Cross readings, Caleb Whitefoord's
amusing, iv. 237.

Crown and Anchor, dinner at, with
Johnson, Reynolds, &c., iii. 87.
Crouch, Mrs., "the celebrated,"
iv. 159.

Crousaz and Warburton, their
dispute on Pope's Essay on Man,
Considerations on, by Johnson,
i. 114.

Crudities, by Tom Coriat, ii. 170.
Cruikshank, Mr., Johnson writes
to, from Ashbourne, iv. 275;
attends Johnson in his last ill-
ness, iv. 169; Johnson leaves
him a book as a remembrance,
309.

Cui bono, a, man, Dr. Shaw's dis-
like to, iv. 64.

Cullen, Dr., consulted by Boswell
for Johnson, iv. 191.

Mr., afterwards Lord, a great
mimic, ii. 151.

Culloden, no quarter given at, ii.
340; the Macdonalds attribute
the loss of the day to their clan
not being given its place on
the right of the others, 250 n.
Cumberland, Richard, his Me-
moirs quoted on Johnson's early
difficulties, i. 68; his odes pub-
lished, iii. 90; "a million,"
says Johnson, when speaking of
the want of company, iv. 292.

the Duchess of, account of,
ii. 211 n.; Goldsmith's compli-
ment to, in his play, ii. 211;
Paoli's neat saying on the oc-
casion, ibid.

Currat Lex, the motto chosen by
Johnson for Dr. Dodd's picture,
iv. 144.

Curates, their small stipends, iii.
170.

Curiosities picked up by Johnson
in Scotland, ii. 250 n.
Curiosity, the distinguishing mark
of a generous mind, "the thirst
of the soul," i. 53.
"Curll, must have a special care
to leave the margin wide," i. 103.

Curran, his imitation of Mr. Grat-
tan's manners described by
Byron, ii. 299.

Cust, Francis Cockayne, his story
about Savage, i. 125.

Dacier, Madame, her prose trans-

lation of Homer, iii. 333.
Dæmonology, by King James, iii.

374.

Daline, Olof, his history of Sweden
commended, ii. 153.
Dalrymple, Sir David. See Lord
Hailes.

Sir John, his Memoirs of
Great Britain and Ireland, ii.
199; an honest man, but his
writings mere bounce, 200.
Dalzel, Professor, on Johnson's
knowledge of Greek, iv. 293.
Dance, report that Johnson was
learning to, iv. 39, 40.

Mr., the architect, ii. 156.
Dante, the "divini poetae," quoted
by Boswell, iii. 246.
Darteneuf, Charles, an epicure,
iii. 32 n.

Davies, Mr. Thomas, his book-
seller's shop at No. 8, Russell
Street, i. 309; introduces Bos-
well to Johnson, 311; encou-
rages Boswell to follow up the
introduction, 313; his pretty
wife, ii. 6; his sympathies with
Baretti, 96, 97; publishes some
writings of Johnson without
authority, 251; entertains John-
son, Boswell, &c., at dinner,
311; his retiring from the stage,
iii. 242; his benefit, 262 n.;
his entertaining memoirs of
Garrick, 418; dressed as the
Thane of Ross, 431; Johnson's
letter to, in his illness, and his
cordial regard for, iv. 162; John-
son's affectionate letter to, from
Ashbourne, 276.

Dashwood, Sir Henry, marries
the beautiful Miss Graham, iii.
395.

Dawkins, Henry, mentioned as an

instance of the enjoyment of
wealth, iv. 76.

Dean, Richard, his work, main-
taining the Future Life of Brute
Creatures, ii. 66.

Death, Johnson on violent, i. 262;
conversation on, ii. 107, 108;
not death, but life that is impor-
tant, 108; Johnson's annoyance
at the discussion of the subject,
108; his fear of, explained,
278; the gate of life, iii. 301;
the fear of, discussed, Johnson's
horror of, 183, 302, iv. 202, 220,
302; who can run the race with?
270; Johnson's, 320; his wife's,
i. 178-86.
Debates, Johnson's parliamentary,
i. 79, 80, 109, 110; editor's note
on the history of, 409-13; Mr.
Nichols gives an account of
Johnson's conversation about,
shortly before his death, iv. 313.
Debt, Johnson arrested for, i. 238;
a calamity, not merely an incon-
venience, iv. 100.

