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KAMES, Lord (Henry Home), coarse language in Court, ii. 200, n. 1; Elements of Criticism, i. 393; ii. 89-90; Eton boys, on, i. 224, n. 1; Hereditary Indefeasible Right, v. 272; Johnson, attacks, ii. 317, n. 1; prejudiced against, i. 148; ‘keep him,’ ii. 53; Sketches of the History of Man Charles V celebrating his funeral obsequies, iii. 247; Clarendon’s account of Villiers’s ghost, iii. 351; interest of money, iii. 340; Irish export duties, ii. 131, n. 1; Lapouchin, Madame, iii. 340; Paris Foundling Hospital, mortality in the, ii. 398, n. 5; schools not needed for the poor, iii. 352, n. 1; virtue natural to man, iii. 352; Smollett’s monument, v. 366; ‘vicious Intromission,’ ii. 198, 200; mentioned, iii. 126. KAUFFMANN, Angelica, iv. 277, n. 1. KEARNEY, Michael, i. 489. KEARSLEY, the bookseller, letter from Johnson, i. 214; publishes a Life of Johnson, iv. 421, n. 2. KEDDLESTONE, iii. 160-2; v. 431-2. KEEN, Sir Benjamin, v. 310, n. 3. KEENE, —— , ii. 397. KEITH, Admiral Lord, v. 427, n. 1. KEITH, Mrs., v. 130. KEITH, Robert, Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops, i. 309. KEITH, —— , a collector of excise, v. 128-31. KELLY, sixth Earl of, v. 387. KELLY, Hugh, account of him, iii. 113, n. 3; displays his spurs, iv. 407, n. 4; False Delicacy, ii. 48; Johnson’s Prologue, iii. 113, 118. KEMBLE, John, visits Johnson, iv. 242-4; anecdote of Johnson and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3; affected by Mrs. Siddons’ acting, iv. 244, n. 1. KEMPIS, Thomas à, editions and translations, iii. 226; iv. 279; Johnson quotes him, iii. 227, n. 1; reads him in Low Dutch, iv. 21. KEN, Bishop, connected by marriage with Isaac Walton, ii. 364, n. 1; a nonjuror, iv. 286, n. 3; rule about sleep, iii. 169, n. 1. KENNEDY, Rev. Dr., Complete System of Astronomical Chronology, i. 366. KENNEDY, Dr., author of a foolish tragedy, iii. 238. KENNEDY, House of, v. 374. KENNICOTT, Dr. Benjamin, Collations, ii. 128; edition of the Hebrew Bible, v. 42; meets Johnson, iv. 151, n. 2. KENNICOTT, Mrs., iv. 151, n. 2, 285, 288, 298, n. 2, 305. KENNINGTON COMMON, iii. 239, n. 2. KENRICK, Dr. William, account of him, i. 497; Epistle to James Boswell, Esq., ii. 61; Garrick libels, i. 498, n. 1; Goldsmith, libels, i. 498, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2; Johnson, attacks, i. 497; ii. 61; v. 273; made himself public, i. 498; iii. 256; mentioned, ii. 44. KENT, militia, i. 307, n. 4. KEPLER, i. 85, n. 2. KEPPEL, Admiral, iv. 12, n. 6. KERR, James, v. 40. KESWICK, iv. 437. KETTLEWELL, John, iv. 286, n. 3. KEYSLER, J. G., Travels, ii. 346. KIDGELL, John, v. 270, n. 4. KILLALOE, Bishop of. See DEAN BARNARD. KILLINGLEY, M., iii. 208. KILMARNOCK, Earl of, i. 180; v. 103, n, 1; 105. KILMOREY, Lord, i. 83, n. 3; v. 433. KIMCHI, Rabbi David, i. 33. KINCARDINE, Alexander, Earl, and Veronica, Countess of, v. 25, n. 2; 379, n. 3. KINDNESS, duty of cultivating it, iii. 182. KING, Captain, iv. 308, n. 3. KING, Lord Chancellor, i. 359, n. 3. KING, Henry, Bishop of Chichester, ii. 364, n. 1. KING, Rev. Dr., a dissenter, iii. 288. KING, Thomas, the Comedian, ii. 325, n. 1. KING, William, Archbishop of Dublin, Essay on the Origin of Evil, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 13, n. 3, 402, n. 1; troubles Swift, ii. 132, n. 2. KING, Dr. William, Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, account of him, i. 279, n. 5; his greatness, i. 282, n. 2; English of Atterbury, Gower, and Johnson, ii. 95, n. 2; Jacobite speech in 1754, i. 146, n. 1; in 1759, i. 348; Pretender in London, meets the, v. 196, n. 2; describes his meanness, v. 200, n. 1; Pulteney and