Divorce, discussion on, iii. 346.
Dixie, Sir Wolstan, patron of the
school at Market Bosworth, i.
49, 50.
"Dockers," Johnson, at Plymouth,
against the, i. 301.
Doctor, Johnson did not assume the
title, ii. 305.
Documents lost which were to have
been preserved at Auchinleck,
and in the British Museum, i.
204.
Dodd, Dr., Johnson's assistance to,
iii. 153, 154, 172, 173; account
of, 171 n., 172; his letter to
Johnson, 175; his thoughts in
prison, 280; his description of
Johnson, 289; Johnson's motto
for his picture, iv. 144.
Doddington, George Bubb, a cha-
racter in the Rambler, i. 163;
story of him and Dr. Young, iv.
Dodsley, Mr. Robert, i. 86, 134,
135, his Preceptor, 141, 142,
146, 149; his tragedy of Cleone,
264; author of the Muse in
Livery, iii. 32; his dispute with
Goldsmith about poetry, iii. 85;
first mentioned to Johnson the
scheme of an English dictionary,
iii. 393; his Public Virtue, a
poem, "fine blank," 441; his
Cleone complimented, 441.
- Mr. James, bookseller, iii. 32 n.
"Dogged veracity," one of the
Dukes of Devonshire commended
for his, 371.
Doggedly. "A man may write at
any time if he sets himself to it
doggedly," i. 150.
Domestic satisfaction, no money
better spent than what is laid out
for, ii. 321.
Dominicetti, an Italian quack, ii.
Donaldson, Mr. Alexander, his
shop for cheap books, i. 348;
defies the common law rights
of literary property, 348; John-
son's indignation at, 348.
Donne, Dr., Walton's Life of, the
best of his lives, ii. 330; his
vision left out of some editions of
Walton's Life of him, iii. 31.
Dosa, George and Luke, ii. 25.
Dossie, Mr., author of a treatise on
agriculture, iii. 434 n.
Doubts on the abolition of the slave
trade, by John Ranby, iii. 225.
Douglas. See Duglas.
Dr., Bishop of Salisbury, de-
scribes to Boswell the effect pro-
duced by the publication of
London, i. 88; account of, 100 n.,
342; visits Johnson, iv. 202.
Dr. James, his collection of
editions of Horace, iv. 203; ac-
count of, 203 n.
Douglas cause, the, Boswell de-
fends, Johnson's opinion on, ii.
64; Boswell's annoyance that
Johnson would not study, 217 n.;
Andrew Stuart's letter to Lord
Mansfield on, iii. 56.
Mr. Home's, quoted, iii. 118.
Drake, Sir Francis, Johnson writes
the Life of, i. 106.
Dramatic Poetry, Mr. Belsham's
Essay on, quoted, i. 309.
Dress, Johnson's, described, at the
performance of Irene, i. 148;
when Boswell first saw him,
314; in France, 365.
"Drift, what is your, Sir?" says
Johnson, when Langton pre-
sented him the list of texts en-
forcing charity, iv. 205.
Drinking, its influence discussed,
iii. 87; habits of, 374; effects
of, 380; Johnson tells of the
man who was habitually and
equably drunk, 380.
Drelincourt on Death, ii. 160.
Drummond of Hawthornden, his
Polemomiddinia, iii. 292.
Drummond, Mr. William, book-
seller and friend of Johnson's,
ii. 43; Johnson's letters to, 43-7,
iii. 292.
Dr., iii. 375; his death at
Naples, 125 n.
Drumgould, Col., of the Ecole
Militaire, ii. 354.
Dryden and Pope distinguished by
Voltaire, ii. 23.
Dryden characterized by Gray,
ii. 23; his profundity praised
by Johnson, 90; quoted, 124;
characterized under the name of
Bayes in the Rehearsal, 164;
Lord Hailes collects notices of,
iv. 387; quoted, in his preface
to All for Love, 65; his ex-
cellent Dedication of his Juvenal,
4; Johnson's Life of, referred
to, 4; various readings in, 10.
Dubas, Jean Baptiste, his Re-
flexions Critiques, ii. 94; Vol-
taire on, 94 n.
Duchess of Portland, the, "my
noble, lovely, little Peggy," iii.
