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ABSENTEEISM, 329

Abstinence of Johnson, 126, 128, 246
"Abyssinia," Lobo's, 258

Accent, Scottish, easily detected, 168

INDEX.

Accent, provincial, often not disagreeable, 168

Actors, Johnson's prejudice against, 36, 311
Actors, merits of various, 454

Adams, Dr., 247, 467, 494

Adams's, Dr., eulogy of Johnson, 7

Adams, Miss, 469

Addison and Eustace Budgell, 269

Addison's style compared with Johnson's, 51
Address of the painters to George III. on his
accession, 86

Adventure of Johnson, Langton, and Beauclerk, 57
"Adventurer, The," 53, 58

"Adventurer, The," Johnson's interest in, 58
Advice to a gentleman as to marrying a woman of
superior talents, 140

Advice to Boswell, 430, 461
Advice to clergymen, 383
Advice to invalids, 430
Advice to travellers, 320

Affecting scene between Johnson and Boswell,
481

Affection of Johnson for his departed relations, 500
Affection of Johnson for his wife, 54

Affection of Johnson for the memory of his wife,
486

Agricultural improvement; its influence on popu-
lation, 151

Agriculture, Marshal's Minutes of, 347
Akerman, Mr., Governor of Newgate, 381

Alchymy, 228

Alcibiades' dog, 324

Allen, Mr. Edmund, 450

Amatory verses, 15

Ambition of Johnson to excel, 4

American Independence, 317

American War, 409

Americans, Johnson's ire against the, 341, 348
Amusements of Johnson's leisure hours, 372
"Anatomy of Melancholy," Burton's, 157
Ancestor, an, of Boswell, 309

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Baretti, Mr. Joseph, 89, 91, 93

trial and acquittal of, on a charge of
murder, 149

Baretti's account of Italy, praised by Johnson, 140
'Easy Lessons," 205

Ancient Literature, Johnson appointed Professor Barnard, Dr., 418

Ancient Britain, 353

Ancient Egyptians, 421

of, 142

Anderson, Mr. John, 291

Anecdote of Floyd and Derrick, 113

Barnes, Rev. Joshua, 390

Barrington, Hon. Daines, 348
Barry, Dr., 265

Anecdote of Johnson, while at Plymouth (1762), 93 Barry's pictures, 448

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Bath, Johnson at, 268
Baxter, Richard, 449

Boyse, Mr. Samuel, 504

Brighton, Johnson at (1769), 143
Bristol, excursion to (1776), 269
British Parliament, corruption of, 317
Brocklesby, Dr., 436, 451, 486

"Bear," origin of this epithet applied to Dr. Brown, "Capability," 372

Johnson, 142

Beattie, Dr. 164, 165, 382
Beauclerk, Mr., 57, 338, 388

v. Johnson-Altercation, 368
dinner with, 189

death of, 378

Beauclerk's library, 415

Beauty and utility, discussion on, 170

Beauty in sounds, discussion on, 177

Bedlam visited by Johnson and Boswell, 227
Benevolence of Johnson, 28, 228
Berenger, Mr., 411

Beresford, Mrs., 467
Berkeley, Bishop, 393
Bet Flint, 414

Bewley's enthusiasm for Johnson, 424
Bible, Johnson on Reading the, 271
Bibliothèque," projected (1755), 68
Biographer, duties of a, 302
Biographical Catechism, 494

Biographia Britannica," 308

Birch, Dr., letters to, 34, 52, 68

Birmingham, Johnson removes to, 13

Birmingham, Johnson retires to (1734), 15

Birmingham, Johnson at, 251

Birth of Johnson, I

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Tom, Johnson's second instructor. 3
Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, 217
Brutes, future life of, 139
Buchanan, George, 114, 149, 439
Buchanan's, George, Latin Pocins, 114
Budworth, Rev. Wm., 504
Bunyan praised by Johnson, 190
Burgoyne's Army, General, 360
Burial Service, 446

Burke, Edmund, 347, 392

in parliament, 160

Burke's defence of Johnson, 476

letter on America, 311

Burney, Mr. (afterwards Dr.), 68, 78, 79, 124, 331,
363, 489

Burney's, Mr., interview with Johnson in Gough
Square, 79

Burney and Johnson's conversation respecting
Christopher Smart, 98

Burney's Memoranda of Johnson's sayings, 237
Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," 157
"Burton's Books," 459,

