JOHNSON, SAMUEL- Leading events of his life. [1773] publishes new edition of his folio writes preface to Macbean's Dic- at sixty-four, attempts to learn the injures his eyesight by the impru- his journey with Boswell to the He- presented with the freedom of Aber- [1774] engaged in writing his 'Journey to makes a journey into North Wales writes The Patriot,' iii. 162. receives his diploma as Doctor of makes a tour to France with Mr. [1776] writes an Argument in support of the Liberty of the Pulpit, Proposals visits Bath with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale, [1777] engages with the booksellers to - -- writes dedication to the king of the visits Oxford and Derbyshire, iii. 496. [1778] his visit to Warley Camp, iv. 228. [1780] employed in the completion of the [1781] completes his 'Lives of the Poets,' - - loses his friend Mr. Thrale, iv. 459. - loses his friend Mr. Strahan, iv. 474. visits Oxford, Birmingham, and [1782] loses his old friend Robert Levett, declining state of his health, v. 16. takes a parting adieu of Streatham ; reads a book of the Æneid every - - - visits Lichfield and Oxford, v. 116. seized with a spasmodic asthma, v. 146. [1784] visits Oxford, v. 182. --- -- - - his friends project a tour to Italy for visits Lichfield, Birmingham, and His last illness and death. rapid increase of his disorders, v. 298. makes a liberal provision for his his three dying requests of Sir Joshua - his great anxiety for the religious Sir John Hawkins's journal of the particulars of his last moments, v. 343. his DEATH, v. 344. his WILL, v. 346. his FUNERAL in Westminster Ab- bey, v. 351, 352 n., 421. - his peculiarities of person and man- his very imperfect sight, iii. 286 n., his inability to discriminate features, his defective hearing, and his un- thereto, iv. 200, 354. - his extraordinary gesticulations, ii. his peculiar march, iv. 441. his loud and imperious tone of voice, iv. 201. - - - his remarkable laugh, iii. 254. the extreme heat and irritability of his corporeal defects contributed to 200. his dress, ii. 257; iv. 184. general traits of his character and his morbid melancholy, i. 34, 116, his mind preserved from insanity by - - - - - -- - his uncouth habits, iii. 112. his occasional rudeness and violence - his readiness to take offence at any - his notions about eating, i. 480, his mode of drinking wine, i. 482; his ten years' forbearance from all his profound reverence for the hier- his bow to an archbishop, v. 75. and to the beauties of paintings, i. his alleged superstition, i. 496; ii. his personal courage, iii. 174. his abhorrence of affectation, iv. 358. his extensive knowledge of literary his alleged deficiency in Greek, i. JOHNSON, SAMUEL- Leading points of his habits, manners, -- - - - - - -- and character. his unjust contempt for foreigners, his oratorical powers, ii. 126. his great conversational powers, i. his great dexterity at retort, v. 63. his bow wow way of speaking, iii. his extraordinary readiness of wit, his mode of reading prose and verse, his rule always to talk his best, v. 62. extraordinary fertility of his mind, at sixty-seven purposes to apply vi- his style characterized, i. 195, 195 n., his objection to the use of paren- his writing, whether for the public, his extraordinary powers of composi- - of Human Wishes' in a day, ii. 15. - wrote a sermon after dinner, and sent wrote six sheets of translation from wrote The Patriot' in one day, iii. - his general tenderness of nature, hu- - his candour and amiableness of dis- - his gratitude for kindness conferred, his active benevolence, iii. 199. - - his uncommon kindness