ABERBROTHWICK, iii. 540.
Abercrombie, Mr. James, of Philadelphia, his communications concerning Johnson, ii. 195, 229 n.
Johnson's account of, iii. 541.
butter, duel fought for the honour of, iii. 38 n.
William Gordon, second Earl of, ii. 360 n.
Aberdonians, ii. 329.
Abernethy, Rev. John, on the effect of prayer, ii. 303.
some account of, ii. 303 n. Abingdon, Willoughby Bertie, fourth Earl of, bon-mot of, iv. 324 n. Abington, Mrs. the actress, iii. 196, 199, 204, 224, 249.
Abjuration, oath of, iii. 196.
Absenteeism, iv. 28, 104.
Absentee tax, iv. 299.
Absolute princes, iii. 245.
Abstemiousness, Johnson's, i. 74 n., 480;
ii. 8, 44, 173, 259, 435, 487, 510; iii. 228, 324, 389; iv. 158, 442. Absurdities, use of delineating, iv. 349. Abuse, personal, ii. 63, 358.
Johnson's disregard of, iv. 245, 361. Abyssinia, Lobo's voyage to, i. 55; iii. 373. Prince of, see Rasselas.
Academy della Crusca send Johnson their Vocabulary, i. 283.
Accent, Scotch, overcome by persever- ance, ii. 152.
Accounts, keeping, v. 56. Achilles, shield of, iv. 365. Acis and Galatea, iv. 96 n. Acquaintance, Johnson's numerous and
various, iii. 386; v. 107. Acquaintances, i. 284; v. 55. Acting, v. 132, 132 n.
tragic, Johnson's contempt of, ii. 273. Action, in public speaking, ii. 199. Active sports in young people, not to be reckoned idleness, i. 23. Activity of body, Johnson's, iv. 451.
of mind, Johnson's, iv. 197 n., 198 n. Actor, qualities of a great, iv. 522 n. Actors, i. 143, 144; ii. 91, 223, 273; iii. 289; iv. 35; v. 133 n.
Johnson's prejudice against, and con-
temptuous severity towards, i. 143, 175 n.; iv. 339, 340.
Adams, Rev. Dr. William, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, i. 30, 43, 47, 103, 152, 160, 171, 251, 252, 270, 496, 500; iii. 52, 155, 330; iv. 108, 116, 198; v. 293.
some account of, v. 293 n.
his account of the first representation of Irene,' i. 171.
his Answer to Hume's Essay on Mi- racles, iii. 330.
Johnson's letter to, v. 266.
- Miss, afterwards Mrs. Hyett, v. 191.` - George, the mathematical instrument maker, Johnson's dedication to the king of his Treatise on the Globes,' i. 307; ii. 44.
Addison, Joseph, i. 1, 179 n., 180, 439, 513; ii. 241, 279, 316; iii. 3, 221, 411, 520; iv. 87, 140, 357, 446 ; v. 232, 309, 309 n.
his Notanda,' i. 179 n.
his Remarks on Italy,' iii. 4, 221, 221 n.
his style compared with Johnson's, i. 200.
absurd observation of Sir J. Hawkins on the style of, i. 200 n.
his conduct towards Steele, iv. 420, 465. Johnson's opinion of, i. 201, 439, 513; iv. 205.
Johnson, Life of, iv. 420.
Address of the Painters to George the Third on his accession, written by Johnson, i. 342.
Adey, Mrs. ii. 61, 68; iv. 241, 266.
Miss Mary, i. 11; iii. 355; iv. 289. Admiration, iii. 225, 236. 'Adventurer,' Dr. John Hawkesworth's, i. 181, 211, 224, 237, 239, 240, 310. - the papers marked T, written by John- son, i. 240; iv. 531, n.
'Adventures of a Guinea,' by whom written, ii. 500 n.
'Adversaria,' specimen of Johnson's, i. 180. Adversaries, not to be treated with respect, ii. 266.
Advertisements, Johnson's, in the Gentle- man's Magazine, i. 66, 132.
in the Universal Chronicle, i. 335. in the Edinburgh newspapers, iii. 106. Adultery, ii. 56.
