teor," i. 91; a minister given by
the people to the King, ii. 187;
Boswell sends him his letter to
the people of Scotland, iv.
188.

Pity, not natural to man, but

acquired and improved by the
cultivation of reason, i. 348.
Place-hunters, Boswell and John-
son on, iii. 252.

Plan or Prospectus of the Dic-
tionary, addressed to the Earl of
Chesterfield, i. 135-6.
Players,

Johnson's prejudice
against, i. 123, iii. 208; John-
son's contempt for, ii. 220, 366.
Pleasantry, different notions of,
iii. 128 n.

Pleasures, no man is a hypocrite
in his, iv. 232.
Plutarch, quoted, i. 6,
Plymouth, Johnson at, i. 301.
Pococke, Edward, Smith's Latin

verses on, iii. 278 n.; the story
of his being called "no Latiner,"
iv. 126.

Poetry. "What is poetry?" iii.

85; "amendments seldom made
in without some token of a rent,"
iv. 4; unsuited for religious sub-
jects, 5; superiority of rhyme to
blank verse, 8.

Poets, Johnson's Lives of, com-
pleted, iv. 1; the first idea of, ex-
panded and enriched, 2; honora-
rium for, 2 n.; the manuscript of,
presented to Boswell, 33; John-
son writes to Nichols, the printer,
on various matters connected
with his work on, 3; curious
anecdote respecting, 25; outcry
against, 26; Johnson, on a hint
that the present would be accep-
table, makes Wilkes a present
of a set of, 60; Johnson says
he is engaged to write little
Lives, and little Prefaces to a
little edition of the English
Poets, iii. 143; price bargained
for, 145; metaphysical, disserta-
tion on the, iv. 4.

Polemomiddinia, The, of Drum-
mond, iii. 292.

Polite, Johnson thinks himself very,

iii. 337.

Politian, Johnson proposes to pub-
lish the Latin poems of, i. 54.
Political principles, Johnson's, ii.
119, iv. 5.

tracts, collected, ii. 292.
improvement, schemes for,
mostly laughable, ii. 104.
Politics, Johnson on, iv. 40; mo-

dern, devoid of principle, ii. 335.
Pomposo, the, name under which
Johnson was caricatured in the
poem of The Ghost, i. 322.
Poor, The, Johnson's curiosity to
know how the poor are main-
tained in the Seven Provinces,
i. 378; Johnson's genial kindness
to the poor, i. 299; state of the,
in London, iii. 390.

Pope, Alexander, his Messiah
translated into Latin by John-
son, i. 33; his appreciation of
Johnson's London, i. 89; he re-
commends Johnson to Earl
Gower, 93; his letter about
London and Marmor Norfol-
ciense, 103; paper-sparing
Pope," 103; conversation on, ii.
89; compared with Dryden, 90;
his Dying Christian to his Soul,
partly borrowed, iii. 79; verses to,
by Lewis, quoted, iv. 224; his great
popularity during life, iii. 332;
Ruffhead's Life of, ii. 163; War-
ton's Essay on, 163; Johnson
calls on Lord Marchmont for in-
formation concerning, iii. 382;
Johnson's Life of, iv. 10; hints
for, in D'Israeli's Literary Curio-
sities, 10 n.; his extraordinary
power of versification, 11; did
not excel in conversation, 13;
his friends, 14; Lord Somer-
ville's account of, 14; various
readings in the Life of, 15;
said to have had a sketch by
Bolingbroke as the foundation
of his Essay on Man, iii. 391;

Boswell says Homer plays the
bassoon, Pope the flageolet, iii.
270; his characters of men better
than those of women, ii. 90; his
early appreciation of Johnson,
90; his emotion in repeating the
last lines of the Dunciad, 90 n. ;
and Dryden, distinguished by
Voltaire, ii. 23.
Population, discussion on, ii. 103.
Porridge, Athol, a mixture of
whisky and honey, iv. 39.
Porter, Johnson desires to send a
cask of, to his friends in the
Hebrides, ii. 256.
Porter, Mrs., afterwards Mrs.
Johnson, i. 59, 60.

