentiments. 'Mr. Davies sends me the following
passage, which possibly Johnson might have very imperfectly remembered:--
'The commonest cause [of suicide] is melancholy, &c. Though there
be much more hope of the salvation of such as want the use of their
understandings, because so far it may be called involuntary, yet it
is a very dreadful case, especially so far as reason remaineth in any
power.'
--Baxter's _Christian Directory, edited by Orme, part iv, p. 138.
_Haslitt's report of Baxter's Sermon_.
(Vol. iv, p. 226, n. 2.)
The Rev. J. Hamilton Davies tells me that he 'entirely disbelieves that
Baxter said, "Hell was paved with infants' skulls." The same thing, or
something very like it, has been said of Calvin, but I could never,'
Mr. Davies continues, 'find it in his Works.' He kindly sends me the
following extract from _Reliquiae Baxterianae_, ed. 1696, p. 24:--
'Once all the ignorant Rout were raging mad against me for preaching
the Doctrine of Original Sin to them, and telling them that Infants
before Regeneration had so much Guilt and Corruption, as made them
loathsome in the Eyes of God: whereupon they vented it abroad in the
Country, That I preached that God hated, or loathed Infants; so that
they railed at me as I passed through the streets. The next Lord's Day,
I cleared and confirmed it, and shewed them that if this were not true,
their Infants had no need of Christ, of Baptism, or of Renewing by the
Holy Ghost. And I asked them whether they durst say that their Children
were saved without a Saviour, and were no Christians, and why they
baptized them, with much more to that purpose, and afterwards they
were ashamed and as mute as fishes.'
_Johnson on an actor's transformation_.
(Vol. iv, p. 244.)
Boswell in his _Remarks on the Profession of a Player_ (Essay ii),
first printed in the _London Magazine_ for 1770, says:--
'I remember to have heard the most illustrious authour of this age say:
"If, Sir, Garrick believes himself to be every character that he
represents he is a madman, and ought to be confined. Nay, Sir, he is a
villain, and ought to be hanged. If, for instance, he believes himself
to be Macbeth he has committed murder, he is a vile assassin who, in
violation of the laws of hospitality as well as of other principles,
has imbrued his hands in the blood of his King while he was sleeping
under his roof. If, Sir, he has really been that person in his own mind,
he has in his own mind been as guilty as Macbeth."
'--Nichols's _Literary History_, ed. 1848, vii. 373.
_Sir John Flayer 'On the Asthma_.'
(Vol. iv, p. 353.)
Johnson, writing from Ashbourne to Dr. Brocklesby on July 20, 1784, says:
'I am now looking into Floyer who lived with his asthma to almost his
ninetieth year.' Mr. Samuel Timmins, the author of _Dr. Johnson in
Birmingham_, informs me that he and two friends of his lately found
in Lichfield a Lending Book of the Cathedral Library. Among the entries
for 1784 was: '_Sir John Floyer on the Asthma_, lent to Dr. Johnson.'
Johnson, no doubt, had taken the book with him to Ashbourne.
Mr. Timmins says that the entries in this Lending Book unfortunately
do not begin till about 1760 (or later). 'If,' he adds, 'the earlier
Lending Book could be found, it would form a valuable clue to books
which Johnson may have borrowed in his youth and early manhood.'
_Boswell's expectations from Burke_.
(Vol. iv, p. 223, n. 2; and p. 258, n. 2.)
Boswell, in May 1783, mentioned to Johnson his 'expectations from the
interest of an eminent person then in power.' The two following extracts
from letters written by him show what some of these expectations had been.
'JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. TO JAMES ABERCROMBIE, ESQ., of Philadelphia.
'July 28,1793.
'I have a great wish to see America; and I once flattered myself that
I should be sent thither in a station of some importance.'
Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 317.
Boswell had written to Burke on March 3, 1778: 'Most heartily do I
rejoice that our present ministers have at last yielded to conciliation
(_ante_, iii. 221). For amidst all the sanguinary zeal of my countrymen,
I have professed myself a friend to our fellow-subjects in America, so
far as they claim an exemption from being taxed by the representatives
of the King's British subjects. I do not perfectly agree with you; for I
deny the declaratory act, and I am a warm Tory in its true constitutional
sense. I wish I were a commissioner, or one of the secretaries of the
commission for the grand treaty. I am to be in London this spring, and
if his Majesty should ask me what I would choose, my answer will be to
assist at the compact between Britain and America.'
--_Burke's Correspondence_, ii. 209.
_Boswelf's intention to attend on Johnson in his illness, and to publish
'Praises' of him._
(Vol. iv, p. 265.)
'JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ., TO BISHOP PERCY.
'Edinburgh, 8 March, 1784.
"...I intend to be in London about the end of this month, chiefly to
attend upon Dr. Johnson with respectful affection. He has for some time
been very ill...I wish to publish as a regale [_ante_, iii. 308, n. 2;
v. 347, n. 1] to him a neat little volume, _The Praises of Dr. Johnson,
by contemporary Writers_. ...Will your Lordship take the trouble to
send me a note of the writers you recollect having praised our much
respected friend?...An edition of my pamphlet [_ante_, iv. 258] has been
published in London."'
--Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 302.
_The reported Russian version of the 'Rambler'_.
(Vol. iv, p. 277, n. 1.)
I am informed by my friend, Mr. W. R. Morfill, M.A., of Oriel College,
Oxford, who has, I suppose, no rival in this country in his knowledge of
the Slavonic tongues, that no Russian translation of the Rambler has
been published. He has given me the following title of the Russian
version of _Rasselas_, which he has obtained for me through the kindness
of Professor Grote, of the University of Warsaw:--
'Rasselas, printz Abissinskii, Vostochnaya Poviest Sochinenie Doktora
Dzhonsona Perevod s'angliiskago. 3 chasti, Moskva. 1795.
'Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, An Eastern Tale, by Doctor Johnson.
Translated from the English. 2 parts, Moscow, 1795.'
'_It has not wit enough to keep it sweet_.'
(Vol. iv, p. 320.)
'Heylyn, in the Epistle to his _Letter-Combate_, addressing Baxter,
and speaking of such "unsavoury pieces of wit and mischief" as "the
_Church-historian_" asks, "Would you not have me rub them with a little
salt to keep them sweet?" This passage was surely present in the mind
of Dr. Johnson when he said concerning _The Rehearsal_ that "it had not
wit enough to keep it sweet."'
--J. E. Bailey's _Life of Thomas Fuller_, p. 640.
_Pictures of Johnson_.
(Vol. iv, p. 421, n. 2.)
In the Common Room of Trinity College, Oxford, there is an interesting
portrait of Johnson, said to be by Romney. I cannot, however, find
any mention of it in the _Life_ of that artist. It was presented to
the College by Canon Duckworth.
_The Gregory Family_.
(Vol. v, p. 48, n. 3.)
Mr. P. J. Anderson (in _Notes and Queries_, 7th S. iii. 147) casts some
doubt on Chalmers' statement. He gives a genealogical table of the
Gregory family, which includes thirteen professors; but two of these
cannot, from their dates, be reckoned among Chalmers' sixteen.
_The University of St. Andrews in 1778_.
(Vol. v, p. 63, n. 2.)
In the preface to _Poems by George Monck Berkeley_, it is recorded
(p. cccxlviii) that when 'Mr. Berkeley entered at the University of
St. Andrews [about 1778], one of the college officers called upon him
to deposit a crown to pay for the windows he might break. Mr. Berkeley
said, that as he should reside in his father's house, it was little
likely he should break any windows, having never, that he remembered,
broke one in his life. He was assured that he _would_ do it at St.
Andrews. On the rising of the session several of the students said, "Now
for the windows. Come, it is time to set off, let us sally forth!"
Mr. Berkeley, being called upon, enquired what was to be done? They
replied, "Why, to break every window in college." "For what reason?"
"Oh! no reason; but that it has always been done from time immemorial."'
The Editor goes on to say that Mr. Berkeley prevailed on them to give
up the practice. How poor some of the students were is shown by the
following anecdote, told by the College Porter, who had to collect the
crowns. 'I am just come,' he said, 'from a poor student indeed. I went
for the window _croon_; he cried, begged, and prayed not to pay it,
saying, "he brought but a croon to keep him all the session, and he
had spent sixpence of it; so I have got only four and sixpence."' His
father, a labourer, who owned three cows, 'had sold one to dress his
son for the University, and put the lamented croon in his pocket to
purchase coals. All the lower students study by fire-light. He had
brought with him a large tub of oatmeal and a pot of salted butter, on
which he was to subsist from Oct. 20 until May 20.' Berkeley raised
'a very noble subscription' for the poor fellow.
In another passage (p. cxcviii) it is recorded that Berkeley 'boasted to
his father, "Well, Sir, idle as you may think me, I never have once
bowed at any Professor's Lecture." An explanation being requested of
the word _bowing_, it was thus given: "Why, if any poor fellow has
been a little idle, and is not prepared to speak when called upon by
the Professor, he gets up and makes a respectful-bow, and sits down
again."' Berkeley was a grandson of Bishop Berkeley.
_Johnson's unpublished sermons_.
(Vol. v, p. 67, n. i.)
'JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ., TO JAMES ABERCROMBIE, ESQ., of Philadelphia.
'June 11, 1792.
"I have not yet been able to discover any more of Johnson's sermons
besides those left for publication by Dr. Taylor. I am informed by the
Lord Bishop of Salisbury, that he gave an excellent one to a clergyman,
who preached and published it in his own name on some public occasion.
But the Bishop has not as yet told me the name, and seems unwilling to
do it. Yet I flatter myself I shall get at it."'
--Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 315.
_Tillotson's argument against the doctrine of transubstantiation._
(Vol. v, p. 71.)
Gibbon, writing of his reconversion from Roman Catholicism to
Protestantism in the year 1754, after allowing something to the
conversation of his Swiss tutor, says:--
'I must observe that it was principally effected by my private
reflections; and I still remember my solitary transport at the discovery
of a philosophical argument against the doctrine of transubstantiation--
_that_ the text of scripture which seems to inculcate the real presence
is attested only by a single sense-- our sight; while the real presence
itself is disproved by three of our senses--the sight, the touch, and
the taste.'
--_Memoirs of Edward Gibbon_, ed. 1827, i. 67.
_Jean Pierre de Crousaz_.
(Vol. v, p. 80.)
Gibbon, describing his education at Lausanne, says:--'The principles
of philosophy were associated with the examples of taste; and by a
singular chance the book as well as the man which contributed the most
effectually to my education has a stronger claim on my gratitude than
on my admiration. M. de Crousaz, the adversary of Bayle and Pope, is not
distinguished by lively fancy or profound reflection; and even in his
own country, at the end of a few years, his name and writings are almost
obliterated. But his philosophy had been formed in the school of Locke,
his divinity in that of Limborch and Le Clerc; in a long and laborious
life several generations of pupils were taught to think and even to
write; his lessons rescued the Academy of Lausanne from Calvinistic
prejudice; and he had the rare merit of diffusing a more liberal spirit
among the clergy and people of the Pays de Vaud.'
--_Memoirs of Edward Gibbon_, ed. 1827, i. 66.
_The new pavement in London._
(Vol. v, p. 84, n. 3.)
'By an Act passed in 1766, _For the better cleansing, paving, and
enlightning the City of London and Liberties thereof_, &c., powers
are granted in pursuance of which the great streets have been paved
with whyn-quarry stone, or rock-stone, or stone of a flat surface.'
--_A Tour through the whole Island of Great Britain_, ed. 1769,
vol. ii, p. 121.
_Boswell's Projected Works._
(Vol. v, p. 91, n. 2.)
To this list should be added an account of a Tour to the Isle of Man
(_ante_, iii. 80).
_A cancel in the first edition of Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the
Hebrides_.'
(Vol. v, p. 151.)
In my note on the suppression of offensive passages in the second edition
of Boswell's _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ (_ante_, v. 148), I
mention that Rowlandson in one of his _Caricatures_ paints Boswell
begging Sir Alexander Macdonald for mercy, while on the ground lie
pages 165, 167, torn out. I have discovered, though too late to mention
in the proper place, that in the first edition the leaf containing pages
167, 168, was really cancelled. In my own copy I noticed between pages 168
and 169 a narrow projecting slip of paper. I found the same in the copy
in the British Museum. Mr. Horace Hart, the printer to the University,
who has kindly examined my copy, informs me that the leaf was cancelled
after the sheets had been stitched together. It was cut out, but an edge
was left to which the new one was attached by paste. The leaf thus
treated begins with the words 'talked with very high respect' (_ante_,
v. 149) and ends 'This day was little better than a blank' (_ante_,
v. 151). This conclusion was perhaps meant to be significant to the
observant reader.
_Boswell's conversation with the King about the title proper to be
given to the Young Pretender._
(Vol. v, p. 185, n. 4.)
Dr. Lort wrote to Bishop Percy on Aug. 15, 1785:--
'Boswell's book [_The Tour to the Hebrides_], I suppose, will be out
in the winter. The King at his levee talked to him, as was natural, on
this subject. Boswell told his majesty that he had another work on the
anvil--a _History of the Rebellion in_ 1745 (_ante_, iii. 162); but
that he was at a loss how to style the principal person who figured
in it. "How would you style him, Mr. Boswell?" "I was thinking, Sire,
of calling him the grandson of the unfortunate James the Second." "That
I have no objection to; my title to the Crown stands on firmer ground
--on an Act of Parliament." This is said to be the _substance_ of a
conversation which passed at the levee. I wish I was certain of the
exact words.'
--Nichols's _Literary History_, vii. 472.
_Shakespeare's popularity_.
(Vol. v, p. 244, n. 2.)
Gibbon, after describing how he used to attend Voltaire's private theatre
at Monrepos in 1757 and 1758, continues:--
'The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and
that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of
Shakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of
an Englishman.'
--_Memoirs of Edward Gibbon_, ed. 1837, i. 90.
_Archibald Campbell_.
(Vol. v, p. 357.)
Mr. C. E. Doble informs me that in the Bodleian Library 'there is a
characteristic letter of Archibald Campbell in a _Life of Francis
Lee_ in Rawlinson, J., 4to. 2. 197; and also a skeleton life of him
in Rawlinson, J., 4to. 5. 301.'
_Cocoa Tree Club._
(Vol. v, p. 386, n. 1.)
Gibbon records in his Journal on November 24, 1762, a visit to the Cocoa
Tree Club:--
'That respectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member,
affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps,
of the first men in the kingdom in point of fashion and fortune, supping
at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle of a coffee-room,
upon a bit of cold meat or a sandwich, and drinking a glass of punch.
At present we are full of king's counsellors and lords of the bed-chamber,
who, having jumped into the ministry, make a very singular medley
of their old principles and language with their modern ones.'
--_Memoirs of Edward Gibbon_, ed. 1827, i. 131.
_Johnson's use of the word 'big'_.
(Vol. v, p. 425.)
On volume i, page 471, Johnson says: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to
use big words for little matters.'
_Atlas, the Duke of Devonshire's race-horse._
(Vol. v, p. 429.)
Johnson, in his _Diary of a Journey into North Wales_, records on
July 12, 1774:--
'At Chatsworth..., Atlas, fifteen hands inch and half.'
Mr. Duppa in a note on this, says: 'A race-horse, which attracted so
much of Dr. Johnson's attention, that he said, "of all the Duke's
possessions I like Atlas best."'
Thomas Holcroft, who in childhood wandered far and wide with his father,
a pedlar, was at Nottingham during the race-week of the year 1756 or
1757, and saw in its youth the horse which Johnson so much admired in
its old age. He says: 'The great and glorious part which Nottingham held
in the annals of racing this year, arose from the prize of the King's
plate, which was to be contended for by the two horses which everybody
I heard speak considered as undoubtedly the best in England, and perhaps
equal to any that had ever been known, Childers alone excepted. Their
names were Careless and Atlas.....There was a story in circulation that
Atlas, on account of his size and clumsiness, had been banished to the
cart-breed; till by some accident, either of playfulness or fright,
several of them started together; and his vast advantage in speed
happening to be noticed, he was restored to his blood companions.....Alas
for the men of Nottingham, Careless was conquered. I forget whether it
was at two or three heats, but there was many an empty purse on that
night, and many a sorrowful heart.'
--_Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft_, i. 70.
Sir Richard Clough.
(Vol. v, p. 436.)
There is an interesting note on Sir Richard Clough, the founder of Bach
y Graig, in Professor Rhys's edition of Pennant's _Tours in Wales_
(vol. ii, p. 137). The Professor writes to me:--
'Sir Richard Clough's wealth was so great that it became a saying of the
people in North Wales that a man who grew very wealthy was or had become
a Clough. This has long been forgotten; but it is still said in Welsh,
in North Wales, that a very rich man is a regular _clwch_, which is
pronounced with the guttural spirant, which was then (in the 16th
century) sounded in English, just as the English word _draught_ (of
drink) is in Welsh _dracht_ pronounced nearly as if it were German.'
_Evan Evans._
(Vol. v, p. 443.)
Evan Evans, who is described as being 'incorrigibly addicted to strong
drink,' was Curate of Llanvair Talyhaern, in Denbighshire, and author
of _Some Specimens of the Poetry of Antient Welsh Bards translated into
English_. London, R. & J. Dodsley, 1764. My friend Mr. Morfill informs
me that he remembers to have seen it stated in a manuscript note in a
book in the Bodleian, that 'Evan Evans would have written much more if
he had not been so much given up to the bottle.'
Gray thus mentions Evan Evans in a letter to Dr. Wharton, written in
July, 1760:--
'The Welsh Poets are also coming to light. I have seen a discourse in
MS. about them (by one Mr. Evans, a clergyman) with specimens of their
writings. This is in Latin; and though it don't approach the other
[Macpherson], there are fine scraps among it.'
--_The Works of Thomas Gray_, ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London,
1858, vol. iii, p. 250.
INDEX TO THE ADDENDA.
ABERCROMBIE, James, lxii, lxvi.
ADDENBROKE, Dean, xxxiv.
ATLAS, the race-horse, lxix, lxx.
BARCLAY'S Answer to Kenrick's Review of Johnson's Shakespeare, xlviii.
BARETTI, Joseph, lvii.
BASKETT, Mr., xxxii.
BATHURST, Dr., Proposal for a _Geographical Dictionary_, xxi.
BAXTER, Richard, on toleration, xlix;
his doubt, liv;
rule of preaching, lx;
on the possible salvation of a suicide, lx;
on the portion of babies who die unbaptized, lxi.
BERKELEY, Dr., xlix.
BERKELEY, George Monck, lxv.
_Big_, lxix.
BOSWELL, James, Bishop Percy's Communications, lvii;
Johnson in his last illness, and to publish 'praises' of him, lxiii;
_Lurgan Clanbrassil_, li;
projected works, lxvii;
_Remarks on the
profession of a player_, lxi;
visit to Rousseau and Voltaire, xlvi.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas, lviii.
BROWNING, Mr. Robert, lii.
BURKE, Edmund, lxii.
CAMDEN, Lord, xlix.
CAMPBELL, Archibald, lxix.
'CAUTION' money, xxxii.
CLARENDON, Edward, Earl of, l.
CLARENDON PRESS, xxxii.
CLOUGH, Sir Richard, lxx.
COCOA TREE CLUB, lxix.
CROUSAZ, Jean Pierre de, lxvi.
DAVENPORT, William, xxxv.
DAVIES, Rev. J. Hamilton, xlix, liv, lx, lxi.
DODSLEY, Robert, xxvi.
_Don Belianis_, xli.
ENGLAND barren in good historians, xlix.
ENGLISH pulpit eloquence, lvii.
EVANS, Evan, lxxi.
EYRE, Mr., xxxii.
_Farm and its Inhabitants_, xlii, liii.
_Felixmarte of Hircania_, xli.
FLOYER, Sir John, lxii.
FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, l.
FRANKING LETTERS, xxxvii.
FREDERICK II. OF PRUSSIA, xlvi.
FRENCH WRITERS, their superficiality, xlvii.
FULLER, Thomas, _Life_, lxiv.
GARRICK, David, xli, xlv, lxi.
GIBBON, Edward, xlvii, lvii, lxvi, lxviii, lxix.
GOUGH, Richard, xxxiv.
GRAY, Thomas, lxxi.
GREGORY FAMILY, lxiv.
HARINGTON'S _Nugae Antiqua_, xxxv.
HAZLITT, William, lxi.
_History of the Marchioness de Pompadour_, xxix.
HOLCROFT, Thomas, lxx.
HUME, David, xlv.
'IT has not wit enough to keep it sweet,' lxiv.
JOHNSON, Michael, xl.
JOHNSON, Mr., a bookseller, xxix.
JOHNSON, Mrs., xliii.
JOHNSON, Samuel, advantages of having a profession or business, lviii;
advice about studying, xxxii;
anonymous publications, xxix;
application for the mastership of Solihull School, xliv;
citation of living authors in the Dictionary, lviii;
critics of three classes, xlv;
difference with Baretti, lvii;
discussion on baptism with Mr. Lloyd, liii;
knowledge of Italian, xliv;
Letters to William Strahan:
Apology about some work that was passing through the press, xxv;
apprenticing a lad to Mr. Strahan, and a presentation to the Blue
Coat School, xxxv;
Bathurst's projected _Geographical Dictionary_, xxi;
cancel in the _Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland_, xxxiii;
'copy' and a book by Professor Watson, xxxvii;
George Strahan's election to a scholarship, xxx;
Miss Williams, taxes due, and a journey, xxvii;
printing the _Dictionary_, xxv-xxviii;
_Rasselas_, xxviii;
Suppressions in _Taxation no Tyranny_, xxxvi;
letter to Dr. Taylor, xxxviii;
portraits, lxiv;
public interest in him, xlviii;
romantic virtue, xlviii;
transformation of an actor, lxi;
trips to the country, lviii; unpublished sermons, lxvi;
use of the word _big_, lxix.
JONES, Sir William, xxxi.
KENRICK, Dr. William xlviii.
LANGLEY, Rev. W., xxxv.
LETTSOM Dr., lvi
LICHFIELD, Cathedral, xxxiv;
City, and County, xl;
described by C. P. Moritz, liv.
LLOYD, Olivia, xlii.
LLOYD, Sampson, xlii, liii.
LOCKE, John, 1.
LONDON PAVEMENT, lxvii.
LORT, Dr., lxviii.
MASON, Rev. William, xxxix.
MAUD, Rev. Mr., lv.
MILLAR, Andrew, xxv, xxviii.
MITCHELL, Andrew, xlvi.
MORITZ, C. P., _Travels in England in_ 1782, liv, lv.
MORRISON'S, Mr. Alfred, _Collection of Autographs_, xxxviii, li.
NEWTON, Bishop Thomas, xxxiv.
OXFORD
The proposed Riding School, l;
in 1782, lv;
University College, xxx.
_Palmerin of England_, xli.
PARR, Dr., lix.
PERCY, Bishop, xlviii, lvii.
PIOZZI'S, Mrs., 'Collection of Johnson's Letters,' xlviii.
PLANTA, Joseph, 1.
PORTEOUS, Captain, xxvii.
PORTER, Henry, xliii.
PRETENDER, Young, lxviii.
PRIESTLEY, Dr. Joseph, lvi.
_Rambler_, reported Russian version, lxiii.
REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, lx.
ROBERTSON, Dr. William, xxxvii.
ROUSSEAU, J. J., xlvi.
ROUTH, Dr., lix.
RUDD, Mrs., lii.
SCOTCH Nationality, xlix.
SHAKESPEARE'S Popularity, lxviii.
SHAW, Rev. Mr., xxxvii.
SHEPHERD, Mr. R. H., xlv.
SIMPSON, Rev. W. Sparrow, xxxiv.
SMART, Christopher, lii.
_Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris_, lix.
ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, lxv.
STEWART, Francis, xxvi.
STRAHAN, George, xxx.
STRAHAN, William, xxi, xxvi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxvi, xxxviii.
SYNOD OF COOKS, xlvii.
TAYLOR, Dr. John, xxxviii.
TAYLOR, John, of Birmingham, xlii.
THRALE, Henry, xxxviii.
TILLOTSON, Archbishop, lxvi.
'UNITARIAN,' l.
VACHELL, William, lvi.
VOLTAIRE, xlvi, lxviii.
_Walfords Antiquarian_, xlv.
WATSON, Rev. Professor, xxxvii.
WHITEHEAD, William, xxxix.
WILKES, John, xlv.
WILLIAMS, Miss, xxvii.
INDEX
A.
ABBREVIATING NAMES, Johnson's habit of, ii. 258, n. 1.
ABEL DRUGGER, iii. 35.
ABERCROMBIE, James, ii. 206, 241, n. 3.
ABERDEEN, second Earl of, v. 130.
ABERNETHY, Dr., iv. 272, n. 4.
ABERNETHY, Rev. John, v. 68.
ABINGDON, fourth Earl of, iii. 435, n. 4.
ABINGTON, Mrs., her jelly, ii. 349;
Johnson at her benefit, ii. 321, 324, 330;
She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 208, n. 5.
ABJURATION, oath of, ii. 321, n. 4.
ABNEY, Sir Thomas, i. 493, n. 3.
ABREU, Marquis of, i. 353.
ABRIDGMENTS, defended by Johnson, i. 140, n. 5; iv. 381, n. 1;
like a cow's calf, v. 72.
ABROAD, advice to people going, iv. 332.
ABRUPTNESS, i. 403.
ABSOLUTE PRINCES, ii. 370.
ABSTEMIOUS, Johnson, _not temperate_, i. 468.
ABSURDITIES, delineating, iv. 17.
ABUD,----, v. 253, n. 3.
ABUSE, coarse and refined, iv. 297.
_Abyssinia, A Voyage to_, i. 86.
_Academia delta Crusca_, i. 298, 443.
_Academy_, Mr. Doble's notes on the authorship of _The Whole Duty of Man_,
ii. 239, n. 4.
_Accommodate_, v. 310, n. 3.
_Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude_, i. 274, n. 2, 301,
303, n. 1; ii. 125, n. 4.
_Account of the late Revolution in Sweden_, iii. 284.
_Account of Scotland in 1702_, iii. 242.
ACCOUNT-KEEPING, iv. 177.
ACCURACY, requires immediate record, ii. 217, n. 4;
and vigilance, iv. 361;
needful in delineating absurdities, iv. 17;
Johnson's sayings not accurately reported, ii. 333.
See BOSWELL, authenticity.
ACHAM, v. 454, n. 2.
ACHILLES, shield of, iv. 33.
_Acid_, ii. 362.
_Acis and Galatea_, iii. 242, n. 2.
ACQUAINTANCE, should be varied, iv. 176;
making new, iv. 374.
ACTING, iv. 243-4; v. 38.
ACTION IN SPEAKING, ridiculed, i. 334;
useful only in addressing brutes, ii. 211.
ACTORS. See PLAYERS.
_Ad Lauram parituram Epigramma_, i. 157.
_Ad Ricardum Savage_, i. 162, n. 3.
_Ad Urbanum_, i. 113.
ADAM, Robert, _Works in Architecture_, iii. 161.
ADAMITES, ii. 251.
ADAMS, George, _Treatise on the Globes_, ii. 44.
ADAMS, John, the American envoy, ii. 40, n. 4.
ADAMS, Rev. William, D.D., Boswell, letter to, i. 8;
everlasting punishment, on, iv. 299;
Hume, answers, i. 8, n. 2; ii. 441; iv. 377, n. a;
dines with him, ii. 441;
Johnson awed by him, i. 74;
and Boswell visit him in 1776, ii. 441;
in June, 1784, iv. 285;
well-treated, iv. 311;
and Chesterfield, i. 265-6;
and Dr. Clarke, iv. 416, n. 2;
_Dictionary_, i. 186;
hypochondria, i. 483;
last visit, iv. 376;
nominal tutor, i. 79;
_Prayers and Meditations_, iv. 376, n. 4;
projected book of family prayers, 293;
and Dr. Price, iv. 434;
projected _Bibliotheque_, i. 284;
projected _Life of Alfred_, i. 177;
undergraduate days, i. 26, n. l, 57, 59, 73; ii. 441;
will, not mentioned, in, iv. 402, n. 2;
Master of Pembroke College, v. 455, n. 2;
rector of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, v. 455;
mentioned, i. 133, 134; v. 122, n. 2.
ADAMS, Mrs., iv. 285, 300.
ADAMS, Miss, defends women against Johnson, iv. 291;
describes him in letters, iv. 151, n. 2, 305, n. 1;
his death, iv. 376, n. 2;
his gallantry, iv. 292;
mentioned, iv. 285.
ADAMS, William, founder of Newport School, i. 132, n, 1.
ADAMS, the brothers, the architects, ii. 325.
ADBASTON, i. 132, n. 1.
ADDISON, Bonn's edition, iv. 190, n. 1;
borrows out of modesty, v. 92, n. 4;
Boswell's projected work, i. 225, n. 2;
Budgell's papers in the _Spectator_, iii. 46;
_Epilogue to The Distressed Mother_, ib.;
_Cato_, Dennis criticises it, iii. 40, n. 2;
Johnson, i. 199, n. 2;
Parson Adams praises it, i. 491, n. 3;
Prologue, i. 30, n. 2;
eight quotations added to the language, i. 199, n. 2;
quotations from it, 'Honour's a sacred tie,' v. 82;
'Indifferent in his choice,' iii. 68, n. 1;
The Numidian's luxury, iii. 282;
'obscurely good,' iv. 138, n. 1;
'Painful pre-eminence,' iii. 82, n. 2;
'the Romans call it Stoicism,' i. 333;
'Smothered in the dusty whirlwind,' v. 291;
'This must end 'em,' ii. 54, n. 2;
Christian religion, defence of the, v. 89, '2. 7;
conversation, ii. 256; iii. 339;
death of a piece with a man's life, v. 397, n. 1;
death-bed described by H. Walpole, v. 269, n. 2;
dedication of _Rosamond_, v. 376, n. 3;
encouraged a man in his absurdity, v. 243;
English historians, ii. 236, n. 2;
familiar day, his, iv. 91, n. 1;
_Freeholder_, i. 344, n. 4; ii. 61, n. 4, 319, n. 1;
Freeport, Sir Andrew, ii. 212; v. 328;
French learning, v. 310;
general knowledge in his time rare, iv. 217, n. 4;
ghosts, iv. 95;
Italian learning, ii. 346; v. 310;
Johnson praises him, i. 425;
judgment of the public, i. 200, n. 2;
Latin verses, i. 61, n. 1;
Leandro Alberti, ii. 346;
_Life_ by Johnson, iv. 52-4;
'mixed wit,' i. 179, n. 3;
Newton on space, v. 287, n. 1;
'nine-pence in ready money,' ii. 256;
_notanda_, i. 204;
party-lying, ii. 188, n. 2;
Pope's lines on him, ii. 85;
_procerity_, i. 308;
prose, iv. 5, n. 2;
_Remarks on Italy_, ii. 346; v. 310;
Socrates, projected tragedy on, v. 89, n. 7;
_Spectator_, his half of the, iii. 33;
dexterity rewarded by a king, iii. 231;
knotting, iii. 242, n. 3;
pamphleteer, iii. 319, n. 1;
portrait of a clergyman, iv. 76;
preacher in a country town, iv. 185, n. 1;
Sir Roger de Coverley's incipient madness, i. 63, n. 2; ii. 371;
death, ii. 370;
story of the widow, ii. 371;
Thames ribaldry, iv. 26;
_The Old Man's Wish_ sung to him, iv. 19, n. 1;
_Stavo bene_ &c., ii. 346;
Steele, loan to, iv. 52, 91;
style, i. 224, 225, n. 1;
Swift, compared with, v. 44;
wine, love of, i. 359; iii. 155; iv. 53, 398: v. 269, n. 2;
warm with wine when he wrote _Spectators_, iv. 91.
_Address of the Painters to George III_, i. 352.
_Address to the Throne_, i. 321.
ADDRESSES TO THE CROWN IN 1784, i. 311; iv. 265.
ADELPHI, built by the Adams, ii. 325, n, 3;
Beauclerk's 'box,' ii. 378, n. 1; iv. 99;
Boswell and Johnson at the rails, iv. 99;
Garrick's house, iv. 96.
ADEY, Miss, i. 38, 466; iii. 412; iv. 142.
ADEY, Mrs., ii. 388; iii. 393.
ADMIRATION, ii. 360.
ADOPTION, ancient mode of, i. 254.
_Adriani morientis ad animam suam_, iii. 420, n. 2.
ADULTERY, comparative guilt of a husband and wife, ii. 56; iii. 406;
confusion of property caused by it, ii. 55.
ADVENT-SUNDAY, ii. 288.
_Adventurer_, started by Hawkesworth, i. 234;
contributors, i. 252, n. 2, 253-4; v. 238;
Johnson's contributions, i. 252-5;
his love of London, i. 320;
papers marked T., i. 207.
_Adventures of a Guinea_, v. 275.
_Adversaria_, Johnson's, i. 205.
ADVERSARIES. See ANTAGONISTS.
_Advice to the Grub-Street Verse-Writers_, i. 143, n. 1.
ADVISERS, the common deficiency of, iii. 363.
_agri Ephemeris_, iv. 381.
AESCHYLUS, Darius's shade, iv. 16, n. 2;
Potter's translation, iii. 256.
_asop at Play_, iii. 191.
AFFAIRS, managing one's, iv. 87.
AFFECTATION, distress, of, iv. 71;
dying, in, v. 397;
familiarity with the great, of, iv. 62;
rant of a parent, iii. 149;
silence and talkativeness, iii. 261;
studied behaviour, i. 470;
bursts of admiration, iv. 27.
See SINGULARITY.
AFFECTION, descends, iii. 390;
natural, ii. 101; iv. 210;
AGAMEMNON, v. 79, 82, n. 4.
AGAR, Welbore Ellis, iii. 118, n. 3.
AGE, old. See OLD AGE.
AGE, present, better than previous ones, ii. 341, n. 3;
except in reverence for government, iii. 3;
and authority, iii. 262;
not worse, iv. 288;
querulous declamations against, iii. 226.
_Agis_, Home's, v. 204, n. 6.
_Agriculture, Memoirs of_, by R. Dossie, iv. 11.
AGUTTER, Rev. William, iv. 286, n. 3, 298, n. 2, 422.
AIKIN, Miss. See BARBAULD, Mrs.
AIR, new kinds of, iv. 237.
AIR-BATH, iii. 168.
AJACCIO, i. 119, n. 1.
AKENSIDE, Mark, M.D., Gray and Mason, superior to, iii. 32;
_Life_, by Johnson, iv. 56;
medicine, defence of, iii. 22, n, 4;
_Odes_, ii. 164;
_Pleasures of the Imagination_, i. 359; ii. 164;
Rolt's impudent claim, i. 359;
Townshend, friendship with, iii. 3.
AKERMAN,--, Keeper of Newgate, Boswell's esteemed friend, iii. 431;
courage at the Gordon riots, and at an earlier fire, ib.;
praised by Burke and Johnson, iii. 433;
profits of his office, iii. 431, n 1.
mentioned, iii. 145.
ALBEMARLE, Lord, _Memoirs of Rockingham_, iii. 460; v. 113, n. 1.
ALBERTI, LEANDRO, ii. 346; v. 310
_Albin and the Daughter of Mey_, v. 171.
ALCHYMY, ii. 376.
_Alciat's Emblems_, ii. 290. n. 4.
ALCIBIADES, his dog, iii. 231;
alluded to by William Scott, iii. 267.
ALDRICH, Dean, ii. 187, n. 3.
ALDRICH, Rev. S., i. 407, n. 3.
ALEPPO, iii. 369; iv. 22.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT, i. 250; ii. 194; iv. 274.
_Alexandreis_, iv. 181, n. 3.
ALFRED, _Life_, i. 177;
will, iv. 133, n. 2.
_Alias_, iv. 217.
ALKERINGTON, iv. 335, n. 1.
_All for Love_, iv. 114, n. 1.
ALLEN, Edmund, the printer, dinner at his house, i. 470;
Dodd, kindness to, iii. 141, 145;
Johnson's birth-day dinners, at, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. 135, n. 1,
239, n. 2;
imitated, iii. 269-270; iv. 92;
landlord and friend, iii. 141, 269;
letter from, iv. 228;
loan to, i. 5l2, n. 1;
pretended brother, exposes, v. 295;
grieves at his death, iv. 354, 360, 366, 369, 379.
_Marshall's Minutes of Agriculture_, iii. 313;
Smart's contract with Gardner, ii. 345;
mentioned, iii. 380.
ALLEN, Ralph, account of him, v. 80, n. 5;
Warburton married his niece, ii. 37, n. 1.
ALLEN, H., of Magdalen Hall, i. 336.
ALLEN, ----, i. 36, n. 2.
ALLESTREE, Richard, ii. 239, n. 4.
ALMACK'S, iii. 23, n. 1.
ALMANAC, history no better than an, ii. 366.
ALMON'S _Memoirs of John Wilkes_, i. 349, n. 1.
_Almost nothing_, ii. 446, n. 3; iii. 154, n. 1.
ALMS-GIVING, Fielding, condemned by, ii. 119, n. 4, 212, n. 2;
Johnson's practice, ii. 119; _ib. n._ 4;
money generally wasted, iv. 3;
better laid out in luxury, iii. 56;
Whigs, condemned by true, ii, 212.
ALNWICK CASTLE, Johnson, visited by, iii. 272, n. 3;
Pennant, described by, iii. 272-3;
mentioned, iv. 117, n. 1.
ALONSO THE WISE, ii. 238, n. 1.
ALTHORP, Lord (second Earl Spencer), iii. 424.
ALTHORP, Lord (third Earl Spencer), iii. 424, n. 4.
AMBASSADOR, a foreign, iii. 410;
Wotton's, Sir H., definition, ii. 170, n. 3.
AMBITION, iii. 39.
_Amelia. See_ FIELDING.
AMENDMENTS OF A SENTENCE, iv. 38.
AMERICA; Beresford, Mrs., an American lady, iv. 283;
Boston Port Bill, ii. 294, n. 1;
Burgoyne's surrender, iii. 355, n. 3;
Carolina library, i. 309, n. 2;
Chesapeak, iv. 140, n. 2.
City address to the King in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4;
Clinton, Sir Henry, iv. 140, n. 2;
Concord, iii. 314, n. 6;
Congress, ii. 312, 409, 479;
Constitutional Society, subscription raised by the, iii. 314, n. 6;
Convict settlements, ii. 312, n. 3;
Cornwallis's capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv. 140, n. 2;
discovery of, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479;
dominion lost, iv. 260, n. 2;
emigration to it an immersion in barbarism, v. 78:
See Emigration, and Scotland, emigration;
English opposition to the American war, iv. 81;
France, assistance from, iv. 21;
Franklin's letter to W. Strahan, iii. 364, n. 1:
See Dr. Franklin;
Georgia, i. 90, n. 3, 127, n. 4; v. 299;
Hume's opinion of the war, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 194, n. 1;
independence, chimerical, i. 309, n. 2;
influence on mankind, i. 309, n. 2;
Irish Protestants well-wishers to the rebellion, iii. 408, n. 4;
Johnson 'avoids the rebellious land,' iii. 435, n. 4;
feelings towards the Americans, ii. 478-480; iii. 200-1; iv. 283;
calls them a 'race of convicts,' ii. 312;
'wild rant,' ii. 315, n. 1; iii. 290;
abuse, 315;
parody of _Burke on American taxation_, iv. 318;
_Patriot_, ii. 286;
relicks of, in America, ii. 207;
_Taxation no Tyranny_, ii. 312;
Lee, Arthur, agent in England, iii. 68, n. 3;
Lexington, iii. 314, n. 6;
libels in 1784, i. 116, n. 1;
life in the wilds, ii. 228;
literature gaining ground, i. 309, n. 2;
Loudoun, Lord, General in America, v. 372, n. 3;
Mansfield, Lord, approves of burning their houses, iii. 429, n. 1;
Markham's, Archbishop, sermon, v. 36, n. 3;
money sent to the English army, iv. 104;
New England, iv. 358, n. 2; v. 317;
North's, Lord, conciliatory propositions, iii. 221;
objects for observation, i. 367;
peace, negotiations of, iv. 158, n. 4;
preliminary treaty of, iv. 282, n. 1;
Pennsylvania, ii. 207, n. 2;
Philadelphia, i. 309, n. 2; iii. 364, n. 1; iv. 212, n. 1;
planters, ii. 27;
population, growth of, ii. 314;
_Rasselas_, reprint of, ii. 207;
Saratoga, iii. 355, n. 3;
slavery, England guilty of, ii. 479;
Susquehannah, v. 317;
taxation by England, ii. 312; iii. 205-7, 221; iv. 259, n. 1;
Virginia, ii. 27, n. 1; 479;
war with America popular in Scotland, iv. 259, n. 1;
war with the French in 1756-7, i. 308, n. 2; ii. 479; iii. 9, n. 1;
Walpole, Horace, on the slaveholders, iii. 200, n. 4;
Wesley's _Calm Address_, v. 35, n. 3;
York Town, iv. 140, n. 2.
AMHERST, Lord, iii. 374, n. 3.
AMIENS, ii. 402, n. 2.
AMORY, Dr. Thomas, iii. 174, n. 3.
AMUSEMENTS,
key to character, iv. 316;
public, keep people from vice, ii. 169.
AMWELL, ii. 338.
AMYAT, Dr., i. 377, n. 2.
_Ana_, v. 311, n. 2, 414.
ANACREON,
Baxter's edition, iv. 163, 241, 265; v. 376;
mentioned, ii. 202.
ANAITIS, the Goddess, v. 218, 220, 224.
_Anatomy of Melancholy_, ii. 121.
ANCESTRY, ii. 153, 261.
ANCIENT TIMES worse than Modern, iv. 217.
ANCIENTS, not serious in religion, iii. 10.
ANDERDON, J. L., iii. 195, n. 1.
ANDERSON, John, _Nachrichten von Island_, iii. 279, n. 1.
ANDERSON, Professor, of Glasgow, iii. 119; v. 369, 370.
ANDREWS, Francis, i. 489.
_Anecdote_, ii. 11, n. 1.
ANECDOTES, Johnson's love of, ii. 11; v. 39.
_Anecdotes of distinguished persons_, iii. 123, n. 1.
_Anfractuosity_, iv. 4.
ANGEL, Captain, i. 349.
ANGELL, John, _Stenography_, ii. 224; iii. 270.
ANGER, unreasonable, but natural, ii. 377.
ANIMAL, noblest, v. 400.
ANIMAL SUBSTANCES, v. 216.
ANIMALS. See BRUTES.
_Animus Aequus_, not inheritable, v. 381.
_Animus irritandi_, iv. 130.
_Aningait and Ajut_, iv. 421, n. 2.
_Annals of Scotland_. See LORD HAILES.
ANNE, Queen,
'touches' Johnson, i. 42;
grant to the Synod of Argyle, iii. 133;
writers of her age, i. 425.
ANNIHILATION, Hume's principle, iii. 153;
worse than existence in pain, 295-6; v. 180.
ANNUAL REGISTER, Barnard's verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3.
ANONYMOUS WRITINGS, iii. 376.
ANSON, Lord, i. 117, n. 2; iii. 374.
ANSTEY, Christopher, _New Bath Guide_, i. 388, n. 3.
ANSTRUTHER, J., ii. 191, n. 2.
_Ant, The_, ii. 25.
ANTAGONISTS, how they should be treated, ii. 442; v. 29.
_Anthologia_, Johnson's translations, iv. 384.
_Anti-Artemonius_, i. 148, n. 1.
_Antigallican_, i. 320.
ANTIMOSAICAL REMARK, ii. 468.
_Antiquae Linguae: Britannicae Thesaurus_, i. 186, n. 3.
ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES, iii. 333, 414.
ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, iv. 436.
ANTIQUARIANS, iii. 278.
_Apartment_, ii. 398, n. 1.
APELLES'S VENUS, iv. 104.
APICIUS, ii. 447.
_Apocrypha_, ii. 189, n. 3.
_Apollonii pugna Belricia_, ii. 263.
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS, i. 289.
_Apophthegms of Johnson_, i. 190, n. 4; iv. 324.
APOSTOLICAL ORDINATION, ii. 103.
_Apotheosis of Milton_, i. 140.
APPARITIONS. See SPIRITS.
_Appeal to the publick_, etc. i. 140.
APPETITE, riding for an, i. 467, n. 2.
APPIUS, in the _Cato Major_, iv. 374.
APPLAUSE, iv. 32.
APPLE DUMPLINGS, ii. 132.
APPLEBY SCHOOL, in Leicestershire, i. 82, n. 2; 132, n. 1.
APPLICATION, to one thing more than another, v. 34-5.
APPREHENSIONS. See FANCIES.
ARABIC, iv. 28.
ARABS, v. 125.
ARBUTHNOT, Dr. John, _Dunciad_, annotations on the, iv. 306, n. 3;
_History of John Bull_, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4;
illustrious physician, an, ii. 372;
_Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus_, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4;
universal genius, i. 425; v. 29, n. 2;
superior to Swift in coarse humour, v. 44.
ARBUTHNOT, Robert, v. 29, 32.
_Archaeological Dictionary_, iv. 162.
ARCHBISHOP, Johnson's bow to an, iv. 198.
ARCHES, semicircular, and elliptical, i. 35l.
ARCHITECTURE, ornamental, ii. 439.
ARESKINE, Sir John, v. 293.
ARGENSON,--, ii. 391.
ARGONAUTS, i. 458.
ARGUING, good-humour in, iii. 11.
ARGUMENT, compared with testimony, iv. 281-2;
getting the better of people in one, ii. 474;
opponent, introducing one's, ii. 475.
ARGYLE, first Marquis of, v. 357, n. 3.
ARGYLE, ninth Earl of, v. 357, n. 3.
ARGYLE, tenth Earl (first Duke) of, v. 227, n. 4.
ARGYLE, John, second Duke of, _Beggar's Opera_, sees the, ii. 369, n. 1;
Elwall, challenged by, ii. 164, n. 5;
Walpole as sole minister, attacks, ii. 355, n. 2.
ARGYLE, Archibald, third Duke of,
librarian, neglects his, i. 187; a narrow man, v. 345;
Wilkes visits him, iii. 73.
ARGYLE, John, fifth Duke of, at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1;
Boswell calls on him, v. 353-4;
estates in Col. v. 293;
Tyr-yi, v. 312;
Iona, v. 335;
Gordon riots, rumour about him at the, iii. 430, n. 6;
Johnson dines with him, v. 355-9;
is provided by him with a horse, v. 359, 362;
corresponds with him, v. 363-4;
lawsuit with Sir A. Maclean, ii. 380, n. 4; iii. 101, 102.
ARGYLE, Duchess of (in 1752), i. 246.
ARGYLE, Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of, account of her, v. 353, n. 1;
at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1;
dislikes Boswell, v. 353;
slights him, v. 354, 358-9;
he drinks to her, v. 356;
Johnson undertakes to get her a book, v. 356, 363;
is 'all attention' to her, v. 359, 363;
calls her 'a Duchess with three tails', v. 359.
ARIAN HERESY, iv. 32.
ARIOSTO, i. 278; v. 368, n. 1.
ARISTOTLE, Barrow, quoted by, iv. 105, n. 4;
difference between the learned and unlearned, iv. 13;
friendship, on, iii. 386, n. 3;
Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2;
lying, on, ii. 221, n. 2;
purging of the passions, iii. 39.
ARITHMETIC, Johnson's fondness for it, i. 72; iv. 171, n. 3, 271;
principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2.
ARKWRIGHT, Richard, ii. 459, n. 1.
ARMORIAL BEARINGS, ii. 179.
ARMS, piling, iii. 355.
ARMSTRONG, Dr., iii. 117.
ARMY. See SOLDIERS.
ARNAULD, Antoine, iii. 347.
ARNE, Dr., v. 126, n. 5.
ARNOLD, Thomas, M.D., _Observations on Insanity_, iii. 175, n. 3.
ARRAN, Earl of, i. 281.
ARRIGHI, A., _Histoire de Pascal Paoli_, ii. 3, n. I; v. 51, n. 3.
_Art of Living in London_, i. 105, n. 1.
'ART'S CORRECTIVE,' v. 299.
ARTEMISIA, ii. 76.
ARTHRITICK TYRANNY, i. 179.
ARTICLES. See THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES.
ARTIFICIALLY, iii. 50, n. 4.
ARTISTS, Society of. See SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.
_Ascertain_, iii. 402, n. 2.
ASCHAM, Roger, bachelor's degree, takes his, i. 58, n. 3;
_Life_ by Johnson, i. 464;
quoted, i. 307, n. 2.
ASH, Dr., iv. 394, n. 4.
ASHBOURNE, church, iii. 180;
earthquake, iii. 136;
Green Man Inn, iii. 208;
Johnson's visits, iii. 451-3;
and the Thrales visit it in 1774, v. 430;
and Boswell in 1776, ii. 473-6;
in 1777, iii. 135-208;
school, ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138;
two convicts of the town hang themselves, iv. 359;
water-fall, iii. 190.
ASHBY, i. 36, n. 3, 79, n. 2.
ASHMOLE, Elias, iii. 172; iv. 97, n. 3.
ASIATIC SOCIETY, ii. 125, n. 4.
ASSENT, a debt or a favour, iv. 320.
ASSYRIANS, ii. 176; iii. 36.
ASTLE, Rev. Mr., iv. 311.
ASTLE, Thomas, letter from Johnson, iv. 133;
mentioned, i. 155; iv. 311.
ASTLEY, the equestrian, iii. 409.
ASTOCKE, i. 79, n. 1.
ASTON, Catherine (Hon. Mrs. Henry Hervey), i. 83, n. 4.
ASTON, Margaret (Mrs. Walmsley), i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466.
ASTON, Miss (Mrs.), ii. 466, 469; iii. 132, 211, 412, 414; iv. 145, n. 2.
ASTON, 'Molly' (Mrs. Brodie), account of her, i. 83; ii. 466;
interest of money, on the, iii. 340-1;
Johnson's epigram on her, i. 83, n. 3; 140, n. 4; iii. 341, n. 1;
her letters to, iii. 341, n. 1;
quoted by, iii. 341, n. 1;
Lyttelton, Lord, preference for, iv. 57.
ASTON, Sir Thomas, i. 83, 106, n. 1.
ASTON HALL, ii. 456, n. 2.
ATHEISM, v. 47.
_Athelstan_, ii. 131, n. 2.
_Athenoeum, The_, Boswell's letters of acceptance as Secretary of the
Royal Academy, iii. 370, n. 1;
mistake in Forster's _Goldsmith_, ii. 208, n. 5.
_Athenian Letters_, i. 45, n. 2.
ATHENIANS, barbarians, ii. 171;
brutes, 211.
ATHOL, Earl of, ii. 7;
family of, v. 234.
_Athol porridge_, iv. 78.
ATLANTIC, Johnson on the, v. 163.
ATONEMENT, The, v. 88.
ATTACKS ON AUTHORS;
attack is the reaction, ii. 335
better to be attacked than unnoticed, iii. 375 v. 273
part of a man's consequence, iv. 422
'fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 400
very rarely hurt an author, iii. 423
useful, in subjects of taste, v. 275
felt by authors, ib. n. 1
Addison, Hume, Swift, Young on them, ii. 61, n. 4
Bentley, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 274, n. 4;
Boerhaave, ii. 61, n. 4
Fielding, v. 275, n. 1
_Rambler, Vicar of Wakefield_, Hume, and Boileau, iii. 375, n. 1
Johnson's solitary reply to one, i. 314; ii. 61, ib. n. 4.
ATTERBURY, Bishop, elegance of his English, ii. 95, n. 2
_Funeral Sermon on Lady Cutts_, ii. 228
_Sermons_, iii. 247
mentioned, i. 157.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL, _Diabolus Regis_, iii. 78.
