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Atterbury, Bishop, his expression on
the use of a diary, iii. 154; style
of his sermons commended, 155.
Attitudinising, J.'s aversion to, in
company, iv. 218.

Attorney, J.'s contempt for, ii. 85.
Auchinleck, estate and house of, i.
267; ii. 173; v. 302; deed of en-
tail, ii. 264, 271; v. 302.

Lord, Boswell's father,
character of, v. 299; entertains J.
at Auchinleck, 300; comes into
collision with J., 304; styles J.
the Ursa Major, 305.
Authors, J.'s kindness to small, iii.
250; attacks upon authors service-
able to them, iii. 253; v. 217;
Virgil's description of the entrance
into hell applicable to authors and
printing offices, v. 247.
Avarice, iii. 44, 216.

BACON, Lord, his works, and Mallet's
life of, iii. 130; precepts on con-
versation, iv. 161; History of
Henry VII., v. 173.

Badenoch, Wolf of, burns Elgin Ca-
thedral, v. 79.

Bad management, its miserable ef-
fects, iii. 213.

Bagpipe, J. fond of, v. 250.
Bagshaw, Rev. Mr. Bromley, letter

to, on Dictionary, ii. 166; on Mrs.
Johnson's death, iv. 235.

Ballow, Mr., J.'s law instructor, iii.

14.

Baltic, J.'s proposed voyage up the,
iii. 89.

Banff, town of, v. 76.

Banks, Sir Joseph, J. writes motto

for his goat, ii. 96; admiration of
J.'s sentence on Iona, v. 266.
Barber, Francis, J.'s servant, i. 129,
130, 131, 199; ii. 98; placed at
school by J., ii. 45; letters from
J. to, ii. 45, 77, 78; J.'s liberality
to, iv. 272.

Barclay, W., Oxford student, defends
J.'s Shakspeare, i. 290; v. 217.
Barclay and Perkins's brewhouse
(successors to Thrale), v. 95.
Baretti, Signor, ii. 43, 287; iii. 4,
61;
letters from J. to, i. 207, 212,
218; trial of, for murder, ii. 64 ;
J.'s liberality to, iv. 272.

Barnard, Mr., librarian to George
III., ii. 30.

Dr., Bishop of Killaloe, J.'s
regard for, iv. 85.

Barnes, Joshua, J.'s estimate of his
Greek scholarship, iv. 21.
Barrington, Hon. Daines, his Essay

on the Migration of Birds, ii. 160.
Barry, Dr., his Treatise on Physic,
iii. 20.

-, James, the artist, letter to
from J., iv. 140; grasp of mind
in his pictures, 154.

Bartalozzi, the engraver, the father
of Madame Vestris, iii. 72.
Bateman, Mr., of Christchurch Col-
lege, excellence of his lectures, i.

28.

Bath, J.'s visit to, iii. 26; letter from
a clergyman of, with J.'s answer,
iv. 109.

Bathurst, Lord, his testimony as to
"Pope's Essay on Man," iii. 270.
Dr. Richard, a valued
friend of J.'s, i. 97, 102, 129, 133,
138, 140; iv. 27.

Baxter, Richard, his works com-
mended, iv. 155, 162.

Bayle's Dictionary, a very useful

work, i. 246; discussion on his
works with Highland minister, v.

227.

Bear, epithet applied to J., with
Goldsmith's happy remark upon,
ii. 48, 223.

Beaton, Cardinal, his murder, v. 42.
Beattie, Dr. James, introduced to J.,
ii. 94; admired by J. and Mrs.
Thrale, i. 99; letter to, iii. 291;
his poem of the Hermit, iv. 132;
letter from Boswell to, v. 3; his
Essay on Truth, 13; his Ode on
Birth of Lord Hay, 72; his pen-
sion, 287.
Beauclerk, Topham, Esq., his cha-
racter, i. 136; J.'s night ramble
with, i. 137; dinner at his house,
ii. 152; dispute with J., iii. 258;
death of, 281, 283; J.'s affection
for, iv. 15; sale of his library, 77.
Lady Sydney (mother to
Topham), had no notion of a joke,
v. 236.
Beaumont and Fletcher, anecdote
of, ii. 217.

Beauty independent of utility, ii.
109; an insipid beauty, v. 183.
Beckford, Lord Mayor of London,
iii. 136.