Walpole, v. 339, n. 1. King, The, v. Topham, iii. 16, n. 1. KING’S EVIL, Johnson touched for it, i. 42; account of it, ib., n. 3. ‘KING’S FRIENDS,’ iv. 165, n. 3. KING’S LIBRARY, i. 108. KING’S PAINTER, iv. 368, n. 3. KING’S Printing-house, ii. 323, n. 2. KINGS, conversing with them, ii. 40, n. 3; flattered at church and on the stage, ii. 234; flatter themselves, ib.; great kings always social, i. 442; ill-trained, i. 442, n. 1; Johnson ridicules them, i. 333; minister, should each be his own, ii. 117; oppressive kings put to death, ii. 170; praises exaggerated, ii. 38; reverence for them depends on their right, iv. 165; resistance to them sometimes lawful, i. 424; servants of the people, i. 321, n. 1; ‘the king can do no wrong,’ i. 423; want of inherent right, iv. 170. KINGSNORTON, i. 35, n. 1. KINNOUL, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4. KINVER, v. 455. KIPPIS, Dr. Andrew, edits Biographia Britannica, iii. 174; his ‘biographical catechism,’ iv. 376; mentioned, iv. 282; v. 88, n. 2. KNAPTON, Messieurs, the booksellers, i. 183, 290, n. 2. KNELLER, Sir Godfrey, as a Justice of the Peace, iii. 237; his portraits, iv. 77, n. 1. KNIGHT, Captain, i. 378, n. 1. KNIGHT, Joseph, a negro, account of him, iii. 214, n. 1; Cullen’s answer, iii. 127; Maclaurin’s plea, iii. 86, 88; Johnson offers a subscription, ib.; interested in him, iii. 95, 101, 129; argument, iii. 200, 202-3; decision, iii. 212, 216, 219. KNIGHTON, i. 132, n. 1. KNITTING, iii. 242. KNIVES not provided in foreign inns, ii. 97, n. 1. KNOLLES, Richard, Turkish History, i. 100. KNOTTING, iii. 242; iv. 284. KNOWLE, near Bristol, i. 353, n. 2. KNOWLEDGE, all kinds of value, ii. 357; desirable per se, i. 417; desire of it innate, i. 458; diffusion of it not a disadvantage, iii. 37, 333; question of superiority, ii. 220; two kinds, ii. 365. See EDUCATION and LEARNING. KNOWLES, Mrs., the Quakeress, courage and friendship, on, iii. 289; death, on, iii. 294; Johnson, meets, in 1776, iii. 78; in 1778, iii. 284-300; her account of the meeting, iii. 299, n. 2; describes his mode of reading, iii. 284; liberty to women, argues for, iii. 286; proselyte to Quakerism, defends a, iii. 298; sutile pictures, her, iii. 299, n. 2. KNOX, John, the Reformer, Cardinal Beaton’s death, v. 63, n. 3; his ‘reformations,’ v. 6l; burial-place, ib., n. 4; set on a mob, v. 62; his posterity, v. 63. KNOX, John, bookseller and author, ii. 304, 306. KNOX, Rev. Dr. Vicesimus, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, praises, iv. 391, n. 1; Johnson’s biographers, attacks, iv. 330, n. 2; imitates his style, i. 222, n. 1; iv. 390; Oxford, attacks, iii. 13, n. 3; iv. 391, n. 1; popularity as a writer, iv. 390, n. 2. KRISTROM, Mr., ii. 156.
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Labefactation, ii. 367. LABOUR, all men averse to it, ii. 98-99; iii. 20, n. 1. LABRADOR, iv. 410, n. 6. LA BRUYÈRE. See BRUYERE. LACE, a suit of, ii. 352. Laceration, ii. 106; iii. 419, n. 1. Lactantius, iii. 133. LADD, Sir John. See LADE. LADE, Sir John, account of him, iv. 412, n. 1; Johnson’s advice to him about marriage, ii. 109, n. 2; lines on him, iv. 413. LADIES OF QUALITY, iii. 353. LADY AT BATH, an empty-headed, iii. 48. LAFELDT, battle of, iii. 251. LAMB, Charles, account of Davies’s recitation, i. 391, n. 2; Methodists saying grace, v. 123, n. 1; no one left to call him Charley, iii. 180, n. 3. LANCASHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4. LANCASTER, Boswell at the Assizes, iii. 261, n. 2. LANCASTER, Dr., Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford, i. 61, n. 1. LANCASTER, House of, iii. 157. LAND, advantage produced by selling it all at once, ii. 