'Egri Ephemeris,' Johnson's, v. 1, 299. Eneid, story of the, v. 100. Eschylus, Potter's translation of, iv. 113. Affectation, iv. 358; v. 469.
of familiarity with the great, iv. 432. Affection, natural, ii. 103; iv. 262; v. 90. -Johnson's, for Miss Boothby, i. 51; iv. 426.
Agar, Welbore Ellis, esq. iii. 482 n. Age, old, iv. 44, 110, 197, 391; v. 60, 174. Agis,' Home's tragedy of, ii. 424 n. Aglaura,' Suckling's play of, iv. 179. Agutter, Rev. William, v. 185 n.
his sermon on Johnson's death, v. 353. Aikin, Miss Letitia, afterwards Mrs. Bar- bauld, iii. 294, 294 n.; iv. 23, 379.
her imitation of Johnson's style, iv. 23. Air-bath, Lord Monboddo's, iv. 16. Akenside, Dr. Mark, i. 349; ii. 157;
iii. 368, 368 n., 396.
Akerman, Mr., keeper of Newgate, anec- dotes of, iv. 317.
Johnson's eulogy on, iv. 318. Alberti, Leandro, his classical description of Italy, iii. 3, 221, 221 n. Alchymy, iii. 250.
Algebra, the study of, recommended, iv. 399.
'Alias,' Johnson's exemplification of the word, v. 97.
Allen, Rev. Thomas, ii. 523 n.
Edmund, the printer, i. 326 n., 481; ii. 523; iii. 504; iv. 125, 171, 466; v. 284.
Johnson's letter to, v. 109. Ralph, esq.,
Alley Croker,' iv. 107, 107 n.
All for Love,' Dryden's preface to, quoted, iv. 486 n.
Alnwick Castle, iii. 538; iv. 128.
Althorp, Lord, now Earl Spencer, iv. 309. See Spencer.
'Amelia,' Fielding's, iii. 408, 408 n. Ambition, iii. 404.
America, and the Americans, iii. 167, 169, 188; iv. 54, 57, 148, 174, 324 n., 452; v. 64 n., 182.
right of Great Britain to tax, iv. 57. Amusements, country, iv. 370. - a man known by his, v. 212. Amyat, Dr. i. 367.
'Ana,' the, French, iii. 4.
Anacreon, Baxter's, iii. 73; v. 42, 42 n., 159.
Dove of, translated by Johnson, iv. 548 n. - Fawkes's translation of, iv. 548 n. Anaitis, temple of, i. 439, 442. Analogy between body and mind, i. 28.
'Anatomy of Melancholy,' Burton's, i. 379; iii. 329. Ancestry, ii. 144.
'Ancient Ballads,' Dr. Percy's, iv. 137. Ancient times, folly of praising, at the ex- pense of modern, v. 98.
Anderdon MSS. v. 293, 307.
Anderson, Professor, at Glasgow, iii. 64, 66, 483.
- Dr. Robert, his Life of Johnson,' i. 22, 71, 172.
- Mr., his Sketches of the Native Irish,' ii. 149; iii. 476. Andrew's, St., ii. 296; iii. 539. its library, ii. 299 n.
ruins of its cathedral, iii. 539. its university, iii. 540. Anecdotes, Johnson's love of, ii. 274. general inaccuracy of, v. 261 n.
at second hand, little to be relied on, v. 322 n.
Anfractuosities of the human mind, iv. 336. Angel, Mr. John, his 'Stenography,'ii.213. Angel, fallen, v. 118.
Anne, Queen, Johnson touched by, for the evil, i 16.
wits of her reign, iv. 202 n. Annihilation, iii. 519; iv. 154.
'Animus equus,' the, not inheritable, iii. 77.
Anonymous writings, iv. 246.
'Annus Mirabilis,' Tasker's, v. 49 n. Anson, Lord, iv. 244, 244 n.
Apotheosis of Milton,' not written by Johnson, i. 111.
Apparitions, i. 332, 414; ii. 11, 141,
157, 173, 178, 178 n; iv. 466, 469. Appetite, riders out in quest of, v. 229. Appius, Cicero's character of, applied to Johnson, v. 291 ́n. Applause, iv. 363.
