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jealousy, iii. 55; Johnson's attention to her, iii. 341; pleasure in her society, i. 232, n. 1; iii. 462; iv. 235, 239, 241, 249, n. 2; takes the sacrament in her room, iv. 235, n. 1, 270; tea with her, i. 421; ii. 99; turns Captain Macheath, iv. 95; Johnson's Court, room in, ii. 5; _Miscellanies_, i. 148, 177, n. 2; ii. 25-6; iii. 104; peevishness, iii. 26, 128, 220; quarrels with the rest of the household, iii. 368, 461; second sight, instance of, ii. 150; tea, mode of making, ii. 99; will, her, iv. 241; mentioned, i. 227, n. 2, 241, 242, 274, 326, 328, 350, n. 3, 369, 382; ii. 45, 77, 164, 209, 214, 215, 226, 242, 269, 310, 333, 357, 360, 386, 434; iii. 6, 44, 79, 92, 222, 269, 271, 313, 380; iv. 92, 210; v. 98. WILLIAMS, Sir Charles Hanbury, Johnson's pamphlet against him, ii. 33; speaks contemptuously of him, v. 268; lines on Pulteney, v. 268, n. 3. WILLIAMS, Helen Maria, iv. 282. WILLIAMS, Zachariah, i. 274, n. 2, 301. WILLIS, Dr. Thomas, _De Anima Brutorum_, v. 314, n. 1. WILMOT, Chief Justice, i. 45, n. 4. _Wilson against Smith and Armour_, ii. 196, n. 1. WILSON, Father, ii. 390. WILSON, Florence, _De tranquillitate animi_, iii. 215. WILSON, Rev. Mr., dedicates his _Archaeological Dictionary_ to Johnson, iv. 162. WILSON, Thomas, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489. WILTON, Boswell visits it, ii. 326, n. 5, 371; writes to Johnson from it, iii. 118, 122. WILTON, Miss, ii. 274. WILTSHIRE, militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4; mentioned, iv. 237. WINCHESTER, capital convictions in 1784, iv. 328, n. 1; cathedral, iii. 457; Franklin visits it, ii. 60, n. 2; Johnson visits it in 1762, i. 496, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 115. WINCHESTER COLLEGE, Johnson places Burney's son there, iii. 367; Morell visits it, v. 350, n. 1; Peregrine Pickle's governor, v. 185, n. 2. WINDHAM, Right Hon. William, account of him in 1784, iv. 407, n. 2; balloons, love of, iv. 356, n. 1; Burke's merriment, iv. 276; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 438; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; Glasgow University, at, iii. 119; Horsley's character, iv. 437; Johnson's advice to him, iv. 200, n. 4; at Ashbourn, visits, iv. 356, 362, n. 2; attends, when dying, iv. 407, 411, 415, n. 1; his servant nurses him, iv. 418, n. 2; bequest to him, iv. 402, n, 2; gift, iv. 440; college days, i. 70, n. 3; dexterity in retort, iv. 185; funeral, iv. 419; and Heberden, iv. 399, n. 6; Latin read with pleasure by few, v. 80, n. 2; letters to him, iv. 227, 362; never read the _Odyssey_ through, i. 70, 72, n. 3; pension, proposed increase of, iv. 338, n. 2; recommends Frank to him, iv. 401, n. 4; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4; portrait, ii. 25, n. 2; rascal, will make a very pretty, iv. 200; Secretary for Ireland, iv. 200, 227, n. 2; wants and acquisitions, iii. 354; Wapping, explores, iv. 201, n. 1; Warton's, Dr., amazement, ii. 41, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 306; iv. 344. WINDOW-TAX, v. 301, n. 1. WINDSOR, Beauclerk's house, i. 250; Johnson and the Mayor, iv. 312, n. 4; mentioned, iii. 400, n. 2. WINDUS, John, _Journey to Mequinez_, v. 445. _Windward_, defined, i. 293. WINE, abstinence a great deduction from life, iii. 169, 245, 327; not a diminution of happiness, iii. 