429; entails and natural right, ii. 416; investments in it, iv. 164; v. 232; part to be left in commerce, ii. 428. LAND-TAX in Scotland, ii. 431. LANDLORDS, leases, not giving, v. 304; rents, raising, ii. 102; right to control tenants at elections, ii. 167, 340; Scotch landlords, high situation of, i. 409; tenants, their dependancy, ii. 102; difficulty of getting, iv. 164; to be treated liberally, i. 462; under no obligation, ii. 102. LANDOR, W. S., Johnson’s geographical knowledge, i. 368, n. 1. LANG, Dr., ii. 312, n. 3. LANGBAINE, Gerard, iii. 30, n. 1. LANGDON, Mr., iii. 207, n. 3. LANGLEY, Rev. W., ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138; v. 430. LANGTON, Bennet, account of him, i. 247; acceptum et expensum, iv. 362; Addison and Goldsmith, compares, ii. 256; Addison’s conversation, iii. 339; Aristophanes, reads, iv. 177, n. 3, 362; Barnes’s Maccaronic verses, quotes, iii. 284; Beauclerk, his early friend, i. 248: makes him second guardian to his children, iii. 420; leaves him a portrait of Garrick, iv. 96; birth and matriculation at Oxford, i. 247, n. 1, 337; Blue stocking assembly, at a, v. 32, n. 3; Boswell, letter to, iii. 424; Boswell’s obligations to him, ii. 456, n. 3; Burke and Johnson, comparing Homer and Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3; v. 79, n. 2; Burke’s wit, i. 453, n. 2; carpenter and a clergyman’s wife, anecdote of a, ii. 456, n. 3; children, his, too much about him, iii. 128; mentioned, ii. 146; iii. 89, 93, 104, 130; Clarendon’s style, praises, iii. 257; coach, on the top of a, i. 477; collection of Johnson’s sayings, iv. 1-34; daughters to be taught Greek, iv. 20, n. 2; dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 259; iii. 279, 280, 338; economy, no turn to, iii. 363, n. 2; expenditure and foibles criticised, iii. 48, n. 4, 93, 104, 128, 222, 300, 315, 317, 348, 362, 379; iv. 362; frisk, jo
ins in a, i. 250; Greek, knowledge of, iv. 8, n. 3; Clenardus’s Greek Grammar, iv. 20; recitation, ib., n. 2; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; Hale, Sir Matthew, anecdote of, iv. 310; Idler, anecdote of the, i. 33l; introduces subjects on which people differ, iii. 186; Johnson, afraid of, iv. 295; at fairest advantage with him, i. 248, n. 3; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; and Burke, an evening with, iv. 26; conversation before dinner, repeats, iii. 279; confessor, iv. 280-1; death, unfinished letter on, iv. 418, n. 1; deference to, iv. 8, n. 3; devotion to, when ill, iv. 266, n. 3; when dying, iv. 406-7, 414, n. 2, 439; dress as a dramatic author, describes, i. 200; estimate of Spence, v. 317, n. 1. first acquaintance with him, i. 247; iv. 145; friendship with him, iv. 132, 145, 352; rupture in it, ii. 256, n. 2, 261, n. 2, 265, 282; v. 89; reconciliation, ii. 292; funeral, at, iv. 419; gives him a copy of his letter to Chesterfield, i. 260; imitates, iv. 1, n. 2; Jacobitism, i. 430; letters to him: see under JOHNSON, letters; levee, attends, ii. 118; loan to him, ii. 136, n. 2; iv. 402, n. 2; repaid in an annuity to Barber, ib.; Ode on Inchkenneth, alters, ii. 295, n. 2; and Parr, an evening with, iv. 15; poemata, edits, ii. 295, n. 2; iv. 384; v. 155, n. 2, 326, n. 2; portrait, removes the inscription on, iv. 181; praises his worth, iii. 161; exclaims, ‘Sit anima mea cum Langtono,’ iv. 280; Prologue, criticises, iv. 25; rebuked by, ii. 254; urges him to keep accounts, iv. 177, n. 3; visits him at Langton, i. 476, 477, n. 1; at Rochester, iv. 8, n. 3, 22, 232-3; at Warley Camp, iii. 360-2; King, gives the sketch of Irene to the, i. 108; and the catalogue of Johnson’s projected works, iv. 381, n. 1; ‘Lanky,’ ii. 