Chapter 9

described in 1774 by Beauclerk, ii. 274, n. 3; Dodd sought admittance, iii. 280; Dunning, John, elected, iii. 128; first meeting of the winter, iii. 210; Fordyce elected, ii. 274; foundation, and list of members, i. 477-9, 481, n 3; Fox elected, ii. 274; talked little, iii. 267; Garrick elected, i. 480; his vanity, iii. 311, n. 3; Gibbon elected, i. 481, n. 3; describes it, ii. 348, n. 1; poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1; Goldsmith recites some absurd verses, ii. 240; iv. 13; he wishes for more members, iv. 183; his epitaph to be shown to the Club, iii. 81; hanged or kicked, members deserving to be, iii. 281; hogshead of claret nearly out, iii. 238; imaginary college at St. Andrews, v. 108-9; increase of members proposed, iii. 106; Johnson's attendance in his latter years, iii. 106, n. 4; attends after his attack of palsy, iv. 232-3; his last dinner, iv. 326, (for attendances with Boswell, See just above, under BOSWELL); dislikes several members, iii. 106; his friends of the Club, iv. 85; his funeral, iv. 419; subscriptions for his monument, iv. 423, ns. 1 and 3; incompliance with a _Call_, iv. 84; mentions the Club in a letter, ii. 136; reads his epitaph on Lady Elibank, iv. 10; talks of Mrs. Lennox's play, iv. 10; Jones, Sir W., described by, v. 109, n. 5; motto, its, i. 478, n. 3; name, i. 477; v. 109, n. 5; number of members, i. 478, n. 2, 479; iii. 106; Palmerston, second Lord, black-balled, iv. 232; elected, _ib. n._ 2; Porteus, Bishop of Chester, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2; select merit, loses its, ii. 430, n. l; Sheridan, R.B., elected, iii. 316; Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, elected, iv. 75, n. 3; Smith, Adam, elected, ii. 430, n. 1; Steevens elected, ii. 273-4; Vesey elected, iv. 28; Vesey's (Mrs.) evening parties on Club nights, iii. 424, n. 3; iv. 108, n. 4; Nonsense Club, i. 395, n. 2; Old Street Club, iii. 443-4; iv. 187; Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1; 431, n. 1; Tall Club, i. 308, n. 6; White's, ii. 329, n. 3; World, The, iv. 102, n. 4. COACH, post-coach, iii. 129; iv. 283; heavy coach, iv. 285. COAL-HEAVERS, riots of, iii. 46, n. 5. COALITION MINISTRY (Duke of Portland's) formed, iv. 174, n. 3; dismissed, i. 311, n. 1; iv. 165, n. 3, 249, n. 1; mentioned, iv. 170, n. 1, 223, n. 1, 258, n. 2. COBB, Mrs., ii. 388, 466; iii. 412; iv. 142, 143. COBHAM, Lord, i. 491, n. 1; iii. 347; iv. 50, n. 4, 102, n. 4. COBLENTZ, ii. 427, n. 4. COCHRAN, General, i. 431, n. 1. COCKBURN, Baron, iii. 335, n. 1. COCKBURN, Dr., iii. 152, n. 3. COCKBURN, Lord, civil juries in Scotland, ii. 201, n. 1; Dundas, Henry, Viscount Melville, ii. 160, n. 1; Edinburgh High School, ii. 144, n. 2; Edinburgh in the 18th century, v. 21, n. 1; Jeffrey's English accent, ii. 159, n. 6; Scotch county electors, iv. 248, n. 1; Scotch entails, ii. 414, n. 1; St. Giles, Edinburgh, v. 41, n. 1; titles of Scotch judges, v. 77, n. 4. COCKENZIE, ii. 302, n. 2. _Cocker's Arithmetic_, v. 138, n. 2. COCK-LANE GHOST. See GHOSTS. CODRINGTON, Colonel, iii. 204, n. 1. COFFEE-HOUSE CRITICS, i. 288. COFFEY, ----, v. 256, n. 1. COFFLECT, iv. 77, n. 3. COHAUSEN, Dr., ii. 427 n. 4. COIN, exportation of, iv. 104-5. COKE, Lord, a mere lawyer, ii. 158; his definition of law, iii. 16, n. 1; his painful course of study, iv. 310. COKE, Lady Mary, i. 407, n. 1. COL, the old Laird of, iii. 133; v. 29, n. 2. COL, Alexander Maclean, of, the second son, ii. 308, 406, 411. COL, Donald Maclean, the young Laird of, account of him, v. 250-1; the first road-maker, v. 235, n. 2; plans an excursion for Johnson, v. 254; accompanies him, v. 256-331; his bowl of punch, v. 258; manages the ship in the storm, v. 280-1; puts a rope in Boswell's hands, v. 282; _juvenis qui gaudet canibus_, v. 283; introduces turnips, v. 293; his family papers, v. 297-9; takes Johnson to his aunt's house, v. 312; anecdotes of Sir A. Macdonald, v. 315; his house in Mull, v. 316; deserves a statue, v. 327; his father's deputy, v. 329; 'a noble animal', v. 330; death, ii. 287-8, 406; v. 331; mentioned, v. 95, 267, 341. COLCHESTER, i. 466; iv. 15, n. 5. COLDS, catching, ii. 51, 150; v. 278. COLE, Henry, iv. 402, n. 2. COLEBROOKE, Sir G., ii. 222, n. 3. COLISEUM, ii. 106. COLLECTIONS, the desire of augmenting, iv. 105. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, ii. 297. COLLEGE TUTOR, an old, advice to his pupils, ii. 237. COLLEGES. See OXFORD. COLLIER, Jeremy, censures actors, i. 167, n.. 2; 'fought without a rival,' iv. 286, n. 3. COLLINS, Anthony, iii. 363, n. 3. COLLINS, William, affected the obsolete, iii. 159, n. 2; Johnson's affection for him, i. 276, 383, n. 1; _Life by Johnson_, i. 382; madness, his, i. 65, n. 3, 276, 277, 383; Poems, Glasgow edition, ii. 380. COLLOQUIAL BARBARISMS, iii. 196. 