Duck, epitaph on a, i. 15.
Duel, fatal, between Boswell's eldest
son, Sir Alexander, and Mr.
Stuart of Duncarn, ii. 174;
between Mr. Cunningham and
Mr. Riddell, iv. 147.
Duelling, is it consistent with moral
duty? ii. 173, 174; Johnson de-
fends, 213; discussed, iv. 147,
148 n.
Duglas, James de, said to have
taken the heart of Robert Bruce
to the Holy Land, iii. 203.
Du Halde's China, i. 97. n; John-
son's lively account of the trans-
lation of, by Green and Guthrie,
iii. 449.
Dunbar, Dr., of Aberdeen, his
essays on the history of mankind,
Dunciad, the, written for fame, i.
307; Johnson repeats the last
lines of, ii. 90; Pope's emotion
on repeating these lines, 90 n.
Duncombe, Mr., a very pleasing
man, iii. 317.
Dundas, Henry, Lord Melville,
i. 207; his Irish accent, ii. 157;
his fine speech in favour of the
negro, iii. 232.
Dunning, John, Lord Ashburton.
known to be a Devonshire man
by his accent, ii. 156.
Mr., a member of the Club,
iii. 162; his tribute to the power
and charm of Johnson's conver-
sation, 256.
Dunton's Life and Errors, John-
son mentions, iv. 137; reprinted
by Nichols, 137 n.
Durandi Sententiarum, 1458, seen
by Johnson in Paris, ii. 359.
Dury, Major-General Alexander,
his death, 262; account of, 262 n.
Dutch, Low, Johnson sets himself
to learn, ii. 244.
Dyer, Samuel, a learned member
of the Club, ii. 32.
John, his poem the Fleece, iii.
Early habits, force of, ii. 332.
life, particulars of Johnson's,
"You shall have them all for
two pence," ii. 205.
rising, difficulty of, iii. 195.
Earthquake, a shock of, in Staf-
fordshire, iii. 168.
East Indies, the practice of going
there in quest of wealth dis-
cussed, iii. 389.
Easter day, 1775, ii. 327 n.; 1777,
impressions and resolutions, iii.
134; 1778, Johnson and Bos-
well go to St. Paul's, 319; 1779,
Service at St. Paul's, Boswell
Idines with Johnson and Mr.
Allen, the printer, 373; 1781,
"Solemn worship at St. Paul's,"
after which Johnson's friends
dine with him, and he produces
the silver salvers, iv. 48, 49;
1783, Service at St. Paul's;
Boswell dines with Johnson, but
he is not well, and talks little,
146; 1784, Johnson deplores to
Boswell that the doctors would
not allow him to go to Church,
Easton Maudit, Johnson's visit to
Dr. Percy at, ii. 8.
Eating, Johnson enjoys good eat-
ing, and defends it, i. 371.
Eccles, Isaac Ambrose, one of the
guests at Boswell's supper party,
i. 337 n.
Ecclesiastical History of England,
scheme for, proposed by John.
son, i. 394.
Eclogues, the earliest English con-
tained in Barclay's Ship of
Fools, i. 215.
Ecole Militaire, in Paris, ii. 352.
Economy and waste cannot be de-
fined, iii. 276.
Edial, near Lichfield, Johnson's
school at, 61.
Edinburgh, Johnson arrives at, ii.
Editions, different, of books ought
to be collected, iv. 203.
Education, Johnson on, ii. 25; "I
hate byroads in," 369; influence
of, iii. 24; Milton and Locke on,
355; "I am always for get-
ting a boy forward in his learn-
ing," 377.
Edwards, Edward, Johnson writes
to, introducing. Dr. Burney, iii.
362.
Rev. J., on free will, iii.
298 n.
Mr., curious meeting of
Johnson with, iii. 307; praises
country life, 308; gives an ac-
count of his life, 308, 309;
Johnson's old fellow-collegian,
iv. 47.
Eglintoune, Alexander, Earl of,
his admiration of Johnson, ii.
76; shot by Mungo Campbell,
iii. 212.
the Countess of, her regard
for Johnson, iii. 361.
Egmont, John, Earl of, his History
of the House of Yvery, iv. 136.
