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Northcote's description of them, iii. 375, n. 2; iv. 312, n. 3; Discourses on Painting, Empress of Russia's testimony of a snuffbox, iii. 370; first volume published, in. 369; Johnson described in them, i. 245, n. 3; his dedication, ii. 2, n. 1; mentioned in an unfinished _Discourse_, iii. 369, n. 3; praises them, iv. 320; Rogers, Samuel, present at the last, iii. 369, n. 2; translated into Italian, iii. 96; Dyer, Samuel, portrait of, ii. 453, n. 2; emigration, iii. 232; eminence, the cause of, ii. 437, n. 2; Errol, Lord, portrait of, v. 102; Essex Head Club, declines to join the, iv. 254, 436; describes it, iv. 438; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; Fox's praise of _The Traveller,_, mentions, iii. 252, 261; too much under, iii. 261; 'furious purposes, his,' iv. 366; Garrick and the Literary Club, i. 480; tea, iii. 264, n. 4; Garrick, Mrs., dines with, iv. 96-9; genius, account of, ii. 437, n. 2; Goldsmith's company, likes, ii. 235; criticised at his table, ii. 28l, n. 1; debts, ii. 280; dedicates the _Deserted Village_ to him, ii. 1, n. 2, 217, n. 5; epitaph, loses the copy of, iii. 82; fable of the little fishes, ii. 231; monument, chooses the spot for, iii. 83, n. 2; rebuked by, v. 273, n, 4; _She Sloops to Conquer_, suggests a name for, ii. 205, n. 4; to Walpole, introduces, iv. 314, n. 3; Hawkesworth's character, i. 253, n. 1; Hawkins's character, i. 28, n. 1; hospitality, his, i. 1; Humphry, the painter, assists, iv. 269, n. 2; _Idler_, contributes to the, i. 330; illness in 1764, i. 486; imaginary praise of him, iv. 18; inoffensiveness, v. 102, n. 3; invulnerability, i. 2; v. 102; Italy, returns from, i. 165, 242, n. 6; Johnson, admiration for, i. 245; admiration of Burke, ii. 450; altercation with Dean Barnard, iv. 431; apologises for his rudeness, iii. 329; arguing, ii. 100, n. 1; 'flew upon an argument,' ii. 365; belabours his confessor, iv. 281; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; checked immorality in talk, iv. 295, n. 3; in a company of booksellers, iii. 311; conversation, i. 204; iv. 184-5; convulsive starts, i. 144; cups of tea, i. 313, n. 3; desire for reconciliation, ii. 100, n. 1, 109; _Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4. n. 3; _dulce decus_, i. 244; dying requests, iv. 413; executor, iv. 402, n. 2; feared by a nobleman, iv. 116, n. 2; feelings towards foreigners, iv. 169, n. 1; fond of discrimination, ii. 306; overcharges characters, iii. 332; French, ii. 404; friendship with, i. 2, 242, n. 6, 244, 246; iv. 367; in 1764 almost--only friend, i. 486; friendship for Taylor, iii. 180; on friendship, i. 300; funeral, iv. 419, n. 1; garret, i. 328, n. 1; gestures, v. 18; interview with George III, ii. 34, n. i, 41; intoxicated, i. 379, n. 2; introduces Crabbe to, iv. 175, n. 2; letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters; letter to Thurlow, copies, iv. 349. n. 2, 368; lines in _The Traveller_, ii. 6, n. 3; making himself agreeable to ladies, iv. 73; as a member of parliament, ii. 138; mind ready for use, ii. 365, n. 1; mode of covering his ignorance, v. 124, n. 4; monument, iv. 423, n. 1; inscription, ib., n. 2, 445; never wrote a line a saint would blot, iv. 295, n. 3; his obligation to, i. 245, n. 3; on painting, i. 128, n. 2; pension, i. 374; proposed addition to it, iv. 327-8, 336-9, 348, 367-8; pride, no meanness in it, iv. 429, n. 3; proud of Reynolds's approbation, iv. 368; portraits: See under JOHNSON; prejudice against foreigners, iv. 15, n. 3; prejudices and obstinacy, i. 293, n. 1; pride, iii. 345, n. 1; quarrel with Dr. Warton, ii. 41, n. 1; _Rambler_, origin of the name, i. 202; readiness for a reconciliation, ii. 100, n, 1, 256, n. 1; 'rough as winter, mild as summer,' iv. 396, n. 3; rudeness partly due to his truthfulness, iv. 221, n. 2; and Savage in St. James's Square, i. 164; 'school,' one of, i. 7, n. 1, 245, n. 3; iii. 230,261, n. 1, 369; influenced his writings, i. 222; qualified his mind to think, iii. 369, n. 3; 'Reynolds's oracle,' i. 245, n. 3; _Shakespeare_, i. 319, n. 4; talking to a 'blackguard boy,' iv. 184; and Thrale's copper, i. 363, n. 3; _Tracts_, his copy of, ii. 315, n. 2; trip to Devonshire with, i. 377; iv. 322; truth sacred to, ii. 433, n. 1; unsuspicious of hypocrisy, i. 418, n. 3; iii. 444; vocation to public life, iv. 359; watch over himself, iv. 396, n. 3; writings, 'won't read,' ii. 317, n. 2; _Johnsoniana_, his, iv. 182; _Journey to