Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

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  B — D, Mr., Johnson’s letter to, ii, 207. BABY, Johnson as nurse to one newborn, ii. 100. BABYLON, i. 250. BACH, ii. 364, n. 3. BACON, Francis, Advancement of Learning, i. 34, n. 1; argument and testimony, on, iv. 281; conversation, precept for, iv. 236; death, the stroke of, ii. 107, n. 1; delight in superiority natural, iv. 164, n. 1; Essays estimated by Burke and Johnson, iii. 194, n. 1; Essay of Truth quoted, iv. 221, n. 3; Essay on Vicissitude, v. 117, n. 4; healthy old man like a tower undermined, iv. 277; History of Henry VII., v. 220; introduction of new doctrines, on the, iii. 11, n. 1; Johnson intends to edit his works, iii. 194; ‘Kings desire the end, but not the means,’ v. 232, n. 4; Life by Mallet, iii. 194; ‘roughness breedeth hate,’ iv. 168, n. 2; Sanquhar’s trial, v. 103, n. 2; style, i. 219; Turks, their want of Stirpes, ii. 421; ‘who then to frail mortality,’ &c., v. 89; mentioned, i. 431, n. 2; ii. 53, n. 2, 158. BACON, John, R.A., Johnson’s monument, iv. 424, 444. BADCOCK, Rev. Samuel, anecdotes of Johnson, iv. 407, n. 4; White’s Bampton Lectures, iv. 443, n. 5. BADENOCH, Lord of, v. 114. BAGSHAW, Rev. Thomas, Johnson’s letters to him, ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 351. BAILEY, Nathan, v. 419. BAILY, Hetty, iv. 143. BAKER, Sir George, iv. 165, n. 3, 355. BAKER, —— , an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2. BAKER, Mrs., ii. 31. Bakers Biographia Dramatica, iv. 37, n. 1. Baker’s Chronicle, v. 12. BALDWIN, Henry, the printer, i. 10, 15; ii. 34, n. 1; iv. 321; v. 1, n. 5. BALFOUR, John, v. 39, n. 2. BALIOL, John, v. 204. BALLADS, modern imitations ridiculed, ii. 212. BALLANTYNE, Messrs., v. 253, n. 3. BALLINACRAZY, a young man of, iii. 252. BALLOONS, account of them, iv. 356, n. 1; failure of one, iv. 355-6; first ascent, iv. 357, n. 3; mere amusement, iv. 358; one burnt, ib.; paying for seats, iv. 359; wings, ib.; ‘do not write about the balloon,’ iv. 368; at Oxford, iv. 378. BALLOW, Henry, a lawyer, iii. 22. BALMERINO, Lord, i. 180; v. 406, n. 3. BALMUTO, Lord, v. 70, n. 1. BALTIC, Johnson’s projected tour, ii. 288, n. 3; iii. 134, 454. BALTIMORE, Lord, iii. 9, n. 4. BAMBALOES, v. 55, n. 1. BANCROFT, Bishop, i. 59. BANKS, Sir Joseph, admires Johnson’s description of Iona, iii. 173, n, 3; v. 334 n. 1; letter to him, and motto for his goat, ii. 144; funeral, at, iv. 419; Literary Club, i. 479; iii. 365, 368; proposed expedition, ii. 147, 148; iii. 454; accompanies Captain Cook, v. 328, n. 2, 392, n. 6; account of Otaheite, v. 246. BANKS, —— , of Dorsetshire, i. 145. BAPTISM, by immersion, i. 91, n. 1; sprinkling, iv. 289; Barclay’s Apology on it, ii. 458. BAR. See LAW and LAWYERS. BARBADOES, iv. 332. Barbarossa, ii. 131, n. 2. BARBAROUS SOCIETY, i. 393. BARBAULD, Mrs., Boswell, lines on, ii. 4, n. 1; Eighteen hundred and Eleven, ii. 408, n. 3; genius and learning, on the want of respect to, iv. 117, n. 1; Johnson’s style, imitation of, iii. 172; Lessons for Children, ii. 408, n. 3; iv. 8, n. 3; marriage and school, ii. 408; pupils, ib., n. 3; Priestley, lines, on, iv. 434; Richardson not sought by ‘the great,’ iv. 117, n. 1. BARBER, Francis, account of him, i. 239, n. 1; Johnson’s bequest to him, ii. 136, n. 2; iv. 284, 401, 402, n. 2, 440; death-bed, iv. 415, n. 1, 418; devotion to, iv. 370, n. 5; Diary, has fragments of, i. 27; iv. 405, n. 2; v. 427, n. 1; letters from: see JOHNSON, letters; prays with him, iv. 139; instructs him in religion, ii. 359; iv. 417; recommends him to Windham, iv. 401, n. 4; sends him to school, ii. 62, 115, 146; state after his wife’s death, describes, i. 241; Langton, visits, i. 476, n. 1; Lichfield, retires to, iv. 402, n. 2; sea, at, i. 348; returns to service, i. 350; mentioned, i. 235, 237; ii. 5, 214, 282, 376, 386; iii. 22, 44, 68, 92, 207, 222, 371, 400; iv. 142, 283; v. 53. BARBER, Mrs. Francis, i. 237; v. 427, n. 1. BARBEYRAC, i. 285. BARCLAY, Alexander, i. 277. BARCLAY, James, an Oxford student, i. 498; v. 273. BARCLAY, Robert, of Ury, ancestor of Barclay the brewer, iv. 118, n. 1; Apology for the Quakers, in Paoli’s library, ii. 61, n. 3; on infant baptism, ii. 458. BARCLAY, Robert, the brewer, account of him, iv. 118, n. i; anecdote of Boswell’s tablets, i. 6, n. 2; buys Thrale’s brewery, iv. 86, n. 2; holds money of Johnson’s, iv. 402, n. 2. BARD, a reverend, iii. 374. BARETTI, Joseph, account of him, i. 302; iii. 96, n. 1; Barber’s devotion to Johnson, describes, iv. 370, n. 5; Boswell, dislikes, ii. 97, n. 1; v. 121; calls not quite right-headed, iii. 135, n. 2; Carmen Sectilare, adapts the, iii. 373; character by Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 57, n. 3; at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1; by Miss Burney and Malone, iii. 96, n. 1; conversation, ii. 57; copy-money in Italy, on, iii. 162; Davies, quarrel with, ii. 205; Dialogues, ii. 449; ducking-stool, describes a, iii. 287, n. 1; Easy Lessons in Italian and English, ii. 290; English love of melted butter and roast veal, i. 470, n. 2; fees in England, on, v. 90, n. 2; Foote’s conversations, describes, iii. 185, n. 1; ‘French not a cheerful race,’ ii. 402, n. 1; French prisoners, i. 353, n. 2; foreigners in London, i. 353, n. 2; Frusta Letteraria, iii. 173; hatred of mankind, ii. 8; infidelity, ii. 8; Italian and English Dictionary, i, 353; Italy, revisits, i. 361; ii. 8, n. 3; Italy, account of the Manners and Customs of, ii. 57; Johnson, calls him a bear, ii. 66; charity, i. 302, n. 1; and Mr. Cholmondeley, iv. 345, n. 6; delight in old acquaintance, iv. 374, n. 4; in France, ii. 401, n. 3; habit of musing, v. 73, n. 1; ignorance of character, v. 17, n. 2; letters from, i. 361, 369, 380; memory, iii. 3l8, n. 1; v. 368, n. 1; payment for Rasselas, i. 341, n. 3; prejudice against foreigners, iv. 15, n. 3; and ‘Presto’s supper,’ iv. 347; and Mrs. Salusbury, ii. 263, n. 6; trade was wisdom, iii. 137, n. 1; verse-making, ii. 15, n. 4; want of toleration, ii. 252, n. 1; want of observation, iii. 423, n. 1; Journey from London to Genoa, i. 361, n. 3, 365, n. 2; languages, knowledge of, i. 361-2; ii. 386; London, love of, i. 371, n. 5; Madrid in 1760, v. 23, n. 1; Misella’s story, i. 223, n. 2; Newgate, in, ii. 97, n. 1; Pater Noster, ignorance about the, v. 121, n. 4; Piozzi, Mrs., attacked by, iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1; his brutal attack on her, iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1; portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; Rasselas, translates, ii. 208, n. 2; Reynolds’s Discourses, translates, iii. 96; robbers, never met any, iii. 239, n. 1; Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the, ii. 97, n. 1; Spectator, effect of reading a, iv. 32; Thrales, projected tour to Italy with the, iii. 19, 27, n. 3,97, n. 1; accompanies them to Bath, iii. 6; hopes for an annuity from them, iii. 96, n. 1; money payments from them, ib., 97; quarrels with them, iii. 96; apparent reconciliation, ib., n. 1; Thrale’s, Mr., grief for his son’s death, describes, iii. 18; his appetite, iii. 423, n. 1; Thrale, Mrs., flatters, iii. 49, n. 1; mentions her echo of Johnson’s ‘beastly kind of wit,’ ii. 349, n. 5; Tolondron, iv. 370, n. 5; Travels through Spain, i. 382, n. 2; tried for murder, ii. 94, 96-8; consultation for the defence, iv. 324; Williams, Mrs., describes, ii. 99, n. 2; mentioned, i. 260, 274, 278, 336. BARKER’S Bible, v. 444. BARNARD, Rev. Dr., Dean of Derry, afterwards Bishop of Killaloe, arbitrary power, in favour of, iii. 84, n. 1; Johnson’s charade on him, iv. 195; double-edged wit, ii. 307; draws up a Round-Robin to, iii. 84; and Garrick coming up to London, i. 101, n. 1; regard for him, iv. 115; writes verses on, iv. 115, n. 4, 431-3; kept his countenance, iv. 99; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; presents it with a hogshead of claret, iii. 238; Twalmley and Virgil, iv. 193; Wilkes, sarcasm on, iv. 107, n. 2. BARNARD, Dr. (Provost of Eton), account of him, iii. 426, n. 1; Johnson at Mr. Vesey’s, meets, iii. 425-6, ib., n. 4; breeding, does justice to, iii. 54, n. 1; mentioned, i. 449, n. 2. BARNARD, Francis, King’s librarian, ii. 33, 40; Johnson’s letter to him, 33. n. 4. BARNARD, Sir John, i. 503. BARNES, Joshua, attacked by Baxter, W., v. 376; dedication to the Duke of Marlborough, v. 376, n. 3; Greek, knowledge of, iv. 19; Homer and Solomon identified, iv. 19, n. 2; Maccaronic verses, iii. 284. BARNET, iii. 4; v. 428. BARNEWALL, Nicholas, iii. 227, n. 3. BARNSTON, Miss Letitia, iii. 413, n. 3. BARON, ‘the Baron and the Barrister united,’ iii. 16, n. 1. BARONET, story of a, v. 353. BARONETS, regular, v. 322, n. 1. BARRET, William, the Bristol surgeon, iii. 50. BARRETIER, Philip, education, his, ii. 407, n. 5; Johnson, resemblance to, i. 71, n. 1; Life, by Johnson, i. 148, 149, n. 3; Additions to the Life, i. 153; republished, i. 161. BARRINGTON, Hon. Daines, Essay on the Migration of Birds, ii. 248; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 436; Johnson seeks his acquaintance, iii. 314; Observations on the Statutes, iii. 314; mention
ed, iv. 112. BARRINGTON, Lord, v. 77, n. 2. BARRISTERS. See LAWYERS. BARROW, Dr., iv. 105, n. 4. BARROWBY, Dr., iv. 292. BARRY, Sir Edward, M.D., System of Physic, iii. 34. BARRY, James, the painter, — Burke, William, letter from, ii. 16, n. 1; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 436; French with the Irish, contrasts the, ii. 402, n. 1; Johnson, compliments, iv. 224, n. 1; letter from, iv. 202; praises his pictures, iv. 224; Reynolds, quarrels with, iv. 436; women, on the employment of, ii. 362, n. 1. BARRY, Spranger, the actor, i. 196, n. 3, 197; ii. 349, n. 6. BARTER, — , a miller, ii. 164. BARTOLOZZI, Francis, iii. 111; iv. 421, n. 2. BARTON in Yorkshire, i. 239, n. 1. BARTON, Mr. A. T., Fellow of Pembroke College, v. 117, n. 4. Bas Bleu, iii. 293, n. 5; iv. 108. BASKERVILLE, John, Barclay’s Apology, edition of, ii. 458; Virgil, ii. 67. Bastard, The, i. 166. BASTIA, i. 119, n. 1; ii. 4, n. 1. BAT, formation of the, iii. 342. BATE, Rev. Henry (Sir H. Dudley), account of him, iv. 296. BATE, James, i. 79, n. 2. BATEMAN, Edmund, tutor of Christ Church, i. 76. BATH, account of it, iii. 45, n. 1. Boswell and Johnson visit it in 1776, iii. 6; epigram on a religious dispute held there, iv. 289, n. 1; Goldsmith visits it, ii. 136; Gordon Riots, suffers from the, iii. 428, n. 4, 435, n. 1; Harington, Dr., iv. 180; ‘King of Bath,’ i. 394, n. 2, 455; lectures, i. 394, n. 2; ii. 7, n. 4; Miller, Lady, ii. 336; musical lessons, price of, iii. 422; Paoli visits it, v. 1, n. 3; smoking in the rooms, v. 60, n. 2; Thrale family visits it in 1776, iii. 6; in 1780, iii. 421; Mrs. Piozzi in 1816, v. 427, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 441; iv. 140. BATH, William Pulteney, Earl of, his oratory, i. 152; a paltry fellow, v. 339; ‘Pulnub’ and ‘Hon. Marcus Cato,’ i. 502; Williams’s, Sir C. H., lines on him, v. 268, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 239. BATHEASTON VILLA, ii. 336. BATHIANI, ii. 390. BATHS, cold, i. 91, n. 1; medicated, ii. 99. BATHURST, Colonel, i. 239, n. 1. BATHURST, Dr., account of him, i. 190, 242, n. 1; Adventurer, wrote for the, i. 234, 252, 254; Barber, F., his father’s slave, i. 239, n. 1; company of a new person, on the, iv. 33; death, i. 242, n. 1, 382; ‘hater, a very good,’ i. 190, n. 2; Johnson, letters to, i. 242, n. 1; ‘recommended’ by, i. 240, n. 5; medical practice, i. 242, n. 1; on slavery, iv. 28; mentioned, i. 183. BATHURST, first Earl, Pope’s friend, iii. 347; iv. 50; account of Pope’s Essay on Man, iii. 402-3; speeches, i. 151, 509. BATHURST, second Earl, Lord Chancellor; Dodd, Dr., attempts to bribe him, iii. 139, n. 3; writes to him, iii. 142. BATHURST, Lady, iii. 139, n. 3. BATHURST, Ralph, verses to Hobbes, iv. 402, n. 2. Batrachomyomachia, v. 459. BATRACHUS, iv. 445. BATTIE, Dr., iv. 161, n. 4. BATTISTA ANGELONI (Dr. Shebbeare), iv. 113. BATTLES, fighting, for a man, ii. 474. BATTOLOGIA, v. 444. Baudius on Erasmus, v. 444. Baviad and Maeviad, iii. 16, n. 1. BAXTER, Andrew, v. 81, n. 1. BAXTER, Rev. Richard, Call to the Unconverted, iv. 257; Johnson praises all his books, iv. 226; Kidderminster, sermon at, iv. 226, n. 2; Reasons of the Christian Religion, iv. 237; rule of preaching, iv. 185; scruple, troubled by a, ii. 477; suicide, on the salvation of a, iv. 225; toleration, on, ii. 253; mentioned, i. 205; v. 89. BAXTER, William, Anacreon. See ANACREON. Barnes, the antagonist of, v. 376; Horace, edition of, iii. 74, n. 1. ‘BAYES,’ character of, ii. 168; iii. 373. BAYLE, confutation of him by Leibnitz, v. 287; his Dictionary, i. 425; Life, by Des Maizeaux, i. 29, n. 1; Menage, his account of, iv. 428, n. 2; mentioned, i. 285. BEACH, Thomas, ii. 240, n. 4. BEACONSFIELD, Johnson visits it in 1774, ii. 285, n. 3; v. 460; Mackintosh visits it in 1793, iv. 316, n. 1. BEAR., See JOHNSON, bear. BEAR-GARDEN ‘Bruisers,’ i. 111, n. 2. BEARCROFT, — , a barrister, iii. 389, n. 4. BEATON, Cardinal, v. 63. BEATON, Rev. Mr., v. 227. BEATTIE, Dr. James, complains of Boswell, v. 96, n. 2; correspondence with him, ii. 148, n. 2; v. 15-16; Burns, praised by, v. 273, n. 4; ‘caressed by the great,’ ii. 264; conversation, iii. 339, n. 1; iv. 323, n. 2; English, describes a Scotchman’s study of, i. 439, n. 2; English and Scotch universities compared, v. 85, n. 2; Essay on Truth, editions and translations, ii. 201, n. 3; a thing of the past, v. 273, n. 4; Goldsmith’s opinion of it, ii. 201, n. 3; v. 273, n. 4; Johnson’s opinion of it, ii. 201, 203; v. 29; Forbes, Life by, v. 25, n. 1; Gray, visited by, v. 16; hackney coaches, No. 1 and No. 1000, sees, iv. 330; Hermit, iv. 186; Hume, controversy with: See above, Essay on Truth; Johnson’s Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3; gentler manner, speaks of, iv. 101, n. 1; letter from, iii. 434; praise of Hannah More, iii. 293, n. 5; regard for him, ii. 148, 149; his love of — , iii. 435, n. 1; use of wine, i. 103, n. 3; visits, ii. 141, n. 3, 142, 145, 203; v. 16; Monboddo’s hatred of Johnson, iv. 273, n. 1; Ode on Lord Hay, v. 105; original principles, his, i. 471; Oxford degree of D.C.L., ii. 267, n. 1; v. 90, n. 1, 273, n. 4; pension, ii. 264, n. 2; v. 90, n. 1, 360; Professor at Aberdeen, ii. 141, 145; v. 15; Reynolds’s allegorical picture of him, v. 90, n. 1, 273, n. 4; Robertson, compared with, ii. 195, n. 1; Thrale’s bequest to Johnson, on, iv. 86, n. 1; Warburton and Strahan, anecdote of, v. 92, n. 3; Wilkes, meets, iv. 101; wine, indulges in, iv. 330, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1, 205, 259, 265-6; iii. 82, 123; iv. 332. BEATTIE, Mrs., ii. 145, 148. BEAUCLERK, Hon. Topham, account of him by Boswell and Johnson, i. 248 250; Burke, ii. 246, n. 1; Johnson, iii. 420, 424; Langton, ib.; absent-minded, i. 249, n. 1; Adelphi, ‘box’ at the, ii. 378, n. 1; Addison’s Remarks on Italy, ii. 346; adultery, his, with Lady Bolingbroke whom he afterwards married, ii. 246; iii. 349; v. 303; Baretti and Johnson’s projected Italian tour, iii. 19; Baretti’s trial, ii. 97, n. 1, 98; ‘Beau,’ name of, ii. 258; ‘bear, like a word in a catch,’ ii. 347; Boswell an unnatural Scotchman, calls, iii. 388; zealous for his election to the Literary Club, ii. 235; v. 76; Charles II, descended from, i. 248; iii. 390, n. 1; chemistry, love of, i. 250; children, his, iii. 420; conversation, i. 248; iii. 390, 425; iv. 433; v. 76; little affected by his travels, iii. 352, 449, 458; Cumberland’s Odes, iii. 43, n. 3; Davies, Tom, clapping a man on the back, ii. 344; death, iii. 420, 424; dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 235. 