'COLLYER, Joel', i. 315. COLMAN, George, the elder, Boswell's belief in second sight, mocks, ii. 318; _Connoisseur_, starts the, i. 420,_ n._ 3; ii. 334, n. 3; Foote's patent, buys, iii. 97; _Good Natured Man,_ brings out the, iii. 320; _Jealous Wife, The_, i. 364, n. 1; Johnson, imitation of, iv. 387-8; Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479; _Odes to Obscurity_, ii. 334; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; _Prose on Several Occasions_, iv. 387; Round-Robin, signed the, iii. 83; Shakespeare's Latin, iv. 18; _She Stoops to Conquer_, brings out, ii. 208, n.. 5; 'Sir, if you don't lie you're a rascal,' iv. 10; _Student_, contributes to the, i. 209; _Terence_, translation of, iv. 18; Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2. COLMAN, George, the son, Aberdeen, a student at, v. 85, n. 2; made a freeman of the city, v. 90, n. 2; Dunbar, Dr., describes, iii. 436, n. 1; Gibbon's dress, describes, ii. 443, n. 1; Johnson and Gibbon, describes, iii. 54, n. 2. COLOGNE, Elector of, iii. 447. COLONIES, a loss to the community, i. 130, n. 2. COLQUHOUN, Sir James, v. 363-5. COLQUHOUN, Lady Helen, v. 365. COLSON, Rev. Mr., Garrick and Johnson recommended to him, i. 102; _Gelidus,_ i. 101, n. 3. _Columbiade, The_, iv. 331. COLUMBUS, i. 455, n. 3; iv. 250. COLVILL, Lady, v. 387, 394-5. COMB-MAKER, a punctuating, iii. 32, n. 5. _Combabus_, iii. 238, n. 2. COMBERMERE, v. 433-5. COMBERMERE, Lord, v. 433, n. 1. COMEDY, distinguished from farce, ii. 95; its great end, ii. 233. COMMANDMENT, ninth, emphasis in it, i. 169; in the sixth, i. 326, n. 1. COMMENTARIES ON THE BIBLE, iii. 58. COMMERCE, circulation of, iii. 177; effect of taxes on it, ii. 357; effect on relationship, ii. 177; not necessary to England, ii. 357. COMMISSARIES, ii. 339, n. 2; iii. 184. COMMON COUNCIL. See LONDON. COMMON PEOPLE, inaccuracy in thoughts and words, iii. 136; their language proverbial, ib. COMMON PRAYER BOOK, iv. 293. COMMONS, DOCTORS', i. 462, n. 1. COMMONS, House of. See DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT and HOUSE OF COMMONS. COMMUNION OF SAINTS, iv. 290. COMMUNITY OF GOODS, ii. 251. COMMUTATION OF SINS AND VIRTUES, iv. 398. COMPANION, the most welcome one, ii. 359, n. 2; a lasting one, iv. 235, n. 2. COMPANY, good things must be provided, iii. 186; iv. 90; love of mean company, i. 449; of a new person, iv. 33. See JOHNSON, Company. COMPIEGNE, ii. 400. COMPLAINTS, iii. 368. _Complete Angler_, i. 138, n. 5. _Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage_, i. 140. COMPLIMENTS, offending the company by them, iv. 336; right to repeat them, iii. 240; without violating truth, iii. 161; unusual, v. 440, n. 2. COMPOSITION, causes of hasty, i. 192, n. 5; errors caused by partial changes, iv. 11; fine passages to be struck out, ii. 237; happy moments for it, v. 40; Johnson's advice, iii. 437; v. 66-8; man writing from his own mind, ii. 344; pleasure, not a, iv. 219, n. 1; practised early, to be, iv. 12; setting oneself doggedly to it, v. 40, 110. See JOHNSON, Composition. _Compositor_, iv. 321, n. 3. COMPTON, Bishop of London, iii. 445, 447. _Comus_, Johnson's Prologue to, i. 227. CONCANEN, Matthew, v. 92, n. 4. CONCEIT OF PARTS, iii. 316. _Conceits_, i. 179. _Concoction_, of a play, iii. 259. CONDAMINE, La, _Account of the Savage Girl_, v. 110; of a Brazilian tribe, v. 242. CONDÉ, Prince of, ii. 393, 400. CONDESCENSION, iv. 3. CONDUCT, gradations in it, iv. 75; wrong but with good meaning, iv. 360. _Conduct of the Ministry_ (1756), i. 309. CONFESSION, ii. 105; iii. 60. _Conf. Fab. Burdonum_, ii. 263. CONFINEMENT, iii. 268. CONFUCIUS, i. 157, n. 1; iii. 299. _Congé d'élire_, iv. 323. CONGLETON, v. 432. _Conglobulate_, ii. 55. CONGRESS. See AMERICA. CONGREVE, Rev. Charles, chaplain to Archbishop Boulter, i. 45; pious but muddy, ii. 460, 474, CONGREVE, William, _Beggar's Opera_, opinion of the, ii. 369. n. 1; Collier, Jeremy, attacked by, iv, 286, n. 3; Islam, at, iii. 187; Johnson's criticism on his plays, iv. 36, n. 3; _Life_, iv. 56; _Mourning Bride_, its foolish conclusion, i. 389, n. 2; compared with Shakespeare, ii. 85-7, 96; _Old Bachelor_, iii. 187; Pope's _Iliad_ dedicated to him, iv. 50, n. 4; _Way of the World_, i. 494, n. 1; ii. 227; writings, his, make no man better, i. 189, n. 1. CONINGTON, Professor, Goldsmith's epitaph and Johnson's Latin, iii. 82, n. 3. CONJECTURES, how far useful, ii. 260. CONJUGAL INFIDELITY, ii. 56; iii. 347, 406. _Connoisseur, The_, i. 420; ii. 334, n. 3. CONNOR, ----, (Conn), a priest, v. 227, n. 4. CONSCIENCE, defined by Johnson, ii. 243; liberty of it, ii. 249. _Conscious Lovers_, i. 491, n. 3. _Considerations on the Case of Dr. Trapp's Sermons. See_ Dr. TRAPP. _Considerations on Corn_. See under CORN. _Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and Warburton_, i. 157. _Considerations upon the Embargo_, i. 503. CONSOLATION, ii. 13. _Consort_ defined, i. 149, n. 2. CONST, Mr., iii. 16, n. 1. CONSTANTINOPLE, iv. 28. CONSTITUENT, iv. 30, n. 4. CONSTITUTION, Johnson asked to write on it, ii. 441. CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY, iii. 314, n. 6. _Construction of Fireworks_, v. 246, n. 1. CONSTRUCTIVE TREASON, iv. 87. _Contemplation_, v. 117, n. 4. CONTENT, nobody is content, iii. 241. CONTI, Prince of, ii. 405, n. 1. _Continuation of Dr. Johnson's Criticism on the Poems of Gray_, iv. 392, n. 1. _Continuity_, iii. 419, n. 1. CONTRADICTION, iii. 386; iv. 280. CONTROVERSIES, ii. 442; iii. 10. CONVENTS. See MONASTERIES. _Conversable_, v. 437, n. 1. CONVERSATION, coming close to a man in it, iv. 179; contest, not animated without a, ii. 444; is a contest, ii. 450; eminent men often have little power in it, iv. 19; envy excited by superiority, iv. 195; game, like a, ii. 231; Johnson's description of the happiest kind, ii. 359; iv. 50; knowledge got by reading compared with that got by it, ii. 