Flanders_, iv. 423, n. 2; knighted, i. 103, n. 3; Leicester Fields, house in, ii. 384; liberality, iv. 133; literary characters, a nobleman's terror of, i. 450, n. 1; Literary Club, founder of the, i. 477; attendance at it, ii. 17; iii. 128, n. 4, 230, n. 5; London, loves, iii. 178, n. 1; Lowe, the painter, iv. 202, n. 1; _Macbeth_, note on, v. 129; Malone one of his executors, iv. 133; _Shakespeare_, praises, v. 129, n. 1; matrimonial wishes about him, iv. 161, n. 5; militia camps, visits the, iii. 365; modesty, unaffected, iv. 133; Monckton's, Miss, at, iv. 108, n. 4; Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, likes, ii. 88-9; v. 245; Morris, Miss, picture of, iv. 417, n. 3; Moser, Keeper of the Academy, eulogium on, iv. 227, n. 4; _Muddy_, ii. 362, n. 3; Mudge, Rev. Mr., influenced by the, i. 378, n. 3; _Sermons_, praises, iv. 98; obligations, the relief from, i. 246; observant in passing through life, iv. 6; Oxford degree of D.C.L., v. 90, n. 1; painter to the King, iv. 366, n. 2, 368, n. 3; paralytic attack, iv. 161, n. 5; Parr's defence of Johnson, iv. 422; persuaded, easily, v. 286; pictures, runs to, ii. 365; placidity, i. 1; planet, always under some, iii. 261; players, defends, ii. 234-5; Pope's hand, touches, i. 377, n. 1; portrait of himself holding his ear in his hand, iii. 273, n. 1; at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; price of portraits and income, i. 326, 363, 370, 382; professor in the imaginary college, v. 109; prosperity, not to be spoilt by, v. 102, n. 3; Reviews, wonders to find so much good writing in the, iii. 44; Richardson's talk, iv. 28; 'rival, without a,' i. 363; round of pleasures, in a, ii. 274, n. 3; Round Robin, signs the, iii. 83; carries it to Johnson, iii. 84; Royal Academy, intends to resign the presidency of the, iv. 366, n. 2; same all the year round, iii. 5, 192; _Savage, The Life of_, reads, i. 165, 245; Shelburne, Lord, portrait of, iv. 174, n. 5; Siddons, Mrs., portrait of, iv. 242, n. 2; sister, dislikes the paintings by his, i. 326, n. 7; iv. 229, n. 4; Smith's, Adam, talk, iv. 24, n. 2; St. Paul's, proposes monuments in, iv. 423, n. 2; Streatham library, pictures by him in, iv. 158, n. 1; Suard visits him, iv. 20, n. 1; Sunday painting, iv. 414; taste, taking the altitude of a man's, iv. 316; how acquired, ii. 191, n. 1; Thurlow, letter from, iv. 350, n. 1; titles, in addressing people did not use, i. 245, n. 3; truthfulness of his stories, ii. 433, n. 2; understanding, judging a man's, iv. 316; Vanburgh, defends, iv. 55; Vesey's, Mr., at, iii. 425; virtue in itself preferable to vice, iii. 342, 349; Voltaire, supposed attack on, v. 273, n. 4; weather, ridicules the influence of, i. 332, n. 2; wine, defends the use of, iii. 41; his fondness for it, ii. 292; iii. 329-30; reproached by Johnson with being far gone, iii. 329; mentioned, ii. 82, 83, n. 2, 232, 265, n. 4, 347; iii. 43, 301, 305, 386, 390, 434; iv. 1, n. 1, 32, 76, 84, 88, 159, 178, 219, n. 3, 224, n. 2, 334, 341, 344, 355, n. 4; v. 215. _Rhedi de generations insectarum_, iii. 229, n. 4. RHEES, David ap, _Welsh Grammar_, v. 443. RHEUMATISM, medicine for it, ii. 361. _Rhodochia_, i. 223. RHONE, iv. 277. RHOPALIC VERSES, v. 269, n. 3. RHYME, essential to English poetry, iii. 257. See BLANK-VERSE. RICCOBONI, Mme., credulity of the English, v. 330, n. 3; French and English stage in point of decency, ii. 50, n. 3; sentimentalists of Paris, iii. 149, n. 2; want of respect to nobility on the English stage, v. 106, n. 4. RICH, the manager of Covent Garden Theatre, brings out the _Beggar's Opera_, iii. 321, n. 3; 'is this your tragedy or comedy?' iv. 246, n. 5; refuses a play in false English, iii. 259. RICHARD II, iv. 268, n. 2. RICHARDS, John, R.A., iii. 464. RICHARDS, Thomas, i. 186, n. 3. RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the elder, _Treatise on Painting_, i. 128, n. 2. RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the younger, i. 128, 142. RICHARDSON, Samuel, Chesterfield's estimate of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Cibber, respects, ii. 93; iii. 184; _Clarissa_, German translation of, iv. 28; Lovelace's character, ii. 341; Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2; death, i. 370, 382; _Familiar Letters_--description of a visit to Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1; and the procession to Tyburn, iv. 189, n. 1; Fielding, compared with, ii. 49, 174, ib., n. 2; disparages, ii. 49, 174, 175, n. 2; Fielding, Miss, letter