good wishes for the, iii. 233,
234.

Nichols, Frank, M.D., turned out
to make room for a Scotchman,
ii. 323; his discourse De Anima
Medica, iii. 192.
Nichols, John, printer of the Lives
of the Poets, author of Literary
Anecdotes, &c., iv. 3; account
of, by Markland, 279; John-
son's literary memoranda sent
to, 3 n.; communicates to Bos-
well some anecdotes of Johnson,
63; is present during the visit
of Henderson to Johnson, 174;
his anecdotes much prized by
Johnson, 108; gives Boswell
the particulars of a conversation
with Johnson shortly before his
death, 313; Johnson's letter to,
about the authors of the Uni-
versal History, 291.

Nicol, Mr. George, bookseller,
Johnson writes to, from Ash-
bourne, iv. 275.

Night, description of, in Macbeth,
ii. 94 n.

Thoughts, Young's, its pathos
and excellence, iv. 23.
Nights, sleepless, Johnson trans-
lates Greek epigrams during his,

iv. 292.

Nil admirari, discussed, ii. 327.
"No, Sir," Johnson's expression,
iv. 232.

Nodosities, it has all the, of the
oak, without its strength," said
Burke, of an imitation of John-
son's style, iv. 21.
Nollekens, his cast of John-
son's head, iii. 461, 462; John-
son's letter to Lucy Porter about,
iv. 324.

Nonjurors, Johnson said he never
knew one who could reason, ii.
297; Johnson on the, iv. 211.
Nonsense. "Grand nonsense is
insupportable," i. 319.
Nores, Jason de, his commentary
on Horace's Art of Poetry, iii.

30 n.

Oat ale and oat cakes at Lichfield,
iii. 46.

Oats, Johnson's definition of, meant
to vex the Scotch, iv. 113.
Observance, Johnson's regard for
general, iv. 239.

Observations on the Present State
of Affairs, a political essay by
Johnson, quoted, i. 242.
Observatory in Paris, ii. 352.
Occupation necessary to happiness,
iii. 205.

O'Connor, Charles, Johnson's fine
letter to, on Irish literature, i.
251; second letter to, urging
him to write a history of the
Irish nation, iii. 146; account
of, 146 n.; and appendix, 477.
Odd, nothing, will last long, iii.

34.

Oddity, Johnson described as an,
iii. 228.

Ode, Ad Urbanum, i. 77; to the
Warlike Genius of Britain, by
Tasker, iii. 368.

Odes, Colman's, satirizing "cool
Mason, and warm Gray," ii.
307; Mr. Cumberland's, one of
which celebrates the effect of
James's Powders, iii. 90 n.;
Gray's, iii. 435.

Ofella, Johnson's, in the art of
living in London, i. 68.
Offely, Mr., a pupil of Johnson's,

i. 62.

Ogden, his sermons on Prayer com-
mended, iii. 262; his sermon on
the Articles of the Christian
Faith, quoted, iv. 73.
Ogilvie, Dr. John, Johnson finds

66 no thinking in his writings," i.
335; at Boswell's supper party,
337 n. 338, 339.
Ogle, Mrs., Johnson writes to Mrs.
Montagu in her behalf, i. 397.
Oglethorpe, General, one of the
earliest admirers of Johnson's
London, i. 88, 89; account of,
ii. 173 n.; his presence of mind
in a dilemma, 174, 175; gives
an account of the siege of Bel-
grade, 175; entertains Johnson,
Boswell, and Goldsmith, 205;
entertains the " Irish Dr. Camp-
bell," &c., 319, 320; Johnson
desires his Life should be written,
321; his conversation too desul-
tory, iii. 99; Johnson dines with,
290; visits Johnson, and they
discuss political matters, iv.

115.

Old age, old men should take heed
of putting themselves out to
nurse, iii. 56.; "it is a man's
own fault if his mind grows
torpid in," iii. 267, 268; discus-
sion on, 336; a stout healthy

old man like a tower under-
mined, iv. 202.