Miss Lucy, i. 14, 15, 54;
Johnson's letters to, after his
mother's death, i. 395-7; John-
son's new year's gift to, ii. 376;
Johnson's letter of condolence
with, 379; described, iii. 44;
Boswell visits, at Lichfield, iii.
400; inquires concerning the
family of Miss Doxy's lover,
414; Johnson's letters to, giving
a sad account of his own health,
and the state of his household, iv.
91; desiring her prayers, 301.

Captain George, Lucy
Porter's brother, death of, i. 400.
Johnson and the, iv. 32.
Porteus, Dr. Beilby, Bishop of
Chester, iii. 400.

Portmore, Lord, writes to inquire
after Johnson, iv. 194.
Portrait, the first one of Johnson
painted by Reynolds, soon after
the Dictionary was published,
and given by Reynolds to Bos-
well, i. 311; the second by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, ii. 139; Beau-
clerk inscribes on his portrait of
Johnson a motto from Horace,
iv. 123; and on that of Garrick,
lines from Shakespeare, iv. 51.

painting, Johnson thinks im-
proper for a woman, ii. 329.
Post-chaise, Johnson's delight in
travelling in, iii. 37, 190.

Pott, Archdeacon, his sermons re-
commended by Johnson, iii. 42;
attends Johnson in his last ill-
ress, iv. 169.

"Potted stories," a certain author,
"who lived upon," iii. 87.
Poverty, Johnson's, i. 44-7, 119,
238;
and wealth discussed, i.
350;
"The first approach to
riches is security from poverty,"
iv. 260; the misery of, to be
avoided by all virtuous means,
iv. 100; makes some virtues
impracticable, and others ex-
tremely difficult, a great enemy
to human happiness, 105.
Praise, exaggerated, most preju-
dicial, iv. 41, 42; Johnson's dis-
like of, iii. 243.
Prayer, Johnson's, on his wife's
death, i. 179; before the study
of law, ii. 12; on engaging in
politics, 13; forms of, discussed,
iv. 216; Johnson is asked to
compose some for family use, iv.

216.

Prayers for the dead, ii. 160.
Preaching, not generally plain

enough, ii. 122; cause of success
in, i. 363, 364; a woman preach-
ing, like a dog walking on its
hind legs, 367.

Prefaces by Johnson, to Lobo's
Abyssinia, i. 52; to the Life of
Father Paul, 99; to the Gent's
Magazine, 106, 107; to the Har-
leian Miscellany, 129; to a sys-
tem of Ancient Geography, 139;
to Mr. Dodsley's Preceptor, 141;
to the Dictionary, 229, 230; to
Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies, ii.
41; to Rolt's Dictionary of
Trade and Commerce, i. 284;
to Baretti's Lessons on Italian
and English, ii. 269.

Pringle, Sir John, President of the
Royal Society, iii. 62; Boswell
vainly desires to bring him and
Johnson together, 107.
Printer's devil, an author marries
a, iv. 53.

Printing in Scotland, the history
of, ii. 395; and the diffusion of
knowledge, iii. 84.

Prints, Johnson fits up a room
with, iii. 467.
Prior, instances of his borrowing,
furnished by Lord Hailes, iii.
386; abused by Johnson and
defended by Mrs. Thrale, ii. 86.

Sir James, his Life of Ma-
lone quoted, iii. 82.
Prison," Every island is a prison,"
line of a song, iii. 278.
"Profession de Foi du Vicaire
Savoyard," by Rousseau, Bos-
well's admiration for, ii. 28.
Professor in Antient Literature,
Johnson appointed, ii. 77.
Professorship, Anglo-Saxon. found-
ed at Oxford, by Dr. Richard
Rawlinson, iv. 108.
Profit, uncertainty of, in literary
undertakings, iv. 71.
Project, The, a poem by Richard
Tickell, iii. 320.
Pronunciation, Sheridan teaches
Wedderburn to correct his, i.
307; Johnson's, iii. 219; good,
to be attained, ii. 156; discus-
sion about, 158.
Property, literary, discussion on,

.241.