to, ii. 49, n. 2, 174, n. 1; flattery, love of, v. 396, n. 1, 440, n. 2; foreigners, read by, ii. 49, n. 2; Hanoverian, a, i. 146, n. 1; Johnson asks for an index for _Clarissa_, ii. 175, n. 1; _Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4; draws his character, v. 395; gives him a pheasant, i. 326; letters to him; i. 303, n. 1; ii. 175, n. 1; meets Hogarth at his house, i. 145; and Young, v. 269; sought after him, iii. 314; under arrest, helps, i. 303, n. 1; King, Dr. W., a Jacobite speech by, i. 146, n. 1; literary ladies, his, iv. 246, n. 6; v. 396; Macaulay's high praise of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Nelson, Robert, the original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3; novels, his, compared with the French, ii. 125; Oxford University, the Jacobitism of, i. 281, n. 1; portrait, i. 434, n. 3; _Rambler_, praised in the, i. 203; praises it, i. 209, n. 1; contributes to it, i. 203; read for the sentiment, not story, ii. 175; _rear_, Johnson can make him, iv. 28; talks of his own works, iv. 28; Tunbridge Wells, at, i. 190, n. 1; vanity, iv. 28, n. 7; v. 396; Walpole's, Horace, contempt of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Williams, Mrs., visits him, i. 232, n. 1. RICHARDSON, William, i. 303, n. 1. RICHELIEU, Cardinal, ii. 134, n. 4. RICHES. See MONEY. RICHMOND, third Duke of, attacks Lord Sandwich and Miss Ray, iii. 383, n. 3; discusses history and poetry, ii. 366, n. 1; libelled by Henry Bate, iv. 296, n. 3. RIDDELL, Mr., of the Horse Grenadiers, iv. 211, n. 1. RIDDOCH, Rev. Mr., v. 87, 91, 95-96. RIDICULE, abuse of it, iv. 17; Johnson defends its use, iii. 379. _Riding_, the, i. 36, n. 4. RIDLEY, the bookseller, iii. 325. RIGBY, Richard, iii. 76, n. 2. _Rio verde, Rio verde_, ii. 212, n. 4. RIOT ACT, iii. 46, n. 5. RIOTS, Franklin's description of the street riots in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5; Gordon riots in 1780, iii. 46, n. 5, 428; St. George's Fields in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5. RISEN IN THE WORLD, jealousy of men who have, iii. 2. RISING early, its difficulty, iii. 168. RITTER, Joseph, Boswell's Bohemian servant, accompanies Boswell to the Hebrides, v. 53, 74, 76, 83,163, 286, 318, 363, 371; mentioned, ii. 103, 411; iii. 216. RIVERS, Earl, Savage's reputed father, i. 166, n. 4, 170, 172. RIVINGTON, Mr., the bookseller, i. 135, n. 1. RIZZIO, David, v. 43. ROADS, described by Arthur Young, iii. 135, n. 1; toll gates, v. 56, n. 2. See under SCOTLAND, roads. ROBERT BRUCE, ii. 386-7. ROBERT II, v. 373. ROBERTS, J., the bookseller, i. 165, 175. n. 3. ROBERTS, Mr., Register of Bangor, v. 447, 452. ROBERTS, Miss, old Mr. Langton's niece, i. 336; 430. ROBERTSON, Mr., of Cullen, v. 110, 111. ROBERTSON, Mr., a publisher, of Edinburgh, iv. 129. ROBERTSON, Professor James, v. 42. ROBERTSON, Dr. William, Beattie, compared with, ii. 195, n. 1; Boswell appears against him in Court, ii. 381, n. 1; letters to, v. 15, 32; _Charles V_, criticised by Wesley, ii. 236, n. 4; price offered for it, ii. 63, n. 2; Clive's character, expatiates on, iii. 334; companionable and fond of wine, iii. 335; conversation, iii. 339, n. 1; Elibank, Lord, his early patron, v. 386; Gibbon, complimented by, ii. 236, n. 3; _Histories_, his, romances, ii. 237; pictures, but not likenesses, iii. 404; _History of America_, iii. 270; _History of Greece_, projects a, ii. 237, n. 4; _History of Scotland_, Johnson 'won't talk of it,' ii. 53; published in 1759, iv. 78, n. 2; sale, iii. 334; £6000 made by the publishers, ib.; editions, ib., n. 2; mentioned, ii. 270; Johnson, awe of, ii. 63; iii. 332; v. 371; criticises his _History_ and style, ii. 236-7; v. 57, n. 3; estimation of him, ii. 30, n. 1; v. 397; introduced to, iii. 331; asks him to translate the _Iliad_, iii. 333; dines with him in Boswell's house, v. 32-4; breakfasts, v. 38-9; shows him St. Giles, v. 41; the College, v. 42; Holyrood, v. 43; dines with him, v. 44; welcomes him on his return, v. 392; 'love' for him, ii. 53; proposed tour to the Hebrides, writes about, ii. 232; refusal to hear Scotch preachers, iii. 336; v. 121; style, recognises, i. 308; imitates it, iii. 173; iv. 388; worship, complains of, iii. 331; liberality of sentiment, v. 393; packs his gold in wool, ii. 237; paraphrased other people's thoughts, v. 397, n. 3; party in the church, his, v. 213; preferment, his church, iii. 334, n. 2; Principal of Edinburgh College, v. 41, n. 2; romantic