April fools' day, iii. 473, 473 n. Arabs, fidelity of, ii. 356.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, i. 439; ii. 279.
Robert, esq. ii. 265, 265 n.
'Arcadia,' Sidney's, iii. 495 n. Arches, comparative strength of semicir cular and elliptical, i. 340. Architecture, ornamental, iii. 327. Areskine, Sir John, ii. 521. Arguing, Johnson's mode of, and fondness for, iii. 371, 388; iv. 483; v. 179, 179 n., 210.
his Poetics,' iii. 403, 403 n. Arithmetic, Johnson's resort to, when his fancy was disordered, iv. 394. Arkwright, Sir Richard, v. 233. Armidale, ii. 380, 501. Armorial bearings, ii. 173.
Arms, piling of, why insisted on, iv. 222. Armstrong, Dr. John, i. 338 n.; iii. 481. Army, officers of the, iii. 94. Arnauld, Anthony, iv. 214.
Arnold, Dr. Thomas, his Observations on Insanity,' iv. 26.
'Art of Living in London,' i. 74. Artificial ruins, iii. 157.
'Arts corrective,' ii. 527.
Articles, subscription to the thirty-nine,
ii. 106, 142, 142 n, 300.
Ascham, Roger, Johnson's Life of, i. 476.
Asaph, Bishop of, see Shipley.
Ascanius,' ii. 416 n,. 418 n., 421 n. Ash, Dr. John, founder of the Eumelian club, v. 304 n.
Ashbourne, iv. 31, 59.
Ashburton, Lord, see Dunning.
Assertion, v. 180 n.
Assize, maiden one, iv. 116. Association of ideas, iv. 151.
Astle, Thomas, esq., keeper of the re- cords in the Tower, i. 139. Johnson's letter to, v. 4.
his notes on Alfred's will, v. 5, 5 n.
- Rev. Mr., Johnson's advice to, as to his studies, v. 208.
Aston, Sir Thomas, i. 52, 52 n.
Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 52; ii. 45 n., 119; iii. 255, 354, 358, 496; iv. 61. Johnson's letters to, ii. 45, 70; iii. 468,
470, 499; iv. 62, 237, 241, 265, 291, 292; v. 25, 158.
Astley, Mr. Philip, the equestrian, iv. 285, 285 n.
'As You Like It,' the clown's answer in, iv. 372.
Atheism, ii. 282.
'Athol porridge,' iv. 449.
'Atlas,' the race-horse, iii. 126 n. Atonement, the great article of Christianity, ii. 322, 322 n.; iv. 41 n., 498, 498 n. ; v. 332 n.
Attack, advantages which authors derive from, ii. 499, 500; iii. 211. Atterbury, Dr. Francis, Bishop of Ro- chester, iv. 83, 102.
his funeral sermon on Lady Cutts, iv. 83. style of his sermons, iv. 102. Attorney general, ludicrous title given to,
Lord, Boswell's father, iii. 71, 72, 442 n.; v. 12.
- some account of, iii. 78, 78 n.
- designates Johnson Ursa Major,'iii.79. Auchnasheal, ii. 372.
Author, rarely hurt by his critics, iv. 307. the Young,' a poem by Johnson, i. 524. Virgil's description of the entrance into hell applied to, iii. 5.
Authors, i. 240; ii. 63, 222, 294, 499, 500; iii. 219, 384; iv. 33, 81, 180, 194, 195, 243, 244, 246, 495; v. 215, 227.
- modern, the moons of literature, iv. 194. attacks on them useful, ii. 499.
the casuistry which passes on the world the production of one, for that of an- other, condemned, i. 240, 240 n.
- his History of Henry VII.,' ii. 441. his precept for conversation, v. 121.
Badcock, Rev. Samuel, v. 321.
his visit to Johnson, v. 321.
some account of, v. 321 n.
Badenoch, Lord of, ii. 346, 346 n.
Sir George, v. 271.
Mrs. ii. 31.