325, 378, n. 1; iii. 354, 387; facility, wonderful, iii. 425; ‘frisk,’ his, i. 250; gambling at Venice, i. 381, n. 1; gaming-club, account of a, iii. 23; Garrick’s portrait, inscription on, iv. 96; Goldsmith and Malagrida, iv. 175, n. 1; health, his, ii. 292, 311; iii. 104, 417; Italy, tour to, i. 369, 381; Johnson, first acquaintance with, i. 248; accompanies to Cambridge, i. 487; affection for him, iv. 10, 99, 180; altercations with, iii. 281, 384; reconciliation, iii. 385; and Mme. de Boufflers, ii. 405; ‘coalition’ with, i. 249; dress as a dramatic author, i. 200, n. 4: and Thomas Hervey, ii. 32; and a Mr. Hervey, iii. 194-6, 209-211; Jacobitism, i. 430; levee, attends, ii. 118; marriage, i. 96; pension, saying about, i. 250; portrait, inscription on, iv. 180; and the two dogs, ii. 299; v. 329; use of orange peel, ii. 330; visits him at Windsor, i. 250; Johnson’s Court, veneration for, ii. 229; laboratory, his, ii. 378, n. 1; library, his, ii. 378, n. 1; sold, iii. 420, n. 4; iv. 105; sermons in it, ib.; Lilliburlero, effect of, ii. 347; Literary Club, original member of the, i. 477, 478, n. 2; describes it, ii. 192, n. 2, 274, n. 3; manner, his, acid, ii. 362, n. 2; lively, ii. 405; iii. 390; Montagu’s, Mrs., Essay, could not read, v. 245; mother, his, iii. 420; v. 295; Muswell Hill, house at, ii. 378, n. 1; Pope’s lines on Foster, mentioned, iv. 9; predominance over his company, iii. 390; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; same one day as another, iii. 192; satire, love of, i. 249; ‘see him again,’ iv. 197; Smith’s, Adam, talk, iv. 24, n. 2; Spence’s Anecdotes of Pope, iv. 9; story, mode of telling a, iii. 390; Thrale, Mrs., hated by, i. 249, n. 1; truthfulness, his, v. 329, n. 1; wife, treatment of his, ii. 246, n. 1; mentioned, i. 357; ii. 318, 379; iii. 209, n. 3; iv. 27, 33, n. 3, 76, 113; v. 103, 215. BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana, wife of Topham Beauclerk, account of her, ii. 246, n. 1; Boswell’s ‘apology’ for her, ii. 246; bet with her, ii. 330; charming conversation, ii. 240; Langton’s height, joke about, i. 336, n. 5; gives him Johnson’s portrait, iv. 96; nurses her husband with assiduity; ii. 292; left guardian of his children, iii. 420. BEAUCLERK, Lord Sidney, Topham Beauclerk’s father, i. 248, n. 2. BEAUCLERK, Lady Sydney, v. 295. BEAUFORT, Duchess of (in 1780), iii. 425. BEAUMONT, Francis, i. 75, n. 3. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, co-operation, their literary, ii. 334; Garrick’s ada
ptation of The Chances, ii. 233, n. 4; Seward’s edition of their plays, ii. 467. Beauties of Johnson, iv. 148-151, 421, n. 2. Beauties of the Rambler, i. 214. BEAUTY, independent of utility, ii. 166; iv. 167. BEAUX STRATAGEM, Archer quoted, v. 133, n. 1; acted by Garrick, iii. 52; Boniface praises his ale, ii. 461; is done good to by Latin, iii. 89, n. 2; Scrub, iii. 70. BECKENHAM, iv. 313. BECKET, T., the bookseller, ii. 294. BECKFORD, Alderman, account of him, iii. 76, n. 2; Chatterton’s gain by his death, iii. 201, n. 3; his English, iii. 76, 201; Lord Mayor, iii. 459; monument in Guildhall, iii. 201. BEDFORD, iv. 132. BEDFORD, fourth Duke of, attack on the ministry in 1766, iv. 316; vails, tries to abolish, ii. 78, n. 1; vice-roy in Ireland, ii. 130, n. 3. BEDFORD, fifth Duke of, iii. 284; iv. 126. BEDFORD, Hilkiah, iv. 286, n. 3. BEDFORDSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 399. BEDLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 374; curiosities of London, one of the, ii. 374, n. 1; houses built near it, iv. 208. BEER, allowance of, to servants and soldiers, iii. 9, n. 4. Beggar’s Opera. See GAY, John. BEGGARS, beg more readily from men than women, iv. 32; English compared with Scotch, v. 75, n. 1; many in want of work, iii. 401; their trade overstocked, iii. 401; mentioned, iii. 26. See ALMSGIVING. BEHMEN, Jacob, ii. 122. BELCHIER, John, the surgeon, iii. 57. BELGRADE, Siege of, ii. 181. BELIEF, attacks on it, iii. it; v. 288, n. 3. BELL, Dr., iv. 1, n. 1. BELL, Rev. Dr., ii. 204, n. 1. BELL, Rev. Mr., of Strathaven, iii. 360. BELL, Mrs., Johnson’s epitaph on her, ii. 204, n. 1. BELL, John, Travels, ii. 55. BELL, John, the bookseller, Lives of the Poets, ii. 453, n. 2; iii. 110. BELLAMY, Mrs., acts in Dodsley’s Cleone, i. 325, n. 3, 326; Johnson, letter to, iv. 244, n. 2. BELLEISLE, iii. 343, n. 2. BELLEISLE, The, a man-of-war, i. 378, n. 1. Bellerophon, i. 277, n. 4. BELSHAM, William, Essay on Dramatic Poetry, i. 389, n. 2. BEMBRIDGE, — , iv. 223, n. 3. BENEDICTINES. See PARIS, BENEDICTINES. Benefit, free, v. 243. BENEVOLENCE, motive to action, iii. 48: mingled with vanity, ib. BENEVOLISTS, The, iii. 149, n. 2. BENGAL, iii. 134, n. 1, 233, 455. BENNET, James, editor of Ascham’s Works, i. 464. BENSLEY, Robert, the actor, ii. 45. BENSON, William, his monument to Milton, i. 227, n. 4; v. 95, n. 2. BENTHAM, Dr. E., ii. 445. BENTHAM, Jeremy, on convict-labour, iii. 268, n. 4; Shelburne’s, Lord, wretched education, iii. 36, n. 1; fearlessness as a minister, iv. 174, n. 4. BENTLEY, Dr., attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 174; Barnes’s Greek, iv. 19, n. 2; Boyle, attacked by, v. 238, n. 1; Cunninghame, criticised by, v. 373; Epistles of Phalaris, iv. 443; Horace, Comments on, ii. 444; iii. 74, n. 1; Johnson, celebrated by, i. 153, n. 7; v. 174; ‘no man written down but by himself,’ i. 381, n. 3; v. 274; Pope and Homer, iii. 256, n. 4; Preface to his edition of Paradise Lost, iv. 24, n. 1; scholarship perhaps unequalled, iv. 217; Scotchman, not a, ii. 363, n. 4; studied hard, i. 71; iv. 21; v. 316; verses, his, iv. 23; Wasse’s Greek Trochaics, v. 445. BENTLEY, Richard, Junior, iv. 289, n. 1. BERESFORD, Mrs. and Miss, iv. 283-4. BERESFORD, Rev. Mr., iii. 284. BERKELEY, Bishop, Burke’s projected answer to his theory, i. 471; non-existence of matter, on the, i. 471; iv. 27; profound scholar, ii. 132; ‘reverie,’ his, iii. 165; Warburton’s ignorant criticism on him, v. 81, n. 1. BERRENGER, Richard, iv. 88, 90. BERWICK, ii. 266. BERWICK, Duke of, Memoirs, iii. 286. BESBOROUGH, Earl of, v. 263. BEST, H. D., Gibbon and the Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2; George Langton, and his pedigree, i. 248, n. 1; Johnson’s visit to Langton, i. 477, n. 1. BETHUNE, Rev. Mr., v. 208. BETTERTON, Thomas, iii. 185. BETTESWORTH, Rev. E., i. 464, n. 2. BETTESWORTH, Sergeant, iii. 377, n. 1. Betty Broom, iv. 246. BEWLEY, William, the Philosopher of Massingham, iv. 134. BEZA, ii. 289. BIAS the philosopher, iii. 312, n. 5. BIBLE, The, calculation for reading it in a year, i. 72, n. 2; Johnson reads it through, ii. 189, n. 3; should be read with a commentary, iii. 58; subscribing it instead of the Articles, ii. 151. Bibliopole, ii. 345. Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153. Bibliotheca Literaria, v. 445. Bibliothèque, Johnson’s scheme of a, i. 283-285. Bibl. des Fées, ii. 391. Bibliothèque des Savans, i. 323. BICKERSTAFF, Isaac, account of him, ii. 82, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 84. BICKNELL, J. L., i. 315. Big, Johnson’s use of the word, iii. 348; v. 425. Big man, ii. 14. BIGAMY, v. 217. Bills, i. 376. BINDLEY, James, i. 15. BINNING, Lord, ii. 186; iii. 331. Biographia Britannica, first edition, iv. 272, n. 4; Dr. John Campbell a contributor, ii. 447; Johnson asked to edit a new edition, iii. 174; edited by Kippis, ib.; account of it, ib. n. 3. BIOGRAPHICAL CATECHISM, iv. 376. BIOGRAPHY, authentic material difficult to get, iii. 71; best when autobiography, i. 25; can be written only by a man’s intimates, ii. 166, 446; iii. 155, n. 3; Goldsmith’s praise of it, v. 79, n. 3; Johnson’s excellence in it, i. 256; iv. 34, n. 5; fondness for it, i. 425; iii. 206, n. 1; iv. 34; v. 79; literary, ii. 40; v. 240; method of writing it, i. 32; men should be drawn as they are, i. 31; iv. 53, 395; v. 238; ‘common cant’ against it, iii. 275, n. 2; minute particulars to be given, i. 33; and peculiarities, iii. 154; rarely well executed, ii. 446; vices, how far to be mentioned, iii. 155; writing trifles with dignity, iv. 34, n. 5. BIRCH, Rev. Thomas, D.D., account of him by H. Walpole, i. 29, n. 2; by I. D’Israeli, i. 159, n. 4; anecdotes, full of, v. 255; conversation and writings, i. 159; correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 138; Cave, i. 139, 150-3; Johnson, i. 160, 226, 285; Earl of Orrery, i. 185; History of the Royal Society, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2; Johnson’s epigram to him, i. 140; Raleigh’s smaller pieces, edits, i. 226; Rambler, anecdote of the, i. 203, n. 6; Society for the Encouragement of Learning, member of the, i. 153, n. 2. BIRDS, migration of, ii. 248; nidification, 249. BIRKENHEAD, Sir John, v. 57, n. 2. BIRMINGHAM, — Birmingham Journal, i. 85, n. 3; Birmingham Daily Post, i. 85, n. 3; ‘boobies of Birmingham,’ ii. 464; book-shops, i. 36, 85, n. 3; buttons, v. 458; Castle Inn, i. 92, n. 1; cost of living in 1750, i. 103, n. 2; Directory for 1770, v. 458, n. 1; Edinburgh, likeness to, v. 23, n. 2; Hector’s house, ii. 456, n. 2; in 1741, i. 86, n. 2; Johnson’s head on copper coins, iv. 421, n. 2; reads The History of Birmingham, iv. 218, n. 1; resides there, i. 85-7, 90-6; visits it in 1761-2, i. 370, n. 5; in 1774, v. 458; in 1776 with Boswell, ii. 456; in 1781, iv. 135; in 1784, iv. 375; jealousy of the manufacturers, ii. 459, n. 1; Old Square, ii. 456, n. 2; rapid growth of population, iii. 450; riots of 1791, i. 86, n. 3; iv. 238, n. 1; Soho, ii. 459; St. Martin’s Church, i. 90, n. 3; Stork Hotel, ii. 456, n. 2; Swan Tavern, i. 85, n. 3. BIRNAM-WOOD, iii. 73. BIRTH, respect for. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON. Bis dat qui cito dat, ii. 290, n. 4. BISCAY, language of, i. 322. BISHOP, contradicting one, iv. 274; House of Lords, in the, ii. 171; how made, ii. 352; v. 80; Johnson dines with two Bishops in Passion Week, iv. 88-9; learning, their, iv. 13; dulness, ib. n. 3; liberties taken in their presence, iv. 295; losses and gain by preferment, iv. 286, n. 1; ‘necessity of holding preferments in commendam,’ iv. 118, n. 2; ‘Seven Bishops,’ iv. 287; tippling-house, at a, iv. 75; a rout, ib. See HIERARCHY. Bishop, a bowl of, i. 251. BISHOP STORTFORD, ii. 62. BISHOPRIC, resignation of a, iii. 113, n. 2. BISMARCK, Prince, iv. 27, n. 1. BLACK, why part of mankind is, i. 401. Black dog, the, iii. 414. BLACK-GUARDS, and red-guards, ii. 164, 251. BLACK-LETTER BOOKS, ii. 120. BLACKET, Sir Thomas, v. 148, n. 1. BLACKIE’S Etymological Geography, v. 237, n. 3. BLACKLOCK, Dr., blindness and poetry, i. 466; Hume, extolled by, iv. 186, n. 2; tutor to his nephew, v. 47, n. 3; Johnson, meets, v. 47; talks of scepticism, ib.; letter in explanation, v. 417; Poems, quotation from his, i. 334; mentioned, v. 394. BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, attorney, son of an, ii. 126, n. 4; teaches a school, i. 97, n. 2; Creation, his, ii. 108; honoured too much by attacks, ii. 107; Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3, 54-6; describes himself in the Life, iv. 55; saves him from the critics, ib., n. 1; Literary Club of Lay Monks, i. 388, n. 3; v. 384, n. 2; supposed lines on Prince Voltiger, ii. 108; Swift, ridiculed by, iv. 80, n. 1. BLACKSTONE, Sir William, Borough English, v. 320; Commentaries written when he had little practice, ii. 430; composed with the help of port wine, iv. 91; crown revenues, ii. 353; n. 4; Hackman’s trial, iii. 384; Hawkins’s Siege of Aleppo, approves of, iii. 259; House of Hanover, right of the, v. 202; legal succession, ii. 414, n. 2; Pembroke College, member of, i. 75; portrait in the Bodleian, iv.