Bedlam visited by J., ji. 239.
Beggar's Opera, J.'s opinion of, ii.

235.

Bellamy, Mrs., the actress, letter to

J. from, iv. 167.
Bentley, Dr. Richard, J.'s approba-
tion of, ii. 285; v. 135; English
verses by, iv. 23.

Bentham, Dr.,canon of Christchurch,
ii. 285.

Beresford, Mrs., and daughter, travel
with J. in coach to Oxford, iv.

194.

Berkeley, Bishop, his ideal system
refuted, i. 273; iv. 26; his learn-
ing, ii. 87.

Berwick, Memoirs of the Duke of,
by the Abbé Hook, iii. 192.
Betterton, the actor, inferior to
Foote, iii. 124.

Bible, Lowth and Patrick's commen-
taries, iii. 34.

Bibliothèque, J.'s scheme of, i. 160.
Binning, Lord (Langton's brother-

in-law), ii. 122; iii. 223.
Biography esteemed by J., v. 54;
defects as well as virtues should
be recorded, 188; literary biogra-
phy in England very defective,
190; King George III. proposes
literary biography to J., ii. 34.
Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Greek epi-
gram to, i. 84; his writing dull
compared with his conversation,
i. 84; had more anecdotes than
any man, v. 201; Letters to, by
J., i. 84, 161; Letter from, to J.,
i. 161.

Birmingham Market, attended by
J.'s father, i. 2; J.'s visits to his
friends there, i. 34; iv. 100, 254.
Bishops, few made for their learning,

ii. 227; v. 54; high degree of
decorum necessary in, iv. 59.
Bishop, a liquor relished by J.,

137.

i.

Blackfriars Bridge, its erection, i.

200.

Blacklock, Dr., the blind poet, i. 271;
v. 28; addresses letter to Boswell,
v. 328.

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Bodleian Library, Oxford, i. 154.
Boileau, iii. 235.

Bolingbroke, Viscount St. John, J.'s
striking character of, i. 148; said
to have supplied Pope with sub-
stance of his "Essay on Man," iii.
270.

Bones, human, J.'s horror at sight
of, v. 131; uses of old bones, iv.
141.

Bon mots, iii. 216.
Books seldom read unless purchased,
ii. 148; J. fond of looking at libra-
ries, ii. 234; such as are read with
pleasure, iv. 151; common for peo-
ple to talk from books, v. 301;
number of books in Skye, v. 208.
Booksellers liberal patrons of litera-
ture, i. 162, 173.

Boothby, Mrs. Hill, i. 32; Miss, iv.
46.
Boscawen, Hon. Mrs., iii. 223.
Boswell, James (the author), his an-
cestors, v. 11, 62; his character
drawn by himself, v. 32; his intro-

duction to J., i. 225; his account
of Corsica, ii. 51; elected a mem-
ber of the Literary Club, 155; ac-
companies J. to the Hebrides, 172;
his Journal of the Tour praised by
J., v. 178; resolves to write the
Life of J., v. 248; instance of his
servile attentions to J., v. 211; in-
sulted by J., at Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds's, iii. 227; his tendency to
jollity, v. 196, 205; a clubable
man, iv. 174; letters from J. to,
i. 274; ii. 10, 20, 48, 51, 73, 134,
170, 171, 178-184, 189-193, 200,
241, 242-244, 247, 263, 264, 266,
272; iii. 26, 55, 56, 59, 60, 66, 67
69, 79, 81, 84, 86, 89, 141, 143,
144, 187, 244, 248, 252, 265, 266,
277, 278, 280, 292, 297; iv. 56,
101, 108, 110-114, 117, 158, 171,
178, 180, 181, 182, 235, 256-258;
his Letters to J., ii. 21-23, 43, 93,
97, 174, 179, 180, 183, 189-192, 199,
246, 261, 271; iii. 55, 56, 57, 64,
67, 68, 69, 76, 80, 83, 85, 86, 88,
140, 142, 144, 147, 148, 186, 242,
251, 262, 265, 275, 277, 291, 294;
Letters from E. Dilley, iii. 72; from
Dr.Vyse, 82; from Mr. Langton,
283; from Dr. Blair, 270; from
Warren Hastings, iv. 53; from
Lord Thurlow, 225; to Garrick,
from Inverness, with Garrick's
answer, v. 276.
Boswell, Mrs, (the author's wife), her
marriage, ii. 92; her attentions to
J., ii. 174; v. 9; her witticism on
J.'s influence over her husband,
ii. 174; Letters of J. to, iii. 54,
85; iv. 113; answer, 115.