Propitiation, the peculiar doctrine
of Christianity, iv. 75.
Proposals, Johnson's, for an edition
of Shakespeare with notes, i.

250.

Protestants or Papists, all Chris-
tians agree in essential articles,
i. 321.

Proverb, a Spanish, about travel-
ling, iii, 306.

Prussia, Frederick II., King of,
valued himself on three things,
i. 345; his Memoirs of the House
of Brandenburgh, and his poetry,

346.
Psalmanazar, George, account of,
iii. 317 n., iv. 128.

Psalms, the Scotch version of, the
best, iii. 61.

Public amusements, Johnson ap-
proves of, ii. 165.

schools, the excellence of our
English, iii. 66; Mr. Canning
on, 65 n.

speaking discussed, ii. 310.
Virtue, a poem, by Dodsley,
Johnson called it "fine Blank,"
iii. 441.

Puffendorf maintained the right of
a schoolmaster to beat his
scholars, ii. 155.

Punch, conversation likened to a
bowl of, i. 260; Blacklock's
poem on, 260.

Punctuation, Lord Lyttelton's dif-
fidence about, iii. 81; Byron "a
sad hand at," 81 n.

Puns, Johnson's aversion to, iv.

bility of those who provoke
them, iii. 210.
Quantulumcunque, concerning mo-
ney, by Sir William Petty, i.
350.

Queen Anne's reign, eminent

writers in, i. 338.
Queen's Arms Club, the members
not to be "patriots," iv. 44.
Queensbury, Duke of, the patron
of Gay, ii. 334.

Duchess of, presents the
Clarendon MSS. to Oxford, iii.

14.

Queeny, Mrs.

Thrale's eldest
daughter so-called, iii. 409.
Questions, not the mode of con-
versation among gentlemen, iii.
54; Johnson's dislike of, iii. 278.
Quin, the actor, ii. 334.

Quintilian, quoted, on composition,
iv. 2.

Quotation, censured by Wilkes as
pedantry, iv. 56; defended by
Johnson, 56.

Radcliffe, Dr., the Master of Pem-

broke, i. 210; his travelling
fellowships, iv. 216.
"Rags will always make their ap-
pearance where they have a right
to do it," iv. 230.

Ralph, Mr. James, the story of
his having certain papers written
by the Prince of Wales, ii.
409.

Rambler, The, commenced, i. 149;

how the name was chosen, 149;
many papers in it very hastily
written, 151; collections for,
151-4; Hawkins's misstatement
concerning, 152; reception of,
155; Mrs. Johnson's praise of,
157; Edinburgh edition of, 157;
date of the last, i. 178 n.; a
paper in the, translated into
French, retranslated into Eng-
lish, and inserted by Murphy
in the Gray's Inn Journal, i.
281, 282; Johnson's mode of
writing for, iii. 89; Johnson

hears that the Empress of Russia
will have it translated into Rus-
sian, iv. 201.
Ramsay, Allan, his Gentle Shep-
herd, ii. 208; account of, iii.
264 n.; Johnson dines with,
iii. 382 n.; his death, iv. 277.
Ranelagh, promenade at, ii. 165 n.
Rank, Johnson's reverence for, i.
352-5.

Rann, John (Sixteen-String Jack),
highwayman, iii. 85.

Rapidity in writing, Johnson's, ii.

314.

Rasay, Johnson's pleasant remem-
brance of, iii. 161.

Rasselas, written by Johnson in a
week, to pay his mother's funeral
expenses, i. 269; Johnson finds,
twenty years afterwards, in a
chaise, and reads eagerly, 269 n.,
iv. 69; compared with Voltaire's
Candide, i. 270 n., iii. 353; suc-
cess of, i. 270; quotation from,
271;
Johnson calls it "a little
story book," i. 397; American
edition of, ii. 198.
Rawlinson, Dr. Richard, account.
of, iv. 108 n.