91, n. 2; stultifying oneself, v. 342, n. 1. BLACKWALL, Anthony, i. 84; iv. 311, 407, n. 4. BLACKWELL, Thomas, Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, i. 309, 311. BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 467, n. 1. BLAGDEN, Dr., iv. 30. BLAINVILLE, H., ii. 346. BLAIR, Rev. Dr. Hugh, Boswell, letter to, iii. 402; Boswell’s lowing like a cow, v. 396; composed slowly, v. 67; conversation, his, iii. 339, n. 1; v. 397, n. 3; Dissertation on Ossian, i. 396; ii. 296, 302, n. 2; iii. 50; Johnson, in awe of, ii. 63; ‘den,’ i. 395; misunderstanding with, ii. 275, 278; record of a talk with, v. 398; Johnsonian style, remarks on the, iii. 172; Lectures on Rhetoric, iii. 172; Pope, anecdotes of, iii. 402-3; preached in a shamefully dirty church, v. 41; ‘Scotchman, though the dog is a,’ &c., iv. 98; Sermons, publication, iii. 97; price paid, iii. 98; popularity, iii. 167, n. 2, 211; Johnson praises them, iii. 97, 104, 109, 167, 211; iv. 98; but criticises the Sermon on Devotion, iii. 338; whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 387, 394. BLAIR, Rev. Dr. John, iii. 402. BLAIR, Rev. Robert, iii. 47, n. 3. BLAIR, Robert, Solicitor-General of Scotland, iii. 47, n. 3. Blake, Life of, i. 147, n. 5. BLAKESLEY, Dean, iv. 125, n. 4. BLAKEWAY, Rev. J., i. 15. BLANCHARD, —— , iv. 358, n. 1. BLANCHETTI, Marquis, ii. 390. BLAND, J., i. 123, n. 3. BLANEY, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 37; iv. 372. BLANK VERSE, Goldsmith and Gray’s estimate of it, i. 427, n. 2; Johnson’s estimate of it, i. 427; ii. 124; iv. 20, 42-3, 60; ‘verse only to the eye,’ iv. 43; described by a shepherd, ib., n. 1. BLASPHEMY, property in, v. 50. BLEEDING, habit of, iii. 152, n. 3. BLENHEIM PARK, Johnson had not seen it by 1773, v. 303; and Boswell visit it, ii. 451; and the Thrales, v. 458. BLIND, distinguishing colour by the touch, ii. 190. BLOCKHEAD, Churchill, applied to, i. 419; Fielding, ii. 173; Sterne, ib., n. 2; woman, a, ii. 456. BLOIS, i. 389, n. 1. ‘BLOOD,’ Johnson had no pretensions to it, ii. 261; Boswell’s pride in it, v. 51. BLOUNT, Martha, i. 232, n. 1. BLOXAM, Rev. Matthew, iii. 304. BLUEBEARD, ii. 181. BLUE-STOCKING MEETINGS, iii. 425, n. 3; iv. 108; v. 32, n. 3. BOARS, statues of, iii. 231. BOCCAGE, —— , ii. 390. BOCCAGE, Mme. du, makes tea à l’Angloise, ii. 403; her Columbiade, iv. 331; mentioned by Walpole and Grimm, ib., n. 1. BODENS, George, iii. 428, n. 4. BODLEIAN LIBRARY. See OXFORD. BOERHAAVE, Herman, attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4; executions, on, iv. 188, n. 3; Johnson, Life by, i. 140, 268, n. 2; ii. 372; resemblance to, iv. 430, n. 1; sleepless nights, iv. 384, n. 1. BOETHIUS (Hector Bocce), favourite writer of the middle ages, ii. 127; Johnson translates some verses by him, i. 139; tries to get his portrait, iv. 265. BOHEMIA, iii. 458. BOHEMIAN LANGUAGE, ii. 156. BOHEMIAN SERVANT, Boswell’s. See RITTER, Joseph. BOILEAU, corrected by Arnauld, iii. 347; ‘cultivez vos amis,’ iv. 352; despised modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 1; Imitation of Juvenal, i. 118; imitated by Murphy, i. 356, n. 1; ‘Le vainqueur des vanqueurs,’ &c., i. 261, n. 2; Life by Desmaiseaux, i. 29; on the neglect of a book, iii. 375, w.i. BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, first Viscount, Burnet’s History of his Own Time, ii. 213, n. 3; Booth’s Cato, v. 126, n. 2; crown revenues, ii. 353, n. 4; dictionary-makers, i. 296, n. 3; English historians, ii. 236, n. 2; Garrick’s Ode, i. 269; history to be read with suspicion, ii. 213, n. 3; authorised romance, ii. 366, n. 1; House of Commons, describes the, iii. 234, n. 2; Johnson’s attack on his fame, i. 268, 330; Leslie and Bedford, iv. 286, n. 3; Mallet’s edition of his Works, i. 268, 329, n. 3; Oxford, Lord, character of, iii. 236, n. 3; Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3; Pope, enmity against, i. 329; Essay on Man, share in, iii. 402-3; executor, iv. 51; friendship with, iv. 50, n. 4; Rome, references to, iii. 206, n. 1; schools, v. 85, n. 3; Shelburne’s (Lord) character of him, i. 268, n. 3; Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4; transpire, iii. 343. BOLINGBROKE, Lady, iii. 324. BOLINGBROKE, second Viscount, ii. 246, n. 1; iii. 349, n. 3. BOLINGBROKE, Lady, divorced from the second Viscount. See BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana. BOLOGNA, ii. 195; v. 115. BOMBAY, v. 55, n. 1. Bon Chretien, v. 414, n. 2. Bon-mots, instances of, iii. 322; ‘carrying’ one, ii. 350. Bon Ton, ii. 325. BONAVENTURA, i. 500. BOND, Mrs. iv. 402, n. 2. BONES, uses of old, iv. 204; Johnson’s horror at the sight of them, v. 169, 327. BONIFACE in The Beaux Stratagem, ii. 461; iii. 89, n. 2. BONNER, Bishop, i. 75, n. 3. BONNETTA of Londonderry, v. 319-20. BONSTETTEN, —— , v. 384, n. 1. Book of Discipline, ii. 172. BOOK-BINDING, i. 56, n. 2. BOOK-TRADE, ii. 425. BOOKS, abundance of modern, iii. 332; death, leaving one’s books at, iii. 312; early printed ones, ii. 399; v. 459; every house supplied with them, iv. 217, n. 4; getting boys to have entertainment from them, iii. 385; high price, complaints of their, i. 438, n. 2; Johnson’s letter on the book-trade, ii. 425; knowledge of the world through books, i. 105; talking from them, v. 378; looking over their backs in a library, ii. 364; poorest book, if the first, a prodigious effort, i. 454; prices at which they were sold: Boswell’s edition of Johnson’s Letter to Chesterfield, 105. 6d., i. 261, n. 1; Churchill’s Rosciad, 1s., i. 419, n. 5; Dodsley’s Cleone, 1s. 6d., i. 325, n. 3; Goldsmith’s Traveller, 1s. 6d., i. 415; Johnson’s London, 1s., i. 127, n. 3; Marmor Norfolciense, 1s., i. 143, n. 3; Observations on Macbeth, 1s., i. 175, n. 3; Vanity of Human Wishes, 1s., i. 193, n. 1; Irene, 1s. 6d., i. 198, n. 2; Rambler, 2d. a number, i. 209, n. 1; Rambler, 4 vols. in 12mo., 12s., i. 212, n. 3; Dictionary, 2 vols., 4l 10s., i. 290, n. 1; Idler, 2 vols., 5s., i. 335, n. 1; Rasselas, 2 vols. 12mo., 5s., i. 340, n. 3; Journey to the Western Islands, 5s., ii. 310, n. 2; Macpherson’s Iliad, two guineas, ii. 298, n. 1; Percy’s Hermit of Warkworth, 2s. 6d., ii. 136, n. 4; Pope’s ‘1738,’ 1s., i. 127, n. 3; Robertson’s Scotland, two guineas, iii. 334, n. 2; ‘quarterly-book,’ the, ii. 426; seldom read when given away, ii. 229; uncertainty of profits, iv. 121; variety of them to be kept about a man, iii. 193; Voltaire on the rapid sale of books in London, ii. 402, n. 1; willingly, not read, iv. 218. See READING. BOOKSELLER, a drunken, iii. 389. Bookseller of the Last Century, sale of The Rambler and Rasselas, ii. 208, n. 3; Newbery, v. 30, n. 3. BOOKSELLERS, Boswell’s vindication of them, ii. 426, n. 1; ‘Bridge, on the,’ iv. 257; copyright case, ii. 272, n. 2; copyright, their honorary, iii. 370; improvement in their manners, i. 305, n. 1; Johnson’s letter on the book-trade, ii. 425; uniform regard for them, i. 438; calls them liberal-minded men, i. 304; iv. 35, n. 3; literary property, their, iii. 110; London booksellers, denominated the Trade, iii. 285, n. 2; publish Johnson’s Lives, iii. 110; oppressors of genius, i. 305, n. 1; ii. 345, n. 2; patrons of literature, i. 287, n. 3, 305. BOOTH, Barton, the actor, account of him, v. 126, n. 2; manager of Drurylane, v. 244, n. 2. BOOTH, Captain, in Amelia, i. 249, n. 2. BOOTHBY, Sir Brook, i. 83. BOOTHBY, Miss Hill, Johnson’s friendship for her, i. 83; prescription of orange-peel, ii. 331. n. 1; supposed jealousy of Lord Lyttelton, iv. 57, n. 2; letters to her. See JOHNSON, Letters. BORLASE, William, History of the Isles of Scilly, i. 309. BORNEO, v. 392, n. 6. BOROUGH, corruption in a, ii. 373. Borough English, v. 320. BOSCAWEN, Hon. Mrs., iii. 331, 425; iv. 96. BOSCOVICH, Père, ii. 125, 406. BOSSUET, ii. 448, n. 2; v. 311. BOSVILLE, Squire Godfrey, invites Johnson to meet Boswell at his house, iii. 439; belonged to the same club as Johnson, ib.; mentioned, ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 359. BOSVILLE, Mrs., ii. 169. BOSVILLE, Miss, ii. 169, n. 2; afterwards Lady Macdonald, v. 147. BOSWELL, various spellings of it, v. 123-4. BOSWELL FAMILY, Johnson’s projected history of it, iv. 198. BOSWELLS of Fife, ii. 413. BOSWELL, Sir Alexander, Baronet, Boswell’s eldest son, birth, ii. 386; iii. 86; at Eton College, iii. 12; described by Scott, v. 385, n. 1; killed in a duel, ii. 179. n. 3, 386, n. 2. BOSWELL, David, a remote ancestor, ii. 413. BOSWELL, David (Boswell’s younger brother), devotion to Auchinleck, iii. 433; return to it, iii. 438; ill-used by Dundas, iii. 213, n. 1; Johnson, calls on, iii. 433-4; liked by him, 442; residence in Spain, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 182; leaves in consequence of war, 433-4. BOSWELL, David (Boswell’s third son), iii. 94; death, iii. 106, 109. BOSWELL, Dr., account of him, v. 394; Johnson, meets, v. 48; description of, iii. 7; mentioned, i. 437; iii. 116. BOSWELL, Euphemia (Boswell’s second daughter), ii. 422. BOSWELL, JAMES. CHIEF EVENTS OF HIS LIFE. 1740 Birth, October 29th, i. 147, n. 3. 1759 Keeps an exact journal, i. 433, n. 3. Enters at Glasgow University, i. 465. 1760 F
irst visit to London, i. 385. 1761 Publishes an Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady, and An Ode to Tragedy, i. 383, n. 3. 1762 Contributes to a Collection of Original Poems, ib. The Club at Newmarket, ib. Second visit to London, i. 385. 1763 Critical Strictures, i. 383, n. 3. Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine, ib. Gets to know Johnson, i. 391. Goes to study at Utrecht, i. 473. 1764 & 1765 Travels in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, iii. 122, n. 2; 463, n. 2. 1765 Visits Corsica, ii. 2. 1766 Visits Paris, ii. 3. Returns from abroad, ii. 4. Visits London, ii. 4-15. Admitted as an Advocate, ii. 20. 1767 Is acquainted with men of eminence, ii. 13, n. 3. Corresponds with the Earl of Chatham, ii. 59, n. 1. Dorando, a Spanish Tale, ii. 50, n. 4. Essence of the Douglas Cause, ii. 230. 1768 Visits London and Oxford, ii. 46-66. Account of Corsica, ii. 46. Raises a subscription to send ordnance to Corsica, ii. 59, n. 1. 1769 Visits Ireland, ii. 156, n. 3. Visits London, ii. 68-111. First visit to Streatham, ii. 77. Attends the Stratford Jubilee, ii. 68. Married, ii. 140, n. 1. British Essays in favour of the Brave Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1. 1770-1 Gap in his correspondence with Johnson of nearly a year and a half, ii. 140. 1772 Visits London, ii. 146-200. 1773 Visits London, ii. 209-263. Elected a member of the Literary Club, ii. 240. Gets to know Burke, ib. Tour to the Hebrides with Johnson, ii. 266. 1775 Visits London, ii. 311-377. Johnson assigns him a room in his house, ii. 375. Visits Wilton and Mamhead in Devonshire, ii. 371. Enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4. Birth of his eldest son, Alexander, ii. 386. 1776 Disagrees with his father about the settlement of his estate, ii. 412. Visits London, ii. 427-438; iii. 4-80. Becomes Paoli’s constant guest when in London, iii. 34. Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and Ashbourne with Johnson, ii. 438-475; iii. 1-4. Visits Bath, iii. 45-51. Introduces Wilkes to Johnson, iii. 64. 1777 Meets Johnson at Ashbourne, iii. 136-208. Begins The Hypochondriack in the London Magazine, iv. 179, n. 5. 1778 Visits London, iii. 222-359. Attacked violently by Johnson, iii. 337. The Hypochondriack, iv. 179, n. 5. 1779 Visits London (in the spring), iii. 373-394. Tries Johnson’s friendship by a fit of silence, iii. 394. Visits London (in the autumn), iii. 399-411. Visits Lichfield and Chester, iii. 411-415. The Hypockondriack, iv. 179, n. 5. 1780 The Hypochondriack, iv. 179, n. 5. 1781 Visits London, iv. 71-118. Visits Southill with Johnson, iv. 118-132. The Hypochondriack, iv. 179, n. 5. 