ATTORNEYS converted into Solicitors, iv. 128, n. 3
Johnson's hits at them, ii. 126, ib. n. 4; iv. 313.
AUCHINLECK, Lord, account of him, v. 375-6, 382, n. 2
Baxter's _Anacreon_, collated, iv. 241
attentive to remotest relations, v. 131
Boswell's ignorance of law, ii. 21, n. 4; v. 108, n. 2
Boswell, his disposition towards: See BOSWELL, father
contentment, iii. 241; v. 381
death, iv. 154
'in a place where there is no room for Whiggism,' v. 385
described in a _Hypochondriack_, i. 426, n. 3
Douglas Cause, ii. 50, n. 4
entails his estate in perpetuity, ii. 413-4
Gillespie, Dr., _honorarium_ to, iv. 262
heirs general, preference for, ii. 414-5
calls Johnson a dominie, i. 96, n. 1; v. 382, n. 2
a Jacobite fellow, v. 376
_Ursa Major_, v. 384
a brute, ii. 381, n. 1; v. 384, n. 1
proposes to send him the _Lives_, iii. 372
visits him, v. 375-385
three topics in which they differ, v. 376
contest, v. 382-4
polite parting, v. 385
Knight the negro's case, iii. 216
Laird of Lochbury, trial of the, v. 343
loves labour, ii. 99;
planter of trees, iii. 103; v. 380
respected, v. 91, 131, 135
second wife, ii. 140, n. 1; v. 375, n. 4;
Boswell on ill terms with her, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 80, n. 2
tenderness, want of, iii. 182
windows broken by a mob, v. 353, n. 1
mentioned, ii. 4, 206, 290, 291; iii. 129.
AUCHINLECK PLACE. See SCOTLAND, Auchinleck.
AUCTIONEERS, long pole at their door, ii. 349.
AUGUSTAN AGE, flattery, ii. 234.
AUGUSTUS, ii. 234, 470.
AULUS GELLIUS, v. 232.
AUSONIUS, i. 184; ii. 35, n. 5; iii. 263, n. 3.
AUSTEN, Miss, _Pride and Prejudice_, iii. 299, n. 2.
AUSTERITIES, religious. See MONASTERY.
AUSTRIA, House of, epigram on it, v. 233.
AUTEROCHE, Chappe d', iii. 340.
AUTHOR, an, of considerable eminence, iv. 323
one of restless vanity, iv. 319
who married a printer's devil, iv. 99
who was a voluminous rascal, ii. 109.
AUTHORITY,
from personal respect, ii. 443
lessened, iii. 262.
AUTHORS,
attacks on them; See ATTACKS;
best part of them in their books, i. 450, n. 1;
chief glory of a people from them, i. 297, n. 3; ii. 125;
complaints of, iv. 172;
contrast between their life and writings, ii. 257, n. 1;
consolation in their hours of gloom, ii. 69, n. 3;
dread of them, i. 450, n. 1;
eminent men need not turn authors, iii. 182;
fit subjects for biography, iv. 98, n. 4;
flatter the age, v. 59;
hunted with a cannister at their tail, iii. 320;
Johnson consulted by them
'a man who wrote verses,' ii. 51;
Colley Cibber, ii. 92;
'a lank and reverend bard,' iii. 373'
Crabbe, iv. 121, n. 4;
a tragedy-writer, iv. 244, n. 2;
young Mr. Tytler, v. 402;
advises to print boldly, ii. 195;
advice very difficult to give, iii. 320;
willing to assist them, iii. 373, n. 1; iv. 121; v. 402;
put to the torture, ib.
_Project for the employment of Authors_, i. 306, n. 3;
wonders at their number, v. 59;
judgment of their own works, i. 192, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 2;
language characteristical, iv. 315;
lie, whether ever allowed to, iv. 305-6;
modern, the moons of literature, iii. 333;
obscure ones, i. 307, n. 2;
patrons, iv. 172;
patronage done with, v. 59;
payments received:
_Adventurer_, two guineas a paper, i. 253;
Baretti, translation of some of Reynolds's _Discourses_ into Italian,
twenty-five guineas, iii. 96;
Blair, _Sermons_, vol. i, L200, vol. ii. L300, vol. iii. L600, iii. 98;
Boswell, _Corsica_, 100 guineas, ii. 46, n. 1;
_Critical Review_, two guineas a sheet, iv. 214, n. 2;
_Monthly_, sometimes four guineas, ib.;
Fielding, _Tom Jones_, L700, i. 287, n. 3;
Goldsmith, _Vicar of Wakefield_, L60, i. 415;
_Traveller_, L21, ib., n. 2;
Hawkesworth, L6000 for editing _Cook's Voyages_, i. 341, n. 4;
Hill, Sir John, fifteen guineas a week, ii. 38, n. 2;
Hooke, L5000 for the Duchess of Marlborough's _Apology_, v. 175, n. 3;
Johnson: See JOHNSON, payments for his writings;
payment by line, i. 193, n. 1;
Piozzi, Mrs., for Johnson's Letters, L500, ii. 43, n. 1;
Robertson offered L500 for one edition of his _History of Scotland_,
iii. 334, n. 2;
L6000 made by the publishers; offered 3000 guineas for _Charles V_,
ii. 63, n. 2;
Sacheverell, L100 for a sermon, i. 39, n. 1;
Shebbeare six guineas for a sheet for reviews, iv. 214;
Savage, _Wanderer_, ten guineas, i. 124, n. 4;
Whitehead, Paul, ten guineas for a poem, i. 124;
pleasure in writing for the journals, v. 59, n. 2;
privateers, like, iv. 191, n. 1;
private life, in, i. 393;
public, the, their judges, i. 200;
putting into a book as much as a book will hold, ii. 237;
regard for their first magazine, i. 112;
reluctance to write their own lives, i. 25, n. 1;
respect due to them, iii. 310; iv. 114;
sale of their works to the booksellers, iii. 333-4;
styles, distinguished by their, iii. 280;
treatment by managers of theatres, i. 196, n. 2;
writing for profit, iii. 162;
on subjects in which they have not practised, ii. 430.
_Authors by Profession_, i. 116.
AVARICE, despised not hated, iii. 71
not inherent, iii. 322.
AVENUES, v. 439.
AVERROES, i. 188, n. 4.
AVIGNON, iii. 446.
AYLESBURY, Lady, iii. 429, n. 3.
B.
B--D, Mr., Johnson's letter to, ii, 207.
BABY, Johnson as nurse to one newborn, ii. 100.
BABYLON, i. 250.
BACH, ii. 364, n. 3.
BACON, Francis, _Advancement of Learning_, i. 34, n. 1;
argument and testimony, on, iv. 281;
conversation, precept for, iv. 236;
death, the stroke of, ii. 107, n. 1;
delight in superiority natural, iv. 164, n. 1;
_Essays_ estimated by Burke and Johnson, iii. 194, n. 1;
_Essay of Truth_ quoted, iv. 221, n. 3;
_Essay on Vicissitude_, v. 117, n. 4;
healthy old man like a tower undermined, iv. 277;
_History of Henry VII._, v. 220;
introduction of new doctrines, on the, iii. 11, n. 1;
Johnson intends to edit his works, iii. 194;
'Kings desire the end, but not the means,' v. 232, n. 4;
_Life_ by Mallet, iii. 194;
'roughness breedeth hate,' iv. 168, n. 2;
Sanquhar's trial, v. 103, n. 2;
style, i. 219;
Turks, their want of _Stirpes_, ii. 421;
'who then to frail mortality,' &c., v. 89;
mentioned, i. 431, n. 2; ii. 53, n. 2, 158.
BACON, John, R.A., Johnson's monument, iv. 424, 444.
BADCOCK, Rev. Samuel, anecdotes of Johnson, iv. 407, n. 4;
White's _Bampton Lectures_, iv. 443, n. 5.
BADENOCH, Lord of, v. 114.
BAGSHAW, Rev. Thomas, Johnson's letters to him, ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 351.
BAILEY, Nathan, v. 419.
BAILY, Hetty, iv. 143.
BAKER, Sir George, iv. 165, n. 3, 355.
BAKER, ----, an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2.
BAKER, Mrs., ii. 31.
_Bakers Biographia Dramatica_, iv. 37, n. 1.
_Baker's Chronicle_, v. 12.
BALDWIN, Henry, the printer, i. 10, 15; ii. 34, n. 1; iv. 321; v. 1, n. 5.
BALFOUR, John, v. 39, n. 2.
BALIOL, John, v. 204.
BALLADS, modern imitations ridiculed, ii. 212.
BALLANTYNE, Messrs., v. 253, n. 3.
BALLINACRAZY, a young man of, iii. 252.
BALLOONS, account of them, iv. 356, n. 1;
failure of one, iv. 355-6;
first ascent, iv. 357, n. 3;
mere amusement, iv. 358;
one burnt, ib.;
paying for seats, iv. 359;
wings, ib.;
'do not write about the balloon,' iv. 368;
at Oxford, iv. 378.
BALLOW, Henry, a lawyer, iii. 22.
BALMERINO, Lord, i. 180; v. 406, n. 3.
BALMUTO, Lord, v. 70, n. 1.
BALTIC, Johnson's projected tour, ii. 288, n. 3; iii. 134, 454.
BALTIMORE, Lord, iii. 9, n. 4.
BAMBALOES, v. 55, n. 1.
BANCROFT, Bishop, i. 59.
BANKS, Sir Joseph,
admires Johnson's description of Iona, iii. 173, n, 3; v. 334 n. 1;
letter to him, and motto for his goat, ii. 144;
funeral, at, iv. 419;
Literary Club, i. 479; iii. 365, 368;
proposed expedition, ii. 147, 148; iii. 454;
accompanies Captain Cook, v. 328, n. 2, 392, n. 6;
account of Otaheite, v. 246.
BANKS, ----, of Dorsetshire, i. 145.
BAPTISM, by immersion, i. 91, n. 1;
sprinkling, iv. 289;
Barclay's _Apology_ on it, ii. 458.
BAR. See LAW _and_ LAWYERS.
BARBADOES, iv. 332.
_Barbarossa_, ii. 131, n. 2.
BARBAROUS SOCIETY, i. 393.
BARBAULD, Mrs., Boswell, lines on, ii. 4, n. 1;
_Eighteen hundred and Eleven_, ii. 408, n. 3;
genius and learning, on the want of respect to, iv. 117, n. 1;
Johnson's style, imitation of, iii. 172;
_Lessons for Children_, ii. 408, n. 3; iv. 8, n. 3;
marriage and school, ii. 408;
pupils, ib., n. 3;
Priestley, lines, on, iv. 434;
Richardson not sought by 'the great,' iv. 117, n. 1.
BARBER, Francis, account of him, i. 239, n. 1;
Johnson's bequest to him, ii. 136, n. 2; iv. 284, 401, 402, n. 2, 440;
death-bed, iv. 415, n. 1, 418;
devotion to, iv. 370, n. 5;
_Diary_, has fragments of, i. 27; iv. 405, n. 2; v. 427, n. 1;
letters from: see JOHNSON, letters;
prays with him, iv. 139;
instructs him in religion, ii. 359; iv. 417;
recommends him to Windham, iv. 401, n. 4;
sends him to school, ii. 62, 115, 146;
state after his wife's death, describes, i. 241;
Langton, visits, i. 476, n. 1;
Lichfield, retires to, iv. 402, n. 2;
sea, at, i. 348;
returns to service, i. 350;
mentioned, i. 235, 237; ii. 5, 214, 282, 376, 386; iii. 22, 44, 68,
92, 207, 222, 371, 400; iv. 142, 283; v. 53.
BARBER, Mrs. Francis, i. 237; v. 427, n. 1.
BARBEYRAC, i. 285.
BARCLAY, Alexander, i. 277.
BARCLAY, James, an Oxford student, i. 498; v. 273.
BARCLAY, Robert, of Ury, ancestor of Barclay the brewer, iv. 118, n. 1;
_Apology for the Quakers_, in Paoli's library, ii. 61, n. 3;
on infant baptism, ii. 458.
BARCLAY, Robert, the brewer, account of him, iv. 118, n. i;
anecdote of Boswell's tablets, i. 6, n. 2;
buys Thrale's brewery, iv. 86, n. 2;
holds money of Johnson's, iv. 402, n. 2.
BARD, a reverend, iii. 374.
BARETTI, Joseph, account of him, i. 302; iii. 96, n. 1;
Barber's devotion to Johnson, describes, iv. 370, n. 5;
Boswell, dislikes, ii. 97, n. 1; v. 121;
calls not quite right-headed, iii. 135, n. 2;
_Carmen Sectilare_, adapts the, iii. 373;
character by Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 57, n. 3;
at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1;
by Miss Burney and Malone, iii. 96, n. 1;
conversation, ii. 57;
copy-money in Italy, on, iii. 162;
Davies, quarrel with, ii. 205;
_Dialogues_, ii. 449;
ducking-stool, describes a, iii. 287, n. 1;
_Easy Lessons in Italian and English_, ii. 290;
English love of melted butter and roast veal, i. 470, n. 2;
fees in England, on, v. 90, n. 2;
Foote's conversations, describes, iii. 185, n. 1;
'French not a cheerful race,' ii. 402, n. 1;
French prisoners, i. 353, n. 2;
foreigners in London, i. 353, n. 2;
_Frusta Letteraria_, iii. 173;
hatred of mankind, ii. 8;
infidelity, ii. 8;
_Italian and English Dictionary_, i, 353;
Italy, revisits, i. 361; ii. 8, n. 3;
_Italy, account of the Manners and Customs of_, ii. 57;
Johnson, calls him a bear, ii. 66;
charity, i. 302, n. 1;
and Mr. Cholmondeley, iv. 345, n. 6;
delight in old acquaintance, iv. 374, n. 4;
in France, ii. 401, n. 3;
habit of musing, v. 73, n. 1;
ignorance of character, v. 17, n. 2;
letters from, i. 361, 369, 380;
memory, iii. 3l8, n. 1; v. 368, n. 1;
payment for _Rasselas_, i. 341, n. 3;
prejudice against foreigners, iv. 15, n. 3;
and 'Presto's supper,' iv. 347;
and Mrs. Salusbury, ii. 263, n. 6;
trade was wisdom, iii. 137, n. 1;
verse-making, ii. 15, n. 4;
want of toleration, ii. 252, n. 1;
want of observation, iii. 423, n. 1;
_Journey from London to Genoa,_ i. 361, n. 3, 365, n. 2;
languages, knowledge of, i. 361-2; ii. 386;
London, love of, i. 371, n. 5;
Madrid in 1760, v. 23, n. 1;
_Misella's story,_ i. 223, n. 2;
Newgate, in, ii. 97, n. 1;
_Pater Noster_, ignorance about the, v. 121, n. 4;
Piozzi, Mrs., attacked by, iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1;
his brutal attack on her, iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1;
portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
_Rasselas_, translates, ii. 208, n. 2;
Reynolds's _Discourses_, translates, iii. 96;
robbers, never met any, iii. 239, n. 1;
Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the, ii. 97, n. 1;
_Spectator_, effect of reading a, iv. 32;
Thrales, projected tour to Italy with the, iii. 19, 27, n. 3,97, n. 1;
accompanies them to Bath, iii. 6;
hopes for an annuity from them, iii. 96, n. 1;
money payments from them, ib., 97;
quarrels with them, iii. 96;
apparent reconciliation, ib., n. 1;
Thrale's, Mr., grief for his son's death, describes, iii. 18;
his appetite, iii. 423, n. 1;
Thrale, Mrs., flatters, iii. 49, n. 1;
mentions her echo of Johnson's 'beastly kind of wit,' ii. 349, n. 5;
_Tolondron_, iv. 370, n. 5;
_Travels through Spain_, i. 382, n. 2;
tried for murder, ii. 94, 96-8;
consultation for the defence, iv. 324;
Williams, Mrs., describes, ii. 99, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 260, 274, 278, 336.
BARKER'S Bible, v. 444.
BARNARD, Rev. Dr., Dean of Derry, afterwards Bishop of Killaloe, arbitrary
power, in favour of, iii. 84, n. 1;
Johnson's charade on him, iv. 195;
double-edged wit, ii. 307;
draws up a Round-Robin to, iii. 84;
and Garrick coming up to London, i. 101, n. 1;
regard for him, iv. 115;
writes verses on, iv. 115, n. 4, 431-3;
kept his countenance, iv. 99;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
presents it with a hogshead of claret, iii. 238;
Twalmley and Virgil, iv. 193;
Wilkes, sarcasm on, iv. 107, n. 2.
BARNARD, Dr. (Provost of Eton), account of him, iii. 426, n. 1;
Johnson at Mr. Vesey's, meets, iii. 425-6, ib., n. 4;
breeding, does justice to, iii. 54, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 449, n. 2.
BARNARD, Francis, King's librarian, ii. 33, 40;
Johnson's letter to him, 33. n. 4.
BARNARD, Sir John, i. 503.
BARNES, Joshua, attacked by Baxter, W., v. 376;
dedication to the Duke of Marlborough, v. 376, n. 3;
Greek, knowledge of, iv. 19;
Homer and Solomon identified, iv. 19, n. 2;
Maccaronic verses, iii. 284.
BARNET, iii. 4; v. 428.
BARNEWALL, Nicholas, iii. 227, n. 3.
BARNSTON, Miss Letitia, iii. 413, n. 3.
BARON, 'the Baron and the Barrister united,' iii. 16, n. 1.
BARONET, story of a, v. 353.
BARONETS, _regular_, v. 322, n. 1.
BARRET, William, the Bristol surgeon, iii. 50.
BARRETIER, Philip, education, his, ii. 407, n. 5;
Johnson, resemblance to, i. 71, n. 1;
_Life_, by Johnson, i. 148, 149, n. 3;
_Additions to the Life_, i. 153; republished, i. 161.
BARRINGTON, Hon. Daines, _Essay on the Migration of Birds_, ii. 248;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 436;
Johnson seeks his acquaintance, iii. 314;
Observations on the Statutes, iii. 314;
mentioned, iv. 112.
BARRINGTON, Lord, v. 77, n. 2.
BARRISTERS. See LAWYERS.
BARROW, Dr., iv. 105, n. 4.
BARROWBY, Dr., iv. 292.
BARRY, Sir Edward, M.D., _System of Physic_, iii. 34.
BARRY, James, the painter,--Burke, William, letter from, ii. 16, n. 1;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 436;
French with the Irish, contrasts the, ii. 402, n. 1;
Johnson, compliments, iv. 224, n. 1;
letter from, iv. 202;
praises his pictures, iv. 224;
Reynolds, quarrels with, iv. 436;
women, on the employment of, ii. 362, n. 1.
BARRY, Spranger, the actor, i. 196, n. 3, 197; ii. 349, n. 6.
BARTER,--, a miller, ii. 164.
BARTOLOZZI, Francis, iii. 111; iv. 421, n. 2.
BARTON in Yorkshire, i. 239, n. 1.
BARTON, Mr. A. T., Fellow of Pembroke College, v. 117, n. 4.
_Bas Bleu_, iii. 293, n. 5; iv. 108.
BASKERVILLE, John, _Barclay's Apology_, edition of, ii. 458;
_Virgil_, ii. 67.
_Bastard, The_, i. 166.
BASTIA, i. 119, n. 1; ii. 4, n. 1.
BAT, formation of the, iii. 342.
BATE, Rev. Henry (Sir H. Dudley), account of him, iv. 296.
BATE, James, i. 79, n. 2.
BATEMAN, Edmund, tutor of Christ Church, i. 76.
BATH, account of it, iii. 45, n. 1.
Boswell and Johnson visit it in 1776, iii. 6;
epigram on a religious dispute held there, iv. 289, n. 1;
Goldsmith visits it, ii. 136;
Gordon Riots, suffers from the, iii. 428, n. 4, 435, n. 1;
Harington, Dr., iv. 180;
'King of Bath,' i. 394, n. 2, 455;
lectures, i. 394, n. 2; ii. 7, n. 4;
Miller, Lady, ii. 336;
musical lessons, price of, iii. 422;
Paoli visits it, v. 1, n. 3;
smoking in the rooms, v. 60, n. 2;
Thrale family visits it in 1776, iii. 6;
in 1780, iii. 421;
Mrs. Piozzi in 1816, v. 427, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 441; iv. 140.
BATH, William Pulteney, Earl of, his oratory, i. 152;
a paltry fellow, v. 339;
'Pulnub' and 'Hon. Marcus Cato,' i. 502;
Williams's, Sir C. H., lines on him, v. 268, n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 239.
BATHEASTON VILLA, ii. 336.
BATHIANI, ii. 390.
BATHS, cold, i. 91, n. 1;
medicated, ii. 99.
BATHURST, Colonel, i. 239, n. 1.
BATHURST, Dr., account of him, i. 190, 242, n. 1;
_Adventurer_, wrote for the, i. 234, 252, 254;
Barber, F., his father's slave, i. 239, n. 1;
company of a new person, on the, iv. 33;
death, i. 242, n. 1, 382;
'hater, a very good,' i. 190, n. 2;
Johnson, letters to, i. 242, n. 1;
'recommended' by, i. 240, n. 5;
medical practice, i. 242, n. 1;
on slavery, iv. 28;
mentioned, i. 183.
BATHURST, first Earl,
Pope's friend, iii. 347; iv. 50;
account of Pope's _Essay on Man_, iii. 402-3;
speeches, i. 151, 509.
BATHURST, second Earl, Lord Chancellor; Dodd, Dr., attempts to bribe him,
iii. 139, n. 3;
writes to him, iii. 142.
BATHURST, Lady, iii. 139, n. 3.
BATHURST, Ralph, verses to Hobbes, iv. 402, n. 2.
_Batrachomyomachia_, v. 459.
BATRACHUS, iv. 445.
BATTIE, Dr., iv. 161, n. 4.
BATTISTA ANGELONI (Dr. Shebbeare), iv. 113.
BATTLES, fighting, for a man, ii. 474.
BATTOLOGIA, v. 444.
_Baudius on Erasmus_, v. 444.
_Baviad and Maeviad_, iii. 16, n. 1.
BAXTER, Andrew, v. 81, n. 1.
BAXTER, Rev. Richard, _Call to the Unconverted_, iv. 257;
Johnson praises all his books, iv. 226;
Kidderminster, sermon at, iv. 226, n. 2;
_Reasons of the Christian Religion_, iv. 237;
rule of preaching, iv. 185;
scruple, troubled by a, ii. 477;
suicide, on the salvation of a, iv. 225;
toleration, on, ii. 253;
mentioned, i. 205; v. 89.
BAXTER, William, _Anacreon_. See ANACREON.
Barnes, the antagonist of, v. 376;
_Horace_, edition of, iii. 74, n. 1.
'BAYES,' character of, ii. 168; iii. 373.
BAYLE, confutation of him by Leibnitz, v. 287;
his _Dictionary_, i. 425;
_Life_, by Des Maizeaux, i. 29, n. 1;
Menage, his account of, iv. 428, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 285.
BEACH, Thomas, ii. 240, n. 4.
BEACONSFIELD, Johnson visits it in 1774, ii. 285, n. 3; v. 460;
Mackintosh visits it in 1793, iv. 316, n. 1.
BEAR., See JOHNSON, bear.
BEAR-GARDEN 'Bruisers,' i. 111, n. 2.
BEARCROFT,--, a barrister, iii. 389, n. 4.
BEATON, Cardinal, v. 63.
BEATON, Rev. Mr., v. 227.
BEATTIE, Dr. James,
complains of Boswell, v. 96, n. 2;
correspondence with him, ii. 148, n. 2; v. 15-16;
Burns, praised by, v. 273, n. 4;
'caressed by the great,' ii. 264;
conversation, iii. 339, n. 1; iv. 323, n. 2;
English, describes a Scotchman's study of, i. 439, n. 2;
English and Scotch universities compared, v. 85, n. 2;
_Essay on Truth_, editions and translations, ii. 201, n. 3;
a thing of the past, v. 273, n. 4;
Goldsmith's opinion of it, ii. 201, n. 3; v. 273, n. 4;
Johnson's opinion of it, ii. 201, 203; v. 29;
Forbes, _Life_ by, v. 25, n. 1;
Gray, visited by, v. 16;
hackney coaches, No. 1 and No. 1000, sees, iv. 330;
_Hermit_, iv. 186;
Hume, controversy with: See above, _Essay on Truth_;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3;
gentler manner, speaks of, iv. 101, n. 1;
letter from, iii. 434;
praise of Hannah More, iii. 293, n. 5;
regard for him, ii. 148, 149;
his love of--, iii. 435, n. 1;
use of wine, i. 103, n. 3;
visits, ii. 141, n. 3, 142, 145, 203; v. 16;
Monboddo's hatred of Johnson, iv. 273, n. 1;
_Ode on Lord Hay_, v. 105;
_original principles_, his, i. 471;
Oxford degree of D.C.L., ii. 267, n. 1; v. 90, n. 1, 273, n. 4;
pension, ii. 264, n. 2; v. 90, n. 1, 360;
Professor at Aberdeen, ii. 141, 145; v. 15;
Reynolds's allegorical picture of him, v. 90, n. 1, 273, n. 4;
Robertson, compared with, ii. 195, n. 1;
Thrale's bequest to Johnson, on, iv. 86, n. 1;
Warburton and Strahan, anecdote of, v. 92, n. 3;
Wilkes, meets, iv. 101;
wine, indulges in, iv. 330, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1, 205, 259, 265-6; iii. 82, 123; iv. 332.
BEATTIE, Mrs., ii. 145, 148.
BEAUCLERK, Hon. Topham,
account of him by Boswell and Johnson, i. 248 250;
Burke, ii. 246, n. 1;
Johnson, iii. 420, 424;
Langton, ib.;
absent-minded, i. 249, n. 1;
Adelphi, 'box' at the, ii. 378, n. 1;
Addison's _Remarks on Italy_, ii. 346;
adultery, his, with Lady Bolingbroke whom he afterwards married,
ii. 246; iii. 349; v. 303;
Baretti and Johnson's projected Italian tour, iii. 19;
Baretti's trial, ii. 97, n. 1, 98;
'Beau,' name of, ii. 258;
'_bear_, like a word in a catch,' ii. 347;
Boswell an unnatural Scotchman, calls, iii. 388;
zealous for his election to the Literary Club, ii. 235; v. 76;
Charles II, descended from, i. 248; iii. 390, n. 1;
chemistry, love of, i. 250;
children, his, iii. 420;
conversation, i. 248; iii. 390, 425; iv. 433; v. 76;
little affected by his travels, iii. 352, 449, 458;
Cumberland's _Odes_, iii. 43, n. 3;
Davies, Tom, clapping a man on the back, ii. 344;
death, iii. 420, 424;
dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 235. 325, 378, n. 1; iii. 354, 387;
facility, wonderful, iii. 425;
'frisk,' his, i. 250;
gambling at Venice, i. 381, n. 1;
gaming-club, account of a, iii. 23;
Garrick's portrait, inscription on, iv. 96;
Goldsmith and Malagrida, iv. 175, n. 1;
health, his, ii. 292, 311; iii. 104, 417;
Italy, tour to, i. 369, 381;
Johnson, first acquaintance with, i. 248;
accompanies to Cambridge, i. 487;
affection for him, iv. 10, 99, 180;
altercations with, iii. 281, 384;
reconciliation, iii. 385;
and Mme. de Boufflers, ii. 405;
'coalition' with, i. 249;
dress as a dramatic author, i. 200, n. 4:
and Thomas Hervey, ii. 32;
and a Mr. Hervey, iii. 194-6, 209-211;
Jacobitism, i. 430;
levee, attends, ii. 118;
marriage, i. 96;
pension, saying about, i. 250;
portrait, inscription on, iv. 180;
and the two dogs, ii. 299; v. 329;
use of orange peel, ii. 330;
visits him at Windsor, i. 250;
Johnson's Court, veneration for, ii. 229;
laboratory, his, ii. 378, n. 1;
library, his, ii. 378, n. 1;
sold, iii. 420, n. 4; iv. 105;
sermons in it, ib.;
_Lilliburlero_, effect of, ii. 347;
Literary Club, original member of the, i. 477, 478, n. 2;
describes it, ii. 192, n. 2, 274, n. 3;
manner, his, acid, ii. 362, n. 2;
lively, ii. 405; iii. 390;
Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, could not read, v. 245;
mother, his, iii. 420; v. 295;
Muswell Hill, house at, ii. 378, n. 1;
Pope's lines on Foster, mentioned, iv. 9;
predominance over his company, iii. 390;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
same one day as another, iii. 192;
satire, love of, i. 249; 'see him again,' iv. 197;
Smith's, Adam, talk, iv. 24, n. 2;
Spence's _Anecdotes of Pope_, iv. 9;
story, mode of telling a, iii. 390;
Thrale, Mrs., hated by, i. 249, n. 1;
truthfulness, his, v. 329, n. 1;
wife, treatment of his, ii. 246, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 357; ii. 318, 379; iii. 209, n. 3; iv. 27, 33, n. 3, 76,
113; v. 103, 215.
BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana, wife of Topham Beauclerk,
account of her, ii. 246, n. 1;
Boswell's 'apology' for her, ii. 246;
bet with her, ii. 330;
charming conversation, ii. 240;
Langton's height, joke about, i. 336, n. 5;
gives him Johnson's portrait, iv. 96;
nurses her husband with assiduity; ii. 292;
left guardian of his children, iii. 420.
BEAUCLERK, Lord Sidney, Topham Beauclerk's father, i. 248, n. 2.
BEAUCLERK, Lady Sydney, v. 295.
BEAUFORT, Duchess of (in 1780), iii. 425.
BEAUMONT, Francis, i. 75, n. 3.
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, co-operation, their literary, ii. 334;
Garrick's adaptation of _The Chances_, ii. 233, n. 4;
Seward's edition of their plays, ii. 467.
_Beauties of Johnson_, iv. 148-151, 421, n. 2.
_Beauties of the Rambler_, i. 214.
BEAUTY, independent of utility, ii. 166; iv. 167.
BEAUX STRATAGEM, Archer quoted, v. 133, n. 1;
acted by Garrick, iii. 52;
Boniface praises his ale, ii. 461;
is done good to by Latin, iii. 89, n. 2;
Scrub, iii. 70.
BECKENHAM, iv. 313.
BECKET, T., the bookseller, ii. 294.
BECKFORD, Alderman, account of him, iii. 76, n. 2;
Chatterton's gain by his death, iii. 201, n. 3;
his English, iii. 76, 201;
Lord Mayor, iii. 459;
monument in Guildhall, iii. 201.
BEDFORD, iv. 132.
BEDFORD, fourth Duke of,
attack on the ministry in 1766, iv. 316;
vails, tries to abolish, ii. 78, n. 1;
vice-roy in Ireland, ii. 130, n. 3.
BEDFORD, fifth Duke of, iii. 284; iv. 126.
BEDFORD, Hilkiah, iv. 286, n. 3.
BEDFORDSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 399.
BEDLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 374;
curiosities of London, one of the, ii. 374, n. 1;
houses built near it, iv. 208.
BEER, allowance of, to servants and soldiers, iii. 9, n. 4.
_Beggar's Opera. See_ GAY, John.
BEGGARS, beg more readily from men than women, iv. 32;
English compared with Scotch, v. 75, n. 1;
many in want of work, iii. 401;
their trade overstocked, iii. 401;
mentioned, iii. 26. See ALMSGIVING.
BEHMEN, Jacob, ii. 122.
BELCHIER, John, the surgeon, iii. 57.
BELGRADE, Siege of, ii. 181.
BELIEF, attacks on it, iii. it; v. 288, n. 3.
BELL, Dr., iv. 1, n. 1.
BELL, Rev. Dr., ii. 204, n. 1.
BELL, Rev. Mr., of Strathaven, iii. 360.
BELL, Mrs., Johnson's epitaph on her, ii. 204, n. 1.
BELL, John, _Travels_, ii. 55.
BELL, John, the bookseller, _Lives of the Poets_, ii. 453, n. 2; iii. 110.
BELLAMY, Mrs., acts in Dodsley's _Cleone_, i. 325, n. 3, 326;
Johnson, letter to, iv. 244, n. 2.
BELLEISLE, iii. 343, n. 2.
BELLEISLE, The, a man-of-war, i. 378, n. 1.
_Bellerophon_, i. 277, n. 4.
BELSHAM, William, _Essay on Dramatic Poetry_, i. 389, n. 2.
BEMBRIDGE,--, iv. 223, n. 3.
BENEDICTINES. See PARIS, BENEDICTINES.
_Benefit, free_, v. 243.
BENEVOLENCE, motive to action, iii. 48: mingled with vanity, ib.
BENEVOLISTS, The, iii. 149, n. 2.
BENGAL, iii. 134, n. 1, 233, 455.
BENNET, James, editor of Ascham's _Works_, i. 464.
BENSLEY, Robert, the actor, ii. 45.
BENSON, William, his monument to Milton, i. 227, n. 4; v. 95, n. 2.
BENTHAM, Dr. E., ii. 445.
BENTHAM, Jeremy, on convict-labour, iii. 268, n. 4;
Shelburne's, Lord, wretched education, iii. 36, n. 1;
fearlessness as a minister, iv. 174, n. 4.
BENTLEY, Dr., attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 174;
Barnes's Greek, iv. 19, n. 2;
Boyle, attacked by, v. 238, n. 1;
Cunninghame, criticised by, v. 373;
_Epistles of Phalaris_, iv. 443;
_Horace, Comments on_, ii. 444; iii. 74, n. 1;
Johnson, celebrated by, i. 153, n. 7; v. 174;
'no man written down but by himself,' i. 381, n. 3; v. 274;
Pope and Homer, iii. 256, n. 4;
Preface to his edition of _Paradise Lost_, iv. 24, n. 1;
scholarship perhaps unequalled, iv. 217;
Scotchman, not a, ii. 363, n. 4;
studied hard, i. 71; iv. 21; v. 316;
verses, his, iv. 23;
Wasse's _Greek Trochaics_, v. 445.
BENTLEY, Richard, Junior, iv. 289, n. 1.
BERESFORD, Mrs. and Miss, iv. 283-4.
BERESFORD, Rev. Mr., iii. 284.
BERKELEY, Bishop,
Burke's projected answer to his theory, i. 471;
non-existence of matter, on the, i. 471; iv. 27;
profound scholar, ii. 132;
'reverie,' his, iii. 165;
Warburton's ignorant criticism on him, v. 81, n. 1.
BERRENGER, Richard, iv. 88, 90.
BERWICK, ii. 266.
BERWICK, Duke of, Memoirs, iii. 286.
BESBOROUGH, Earl of, v. 263.
BEST, H. D.,
Gibbon and the Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2;
George Langton, and his pedigree, i. 248, n. 1;
Johnson's visit to Langton, i. 477, n. 1.
BETHUNE, Rev. Mr., v. 208.
BETTERTON, Thomas, iii. 185.
BETTESWORTH, Rev. E., i. 464, n. 2.
BETTESWORTH, Sergeant, iii. 377, n. 1.
_Betty Broom_, iv. 246.
BEWLEY, William, the Philosopher of Massingham, iv. 134.
BEZA, ii. 289.
BIAS the philosopher, iii. 312, n. 5.
BIBLE, The,
calculation for reading it in a year, i. 72, n. 2;
Johnson reads it through, ii. 189, n. 3;
should be read with a commentary, iii. 58;
subscribing it instead of the Articles, ii. 151.
_Bibliopole_, ii. 345.
_Bibliotheca Harleiana_, i. 153.
_Bibliotheca Literaria_, v. 445.
_Bibliotheque, Johnson's scheme of a, i. 283-285.
_Bibl. des Fees_, ii. 391.
_Bibliotheque des Savans_, i. 323.
BICKERSTAFF, Isaac, _account of him_, ii. 82, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 84.
BICKNELL, J. L., i. 315.
_Big_, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 348; v. 425.
_Big man_, ii. 14.
BIGAMY, v. 217.
_Bills_, i. 376.
BINDLEY, James, i. 15.
BINNING, Lord, ii. 186; iii. 331.
_Biographia Britannica_, first edition, iv. 272, n. 4;
Dr. John Campbell a contributor, ii. 447;
Johnson asked to edit a new edition, iii. 174;
edited by Kippis, ib.;
account of it, ib. n. 3.
BIOGRAPHICAL CATECHISM, iv. 376.
BIOGRAPHY, authentic material difficult to get, iii. 71;
best when autobiography, i. 25;
can be written only by a man's intimates, ii. 166, 446; iii. 155, n. 3;
Goldsmith's praise of it, v. 79, n. 3;
Johnson's excellence in it, i. 256; iv. 34, n. 5;
fondness for it, i. 425; iii. 206, n. 1; iv. 34; v. 79;
literary, ii. 40; v. 240;
method of writing it, i. 32;
men should be drawn as they are, i. 31; iv. 53, 395; v. 238;
'common cant' against it, iii. 275, n. 2;
minute particulars to be given, i. 33;
and peculiarities, iii. 154;
rarely well executed, ii. 446;
vices, how far to be mentioned, iii. 155;
writing trifles with dignity, iv. 34, n. 5.
BIRCH, Rev. Thomas, D.D.,
account of him by H. Walpole, i. 29, n. 2;
by I. D'Israeli, i. 159, n. 4;
anecdotes, full of, v. 255;
conversation and writings, i. 159;
correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 138;
Cave, i. 139, 150-3;
Johnson, i. 160, 226, 285;
Earl of Orrery, i. 185;
_History of the Royal Society_, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2;
Johnson's epigram to him, i. 140;
Raleigh's smaller pieces, edits, i. 226;
_Rambler_, anecdote of the, i. 203, n. 6;
Society for the Encouragement of Learning, member of the, i. 153, n. 2.
BIRDS, migration of, ii. 248;
nidification, 249.
BIRKENHEAD, Sir John, v. 57, n. 2.
BIRMINGHAM,--_Birmingham Journal, i. 85, n. 3;
_Birmingham Daily Post_, i. 85, n. 3;
'boobies of Birmingham,' ii. 464;
book-shops, i. 36, 85, n. 3;
buttons, v. 458;
Castle Inn, i. 92, n. 1;
cost of living in 1750, i. 103, n. 2;
_Directory_ for 1770, v. 458, n. 1;
Edinburgh, likeness to, v. 23, n. 2;
Hector's house, ii. 456, n. 2;
in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
Johnson's head on copper coins, iv. 421, n. 2;
reads _The History of Birmingham_, iv. 218, n. 1;
resides there, i. 85-7, 90-6;
visits it in 1761-2, i. 370, n. 5;
in 1774, v. 458;
in 1776 with Boswell, ii. 456;
in 1781, iv. 135;
in 1784, iv. 375;
jealousy of the manufacturers, ii. 459, n. 1;
Old Square, ii. 456, n. 2;
rapid growth of population, iii. 450;
riots of 1791, i. 86, n. 3; iv. 238, n. 1;
Soho, ii. 459;
St. Martin's Church, i. 90, n. 3;
Stork Hotel, ii. 456, n. 2;
Swan Tavern, i. 85, n. 3.
BIRNAM-WOOD, iii. 73.
BIRTH, respect for. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON.
_Bis dat qui cito dat_, ii. 290, n. 4.
BISCAY, language of, i. 322.
BISHOP, contradicting one, iv. 274;
House of Lords, in the, ii. 171;
how made, ii. 352; v. 80;
Johnson dines with two Bishops in Passion Week, iv. 88-9;
learning, their, iv. 13;
dulness, ib. n. 3;
liberties taken in their presence, iv. 295;
losses and gain by preferment, iv. 286, n. 1;
'necessity of holding preferments _in commendam_,' iv. 118, n. 2;
'Seven Bishops,' iv. 287;
tippling-house, at a, iv. 75;
a rout, ib. See HIERARCHY.
_Bishop_, a bowl of, i. 251.
BISHOP STORTFORD, ii. 62.
BISHOPRIC, resignation of a, iii. 113, n. 2.
BISMARCK, Prince, iv. 27, n. 1.
BLACK, why part of mankind is, i. 401.
_Black dog, the_, iii. 414.
BLACK-GUARDS, and red-guards, ii. 164, 251.
BLACK-LETTER BOOKS, ii. 120.
BLACKET, Sir Thomas, v. 148, n. 1.
BLACKIE'S _Etymological Geography_, v. 237, n. 3.
BLACKLOCK, Dr., blindness and poetry, i. 466;
Hume, extolled by, iv. 186, n. 2;
tutor to his nephew, v. 47, n. 3;
Johnson, meets, v. 47;
talks of scepticism, ib.;
letter in explanation, v. 417;
_Poems_, quotation from his, i. 334;
mentioned, v. 394.
BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, attorney, son of an, ii. 126, n. 4;
teaches a school, i. 97, n. 2;
_Creation_, his, ii. 108;
honoured too much by attacks, ii. 107;
Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3, 54-6;
describes himself in the _Life_, iv. 55;
saves him from the critics, ib., n. 1;
_Literary Club of Lay Monks_, i. 388, n. 3; v. 384, n. 2;
supposed lines on Prince Voltiger, ii. 108;
Swift, ridiculed by, iv. 80, n. 1.
BLACKSTONE, Sir William, _Borough English_, v. 320;
_Commentaries_ written when he had little practice, ii. 430;
composed with the help of port wine, iv. 91;
crown revenues, ii. 353; n. 4;
Hackman's trial, iii. 384;
Hawkins's _Siege of Aleppo_, approves of, iii. 259;
House of Hanover, right of the, v. 202;
legal succession, ii. 414, n. 2;
Pembroke College, member of, i. 75;
portrait in the Bodleian, iv. 91, n. 2;
_stultifying_ oneself, v. 342, n. 1.
BLACKWALL, Anthony, i. 84; iv. 311, 407, n. 4.
BLACKWELL, Thomas, _Memoirs of the Court of Augustus_, i. 309, 311.
BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 467, n. 1.
BLAGDEN, Dr., iv. 30.
BLAINVILLE, H., ii. 346.
BLAIR, Rev. Dr. Hugh, Boswell, letter to, iii. 402;
Boswell's lowing like a cow, v. 396;
composed slowly, v. 67;
conversation, his, iii. 339, n. 1; v. 397, n. 3;
_Dissertation on Ossian_, i. 396; ii. 296, 302, n. 2; iii. 50;
Johnson, in awe of, ii. 63;
'den,' i. 395;
misunderstanding with, ii. 275, 278;
record of a talk with, v. 398;
Johnsonian style, remarks on the, iii. 172;
_Lectures on Rhetoric_, iii. 172;
Pope, anecdotes of, iii. 402-3;
preached in a shamefully dirty church, v. 41;
'Scotchman, though the dog is a,' &c., iv. 98;
_Sermons_, publication, iii. 97;
price paid, iii. 98;
popularity, iii. 167, n. 2, 211;
Johnson praises them, iii. 97, 104, 109, 167, 211; iv. 98;
but criticises the _Sermon on Devotion_, iii. 338;
whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 387, 394.
BLAIR, Rev. Dr. John, iii. 402.
BLAIR, Rev. Robert, iii. 47, n. 3.
BLAIR, Robert, Solicitor-General of Scotland, iii. 47, n. 3.
_Blake, Life of_, i. 147, n. 5.
BLAKESLEY, Dean, iv. 125, n. 4.
BLAKEWAY, Rev. J., i. 15.
BLANCHARD, ----, iv. 358, n. 1.
BLANCHETTI, Marquis, ii. 390.
BLAND, J., i. 123, n. 3.
BLANEY, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 37; iv. 372.
BLANK VERSE, Goldsmith and Gray's estimate of it, i. 427, n. 2;
Johnson's estimate of it, i. 427; ii. 124; iv. 20, 42-3, 60;
'verse only to the eye,' iv. 43;
described by a shepherd, ib., n. 1.
BLASPHEMY, property in, v. 50.
BLEEDING, habit of, iii. 152, n. 3.
BLENHEIM PARK,
Johnson had not seen it by 1773, v. 303;
and Boswell visit it, ii. 451;
and the Thrales, v. 458.
BLIND, distinguishing colour by the touch, ii. 190.
BLOCKHEAD, Churchill, applied to, i. 419;
Fielding, ii. 173;
Sterne, ib., n. 2;
woman, a, ii. 456.
BLOIS, i. 389, n. 1.
'BLOOD,' Johnson had no pretensions to it, ii. 261;
Boswell's pride in it, v. 51.
BLOUNT, Martha, i. 232, n. 1.
BLOXAM, Rev. Matthew, iii. 304.
BLUEBEARD, ii. 181.
BLUE-STOCKING MEETINGS, iii. 425, n. 3; iv. 108; v. 32, n. 3.
BOARS, statues of, iii. 231.
BOCCAGE, ----, ii. 390.
BOCCAGE, Mme. du, makes tea _a l'Angloise_, ii. 403;
her _Columbiade_, iv. 331;
mentioned by Walpole and Grimm, ib., n. 1.
BODENS, George, iii. 428, n. 4.
BODLEIAN LIBRARY. See OXFORD.
BOERHAAVE, Herman, attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4;
executions, on, iv. 188, n. 3;
Johnson, _Life_ by, i. 140, 268, n. 2; ii. 372;
resemblance to, iv. 430, n. 1;
sleepless nights, iv. 384, n. 1.
BOETHIUS (Hector Bocce), favourite writer of the middle ages, ii. 127;
Johnson translates some verses by him, i. 139;
tries to get his portrait, iv. 265.
BOHEMIA, iii. 458.
BOHEMIAN LANGUAGE, ii. 156.
BOHEMIAN SERVANT, Boswell's. See RITTER, Joseph.
BOILEAU, corrected by Arnauld, iii. 347;
'cultivez vos amis,' iv. 352;
despised modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 1;
_Imitation of Juvenal_, i. 118;
imitated by Murphy, i. 356, n. 1;
'Le vainqueur des vanqueurs,' &c., i. 261, n. 2;
_Life by Desmaiseaux_, i. 29;
on the neglect of a book, iii. 375, w.i.
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, first Viscount,
Burnet's _History of his Own Time_, ii. 213, n. 3;
Booth's _Cato_, v. 126, n. 2;
crown revenues, ii. 353, n. 4;
dictionary-makers, i. 296, n. 3;
English historians, ii. 236, n. 2;
Garrick's _Ode_, i. 269;
history to be read with suspicion, ii. 213, n. 3;
authorised romance, ii. 366, n. 1;
House of Commons, describes the, iii. 234, n. 2;
Johnson's attack on his fame, i. 268, 330;
Leslie and Bedford, iv. 286, n. 3;
Mallet's edition of his _Works_, i. 268, 329, n. 3;
Oxford, Lord, character of, iii. 236, n. 3;
Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3;
Pope, enmity against, i. 329;
_Essay on Man_, share in, iii. 402-3;
executor, iv. 51;
friendship with, iv. 50, n. 4;
Rome, references to, iii. 206, n. 1;
schools, v. 85, n. 3;
Shelburne's (Lord) character of him, i. 268, n. 3;
Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4;
_transpire_, iii. 343.
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, iii. 324.
BOLINGBROKE, second Viscount, ii. 246, n. 1; iii. 349, n. 3.
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, divorced from the second Viscount.
See BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana.
BOLOGNA, ii. 195; v. 115.
BOMBAY, v. 55, n. 1.
_Bon Chretien_, v. 414, n. 2.
_Bon-mots_, instances of, iii. 322;
'carrying' one, ii. 350.
_Bon Ton_, ii. 325.
BONAVENTURA, i. 500.
BOND, Mrs. iv. 402, n. 2.
BONES, uses of old, iv. 204;
Johnson's horror at the sight of them, v. 169, 327.
BONIFACE in _The Beaux Stratagem_, ii. 461; iii. 89, n. 2.
BONNER, Bishop, i. 75, n. 3.
BONNETTA of Londonderry, v. 319-20.
BONSTETTEN, ----, v. 384, n. 1.
_Book of Discipline_, ii. 172.
BOOK-BINDING, i. 56, n. 2.
BOOK-TRADE, ii. 425.
BOOKS, abundance of modern, iii. 332;
death, leaving one's books at, iii. 312;
early printed ones, ii. 399; v. 459;
every house supplied with them, iv. 217, n. 4;
getting boys to have entertainment from them, iii. 385;
high price, complaints of their, i. 438, n. 2;
Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 425;
knowledge of the world through books, i. 105;
talking from them, v. 378;
looking over their backs in a library, ii. 364;
poorest book, if the first, a prodigious effort, i. 454;
prices at which they were sold:
Boswell's edition of _Johnson's Letter to Chesterfield_, 105. 6d.,
i. 261, n. 1;
Churchill's _Rosciad_, 1s., i. 419, n. 5;
Dodsley's _Cleone_, 1s. 6d., i. 325, n. 3;
Goldsmith's _Traveller_, 1s. 6d., i. 415;
Johnson's _London_, 1s., i. 127, n. 3;
_Marmor Norfolciense_, 1s., i. 143, n. 3;
_Observations on Macbeth_, 1s., i. 175, n. 3;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, 1s., i. 193, n. 1;
_Irene_, 1s. 6d., i. 198, n. 2;
_Rambler, 2d_. a number, i. 209, n. 1;
_Rambler_, 4 vols. in 12mo., 12s., i. 212, n. 3;
_Dictionary_, 2 vols., 4l 10s., i. 290, n. 1;
_Idler_, 2 vols., 5s., i. 335, n. 1;
_Rasselas_, 2 vols. 12mo., 5s., i. 340, n. 3;
_Journey to the Western Islands_, 5s., ii. 310, n. 2;
Macpherson's _Iliad_, two guineas, ii. 298, n. 1;
Percy's _Hermit of Warkworth_, 2s. 6d., ii. 136, n. 4;
Pope's '1738,' 1s., i. 127, n. 3;
Robertson's _Scotland_, two guineas, iii. 334, n. 2;
'quarterly-book,' the, ii. 426;
seldom read when given away, ii. 229;
uncertainty of profits, iv. 121;
variety of them to be kept about a man, iii. 193;
Voltaire on the rapid sale of books in London, ii. 402, n. 1;
willingly, not read, iv. 218. See READING.
BOOKSELLER, a drunken, iii. 389.
_Bookseller of the Last Century_,
sale of _The Rambler_ and _Rasselas_, ii. 208, n. 3;
Newbery, v. 30, n. 3.
BOOKSELLERS, Boswell's vindication of them, ii. 426, n. 1;
'Bridge, on the,' iv. 257;
copyright case, ii. 272, n. 2;
copyright, their honorary, iii. 370;
improvement in their manners, i. 305, n. 1;
Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 425;
uniform regard for them, i. 438;
calls them liberal-minded men, i. 304; iv. 35, n. 3;
literary property, their, iii. 110;
London booksellers, denominated _the Trade_, iii. 285, n. 2;
publish Johnson's _Lives_, iii. 110;
oppressors of genius, i. 305, n. 1; ii. 345, n. 2;
patrons of literature, i. 287, n. 3, 305.
BOOTH, Barton, the actor, account of him, v. 126, n. 2;
manager of Drurylane, v. 244, n. 2.
BOOTH, Captain, in _Amelia_, i. 249, n. 2.
BOOTHBY, Sir Brook, i. 83.
BOOTHBY, Miss Hill, Johnson's friendship for her, i. 83;
prescription of orange-peel, ii. 331. n. 1;
supposed jealousy of Lord Lyttelton, iv. 57, n. 2;
letters to her. See JOHNSON, Letters.
BORLASE, William, _History of the Isles of Scilly_, i. 309.
BORNEO, v. 392, n. 6.
BOROUGH, corruption in a, ii. 373.
_Borough English_, v. 320.