245; does not admit of doubting, iii. 250; reasons for it, ii. 435; iii. 245; advice to one who has drunk freely, ii. 436; iii. 389; benevolence, drunk from, iii. 327; bottles drunk at a sitting, iii. 243, n. 4; claret and ignorance, iii. 335; claret, port, and brandy distinguished, iii. 381; iv. 79; conversation and benevolence, effect on, iii. 41, 327; daily consumption of wine, iii. 27, n. 1; different, makes a man, v. 325; 'drives away care,' ii. 193; drunk, the art of getting, iii. 389; drunk for want of intellectual resources, ii. 130; freezing, iv. 151, n. 2; _in vino veritas_, ii. 188; Johnson's abstinence, i. 103, n. 3; advice to drink wine, ib.; not to drink it, iii. 169; 'drink water and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306; life not shortened by a free use of it, iii. 170 (See under JOHNSON, wine); melancholy increased by it, i. 446; patron, drinking to please a, iii. 329: See under BOSWELL, wine, DRINKING and SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. WINGS OF IRON, iv. 356, n. 1. WINIFRED'S WELL, v. 442. WINNINGTON, Thomas, i. 502. WIRGMAN, keeper of a toy-shop, iii. 325. WIRTEMBERG, Prince of, ii. 180. WISE, Francis, Radclivian Librarian, account of him, i. 275, n. 4; Johnson visits him at Elsfield, i. 273; mentioned, i. 278-9, 282, 289, 322. WISEDOME, Robert, v. 444. WISHART, George, THE REFORMER, v. 63, n. 3. WISHART, Dr. William, v. 252. WIT, basis of all wit is truth, ii. 90, n. 3; Chesterfield on the property in it, iii. 351, n. 1; defined in Barrow's _Sermon_, iv. 105, n. 4; generally false reasoning, iii. 23, n. 3. WITCHES, evidence of their having existed, ii. 178; Johnson's disbelief in them, ii. 179, n. 1; 'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17; Shakespeare's, iii. 382; v. 76, 115, 347; Wesley's belief in them, ii. 178, n. 3; witchcraft, punished by death, v. 45; abolished by act of parliament, ib.; last executions, v. 46, n. 1. WITNESSES, examination of, v. 243. WITS, a celebrated one, iii. 388; the female wits, iv. 103, n. 1. WITTEMBERG, iii. 122, n, 2. WOFFINGTON, Margaret (Peg), Garrick's tea, iii. 264; sister of Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3. WOLCOT, John (Peter Pindar), v. 415, n. 4. WOLFE, General,' choice of difficulties,' v. 146. WOLVERHAMPTON, Elwall the quaker ironmonger, ii. 164; epitaph in the church, i. 149, n. 2. WOMEN, Addison's time, in, iv. 217, n. 4; carefulness with money, iv. 33; cookery, cannot make a book of, iii. 285; employment of them, ii. 362, n. 1; envy of men's vices, iv. 291; few opportunities of improving their condition, iv. 33; fortune, of, iii. 3; genteel, more, than men, iii. 53; gluttony, i. 468, n. 1; Greek and pudding-making, i. 122, n. 4; indifferent to characters of men, iv. 291; knowledge, none the worse for, ii. 76; v. 226; little things, can take up with, iii. 242; marrying a pretty woman, iv. 131; men have more liberty allowed them, iii. 286; natural claims, ii. 419; over-match for men, v. 226; Papists, surprising that they are not, iv. 289; pious, not more, than men, iv. 289; portrait-painting improper for them, ii. 362; power given them by nature and law, v. 226, n. 2; preaching, i. 463; quality, of, iii. 353; reading, iii. 333; iv. 217, n. 4; soldiers, as, v. 229; temptations, have fewer, iii. 287; understandings better cultivated, iii. 3; virtuous, more, than of old, iii. 3. Women