1782 Death of his father, iv. 154. The Hypochondriack, iv. 179, n. 5. 1783 Visits London, iv. 164-226. Hopes for an appointment through Burke, iv. 223. Ends The Hypochondriack, iv. 179, n. 5. Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation, iv. 258. 1784 Stops at York on his way to London, iv. 265. Hurries back to Ayrshire with the intention of becoming a candidate for Parliament, ib. Visits London, iv. 271-339. Visits Oxford with Johnson, iv, 283-311. Johnson’s death, iv. 417. 1785 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, v. 2. Letter to the People of Scotland against the attempt to diminish the number of the Lords of Session, iv. 173, n. 1. 1786 Called to the English Bar, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5. First joins the Home Circuit, then goes the Northern, lastly returns to the Home Circuit, Letters of Boswell, p. 341, and iii. 261, n. 2. Third edition of the Journal of a Tour, v. 4. Canvasses Ayrshire, iv. 220, n 4. Courts Lord Lonsdale, ib. Elected Recorder of Carlisle, Gent. Mag. for 1788, p. 470. Takes a house in Queen Anne Street West, Cavendish Square, Letters of Boswell, p. 267. Takes chambers in the Inner Temple, iii. 179, n. 1. Death of his wife, i. 236, n. 1. Joins in raising a subscription for a monument to Johnson, Letters of Boswell, p. 317. 1790 The Letter from Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Chesterfield, i. 261, n. 1. A Conversation between George III and Samuel Johnson, ii. 34, n. 1. Suffers from Lord Lonsdale’s brutality, ii. 179, n. 3. 1791 The Life of Samuel Johnson, i. 9. Appointed Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy, iii. 462. Returns to the Home Circuit, Letters of Boswell, p. 341. 1792 1793 Second edition of the Life of Johnson, i. 13. 1794 1795 Death, May 19th, i. 14. BOSWELL, James, account of himself, i. 383, 404; iii. 416, n. 3; v. 51; birth, his, i. 147, n 3; death, i. 14; Account of the Kirk of Scotland, v. 213; accuracy: See below, Authenticity; activity, v. 52, n. 6, 168; Address to the King, carries an, iv. 265, 267; Advocate, admitted as an, ii. 20: See below, Counsel; affectation of distress, iv. 71, 379; allowance from his father of £300 a year, iii. 93, n. 1; Alnwick, visits, ii. 142; ambiguous prayer, his, iii. 391, n. 3; ambition, iii. 179, n. 1; America, ignorance of, ii. 293, 312, n. 4; Americans, sides with the, ii. 294, 312; iii. 205-7; iv. 81, 259; ancestry, Thomas Boswell, ii. 413; iv. 198; Veronica Sommelsdyck, v. 25, n. 2; Robert Bruce, ib.; Boswells of Balmuto, v. 70; anonymous mention of himself, ii. 14, 56, 84, 193, 227, n. 1, 330, n. 2, 436, n. 1, 449, n. 1; iii. 49, n 2, 57, n. 3, 237, n. 3, 407, n. 1; iv. 173, 274; antiquary, an, iii. 414, n. 3; archives, his, iii. 271, n. 5; 3O1, n. 1; army, wishes to enter the, i. 400; v. 52; fancies himself a military man, v. 125; Ashbourne, visits, iii. 127,131, 135-208; Auchinleck Castle, describes, i. 462; iii. 178; v. 379; authenticity, love of, i. 7; ii. 350, 434, n. 1; iii. 209, 299, n. 2; iv. 83; v. 1, 419; avidity for delight, iii. 415; bar, enters at the: See below, English Bar; Barbauld’s, Mrs., lines on him, ii. 4, n. 1; Baretti, dislike of, ii. 97, n. 1; Bath, visits, iii. 45; Bristol, 50; bear, led by a, ii. 269, n. 1; Beauclerk’s hit at his talk, ii. 192, n. 2; birth-day, ii. 69, n, 3; birth and gentility, love of, i. 490-2; ii. 261, 328-9; v. 51, 103, 380; birthright, granted his father a renunciation of his, ii. 415, n. 1; bishops, on, iv. 75; ‘Blood:’ See above, Birth and Gentility; boastful, iv. 193; Bologna, at, v. 115; books, slight knowledge of, ii, 360; Johnson buys him some, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 86-8, 91; Boswell, all that is comprehended in, ii. 382, n. 1; ‘Boswell, Mr. James, a native of Scotland,’ i. 190, n. 4; boy, longer than others, v. 308; ‘Bozzy,’ ii. 258; British Essays in favour of the brave Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1; Burke, visits, iv. 210; bustle, makes a, iii. 130, n. 1, 372 Cambridge, visits, ii. 335, n. 1; cards, spends a night at, iii. 377; Carlisle, invites Johnson to meet him at, iii. 107, 118, 123, 127; celebrated men, acquaintance with, ii. 13; iii. 64: See below, Great Men; changefulness, wretched, iii. 193; character, Johnson’s account of his, i. 474; ii 267, n. 4, 278, n. 1; v. 52; Paoli’s, i. 6, n. 2; Lord Stowell’s, v. 52, n. 6: See above, Account of himself; Chatham, Earl of, correspondence with the, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; Chester, visits, iii. 413; his journal there a log-book of felicity, iii. 415; ‘Chief, my Yorkshire,’ ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 439; children, his, ii. 265, 280, 386; iii. 366; blessed by a non-juring Bishop, iii. 372; loved by Johnson, iii. 436; church, not easy unless he goes to it, i. 418, n. 1; fondness for going, iii. 180; ‘would pray with a Dean and Chapter,’ iii. 375, n. 2; chymistry, his intellectual, iii. 65; citizen of the world, a, ii. 306; v. 20; classical quotation apt, v. 56; Clubable, iv. 254, n. 2; Cocoa-tree Club, at the, v. 386, n. 1; Collection of Original Poems, i. 383, n. 3; collection of Scotch words, begins a, ii, 91; and of Scotch antiquities, ii. 92; iii. 414, n. 3; consecrated ground, comfort in nearness to, v. 169; divinely cheered by the nearness of Carlisle Cathedral, iii. 416, 417; consecutive paragraphs, iii. 339, n. 1; iv. 223, n. 2; Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty, &c., ii. 34, n. 1; conspicuonsness, his, iv. 248, n. 2; convict unjustly condemned, ii. 285; correspondence with Adams, i. 8; iv. 376; Beattie, ii. 148, n. 2; v. 15; Blair, iii. 402; v. 398; Blacklock, v. 417; Chatham, Earl of, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; Cullen, iv. 263; Dempster, v. 407; Dilly, iii. 110; Elibank, Lord, v. 181; Forbes, Sir W., v. 413; Garrick, ii. 279, n. 1; iii. 371; v. 347-50, 382, n. 2; Hailes, Lord, i. 432; v. 406; Hastings, Warren, iv. 66; Hector, iv. 375; Johnson: See below, JOHNSON, and under JOHNSON; Langton, iii. 424; Monboddo, v. 74; Parr, iv. 47, n. 2; Percy, iii. 278; Pitt, iv. 261, n, 3; Rasay, v. 410-1; Robertson, v. 14, 32; Reynolds, iv. 259, n. 2; Thurlow, iv. 327, 336; Vyse, iii. 125; Wilkes, ii. 11, n. 3; iv. 224, n. 2; Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine, i. 383; Corsica, Account of: See CORSICA; Corsica, his head filled too much with it, ii. 22, 58, 59; his memory honoured there, ii. 3, n. 1; a tradition of him, ii. 451, n. 3; Corsicans, raises a subscription for the, ii. 59, n. 1; Counsel, engaged as, Douglas Cause, iii. 219,
n. 2; v. 378, n. 2; Ecclesiastical censure case, iii. 58; House of Lords, before the, ii. 144, 375, n. 4, 377, n. 1; iii. 219; House of Commons, iii. 224; iv. 73, 259, n. 1; Dr. Memis’s case, ii. 291; schoolmaster, prosecution of a, iii. 212; Society of Solicitors’ case, iv. 128; country-house, takes a little, iii. 116, 128; Court of General Assembly, despises pleading at the, ii. 381, n. 1; Court of Sessions, little dull labours, ii. 381, n. 1; Court of Session Garland, i. 432, n. 3; ii. 200, n. 1; Courtenay’s lines on him, i. 223; cow, lows like a, v. 396; cowardly caution, iii. 210-1; critical skill, v. 214; Critical Strictures, i. 383, n. 3, 409; critics ‘cannot or will not understand him,’ v. 259, n. 1; Cub at Newmarket, i. 383, n. 3; curiosity, his wise and noble, ii. 4, 59; Dalblair and Young Auchinleck, known as, v. 116; daughters, on the treatment of, ii. 420, n. 1; ‘dazzled’ by Johnson and Paoli, i. 460; death, at times not afraid of, iii. 153; debts, i. 2, n. 2; ii. 275; paid by his father, iii. 93; Johnson’s warnings, against incurring any, iv. 148-9, 152, 154, 163; dedications, his, i. 1; ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1; delights to talk of the state of his mind, iv. 249; describes visible objects with difficulty, v. 173, 219; desert, has wished to retire to a, ii. 75; Devonshire, visits, ii. 371; dignity, hardly possible uniformly to preserve, ii. 69, n. 3; acquires ‘dignity in London,’ 375, n. 4; dinners, gives admirable, ii. 59, n. 3; gives one to some Hebrideans and Highlanders, ii. 308, 380; goes without one, ii. 178; displays his classical learning, v. 15, n. 5; dissatisfaction, too much given to, iii. 225; Dorando, A Spanish Tale, ii. 50, n. 4; ‘Drawing-room’ dress, his, ii. 83, n. 1; Dresden, visits, i. 266, n. 2; drudges in an obscure corner, ii. 381, n. 1; duel, risk of having to fight a, ii. 179, n. 3; early rising, difficulty of, iii. 168; Easter meetings with Johnson, iv. 148. n. 2; elated at getting Johnson to the Hebrides, v. 215; Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady, i. 383, n. 3; elevated by pious exercises, iv. 122; English Bar, enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 178; eats his dinners, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 45, n. 1; called, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5; discouraging prospects, iii. 179, n. 1; takes chambers, ib.; attends the Northern Circuit, iii. 261, n. 2; discussion with Johnson on the way to success at the bar, iv. 309; enthusiasm of mind, solemn, iii. 122, n. 2; to go with Captain Cook, iii. 7; to go to the wall of China, iii. 269; feudal, iii. 178; v. 223; genealogical, v. 379; envy of Dundas’s success, ii. 160, n. 1; Epistle from Menalcas to Lycidas, i. 383, n. 3; Essays, his, iv. 179; Essence of the Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, n. 2; estate, income of his, iv. 154, n. i; 155, n. 4; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; exact likeness, draws an, i. 486; executions, love of seeing, ii. 93, n. 3; iii. 384, n. 1; iv. 328; executors, his, iii. 301, n. 1; ‘facility of manners,’ v. 19, n. 1; fame, ardour for literary, ii. 69, n. 3; iv. 50, n. 2; fancies that he is neglected, ii. 384; iii. 44, 135; that Johnson is ill or offended, ii. 410; that his wife or children are ill, iii. 4; at Stains Castle, v. 105; in a Highland inn, v. 139; farm, purchases a, iii. 207; father, his (Lord Auchinleck), death, iv. 154; disagreement with, i. 346, n. 2; ii. 311, n. 1; iii. 95; about heirs general and male, ii. 414-5; iii. 86; uneasy with him, i. 426; a timid boy in his presence, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 93, n. 1; on better terms with him, iii. 93, 95, 108, 212, 368, 442; dulls his faculties by strong beer before him, ii. 382, n. 1; Johnson, reproached by him as regards, ii. 381,72. i; v. 384, n. 1; Johnson’s advice about him, iii. 417; likeness to him in face, v. 84; feelings, avows his ardent, ii. 69; ‘fervour of Loyalty,’ iii. 113; fees made before the House of Lords, ii. 377, n. 1; feudal system, love of the, ii. 177; iii. 178; feudal enthusiasm, his, v. 223: see SUCCESSION, male; forwardness, ii. 449; Franklin, Dr., dines with him, ii. 59, n. 3; Free-will, love of discussing: see FREE-WILL; ‘gab like Boswell,’ v. 52, n. 4; Garrick, friendship with, iii. 371: see above, under Correspondence; genealogist, a, iii. 271, n. 5; George III, relation to, v. 379; ghosts, talks of, iv. 94, n. 2; disturbed by the cry of one, v. 237, n. 2; fearful of them, v. 327, n. 1; Gibbon, dislike of: see GIBBON, Edward; Glasgow University, a student of, i. 465; god, makes another man his, v. 129, n. 1; Goldsmith’s lodgings, visits, ii. 182; takes leave of him, ii. 260; affected by his death, ii. 279, n. 2; good-nature, described by Burke, iii. 362, n. 2; great men, hopes from, iii. 80, n. 2; Burke, iv. 223, 249, n. 1, 258, n. 2; Lonsdale, Lord, ii. 10, n. 1; iv. 220, n. 4; Pembroke, Lord, ii. 371, n. 3, iii. 80, n. 2; Pitt, iv. 261, n. 3; Rockingham ministry, iv. 148; seeking great men’s acquaintance, iii. 189; v. 215-6; Great man, really the, ii. 59, n. 3, 83, n. 1; quite the great