Busts and Portraits of Johnson, 508
Butcher Row, 99

Bute, Earl of, 92, 93, 222
Butter, Dr., 257, 302, 304

Birthday, Johnson dislikes the mention of his, 303 Byng, Admiral, Johnson's defence of, 75

Bishops, deportment of, 407

Black dog, Boswell's, 377

Blackfriars-bridge, 86

Black-letter books, Johnson's love of, 157
Blacklock's poetry, 116

Blackmore, Sir Richard, his poem of "Creation,"

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recommendation of the Dictionary,

Speeches written by Johnson, 359

Cheyne, Dr. George, 264

Cheynel, Life of, 52

Children, Johnson's love of, 441
Choice of a wife, remarks on the, 144
Cholmondeley, Mrs., 349

Christchurch Meadows, Johnson sliding in, 7
Christian devotion, 449

Christianity, evidences of, 106, 112

Chronological list of Dr. Johnson's works, 511-514
Church livings, inequality of in England, 172
Church preferment offered to Johnson, 77
Churchill's poetry, criticism on, 103

Churton, Rev. Ralph, on Boswell's Johnson, 471
Cibber, Colley, 219, 276

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Johnson's criticism on, 99

Cibber's "Lives of the Poets," 264
Civil law, Johnson desires to practise, 27
Civil war (1745-6), 304

Clarendon

press and booksellers' profits, 242.

Claret, port, and brandy, 367

Classical education, advantages of, 113
Clergymen, advice to, 383

Clergyman, life of a, 345

Clerical discipline in the Church of Scotland,

171

Clerk, Sir P. J., and Mr. Perkins, 409

Clifton's eating house, Butcher Row, 99
Clive, Mrs., the actress, 387

Club, Queen's Arms', 410
Cock-lane ghost, 100, 334

Colchester, Johnson's veneration for, 116
"Collectanea" of Johnson, Rev. Dr. Maxwell's,
155

College life of Johnson terminates (1731), 11
Collins, the poet, Johnson's sympathy for, 65

character of in "Poetical Calendar," 94
Colson, Rev. J., letter to, from Walmesley, 18
Compositor, Johnson's apology to the, 477
Comus, prologue to, performed at Drury Lane
(1751), 52

Concluding reflections, 509
Confession, auricular, 272

Congreve at school with Johnson, 4

Conjugal infidelity, remarks on, 139, 263, 374
Convents, remarks on, 127
Conversation at table, 271

Conversation, Johnson's powers of, 310, 438
Conversation, Johnson's style of, 452

Conversation, Johnson's, in his last illness, 504
Conversation, Johnson's zeal for, 115
Conversation, requisites for, 433
Convulsive peculiarity of Johnson, 30
Cooke, Captain, 259

Cookery, Johnson promises to write a book on,
340

Copyists employed on Dictionary, 41
Cork, Countess of, 416

Corn-Laws in Ireland, 159

Correspondence of Boswell with Johnson (1771-2),

162, 163, 164

Corruption of the British Parliament, 317

Corsica, account of, published by Boswell, 137
Cotterell, the Misses, 56

Council of Trent, projected translation of, 20
Council of Trent, prospectus of, 27
Country life, 345, 359

Courtenay, Mr., on Johnson's Latin poetry, 8
Courtenay's, Mr., eulogy on Johnson's English
poetry, 40

moral and literary character of Dr.
Johnson, 51

Cowardice, Johnson's remarks on, 351
Cowdray visited by Johnson, 432
Coxeter's Collection of the Poets, 303
Crabbe's poem of "The Village," 436
Cradock, Mr., 267

'Creation," Sir Richard Blackmore's, 153
Creeds of the various Churches much alike, 166
Croft, Rev. Herbert, 402, 471

Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, supper at,
141, 175, 267

Cruikshank, Mr., 491
Curate's salaries, 297

DALRYMPLE, Sir David (Lord Hailes), 107, 111
Dame Oliver's school, 3

Dancing, Johnson on, 408

Davies, Mr. Thomas (the actor), 96, 199, 322,
329, 450, 491

Mr., excites the anger of Johnson, 199
Davies's Memoirs of Garrick, 382
Dead cat, Johnson and the, 312