Servants, wages, ii. 217. Women of the Town, how far admitted to taverns, iv. 75; narrate their histories to Johnson, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396; one rescued by him, iv. 321; wretched life, i. 457. Wonders, catching greedily at them, i. 498, n. 4; propagating them, iii. 229, n. 3. Wood, Anthony à, _Assembly Man_, v. 57, n. 2; on Burton's tutor at Christ Church, i. 59; Rawlinson's collections for a continuation of the _Athenae_, iv. 161, n. 1; styles Blackmore gentleman, ii. 126, n. 4. Woodcocks, ii. 55, 248. Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, i. 225, n. 1, 520; ii. 127. Woodstock. See BLENHEIM. Woodward, Henry, the actor, ii. 208, n. 5. Woodward, John, iv. 23, n. 3. Woollen Act, ii. 453, n. 2. Woolston, Rev. Thomas, v. 419, n. 2, Woolwich, iii. 268. Worchester, Gwynn's bridge over the Severn, v. 454, n. 2; Johnson visits it, v. 456; mentioned, iii. 176, n. 1. Worcester, Battle of, iv. 234, n. 1; v. 319. _Word to the Wise_, iii. 113. Words, big words for little matters, i. 471; words describing manners soon require notes, ii. 212. Wordsworth, William, _Edinburgh Review_ and Lord Byron, iv. 115, n. 2; _Excursion_, quoted, v. 424; lines to Lady Fleming, i, 461, n. 5; Lonsdale's, first Lord, cruelty to him, v. 113, n. 1; poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1; _Solitary Reaper_, v. 117, n. 3; 'We live by admiration,' ii. 360, n. 3. Work. See LABOUR. _Work_ him, iv. 261, n. 3; v. 243. Workhouse, parish, iii. 187. World, complaints of it unjust, iv. 172; counterfeiting happiness, ii. 169, n. 3; despised, not to be, i. 144, n. 2; Johnson's knowledge of it, i. 215; likes the society of a man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3; judgment must be accepted, i. 200; knowledge not strained through books, i. 105; peevishly represented as very unjust, iii. 237, n. 1; running about it, i. 215; running from it, iv. 161, n. 3. World, The, a club, iv. 102, n. 4. _World, The_, Bedlam, visitors to, ii. 374, n. 1; Chesterfield's papers on the _Dictionary_, i. 257-9; confounded with _The World_ of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1; contributors, i. 257, n. 3; v. 48, 238; Johnson thinks little of it, i. 420; name chosen by Dodsley, i. 202, n. 4. _World, The_, newspaper of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1. _World Displayed, Introduction to the_, i. 345. WORRALL, T., i. 166, n. 4. WORSHIP OF IMAGES, iii. 17, 188. WORTHINGTON, Dr., V. 443, 449, 453. WOTTON, Sir Henry, ii. 170, n. 3. WOTY, Mr., i. 382. WRAXALL, Sir Nathaniel W., George III's manners, ii. 40, n. 4; Johnson, describes, iii. 426, n. 4; and the Duchess of Devonshire, iii. 425, n. 4; and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1; meets, at Mrs. Vesey's, iii. 425; driven away by him, iii. 426, n. 4; Malagrida's name, iv. 174, n. 5; _Tour to the Northern Parts of Europe_, iii. 425. WREN, Sir Christopher, v. 249. WRIGHT, Thomas, of Shrewsbury, v. 455, n. 1. WRITERS. See AUTHORS. WRITING, Johnson's calculation about amount produced, ii. 344; money, for, iii. 19, 162; pleasure in it, iv. 219; writing from one's own mind, ii. 344. _Wronghead, Sir Francis_, ii. 50. WURTZBURG, Bishopric of, v. 46, n. 1. WYCHERLY, William, definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3. WYNNE, Colonel, v. 449. WYNNE, Sir Thomas and Lady, v. 448, 449. WYNNE, Mrs., v. 451.