man, iii. 396, n. 2, 413, n. 4; Greek, ignorance of, iii. 407; ‘Griffith, an honest chronicler as,’ i. 24; guardians to his children, iii. 400; Hague, at the, v. 25, n. 2; Handel musical meeting, at the, iv. 283, 285-6; happiest days, one of his, iv. 96-7; Hebrides, first talk of visiting the, i. 450; ii. 291; homme grave, ii. 3, n. 1; Horne Tooke, altercation with, iii. 354, n. 2; house in Edinburgh, his, iii. 155; v. 22, n. 2; Hume, intimacy with, ii. 59, n. 3, 437, n. 2; has memoirs of him, v. 30; humorous vein, v. 409; Hypochondriack, The, iv. 179, n. 5; hypochrondria, suffers from, i. 65, n. 1, 343; ii. 381, n. 1, 423; iii. 86-9, 215, 366, 418; iv. 379; pride in it, i. 65, n. 1; iii. 87, 421; ‘hypocrisy of misery,’ his, iv. 71; idleness, i. 465; imaginary ills: See FANCIES; imagination, should correct his, iii. 363; independency of spirit, v. 305; infidelity, his, in his youth, i. 404; says that ‘it causes ennui,’ ii. 442, n. 1; infidels, keeping company with, iii. 409; intellectual excesses, iii. 416; ‘intoxicated not drunk,’ ii. 436, n. 1: See below, WINE; Ireland, visits, ii. 156, n. 3; isthmus, compares himself to an, ii. 80; Italy, visits, ii. 11, 54; Jacobitism when a boy, i. 431, n. 1; associations connected with it, v. 140; January 30, old port and solemn talk on, iii. 371; Jeffrey, helped to bed by, v. 24, n. 4; Jockey Club, member of the, i. 383, n. 3; Johnson’s acquaintance, makes, i. 391; ii. 349; and calls on him, i. 395; under his roof for the last time, iv. 337; last talk, ib.; last farewell, iv. 339; advice on his coming into his property, iv. 155; advises him to stay at home in 1782, iv. 155; affection, tries an experiment on, iii. 394-7; assigns him a room in his house, ii. 376; iii. 104, 222; company, time spent in, i. 11, n. 1; complains of the length of his letters, iii. 86, n. 4; constant respectful attention to, ii. 357; consulted about America by, ii. 292, 312; conversation reported at first with difficulty, i. 421; copartnership in the tour to the Hebrides with, v. 264, 278; Custos Rotulorum, offers himself as, v. 364; describes him as ‘worthy and religious,’ iii. 394; Diary, reads, iv. 405-6; regrets that Mrs. Boswell did not copy it, v. 53; differed in politics on two points only from, iii. 221; iv. 259; dines for the first time at the house of, ii, 215; drawn by him as too ‘awful,’ ii. 262, n. 2; regrets losing some of his awe, iii. 225; easier with him than with almost any body, iv. 194; encourages him to turn author, i. 410; not encouraged to share reputation with, ii. 300, n. 2; exhorts him to plant, v. 380; faults, does not hide, i. 30; iii. 275, n. 2; firmness, supported by, v. 154; gaps in correspondence with, ii. 1, 43, 116, 140; iii. 394-5; gives him Les Pensées de Paschal, iii. 380; gives him a thousand pounds in praise, iii. 382; his guest for the first time, i. 422; his ‘Guide, Philosopher, and Friend,’ iii. 6; iv. 122, 420; imitates, ii. 326, n. 2; iv. 1, n. 2; invited to visit Scotland, ii. 51, 201, 232,264; joins in his bond at the Temple, ii. 375, n. 4; Journey, reads in one night, ii. 290; projects a Supplement to it, ii. 300, n. 2; keeps him up late drinking port, i. 434; iii. 381; leads, to talk, i. 6, n. 2, 398, n. 2; ii. 187; iii. 39; v. 159, 264, 278; letters to, ii. 2, 20, 22, 58, 107, 139, 141, 144, 203, 269, 270, 278, 279, 283-4, 290, 293, 295, 308, 380, 386, 406, 410, 422; iii. 86, 89, 91, 101, 105, 106, 107, 116, 122, n. 2, 126, 129, 132, 209, 211, 215, 219-222, 277, 359, 371, 391, 395, 411, 415, 433, 438; iv. 259, 379, 380; three letters kept back, ii. 3, n. 1; iii. 118, 122; keeps his letters, ii. 2; life, would add ten of his years to, iii. 438; love for, iii. 105; iv. 226, 259, n. 2, 337; v. 19; love for him, i. 405, 434, n. 1, 450, 462; ii. 3, 70, iii. 145, 205, 266, 359, 375, n. 4, 377, n. i, 383-4, 411; iii. 80, 86, 105, 123, 135, 198, 210, 215, 216, 312, 362, 391, 4
13-4, 435, 439, 442; iv. 71, 81, n. 3, 166, 226, 337, 379, 380; v. 398; loved by him and Mrs. Thrale, ii. 427; monument, circular-letter about, iv. 423, n. 1; projected monument at Auchinleck, v. 380; mysterious veneration for, i. 384; necessity of a yearly interview with, iii. 118, 127; neglects to write to, iii. 394-7; iv. 380; offended and reconciled, ii. 107, 109; heated in a talk about America, iii. 205-7, 221; a second time, iii. 315; a week’s separation, iii. 337; reconciliation, iii. 338; dispute about effects of vice on character, ii. 350; in a violent passion on Rattakin, v. 145; reconciliation, v. 147; offers to write a history of his family, iv. 198; pension, tries for an addition to, iv. 326-8, 336-9, 348; poems, projects an edition of, i. 16, n. 1; iv. 381, n. 1; praises him for vivacity, iii. 135, n. 2; good-humour, iii. 208, n. 1; as a travelling companion, iii. 294; v. 52; as one sure of a reception, v. 134, n. 2; proposes a meeting in 1780 with, iii. 424, 439, 441; proposes that they should meet one day every week, ii. 359; iii. 122, n. 2; proposes weekly correspondence with, iii. 399; publishes without leave a letter from, ii. 3, n. 2, 46, 58; may publish all after — death, 60; recommended to a lady client by, ii. 277; sadness in parting with, ii. 263; iii. 196; says that to lose him would be a limb amputated, iv. 81, n. 3; tries, by not writing, iii. 394-7; visits Harwich with, i. 464; the Hebrides, v. 1-416; Oxford, ii. 46; Oxford and the Midland Counties, ii. 438; Bath, iii. 45-51; Ashbourne, iii. 135-208; Southill, iv. 118-132; Oxford, 283-311; visits him ill in bed, iii. 391; and Wilkes together, brings, iii. 64-79; a successful negotiation, iii. 79; will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2; witty at his expense, i. 3; ii. 187; v. 216; yearly meeting with, need of a, iii. 439; Johnson’s Court, veneration for, ii. 229; Journal, in his youth keeps a, i. 433; by the advice of Mr. Lowe, ii. 159, n, 4; accuracy, its, asserted, ii. 65, n. 2; ‘exact transcript of conversations,’ v. 414; justification for keeping it, ib.; entries in it made in company, i. 6, n. 2; iv. 318, n. 1, 343; method of keeping it, v. 272; kept with industry, i. 5-6; four nights in one week given to it, i. 461-2; neglected, i. 6, n. 2; ii. 47, n. 2, 71, 352, n. 1, 372; iii. 354, 375, 376; iv. 88, n. 1, l00, 110, 274, n. 5, 311; v. 360, 374, 394, 398; advised by Johnson to keep one, i. 433; Johnson pleased with it, iii. 260; helps to record a conversation, ib.; v. 307; reminded that it is kept, iii. 439; kept in quarto and octavo volumes, iv. 83; Journal of his visit to Ashbourne, iii. 208; Johnson’s remark on it, iii. 209, n. 3; Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, extensive circulation, ii. 267; in spite of ridicule, iii. 190; editions and translation, ii. 267, n. 3; v. 3, n. 1; corrections made in part of first edition, v. 245, n. 2; passages omitted in the later editions, v. 148, n. 1, 381, n. 4, 387, n. 4, 388, n. 2, 415, n. 4; ‘an honest chronicler as Griffith,’ i. 24, n. 1; attacks on it, v. 3; Johnson’s life, exact picture of a portion of, v. 279; praised by him, i. 24, n. 1; motto, iii. 190, n. 1; read in MS. by Johnson, ii. 383, n. 2; v. 58, n. 2, 226, 245, n. 2, 262, 277, 307, 360, n. 4; by Mrs. Thrale, ii. 383; v. 245, n. 2; and Malone, v. 1; task of much labour, v. 227; juxtaposition of stories and names, iii. 40, n. 3; Knight-errant, feels like a, v. 355; knowledge at the age of twenty-five, ii. 9; Laird, seen as a, iv. 164; Lancaster Assizes, at, iii. 261, n. 2; Latin corrected by Johnson, ii. 20; defended, ii. 23; talked Latin in Highland houses, v. 321; law, ignorance of, ii. 21, n. 4; v. 108, n. 2; study of it, i. 400, 427; professor of it in the imaginary college, v. 108; lawyer, unwilling to become a, i. 400, 427; lay-patron, a, ii. 246; learning, praises his own, v. 52, n. 3; Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation (1783), iv. 258, 260-1; sent to Pitt, ib., n. 3; Letter to the People of Scotland against diminishing the number of the Lords of Session (1785), Burke, Edmund, mentioned, iv. 173, n. 1; George III, i. 219, n. 3; Goldsmith and Reynolds, i. 417, n. 1; juries judges of the law, iii. 16, n. 1; Lee, ‘Jack,’ iii. 224, n. 1; ‘Montgomerie, a true,’ his wife, ii. 140, n. 1; Thurlow, Lord, iv. 179, n. 2; universal man, Boswell a very, iii. 375, n. 2; vanity, owns his, i. 12, n. 2; Whitefield, ii. 79, n. 4; Wilkes, iii. 64, n. 3; v. 339, n. 5; letters: see CORRESPONDENCE; letters, reasons for inserting his own, v. 16; Liberty and Necessity, troubled by, iv. 71; Lichfield, visits in 1776, ii. 461; shown real ‘civility’ there, iii. 77; visits it in 1779, iii. 411; life, reflections on, iii. 164-6; Life of Johnson, additions to it, i. 10; Advertisement of it in the Tour to the Hebrides, v. 421; cancels, i. 520; ii. 2, n. 1; delayed by dissipation, i. 5, n. 2; Johnson approves of him as his biographer, i. 26; ii. 166, 217; iii. 196; v. 312; ‘claws,’ would not cut off his, i. 30, n. 4; death and character, how to describe his, iv. 399, n. 1; mode in which it is written, i. 30, n. 1; ‘new kind of libel,’ iv. 30, n. 2; printed by H. Baldwin: see BALDWIN; Odyssey, like the, i. 12; progress and sale, i. 9, n. 3 and 10; iv. 399, n. 1; translated, never, v. 3, n. 1; likes, a man whom everybody, iii. 362; Literary Club, a member of the, i. 478, n. 3, 481, n. 3; proposed by Johnson, ii. 235; v. 76; elected, ii. 240; Johnson’s charge, ib.; how he got in, v. 76; for meetings: see CLUBS, Literary; lodgings, his London, Downing Street, i. 422; Farrar’s Buildings, i. 437, 463. n. 3; Half-Moon Street, ii. 46, n. 2; 59; Old Bond Street, ii. 82; Conduit Street, ii. 166; Piccadilly, 219; Gerrard Street, iii. 51, n. 3; General Paoli’s in South Audley Street, iii. 35, 324; Inner Temple Lane, chambers in, iii. 179, n. 1; London, expedition to it highly improving, ii. 311, n. 1; increased spirits there, iii. 246; Johnson consulted about a visit to it, ii. 275-7; agrees to his removing to it, iv. 351; love of it, i. 463; ii. 275; iii. 5, 176, 363; London, visits, in 1760, i. 385; 1762-3, i. 385-464; 1766, ii. 4-15; 1768, ii. 46-66; 1769, ii. 68-111; 1772, ii. 146-200; 1773, ii. 209-263; 1775, ii. 311-377; 1776, ii. 427-475, iii. 1-80; (in 1777 Boswell met Johnson in Ashbourne, iii. 135-208); 1778, iii. 222-359; 1779, spring, iii. 373-394; autumn, iii. 400-411; 1781, iv. 71-118; 1783, iv. 164-226; 1784 (sets out in March but turns back at York, iv. 265), 271-339; Lonsdale, pays court to Lord, ii. 10, n. 1; brutality, suffers from, ii. 179, n. 3; looks forward to his future worth, ii. 58, n. 3; loose life, his, ii. 46, n. 1, 47, n. 2, 58, n. 3, 170, 352, n. 1; manners, want of, ii. 475; manuscripts, his, destroyed by his executors, iii. 301, n. 1; 344, n. 1; v. 30, n. 2; marriage, approaching, ii. 68, 70, 76, 110; takes place, ii. 140; thinks of a second one, iii. 199, n. 1; masquerade, at a, ii. 205; Matrimonial Thought, ii. 110; melancholy: see above, Hypochondria; military life, love of, i. 400; iii. 413, n. 4; mind ‘somewhat dark,’ ii. 381; ‘mingles vice and virtue,’ ii. 246; mob, reported to have headed a, ii. 50, n. 4; Montagu, Mrs., quarrel with, iv. 64; mother-in-law, his, ii. 377, n. 1; Mountstuart, Lord, friendship with, iv. 128; music, made a fool of by, iii. 197-8; mystery, love of, iii. 225; and the mysterious, iv. 94, n. 2; Naples, at, v. 54; narrowness, troubled with a fit of, iv. 191; nature, no relish for the beauties of, i. 461; ‘never left a house without leaving a wish for his return,’ iii. 412; newspapers, inserted notices of himself in the, ii. 46, n. 2, 71, n. 2; noble friend, puzzled by a, iv. 209; objects on the road, not observant of, iv. 311; Ode to Tragedy, i. 383, n. 3; v. 51, n. 3; Oglethorpe, flattered by, ii. 59, n. 1 and 3; old-fashioned principles, v. 131; ‘old-hock humour,’ i. 383, n. 3; ii. 436, n. i; ostentatious, i. 465; Oxford, visits, in 1768, ii. 46; in 1776, ii. 438; in 1784, iv. 283-311; ‘Paoli Boswell,’ known as, v. l23; ‘the friend of Paoli,’ i. 426, n. 3; ii. 58, n. 3; 59, n. 3; attention to him, beautiful, iii. 51, n. 3; guest in London, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 35, 51, n. 3; present of books to, ii. 61; parliament, wishes to be in, iv. 220, 267; perfection, periods fixed for arriving at his, ii. 46, n. 1; v. 337; piety, exalted in, ii. 360, n. 2; Pitt’s neglect, complains of, iii. 213, n. 1; dislikes him, iii. 464; writes to him, iv. 261, n. 3; place, longing for a, i. 5, n. 2; ii. 381, n. 1; players, intimacy with, iii. 413, n. 4; plays his part admirably, iii. 413; ‘all mind, iii. 415; pleasing distraction, in a, iii. 256; political speculation, owns himself unfit for, ii. 312, n. 4; portrait by Reynolds, i. 2, n. 2; Praeses, elected, iv. 248; preached at in Inverness chapel, v. 128; Quare adhaesit pavimento, iii. 261, n. 2; quotations sometimes inaccurate, i. 7, n. 1; quotes himself, v. 204, n. 1, 348, n. 4; changes wor