Egotists, four classes of, iii. 198.
Electrical experiments, Miss Wil-
liams assists Gray, the electri-
cian, in his, ii. 42.
Elibank, Patrick, Lord, Johnson's
high opinion of him, iii. 75; “no-
thing conclusive in his talk,"
99; Beauclerk gives Johnson
his Epitaph on a Lady to turn
into Latin. 433 n.
Eliot, Mr., afterwards Lord, travels
with Mr. Stanhope, iv. 38, 244;
sends Johnson Carleton's Me-
moirs, 245.
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, his good pro-
nunciation, ii. 157; his beautiful
ballad, 157 n.
Ellis, Jack, the literary scrivener,
iii. 73 n.
Mrs., on Fanny Burney's
novels, iv. 369.
Elphinston, Mr. James, publishes
the Rambler in Edinburgh, i.
157; Johnson's letters to, 158,
159, ii. 167; entertains Johnson
and Boswell at dinner, 213;
his Martial, a most extraordi-
nary translation, iii. 271.
Elrington, Bishop,doubts Johnson's
assertion respecting Newton, i.
360.
Elizabeth, Historical Memoirs of
Queen, ii. 184.
Ellis, John, the literary money-
scrivener, iii. 73.
Elvira, Mallet's tragedy of, at-
tacked by Boswell and two
friends, i. 324.
Elwal, Mr., the heretic, the trial
of, ii. 161, 235.
Emigration, discussed at the Club,
iii. 249.
Emmett, Mrs., the actress, iii. 47.
Emphasis, Johnson, Garrick, and
Giffard on, i. 123.
Emulation, good effects of, ii. 369.
Enfans trouvés, visited, ii. 361.
Engagements, Johnson's journal
of, iii. 336 n.
English poets, Johnson's lives of,
iii. 151 n.
Engravings, Johnson asks Boswell
to procure him portraits of
Scotch men of learning, iv. 192;
from portraits of Johnson, 108;
on Mr. W. Smith's list, 412.
Entails are encroachments on the
dominion of Providence, iii. 10;
Scotch law of, 9, 10 n.; reasons
why entails are good, iii. 18.
Epigram, Johnson's Latin, i. 43;
Greek and Latin, to Eliza, 84,
100; on George II. and Colley
Cibber, 107; ad Lauram, 114;
ad Ricardum Savage, 118; to
Molly Aston, iii. 340 n.; to
the Temple of the Winds in
Moor Park, 369; Garrick's, on
the Dictionary, i. 236; on the
Duke of Marlborough's grand
bridge over a small rivulet, 35;
on the miracle at Cana, 309; on
a quack doctor, by Garrick, ii.
54; occasioned by a religious
dispute at Bath, iv. 212; Greek
Epigrams translated by Johnson
during his sleepless nights, 292.
Epilogue, spoken by the lady who
personated the ghost of Hermi-
one, by Johnson, i. 28; to the
Distressed Mother, by Addison,
134; to Irene, by Sir Wm.
Yonge, 146.
Epitaph, Johnson's, on Philips, i.
106; on Hogarth, ii. 383; on
Goldsmith, iii. 120; on Parnell,
iv. 17; on his Father, Mother,
and Brother, 300 n.
on Johnson, by Dr. Parr, in
Latin, iv. 326; from Camden's
Remains, on a Very Wicked
Man, 148; the famous one
quoted by Addison, translated,
ii. 316 n.
Epitaphs, Johnson's Essay on, i.
106; some exaggeration of praise
allowable in, ii. 369.
Equality is obtained in civilized
life by the number of different
kinds of superiority, i. 312.
Erse books, given to Johnson, ii.
grammar by Shaw, Johnson
writes the proposals for, iii. 141.
- poetry, Boswell thinks there
are some ancient manuscripts of,
ii. 286; Johnson denies this,
287, 288.
Erskine, Hon. Andrew, i. 324.
the Hon. Thomas, his elo-
quence and vivacity, ii. 168;
account of, 169 n.
Essay on Truth, by Dr. Beattie,
approved by Johnson, ii. 193.
on Man, Pope's, statement
that the scheme was drawn up by
Bolingbroke, iii. 391; partly
true and partly false, 392.
on Taste, by Miss Reynolds,
iv. 83.