258; v. 308; laughed at, iii. 338, n. 3; Lincoln, highly esteemed in, iii. 359; literary character, his, i. 248, n. 3; Literary Club, original member of the, i. 477; marries Lady Rothes, ii. 77, n. 1; militia, in the, iii. 123, 130, 360, 362, 368, 397; appointed Major, iii. 365, n. 1; navigation, his, ii. 136; Nicolaida visits him, ii. 379; orchard, has no, iv. 206; Paoli visits him at Rochester, iv. 8, n. 3; Paris, visits, i. 381; pedigree, his, i. 248, n. 1; personal appearance, i. 248, n. 3, 336; Pitt’s neglect of Boswell, blames, iii. 213, n. 1; Pope reciting the last lines of the Dunciad, ii. 84, n. 2; religious discourse, introduces, ii. 254; iv. 216; v. 89; Richardson, introduced to, iv. 28; Round-Robin, refuses to sign the, iii. 84, n. 2; Royal Academy, professor of the, ii. 67, n. 1; iii. 464; ruining himself without pleasure, iii. 317, 348; Rusticks, writes, i. 358; school on his estate, establishes a, ii. 188; silent, too, iii. 260; sluggish, iii. 348; story, thought a story a, ii. 433; table, his, iii. 128, 186; talks from books, v. 378, n. 4; Traveller, praises the, iii. 252; Vesey’s, Mr., an evening at, iii. 424; iv. i, n. 1; will, makes his, ii. 261; ‘worthy,’ iii. 379, n. 4; Young, account of, iv. 59; mentioned, i. 336, 418, n. 1; ii. 34, n. 1, 63, 124, 141, n. 1, 186, 192, 232, 247, 279, 318, 338, 347, 350, 362, n. 2, 379; iii. 41, 119, 221, 250, 282, 326, 328, 354, 386, 417; iv. 71, 78, 197, 219, n. 3, 284, 317, 320, 344; v. 249, 295. LANGTON, Cardinal Stephen, i. 248. LANGTON, old Mr. (Bennet Langton’s father), canal, his, iii. 47; exuberant talker, an, ii. 247; freedom from affectation, iv. 27; Johnson’s Jacobitism, believes in, i. 430; in his being a Papist, i. 476; offers a living to, i. 320; picture, would not sit for his, iv. 4; stores of literature, his, iv. 27; mentioned, i. 357; ii. 16. LANGTON, Mrs. (Bennet Langton’s mother), i. 325, 357, 476; ii. 146; iv. 4, 268. LANGTON, George (Bennet Langton’s eldest son), i. 248, n. 1; ii. 282; iv. 146. LANGTON, Miss Jane (Bennet Langton’s daughter), Johnson’s goddaughter, iii. 210, 11. 3; iv. 146, 268; his letter to her, iv. 271. LANGTON, Miss Mary (Bennet Langton’s daughter), iv. 268. LANGTON, Peregrine (Bennet Langton’s uncle), ii. 17-19. LANGTON, in Lincolnshire, Johnson invited there, i. 288; ii. 142; visits it, i. 476, 477, n. 1; ii. 17; describes the house, v. 217. LANGUAGES, formed on manners, ii. 80; origin, iv. 207; pedigree of nations, ii. 28; v. 225; scanty and inadequate, iv. 218; speaking one imperfectly lets a man down, ii. 404; writing verses in dead languages, ii. 371. LANGUOR, following gaiety, iii. 199. LANSDOWNE, Viscount (George Granville), Drinking Song to Sleep, i. 251. LAPIDARY INSCRIPTIONS, ii. 407. LAPLAND, i. 425; ii. 168, n, 1. LAPLANDERS, v. 328. LAPOUCHIN, Madame, iii. 340. LASCARIS’ Grammar, v. 459. LAST, horror of the, i. 331, n. 7. LATIN, beauty of Latin verse, i. 460; difficulty of mentioning in it modern names and titles, iv. 3, 10; essential to a good education, i. 457; few read it with pleasure, v. 80, n. 2; modern Latin poetry, i. 90, n. 2; pronunciation, ii. 404, n. 1. See EPITAPHS. Latiner, a, iv. 185, n. 1. LA TROBE, Mr., iv. 410. LAUD, Archbishop, assists Lydiat, i. 194, n. 2; Diary quoted, ii. 214; his Scotch Liturgy, ii. 163. LAUDER, William, account of his fraud about Milton, i. 228-231; deceives Johnson, i. 229, 231, n. 2. LAUDERDALE, Duke of, Burnet’s dedication to him, v. 285. LAUGHERS, time to be spent with them, iv. 183. LAUGHTER, a faculty which puzzles philosophers, ii. 378; Chesterfield, Johnson, Pope and Swift on it, ib., n. 2; laughing at a man to his face, iii. 338. See JOHNSON, laugh. LAUREL, the, i. 