Veronica (author's daugh-
ter), v. 10.

Sir Alexander and James,
his sons, v. 182.

298.

Dr., his uncle, v. 29.

David, his brother, iii. 291,

Boufflers, Madame de, visits J., ii.

260.

Bowles, W., Esq., Heale, visited by
J., iv. 159.

Boyd, Hon. Charles, Slains Castle,
v. 67,

Boyd's Inn (White Horse), Edin-
burgh, v. 7.

Boy at school, happiest of beings, i.

260.

Braidwood, his academy for deaf
and dumb, v. 316.

Brandy, drink for heroes, iii. 257;
iv. 62.

Brett, Colonel, Mrs. and Miss, i. 93.
Bristol, J.'s excursion to, iii. 29.
British Poets, J.'s Lives of, terms
with publishers, iii. 77.

Brocklesby, Dr. Richard, iv. 125;
his liberality, [227; letters from
J. to, iv. 160, 237.
Brothers and sisters born to friends,
i. 184.

Brown, Sir Thomas, his Anglo-Latin
diction and elevated style imitated
by J., i. 121; his remark concern-
ing devils, iii. 197.

Brown, Tom, dedicates his spelling-
book to the universe, i. 7.

Capability, the landscape gar-
dener, iii. 269.

Brooks, Mrs., the actress, and her
father, v. 121.

Bruce, James, Esq., the Abyssinian
traveller, ii. 216.

Brutes not endowed with reason, ii.
160.

Buchan, Earl of, his refusal to go to
Spain as secretary, ii. 115.

Buller of, v. 69.

Buchanan, George, his elegant
verses to Queen Mary, i. 265; his
learning and genius, ii.,64; iv. 131.
Buckles, shoe, v. 64; J.'s silver
buckles, iii. 219.

Buck, a term ludicrously applied to
J., v. 145.

Budgell, Eustace, his suicide, ii.

148.

Bull-dogs, iii. 127.

Bull, one uttered by J., iv. 218.
Bunyan, John, praise of his "Pil-
grim's Progress," ii. 155.
Burgoyne, General, his disaster at
Saratoga, iii. 240.
Burial service, iv. 148.
Burke, Edmund, intended to answer
Berkeley, i. 274; his stream of
mind perpetual, ii. 287; his ap-
pearance in the House of Com-
mons, ii. 17, 87; J.'s remark on
seeing Burke's fine house and lands
at Beaconsfield, iii. 208; his con-

versational powers, iv. 21, 119,
189; v. 16; J. denies that Burke
had wit, 16, 168.
Burnet, Bishop, his "History of his
own Times," ii. 138; v. 225.
Burney, Dr. Charles, his "History
of Music," v. 48; his visit to J. in *
Gough Square, i. 185; his note of
J.'s sayings, ii. 261; recommended
by J. to friends in Oxford, iii. 247;
relates anecdote of J., iv. 99; let-
ters from J. to, i. 290; iv. 164,
242, 256.

-Miss Frances, afterwards Ma-
dame D'Arblay, iv.154, 188; her,
imitation of J.'s style, 265.
Busts of J., iv. 285.
Butcher, J. discourses on trade of, v.

195.

Bute, John, Earl of, Prime Minister,
when J. received his pension, i.
213; a theoretical man, ii. 228,
303;
his influence and nationality,
v. 159; Letters to, i. 215, 217.
--Ann, Countess of, married Lord
Strichen; her account of her mar-
riage, v. 74.

Butler, Samuel, the poet, ii. 154, 236;
v. 36, 177.

Butler, Bishop, his "Analogy," v. 29.
Butter, Dr. W., iii. 1, 103, 109.
Byng, Admiral, his epitaph, i. 178;
J.'s defence of, i. 177.

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Hon. John, letter on J.'s death,
iv. 282.

Byron, Lord, his simile of the struck
eagle, v. 174.

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Campbell, Principal, v. 61.
"Candide," Voltaire's, iii. 240.
Cant, iv. 152.

Card-playing, iii. 14.

Carlisle, Earl of, "Father's Revenge,"
iv. 169; poems by, iv. 85.
Carr, Rev. Mr., Episcopal Minister
in Edinburgh, v. 12.