humour, his, iii. 335; Southey calls him a rogue, ii. 238, n. 1; style, i. 439, n. 2; ii. 236-7; corrected by Strahan, v. 92, n. 3; _verbiage_, ii. 236; Voltaire's _Louis XIV_, v. 393; Whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 66, 275, 354, n. 4; iii. 278. ROBIN HOOD, v. 389. ROBIN ROY, v. 127, n. 3. ROBINHOOD SOCIETIES, account of them, iv. 92, n. 5; Boswell attends one, iv. 95. ROBINSON, H.C., account of Capel Lofft, iv. 278, n. 3; Bishop Hampden's 'confirmation,' iv. 323, n. 3; Burncy's account of Johnson, i. 410, n. 2. ROBINSON, Sir Thomas, account of him, i. 434; Chesterfield sends him to Johnson, i. 259, n. 2; talks the language of a savage, ii. 130. _Robinson Crusoe_, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5; iii. 268. ROCHEFORT, expedition to, i. 321. ROCHEFOUCAULD, i. 246. ROCHESTER, Mr. Colson, master of the Free School, i. 101, n. 3; Johnson visits it, iv. 8, n. 3, 22, 232-3. ROCHESTER, Wilmot, second Earl of, Flatman, verses upon, iii. 29; _Imitations_ of Horace, i. 118, n. 5; v. 52, n. 5; _Letter from Artemisia_, iii. 386, n. 4; _Life_ by Burnet, iii. 191; _Poems_, castration of his, iii. 191; wrote short pieces iv. 370, n. 1. ROCHFORD, Earl of, i. 317. ROCKINGHAM, Marquis of, his ministry, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 170, n. 1; Burke's advice about it, ii. 355, n. 2; his party, ii. 181. _Rockingham, Memoirs of_, iii. 460. ROD, use of the, i. 46; v. 99. _Roderick Random_. See SMOLLETT. RODNEY, Sir George, ii. 398. ROGERS, Rev. Mr., of Berkley, iv. 402, n. 2. ROGERS, Rev. Mr., _Sermons_, i. 89, n. 3. ROGERS, Samuel, Beauclerk's absence of mind, i. 249, n. 1; Beckford's speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3; Fitzpatrick and Hare, iii. 388, n. 3; Fordyce's, Dr., intemperance, ii. 274, n. 6; Fox's conversation, iv. 167, n. 1; on Burnet's style, ii. 213, n. 2; love of Homer, iv. 218, n. 3; and the wicked Lord Lyttelton, iv. 298, n. 3; and Mrs. Sheridan, i. 390, n. 1; heads on Temple Bar, ii. 238, n. 3; Hume and his opponents, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson, wishes to call on, i. 247, n. 3; and Lady Lucan, iii. 425, n. 3; Marley, Dean, iv. 73, n. 1; Mounsey, Dr., ii. 64, n. 2; Murphy, Arthur, i. 356, n. 2; Piozzi, Signor, iv. 339, n. 2; Price, Dr., iv. 434; _Rambler_, i. 210, n. 1; Reynolds's last lecture, iii. 369, n. 2; Shelburne and Carlisle, Earls of, iv. 246, n. 5; Wilkes as City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2; Williams, Miss H.M., iv. 282, n. 3; Wordsworth and the _Edinburgh Review_, iv. 115, n. 2. ROKEBY, Lord, i. 434, n. 3. ROKEBY HALL, i. 434, n. 3. _Rolliad, The_, Fitzpatrick, partly written by, iii. 388; Graham, Lord, ridiculed, iii. 382, n. 1; humorous but scurrilous, i. 116, n. 1; 'Painful pre-eminence,' iii. 82, n. 2. _Rollin's Ancient History_, iv. 311. ROLT, Richard, _Dictionary of Trade and Commerce_, i. 358; ii. 344; _Universal Visitor_, wrote for the, ii. 345; vanity and impudence, his, i. 359. ROMAN CATHOLICISM and Roman Catholics, attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3; clergy accused of lazy devotion, v. 170, n. 1; Communion in one kind, ii. 105; iv. 289; convicts should be attended by a Popish priest, iv. 329; converts part with nothing, ii. 105; not interrogated strictly, iv. 289; doctrines and practice, ii. 105; England and Ireland, in, ii. 255, n. 3; Gordon Riots, iii. 428-431; good timorous men, suited to, iv. 289; and women, ib.; gross corruptions, iii. 17; James II's attempt to bring England over to it, ii. 341; Johnson attacks it, iii. 407; calls their chapel a mass-house, iii. 429, n. 2; defends it, i. 465, 476; iv. 289; prefers it to Presbyterianism, ii. 103; respects it, ii. 105; laity and the Bible, ii. 27; 'old religion, the,' ii. 105; penal laws relaxed, iii. 427-8; still in force, iii. 427, n. 1; Popish books burnt in 1784, ib.; Popery understood by the nation, v. 276, n. 4; Presbyterianism, differs chiefly in form from, ii. 150; priests and people deceived, iii. 17; transubstantiation, v. 71. _Roman Gazetteers_, i. 147, n. 4. ROMANCES, fit for youth, iv. 16, n. 3; historically valuable, iv. 17; Johnson loved the old ones, i. 49; iii. 2. ROME and the Romans, ancient, barbarians mostly, ii. 170; Bolingbroke's references to them, iii. 206, n. 1; cant in their praise, i. 311; iii. 206, n. 1; Carthaginian, no feeling for a, iv. 196; empire, iii. 36; fountain of elegance, iii. 333; 'Happy to come, happy to depart,' v. 82; known of them, very little, ii. 