Chapter 3

'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 levée 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 levée. 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 Bâch 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. _àgri Ephemeris_, iv. 381. AESCHYLUS, Darius's shade, iv. 16, n. 2; Potter's translation, iii. 256. _àsop 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, £200, vol. ii. £300, vol. iii. £600, 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_, £700, i. 287, n. 3; Goldsmith, _Vicar of Wakefield_, £60, i. 415; _Traveller_, £21, ib., n. 2; Hawkesworth, £6000 for editing _Cook's Voyages_, i. 341, n. 4; Hill, Sir John, fifteen guineas a week, ii. 38, n. 2; Hooke, £5000 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, £500, ii. 43, n. 1; Robertson offered £500 for one edition of his _History of Scotland_, iii. 334, n. 2; £6000 made by the publishers; offered 3000 guineas for _Charles V_, ii. 63, n. 2; Sacheverell, £100 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.

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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. _Bibliothèque, Johnson's scheme of a, i. 283-285. _Bibl. des Fées_, ii. 391. _Bibliothèque 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 _à 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, Père, 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 £300 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;