Balance of misery, v. 199, 371. Balcarras, Earl of, iii. 448 n. Ball without powder, iv. 339. Ballantine, Mr. George, i. 350. Balloons, v. 271, 273. Ballow, Mr. Thomas, iii. 386.
some account of, 386 n. Baltic, Johnson's proposed voyage to, iii. 498.
Bankes, Mr., of Dorsetshire, i. 116.
Banks, Sir Joseph, ii. 135, 138, 138 n., 139; iii. 30 n.; iv. 233, 235. Johnson's motto for his goat, ii. 135. Baptism, iii. 346; v. 189, 189 n. Barbauld, Mr., iii. 294, 294 n. Letitia, see Aikin.
Barber, Francis, Johnson's negro servant, i. 212, 215, 218, 224, 225, 337; ii. 31 n., 63, 64, 120, 137; iii. 124 n. ; iv. 232; v. 285, 339, 350. Johnson's letter to, ii. 120. Barclay, his 'Ship of Fooles,' i. 263. Mr., the young author, his defence of Johnson's Shakspeare against Kenrick, i. 517; ii. 499 n.
Robert, of Ury, his Apology for the Quakers,' iii. 345.
Robert, esq., one of Mr. Thrale's suc- cessors, iv. 492; v. 414.
his character, iv. 492 n. Baretti, Signor Giuseppe, i. 249, 265, 286, 322, 351, 359, 370; ii. 8 n., 58, 67, 93, 119, 194; iii. 166, 260, 265, 290, 290 n, 336, 372 n., 383 n., 413 n., 420 n., 458; iv. 7, 23, 364, 427.
Johnson's letters to, i. 351, 359, 370. his trial for murder, ii. 98; v. 221. his Travels,' ii. 119.
the first who received copy-money in
- his strictures on Mrs. Piozzi's marriage,
his Frustra Letteraria,' iv. 23.
Bark, Peruvian, v. 192.
Barker, Dr. Edmund, i. 163, 308. Barnard, Rev. Dr., bishop of Killaloe, i. 71 n.; iii. 448, 448 n.; iv. 93, 486. altercation between Johnson and, on the question, whether a man can improve after the age of forty-five, iv. 487. his pleasant verses thereon, iv. 488.
his Observations on the Statutes,' iv. 173.
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, his sermon against
foolish talking and jesting, iv. 478 n. Barrowby, Dr., anecdote of, v. 191 n. Barry, Sir Edward, his notion that pulsa- tion occasions death by attrition, iii. 398.
'Bastard,' the, Savage's poem of, i. 142. Bat, formation of the, iv. 209. Bateman, Edmund, of Pembroke College, his Lectures, i. 46.
Bath, Johnson's visit to, iii. 409.
Baths, Johnson's opinion of medicated, ii. 101.
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, iii. 524. Batheaston vase, Horace Walpole's plea- sant account of, iii. 211 n. Bathurst, Allen, first Earl, ii. 128; iv. 214, 276 n., 277, 278, 418. · Captain, i. 224.
Dr. Richard, i. 158, 163, 211, 224, 237, 239 n., 241 n., 371, 495; ii. 184, 205; iv. 360, 365.
some account of, 229 n.
his letter to Johnson, i. 230.
described by Johnson as a good hater,' i. 229. 'Batrachomyomachia,' first edition of, iii. 158, 158 n.
'Battle of the Frogs and Mice,' iii. 158, 158 n.
'Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes,' v. 232. 'Baudi Epistolæ,' quoted, iii. 143. Baxter, Richard, quoted, ii. 238, 323;. v. 63, 106.
Baxter, Richard, his Reasons of the Christian Religion' recommended by Johnson, v. 122.
William, his Anacreon,' iii. 73; v. 42, 42 n., 127, 159.
'Bayes,' character of, ii. 163.
Bayle, M., his Dictionary, i. 438: ii. 514. 'Bear,' the epithet, applied to Johnson, ii. 68; iii. 223. Bears, iii. 222, 223.
Beatniffe, Richard, esq., Johnson's letter to, v. 434.