153; secession to _Mons Sacer_, v. 142, n. 2; Senate, iii. 206; temples built by Saurus and Batrachus, iv. 446; Tiber, its duration compared with that of the, iii. 251. ROME, modern, Johnson eager to see it, iii. 19; expected there, iv. 326, n. 3; licensed stews, iii. 17; _London_, mentioned in, i. 119; pilgrimages to it, iii. 446; mentioned, iii. 217; v. 153, n. 1. ROMILLY, Sir Samuel, capital punishments, iv. 328, n. 1; Hume and the French atheists, ii. 8, n. 4; Parr, letter from, iv. 15, n. 5; Robinhood Societies, iv. 92, n. 5; Windham's opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4. ROMNEY, George, Cumberland's _Odes_ dedicated to him, iii. 43, n. 4. ROPE DANCING, ii. 440. RORIE MORE. See SIR RODERICK MACLEOD. _Rosamond_, v. 376, n. 3. _Roscommon, Life of_, i. 192. ROSE, Dr., i. 46, n. 1; iv. 168, n. 1. _Rosicrucian Infallible Axiomata_, iv. 402, n. 2. Ross, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 90, 92. Ross,--, a soldier, v. 197. ROSSLYN, Earl of. See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord. ROTHERAM, John, _Origin of Faith_, ii. 478. ROTHES, Countess Dowagers of, ii. 136, n. 3. ROTHES, Lady, Bennet Langton's wife, ii. 77, n. 1, 142, 146; iii. 104, 368; iv. 8, n. 3, 146, 159, n. 3, 240. ROTTERDAM, iii. 84, n. 2. ROUBILIAC, i. 328, n. 1. ROUGHNESS, breedeth hate, iv. 168, n. 2. ROUND ROBIN, The, iii. 83-5. ROUS, FRANCIS, i. 75, n. 3. ROUSSEAU, J.J., beating time, iv. 283, n. 1; Boswell, sympathy with, ii. 11, n. 3; visits him, ii. 12, 215; _Contrat-Social_, ii. 249, n. 2; coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1; exile and visit to England, ii. 11; Foundling Hospital, put his children into the, ii. 398, n. 4; French not a gay people, ii. 402, n. 1; Geneva, first departure from, i. 58, n. 2; Goldsmith, resemblance to, i. 413, n. 1; Hume on Rousseau's heroes, the Greeks and Romans, i. 353, n. 2; inequality of mankind, i. 439; Johnson's character of him, ii. 11; justification of himself, ii. 12, n. 2; liberty of teaching, opposed to, ii, 249, n. 2; novelty, love of, i. 441; pension from George III, ii. 12, n. 1; _Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard_, ii. 12; read less than formerly, iv. 288; savage life, preference of, ii. 12; talked nonsense well, ii. 74; untruthfulness, ii. 434, n. 2; Voltaire, compared with, ii. 12; want of readiness, ii. 256, n. 3; writings, effect of his, ii. 11. ROWE, Elizabeth, i. 312. ROWE, Nicholas, an indecent poem included in his _Works_, iv. 36, n. 4; Johnson's memory of his plays, iv. 36, n. 3. ROWLANDSON, Thomas, caricature of _Boswell revising the Second Edition_, v. 148, n. 1. _Rowley's Poetry_. See CHATTERTON. ROYAL ACADEMY, Boswell Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1; his letters of acceptance of office, iii. 370, 462-4; and Robertson at the Exhibition, iii. 278; club-nights, ii. 97, n. 1; dinners, Goldsmith, Johnson, Reynolds and Walpole present, iv. 314, n. 3; Goldsmith, Johnson and Walpole, talk about Chatterton, iii. 51, n. 2; Johnson speaks Latin to a Frenchman at dinner, ii. 404; in 1780 sits over against an Archbishop, iv. 198, n. 2; in 1784 has a race upon the stairs, iv. 355; is kept waiting by the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2; Exhibition of 1780, ii. 400, n. 3; iv. 198, n. 2; Johnson's monument, subscription to, iv. 423, n. 2; intercession for Lowe's picture, iv. 201-3; minister, not dependent on a, iii. 464; Moser, the keeper, iv. 227, n. 4; origin, its, i. 363, n. 2; professors and secretaries, ii. 67; iv. 220; Reynolds's influence in it, iv. 219, n. 4; his intention to resign the presidency, iv. 366, n. 2; travelling students, iv. 202, n. 1. ROYAL FAMILY, Johnson's dedications, ii. 2, 225; unpopular, ii. 234. ROYAL MARRIAGE BILL, ii. 152. _Royal Recollections_, i. 116, n. 1. ROYAL SOCIETY, Dryden's lines, ii. 241; Johnson improves the method of the _Philosophical Transactions_, ii. 40, n. 2; Presidents--Earl of Macclesfield, i. 267, n. 1; Sir John Pringle, iii. 65, n. 1; mentioned, iv. 92, n. 5. RUDD, Mrs., account of her, ii. 450, n. 1; Boswell's acquaintance with her, iii. 79; approved by Johnson, iii. 79, 80, 330. RUDDIMAN, Thomas, Boswell projects his _Life_, ii. 216; Johnson's regard for him, i. 211; Laurence Kirk, projected monument at, v. 75; Librarian of Advocates' Library, ii. 216; 'Ruddiman is dead,' ii. 21; mentioned, iii. 372. RUFFHEAD, Owen, _Life of Pope_, ii. 166; iv. 50, n. 1. RUFFLES, laced, iv. 80. RUINS, artificial, v. 