De Claris Oratoribus, Johnson
would have made an admirable
work on, iv. 232.

Dedication to the Earl of Orrery
for Mrs. Lenox, i. 196; to the
Queen for Mr. Hoole's Tasso,
304; to the Marquis of Abreu for
Mr. Baretti's Dictionary, 279;
to the King for Dr. Kennedy's
Astronomical Chronology, 290;
to the Earl of Middlesex for Mrs.
Lenox's Female Quixote, 291;
to the Earl of Shaftesbury for
Mr. Bennet's edition of Ascham's
English works (said to have been
in reality edited by Johnson),
381; to Edward Duke of York
for some Music for the German
Flute, ii. 21; to the King for
Gwyn's London and Westminster
Improved, 41; to the King for
Mr. Adams' Treatise on the
Globes, 59; for Angel's Short-
Hand, 212; for Mr. Derby,
iii. 147

Dedications, Johnson's skill in, ii.
21; to Johnson, list of, iv. 323.
Deeds, registration of, note on the,
iv. 34.

Definitions, some of Johnson's, in
Dictionary, erroneous, i. 231;
some humorous, 231; some ob-
noxious, 232; were abridged for
smaller edition, but never can-
celled, 233.

Defoe, Daniel, his invention of a
ghost story, ii. 160 n. ; his Ro-
binson Crusoe, iii. 277; Johnson
gives Mrs. Montagu a catalogue
of his works of imagination, 277;
did he write Carleton's Memoirs?
iv. 375.
Deformities of Johnson, published
in Edinburgh, iv. 97, 98.
Degree, Johnson's difficulty in ob-
taining, i. 93-5; made M. A.
Oxford, 213; LL.D. Dublin, ii.
10; D.C.L. Oxford, 303, 306.
De Groot, the nephew of Grotius,

iii. 157.

De Imitatione Christi, its popu-
larity, iii. 244.

Deist, David Hume objects to being
so called, i. 208.

Delany, Johnson praises his Obser-
vations on Swift, iii. 263.
Delays, life admits not of; when
pleasure can he had 'tis fit to
catch it, iii. 164.
Deluge, the, Mauritius Lowe's pic-
ture of, iv. 140.

Demonax. Johnson called the De-
monax of the present age, by
Dr. Franklin, iii. 451; but Bos-
well does not think the appella-
tion a good one, 452.
Dempster, Mr. George, i. 324; his
saying about the immense advan-
tage of Johnson's society, 345; his
conversation with Johnson on
literary rights, &c., 349; his
sophistry vanquished by John-
son, 352; his commendation of
Johnson's Journey, ii. 281.

Miss, undertakes to teach
Johnson knotting, iii. 257.

Denial, the usual form f, Johnson
will not allow his servants to use,
i. 346.

Dennis. John, his critical works,
iii. 87.

Derby, Rev. John, editor of Dr.
Pearce's works, iii. 147.

191.

manufactory of china at, iii.

Derrick, Samuel, Boswell's "first
tutor in the ways of London," i.
86, 361; Johnson's story of his
presence of mind, 362; has a
character he need not run away
from, 313.

Description excites curiosity, see-
ing satisfies it, iv. 137.
Deserted Village, Goldsmith's
poem, Johnson's share in, ii. 25.
Desmoulins, Mrs., finds an asylum
in Johnson's house, i. 49, 181;
Johnson's liberality to, iii. 241.

Mr. John, Johnson leaves
him a legacy of £200, iv. 309.
Devaynes, Mr., the cheerful apothe-
cary, iv. 199.

