Johnson, his extreme grief for her loss, i. 174. 211. 230; ii. 343; iii. 272.372;
iv. 316.

.composes her funeral sermon, i. 179.

.visits Oxford, i. 203; and again, i. 271; ii. 386; iv. 258. 342.
.obtains his degree of A. M. from that university, i. 209.

.his letters on that occurrence, i. 213, etc.-The diploma, i. 215.
..declines taking holy orders, i. 245.

..loses his mother, i. 264.

.....obtains a pension of three hundred pounds per ann. i. 291, et seq.
See iv. 288.

........visits Cambridge, i. 383.

..created LL. D. by Trinity college, Dublin, i. 384; D. C. L. by Oxford
university, ii. 289, 290, 291, 292.

.......

.......

.his interview with the king, ii. 30, et seq.

.appointed professor of ancient literature in the Royal Academy, ii. 56.
.endeavours to get into parliament, ii. 114, et seq.

visits to the Hebrides, ii. 230. See Hebrides.

......

ii. 248, n.

.`Wales, ii. 247; Journal of his tour to, and extracts from,

France, ii. 333. 335.

..his account of it, ii. 338, 339, 340.

.his various places of residence, iii. 359.

.his long and gradual decline, iv. 204, 205.

..his various disorders, iv. 216. 231. 317, 336.

..medical opinions on his case, iv. 237, 238, 239.

..his proposed tour to Italy for his health, iv. 295. 302.

progress of his dissolution, iv. 365, to the end.

..his will and codicil, iv. 367, 368, 369, 370.-Remarks on them, iv.

370, 371, n.

his burning his MSS. iv. 371.

..his MS. account of his own life, iv. 372.

.his death, iv. 382.

.his funeral, iv. 383.

.his monuments and epitaphs, iv. 383. 386, 387, 388.

His character and manners.

..his peculiarities of person and manners, i. 15. 57. 60, 61. 98. 100, 101.
184. 186. 227. 380, 381, 382; ii. 288. 354; iii. 57. 317; iv. 164.
..his attention to small things, i. 366; iii. 297; iv. 294.

his candour, i. 315; iv. 171, 172. 215; increased as he advanced in
life, iv. 215.

..not a complainer, iv. 100. 154. 319; seldom courted others, iii. 279.
.not prone to inveigh against his own times, iii. 3. 202.

..a great observer of characters, iii. 16.

.does penance for a breach of filial duty fifty years after its commission,
iv. 339, n.

never courted the great, iv. 100, 101.

....never got entirely rid of his provincial pronunciation, ii. 405.
..by what means he attained his extraordinary accuracy and flow of
language, i. 148.

his visit to his native town, where he finds things altered, i. 290.
.his library, i. 340.

his love for the acquaintance of young persons, i. 348.

his observance of certain days, i. 379.

.his custom of talking to himself, i. 380.

his watch-inscription, ii. 48.

his amusements in his solitary hours, iii. 352.

his company sought by few of the great, iv. 101.

.general traits of his character and mode of living, i. 33. 57. 66. 311.

361; ii. 12. 97. 120. 143. 253. 263; iii. 6. 84. 145. 170. 275. 294; iv. 10.

17.50. 97. 165. 213. 276.

Johnson, his course of study desultory and irregular, i. 335; continued his
studies to near the time of his death, having read all Virgil's works through
in his seventy-fourth year, the Eneid, with great delight, in twelve nights,
iv. 197; his instructions for study, iii. 175; his early acquisition of general
knowledge, i. 348.

his manner of composing his poetical works, ii. 11; his Rambler, iii.
34; his censure of one of his Ramblers, iv. 3; at a late period of life could
have made his Ramblers better, iv. 281; his manner of composing his other
works, iii. 51, n.; never looked at his Rasselas since it was first published,
iv. 103.

wrote six sheets of translation from the French in one day, iv. 111;
wrote a hundred lines of the Vanity of Human Wishes in a day, ii. 11; com-
posed seventy lines of the Vanity of Human Wishes in a day, without putting
one of them on paper till all was finished, i. 138; wrote three columns of the
Gentleman's Magazine, containing Parliamentary Debates, in an hour, iv.
375; wrote forty-eight of the printed octavo pages of the Life of Savage at a
sitting, i. 119.