ds, ii. 45, n. 3; Rasselas, yearly reading of, i. 342; read, promises Johnson to, ii. 377, n. 1, 378, n. 1; sat up all night reading Gray, ii. 335, n. 2; reads Ovid’s Epistles, v. 295; reserve, practises some, i. 4; ii. 84, n. 3; retaliates for attacks on Johnson made by Lord Monboddo, ii. 74, n. 2; by Foote, ii. 95, n. 2; Reynolds, introduced to, i. 417, n. 1: See REYNOLDS, Boswell; ridicule, defies, i. 33; iii. 190; right-headed, said by Baretti to be not, iii. 135, n. 2; Rousseau, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2; visits him, ii. 11-12, 215; sympathy with him, ii. II, n. 3; Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1; letters of acceptance, iii: 370, n. 1, 462-4; seat reserved for him at a lecture, iii. 369, n. 2; Rudd, Mrs., acquaintance with, ii. 450, n. 1; iii. 79-80; rural beauties, little taste for, i. 461; v. 112; Scot, ‘Scarce esteemed a Scot,’ i. 223; Scotch accents, ii. 158, 159; Scotticisms, corrected, iii. 432, n. 2; v. 15, n. 4; criticised, 425; Scotch shoeblack, his, ii. 326; Scotland, forty years’ absence from it suggested to him, iii. 26; finds it too narrow a sphere, 176; its manners disagreeable to him, ii. 381, n. 1; vulgar familiarity of its law life, iii. 179, n. 1; suffers from its rudeness, ii. 381, n. 1; Scotchman, the one cheerful, iii. 388; a Scotchman without the faults of one, iii. 347; Scots Magazine, contributes to the, i. 112; self-tormentor, i. 470; Seward, controversy with Miss, i. 92, n. 2; iv. 331, n. 2; Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68; short-hand, uses a kind of, iii. 270; his long head equal to it, iv. 166; slavery, approves of, iii. 200, 203-5, 212; Smith, Adam, opinion of, ii. 430, n. 1; praises his facility of manners, v. 19, n. 1; Socrates, does not affect to be a, ii. 25; sophist, plays the, iii. 386; spy, charge of being a, ii. 383, n. 2; St. Paul’s, Easter worship in, ii. 171, 215, 275-7, 360; iii. 24, 316, 380; iv. 91; stepmother, on ill terms with his, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 95; storm, among the Hebrides, in a, v. 281-2; studies, Johnson’s advice as to his, i. 410, 457, 460, 464, 474; study, has a kind of impotency of, ii. 21, n. 4; succession, preference of male, ii. 387, n. ii, 411, n. 1, 420, n. 1; succession to the Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-23; superstition an enjoyment, ii. 318, n. 3; iv. 94, n. 2; dreams, i. 235, 236; iv. 379; Johnson’s relief from dropsy, iv. 272: See above, MYSTERY, and below, GHOSTS, and SCOTLAND-HEBRIDES, second sight; swearing, blameless of, ii. 166, n. 1; talk, not from books, v. 378; tanti-man, a, iv. 112; Temple, enter at the Inner: See above, English Bar; tenants, kindness to his, iv. 155, n. 1, 163; tenderness, calls for, iii. 216; Thesis in Civil Law, ii. 20, 23; Thrale, Mrs., introduction to, ii. 77; her ‘love’ for him, ii. 145, 206, 383; attacked by her, iv. 318, n. 1; v. 245, n. 2; argument with her, iv. 72; see under, MRS. THRALE; Thurlow bows the intellectual knee to, iv. 179, n. 2; toleration, discusses, ii. 252; Tory, boasts of the name of, iii. 113, 375, n. 2; confirmed in his Toryism, iii. 392, n. 2; town, pleasure in seeing a new, iii. 163; Travels, wishes to publish his, iii. 300, 301, n. 1; truthfulness: See AUTHENTICITY; ‘universal man, a,’ iii. 375, n. 2; ‘unscottified,’ ii. 242; Utrecht, goes to, i. 400, 473; vanity, avows his, i. 12; in his youth, i. 436, n. 3; variety of men and manners, sees a, ii. 352, n. 1, 378, n. 1; Voltaire, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2; visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5; vows, love of making, ii. 20, 24: see below, WINE, vows of sobriety; Walpole, Horace, calls on, iv. 110, n. 3; who is silent in his presence, iv. 314, n. 5; Warren, Dr., attended on his death-bed by, iv. 399, n. 5; water-drinking, tries: See below, WINE; welcome where-ever he goes, iii. 414; wife, his search of a, ii. 47, n. 2, 56, n. 2, 169, n. 2; wife, his, ‘a true Montgomerie,’ ii. 140, n. 1; his praise of her, v. 24; bargain with her, ib. n. 3; death, i. 236, n. 1; See BOSWELL, Mrs.; will, his, iii. 400, n. 1; Williams, Miss, tea with, i. 421, 463; ii. 99; Wilkes, dines with, ii. 378, n. 1: See under Wilkes, John; Wine, bruised and robbed when drunk, i. 13, n. 3; ‘intoxicated, but not drunk,’ ii. 436, n. 1; intoxicated at Bishop Shipley’s, iv. 88, n. 1; at Miss Monckton’s, 109; in Sky on punch, v. 258; penitent, v. 259; thinks it good for health, v. 260; Johnson advises him to drink less, ii. 377, n. 1; iv. 266; 274; to drink water, iii. 169; life shortened by his indulgence, iii. 170, n. 1; lover of it, a, iii. 243, n. 4; v. 156; nerves affected by port, i. 434, iii. 381; vow of sobriety under the venerable yew, ii. 381, n. 1, 436, n. 1; to Paoli and Courtenay, ib.; water-drinking, tries, iii. 170, n. 1, 328; wits, one of a group of, ii. 324; works, list of his projected, v. 91, n. 2 (to this list should be added An account of a projected Tour to the Isle of Man, iii. 80); writings, early, i. 383, n. 3; York, at, in 1784, iv. 265, 267; Zelide, a Dutch lady, in love with, ii. 56, n. 2. BOSWELL, Mrs. (the author’s wife), Boswell praises her as ‘a true Montgomerie,’ ii. 140, n. 1; a valuable wife, iii. 160, n. 1, 416; she describes him as a man led by a bear, ii. 269, n. 1; death, i. 7, n. 2, 236, n. 1; iv. 136, n. 2; health, iii. 130-1, 215, 362; iv. 155; Johnson, feelings towards, ii. 269, n. 1, 272, 275, 379, 380, 383, 387, 411, 412, 418, 420, 422, 424; iii. 86, 93, 95, 104, 105, 210, 372, 436, 442; iv. 149, 155, 226, 264; hospitality to, v. 23-4, 45, 395; invites her to his house, iii. 216, 316; letter to, iv. 157. For letters from — : See JOHNSON, Letters; sends marmalade to, iii. 105, 108, 120, 129; receives a set of The Lives and Poets, iii. 372, 436; Scotch accent, iii. 106; shrewd observation, her, iii. 160, n. 1; travelling, dislikes, iii. 219; mentioned, ii. 265, 416. BOSWELL, James, the author’s second son, birth, iii. 366; account of him, ib. n. 1; educated at Westminster School, iii. 12; describes Malone’s friendship with the Boswells, v. 1. n. 5; writes his father’s dying letter, i. 14, n. 1; supplies notes to the Life, i. 15. BOSWELL, Miss, ii. 378, n. 1. BOSWELL, Robert, burnt Boswell’s manuscripts, iii. 301, n. 1. BOSWELL, Thomas (founder of the family), ii. 413; iv. 198; v. 379. BOSWELL, Veronica, Johnson pleased with her, v. 25; origin of her name, ib. n. 2; additional fortune promised her, 26; death, ib. n. 1; her Scotch, iii. 105; mentioned, ii. 379; iii. 86, 93, 372. BOSWELL, Sir W., i. 194, n. 2. Boswelliana, variations in Boswell’s anecdotes, i. 454, n. 1; ii. 450, n. 4; story about Voltaire, iii. 301, n, 1. BOSWORTH, i. 84; ii. 473; iv. 407, n. 4. BOTANICAL GARDEN, iv. 128. BOTANIST, Johnson not a, i. 377, n. 2. “BOTTOM OF GOOD SENSE,” iv. 99. BOUCHIER, Governor, iv. 88. BOUFFIER. See BUFFIER. BOUFFLERS, Comtesse de, visits Johnson, ii. 118, 405; his letter to her, ib.; account of her, ib. n. 1. BOUFFLERS, Marquise de, ii. 405, n. 1. BOUHOURS, Dominic, ii. 90. Boulter’s Monument, i. 318. BOULTON, Matthew, sells power, ii. 459; Johnson visits his works, v. 458. BOUNTY HERRING-BUSSES, v. 161. BOUNTY ON CORN. See CORN. BOUQUET, Joseph, bookseller, i. 243, BOURBON, House of, iv. 139, n. 4. BOURDALOUE, ii. 241, n. 3; v. 311. BOURDONNE, Mme. de, ii. 241, n. 3. Bouts rimés, ii. 336. BOWEN, Emanuel, Complete System of Geography, iii. 445. BOWLES, William, Johnson dines with him, iv. 1, n. 1; visits him, iv. 234-9; his wife a descendant of Cromwell, iv. 235, n. 5. BOWLES, —— , of Slains Castle, v. 106, n. 1. BOWOOD, iv. 192, n. 2. BOWYER, William, iv. 369, 437. Box, a tradesman’s, v. 291, n. 4. BOYD, Hon. Charles, v. 97-107; ‘out in the ‘45,’ v. 99. BOYDS OF KILMARNOCK, v. 104. BOYDELL, Alderman, ii. 293, n. 2. BOYLE, family of, v. 237. See ORRERY, Earls of. BOYLE, Hon. Hamilton, (sixth Earl of Corke and Orrery), i. 257, n. 3; v. 238. BOYLE, Hon. Robert, Martyrdom of Theodora, i. 312; compares argument and testimony, iv. 281, n. 3. BOYSE, Samuel, account of him, iv. 407, n. 4, 441; compared with Derrick, iv. 192, n. 2. BRADLEY in Derbyshire, i. 82, 366. BRADSHAW, William, iv. 200, n. 2. BRAHMINS, admit no converts, iv. 12, n. 2; the mastiffs of mankind, iv. 88. BRAIDWOOD, Thomas, v. 399. BRAITHWAITE, Mr., iv. 278. BRAMHALL, Archbishop, ii. 104. BRAMSTON, James, i. 73, n. 3. BRANDY, the drink for heroes, iii. 381; iv. 79. BRANTOME, v. 55. ‘BRAVE WE,’ v. 360. Bravery of the English Common Soldiers, i. 335. BRAZIL, iv. 104, n. 3; language, v. 242, n. 1. BREAD TREE, ii. 248. BREEDING, good, ii. 82; v. 82, 211, 276. BRENTFORD, iv. 186; v. 369. BRETT, Colonel, i. 174, n. 2. BRETT, Mrs., i. 166, n. 4. BRETT, Miss, i. 174, n. 2. BRETT, Rev. Dr. Thomas, the nonjuror, iv. 287. BREWERS, thwart the ‘grand scheme of subordination,’ i. 490. BREWING in Paris, ii. 396. See THRALE, Henry. BREWOOD, iv. 407, n. 4. BREWSE, Major, v. 123-5. BRIBERY, statutes against, ii. 339. BRIDGENORTH, v. 455. BRIDGEWATER, Duke of, v. 359, n. 2. BRIGHT, Jo