Essays, original, by Johnson, in
the Literary Magazine, i. 240;
Boswell says the best is that on
Soame Jenyns's "Inquiry into
the Origin of Evil," 246.
on the history of mankind,
by Dr. Dunbar, iii. 420.
Boswell's, TheHypochondriac,
published in the London Maga-
zine, iv. 122.
Essex, Lord, his advice to his
kinsman, "Rather to go one
hundred miles te speak with one
wise man, than five miles to see
a fair town," i. 343; supposed to
have been written by Bacon,
343 n.
Eton, Boswell sends his eldest son
to, iii. 66.
Etymologies, Johnson is asked
"How he should get these," for
his Dictionary? i. 138, 140, 230,
Evidences of Christianity, dis-
cussed, i. 341, 360.
Evil, inquiry into Origin of, by
Soame Jenyns, i. 247.
Execution of convicts, Boswell con-
fesses he had been present at, ii.
Executors, Johnson, one of Mr.
Thrale's, iv. 43, 44.
Expectation to be compared with
experience, i. 254.
Expenses in Paris, ii. 361.
Experiments, Johnson's minute,
iii. 388 n.
Expression, precision and clear-
ness in, Johnson's attention to,
iv. 130.
Expulsion of six Oxford students,
ii. 180; Johnson's happy illus-
tration of the propriety of this,
Expunged passages in the Vicar
of Wakefield, iii. 370.
Fable, sketch of a, by Johnson, ii.
218.
Facts and fiction, Johnson dis-
approved the mingling of, iv.
128.
Fairy tale, by Johnson, in Mrs.
Williams's Miscellanies, ii. 42.
Fairy Queen, Warton's observa-
tions on, published, i. 209.
Falconer, Rev. Mr., a nonjuring
bishop, iii. 366.
Falkland Islands, thoughts on, ii.
False Alarm, The, a political
pamphlet, ii. 112; Johnson's
favourite, 113 n.
Falsehood, oftener arises from care-
lessness than from intentional
lying, iii. 246.
Fame, literary, grows more difficult
to attain, ii. 326.
Family, respect for, Johnson thinks
natural and salutary, ii. 151.
Famine, prophecy of, poem by
Churchill, i. 333.
Farewell, Johnson's, to Boswell,
iv. 250.
Farmer, Dr., i. 293 n.; his essay
on the learning of Shakespeare,
iii. 86; Johnson writes to ask
him for particulars of Ambrose,
Philips, Broome, and Gray, iii.
Fast, Johnson's strict, ii. 322.
Father's Revenge, The, a tragedy
by the Earl of Carlisle, sub-
mitted to Johnson, iv. 175;
Johnson's letter on, 176, 177.
Faulkner, George, ii. 151 n.
Feeling, Johnson says,
feeling people pay you by feel-
ing," ii. 97; The Man of, a novel
by Henry Mackenzie, published
by a Mr. Eccles as his own, i.
285.
Felixmarte of Hircania, the old
Spanish romance, i. 22.
Ferguson, Sir Adam, M.P. for
Ayrshire, ii. 165.
James, the self-taught philo-
sopher, ii. 100; his works re-
edited, 101 n.
Ferney, Boswell at, i. 346.
Ferns, Deanery of, Burke calls it
a barren title, iv. 34.
Festivals and Fasts, Nelson's, its
great sale, iii. 42.
Feudal system, Boswell argues in
favour of, ii. 172.
Fiction, not to be mingled with
facts, iv. 128.
Fielding, Henry, i. 123, 193;
writes in praise of Johnson's
Life of Savage, 128; and
Richardson compared, i. 62,
63, 169; his Amelia, iii. 89.
Sir John, brother of Henry
Fielding, i. 336 n.
Filby, John, at the Harrow, in
Water Lane, Goldsmith's tailor,
ii. 89.
Fingal, poem of, a mere uncon-
nected rhapsody, ii. 125, iv. 180.
Fire, tricks to make the fire burn,
are they vulgar tricks or philo-
sophical expedients? iii. 393.
Fireworks, Johnson at a display
of, iv. 238.
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