his style formed on sir William Temple's, a paper of Ephraim Cham-
bers respecting the second edition of his Dictionary, and sir Thomas Browne,
i. 161, 162. 164; iii. 230, n.; his own remarks on, and masterly vindication
of his style, iii. 157.

his extraordinary memory, i. 13. 20; retained in it verses of obscure
authors, ii. 234, n.; iv. 90.

iv. 166.

his superlative power of wit, ii. 198; his dexterity in retort, i. 306;

his conversation eminently distinguished by fecundity of fancy, and
choice of language, iii. 282; nothing of the old man in it, iii. 299; iv. 165.
his early, long, habitual, and systematick piety, i. 11. 36. 188. 379.
383; ii. 37. 55. 89. 120. 160. 183. 253. 310. 312; iii. 76. 83. 220, 221. 278.
337. 355; iv. 5. 248. 262. 336. 364. 376. 380.

his independence, i. 346.

his superstition, i. 381; ii. 341.

his awful fear of death, ii. 73. 85. 102. 263; iii. 137. 263; iv. 247.
255.271.

his general tenderness of nature, humanity, and affability, i. 47. 175.
197. 210. 232. 320. 326. 351; ii. 29. 37. 55. 88. 243. 265. 284. 404; iii.
66, 67. 114, 115, 123. 165, 166. 200. 273; iv. 106. 116. 162. 167. 187, 188,
189, n. 247. 252. 291. 359.

his warm, and sometimes violent manner, i. 184; ii. 65. 85. 101; iii.
19. 165. 241, 242. 258. 280. 300. 306. 340; iv. 96, 97. 154. 250.301.
his placability, ii. 88; iii. 241, 242.

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his charity, ii. 98.

his occasional jocularity, i. 145. 206, 207. 312. 333; ii. 64. 78. 225.
228.242. 397. 406; iii. 137. 142. 338; iv. 21. 72.

his invariable regard to truth, i. 105. 190. 275. 340; ii. 213. 381, 382;

iii. 205. 217. 262; iv. 40. 277.

174.

his love of little children, iv. 174.

his kindness to his servants, iii. 78; iv. 174.

his fondness for animals which he had taken under his protection, iv.

his bow to an archbishop, iv. 175.

his laugh, ii. 328.

his engaging to write the history of the author's family, iv. 175.
his respect to birth and family, i. 349; ii. 130. 151. 224. 287; iii.
314; iv. 148.

his love of good eating, i. 367; iii. 57. 167. 254; iv. 259.

his political character and opinions, i. 12. 238. 331. 337; ii. 51. 96.
99. 103. 134. 145. 167. 188. 279. 307. 321; iii. 3. 37. 140. 193. 252. 280.
289. 316; iv. 73. 123. 149.

his pamphlets, i. 96; ii. 90. 112, 113. 125. 249. 275, 276, 277, 278.

For his other works see their different titles, and see iv. 375.
Johnson, his general character summed up by the author, iv. 387.
catalogue of his works, i. xv.

catalogue of works proposed to be executed by him, iv. 347, 348, 349,
350, etc. See iv. 212. 376.

stories to his prejudice refuted, iii. 174, 175; iv. 151, 152. See Haw-
kins and Piozzi.

various portraits of him, iv. 384, 385.

Johnsoniana, the collection so called, ii. 381.
Johnston, sir James, iv. 257.

Jones, Miss, i. 248.

sir William, ii. 103, n.; iii. 342.

Jorden, Mr. i. 31, 32.

Journal, or diary of life, its utility, i. 258. 339; ii. 186. 311; iii. 153. 195. 204.
232; iv. 158.

Journey to the Hebrides contains a great deal that the world did not know be-
fore, iii. 288.

Ireland, and the Irish, i. 246, 247; ii. 206, 270; iii. 362.

Irene, Johnson's tragedy of, i. 64. 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73. 106.

acted, i. 142, 143, 144, 145.

Irishmen mix better with Englishmen than the Scots do, ii. 206.
Irish clergy, considerable scholars among them, ii. 110.

their disregard of quantity in Latin verse, ii. 110.