BOSCAWEN, Hon. Mrs., iii. 331, 425; iv. 96.
BOSCOVICH, Pere, ii. 125, 406.
BOSSUET, ii. 448, n. 2; v. 311.
BOSVILLE, Squire Godfrey,
invites Johnson to meet Boswell at his house, iii. 439;
belonged to the same club as Johnson, ib.;
mentioned, ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 359.
BOSVILLE, Mrs., ii. 169.
BOSVILLE, Miss, ii. 169, n. 2;
afterwards Lady Macdonald, v. 147.
BOSWELL, various spellings of it, v. 123-4.
BOSWELL FAMILY, Johnson's projected history of it, iv. 198.
BOSWELLS of Fife, ii. 413.
BOSWELL, Sir Alexander, Baronet, Boswell's eldest son,
birth, ii. 386; iii. 86;
at Eton College, iii. 12;
described by Scott, v. 385, n. 1;
killed in a duel, ii. 179. n. 3, 386, n. 2.
BOSWELL, David, a remote ancestor, ii. 413.
BOSWELL, David (Boswell's younger brother),
devotion to Auchinleck, iii. 433;
return to it, iii. 438;
ill-used by Dundas, iii. 213, n. 1;
Johnson, calls on, iii. 433-4;
liked by him, 442;
residence in Spain, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 182;
leaves in consequence of war, 433-4.
BOSWELL, David (Boswell's third son), iii. 94;
death, iii. 106, 109.
BOSWELL, Dr., account of him, v. 394;
Johnson, meets, v. 48;
description of, iii. 7;
mentioned, i. 437; iii. 116.
BOSWELL, Euphemia (Boswell's second daughter), ii. 422.
BOSWELL, JAMES.
CHIEF EVENTS OF HIS LIFE.
1740 Birth, October 29th, i. 147, n. 3.
1759 Keeps an exact journal, i. 433, n. 3.
Enters at Glasgow University, i. 465.
1760 First visit to London, i. 385.
1761 Publishes an _Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady_,
and _An Ode to Tragedy_, i. 383, n. 3.
1762 Contributes to a _Collection of Original Poems, ib.
The Club at Newmarket, ib_.
Second visit to London, i. 385.
1763 _Critical Strictures_, i. 383, n. 3.
_Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine, ib._
Gets to know Johnson, i. 391.
Goes to study at Utrecht, i. 473.
1764 & 1765 Travels in Germany, Switzerland,
and Italy, iii. 122, n. 2; 463, n. 2.
1765 Visits Corsica, ii. 2.
1766 Visits Paris, ii. 3.
Returns from abroad, ii. 4.
Visits London, ii. 4-15.
Admitted as an Advocate, ii. 20.
1767 Is acquainted with men of eminence, ii. 13, n. 3.
Corresponds with the Earl of Chatham, ii. 59, n. 1.
_Dorando, a Spanish Tale_, ii. 50, n. 4.
_Essence of the Douglas Cause_, ii. 230.
1768 Visits London and Oxford, ii. 46-66.
_Account of Corsica_, ii. 46.
Raises a subscription to send ordnance to Corsica, ii. 59, n. 1.
1769 Visits Ireland, ii. 156, n. 3.
Visits London, ii. 68-111.
First visit to Streatham, ii. 77.
Attends the Stratford Jubilee, ii. 68.
Married, ii. 140, n. 1.
_British Essays in favour of the Brave Corsicans_, ii. 59, n. 1.
1770-1 Gap in his correspondence with Johnson of nearly a year and
a half, ii. 140.
1772 Visits London, ii. 146-200.
1773 Visits London, ii. 209-263.
Elected a member of the Literary Club, ii. 240.
Gets to know Burke, ib.
Tour to the Hebrides with Johnson, ii. 266.
1775 Visits London, ii. 311-377.
Johnson assigns him a room in his house, ii. 375.
Visits Wilton and Mamhead in Devonshire, ii. 371.
Enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4.
Birth of his eldest son, Alexander, ii. 386.
1776 Disagrees with his father about the settlement of his estate,
ii. 412.
Visits London, ii. 427-438; iii. 4-80.
Becomes Paoli's constant guest when in London, iii. 34.
Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and Ashbourne with Johnson,
ii. 438-475; iii. 1-4.
Visits Bath, iii. 45-51.
Introduces Wilkes to Johnson, iii. 64.
1777 Meets Johnson at Ashbourne, iii. 136-208.
Begins The _Hypochondriack_ in the _London Magazine_,
iv. 179, n. 5.
1778 Visits London, iii. 222-359.
Attacked violently by Johnson, iii. 337.
_The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1779 Visits London (in the spring), iii. 373-394.
Tries Johnson's friendship by a fit of silence, iii. 394.
Visits London (in the autumn), iii. 399-411.
Visits Lichfield and Chester, iii. 411-415.
_The Hypockondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1780 _The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1781 Visits London, iv. 71-118.
Visits Southill with Johnson, iv. 118-132.
_The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1782 Death of his father, iv. 154.
_The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1783 Visits London, iv. 164-226.
Hopes for an appointment through Burke, iv. 223.
Ends _The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
_Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the
Nation_, iv. 258.
1784 Stops at York on his way to London, iv. 265.
Hurries back to Ayrshire with the intention of becoming a
candidate for Parliament, ib.
Visits London, iv. 271-339.
Visits Oxford with Johnson, iv, 283-311.
Johnson's death, iv. 417.
1785 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, v. 2.
_Letter to the People of Scotland against the attempt to
diminish the number of the Lords
of Session_, iv. 173, n. 1.
1786 Called to the English Bar, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5.
First joins the Home Circuit, then goes the Northern, lastly
returns to the Home Circuit,
_Letters of Boswell_, p. 341, and iii. 261, n. 2.
Third edition of the _Journal of a Tour_, v. 4.
Canvasses Ayrshire, iv. 220, n 4.
Courts Lord Lonsdale, ib.
Elected Recorder of Carlisle, _Gent. Mag_. for 1788, p. 470.
Takes a house in Queen Anne Street West, Cavendish Square,
_Letters of Boswell_, p. 267.
Takes chambers in the Inner Temple, iii. 179, n. 1.
Death of his wife, i. 236, n. 1.
Joins in raising a subscription for a monument to Johnson,
_Letters of Boswell_, p. 317.
1790 _The Letter from Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Chesterfield_,
i. 261, n. 1.
_A Conversation between George III and Samuel Johnson_,
ii. 34, n. 1.
Suffers from Lord Lonsdale's brutality, ii. 179, n. 3.
1791 _The Life of Samuel Johnson_, i. 9.
Appointed Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal
Academy, iii. 462.
Returns to the Home Circuit, _Letters of Boswell_, p. 341.
1792
1793 Second edition of the _Life of Johnson_, i. 13.
1794
1795 Death, May 19th, i. 14.
BOSWELL, James,
account of himself, i. 383, 404; iii. 416, n. 3; v. 51;
birth, his, i. 147, n 3;
death, i. 14;
_Account of the Kirk of Scotland,_ v. 213;
accuracy: See below, Authenticity;
activity, v. 52, n. 6, 168;
Address to the King, carries an, iv. 265, 267;
Advocate, admitted as an, ii. 20: See below, Counsel;
affectation of distress, iv. 71, 379;
allowance from his father of L300 a year, iii. 93, n. 1;
Alnwick, visits, ii. 142;
ambiguous prayer, his, iii. 391, n. 3;
ambition, iii. 179, n. 1;
America, ignorance of, ii. 293, 312, n. 4;
Americans, sides with the, ii. 294, 312; iii. 205-7; iv. 81, 259;
ancestry, Thomas Boswell, ii. 413; iv. 198;
Veronica Sommelsdyck, v. 25, n. 2;
Robert Bruce, ib.;
Boswells of Balmuto, v. 70;
anonymous mention of himself, ii. 14, 56, 84, 193, 227, n. 1, 330,
n. 2, 436, n. 1, 449, n. 1; iii. 49, n 2, 57, n. 3, 237, n. 3, 407, n. 1;
iv. 173, 274;
antiquary, an, iii. 414, n. 3;
archives, his, iii. 271, n. 5; 3O1, n. 1;
army, wishes to enter the, i. 400; v. 52;
fancies himself a military man, v. 125;
Ashbourne, visits, iii. 127,131, 135-208;
Auchinleck Castle, describes, i. 462; iii. 178; v. 379;
authenticity, love of, i. 7; ii. 350, 434, n. 1; iii. 209, 299, n. 2;
iv. 83; v. 1, 419;
avidity for delight, iii. 415;
bar, enters at the: See below, English Bar;
Barbauld's, Mrs., lines on him, ii. 4, n. 1;
Baretti, dislike of, ii. 97, n. 1;
Bath, visits, iii. 45;
Bristol, 50;
bear, led by a, ii. 269, n. 1;
Beauclerk's hit at his talk, ii. 192, n. 2;
birth-day, ii. 69, n, 3;
birth and gentility, love of, i. 490-2; ii. 261, 328-9; v. 51, 103, 380;
birthright, granted his father a renunciation of his, ii. 415, n. 1;
bishops, on, iv. 75;
'Blood:' See above, Birth and Gentility;
boastful, iv. 193;
Bologna, at, v. 115;
books, slight knowledge of, ii, 360;
Johnson buys him some, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 86-8, 91;
_Boswell_, all that is comprehended in, ii. 382, n. 1;
'Boswell, Mr. James, a native of Scotland,' i. 190, n. 4;
boy, longer than others, v. 308;
'Bozzy,' ii. 258;
_British Essays in favour of the brave Corsicans_, ii. 59, n. 1;
Burke, visits, iv. 210;
bustle, makes a, iii. 130, n. 1, 372
Cambridge, visits, ii. 335, n. 1;
cards, spends a night at, iii. 377;
Carlisle, invites Johnson to meet him at, iii. 107, 118, 123, 127;
celebrated men, acquaintance with, ii. 13; iii. 64:
See below, Great Men;
changefulness, wretched, iii. 193;
character,
Johnson's account of his, i. 474; ii 267, n. 4, 278, n. 1; v. 52;
Paoli's, i. 6, n. 2;
Lord Stowell's, v. 52, n. 6:
See above, Account of himself;
Chatham, Earl of, correspondence with the, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1;
Chester, visits, iii. 413;
his journal there a log-book of felicity, iii. 415;
'Chief, my Yorkshire,' ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 439;
children, his, ii. 265, 280, 386; iii. 366;
blessed by a non-juring Bishop, iii. 372;
loved by Johnson, iii. 436;
church, not easy unless he goes to it, i. 418, n. 1;
fondness for going, iii. 180;
'would pray with a Dean and Chapter,' iii. 375, n. 2;
chymistry, his intellectual, iii. 65;
citizen of the world, a, ii. 306; v. 20;
classical quotation apt, v. 56;
_Clubable,_ iv. 254, n. 2;
Cocoa-tree Club, at the, v. 386, n. 1;
_Collection of Original Poems_, i. 383, n. 3;
collection of Scotch words, begins a, ii, 91;
and of Scotch antiquities, ii. 92; iii. 414, n. 3;
consecrated ground, comfort in nearness to, v. 169;
divinely cheered by the nearness of Carlisle Cathedral, iii. 416, 417;
consecutive paragraphs, iii. 339, n. 1; iv. 223, n. 2;
_Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty, &c_., ii. 34, n. 1;
_conspicuonsness, his_, iv. 248, n. 2;
convict unjustly condemned, ii. 285;
correspondence with Adams, i. 8; iv. 376;
Beattie, ii. 148, n. 2; v. 15;
Blair, iii. 402; v. 398;
Blacklock, v. 417;
Chatham, Earl of, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1;
Cullen, iv. 263;
Dempster, v. 407;
Dilly, iii. 110;
Elibank, Lord, v. 181;
Forbes, Sir W., v. 413;
Garrick, ii. 279, n. 1; iii. 371; v. 347-50, 382, n. 2;
Hailes, Lord, i. 432; v. 406;
Hastings, Warren, iv. 66;
Hector, iv. 375;
Johnson: See below, JOHNSON, and under JOHNSON;
Langton, iii. 424;
Monboddo, v. 74;
Parr, iv. 47, n. 2;
Percy, iii. 278;
Pitt, iv. 261, n, 3;
Rasay, v. 410-1;
Robertson, v. 14, 32;
Reynolds, iv. 259, n. 2;
Thurlow, iv. 327, 336;
Vyse, iii. 125;
Wilkes, ii. 11, n. 3; iv. 224, n. 2;
_Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine_, i. 383;
_Corsica, Account of_: See CORSICA;
Corsica, his head filled too much with it, ii. 22, 58, 59;
his memory honoured there, ii. 3, n. 1;
a tradition of him, ii. 451, n. 3;
Corsicans, raises a subscription for the, ii. 59, n. 1;
Counsel, engaged as, Douglas Cause, iii. 219, n. 2; v. 378, n. 2;
Ecclesiastical censure case, iii. 58;
House of Lords, before the, ii. 144, 375, n. 4, 377, n. 1; iii. 219;
House of Commons, iii. 224; iv. 73, 259, n. 1;
Dr. Memis's case, ii. 291;
schoolmaster, prosecution of a, iii. 212;
Society of Solicitors' case, iv. 128;
country-house, takes a little, iii. 116, 128;
Court of General Assembly, despises pleading at the, ii. 381, n. 1;
Court of Sessions, little dull labours, ii. 381, n. 1;
_Court of Session Garland_, i. 432, n. 3; ii. 200, n. 1;
Courtenay's lines on him, i. 223;
cow, lows like a, v. 396;
cowardly caution, iii. 210-1;
critical skill, v. 214;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 383, n. 3, 409;
critics 'cannot or will not understand him,' v. 259, n. 1;
_Cub at Newmarket_, i. 383, n. 3;
curiosity, his wise and noble, ii. 4, 59;
Dalblair and Young Auchinleck, known as, v. 116;
daughters, on the treatment of, ii. 420, n. 1;
'dazzled' by Johnson and Paoli, i. 460;
death, at times not afraid of, iii. 153;
debts, i. 2, n. 2; ii. 275;
paid by his father, iii. 93;
Johnson's warnings, against incurring any, iv. 148-9, 152, 154, 163;
dedications, his, i. 1; ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1;
delights to talk of the state of his mind, iv. 249;
describes visible objects with difficulty, v. 173, 219;
desert, has wished to retire to a, ii. 75;
Devonshire, visits, ii. 371;
dignity, hardly possible uniformly to preserve, ii. 69, n. 3;
acquires 'dignity in London,' 375, n. 4;
dinners, gives admirable, ii. 59, n. 3;
gives one to some Hebrideans and Highlanders, ii. 308, 380;
goes without one, ii. 178;
displays his classical learning, v. 15, n. 5;
dissatisfaction, too much given to, iii. 225;
_Dorando, A Spanish Tale_, ii. 50, n. 4;
'Drawing-room' dress, his, ii. 83, n. 1;
Dresden, visits, i. 266, n. 2;
drudges in an obscure corner, ii. 381, n. 1;
duel, risk of having to fight a, ii. 179, n. 3;
early rising, difficulty of, iii. 168;
Easter meetings with Johnson, iv. 148. n. 2;
elated at getting Johnson to the Hebrides, v. 215;
_Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady_, i. 383, n. 3;
elevated by pious exercises, iv. 122;
English Bar, enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 178;
eats his dinners, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 45, n. 1;
called, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5;
discouraging prospects, iii. 179, n. 1;
takes chambers, ib.;
attends the Northern Circuit, iii. 261, n. 2;
discussion with Johnson on the way to success at the bar, iv. 309;
enthusiasm of mind, solemn, iii. 122, n. 2;
to go with Captain Cook, iii. 7;
to go to the wall of China, iii. 269;
feudal, iii. 178; v. 223;
genealogical, v. 379;
envy of Dundas's success, ii. 160, n. 1;
_Epistle from Menalcas to Lycidas_, i. 383, n. 3;
_Essays_, his, iv. 179;
_Essence of the Douglas Cause_, ii. 230, n. 1;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, n. 2;
estate, income of his, iv. 154, n. i; 155, n. 4;
Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4;
exact likeness, draws an, i. 486;
executions, love of seeing, ii. 93, n. 3; iii. 384, n. 1; iv. 328;
executors, his, iii. 301, n. 1;
'facility of manners,' v. 19, n. 1;
fame, ardour for literary, ii. 69, n. 3; iv. 50, n. 2;
fancies that he is neglected, ii. 384; iii. 44, 135;
that Johnson is ill or offended, ii. 410;
that his wife or children are ill, iii. 4;
at Stains Castle, v. 105;
in a Highland inn, v. 139;
farm, purchases a, iii. 207;
father, his (Lord Auchinleck), death, iv. 154;
disagreement with, i. 346, n. 2; ii. 311, n. 1; iii. 95;
about heirs general and male, ii. 414-5; iii. 86;
uneasy with him, i. 426;
a timid boy in his presence, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 93, n. 1;
on better terms with him, iii. 93, 95, 108, 212, 368, 442;
dulls his faculties by strong beer before him, ii. 382, n. 1;
Johnson, reproached by him as regards, ii. 381,72. i; v. 384, n. 1;
Johnson's advice about him, iii. 417;
likeness to him in face, v. 84;
feelings, avows his ardent, ii. 69;
'fervour of Loyalty,' iii. 113;
fees made before the House of Lords, ii. 377, n. 1;
feudal system, love of the, ii. 177; iii. 178;
feudal enthusiasm, his, v. 223: see SUCCESSION, male;
forwardness, ii. 449;
Franklin, Dr., dines with him, ii. 59, n. 3;
Free-will, love of discussing: see FREE-WILL;
'gab like Boswell,' v. 52, n. 4;
Garrick, friendship with, iii. 371:
see above, under Correspondence;
genealogist, a, iii. 271, n. 5;
George III, relation to, v. 379;
ghosts, talks of, iv. 94, n. 2;
disturbed by the cry of one, v. 237, n. 2;
fearful of them, v. 327, n. 1;
Gibbon, dislike of: see GIBBON, Edward;
Glasgow University, a student of, i. 465;
god, makes another man his, v. 129, n. 1;
Goldsmith's lodgings, visits, ii. 182;
takes leave of him, ii. 260;
affected by his death, ii. 279, n. 2;
good-nature, described by Burke, iii. 362, n. 2;
great men, hopes from, iii. 80, n. 2;
Burke, iv. 223, 249, n. 1, 258, n. 2;
Lonsdale, Lord, ii. 10, n. 1; iv. 220, n. 4;
Pembroke, Lord, ii. 371, n. 3, iii. 80, n. 2;
Pitt, iv. 261, n. 3;
Rockingham ministry, iv. 148;
seeking great men's acquaintance, iii. 189; v. 215-6;
_Great man_, really the, ii. 59, n. 3, 83, n. 1;
quite the _great man_, iii. 396, n. 2, 413, n. 4;
Greek, ignorance of, iii. 407;
'Griffith, an honest chronicler as,' i. 24;
guardians to his children, iii. 400;
Hague, at the, v. 25, n. 2;
Handel musical meeting, at the, iv. 283, 285-6;
happiest days, one of his, iv. 96-7;
Hebrides, first talk of visiting the, i. 450; ii. 291;
_homme grave_, ii. 3, n. 1;
Horne Tooke, altercation with, iii. 354, n. 2;
house in Edinburgh, his, iii. 155; v. 22, n. 2;
Hume, intimacy with, ii. 59, n. 3, 437, n. 2;
has memoirs of him, v. 30;
humorous vein, v. 409;
_Hypochondriack, The_, iv. 179, n. 5;
hypochrondria, suffers from, i. 65, n. 1, 343; ii. 381, n. 1, 423;
iii. 86-9, 215, 366, 418; iv. 379;
pride in it, i. 65, n. 1; iii. 87, 421;
'hypocrisy of misery,' his, iv. 71;
idleness, i. 465;
imaginary ills: See FANCIES;
imagination, should correct his, iii. 363;
independency of spirit, v. 305;
infidelity, his, in his youth, i. 404;
says that 'it causes _ennui_,' ii. 442, n. 1;
infidels, keeping company with, iii. 409;
intellectual excesses, iii. 416;
'intoxicated not drunk,' ii. 436, n. 1:
See below, WINE;
Ireland, visits, ii. 156, n. 3;
isthmus, compares himself to an, ii. 80;
Italy, visits, ii. 11, 54;
Jacobitism when a boy, i. 431, n. 1;
associations connected with it, v. 140;
January 30, old port and solemn talk on, iii. 371;
Jeffrey, helped to bed by, v. 24, n. 4;
Jockey Club, member of the, i. 383, n. 3;
Johnson's acquaintance, makes, i. 391; ii. 349;
and calls on him, i. 395;
under his roof for the last time, iv. 337;
last talk, ib.;
last farewell, iv. 339;
advice on his coming into his property, iv. 155;
advises him to stay at home in 1782, iv. 155;
affection, tries an experiment on, iii. 394-7;
assigns him a room in his house, ii. 376; iii. 104, 222;
company, time spent in, i. 11, n. 1;
complains of the length of his letters, iii. 86, n. 4;
constant respectful attention to, ii. 357;
consulted about America by, ii. 292, 312;
conversation reported at first with difficulty, i. 421;
copartnership in the tour to the Hebrides with, v. 264, 278;
_Custos Rotulorum_, offers himself as, v. 364;
describes him as 'worthy and religious,' iii. 394;
_Diary_, reads, iv. 405-6;
regrets that Mrs. Boswell did not copy it, v. 53;
differed in politics on two points only from, iii. 221; iv. 259;
dines for the first time at the house of, ii, 215;
drawn by him as too 'awful,' ii. 262, n. 2;
regrets losing some of his awe, iii. 225;
easier with him than with almost any body, iv. 194;
encourages him to turn author, i. 410;
not encouraged to share reputation with, ii. 300, n. 2;
exhorts him to plant, v. 380;
faults, does not hide, i. 30; iii. 275, n. 2;
firmness, supported by, v. 154;
gaps in correspondence with, ii. 1, 43, 116, 140; iii. 394-5;
gives him _Les Pensees de Paschal_, iii. 380;
gives him a thousand pounds in praise, iii. 382;
his guest for the first time, i. 422;
his 'Guide, Philosopher, and Friend,' iii. 6; iv. 122, 420;
imitates, ii. 326, n. 2; iv. 1, n. 2;
invited to visit Scotland, ii. 51, 201, 232,264;
joins in his bond at the Temple, ii. 375, n. 4;
_Journey_, reads in one night, ii. 290;
projects a Supplement to it, ii. 300, n. 2;
keeps him up late drinking port, i. 434; iii. 381;
leads, to talk, i. 6, n. 2, 398, n. 2; ii. 187; iii. 39; v. 159,
264, 278;
letters to, ii. 2, 20, 22, 58, 107, 139, 141, 144, 203, 269, 270,
278, 279, 283-4, 290, 293, 295, 308, 380, 386, 406, 410, 422; iii. 86,
89, 91, 101, 105, 106, 107, 116, 122, n. 2, 126, 129, 132, 209, 211,
215, 219-222, 277, 359, 371, 391, 395, 411, 415, 433, 438; iv. 259, 379,
380;
three letters kept back, ii. 3, n. 1; iii. 118, 122;
keeps his letters, ii. 2;
life, would add ten of his years to, iii. 438;
love for, iii. 105; iv. 226, 259, n. 2, 337; v. 19;
love for him, i. 405, 434, n. 1, 450, 462; ii. 3, 70,
iii. 145, 205, 266, 359, 375, n. 4, 377, n. i, 383-4, 411;
iii. 80, 86, 105, 123, 135, 198, 210, 215, 216, 312, 362, 391, 413-4,
435, 439, 442; iv. 71, 81, n. 3, 166, 226, 337, 379, 380; v. 398;
loved by him and Mrs. Thrale, ii. 427;
monument, circular-letter about, iv. 423, n. 1;
projected monument at Auchinleck, v. 380;
mysterious veneration for, i. 384;
necessity of a yearly interview with, iii. 118, 127;
neglects to write to, iii. 394-7; iv. 380;
offended and reconciled, ii. 107, 109;
heated in a talk about America, iii. 205-7, 221;
a second time, iii. 315;
a week's separation, iii. 337;
reconciliation, iii. 338;
dispute about effects of vice on character, ii. 350;
in a violent passion on Rattakin, v. 145;
reconciliation, v. 147;
offers to write a history of his family, iv. 198;
pension, tries for an addition to, iv. 326-8, 336-9, 348;
poems, projects an edition of, i. 16, n. 1; iv. 381, n. 1;
praises him for vivacity, iii. 135, n. 2;
good-humour, iii. 208, n. 1;
as a travelling companion, iii. 294; v. 52;
as one sure of a reception, v. 134, n. 2;
proposes a meeting in 1780 with, iii. 424, 439, 441;
proposes that they should meet one day every week, ii. 359;
iii. 122, n. 2;
proposes weekly correspondence with, iii. 399;
publishes without leave a letter from, ii. 3, n. 2, 46, 58;
may publish all after--death, 60;
recommended to a lady client by, ii. 277;
sadness in parting with, ii. 263; iii. 196;
says that to lose him would be a limb amputated, iv. 81, n. 3;
tries, by not writing, iii. 394-7;
visits Harwich with, i. 464;
the Hebrides, v. 1-416;
Oxford, ii. 46;
Oxford and the Midland Counties, ii. 438;
Bath, iii. 45-51;
Ashbourne, iii. 135-208;
Southill, iv. 118-132;
Oxford, 283-311;
visits him ill in bed, iii. 391;
and Wilkes together, brings, iii. 64-79;
a successful negotiation, iii. 79;
will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
witty at his expense, i. 3; ii. 187; v. 216;
yearly meeting with, need of a, iii. 439;
Johnson's Court, veneration for, ii. 229;
Journal, in his youth keeps a, i. 433;
by the advice of Mr. Lowe, ii. 159, n, 4;
accuracy, its, asserted, ii. 65, n. 2;
'exact transcript of conversations,' v. 414;
justification for keeping it, ib.;
entries in it made in company, i. 6, n. 2; iv. 318, n. 1, 343;
method of keeping it, v. 272;
kept with industry, i. 5-6;
four nights in one week given to it, i. 461-2;
neglected, i. 6, n. 2; ii. 47, n. 2, 71, 352, n. 1, 372;
iii. 354, 375, 376; iv. 88, n. 1, l00, 110, 274, n. 5, 311;
v. 360, 374, 394, 398;
advised by Johnson to keep one, i. 433;
Johnson pleased with it, iii. 260;
helps to record a conversation, ib.; v. 307;
reminded that it is kept, iii. 439;
kept in quarto and octavo volumes, iv. 83;
Journal of his visit to Ashbourne, iii. 208;
Johnson's remark on it, iii. 209, n. 3;
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, extensive circulation, ii. 267;
in spite of ridicule, iii. 190;
editions and translation, ii. 267, n. 3; v. 3, n. 1;
corrections made in part of first edition, v. 245, n. 2;
passages omitted in the later editions, v. 148, n. 1, 381, n. 4,
387, n. 4, 388, n. 2, 415, n. 4;
'an honest chronicler as Griffith,' i. 24, n. 1;
attacks on it, v. 3;
Johnson's life, exact picture of a portion of, v. 279;
praised by him, i. 24, n. 1;
motto, iii. 190, n. 1;
read in MS. by Johnson, ii. 383, n. 2; v. 58, n. 2, 226, 245, n. 2,
262, 277, 307, 360, n. 4;
by Mrs. Thrale, ii. 383; v. 245, n. 2;
and Malone, v. 1;
task of much labour, v. 227;
juxtaposition of stories and names, iii. 40, n. 3;
Knight-errant, feels like a, v. 355;
knowledge at the age of twenty-five, ii. 9;
Laird, seen as a, iv. 164;
Lancaster Assizes, at, iii. 261, n. 2;
Latin corrected by Johnson, ii. 20;
defended, ii. 23;
talked Latin in Highland houses, v. 321;
law, ignorance of, ii. 21, n. 4; v. 108, n. 2;
study of it, i. 400, 427;
professor of it in the imaginary college, v. 108;
lawyer, unwilling to become a, i. 400, 427;
lay-patron, a, ii. 246;
learning, praises his own, v. 52, n. 3;
_Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation_
(1783), iv. 258, 260-1;
sent to Pitt, ib., n. 3;
_Letter to the People of Scotland against diminishing the number of
the Lords of Session_ (1785),
Burke, Edmund, mentioned, iv. 173, n. 1;
George III, i. 219, n. 3;
Goldsmith and Reynolds, i. 417, n. 1;
juries judges of the law, iii. 16, n. 1;
Lee, 'Jack,' iii. 224, n. 1;
'Montgomerie, a true,' his wife, ii. 140, n. 1;
Thurlow, Lord, iv. 179, n. 2;
universal man, Boswell a very, iii. 375, n. 2;
vanity, owns his, i. 12, n. 2;
Whitefield, ii. 79, n. 4;
Wilkes, iii. 64, n. 3; v. 339, n. 5;
letters: see CORRESPONDENCE;
letters, reasons for inserting his own, v. 16;
Liberty and Necessity, troubled by, iv. 71;
Lichfield, visits in 1776, ii. 461;
shown real 'civility' there, iii. 77;
visits it in 1779, iii. 411;
life, reflections on, iii. 164-6;
Life of Johnson, _additions_ to it, i. 10;
Advertisement of it in the _Tour to the Hebrides_, v. 421;
cancels, i. 520; ii. 2, n. 1;
delayed by dissipation, i. 5, n. 2;
Johnson approves of him as his biographer, i. 26; ii. 166, 217;
iii. 196; v. 312;
'claws,' would not cut off his, i. 30, n. 4;
death and character, how to describe his, iv. 399, n. 1;
mode in which it is written, i. 30, n. 1;
'new kind of libel,' iv. 30, n. 2;
printed by H. Baldwin: see BALDWIN;
Odyssey, like the, i. 12;
progress and sale, i. 9, n. 3 and 10; iv. 399, n. 1;
translated, never, v. 3, n. 1;
likes, a man whom everybody, iii. 362;
Literary Club, a member of the, i. 478, n. 3, 481, n. 3;
proposed by Johnson, ii. 235; v. 76;
elected, ii. 240;
Johnson's charge, ib.;
how he got in, v. 76;
for meetings: see CLUBS, Literary;
lodgings, his London, Downing Street, i. 422;
Farrar's Buildings, i. 437, 463. n. 3;
Half-Moon Street, ii. 46, n. 2; 59;
Old Bond Street, ii. 82;
Conduit Street, ii. 166;
Piccadilly, 219;
Gerrard Street, iii. 51, n. 3;
General Paoli's in South Audley Street, iii. 35, 324;
Inner Temple Lane, chambers in, iii. 179, n. 1;
London, expedition to it highly improving, ii. 311, n. 1;
increased spirits there, iii. 246;
Johnson consulted about a visit to it, ii. 275-7;
agrees to his removing to it, iv. 351;
love of it, i. 463; ii. 275; iii. 5, 176, 363;
London, visits, in 1760, i. 385;
1762-3, i. 385-464;
1766, ii. 4-15;
1768, ii. 46-66;
1769, ii. 68-111;
1772, ii. 146-200;
1773, ii. 209-263;
1775, ii. 311-377;
1776, ii. 427-475, iii. 1-80;
(in 1777 Boswell met Johnson in Ashbourne, iii. 135-208);
1778, iii. 222-359;
1779, spring, iii. 373-394;
autumn, iii. 400-411;
1781, iv. 71-118;
1783, iv. 164-226;
1784 (sets out in March but turns back at York, iv. 265), 271-339;
Lonsdale, pays court to Lord, ii. 10, n. 1;
brutality, suffers from, ii. 179, n. 3;
looks forward to his future worth, ii. 58, n. 3;
loose life, his, ii. 46, n. 1, 47, n. 2, 58, n. 3, 170, 352, n. 1;
manners, want of, ii. 475;
manuscripts, his, destroyed by his executors, iii. 301, n. 1; 344, n. 1;
v. 30, n. 2;
marriage, approaching, ii. 68, 70, 76, 110;
takes place, ii. 140;
thinks of a second one, iii. 199, n. 1;
masquerade, at a, ii. 205;
_Matrimonial Thought_, ii. 110;
melancholy: see above, Hypochondria;
military life, love of, i. 400; iii. 413, n. 4;
mind 'somewhat dark,' ii. 381;
'mingles vice and virtue,' ii. 246;
mob, reported to have headed a, ii. 50, n. 4;
Montagu, Mrs., quarrel with, iv. 64;
mother-in-law, his, ii. 377, n. 1;
Mountstuart, Lord, friendship with, iv. 128;
music, made a fool of by, iii. 197-8;
mystery, love of, iii. 225;
and the mysterious, iv. 94, n. 2;
Naples, at, v. 54;
narrowness, troubled with a fit of, iv. 191;
nature, no relish for the beauties of, i. 461;
'never left a house without leaving a wish for his return,' iii. 412;
newspapers, inserted notices of himself in the, ii. 46, n. 2, 71, n. 2;
noble friend, puzzled by a, iv. 209;
objects on the road, not observant of, iv. 311;
_Ode to Tragedy_, i. 383, n. 3; v. 51, n. 3;
Oglethorpe, flattered by, ii. 59, n. 1 and 3;
old-fashioned principles, v. 131;
'old-hock humour,' i. 383, n. 3; ii. 436, n. i;
ostentatious, i. 465;
Oxford, visits, in 1768, ii. 46;
in 1776, ii. 438;
in 1784, iv. 283-311;
'_Paoli_ Boswell,' known as, v. l23;
'the friend of Paoli,' i. 426, n. 3; ii. 58, n. 3; 59, n. 3;
attention to him, beautiful, iii. 51, n. 3;
guest in London, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 35, 51, n. 3;
present of books to, ii. 61;
parliament, wishes to be in, iv. 220, 267;
perfection, periods fixed for arriving at his, ii. 46, n. 1; v. 337;
piety, exalted in, ii. 360, n. 2;
Pitt's neglect, complains of, iii. 213, n. 1;
dislikes him, iii. 464;
writes to him, iv. 261, n. 3;
place, longing for a, i. 5, n. 2; ii. 381, n. 1;
players, intimacy with, iii. 413, n. 4;
plays his part admirably, iii. 413;
'all mind, iii. 415;
pleasing distraction, in a, iii. 256;
political speculation, owns himself unfit for, ii. 312, n. 4;
portrait by Reynolds, i. 2, n. 2;
_Praeses_, elected, iv. 248;
preached at in Inverness chapel, v. 128;
_Quare adhaesit pavimento_, iii. 261, n. 2;
quotations sometimes inaccurate, i. 7, n. 1;
quotes himself, v. 204, n. 1, 348, n. 4;
changes words, ii. 45, n. 3;
_Rasselas_, yearly reading of, i. 342;
read, promises Johnson to, ii. 377, n. 1, 378, n. 1;
sat up all night reading Gray, ii. 335, n. 2;
reads Ovid's _Epistles_, v. 295;
reserve, practises some, i. 4; ii. 84, n. 3;
retaliates for attacks on Johnson made by Lord Monboddo, ii. 74, n. 2;
by Foote, ii. 95, n. 2;
Reynolds, introduced to, i. 417, n. 1: See REYNOLDS, Boswell;
ridicule, defies, i. 33; iii. 190;
right-headed, said by Baretti to be not, iii. 135, n. 2;
Rousseau, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2;
visits him, ii. 11-12, 215;
sympathy with him, ii. II, n. 3;
Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1;
letters of acceptance, iii: 370, n. 1, 462-4;
seat reserved for him at a lecture, iii. 369, n. 2;
Rudd, Mrs., acquaintance with, ii. 450, n. 1; iii. 79-80;
rural beauties, little taste for, i. 461; v. 112;
Scot, 'Scarce esteemed a Scot,' i. 223;
Scotch accents, ii. 158, 159;
Scotticisms, corrected, iii. 432, n. 2; v. 15, n. 4;
criticised, 425;
Scotch shoeblack, his, ii. 326;
Scotland, forty years' absence from it suggested to him, iii. 26;
finds it too narrow a sphere, 176;
its manners disagreeable to him, ii. 381, n. 1;
vulgar familiarity of its law life, iii. 179, n. 1;
suffers from its rudeness, ii. 381, n. 1;
Scotchman, the one cheerful, iii. 388;
a Scotchman without the faults of one, iii. 347;
_Scots Magazine_, contributes to the, i. 112;
self-tormentor, i. 470;
Seward, controversy with Miss, i. 92, n. 2; iv. 331, n. 2;
Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68;
short-hand, uses a kind of, iii. 270;
his long head equal to it, iv. 166;
slavery, approves of, iii. 200, 203-5, 212;
Smith, Adam, opinion of, ii. 430, n. 1;
praises his facility of manners, v. 19, n. 1;
Socrates, does not affect to be a, ii. 25;
sophist, plays the, iii. 386;
spy, charge of being a, ii. 383, n. 2;
St. Paul's, Easter worship in, ii. 171, 215, 275-7, 360;
iii. 24, 316, 380; iv. 91;
stepmother, on ill terms with his, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 95;
storm, among the Hebrides, in a, v. 281-2;
studies, Johnson's advice as to his, i. 410, 457, 460, 464, 474;
study, has a kind of impotency of, ii. 21, n. 4;
succession, preference of male, ii. 387, n. ii, 411, n. 1, 420, n. 1;
succession to the Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-23;
superstition an enjoyment, ii. 318, n. 3; iv. 94, n. 2;
dreams, i. 235, 236; iv. 379;
Johnson's relief from dropsy, iv. 272:
See above, MYSTERY, and below, GHOSTS, and SCOTLAND-HEBRIDES,
second sight;
swearing, blameless of, ii. 166, n. 1;
talk, not from books, v. 378;
_tanti-man, a, iv. 112;
Temple, enter at the Inner: See above, English Bar;
tenants, kindness to his, iv. 155, n. 1, 163;
tenderness, calls for, iii. 216;
_Thesis_ in Civil Law, ii. 20, 23;
Thrale, Mrs., introduction to, ii. 77;
her 'love' for him, ii. 145, 206, 383;
attacked by her, iv. 318, n. 1; v. 245, n. 2;
argument with her, iv. 72; see under, MRS. THRALE;
Thurlow bows the intellectual knee to, iv. 179, n. 2;
toleration, discusses, ii. 252;
Tory, boasts of the name of, iii. 113, 375, n. 2;
confirmed in his Toryism, iii. 392, n. 2;
town, pleasure in seeing a new, iii. 163;
_Travels,_ wishes to publish his, iii. 300, 301, n. 1;
truthfulness: See AUTHENTICITY;
'universal man, a,' iii. 375, n. 2;
'unscottified,' ii. 242;
Utrecht, goes to, i. 400, 473;
vanity, avows his, i. 12;
in his youth, i. 436, n. 3;
variety of men and manners, sees a, ii. 352, n. 1, 378, n. 1;
Voltaire, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2;
visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5;
vows, love of making, ii. 20, 24: see below, WINE, vows of sobriety;
Walpole, Horace, calls on, iv. 110, n. 3;
who is silent in his presence, iv. 314, n. 5;
Warren, Dr., attended on his death-bed by, iv. 399, n. 5;
water-drinking, tries: See below, WINE;
welcome where-ever he goes, iii. 414;
wife, his search of a, ii. 47, n. 2, 56, n. 2, 169, n. 2;
wife, his, 'a true Montgomerie,' ii. 140, n. 1;
his praise of her, v. 24;
bargain with her, ib. n. 3;
death, i. 236, n. 1;
See BOSWELL, Mrs.;
will, his, iii. 400, n. 1;
Williams, Miss, tea with, i. 421, 463; ii. 99;
Wilkes, dines with, ii. 378, n. 1: See under Wilkes, John;
Wine, bruised and robbed when drunk, i. 13, n. 3;
'intoxicated, but not drunk,' ii. 436, n. 1;
intoxicated at Bishop Shipley's, iv. 88, n. 1;
at Miss Monckton's, 109;
in Sky on punch, v. 258;
penitent, v. 259;
thinks it good for health, v. 260;
Johnson advises him to drink less, ii. 377, n. 1; iv. 266; 274;
to drink water, iii. 169;
life shortened by his indulgence, iii. 170, n. 1;
lover of it, a, iii. 243, n. 4; v. 156;
nerves affected by port, i. 434, iii. 381;
vow of sobriety under the venerable yew, ii. 381, n. 1, 436, n. 1;
to Paoli and Courtenay, ib.;
water-drinking, tries, iii. 170, n. 1, 328;
wits, one of a group of, ii. 324;
works, list of his projected, v. 91, n. 2
(to this list should be added
_An account of a projected Tour to the Isle of Man_, iii. 80);
writings, early, i. 383, n. 3;
York, at, in 1784, iv. 265, 267;
Zelide, a Dutch lady, in love with, ii. 56, n. 2.
BOSWELL, Mrs. (the author's wife),
Boswell praises her as 'a true Montgomerie,' ii. 140, n. 1;
a valuable wife, iii. 160, n. 1, 416;
she describes him as a man led by a bear, ii. 269, n. 1;
death, i. 7, n. 2, 236, n. 1; iv. 136, n. 2;
health, iii. 130-1, 215, 362; iv. 155;
Johnson, feelings towards, ii. 269, n. 1, 272, 275, 379, 380, 383,
387, 411, 412, 418, 420, 422, 424; iii. 86, 93, 95, 104, 105, 210, 372,
436, 442; iv. 149, 155, 226, 264;
hospitality to, v. 23-4, 45, 395;
invites her to his house, iii. 216, 316;
letter to, iv. 157. For letters from--: See JOHNSON, Letters;
sends marmalade to, iii. 105, 108, 120, 129;
receives a set of _The Lives_ and _Poets,_ iii. 372, 436;
Scotch accent, iii. 106;
shrewd observation, her, iii. 160, n. 1;
travelling, dislikes, iii. 219;
mentioned, ii. 265, 416.
BOSWELL, James, the author's second son, birth, iii. 366;
account of him, ib. n. 1;
educated at Westminster School, iii. 12;
describes Malone's friendship with the Boswells, v. 1. n. 5;
writes his father's dying letter, i. 14, n. 1;
supplies notes to the _Life,_ i. 15.
BOSWELL, Miss, ii. 378, n. 1.
BOSWELL, Robert, burnt Boswell's manuscripts, iii. 301, n. 1.
BOSWELL, Thomas (founder of the family), ii. 413; iv. 198; v. 379.
BOSWELL, Veronica, Johnson pleased with her, v. 25;
origin of her name, ib. n. 2;
additional fortune promised her, 26;
death, ib. n. 1;
her Scotch, iii. 105;
mentioned, ii. 379; iii. 86, 93, 372.
BOSWELL, Sir W., i. 194, n. 2.
_Boswelliana,_ variations in Boswell's anecdotes, i. 454, n. 1;
ii. 450, n. 4;
story about Voltaire, iii. 301, n, 1.
BOSWORTH, i. 84; ii. 473; iv. 407, n. 4.
BOTANICAL GARDEN, iv. 128.
BOTANIST, Johnson not a, i. 377, n. 2.
"BOTTOM OF GOOD SENSE," iv. 99.
BOUCHIER, Governor, iv. 88.
BOUFFIER. See BUFFIER.
BOUFFLERS, Comtesse de, visits Johnson, ii. 118, 405;
his letter to her, ib.;
account of her, ib. n. 1.
BOUFFLERS, Marquise de, ii. 405, n. 1.
BOUHOURS, Dominic, ii. 90.
_Boulter's Monument_, i. 318.
BOULTON, Matthew, sells power, ii. 459;
Johnson visits his works, v. 458.
BOUNTY HERRING-BUSSES, v. 161.
BOUNTY ON CORN. See CORN.
BOUQUET, Joseph, bookseller, i. 243,
BOURBON, House of, iv. 139, n. 4.
BOURDALOUE, ii. 241, n. 3; v. 311.
BOURDONNE, Mme. de, ii. 241, n. 3.
_Bouts rimes_, ii. 336.
BOWEN, Emanuel, _Complete System of Geography_, iii. 445.
BOWLES, William, Johnson dines with him, iv. 1, n. 1;
visits him, iv. 234-9;
his wife a descendant of Cromwell, iv. 235, n. 5.
BOWLES, ----, of Slains Castle, v. 106, n. 1.
BOWOOD, iv. 192, n. 2.
BOWYER, William, iv. 369, 437.
_Box_, a tradesman's, v. 291, n. 4.
BOYD, Hon. Charles, v. 97-107;
'out in the '45,' v. 99.
BOYDS OF KILMARNOCK, v. 104.
BOYDELL, Alderman, ii. 293, n. 2.
BOYLE, family of, v. 237. See ORRERY, Earls of.
BOYLE, Hon. Hamilton, (sixth Earl of Corke and Orrery), i. 257, n. 3;
v. 238.
BOYLE, Hon. Robert, _Martyrdom of Theodora_, i. 312;
compares argument and testimony, iv. 281, n. 3.
BOYSE, Samuel, account of him, iv. 407, n. 4, 441;
compared with Derrick, iv. 192, n. 2.
BRADLEY in Derbyshire, i. 82, 366.
BRADSHAW, William, iv. 200, n. 2.
BRAHMINS, admit no converts, iv. 12, n. 2;
the mastiffs of mankind, iv. 88.
BRAIDWOOD, Thomas, v. 399.
BRAITHWAITE, Mr., iv. 278.
BRAMHALL, Archbishop, ii. 104.
BRAMSTON, James, i. 73, n. 3.
BRANDY, the drink for heroes, iii. 381; iv. 79.
BRANTOME, v. 55.
'BRAVE WE,' v. 360.
_Bravery of the English Common Soldiers,_ i. 335.
BRAZIL, iv. 104, n. 3;
language, v. 242, n. 1.
BREAD TREE, ii. 248.
BREEDING, good, ii. 82; v. 82, 211, 276.
BRENTFORD, iv. 186; v. 369.
BRETT, Colonel, i. 174, n. 2.
BRETT, Mrs., i. 166, n. 4.
BRETT, Miss, i. 174, n. 2.
BRETT, Rev. Dr. Thomas, the nonjuror, iv. 287.
BREWERS, thwart the 'grand scheme of subordination,' i. 490.
BREWING in Paris, ii. 396.
See THRALE, Henry.
BREWOOD, iv. 407, n. 4.
BREWSE, Major, v. 123-5.
BRIBERY, statutes against, ii. 339.
BRIDGENORTH, v. 455.
BRIDGEWATER, Duke of, v. 359, n. 2.
BRIGHT, John, _Speeches_, quoted, ii. 480.
BRIGHTHELMSTONE (Brighton),
books burnt there as Popish, iii. 427, n. 1;
Johnson describes it, iii. 92, n. 3;
finds it very dull, iii. 93;
does not much like it, iii. 442;
stays there in 1782, iv. 159-60;
other visits, iii. 452-3;
Ship Tavern, iii. 423, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 45, n. 1, 397.
BRILLE, iii. 458.
BRISTOL, Boswell and Johnson's visit in 1776, iii. 50;
bad inn, iii. 51;
Burke its representative, iii. 378;
Hannah More keeps a school there, iv. 341, n. 5;
Newgate prison, Savage dies in it, i. 164;
described by Wesley, iii. 431, n. 1;
Dagge, the keeper, praised by Johnson, iii. 433, n. l;
Whitefield forbidden to preach in it, ib.;
St. Mary Redcliff, iii. 51.
BRISTOL, first Earl of, i. 106, n. 1.
BRISTOL-WELL (Clifton), iii. 45, n. 1.
BRITAIN, ancient state, iii. 333.
BRITAIN and Great Britain, Swift dislikes the names of, i. 129, n. 3.
BRITISH MUSEUM, library, iv. 105, n. 2;
papers deposited by Boswell, ii. 297, n. 2, 307, 399, n. 2;
mentioned, iv. 14.
_British Princes, The_, ii. 108, n. 2.
BRITON, Johnson's use of the term, i. 129, n. 3;
George III gloried in being born one, ib.
BROADLEY, Captain, iii. 359.
BROCKLESBY, Dr., account of him, iv. 176;
Boswell and Johnson dine with him, iv. 273;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254;
generosity towards Johnson and Burke, iv. 338;
Johnson's physician in 1783-4, iv. 229, n. 2, 230-1, 245, 262-4, 267,
360, 378;
attends his death-bed, iv. 399;
quotes Shakespeare, iv. 400;
Juvenal, iv. 401;
instructed by Johnson in Christianity, iv. 414,416;
tells him that he cannot recover, iv. 415;
bequest from him, iv. 402, n. 2.
For Johnson's letters to him, See JOHNSON, LETTERS.
BRODIE, Captain, i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466.
BROMLEY, i. 241; ii. 258; iv. 351-2, 394.
BROOKE, Henry, _Earl of Essex_, iv. 312, n. 5;
_Gustavus Vasa_, i. 140;
subscription raised for him, i. 141, n. 1.
BROOKE, Mrs., _Siege of Sinope_, iii. 259, n. 1.
BROOKS, Mrs., the actress, v. 158.
BROOKS, unchanged for ages, iii. 250.
_Broom's Constitutional Law_, iii. 87, n. 3.
BROOME, William, iii. 427; iv. 49.
_Broomstick, Life of a_, ii. 389.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, born friends, i. 324.
BROWN, Dr. John, account of him, ii. 131, n. 2;
_Athelstan_, ii. 131, n. 2;
_Barbarossa_, ii. 131, n. 2;
_Estimate_, ii. 131.
BROWN, Launcelot, (_Capability_),
account of him, iii. 400, n. 2;
improves Blenheim park, ii. 451;
anecdote of Clive, iii. 401.
BROWN, Professor, of St. Andrew's, v. 64.
BROWN, Rev. Robert, of Utrecht, ii. 9; iii. 288.
BROWN, Tom, author of a spelling-book, i. 43.
BROWN, ----, Keeper of the Advocates' Library, v. 40.
BROWNE, Hawkins, iv. 272.
BROWNE, Isaac Hawkins, delightful converser, ii. 339, n. 1;
_De Animi Immortalitate_, v. 156;
drank freely, v. 156;
parodied Pope, ii. 339, n. 1;
silent in Parliament, ii. 339.
BROWNE, Patrick, _History of Jamaica_, i. 309.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas, Anglo-Latian diction, i. 221;
'Brownism,' ib., 308;
_Christian Morals_, i. 308;
death, on, iii. 153, n. 1;
'do the devils lie?' iii. 293;
fortitude in dying, iv. 394, n. 3;
_Life by Johnson_, i. 308, 328;
oblivion, on, iv. 27, n. 5;
Pembroke College, member of, i. 75, n. 3.
BROWNE, Mr., 'a luminary of literature,' i. 113, n. 1.
_Brownism_, i. 221, 308.
BRUCE, James, the traveller, ii. 333; v. 123, n. 3.
BRUCE, Robert, Boswell's ancestor, v. 25, n. 2, 379, n. 3;
not the lawful heir to the throne, v. 204.
BRUCE, ways of spelling it, v. 123.
BRUMOY, Peter, i. 345.
BRUNDUSIUM, iii. 250.
BRUNET, ----, ii. 394.
BRUNSWICK, House of. See HANOVER, House of.
BRUTES, future life, their, ii. 54;
misery caused them recompensed by existence, iii. 53;
not endowed with reason, ii. 248.
BRUTUS, Marcus Junius, i. 389, n. 2.
BRUYERE, La, ii. 358, n. 3; v. 378.
BRYANT, Jacob, his antediluvian knowledge, v. 458, n. 5;
Johnson's knowledge of Greek, v. 458, n. 5;
mentioned, iv. 272; v. 303, n. 3.
BRYDGES, Sir Egerton, ii. 296, n. 1; v. 384, n. 1.