Oldfield, Dr., and the Duke of
Marlborough, iii. 100.

Oldham, John, his satires against
the Jesuits, i. 80.

Old man, Johnson hopes there is
nothing of the, in his conversa-
tion, iii. 336.

Oldys, William, the learned col-
lector of the Bibliotheca Har-
leiana, i. 111; admirably de-
scribed by Boswell, 129.
Oliver, Dame, taught Johnson to
read, i. 17.

Omai, a South Sea Islander, visits
London, iii. 63.

O'Moore, Col., tells an amusing
story of Goldsmith's vanity and
simplicity, i. 330 n.

Opera, The Beggars', was it per-
nicious? ii. 333; Boswell delights
in, ii. 334.

66

Opium, Johnson relieved by, but
objects to the use of, iv. 115.
Opportunities, uncommon parts
require uncommon opportuni-
ties for their exertion," i. 312.
Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in cor-
pore sano, quoted to Johnson by
Dr. Brocklesby, iv. 307.
Orange-butter, a substance of
which Johnson describes the
manufacture, iv. 141.
Orange-peel, Johnson's mysterious
use of, ii. 303 n.

Oratory, Johnson and Wilkes dis-
course on, iv. 57; mistakes in,

233.

Orford, Horace, Earl of, his collec-
tion of bon-mots of persons who
never said but one, iii. 215.
Origin of Evil, Inquiry into, by
Soame Jenyns, Johnson's re-
view of, i. 247.

Original sin, Johnson on, iv. 73.
Orme, Robert, the historian, his
high commendation of Johnson's
Journey, ii. 279; and of John-
son, iii. 292.

Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, letter
from, to Dr. Birch, about the
Dictionary, i. 137 n.
Orthoepy, Elements of, by Nares,
praised by Boswell, iv. 279.

Osborne, Mr. Thomas, bookseller,
impertinent to Johnson, "and I
beat him," i. 111.

Mr. Francis, a conceited
fellow, ii. 185.

Ossian, Johnson finds no merit in
the poems published as transla-
tions of, iv. 124.
Ostentation, Johnson's dislike of,
iv. 125.

Othello, Johnson on, iii. 87.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, Tragedy
of, by Richard Savage, iii.

149.

Ovid, referred to by Johnson, ii.
175; Art. Amator., l. iii. v. 339,
quoted by Johnson to Goldsmith
at Poets Corner, ii. 223; quoted
again by Goldsmith at Temple
Bar, 223.

Oxford, Johnson's' residence at the
University of i. 30-45, and ap-
pendix, 4u5; Johnson visits,
189, 209, 275; the advantages
of, expatiated on by Johnson,
ii. 65; Johnson detained there
by illness, 70 n.; Johnson visits,
in 1768, 61; Boswell follows
him there, 61; Johnson visits,
for the last time, iv. 207; ex-
pulsion of six students from, for
Methodism, ii. 180; Oxford and
Cambridge compared by John-
son, ii. 52.

Palsy, Johnson has a stroke of the,
iv. 160.

Pamphlet, definition of a. iii. 321.
Pamphlets, Political. the False
Alarm, ii. 112; Thoughts on
Falkland's Islands, 132; The
Patriot, 265; Taxation no
Tyranny, 289.

Panckowcke, Charles Joseph, the
celebrated French publisher i.

225 n.

Panting, Dr. Matthew, master of
Pembroke, i. 41.