Islam, a description of, iii. 168.

Israeli, Dr. iv. 37, n.

Judges, ii. 299, 300.

Junius, ii. 112; iii. 334; iv. 277.

Juries, iii. 13, n.

Justitia hulk, an inadequate punishment, iii. 239.

K ought to be retained in the words, publick, musick, critick, etc. iv. 25.
Kames, lord, ii. 173.

his Elements of Criticism, ii. 71.

his Sketches of the History of Man, iii. 220. 302, 303. 313.

Kelly, Hugh, Johnson's prologue to his Word to the Wise, iii. 99.
curious anecdote of, iv. 374, n.

Kemble, J. P. esq. iv. 220.

Kempis, Thomas à, iii. 203; iv. 17. 254.

Ken, bishop, iii. 152, n.

Kennedy, rev. Dr. his Astronomical Chronology, i. 286.

M.D. a singular tragedy by, iii. 213.

Kennicot, Mrs. iv. 260. 262.

rev. Dr. ii. 105.

Kenrick, Dr. i. 392; ii. 51.

Killaloe, bishop of. See Barnard.

Killingley, Mrs. her curious address to the author, iii. 185.

Kindness, actual, always in our power, though fondness not, iv. 138.

King, rev. Dr. of St. Mary Hall, i. 214. 216, n. 271.

dissenting minister, iii. 258.

King Charles the first, second, James the second, George the first, second, third,
and William the third. See their respective initials.

Kings, their situations, i. 331. 345; ii. 145. 321.

Kippis, Andrew, D. D. his testimony to Johnson's eloquence as a speaker in
publick, ii. 117, n.

his new edition of Biographia Britannica, iii. 157.

Kneller, sir Godfrey, anecdote of, iii. 212.

Knight, lady, her communications concerning Mrs. Johnson, i. 58, n. and con-

cerning Mrs. Anna Williams, i. 362, n.

Knowledge, ii. 145. 161. 189. 314. 322; iii. 28; iv. 197.

the desire of, natural to man, i. 357.

however minute or inconsiderable, of some value, ii. 311. 393.

Langton, Bennet, esq. i. 184. 245. 254. 258, 259; ii. 161; iii. 145. 230. 233.
320. 324, n.; iv. 255.

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Johnson's high praise of his moral character, iii. 145; iv. 255.

Johnson's letters to, i. 221. 249. 258, 259. 278; ii. 12, 13. 38. 114.

124. 244. 314; iii. 109. 324; iv. 217. 242. 316. 327.

his Johnsoniana, iv. 1-27.

Miss Jane, Johnson's letter to, iv. 248.

Peregrine, esq. account of his admirable and genteel economy, ii. 13, 14.
Languages, i. 374; ii. 24, 25. 65. 133. 162; iii. 210; iv. 286.
Lansdown, marquis of, iv. 170.

Latin, Johnson's accurate knowledge of, ii. 355.

poetry, modern, ii. 322.

La Trobe, rev. Mr. iv. 376.

Lauder, William, his forgery against Milton, i. 170, 171, etc.

Laughter, the various modes of, indicate what kind of company the laugher has
kept, i. 351.

Laughers, the, the use of sometimes living with them, iv. 164.

Law, archdeacon, (afterwards lord bishop of Elphin,) iii. 368.

-'s Serious Call, i. 37; ii. 101.

Law, Johnson's intention of studying, i. 385.

his instructor, Mr. Ballow, author of the Treatise on Equity, iii. 18.
his opinion as to the study and practice of, ii. 7. 18. 40. 167, etc. 189;
iii. 162; iv. 281.

Law arguments on several cases, viz.

on schoolmasters and their duty, ii. 157, 158, 159.

vicious intromission, ii. 167.

rights of lay patrons, ii. 207.

Dr. Memis's case, ii. 323.

Stirling corporation's case, ii. 325.

entails, ii. 377.

liberty of the pulpit, iii. 46. 76.

registration of deeds, iv. 67.

case of the procurators of Edinburgh, iv. 112, etc.