Ray, his collection of North
Country words, ii. 95 n.
Reading, Johnson's, at Oxford, i.
40; should be from inclination,
not as a task, i. 341, iii. 216-89;
"What is read without pleasure
is not often recollected or in-
fixed by conversation, and there-
fore drops from the memory,"
387; the foundation of know-
ledge must be gained by, ii.
328; snatches of, will not make
a Bentley or a Clarke, iii. 441;
"A man is a poor beast who can
read no more than he can utter,"
iii. 450; "Strange there should
be so little, in the world, and so
much writing," iv. 153.
Reasons of the Christian Religion,

Baxter's, Johnson thought the
best collection of evidences, iv.
168.

66 Reciprocate, Madam, let us,"
says Johnson, iii. 396.
Recommendation, "it is such a re-
commendation, as if I should
throw you out of a two pair of
stairs window and recommend
you to fall soft," iv. 237.
Reconciliation after a quarrel,
Johnson always eager to seek,
ii. 110.
Recovery, Johnson's quick, after
the paralytic stroke, iv. 164.
Reed, Mr. Isaac, supplies Johnson
with anecdotes and quotations,
iv. 3; his wonderful knowledge
of literary history, iv. 4.
"Refinement, life will not bear;
you must do as other people
do," iii. 196.

Registers, curious passage in one
of Johnson's, iv. 96.
Rehearsal, the comedy of the,
"has not wit enough to keep it
sweet," iv. 235.

Reindeer introduced into North-
umberland, ii. 164 n.
Religion, Goldsmith said, he takes
from the priests, as he takes
shoes from the shoemaker, or
coats from a tailor, ii. 202; few
people can tell anything about
their own, iii. 94.
Religious feeling, Johnson's early,
i. 37-9.

Remember, to, and to recollect, are

different things, iv. 76.
Remonstrance, The, a poem by
Mr. Stockdale, ii. 113.
Reserve, English, "Sir, we do not
enough understand the common
rights of humanity," iv. 131.
Residence, Johnson's places of, iii.
394.

Respublicæ, or Accounts of the

Principal States of Europe, iii. 96.
Resurrection of the dead, discussed
by Johnson with Mrs. Hall, iv.
49; on the sure and certain hope
of a blessed, iv. 148.
Retaliation, Goldsmith's, quoted, i.

375.

Retirement, The, a small poem by
Walsh in the London Magazine,
quoted many years afterwards
by Johnson, ii. 131.

Retort, Johnson's dexterity in, iv.
126, 127.

Reviews, by Johnson, in the
Literary Magazine, i. 241; and
reviewers of the day discussed,
iii. 80, iv. 149, 150.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, meets John-
son at the Misses Cotterell's, i.
187; his reported income in 1762,
292; visits Devonshire, accom-
panied by Johnson, 299; raises
his price to twenty guineas a head,
265; account of his prices, 265;
"without a rival," 288; the first
proposer of the club, ii. 2; the
party at his house when John-
son described his conversation
with the King, 56; dines with
Boswell, to meet Johnson, 89;
explains Johnson's free speaking
of his friends, 284; lends his
coach to Johnson and Boswell
to go to Twickenham, 329;
"When R. tells me something, I
consider myself possessed of an
idea the more," iii. 22;
"the
same all the year round," 61;
Johnson and Boswell dine with,
when Allan Ramsay related his
observations on Horace's villa,
264; Johnson and Boswell dine
with, and quarrel, 337; his
discourses to the Royal Aca-
demy, iii. 365; for which the
Empress of Russia presents him
with a gold snuff-box, 365;
Johnson dines with, 373; John-
son says he knows no one who
has passed through life with
more observation than, 430;
communicates certain particulars
to Boswell, iv. 124, et seq.;
Johnson invites him to join a
new club at the Essex Head,
182; his Discourses much ad-
mired by Johnson, 235; enter-
tains Johnson, Boswell, Lord