hn, Speeches, quoted, ii. 480. BRIGHTHELMSTONE (Brighton), books burnt there as Popish, iii. 427, n. 1; Johnson describes it, iii. 92, n. 3; finds it very dull, iii. 93; does not much like it, iii. 442; stays there in 1782, iv. 159-60; other visits, iii. 452-3; Ship Tavern, iii. 423, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 45, n. 1, 397. BRILLE, iii. 458. BRISTOL, Boswell and Johnson’s visit in 1776, iii. 50; bad inn, iii. 51; Burke its representative, iii. 378; Hannah More keeps a school there, iv. 341, n. 5; Newgate prison, Savage dies in it, i. 164; described by Wesley, iii. 431, n. 1; Dagge, the keeper, praised by Johnson, iii. 433, n. l; Whitefield forbidden to preach in it, ib.; St. Mary Redcliff, iii. 51. BRISTOL, first Earl of, i. 106, n. 1. BRISTOL-WELL (Clifton), iii. 45, n. 1. BRITAIN, ancient state, iii. 333. BRITAIN and Great Britain, Swift dislikes the names of, i. 129, n. 3. BRITISH MUSEUM, library, iv. 105, n. 2; papers deposited by Boswell, ii. 297, n. 2, 307, 399, n. 2; mentioned, iv. 14. British Princes, The, ii. 108, n. 2. BRITON, Johnson’s use of the term, i. 129, n. 3; George III gloried in being born one, ib. BROADLEY, Captain, iii. 359. BROCKLESBY, Dr., account of him, iv. 176; Boswell and Johnson dine with him, iv. 273; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254; generosity towards Johnson and Burke, iv. 338; Johnson’s physician in 1783-4, iv. 229, n. 2, 230-1, 245, 262-4, 267, 360, 378; attends his death-bed, iv. 399; quotes Shakespeare, iv. 400; Juvenal, iv. 401; instructed by Johnson in Christianity, iv. 414,416; tells him that he cannot recover, iv. 415; bequest from him, iv. 402, n. 2. For Johnson’s letters to him, See JOHNSON, LETTERS. BRODIE, Captain, i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466. BROMLEY, i. 241; ii. 258; iv. 351-2, 394. BROOKE, Henry, Earl of Essex, iv. 312, n. 5; Gustavus Vasa, i. 140; subscription raised for him, i. 141, n. 1. BROOKE, Mrs., Siege of Sinope, iii. 259, n. 1. BROOKS, Mrs., the actress, v. 158. BROOKS, unchanged for ages, iii. 250. Broom’s Constitutional Law, iii. 87, n. 3. BROOME, William, iii. 427; iv. 49. Broomstick, Life of a, ii. 389. BROTHERS AND SISTERS, born friends, i. 324. BROWN, Dr. John, account of him, ii. 131, n. 2; Athelstan, ii. 131, n. 2; Barbarossa, ii. 131, n. 2; Estimate, ii. 131. BROWN, Launcelot, (Capability), account of him, iii. 400, n. 2; improves Blenheim park, ii. 451; anecdote of Clive, iii. 401. BROWN, Professor, of St. Andrew’s, v. 64. BROWN, Rev. Robert, of Utrecht, ii. 9; iii. 288. BROWN, Tom, author of a spelling-book, i. 43. BROWN, —— , Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, v. 40. BROWNE, Hawkins, iv. 272. BROWNE, Isaac Hawkins, delightful converser, ii. 339, n. 1; De Animi Immortalitate, v. 156; drank freely, v. 156; parodied Pope, ii. 339, n. 1; silent in Parliament, ii. 339. BROWNE, Patrick, History of Jamaica, i. 309. BROWNE, Sir Thomas, Anglo-Latian diction, i. 221; ‘Brownism,’ ib., 308; Christian Morals, i. 308; death, on, iii. 153, n. 1; ‘do the devils lie?’ iii. 293; fortitude in dying, iv. 394, n. 3; Life by Johnson, i. 308, 328; oblivion, on, iv. 27, n. 5; Pembroke College, member of, i. 75, n. 3. BROWNE, Mr., ‘a luminary of literature,’ i. 113, n. 1. Brownism, i. 221, 308. BRUCE, James, the traveller, ii. 333; v. 123, n. 3. BRUCE, Robert, Boswell’s ancestor, v. 25, n. 2, 379, n. 3; not the lawful heir to the throne, v. 204. BRUCE, ways of spelling it, v. 123. BRUMOY, Peter, i. 345. BRUNDUSIUM, iii. 250. BRUNET, —— , ii. 394. BRUNSWICK, House of. See HANOVER, House of. BRUTES, future life, their, ii. 54; misery caused them recompensed by existence, iii. 53; not endowed with reason, ii. 248. BRUTUS, Marcus Junius, i. 389, n. 2. BRUYÈRE, La, ii. 358, n. 3; v. 378. BRYANT, Jacob, his antediluvian knowledge, v. 458, n. 5; Johnson’s knowledge of Greek, v. 458, n. 5; mentioned, iv. 272; v. 303, n. 3. BRYDGES, Sir Egerton, ii. 296, n. 1; v. 384, n. 1. BRYDONE, Patrick, Travels, ii. 346; antimosaical remark, ii. 468; iii. 356. Bubbled, v. 29. n. 6. BUCCLEUGH, third Duke of, v. 142, n. 2. BUCHAN, sixth Earl of, ii. 173, 177. BUCHANAN, George, born solo et seculo inerudito, v. 182; Calendae Maiae, v. 398; Centos, ii. 96; Johnson’s retort about him, iv. 185; learning, v. 57; poetical genius, i. 460; ii. 96; mentioned, v. 225. Buck, v. 184, n. 3. BUCKHURST, Lord, v. 52, n. 5. BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, second Duke of, The Rehearsal, ii. 168, n. 2; Zimri, ii, 85, n. 4. BUCKINGHAM, Duchess of, iii. 239. BUCKLES, iii. 325; v. 19. BUDGELL, Eustace, calls Addison cousin, iii. 46, n. 3; Addison wrote his Epilogue to The Distressed Mother, i. 181, n. 4; iii. 46; mended his Spectators, ib.; his suicide, ii. 229; v. 54. BUDWORTH, Captain, iv. 407, n. 4. BUDWORTH, Rev. Mr., i. 84, n. 3; iv. 407, n. 4. BUFFIER, Claude, i. 471. BUFFON, account of the cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2; his conversation, v. 229, n. 1. Builder, The. King’s Head, i. 191, n. 5. Bulk, i. 164, n. 1, 457. BULKELEY, Lord, v. 447. BULKELEY, Mrs., ii. 219. BULL, Alderman, Lord Mayor, iii. 459-60; attacks Lord North, iii. 460. BULL-DOG, Dr. Taylor’s, iii. 190. BULLER, Mr., ii. 228, n. 3. BULLER, Mrs., iv. 1, n. 1. Bulse, iii. 355, n. 1. BUNBURY, Sir Charles, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; ii. 274, 318; at Johnson’s funeral, iv. 419. BUNBURY, H.W., Burns sheds tears over one of his pictures, v. 42, marries Miss Horneck, i. 414, n. 1; ii. 274, n. 5. BUNYAN, John, Johnson praises The Pilgrim’s Progress, ii. 238; Franklin buys his works, iv. 257, n. 2. BURBRIDGE, —— , i. 170 n. 5. BURCH, Edward, R.A., iv. 421, n. 2. BURGESS-TICKET, Johnson’s, at Aberdeen, v. 90. BURGOYNE, General, disaster to his army, iii. 355. BURGOYNE, —— , iii. 388, n. 3. BURIAL SERVICE, iv. 212. BURKE, D., iv. 358, n. 1. BURKE, Edmund, affection, on the descent of, iii. 390; Akerman, keeper of Newgate, praises, iii. 433; America, increase of population in, ii. 314, n. 3; American taxation, speech on, ii. 294; arguing on either side, on, iii. 24, n. 2; Bacon’s Essays, iii. 194, n. 1; balloon, sees a, iv. 358, n. 1; Baretti’s trial, gives evidence on, ii. 97, n. 1, 98; the consultation for the defence, iv. 324; Barnard’s verses, mentioned in, iv. 433; Beaconsfield, Johnson visits it, ii. 285, n. 3; ‘non equidem invideo,’ iii. 310; Gibbon mentions it, 128, n. 4; Beauclerk’s character, draws, ii. 246, n. 1; Berkeley, projects an answer to, i. 472; Bible, on subscribing the, ii. 151, n. 3; Birmingham buttons, likens the Spanish Declaration to, v. 458, n. 3; Boswell’s epithets for him, ii. 222, n. 4; good-nature, describes, iii. 362, n. 2; v. 76; hopes for place from him, iv. 223, 249, n. 1; Life of Johnson, admires, i. 10, n. 1; looks upon him as continually happy, iii. 5, n. 5; meets him for the first time, ii. 240; successful negotiation, admires, iii. 79; visits him, iv. 210; bottomless Whig, a, iv. 223; boy, loves to be a, iv. 79; Bristol, would be upon his good behaviour at, iii. 378; Brocklesby, Dr., gives him £1000, iv. 338, n. 2; ‘bulls enough in Ireland,’ iii. 232; Cecilia, reads, iv. 223, n. 5; Chatham and the Woollen Act, jokes about, ii. 453, n. 2; Cicero or Demosthenes, not like, v. 214; composition, promptitude of, iii. 85; conversation, his, its ‘affluence,’ ii. 181; corresponds with his fame, iv. 19; ebullition of his mind, 167; never hum-drum, v. 33; ready on all subjects, iv. 20, 275-6; talk, partly from ostentation, iii. 247; not good at listening, v. 34; Corycius Senex, iv. 173; Croft’s imitation of Johnson’s style, iv. 59; definition of a free government, iii. 187; domestic habits, iii. 378; Dutch sonnet, mentions a, iii. 235; Dyer, Samuel, draws the character of, iv. 11, n. 1; Economical Reform Bill, v. 32, n. 3; eloquence, v. 213; emigration, on, iii. 231-3; exaggerated praise, would suffer from, iv. 82; extraordinary man, an, ii. 450; iv. 26, 275; v. 34; first man everywhere, iv. 27, n. 1; v. 269; Fitzherbert’s character, describes, iii. 148, n. 1; Fox introduced into the Club, ii. 274, n. 4; Garrick, dines with, ii. 155, n. 2; epitaph on, ii. 234, n. 6; Glasgow professorship, seeks a, v. 369, n. 2; Goldsmith’s college days, recollections of, iii. 168; and the Fantoccini, story of, i. 414; Haunch of Venison, mentioned in, iii. 225, n. 2; and Retaliation, i. 472; iii. 233, n. 1; Grenville’s character, ii. 135, n. 2; Hamilton, engagement with, i. 519; estimate of him, iv. 27, n. 1; Hawkins, attacked by, i. 480, n. 1 histories, his opinion of, ii. 366, n. 1; House of Commons, enters the, ii. 450; first speeches, ii. 16; described as the second man in it, iv. 27, n. 1; as the first, v. 269; describes it as a mixed body, iii. 234; Hume’s partiality for Charles II, ii. 341, n. 2; Hussey, Rev. Dr., praises, iv. 411, n. 2; immorality, possible charge of, iv. 280, n. 1; ‘imprudent publication,’ i. 463; influence of the Crown, on the, iii. 205, n. 4; Ireland — penal code against the Catholics, ii. 121, n. 1; people condemned to ignoran
ce, ii. 27, n. 1; Roman Catholics the nation there, ii. 255, n. 3; Irish language, iii. 235; Johnson charges him with want of honesty, ii. 348; iii. 45; describes him as ‘Le grand Burke,’ iv. 20, n. 1; as ‘a great man by nature,’ ii. 16: See above, conversation, and extraordinary man; has a low opinion of his jocularity, iv. 276: See below, Wit; predicts his greatness, ii. 450; buys a print of him, i. 363, n. 3; explains the excellence of his eloquence, v. 213; visits him at Beaconsfield, ii. 285, n. 3; v. 460; in Parliament defends — , iv. 318; eulogises him, iv. 407, n. 3; funeral, at, iv. 419; has the greatest respect for, iv. 318; Journey, commends, iii. 137; last parting with, iv. 407; praises his work, ib., n. 3; iii. 62; likens him to Appius, iv. 374, n, 2; as a member of parliament, considers, ii. 138; joins in raising a monument to, iv. 423, n. 1; ‘oil of vitriol,’ speaks of, v. 15, n. 1; parody of his speech, iv. 317, n. 3; powers, calls forth all, ii. 450; rings the bell to, iv. 26-7; roughness in conversation, iv. 280; sends his speech on India to, iv. 260, n, 2; shuns subjects of disagreement in their talk, ii. 181; study of Low Dutch, iv. 22; style, i. 88; at a tavern dinner, meets, i. 470, n. 2; Thames scolding, admires, iv. 26; ‘Why, no, Sir,’ explains, iv. 316, n. 1; Junius, not, iii. 376; ‘kennel, in the,’ iv. 276; knowledge, variety of, v. 32, 213; law, intended for the, v. 34; Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, iii. 186; life led over again, on, iv. 303; Literary Club, original member, i. 477; attendance, ii. 16; mentioned by Gibbon, iii. 128, n. 4; name distinguished by an initial, iii. 230, n. 5; playful talk, iii. 238; ‘live pleasant,’ i. 344; London, describes, iii. 178, n. 1; mankind, thinks better of, iii. 236; Middle Temple, enters at the, v. 34, n. 3; minority, always in the, iii. 235; ministry, on the pretended vigour of the, iv. 140, n. 1; ‘mire, in the,’ v. 213; Monckton’s, Miss, at, iv. 108, n. 4; ‘Mund,’ ii. 528, n. 1; iii. 84, n. 2; ‘mutual friend,’ iii. 103, n. 1; Newgate, visits Baretti in, ii. 97, n. 1; Nugent, Dr., his father-in-law, i. 477, n. 4; opponent, as an, ii. 450; ‘parcel of boys,’ iv. 297, n. 2; parliament: See above, House of Commons; ‘party,’ defines, ii. 223, n. 1; party, sticking to his, ii. 223; v. 36; Paymaster of the Forces, iv. 223, n. 1; poetry is truth rather than history, ii. 366, n. 1; portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; Powell and Bembridge, case of, iv. 223, n. 3; Present Discontents, iii. 205, n. 4; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; puns, on the Isle of Man, iii. 80; Wilkes, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3; modus and fines, iii. 323; Deanery of Ferns, iv. 73; Langton, v. 32, n. 3; Boswell’s definition of man, ib.; reforms the King’s household expenses, iv. 368, n. 3; reputation in public business, ii. 16; retiring, talks of, iv. 223, n. 3; Reynolds’s character, draws, i. 245, n. 3; v. 102, n. 3; Reynolds is his echo, ii. 222, n. 4; is too much under him, iii. 261; Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5; Rockingham, advice to, ii. 355, n. 2; Royal Academy, seat reserved for him at the, iii. 369, n. 2; romances, loves old, i. 49, n. 2; Round-Robin, draws up the, iii. 83; should have had more sense, iii. 84, n. 2; same one day as another, iii. 192; v. 33; Shelburne speaks of him with malignity, iv. 191, n. 4; soldiers, on the quartering of, iii. 9, n. 4; son, extravagant estimate of his, iv. 219, n. 3; Speech on Conciliation, ii. 314, n. 3, 317, n. 2; iv. 317, n. 3; speeches too frequent and familiar, ii. 131; effect of them, iii. 233; not like Demosthenes or Cicero, v. 213-4; statues, on the worth of, iii. 231; Stonehenge, sees, iv. 234, n. 2; stream of mind, ii. 450; style censured by Johnson, iii. 186; and Francis, iii. 187, n. 1; Sublime and Beautiful, i. 310, 472, n. 2; ii. 90; subscription to the Articles, on the, ii. 150, n. 7; talk, his: see CONVERSATION; Thurlow, Lord, iv. 349, n. 3; Townshend, Charles, ii. 222, n. 3; translations of Cicero, could not bear, iii. 36, n. 4; understands everything but gaming and music, iv. 27, n. 1; Vesey’s gentle manners, praises, iv. 28; Vindication of Natural Society, i. 463, n. 1; Virgil, his ragged Delphin, iii. 193, n. 3; prefers him to Homer, v. 79, n. 2; Whigs, quietness of the nation under the, iv. 100; ‘wild