456. RUNDEL, Bishop, ii. 283, n. 2; iv. 29, n. 1. _Runick Inscription_, i. 156, n. 3. _Runts_, iii. 337. RUSKIN, Mr. John, anecdote of Northcote, i. 377, n. 1; _Bibliotheca Pastorum_, iii. 94, n. 2; New Town of Edinburgh, v. 68, n. 1. RUSSELL, Alexander, _Natural History of Aleppo_, i. 309; iv. 171. RUSSELL, Lady, ii. 210, n. 3. RUSSELL, Lord William, ii. 210. RUSSIA, alchymist, a Russian, ii. 377; Beauclerk's library offered to the ambassador, iii. 420; Bell's _Travels_, ii. 55; Lapouchin's, Mme., punishment, iii. 340; population increasing, ii. 101; rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 131, n. 2: See CATHERINE II. RUSTIC HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE, iv. 175; v. 293. RUTLAND, Duchess of, iv. 224, n. 1. RUTLAND, Roger, Earl of, i. 431. RUTTY, Dr., account of him, iii. 170, n. 4; extracts from his _Diary_, iii. 170-2. RYLAND, Mr., Johnson's friend in 1752, i. 242; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 360; and Ivy Lane Club, iv. 435. RYMER, Thomas, i. 498, n. 4; ii. 444, n. 2. RYSWICK, peace of, iii. 446.

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SABBATH. See SUNDAY. SACHEVERELL, Rev. Dr. Henry, Johnson heard him preach at Lichfield, i. 39; sale of his _Trial_, i. 34, n 5. SACHEVERELL, W., _Account of the Isle of Man_, v. 309, n. 1, 336. SACRAMENT, preparation for it, iv. 122; in one kind, ii. 105. See under JOHNSON. SADNESS. 'Sadness only multiplies self,' iii. 136, n. 2. SAGACITY, iv. 335. SAILORS, estimation in which they are held, iii. 265-6; generosity, v. 400; Johnson's description of their life, i. 348; ii. 438; iii. 266; iv. 250; v. 137; mortality among them, i. 348, n. 3; iii. 266, n. 2; noble animal, v. 400; riot in London, iii. 46, n. 5; rudeness, i. 378, n. 1. SAINT MARTIN, iii. 36, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5. SAINTS, Invocation of the, ii. 105, 255; iii. 407; iv. 289; resurrection of the bodies of the, iv. 95. SALAMANCA, University of, i. 455; ii. 479. SALE, _avoiding_ a, v. 321. SALE, George, iii. 424, n. 1. SALISBURY, iv. 233, 237. SALISBURY, Bishop of. See Rev. Dr. DOUGLAS. SALLUST, characters, his, ii. 79; Catiline's character, i. 32; Johnson takes a copy on his tour in Scotland, v. 122; translates part of the _De Bella Catilinario_, iv. 381, n. 1; quoted, ii. 181, n. 2; translation by a Spanish prince, iv. 195. SALMASIUS, iv. 444. SALONICA, iv. 364, n. 2. SALT HILL, v. 458, n. 5. SALTER, Dr., i. 190, n. 5. SALUSBURY FAMILY, v. 435, n. 2. SALUSBURY, H.L., afterwards Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Piozzi, i. 492. SALUSBURY, Lady, v. 276. SALUSBURY, Mr., Mrs. Thrale's father, v. 438, n. 5. SALUSBURY, Mrs., Mrs. Thrale's mother, her death, ii. 263; saying about Johnson and runts, iii. 337. SALUSBURY, Mr., iv. 343, n. 4. SALVATION, divine intimation of acceptance, iii. 295; conditional, iv. 278, 299. _Samson Agonistes_, i. 231, n. 2. SANADON'S _Horace_, iii. 74, n. 1. SANCROFT, Archbishop, iv. 287, n. 2. SANDERSON, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, Johnson's style partly formed on his, i. 219; use of the word _polluted_, iv. 402, n. 2; mentioned, iv. 406, n. 1. SANDFORD, Mr., v. 263. SANDS, MURRAY, and COCHRAN, printers of Edinburgh, i. 210, n. 3. SANDWICH, fourth Earl of, confounded with Bishop Seeker, i. 508; disposal of a crown living, iv. 296, n. 3; Fox's motion for his removal, iii. 383, n. 3; Hawkesworth and Cook's _Voyages_, ii. 247, n. 5; Ray, Miss, iii. 383, n. 3. SANDYS, second Lord, Johnson visits him, v. 455; portrait of him at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1. SANDYS, Sir Edwin, _View of the State of Religion_, i. 219. SANDYS, George, _Travels_, iv. 311. SANDYS, Samuel, the 'Motionmaker,' i. 509. SANQUHAR, Lord, v. 103, n. 2. SANSTERRE THE BREWER, ii. 396. SAPPER, Thomas, iv. 358, n. 2. SAPPHO IN OVID, ii. 181. SARDINIA, Island of, its _lingua rustica_, ii. 82. SARDINIA, Charles Emmanuel III, King of, death, iv. 325, n. 1. SARPEDON, v. 103, n. 1. SARPI, Father Paul, i. 135, 136; dying prayer, i. 478, n. 3; _Life_ by Johnson, i. 139; v. 67, n. 2. _Sartum tectum_, ii. 417. _Sassenach More_, ii. 267, n. 2. SASTRES, Signor, the Italian master, Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; letters to him, iv. 368, _n_. 1, 374, n. 5; mentioned, iii. 22; iv. 405, n. 1. SATISFACTION OF CHRIST, v. 88. SAULT, Mr., iv. 200. SAUNDERS, Dr., iii. 32, n. 5. SAUNDERS, Prince, a negro, iv. 108, n. 4. SAUNDERSON, Professor, ii. 190. SAURIN, v. 42, n. 1, 47, n. 4. SAURUS, iv. 446. SAVAGE, Richard, account of him, i. 125, _n_. 