Death, and the fear of its approach, 152

Death, General Paoli on the fear of, 302

Death, Johnson's horror of, 471, 500
Death, approaches of Johnson's, 500
Death of Johnson, 507

Debates in Parliament, 22, 31

Defence of Hastie, schoolmaster at Campbell-
town, dictated by Dr. Johnson, 174,
Deference shown by Johnson's schoolfellows, 4
De Foe, Daniel, 334

"Deformities of Johnson," 428

Degree of M.A. conferred on Johnson (1755), 65
De Groot (descendant of Grotius) admitted to the
Charter-house, 292.

Delany's" Observations on Swift," 329
"Demosthenes" Taylor, 349
Derrick and Floyd, anecdote of, 113
Derrick, remarks on his writings, 112
Desmoulins, Mrs., 322

Mrs., candidate for Matronship of
the Chartreux, 385

Despondency of Johnson, 426

Devotional feeling of Johnson at Harwich church,

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Dictionary republished (1773), 180
Differences among Christians, 312

Difficile est propriè communia dicere," 276

Dilly, Mr. Edward, 287, 293, 371, 459

death of, 371

Diploma of M.A., copy of, 67

Elphinston's translation of Martial, 332
Elwal, founder of a new sect, 169
Emigration, discussion on, 304
Eminent men at Pembroke College, II
Eminent persons, monuments to, 190
Energy of Johnson's diction, 349

Diploma of LL.D. from Trinity College, Dublin English bar, the, 474

(1765), 122

Diploma of LL.D., Oxford (1775), 217
Discordances of the Boswell family, 282

Discourses to the Royal Academy, Reynolds's,
364

Divorces, 358

Dixie, Sir Wolstan, 13

Doctors "Marley," "Heath," and "Moss," 407
Doctrine of the Trinity, 195,

Dodd, Dr., papers written by Johnson for, 298-

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Dodd's poem, "Thoughts in Prison," 335
Dodsley, Mr. Robert, 24, 248

Dodsley's "Preceptor," preface by Johnson, 42
66 Cleone," a tragedy, 391

Dossie, Mr., writer on agriculture, 388

Douglas cause, the great, 138, 187

Douglas, Dr., Bishop of Salisbury, 465

Englishmen, reserved manners of, 440
Epicurean propensities of Johnson, 116

Epigram on Johnson's Dictionary, Garrick's, 72
Episcopalianism and Presbyterianism, 151
Epitaph on a duckling, 2

Epitaph on Phillips, a musician, 31
Epitaph on Mrs. Johnson, 55
Erse dialect, 286

Erskine, Hon. Thomas, afterwards Lord Chan-
cellor Erskine, 172

Essays, hints for, by Johnson, 46
Essex Head club and its rules, 458

Expulsion of students from Oxford University for
Methodism, 176

Extravagance, conversation on, 358

FAILING health of Johnson (1783), 453
Falconer, Rev. Mr., a Scotch bishop, 365
Falkland's Islands, pamphlet on, 161

Draughts (game of) recommended by Johnson, 76 "False Alarm, The," a pamphlet published by

Dream of Johnson, 387

Dress, Johnson's attention to, 478

Drinking, Johnson on, 369

Driving, Johnson's love of, 304

Dropsy, Johnson attacked by, 459
Drummond, Mr. William, 132, 133

Dr., 367

Duel between Riddell and Cunningham, 445
Duelling, 173, 186, 445

Duke of Berwick's Memoirs," 340
Duke of Devonshire, character of, 311
Dunbar, Dr., of Aberdeen, 383
Duncombe, Mr. William, 348

Dundas, Mr. Henry, 319

Dunning, Mr., 327

Dyer, Samuel, 129

Dyer's "Fleece," 250

EARLY rising and its difficulties, 306
Early style of Johnson, 14

Earnest disputation, 464

East Indians and Chinese, civilisation of, 355
East Indies, fortunes made in the, 372
Ecclesiastical parties in the Scotch church, 165
Edensor inn, and landlord's idea of Johnson,
317