Devil, a printer's, iv. 53.
Devonshire, the Duke of, Johnson
describes, iii. 210.

the Duke and Duchess of, re-
ceive Johnson very kindly, and
press him to stay, iv. 266.
Devotion, Johnson on, iv. 158.
Dialogues, Lord Lyttelton's, a
"nugatory performance," ii. 124;
Sir Joshua Reynolds, John-
son and Garrick, iii. 315 n.
Diamond, Mr., an early friend of
Johnson's, with whom he and
Mrs. Williams dined on Sundays,
i. 184.

Diary, the keeping of a, recom-
mended, i. 344; ii. 204; iii. 245;
iv. 120.

Dibdin, Mr. Charles, sets Boswell's
verses to music, ii. 111.
Dick, Sir Alexander, his letter to
Johnson about planting trees, iii.
161; Johnson asks, through
Boswell, for his opinion on his
illness, iv. 187.

Dictionary, Johnson's, announced,
i. 134; plan for, addressed
to Lord Chesterfield, 135-8;
Johnson discusses, with Dr.
Adams, 138; six amanuenses
employed, 139; Bishop Percy's
account of Johnson's manner of
working on it, 139, 140 n.;
prayer on beginning second vol.
of, 196; "begins to see land, in
this vast sea of words," 216;
concluded to the satisfaction of
all concerned, 225; published,
229; price of, bound, 229 n.;
Preface of, 229, 234; payment
for, 238; epitome of, 239; re-
viewed in the Bibliothèque des
Savans, 254; revision of, ii. 140;
fourth edition of, 152; Sheri-
dan's prologue containing com-
pliment on, iii. 149; the scheme
of, first mentioned to Johnson
by Dodsley, iii. 393; Wilkes'
jeu d'esprit on it, i. 235; Gar-
rick's epigram on, i. 235; John-
son's saying that he had been
longer over it than he need have
been, i. 352; Johnson called
"Dictionary Johnson," i. 305.

honours consequent on the
completion of the degree of
M.A., Oxford, i. 219; the Aca-
demia della Crusca send John-
son their Vocabulario, and the
French Academy their Dic-
tionnaire, i. 234; Degree of
LL.D., Dublin, ii. 11; Degree
D.C.L., Oxford, ii. 303.

Finnick, Johnson has a copy
of, i. 214.

military, proposed to Cave by
Johnson, i. 99.

of Ancient Geography by
Johnson's amanuensis, Macbean,

ii. 194.
Dido, Johnson's saying about, iv.

134.

Difficile est proprie communia di-
cere, note on, iii. 474-6.
Dignitaries of the Church, John-
son's respect for, iv. 135.

Dijon, prize essay, Rousseau's, i.

349.

Dilly, Messrs., the booksellers, en-

tertain Johnson and others at
dinner, when Goldsmith was im-
pertinent and Johnson stern, ii.
231-237; their hospitable table,
iii. 108; their famous dinner
when Johnson met Wilkes, 108-
17; dinners with, 292, 355; iv.

242.

- Edward, his letter to Boswell
giving an account of the plan for
the Lives of the Poets, as first
proposed, iii. 144, 145; John-
son's letter to, inquiring if he
knows anything of Boswell, 385;
his death, 386.

Squire, Johnson goes to visit,
4, 69.
Dinner, "Ought six people to be
kept waiting for one?" and
Johnson's reply, ii. 89; at Bos-
well's lodging, 88-94; Boswell
goes without his, in order to
keep Johnson company, 172; at
Johnson's rooms on Easter Day,
1773, 203.

