Abbreviations, Johnson's, of his friends' names, ii. 240. Abercrombie, Mr. James, sends Boswell copies of Johnson's letters to Americans, ii. 197, 226. Abernethy, Life of Dr., in Biog. Brit. quoted on special providence, iv. 198. Abington, Lord, his joke with Miss Hervey on Johnson's devotion,

iii. 419.

Mrs., asks Johnson to come to her benefit, ii. 296, 298. Abolition of the Slave trade,

Doubts on by John Ranby recommended by Boswell, iii. 225. Absenteeism discussed by Johnson, iii. 263.

Absolute government, and popular factions discussed, ii. 336. Abstinence, Johnson could practise, but not temperance, i. 372, ii. 25, iii. 24, iv. 33. Abyssinia, Voyage to, by Lobo, Johnson's translation of, i. 51-54; shown to him as a curiosity, iii. 62. Abyssinia, Rasselas, Prince of, Johnson writes to defray his mother's funeral expenses, i. 269. "Academia della Crusca" send

Johnson their Vocabulario, i. 234; could hardly believe the Dictionary was the work of one man, i. 352.

"Académie Française," Voltaire's

invective against Shakespeare read at a sitting of, ii. 93 n.; send Johnson their Dictionnaire, i. 234.

Academy of Arts, Royal, instituted, ii. 77.

Accounts, Johnson's idea of its being unnecessary to keep, iv.

121.

Accuracy and veracity, Johnson insists on, iii. 246, 392. Acquaintance, Johnson's numerous and varied, iii. 73; the more a man extends and varies his, the better, iv. 120.

Action, a ludicrous, in the Court of

Sessions, in which Boswell was counsel, iv. 78. Johnson's argument for, 78.

Action, rhetorical, Johnson ridi cules, i. 260.

Adams, Rev. Dr., Master of Pembroke College, i. 30, 31, 42, 45, 94; accuses Johnson of great pride, 206; his conversation with Johnson about the Dictionary, 138; gives Boswell many particulars of Johnson's academical life, iii. 28; answers Hume's Essay on Miracles, 28 n.; entertains Johnson twice in the last year of his life, at Oxford, iv. 209, 286; his kind attention to Johnson, 228; gives Boswell an account of Johnson's last visit to him, 286; on Johnson's prejudices, 319; Johnson's letter to, on some literary work, 362.

Addison, his morality, humour,

and elegance of writing, i. 338; his Notanda for the Spectator compared with Johnson's Sketches for the Rambler, 152; "whoever wishes to attain a good style must give days and nights to the study of," 170; his travels and his learning, ii. 316; his preparation for travelling, 316 n.; wrote, or very much improved, Budgel's papers in the Spectator, iii. 92; his illustration of the difference between his powers in conversation and in writing, 339; Johnson's Life of, iv. 16; Malone's note on his harsh conduct to Steele, 16; various readings in the Life of, 17; said to have written some of his best papers in the Spectator warm with wine," 48. Address of the Painters to George III. written by Johnson, i. 279.

Admiration, judgment better than, ii. 327.

Adultery, Johnson on the heinousness of, ii. 68.

Adventurer, The, commenced, i. 154, 192, 193, 197. Advertisement, of Johnson's school,

i. 61; about the Idler in the Universal Chronicle, i. 273; in the Edinburgh papers, correcting a mistake in the Journey, ii.

280.

Adye, Miss Mary, her accounts of Johnson's early days, i. 13, 14; Johnson visits at Lichfield, iii.

49.

Egri Ephemeris, a journal of his

illness, kept by Johnson, from July 6th to Nov. 8th, iv. 290. Affectation, of silence, iii. 273.

Affection, the erect of habit, or instinct? ii. 102; descends, iii. 381.

Agar, Wellbore Ellis, his exquisite collection of pictures, iii. 152. Age, old age, iii. 215; a man's own fault if the mind grows torpid in, 267, 336; iv. 124. Agriculture, Marshall's absurd and offensive book on, iii. 316. Agutter, Rev. Mr., gives Boswell some notes of Johnson's conversation, iv. 210; his sermon on Johnson's death, 325. Aikin, Anna Letitia, marries Mr. Barbauld, ii. 369 n.; her essay on Imitation, iii. 199.