Paoli, General Pascal, Boswell's
letter from his palace to John-
son, giving an account of his
tour in Corsica, ii. 22; account
of, ii. 81 n.; presented to John-
son, ii. 87; their conversation,
87, 88; Johnson says he "has
the loftiest port" of any man he
had ever seen, 88; entertains
Johnson and Boswell at dinner,
ii. 161;
talks with Johnson on
sight and sound, ii. 183; his
neatly-turned compliment to
Goldsmith, ii. 212; Johnson
dines with, iii. 325; Johnson
dines with, and looks so ill that
the General thinks he can live
but a very short time, iv. 243.
Papers, Johnson's, burned a few

days before his death, i. 382;
the burning of Boswell's, related
by Malone, iii. 359.
Papists or Protestants, all Chris-
tians agree in essential articles,
says Johnson, i. 321.
Pappadendrion,

Sir A. Dick's
name for Johnson, iii. 137.
Paradise, John, i. 35; Johnson
writes to, from Lichfield, iv. 274.
Parenthesis, Johnson's dislike of
a, iv. 130.

Parents, Johnson enforces our
duties to, ii. 23.

Paris, visited, ii. 349; Johnson
brings Lucy Porter a box from,

350.
Parker, Mr. Sackville, Johnson's
pathetic account of, iv. 226.

Parkhurst, Rev. Mr., Dr. Dodd's
letter to, describing Johnson,
iii. 289.
Parliamentary debates, Johnson's,
i. 78-80, and appendix, 409-13.
Parnassus, England's, the readings
in, not to be trusted, iii. 165.

a young sapling of, blown
about by every wind of criti-
cism," iv. 234.
Parliament, speaking in, Fdmund

Burke on, iii. 250, 251.
Parnell, Johnson's Life of, iv. 17;
Epitaph on, 17; various readings
in the Life of, 17; a passage in,
quoted, iii. 239; passage in,
submitted to Johnson, iii. 383;
Malone's note on the passage,
383 n.; his Life by Goldsmith,
poor, ii. 162.

Parody, Johnson's, of a passage in
Burke's speech, iv. 233.
Parr, Dr., recommended by John-
son to the Norwich Grammar
School, iii. 437.

Parsons, merriment of, mighty
offensive, iv. 37.

Party, must not be followed at the
expense of truth, ii. 210.
Passable, "Aprés tout, c'est un
monde passable," Voltaire, quoted
by Boswell, i. 272.

Patence, Mr., of Bolt Court, con-
structed a phaeton to go without
horses, ii. 101.

Pater-noster, a, written in linguam

Corsica rusticam, ii. 88.
Paterson, Mr. Samuel, his imita-
tion of Sterne, ii. 170; Johnson
recommends his son to the notice
of Sir Joshua Reynolds, iii. 127,
iv. 160.

Pathos or sentimentality? Scott
versus Boswell, iv. 10 n.
Patrick, Dr. Simon, on the Articles,
ii. 105.

Patriot, The, a political pamphlet
by Johnson, ii. 265.

The, a tragedy by J. Simp-
son, advertised as Johnson's, iii.

79.

Patriotism, "the last refuge of a
scoundrel," ii. 317.

Patron, the, inserted in Johnson's
Imitations of Juvenal as one of
the "ills of life" besetting the
scholar, i. 205.
Patronage, Church, in Scotland,
ii. 147; and practice in law dis-
cussed, iv. 116; in the Church,
Johnson thinks, does not rest
fairly on merit, ii. 322.
Peace, Ode on the, by Miss Helen
Maria Williams, repeated to he?
by Johnson, iv. 206.
Pearce, Bishop Zachary, iii. 32;
his posthumous works, 146.
Pearson, Mr., like Johnson in his
habit of contradicting, iii. 53;
Lucy Porter bequeaths to him
her pictures and relics of John-
son, iv. 164-400.
Peasantry, Irish, Johnson asked
to advocate their cause, iii. 478.
Peculiarities, Johnson's, i. 314.
Peers of Scotland, Boswell asks

Johnson's opinion on the influ-
ence exercised by the, iv. 177.
Peiresc, his death lamented in forty
languages, ii. 337 n.

Pelisson, the man who abused the

privilege of being ugly, i. 54.
Pembroke College, Oxford, John-
son enters at, i. 31; love for,
43; presents his works to, 43;
eminent men educated at, 43;
а nest of singing birds,” 43.
Pembroke, Lord, his pleasantry
about Johnson's "bow
way," ii. 300 n.

