John, R.A., his statue of
Johnson in St. Paul's the first
monument placed in that build-
ing, 411.

Badcock, Rev. Samuel, boasts of

his visit to Johnson, iv. 315.
Badness, three gradations of-
thinking, preaching, and acting
-exemplified, ii. 236.
Bagshaw, Rev. Thomas, account

of, ii. 240 n.; letter to, request-
ing him to put a stone over Mrs.
Johnson's grave, iv. 261.
Baker, Sir George, prescribes for
Johnson, iv. 265.

Ballads, modern imitations of the
old, Johnson's contempt for, ii.
201.

Balloon, unsuccessful experiment
with a, iv. 265; Lunardi's ascent
the first in England, 267 n., 268,
269; Johnson has three letters
about, and wishes for no more,
278; excitement about the, 287.
Ballow, Mr. Thomas, from whom
Johnson learned what he knew
of law, iii. 74.

Baltic, a voyage to, projected by
Johnson and Boswell, 202,
iii. 167.

Banks, Sir Joseph, Johnson sends
motto for his goat, ii. 141 n. ;
his expedition round the world,
ii. 145; his admiration of John-
son's Journey, iii. 200; desires
to be admitted to the club, 361.
Baptism, register of Johnson's, i.
9 n.; discussion on infant, iii.
41, 42; iv. 213.

Bar, Boswell proposes to try his
fortune at the English, iv. 227;
Johnson's advice on the occa-
sion, 227, 228 n.
Barbarous society and polished
times compared, i. 312.
Barber, Francis, Johnson's black
servant, i. 182 n.; pressed into
the Navy, 276; discharged
through the interest of Mr.
Wilkes, 277; preserves some of
Johnson's papers, 382; "faith-
ful," ii. 23; placed at school,
72; Johnson's letter to, at
school, 115; Johnson makes
provision for, iv. 307, 308; re-
siduary legatee, 310 n.; John-
son writes to, ordering a little
party of poor friends to be in-
vited for his birthday, 355.
Barclay, the young student who
wrote an answer to Kenrick's
attack on Johnson's Shake-
speare, ii. 19.

Mr., a partner with Mr.
Perkins in Thrale's brewery, iv.

69.

Alexander, his Ship of Fooles,
i. 215.

Robert, his Apology for the
Quakers, the Baskerville edition
of, iii. 41; discussed by Johnson
and Loyd, 41, 42.

Baretti, Signor Joseph, translates
a pamphlet of Johnson's, i. 237;
Johnson's three fine letters to,
286, 294, 302; Johnson's high
opinion of, ii. 69; quarrels with
Davies, 195; his arrest, 98, 99;

scription
and Eng-
sh, 269; Johnson runs a race
with, and wins, 348; his fan-
tastic dialogues, iii. 34; his re-
view, Frusta Letteraria, 199;
the first to receive copy-money
in Italy, 190.

Bark and steel for the mind, the

Rambler full of, i. 162.
Barnard, Dr., Bishop of Killaloe,
tells Johnson he fears he will
treat Ireland worse than Scot-
land, ii. 284; presents a hogs-
head of claret to the club, iii.
254; and receives a request to
send another, 255; his alterca-
tion with Johnson, whether im-
provement is possible after
forty-five, and pleasant verses
thereon, iv.
66;
Johnson's
charade on, 133; his colloquial
powers, iii. 412.

Mr., King's Librarian, ii. 50,
51; Johnson's letter to, ii. 390;
Johnson's advice to on the for-
mation of a library, 391.
Barnewall, Nicholas, Lord Trim-
lestown, iii. 244.

Barnstone, Miss Letitia, iii. 401.
Barretier, Philip, Johnson writes
the life of, i. 106.

Barrett, Dr., Trinity College,
Dublin, ii. 224.
Barrington,

the Honourable

Daines, iii. 317; his Essay on
the migration of birds, ii. 232.
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, extract from
his sermon against foolish talk-
ing and jesting, iv. 58, 59.
Barrowby, Dr., anecdote of, iv.