Dinners, at Boswell's lodgings,
with Reynolds, Garrick, Gold-
smith, &c., when Goldsmith dis-
played his bloom-coloured coat,
ii. 88; at Sir Alexander Mac-
donald's with Mr. Erskine (after-
wards Lord Erskine), 168; at
Gen. Oglethorpe's with Gold-
smith, when duelling and ghosts
were discussed, 173; at John-
son's lodgings on Easter day,
203; at Gen. Oglethorpe's with
Goldsmith, when Goldsmith sang
in the evening Tony Lumpkin's
song, 206; at Gen. Paoli's, 207;
at Mr. Thrale's, when one of the
company attacked Garrick for
being vain, and Johnson de-
fended him, 214; at Mr. Beau-
clerk's, when Boswell is elected
a member of the Literary Club,
221; at Mr. Dilly's, when Gold-
smith was impertinent," 231;

at Gen. Paoli's, when Johnson
exploded with laughter about
the "testator," 242; at Mr.
Dilly's with the Irish Dr. Camp-
bell, 310; at Tom Davies's with
Hickey the painter, 311; at a
tavern with a numerous com-
pany, when Johnson said pa-
triotism is the last refuge of a
scoundrel, 315; at Mr. Thrale's
with Dr. Campbell, 318; at
Gen. Oglethorpe's with Dr.
Campbell, 319; at Mr. Cam-
bridge's villa near Twickenham,
329; at Mr. Dilly's on the me-
morable occasion when John-
son met Wilkes, iii. 109; in
London "with several eminent
men" (a meeting of the Club),
247; at Sir Joshua Reynolds's,
when there was much talk about
Horace, 264; with Dr. Percy,
when an altercation took place
between Johnson and Percy,
280; at Mr. Dilly's with Miss
Seward and Mrs. Knowles, 292;
at Sir Joshua Reynolds's with
Dr. Musgrave, Mrs. Cholmon-
dely, &c., 320; at Gen. Paoli's,
325; at Allan Ramsay's with
Robertson and Reynolds, 331;
at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, when
Johnson hurt Boswell's feelings,
and rudely attacked him, 337;
at Mr. Langton's, when John-
son apologized, 337; at John-
son's with Mr. Allen the printer,
on Easter day, 373; at the
Club when there was a violent
altercation between Johnson and
Beauclerk, 376; at Beauclerk's,
when Beauclerk was 66 very en-
tertaining," 378; at Mr. Stra-
han's, 389; at Mr. Ramsay's
with Lord Newhaven and the
beautiful Miss Graham, 395; at
Sir Joshua Reynolds's,
66 a most
agreeable day," iv. 38; with
Johnson on Easter day-" a
great day," and the silver salvers
are produced, 49; at Mrs. Gar-

rick's, for the first time after
Garrick's death, 51; at Mr.
Dilly's with Wilkes and Dr.
Beattie, 55; at Dr. Brocklesby's
with the "
ever cheerful" apothe-

cary, 199; at the Essex Head
Club, "in fine spirits," 200; at
Dr. Adam's at Oxford, 214;
at Dr. Nowell's at Iffley, 218;
at Gen. Paoli's, looking very
ill, 243; at Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds's, when Carleton's Me-
moirs were mentioned, 245; at
Sir Joshua Reynolds's for the
last time, making the plans for
going to Italy, 248, 249.
Diploma, the, of Johnson's M.A.
degree, i. 219, 220; of Doctor of
Laws, presented to Johnson, ii.
11; of D.C.L. Oxford, presented
to Johnson, ii. 303-5.
Dirleton's Doubts, better than
most people's certainties, iii.

225.

Discipline, book of, in the Church
of Scotland, ii. 167.

religious, proper for convicts,
iv. 242.

Discourses to the Royal Academy
by Sir Joshua Reynolds, iii.
365; much admired by Johnson,
iv. 235.

Diseases, acute, the inevitable
strokes of heaven, iv. 99; chronic,
commonly the effect of miscon-
duct and intemperance, 99.
D'Israeli in Literary Curiosities
gives a memorandum of John-
son's of hints for his Life of Pope,
4, 10 n.

Dissertation on the Prophecies, iv.
210.
Distinction, literary, generally ac-
cording to merit, iv. 116.
Diversions, "Go steadily forward
with lawful business or honest
diversions," iv 289.

Diversions of Purley, by Horne
Tooke, iii. 352.

Divine Legation, Warburton's most
entertaining, iv. 12.