BRYDONE, Patrick, _Travels_, ii. 346;
antimosaical remark, ii. 468; iii. 356.
_Bubbled_, v. 29. n. 6.
BUCCLEUGH, third Duke of, v. 142, n. 2.
BUCHAN, sixth Earl of, ii. 173, 177.
BUCHANAN, George, born _solo et seculo inerudito_, v. 182;
_Calendae Maiae_, v. 398;
_Centos_, ii. 96;
Johnson's retort about him, iv. 185;
learning, v. 57;
poetical genius, i. 460; ii. 96;
mentioned, v. 225.
_Buck_, v. 184, n. 3.
BUCKHURST, Lord, v. 52, n. 5.
BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, second Duke of, The Rehearsal, ii. 168, n. 2;
_Zimri_, ii, 85, n. 4.
BUCKINGHAM, Duchess of, iii. 239.
BUCKLES, iii. 325; v. 19.
BUDGELL, Eustace, calls Addison cousin, iii. 46, n. 3;
Addison wrote his _Epilogue to The Distressed Mother_, i. 181, n. 4;
iii. 46;
mended his _Spectators_, ib.;
his suicide, ii. 229; v. 54.
BUDWORTH, Captain, iv. 407, n. 4.
BUDWORTH, Rev. Mr., i. 84, n. 3; iv. 407, n. 4.
BUFFIER, Claude, i. 471.
BUFFON, account of the cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2;
his conversation, v. 229, n. 1.
_Builder, The_. King's Head, i. 191, n. 5.
_Bulk_, i. 164, n. 1, 457.
BULKELEY, Lord, v. 447.
BULKELEY, Mrs., ii. 219.
BULL, Alderman, Lord Mayor, iii. 459-60;
attacks Lord North, iii. 460.
BULL-DOG, Dr. Taylor's, iii. 190.
BULLER, Mr., ii. 228, n. 3.
BULLER, Mrs., iv. 1, n. 1.
_Bulse_, iii. 355, n. 1.
BUNBURY, Sir Charles,
member of the Literary Club, i. 479; ii. 274, 318;
at Johnson's funeral, iv. 419.
BUNBURY, H.W., Burns sheds tears over one of his pictures, v. 42,
marries Miss Horneck, i. 414, n. 1; ii. 274, n. 5.
BUNYAN, John, Johnson praises _The Pilgrim's Progress_, ii. 238;
Franklin buys his works, iv. 257, n. 2.
BURBRIDGE, ----, i. 170 n. 5.
BURCH, Edward, R.A., iv. 421, n. 2.
BURGESS-TICKET, Johnson's, at Aberdeen, v. 90.
BURGOYNE, General, disaster to his army, iii. 355.
BURGOYNE, ----, iii. 388, n. 3.
BURIAL SERVICE, iv. 212.
BURKE, D., iv. 358, n. 1.
BURKE, Edmund, affection, on the descent of, iii. 390;
Akerman, keeper of Newgate, praises, iii. 433;
America, increase of population in, ii. 314, n. 3;
American taxation, speech on, ii. 294;
arguing on either side, on, iii. 24, n. 2;
Bacon's _Essays_, iii. 194, n. 1;
balloon, sees a, iv. 358, n. 1;
Baretti's trial, gives evidence on, ii. 97, n. 1, 98;
the consultation for the defence, iv. 324;
Barnard's verses, mentioned in, iv. 433;
Beaconsfield, Johnson visits it, ii. 285, n. 3;
'_non equidem invideo_,' iii. 310;
Gibbon mentions it, 128, n. 4;
Beauclerk's character, draws, ii. 246, n. 1;
Berkeley, projects an answer to, i. 472;
Bible, on subscribing the, ii. 151, n. 3;
Birmingham buttons, likens the Spanish Declaration to, v. 458, n. 3;
Boswell's epithets for him, ii. 222, n. 4;
good-nature, describes, iii. 362, n. 2; v. 76;
hopes for place from him, iv. 223, 249, n. 1;
_Life of Johnson_, admires, i. 10, n. 1;
looks upon him as continually happy, iii. 5, n. 5;
meets him for the first time, ii. 240;
successful _negotiation_, admires, iii. 79;
visits him, iv. 210;
bottomless Whig, a, iv. 223;
boy, loves to be a, iv. 79;
Bristol, would be upon his good behaviour at, iii. 378;
Brocklesby, Dr., gives him L1000, iv. 338, n. 2;
'bulls enough in Ireland,' iii. 232;
_Cecilia_, reads, iv. 223, n. 5;
Chatham and the Woollen Act, jokes about, ii. 453, n. 2;
Cicero or Demosthenes, not like, v. 214;
composition, promptitude of, iii. 85;
conversation, his, its 'affluence,' ii. 181;
corresponds with his fame, iv. 19;
ebullition of his mind, 167;
never hum-drum, v. 33;
ready on all subjects, iv. 20, 275-6;
talk, partly from ostentation, iii. 247;
not good at listening, v. 34;
_Corycius Senex_, iv. 173;
Croft's imitation of Johnson's style, iv. 59;
definition of a free government, iii. 187;
domestic habits, iii. 378;
Dutch sonnet, mentions a, iii. 235;
Dyer, Samuel, draws the character of, iv. 11, n. 1;
Economical Reform Bill, v. 32, n. 3;
eloquence, v. 213;
emigration, on, iii. 231-3;
exaggerated praise, would suffer from, iv. 82;
extraordinary man, an, ii. 450; iv. 26, 275; v. 34;
first man everywhere, iv. 27, n. 1; v. 269;
Fitzherbert's character, describes, iii. 148, n. 1;
Fox introduced into the Club, ii. 274, n. 4;
Garrick, dines with, ii. 155, n. 2;
epitaph on, ii. 234, n. 6;
Glasgow professorship, seeks a, v. 369, n. 2;
Goldsmith's college days, recollections of, iii. 168;
and the _Fantoccini_, story of, i. 414;
_Haunch of Venison_, mentioned in, iii. 225, n. 2;
and _Retaliation_, i. 472; iii. 233, n. 1;
Grenville's character, ii. 135, n. 2;
Hamilton, engagement with, i. 519;
estimate of him, iv. 27, n. 1;
Hawkins, attacked by, i. 480, n. 1
histories, his opinion of, ii. 366, n. 1;
House of Commons, enters the, ii. 450;
first speeches, ii. 16;
described as the second man in it, iv. 27, n. 1;
as the first, v. 269;
describes it as a mixed body, iii. 234;
Hume's partiality for Charles II, ii. 341, n. 2;
Hussey, Rev. Dr., praises, iv. 411, n. 2;
immorality, possible charge of, iv. 280, n. 1;
'imprudent publication,' i. 463;
_influence_ of the Crown, on the, iii. 205, n. 4;
Ireland--penal code against the Catholics, ii. 121, n. 1;
people condemned to ignorance, ii. 27, n. 1;
Roman Catholics the nation there, ii. 255, n. 3;
Irish language, iii. 235;
Johnson charges him with want of honesty, ii. 348; iii. 45;
describes him as 'Le grand Burke,' iv. 20, n. 1;
as 'a great man by nature,' ii. 16:
See above, conversation, and extraordinary man;
has a low opinion of his jocularity, iv. 276: See below, Wit;
predicts his greatness, ii. 450;
buys a print of him, i. 363, n. 3;
explains the excellence of his eloquence, v. 213;
visits him at Beaconsfield, ii. 285, n. 3; v. 460;
in Parliament defends--, iv. 318;
eulogises him, iv. 407, n. 3;
funeral, at, iv. 419;
has the greatest respect for, iv. 318;
_Journey_, commends, iii. 137;
last parting with, iv. 407;
praises his work, ib., n. 3; iii. 62;
likens him to _Appius_, iv. 374, n, 2;
as a member of parliament, considers, ii. 138;
joins in raising a monument to, iv. 423, n. 1;
'oil of vitriol,' speaks of, v. 15, n. 1;
parody of his speech, iv. 317, n. 3;
powers, calls forth all, ii. 450;
rings the bell to, iv. 26-7;
roughness in conversation, iv. 280;
sends his speech on India to, iv. 260, n, 2;
shuns subjects of disagreement in their talk, ii. 181;
study of Low Dutch, iv. 22;
style, i. 88;
at a tavern dinner, meets, i. 470, n. 2;
Thames scolding, admires, iv. 26;
'Why, no, Sir,' explains, iv. 316, n. 1;
_Junius_, not, iii. 376;
'kennel, in the,' iv. 276;
knowledge, variety of, v. 32, 213;
law, intended for the, v. 34;
_Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol_, iii. 186;
life led over again, on, iv. 303;
Literary Club, original member, i. 477;
attendance, ii. 16;
mentioned by Gibbon, iii. 128, n. 4;
name distinguished by an initial, iii. 230, n. 5;
playful talk, iii. 238;
'live pleasant,' i. 344;
London, describes, iii. 178, n. 1;
mankind, thinks better of, iii. 236;
Middle Temple, enters at the, v. 34, n. 3;
minority, always in the, iii. 235;
ministry, on the pretended vigour of the, iv. 140, n. 1;
'mire, in the,' v. 213;
Monckton's, Miss, at, iv. 108, n. 4;
'Mund,' ii. 528, n. 1; iii. 84, n. 2;
'_mutual_ friend,' iii. 103, n. 1;
Newgate, visits Baretti in, ii. 97, n. 1;
Nugent, Dr., his father-in-law, i. 477, n. 4;
opponent, as an, ii. 450;
'parcel of boys,' iv. 297, n. 2;
parliament: See above, House of Commons;
'party,' defines, ii. 223, n. 1;
party, sticking to his, ii. 223; v. 36;
Paymaster of the Forces, iv. 223, n. 1;
poetry is truth rather than history, ii. 366, n. 1;
portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
Powell and Bembridge, case of, iv. 223, n. 3;
_Present Discontents_, iii. 205, n. 4;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
puns, on the Isle of Man, iii. 80;
Wilkes, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3;
_modus_ and _fines_, iii. 323;
Deanery of Ferns, iv. 73;
Langton, v. 32, n. 3;
Boswell's definition of man, ib.;
reforms the King's household expenses, iv. 368, n. 3;
reputation in public business, ii. 16;
retiring, talks of, iv. 223, n. 3;
Reynolds's character, draws, i. 245, n. 3; v. 102, n. 3;
Reynolds is his echo, ii. 222, n. 4;
is too much under him, iii. 261;
Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5;
Rockingham, advice to, ii. 355, n. 2;
Royal Academy, seat reserved for him at the, iii. 369, n. 2;
romances, loves old, i. 49, n. 2;
Round-Robin, draws up the, iii. 83;
should have had more sense, iii. 84, n. 2;
same one day as another, iii. 192; v. 33;
Shelburne speaks of him with malignity, iv. 191, n. 4;
soldiers, on the quartering of, iii. 9, n. 4;
son, extravagant estimate of his, iv. 219, n. 3;
_Speech on Conciliation_, ii. 314, n. 3, 317, n. 2; iv. 317, n. 3;
speeches too frequent and familiar, ii. 131;
effect of them, iii. 233;
not like Demosthenes or Cicero, v. 213-4;
statues, on the worth of, iii. 231;
Stonehenge, sees, iv. 234, n. 2;
stream of mind, ii. 450;
style censured by Johnson, iii. 186;
and Francis, iii. 187, n. 1;
_Sublime and Beautiful_, i. 310, 472, n. 2; ii. 90;
subscription to the Articles, on the, ii. 150, n. 7;
talk, his: see CONVERSATION;
Thurlow, Lord, iv. 349, n. 3;
Townshend, Charles, ii. 222, n. 3;
translations of Cicero, could not bear, iii. 36, n. 4;
understands everything but gaming and music, iv. 27, n. 1;
Vesey's gentle manners, praises, iv. 28;
_Vindication of Natural Society_, i. 463, n. 1;
Virgil, his ragged Delphin, iii. 193, n. 3;
prefers him to Homer, v. 79, n. 2;
Whigs, quietness of the nation under the, iv. 100;
'wild Irishmen,' v. 329;
Wilkes on his want of taste, iv. 104;
winds into a subject like a serpent, ii. 260;
wit, fails at, i. 453; iii. 323; iv. 276, n. 2; v. 32, 213;
Langton's description of it, i. 453, n. 2;
Boswell's defence, v. 32, n. 3;
Reynolds's, ib.;
mentioned, i. 432, n. 3; ii. 255; iii. 305; iv. 78, 344.
BURKE, Richard, senior, Barnard's verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3.
BURKE, Richard, junior, (Edmund Burke's son),
account of him, iv. 219, n. 3;
at Chatsworth, iv. 367;
Johnson, calls on, iv. 218-9;
rebuked by, 335, n. 3;
member of the Literary Club, i. 479.
BURKE, William, ii. 16, n. 1; v. 76, n. 3.
BURKE, William, the murderer, v. 227, n. 4.
BURLAMAQUI, ii. 430.
BURLINGTON, Lord, iii. 347; iv. 50, n. 4.
_Burman, Peter, Life of_, i. 153.
BURNET, Arthur, v. 81.
BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury,
dedication to Lauderdale, v. 285;
Hickes, George, v. 357, n. 4;
_History of his own Time_, very entertaining, ii. 213; v. 285;
Kincardine, Earl of, v. 25, n. 2;
_Life of Hale_, iv. 311;
_Life of Rochester_, iii. 191-2;
_Lilliburlero_, effect of, ii. 347, n. 2;
Lloyd's learning in ready cash, ii. 256, n. 3;
Popery, controversial war on, v. 276, n. 4;
style mere chit-chat, ii. 213;
truthfulness, ii. 213, ib. n. 3;
Whitby, Daniel, v. 276, n. 4.
BURNET, James. See MONBODDO, Lord.
BURNET, Thomas, v. 352, n. 2.
BURNET, Miss, v. 82, n. 1.
BURNEY, Dr. Charles, _Account of the Handel Commemoration_, iv. 361;
Boscovitch, visits, ii. 125, n. 5;
Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, notes to, i. 15;
Doctor of Music, i. 285;
Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4;
Garrick, Mrs., dines with, iv. 96-9;
Handel musical meeting, iv. 283, n. 1;
_History of Music_, ii. 409, n. 1; iii. 366-7; v. 72;
house in St. Martin's Street, iv. 134;
Johnson accompanies his son to Winchester, iii. 367;
anecdotes of, ii. 407; iv. 134;
asks him to teach him the scale of music, ii. 263, n. 4;
begs his pardon, iv. 49, n. 3;
character, draws, iii. 24, n. 2;
character of him, ii. 407, n. 1;
death-bed, iv. 410, n. 1, 438-9;
funeral, 420, n. 1;
dislike of _the former, the latter_, iv. 190, n. 2;
first visit to his house, ii. 364, n. 3;
house in Gough Square, i. 328;
in the Temple, iv. 134;
letters: See JOHNSON, letters;
hearth-broom, iv. 134;
introduces him at Oxford, iii. 366-7;
kindness, i. 410, n. 2;
love of him, ii. 407, n. 1;
and of his family, iii. 367, n. 4; iv. 377;
parting with Burke, iv. 407, n. 3;
pension, i. 375, n. 1;
politeness, i. 286;
praises his library, ii. 364, n. 3;
sayings, collection of, ii. 407;
_Shakespeare_, i. 323, 499;
at Streatham in 1775, ii. 406;
talking to himself, i. 483, n. 4;
will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
Lynne Regis, residence at, i. 285;
_Musician_, article on, ii. 204, n. 2;
musical scheme, a, iii. 373, n. 3;
portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
_Rambler_, sale of, i. 208, n. 3;
Smart, Kit, kindness to, i. 306, n. 1;
Smart's madness, i. 397;
Streatham library, account of, iv. 158;
Thornton's _Ode_, i. 420, n, 2;
Thrale, Mrs., neglected by, iv. 153, n. 4;
rebukes her, iv. 339, n. 2;
_Travels_ ridiculed by Bicknell, i. 315, n. 4;
praised by Johnson, iv. 186;
mentioned, ii. 52; iii. 109, n. 1, 256.
BURNEY, Mrs., i. 328, 491, n. 3; iv. 208, 360-1.
BURNEY, Dr. Charles (jun.),
account of Beckford's speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3;
Greek, knowledge of, iv 385;
Johnson's funeral, at, iv. 420, n. 2;
head on a seal, has, iv. 421, n. 2;
regard for him, iv. 377; n. 1;
studied at Aberdeen, v. 85, n. 2.
BURNEY, Frances (Mme. D'Arblay),
Baretti's bitterness, iii. 96, n. 1;
Bath, at, in 1780, iii. 422-3, 428, n. 4;
Boswell's imitation of Johnson, iv. 1, n. 2;
Boswell meets her at Johnson's house, iv. 223;
'Broom Gentleman, the,' iv. 134, n. 3;
Burke, first sight of, iv. 276, n. 1;
Burke's account of Lady Di. Beauclerk, ii. 246, n. 1;
Burke, young, iv. 219, n. 3;
Cambridge, R. O., iv. 196, n. 3;
Carter, Mrs., iv. 275, n. 1;
Cator, John, iv. 313, n. 1;
_Cecilia_, iv. 223;
Clerk, Sir P. J., iv. 80, n. 4;
dates, indifferent to, iv. 88, n. 1;
_downed_, will not be, iii. 335, n. 2;
_Evelina_ first praised by Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3;
copy in the Bodleian, iv. 223, n. 4;
drawings from it, 277, n. 1;
grossness of sailors described, ii. 438, n. 2;
not heard of in Lichfield, ii. 463, n. 4;
Fielding and Smollett, exhilarated by, ii. 174, n. 2;
Garrick's mimicry of Johnson, ii. 192, n. 2;
George III compliments her, ii. 35, n. 5;
criticises Shakespeare, i. 497, n. 1;
popularity, iv. 165, n.. 3;
Goldsmith's projected _Dictionary_, ii. 204, n. 2;
Gordon Riots, iii. 428, n. 4, 435, n. 2;
Grub Street, had never visited, i. 296, n. 2;
Hamilton, W. G., character of, i. 520;
Harington's _Nugae Antiquae,_ iv. 180, n. 3;
Hawkesworth's death, v. 282, n. 2;
_Irene,_ iv. 5, n. 1;
Johnson accuses her of writing Scotch, iv. 211, n. 2;
appearance: See JOHNSON, personal appearance;
attacks W. W. Pepys, iv. 65, n. 1;
benignity, ii. 141, n. 2;
borrows a shilling of her, iv. 191, n. 1;
at Brighton, iv. 159, n. 3;
and Dr. Burney, friendship of, ii. 407, n. 1;
and Burney's _History of Music_, ii. 409, n. 1;
Cecilia, praises, iv. 163, n. 1;
comical humour, ii. 262, n. 2;
consulted by letter, ii. 119;
describes Garrick's face, ii. 410, n. 1;
eye-sight, iv. 160, n. 1;
_Evelina,_ praises, ii. 12, n. 1, 173, n. 2;
on expectations, iv. 234, n. 2;
Garrick, let nobody attack, iii. 312, n. 1;
good humour and gaiety, iii. 440, n. 1; iv. 245, n. 2;
and Greville, iv. 304, n. 4;
grief at Thrale's death, iv. 85, n. 1;
household, iii. 461;
ill, iv. 163, n. 1, 256, n. 1;
violent remedies, iii. 135, n. 1;
'in the wrong chair,' iv. 232, n. 1;
introduction to her, ii. 364, n. 3;
kindliness, iv. 426, n. 2;
kitchen, ii. 215, n. 4;
last days, iv. 377, n. 1;
likes an intelligent man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3;
made or marred conversation, v. 371, n. 2;
and Miss More, iv. 341, n. 6;
needed drawing out, iii. 307, n. 2;
and the newspapers, iii. 79, n. 4;
parting with Burke, iv. 407, n. 3;
portrait, ii. 141, n. 1;
praises her, iv. 275;
Mrs. Montagu, quarrels with, iv. 64, n. 1, 65, n. 1;
urges Miss Burney to attack her, iii. 244, n. 2;
and Miss Reynolds, i. 486, n. I;
sight, i. 41, n. 4;
sorrow for his bitter speeches, ii. 256, n. 1;
at Streatham, i. 493, n. 3; iii. 451;
style, imitates, iv. 389;
talk, iv. 237, n. 1;
and Mrs. Thrale, provoked by Mrs. Thrale's praise, iv. 82, n. 3;
reproves her for flattery, v. 440, n. 2;
drives her from his mind, iv. 339, n. 3;
Warley Camp, returns from, iii. 361, n. 1;
writes to, iv. 361;
Johnson, Mrs., lodgings, iv. 377, n. 1;
Kauffmann, Angelica, iv. 277, n. 1;
Lade, Sir John, iv. 412, n. 1;
Langton's imitation of Johnson, iv. 1, n. 2;
lived to a great age, iv. 275, n. 3;
Lowe the painter, iv. 202, n. 1;
Macaulay, on her style, iv. 223, n. 5; iv. 389, n. 4;
marriage, iv. 223, n. 4;
Metcalfe, W., iv. 159, n. 2;
Miller, Lady, ii. 336, n. 6;
Monckton's, Miss, assemblies, iv. 108, n. 4;
Montagu, Mrs., character of, ii. 88, n. 3; iv. 275, n. 3;
Murphy, Arthur, described, i. 356, n. 2;
loved by Thrale, i. 493, n. 1;
Musgrave, Richard, ii. 343, n. 2; iv. 323, n. 1;
Omai, iii. 8, n. 1;
Pantheon and Ranelagh, ii. 169, n. i;
Paoli's account of Boswell, i. 6, n. 2;
Queen Charlotte's opinion of Boswell, i. 5, n. 1;
_regale_, use of the word, iii. 308, n. 2;
Reynolds's inoffensiveness, v. 102, n. 3;
matrimonial wishes about, iv. 161, n. 5;
Rousseau, admires, ii. 12, n. 1;
Seward, William, iii. 123, n. 1;
Solander, Dr., v. 328, n. 2;
Streatham, life at, iv. 340, n. 3;
farewell to, 158, n. 4;
Thrale, Henry, his character, i. 494, n. 2;
luxurious table, iii. 423, n. 1;
stroke of apoplexy, iii. 397, n. 2;
sale of his brewery, iv. 86, n. 2;
Thrale, Mrs., her character, i. 494, n. 4;
letters to her, iv. 340, n. 3;
love of Piozzi, iv. 158, n. 4;
rudeness to him, iv. 339, n. 2;
want of restraint, iv. 82, n. 4;
Vesey, Mrs., iii. 426, n. 3;
Walker, the lecturer, iv. 206, n. 2;
Warton, Dr. Joseph, ii. 41, n. 1;
Warton, Rev. Thomas, iv. 7, n. 1.
BURNS, Robert, Beattie's _Minstrel_, praises, v. 273, n. 4;
Boswell's neighbour, v. 375, n. 3;
Dempster, R., i. 408, n. 4;
elegy on Miss Burnet, v. 82, n. 1;
Elphinston's _Martial_, iii. 258, n. 2;
'gab like Boswell,' v. 52, n. 4;
gauger, a, iv. 350, n. 1;
'Holy Willie,' ii. 472, n. 3; iii. 449;
Hume, attacks, v. 273, n. 4;
Scott, seen by, v. 42, n. 1;
_Tristram Shandy_ and _The Man of Feeling_, i. 360, n. 2.
BURROW, a man near his, i. 82, n. 3; iii. 379.
BURROWES, Rev. R., iv. 385.
BURROWS, Dr., iii. 379.
BURTON, Dr. John Hill, Beattie's _Essay on Truth_, v. 273, n. 3;
Burke, Hume and Clow, v. 369, n. 2;
_Captain Carleton's Memoirs_, iv. 334, n. 4;
Helvetius's advice to Montesquieu, v. 42, n. 1;
Douglas Cause, ii. 50, n. 4;
Hume's dislike of the English, v. 19, n. 4;
house in James's Court, v. 22, n. 2;
and Dr. Cheyne, iii. 27, n. 1;
in Paris, ii. 401, n. 4;
praise of Scotch writers, iv. 186, n. 2;
predecessors in history, ii. 53, n. 2;
Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2;
Toryism, iv. 194, n. 1;
King's College, Aberdeen, v. 91, n. 1;
Scotch Militia Bill, iii. 360, n. 3.
BURTON, Robert,
_Anatomy of Melancholy_ made Johnson rise earlier, ii. 121;
recommended by him, 440;
'Be not solitary; be not idle,' iii. 415;
elected student of Christ Church, i. 59.
_Burton's Books_, iv. 257.
BURTON-ON-TRENT, i. 86, n. 2.
BUSCH, Dr., iv. 27, n. 1.
BUSINESS, retiring from, ii. 337.
BUSTLING, v. 307.
_Busy Body_, i. 325, n. 3.
_Busy, curious, thirsty fly_, ii. 281.
BUTCHER, the art of a, v. 246-7.
BUTE, third Earl of,
Adams the architect, patronises, ii. 325, n. 3;
a book-minister, ii. 353;
his Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 135, n. 2;
concessions to the people, ii. 353;
daughter-in-law, his, ii. 378, n. 1;
favourite of George III, i. 386;
and of the Princess Dowager of Wales, iv. 127, n. 3;
_Humphry Clinker_, mentioned in, ii. 81, n. 2;
Jenkinson, his secretary, iii. 146, n. 1;
Johnson's letters to him, i. 376, 380;
Johnson's pension, i. 372-377; iv. 168, n. 1;
Luton Hoe, iv. 118;
purchase of the estate, 127, n. 3;
minister, when once, should not have resigned, ii. 470;
pensions conferred by him, i. 373, n. 1;
Scotchmen, partiality to, ii. 354;
Scotland, never goes to, iv. 131;
Shelburne on his strengthening the power of the Crown, iii. 416, n. 2;
Shelburne's 'pious fraud,' iv. 174, n. 5;
son, his, Colonel James Stuart, iii. 399;
took down too fast, ii. 356;
Wilkes attacks him, ii. 300, n. 5;
dedicates to him _Mortimer_, iii. 78.
BUTE, first Marquis of. See MOUNTSTUART, Lord.
BUTLER, Bishop, _Analogy_, v. 47.
BUTLER, Samuel,
_Hudibras_,
bullion which will last, ii. 369;
not a poem, iii. 38;
shows strength of political principles, ii. 369;
seldom read, ii. 370, n. 1;
quotations from it:
'H' was very shy of using it,' iii. 282, n. 1;
'Indian Britons made from Penguins,' v. 225;
'Jacob Behmen understood,' ii. 122, n. 6;
'True as the dial to the sun,' iv. 296, n. 2;
'Thou wilt at best but suck a bull,' i. 444, n. 1;
'The Devil was the first,' &c., iii. 326, n. 3;
_Remains_, v. 57.
BUTT, Mr., i. 47, n. 1.
BUTTER, Dr., ii. 475, n, 1; iii. 1, 154, 163; iv. 110, 399, 402, n. 2.
BUTTER, Mrs., iii. 164.
BUTTON-HOLE ACT, v. 18, n. 5.
BUXTON, iii. 152; v. 432.
BYNG, Admiral,
_Appeal to the People concerning_, i. 309, 314;
_Letter on the case of_, i. 309;
_Some further particulars by a gentleman of Oxford_, i. 309;
Epitaph, his, i. 315;
Mallet, attacked by, ii. 128;
Voltaire's saying about him, i. 314.
BYNG, Hon. John, iv. 418.
BYRON, Captain, v. 387, n. 6.
BYRON, Lord, admires the _Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 193, n. 3;
attacked in the _Edinburgh Review_, iv. 115, n. 2;
praises and abuses the Earl of Carlisle, iv. 113, n. 5.
C.
CABBAGES, ii. 455; v. 84.
CABIRI, i. 273.
CADDEL, William, of Cockenzie, ii. 302, n. 2.
CADELL, Thomas,
Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, publishes, ii. 136, n. 6;
praised by him, ii. 425, n. 2;
Hawkesworth's _Cook's Voyages_, publishes, ii. 247, n. 5;
Hume and his opponents,
gives a dinner to, ii. 441, n. 5;
Johnson's _Journey_, publishes, ii. 310, n. 2;
_False Alarm_, ii. 425, n. 2;
one of a deputation to, iii. 111;
asks Parr to write Johnson's _Life_, iv. 443;
Mackenzie's _Man of Feeling_, publishes, i. 360;
Robertson's _Scotland_, publishes, iii. 334.
_Cadet, The, a Military Treatise_, i. 309.
CADOGAN, Dr., v. 210-11.
CADOGAN, Lord, i. 12.
CAEN-WOOD, iii. 429.
CAERMARTHEN, Lord, iii. 213, n. 1.
CAESAR, Julius, i. 34.
CAIRO, iii. 134, n. i, 306, 379, n. 2, 455.
CALAIS, ii. 221, 385.
_Calaminaris_, v. 441, n. 1.
CALCULATION. See JOHNSON, calculation.
CALDER, Dr. John, ii. 212, n. 1.
CALDERWOOD, Mrs., ii. 49, n. 2.
CALDWELL, Sir James and Sir John, ii. 34, n. 1.
CALEDON, i. 185.
'CALIBAN of Literature,' ii. 129.
CALIGULA, iii. 283.
CALLANDER, Earl of, v. 103, n. 1.
_Called_, iv. 94.
CALLIMACHUS, iv. 2.
CALMING ONESELF, v. 60.
CALVINISM, v. 170, n. 1.
CALYPSO, i. 278.
CAMBRAY, ii. 401.
CAMBRICK BILL, iii. 71, n. 4.
CAMBRIDGE,
Emmanuel College,
Farmer, Dr., master, i. 368; ii. 449, n. 3;
Johnson promised an habitation there, i. 517;
strong in Shakespeare and black letter, iii. 38, n. 6;
King's College, Steevens a member, ii. 114;
Pembroke College, Kit Smart a Fellow, i. 306, n. 1;
Queen's College, iv. 125;
Trinity College, Lord Erskine a member, ii. 173, n. 1;
Johnson spends an evening there, i. 487;
Trinity Hall, i. 437;
University,
examinations for the degree, iii. 13, n. 3;
Johnson visits it, i. 487, 517;
Parr neglected, i. 77, n. 4;
Professor Sanderson, ii. 190, n. 3;
University-verses, ii. 371.
See UNIVERSITIES.
CAMBRIDGE MEN, on Johnson's criticism of Gray, iv. 64.
_Cambridge Shakespeare_. See under SHAKESPEARE.
CAMBRIDGE, R. O.,
Boswell's account of him, iv. 196;
Walpole's and Miss Burney's, ib. n. 3;
dinners at his house, ii. 225, n. 2, 361;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, n. 1;
Horace, talk about, iii. 250-1;
_World, The_, contributor to, i. 257, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 368, 370; iv. 65, n. 1, 195.
CAMDEN, Lord, Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1;
Garrick, intimacy with, iii. 311;
general warrants, ii. 72, n. 3;
Johnson, attacked by, ii. 314;
Goldsmith, neglect of, iii. 311;
Literary Club, blackballed at the, iii. 311, n. 2; iv. 75, n. _3_;
popularity, ii. 353, n. 2;
one of the sights of London, iv. 92, n. 5;
Wilkes's case, judge in, ii. 353, n. 2.
CAMDEN, William, epitaph on a man killed by a fall, iv. 212;
'_mira cano_,' iii. 304;
Pembroke College Latin grace, i. 60, n. 4; v. 65, n. 2;
mentioned, v. 438.
CAMERON, Dr., executed, i. 146.
CAMERON, Dugall, v. 298.
CAMERON, Ewen, v. 297.
CAMERON OF LOCHIEL, i. 146, n. 2.
CAMERONS, a branch of the, called Maclonich, v. 297.
CAMP, at Warley, iii. 360, 365;
Coxheath, ib. n. 4;
one of the great scenes of human life, iii. 361, n. 1.
CAMPBELL, Hon. and Rev. Archibald,
Johnson's account of him, iv. 286; v. 356-7;
his collection of Scotch books, ii. 216;
_Doctrine of a Middle State_, v. 356, n. 2.
CAMPBELL, Archibald (_Lexiphanes_), ii. 44.
CAMPBELL, Colonel Sir Archibald, iii. 58.
CAMPBELL, Colonel Mure, iii. 118.
CAMPBELL, Evan, v. 141.
CAMPBELL, General, v. 55, n. 1, 259.
CAMPBELL, Dr. John, author, a rich, i. 418, n. 1;
_Biographia Britannica_, ii. 447;
_Britannia Elucidata_, v. 323;
cold-catching at St. Kilda, on, ii. 51;
_Hermippus Redivivus_, i. 417; ii. 427;
inaccurate in conversation, iii. 243-4;
Johnson's character of him, i. 417; ii. 216; iii. 244; v. 324;
declines to argue with, v. 324;
never lies on paper, i. 417, n. 5;
or with pen and ink, iii. 244;
piety in passing a church, i. 418;
_Political Survey of Great Britain_,
killed by its bad success, ii. 447;
its publication delayed, v. 324;
Sunday evenings in Queen Square, i. 418;
thirteen bottles of port at a sitting, iii. 243.
CAMPBELL, Rev. John (brother of Cambell of Treesbank), v. 373.
CAMPBELL, Rev. John of Kippen, ii. 28.
CAMPBELL, Lord, _Lives of the Chancellors_
Cameron's execution, i. 146, n. 2;
Chancellors, appointment of, ii. 157, n. 3;
_Douglas Cause_, ii. 230, n. 1;
Eldon's, Lord, attendance at Church, iv. 414, n. 1
inaccuracy in list of Lichfield scholars, i. 45, n. 4;
Ladd, Sir John, anecdote of, iv. 412, n. 1
Mansfield's, Lord, speech in Somerset's case, iii. 87, n. 3;
Radcliffe's trial, i. 180, n. 2;
Thurlow and Horne Tooke, iv. 327, n. 4.
CAMPBELL, Mungo, account of him, iii. 188-9.
CAMPBELL, Rev. Dr. Archibald, of St. Andrews,
_Enquiry into the original of Moral Virtue_, i. 359.
CAMPBELL, Rev. Dr. George,
Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen, v. 90.
CAMPBELL, Rev. Dr. Thomas,
an Irish clergyman, account of him, ii. 338;
Baretti's love of London, i. 371, n. 5;
Baretti and Mrs. Thrale, iii. 49, n. 1;
_Diary of a visit to England_, ii. 338, n. 2;
Dublin physicians, iii. 288, n. 4;
English and Irish cottagers, ii. 130, n. 2;
English and Scotch learning, v. 57, n. 3;
Irish bull, guilty of an, ii. 343;
Johnson and America, ii. 315, n. 1;
appearance, i. 144, n. 1;
_bon-mots_, ii. 338, n. 2;
came from Ireland to see, ii. 342;
dancing lessons, iv. 80, n. 2;
introduced to, ii. 339;
and Dr. James Foster, iv. 9, n. 5;
and Madden, i. 318;
suspects Burke to be _Junius_, iii. 376, n. 4;
writings, and Reynolds's pictures, ii. 317, n. 2;
penal code against the Papists, ii. 121, n. 1;
_Philosopical Survey_, ii. 339;
published as an Englishman's book, iv. 320, n. 4;
Rutty, Dr., iii. 170, n. 4;
_Taxation no Tyranny_, sale of, ii. 335, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 349, 350; iii. 111.
CAMPBELL, ----, of Auchnaba, iii. 127, 133.
CAMPBELL,----, a factor, v. 312.
CAMPBELL, ----, a tacksman of Mull, v. 332, 340.
CAMPBELL, ----, of Treesbank, v. 372.
CAMPBELLS, ----, Mrs. Boswell's nephews, iii. 116.
CAMPBELLTOWN, ii. 183; v. 284.
CANADA, i. 307, n. 3, 428.
_Canal_, iii. 362, n. 5.
CANDIDATES FOR ORDERS, iii. 13, n. 3.
_Candide_. See VOLTAIRE.
CANNING, Miss, ii. 393, n. 1.
_Canons of Criticism_, i. 263, n. 3.
CANT, clearing the mind of it, iv. 221;
meanings of the word, _ib., n_. 1;
modern cant, iii. 197.
CANTERBURY, iii. 314, 457; iv. 230, n. 2.
CANTERBURY,
Archbishops of, _public dinners_, their, iv. 367, n. 3;
Cornwallis, Archbishop,
Johnson's application to him, iii. 125;
Seeker, Archbishop,
Johnson asked to seek his patronage, i. 368.
CANUS, Melchior, ii. 391.
CANYNGE, 'a Bristol merchant,' iii. 50, n. i.
CAPEL, Lord, v. 403, n. 2.
CAPELL, Edward, editor of _Shakespeare_, iv. 5.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS. See EXECUTIONS, NEWGATE, and TYBURN.
CARACCIOLI, M. de, iii. 286, n. 2.
_Caractacus_, ii. 335.
_Card, The_, v. 270, n. 4.
CARDONNEL, Commissioner, iii. 390, n. 1.
CARDROSS, Lord (sixth Earl of Buchan), ii. 177.
CARDS, Johnson wishes he had learnt to play at them, i. 317; iii. 23;
v. 404;
condemns them in the Rambler, iii. 23, n. 2.
CARELESS, Mrs., Johnson's first love, ii. 459-461;
mentioned, iv. 146-8, 378.
_Careless Husband_. See CIBBER, Colley.
CARELESSNESS, iv. 21.
CARIBS, iii. 200, n. 4.
_Carleton's, Captain, Memoirs_, iv. 333-4.
CARLISLE, Boswell proposes to meet Johnson there, iii. 107;
'cathedral so near Auchinleck,' iii. 416-7;
Percy made Dean, iii. 365;
printer run out of parentheses, iii. 402, n. 1.
CARLISLE, Law, Bishop of, i. 437, n. 2.
CARLISLE, fifth Earl of, iv. 113, n. 5;
_Poems_, iv. 113;
_The Father's Revenge_, iv. 246-8.
CARLISLE HOUSE, iv. 92, n. 5.
CARLISLE OF LIMEKILNS, v. 316.
CARLYLE, Dr. Alexander
Blair, Robert, iii. 47, n. 3;
Blair's, Hugh, conversation, v. 397, n. 3;
Cardonnel, Commissioner, iii. 390, n. 1;
clergy (English), at Harrogate, v. 252, n. 3;
clergy (Scotch), and card-playing, v. 404, n. 1;
Cullen's mimicry, ii. 154, n. 1;
Culloden--London in an uproar of joy, v. 196, n. 3;
dinners in London and Edinburgh, i. 103, n. 2;
Dodd, Dr., iii. 139, n. 4;
Douglas, Duchess of, v. 43, n. 4;
Elibank, Lord, v. 386, n. 1;
Elphinston's school, ii. 171, n. 2;
Guthrie, W., i. 117, n. 2;
Home patronised by Lord Bute, ii. 354, n. 4;
_Douglas_, v. 362, n. 1;
as an historian, iii. 162, n. 5;
Hume, account of, v. 30, n. 1;
opinion of _Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2;
Leechman's prosecution, v. 68, n. 4;
liberality of leading clergymen, v. 21, n. 1;
Lonsdale, Lord, v. 113, n. 1;
Maclaurin, Professor, v. 49, n. 6;
Macpherson, James, ii. 300, n. 1;
Mansfield on Hume's style, i. 439, n. 2;
Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3;
Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1;
Pretender, Young, v. 196, n. 2;
Robertson and the claret, iii. 335; n. 4;
conversation, v. 397, n. 3;
romantic humour, iii. 335, n. 1;
Smith, Adam, iv. 24, n. 2;
study of English by the Scotch, i. 439, n. 2.
CARLYLE, Thomas, Cromwell's speeches, i. 150, n. 2;
Gough Square, visits, i. 188, n. 1;
errors about Johnson, i. 58, n. 2, 78, n. 1, 113, n. 1, 328, n. 1;
Henault, quotes, ii. 383, n. 1;
Johnson's god-daughter, subscribes for an annuity to, iv. 202, n. 1;
_Novalis_, quotes, iii. 11, n. 1;
Sandwich, Lord, and Basil Montague, iii. 383, n. 3;
teacher's life, on a, i. 85, n. 2;
walking to Edinburgh University, v. 301, n. 2;
writing an effort, iv. 219, n. 1.
CARMICHAEL, Miss, Johnson lodges her in his house, iii. 222;
speaks of her as 'Poll,' iii. 368;
describes her, iii. 461.
CARNAN, Thomas, bookseller, iii. 100, n. 1.
CAROLINE, QUEEN, Clarke's refusal of a bishopric, iii. 248, n. 2;
Leibnitz, patronizes, v. 287;
Savage, bounty to, i. 125, n. 4, 173, n. 3.
CARPENTER, anecdote of a, iv. 116.
CARRE, Rev. Mr., v. 27-8.
CARRUTHERS, Robert, Highland emigration, v. 150, n. 3.
_Carstares' State Papers_, v. 227, n. 4.
CARTE, Thomas, believed in the 'regal touch,' i. 42;
_History of England_, i. 42; ii. 344; iv. 311;
_Life of Ormond_, v. 296.
CARTER, Rev. Dr., i. 122, n. 4.
CARTER, Miss Elizabeth (Mrs.), account of her, i. 122, n. 4;
age, lived to a great, iv. 275, n. 3;
alarum, her, iii. 168;
_Amelia_, praises, iii. 43, n. 2;
Burney, Miss, described by, iv. 275, n. 1;
her _Correspondence_, i. 203, n. 5;
Crousaz's _Examen_, translates, i. 138;
Garrick, Mrs., dines with, iv. 96-9;
Greek and pudding-making, i. 122, n. 4;
Johnson advises her to translate _Boethius_, i. 139;
writes an epigram to her, i. 122, 140;
English verses, ib.;
a letter, i. 122, n. 4;
praises her, iv. 275;
known as 'the learned,' iv. 246, n. 6;
_Ode to Melancholy_, i. 122, n. 4;
_Rambler, contributes to the, i. 203;
criticises it, i. 208, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 242.
CARTER,--, a riding-school master, ii. 424, n. 1.
CARTERET, John, Lord, afterwards Earl Granville, i. 507, 509.
_Carteret_, a dactyl, iv. 3.
CARTHAGE, iv. 196.
CARTHAGENA, v. 386.
CARTHUSIAN CONVENT. See MONASTERY.
CASCADES, v. 429, n. 4, 442.
CASHIOBURY, i. 381, n. 1.
CASIMIR'S _Ode to Pope Urban_, i. 13, n. 2.
CASTES OF THE HINDOOS, iv. 12, n. 2, 88.
CASTIGLIONE, author of _Il Corteggiano_, v. 276.
CASTIGLIONE, Prince Gonzaga di, iii. 411, n. 1.
CASTLE, shut up in one, ii. 100.
CASUISTRY, i. 254.
CATALOGUE of Johnson's _Works_, i. 16.
CATALOGUES, why we look at them, ii. 365.
CATCOT, George, iii. 50-1.
CATHCART, Lord, ii. 413; iii. 346.
CATHEDRALS of England, most seen by Johnson, iii. 107, 456;
neglected, v. 114, n. 1.
CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia,
Boswell's eulogium on her, iii. 134, n. 1;
engages English tutors, iv. 277, n. 1;
_Evelina_, has drawings made from, iv. 277, n. 1;
Houghton Collection, buys the, iv. 334, n. 6;
_Rambler_, orders a translation of the, iv. 277;
sends Reynolds a snuff-box, iii. 370.
_Catholicon_, ii. 399.
CATILINE, i. 32.
CATO the Censor, iv. 79.
CATOR, John, iv. 313, 340, n. 3.
CATS, shooting, iv. 197.
CATULLUS, iv. 180.
CAULFIELD, Miss, iii. 100.
CAVE, Edward, account of him, i. 113, n. 1;
Abridgment of Trapp's _Sermons_, publishes an, i. 140, n. 5;
attacked by rivals, i. 113, n. 3;
Birch, Dr., Letters to, i. 139, 150, 151, 153;
Boyse's verses to him, iv. 441;
coach, sets up a, i. 152, n. 1; ii. 226, n. 2;
death and effects, i. 256, ns. 1 and 2;
_Debates_, publishes the, i. 115-8, 136, 150-2, 501-12;
reports them, i. 503;
descendants, collateral, i. 90, n. 4;
examined before House of Lords, i. 111, n. 3, 501;
(_Sylvanus Urban_), _Gentleman's Magazine_, projects the, i. 90, 111;
attends closely to its sale, iii. 322;
ghost, saw a, ii. 178, 182;
indecent books, sells, i. 112, n. 2;
Johnson 'Cave's Oracle,' i. 140, n. 5;
first employer, i. 103;
_Life of Savage_, buys the copyright of, i. 165, n. 1;
letters from: see JOHNSON, Letters;
money account with, i. 135;
_Ode_ to him, i. 113;
_Rambler_, proprietor of, i. 203, n. 6, 208, n. 3, 209, n. 1;
and the screen, i. 163, n. 1;
writes his _Life_, i. 256;
'penurious paymaster,' i. 121, n. 2; iv. 409;
prizes for verses, offers, i. 91, n. 2, 136;
treatment of his readers, i. 157, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 122, n. 4, 135, 176, n. 2, 242.
CAVE, Edward, Jun., i. 111, n. 3.
CAVE, Miss, i. 90, n. 4.
CAVERSHAM, ii. 258, n. 3.
CAWSTON, ----, iv. 418.
CAXTON, William, iii. 254.
CECIL, Colonel, ii. 183.
_Cecilia_. See Miss BURNEY.
CEDED ISLANDS, money arising from the, ii. 353, n. 4.
CELIBACY, cheerless, ii. 128.
CELSUS, iii. 152, n. 2.
CELTS, descended from the Scythians, v. 224.
CENSURE, ecclesiastical, iii. 59.
_Cento_, ii. 96, n. 1.
CERTAINTIES, small, the bane of men of talents, ii. 323.
CERVANTES, Don Quixote's death, ii. 370:
see DON QUIXOTE;
praised _Il Palmerino d' Inghilterra_, iii. 2
'CHAIR OF VERITY,' iii. 58, n. 3.
CHALMERS, Alexander, edits the _Spectator_, ii. 212, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 136, n. 3; iii. 230, n. 5.
CHALMERS, George, edits Johnson's _Debates_, i. 152, n. 2.
'CHAM OF LITERATURE,' i. 348.
CHAMBERLAIN, Lord, Johnson's application to the, iii. 34, n. 4.
CHAMBERLAYNE, Edward, iv. 98.
CHAMBERLAYNE, Rev. Mr., iv. 288.
CHAMBERS, Catherine, i. 513-6; death, ii. 43.
CHAMBERS, Ephraim,
_Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_, i. 138, 219;
new edition, ii. 203, n. 3;
epitaph, i. 219, n. 1, 498, n. 2;
Johnson takes his style as a model, i. 218.
CHAMBERS, Sir Robert, dissenters and snails, ii. 268, n. 2;
Johnson's companion to Newcastle, ii. 264; v. 16, 20;
learnt law from him, iii. 22;
letter to him, i. 274;
prescribes remedies to, ii. 260;
recommends him to Warren Hastings, iv. 68-9;
visits him, ii. 25, 46;
judge in India, appointed, ii. 264;
threatened with revocation, ib., n. i;
Langton's will, makes, ii. 261;
Lincoln College, Oxford, member of, i. 274;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479;
married, ii. 274; Principal of New Inn Hall, ii. 46, 268, n. 2;
portrait in University College, ii. 25, n. 2;
at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 109;
proud or negligent, ii. 272;
Warton, Dr., recommends him to W. G. Hamilton, i. 519;
mentioned, i. 274, 336, 357, 370; ii. 265; iv. 344; v. 66.
CHAMBERS, Dr. Robert,
_Traditions of Edinburgh_--Boyd's Inn, v. 21, n. 2;
Edinburgh, a new face in the streets, v. 39, n. 3;
noble families in the old town, v. 43, n. 4;
Hailes, Lord, i. 432, _n_. 3;
_Hardyknute_, ii. 91, n. 2;
James's Court, v. 22, n. 2;
Kames, Lord, ii. 200, n. 1;
Macdonald's, Flora, virulence, v. 185, n. 4;
Monboddo, Lord, ii. 74, n. 1.
CHAMBERS, Sir William,
_Dissertation on Oriental Gardening_, iv. 60, n. 7; v. 186;
ridiculed in _The Heroic Epistle, ib.;
Johnson writes an introduction to his _Chinese Architecture_, iv. 188;
Somerset House, architect of, iv. 187, n. 4;
_Treatise on Civil Architecture_, iv. 187, n. 4.
CHAMIER, Andrew, account of him, i. 478;
Goldsmith, his estimate of, iii. 252-3;
Johnson consults him in Dodd's case, iii. 121;
gets his interest for Mr. Welch, iii. 217;
visits him, iii. 398, n. 1;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 109;
signs the Round-Robin, iii. 83.
CHAMPION, Sir G., iii. 459.
_Champion, The_, i. 169.
CHANCELLORS, Lord High, how chosen, ii. 157.
CHANCES, iv. 330.
_Chances, The_, ii. 233, n. 4.
CHANDLER, Dr., ii. 445, n. 1.
CHANGE, silver, iv. 191.
CHANTILLY, ii. 400.
CHAPEL-HOUSE, ii. 451.
CHAPLAINS, ii. 96.
CHAPONE, Mrs., account of her, iv. 246, n. 6;
_Correspondence_, her, i. 203, n. 4;
Johnson, letter from, iv. 247;
his meeting with the Abbe Raynal, iv. 434;
his views on natural depravity, v. 211, n. 3;
_Rambler_, contributes to the, i. 203;
Williams, Mrs., account of, i. 232, n. 1.
CHARACTER, a most complete one, ii. 402;
argument, its weight in an, ii. 443; v. 29, n. 5;
delineation in the _Anabasis_, iv. 31;
expectation of uniformity, iii. 282, n. 2;
Johnson saw a great variety, iii. 20;
his sketches of them, ib.;
men not bound to reveal their children's character, iii. 18;
not to be tried by one particular, iii. 238;
must not be lessened, v. 247;
nature and manners, ii. 48;
as to this world not hurt by vice, iii. 342, 349.
CHARADE, a, iv. 195.
CHARITABLE ESTABLISHMENT IN WALES, a, iii. 255.
CHARITY. See ALMSGIVING.
CHARLEMONT, first Earl of,
Beauclerk's character, draws, i. 249, n. 1;
letters to him, ii. 192;
Hume's French, i. 439, n. 2;
Hume and Mrs. Mallet, ii. 8, n. 4;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
Johnson and Vestris, iv. 79;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
story of the Pyramids, iii. 352, 449, 458;
mentioned, ii. 235, 274, n. 3; iv. 78.
CHARLES I,
anniversary of his death, ii. 152, n. 1;
kept by Boswell with old port and solemn talk, iii. 371;
birth-place, v. 399;
concessions to parliament, v. 340;
corn, price of, in his reign, iii. 232, n. 1;
Johnson and Lord Auchinleck dispute about him, v. 382, n. 2;
'murder,' his, unpopular, ii. 370;
political principles in his time, ii. 369;
saying about lawyers, ii. 214;
mentioned, i. 194, n. 2, 466; ii. 170, n. 2; v. 204, 346, 406.
CHARLES II, atheist and bigot, iv. 194, n. 1;
betrayed and sold the nation, ii. 342, n. 2;
corn, price of, in his reign, iii. 232, n. 1;
descendants, his, Beauclerk, i. 248, n. 2;
Commissioner Cardonnel, iii. 390, n. 1;
Charles Fox, iv. 292, n. 2;
Duke of York and Catharine Sedley, v. 49;
France, took money from, ii. 342;
Heale, at, iv. 234, n. 1;
Hume's partiality for him, ii. 341, n. 2;
Johnson's partiality for him, i. 248; ii. 341; iv. 292, n. 2;
'lenity,' his, iv. 41;
Lewis XIV, might have been as absolute as, ii. 370;
manners, ii. 41;
political principles in his time, ii. 369;
social, i. 442;
story-telling, excelled in, iii. 390, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 437, n 2; v. 357, n. 3.