to his ser- - his constancy to those whom he once -- - - his great distress at the loss of his - his fondness for animals under his his inexhaustible charity, iii. 489; - his love of the poor, i. 366, 377, his kindness to authors in looking his rigid honesty, i. 45. - his early, habitual, and systematic his hatred of disguise, iv. 372. - his fixed incredulity of every thing Jubilee, ii. 71. Judges, private life of, iii. 92. - trading, iii. 218. Kings, their situation, i. 437, 454; ii. 38, 456; iv. 417. why they should not hold their places Kippis, Dr. Andrew, ii. 127 n., for life, iii. 229. Judgment, iii. 236. Junius, ii. 121, 122; iv. 246; v. 201. - Halliday's notes on, Johnson's high K. Kaimes, Henry Home, Lord, i. 119; - his Elements of Criticism,' i. 403; his Sketches of Man,' iv. 102, 206, Kearney, Rev. Dr. Michael, i. 144 n.; Kedleston, the scat of Lord Scardale, iii. Kellie, Thomas, sixth Earl of, iv. 20 n., Kelly, Hugh, iii. 478, 479; v. 227. - Johnson's prologue to his Word to some account of, v. 321 n. Kemble, John Philip, v. 130, 132 n. some account of, v. 130 n. · Charles, v. 131 n. Kempis, Thomas à, iv. 81, 81 n. Ken, Bishop, iv. 17 n.; v. 186 n. Kennedy, Rev. Dr., Johnson's dedication to his Astronomical Chronology,' i. Dr., his tragedy, iv. 94. Kennicot, Dr. Benjamin, his Collations, some account of, i. 386 n. Kenrick, Dr. William, his attack on Kilmorey, John, tenth Viscount, iii. 131; King, Rev. Dr., i. 266, 268 n., 337; iii. on the happiness of a future state, -Archbishop, his Essay on Evil,' iv. some account of, i. 266 n. - Lord, his Life of Locke,' i. 466. iv. 25, 25 n. 323 n.; his biographical catechism, v. 292. her description of Johnson's political her account of Mrs. Williams, i. 221; Knitting, iv. 97; v. 183. Johnson's attempt to learn, iii. 233 n. every day, the best, iv. 19. Knowles, Mrs. Mary, the quakeress, iii. Charles, esq., the husband of 'Alley Langton, Bennet, esq., i. 19, 78, 231, Johnson's letters to, i. 273, 313, 322, . Irish, ii. 149. poets the preservers of, iii. 400. the pedigree of nations, ii. 448. Lascaris's Grammar, the first book printed in the Greek character, iii. 158 n. La Trobe, Rev. Mr., v. 322, 322 n., 472. Lauderdale, Earl of, ii. 336; iii. 387. Laurel, the, i. 160 n. - - profession of, iv. 30, 31 n. Johnson's intention of studying, i. 504. Cicero's defence of the study of, ii. 49 n. - - - William, v. 186 n., 194. his Serious Call' the first occasion of the finest piece of hortatory theology - Dr. Thomas, i. 325; iii. 171 n., 387, - - Johnson's letters to, iii. 171; iv. 297; -Johnson's letters to his daughter, v. 17 n. Lawyers, ii. 10; iv. 165, 444. not to be censured for multiplying on their soliciting practice, iii. 317. Lectures, on the practice of teaching by, Lee, Alderman, iii. 440, 440 n. Arthur, esq., iii. 431. John, esq. the barrister, iv. 79, 79 n. Legitimation by subsequent marriage, iii. Leibnitz, ii. 148, 514. Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, iii. 137. Leith, ii. 289. Leland, Rev. Dr. Thomas, i. 503; ii. 240; Leland's Itinerary,' iii. 144 n. Lenox, Mrs. Charlotte, i. 208, 243, 287, some account of, v. 186 n. 6 Letters, the sanctity of private, ii. 59. Lever, Sir Ashton, v. 243, 243 n. Johnson's letters to, iii. 145, 264, 456. Johnson's verses to the memory of, v. 11. some account of, v. 203 n. Lexicography, more difficult of execution 'Lexiphanes,' Campbell's, ii. 44. from the pulpit, iii. 425. on the character of the dead, iii. 380. - - of conscience, ii. 234. - of conscience and liberty of teaching, - of the press, ii. 62; iii. 380. - of the pulpit, iii. 425. and necessity, iv. 440. |