Bate, Rev. Henry, his extraordi-
nary character, iv. 213.
Bateman, Mr., of Christ's Church,
his excellent lectures, i. 44.
Bath, Johnson visits, iii. 90; where
Boswell joins him, 91.

Easton, Lady Miller's vase
at, ii. 308.

Baths, medicated, Johnson thinks
useless, ii. 101.

Bathurst, Dr. Richard, i. 135, 141;
Johnson's much loved friend,

i. 185 n.; writes in the Adven-
turer, 192.

Bayes, the name under which Dry-
den was characterized in the Re-
hearsal, ii. 164.

Bayle's Dictionary, i. 222 n.; very
useful, 338; the account of Me-
nage in it quoted and applied to
Johnson, iv. 332.

Baxter, made a rule in preaching

always to say something above
the capacity of his audience, iv.
126.

Richard, his works all good,
iv. 158.
Beaconsfield,

Edmund

house near, iii. 313.

Burke's

Bear, Goldsmith says Johnson has
nothing of the bear but his
skin, 76.

Bears, ludicrous effect of a mis-
understanding about, ii. 317.
Beatniffe, Mr., Johnson's letter to,
inquiring after some relations
of Levett, iv. 352.
Beattie, Dr., Professor of Moral
Philosophy at Aberdeen, ii. 139;
Johnson's regard for, 143, 146;
his wife, 143, 146, iii. 418; his
Essay on Truth, ii. 193; his
delight at Johnson's approval,
194; his popularity, 246; his
Memoirs of David Garrick, 418;
his Hermit moves Johnson to
tears, iv. 128.
Beauclerk, Topham, i. 189; and
Langton wake up Johnson at
three in the morning for a
frisk, 191; his advice to John-

419

son when he got his pension,
191; his story of Johnson and
Madame de Boufflers, ii. 367;
one of the original members of
the club, 2; visits Cambridge
with Johnson, 9; marries the
divorced Lady Bolingbroke,
231 n.; his illness, 272;
shares Boswell's veneration for
Johnson's Court, 216; his
equable spirits, iii. 61; his ill-
ness, 138; an altercation takes
place between him and John-
son, 376, 377; Johnson, Rey-
nolds, Boswell, &c., dine with,
378;
is "very entertaining,'
380; Johnson's affection for,
433;
his death, 407 n.; John-
son on, 407; his library sold,
407, iv. 58; Mr. Langton on the
death of, 411; anecdote show-
ing Johnson's regard for, 123;
his clever remark to Langton on
his too hasty praise of a new
acquaintance, 135; his portrait
of Johnson, 407; his portrait of
Garrick with inscription from
Shakespeare given to Bennet
Langton, iv. 51.

Beauties of Johnson, i. 161; iv. 97.
Beauty, can there be any without
utility? ii. 162; discussion on,
iv. 80.
Beckenham, Mr. Cator's seat, where
Johnson and Boswell were hos-
pitably entertained, iv. 230.
Beckford, Alderman, spoke reso-
lutely even to the King, iii.

222.

Bedlam, Boswell visits, ii. 340 n.
Bedside, Johnson and Reynolds at

Boswell's, iii. 382.

Bee, The, essays by Goldsmith,

i. 327.

Beggar's Opera, the, different
opinions concerning, iii. 323.
Belgrade, the siege of, described

by General Oglethorpe, ii. 175.
Bell, Mrs, wife of Dr. Bell, Pre-
bendary of Westminster, epi-
taph on, ii. 194 n.

vovage to, projected by

Bell, John, of Ale
traveller, ii. 68.

Bellamy, Mrs., the actress, begs
for Johnson's patronage at her
benefit, iv. 174 n.

Belsham, Mr., quotation from his
Essay, to show that virtue and
happiness are not invariably
concomitant, i. 309.
Benedictines, note on the, in Paris,
ii. 353; Johnson parts very
tenderly from the, 362, 364.
Benevolence, instances of, John-
son's, ii. 298, iii. 241, iv. 207;
Johnson does not believe that
finite beings ever act from pure
benevolence, iii. 93.