Beaton, Cardinal, his murder, ii. 298.
some account of, ii. 298 n. Beattie, Dr. James, i. 186 n.; ii. 132, 133, 136, 139, 187, 187 n., 190, 192, 243, 249, 253; iii. 56, 252, 446; iv. 474; v. 238.
his letter to Boswell, ii. 139 n. Johnson's letter to, iv. 322. his Essay on Truth,' iv. 390. - his Hermit,' v. 65.
Beauclerk, Topham, esq., i. 65, 232, 234, 347, 359, 360, 370, 428, 445, 490, 500; ii. 32, 218, 311, 341, 532 n.; iii. 24, 168, 174, 187, 219, 234, 371, 383; iv. 35, 139, 220, 262. 300 n., 301, 309, 310, 341, 342, 358, 446, 468, 478; v. 59.
his altercation with Johnson, iv. 255. his death, iv. 298.
his character by Lord Charlemont, iv. 298.
his character by Johnson, iv. 301, 309. his letters to Lord Charlemont, iv. 298. Lady Diana, ii. 230; iii. 160; iv. 299, 299 n., 470.
some account of, 230 n.
Lady Sydney, ii. 523. Beaumaris Castle, iii. 147.
Beaumont, Sir George, iv. 169 N., 514 n. Beaumont and Fletcher, iii. 209.
Beauties of Johnson,' i. 190; v. 25, 27, 28.
Beauty, ii. 159; iv. 505.
Beckenham, v. 210.
Becket, Thomas, the bookseller, iii. 170. Beckett, Sir John, iii. 375 n.
Beckford, Alderman, iv. 54.
Bedford, John, fourth Duke of, v. 213. Bedlam, iii. 248; v. 85.
Beech, Thomas, his 'Eugenio,' ii. 228. - some account of, ii. 228 n. Beggars, i. 365, 377; iv. 276, 364. 'Beggars' Opera,' ii. 515; iii. 242, 242 n., 243; iv. 51, 181, 469.
Behaviour, Johnson a nice observer of, iii. 418.
how it should be taught, iv. 380.
Behmen, Jacob, i. 381.
-some account of, i. 381 n.
Bell, Mr. John, of Antermony, his 'Travels in Russia,' ii. 56.
Benserade, M. de, à son lit,' iv. 7. Bensley, Mr., the actor, ii. 47.
Benson, Mr. Auditor, his monument to Milton, i. 204.
Bentham, Dr., canon of Christchurch, iii. 333.
Bentley, Dr. Richard, ii. 63, 407, 500; iii. 10, 332; v. 98.
the only English verses written by him, iv. 355.
Berenger, Richard, esq., ii. 84; iv. 120, 464, 465.
some account of, iv. 464 n. Beresford, Mrs. and Miss, v. 182. Berkeley, Dr. George, Bishop of Cloyne, i. 391, 484.
- his theory, iv. 13, 13 n., 359. Berni, Francesco, quoted, iv. 389. Berwick, Duke of, his 'Memoirs,' iv. 144. Bethune, Rev. Mr., ii. 429, 450. Betterton, Mr., the actor, iv. 36. Bettesworth, Rev. Edmund, i. 477. Beverage, Johnson's favourite, iii. 407. Bevil, Rev. Mr., his defence of Hammond, the poet, iv. 434 n.
Bewley, Mr., his extraordinary veneration for Johnson, v. 5, 5 n.
Bexley, Lord, his communication con- cerning Dr. Robert Vansittart, ii. 185 n. Bible, should be read with a commentary, iii. 424.
- Johnson's death-bed recommendation to read, v. 465.
'Bibliotheca Harleiana,' Johnson's ac- count of, i. 129.
'Bibliotheca Literaria,' iii. 144, 144 n. 'Bibliothèque,' Johnson's scheme for opening a, i. 269, 270. Bickerstaff, Mr. Isaac, iii. 84. -some account of, iii. 84 n. Bicknell, Mr., i. 299.
Bidder, William, the calculating boy, iii. 325 n. Bigamy, ii. 438.
'Big man,' a jocular Irish phrase applied to Johnson, ii. 14, 14 n. Bindley, James, esq., i. 133, 134, 146 n.; iv. 163 n., 183 n. ; v. 60 n., 97 n. Binning, Charles, Lord, ii. 180; iv. 191.
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