CHARLES III (the Young Pretender), ii. 253.
CHARLES EDWARD, Prince. See PRETENDER.
CHARLES V, Emperor, plays at his own funeral, iii. 247.
CHARLES X, of France, ii. 401, n. 4.
CHARLES XII, of Sweden, compared with Socrates, iii. 265;
dressed plainly, ii. 475;
Johnson's _Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 195.
_Charles of Sweden_, i. 153.
CHARLOTTE, Queen, account of Boswell, i. 5, n. 1;
Garrick's compliment to her, ii. 233;
'a lady of experience,' ii. 142;
Queen's House, ii. 33, n. 3;
Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 383; ii. 290.
_Charmer, The_, v. 313.
CHARTER-HOUSE, iii. 124, 441.
CHARTER-HOUSE SCHOOL, iii. 222.
CHARTRES, Colonel, ii. 211, n. 4.
CHASTITY, one deviation from it ruins a woman, ii. 56;
property depends on it, ii. 457; v. 209.
CHATHAM, William Pitt, Earl of,
Boswell, correspondence with, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1;
_Capability_ Brown, account of, iii. 400, n. 2;
Cardross, Lord, offers a post to, ii. 177;
Cumming the Quaker's account of him, v. 98, n. 1;
Dictator, iii. 356;
excisemen, attacks, i. 294, n. 9;
Garrick, notes to, ii. 227;
Highland regiments, raises, iii. 198; v. 150;
House of Commons, last speech in the, ii. 16, n. 2;
Johnson attacks him, ii. 134, n. 4, 314;
criticises his oratory, iv. 317;
writes a speech in his name, i. 504;
Loudoun, Lord, recalls, v. 372, n. 3;
merchants and tradesmen, praises honest, v. 327, n. 4;
'meteor,' i. 131; v. 339;
oratory, his, i. 152;
Oxford in 1754, at, i. 171, n. 1;
'Ptit,' figures in the _Debates_ as, i. 502;
public and private schools, on, iii. 12, n. 1;
Scotch Militia bill, acquiesces in the, ii. 431, n. 1;
Shelburne joins his ministry, iii. 36, n. 1;
son, his, superior to him, iv. 219,_ n._ 3;
Trecothick, praises, iii. 76,_ n._ 2;
Walpole, distinguished from, ii. 196;
war, his glorious, ii. 126;
Whigs and Tories, distinguishes, i. 431, n. 1;
'woollen, buried in,' ii. 453, n. 2;
mentioned, iii. 201, n. 3.
CHATSWORTH, Boswell visits it, iii. 208;
Johnson visits it in 1774, v. 429;
in 1784, iv. 357, 367;
present at a 'public dinner,' ib., n. 3.
CHATTERTON, Thomas,
money gained by Beckford's death, iii. 201, n. 3;
_Rowley's Poetry,_ iii. 50;
pretended discovery, ib., n. 1;
Johnson's admiration, iii. 51;
Goldsmith's belief, ib., n. 2;
Walpole's disbelief, ib.;
quarrel about it between Goldsmith and Percy, iii. 276, n. 2;
'wild adherence to him,' iv. 141.
CHAUCER, took much from the Italians, iii. 254.
_Chaucer, Life of,_ i. 306.
CHEAP, Captain, i. 117, n. 2.
CHELSEA, ii. 169, n. 1.
CHELSEA COLLEGE, ii. 64.
CHEMISTRY,
Johnson's love of it, i. 140, 436; ii. 155;
'the new kinds of air,' iv. 237;
Priestley's discoveries, 238.
CHENEY WALK, ii. 99, n. 5.
CHEROKEES, v. 248.
CHESELDEN, William, iii. 152,_ n._ 3.
CHESTER, Boswell visits it, iii. 411-15;
Johnson and the Thrales, v. 435;
Michael Johnson attends the fair, ib.;
passage thence to Ireland, i. 105.
CHESTERFIELD, fourth Earl of,
active sports and idleness, i. 48, n. 1;
Addison and Leandro Alberti, ii. 346, n. 7;
appeal to people in high life, how to be made, i. 257, n. 1;
Bolingbroke's ready knowledge, ii. 256, n. 3;
'But stoops to conquer,' quotes, ii. 205, n. 4;
conversation and knowledge, iv. 332;
dedications, the _plastron_ of, i. 183, n. 3;
dignified but insolent, iv. 174;
dissembling anger, i. 265, n. 1;
duplicity, his, i. 264-5;
Eliot, Mr., praises, iv. 334, n. 5;
epigram written with his diamond, iv. 102, n. 4;
exquisitely elegant, iv. 332;
Faulkner, George, account of, v. 44, n. 2;
friend, had no, iii. 387;
flogging, on, i. 46, n. 2;
general reflections, on, iv. 313, n. 2;
graces and wickedness, on uniting the, ii. 340;
_great_, pronunciation of, ii. 161;
_Letters_, 'Hottentot, a respectable,' i. 266; v. 103, n. 2;
Ireland's sufferings from a drunken gentry, v. 250, n. 1:
Johnson addresses to him the Plan, i. 183-5; ii. 1, n. 2; 35, n. 5;
his MS. notes on it, i. 185, n. 2;
_Dictionary_, writes in _The World_ on, i. 257-60;
flatters with a view to a _Dedication, i. 257;
letter to him, i. 260-5, 284, n. 3; iv. 192, n. 2; v. 130, n. 3;
Boswell begs for a copy of it, iii. 418, 420;
gets it, iv. 128;
neglects, i. 256-265;
presents ten pounds to, i. 261, n. 3;
speeches ascribed to him, iii. 351;
laughter low and unbecoming, declares, ii. 378, n. 2;
letter to his son at Rome, iv. 78, n. 1;
_Letters_, Johnson's description of them, i. 266;
Boswell's, ib., n. 2;
Lord Eliot's, iv. 333;
literary property in them contested, i. 266;
pretty book, might be made a, iii. 53;
sale, ii. 329;
mentioned, iii. 54;
_Miscellaneous Works_, published in 1777, iii. 108, n. 2;
old and ill, i. 262, n. 1;
Parisians not learned, declares the, i. 454, n. 3;
patron of bad authors, iv, 331, n. 1;
position, great, ii. 329; pride, i. 265;
_respectable_, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2;
Richardson's novels, ii. 174, n. 2;
Robinson, Sir T., epigram on, i. 434, n. 3;
Secretary of State, iv. 333, n. 2;
speeches composed by Johnson, i. 505;
study of eloquence, on the, iv. 184, n. 1;
_transpire_, iii. 343, n. 2;
Tyrawley, Lord, criticism on, ii. 211;
'wit among Lords,' i. 266;
wit, his, ii. 211;
world, on the judgment of the, i. 200, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 151; iv. 78.
CHESTERFIELD, fifth Earl of, Dodd, Dr., forges his name, iii. 140.
CHEVALIER, the, v. 140, n. 3.
_Chevalier's Muster Roll_, v. 142, n. 2.
CHEYNE, Dr. George,
account of his diet, iii. 27, n. 1;
on bleeding, iii. 152, n. 3;
_English Malady_, i. 65; iii. 27, 87; v. 210;
rule of conduct, v. 154.
_Cheynel, Life of_, i. 228; ii. 187, n. 2. v. 48.
CHICHESTER, iv. 160.
CHIEFS. See HIGHLANDS.
CHIESLEY OF DALRY, v. 227, n. 4.
CHILDHOOD, companions of one's, iii. 131.
CHILD, ----, of Southwark, i. 491, n. 1.
CHILDREN, business men care little for them, iii. 29;
company, should not be brought into, iii. 28, 128;
Gay's writings for them, ii. 408, n. 3;
Johnson on books for them, iv. 8, n. 3, 16;
library, to be turned loose in a, iv. 21;
management of them, i. 46, n. 3;
method of rearing them, ii. 101;
natural aptitudes, v. 211, 214;
prematurely wise, ii. 408.
CHINA, dog-butchers, ii. 232;
mortality on the voyage thither, i. 348, n. 3;
wall of, iii. 269, 457;
people 'perfectly polite,' i. 89;
barbarians, iii. 339;
plantations, iv. 60.
_China_, Du Halde's _Description of_. See Du HALDE.
CHINA-FANCY, iii. 163, n. 1.
CHINA-MANUFACTORY, iii. 163.
_Chinese Architecture_. See CHAMBERS, Sir W.
_Chinese Stories_, i. 136.
CHISWICK, iv. 168, n. 1.
'CHOICE OF DIFFICULTIES,' v. 146.
CHOISI, Abbe, iii. 336.
CHOLMONDELEY, G. J., iv. 345.
CHOLMONDELEY, Mrs., account of her, iii. 318, n. 3;
a very airy lady, v. 248;
an affected gentleman, iii. 261;
Johnson takes her hand, iii. 318, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 125; iii. 256.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, ii. 286.
CHRIST'S satisfaction, iv. 124; v. 88.
CHRISTIAN, Rev. Mr., ii. 52.
_Christian Hero_, ii. 448.
_Christian Philosopher and Politician_, i. 202, n. 1.
CHRISTIANITY,
differences political rather than religious, i. 405;
chiefly in forms, ii. 150; iii. 188;
evidences for it, i. 398, 405, 428, 444,454; ii. 8, 14;
iii. 188, 316; v. 47, 340;
revelation of immortality its great article, iii. 188;
its 'wilds,' iii. 313.
CHRISTIE, James, the auctioneer, iv. 402, n. 2.
CHRYSOSTOM, v. 446.
CHURCH, The, possesses the right of censure, iii. 59-62, 91, n. 3.
'CHURCH AND KING,' iv. 29, 296.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND, in Charles II's reign, ii. 341;
'Churchmen will not be Catholics,' iv. 29, n. 1;
Convocation denied it, i. 464;
discipline and Convocation, iv. 177;
example of attendance at the services, ii. 173;
House of Hanover, all against the, v. 271;
manner of reading the service, iii. 436;
neglected state of the buildings, v. 41, n. 3;
of the cathedrals, 114, n. 1;
observance of days, ii. 458;
parishes neglected, iii. 437;
patronage, ii. 242-6;
revenues, iii. 138;
theory and practice, iii. 138.
CHURCH OF ROME. See ROMAN CATHOLICS.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. See under SCOTLAND.
CHURCHILL, Charles,
account of the publication of his poems, i. 419, n. 3;
profits, ib. n. 5;
'blotting,' hatred of, i. 419, n. 5;
Boswell criticises his poetry, i. 419;
'brains not excised,' v. 51;
Cowper's high estimate of his poetry, i. 419, n. 4;
Davies and his wife, i. 391, n. 2, 484; iii. 223, 249;
death, his, i. 395, n. 2, 419, n. 3;
Dodsley's _Cleane_, i. 326, n. 3;
Flexney, his publisher, ii. 113, n. 2;
Francklin, Dr., iv. 34, n. 1;
'gainst fools be guarded,' v. 217, n. 1;
_Gotham_, i. 420, n. 1;
Guthrie, William, i. 118, n. 1;
Hill, Sir John, ii. 38, n. 2;
Holland the actor, iv. 7, n. 5;
Johnson, attacks, about _Shakespeare_, i. 319-20, 419;
about the Cock-Lane Ghost, i. 406;
about his strong terms, iii. 1, n. 2;
despises his poetry, i. 418;
Lloyd in the Fleet-prison, i. 395, n. 2;
Norton, Sir Fletcher, ii. 472, n. 2;
Ogilvie's poetry, i. 423, n. 1;
_Prophecy of Famine_, i. 373, n. 1, 420; iii. 77, n. 1;
_Gotham_, Europe's treatment of savages, iii. 204, n. 1;
straw in Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 2;
'strolling tribe,' i. 168, n. 1;
Warburton, Bishop, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2;
Whitehead, Paul, i. 125;
'With wits a fool, with fools a wit,' i. 266, n. 1.
CHURTON, Rev. Ralph, ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 212, n. 4, 300, n. 2.
CIBBER, Colley,
_Apology_, ii. 92; iii. 72;
Goldsmith praises it, ib., n. 2;
_Birth-day Odes_, i. 149, n. 3, 401-2; ii. 92; iii. 72, 184;
_Careless Husband_, revised by Mrs. Brett, i. 174, n. 2;
origin of the story, ib.;
no doubt written by Cibber, ii. 340;
praised by Pope and H. Walpole, iii. 72, n. 4;
Comedies, merit in his, ii. 340; iii. 72;
Chesterfield, and Johnson, anecdote about, i. 256;
conversation, his, ii. 92, 340; iii. 72;
Dryden, recollections of, iii. 71;
Fenton, insulted, i. 102, n. 2;
genteel ladies, his, ii. 340;
_Hob or The Country Wake_, ii. 465, n. 1;
ignorance, iii. 72, n. 1; iv. 243;
impudence, i. 154, n. 2; ii. 340, n. 3;
Johnson's epigram on him, i. 149; v. 348, 350, 404;
shows one of his _Odes_ to, ii. 92;
mode of arguing: see JOHNSON, arguing;
manager of Drury Lane, v. 244, n. 2;
_Musa Cibberi_, iv. 3, n. 1;
_Non-juror, The, _ii. 321;
poet-laureate, i. 401, n. 1;
_Provoked Husband_, ii. 48; iv. 284, n. 2;
Richard III, version of, iii. 73, n. 3;
Richardson's respect for him, ii. 93; iii. 184;
vanity, iii. 264;
Walpole praises his character, i. 401, n. 1;
his _Apology_, iii. 72, n. 4;
and his acting, iv. 243, n. 6;
Whig, violent, iii. 30, n. 1.
CIBBER, Theophilus,
edits the _Lives of the Poets,_ i. 187; iii. 29-31, 117;
death, iii. 30, n. 1.
CIBBER, Mrs. (wife of Theophilus), account of her, v. 126, n. 5;
acted in Irene, i. 197;
mentioned, ii. 92.
CICERO, Burke not like him, v. 213-4;
Chesterfield likened to him, iii. 351;
image of Virtue, ii. 15, n. 2, 443;
quotations from _Cato Major_, iii. 438, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 2;
_Ep. ad Att._, iv. 379, n. 2;
_Ep. ad Fam_., iv. 424, n. 1;
_Tuscul. Quaest_., ii. 107, n. 1.
CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, i. 102, n. 2; ii. 36, n. 1.
CITY, a, its solitude, iii. 379, n. 2.
CITY OF LICHFIELD, a county, i. 36, n. 4.
CITY OF LONDON. See LONDON.
CITY-POET, iii. 75.
CIVIL LAW, i. 134.
CIVILISED LIFE. See SAVAGES, and SOCIETY.
_Civility_, ii. 155; iii. 77.
_Civilisation_, ii. 155.
CLANRANALD, ii. 309; Allan of Clanranald, v. 290.
CLAPP, Mrs., ii. 63, 115-6.
CLARE, Lord, friendship with Goldsmith, ii. 136; iii. 311.
CLARENDON, first Earl of,
_History of the Rebellion_, its authenticity, i. 294, n. 9;
characters trustworthy, ii. 79;
character of Falkland, iv. 428, n. 2;
compared with Hume and Robertson, v. 57, n. 3;
recommended by Johnson, iv. 311;
style and matter, iii. 257-8;
Villiers's ghost, iii. 351;
University of Oxford and his heirs, ii. 424.
CLARENDON PRESS, Johnson's letter on its management, ii. 424, 441.
CLARET, for boys, in. 381; iv. 79;
gives the dropsy before drunkenness, v. 248-9.
_Clarissa. See_ RICHARDSON, S.
CLARK, Alderman Richard, member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 258, 438;
Johnson, letter from, iv. 258.
CLARKE, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Christian evidences, i. 398;
free-will, ii. 104;
_Homer_, edition of, ii. 129;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, not quoted in, i. 189, n. 1; iv. 416, n. 2;
Leibnitz, controversy with, v. 287;
learning, iv. 21;
studied hard, i. 71;
literary character, i. 3, _n. _2;
orthodox, not, iii. 248; v. 288;
Queen Caroline wished to make him a bishop, iii. 248, n. 2;
_Sermons_, ii. 263, 476; iii. 248;
recommended by Johnson on his death-bed, iv. 416;
unbending himself, fond of, i. 3.
CLARKE, Sir T., i. 45, n. 4.
CLAUDIAN, ii. 315.
CLAVIUS, ii. 444.
CLAXTON, Mr., ii. 247.
CLEMENT, William, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489.
CLENARDUS, iv. 20.
_Cleone. See _DODSLEY.
_Cleonice_, ii. 289,_ n._ 3.
CLERGYMAN, a,
at Bath, iv. 149;
Johnson's letter to him, iv. 150;
extraordinary character, an, iv. 296, n. 3;
hopeless ignorance of one, iv. 33, n. 3;
one rebuked by Johnson, iv. 19;
a young clergyman, Johnson's letter to, iii. 436.
CLERGYMEN, can be but half a beau, iv. 76;
_Court_-party, of the, v. 255, n. 5;
decorum required in them, iv. 76;
duties, i. 320;
elocution, taught, iv. 206;
English compared with Scotch, v. 251-3, 381;
Harrogate, at, v. 252, _n. 3_;
holy artifices, iii. 438;
learning, iv. 13;
library fit for one, v. 121;
life, their, i. 320, 476; iii. 304;
men of the world, aping, iv. 76;
popular election, ii. 149;
preaching: _see _PREACHING;
sinners in general, ii. 172.
CLERK, Sir Philip Jennings, account of him, iv. 80;
argument with Johnson, iv. 81.
CLERMONT, Lady, iii. 425.
CLIENTS. See LAW.
CLIMATE, happiness not affected by it, ii. 195.
CLINABS, i. 502, 512.
CLINTON, Sir Henry, iv. 140, n. 2.
CLITHEROE, iv. 162.
CLIVE, Lord,
astonished at his own moderation, iii. 401, n. 1;
character by Dr. Robertson, iii. 334, 350;
his chest full of gold, iii. 401;
destroyed himself, iii. 334, 350.
CLIVE, Mrs.,
Johnson describes her acting, iv. 243; v. 126;
and Walpole, H., iv. 243, n. 6;
robbed by highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1;
'understands what you say,' iv. 7.
CLOTHES._ See_ DRESS.
CLOUGH, Arthur, v. 149, n. 1.
CLOUGH, Sir Richard, v. 436.
CLOW, Professor, v. 369, n. 2.
_Clubable_, iv. 254, n. 2.
CLUBS: Almack's, iii. 23, n. 1;
Arthur's, v. 84, n. 1;
Boar's Head, v. 247;
British Coffee-house, ii. 195; iv. 179, n. 1;
Brookes's, ii. 292,_ n._ 4; iv. 279, n. 2, 358, n. 1;
_City Club_ at the Queen's Arms, iv. 87;
Cocoa-tree Club, v. 386, n. 1;
Essex Head, account of its foundation and members, iv. 253-5,436-8;
Boswell and Johnson at a meeting, iv. 275;
Johnson attacked with illness there, iv. 259;
mentioned, iv. 354, 359, 360;
Eumelian, iv. 394;
Gaming Club, iii. 23;
Ivy Lane, account of it, i. 190, 191, n. 5, 478, n. 2;
Lennox, Mrs., supper in honour of, i. 103, n. 3, 255, n. 1;
old members meet in 1783, iv. 253, 435-6;
Johnson's definition of a club, iv. 254, n. 5;
Literary Club, account of it, i. 477-81; v. 109;
attendance expected, ii. 273;
attendances in 1766, ii. 17, 201;
Althorpe, Lord, iii. 424;
Banks, Sir Joseph, iii. 365;
Beauclerk, described by, ii. 192, n. 2;
loss by his death, iii. 424;
black-ball, exclusion by a single, iii. 116;
books, some of the members talk from, v. 378,_ n._4;
Boswell's election: See BOSWELL, Literary Club;
Boswell's account of meetings at which he was present,
his introduction, ii. 240;
Johnson's apology to Goldsmith, ii. 255;
talk of second-sight and Swift, ii. 318;
Mrs. Abington's benefit, ii. 330;
_Travels, Ossian_, the Black Bear, and patriotism, ii. 345;
speakers distinguished by initials, iii. 230;
Johnson's last dinner, iv. 326;
Boswell's reports of meetings generally brief, ii. 242, n. 1,
345, n. 5;
Burke's company lost to it, ii. 16;
Bunbury elected, ii. 274;
Camden Lord, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2;
day and hour of meeting, i. 478, 479; ii. 20, n. 1, 330, n. 1;
iii. 128, 365, 368;
described in 1774 by Beauclerk, ii. 274, n. 3;
Dodd sought admittance, iii. 280;
Dunning, John, elected, iii. 128;
first meeting of the winter, iii. 210;
Fordyce elected, ii. 274;
foundation, and list of members, i. 477-9, 481, n 3;
Fox elected, ii. 274;
talked little, iii. 267;
Garrick elected, i. 480;
his vanity, iii. 311, n. 3;
Gibbon elected, i. 481, n. 3;
describes it, ii. 348, n. 1;
poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1;
Goldsmith recites some absurd verses, ii. 240; iv. 13;
he wishes for more members, iv. 183;
his epitaph to be shown to the Club, iii. 81;
hanged or kicked, members deserving to be, iii. 281;
hogshead of claret nearly out, iii. 238;
imaginary college at St. Andrews, v. 108-9;
increase of members proposed, iii. 106;
Johnson's attendance in his latter years, iii. 106, n. 4;
attends after his attack of palsy, iv. 232-3;
his last dinner, iv. 326,
(for attendances with Boswell, See just above, under BOSWELL);
dislikes several members, iii. 106;
his friends of the Club, iv. 85;
his funeral, iv. 419;
subscriptions for his monument, iv. 423, ns. 1 and 3;
incompliance with a _Call_, iv. 84;
mentions the Club in a letter, ii. 136;
reads his epitaph on Lady Elibank, iv. 10;
talks of Mrs. Lennox's play, iv. 10;
Jones, Sir W., described by, v. 109, n. 5;
motto, its, i. 478, n. 3;
name, i. 477; v. 109, n. 5;
number of members, i. 478, n. 2, 479; iii. 106;
Palmerston, second Lord, black-balled, iv. 232;
elected, _ib. n._ 2;
Porteus, Bishop of Chester, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2;
select merit, loses its, ii. 430, n. l;
Sheridan, R.B., elected, iii. 316;
Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, elected, iv. 75, n. 3;
Smith, Adam, elected, ii. 430, n. 1;
Steevens elected, ii. 273-4;
Vesey elected, iv. 28;
Vesey's (Mrs.) evening parties on Club nights, iii. 424, n. 3;
iv. 108, n. 4;
Nonsense Club, i. 395, n. 2;
Old Street Club, iii. 443-4; iv. 187;
Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1; 431, n. 1;
Tall Club, i. 308, n. 6;
White's, ii. 329, n. 3;
World, The, iv. 102, n. 4.
COACH, post-coach, iii. 129; iv. 283;
heavy coach, iv. 285.
COAL-HEAVERS, riots of, iii. 46, n. 5.
COALITION MINISTRY (Duke of Portland's) formed, iv. 174, n. 3;
dismissed, i. 311, n. 1; iv. 165, n. 3, 249, n. 1;
mentioned, iv. 170, n. 1, 223, n. 1, 258, n. 2.
COBB, Mrs., ii. 388, 466; iii. 412; iv. 142, 143.
COBHAM, Lord, i. 491, n. 1; iii. 347; iv. 50, n. 4, 102, n. 4.
COBLENTZ, ii. 427, n. 4.
COCHRAN, General, i. 431, n. 1.
COCKBURN, Baron, iii. 335, n. 1.
COCKBURN, Dr., iii. 152, n. 3.
COCKBURN, Lord, civil juries in Scotland, ii. 201, n. 1;
Dundas, Henry, Viscount Melville, ii. 160, n. 1;
Edinburgh High School, ii. 144, n. 2;
Edinburgh in the 18th century, v. 21, n. 1;
Jeffrey's English accent, ii. 159, n. 6;
Scotch county electors, iv. 248, n. 1;
Scotch entails, ii. 414, n. 1;
St. Giles, Edinburgh, v. 41, n. 1;
titles of Scotch judges, v. 77, n. 4.
COCKENZIE, ii. 302, n. 2.
_Cocker's Arithmetic_, v. 138, n. 2.
COCK-LANE GHOST. See GHOSTS.
CODRINGTON, Colonel, iii. 204, n. 1.
COFFEE-HOUSE CRITICS, i. 288.
COFFEY, ----, v. 256, n. 1.
COFFLECT, iv. 77, n. 3.
COHAUSEN, Dr., ii. 427 n. 4.
COIN, exportation of, iv. 104-5.
COKE, Lord, a mere lawyer, ii. 158;
his definition of law, iii. 16, n. 1;
his painful course of study, iv. 310.
COKE, Lady Mary, i. 407, n. 1.
COL, the old Laird of, iii. 133; v. 29, n. 2.
COL, Alexander Maclean, of, the second son, ii. 308, 406, 411.
COL, Donald Maclean, the young Laird of,
account of him, v. 250-1;
the first road-maker, v. 235, n. 2;
plans an excursion for Johnson, v. 254;
accompanies him, v. 256-331;
his bowl of punch, v. 258;
manages the ship in the storm, v. 280-1;
puts a rope in Boswell's hands, v. 282;
_juvenis qui gaudet canibus_, v. 283;
introduces turnips, v. 293;
his family papers, v. 297-9;
takes Johnson to his aunt's house, v. 312;
anecdotes of Sir A. Macdonald, v. 315;
his house in Mull, v. 316;
deserves a statue, v. 327;
his father's deputy, v. 329;
'a noble animal', v. 330;
death, ii. 287-8, 406; v. 331;
mentioned, v. 95, 267, 341.
COLCHESTER, i. 466; iv. 15, n. 5.
COLDS, catching, ii. 51, 150; v. 278.
COLE, Henry, iv. 402, n. 2.
COLEBROOKE, Sir G., ii. 222, n. 3.
COLISEUM, ii. 106.
COLLECTIONS, the desire of augmenting, iv. 105.
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, ii. 297.
COLLEGE TUTOR, an old, advice to his pupils, ii. 237.
COLLEGES. See OXFORD.
COLLIER, Jeremy, censures actors, i. 167, n.. 2;
'fought without a rival,' iv. 286, n. 3.
COLLINS, Anthony, iii. 363, n. 3.
COLLINS, William, affected the obsolete, iii. 159, n. 2;
Johnson's affection for him, i. 276, 383, n. 1;
_Life by Johnson_, i. 382;
madness, his, i. 65, n. 3, 276, 277, 383;
Poems, Glasgow edition, ii. 380.
COLLOQUIAL BARBARISMS, iii. 196.
'COLLYER, Joel', i. 315.
COLMAN, George, the elder,
Boswell's belief in second sight, mocks, ii. 318;
_Connoisseur_, starts the, i. 420,_ n._ 3; ii. 334, n. 3;
Foote's patent, buys, iii. 97;
_Good Natured Man,_ brings out the, iii. 320;
_Jealous Wife, The_, i. 364, n. 1;
Johnson, imitation of, iv. 387-8;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479;
_Odes to Obscurity_, ii. 334;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
_Prose on Several Occasions_, iv. 387;
Round-Robin, signed the, iii. 83;
Shakespeare's Latin, iv. 18;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, brings out, ii. 208, n.. 5;
'Sir, if you don't lie you're a rascal,' iv. 10;
_Student_, contributes to the, i. 209;
_Terence_, translation of, iv. 18;
Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2.
COLMAN, George, the son,
Aberdeen, a student at, v. 85, n. 2;
made a freeman of the city, v. 90, n. 2;
Dunbar, Dr., describes, iii. 436, n. 1;
Gibbon's dress, describes, ii. 443, n. 1;
Johnson and Gibbon, describes, iii. 54, n. 2.
COLOGNE, Elector of, iii. 447.
COLONIES, a loss to the community, i. 130, n. 2.
COLQUHOUN, Sir James, v. 363-5.
COLQUHOUN, Lady Helen, v. 365.
COLSON, Rev. Mr.,
Garrick and Johnson recommended to him, i. 102;
_Gelidus,_ i. 101, n. 3.
_Columbiade, The_, iv. 331.
COLUMBUS, i. 455, n. 3; iv. 250.
COLVILL, Lady, v. 387, 394-5.
COMB-MAKER, a punctuating, iii. 32, n. 5.
_Combabus_, iii. 238, n. 2.
COMBERMERE, v. 433-5.
COMBERMERE, Lord, v. 433, n. 1.
COMEDY, distinguished from farce, ii. 95;
its great end, ii. 233.
COMMANDMENT, ninth, emphasis in it, i. 169;
in the sixth, i. 326, n. 1.
COMMENTARIES ON THE BIBLE, iii. 58.
COMMERCE, circulation of, iii. 177;
effect of taxes on it, ii. 357;
effect on relationship, ii. 177;
not necessary to England, ii. 357.
COMMISSARIES, ii. 339, n. 2; iii. 184.
COMMON COUNCIL. See LONDON.
COMMON PEOPLE, inaccuracy in thoughts and words, iii. 136;
their language proverbial, ib.
COMMON PRAYER BOOK, iv. 293.
COMMONS, DOCTORS', i. 462, n. 1.
COMMONS, House of. See DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT and HOUSE OF COMMONS.
COMMUNION OF SAINTS, iv. 290.
COMMUNITY OF GOODS, ii. 251.
COMMUTATION OF SINS AND VIRTUES, iv. 398.
COMPANION, the most welcome one, ii. 359, n. 2;
a lasting one, iv. 235, n. 2.
COMPANY, good things must be provided, iii. 186; iv. 90;
love of mean company, i. 449;
of a new person, iv. 33. See JOHNSON, Company.
COMPIEGNE, ii. 400.
COMPLAINTS, iii. 368.
_Complete Angler_, i. 138, n. 5.
_Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage_, i. 140.
COMPLIMENTS, offending the company by them, iv. 336;
right to repeat them, iii. 240;
without violating truth, iii. 161;
unusual, v. 440, n. 2.
COMPOSITION, causes of hasty, i. 192, n. 5;
errors caused by partial changes, iv. 11;
fine passages to be struck out, ii. 237;
happy moments for it, v. 40;
Johnson's advice, iii. 437; v. 66-8;
man writing from his own mind, ii. 344;
pleasure, not a, iv. 219, n. 1;
practised early, to be, iv. 12;
setting oneself doggedly to it, v. 40, 110.
See JOHNSON, Composition.
_Compositor_, iv. 321, n. 3.
COMPTON, Bishop of London, iii. 445, 447.
_Comus_, Johnson's Prologue to, i. 227.
CONCANEN, Matthew, v. 92, n. 4.
CONCEIT OF PARTS, iii. 316.
_Conceits_, i. 179.
_Concoction_, of a play, iii. 259.
CONDAMINE, La, _Account of the Savage Girl_, v. 110;
of a Brazilian tribe, v. 242.
CONDE, Prince of, ii. 393, 400.
CONDESCENSION, iv. 3.
CONDUCT, gradations in it, iv. 75;
wrong but with good meaning, iv. 360.
_Conduct of the Ministry_ (1756), i. 309.
CONFESSION, ii. 105; iii. 60.
_Conf. Fab. Burdonum_, ii. 263.
CONFINEMENT, iii. 268.
CONFUCIUS, i. 157, n. 1; iii. 299.
_Conge d'elire_, iv. 323.
CONGLETON, v. 432.
_Conglobulate_, ii. 55.
CONGRESS. See AMERICA.
CONGREVE, Rev. Charles, chaplain to Archbishop Boulter, i. 45;
pious but muddy, ii. 460, 474,
CONGREVE, William,
_Beggar's Opera_, opinion of the, ii. 369. n. 1;
Collier, Jeremy, attacked by, iv, 286, n. 3;
Islam, at, iii. 187;
Johnson's criticism on his plays, iv. 36, n. 3;
_Life_, iv. 56;
_Mourning Bride_, its foolish conclusion, i. 389, n. 2;
compared with Shakespeare, ii. 85-7, 96;
_Old Bachelor_, iii. 187;
Pope's _Iliad_ dedicated to him, iv. 50, n. 4;
_Way of the World_, i. 494, n. 1; ii. 227;
writings, his, make no man better, i. 189, n. 1.
CONINGTON, Professor,
Goldsmith's epitaph and Johnson's Latin, iii. 82, n. 3.
CONJECTURES, how far useful, ii. 260.
CONJUGAL INFIDELITY, ii. 56; iii. 347, 406.
_Connoisseur, The_, i. 420; ii. 334, n. 3.
CONNOR, ----, (Conn), a priest, v. 227, n. 4.
CONSCIENCE, defined by Johnson, ii. 243;
liberty of it, ii. 249.
_Conscious Lovers_, i. 491, n. 3.
_Considerations on the Case of Dr. Trapp's Sermons. See_ Dr. TRAPP.
_Considerations on Corn_. See under CORN.
_Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and Warburton_, i. 157.
_Considerations upon the Embargo_, i. 503.
CONSOLATION, ii. 13.
_Consort_ defined, i. 149, n. 2.
CONST, Mr., iii. 16, n. 1.
CONSTANTINOPLE, iv. 28.
CONSTITUENT, iv. 30, n. 4.
CONSTITUTION, Johnson asked to write on it, ii. 441.
CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY, iii. 314, n. 6.
_Construction of Fireworks_, v. 246, n. 1.
CONSTRUCTIVE TREASON, iv. 87.
_Contemplation_, v. 117, n. 4.
CONTENT, nobody is content, iii. 241.
CONTI, Prince of, ii. 405, n. 1.
_Continuation of Dr. Johnson's Criticism on the Poems of Gray_,
iv. 392, n. 1.
_Continuity_, iii. 419, n. 1.
CONTRADICTION, iii. 386; iv. 280.
CONTROVERSIES, ii. 442; iii. 10.
CONVENTS. See MONASTERIES.
_Conversable_, v. 437, n. 1.
CONVERSATION, coming close to a man in it, iv. 179;
contest, not animated without a, ii. 444;
is a contest, ii. 450;
eminent men often have little power in it, iv. 19;
envy excited by superiority, iv. 195;
game, like a, ii. 231;
Johnson's description of the happiest kind, ii. 359; iv. 50;
knowledge got by reading compared with that got by it, ii. 361;
old and young, of the, ii. 443, 444, n. 1;
praise instantly reverberated, v. 59;
requisites for it, iv. 166;
rich trader without it, iv. 83;
solid, unsuitable for dinner parties, iii. 57;
talk, distinguished from, iv. 186.
See JOHNSON, Conversation.
_Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty_, etc., ii. 34, n. 1.
CONVERSIONS, ii. 105; iii. 228.
CONVICT, a, unjustly condemned to death, ii. 285, n. 1.
CONVICTS, punished by being set to work, iii. 268;
religious discipline for them, iv. 329;
sent to America, ii. 312, n. 3.
CONVOCATION, i. 464; iv. 277.
CONWAY, General, ii. 12, n. 1.
CONWAY, Mr. Moncure, i. 85, n. 2.
COOK, Captain, Boswell meets him, iii. 7;
Hawkesworth's edition of his _Voyages_, ii. 247, n. 5; iii. 7; iv. 308.
COOK, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64.
COOKE, Thomas (_Hesiod_ Cooke), v. 37.
COOKE, Thomas, the engraver, iv. 421, n, 2.
COOKE, William (_Conversation_ Cooke), ii. 100, n. 1; iv. 254, 437.
COOKERY, Mrs. Glasse's Cookery, iii. 285.
See JOHNSON, Cookery.
COOKSEY, John, ii. 319, n. 1.
COOLEY, William, i. 503.
COOPER, John Gilbert, last of the _Benevolists_, iii. 149, n. 2;
story of his sick son, ib.;
Johnson the Caliban of literature, calls, ii. 129;
anecdote of--and Garrick, iv. 4;
'Punchinello,' ii. 129.
COOPER, M., a bookseller, v. 117, n. 4.
COOTE, Sir Eyre, account of him, v. 124, n. 2;
travels in Arabia, v. 125.
COOTE, Lady, v. 125-6.
COPENHAGEN, v. 46, n, 2.
COPLEY, John, iv. 402, n. 2.
COPPER WORKS, at Holywell, iii. 455; v. 441.
_Copy_, manuscript for printing, iii. 42, n. 2.
COPY-MONEY, in Italy, iii. 162.
COPY-RIGHT, Act of Queen Anne, i. 437, n. 2; iii. iii. 294;
debate on the copy-right bill, i. 304, n. 1;
Donaldson's invasion of supposed right, i. 437;
judgment of the House of Lords, ib.; ii. 272, n, 2; iii. 370;
opinion of the Scotch judges, v. 50,72;
Thurlow's speech, ii. 345, n. 2;
honorary copy-right, iii. 370;
Johnson's plea for one, i. 437, n. 1;
should not be a perpetuity, i. 439; ii. 259;
London Booksellers, claim of the, iii. 110;
metaphysical right in authors, ii. 259.
CORBET, Andrew, i. 45, n. 4, 58, n. 1.
CORDELIA, i. 70, n. 2.
CORELLI, ii. 342.
CORIAT (Coryat) Tom, ii, 175;
_Crudities_, 176, n. 1.
_Coriat Junior_, ii. 175.
CORKE AND ORRERY, fifth Earl of. See ORRERY.
CORKE AND ORRERY, sixth Earl of, i. 257, n. 3.
CORN, bounty on corn (Irish), ii. 130, n. 3;
(English), i. 519; iii. 232;
corn-riots in 1766, 1. 519; iv. 317, n. 1;
exportation, prohibited by proclamation, iv. 317, n. 1;
last year of it, iii. 232, n. 1;
Johnson's _Considerations on Corn_, i. 518; iii. 232, n. 1;
plentiful in the spring of 1778, iii. 226;
previous bad harvests, ib., n. 2;
price artificially raised, iii. 232, n. 1.
CORNBURY, Lord, ii. 425.
CORNEILLE, character of Richelieu, ii. 134, n. 4;
compared with Shakespeare, iv. 16;
goes round the world, v. 311.
CORNELIUS NEPOS, iv. 180.
CORNEWALL, Speaker, iii. 82, n. 2.
CORNISH FISHERMEN, iv. 78.
CORNWALLIS, Archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 125.
CORNWALLIS, Lord, his capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv. 140, n. 2.
_Corps_, a pun on it, ii, 241.
CORPULENCY, iv. 213.
CORRECTION OF PROOF-SHEETS, iv. 321, n. 2.
CORSICA, Antipodes, like the, ii. 4, n. 1;
Boswell's subscription for ordnance, ii. 59, n. 1;
'dangers of the night,' i. 119, n. 1;
France, ceded to, ii. 59, n. 2;
Genoa, revolts from, ii. 59, n. 2, 71, n. 1, 80;
hangman, i. 408, n. 1;
Johnson declaims against the people, ii. 80;
_lingua rustica_, ii. 82;
Seneca's epigrams on it, v. 296;
mentioned, iii. 201.
_Corsica, Boswell's Account of_,
Johnson's advice about it, ii. II, 22;
praise of the _Journal_, ii. 70;
publication and success, ii. 46;
criticisms on it, ib., n. 1;
Preface quoted, ii. 69, n. 3;
translations, ii. 46, n. 1, 56, n. 2.
CORTE, ii. 2, 3, n. 1; v. 237.
_Corteggianno, Il_, v. 276.
'CORYCIUS SENEX,' iv. 173.
COTTAGE, happiness in a, See RUSTIC HAPPINESS.
COTTERELL, Admiral, i. 245.
COTTERELL, Mrs., i. 450, n. 1.
COTTERELLS, the Miss, i. 245-6, 369, 382.
COTTON, Sir Lynch Salusbury, v. 433-4.
COTTON, Lady Salusbury, v. 442, n. 3.
COTTON, Robert, ii. 282, n. 3; v. 433; n. 5, 435, n. 2.
COULSON, Rev. Mr., ii. 381, n. 2; v. 459, n. 4.
COUNCIL OF TRENT, ii. 105.
_Council of Trent, History of the_, i. 107, 135.
COUNTESS, anecdote of a, iv. 274.
COUNTING, awkward at counting money, iv. 27;
effects of it, iv. 4, n. 4, 204;
modern practice, iii. 356, n. 3;
nation that cannot count, v. 242.
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN,
artificially raise the price of corn, iii. 232, n. 1;
disconcerted at laying out ten pounds, iv. 4;
duty to reside on their estates, iii. 177, 249;
hospitality, iv. 204, 221;
living beyond their income, v. 112;
living in London, iv. 164;
parliament, reason for entering, iii. 234;
prisoners in a jail, v. 108;
stewards, should be their own, v. 56;
superiority over their people, iv. 164;
tedious hours, ii. 194;
wives should visit London, iii. 178.
COUNTRY LIFE, meals wished for from vacuity of mind, v. 159;
mental imprisonment, iv. 338;
neighbours, v. 352-3;
pleasure soon exhausted, iii. 303;
popularity seeking, iii. 353;
science, good place for studying a, iii. 253;
time at one's command, iii. 353.
COURAGE, not a Christian virtue, iii. 289;
reckoned the greatest of virtues, ii. 339; iii. 266;
mechanical, ib.;
respected even when associated with vice, iv. 297.
COURAVER, Dr., i. 107, 135; iv. 127, n. 2.
COURT, attendants on it, i. 333;
manners best learnt at small courts, v. 276.
COURT, 'A shilling's worth of court for six-pence worth of good,' ii. 10.
COURT-MOURNING, iv. 325.
COURT OF SESSION. See SCOTLAND.
_Court of Session Garland. See_ BOSWELL.
COURTENAY, John,
Boswell to make a cancel in the _Life_, persuades, i. 520;
receives his vow of comparative sobriety, ii. 436, n. 1;
Jenyns, Soame, i. 316;
member of the Literary Club, i. 479;
_Moral and Literary Character of Dr. Johnson_, descriptions of
Boswell, i. 223; ii. 268;
Johnson's English poetry, i. 181, n. 3;
in the Hebrides, ii. 268;
humanity, iv. 322, n. 1;
Latin poetry, i. 62;
rapid composition, iv. 381, n. 1;
_Rasselas_, i. 344;
style and 'school,' i. 222;
Reynolds's dinner-parties, iii. 375, n. 2;
Strahan, Rev. Mr., iv. 376, n. 4;
Swift's _Tale of a Tub_, ii. 319, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 305. 310; iv. 315.
COURTING THE GREAT,
Johnson opposed to it, i. 131;
his advice about it, ii. 10.
COURTNEY, Mr. Leonard H., M.P., i. 376, n. 2.
COURTOWN, Lord, ii. 376.
COURTS OF JUSTICE, afraid of Wilkes, iii. 46, n. 5.
COURTS-MARTIAL, Dicey, Professor, on them, iii. 46, n. 5;
Johnson present at one, iii. 361;
one of great importance, iv. 12.
COVENT GARDEN. See LONDON.
_Covent Garden Journal_, ii. 119, n. 4.
COVENTRY, i. 357; iv. 402, n. 2.
COVENTRY, Lady, v. 353, n. 1; 359, n. 2.
COVERLEY, Sir Roger de. See ADDISON.
_Covin_, ii. 199.
COVINGTON, Lord, iii. 213.
Cow, shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2.
COWARDICE, mutual, iii. 326.
COWDRY, iv. 160.
COWLEY, Abraham, 'Cowley, Mr. Abraham,' iv. 325, n. 3;
Dryden's youth, the darling of, iv. 38, n. 1;
fashion, out of, iv. 102, n. 2;
Hurd's _Selections_, iii. 29, 227;
_Imitation of Horace_, i. 284, n. 1;
Johnson meditated an edition of his works, iii. 29;
ridicules the fiction of love, i. 179;
writes his _Life_, iv. 38;
life, on, iv. 154;
love poems, ii. 78, n. 3;
_Ode to Liberty_, iv. 154, n. 2;
_Ode to Mr. Hobs_, ii. 241, n. 1;
_Ode upon the Restoration_, v. 333, n. 3;
Pope, compared with, v. 345;
vows, on, iii. 357, n. 1;
_Wit and Loyalty_, v. 57, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 252, n. 3.
COWLEY, Father, ii. 399, n. 3.
COWPER, Earl, iii. 16, n. 1.
COWPER, J. G. See COOPER.
COWPER, William, annihilation, longs for, iii. 296, n. 1;
avenues, v. 439, n. 1;
Beckford and Rigby, anecdote of, iii. 76, n. 2;
_Biographia Britannica_, lines on the, iii. 174, n. 3;
Browne, I. H., anecdote of, v. 156, n. i;
Churchill's poetry, admires, i. 419, n. 4;
_Collins's Life_, reads, i. 382, n. 7;
_Connoisseur_, contributes to the, i. 420, n. 3;
dreads a vacant hour, i. 144, n. 2;
'dunces sent to roam,' iii. 459;
Heberden, praises, iv. 228, n. 2;
_Homer_, translates, iii. 333, n. 2;
_John Gilpin_, iv. 138, n. 3;
Johnson's 'conversion,' iv. 272, n. 1;
criticism of Milton, iv. 42, n. 7;
writes an epitaph on, ii. 225, n. 3; iv. 424, n. 2;
recommends his first volume, iii. 333, n. 2;
Mediterranean as a subject for a poem, iii. 36, n. 3;
Milton, undertakes an edition of, i. 319, n. 4;
Omai, the 'gentle savage,' iii. 8, n. 1;
overwhelmed by the responsibility of an office, iv. 98, n. 3;
Pope's _Homer_, criticises, iii. 257, n. 1;
'Scripture is still a trumpet to his fears,' iv. 300, n. 1;
silence, habit of, iii. 307, n. 2;
'the solemn fop,' i. 266, n. 1;
'The sweet vicissitudes of day and night,' v. 117, n. 4;
Thurlow's character, draws, iv. 349, n. 3;
experiences his neglect, ib.;
Unwins, introduced to the, i. 522;
Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2;
_Whole Duty of Man_, despises the, ii. 239, n. 4.
COX, Mr., a solicitor, iv. 324.
_Coxcomb_, ii. 129; iii. 245, n. 1; v. 377, 378, n. 1.
COXETER, Thomas, iii. 30, n. 1; iii. 158.
COXETER,--, the younger, iii. 158, iv. n. 1.
COXHEATH CAMP, iii. 365, 374.
CRABBE, Rev. George,
Johnson revises _The Village_, iv. 121, n. 4, 175.
CRADOCK, Joseph, account of him, iii. 38;
Garrick at the Literary Club, iii. 311, n. 3;
Goldsmith and Gray, i. 404, n. 1;
_Hermes and Tristram Shandy_ ii, 225, n. 2;
Johnson at a tavern dinner, i. 470, n. 2;
compliment to Goldsmith, iii. 82, n. 3;
parody of Percy, ii. 136, n. 4;
words should be written in a book, iii, 39;
Percey's character, iii. 276, n. 2;
Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68, n. 2;
Warburton's reading, ii. 36, n. 2.
CRAGGS, James, Pope's epitaph on him, iv. 444;
mentioned with his son, i. 160.
CRAIG, ----, the architect, James Thomson's nephew, iii. 360; v. 68.
CRANMER, Archbishop, ii, 364, n. 1.
CRANMER, George, ii, 364, n. 3.
CRANSTON, David, v. 406.
CRASHAW, Richard, iii. 304, n. 3.
CRAVEN, Lord, i. 337, n. 1.
CRAVEN, Lady, iii. 22.
_Creation_, Blackmore's, ii. 108.
CREATOR, compared with the creature, iv. 30-1.
CREDULITY, general, v. 389
CREEDS, v. 120.
CRESCIMBENI, i. 278.
CRICHTON, Robert, Lord Sanquhar, v. 103, n. 3.
CRISP, Samuel, iv. 239, n. 3.
_Critical Review_,
account of it, owned by Hamilton, ii. 226, n. 3;
edited by Smollett, iii. 32, n. 2;
_Critical Strictures_ reviewed, i. 409, n. 1;
Griffiths and the Monthly, attack on, iii. 32, n. 2;
Johnson reviews Graham's _Telemachus_, i. 411;
and _The Sugar Cane_, i. 481, n. 4;
description of a valley
praised, v. 141, n. 2;
Lyttelton's gratitude for a review, iv. 57;
Murphy attacked, i. 355;
payment to writers, iv. 214, n. 2;
principles good, ii. 40; iii. 32;
Rutty's _Diary_ reviewed, iii. 170;
reviewers write from their own mind, iii. 32.
CRITICISM, examples of true, ii. 90;
justified, i. 409;
negative, v. 322.
CRITICS, authors very rarely hurt by them, iii. 423.
See ATTACKS.
CROAKER. See GOLDSMITH.
CROFT, Rev. Herbert, advice to a pupil, iv. 308;
_Family Discourses_, iv. 298;
_Life of Young_, his, adopted by Johnson, iv. 58;
described by Burke, iv. 59;
quoted, i. 373, n. 2.
CROKER, Rt. Hon. John Wilson. (In this Index I give reference only to
the passages in which I differ from him.)
Bentley's verses, change in one of, iv. 23. n. 3;
Boswell's account of Johnson's death, iv. 399, n. 1;
Boswell's 'injustice' to Hawkins, iv. 138, n. 2;
Burke's praise of Johnson's _Journey_, iii. 137, n. 3;
Campbell, Dr. T., mistake about, ii. 343, n. 2;
'a celebrated friend,' iii. 409, n. 6;
Chesterfield's present to Johnson, i. 261, n.,3;
_Edinburgh Review_ and his 'blunders,' ii. 338, n. 2;
emendations of the text, i. 16; iii. 426, n. 2;
Fitzherbert's suicide, iii. 384, n. 4;
Fox, Lady Susan, and W. O'Brien, ii. 328, n. 3;
Homer's shield of Achilles, iv. 33, n. 2;
Johnson's _Abridgment of the Dictionary_, i. 303, n. 1;
Debates, i. 509;
'ear spoilt by flattery,' i. 60, n. 2;
and Hon. T. Hervey, ii. 33, n. 2;
and Jackson, iii, 137 n. 2;
_London_, Thales and Savage, i. 125 n. 4;
memory of Gray's lines, iv. 138, n. 4;
and _The Monthly Review_, iii. 30, n. 1;
and the rebellion of 1745, i. 176, n. 2;
reference to Lord Kames, iii, 340, n. 2;
title of Doctor, i. 488, n. 3;
Langton's will, ii. 261, n. 2;
Lawrences, date of the deaths of the two, iv. 230, n. 2;
Literary Clubs, records of the, ii. 345 n. 5;
Macaulay's criticisms on him, i, 157, n. 5; ii. 391, n. 4;
iv. 144, n. 2; v. 234, n. 1; 298, n. 1;
Mayo, Dr. and Dr. Meyer, ii. 253, n. 2;
Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3;
proofs and sanctions, ii. 194, n. 2;
Montagu, Edward, iii. 408, n. 3;
Romney, George, iii. 43, n. 4;
Sacheverel at Lichfield i. 39;
suppression of a note, iv. 138, n. 2;
suspicions about Thurlow's letter to Reynolds, iv. 350, n. 1;
about one of Johnson's amanuenses, iv. 262, n. 1;
Taylors of Christ Church, confounds two, i. 76, n. 1;
Walpole, Horace, identifies with a celebrated wit, iii. 388, n. 3.
_Croker Correspondence_,
Johnson's definition of _Oats_, 1. 294, n. 8;
and Pot, iv. 5, n. 1;
sarcasms about trees in Scotland, ii. 301, n. 1;
mistake about the third Earl of Liverpool, iii. 146, n. 1.