Edial House private academy, 17

Education of the poor by the State, 128
Education, remarks on, 237, 361

Edwards, an old fellow collegian, 344

Jonathan, on Grace, 341

Rev. Dr., of Oxford, 363

Egotism, remarks on, 350

Egyptians, ancient, 421

Elibank, Lord, 388

Eliot, Lord, 480

Ellis, Jack, the money scrivener, 262

Elphinston, Mr. James, letters to, 47, 48

Johnson, 154

Fame, conversation on, 333

Fame and immortality, 223

Farmer, Rev. Dr., of Cambridge, 154, 380

Farquhar, George, author of "The Beaux Stra
tagem," 387

Father's profits estimated by Johnson, 2
Ferguson, Sir Adam, 171

Fergusson, James, the astronomer, 150
Festivals and fasts, 252

Feudal system, discussion on the, 173

Fielding's and Richardson's works compared,
138

First religious thoughts, Johnson 5, 9
Fitzherbert, Mr., a literary man, 368
Fitzosborne's Letters, 379

Flageolet, Johnson's, 327

Flattery by a maid of honour, 350

Fleet-street, cheerful aspect of, 344

Fleming, Sir Michael de, 114

Flogging approved by Johnson, 4
Floyd and Derrick, anecdote of, 113
Fool or Rogue, 407
Foote, Mr., 275, 465

characteristics of his acting, 149
Foote's intended mimicry of Johnson defeated,

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France visited by Johnson, with Mr. and Mrs. Gay's "Beggars' Opera," 225

Thrale, 230-236

Austin Monks, 233

Cambray, 236

Chantilly, 235

Compeigne, 235

Ecole Militaire, 231

Fermor, Mrs., 233

Fontainebleau, 233

Gobelins, The, 232

Grand Chartreux, 235

General Advertiser, letter to, in reference to
"Comus," 52

General warrants, legality of, 144

Gentility and morality, remarks on, 219

Gentleman's Magazine, proposition for Johnson
to write for, 15

Gentleman's Magazine, Johnson's first contri-
bution to, 22

Foote's description of Johnson in Paris, 236 Gentleman's Magazine, Johnson's writings in, 29

King's Library, 234

Library of St. Germain, 235

Looking-glasses, the mode of making, 234

Palais Bourbon, 233

Palais Royal, 232

Paris, Johnson's description of, 231

Santerre, the brewer, 234
St. Cloud, 235

St. Denis, 235

Sèvre, 234

Society in France, 236

Sorbonne, 234

Trianon, 234

Versailles, 233

Francis's "Horace," 360

Francklin's, Dr., Demonax, 395

Frauds, literary, 88

George III., introduction of Johnson to His
Majesty, 134

Johnson's admiration of, 136

Johnson's account of his conver-

sation with, 136

Ghost, Cock-lane, 100
Ghost stories, 169

Ghosts, 173, 174

Ghosts, Johnson's opinion on, 100, 324
Gibbon, Mr., the historian, 225
Gibbon's "Decline and Fall," 249
Glossary of the vulgar tongue, 498
Goldsmith (Oliver), account of, 101

(Oliver), Johnson's opinion of, 101
arrested by his landlady for rent, 103
and Lord Camden, 347

and Dodsley, dispute between, 266
and Lord Shelburne, 436

and his tailor, 146

Frederick the Great, Johnson's criticisms on, Goldsmith's abilities criticised by Johnson, 189,

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Good Friday and Easter Sunday (1773), 183
Good Friday, shops open on, 223

Gordon (Lord George) sent to the Tower, 381
Gordon Riots (1700), 380

Gough-square, Johnson's residence in, 42
Gough-square, Burney's interview with Johnson
in, 79

"Government of the Tongue," 366, 367
Government, on principles of, 339.

Gower (Earl), Pope recommends Johnson to, 26
Graham, Miss (afterwards Lady Dashwood),
374

Grainger's "Ode on Solitude," 314
Sugar Cane," 250

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Grammar school, scheme for classes of a, 18
Granger's Biographical History, 282
Gray's Odes, criticism by Johnson, 215
Greece and Rome, characteristics of, 353
Greek, study of, 374.

Greenwich, Johnson's removal to, ao
Gresham College, 260

Grief for the loss of friends, 297
Grub-street, 439

Guardians, on the selection of, 372

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