361; old and young, of the, ii. 443, 444, n. 1; praise instantly reverberated, v. 59; requisites for it, iv. 166; rich trader without it, iv. 83; solid, unsuitable for dinner parties, iii. 57; talk, distinguished from, iv. 186. See JOHNSON, Conversation. _Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty_, etc., ii. 34, n. 1. CONVERSIONS, ii. 105; iii. 228. CONVICT, a, unjustly condemned to death, ii. 285, n. 1. CONVICTS, punished by being set to work, iii. 268; religious discipline for them, iv. 329; sent to America, ii. 312, n. 3. CONVOCATION, i. 464; iv. 277. CONWAY, General, ii. 12, n. 1. CONWAY, Mr. Moncure, i. 85, n. 2. COOK, Captain, Boswell meets him, iii. 7; Hawkesworth's edition of his _Voyages_, ii. 247, n. 5; iii. 7; iv. 308. COOK, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64. COOKE, Thomas (_Hesiod_ Cooke), v. 37. COOKE, Thomas, the engraver, iv. 421, n, 2. COOKE, William (_Conversation_ Cooke), ii. 100, n. 1; iv. 254, 437. COOKERY, Mrs. Glasse's Cookery, iii. 285. See JOHNSON, Cookery. COOKSEY, John, ii. 319, n. 1. COOLEY, William, i. 503. COOPER, John Gilbert, last of the _Benevolists_, iii. 149, n. 2; story of his sick son, ib.; Johnson the Caliban of literature, calls, ii. 129; anecdote of--and Garrick, iv. 4; 'Punchinello,' ii. 129. COOPER, M., a bookseller, v. 117, n. 4. COOTE, Sir Eyre, account of him, v. 124, n. 2; travels in Arabia, v. 125. COOTE, Lady, v. 125-6. COPENHAGEN, v. 46, n, 2. COPLEY, John, iv. 402, n. 2. COPPER WORKS, at Holywell, iii. 455; v. 441. _Copy_, manuscript for printing, iii. 42, n. 2. COPY-MONEY, in Italy, iii. 162. COPY-RIGHT, Act of Queen Anne, i. 437, n. 2; iii. iii. 294; debate on the copy-right bill, i. 304, n. 1; Donaldson's invasion of supposed right, i. 437; judgment of the House of Lords, ib.; ii. 272, n, 2; iii. 370; opinion of the Scotch judges, v. 50,72; Thurlow's speech, ii. 345, n. 2; honorary copy-right, iii. 370; Johnson's plea for one, i. 437, n. 1; should not be a perpetuity, i. 439; ii. 259; London Booksellers, claim of the, iii. 110; metaphysical right in authors, ii. 259. CORBET, Andrew, i. 45, n. 4, 58, n. 1. CORDELIA, i. 70, n. 2. CORELLI, ii. 342. CORIAT (Coryat) Tom, ii, 175; _Crudities_, 176, n. 1. _Coriat Junior_, ii. 175. CORKE AND ORRERY, fifth Earl of. See ORRERY. CORKE AND ORRERY, sixth Earl of, i. 257, n. 3. CORN, bounty on corn (Irish), ii. 130, n. 3; (English), i. 519; iii. 232; corn-riots in 1766, 1. 519; iv. 317, n. 1; exportation, prohibited by proclamation, iv. 317, n. 1; last year of it, iii. 232, n. 1; Johnson's _Considerations on Corn_, i. 518; iii. 232, n. 1; plentiful in the spring of 1778, iii. 226; previous bad harvests, ib., n. 2; price artificially raised, iii. 232, n. 1. CORNBURY, Lord, ii. 425. CORNEILLE, character of Richelieu, ii. 134, n. 4; compared with Shakespeare, iv. 16; goes round the world, v. 311. CORNELIUS NEPOS, iv. 180. CORNEWALL, Speaker, iii. 82, n. 2. CORNISH FISHERMEN, iv. 78. CORNWALLIS, Archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 125. CORNWALLIS, Lord, his capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv. 140, n. 2. _Corps_, a pun on it, ii, 241. CORPULENCY, iv. 213. CORRECTION OF PROOF-SHEETS, iv. 321, n. 2. CORSICA, Antipodes, like the, ii. 4, n. 1; Boswell's subscription for ordnance, ii. 59, n. 1; 'dangers of the night,' i. 119, n. 1; France, ceded to, ii. 59, n. 2; Genoa, revolts from, ii. 59, n. 2, 71, n. 1, 80; hangman, i. 408, n. 1; Johnson declaims against the people, ii. 80; _lingua rustica_, ii. 82; Seneca's epigrams on it, v. 296; mentioned, iii. 201. _Corsica, Boswell's Account of_, Johnson's advice about it, ii. II, 22; praise of the _Journal_, ii. 70; publication and success, ii. 46; criticisms on it, ib., n. 1; Preface quoted, ii. 69, n. 3; translations, ii. 46, n. 1, 56, n. 2. CORTE, ii. 2, 3, n. 1; v. 237. _Corteggianno, Il_, v. 276. 'CORYCIUS SENEX,' iv. 173. COTTAGE, happiness in a, See RUSTIC HAPPINESS. COTTERELL, Admiral, i. 245. COTTERELL, Mrs., i. 450, n. 1. COTTERELLS, the Miss, i. 245-6, 369, 382. COTTON, Sir Lynch Salusbury, v. 433-4. COTTON, Lady Salusbury, v. 442, n. 3. COTTON, Robert, ii. 282, n. 3; v. 433; n. 5, 435, n. 2. COULSON, Rev. Mr., ii. 381, n. 2; v. 459, n. 4. COUNCIL OF TRENT, ii. 105. _Council of Trent, History of the_, i. 107, 135. COUNTESS, anecdote of a, iv. 274. COUNTING, awkward at counting money, iv. 27; effects of it, iv. 4, n. 4, 204; modern practice, iii. 356, n. 3; nation that cannot count, v. 242. COUNTRY GENTLEMEN, artificially raise the price of corn, iii. 232, n. 1; disconcerted at laying out ten pounds, iv. 4; duty to reside on their estates, iii. 177, 249; hospitality, iv. 204, 221; living beyond their income, v. 112; living in London, iv. 164; parliament, reason for entering, iii. 234; prisoners in a jail, v. 108; stewards, should be their own, v. 56; superiority over their people, iv. 164; tedious hours, ii. 194; wives should visit London, iii. 178. COUNTRY LIFE, meals wished for from vacuity of mind, v. 159; mental imprisonment, iv. 338; neighbours, v. 352-3; pleasure soon exhausted, iii. 303; popularity seeking, iii. 353; science, good place for studying a, iii. 253; time at one's command, iii. 353. COURAGE, not a Christian virtue, iii. 289; reckoned the greatest of virtues, ii. 339; iii. 266; mechanical, ib.; respected even when associated with