Air bath, Lord Monboddo's, iii.

195.

Akenside, his Pleasures of Imagination, ii. 161; Johnson prefers, to Gray and Mason, iii. 80; various readings in Johnson's Life of, iv. 19. Akerman, Mr., the keeper of Newgate, his house burned in the Gordon riots, iii. 415.

Alarm, The False, Johnson's first and favourite political pamphlet, ii. 112, 144.

Alberti, Leandro, Addison bor-
rowed much from, ii. 316.
Alcibiades, his dog, Mr. Jennings'
marble statue of, iii. 248 n.
Aldrich, Rev. Mr., and the Cock
Lane Ghost story, i. 323.
Aleppo, the Siege of, a play by
Hawkins, iii. 271.

"Alias," exemplified by Mallet or

Malloch in Johnson's Dictionary, octavo ed. 1756, iv. 152. Allen, Mr., the printer, his famous dinner "worthy of a synod of cooks," i. 373; imitates Johnson, iii. 279; brings Marshall's Agriculture to Johnson, 316; Johnson sends for, when seized with a paralytic stroke, iv. 160; one of Johnson's" best and tenderest friends," 263; Johnson's letter to, 351.

Ally Croker, the Irish song in her
honour, iii. 265.

Almack's, a new gaming club, iii.

75.

Alnwick Castle, the cause of high
words between Johnson and Dr.
Percy, iii. 281.

Amanuenses, six, employed on the
Dictionary, i. 139.
Amanuensis, Johnson begs help
for his old, ii. 342.
"Ambassador, the, says well,"
ludicrous anecdote of Johnson
repeating, iii. 398.

Amelia, Fielding's, Johnson read
through without stopping, iii.
87.
Amendments," seldom made with-
out some token of a rent," says
Johnson of poetry, iv. 4; in
Johnson's prose, 4.
America, Johnson's rabid feeling
about, ii. 289; the affairs of
inquired into by Johnson, 271,
273, 276, 277; discussed rather
too warmly by Johnson and
Boswell, iii. 226; Johnson on
the war with, iv. 41.
Americans, Johnson's horror of,
iii. 297; Johnson's outburst
against, iii. 318.
Amusements, a man's real charac-

ter discovered by his, iv. 232.
Amoret, Waller's verses to, ii. 328.
Amyat, Dr., his story of Johnson
saying that if he wished to be-
come a botanist he must first
turn himself into a reptile, i. 300.
Anacreon, Baxter's, the copy at
Auchinleck very rare, iv. 171.
Anatomy of Melancholy, Burton's,
published, iii. 27, n. praised, 28.
Anderdon, Mr., buys many of the
Boswell MSS., i. 136.
Anderson, his Historical Sketches
of the Native Irish, ii. 153.
Anderson, Professor, of Glasgow,
iii. 152.

Anfractuosities, one of the, of the
human mind, instance of, iii.
423.

Angel, Mr., the stenographer, ii.
212.

the, Inn, Oxford, Johnson
and Boswell at, iii. 27.
Anglo-Saxon, professorship found-
ed at Oxford by Dr. Richard
Rawlinson, iv. 108.

Animals, Johnson's fondness for
those under his protection, iv.
134, 135.

Annals, Johnson's, i. 381-390;
account of 381.

Anne, Queen,' touches' Johnson,
i. 384.

Annotator, Johnson's opinion of
Warburton as an, "he has a
rage for saying something when
there is nothing to be said," i.
257.

Annus Mirabilis, an historical
poem, by Rev. W. Tasker, iv.

115.

Anson, Lord, his seat at Moor
Park visited by Johnson, iii.

369.

Ant, the, a paraphrase from the
Proverbs, ii. 42.

Anthologia, epigrams in the, trans-
lated by Johnson in his sleepless
nights, iv. 292.

Antient Literature, Johnson ap-
pointed Professor in, ii. 77.
Apologize, Johnson's readiness to,
when he felt he had been harsh,
iv. 246.