4, 161-174; _Ad Ricardum Savage_, i. 162, n. 3; Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 53; author, an, without paper, i. 350, n. 3; iii. 115, n. 1; _Bastard, The_, i. 166; Caroline, Queen, gives him a yearly bounty, i. 125, n. 4; character and mode of life, i. 161-4, 166, n. 4, 173, 416, n. 1; correction for the press, iv. 321, n. 2; death, i. 156, n. 1, 164; dignity, asserted his, i. 77, n. 2; epitaph, i. 156, n. 3; equality of man, asserted the, ii. 479; evidence of his story examined, i. 170-4; Johnson gathers materials for his _Life_, i. 156; publishes it, i. 165; payment for it and editions, ib., n. 1; reviewed in _The Champion_, i. 169; wrote forty-eight pages at a sitting, i. 166; v. 67; intimacy with, i. 162-4; likeness to him, i. 166, n. 4; quotes _The Wanderer_, iv. 288 virtue, impairs, i. 164; iv. 395; letter to a lord, i. 161, n. 3; life, knowledge of, iii. 237, n. 1; _On Public Spirit_, ii. 13, n. 1; oppressed by the booksellers, i. 305, n. 1; pension from Lord Tyrconnel, i. 372, n. 1; Reynolds reads his _Life_, i. 165; Sinclair, stabs: See below, trial for murder; _Sir Thomas Overbury_ revived at Covent-Garden, iii. 115; its composition, ib., n. 1; subscribes to Husbands's _Miscellany_, i. 61, n. 3; subscription, lived on a, i. 125, n. 3; _Thales_ of Johnson's _London_, i. 125, n. 4; Thomson, intimacy with, iii. 117, n. 7; trial for murder, i. 125, n. 4, 162, n. 3; vanity, ii. 281, n. 1; veracity, i. 170, n. 2; Wales, sets out for, i. 125, n. 4, 161, n. 2; Walpole's, Sir Robert, talk, iii. 57, n. 2; _Wanderer_, i. 124, n. 4. _Savage, Life of_, an earlier one than Johnson's, i. 170. SAVAGE GIRL, a, v. 110. SAVAGES, affection, have no, iv. 210; Boswell's defence of savage life, ii. 73, 475; iv. 308; bread-tree, reported saying about the, ii. 248; compared with London shopkeepers, v. 81, 83; cruel always, i. 437; happiness of their life maintained by a learned gentleman, ii. 228; ignorant of the past, iii. 49; inferiority, their, v. 125; marriage state, ii. 165; Monboddo talks nonsense about them, ii. 74; and Rousseau, ii. 12, 74; saying attributed to one, iii. 180; superiority of civilised life, ii. 12, 73; v. 125, 365; traditions worthless, v. 225; wretches, who live willingly with them, iii. 246. SAVILE, Sir George, iii. 428. SAVILLE, Mr., saying about 'Ned' Waller, iii. 327, n. 2. SAVINGS. See ECONOMY. SAVOY, Duke of, Rousseau's anecdote of one, ii. 256, n. 3. SAWBRIDGE, Alderman, Lord Mayor, iii. 459; bill for shortening duration of parliaments, iii. 460; mentioned, i. 242, n. 4; ii. 135, n. l. SAWBRIDGE, Catherine (Mrs. Macaulay), i. 242, n. 4. SAXON _k_ added to the _c_, iv. 31. SAXONS, iv. 133. SCALIGERS, _The, Accurata Burdonum (i.e. Scaligerorum) Fabulae Confutatio_, ii. 263, n. 5; Buchanan, praise, ii. 96; 'cum Scaligero errare,' ii. 444; Dictionary-makers, on, i. 296, n. 3; Johnson takes a motto from the _Poeticks_, i. 62; Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2; Mantuan's _Bucolics_, complaint about, iv. 182, n. 1. SCARBOROUGH, iii. 45, n. 1. SCARSDALE, Lord, iii. 160-1. SCEPTICISM, v. 47. _Scheme for the Classes of a Grammar School_, i. 99. _School for Scandal_. See SHERIDAN, R.B. _Schools_, arguing in the, iv. 74. SCHOOLS, authority lessened, iii. 262; Bolingbroke, described by, v. 85, n. 3 (See under SCHOOLMASTERS); boys' restless desire of novelty, iii. 385, n. 1; flogging and learning, less of, ii. 407; happiness of schoolboys, i. 451; north of England schools cheap and good, ii. 380; poor, for the, ii. 188; iii. 352, n. 1; public, best for a boy of parts, iii. 12; bad for the timid, iv. 312; compared with private, ii-4O7; v. 85; studies not suited to all, iii. 385, n. 1. SCHOOLMASTERS, described by Lord Cockburn, ii. 144, n. 2; by Johnson, ii. 146, n. 4; J.S. Mill, ib.; Steele, i. 44, n. 2; famous men, of, i. 43, n. 2; Johnson's writings about them, i. 97, n. 2, 98, n. 2; maimed boys, ii. 157; respect due to them, i. 97; Scotch masters--one criminally prosecuted, iii. 212, 214; one dismissed for barbarity: See under HASTIE; severity, how far lawful, ii. 146, 157, 183-5. SCHOTANUS, i. 475. _Sciolus_, iii. 341, n. 1; iv. 14, n. 2. SCLAVONIC LANGUAGE, ii. 156. _Sconces_, i. 59, n. 3. _Score_, ii. 327, n. 2. SCORPIONS, ii. 54. SCOTLAND AND THE SCOTCH, [For the Hebrides and Highlands', See immediately after SCOTLAND. See also in the Concordance of Johnson's sayings at the end of the