X.

XAVIER, Francis, v. 392, n. 5. XENOPHON, delineation of characters in the _Anabasis_, iv. 31; _Memorabilia_, iii. 367, w. 2; v. 414; _Treatise of Oeconomy_, iii. 94. XERXES, described in Juvenal, ii. 228; weeping at seeing his army, iii. 199. XYLANDER, i. 208, n. 1.

Y.

YALDEN, Rev. Thomas, Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 370; his _Hymn to Darkness_, ib., n. 8. YATES, Mr. Justice, i. 437, n. 2. YAWNING, anecdote of, iii. 15. YONGE, Sir William, character, i. 197, n. 4; _Epilogue to Irene_, i. 197; pronunciation of _great_, ii. 161. _Yorick's Sermons_, iv. 109, n. 1. YORK, Address to the King, iv. 265; mentioned, iii. 439. YORK, Archbishops of, their public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3. See MARKHAM, Archbishop. YORK, Duke of (James II), v. 239, n. 1. YORK, Duke of, goes to hear the Cock Lane ghost, i. 407, n. 1; Johnson dedicates music to him, ii. 2; kindness to Foote, iii. 97, n. 2. YORK, House of, iii. 157. YORKSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 362. _You was_, iv. 196, n. 1. YOUNG, Arthur, Birmingham manufacturers in 1768, ii. 459, n. 1; roads in the north of England, iii. 135, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 161, n. 2. YOUNG, Dr. Edward, blank verse of _Night Thoughts_, iv. 42, n. 7, 60; Britannia's daughters and Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1; _Brunetta and Stella_, v. 270; _Card, The_, ridiculed in, v. 270, n. 4; Cheyne, Dr., iii. 27, n. 1; compared with Shakespeare and Dryden, ii. 86, n. 1; _Conjectures on Original Composition_, v. 269; critics, defies, ii. 61, n. 4; 'death-bed a detector of the heart,' v. 397, n. 1; epigram on Lord Stanhope, iv. 102, n. 4; 'For bankrupts write,' &c., iii. 434, n. 6; gloomy, how far, iv. 59, 120; 'Good breeding sends the satire,' &c., iv. 298; housekeeper, his, v. 270; Johnson and Boswell visit his house, iv. 119-21; Johnson calls him 'a great man,' iv. 120; describes meeting him, v. 269; _Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3; estimate of his poetry, ii. 96; iv. 60; v. 269--70; knotting, on, iii. 242, n. 3; knowledge not great, v. 269, n. 3; Langton's account of him, iv. 59; _Life_ by Croft, iv. 58; v. 270, n. 4; _Love of Fame_, v. 270; Mead, Dr., compliments, iii. 355, n. 2; _Night Thoughts_, ii. 96; iv. 60-1; v. 270; 'Nor takes her tea,' &c., iii. 324, n. 3; 'O my coevals,' in. 307; preferment, pined for, iii. 251; iv. 121; quotations, iv. 102, n. 1; 'quotidian prey,' v. 346; _Rambler_, his copy of the, i. 215; 'Small sands the mountain,' &c., iii. 164; sundial, iv. 60; _Universal Passion_, money received for it lost in the _South Sea_, iv. 121; 'Words all in vain pant,' &c., iv. 25, n. 3. YOUNG, Mr. (Dr. Young's son), Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 119-21; quarrel with his father, v. 270. YOUNG, Professor, of Glasgow, imitates Johnson's style, iv. 392. YOUNG PEOPLE, generous sentiments, i. 445; Johnson loves their acquaintance, i. 445. YOUTH, companions of our, iv. 147; scenes, i. 370; ii. 461, n. 1; v. 450. _Yvery, History of the House of_, iv. 198.

Z.

ZECK, George and Luke, ii. 7. ZECKLERS, ii. 7 n. 3. ZEILA, i. 88. ZELIDE, ii. 56, n. 2. ZENOBIA, ii. 127, n. 3. _Zobeide_, iii. 38. ZOFFANI, J., iv. 421, n. 2. ZON, Mr., i. 274. ZOZIMA, i. 223.

DICTA PHILOSOPHI.

A CONCORDANCE OF JOHNSON'S SAYINGS.

ABANDON. 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it,' iv. 183.

ABSTRACT. 'Why, Sir, he fancies so, because he is not accustomed to abstract,' ii. 99.

ABSURD. 'When people see a man absurd in what they understand, they may conclude the same of him in what they do not understand,' ii. 466.

ABUSE. 'Warburton, by extending his abuse, rendered it ineffectual,'