Benson, Mr. Auditor, erects

a

monument to Milton on which
he inscribes his own name, i.
173.

Bentham, Dr., Canon of Christ

Church, visited by Johnson and
Boswell, iii. 31.

Bentley, Dr., verses by, iii. 443.
Berenger, Richard, author of the
Art of Horsemanship, iv. 47;
Hannah More on, 47 n.
Beresford, Mrs., and her daughter,
accompany Johnson in the coach
to Oxford, iv. 207.

Berkeley, Bishop, his doctrines dis-
cussed, i. 374.

Berwick, Duke of, his Memoirs by
the Abbé de Margon, and by
Abbé Hooke, account of, iii.
294; translated, 295.
Betterton, the actor, compared
with Foote, iii. 209.

Bevil, Rev. Mr., his defence of
James Hammond the poet, iv.

26.

Bewley, Mr., the Philosopher of
Massingham, and the hearth-
brush, iv. 84.

Bible, the, should be read with a
commentary, iii. 100; proposal
to translate into the Gaelic
language, ii. 43; opposed by
a religious society, and en-
couraged by Johnson, 43-47;

old, 1462, seen by Johnson in
Paris, ii. 359; first edition of,
ii. 393.
Bibliotheca Harleiana, Johnson's
proposals for printing, showing
the importance of a catalogue
raisonné, i. 111.
Bibliothèque, Johnson's scheme
for one, i. 222.

des Savans, reviews John-
son's Dictionary, i. 254.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, author of Love
in a Village, ii. 89.
Bicknell, Mr., attempts to ridicule
Johnson, i. 246.

Biddulph, Miss Sydney, a novel by

Mrs. Sheridan, i. 308.
Biographer, the duty of a, as to
relating the faults of a character,
iv. 16.
Biographia Britannica, some of its
defects, iii. 200, 201 n.
Biography, every man's life best
written by himself, i. 1; the
advantages possessed by Bos-
well for undertaking Johnson's,
2; literary, George III. desires
Johnson to undertake, ii. 56;
Bishop Warburton's letter on,
quoted, iii. 4; Johnson's ideas
on, 184; Boswell's method of
writing, 4; Johnson on the
writing of, 5-7; Plutarch on,
quoted, 6; one of Johnson's fa-
vourite pursuits, iv. 1.
Birch, Dr. Tom, Johnson's descrip-

tion of, i. 116; letter to, 116;
letters to, and from, about the
Dictionary, 223; Johnson's
letter to, about some papers of
Raleigh's, 172.

Edward, R.A., his fine en-
graving on a seal of Johnson's
head, iv. 323.

Birds, migration of, discussed, ii.

232.

Birmingham, Johnson arrives at,
iii. 39.

Biron, Rosaline's character of, writ-
ten by Beauclerk beneath Gar-
rick's picture, iv. 52.

Birth, honours of, maintained by
Johnson, ii. 243.
Birthday, Johnson does not wish
his to be observed, iii. 186; John-
son's note on one of his, 424;
invites a few poor friends to
celebrate his, iv. 355.

Bishop, a beverage much liked by
Johnson, i. 191.

Bishop, Johnson shocks Boswell by
dining with a bishop twice in
Passion week, iv. 46.

Bishops and the peerage, ii. 166.
Black, why were part of mankind

made black? disputed between
Johnson and an Irishman, i.

318.

Blackburne, Archdeacon, presents
a petition for removing subscrip-
tion to the Articles, ii. 148.
Black-cattle, the old system of in
the Highlands, i. 325.
"Black dog," the, that worries
Boswell, iii. 401, 403.

the little, Johnson calls Maty,
i. 222.
Blackfriars Bridge rebuilt, i. 277;
new, 278 n.
Blacklock, Dr. Thomas, his poems,
i. 370; his Life by Joseph
Spence, 370-1.
Blackmore, Richard, his poem the
Creation, ii. 109; the absurd
lines attributed to him, 109;
Johnson's Life of, iv. 18; various
readings in the Life of, 18.
Blackstone, composed his Commen-
taries with a bottle of port before
him, iv. 48.