Irishmen,’ v. 329; Wilkes on his want of taste, iv. 104; winds into a subject like a serpent, ii. 260; wit, fails at, i. 453; iii. 323; iv. 276, n. 2; v. 32, 213; Langton’s description of it, i. 453, n. 2; Boswell’s defence, v. 32, n. 3; Reynolds’s, ib.; mentioned, i. 432, n. 3; ii. 255; iii. 305; iv. 78, 344. BURKE, Richard, senior, Barnard’s verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3. BURKE, Richard, junior, (Edmund Burke’s son), account of him, iv. 219, n. 3; at Chatsworth, iv. 367; Johnson, calls on, iv. 218-9; rebuked by, 335, n. 3; member of the Literary Club, i. 479. BURKE, William, ii. 16, n. 1; v. 76, n. 3. BURKE, William, the murderer, v. 227, n. 4. BURLAMAQUI, ii. 430. BURLINGTON, Lord, iii. 347; iv. 50, n. 4. Burman, Peter, Life of, i. 153. BURNET, Arthur, v. 81. BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, dedication to Lauderdale, v. 285; Hickes, George, v. 357, n. 4; History of his own Time, very entertaining, ii. 213; v. 285; Kincardine, Earl of, v. 25, n. 2; Life of Hale, iv. 311; Life of Rochester, iii. 191-2; Lilliburlero, effect of, ii. 347, n. 2; Lloyd’s learning in ready cash, ii. 256, n. 3; Popery, controversial war on, v. 276, n. 4; style mere chit-chat, ii. 213; truthfulness, ii. 213, ib. n. 3; Whitby, Daniel, v. 276, n. 4. BURNET, James. See MONBODDO, Lord. BURNET, Thomas, v. 352, n. 2. BURNET, Miss, v. 82, n. 1. BURNEY, Dr. Charles, Account of the Handel Commemoration, iv. 361; Boscovitch, visits, ii. 125, n. 5; Boswell’s Life of Johnson, notes to, i. 15; Doctor of Music, i. 285; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; Garrick, Mrs., dines with, iv. 96-9; Handel musical meeting, iv. 283, n. 1; History of Music, ii. 409, n. 1; iii. 366-7; v. 72; house in St. Martin’s Street, iv. 134; Johnson accompanies his son to Winchester, iii. 367; anecdotes of, ii. 407; iv. 134; asks him to teach him the scale of music, ii. 263, n. 4; begs his pardon, iv. 49, n. 3; character, draws, iii. 24, n. 2; character of him, ii. 407, n. 1; death-bed, iv. 410, n. 1, 438-9; funeral, 420, n. 1; dislike of the former, the latter, iv. 190, n. 2; first visit to his house, ii. 364, n. 3; house in Gough Square, i. 328; in the Temple, iv. 134; letters: See JOHNSON, letters; hearth-broom, iv. 134; introduces him at Oxford, iii. 366-7; kindness, i. 410, n. 2; love of him, ii. 407, n. 1; and of his family, iii. 367, n. 4; iv. 377; parting with Burke, iv. 407, n. 3; pension, i. 375, n. 1; politeness, i. 286; praises his library, ii. 364, n. 3; sayings, collection of, ii. 407; Shakespeare, i. 323, 499; at Streatham in 1775, ii. 406; talking to himself, i. 483, n. 4; will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; Lynne Regis, residence at, i. 285; Musician, article on, ii. 204, n. 2; musical scheme, a, iii. 373, n. 3; portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; Rambler, sale of, i. 208, n. 3; Smart, Kit, kindness to, i. 306, n. 1; Smart’s madness, i. 397; Streatham library, account of, iv. 158; Thornton’s Ode, i. 420, n, 2; Thrale, Mrs., neglected by, iv. 153, n. 4; rebukes her, iv. 339, n. 2; Travels ridiculed by Bicknell, i. 315, n. 4; praised by Johnson, iv. 186; mentioned, ii. 52; iii. 109, n. 1, 256. BURNEY, Mrs., i. 328, 491, n. 3; iv. 208, 360-1. BURNEY, Dr. Charles (jun.), account of Beckford’s speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3; Greek, knowledge of, iv 385; Johnson’s funeral, at, iv. 420, n. 2; head on a seal, has, iv. 421, n. 2; regard for him, iv. 377; n. 1; studied at Aberdeen, v. 85, n. 2. BURNEY, Frances (Mme. D’Arblay), Baretti’s bitterness, iii. 96, n. 1; Bath, at, in 1780, iii. 422-3, 428, n. 4; Boswell’s imitation of Johnson, iv. 1, n. 2; Boswell meets her at Johnson’s house, iv. 223; ‘Broom Gentleman, the,’ iv. 134, n. 3; Burke, first sight of, iv. 276, n. 1; Burke’s account of Lady Di. Beauclerk, ii. 246, n. 1; Burke, young, iv. 219, n. 3; Cambridge, R. O., iv. 196, n. 3; Carter, Mrs., iv. 275, n. 1; Cator, John, iv. 313, n. 1; Cecilia, iv. 223; Clerk, Sir P. J., iv. 80, n. 4; dates, indifferent to, iv. 88, n. 1; downed, will not be, iii. 335, n. 2; Evelina first praised by Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3; copy in the Bodleian, iv. 223, n. 4; drawings from it, 277, n. 1; grossness of sailors described, ii. 438, n. 2; not heard of in Lichfield, ii. 463, n. 4; Fielding and Smollett, exhilarated by, ii. 174, n. 2; Garrick’s mimicry of Johnson, ii. 192, n. 2; George III compliments her, ii. 35, n. 5; criticises Shakespeare, i. 497, n. 1; popularity, iv. 165, n.. 3; Goldsmith’s projected Dictionary, ii. 204, n. 2; Gordon Riots, iii. 428, n. 4, 435, n. 2; Grub Street, had never visited, i. 296, n. 2; Hamilton, W. G., c
haracter of, i. 520; Harington’s Nugae Antiquae, iv. 180, n. 3; Hawkesworth’s death, v. 282, n. 2; Irene, iv. 5, n. 1; Johnson accuses her of writing Scotch, iv. 211, n. 2; appearance: See JOHNSON, personal appearance; attacks W. W. Pepys, iv. 65, n. 1; benignity, ii. 141, n. 2; borrows a shilling of her, iv. 191, n. 1; at Brighton, iv. 159, n. 3; and Dr. Burney, friendship of, ii. 407, n. 1; and Burney’s History of Music, ii. 409, n. 1; Cecilia, praises, iv. 163, n. 1; comical humour, ii. 262, n. 2; consulted by letter, ii. 119; describes Garrick’s face, ii. 410, n. 1; eye-sight, iv. 160, n. 1; Evelina, praises, ii. 12, n. 1, 173, n. 2; on expectations, iv. 234, n. 2; Garrick, let nobody attack, iii. 312, n. 1; good humour and gaiety, iii. 440, n. 1; iv. 245, n. 2; and Greville, iv. 304, n. 4; grief at Thrale’s death, iv. 85, n. 1; household, iii. 461; ill, iv. 163, n. 1, 256, n. 1; violent remedies, iii. 135, n. 1; ‘in the wrong chair,’ iv. 232, n. 1; introduction to her, ii. 364, n. 3; kindliness, iv. 426, n. 2; kitchen, ii. 215, n. 4; last days, iv. 377, n. 1; likes an intelligent man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3; made or marred conversation, v. 371, n. 2; and Miss More, iv. 341, n. 6; needed drawing out, iii. 307, n. 2; and the newspapers, iii. 79, n. 4; parting with Burke, iv. 407, n. 3; portrait, ii. 141, n. 1; praises her, iv. 275; Mrs. Montagu, quarrels with, iv. 64, n. 1, 65, n. 1; urges Miss Burney to attack her, iii. 244, n. 2; and Miss Reynolds, i. 486, n. I; sight, i. 41, n. 4; sorrow for his bitter speeches, ii. 256, n. 1; at Streatham, i. 493, n. 3; iii. 451; style, imitates, iv. 389; talk, iv. 237, n. 1; and Mrs. Thrale, provoked by Mrs. Thrale’s praise, iv. 82, n. 3; reproves her for flattery, v. 440, n. 2; drives her from his mind, iv. 339, n. 3; Warley Camp, returns from, iii. 361, n. 1; writes to, iv. 361; Johnson, Mrs., lodgings, iv. 377, n. 1; Kauffmann, Angelica, iv. 277, n. 1; Lade, Sir John, iv. 412, n. 1; Langton’s imitation of Johnson, iv. 1, n. 2; lived to a great age, iv. 275, n. 3; Lowe the painter, iv. 202, n. 1; Macaulay, on her style, iv. 223, n. 5; iv. 389, n. 4; marriage, iv. 223, n. 4; Metcalfe, W., iv. 159, n. 2; Miller, Lady, ii. 336, n. 6; Monckton’s, Miss, assemblies, iv. 108, n. 4; Montagu, Mrs., character of, ii. 88, n. 3; iv. 275, n. 3; Murphy, Arthur, described, i. 356, n. 2; loved by Thrale, i. 493, n. 1; Musgrave, Richard, ii. 343, n. 2; iv. 323, n. 1; Omai, iii. 8, n. 1; Pantheon and Ranelagh, ii. 169, n. i; Paoli’s account of Boswell, i. 6, n. 2; Queen Charlotte’s opinion of Boswell, i. 5, n. 1; regale, use of the word, iii. 308, n. 2; Reynolds’s inoffensiveness, v. 102, n. 3; matrimonial wishes about, iv. 161, n. 5; Rousseau, admires, ii. 12, n. 1; Seward, William, iii. 123, n. 1; Solander, Dr., v. 328, n. 2; Streatham, life at, iv. 340, n. 3; farewell to, 158, n. 4; Thrale, Henry, his character, i. 494, n. 2; luxurious table, iii. 423, n. 1; stroke of apoplexy, iii. 397, n. 2; sale of his brewery, iv. 86, n. 2; Thrale, Mrs., her character, i. 494, n. 4; letters to her, iv. 340, n. 3; love of Piozzi, iv. 158, n. 4; rudeness to him, iv. 339, n. 2; want of restraint, iv. 82, n. 4; Vesey, Mrs., iii. 426, n. 3; Walker, the lecturer, iv. 206, n. 2; Warton, Dr. Joseph, ii. 41, n. 1; Warton, Rev. Thomas, iv. 7, n. 1. BURNS, Robert, Beattie’s Minstrel, praises, v. 273, n. 4; Boswell’s neighbour, v. 375, n. 3; Dempster, R., i. 408, n. 4; elegy on Miss Burnet, v. 82, n. 1; Elphinston’s Martial, iii. 258, n. 2; ‘gab like Boswell,’ v. 52, n. 4; gauger, a, iv. 350, n. 1; ‘Holy Willie,’ ii. 472, n. 3; iii. 449; Hume, attacks, v. 273, n. 4; Scott, seen by, v. 42, n. 1; Tristram Shandy and The Man of Feeling, i. 360, n. 2. BURROW, a man near his, i. 82, n. 3; iii. 379. BURROWES, Rev. R., iv. 385. BURROWS, Dr., iii. 379. BURTON, Dr. John Hill, Beattie’s Essay on Truth, v. 273, n. 3; Burke, Hume and Clow, v. 369, n. 2; Captain Carleton’s Memoirs, iv. 334, n. 4; Helvetius’s advice to Montesquieu, v. 42, n. 1; Douglas Cause, ii. 50, n. 4; Hume’s dislike of the English, v. 19, n. 4; house in James’s Court, v. 22, n. 2; and Dr. Cheyne, iii. 27, n. 1; in Paris, ii. 401, n. 4; praise of Scotch writers, iv. 186, n. 2; predecessors in history, ii. 53, n. 2; Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2; Toryism, iv. 194, n. 1; King’s College, Aberdeen, v. 91, n. 1; Scotch Militia Bill, iii. 360, n. 3. BURTON, Robert, Anatomy of Melancholy made Johnson rise earlier, ii. 121; recommended by him, 440; ‘Be not solitary; be not idle,’ iii. 415; elected student of Christ Church, i. 59. Burton’s Books, iv. 257. BURTON-ON-TRENT, i. 86, n. 2. BUSCH, Dr., iv. 27, n. 1. BUSINESS, retiring from, ii. 337. BUSTLING, v. 307. Busy Body, i. 325, n. 3. Busy, curious, thirsty fly, ii. 281. BUTCHER, the art of a, v. 246-7. BUTE, third Earl of, Adams the architect, patronises, ii. 325, n. 3; a book-minister, ii. 353; his Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 135, n. 2; concessions to the people, ii. 353; daughter-in-law, his, ii. 378, n. 1; favourite of George III, i. 386; and of the Princess Dowager of Wales, iv. 127, n. 3; Humphry Clinker, mentioned in, ii. 81, n. 2; Jenkinson, his secretary, iii. 146, n. 1; Johnson’s letters to him, i. 376, 380; Johnson’s pension, i. 372-377; iv. 168, n. 1; Luton Hoe, iv. 118; purchase of the estate, 127, n. 3; minister, when once, should not have resigned, ii. 470; pensions conferred by him, i. 373, n. 1; Scotchmen, partiality to, ii. 354; Scotland, never goes to, iv. 131; Shelburne on his strengthening the power of the Crown, iii. 416, n. 2; Shelburne’s ‘pious fraud,’ iv. 174, n. 5; son, his, Colonel James Stuart, iii. 399; took down too fast, ii. 356; Wilkes attacks him, ii. 300, n. 5; dedicates to him Mortimer, iii. 78. BUTE, first Marquis of. See MOUNTSTUART, Lord. BUTLER, Bishop, Analogy, v. 47. BUTLER, Samuel, Hudibras, bullion which will last, ii. 369; not a poem, iii. 38; shows strength of political principles, ii. 369; seldom read, ii. 370, n. 1; quotations from it: ‘H’ was very shy of using it,’ iii. 282, n. 1; ‘Indian Britons made from Penguins,’ v. 225; ‘Jacob Behmen understood,’ ii. 122, n. 6; ‘True as the dial to the sun,’ iv. 296, n. 2; ‘Thou wilt at best but suck a bull,’ i. 444, n. 1; ‘The Devil was the first,’ &c., iii. 326, n. 3; Remains, v. 57. BUTT, Mr., i. 47, n. 1. BUTTER, Dr., ii. 475, n, 1; iii. 1, 154, 163; iv. 110, 399, 402, n. 2. BUTTER, Mrs., iii. 164. BUTTON-HOLE ACT, v. 18, n. 5. BUXTON, iii. 152; v. 432. BYNG, Admiral, Appeal to the People concerning, i. 309, 314; Letter on the case of, i. 309; Some further particulars by a gentleman of Oxford, i. 309; Epitaph, his, i. 315; Mallet, attacked by, ii. 128; Voltaire’s saying about him, i. 314. BYNG, Hon. John, iv. 418. BYRON, Captain, v. 387, n. 6. BYRON, Lord, admires the Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 193, n. 3; attacked in the Edinburgh Review, iv. 115, n. 2; praises and abuses the Earl of Carlisle, iv. 113, n. 5.

 

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