Cromwell, Henry, Pope's correspondent, iv. 246, n. 5.
Cromwell, Oliver,
Aberdeen, his soldiers in, ii. 455; v. 84;
Bowles, W., married his descendant, iv. 235, n. 5;
Johnson and Lord Auchinleck quarrel over him, v. 382;
Johnson projects a _Life_ of him, iv. 233;
Noble's _Memoirs_, iv. 236, n. 1;
political principles in his time, ii. 369;
Speeches, his, i. 150, n. 2;
trained as a private man, i. 442, n. 1.
Crosbie, Andrew, account of him, ii. 376, n. 1;
alchymy, learned in, ii. 376;
compares English with Scotch, v. 20;
Scotch schoolmaster's case, ii. 186. n. 1;
witchcraft, on, v. 45;
mentioned, iii. 101; v. 46.
Crosby, Brass, attacked by Johnson, ii. 135, n. 1;
Lord Mayor, iii. 459;
sent to the Tower, ib.; iv. 140, n. 1.
_Cross Readings_, iv. 322.
Crotch, Dr. William, iii. 197, n. 3.
Crouch, Mrs., iv. 227.
Crousaz, John Peter de, dispute with Warburton, i. 157; v. 80;
_Examen of Pope's Essay on Man_, i. 137.
Crown, childish jealousy of it, ii. 170;
dispensing power, iv. 317, n. 1;
influence: See INFLUENCE;
power, has not enough, ii. 170;
revenues, its, ii. 353, n. 4;
right to it, iii. 156-7.
_Crudities_, Coryat's, ii. 176, n. 1.
Cruikshank, the surgeon,
attends Johnson, iv. 239-240, 399; ib. n. 6;
bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
letter from, iv. 365;
recommends him to Reynolds, iv. 219.
Crutchley, Jeremiah, iv. 202, n. 1.
Cucumbers, v. 289.
_Cui bono_ man, a, iv. 112.
Cullen, Dr., an eminent physician, ii. 372;
his opinion on Johnson's case, iv. 262-4;
on the needful quantity of sleep, iii. 169;
talks of sleep-walking, v. 46.
Cullen, Robert, the advocate (afterwards Lord Cullen),
case of Knight the negro, iii. 127, 213;
a good mimic, ii. 154, n. 1;
mentioned, v. 44-5.
Culloden, Battle of, cruelties after it, v. 159, 196;
Johnson's indifference as to the result, i. 430;
the news reaches London, v. 196, n. 3;
order of the clans, ii. 270, n. 1;
Pretender's criticism of the battle, v. 194;
mentioned, v. 140, 187, 190.
Culrossie,--, v. 342, n. 2.
CUMBERLAND, v. 113, n. 1.
CUMBERLAND, William, Duke of, uncle of George III,
cruelties, ii. 374, 375, n. 1; v. 196;
attacked by Dr. King at Oxford, i. 279, n. 5;
praised by the _Gent. Mag_., i. 176, n. 2;
Shipley, Dr., his chaplain, iii. 251, n. 5;
mentioned, v. 188.
CUMBERLAND, Duchess of, iv. 108, n. 4.
CUMBERLAND, Richard, Bentley on Barnes's Greek, iv. 19, n. 2;
Davies's stories, perhaps the subject of one of, iii. 40, n. 3;
_dish-clout_ face, iv. 384, n. 2;
_Fashionable Lover_, v. 176;
_Feast of Reason_, iv. 64;
Johnson, acquaintance with, iv. 384, n. 2;
not admitted into 'the set,' ib.;
cups of tea, i. 313, n. 3;
dress, iii. 325, n. 3;
Greck, iv. 384;
mode of eating, i. 468, n. 3;
_Observer_, iv. 64, 385;
_Odes_, iii. 43;
read backwards, ib., n. 3; iv. 432;
Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2.
CUMBERLAND AND STRATHERN, Duke of,
brother of George III, ii. 224, n. 1; iii. 21, n. 2.
CUMMING, Tom, the Quaker, account of him, v. 98, n. 1;
introduces Johnson to a tavern company, v. 230;
ready to drive an ammunition cart, iv. 212;
wrote against Leechman, v. 101.
CUNINGHAME, Alexander, the opponent of Bentley, v. 373.
CUNINGHAME, Sir John, v. 373.
CUNNING, v. 217.
CUNNINGHAM,----, of the Scots Greys, iv. 211, n. 1.
CURATES, scanty provision for them, ii. 173;
small salaries, iii. 138.
CURIOSITY, mark of a generous mind, i. 89, iii. 450, 454;
two objects of it, iv, 199.
CURLL, Edmund, i. 143, n. 1.
CURLANTS, iv. 206.
CUST, F. C., i. 161, n. 3, 170, n. 1.
CUTTS, Lady, iii. 228.
_Cyder_, Philips's, v. 78.
_Cypress Grove_, v. 180.
D.
D. O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3.
DACIER, Madame, in. 333, n. 2.
_Dacier's Horace_, in. 74, n. 1.
_Demonology_, King James's, iii. 382.
DAGGE, ----, keeper of the Bristol Newgate, iii. 433, n. 1.
DAILLE, _on the Fathers_, v. 294.
_Daily Advertiser_, i. 256, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2.
_Daily Gazetteer_, ii. 33, n. 1.
_Daily Post_, i. 503.
DALE, Mrs., v. 431.
D'ALEMBERT, ii. 54, n. 3.
DALIN, Olaf von, ii. 156.
DALLAS, Miss, v. 87.
DALLAS, Stuart, v. 87.
DALRYMPLE, Colonel, v. 399.
DALRYMPLE, Sir David. See HAILES, Lord.
DALRYMPLE, Sir John,
attacks the London booksellers, v. 402, n. 1;
Burnet, criticises, ii. 213, n. 3;
complains of attacks on his _Memoirs_, v. 400;
foppery, his, ii. 237;
Johnson, invites to his house, v. 401;
rails at, v. 402;
arrives late, v. 404;
_Memoirs of Great Britain
and Ireland_, ii. 210-1;
parodied by Johnson, v. 403;
style, 'mere bouncing,' ii. 210;
praised by Boswell, ii. 211;
mentioned, ii. 291.
DALZEL, Professor, iv. 385.
DANCALA, i. 88.
DANCING, iv. 79.
DANES, colony at Leuchars, v. 70;
in Wales, v. 130.
DANTE, Boswell's ignorance of him, iii. 229, n. 4;
_Purgatory_, quoted, iv. 373, n. 1;
resemblance between _Pilgrim's Progress_ and Dante, ii. 238.
DANUBE, ii. 133, n. 1.
D'ARBLAY, General, iv. 223, n. 4.
D'ARBLAY, Mme. See BURNEY, Miss.
DARBY, Rev. Mr., v. 453, n. 2.
DARIPPE, Captain, v. 135.
DARIUS'S shade, iv. 16.
DARLINGTON, i. 35, n. 1.
DARTINEUF, Charles, ii. 447.
DARTMOUTH, Lord, i. 407, n. 1.
DARWIN, Charles, v. 428, n. 3.
DARWIN, Dr. Erasmus, v. 428, n. 3.
DASHWOOD, Sir Francis, ii. 135, n. 2.
DASHWOOD, Sir Henry, iii. 407, n. 5.
DATES to letters, i. 122, n. 2; iii. 421, n. 3, 428, n. 4.
D'AUTEROCHE, Count, iii. 8, n. 3.
DAVENANT, Sir William, ii. 168, n. 2.
DAVENPORT, William, Strahan's apprentice, ii. 324, n. 1.
DAVIES, Thomas, account of him, i. 390;
author, success as an, iii. 434;
bankruptcy, iii. 223, 434;
Baretti's trial, exaggerated feelings about, ii. 94;
quarrels with him, ii. 205;
benefit at Drury Lane, iii. 249;
bookseller, his taste as a, iii. 223, n. 1;
Boswell to Johnson, introduces, i. 390; iv. 231;
Churchill's lines on him, i. 391, n. 2, 483; iii. 223;
sees in the pit, iii. 223, n. 2:
Cibber's genteel ladies, ii. 340;
'clapped on the back by Tom Davies,' ii. 344;
_Conduct of the Allies_, ii. 65;
dinners at his house, ii. 340; iii. 38;
_Garrick, Memoirs of_. iii. 434, n. 5;
Garrick, letter to, iii. 223, n. 2;
complains of his unkindness, ib.;
Goldsmith's dislike of Baretti, ii. 205, n. 3;
'Goldy's' play, talks of, ii. 258; v. 308;
Hunter, Johnson's schoolmaster, anecdote of, i. 45, n. 4;
Johnson, accurate observer of, ii. 258;
candour, iii. 271, n. 2;
and Foote, ii. 299;
forgives him, ii. 271;
laugh, ii. 378;
letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters;
liberality to him, i. 488; iii. 223;
love for him, iv. 231, 365;
one of a deputation to, iii. III;
sends pork to, iv. 413, n. 2;
talking to himself, i. 483;
learning enough for a clergyman, had, iv. 13;
Maddocks, the straw-man, iii. 231, n. 2;
_Miscellanies and Fugitive Pieces_, ii. 270;
Mounsey and Percy, ii. 64;
portrait by Hicky, ii. 340, n. 2;
'potted stories' of a dramatic author, iii. 40;
Quin's saying about January 30, v. 382, n. 2;
Shakespeare, representations of, v. 244, n. 2;
stage, his earnings on the, iii. 223;
driven from it, ib., iii. 249;
'statesman all over,' ii. 65;
Thane of Ross, iv. 8; Walker's
'distinguished glare,' ii. 368, n. 3;
zealous for the _trade_, ii. 345;
mentioned, i. 175, n. 3, 310, 423; ii. 63, 82, 343-4, 349;
iii--38; iv. 366.
DAVIES, Mrs., Tom Davies's wife,
Churchill's lines on her, i. 391, n. 2, 484.
DAVIES,--, of Llanerch, v. 439.
DAVIS, Mrs., iv. 239, n. 2, 439.
DAVY, Sir Humphry, iv. 119, n. 1.
DAVY, Serjeant, iii. 87, n. 3.
DAWKINS, 'Jamaica,' iv. 126.
_Dawling_, iii. 422;
_dawdle_, iv. 126.
DAWSON, George, ii. 456, n. 2.
DAWSON's _Lexicon_, iii. 407.
DAY-LABOURERS, wages of, iv. 176; v. 263.
DEAD, form of prayer for the, ii. 163;
libels on them, iii. 13;
recommending and praying for them, i. 190, n. 2, 236, 240; ii. 163;
iv. 137, 158, n. 3;
their spirits perhaps present, i. 212;
why we wish for their return, i. 240, n. 1.
DEAF AND DUMB, Academy for the, v. 399.
DEAN, Rev. Richard, ii. 53.
DEATH, act of dying not of importance, ii. 107;
affectation in dying, v. 397;
best men most afraid of it, iii. 154;
Browne, Sir T., on it, iii. 153, n. 1;
business preparation for it, v. 316;
change beyond man's understanding, ii. 163, n. 3;
dispositions on one's death-bed, v. 239;
'dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1;
fear of it cannot be got over, ii. 106, 298; iii. 295;
natural to man, ii. 93; iii. 153, 158, 294; v. 179;
resolution, met with, iii. 295;
sight, kept out of, iii. 154;
some die well, few willingly, i. 365;
sudden death in sin, iv. 225;
Swift dreads it, ii. 93, n. 4;
describes what reconciles man to it, iii. 295, n. 2;
thinking constantly of it, v. 316;
violent, i. 338;
'a whole system of hopes swept away,' i. 236, n. 3.
See under JOHNSON, death, dread of.
DEATH WARRANTS, iii. 121, n. 1; v. 239-40.
_Debate on the Proposal of Parliament to Cromwell_, i. 150.
DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT,
account of them, i. 115-118, 150-152, 501-512;
written at first by Guthrie and corrected by Johnson, i. 115-6,
136, 503, 509;
written solely by Johnson, i. 118, 150-2, 157, 503;
wrongly assigned to Johnson, i. 509;
authenticity generally accepted, i. 152, 505;
Chesterfield, speeches attributed to, iii. 351;
Croker's inaccuracy about them, i. 509!
'debating,' absence of, i. 506;
discontinued, i. 176, n. 2, 512;
Gent. Mag., increased sale of, i. 152, n. 1;
House of Commons passes resolutions against publication, i. 115, 502, 510;
House of Lords 'a Court of Record,' i. 502;
'Hurgoes,' 'Clinabs,' 'Walelop,' 'Hon. Marcus Cato,' i. 502;
'Pretor of Mildendo,' i. 503;
Johnson's conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408;
_Debates_ not authentic, i. 118, 503-9;
rapid composition, i. 504; iv. 409;
successor, i. 512;
_London Magazine_, reports of the, i. 502, 508-510;
monument to Walpole's greatness, i. 512;
Murphy's account of them, i. 504;
prosecution of Cave, i. 501;
of Cooley and the printer of the _Daily Post_, i. 503;
of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1;
reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510;
reporters, 'fellows who thrust themselves into the gallery,' i. 502;
reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504;
Seeker's reports, i. 507, 509;
'Senate of Lilliput,' i. 115, 502;
speakers' names disguised, i. 501;
speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504;
many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7;
sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508;
table of the order of publication, i. 510;
translated, i. 505;
unreality, i. 506;
volumes, collected in, i. 152;
Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314.
_Debrett's Royal Kalendar_, iv. 350, n. 1.
DEBTOR. 'The pillow of a debtor,' iv. 152, n. 1.
DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127;
for Johnson's warnings, see BOSWELL, debts;
law of arrest, iii. 77;
small and great, i. 347.
_Decay of Christian Piety_, v. 227.
_De Claris Oratoribus_, iv. 316.
DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4;
flattery allowed, v. 285;
Johnson's to all the Royal Family, ii. 2;
skill in them, ii. 1;
_Works_ without any, i. 257, n. 2;
means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2;
one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1;
studied conclusions, v. 239.
_Defence of Pluralities_, ii. 242.
DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1.
DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245.
DEFINITIONS. See under DICTIONARY, and separate words.
DE FOE, Daniel, _Captain Carleton's Memoirs,_ iv. 334, n. 4;
_Drelincourt on Death,_ ii. 163, n. 4;
his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1;
Johnson's praise of him, iii. 267;
the opposite of him, i. 506;
_Robinson Crusoe_, iii. 268.
_Deformities of Johnson_, iv. 148-9.
DEGENERACY OF MANKIND, ii. 217, v. 77.
DE GROOT, Isaac, iii. 125.
DEIST, no honest man one, ii. 8.
DELANY, Dr., _Observations on Swift_, iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238.
DELAP, Rev. Dr., i. 521.
DELAY, danger of, i. 324.
_Dementat_, iv. 181, n. 3.
DEMOCRITUS, iv. 105, n. 4.
DEMONAX, iv. 34.
DE MORGAN, Professor, i. 284, n. 3.
DEMOSTHENES, Johnson compared with him, i. 504;
spoke to barbarians, ii. 171;
to brutes, ii. 211;
mentioned, iii. 351; v. 214.
DEMPSTER, George, account of him, i. 408, n. 4;
argues for merit, i. 440-2;
Boswell, letter to, v. 407;
Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 409, n. 3;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 409;
Johnson's conversation, struck with, i. 434;
dines with, ii. 195;
_Journey_, praises, ii. 303; iii. 301;
sister, his, iii. 242; iv. 284;
unfixed in his principles, i. 443;
virtuous and candid, ii. 305.
DENBIGH, Earls of, ii. 175, n. 2.
DENHALL IN WIRHALL, v. 445, n. 3.
DENHAM, Sir John, iv. 38, n. 1.
DENMAN, first Lord, ii. 408, n. 3.
DENMARK, King of, v. 100.
DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2.
DENNIS, John,
criticisms on _Blackmore_ and _Cato_, iv. 36, n. 4;
on _Cato_, iii. 40, n. 2;
on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. _4_;
_Critical Works_ worth collecting, iii. 40;
his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2.
DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5.
_Depeditation_, v. 130.
DEPOPULATION, ii. 217, n. 5.
DE QUINCEY, account of Bishop Watson, iv. 119, n. 1;
criticises Johnson's _Vanity_, &c., i. 193, n. 3;
praises his Latin, i. 272, n. 3.
_Derange_, iii. 319, n. 1.
DERBY, account of it in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
Highlanders there in 1745, iii. 162; v. 196, n. 3;
Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. 160;
see the china-manufactory, iii. 163;
silk-mill, iii. 164; v. 432;
Johnson married there, i. 95, n. 2, 96;
mentioned, iii. 1, 135, n. 1; iv. 359.
DERBY, fifteenth Earl of, v. 354, n. 1.
DERBY, Rev. Mr., iii. 113.
DERBYSHIRE, ii. 474.
DERRICK, Samuel,
Boswell's 'first tutor,' i. 456;
his 'governor,' iii. 371;
introduced him to Davies, iv. 231, n. 1;
Dryden's _Miscellaneous Works_, edits, i. 456, n. 3;
Home's parody on him, i. 456;
_Humphry Clinker_, described in, i. 124, n. 2;
Johnson's kindness for him, i. 385; v. 117, 240;
projected _Life of Dryden_, gathers materials for, i. 456; v. 240;
lines on, i. 124;
'King of Bath,' i. 394, n. 2, 455;
_Letters from Leverpoole_, i. 456, n. 1; v. 117;
outrunning his character, i. 394;
presence of mind, i. 457;
pun about the Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5;
Smart, compared with, iv. 192.
DESCRIPTION, falls short of reality, iv. 199.
_Deserted Village_. See GOLDSMITH.
DES MAIZEAUX, i. 29.
DESMOULINS, John,
Johnson's will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2;
bequest to him, ib.;
mentioned, iv. 415, n. 1, 440.
DESMOULINS, Mrs., account of her, iii. 222, n. 3;
hates Levett and Williams, iii. 368, 461;
Johnson allows her half a guinea a week, iii. 222;
death, present at, iv. 418;
kitchen under her care, ii. 215, n. 4;
house, lodged in, iii. 222, 380, n. 3;
leaves it, iv. 233, 255, n. 1;
not complaining of the world, iv. 171;
mentioned, i. 64, 83, 237; ii. 148; iii. 313, 363,373;
iv. 92, 1422, 170, 210, 239, n. 2, 322, n. 1.
DESPONDENCY, speculative, iv. 112.
DESPOTIC GOVERNMENTS, iii. 283.
DE THOU. See THUANUS.
DETTINGEN, Battle of, iv. 12.
DEVAYNES, Mr., iv. 273.
_De veritate Religionis_, i. 68, n. 3.
DEVILS do not lie to each other, iii. 293;
their influence upon our minds, iv. 290.
DEVONPORT, i. 379, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE, Johnson's trip to, i. 37l, n. 3, 377; iii. 457;
militia, its, i. 36, n. 4, 307, n. 4.
DEVONSHIRE, third Duke of,
faithful to his word, iii. 186;
dogged veracity, iii. 378.
DEVONSHIRE, fourth Duke of, ii. 78, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE, fifth Duke and Duchess of,
hospitality to Johnson, iv. 357, 367;
mentioned, iv. 126.
DEVONSHIRE, seventh Duke of,
'public dinners at Chatsworth,' iv. 367, n. 3.
DEVONSHIRE, Georgiana, Duchess of,
Genius made feminine to compliment her, iii. 374;
Johnson, eager to hear, iii. 425, n. 4;
painted in the same picture with him, iv. 224, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE FAMILY, ii. 474.
DEVOTION, abstracted, ii. 10;
particular places for, iv. 226.
_Devotional Exercises_. See PRAYERS.
DEVOTIONAL POETRY. See POETRY.
DE WITT, i. 32.
DEXTERITY, deserves applause, iii. 231.
_Diabolus Regis_, iii. 78.
DIAL, i. 205.
_Dialogues of the Dead_, ii. 447.
DIAMOND, ----, an apothecary, i. 242; iii. 454.
_Diary, The_, iv. 381, n. 1.
_Diary of a Visit to England in 1775_, ii. 338, n. 2.
DIBDEN, Charles, ii. 110.
DICEY, Professor,
_Law of the Constitution_, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 317, n. 1.
DICK, Sir Alexander, gold medal for rhubarb, iv. 263, n. 1;
hospitality, his, iv. 204;
Johnson consults him about his health, iv. 261-3;
letter to, iii. 102, 128;
meets, v. 48, 394, 401.
DICK, ----, a messenger, v. 201.
'DICK WORMWOOD,' ii. 407, n. 5.
DICKENS, Charles, iv. 202, n. 1.
DICTIONARY,
might be compiled from Bacon, iii. 194;
from Elizabethan authors, iii. 194, n. 2;
'perfection' of one, i. 292, n. 2;
pronunciation, of, ii. 161;
Scotland, of words peculiar to, ii. 91;
watches, like, i. 293, n. 3.
_Dictionary, Johnson's_,
account of it, i. 182-9, 256-266, 291-301;
_Abridgement_, i. 264, n. 4, 300, n. 1, 303, n. 1. 305;
in Lord Scarsdale's dressing-room, iii. 161;
accents of words, ii. 161;
authors quoted, i. 189; iv. 4, 416, n. 2;
Bacon often quoted, iii. 194;
Birch, Dr., on it, i. 285;
bound and lettered, i. 283;
commencement, date of its, i. 182, n. 3;
composition, its, i. 186-9;
deficiency of previous, i. 187, n. 1;
definitions, erroneous, i. 293;
definitions, Johnson's genius shown in them, i. 293;
instances of erroneous, i. 293;
political and capricious, i. 294-6; iii. 343; iv. 87, n. 2, 217:
See under separate words;
dictionary-makers described, i. 189, n. 2;
dictionary-making not very unpleasant, i. 189, n. 2; ii. 202, n. 2,
203, n. 3;
'muddling work,' ib.;
Dodsley's suggestion, i. 182, 286; iii. 405;
drudgery, v. 418;
etymologies, i. 186, 292;
explanation, difficulty of, i. 294, n. 2;
edition, fourth, preparing, ii. 142,143, n. 3, 155;
sent to press, ii. 202, n. 2, 209;
published, ii. 203, 205;
mentioned, i. 293, n. 2, 294, n. 7, 295, n. 1, 375, n. 2;
iv. 4, n. 3, 87, n. 2;
Garrick's _Epigram_, i. 300;
Gifford's _Contemplation_ quoted, v. 117, n. 4;
Gough Square, compiled in, i. 188;
Harris,_Hermes_, praised by, iii. 115;
honours and praises, i. 298, 323;
Johnson's portrait, iv. 421, n. 2;
Johnson's praise of its execution, iii. 405;
Manning, the compositor, iv. 321;
outlines sketched, its, i. 176;
particles, changes of the, ii. 45, n. 3;
patrons and opponents, i. 288;
payments, i. 183, 287, 304;
_Plan_, dedicated to Lord Chesterfield, i. 183;
draft of it, i. 185, n. 2;
not noticed in _Gent. Mag._ i. 176, n. 2;
published, i. 182;
poetry, harder to write than, v. 47;
Preface, i. 291-9;
pronunciation, ii. 161, n. 1;
published, i. 288, 291;
publishers, i. 183;
Sheridan's, R. B., compliment to it, iii. 115;
Smith, Adam, reviewed by, i. 298, n. 2;
time taken in writing, i. 186, 287, 291, 443;
volume ii. begun, i. 255;
Wilkes and the letter _H_, i. 300;
words, big, i. 2l8;
written in sickness and sorrow, i. 263, n. 1; iv. 427.
_Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_ projected by Goldsmith, ii. 204, n. 2.
DIDEROT, Denys, anecdote of Hume, ii. 8, n. 4;
on acting, iv. 244, n. 1.
DIDO, iv. 196.
_Dies Irae_, iii. 358, n. 3.
DIFFICULTIES, raising, iii. 11, n. 1.
DIGGS, the actor, i. 386, n. 1.
DILLY FAMILY, account of it, iii. 396, n. 2.
DILLY, Messrs. Edward and Charles, booksellers,
Boswell's _Corsica_, publish, ii. 46, n. 1;
_Conversation between George III, &c_., ii. 34, n. 1;
_Life of Johnson, ib._;
Chesterfield's _Miscellaneous Works_, publish, iii. 351;
dinners at their house, ii. 247, 338; iii. 65-79, 284-300, 357-8,
392, n. 2; iv. 101-7, _ib., n 2, 278, 330; v. 57, n. 3;
always gave a good dinner, iii. 285;
hospitality to literary men, iii. 65;
house, their, No. 22 in the Poultry, iii. 5, 65, n. 2;
'patriotic friends,' their, iii. 66.
DILLY, Charles, comparative happiness, on, iii. 288;
Johnson, letters from, iii. 394; iv. 257;
Milton's _Tractate on Education_, on, iii. 358;
quotations for sale, account of, iv. 102, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 396, n. 2; iv. 118, 126.
DILLY, Edward, Boswell, letter to, iii. 110;
Boswell parts with him, iii. 396;
_Lives of the Poets_, account of the, iii. 110;
Johnson, letter from, iii. 126.
DILLY, Squire, Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 118-32;
mentioned, i. 260; ii. 247; iii. 396, n. 2.
DINGLEY, Mrs., iv. 177, n. 2.
DINNER, cost in London in 1737, i. 103,105;
in 1746, i. 103, n. 2;
in Edinburgh, in 1742, ib.;
a measure of emotion, i. 355; ii. 94; iv. 220;
waiting for it, ii. 83;
better where there is no solid conversation, iii. 57.
See JOHNSON, dinners and eating.
DIOCLETIAN, ii. 255, n. 4.
DIOGENES LAERTIUS, iii. 386, n. 3; iv. 13.
DIOMED, ii. 129.
DIONYSIUS'S _Periegesis_, iv. 444.
Diot, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430.
_Dirleton's Doubts_, iii. 205.
_Disarrange_, iii. 319, n. 1.
_Discourses on Painting by Reynolds. See_ REYNOLDS, _Discourses_.
DISCOVERIES, Johnson dislikes them, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479;
iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 1;
Walpole describes the harm done by them, v. 276, n. 2, 328, n. 2.
DISEASES, acute and chronical, iv. 150.
DISLIKE, mutual, iii. 423.
DISPUTES, encouraging, iii. 185.
D'ISRAELI, Isaac, Barnes's _Homer_, iv. 19, n. 2;
Birch, Dr., i. 159, n. 4;
Campbell's _Hermippus Redivivus_, ii. 427, n. 4;
Chatterton and Lord Mayor Beckford, iii. 201, n. 3;
Churchill's abhorrence of blotting, i. 419, n. 5;
Davies's taste as a bookseller, iii. 223, n. 1;
Dedications, ii. 1, n. 2;
Dennis's thunder, iii. 40, n. 2;
Du Halde's _China_, ii. 55, n. 4;
Flexney and Stockdale, ii. 113, n. 2;
Guthrie's letter, i. 117, n. 2;
Hill, Sir John, ii. 39, n. 2;
Johnson's hints for the _Life of Pope_, iv. 46, n. 1;
Oldys the author of _Busy, curious, thirsty fly_, ii. 281, n. 5;
his notes on Langbaine, iii. 30, n. 1;
Pieresc, ii. 371, n. 2;
Steevens's literary impostures, iv. 178, n. 1;
Tasker, Rev. Mr., iii. 374, n. 1.
DISSENTERS, bill for their relief rejected, ii. 208, n. 4;
_Country_-party, of the, v. 255, n. 5;
taught the graces of language, i. 312;
tossing snails into their gardens, ii. 268, n. 2.
_Dissertation on the Epitaphs written by Pope_, i. 306.
_Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authours_, i. 306.
_Dissertations on the History of Ireland_, i. 321.
_Dissertations on the Prophecies_, iv. 286.
DISSIMULATION, ii. 47.
DISTANCE, of time and of place, ii. 471.
DISTINCTIONS, all are trifles, iii. 355; love of them, i. 474.
_Distressed Mother_, Budgell's Epilogue_, i. 181;
really written by Addison, iii. 46;
Johnson's _Epilogue_, i. 55, n. 3.
DISTRESSES OF OTHERS, ii. 94-5.
DISTRUST, iii. 135.
_Diversions of Purley_, iii. 354, n. 2.
DIVES, ii. 162.
_Divine Legation_. See WARBURTON, W.
DIVINES, English, iv. 105, n. 3.
DIVORCES, iii. 347-8.
DIXEY, Sir Wolstan, i, 84.
DOBLE, Mr. C. E.,
on the authorship of the _Whole Duty of Man_, ii. 239, n. 4;
Psalmanazar at Christ Church, iii. 449.
_Dockers_, i. 379.
DOCKING, ii. 52.
DOCTOR, title of, i. 488, n. 3; ii. 373.
See JOHNSON, doctor, and DR. MEMIS.
DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, respect shown to a, ii. 124.
DOCTORS' COMMONS, i. 134, 462, n. 1.
_Doctrine of Grace_, Warburton's, v. 93.
DODD, Rev. Dr. William, account of him, iii. 139;
Allen's kindness to him, iii. 141;
Boswell's anxiety for his pardon, iii. 119;
canted all his life, iii. 270;
character, iii. 122, 166;
_currat lex_, iv. 207;
dedication to Rev. Mr. Villette, iii. 167, n. 1;
execution, iii. 120-1, 148;
forgery, guilty of, iii. 140;
Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 144-5, 147;
describes, iii. 140, n. 2;
writes for him _Convict's Address_, iii. 121, 141-2, 167, 295, n. 1;
_Last Solemn Declaration_, iii. 143;
_Observations_, iii. 120, n. 4, 142;
_Occasional Papers_ (conclusion), iii. 148;
petitions and letters, iii. 121, 142, 144;
and his speech to the Recorder, iii. 126, 141;
_Last Prayer_, iii. 270;
life, longing for, iii. 154;
Literary Club, tried to join the, iii. 280;
Magdalen House, chaplain at, iii. 139, n. 4;
mind concentrated, his, iii. 167;
Newgate, closely watched in, iii. 166;
petitions in his favour, ii. 90, n. 5; iii. 120, 143;
saint, not to be made a, iv. 208;
Sermons, his, iii. 248;
_Thoughts in Prison_, iii. 270;
'unfortunate,' iii. 120, n. 2;
Wesley visits him in prison, iii. 121, n. 3;
'wretched world, not a,' iii. 166;
mentioned, iii. 132.
DODD, Mrs., iii. 142.
DODDRIDGE, Dr., epigram by him, v. 271.
DODSLEY, James, i. 182; ii. 447.
DODSLEY, Robert, Cleans, acted, i. 324, n. 1, 325-6;
compared by Johnson with Otway, iv. 21;
'more blood than brains,' iv. 20;
_Collection of Poems_, ii. 467; iii. 21, n. 1, 38, 149, n. 2, 269, 280;
iv. 24;
'Dartineuf's' footman, ii. 447;
'Doddy,' ii. 258, n. 1;
Garrick, quarrel with, i. 325;
Goldsmith, dispute on poetry with, iii. 38;
imprisoned by the House of Lords, i. 125, n. 3;
_Irene_, publishes, i. 198;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, suggests, i. 182, 286; iii. 405;
one of the publishers, i. 183, 264;
asks to have the _Plan_ inscribed to Chesterfield, i. 183;
_London_ published by him, i. 121-4;
_Rasselas_, i. 341;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 193, n. 1.
'patron,' i. 326;
_Life_ should be written, his, ii. 446;
_Muse in Livery_, ii. 446;
Pope, assisted by, ii. 446, n. 4;
Pope's executors, application to, iv. 51, n. 1;
_Preceptor_, i. 192;
_Public Virtue_, iv. 20;
wife's death, his, i. 277;
_World, The_, i. 202, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 135, n. 1, 243, 290, 317; ii. 453, n. 2; iv. 333, n. 1.
DODWELL, Henry, v. 437.
_Doggedly_, v. 40.
DOGGET, Thomas, ii. 465, n. 1.
DOGS attack butchers, ii. 232;
eaten in China and Otaheite, ib.;
have not power of comparing, ii. 96.
DOING NOTHING, v. 39.
_Dolus latet in universalibus_, v. 105.
_Domesticated_, i. 268, n. 1.
_Domina de North et Gray_, iv. 10.
DOMINICETTI, ii. 99.
DONALDSON, Alexander, Boswell's first publisher, i. 383, n. 3;
intimacy with him, i. 439. n. 1;
Copyright case, i. 437-9; ii 345. n. 2.
DONATUS, ii. 204, n. 4, 358, n. 3.
_Don Belianis_, i. 49, n. 2.
DONCASTER, ii. 300, n. 5.
DONNE, Dr., saw a vision, ii. 445;
uses the term _quotidian_, v. 346.
_Don Quixote_, wished longer, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5;
Don Quixote's death, ii. 370.
DOOR, 'author concealed behind the door,' i. 396.
_Dorando, A Spanish Tale_, ii. 50, n. 4.
DORSET, third Duke of, iv. 421, n. 2.
DOSA, ii. 7, n. 3.
DOSSIE, Robert, iv. 11.
DOUBLE LETTERS. See POST.
DOUGHTY, the engraver, ii. 286, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2.
DOUGLAS, Archibald,
(at first Archibald Stewart, at last Baron Douglas, of Douglas Castle),
ii. 50, n. 4, 230.
DOUGLAS, last Duke of, v. 43, n. 4.
DOUGLAS, Duchess of, v. 43, n. 4.
DOUGLAS, Sir James, journey to the Holy Land, iii. 177.
DOUGLAS, James, M.D., editions of Horace, iv. 279.
DOUGLAS, Lady Jane, ii. 50, n. 4, 230.
DOUGLAS, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Salisbury,
British Coffee-house Club, a member of the, iv. 179, n. 1;
Church of England, on the discipline of the, iv. 277;
Cock Lane Ghost exposes the, i. 407;
Goldsmith's lines on him, i. 229, n. 1, 407, n. 2; iii. 139, n. 4;
_Conduct of the Allies_, praises the, ii. 65;
Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5;
Johnson's _London_, anecdote of, i. 127;
Lauder's imposition, i. 228;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
mentioned, i. 140, 260, n. 3, 430; ii. 63, 125, n. 5.
DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN, iii. 163.
DOUGLAS, Lady Lucy, v. 359.
DOUGLAS CAUSE, account of it, ii. 50, 230;
Boswell one of the counsel before House of Lords, iii. 8, 219;
v. 378, n. 2;
and the Duchess of Argyle, v. 353, 359;
_Essence of the Douglas Cause_, ii. 230, n. 1;
Judges' windows broken, v. 353, n. 1;
_Letters to Lord Mansfield_, ii. 229;
'shook the security of birth-right,' v. 28.
_Douglas_, a tragedy. SEE HOME, John.
DOVEDALE, v. 430.
DOVER, iv. 260, n. 1.
DOVER CLIFF, Shakespeare's description of, ii. 87.
_Downed_, iii. 335, n. 2.
DOXY, Miss, iii. 417-8.
_Drake, Life of_, i. 147, n. 5.
DRAMA, the English, characteristics of its dialogue, iv. 247.
DRAPER, the bookseller, iii. 46.
DRAUGHTS, game of, i. 317; ii. 444,
DRAYTON'S _Polyolbion_, v. 225, n. 3.
DREAMS, communication by them, i. 235;
contest of wit in one, iv. 5;
Prendergast's dream, ii. 183.
_Drelincourt on Death_, ii. 163.
DRESDEN, i. 266, n. 2.
DRESS, effects on the mind, i. 200; ii. 475;
if fine, should be very fine, iv. 179; v. 364.
DRESSING, time spent in, v. 67.
DREWRY, SIR R., ii. 445, n. 4.
DRINKING, time it can go on, iii. 243, n. 4;
in Johnson's youth, v. 59-60;
rule about drinking to another, v. 356:
SEE DRUNKENNESS and WINE.
_Drinking Song to Sleep_, i. 251.
DROGHEDA, fifth Earl of, iii. 30, n, 1.
DROMORE, Bishop of. SEE PERCY.
DROWNING, suicide by, v. 54.
DRUID'S TEMPLE, a, v. 107, 132.
DRUMGOLD, Colonel, ii. 397, 399, 401.
DRUMMOND, ALEXANDER, _Travels_, v. 323.
DRUMMOND, DR., iii. 88, 383.
DRUMMOND, GEORGE, v. 43.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, of Hawthornden, _Cypress Grove_, v. 180;
_Polemomiddinia_, iii. 284;
Jonson, Ben, visited by, v. 402, 414.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, bookseller of Edinburgh,
account of him, ii. 26;
Johnson's letters to him, ii. 27-31;
Johnson, meets, v. 385, 394, 400;
his son, iii. 88, n. 1.
DRUNKENNESS, as an art, iii, 389;
'elevated,' v. 156, n. 2;
its felicity, ii, 351; 435. n. 7; iii. 381, n. 3;
on a little, iii. 170.
_Drury Lane Journal_, i. 218, n. 1.
DRURY LANE THEATRE, _Prologue on the opening of_, i. 181; iv. 25.
SEE LONDON, Drury Lane.
DRYDEN, JOHN,
_Absalom and Achitophel_, sale, i. 34, n. 5;
quoted, ii. 348, n. 2; iv. 73, n. 3;
_All for Love_, preface quoted, iv. 114, n 1;
_Annus Mirabilis_, quoted, ii. 241, n. 1;
_Aurengsebe_, quoted, ii. 125; iv. 303, n. 3;
Bayes in _The Rehearsal_, ii. 168:
booksellers' mercantile ruggedness, suffered from the, i. 305, n. 1;
borrows for want of leisure, v. 92, n. 4;
Collier, censured by, i. 167, n. 2; iv. 286, n. 3;
colleges and kings, lines on, ii. 223;
_Conquest of Granada_, quoted, iv. 259, n. 3;
dedication, its, v. 239;
converted to Roman Catholicism, iv. 44;
dedications, studied conclusions to his, v. 239;
'delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,' ii. 241, n. l;
_Life of_, Derrick's 'materials'; SEE DERRICK;
dignity of his character, known to himself, i. 264, n. 1;
_Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, i. 197, n. 2; ii. 86, n. 1;
'Fate after him,' &c., iv. 25, n. 3;
'familiar day,' his, iv. 91, n. 1;
foreign words, on, i. 218, n. 1;
genius, his conscious, iii. 405, n. 3;
Hailes, Lord, anecdotes of him by, iii. 397, n. 3;
_Hind and Panther_, quoted, iv. 44;
_Indian Emperour_, quoted, iii. 346, n. 3;
Johnson gathered materials for his _Life_, i. 456; iii. 71; iv. 44; v.
240; writes it, iv. 44-6;
Johnson, resemblance in his character to, iv. 45;
judgment of the public, on the, i. 200, n. 2;
Juvenal, dedication to his, iv. 38;
Latin line wrongly attributed to him, iii. 304, n. 3;
_Life_ not written by contemporaries, v. 415, n. 2;
lines on life: SEE just above, _Aurengzebe_;
love, fine lines on, ii. 85;
Malone, _Life_ by, iii. 397, n. 3;
'mechanical defects,' on, iv. 247;
_Metaphysical Poets_, mentions the, iv. 38;
Milton, lines on, ii. 336; v. 86;
Johnson's translation, _ib., n_. 1;
_Ode on St. Cecilia's Day_, iii. 38;
paid about sixpence a verse for 10,000 verses, i. 193, n. 1;
pleasing a man against his will, on, iii. 69, n. 4;
poets and monarchs, lines on, ii. 223;
Pope, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85;
predestination, puzzled about, iii. 347;
prefaces, his, ii. 444, n. 1; iv. 114, n. 1;
_Prologue to the Tempest_, quoted, i. 361;
prologues, his, ii. 325;
rhyming tragedies, iv. 42, n. 7;
_Rival Ladies_, quoted, iii. 296, n. 1;
Royal Society, lines on the, ii. 241;
Settle, Elkanah, rivalry with, iii. 76;
Shakespeare, admiration of, ii. 86, n. 1;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, its title taken from him, ii. 205. n. 4;
'shorn of his beams,' iii. 363, n. 1;
style, distinguished by his, iii. 280;
traded in corruption, i. 189, n. 1;
Virgil, translation of, iii. 193;
Will's Coffee-house, at, iii. 71;
Zimri, character of, ii. 85.
Du Bos, ii. 90.
DUCK, epitaph on a, i. 40.
DUCKET, George, i. 294, n. 9.
DUCKING-STOOL, iii. 287.
DUDLEY, Lord, v. 457.
DUDLEY, Sir Henry, (_alias_ Rev. Henry Bate), iv. 296, n. 3.
DUEL, trial by, v. 24.
DUELLING,
defended by Johnson and Oglethorpe, ii. 179;
by Johnson as being as lawful as war, ii. 226;
as self-defence, iv. 211;
his serious opinion not given, ib., n. 4;
could not explain its rationality, v. 230;
Thomas, Colonel, killed in one, iv. 211, n. 4;
_Tom Jones_, the lieutenant in, ii. 180.
DUFFERIN, fifth Earl of, i. 358, n. 2.
DUGDALE, William, Sunday work in harvest, iii. 313, n. 3.
DU HALDE, _Description of China_, i. 136, 157; ii. 55; iv. 30.
DUKE, Richard, iv. 36, n. 4.
DUKE, an English one nothing, i. 409;
weighed against a genius, i. 442.
DULL, fellow, a, ii. 126;
magistrate, iv. 312.
_Dum vivimus, vivamus_, v. 271.
DUN, Rev. Mr., v. 381.
DUNBAR, Dr., Johnson introduces him to Boswell, iii. 436;
described by Mackintosh and Colman, ib., n. 1; v. 92.
DUNCAN, Dr., ii. 354, n. 2.
DUNCES, ii. 84.
DUNCOMBE, William, iii. 314.
DUNDAS, Lord President, ii. 50, n. 4, 302, n. 2; iii. 213.
DUNDAS, Henry (Viscount Melville),
account of him, ii. 160, n. 1;
Boswell's malice against him, iii. 213, n. 1;
George III, and a baronetcy for an apothecary, ii. 354, n. 2;
government of India bill, iv. 213, n. 1;
Knight, the negro, case of, iii. 213;
Literary Property Case, i. 266;
Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2;
Robertson, a jaunt with, iii. 335, n. 1;
Scotch accent, his, ii. 160; iii. 213;
serfdom in Scotland, on, iii. 202, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 191, n. 2.
DUNDEE, John, Viscount of, v. 58, n. 1.
'DUNGEON OF WIT,' v. 342.
DUNKIRK, iii. 326.
DUNMORE, fourth Earl of, v. 142, n. 2.
DUNNING, John (first Lord Ashburton),
business, his way of getting through, iii. 128, n. 5;
Devonshire accent, ii. 159;
'great lawyer, the,' iii. 128;
influence of the Crown, motion on the, iv. 220, n. 5;
Johnson, willing to listen to, iii. 240;
_Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle_, iii. 254;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
elected, iii. 128;
Loughborough, Lord, afraid of him, iii. 240, n. 3;
Reynolds's dinner parties, describes, iii. 375, n. 2;
Somerset's case, in, iii. 87, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 437, n. 2.
DUNSINNAN, Lord. See NAIRNE, William.
DUNSTABLE, v. 428.
_Dunton's Life and Errors_, iv. 200.
_Dupin's History of the Church_, iv. 311.
DUPPA, Bishop, _Holy Rules_, iv. 402, n. 2.
DUPPA, R.,
edits Johnson's _Journey into North Wales_, ii. 285, n. 2; v. 427, n. 1.
_Durandi Rationale Officiorum Divinorum_, ii. 397, n. 2; v. 459.
_Durandi Sanctuarium_, ii. 397.
_Durham on the Galatians_. v. 383.
DURHAM (City), iii. 297, n. 2, 457; v. 56, n. 2.
DURHAM (County), Militia Bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4.
DURY, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 338, n. 2.
DURY, Major-General, i. 338, n. 2.
DUTCH. See HOLLAND.
DYER, Sir James, i. 75.
DYER, John, _Fleece, The,_ ii. 453;
S. Dyer's portrait passed off as his, ib., n. 2.
DYER, Samuel, account of him, iv. 11, n. 1;
Hawkins's character, draws, i. 28, n. 1;
Hawkins slanders him, i. 480, n. 1;
Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 436;
Johnson buys his portrait, iv. 11, n. 1;
_Junius,_ suspected to be, iv. 11;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2,479, 480, n. 2; ii. 17;
held in high estimation, iv. 10-11;
mathematician, a, v. 109;
Reynolds's portrait of him, i. 363, n. 3; ii. 453, n. 2.
DYING. See DEATH.
E.
_Eagle and Robin Redbreast,_ i. 117, n. 1.
EARLY HABITS, ii. 366.
EARLY RISING. See under BOSWELL, early rising, and JOHNSON, rising.
EARTHQUAKE, at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3;
in Staffordshire, iii. 136.
EAST INDIANS, barbarians, iii. 339.
EAST INDIES,
Johnson receives a letter thence, iii. 20, 23;
once thought of going there, iii. 20;
quest of wealth, iii. 400;
Scotch soldiers refuse to go there, v. 142, n. 2.
See INDIA.
EASTER. See under JOHNSON.
EASTER to Whitsuntide, propitious to study, ii. 263.
EASTON MAUDIT, i. 486; iii. 437, 451.
EATING. See under JOHNSON.
ECCLES, Mr., an Irish gentleman, i. 423.
_Ecclesiastes,_ iv. 300, n. 2.
ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURE, iii. 59, 91.
ECONOMY, anxious saving, ii. 131;
art of--, iii. 265, 362;
blundering--, iii. 300.
EDDYSTONE, i. 377.
EDENSOR INN, iii. 208.
EDIAL, i. 97; ii. 143.
_Edinburgh Magazine and Review,_ iii. 334, n. 1.
_Edinburgh Review,
_Campbell's _Diary of a Visit to England,_ ii. 338, n. 2, 343, n. 2;
payment to writers in it, iv. 214, n. 2.
_Edinburgh Review_ of 1755, i. 298, n. 2.
_Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions,_ iv. 25, n. 4.
EDITIONS OF A BOOK, iv. 279.
EDUCATION, by-roads, ii. 407;
'Dick Wormwood' in _The Idler,_ ii. 407, n. 5;
fear, use of, i. 46; v. 99;
influence of it compared with nature, ii. 436;
Johnson attacks and defends the 'common way,' ii. 407, n. 5;
defends popular--, ii. 188; iii. 37;
his plan, iii. 358, n. 2;
Locke's plan, iii. 358;
Mill, J. S., on the new system, ii. 146, n. 4;
Milton's plan, iii. 358;
'wonders' performed by him, ii. 407, n. 5;
perfection attained in it, ii. 407;
_refine,_ not to, in it, iii. 169;
Socrates's plan, iii. 358, n. 2; iv. 444;
what should be taught first? i. 452.
See BOOKS, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, SCHOOLS,
and SCOTLAND, Education, Learning, and Schools.
EDWARD, Prince, brother of George III, iii. 139, n. 4.
EDWARDS, Rev. Dr., Johnson's letter to him, iii. 367;
editing Xenophon, ib.;
death, ib., n. 1.
EDWARDS, Jonathan, _On Grace_, iii. 290.
EDWARDS, Oliver,
Johnson, meets, iii. 302-7; iv. 90;
sends him _The Rambler_, ib;
tried philosophy, iii. 305.
EDWARDS, Thomas, _Canons of Criticism_, i. 263, n. 3.
EDWIN, the comedian, iv. 381, n. 1.
EEL, iii. 381.
EGLINTOUNE, Alexander, tenth Earl of,
calls Johnson a dancing-bear, ii. 66;
his character, v. 374;
death, iii. 188.
EGLINTOUNE, Archibald, eleventh Earl of, iii. 107, 214, 316; v. 149.
EGLINTOUNE, Countess of,
Johnson visits her, v. 373-5;
is adopted by her, iii. 366; v, 375, 401.
_Epilogues_, i. 277.
EGMONT, second Earl of, iv. 198, n. 3; v. 449, n. 1.
EGOTISM, iv. 323.
EGOTISTS, iii. 171.
EGYPT, iii. 233.
EGYPTIANS, ancient, iv. 125.
_Eighteen Hundred and Eleven_, ii. 408, n. 3.
ELD, Mr., iii. 326.
ELDON, Earl of. See SCOTT, John.
ELECTION, General, of 1768, ii. 60, n. 2;
of 1774, ii. 285;
of 1780, iii. 440;
of 1784, iv. 165, n. 3.
ELECTION-COMMITTEES, iv. 74.
ELECTIONS,
boroughs bought, ii. 153;
by Nabobs, v. 106;
lost by vice, iii. 350;
rascals to be driven out of the county, ii. 167, 340.
_Elegy in a Country Churchyard_. See GRAY.
_Elements of Criticism_. See KAMES.
_Elements of Orthoepy_, iv. 389, n. 6.
_Elfrida_, ii. 335.
ELGIN, Earls of, v. 25, n. 2.
ELIBANK, Patrick, fifth Lord, account of him, v. 386;
Boswell, correspondence with, v. 14, 16, 181, 316;
death, v. 181, n. 2;
epitaph on his wife, iv. 10;
Home, patronises, v. 386;
Johnson's definition of oats, i. 294, n. 8;
and the great, iv. 117;
letter to him, v. 182
meets him in Edinburgh, v. 385-8, 393-4;
visits him, v. 394;
power of arguing, iii. 24;
praises him, iii. 24; v. 182, 385;
society, loves, v. 181-2;
Robertson, patronises, v. 386;
admires the moderation of, v. 393;
talk, nothing conclusive in his, iii. 57;
mentioned, ii. 140, 147, 187, 192, 275; v. 307.
ELIOT, Edward, of Port Eliot, first Lord Eliot, Chesterfield, Lord,
praised by, iv. 334, n. 5;
dines at Sir Joshua's, iv. 78, 332;
Goldsmith, sarcasm on, ii. 265, n. 4;
Harte, Dr., his tutor, iv. 78, 333;
Johnson and the graces, iii. 54;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; iv. 326;
_latiner_, story of a, iv. 185, n. 1;
_young_ Lord, a, iv. 334.
ELIZA, epigram to. See MRS. CARTER.
ELIZABETH, Madame, ii. 394.
ELIZABETH, Queen, authors of her age, iii. 194, n. 2;
fashion to exalt her reign, i. 354;
had learning enough for a bishop, iv. 13.
ELLENBOROUGH, first Lord, iv. 414, n. 1.
ELLIOCK, Lord, iii. 213.
ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, third Baronet, ii. 160.
ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert,
fourth Baronet (afterwards first Earl of Minto), ii. 71, n. 1.
ELLIOT, Mr., i. 349.
ELLIOT,--, iii. 352, n. 2.
ELLIS, Sir Henry, i. 260, n. 2; v. 444, n. 2.
ELLIS, 'Jack,' a scrivener, iii. 21.
ELLIS, Welbore, ii. 337; n. 4.
ELLIS, Mr., ii. 116.
ELLSFIELD, i. 273, 289.
ELOCUTION, iv. 206.
ELPHINSTON, James, _Forty Years Correspondence_, ii. 305;
Johnson, letters from: See JOHNSON, letters;
_Martial_, translation of, iii. 258;
manner, his, ii. 171; iii. 379;
mother, loses his, i. 211;
_Rambler_, brings out a Scotch edition of the, i. 210;
translates the mottoes, i. 225;
reading books through, on, ii. 226;
school, his, ii. 171, 226;
mentioned, ii. 30.
ELPHINSTONE, Bishop, v. 91.
ELRINGTON, Bishop, ii. 39, n. 1.
_Elvira_, i. 408.
ELWALL, E., ii. 164, 251.
ELWALLIANS, ii. 164.
ELWIN, Rev. W., Pope's _Universal Prayer_, iii. 346, n. 3.
_Embellishment_, iii. 209.