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Penance, Johnson's act of, at Ut-
toxeter, iv. 283.

Penn, Governor Richard, iii. 419;`
his story of Johnson, 419.
Pennant, his Tour in Scotland,

quoted, iii. 281; discussed, 282.
Pensées de Pascal, Johnson gives
to Boswell that he may not in-
terrupt his meditations, iii.

373.

Pension, Johnson's granted, by

George III., i. 296-8; the re-

flections made against Johnson
on account of his, i. 341 n.;
Johnson's defended by Burke,
iv. 234.

Penurious, a certain, gentleman,
who is "narrow, not so much
from avarice as from impotence
to spend his money," iii. 87.
Pepper Alley, Johnson says people
live as long in, as on Salisbury
Plain, i. 339.

Pepys, Sir Lucas, attends John-
son, and wishes he would be
tractable, iv. 114.

William Weller, Mrs. Thrale's
exaggerated praise of, iv. 41;
expatiates on the happiness of
savage life, ii. 215.
Perce-Forest, quoted, iii. 283.
Percy, Dr., Bishop of Dromore,

account of, i. 21 n.; Johnson
visits, ii. 8, 9; dines with Bos-
well to meet Johnson, 73; his
ballad of the Hermit of Wark-
worth, ii. 134; Johnson's fun
about his poetry, iii. 38, 39;
letter of, quoted, 42; his alter-
cation with Johnson, 281, 282;
account of his family, 281 n.
Johnson's letter of apology and
explanation, 286, 287.
Perkins, Mr., manager of Mr.

Thrale's brewery, ii. 266, iv. 40;
hangs up an engraving of John-
son's portrait in the counting-
house, 266 n.; Johnson writes
to, from Lichfield, iv. 273.
Persian Grammar, Jones's, John-
son sends to Warren Hastings,
iv. 30.

Personalities always offensive, iii.
100.

Peterborough, Lord, the best ac-

count of, is in Capt. Carletou's
Memoirs, iv. 245.
Petrarch, read by Johnson when a
boy, i. 30.

Petty, Sir William, his allowance
of £3 a year to support nature,
i. 350.

Peyton, Mr., one of Johnson's

amanuenses, ii. 152; his death,
152 n.

Philidor, Andrew, a great chess
player, iii. 368.

Philips, Miss, a singer, introduced
by Johnson to the notice of Mr.
Windham in Dublin, iv. 159.

John, the poet, Johnson
works on the Life of, iv. 3;
various readings in Johnson's
Life of, iv. 18.

106.

a musician, epitaph on, i.

Philology, one of Johnson's fa-
vourite pursuits, iv. i.
Philosophical Survey of Ireland,
Campbell's, ii. 310.

Phipps, the Rev. James, left his
estates to buy livings, iii. 310.
Captain Constantine, his ex-
pedition to explore the northern
ocean, ii. 384.

Physic, Johnson learned from Dr.
James, iii. 74.

Physician, or Doctor, of Medicine?
ii. 271, 275.

Physicians, liberality of those at-
tending Johnson in his last ill-
ness, iv. 306.
Pickle-shop, the, next to Northum-
berland House, instanced by
Goldsmith as a mark of luxury,
ii. 206.

Picture, Johnson sits for his, the
day before his paralytic stroke,
iv. 161.

Pictures, Lord Orford's, at Hough-
ton, iv. 245.

Pig, a learned, at Nottingham, iv.

284.

Pillow, "That will do-all that a

pillow can do." iv. 316.
Piozzi, Mrs., Boswell's criticisms
on, i. 38, 39; mistakes John-
son's meaning, ii. 181 n., 186 n.;
her anecdotes of Johnson cha-
racterized by Boswell, iv. 250-7;
her inaccuracy blamed by Bos-
well, iii. 247; referred to by
Johnson, 258.

Pitt, the first William Pitt "a me-