Apparitions, Johnson on the proba-

bility of, i. 271; ii. 160; iv. 49.
Apple dumplings, Johnson recom-
mends as food for a family, ii.
129.

Apprentice, Johnson and the
printer's, ii. 298.

Arbuthnot, Dr., his great genius,
i. 338.

Architecture, ornamental, John-
son, disapproves, iii. 26.
Argenson, M. D', Johnson visits
his house, and notices the books
in the lady's closet, ii. 354.
Argument, Goldsmith applies to
Johnson in, Cibber's witty de-

scription, "When his pistol
misses fire, he knocks you down
with the butt end of it," ii. 101,
iv. 200; good humour in, the
result of indifference, iii. 64,
65; and testimony, iv. 205;
passage from Boyle quoted on,
205 n.; "Sir, I have found you
an argument, but I am not
obliged to find you an under-
standing," iv. 231.
Argument in favour of Hastie the
schoolmaster, ii. 177-9.

on vicious intromission, ii.
187.

defending lay patronage, ii.

227-30.

against Dr. Memis' action,
ii. 337-9.

about the Corporation of
Stirling, 339.

on liberty of censure in the
pulpit, iii. 101 n.

in favour of the negro claim-
ing his liberty, iii. 222.
Argyle, Duchess of, i. 187.
Aristotle, his doctrine of purging

the passions discussed, iii. 86.
Armorial bearings, as old as the
Siege of Thebes, ii. 173.
Arnold, Thomas, M. D., his Obser-
vations on Insanity, iii. 202.
Artemisias, a character in Pope's
Imitation of English Poets,
quoted by Boswell, ii. 83.
Articles, the, discussed, ii. 105;
subscription to, 148.

Arts, Royal Academy of, founded,
ii. 77.

Asceticism, Johnson's dislike of,

iii. 23.

Ascham, Johnson's Life of, i. 369.
Ash, Dr., the founder of the Eu-

melian Club, iv. 302.
Ashbourne, Dr. Taylor's residence,
i. 48; Johnson visits, and Bos-
well meets him there, iii. 168;
the Green Man at, 227; John-
son's gratitude to Boswell for
meeting him there, 230; John-
son's last visit at, iv. 271.

Asthma, Johnson attacked by, iv.
187, 188.

Astle, Mr. Thomas, Johnson's
letter to, iv. 83; his notes on
Alfred, 83.

Rev. Mr., brother of the
above, communicates a list of
books given him by Johnson
when young, iv. 229.

Astley, Philip, a celebrated horse-
rider, iii. 397 n.

Aston, Sir Thomas, account of, i.
48; iii. 340.

Molly, a beauty, a wit, and a
whig, i. 50; iii. 340; said to be
the lady for whose favour John-
son was the rival of Lord Lyttel-
ton, iv. 19.

Mrs., Johnson writes to, de-
scribing a walnut tree, ii. 378;
sends her a mill for grinding
flour, ii. 380; sister of Molly
Aston and of Mrs. Walmesley,
iii. 48,51; struck with palsy, 166.
Atterbury, his funeral sermon on

Lady Cutts, quoted, iii. 245;
Johnson admires his sermons,
262.

"Attitudinize, don't," to a gentle-
man gesticulating in company,
iv. 237.

Attorney-General, absurd title of,
mentioned by Wilkes, iii. 116.
Atwood, Dr., an occulist, i. 384.
Auchinleck, Lord, loved labour for
its own sake, ii. 100; married
secondly Eliz. Boswell, his
cousin, iii. 118; death of, iv.
102; Johnson's letter to Boswell
on the occasion, 102, 103.
Auchinleck, Boswell describes to
Johnson, who promises to visit
him there, i. 367; the entail of,
iii. 3-5; Johnson dissuades Bos-
well from leaving, 202; the
archives at, 359; a mass of
papers in, burned, 359 n. ; Mrs.
Boswell invites Johnson to er-
peat his visit to, iv. 104; in his
last illness Johnson still hopes to
revisit, 191.