EMIGRATION, complaints of it, iii. 231;
effects of it on population, iii. 232;
on happiness, v. 27;
caused by oppressive landlords, ib. n. 3;
immersion in barbarism, v. 78. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, emigration.
EMINENT PUBLIC CHARACTER, an, ii. 222.
EMMET, Mrs., ii. 464.
EMPHASIS. See COMMANDMENT.
EMPLOYMENTS, their end is to produce amusement, ii, 234.
EMULATION, i. 46; v. 99.
ENGHIEN, Duke of, ii. 393, n. 7.
ENGLAND, air too pure for slaves to breathe in, iii. 87, n. 3;
Condition (1780), 'difficulty very general,' iii. 420;
(1782) seems to be sinking, iv. 139, n. 4;
(1783) all things as bad as they can be, iv. 173;
dreadful confusion, iv. 249:
times dismal and gloomy, iv. 260, n. 2;
Corsica, treatment of, ii. 71, n. 1;
common people, courage of the, iii. 262, n. 1;
cruelty to black men, ii. 479;
Englishman to a Frenchman, proportion of an, i. 186;
felicity in its inns, ii. 451;
genius and learning little respected, iv. 117, n. 1;
government loan raised at 8 per cent. in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
history of it scarcely credible, v. 340;
knowledge of the common people, ii. 170, n. 3;
language injured by foreign words, iii. 343, n. 3;
literature: See LITERATURE;
lost, found by the Scotch, iii. 78;
loyal in general, ii. 370;
poor, provision for the, ii. 130;
reason and soil best cultivated, ii. 125;
Reign of Terror, a kind of, iv. 328, n. 1;
reserve, English, iv. 191, 284;
roads, iii. 135, n. 1; v. 56, n. 2;
slave trade, upholds the, ii. 480;
stature of the people not lessened, ii. 217.
_England's Gazetteer_, iv. 311.
_English Humourists_, i. 199, n, 2.
_English Malady, The_, i. 65; iii. 27, n. 1.
_English Poets, Bell's_, ii. 453, n. 2.
ENGLISH PROSE. See STYLE
_Englishman in Paris_, ii. 395, n. 2.
ENTAILS, advantage of them, ii. 428;
Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-423;
Johnson's letters on it, ii. 415-423;
limits should be set, ii. 428-9;
nobles must be kept from poverty, ii. 421, n. 1; v. 101.
ENTHUSIASM, of curiosity, iii. 7;
in farming, v. 111.
ENTHUSIAST, by rule, iv. 33.
_Enucleated_, iii. 346.
ENVY, all men naturally envious, iii. 271.
EPICHARMUS, ii. 107, n. 1.
EPICTETUS, v. 279.
EPICUREAN in _Lucian_, iii. 10.
EPIGRAM, judge of an, iii. 259.
EPISCOPACY, iii. 371; iv. 277. See BISHOPS and HIERARCHY.
_Epistle of St. Basil_, iv. 20.
EPITAPHS addressed to the passersby, iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1;
Latin for learned men, iii. 84, n. 2; v. 154, 366;
man killed by a fall, on a, iv. 212;
mixed languages or styles, iv. 444;
the writer not upon oath, ii. 407; iii. 387, n. 5; iv. 443.
_Epitaphs, Essay on_, i. 148, 335; iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1.
_Epocha_, iii. 128.
EPSOM, iii. 453.
EQUALITY OF MANKIND, would turn men into brutes, ii. 219;
none happy in it, iii. 26;
mercy abolished by it, iii. 204, n. 1;
natural, ii. 13; n. 1, 479; iii. 202.
See SUBORDINATION.
_Equitation_, v. 131.
ERASMUS, _Adagiorum Chiliades_, iv. 379, n. 2;
_battologia_, v. 444;
_Ciceronianus_, iv. 353;
Dutch epitaph on him would be offensive, iii. 84, n. 2;
epigram on him, v. 430;
_Letter to the Nuns_, v. 446;
_Militis Christiani Enchiridion, iii. 190, n. 3;
_Manita Paedagogica_, quoted, i. 418, n. 2.
ERROL, Earls of, their property, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1.
ERROL, thirteenth Earl of, account of him, v. 103;
says grace with decency and sees the hand of Providence, v. 104;
his drinking, iii. 170, n. 2, 329; v. 104;
educates a surgeon, v. 101;
portrait by Reynolds, v. 102.
ERROL, Lady, v. 98-9, 105, 130.
ERROR, taking delight in, iv. 204.
ERSE. See IRELAND and SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse.
ERSKINE, Hon. Andrew,
_Correspondence with James Boswell, Esq., i. 383, n. 3; iii. 150, n. 4;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 408;
poet and critick, iii. 150.
ERSKINE, Lady Anne, v. 387.
ERSKINE, Hon. Archibald, v. 387.
ERSKINE, Sir Harry, i. 386.
ERSKINE, Hon. Henry, v. 39, n. 4.
ERSKINE, Hon. Thomas (afterwards Lord Erskine),
account of him, ii. 173, n. 1;
Johnson, meets, ii. 173-177;
Richardson tedious, finds, ii. 174;
sermons, preached two, ii. 176.
ERSKINE, Rev. Dr., v. 391.
ESAU'S BIRTHRIGHT, i. 255.
_Esdras_, ii. 189, n. 3.
ESQUIMAUX, ii. 247.
ESQUIRE, title of, i. 34; ii. 332, n. 1.
_Essay on Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough_, i. 153.
_Essay on Architecture_, i. 306.
_Essay on Death_, ii. 107, n. 1.
_Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, i. 197, n. 2.
_Essay on Epitaphs. See_ EPITAPHS.
_Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise
Lost_, i, 230.
_Essay on the Future Life of Brutes_, ii. 54, n. 1.
_Essay on the Origin of Evil. See_ KING, Archbishop.
_Essay on Truth. See_ BEATTIE, Dr.
_Essay on Wit, Humour, and Ridicule_, iv. 105, n. 4.
_Essays on the History of Mankind_, iii. 436, n. 1.
_Essays on Husbandry_, iv. 78, n. 3.
ESSEX, Club in one of the towns, i. 215;
militia, i. 307, n. 4.
ESSEX, Arthur Capel, first Earl of, v. 403, n. 2.
ESSEX, Robert Devereux, second Earl of,
advice about travelling, i. 431;
_Queen Elizabeth's Champion_, written in his honour, v. 241.
ESTATE, residence on it a duty, iii. 177, 249;
settling, supposed obligation in, ii. 432;
succession in ancient estates, ii. 261;
in those got by trade, ib.
ESTE, House of, i. 383.
ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, iii. 200.
ETERNITY, v. 154.
ETHICS, ii. 408, n. 3.
ETNA, strata of lava, ii. 468, n. 1.
ETON COLLEGE, Boswell places his son there, iii. 12;
dines with the Fellows, v. 15, n. 5;
boys cowed there, iii. 12, n. 1;
line attributed to a boy, iii. 304;
Macdonald, Sir James, a pupil, i. 449, n. 2; iv. 82, n. 1;
Porson on Eton boys, i. 224, n. 1;
Walpole, Horace, revisits it, iv. 127, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 411; iv. 315; v. 97.
_Etymologicon Lingua; Anglicanae_, i. 186, n. 2.
_Etymologicum Anglicanum_, i. 186, n. 2.
ETYMOLOGIES. _See Dictionary_.
EUGENE, Prince, ii. 180.
_Eugenio,_ i. 122; ii. 240.
EUMELIAN CLUB, iv. 394.
EUPHRANOR, iv. 104, n. 2.
EUPOLIS, iii. 267, n. 4.
EURIPIDES, Agamemnon in _Hecuba_, v. 79;
armorial bearings, ii. 179;
'every verse a precept, ii. 86, n. 1;
fragments, iv. 181, n. 3;
Barnes's edition, ib.;
Johnson reads him, i. 70, 72; iv. 311;
Markland's edition, iv. 161, n. 3;
quoted, i. 277;
mentioned, iv. 2.
_European Magazine,_ i. 361, n. 2.
EUTROPIUS, ii. 237.
_Evangelical History Harmonized,_ iv. 381, n. 1.
EVANS, Dr., epigram on Marlborough, ii. 451.
EVANS, Evan, addicted to strong drink, v. 443.
EVANS, John, i. 36, n. 2.
EVANS, Lewis, _Map, &c., of the Middle Colonies_, i. 309.
EVANS, Thomas, bookseller, ii. 209.
EVANS, Mr., iii. 422.
_Evelina. See_ Miss BURNEY.
_Evening Post,_ iv. 140, n. 1.
EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, iv. 299.
_Every island is a prison_, iii. 269; v. 256.
EVIL, origin of, v. 117, 366.
EVIL SPIRIT, personality of the, v. 36, n. 3.
EVIL SPIRITS, their agency, v. 45.
EXAGGERATION, causes of it, iii. 136;
checked by arithmetic, iv. 171, n. 3;
instances of it--depths of places filled up, v. 292;
earthquake at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3;
editions of _Thomas a Kempis_, iii. 226, n. 4;
opera girls in France, iv. 171.
_Examen of Pope's Essay on Man_, i. 137.
_Examiner, The_ (1873), iv. 202, n. 1.
EXCELLENCE, how acquired, iv. 184, n. 1.
EXCISE, Commissioners of, i. 294, n. 9.
EXCISE, defined, i. 294;
origin of Johnson's violence against it, i. 36, n. 5.
_Excursion, The,_ ii. 26.
EXECUTIONS, account of the capital convictions in 1783-5,
iv. 328, n. 1, 329, n. 2, 359, n. 2;
Boswell's love of seeing them: See under BOSWELL;
condemnation sermon at Oxford, i. 273;
capital punishment, cruel instance of, i. 147, n. 1;
Newgate, removed to, iv. 188;
_Rambler_, mentioned in the, iv. 188, n. 3;
Tyburn, procession to, iv. 188-9.
EXECUTORS, v. 106.
EXERCISE, defined, iv. 151, n. 1;
relief for melancholy, i. 64, 446;
renders death easy, iv. 150, n. 2.
EXETER, City and County, i. 36, n. 4;
freedom given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2;
George III visits it, iv. 165, n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 457; iv. 77.
EXETER, Dr. Ross, Bishop of, iv. 273.
EXHIBITION. See ROYAL ACADEMY.
EXISTENCE, complaints of existence being imposed on man, iii. 53;
terms on which it is offered, iii. 58. See LIFE.
EXPECTATIONS, i. 337, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 2.
EXPENDITURE. See ECONOMY.
EXPERIENCE, great test of truth, i. 454.
_Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost_, i. 128, n. 2.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS, ii. 450.
F.
_Fable of the Bees_, iii. 291, n. 4, 292, ns. 1, 2, and 3.
_Fable of the Glow-worm,_ ii. 232.
FACTION, iv. 200.
FACTS, mingled with fiction, iv. 187.
_Faculty, The_, iii. 285, n. 2.
FAIRIES, iv. 17.
FADEN, W., i. 330, n. 3; iv. 440.
FAIRFAX, Edward, iv. 36, n. 4.
FAIRLIE, Mr., v. 380.
FAITH, merit in, iv. 123.
FALCONER, Rev. Mr., iii. 371.
FALCONER, Alexander, v. 103.
FALKLAND, Lord, iv. 428, n. 2.
_Falkland's Islands, Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting_,
account of it, ii. 134;
Johnson's estimate of it, ii. 147;
'softened' in later copies, ii. 135;
sale delayed by Lord North, ii. 136;
mentioned, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 312; iii. 19, n. 2.
FALMOUTH, Viscount, iii. 331.
_False Alarm_, account of it, ii. 111;
answers to it, ii. 112;
election committees described, iv. 74, n. 3;
Johnson's estimate of it, ii. 147;
petitions described, ii. 90, n. 5;
rapidly written, i. 71, n. 3, 373, n. 2;
Wilkes, answer attributed to, iv. 30;
Wilkes attacked, iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 104.
FALSE CRIES, transmitted from book to book, iii. 55.
_False Delicacy_, ii. 48.
FALSEHOOD, due mostly to carelessness, iii. 228, 229, n. 1;
prevalence of it, iii. 229.
FALSTAFF, Beauclerk adopts his 'humorous phrase,' i. 250;
'I deny your Major,' iv. 316;
proved no coward, iv. 192, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 506.
FAME, general desire for it, iii. 263;
literary, hard to get, ii. 358;
a shuttlecock, v. 400;
solicitude about it, i. 451.
FAMILIES, Great, chaplains and state servants, ii. 96;
continuance of them, ii. 421;
desire to propagate the name, ii. 469;
estate, living on the, iii. 177, 249;
founding one, ii. 429;
household, number in the, iii. 316;
preference shown them, ii. 153;
ruined by extravagance, ii. 428.
See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON, Birth.
FAMILY, affected by commerce, ii. 177.
FANCIES, apprehensions, fanciful, i. 470; iii. 4.
See_ BOSWELL, Fancies.
FANCY, compared with reason, ii. 277.
_Fantoccini_, i. 414.
FARMER, Dr., Colman, criticised by, iv. 18;
_Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare_, iii. 38;
Johnson praises it, ib., n. 6;
letters to him, i. 368; ii. 114; iii. 427;
Percy, in his _Ancient Ballads_, helps, iii. 276, n. 2;
Steevens, friendship with, iii. 281, n. 3;
_Tristram Shandy_, despises, ii. 449, n. 3;
mentioned, iv. 141.
FARMERS, worthless fellows, often, iii. 353;
described by Wesley, ib., n. 5.
FARQUHAR, George, Johnson's opinion of his writings, iv. 7.
_See Beaux Stratagem_.
_Fashionable Lover_, v. 176.
FASTING, examined medically, ii. 476-7;
justified, ii. 352, n. 2;
peevishness caused by it, ii. 435:
See JOHNSON, fasting.
FAT MEN, iv. 213.
FATE. See FREE WILL.
FATHER, control over his daughters in marriage, iii. 377;
not bound to tell of his children's faults, iii. 18.
_Father's Revenge, The_, iv. 246.
FAULDER, a bookseller, iv. 387, n. 1.
FAULKNER, G., Chesterfield's account of him, v. 44, n. 2;
Ireland drained by England, v. 44;
mimicked by Foote, ii. 154; v. 130;
mentioned, i. 321.
FAWKENER, Sir Everard, i. 181, n. 1.
FAWKES, Rev. Francis, i. 382.
FAVOUR, granting a, ii. 167.
FAVOURITE defined, i. 295, n. 1.
FEAR, Charles V's saying, ii. 81;
nothing left to fear when a man is bent on killing himself, ii. 229.
See COURAGE.
FEELING FOR OTHERS. See SYMPATHY.
_Felixmarte of Hircania_, i. 49.
FELL, John, _Demoniacs_, v. 36, n. 3.
_Fellow_, ii. 362.
FENCING, v. 66.
FENELON, Archbishop, v. 175, n. 5, 311.
FENTON, Elijah, his advice to Gay, v. 60, n. 4;
Mariamne, i. 102, n. 2;
non-juror, a, ii. 321, n. 4.
FERGUSON, James, the self-taught philosopher, ii. 99; v. 149.
FERGUSON, James, a Scotch advocate, iii. 213, 214, n. 1.
FERGUSSON, Dr. Adam, account of him, v. 42;
mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 45.
FERGUSSON, Sir Adam, ii. 169.
FERMOR, Arabella, ii. 392, n. 8.
FERMOR, Mrs., the Abbess, ii. 392.
FERNE, Mr., v. 123-5.
FERNEY, i. 434; v. 14.
FERNS, Burke's pun on, iv. 73.
_Festivals and Fasts_, ii. 458.
FEUDAL ANTIQUITIES, ii. 202; iii. 414.
'FEUDAL GABBLE,' ii. 134, n. 4.
FEUDAL SYSTEM,
Boswell for, and Johnson against it, ii. 177-8; v. 106;
Johnson has the old feudal notions, iii. 177;
male succession, origin of, ii. 417, 419;
ridiculed by Smollett, v. 106, n. 3.
FICTION, small amount of real, iv. 236.
FIDDLERS, ii. 191.
FIDDLING, dangerous fascination, iii. 242;
little thing, but not disgraceful, iii. 242;
power of art shown in it, ii. 226.
FIELDING, Henry, alms-giving, on, ii. 119, n. 4, 212, n. 2;
_Amelia_, dedicated to Ralph Allen, v. 80, n. 5;
Johnson reads it at a sitting, iii. 43:
complains of the heroine's broken nose, ib., n. 2;
Richardson could not read it, ii. 174, n. 1;
'sad stuff,' iii. 43, n. 2;
sale rapid, ib.;
description of a _buck_, v. 184, n. 3;
Westminster Round-house, i. 249, n. 2;
attacks on authors, on, v. 275, n. 1;
blockhead, a, ii. 173;
barren rascal, a, ii. 174;
Burney, Miss, admired by, ii. 174, n. 2;
_Champion, The_, i. 169, n. 2;
died at Lisbon, iv. 260;
foreigners, not understood by, ii. 49, n. 2;
Gibbon's tribute to him, ii. 175, n. 2;
hospitals, on, iii. 53, n. 5;
Johnson praises him, ii. 173, n. 2:
See above, _Amelia_, blockhead, and below, _Tom Jones;
_Jonathan Wild_, compared with St. Austin, iv. 291;
Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1;
_Joseph Andrews_, never read by Johnson, ii. 174;
Parson Adams, the original of, iii. 426, n. 1;
_Cato_ and _The Conscious Lovers_, praised by Adams, i. 491, n. 3;
Richardson, compared with, ii. 48, 174, ib., n. 2;
Richardson's description of his heroes, ii. 49;
of Fielding, ii. 174;
of _Tom Jones_, ii. 175, n. 2;
Robinhood Society described, iv. 92, n. 5;
_Tom Jones_, Boswell praises it, ii. 175;
Johnson despises it, ii. 174;
More, Hannah, read by, ii. 174, n. 2;
price paid for it, i. 287, n. 3;
Allen the original of Allworthy, v. 80, n. 5;
charity to the poor, ii. 212, n. 2;
duelling, ii. 180, n. 1;
Garrick and Partridge, v. 38;
ghosts never speak first, v. 73, n. 3;
soldiers, quartering of, iii. 9, n. 4;
Squire Western on marriage, ii. 329, n. 2;
transpire, iii. 343, n. 2;
_Voyage to Lisbon_, i. 269, n. 1;
Ward, the quack-doctor, praises, iii. 389, n. 5;
Welch, Saunders, succeeded by, iii. 216;
Westminster Justice, salary as a, iii. 217, n. 2.
FIELDING, Sir John, Boswell applies to him, i. 422;
his house pulled down in the Gordon Riots, iii. 428.
FIELDING, Miss, compared with her brother, ii. 49, n. 2.
FIELDING, ----, a bookseller, iv. 421, n. 2.
FIFE, Earl, v. 109.
FIGHTING-COCK, ii. 334.
FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS, in prayers, iv. 294.
FILBY, John, ii. 83.
FINE AND RECOVERY, ii. 429, n. 1.
FINE CLOTHES, iv. 179; v. 364.
FINES, iii. 323.
_Fingal_. See MACPHERSON, James.
_Finnick Dictionary_, i. 276, 278-9.
FIRE, going round the, i. 60, n. 4;
superstitious tricks to make it burn, iii. 404.
FIREBRACE, Lady, i. 136.
FIRST CAUSE, iii. 316.
FISHER, Dr., ii. 268, n. 2, 445, n. 1.
FISHER, Kitty, v. 185, n. 1.
FISHMONGER, story of a, iii. 381.
FITZ-ADAM, Adam (Edward Moore), i. 257, n. 3.
FITZHERBERT, Alleyne (Lord St. Helen's), i. 82.
FITZHERBERT, Mrs., i. 82-3; iv. 33.
FITZHERBERT, William,
affected man, dealing with an, iii. 149;
Baretti's trial, at, ii. 97, n. 1;
_bon mot_, on carrying a, ii. 350;
character, his, drawn by Johnson, iii. 148;
and by Burke, ib., n. l;
felicity of manner, iii. 386;
Foote's small beer, anecdote of, iii. 69-70;
friend, had no, ii. 228; iii. 149;
hanged himself, ii. 228, n. 3; iii. 149, n. 1, 384, n. 4;
Johnson in Inner Temple-lane, describes, i. 350, n. 3;
defends in parliament, iv. 318, n. 3;
makes a present of wine to, i. 305, n. 2;
parliament, elected to, i. 363;
Townshend's, Charles, jokes, ii. 222;
tragedy, anecdote of a, iii. 239;
mentioned, i. 82; iv. 28, 33.
FITZMAURICE, Thomas, ii. 282, n. 3.
_Fitzosborne's Letters_, iii. 424; iv. 272, n. 4.
FITZPATRICK, Richard, iii. 388, n. 3.
FITZROY, Lord Charles, ii. 467.
FITZWILLIAM, Lord, iv. 367, n. 3.
FLAGEOLET, iii. 242.
FLATMAN, Thomas, iii. 29.
FLATTERY, flattered by him whom every one else flatters, ii. 227;
pleases generally, ii. 364;
stage, on the, ii. 234.
FLEA and a lion, ii. 194;
precedency between a flea and a louse, iv. 193.
_Fleece, The_, ii. 453.
FLEETWOOD, Bishop, v. 294, n. 2.
FLEETWOOD, Charles, patentee of Drury-lane theatre, i. 111, 153.
FLEETWOOD, Everard, iii. 323, n. 3.
FLEMING, Lady, i. 461, n. 5.
FLEXMAN, Rev. Mr., iv. 325.
FLEXNEY, the bookseller, ii. 113, n. 2.
FLINT, Bet, iv. 103.
FLINT, Professor, v. 64.
FLINT,--, v. 430.
FLODDEN FIELD, ii. 413; v. 379.
FLOGGING, less than of old, ii. 407.
See ROD.
FLOOD, Right Hon. Henry,
Johnson's _Debates_, on, i. 321, n. 5, 506; ii. 139;
sepulchral verses on, iv. 424.
FLORENCE, Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19
statue of a boar, iii. 231;
wine, iii. 381.
FLOYD, Thomas, i. 457.
FLOYER, Sir John, M.D., advises the 'regal touch,' i. 42;
asthma, book on, iv. 353;
corrupted the register, iv. 267;
_Touchstone of Medicines_, i. 36, n. 3;
_Treatise on Cold Baths_, i. 91.
FLUDYER, Rev. John, ii. 444.
FLYING MAN, iv. 357, n. 3.
FOLIOS, i. 428, n. 1.
FONDNESS, distinguished from kindness, iv. 154.
FONTAINEBLEAU, ii. 385, 394.
FONTANERIUS, Paulus Pelissonius (Pelisson), i. 90, n. 1.
FONTENELLE, 'Fontenellus, ni falior,' &c., ii. 125, n, 5;
Memoires, iii. 247;
Newton, on, ii. 74, n. 3;
_Panegyrick on Dr. Morin_, i. 150.
FONTENOY, Battle of, i. 355; iii. 8, n. 3.
FOOD, production of, ii. 102.
_Fool, The_, ii. 33.
FOOLS, Latin needful to a fool's completeness, i. 73, n. 3;
'let us be grave, here comes a fool,' i. 4;
spaniel and mule fools, v. 226.
FOOTE, Samuel, Baretti's trial, ii. 94;
Bedlam, visits, ii. 374;
'black broth,' ii. 215;
Burke, compared with, iv. 276;
Chesterfield, satire on, iv. 333;
conversation between wit and buffoonery, ii. 155;
_Cozeners, The_, iv. 333, n. 3;
death, fear of, ii. 106;
death, his, iii. 185, n. 1, 387, n. 4, 453;
Edinburgh, at, ii. 95, n. 2;
_Englishman in Paris_, ii. 395, n. 2;
'Foote, _quatenus_ Foote superior to all,' iii. 185
_Footeana_, iii. 185, n. 1;
Garrick's bust, iv. 224;
and the ghost of a halfpenny, iii. 264;
compared with, iii. 69, 183; v. 391;
George III at the Haymarket, iv. 13, n. 3;
Haymarket theatre, gets a patent for, iii. 97, n. 2;
'Hesiod' Cooke introduces him, v. 37;
humour not comedy but farce, ii. 95;
impartiality in lying, ii. 434;
incompressible, v. 391;
infidel, an, ii. 95;
Johnson and the French players, ii. 404;
intended to exhibit, ii. 95, 155, n. 2, 299;
in Paris, ii. 398, 403;
pleased against his will, iii. 69;
regret for his death, iii. 185, n. 1, 374, n. 4;
witticism, fathered on him, ii. 410, n. 1;
knowledge and reading, his, iii. 69;
Law-Lord, on a dull, iv. 178;
leg, loses a, ii. 95, n. 1, 155, n. 1; iii. 97, n. 2;
_depeditation_, v. 130;
_Life_ of him, by W. Cooke, iv. 437;
Macdonald, Sir A., should ridicule, v. 277;
making fools of his company, ii. 98;
mimic, not a good, ii. 154; iii. 69;
'Monboddo, an Elzevir Johnson,' ii. 189 n. 2; v. 74, n. 3;
Murphy and _The Rambler_, i. 356;
Murphy's account of a dinner at his house, i. 504;
_Nabob, The_, iii. 23, n. 1;
_Orators, The_, ii. 154, n. 3; v. 130, n. 2;
patent, sells his, iii. 97;
_Piety in Pattens_, ii. 48, n. 2;
rising in the world, ii. 155, n. 2;
small-beer and the black boy, iii. 70;
stories, his, dismissed from the mind, ii. 433, n. 2;
Townshend, Charles, surpassed by, ii. 222, n. 3;
wit of escape, has the, iii. 69;
wit under no restraint, iii. 69;
Worcester College, Oxford, at, ii. 95, n. 2;
wicked pleasure in circulating an anecdote, i. 453.
FOPPERY never cured, ii. 128.
FORBES, Bishop, v. 252.
FORBES, Rev. Mr., v. 75.
FORBES, Sir William, and Co., v. 253.
FORBES, Sir William, of Pitsligo, sixth Baronet,
_Beattie, Life of_, v. 25, n. 1, 273, n. 4;
Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 24, 413, n. 3;
executor, iii. 301, n. 1;
children, guardian to, iii. 400, n. 1;
journals, reads, iii. 208; v. 413;
letter to, v. 413;
Carre's _Sermons_, edits, v. 28;
Errol, Lord, account of, v. 103, n. 1;
honest lawyers, on the duty of, v. 26-7, 72;
Johnson at Garrick's funeral, iii. 371, n. 1;
_Round Robin_, account of the, iii. 82-5;
Scott's tribute to him, v. 25, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 41, 42, 221; v. 32, 44, 46, 393.
FORBES, Sir William, seventh baronet, v. 253, n. 3.
FORD, Cornelius (Johnson's uncle), i. 49.
FORD, Rev. Cornelius (Johnson's cousin),
Hogarth's 'Parson Ford,' i. 49; iii. 348;
Johnson's account of him, ib.;
his ghost, iii. 349.
FORD, Dr. Joseph, i. 49, n. 3.
FORD FAMILY, i. 34; pedigree, i. 49, n. 3.
FORDYCE, Dr. George, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; ii. 274, 318;
iii. 230, n. 5; iv. 326;
anecdote of his drinking, ii. 274, n. 6.
FORDYCE, Rev. Dr. James, i. 396; iv. 411.
_Foreign History in Gent. Mag_. i. 154.
FOREIGNER, an eminent, iv. 14.
FOREIGNERS, 'are fools,' i. 82, n. 3; iv. 15;
writing a book in England, ii. 221;
attaching themselves to a party, ib.:
see JOHNSON, Foreigners.
_Forenoon_, changed into _morning_, ii. 283, n. 3.
FORGETFULNESS, iv. 126.
_Form_, iv. 321.
_Former, the, the latter_, iv. 190.
FORMOSA, iii. 443; v. 209.
_Formosa, Historical and Geographical Description of_, iii. 444.
FORMS, tenacity of, iv. 104.
_Formular_, ii. 234.
FORNICATION, heinous sin, not a, ii. 172;
misery caused by it, i. 457;
penance for it, v. 208;
probationer, cause of a, ii. 171;
a sectary guilty of it, ii. 472;
should be punished by law, iii. 17, 407.
FORRESTER, Colonel, iii. 22.
FORSTER, George, _Voyage to the South Sea_, iii. 180.
FORSTER, John, Bickerstaff, I., ii. 82, n. 3;
Boswell's stories, on variations of, i. 445, n. 1;
Bute's pensioners, i. 373, n. 1;
Churchill's _Rosciad_, i. 419, n. 5;
Davies and 'Goldy,' ii. 258, n. 2;
_Drelincourt on Death_, ii. 163, n. 4;
George III's pensioners, ii. 112, n. 3;
Goldsmith's assault on Evans, ii. 209, n. 2;
_Good-Natured Man_, ii. 48, n. 2;
quarrel with Johnson, ii. 253, n. 4,
_She Stoops to Conquer_, and the Royal Marriage Act, ii. 224, n. 1;
its production on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5;
its title, ii. 205, n. 4;
and Sterne, ii. 173, n. 2;
_Traveller_, the first line in, iii. 253, n. 1;
inaccuracy about 'Hesiod' Cooke, v. 37, n. 1;
Johnson's letter to Goldsmith, ii. 235, n. 2;
and the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2;
Moore, Edward, mistakes for Dr. John Moore, iii. 424, n. 1;
taste, changes in public, iii. 192, n. 2.
_Fort_, a pun on it, ii. 241, n. 3.
FORTITUDE, iv. 374, n. 5.
_Fortune, a Rhapsody_, i. 124.
FORTUNE, wasting a, iii. 317.
FORTUNE-HUNTERS, ii. 131.
FORWARDNESS, ii. 449.
FOSSANE, ii. 400, n. 2.
_Fossilist_, ii. 304, n. 1; v. 408, n. 1.
FOSTER, Dr. James, iv. 9.
FOSTER, John, head-master of Eton, iv. 8, n. 3.
FOSTER, Mrs., i. 227.
See MILTON, granddaughter.
FOTHERGILL, Rev. Dr. ii. 331, 333.
FOULIS, Sir James, v. 150, 242.
FOULIS, Messrs., Glasgow booksellers, ii. 380;
'Elzevirs of Glasgow,' v. 370.
_Foundling Hospital for Wit_, iv. 289, n. 1.
_Fountains, The_, ii. 26, 232.
FOWKE, Mr., iii. 71, n. 5; iv. 34, n. 5.
FOWLER, Mr., ii. 63.
FOX, Charles James, Boswell on the India Bill, iv. 258, n. 2;
Burnet's style, ii. 213, n. 2;
Charles II, descended from, iv. 292, n. 2;
'commenced patriot,' iv. 87, n. 2;
Covent Garden mob, iv. 279, n. 2;
described by Lord Holland, Gibbon, Mackintosh,
and Rogers, iv. 167, n. 1;
Walpole and Hannah More, iv. 292, n. 3;
Fitzpatrick's 'sworn brother,' iii. 388, n. 3;
George III's competitor, iv. 279;
divides the kingdom with Caesar, 292;
George III his own minister, i. 424, n. 1;
Goldsmith's _Traveller_, praises, iii. 252, 261;
Homer, reads, iv. 218, n. 3;
India Bill, i. 311, n. 1; iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 258, n. 2;
Johnson's epitaph, iv. 443;
'friend,' iv. 292;
for the King against Fox, but for Fox against Pitt, iv. 292;
in parliament, defends, iv. 318, n. 3;
presence, silent in, iii. 267; iv. 166;
thinks highly of his abilities, iii. 267;
accounts for his silence in company, iv. 167;
Kirkwall, returned for, iv. 266, n. 2;
Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479, 481, n. 3; ii. 274,
318; iii. 128, n. 4;
Lyttelton, second Lord, character of the, iv. 298, n. 3;
Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2;
Pitt's pertness, iv. 297, n. 2;
poetry _truth_, not history, ii. 366, n. 1;
Reynolds too much under him, iii. 261;
Sandwich's, Lord, removal, motion for, iii. 383, n. 3;
subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7;
_Sydney Biddulph_, praises, i. 390, n. 1;
Treasury, dismissal from the, ii. 274, n. 7;
Westminster election, iv. 266, 292, n. 3.
FOX, Henry. See HOLLAND, First Lord.
FOX, Lady Susan, ii. 328, n. 3.
FOX, Mrs., iv. 279, n. 2.
FOX-(Faux, or Vaux) HALL, iv. 26, n. 1.
FOX-HUNTING, i. 446, n. 1.
FRA PAOLO. See SARPI.
FRANCE AND THE FRENCH,
Academy takes forty years to compile their _Dictionary_,
i. 186, 301, n. 2;
sends Johnson a copy, i. 298;
on the resistance of the air, v. 253;
affectation of philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3;
Americans, assistance to the, iv. 21;
_Ana_, their, v. 311;
anglomania, ii. 126;
Assembly, iv. 434;
authors and their pensions, i. 372, n. 1;
authors superficial, i. 454;
commercial policy, masters of the world in, iii. 232, n. 1;
commercial treaty, v. 232, n. 1;
contented race, v. 106, n. 4;
cookery, ii. 385, 403;
Corsica, government of, ii. 71, n. 1;
credulity, v. 330;
crossroads, ii. 391;
difference between English and French, iv. 14;
England, contrasted with, i. 227, n. 4;
English language injured by Gallicisms, iii. 343;
'fluency and ignorance,' iv. 15, n. 4;
invasion feared, iii. 326, 360, n. 3, 365, n. 4;
'French maxims abolish mercy,' iii. 204, n. 1.
Garrick's account of their sameness, iv. 15, n. 3;
gay people, not a, ii. 402, n. 1;
great people live magnificently, ii. 402;
houses gloomy, ii. 388, n. 2;
hunting, v. 253;
Irish, contrasted with the, ii. 402, n. 1;
Jersey, attack on, v. 142, n. 2;
Johnson's tour, ii. 384-404;
_Journal_, ii. 389-401;
account given by him to Boswell, 401;
made more satisfied with England, iii. 352;
saw little of French society, ii. 385, 401, 403, n. 4;
Lewis XIV, under, ii. 170;
literati, v. 229;
literature, art of accommodating, v, 310;
book on every subject, iv. 237;
high in every department, ii. 125;
little original, v. 311;
not so general as in England, iii. 254;
in its second spring, ib.;
literary society described by Gibbon and Walpole, iii. 254, n. 1;
magistrates and soldiers, ii. 391, 395;
manners
indelicate, ii. 403;
gross, iii. 352;
habit of spitting, ii. 403; iii. 352; iv. 237;
meals gross, ii. 389;
meat, fit for a gaol, ii. 402, 403;
described by Smollett as good, ii. 402, n. 2;
by Goldsmith as bad, ib.;
men know no more than the women, iii. 253;
middle rank, no, ii. 394, 402;
military character respected, iii. 10;
mode of life not pleasant, ii. 388;
national petulance, ii. 126;
novels, ii. 125;
opera girls, iv. 171;
Paris: See PARIS; peace of 1762, i. 382, n. 1;
of 1782-3, iv. 282, n. 1;
people, misery of the, ii. 402;
philosophy, pursuit of, iii. 305, n. 2;
players, ii. 404;
politeness, iv. 237;
poor laws, no, ii. 390;
prisoners in England, i. 353;
private life unaffected by despotic power, ii. 170;
privileges little abused, v. 106, n. 4;
Provence, gaiety of, ii. 402, n. 1;
Scotland, compared with, ii. 403;
sentiments, ii. 385, n. 5;
soldiers and a woman, story of some, ii,
391;
stage, delicacy of the, ii. 50, n. 3;
subordination, happy in, v. 106;
talking, must be always, iv, 15;
tavern life in no perfection, ii. 451;
torture, use of, i. 467, n. 1;
treatment of Indians, i. 308, n. 2;
trees along a road, ii. 395;
words, use big, i. 471:
See under ROUSSEAU, SMOLLETT, MRS. THRALE, H. WALPOLE.
FRANCE, Queen of, flattered, iii. 322.
FRANCIS, Rev. Dr. Philip, praises Johnson's _Debates_, i. 504;
translates Horace, iii. 356.
FRANCIS, Sir Philip, censures Burke's style, iii. 187, n. 1.
Francklin, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Johnson, inscribes his _Lucian_ to, iv. 34;
Murphy, attacks, i. 355;
_Rosciad_, in the, iv. 34, n. 1;
_Round Robin_, did not sign the, iii. 83, n. 3.
FRANCK, Johnson's servant. See BARBER.
FRANCK, post office, ii. 266; iv. 361, n. 3.
FRANCKLAND, Sir Thomas, iv. 235, n. 5.
FRANKLIN, Dr. Benjamin, books bought in his youth, iv. 257, n. 2;
books, high price of English, i. 438, n. 2;
Boswell, dines with, ii. 59;
civil liberty compared with liberty of trading, ii. 60, n. 4;
conversion from vegetarianism, iii. 228, n. 1;
England, hypocrisy of, ii. 480;
Georgia, settlement of, i. 127, n. 4;
good that one man can do, iv. 97, n. 3;
Hollis, Thomas, iv. 97, n. 3;
human felicity how produced, i. 433, n. 4;
inoculation, iv. 293, n. 2;
Johnson's pension and W. Strahan, ii. 137, n. 1;
Lee, Arthur, iii. 68, n. 3;
life, wished to repeat his, iv. 302, n. 1;
Loudoun, Lord, v. 372, n. 3;
man, definition of, iii. 245; v. 32, n. 3;
Mansfield's, Lord, house burnt, iii. 429, n. 1;
_Old Man's Wish_, iv. 19, n. 1;
_pamphlets_, iii. 319, n. 1;
Paris Foundling Hospital, ii. 398, n. 5;
population, rule of increase of, ii. 314;
Priestly and Price, iv. 434;
Pringle, Sir John, iii. 65, n. 1;
Quakers of Philadelphia, iv. 212, n. 1;
Ralph, James, i. 169, n. 2;
riots in London in 1768, ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5;
rise of himself and Strahan, ii. 226, n. 2;
Shipley, Bishop, friendship with, iv. 246, n. 4;
Wilcox, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2;
Strahan, letter to, iii. 364, n. 1;
Whitefield's oratory, ii. 79, n. 4;
'Wilkes and liberty,' ii. 60, n. 2.
FRANKLIN, Thomas, iii. 83. n. 3.
FRASER, Dr., v. 108.
FRASER, General, iii. 2.
FRASER, Mr., of Balnain, v. 133.
FRASER, Mr., the engineer, iii. 326.
FRASER, Mr., of Strichen, v. 107.
FRAUDS, none innocent, ii. 434, n. 2.
FREDERICK, Prince of Wales. See under PRINCE OF WALES.
FREDERICK THE GREAT,
difficulties of his youth, i. 442, n. 1;
dressed plainly, ii. 475;
George II, quarrel with, iv. 107;
Johnson _downs_ Robertson with him, iii. 334-5;
opinion of his poetry, i. 434;
writes his _Memoirs_, i. 308;
Maupertuis, lines to, ii. 54, n. 3;
overawes Hanover, v. 201, n. 4;
power as a despotic prince, ii. 158;
prose and poetry, i. 434-5;
social, i. 442;
taken by the nose, risk of being, ii. 229;
torture, forbade use of, i. 467, n. 1;
Voltaire, contends with, i. 434; v. 103, n. 2.
FREDERICK-WILLIAM the First, i. 308.
FREE AGENT, iv. 123.
FREE WILL,
Boswell introduces discussion, ii. 82, 104; iii. 290;
consults Johnson by letter, iv. 71;
'we know our will is free,' ii. 82; iv. 329;
'all theory against it,' iii. 291;
best for mankind, v. 117.
_Freeholder_, ii. 61, n. 4; 319, n. 1.
FREEPORT, Sir Andrew, ii. 212.
FREIND, Dr., i. 177, n. 2.
FRENCH, Mrs., iv. 48.
FRENCH COOK, a nobleman's, i. 469.
FRERON, father and son, ii. 392, 406.
FRESCATI, v. 153, n. 1.
FRIEND, Sir John, ii. 183.
FRIENDS, comparing minds, iii. 387;
example of good set by them, ii. 478;
few houses to be nursed at, iv. 181;
future state, in a, ii. 162; iii. 312, 438; iv. 279-80;
Goldsmith and the story of Bluebeard, ii. 181;
'he that has friends has no friend,' i. 207; iii. 149, 289, 386;
natural, iv. 147, 198, n. 4; v. 105;
pleasure in talking over past scenes, iii. 217;
survivor, the, iii. 312.
FRIENDSHIP, Christian virtue, how far a, iii. 289;
formed, how, iii. 165;
formed mostly by caprice or chance, iv. 280;
often formed ill, ii. 162;
mathematics, not as in, iii. 65;
neglect of it, iv. 145;
'repair,' need of, i. 300;
rupture of old, v. 89, 147;
test, put to the, iii. 238, 396.
_Friendship, an Ode_, i. 158; ii. 25.
FRISICK LANGUAGE, i. 475.
FROOM, iv. 402, n. 2.
FRUGALITY, iv. 163.
FRUIT, RAW, iv. 353.
_Frusta Letteraria_, iii. 173.
FRY, Thomas, the painter, iii. 21, n. 1.
FULLARTON, of Fullarton, iii. 356.
FULLER, Thomas, his dedications, ii., n. 2.
_Fun and funny_, ii. 335, n. 3; iii. 91, n. 2.
FUNDS, the, iv. 164.
_Further Thoughts on Agriculture_, i. 306.
FUTURE STATE, Boswell leads Johnson to discuss it, ii. 161;
confidence in respect to it, iv. 395;
due attention to it and to this world, v. 154;
gloom of uncertainty, iii. 154;
hope in it the basis of happiness, iii. 363;
knowledge of friends, ii. 162; iii. 438;
things made clear gradually, iii. 199.
G.
GABBLE, iii. 350; iv. 5.
GABRIEL, Don, a Spanish Prince, iv. 195, n. 6.
GAELICK. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse.
GAGNIER,--, ii. 390.
GAIETY, a duty, iii. 136, n. 2.
GALILEO, i. 194, n. 2.
GALLICISMS, iii. 343, n. 3.
GALWAY, Lady, iv. 109.
GAMA, iv. 250.
GAMING, produces no intermediate good, ii. 176;
more ruined by adventurous trade, iii. 23.
GAMING-CLUB, a, iii. 23.
_Ganganelli's Letters_, iii. 286.
GAOL FEVER, iv. 176, n. 1.
GARAGANTUA, iii. 255.
GARDEN, a walled, iv. 205.
GARDENERS, good, Scotchmen, ii. 77.
GARDENSTON, Lord (F. Garden), v. 75-6.
GARDINER, Mrs., account of her, i. 242, n. 5; iv. 245-6;
Johnson's bequest to her, iv. 402, n, 2;
mentioned, iii. 22, 104, n. 5; iv. 239, n. 2.
GARDNER, T., bookseller, ii. 344.
GARRET, the scholar's, i. 264.
GARRICK, Captain, i. 81; iii. 387.
GARRICK FAMILY, striking likeness in all the members, ii. 462.
GARRICK, David, Abel Drugger, iii. 35;
Adelphi, house in the, iv. 96, 99;
airs of a great man, iii. 263;
appealed to by a drunken physician, iii. 389;
Archer in _The Beaux Stratagem_, iii. 52;
attacks helped his reputation, v. 273;
avarice, reputation for, iii. 71;
Baretti's trial, gives evidence at, ii. 97, n. 1, 98;
Bickerstaff, I., letter from, ii. 82, n. 3;
_Bonduca_, epilogue to, ii. 325, n. 2;
_Bon Ton_, ii. 325, n. 1;
book of praise and abuse, kept a, v. 273;
Boswell, correspondence with: see BOSWELL, correspondence;
Boswell's _Corsica_, praises, ii. 46, n. 1;
Boswell slyly introduces his name, iii. 263;
British Coffee-house Club, iv. 179, n. 1;
Brown, Dr. John, said to have assisted, ii. 131;
brought out his tragedies, ib., n. 2;
Budgell's _Epilogue_, anecdote of, iii. 46, n. 3;
Burke's epitaph on him, ii. 234, n. 6;
Camden, Lord, intimacy with, iii. 3;
_Chances, The_, ii. 233;
characters, acted a great variety of, iii. 35; iv. 243;
was not 'transformed' into them, iv. 244;
Chatham, Lord, correspondence with, ii. 227;
cheerfullest man of his age, iii. 387;
Chesterfield, in wit compared with, iii. 69;
Christmas dinner at his house, ii. 155, n. 2;
Clive, Mrs., compared with, iv. 243;
clutching the dagger, v. 46;
Colson's academy, at, i. 103;
_concoction_ of a play, iii. 259;
Congreve and Shakespeare, compares, ii. 85;
conversation, sprightly, i. 398;
no solid meat in it, ii. 464;
Court, at, i. 333, n. 3;
Cumberland's _dishclout face_, iv. 384, n. 2;
Cumberland's _Odes_, iii. 43, n. 3; iv 432;
Dane, letter from a, v. 46, n. 2;
Davies, letter from, iii. 223, n. 2;
_Davy_, called, v. 348;
death, his, iii. 371;
'eclipsed the gaiety of nations,' i. 82; iii. 387;
decayed actor, will soon be a, ii. 439;
decent liver, a, iii. 387;
declaimer, no, iv. 243;
Dodsley, quarrels with, i. 325;
_Douglas_, rejects, v. 362, n. 1;
Drury-lane theatre, manager of, i. 181, 196;
Elphinston's _Martial_, his opinion of, iii. 258;
emphasis, wrong, i. 168; v. 127;
epigrammatist, an, iii. 258;
excellence shown by his getting L100,000, iii. 184;
face, wear and tear of his, ii. 410;
_False Delicacy_, ii. 48, n. 2;
father and family, his, iii. 387;
fine-bred gentleman, fails as a, v. 126;
first appearance in London, i. 168, n. 3;
Fitzherbert, affection for, iii. 148, n. l;
_Florizel and Perdita_, ii. 78;
Foote, compared with, iii. 69, 183; v. 391;
'ghost of a halfpenny,' iii. 264;
witticism about his bust, iv. 224;
_fortunam reverenter habet_, iii. 263;
French, sameness of the, iv. 15, n. 3;
friends, but no friend, had, iii. 386;
funeral, iv. 208;
account of its pomp, iv. 208;
Bishop Horne's lines, ib. n. 1;
the Club called the Literary Club at it, i. 477;
Johnson at his grave, iii. 371, n. 1;
generous treatment of authors, ii. 349, n. 6;
Gentleman, F., letter from, i. 384, n. 2;
Gibbon, letter from, iii. 128, n. 4;
Goldsmith's dress, ii. 83;
_Good Natured Man_, refuses the, ii. 48, n. 2; iii. 320;
Gray's _Odes_, i. 403, n. 1;
great, courted by the, ii. 227; iii. 263;
_Hamlet_ rescued from rubbish, ii. 85, n. 7, 204, n. 3;
Hamlet's soliloquy, iii. 184;
Hawkesworth and Lord Sandwich, ii. 247, n. 5;
Hawkins's _Siege of Aleppo_, iii. 259;
_High Life Below Stairs_, iv. 7;
Hill, Sir John, epigrams on, ii. 38, n. 2;
Hogarth's account of his acting, iii. 35, n. 1;
humour, varying, iii. 264;
illness, sufferings from, iii. 387, n. 1;
inaccurate in delineating absurdities, iv. 17;
Ireland, visits, iii. 388, n. 1;
Johnson affected by his success, i. 167, 216, n. 2; ii. 69;
attacked by Garrick's correspondents, ii. 69, n. 1;
attacks on him, accounts for, iii. 184, n. 5;
awe of, i. 99, n. 1;
and Chesterfield, i. 260, n. 1;
designs to write his epitaph, iv. 394, n. 2;
_Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4;
epigram on it, i. 300;
as a dramatist, i. 198, I99, n. 2;
epigram on George II and Cibber, i. 149; v. 350;
epitaph on Philips, i. 148;
in the Green Room, i. 201;
hard on him, v. 244;
Imitations of Juvenal_, i. 194;
intercourse with him, iv. 7;
_Irene_, acts, i. 196-8;
suggests the strangling scene in it, 197, n. 2;
travels with him to London, i. 101;
looked upon him as his property, iii. 312;
let nobody attack him, i. 27, n. 2, 393, n. 1; iii. 70, 312, n. 1;
in the Lichfield play-house, ii. 299;
low opinion of his acting, ii. 92, n. 4; iii. 184; iv. 7; v. 38;
and of his mimicry, ii. 326, n. 3;
mimicks, ii. 326, 464;
mow of hay, ii. 79;
offers to write his _Life_, iii. 371, n. 1; iv. 99, n. 2;
'played round,' ii. 82;
praises his prologues, ii. 325;
parody of Percy's _Hermit_, ii. 136, n. 4;
writes him a _Prologue_, i. 181; iv. 25;
pupil; i. 97:
into good spirits, puts, iii. 260, n. 5;
_Rambler_, i. 209, n. 1;
reflection on him in his _Shakespeare_, ii. 192; iv. 371, n. 2;
and the Roundhouse, i. 249, 251;
sends his love to, v. 350;
_Shakespeare_, not mentioned in, ii. 92; v. 244;
sorrow for his death, iii. 371; iv. 99;
taste in theatrical merit, ii. 465;
thinking which side he should take, iii. 24;
tribute to him, i. 81; iv. 96, n. 6;
use of orange-peel, ii. 330;
want of taste for the highest poetry, iii. 151;
wife, account of, i. 95, 98, 99;
wit, ii. 231; Kenrick's libel, i. 498, n. 1;
Kitely, ii. 92, n. 3;
Latin, has not enough, ii. 377;
lawyer, intends to become a, i. 101;
Lear, ii. 182, n. 3: _Lethe_, i. 228;
liberality, gave more money than any man, iii. 70, 264, 387;
instances of his, iii. 264, n. 3;
Lichfield grocer, scorned by a, iii. 35, n. 1;
Lichfield School, at, i. 45, n. 4;
life with great uniformity, saw, iii. 386;
Literary Club, election to the, i. 479-481;
name given at his funeral, i. 477; v. 109, n. 5;
low characters, ashamed of his, iii. 35;
Mallet, fooled by, v. 175, n. 2;
manner, his significant smart, v. 249;
Marplot, i. 325, n. 3;
_Memoirs_ by T. Davies, iii. 434, n. 5;
Mickle, quarrels with, ii. 182, n. 3; v. 349, n. 1;
Milton's granddaughter's benefit, i. 227;
money, great hunger for, iii. 387;
money exhausted, his, i. 102, n. 2;
Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, praises, ii. 88;
praised by her, v. 245;
More, Hannah, flatters him, iii. 293;
his kindness to her, ib. n. 4;
calls her _Nine_, iv. 96, n. 3;
Murphy, controversy with, i. 327, n. 1;
sarcasm against him, ii. 349;
praise of his liberality, iii. 264, n. 3;
nation to admire him, has a, iv. 7;
Necker, Mme., on his acting, v. 38, n. 2;
niece, his, Miss Doxy, iii. 417-8:
_Ode on Pelham's death_, i. 269;
ostentation, i. 216, n. 2;
parsimony, Foote's ghost of a halfpenny, iii. 264;
Peg Woffington's tea, ib.;
refuses an order to Mrs. Williams, i. 392;
Partridge in _Tom Jones_, v. 38;
pious reverence, i. 269;
poor at first, iii. 70, 387;
portraits at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
in Mrs. Garrick's house, iv. 96;
Beauclerk's inscription on one, ib.;
profession, advanced the dignity of his, ii. 234, n. 6; iii. 263;
'his profession made him rich, and he made it respectable,'
iii. 371, n. 2;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
Prospero, i. 216;
provincial accents, ii. 464, n. 2;
Queen, compliments the, ii. 233;
retiring from the stage, ii. 438; iii. 388;
Reynolds's defence of him, ii. 234;
Riccoboni, Mme.,
letters from, ii. 50, n. 3; in. 149, n. 2; v. 106, n. 4, 330, n. 3;
Richard III, his, seen by Hogarth, in. 35, n. 1
Johnson's sarcasm on, iii. 184;
was not 'transformed into,' iv. 244;
_Romeo and Juliet_, alters, v. 244, n. 2:
_Sallad_, proposes, as a name for _The World_, i. 202, n. 4;
scholarship, ii. 377, n. 2;
Scotch, nationality of the, ii. 325;
Scotland, never in, iii. 388;
'Scrub, will play,' iii. 70;
sensibility as a writer, ii. 79;
sentiment, his, ii. 464;
Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68, n. 2, 69;
Shakespeare, scarce
editions of, ii. 192;
intends to read, v. 244, n. 2;
Sheridan, Thomas, engages, i. 358, n. 3;
describes the vanity of, ii. 87;
Smith's, Adam, conversation, iv. 24, n. 2;
splendour, too much, iii. 71;
spoilt, not, iii. 263, n. 3, 264;
Steevens, letters from, ii. 274, n. 7; 284, n. 2;
slandered by, iii. 281, n. 3;
table, at the head of a, iv. 243;
talking from books, v. 378, n. 4;
Thrales, introduction to the, i. 493, n. 2;
universality in acting, ii. 37; iv. 243; v. 126;
unkindness, accused by Davies of, iii. 223, n. 2;
vanity, ii. 227; iii. 263, 264;
variety his excellence, iii. 35;
Walpole, H., on his acting, iv. 243, n. 6;
wealth, iii. 184, 263;
Whitehead, W., compliments him in verse, i. 402;
engaged as his 'reader,' ib. n. 3;
proposed to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 320, n. 2;
wife, love for his, iv. 96, n. 7; v. 349, n. 2;
_Winter's Tale_, new version of the, ii. 78, n. 4;
witness, examined as a, v. 243;
woman's riding-hood, in a, iv. 7;
_Wonder, The_, in, iv. 8;
writer, sprightly, iii. 263;
Woffington, Peg, iii. 264;
mentioned, i. 243, 268, n. 4; ii. 59, n. 3, 110, 255, 362, n. 2;
iii. 256.