Lawyers, great, often distinguished for general knowledge, as well as for their

knowledge of law, ii. 134.

Lawrence, Dr. i. 47; iv. 121.

letters to, ii. 260; iii. 371.

Lea, rev. Samuel, i. 22.

Learning, i. 357; ii. 160.

Lectures, their inutility, ii. 5; iv. 81.

Lee, Arthur, esq. iii. 57.

John, esq. (the late barrister,) iii. 202.

Leeds, duke of, iv. 10.

Leland, rev. Dr. Thomas, i. 385.

Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte, i. 269. 286; ii. 253; iv. 7. 251.

Lesley, Charles, iv. 262, n.

Leverian museum, iv. 300.

Levet, Mr. Robert, i. 180. 184. 340; ii. 245. 333; iii. 77; iv. 209.

Johnson's letters to, ii. 245. 333; iii. 77.

his death, iv. 121.

Johnson's elegiack verses on him, iv. 122.
a more particular account of, i. 181, n.

Lewis, the rev. Francis, i. 167.

Libels on the dead, and the general doctrine of, iii. 11. See Topham's case.
Libel bill, the late, superfluous, iii. 12, n.

Liberty, political and private, ii. 51.

subordination and order necessary to the enjoyment of true, iii. 339.
and necessity of the will, ii. 67. 82; iii. 259, 260; iv. 64.

Lichfield, remarks on, ii. 406, 407, 408.

Johnson's last visit to, iv. 338.

Liddel, sir Henry, his spirited expedition to Lapland, ii. 143, n.

Life, reflections on, ii. 103. 106. 194; iii. 42. 45. 146. 178; iv. 272. 296.
should be thrown into a method, that every hour may bring employment,
iii. 79.

Line, the improper use of that word, iii. 176.

Literary Club, í. 376; ii. 279; iii. 101. 250; iv. 164. 294.

Johnson's high opinion of it, iv. 156.

Literary frauds, i. 190, 191.-Instances of, i. 280, etc.; iv. 372, n.
property, i. 342; ii. 223. 235. 300; iv. 349, n.

men, the written accounts of their lives may be made as entertaining as

those of any other class, iv. 86.

Literature, state of, i. 235.

Lives of the English Poets, Johnson's, iii. 93, 94, 95, 96. 124; iv. 56, n. 57.
published, iii. 329; iv. 28. 137.

n. 141, n. 260, n.

critique on, and account of, iv. 31. 57. See iv. 56,

Lloyd, Mr. (the quaker,) ii. 400.

Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia, i. 50; iii. 6.

Lock, William, esq. (of Norbury Park,) iv. 35.

Locke, his plan of education imperfect, iii. 318.
Lockman, Mr. John, iv. 4.

Lofft, Capel, esq. iv. 254.

Lombe's silk-mill, at Derby, iii. 148.

London, its immensity, i. 330; ii. 310; iv. 180.

340.

its superiority over the country, ii. 61. 98. 102; iii. 4. 160; iv. 323.

Johnson's and the author's love of, i. 245. 360; ii. 238; iii. 4. 160;
iv. 323. 340.

art of living in, i. 66.

Johnson's poem of, i. 78, 79. 84, 85, etc. 139.

Chronicle, i. 244; ii. 82.

Long, Dudley, esq.

See North.

Longley, Mr. of Rochester, iv. 6.

Lort, rev. Dr. iv. 265, n.

Loudoun, countess of, iii. 325.

Loughborough, lord, i. 302.

Lovat, lord, epigram on, i. 130; and anecdotes of, i. 130, n.

Love, ii. 101. 229. 313. 402. See Marriage.

Loveday, Dr. John, ii. 222, n.

Lowe, (Johnson's schoolfellow,) i. 18.20; iv. 178, n.

Mr. Mauritius, the painter, iii. 337, n.; iv. 178. 189. 369, n.

Lowth, Dr. Robert, lord bishop of London, ii. 33.

Lumisden, Andrew, esq. ii. 351, n.

Luton Hoe, lord Bute's seat at, iv. 111.

Luxury and extravagance, ii. 144. 187; iii. 44. 251. 282. 310.
Lydiat, Thomas, i. 140, n.