vice, iv. 297. COURAVER, Dr., i. 107, 135; iv. 127, n. 2. COURT, attendants on it, i. 333; manners best learnt at small courts, v. 276. COURT, 'A shilling's worth of court for six-pence worth of good,' ii. 10. COURT-MOURNING, iv. 325. COURT OF SESSION. See SCOTLAND. _Court of Session Garland. See_ BOSWELL. COURTENAY, John, Boswell to make a cancel in the _Life_, persuades, i. 520; receives his vow of comparative sobriety, ii. 436, n. 1; Jenyns, Soame, i. 316; member of the Literary Club, i. 479; _Moral and Literary Character of Dr. Johnson_, descriptions of Boswell, i. 223; ii. 268; Johnson's English poetry, i. 181, n. 3; in the Hebrides, ii. 268; humanity, iv. 322, n. 1; Latin poetry, i. 62; rapid composition, iv. 381, n. 1; _Rasselas_, i. 344; style and 'school,' i. 222; Reynolds's dinner-parties, iii. 375, n. 2; Strahan, Rev. Mr., iv. 376, n. 4; Swift's _Tale of a Tub_, ii. 319, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 305. 310; iv. 315. COURTING THE GREAT, Johnson opposed to it, i. 131; his advice about it, ii. 10. COURTNEY, Mr. Leonard H., M.P., i. 376, n. 2. COURTOWN, Lord, ii. 376. COURTS OF JUSTICE, afraid of Wilkes, iii. 46, n. 5. COURTS-MARTIAL, Dicey, Professor, on them, iii. 46, n. 5; Johnson present at one, iii. 361; one of great importance, iv. 12. COVENT GARDEN. See LONDON. _Covent Garden Journal_, ii. 119, n. 4. COVENTRY, i. 357; iv. 402, n. 2. COVENTRY, Lady, v. 353, n. 1; 359, n. 2. COVERLEY, Sir Roger de. See ADDISON. _Covin_, ii. 199. COVINGTON, Lord, iii. 213. Cow, shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2. COWARDICE, mutual, iii. 326. COWDRY, iv. 160. COWLEY, Abraham, 'Cowley, Mr. Abraham,' iv. 325, n. 3; Dryden's youth, the darling of, iv. 38, n. 1; fashion, out of, iv. 102, n. 2; Hurd's _Selections_, iii. 29, 227; _Imitation of Horace_, i. 284, n. 1; Johnson meditated an edition of his works, iii. 29; ridicules the fiction of love, i. 179; writes his _Life_, iv. 38; life, on, iv. 154; love poems, ii. 78, n. 3; _Ode to Liberty_, iv. 154, n. 2; _Ode to Mr. Hobs_, ii. 241, n. 1; _Ode upon the Restoration_, v. 333, n. 3; Pope, compared with, v. 345; vows, on, iii. 357, n. 1; _Wit and Loyalty_, v. 57, n. 2; mentioned, i. 252, n. 3. COWLEY, Father, ii. 399, n. 3. COWPER, Earl, iii. 16, n. 1. COWPER, J. G. See COOPER. COWPER, William, annihilation, longs for, iii. 296, n. 1; avenues, v. 439, n. 1; Beckford and Rigby, anecdote of, iii. 76, n. 2; _Biographia Britannica_, lines on the, iii. 174, n. 3; Browne, I. H., anecdote of, v. 156, n. i; Churchill's poetry, admires, i. 419, n. 4; _Collins's Life_, reads, i. 382, n. 7; _Connoisseur_, contributes to the, i. 420, n. 3; dreads a vacant hour, i. 144, n. 2; 'dunces sent to roam,' iii. 459; Heberden, praises, iv. 228, n. 2; _Homer_, translates, iii. 333, n. 2; _John Gilpin_, iv. 138, n. 3; Johnson's 'conversion,' iv. 272, n. 1; criticism of Milton, iv. 42, n. 7; writes an epitaph on, ii. 225, n. 3; iv. 424, n. 2; recommends his first volume, iii. 333, n. 2; Mediterranean as a subject for a poem, iii. 36, n. 3; Milton, undertakes an edition of, i. 319, n. 4; Omai, the 'gentle savage,' iii. 8, n. 1; overwhelmed by the responsibility of an office, iv. 98, n. 3; Pope's _Homer_, criticises, iii. 257, n. 1; 'Scripture is still a trumpet to his fears,' iv. 300, n. 1; silence, habit of, iii. 307, n. 2; 'the solemn fop,' i. 266, n. 1; 'The sweet vicissitudes of day and night,' v. 117, n. 4; Thurlow's character, draws, iv. 349, n. 3; experiences his neglect, ib.; Unwins, introduced to the, i. 522; Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2; _Whole Duty of Man_, despises the, ii. 239, n. 4. COX, Mr., a solicitor, iv. 324. _Coxcomb_, ii. 129; iii. 245, n. 1; v. 377, 378, n. 1. COXETER, Thomas, iii. 30, n. 1; iii. 158. COXETER,--, the younger, iii. 158, iv. n. 1. COXHEATH CAMP, iii. 365, 374. CRABBE, Rev. George, Johnson revises _The Village_, iv. 121, n. 4, 175. CRADOCK, Joseph, account of him, iii. 38; Garrick at the Literary Club, iii. 311, n. 3; Goldsmith and Gray, i. 404, n. 1; _Hermes and Tristram Shandy_ ii, 225, n. 2; Johnson at a tavern dinner, i. 470, n. 2; compliment to Goldsmith, iii. 82, n. 3; parody of Percy, ii. 136, n. 4; words should be written in a book, iii, 39; Percey's character, iii. 276, n. 2; Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68, n. 2; Warburton's reading, ii. 36, n. 2. CRAGGS, James, Pope's epitaph on him, iv. 444; mentioned with his son, i. 160. CRAIG, ----, the architect, James Thomson's nephew, iii. 360; v. 68. CRANMER, Archbishop, ii, 364, n. 1. CRANMER, George, ii, 364, n. 3. CRANSTON, David, v. 406. CRASHAW, Richard, iii. 304, n. 3. CRAVEN, Lord, i. 337, n. 1. CRAVEN, Lady, iii. 22. _Creation_, Blackmore's, ii. 108. CREATOR, compared with the creature, iv. 30-1. CREDULITY, general, v. 389 CREEDS, v. 120. CRESCIMBENI, i. 278. CRICHTON, Robert, Lord Sanquhar, v. 103, n. 3. CRISP, Samuel, iv. 239, n. 3. _Critical Review_, account of it, owned by Hamilton, ii. 226, n. 3; edited by Smollett, iii. 32, n. 2; _Critical Strictures_ reviewed, i. 409, n. 1; Griffiths and the Monthly, attack on, iii. 32, n. 2; Johnson reviews Graham's _Telemachus_, i. 411; and _The Sugar Cane_, i. 481, n. 4; description of a valley praised, v. 141, n. 2; Lyttelton's gratitude for a review, iv. 57; Murphy attacked, i. 355; payment to writers, iv. 214, n. 