GARRICK, Mrs., dinners at her house, iv. 96-9; 220, n. 3;
grief for her husband, iv. 96;
leaves Garrick's funeral expenses, unpaid, iv. 208, n. 1;
neglects Johnson's proposal to write Garrick's Life, iii. 371, n. 1;
iv. 99, n. 2;
survived Garrick forty-three years, iv. 96, n. 7, 275, n. 3;
mentioned, iv. 84, n. 3.
GARRICK, George, Johnson's pupil, i. 97;
calls him 'a tremendous companion,' i. 496, n. 1; iii. 139.
GARRICK, Peter, anecdotes of _Irene_, i. 100, 111;
resemblance to his brother, ii. 311, 462, 466;
mentioned, ii. 467; iii. 35, n. 1, 412; iv. 57, n. 3.
GARTH, Sir Samuel, M.D., lines on dying, ii. 107, n. 1;
Johnson's praise of physicians, iv. 263.
GASTRELL, Bishop, v. 323.
GASTRELL, Rev. Mr.,
cut down Shakespeare's mulberry-tree, i. 83, n. 4; ii. 470.
GASTRELL, Mrs., i. 83, n. 4; ii. 470; iii. 412.
GATAKER, Thomas, v. 302.
GATES, General, iii. 355, n. 3.
GAUBIUS, Professor, i. 65.
_Gaudium_, ii. 371.
GAUDY, College, i. 60, n. 4, 273, n. 2; ii. 445, n. 1.
GAY, John, advised to buy an annuity, v. 60, n. 4;
_Beggar's Opera_, 'As men should serve a cucumber,' v. 289;
Boswell's delight in it, ii. 368; iii. 198;
projected work on it, v. 91, n. 2;
Burke thinks it has no merit, iii. 321;
Cibber, refused by, iii. 321, n. 3;
Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1;
Johnson's opinion of it, iii. 321;
Johnson turns Captain Macheath, IV. 95;
morality, its, ii. 367;
'labefactation,' ib.;
'practical philosophers,' ii. 442;
Rich made _gay_ and Gay _rich_, iii. 321, n. 3;
run of 63 nights, iii. 116, n. 1;
children, writing for, ii. 408, n. 3;
_Letters_, iv. 36, n. 4;
_Life_ by Johnson, ii. 367;
Orpheus of highwaymen, ii. 367, n. 1;
Queensberry, Duke of, ii. 368.
_Gazetteer, The_, v. 245, n. 2.
GELALEDDIN, iv. 195, n. 1.
'GELIDUS, the philosopher,' i. 101, n. 3.
GELL, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430-1.
GELL, Sir William, ii. 408, n. 3; v. 431, n. 4.
_General Advertiser_, i. 227.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY. See under SCOTLAND.
GENERAL CENSURE, iv. 313.
GENERAL COMPLAINTS, Johnson's dislike of, ii. 357.
GENERAL WARRANTS, ii. 72.
GENERALS, great, ii. 234.
GENIUS, ii. 436-7; iii. 385, n. 1; v. 34-5;
made feminine, iii. 374.
GENOA, Corsican revolt, ii. 59, n. 2, 71, n. 1;
the Doge at Versailles, iv. 270, n. 2.
GENTEEL PEOPLE, swear less than formerly, ii. 166, n. 1.
GENTILITY, not inseparable from morality, ii. 340;
new system, i. 491-2;
women more genteel than men, iii. 53.
_Gentle Shepherd_, ii. 220; v. 374, n. 3.
GENTLEMAN, Francis, i. 384.
GENTLEMAN, English merchant a new species, i. 491, n. 3.
GENTLEMAN, a, of eminence in the literary world, iv. 274;
one whose house was frequented by low company, iv. 312;
a penurious one, iv. 176;
one recommending his brother, iv. 21;
one who was rich, but without conversation, iv. 83.
GENTLEMAN FARMER, at Ashbourne, iii. 188, 197.
_Gentleman's Magazine_, account of it, i. III;
effect on it of rebellion of 1745-6, i. 176, n. 2;
Hanoverian in 1745-6, i. 176, n. 2;
indecency in earlier numbers, i. 112, n. 2;
Johnson, _Ad Urbanum_, i. 113;
becomes a regular contributor, i. 115;
writes _Addresses, Letters, and Prefaces_, i. 139-40, 147, 149,153,
157, 161: (for his other contributions See under their several titles);
school advertised in it, i. 97;
verses wrongly assigned to, i. 178, n. 1;
Nichols, edited by, iv. 437;
described by Southey, ib.;
numbers sold, i. 112, n. i, 152, n. 1; iii. 322;
obituaries, i. 237, n. I;
prize poems, i. 91;
published at the end of the month, i. 340, n. 3;
'Sciolus,' iii. 341, n. 1;
value of, in 1754, i. 256, n. 1.
See under CAVE and DEBATES.
_Gentleman's Religion_, iv. 311.
_Gentlewoman, the born_, ii. 130.
GENTLEWOMAN, a, in liquor, ii. 434.
_Geographical Grammar_, iv. 311.
_Geography, Dictionary of Ancient_.
See MACBEAN, Alexander.
GEOLOGY, of Etna, ii. 468, n. 1;
Johnson's ignorance of it, v. 290, n. 4.
GEOMETRY, principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2.
GEORGE I, Brett, Miss, i. 174, n. 2;
burnt two wills made in favour of his son, ii. 342, n. 1;
death, his, ii. 342, n. 1;
knew nothing, ii. 342;
Oxford, sends a troop of horse to, i. 281, n. i;
Shebbeare, satirised by, iii. 15, n. 3;
will, his, destroyed by George II, ii. 342; iv. 107, n. 1;
wish to restore the crown, ii. 342.
GEORGE II, Augustus, not an, i. 209;
barbarity, his, i. 147;
challenged by Elwall, ii. 164, 251;
clemency, his, i. 146;
English weary of him, i. 363;
fast day of Jan. 30, observed the, ii. 152, n. 1;
George I's will, destroys, ii. 342;
quarrels with Frederick the Great about it, iv. 107;
Johnson's epigram on him, i. 149; v. 348, 350, 404;
roars against him, ii. 342;
would tell the truth of him, v. 255;
Pelham's death, i. 269, n. 1.
Pretender's visit to London, v. 201, n. 4;
quiet times under the Whigs, iv. 100;
mentioned, i. 149, n. 3, 311, n. 2.
GEORGE III, Addresses in 1784, iv. 265;
authority partly reestablished, iv. 264;
baronetcies, ii. 354, n. 2;
Beattie, interview with, v. 90, n. 1;
Beckford's speech, iii. 201, n. 3;
birthday, iv. 128;
'born a Briton', i. 129, n. 3, 353; v. 204;
Boswell's relation, v. 379;
_Capability_ Brown, intimacy with, iii. 400, n. 2;
carelessness in sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1;
Chatham's and Garrick's funerals, iv. 208, n. 1;
city address in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4;
concessions to the people, ii. 353;
contempt of Irish peerages, iii. 407, n. 4;
coronation, iii. 9, n. 2;
Corsica offered to him, ii. 71, n. 1;
Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 210, n. 2;
Dodd's case, iii. 121;
fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1;
Fox, the King's competitor, iv. 279;
divides the kingdom with him, iv. 292;
Gordon Riots, iii. 429, 431;
Great Personage, i. 219;
Gustavus III, death of, iii. 134, n. 1;
_Heroic Epistle_, reads the, iv. 113, n. 4;
hopes formed of him, i. 363;
Hume on the weakness of his government, iii. 46, n. 5;
Hutton the Moravian, iv. 410, n. 6;
indecency, treated with, iv. 261;
_Irene_, has the sketch of, i. 108;
Johnson, asks, to write a _Life of Spenser_, iv. 410;
compliments him in _The False Alarm_, ii. 112;
_Dedications_, ii. 44; iii. 113;
for the King against Fox, iv. 292;
gives him his _Western Islands_, ii. 290;
four volumes of the _Lives_, iii. 372, n. 3;
interview with, ii. 33;
account of it, ii. 42; iii. 32; v. 125, n. 1;
second interview, ii. 42, n. 2;
pension, i. 372; v. 379;
proposed addition to it, iv. 350, n. 1;
projected works, has the list of, iv. 381, n. 1;
madness, iv. 165, n. 3;
manners, his, described by Adams, Johnson and Wraxall, ii. 40-1;
militia camps, visits the, iii. 365;
minister, his own, i. 424, n. 1; ii. 355, n. 1;
ministers his tools, iii. 408, n. 4;
oppressed by them, iv. 170;
Norton's speech to him as Speaker, ii. 472, n. 2;
Paoli, notices, v. 1, n. 3;
patron of science and the arts, i. 372;
petitions in 1769, ii. 90, n. 5;
Pretender, proper designation for the, v. 185, n. 4;
recruiting, complains of the difficulty of, iii. 399, n. 3.
reign very factious, iv. 200, 296; very unfortunate, iv. 200;
_respectable_ empire, his, iii. 241, n. 2;
Reynolds, slights, iv. 366, n. 2;
Rousseau's pension, ii. 12, n. 1;
Scotch favourites, i. 363;
sea, at the age of 34 had not seen the, i. 340; n. 1;
Shakespeare sad stuff, i. 497, n. 1;
Shelburne, Lord, dislikes, iv. 174, n. 5;
slave-trade, upholder of the, ii. 480;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, sees, ii. 223;
Toryism or Whiggism, prevalence in his reign of, ii. 221;
tour in the West of England, iv. 165, n. 3;
unpopularity maintained by Johnson, iii. 155; iv. 165;
changed into popularity, iii. 156, n. 1; iv. 165;
Wilkes at the Levee, iii. 430, n. 4.
GEORGE IV, i. 108, n. 1. See PRINCE OF WALES.
GEORGIA, i. 127, n. 4.
GERARD, Dr., v. 90, 92-3, 130.
GERMAINE, Lord George, i. 424, n. 1.
GERMAN BARON, story of a, ii. 462.
GERMANY, academies at the smaller Courts, v. 276;
language, ii. 156;
rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4;
stocking industry, v. 86.
GERVES, John, v. 297, n. 1, 327.
GESTICULATION RIDICULED, i. 334; ii. 211;
Johnson's aversion to it, iv. 322.
GHERARDI, Marchese, iii. 326.
GHOSTS, Addison's belief, iv. 95;
argument against their existence, belief for it, iii. 230;
Boswell introduces the subject, iv. 94, n. 2;
Cave, one seen by, ii. 178, 182;
Coachmakers' Hall, discussion at, iv. 95;
Cock Lane ghost, i. 406-8; iii. 268;
evidence for them, iv. 94;
experience and imagination, i. 405;
Goldsmith's brother, one seen by, ii. 182;
Johnson's prayer on his wife's death, i. 235;
his state of mind as regards them, i. 343, 406; iii. 297; iv. 94, 298;
'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17;
objection to their appearing, ii. 163;
Parson Ford's, iii. 349;
question undecided after 5000 years, iii. 230,298;
Southey on the good end they answer, iii. 298, n. 1;
Villiers, Sir George, iii. 351;
Wesley's story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394.
GIANNONE, iv. 3.
GIANO VITALE, iii. 251, n. 2.
GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, iii. 410.
GIANTS, A Great Personage's, i. 219.
GIARDINI, ii. 225.
GIBBON, Edward,
author best judge of his own performance, iv. 251, n. 2;
_Autobiography_, ii. 448, n. 2;
_Beggar's Opera_, influence of the, ii. 367, n. 1;
Boswell attacks him, ii. 67, n. 1, 443, n. 1, 447-8; v. 203, n. 1;
name passed over by him, ii. 348, n. 1;
and Johnson, replies to, ii. 448, n. 2;
_Cecilia_, reads, iv. 223, n. 5;
Clarendon's _History_ and the Oxford riding-school, ii. 424, n. 1;
_Decline and Fall_, 'artful infidelity' of the, ii. 447;
composition of vol. I, ii. 236, n. 2, 366;
publication, ii. 136, n. 6; iii. 97, n. 3;
rough MS. sent to the press, iv. 36, n. 1;
the two offensive chapters, iii. 244;
domestic discipline, i. 46, n. 2;
dress, his, ii. 443, n. 1;
Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2;
Edinburgh society, ii. 53, n. 1;
fame, enjoyment of his, i. 451, n. 3;
Foster, Dr. James, iv. 9, n. 5;
Fox at Lausanne, iv. 167, n. 1;
Fox commenced patriot, iv. 87, n. 1;
French Assembly, iv. 434;
French society, iii. 254, n. 1;
Gloucester, Duke of, affability of the, ii. 2, n. 2;
Hailes's _Annals_, iii. 404, n. 3;
history attacked in his presence, ii. 366;
Holroyd, visits to, iii. 178, n. 1;
'hornets, accustomed to the buzzing of the,' ii. 448, n. 1;
Horsley, Bishop, praises, iv. 437;
hospitality, on, iv. 222, n. 2;
House of Commons and Nowell's sermon, iv. 296, n. 1;
Hume and Robertson, compliment to, ii. 236, n. 3;
Hume congratulates him, ii. 447, n. 5;
Hume's style, i. 439, n. 2;
Inquisition, defends the, i. 465, n. 1;
Johnson and the bear, ii. 348;
and the ladies, iv. 73:
did not like to trust himself with, ii. 366;
and Fox, iii. 267;
and the graces, iii. 54;
matched with, ii. 348;
'Reynolds's oracle,' i. 245, n. 3;
scarcely mentioned in his writings, ii. 348, n. 1; iii. 128, n. 4;
style, imitates, iv. 389;
talks: of his ugliness, iv. 73;
_Journal des Savans_, ii. 39, n. 3;
Law, William, character of, i. 68, n. 2;
lectures, teaching by, ii. 8, n. 1;
Literary Club, i. 479. 481, n. 3; iii. 230, n. 5;
in 1777, iii. 128, n. 4;
poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1;
London, loves the dust of, iii. 178, n. 1;
the liberty that it gives, iii. 379, n. 2;
Lowth and Warburton, ii. 37, n. 2;
Macaulay, on his poverty, iv. 350. n. 1;
Mackintosh's comparison of him with Burke, ii. 348, n. 1;
Magdalen College Common-room, ii. 443, n. 4;
'Mahometan,' ii. 448;
Mallet, David, i. 268, n. 1;
Maty, Dr., i. 284, n. 2;
Montagu, Mrs., on the _Decline and Fall_, iii. 244;
mutual gain in fair trade, v. 232, n. 1;
Newton, Bishop, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1;
North, Lord, v. 269, n. 1;
_Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2;
Oxford tutor, his, iii. 13, n. 3;
Paley's attack on him, v. 203, n. 1;
Pantheon, ii. 169, n. 1;
'Papist, turned,' ii. 448;
Parliament, silent in, ii. 366, n. 4; iii. 233, n. 2;
found it a school of civil prudence, ib.;
Pope's lines applied to him, ii. 133, n. 1;
post-chaise, delight in a, ii. 453, n. 1;
Price, Dr., iv. 434; Priestley, Dr., iv. 437;
quaint manner, iii. 54:
described by Colman, ib., n. 2;
_respectable_, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2;
Reynolds's, dines at, iii. 250;
Round-Robin, signed the, iii. 83;
Royal Academy Professor, ii. 67, n. 1;
school life not happy, i. 451, n. 2;
sneer, his usual, iv. 73;
style, study of, iv. 389, n. 2;
subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7;
Ten Persecutions, The, ii. 255, n. 4;
Tillemont, praises, i. 7, n. 1;
travelling, the requisites for, iii. 458-9;
ugliness, ii. 443, n. 1; iv. 73.
GIBBON, an attorney, ii. 93, n. 3.
GIBBONS, Rev. Dr., iv. 126, 278.
GIBRALTAR, ii. 391.
GIBSON, William, iv. 402, n. 2.
GIFFARD, the theatre manager, i. 168.
GIFFORD, Rev. Richard, v. 118.
GIFFORD, William, _Baviad and Macviad_, iii. 16, n. 1;
Johnson's Greek, v. 458, n. 5.
GILBERT, GEOFFREY, _Law of Evidence_, v. 389, n. 5.
GILBERT, Rev. Mr., i. 173, n. 1.
GILLAM, Justice, iii. 46, n. 5.
GILLESPIE, Dr., iv. 262.
GILMOUR, J., President of the Session, v. 212.
GILPIN, W., v. 431.
GIN. See SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS, iii. 304, n. 4.
GISBORNE, Dr., iii. 149, n. 2.
GLANVILLE, i. 205, n. 3.
_Glasse's, Mrs., Cookery_, iii. 285.
GLASS-HOUSES, i. 164, n. 1.
GLAUCUS, ii. 129, n. 5.
GLEG, Mr., a merchant, v. 73.
GLENGARY, Laird of, v. 190.
GLENMORISON, Laird of, v. 136, 140.
GLOOM, gloomy penitence, iii. 27;
'it is perhaps sinful to be gloomy,' iv. 142.
GLOUCESTER, v. 322, n. 1.
GLOUCESTER, Duke of (brother of George III),
affability to Gibbon, his, ii. 2, n. 2;
marriage, ii. 224, n. 1.
GLOVER, Richard, account of him, v. 116, n. 4;
Duke of Marlborough's papers, v. 175, n. 2;
_Leonidas_, v. 116;
_Medea_, i. 326, n. 3.
GLOW-WORM, ii. 55, 232.
GLUTTONY, i. 468.
GLYNNE, Serjeant, iii. 430, n. 4.
'Gnothi seauton' [original text in greek], i. 298, n. 4.
GOBELINS, ii. 390.
GOD, infinite goodness, limited, iv. 299;
love of him predominated over by fear, iii. 339.
GODWIN, William, iv. 278, n. 3.
GOLDONI, iii. 162, n. 4.
GOLDSMITH, Dr. Isaac, Dean of Cloyne, i. 414, n. 6.
GOLDSMITH, Rev. Henry, ii. 182.
GOLDSMITH, Mrs., iii. 100.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver,
absurdity, angry when caught in an, iii. 252;
Addison, compared with, ii. 256;
ages at which he published his various works, iii. 167, n. 3;
Aleppo, projected visit to, iv. 22;
anecdotes, excelled by Percy in, v. 255;
_Animated Nature_, engaged in writing it, ii. 181-2, 232, 237;
copy in Lord Scarsdale's library, iii. 162;
cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2;
Maclaurin's yawns, iii. 15;
anonymous publications, i. 412;
_Apology to the public_, ii. 209;
supposed to be written by Johnson, ib.;
architecture, contempt of, ii. 439, n. 1;
attacks, better for, v. 274;
authors, the neglect of, iii. 375, n. 1, 424, n. 1;
authors, patrons and booksellers, v. 59, n. 1:
Baretti, dislikes, ii. 205, n. 3;
at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1;
Bath, describes, ii. 7,_ n_. 4; iii. 45, n. 1;
beat, first time he has, ii. 210;
Beattie's _Essay on Truth_, despises, ii. 201,_ n_.
3; v. 273, n. 4;
Beauclerk describes him, ii. 192, n. 2;
_Beauties of English Poetry Selected_, iii. 192, n. 2;
_Bee, The_, iii. 83, n. 1;
biography, the uses of, v. 79, n. 3;
birth, date of his, i. 58, n. 2; iii. 83, n. 1;
blank verse, on, i. 427, n. 2;
bloom-coloured coat, ii. 83;
boastfulness, i. 414:
_bon ton_ breaking out in his waistcoats, ii. 274, n. 7;
books, could not tell what was in his own, iii. 253;
Boswell's account of him, i. 411-17;
accused of making a monarchy of what should be a republic, ii. 257:
'honest Goldsmith,' ii. 186;
preserves a relic of him, ii. 219, n. 2;
takes leave of him, ii. 260;
Burke's contemporary at Trinity College, i. 411;
recollection of him, iii. 168;
Camden, Lord, complains of, iii. 311;
Chamier's estimate of him, iii. 252;
Chatterton's poems, believes in, iii. 51, n. 2, 276, n. 2;
Cibber, Colley, praises, iii. 72, n. 2;
_Citizen of the World_, i. 412;
Clare, Lord, ii. 136;
Clarke, Dr., anecdote of, i. 3, n. 2;
companion, not an agreeable, iii. 247;
company, his, liked, ii. 235;
compilations and magazines, the causes of, v. 59, n. 1;
consequential at times, ii. 258;
conversation, does not know how to get off, ii. 196;
not temper for it, ii. 231;
reported a mere fool in it, i. 412;
talks at random, 413; ii. 236; iii. 252; v. 277;
talks not to be unnoticed, ii. 186, 257;
corrections in his prose composition rare, iv. 36, n. 1;
Cow shedding its horns: See above, _Animated Nature_;
Croaker, Johnson's _Suspirius_, i. 213; ii. 48;
_Cross Readings_, admires, iv. 322, n. 2;
Cumberland, disliked, iv. 384, n. 2;
death, ii. 274, n. 7, 279, n. 2, 280; iii. 164; iv. 84, n. 2;
debts, ii. 280, 281;
depopulation, on, ii. 217, n. 5;
_Deserted Village_, dedicated to Reynolds, ii. I, n. 2, 217, n. 5;
Johnson's lines in, ii. 7; iii. 418;
reiterated corrections, ii. 15, n. 3;
_Traveller_, sometimes an echo of the, ii. 236;
_Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_ projected, ii. 204, n. 2;
Dilly's, dines at, ii. 247;
'Doctor Minor,' v. 97;
Dodd, Dr., satirises, iii. 139, n. 4;
Dodsley, dispute on the poetry of the age with, iii. 38;
dog-butchers, ii. 232;
dress, slovenly, i. 366, n. 1;
his fine coat, ii. 83;
effect of dress on the mind, ib. n. 3;
Dryden's line on poets and monarchs, ii. 223:
duelling, question of, ii. 179;
Dyer, Samuel, at the Club, iv. II, n. 1;
Edinburgh, country round, i. 425; ii. 311, n. 5;
Edinburgh University, i. 411, 425;
_Elements of Criticism_, criticises, ii. 90;
_Enquiry into the present State of Polite Learning_, i. 350, n. 3, 412;
envy, his, i. 413; ii. 42, 260;
Boswell's defence of it, iii. 271;
epitaph in Greek, ii. 282; iii. 85, n. 1;
epitaph in Latin, iii. 81-3;
_Round Robin_, 84;
Europe, disputed his passage through, i. 411;
Evans, assaults, ii. 209, n. 2;
excelled in what he wrote, iii. 253;
fable of the little fishes, ii. 231;
fame, his, v. 137;
fame, talked for, iii. 247;
Fantoccini, the, i. 414;
flowered late, iii. 167;
France, tour to, i. 414;
French meat, ii. 402, n. 2;
friendship and the story of Bluebeard, ii. 181;
'furnishing you with argument and intellects,' iv. 313, n. 4;
Garrick's compliment to the Queen, attacks, ii. 233;
lines on him, i. 412, n. 6;
refuses _The Good Natured Man_, iii. 320;
proposes Whitehead as arbitrator, ib. n. 2;
'Gentleman, The,' ii. 182;
George III, and _She Stoops to Conquer_, ii. 223;
gets the better when he argues alone, ii. 236;
ghost seen by his brother, ii. 182;
'Goldy,' dislikes being called, ii. 258; iii. 101; v. 308;
_Good Natured Man_, Prologue, ii. 42, 45:
Croaker, i. 213; ii. 48;
refused by Garrick, iii. 320;
Gray, attacks, i. 403, n. 1; ii. 328, n. 2;
_Elegy_, mends, i. 404, n. 1;
'happy revolutions,' ii. 224;
Harris, James, ii. 225;
_Haunch of Venison_, ii. 136, n. 5; iii. 225, n. 2;
Hawkins's account of him, i. 480, n. 1;
'_Hesiod_' Cooke, v. 37, n. 1;
historians, in the first class of, ii. 236;
_History of England_ attributed to Lord Lyttelton, i. 412, n. 2;
_History of Rome, ii. 236-7; iv. 312;
Hornecks, Miss, ii. 209, n. 2; iv. 355, n. 4;
horses, abhorrence of blood, ii. 232;
_Humours of Ballamagairy_, ii. 219;
_Idler_, buys the, i. 335, n. 1;
ignorance of common arts, iv. 22;
improvidence, i. 416, n. 1;
inscriptions on the _written mountains_, iv. 22, n. 3;
'inspired idiot,' i. 412, n. 6;
irascible as a hornet, v. 97, n. 3;
Jacobitism, his, ii. 224, 238, n. 4;
jests from the pit of a theatre, on, i. 197, n. 2;
Johnson, arguing: see JOHNSON, arguing;
a bear only in the skin, ii. 66;
the 'big man,' ii. 14;
biographer, i. 26, n. 1:
buys his _Life_ of Nash, i. 335, n. 1;
and a print of him, i. 363, n. 3;
claim upon--for more writings, ii. 15;
compared with Burke, ii. 260;
competition with, i. 417; ii. 216, 257;
compliment a cordial, iii. 82, n. 3;
could take liberties with, iv. 113;
estimation of him as an author, i. 408; ii. 196, 216;
places him in the first class, ii. 236;
defends him against Mr. Eliot's attack, ii. 265, n. 4;
calls him a very great man, ii. 281;
defends him against attack at Reynolds's table, ib., n. 1;
shows the difference when he had not a pen in his hand, iv. 29;
got him sooner into estimation, ii. 216;
first visit to him, i. 366, n. 1;
goodness of heart, i. 417;
influence on his style, i. 222;
interview with George III, ii. 42;
jealous of, ii. 257;
letter to him, ii. 235, n. 2;
levee, attends, ii. 118;
literary reputation, ii. 233;
manner, copies, i. 412;
not his style, ii. 216;
pension, iv. 113;
_Prologue to The Good Natured Man_, ii. 42, 45;
proposes to--that they each review the other's work, v. 274;
quarrels with, ii. 253-4;
reconciliation, 256;
reads the _Heroic Epistle_ to, iv. 113;
reproaches, with not going to the theatre, ii. 14;
tetrastick on him, ii. 282;
tribute to him in the _Life of Parnell_, ii. 166, n. 2;
wishes to write his _Life_, iii. 100, n. 1;
witty contests with, ii. 231;
Kenrick, libelled by, i. 498, n. 1;
knowledge, 'pity he is not knowing,' ii. 196;
'knows nothing,' ii. 215;
'amazing how little he knows,' ii. 235;
'at no pains to fill his mind,' iii. 253;
Langton, letter to, ii. 141, n. 1;
Lennox's, Mrs., play, iv. 10;
_Life_ not included in the _Lives of the Poets_, iii. 100, n. 1;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 477; ii. 17;
absurd verses recited to it, ii. 240; iv. 13;
wishes for more members, iv. 183;
Lloyd's supper party, i. 395, n. 2;
lodgings, miserable, i. 350, n. 3;
in the Edgeware Road, ii. 182;
'loose in his principles,' i. 408;
luxury, effects of, ii. 217, ib. n. 5;
Madeira, bottle of, i. 416;
Mallet's reputation, ii. 233;
Martinelli's _History_, ii. 221;
mathematics, made no great figure in, i. 411;
contempt for them, ii. 437, n. 1;
medical studies, i. 411;
merit late to be acknowledged, iii. 252;
mind, never exchanged, iii. 37;
modern imitators of the early poets, despises, iii. 159, n. 2;
Montaigne, love of, iii. 72, n. 2;
mortified by a German, ii. 257;
musical performers' pay, ii. 225;
'_mutual_ acquaintance,' iii. 103, n. 1;
martyrdom, ii. 250-1;
_Natural History_: see _Animated Nature_;
nidification, ii. 249;
'Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit,' i. 412; iii. 82;
'_Nil te quaesiveris extra_,' iv. 27;
Northcote's account of him, i. 413, n. 2;
Northumberland, Duke of, would have helped him, iv. 22, n. 3;
the Duchess prints _Edwin and Angelina_, ii. 337, n. 1;
novelty, i. 441, n. 1;
Padua, at, i. 73, n. 2;
Paoli's, dines at, ii. 220;
paradox, affectation of, i. 4l7;
'three paradoxes,' iii. 376, n. 1;
_Parnell, Life of_, ii. 166;
partiality of his friends against him, iii. 252;
pen in and out of his hand, iv. 29;
pensions to French authors, i. 372, n. 1;
Percy's account of him, i. 413, n. 2;
quarrel with him, iii. 276, n. 2;
'pleasure of being liked,' i. 412, n. 6;
Pope's lines on Addison, ii. 85;
'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3;
powers, did not know his own, i. 213, n. 4;
public make a _point_ to know nothing of his writings, iii. 252;
religion, takes his from the priest, ii. 214;
_Retaliation_, passages quoted:
Attorneys, ii. 126, n. 4;
Burke, i. 472; iii. 233, n. 1; iv. 318;
Burke, William, v. 76, n. 3;
Douglas, Dr., i. 229, n. 1;
Garrick, i. 202, n. 4;
his lines on Goldsmith, i. 412, n. 6;
Lauder, i. 229, n. 1;
'pepper the highest,' iv. 341, n. 6;
Townshend, Tommy, iv. 318-9;
shown to Burke and Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3;
reviewers, ii. 39, n. 4;
Reynolds's explanation of his absurdities, i. 412, n. 6;
his envy, i. 4l3, n. 3;
Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5;
round of pleasures, ii. 274, n. 3;
Royal Academy Professor, ii, 67, n. 1;
Royal Academy dinner, iii. 51, n. 2; iv. 314, n. 3;
Sappho in Ovid, ii. 181;
Savage, compared with, ii. 281, n. 1;
Scotch inns, v. 146, n. 1;
scrupulous, not, i. 213, n. 4;
servitorships, v. 122, n. 1;
settled system, no, i. 414;
or notions, iii. 252;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, copyright of it, iii. 100, n. 1;
dedicated to Johnson, ii. 1, n. 2, 216;
Dedication, ib. n. 3;
dinner on the day of its first performance, iv. 325;
Duke of Gloucester's marriage, ii. 224;
Farquhar copied, v. 133, n. 1;
finding out the longitude, i. 301, n. 3;
ill success predicted, ii. 208;
Johnson's opinion, ii. 205, 208, 233;
naming it, ii. 205, n. 4, 258;
Northcote's account of it to Goldsmith, ii. 233, n. 3;
performed during a Court mourning, iv. 325;
_Rambler_, borrowed from, i. 213, n. 5;
song for Miss Hardcastle, ii. 219;
success on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5;
Tony Lumpkin's song, ii. 219;
Walpole's criticism, ii. 233, n. 3;
Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174;
_shine_, eager to, i. 423; ii. 231, 253, 256;
social, not, iii. 37;
society, his, courted, ii. 257;
Sterne, attacks, ii. 173, n. 2;
calls him a very dull fellow, ii. 222;
straw, on a balancer of a, iii. 231, n. 2;
suicide, on, ii. 229;
Swift's 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3;
tailor, taken for a, ii. 83, n. 2;
tailor's bill, ii. 83, n. 3;
talk; see conversation;
'tell truth and shame the devil,' ii. 222;
Temple, chambers in the, ii. 97, n. 1; iv. 27; v. 37, n. 1;
Temple of Fame, ii. 358;
terror, object of, to a nobleman, i. 450, n. 1;
Townsend, praises Lord Mayor, iv. 175, n. 1;
_Traveller_, brings him into high reputation, iii. 252;
Chamier's doubts as to the author, iii. 252;
dedicated to his brother, ii. 1, n. 2;
editions, i. 415, n. 2;
Fox praises it, iii. 252, 261;
Johnson's lines in it, i. 381, n. 2; ii. 6; iii. 418;
praises it, ii. 5, 236;
reviews it, i. 482;
recites a passage, v. 344;
'Luke's iron crown,' ii. 6;
payment for it, i. 193, n. 1; ii. 6, n. 3;
published with author's name, i. 412, n. 2;
reiterated correction, ii. 15, n. 3;
_slow_, iii. 253;
written after the _Vicar_ but published before, i. 415; iii. 321;
travelling in youth, on, iii. 458;
unnoticed, afraid of being, ii. 186;
Van Egmont's _Travels_, reviews, iv. 22, n. 3;
vanity, i. 413;
shown in his talk, i. 413;
his clothes, ii. 83;
his virtues and vices were from it, iii. 37;
_Vicar of Wakefield_, history of its publication, i. 415; iii. 321;
Johnson's opinion of it, i. 415, n. 3; iii. 321;
passages expunged, iii. 375-6;
visionary project, his, iv. 22;
Walpole despises him, i. 388, n. 3;
introduced to him, iv. 314, n. 3;
Warburton a weak writer, v. 93, n. 1;
Westminster Abbey and Temple Bar, ii. 238;
deserved a place in the Abbey, iii. 253;
spot for his monument chosen by Reynolds, iii. 83, n. 2;
'Williams, I go to Miss, i. 421;
_Zobeide_, wrote a prologue for, iii. 38, n. 5.
GOMBAULD, iii. 396.
GONDAR, v. 123, n. 3.
GOOD-BREEDING, ii. 82; v. 82, 276.
GOOD FRIDAY, ii. 356; iii. 300, 313; iv. 203.
GOOD-HUMOUR, acquired, not natural, v. 211;
dependent upon the will, iii. 335;
increases with age, ib.;
rare, ii. 362;
Johnson a good-humoured fellow, ib.
'GOOD MAN, a,' iv. 239.
_Good Natured Man_. See GOLDSMITH.
GOODNESS, not natural, v. 211, 214.
_Goody Two Shoes_, iv. 8, n. 3.
GORDON, Duke of, iii. 430, n. 6.
GORDON, Hon. Alexander, (Lord Rockville), i. 469; v. 394, 397.
GORDON, Sir Alexander, ii. 269, n. 2; iii. 104; v. 86, 90-2, 95.
GORDON, Captain, of Park, v. 103.
GORDON, General C. G., i. 340, n. 3.
GORDON, Lord George, Mansfield's charge on his trial, iii. 427, n. 1;
St. George's Field meeting, iii. 428;
sent to the Tower, iii. 430;
trial, iv. 87.
GORDON, Professor Thomas, v. 84-5,90-2.
GORDON, Rev. Dr., of Lincoln, iii. 359.
GORDON, Mr. W., Town-clerk of Aberdeen, v. 90, n. 2.
GORDON RIOTS, iii. 427-431, 435, 438.
GORLITZ, ii. 122, n. 6.
GORY, Monboddo's black servant, v. 82-3.
GOSSE, Mr. Edmund, Gray's _Works_, i. 403, n. 4.
GOTHICK BUILDINGS, i. 273.
GOUGH,--, ii. 397.
GOUT, an attack of, a poetical fiction, i. 179;
books on it, v. 210;
due to abstinence, i. 103, n. 3.
GOVERNMENT, by one, best for a great nation, iii. 46;
contracted-more easily destroyed, iii. 283;
distance, from a, iv. 213;
English--on a broad basis, iii. 283;
fittest men not appointed, ii. 157;
forms of it indifferent, ii. 170;
imperfection inseparable from all, ii. 118;
possible through want of agreement in the governed, ii. 102;
power cannot be long abused, ii. 170;
real power everywhere lost (in 1784), iv. 260, n. 2;
reverence for it impaired, iii. 3:
See MINISTRY.
_Government of the Tongue_, Boswell quotes it, iii. 379;
Johnson perhaps borrows from it, i. 447, n. 2;
'men oppressive by their parts,' iv. 168, n. 2.
_Governor_, v. 185, n. 2.
Gower, first Earl, recommends Johnson, i. 133;
Plaxton's letter to him, i. 36, n. 2;
_Renegado_, i. 296.
GOWER, Dr., Provost of Worcester College, ii. 95, n. 2.
GOWER, John, iii. 254.
GRACE, in Latin, v. 65:
at meals, i. 239, n. 2; ii. 124; v. 123.
GRAFTON, third Duke of, ii. 467.
GRAHAM, Colonel, ii. 156.
GRAHAM, Rev. George, _Telemachus_, i. 411; iii. 104;
insults Goldsmith, v. 97.
GRAHAM, Lady Lucy, v. 359, n. 1.
GRAHAM, Marquis of (third Duke of Montrose), iii. 382;
laughed at in _The Rolliad_, ib., n. 1;
loves liberty, iii. 383;
mentioned, iv. 109.
GRAHAM, Miss, iii. 407.
GRAINGER, Dr. James, character, his, ii. 454;
Johnson's Shakespeare, anecdote of, i. 319, n. 3;
_Ode on Solitude_, iii. 197;
_Sugar Cane_, Johnson reviews it, i. 481;
does not like it, ii. 454;
_mice_ altered to _rats_, ii. 453;
_Tibullus_, translates, ii. 454.
GRAMMAR, advantage of learning it, v. 136.
GRAMMAR School, Johnson's scheme for the classes of a, i. 99.
GRAND CHARTREUX, iii. 456.
GRAND SIGNOR, ii. 250.
GRANDEES OF SPAIN, v. 358.
GRANGE, Lady, v. 227.
GRANGER, Rev. James,
_Biographical History_, iii. 91; v. 255;
denies that he is a Whig, iii. 91;
'the dog is a Whig,' v. 255.
GRANT, Abbe, v. 153, n.
GRANT, Sir Archibald, iii. 103.
GRANT, Rev. Mr., v. 120-1, 123,131.
GRANT,--, ii. 308, 310.
GRANTHAM, ii. 312, n. 4.
GRANTHAM, first Baron, i. 434, n. 3.
GRANTLEY, first Baron, ii. 472, n. 2.
GRANVILLE, G. See under Lansdowne, Lord.
GRANVILLE, John Carteret, Earl,
described by Lord Chesterfield, iv. 12, n. 5;
despatch after the battle of Dettingen, iv. 12;
mentioned, ii. 116, n. 1; iv. 78.
GRATITUDE, burthen, a, i. 246;
fruit of great cultivation, v. 232.
GRATTAN, Henry, 'one link of the English chain,' iv. 317;
mentioned, iv. 73, n. 1.
_Grave, The_, iii. 47.
GRAVES, Morgan, i. 92, n. 2.
GRAVES, Rev. Richard,
author of _The Spiritual Quixote_, i. 75, n. 3;
Shenstone at Oxford, i. 94, n. 5;
property, v. 4S7, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 452.
GRAVINA, iv. 199.
GRAY, Sir James, ii. 177.
GRAY, John, bookseller, i. 153.
GRAY, Thomas, abruptness, his, i. 403;
Akenside, inferior to, iii. 32;
Beattie, friendship with, v. 16, n. 1;
blank verse, disliked, i. 427. n. 2;
Boswell sat up all night reading him, ii. 335, n. 2;
Boswell's _Corsica_ and Paoli, ii. 46, n. 1;
Cohnan's _Odes to Obscurity_, ii. 334;
_disjecta membra_, i. 403, n. 4;
_Distant Prospect of Eton College_ quoted, i. 344;
doctor's degree offered him at Aberdeen, ii. 267, n. 1;
Dryden's 'car,' ii. 5, n. 2;
'dull fellow, a,' ii. 327;
Elegy, imitated, v. 117, n. 4;
mended by Goldsmith, i. 404, n. 1;
quoted, iii. 190, n. 2, 204;
sneered at, ii. 328, n. 2;
Young's parody of Johnson's criticism on it, iv. 392, n. 1
(see just below under Johnson);
happy moments for writing, i. 203, n. 3;
Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1;
Johnson criticises the Elegy, i. 403; ii. 328, n. 2;
finds two good stanzas, ii. 328;
criticises the Odes, i. 403; ii. 164, 327, 335; iv. 13, 16, n. 4;
criticism attacked, iv. 64;
defended by Boswell, i. 404;
cites him in his Dictionary, iv. 4, n. 3;
praises his Letters, iii. 31, n. 1;
writes his Life, iii. 427;
works, did not taste, ii. 335;
calls him _Ursa Major_, v. 384, n. 1;
_Long Story_ cited, v. 292;
Mackintosh criticises his style, iii. 31, n. 1;
Mason's Memoirs of him, i. 29;
higher in them than in his poems, iii. 31;
'mechanical poet, a,' ii. 327;
_Odeon Vicissitude_, iv. 138, n. 4;
_Odes_ praised by Cumberland's _Ode_, iii. 43, n. 3;
Pope's condensation of thought, admires, v. 345, n. 2;
and his _Homer_, iii. 257, n. 1;
_Progress of Poetry_, quoted, iii. 165, n. 2;
_Remains_, his, preparation for publication, ii. 164;
Sixteen-string Jack, compared to, iii. 38;
_Spleen, The_, admires, iii. 38, n. 3;
Sterne's popularity, ii. 222. n. 1;
'sunshine of the breast,' v. 160, n. 2;
'warm Gray,' ii. 334.
_Gray's Inn Journal_, i. 309, 328, 356.
_Great_, how pronounced, ii. 161.
GREAT, the, cant against their manners, iii. 353;
Johnson, never courted by, iv. 116;
did not seek his society, iv. 117;
or Richardson's, ib., n. 1;
officious friends, have, ii. 65, n. 4;
seeking their acquaintance, ii. 10; iii. 189.
'GREAT HE,' ii. 210.
GREAT MOGUL, ii. 40, n. 4.
GREAVES, Samuel, iv. 253.
GREECE, fountain of knowledge, iii. 333;
modern Greece swept by the Turks, ii. 194.
GREEK, books for beginners, iii. 407;
Genardus's _Grammar_, iv. 20;
essential to a good education, i. 457;
like lace, iv. 23;
a woman's knowledge of it, i. 122, n. 4.
See JOHNSON, Greek.
GREEKS, barbarians mostly, ii. 170;
dramatists, iv. 16;
empire, iii. 36.
GREEN, John, Bishop of Lincoln, i. 45.
GREEN, Matthew, iii. 405, n. 1.
GREEN, Richard, of Lichfield, account of him, ii. 465;
his Museum, ib.; iii. 412;
Johnson, letter from, iv. 393;
mentioned, iii. 393; iv. 399, n. 5.
GREEN ROOM, of Drury Lane, i. 201.
_Green Sleeves_, v. 260.
GREENE, Burnaby, i. 517.
GREENHOUSES, ii. 168; iv. 206.
GREENWICH, Boswell and Johnson's day there, i. 457;
Hospital, i. 460;
Johnson composes part of _Irene_ in the Park, i. 106;
lodges in Church Street, i. 107;
Park, described by Miss Talbot, i. 106, n. 2;
not equal to Fleet Street, i. 461.
GREGORY, David, _Geometry_, v. 294.
GREGORY, Dr. James, iii. 126; v. 48.
GREGORY, Dr. John, v. 48, n. 3.
GREGORY, professors of that name, v. 48, n. 3.
GREGORY, ----, iii. 454.
GRENVILLE, Right Hon. George,
Beckford's Bribery Bill, supports, ii. 339, n. 2;
'could have counted the Manilla ransom,' ii. 135;
Johnson's letter to him, i. 376, n. 2.
_Grenville Act_, iv. 74, n. 3; v. 391.
GRETNA GREEN, iii. 68.
GREVILLE, C. C.,
Johnson and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3;
and Fox, iv. 167, n. 1;
'public dinner' at Lambeth, iv. 367, n. 3.
GREVILLE, Richard Fulke, _Maxims and Characters_, iv. 304;
account of him, ib., n. 4;
mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1.
GREY, first Earl, iii. 424, n. 4.
GREY, Dr. Richard, iii. 318.
GREY, Stephen, ii. 26.
GREY, Dr. Zachary, i. 444, n. 1; iii. 318; v. 225, n. 3.
GRIEF, alleviated by recording recollections of the dead, i. 212;
digested, to be, not diverted, iii. 28;
effect of business engagements on it, ii. 470;
Johnson's advice as to dealing with it, iii. 136; iv. 100, 142;
not retained long by a sound mind, iii. 136;
wears away soon, iii. 136.
See SORROW.
GRIERSON, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 116.
GRIFFITHS, Ralph, the publisher, his evidence worthless, iii. 30, n. 1;
war with Smollett, iii. 32, n. 2.
GRIFFITHS, ----, of Bryn o dol, v. 449.
GRIFFITHS, ----, of Kefnamwycllh, v. 452.
GRIMM, Baron, _Candide_, i. 342;
Mme, du Boccage, iv. 331, n. 1.
GRIMSTON, Viscount, iv. 80, n. 1.
_Grongar Hill_, iv. 307.
GRONOVII, v. 376.
GROSVENOR, Lord, v. 458, n. 5.
GROTIUS, corporal punishment, on, ii. 157, n. 1;
Christian evidences, on, i. 398, 454;
_De Satisfactione Christi_, v. 89;
Isaac de Groot his descendant, iii. 125;
practised as a lawyer, ii. 430;
quoted in Lauder's fraud, i. 229.
GROVE, Rev. Henry, papers in the _Spectator_, iii. 33;
read by Baretti, iv. 32.
_Grove, The_, iv. 23, n. 3.
_Grub Street_, defined, i. 296.
GUADALOUPE, i. 367, 368, n. 1.
GUALTIER, Philip, iv. 181, n. 3.
_Guarded_ bed-curtains, v. 433, n. 3.
_Guardian, The_, on public judgment, i. 200, n. 2;
end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3.
GUARDIANS FOR CHILDREN, iii. 400.
GUARDS, The, Boswell's fondness for them, i. 400, n. 1;
afraid of the juries, iii. 46.
GUARINI, _Pastor Fido_, iii. 346.
GUESSING, iii. 356.
_Guide-Books_, common in Italy, v. 61.
GUILLERAGUES, M. de, i. 90, n. 1.
GUILTY, ten, should escape, rather than one innocent suffer, iv. 251.
GUIMENE, Princess of, ii. 394.
GULOSITY, i. 468.
GUNNING, the Misses, v. 353, n. 1, 359, n. 2.
GUNPOWDER, iii. 361; v. 124.
GUNTHWAIT, ii. 169.
_Gustavus Adolphus, History of_, iv. 78.
_Gustavus Vasa_, i. 140.
GUTHRIE, William, account of him, i. 116, 117, n. 2;
Johnson's character of him, ii. 52;
_Apotheosis of Milton_, i. 140;
Debates, i. 116, 118;
Duhalde's _China_, translates, iv. 30;
pensioned, i. 117;
Scotticisms, i. 118, n. 1.
GUYON, _Dissertation on the Amazons, i. 150.
GWYN. Colonel, i. 414, n. 1.
GWYNN, John, the architect, account of him, v. 454, n. 2;
buildings designed by him, ii. 438, n. 3;
defence of architecture, ii. 439;
happy reply, ii. 440;
Johnson's advocacy of him, i. 351;
letter in his behalf, v. 454, n. 2;
_London and Westminster Improved_, ii. 25;
Oxford post-coach, in the, ii. 438; iii. 129;
_Thoughts on the Coronation of George III_, i. 361.
GWYNNE, Nell, i. 248, n. 2.
H.
_Habeas Corpus_, ii. 73.
_Habeas Corpus Bill_ of 1758, iii. 233, n. 1.
HABERDASHERS' COMPANY, i. 132, n. 1.
HABITATIONS, attachment to, ii. 103.
HABITS, early, force of, ii. 366.
HACKMAN, Rev. Mr., Boswell attends his trial, iii. 383;
and execution, iii. 384, n. 1;
altercation about him, iii. 384-5;
described in _Love and Madness_, iv. 187, n. 1.
HADDINGTON, seventh Earl of, iii. 133.
HADDO, Professor, v. 64.
HADDOCKS, dried, v. 110.
_Hadoni exequioe_, iv. 159, n. 1.
HAGLEY, described by Walpole, v. 78, n. 3, 456, n. 2;
Johnson visits it, v. 456-7.
HAGUE, v. 25, n. 2.
HAILES, Lord (Sir David Dalrymple),
account of him, i. 432; v. 48;
_Annals of Scotland_, a new mode of history, ii. 383;
accuracy, ii. 421;
a book of great labour, iii. 372;
exact, but dry, iii. 404;
praised by Gibbon, ib., n. 3;
revised by Johnson, ii. 278-9, 283-4, 287, 293. 333, 379-80,
383-4, 387, 411-12, 421; iii. 120, 216, 219, 360;
praised by him, iii. 58;
Boswell, letters to, i. 432; v. 406;
_Catalogue of the Lords of Session_, v. 213;
Chesterfield's 'respectable Hottentot,' on, i. 267;
consulted on the entail of Auchinleck, ii. 415, 418, 420-22;
critical sagacity, ii. 201; v. 48;
Elgin Cathedral, account of, v. 114;
Inch Keith, account of, v. 55;
Johnson, introduced to, v. 48;
asks, to write a character of Bruce, ii. 386-7;
compares, with Swift, i. 433;
is not convinced by his _Suasorium_, iii. 91;
records a talk with him, v. 399;
sends him anecdotes for his _Lives_, iii. 396-7;
drinks a bumper to him, i. 451;
love for him, ii. 293;
Knight, the negro's case, iii. 216, 219;
_La credulite des Incredules_, v. 332;
_Lactantius_, edits, iii. 133;
modernizes John Hales's language, iv. 315;
_Ossian_, faith in, ii. 295;
Percy, resemblance to, iii. 278;
Prior, censures, iii. 192;
_Remarks on the History of Scotland_, v. 38-9;
_Sacred Poems_, iii. 192;
Stuarts, unfair to the, v. 255;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, corrects the, v. 49;
_Walton's Lives_, proposal to edit, ii. 279, 283, 285, 445;
mentioned, ii. 294; iii. 102, 129, 155; iv. |