Carte's "Life of the Duke of Or-
mond," v. 236.

Carter, Elizabeth, i. 61, 70, 71; iii.

113.

Cascade, Rorie More's, v. 163. 170.
Caste, J.'s defence of Oriental system
of, iv. 67.

Castiglione's" Il Corteggiano," v.

219.

Cat, story of dead, iii. 127.
Catalogue of J.'s works, iii. 216.
Catcot, George, iii. 30.
Catechismof Churchof England,v.47.
Cave, Mr. Edward, proprietor of Gen-
tleman's Magazine, i. 38, 54, 76;
J.'s Life of, i. 142. J.'s ode to,
i. 55; letters from, i. 77; letters
from J. to, i. 38, 50, 59, 60, 61, 69,
70, 110, 111.

Caves, remarkable, v. 155, 187.
Cawdor Castle, v.84; family of, v. 85.
Chambers, Sir Robert, ii. 23; v. 4, 7.
Sir William, architect, iv.

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Chatterton, his literary forgeries, iii.
29; iv. 104.
Cheating, ii. 220.
Chester, iii. 276-8.
Chesterfield, Lord, i. 97, 143-148;
iii. 32; iv. 224; J. dedicates plan
of Dictionary to, i. 97, 98; J.'s
quarrel with, i. 143-148; his papers
in the "World," i. 143; J.'s cele-
brated letter to, i. 145; iv. 95;
applies epithet of "respectable
Hottentot" to J.,i. 148; his puns,
ii. 138; "Letters to his Son," i.
148; ii. 213; Dilly's edition of
his works, iii. 238.

Cheyne, Dr. George, on the "English
Malady," i. 32; iii. 55; J.'s opinion
of his works, iii. 16; his rules for
living, v. 117.

Cheynel, J.'s "Life of," i. 126.
Chief, Highland, duty of, v. 161,
183, 218.

Children, education of, i. 9, 23, 260;
should not always be brought into
company, iii. 17.

China, manufacture of, iii. 109.
Chinese, remarks on the, iii. 228.
Cholmondeley, Hon. Mrs., iii. 173,
213; v. 196.

Church, attendance at, iii. 269; holi-
days of, ii. 292.

Cibber, Colley, i. 143, 231, 232; ii.

219; iii. 45, 123; Lives of the
Poets, iii. 18; Mrs., v. 91.
Clarke, Dr. S., i. 229; ii. 69; iii.

166.

Clark, Alderman, letter from J. to,
iv. 177.

Clarendon, style of, iii. 174.
Claret and Port, J.'s comparison
between, iii. 256.

Classical terms, modern use of, iii.
189; quotations, iv. 128.
Classics, iv. 151.

Clement Danes, St., Church of, ii.

139, 229; iii. 202; inscription in
J.'s pew at, ii. 138.

Clergy, Scotch and English com-
pared, v. 199.

Clerical decorum and dress, iv. 59, 60.
Clive, Lord, remarks on, iv. 225,
269.

-, Mrs., the actress, iv. 13.
Cloth, Scotch process of "wawking,"

v. 138.

Club in Fox Lane, formed by J., i.
102; Literary, founded by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, i. 277; Essex
Head, formed by J., iv. 174.
Coachmaker's Hall, religious meet-
ings at, iv. 61, 71.

Cobb, Mrs., ii. 299; iii. 275.
Cock Lane Ghost, i. 234, iii. 180.
Coll, island of, ii. 172; v. 23.
Colchester, siege of, i. 271.
Colman, George, ii. 206; iv. 220.
Colquhoun, Sir James and Lady
Helen, entertain J. at Rosedow,
v. 288.
"Collectanea," Dr. Maxwell's, ii.
78-88.

Colleges, bequests to, iii. 206.
Collins the poet, his melancholy, i.
219; J.'s "Life of,” i. 219.
Colson, Rev. Mr., letter to, from Gil-
bert Walmesley, i. 48.
Composition, instructions relative to,
iii. 293; v. 44.

Compositor, story of a, iv. 218.
Compliment, letters of, to J. from
abroad, iv. 12.

"Comus," J.'s prologue to, i. 124.
Condescension, iv. 11.

Congreve, fine passage in "Mourning
Bride" of, ii. 59; Life of, iv. 45.
Congè d'elire, J.'s definition of, iv.

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