2; principles good, ii. 40; iii. 32; Rutty's _Diary_ reviewed, iii. 170; reviewers write from their own mind, iii. 32. CRITICISM, examples of true, ii. 90; justified, i. 409; negative, v. 322. CRITICS, authors very rarely hurt by them, iii. 423. See ATTACKS. CROAKER. See GOLDSMITH. CROFT, Rev. Herbert, advice to a pupil, iv. 308; _Family Discourses_, iv. 298; _Life of Young_, his, adopted by Johnson, iv. 58; described by Burke, iv. 59; quoted, i. 373, n. 2. CROKER, Rt. Hon. John Wilson. (In this Index I give reference only to the passages in which I differ from him.) Bentley's verses, change in one of, iv. 23. n. 3; Boswell's account of Johnson's death, iv. 399, n. 1; Boswell's 'injustice' to Hawkins, iv. 138, n. 2; Burke's praise of Johnson's _Journey_, iii. 137, n. 3; Campbell, Dr. T., mistake about, ii. 343, n. 2; 'a celebrated friend,' iii. 409, n. 6; Chesterfield's present to Johnson, i. 261, n.,3; _Edinburgh Review_ and his 'blunders,' ii. 338, n. 2; emendations of the text, i. 16; iii. 426, n. 2; Fitzherbert's suicide, iii. 384, n. 4; Fox, Lady Susan, and W. O'Brien, ii. 328, n. 3; Homer's shield of Achilles, iv. 33, n. 2; Johnson's _Abridgment of the Dictionary_, i. 303, n. 1; Debates, i. 509; 'ear spoilt by flattery,' i. 60, n. 2; and Hon. T. Hervey, ii. 33, n. 2; and Jackson, iii, 137 n. 2; _London_, Thales and Savage, i. 125 n. 4; memory of Gray's lines, iv. 138, n. 4; and _The Monthly Review_, iii. 30, n. 1; and the rebellion of 1745, i. 176, n. 2; reference to Lord Kames, iii, 340, n. 2; title of Doctor, i. 488, n. 3; Langton's will, ii. 261, n. 2; Lawrences, date of the deaths of the two, iv. 230, n. 2; Literary Clubs, records of the, ii. 345 n. 5; Macaulay's criticisms on him, i, 157, n. 5; ii. 391, n. 4; iv. 144, n. 2; v. 234, n. 1; 298, n. 1; Mayo, Dr. and Dr. Meyer, ii. 253, n. 2; Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3; proofs and sanctions, ii. 194, n. 2; Montagu, Edward, iii. 408, n. 3; Romney, George, iii. 43, n. 4; Sacheverel at Lichfield i. 39; suppression of a note, iv. 138, n. 2; suspicions about Thurlow's letter to Reynolds, iv. 350, n. 1; about one of Johnson's amanuenses, iv. 262, n. 1; Taylors of Christ Church, confounds two, i. 76, n. 1; Walpole, Horace, identifies with a celebrated wit, iii. 388, n. 3. _Croker Correspondence_, Johnson's definition of _Oats_, 1. 294, n. 8; and Pot, iv. 5, n. 1; sarcasms about trees in Scotland, ii. 301, n. 1; mistake about the third Earl of Liverpool, iii. 146, n. 1. Cromwell, Henry, Pope's correspondent, iv. 246, n. 5. Cromwell, Oliver, Aberdeen, his soldiers in, ii. 455; v. 84; Bowles, W., married his descendant, iv. 235, n. 5; Johnson and Lord Auchinleck quarrel over him, v. 382; Johnson projects a _Life_ of him, iv. 233; Noble's _Memoirs_, iv. 236, n. 1; political principles in his time, ii. 369; Speeches, his, i. 150, n. 2; trained as a private man, i. 442, n. 1. Crosbie, Andrew, account of him, ii. 376, n. 1; alchymy, learned in, ii. 376; compares English with Scotch, v. 20; Scotch schoolmaster's case, ii. 186. n. 1; witchcraft, on, v. 45; mentioned, iii. 101; v. 46. Crosby, Brass, attacked by Johnson, ii. 135, n. 1; Lord Mayor, iii. 459; sent to the Tower, ib.; iv. 140, n. 1. _Cross Readings_, iv. 322. Crotch, Dr. William, iii. 197, n. 3. Crouch, Mrs., iv. 227. Crousaz, John Peter de, dispute with Warburton, i. 157; v. 80; _Examen of Pope's Essay on Man_, i. 137. Crown, childish jealousy of it, ii. 170; dispensing power, iv. 317, n. 1; influence: See INFLUENCE; power, has not enough, ii. 170; revenues, its, ii. 353, n. 4; right to it, iii. 156-7. _Crudities_, Coryat's, ii. 176, n. 1. Cruikshank, the surgeon, attends Johnson, iv. 239-240, 399; ib. n. 6; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; letter from, iv. 365; recommends him to Reynolds, iv. 219. Crutchley, Jeremiah, iv. 202, n. 1. Cucumbers, v. 289. _Cui bono_ man, a, iv. 112. Cullen, Dr., an eminent physician, ii. 372; his opinion on Johnson's case, iv. 262-4; on the needful quantity of sleep, iii. 169; talks of sleep-walking, v. 46. Cullen, Robert, the advocate (afterwards Lord Cullen), case of Knight the negro, iii. 127, 213; a good mimic, ii. 154, n. 1; mentioned, v. 44-5. Culloden, Battle of, cruelties after it, v. 159, 196; Johnson's indifference as to the result, i. 430; the news reaches London, v. 196, n. 3; order of the clans, ii. 270, n. 1; Pretender's criticism of the battle, v. 194; mentioned, v. 140, 187, 190. Culrossie,--, v. 342, n. 2. CUMBERLAND, v. 113, n. 1. CUMBERLAND, William, Duke of, uncle of George III, cruelties, ii. 374, 375, n. 1; v. 196; attacked by Dr. King at Oxford, i. 279, n. 5; praised by the _Gent. Mag_., i. 176, n. 2; Shipley, Dr., his chaplain, iii. 251, n. 5; mentioned, v. 188. CUMBERLAND, Duchess of, iv. 108, n. 4. CUMBERLAND, Richard, Bentley on Barnes's Greek, iv. 19, n. 2; Davies's stories, perhaps the subject of one of, iii. 40, n. 3; _dish-clout_ face, iv. 384, n. 2; _Fashionable Lover_, v. 176; _Feast of Reason_, iv. 64; Johnson, acquaintance with, iv. 384, n. 2; not admitted into 'the set,' ib.; cups of tea, i. 313, n. 3; dress, iii. 325, n. 3; Greck, iv. 384; mode of eating, i. 468, n. 3; _Observer_, iv. 64, 385; _Odes_, iii. 43; read backwards, ib., n. 3; iv. 432; Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2. CUMBERLAND AND STRATHERN, Duke of, brother of George III, ii. 224, n. 1; iii. 21, n. 2. CUMMING, Tom, the Quaker, account of him, v. 98, n. 1; introduces Johnson to a tavern company, v. 230; ready to drive an ammunition cart, iv. 212; wrote against Leechman, v. 101. CUNINGHAME, Alexander, the opponent of Bentley, v. 373. CUNINGHAME, Sir John, v. 373. CUNNING, v. 217. CUNNINGHAM,----, of the Scots Greys, iv. 211, n. 1. CURATES, scanty provision for them, ii. 173; small salaries, iii. 138. CURIOSITY, mark of a generous mind, i. 89, iii. 450, 454; two objects of it, iv, 199. CURLL, Edmund, i. 143, n. 1. CURLANTS, iv. 206. CUST, F. C., i. 161, n. 3, 170, n. 1. CUTTS, Lady, iii. 228. _Cyder_, Philips's, v. 78. _Cypress Grove_, v. 180.