Index, SCOTCH and SCOTLAND] Aberbrothick, v. 71, 279; Aberdeen, Cathedral, v. 114, n. 2; English Church, v. 97, n. 5; Cromwell's soldiers, v. 84; duel fought for the honour of its butter, v. 342, n. 2; freedom given to English students, v. 90, n. 2; Infirmary, ii. 291; New Inn, v. 84; New Aberdeen, ib., n. 3; Old Aberdeen, v. 91; population in 1769, v. 90, n. 2; Town Hall, v. 90; Johnson made a freeman of the city, ii. 291; iii. 242; v. 90; no officer gaping for a fee, ib., n. 2; plaids, v. 85, n. 1; stocking-knitting, iii. 242; v. 86; University, education, v. 85, 92, n. 1; cost of it, v. 96, n. 1; English students, v. 85; Gray offered a doctor's degree, ii. 267, n. 1; King's College, iv. 265, n. 2; v. 90, n. 2, 91, n. 1; Malloch's poem on repairing the University, iv. 216; Marischal College, ii. 149, 264; v. 90; picture of Arthur Johnston, v. 95, n. 2; professors awed by Johnson, v. 92; 'not a _mawkin_ started,' v. 96; student from Col, v. 301; mentioned, iii. 362, 434, 436; v. 312; Aberdeenshire dialect, v. 84, 100; absence of 'a certain accommodation' in modern houses, v. 172; accent, i. 386; _Account of Scotland in_ 1702, iii. 242; Advocate's admission _Thesis_, ii. 20; America, would not discover barrenness of, iii. 76; American war popular, iv. 259, n. 1; Athelstanford, iii. 47, n. 3; _Athol porridge_, iv. 78; Auchinleck, account of it, iii. 178; v. 379; Barony, ii. 413; Boswell's management, under, iv. 163; castle, ii. 270; v. 379; chapel, ancient, v. 380; _Field of Stones_, v. 55, 379; hornless cattle, v. 380; mansion, v. 379, n. 1; inscription on it, v. 381; Johnson desires to visit it, i. 462; visits it, v. 375-85; laird, past greatness of the, iii. 177; present glories, iii. 178; library, iv. 241; v. 376; Paoli visits it, v. 382, n. 2; pronounced Affléck, ii. 413; v. 116, n. 1; Reynolds's portrait of Johnson, v. 385, n. l; 'rocks and woods of my ancestors,' ii. 69, n. 3; v. 348; _Via sacra_, v. 381; authors, ii. 53; authority lessened by the Scotch coming in, iii. 262; Ayr, v. 375, n. 3; Ayrshire, _cars_, v. 235; elections, ii. 169, n. 4; election petition, iv. 73; Johnson's argument, iv. 74; contest in 1773, v. 354; mentioned, v. 107, n. 1, 372; Balmerino, v. 406; Balmuto, v. 70; Banff, v. 109; bare-footed people, v. 55; beggars, v. 75, n. 1; Belhelvie, sands of, v. 101, n. 4; Blackshieids, v. 404; Blair in Ayrshire, iii. 47, n. 3; books printed before the Union, ii. 216; Boswell a Scotchman without the faults of one, iii. 347; Scotland too narrow a sphere for him, iii. 176; breakfasts, merit of Scotch, v. 123, n. 2; bring in other Scotch in their talk, ii. 242; broth, v. 87; Buchanan, Scotland's single man of genius, iv. 185; Buchanmen showing their teeth, v. 100; Buller of Buchan, v. 100; cabbage, introduction of the, ii. 455; v. 84, n. 3; Calder, v. 118; castle, v. 119; _Caledonian Mercury_, iv. 129; v. 323; career open in England, i. 387; Carron, The, v. 343, n. 3; castles, smallness of the, ii. 285; v. 374, n. 1; cattle without horns, v. 380; Charles I, sold, iv. 169; Christian Knowledge Society, ii. 27-30, 279; Church of Scotland _Book of Discipline_, ii. 172; churches dirty, v. 41-2; one clean one, v. 73, n. 4; in the Hebrides, v. 289, n. 1; church holidays not kept, ii. 459; form of prayers, absence of a, v. 365; Lord's Prayer omitted, v. 121, 365, n. 1; judicatures, ii. 242; practice at the bar of the General Assembly coarse, ii. 381, n. 1; 'the Presbyterian _Kirk_ has its General Assembly,' i. 464; probationer, case of a, ii. 171; lay-patrons, ii. 149; Johnson's argument on their rights, ii. 242-6; parties, two contending, v. 213; civility, persevering, iv. 11; 'cleanliness, Scottish,' v. 21; clergy, assiduity, v. 251; card-playing, v. 404, n. 1; compared with English, v. 251, 382; described by Warburton, v. 92; homely manners, i. 460; learning, want of, v. 251-2, 383; liberality of leading men, v. 21, n. 1; second sight, disbelieve in, v. 227; coaliers, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1; combination among the Scotch, ii. 121, 307, n. 3; iv. 169, n. 1; v. 409: See below, nationality; 'conspiracy to cheat the world,' ii. 307; 'conspiracy in national falsehood,' ii. 297, 307; Constable, Lord High, v. 103; council-post, v. 181; Court of Justiciary, Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2; Court of Session, account of it, ii. 291, n. 6; Johnson sees the Courts, v. 40; attends a sitting, v. 384, 400; 'casting pearls before swine,' ii. 201; date of rising, ii. 265;