Blagden, Doctor, "a delightful
fellow," iii. 449 n.

Blair, Rev. Dr., says he "found

the Giant in his den," i. 314;
he questions Johnson concern-
ing Macpherson's imitation of
Ossian, 314; his poem The
Grave, iii. 92; the great suc-
cess of his sermons, 133 n.,
230; his sermon on devotion
much praised by Johnson, 338;
his statement that Bolingbroke

wrote a prose sketch of the Essay
on Man, 391; his letter to Bos-
well concerning Pope, 391;
Johnson loves his sermons,

66

though the dog is a Scotch-
man, a Presbyterian, and every.
thing he should not be," iv. 53.
Blake, Admiral, Johnson writes
the Life of, i. 106.

Bland, Mr. Richard, of Virginia,
ii. 197.

Blaney, Elizabeth, her romantic
attachment to Johnson's father,
i. 12.

Blank verse, inferior to rhyme in
Johnson's opinion seems verse
only to the eye iv. 8.
Bleeding, Johnson disapproves the
habit of, iii. 182.

Blenheim Park, Johnson and Bos-
well drive through, iii. 35.
Blind, the, can they distinguish
colours by touch? ii. 183.
Blockhead, an Athenian, the worst

of all, i. 41; Johnson calls Mr.
Hector's stupid maid a, iii. 40.
Bloxam, Matthew, one of John-

son's contemporaries at Pem-
broke, has a good living, iii. 308.
Blue Stocking Clubs, origin of
the name, iv. 61.
Boasting, Johnson rebukes Bos-
well's, iv. 132.

Bocage, M. du, Johnson dines with,
ii. 352; Madame du, her diffi-
culty with her teapot, 365 n.;
her poem The Columbiade, iv.

243.

Boerhaave, Life of, Johnson writes

in Gentleman's Magazine, i.
100.

Boethius, magis philosophus quam

Christianus, ii. 125.
Boileau, his imitation of the third
satire of Juvenal applied to
Paris, i. 80.

"Bolder words and more timorous
meaning were never brought to-
gether," iii. 435.
Bolingbroke, Lord, his works pub-
lished, i. 208; his description of

the House of Commons, iii. 251;
wrote the scheme of the Essay
on Man, in prose, 391; Pope's
papers bequeathed to his sole
care, iv. 14.

Bolingbroke, Lady, her description
of Pope, iii. 325.

Bolt Court, Johnson moves to, iii.
17; Boswell visits for the last
time, iv. 248; and takes his last
farewell of Johnson at the entry
to, 249; described in Pennant's
London, iii. 284.

Bonaventura, the Seraphic Doctor,
ii. 21.

Bon mots, Mrs. Thrale tells one of
Johnson's, ii. 319; Tom Davies'
mistake in repeating one, 319;
not every man can carry one,
319.

Bond, Mrs., Johnson's tenant at
Lichfield, iv. 309.

Bones, poor people in London col-
lect, iv. 141.

Book collecting, Johnson's rule
for, iv. 203.

trade, Johnson's letter on, to
Dr. Wetherell, iii. 14, 16.
Books, that are wanted to be read
should be sold, not given away,
ii. 217; Johnson pores over
the backs of, 331; Mr. Cam-
bridge's, 331; Dr. Burney's,
331 n. ; carelessly used by John-
son, 184; Johnson dusts his,
iii. 62; borrowed by Johnson,
iv. 3; Johnson tells what, he has
been reading in the past year,
153; many of Johnson's con-
tained remarks by him in Latin
or English, 211, 212; list of,
given to Mr. Astle, by John-
son, 229; charge of carelessness
with, made by Sir John Haw-
kins, denied, 281; prices and
profits on, iii. 15, 16; circula
tion of, Johnson explains, 16;
few printed in Scotland before
the Union, ii. 204; collection of
those printed in Scotland before
the Union, 395.