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D. O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3. DACIER, Madame, in. 333, n. 2. _Dacier's Horace_, in. 74, n. 1. _Demonology_, King James's, iii. 382. DAGGE, ----, keeper of the Bristol Newgate, iii. 433, n. 1. DAILLÉ, _on the Fathers_, v. 294. _Daily Advertiser_, i. 256, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2. _Daily Gazetteer_, ii. 33, n. 1. _Daily Post_, i. 503. DALE, Mrs., v. 431. D'ALEMBERT, ii. 54, n. 3. DALIN, Olaf von, ii. 156. DALLAS, Miss, v. 87. DALLAS, Stuart, v. 87. DALRYMPLE, Colonel, v. 399. DALRYMPLE, Sir David. See HAILES, Lord. DALRYMPLE, Sir John, attacks the London booksellers, v. 402, n. 1; Burnet, criticises, ii. 213, n. 3; complains of attacks on his _Memoirs_, v. 400; foppery, his, ii. 237; Johnson, invites to his house, v. 401; rails at, v. 402; arrives late, v. 404; _Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland_, ii. 210-1; parodied by Johnson, v. 403; style, 'mere bouncing,' ii. 210; praised by Boswell, ii. 211; mentioned, ii. 291. DALZEL, Professor, iv. 385. DANCALA, i. 88. DANCING, iv. 79. DANES, colony at Leuchars, v. 70; in Wales, v. 130. DANTE, Boswell's ignorance of him, iii. 229, n. 4; _Purgatory_, quoted, iv. 373, n. 1; resemblance between _Pilgrim's Progress_ and Dante, ii. 238. DANUBE, ii. 133, n. 1. D'ARBLAY, General, iv. 223, n. 4. D'ARBLAY, Mme. See BURNEY, Miss. DARBY, Rev. Mr., v. 453, n. 2. DARIPPE, Captain, v. 135. DARIUS'S shade, iv. 16. DARLINGTON, i. 35, n. 1. DARTINEUF, Charles, ii. 447. DARTMOUTH, Lord, i. 407, n. 1. DARWIN, Charles, v. 428, n. 3. DARWIN, Dr. Erasmus, v. 428, n. 3. DASHWOOD, Sir Francis, ii. 135, n. 2. DASHWOOD, Sir Henry, iii. 407, n. 5. DATES to letters, i. 122, n. 2; iii. 421, n. 3, 428, n. 4. D'AUTEROCHE, Count, iii. 8, n. 3. DAVENANT, Sir William, ii. 168, n. 2. DAVENPORT, William, Strahan's apprentice, ii. 324, n. 1. DAVIES, Thomas, account of him, i. 390; author, success as an, iii. 434; bankruptcy, iii. 223, 434; Baretti's trial, exaggerated feelings about, ii. 94; quarrels with him, ii. 205; benefit at Drury Lane, iii. 249; bookseller, his taste as a, iii. 223, n. 1; Boswell to Johnson, introduces, i. 390; iv. 231; Churchill's lines on him, i. 391, n. 2, 483; iii. 223; sees in the pit, iii. 223, n. 2: Cibber's genteel ladies, ii. 340; 'clapped on the back by Tom Davies,' ii. 344; _Conduct of the Allies_, ii. 65; dinners at his house, ii. 340; iii. 38; _Garrick, Memoirs of_. iii. 434, n. 5; Garrick, letter to, iii. 223, n. 2; complains of his unkindness, ib.; Goldsmith's dislike of Baretti, ii. 205, n. 3; 'Goldy's' play, talks of, ii. 258; v. 308; Hunter, Johnson's schoolmaster, anecdote of, i. 45, n. 4; Johnson, accurate observer of, ii. 258; candour, iii. 271, n. 2; and Foote, ii. 299; forgives him, ii. 271; laugh, ii. 378; letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters; liberality to him, i. 488; iii. 223; love for him, iv. 231, 365; one of a deputation to, iii. III; sends pork to, iv. 413, n. 2; talking to himself, i. 483; learning enough for a clergyman, had, iv. 13; Maddocks, the straw-man, iii. 231, n. 2; _Miscellanies and Fugitive Pieces_, ii. 270; Mounsey and Percy, ii. 64; portrait by Hicky, ii. 340, n. 2; 'potted stories' of a dramatic author, iii. 40; Quin's saying about January 30, v. 382, n. 2; Shakespeare, representations of, v. 244, n. 2; stage, his earnings on the, iii. 223; driven from it, ib., iii. 249; 'statesman all over,' ii. 65; Thane of Ross, iv. 8; Walker's 'distinguished glare,' ii. 368, n. 3; zealous for the _trade_, ii. 345; mentioned, i. 175, n. 3, 310, 423; ii. 63, 82, 343-4, 349; iii--38; iv. 366. DAVIES, Mrs., Tom Davies's wife, Churchill's lines on her, i. 391, n. 2, 484. DAVIES,--, of Llanerch, v. 439. DAVIS, Mrs., iv. 239, n. 2, 439. DAVY, Sir Humphry, iv. 119, n. 1. DAVY, Serjeant, iii. 87, n. 3. DAWKINS, 'Jamaica,' iv. 126. _Dawling_, iii. 422; _dawdle_, iv. 126. DAWSON, George, ii. 456, n. 2. DAWSON's _Lexicon_, iii. 407. DAY-LABOURERS, wages of, iv. 176; v. 263. DEAD, form of prayer for the, ii. 163; libels on them, iii. 13; recommending and praying for them, i. 190, n. 2, 236, 240; ii. 163; iv. 137, 158, n. 3; their spirits perhaps present, i. 212; why we wish for their return, i. 240, n. 1. DEAF AND DUMB, Academy for the, v. 399. DEAN, Rev. Richard, ii. 53. DEATH, act of dying not of importance, ii. 107; affectation in dying, v. 397; best men most afraid of it, iii. 154; Browne, Sir T., on it, iii. 153, n. 1; business preparation for it, v. 316; change beyond man's understanding, ii. 163, n. 3; dispositions on one's death-bed, v. 239; 'dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1; fear of it cannot be got over, ii. 106, 298; iii. 295; natural to man, ii. 93; iii. 153, 158, 294; v. 179; resolution, met with, iii. 295; sight, kept out of, iii. 154; some die well, few willingly, i. 365; sudden death in sin, iv. 225; Swift dreads it, ii. 93, n. 4; describes what reconciles man to it, iii. 295, n. 2; thinking constantly of it, v. 316; violent, i. 338; 'a whole system of hopes swept away,' i. 236, n. 3. See under JOHNSON, death, dread of. DEATH WARRANTS, iii. 121, n. 1; v. 239-40. _Debate on the Proposal of Parliament to Cromwell_, i. 150. DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT, account of them, i. 115-118, 150-152, 501-512; written at first by Guthrie and corrected by Johnson, i. 115-6, 136, 503, 509; written solely by Johnson, i. 118, 150-2, 157, 503; wrongly assigned to Johnson, i. 509; authenticity generally accepted, i. 152, 505; Chesterfield, speeches attributed to, iii. 351; Croker's inaccuracy about them, i. 509! 'debating,' absence of, i. 506; discontinued, i. 176, n. 2, 512; Gent. Mag., increased sale of, i. 152, n. 1; House of Commons passes resolutions against publication, i. 115, 502, 510; House of Lords 'a Court of Record,' i. 502; 'Hurgoes,' 'Clinabs,' 'Walelop,' 'Hon. Marcus Cato,' i. 502; 'Pretor of Mildendo,' i. 503; Johnson's conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408; _Debates_ not authentic, i. 118, 503-9; rapid composition, i. 504; iv. 409; successor, i. 512; _London Magazine_, reports of the, i. 502, 508-510; monument to Walpole's greatness, i. 512; Murphy's account of them, i. 504; prosecution of Cave, i. 501; of Cooley and the printer of the _Daily Post_, i. 503; of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1; reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510; reporters, 'fellows who thrust themselves into the gallery,' i. 502; reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504; Seeker's reports, i. 507, 509; 'Senate of Lilliput,' i. 115, 502; speakers' names disguised, i. 501; speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504; many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7; sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508; table of the order of publication, i. 510; translated, i. 505; unreality, i. 506; volumes, collected in, i. 152; Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314. _Debrett's Royal Kalendar_, iv. 350, n. 1. DEBTOR. 'The pillow of a debtor,' iv. 152, n. 1. DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127; for Johnson's warnings, see BOSWELL, debts; law of arrest, iii. 77; small and great, i. 347. _Decay of Christian Piety_, v. 227. _De Claris Oratoribus_, iv. 316. DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4; flattery allowed, v. 285; Johnson's to all the Royal Family, ii. 2; skill in them, ii. 1; _Works_ without any, i. 257, n. 2; means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2; one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1; studied conclusions, v. 239. _Defence of Pluralities_, ii. 242. DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1. DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245. DEFINITIONS. See under DICTIONARY, and separate words. DE FOE, Daniel, _Captain Carleton's Memoirs,_ iv. 334, n. 4; _Drelincourt on Death,_ ii. 163, n. 4; his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1; Johnson's praise of him, iii. 267; the opposite of him, i. 506; _Robinson Crusoe_, iii. 268. _Deformities of Johnson_, iv. 148-9. DEGENERACY OF MANKIND, ii. 217, v. 77. DE GROOT, Isaac, iii. 125. DEIST, no honest man one, ii. 8. DELANY, Dr., _Observations on Swift_, iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238. DELAP, Rev. Dr., i. 521. DELAY, danger of, i. 324. _Dementat_, iv. 181, n. 3. DEMOCRITUS, iv. 105, n. 4. DEMONAX, iv. 34. DE MORGAN, Professor, i. 284, n. 3. DEMOSTHENES, Johnson compared with him, i. 504; spoke to barbarians, ii. 171; to brutes, ii. 211; mentioned, iii. 351; v. 214. DEMPSTER, George, account of him, i. 408, n. 4; argues for merit, i. 440-2; Boswell, letter to, v. 407; Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 409, n. 3; _Critical Strictures_, i. 409; Johnson's conversation, struck with, i. 434; dines with, ii. 195; _Journey_, praises, ii. 303; iii. 301; sister, his, iii. 242; iv. 284; unfixed in his principles, i. 443; virtuous and candid, ii. 305. DENBIGH, Earls of, ii. 175, n. 2. DENHALL IN WIRHALL, v. 445, n. 3. DENHAM, Sir John, iv. 38, n. 1. DENMAN, first Lord, ii. 408, n. 3. DENMARK, King of, v. 100. DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2. DENNIS, John, criticisms on _Blackmore_ and _Cato_, iv. 36, n. 4; on _Cato_, iii. 40, n. 2; on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. _4_; _Critical Works_ worth collecting, iii. 40; his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2. DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5. _Depeditation_, v. 130. DEPOPULATION, ii. 217, n. 5. DE QUINCEY, account of Bishop Watson, iv. 119, n. 1; criticises Johnson's _Vanity_, &c., i. 193, n. 3; praises his Latin, i. 272, n. 3. _Derange_, iii. 319, n. 1. DERBY, account of it in 1741, i. 86, n. 2; Highlanders there in 1745, iii. 162; v. 196, n. 3; Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. 