Chapter 10

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;