160; see the china-manufactory, iii. 163; silk-mill, iii. 164; v. 432; Johnson married there, i. 95, n. 2, 96; mentioned, iii. 1, 135, n. 1; iv. 359. DERBY, fifteenth Earl of, v. 354, n. 1. DERBY, Rev. Mr., iii. 113. DERBYSHIRE, ii. 474. DERRICK, Samuel, Boswell's 'first tutor,' i. 456; his 'governor,' iii. 371; introduced him to Davies, iv. 231, n. 1; Dryden's _Miscellaneous Works_, edits, i. 456, n. 3; Home's parody on him, i. 456; _Humphry Clinker_, described in, i. 124, n. 2; Johnson's kindness for him, i. 385; v. 117, 240; projected _Life of Dryden_, gathers materials for, i. 456; v. 240; lines on, i. 124; 'King of Bath,' i. 394, n. 2, 455; _Letters from Leverpoole_, i. 456, n. 1; v. 117; outrunning his character, i. 394; presence of mind, i. 457; pun about the Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5; Smart, compared with, iv. 192. DESCRIPTION, falls short of reality, iv. 199. _Deserted Village_. See GOLDSMITH. DES MAIZEAUX, i. 29. DESMOULINS, John, Johnson's will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2; bequest to him, ib.; mentioned, iv. 415, n. 1, 440. DESMOULINS, Mrs., account of her, iii. 222, n. 3; hates Levett and Williams, iii. 368, 461; Johnson allows her half a guinea a week, iii. 222; death, present at, iv. 418; kitchen under her care, ii. 215, n. 4; house, lodged in, iii. 222, 380, n. 3; leaves it, iv. 233, 255, n. 1; not complaining of the world, iv. 171; mentioned, i. 64, 83, 237; ii. 148; iii. 313, 363,373; iv. 92, 1422, 170, 210, 239, n. 2, 322, n. 1. DESPONDENCY, speculative, iv. 112. DESPOTIC GOVERNMENTS, iii. 283. DE THOU. See THUANUS. DETTINGEN, Battle of, iv. 12. DEVAYNES, Mr., iv. 273. _De veritate Religionis_, i. 68, n. 3. DEVILS do not lie to each other, iii. 293; their influence upon our minds, iv. 290. DEVONPORT, i. 379, n. 1. DEVONSHIRE, Johnson's trip to, i. 37l, n. 3, 377; iii. 457; militia, its, i. 36, n. 4, 307, n. 4. DEVONSHIRE, third Duke of, faithful to his word, iii. 186; dogged veracity, iii. 378. DEVONSHIRE, fourth Duke of, ii. 78, n. 1. DEVONSHIRE, fifth Duke and Duchess of, hospitality to Johnson, iv. 357, 367; mentioned, iv. 126. DEVONSHIRE, seventh Duke of, 'public dinners at Chatsworth,' iv. 367, n. 3. DEVONSHIRE, Georgiana, Duchess of, Genius made feminine to compliment her, iii. 374; Johnson, eager to hear, iii. 425, n. 4; painted in the same picture with him, iv. 224, n. 1. DEVONSHIRE FAMILY, ii. 474. DEVOTION, abstracted, ii. 10; particular places for, iv. 226. _Devotional Exercises_. See PRAYERS. DEVOTIONAL POETRY. See POETRY. DE WITT, i. 32. DEXTERITY, deserves applause, iii. 231. _Diabolus Regis_, iii. 78. DIAL, i. 205. _Dialogues of the Dead_, ii. 447. DIAMOND, ----, an apothecary, i. 242; iii. 454. _Diary, The_, iv. 381, n. 1. _Diary of a Visit to England in 1775_, ii. 338, n. 2. DIBDEN, Charles, ii. 110. DICEY, Professor, _Law of the Constitution_, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 317, n. 1. DICK, Sir Alexander, gold medal for rhubarb, iv. 263, n. 1; hospitality, his, iv. 204; Johnson consults him about his health, iv. 261-3; letter to, iii. 102, 128; meets, v. 48, 394, 401. DICK, ----, a messenger, v. 201. 'DICK WORMWOOD,' ii. 407, n. 5. DICKENS, Charles, iv. 202, n. 1. DICTIONARY, might be compiled from Bacon, iii. 194; from Elizabethan authors, iii. 194, n. 2; 'perfection' of one, i. 292, n. 2; pronunciation, of, ii. 161; Scotland, of words peculiar to, ii. 91; watches, like, i. 293, n. 3. _Dictionary, Johnson's_, account of it, i. 182-9, 256-266, 291-301; _Abridgement_, i. 264, n. 4, 300, n. 1, 303, n. 1. 305; in Lord Scarsdale's dressing-room, iii. 161; accents of words, ii. 161; authors quoted, i. 189; iv. 4, 416, n. 2; Bacon often quoted, iii. 194; Birch, Dr., on it, i. 285; bound and lettered, i. 283; commencement, date of its, i. 182, n. 3; composition, its, i. 186-9; deficiency of previous, i. 187, n. 1; definitions, erroneous, i. 293; definitions, Johnson's genius shown in them, i. 293; instances of erroneous, i. 293; political and capricious, i. 294-6; iii. 343; iv. 87, n. 2, 217: See under separate words; dictionary-makers described, i. 189, n. 2; dictionary-making not very unpleasant, i. 189, n. 2; ii. 202, n. 2, 203, n. 3; 'muddling work,' ib.; Dodsley's suggestion, i. 182, 286; iii. 405; drudgery, v. 418; etymologies, i. 186, 292; explanation, difficulty of, i. 294, n. 2; edition, fourth, preparing, ii. 142,143, n. 3, 155; sent to press, ii. 202, n. 2, 209; published, ii. 203, 205; mentioned, i. 293, n. 2, 294, n. 7, 295, n. 1, 375, n. 2; iv. 4, n. 3, 87, n. 2; Garrick's _Epigram_, i. 300; Gifford's _Contemplation_ quoted, v. 117, n. 4; Gough Square, compiled in, i. 188; Harris,_Hermes_, praised by, iii. 115; honours and praises, i. 298, 323; Johnson's portrait, iv. 421, n. 2; Johnson's praise of its execution, iii. 405; Manning, the compositor, iv. 321; outlines sketched, its, i. 176; particles, changes of the, ii. 45, n. 3; patrons and opponents, i. 288; payments, i. 183, 287, 304; _Plan_, dedicated to Lord Chesterfield, i. 183; draft of it, i. 185, n. 2; not noticed in _Gent. Mag._ i. 176, n. 2; published, i. 182; poetry, harder to write than, v. 47; Preface, i. 291-9; pronunciation, ii. 161, n. 1; published, i. 288, 291; publishers, i. 183; Sheridan's, R. B., compliment to it, iii. 115; Smith, Adam, reviewed by, i. 298, n. 2; time taken in writing, i. 186, 287, 291, 443;