185. LAUSANNE, iv. 167, n. 1. LA VALLIÈRE, Mlle, de, v. 49, n. 3. LAVATER’S Essay on Physiognomy, iv. 421, n. 2. LAW, Archdeacon, iii. 416. LAW, Edmund, Bishop of Carlisle, Cambridge examinations, iii. 13, n. 3; parentheses, loved, iii. 402, n. 1; remarks on Pope’s Essay on Man, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1. LAW, Robert, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489. LAW, William, Behmen, a follower of, ii. 122; each man’s knowledge of his own guilt, iv. 294; Johnson’s Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3; Serious Call, praised by Johnson, i. 68; ii. 122; iv. 286, n. 3, 311; by Gibbon, Wesley and Whitefield, i. 68, n. 2; by Psalmanazar, iii. 445. LAW, Coke’s definition of it, iii. 16, n. 1; honesty compatible with the practice of it, ii. 47, 48, n. 1; v. 26, 72; laws last longer than their causes, ii. 416; manners, made and repealed by, ii. 419; particular cases, not made for, iii. 25; primary notion is restraint, ii. 416; reports, English and Scotch, ii. 220; writers on it need not have practised it, ii. 430. LAW-LORD, a dull, iv. 178. LAWRENCE, Chauncy, iv. 70. LAWRENCE, Sir Soulden, ii. 296, n. 1. LAWRENCE, Dr. Thomas, account of him, ii. 296, n. 1; President of the College of Physicians, ii. 297; iv. 70; death, iv. 230, n. 2; illness, iv. 143-4; Johnson addresses to him an Ode, iv. 143, n. 2; learnt physic from him, iii. 22; long friendship with him, i. 82; iv. 143,144, n. 3 (for his letters to him, see JOHNSON, letters); wife, death of his, iii. 418; mentioned, i. 83, 326; iii. 93, 123, 436; iv. 355. LAWRENCE, Miss, i. 82; iv. 143; Johnson’s letter to her, iv. 144, n. 3. LAWYERS, barristers have less law than of old, ii. 158; ‘nobody reads now,’ iv. 309; chance of success, iii. 179; Johnson’s advice, iv. 309; Sir W. Jones’s, ib., n. 6; Sir M. Hale’s, iv. 310, n. 3; bookish men, good company for, iii. 306; Charles’s, Prince, saying about them, ii. 214; consultations on Sundays, ii. 376; honesty: see under LAW; knowledge of great lawyers varied, ii. 158; multiplying words, iv. 74; players, compared with, ii. 235; plodding-blockheads, ii. 10; soliciting employment, ii. 430; work greatly mechanical, ii. 344. LAXITY OF TALK. See JOHNSON, laxity. LAY-PATRONS. See SCOTLAND, Church. LAYER, Richard, i. 157. LAZINESS, worse than the toothache, v. 231. LEA, Rev. Samuel, i. 50. LEANDRO ALBERTI, ii. 346; v. 310. LEARNED GENTLEMAN, a, ii. 228. LEARNING, decay of it, i. 445; iv. 20; v. 80; degrees of it, iv. 13; difficulties, v. 316; giving way to politics, i. 157, n. 2; important in the common intercourse of life, i. 457; ‘more generally diffused,’ iv. 217; trade, a, v. 59: see AUTHORS. LEASOWES, v. 267, n. 1, 457. LECKY, W.E.H., History of England, ii. 130, n. 3. LE CLERK, i. 285. LECTURES, teaching by, ii. 7; iv. 92. LE DESPENCER, Lord, ii. 135, n. 2. Ledger, The, iv. 22, n. 3. LEE, Alderman, iii. 68, n. 3, 78, 79, n. 2. LEE, Arthur, iii. 68, 76, 79, n. 2. LEE, John (Jack Lee), account of him, iii. 224, n. 1; at the bar of the House of Commons, iii. 224; on the duties of an advocate, ii. 48, n. 1. LEECHMAN, Principal William, account of him, v. 68, n. 4; Johnson calls on him, v. 370; writes on prayer, v. 68; answered by Cumming, v. 101. LEEDS, iii. 399, 400. LEEDS, Duke of, verses on his marriage, iv. 14. LEEDS, fifth Duke of, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; mentioned, ii. 34, n. 1. LEEK, in Staffordshire, i. 37; iii. 136. LE FLEMING, Bishop of Carlisle, i. 461, n. 4. LE FLEMING, Sir Michael, i. 461, n. 4. Leeward, i. 293. LEEWARD IS
LANDS, ii. 455. LEGITIMATION, ii. 456. LEGS, putting them out in company, iii. 54. LEIBNITZ, controversy with Clarke, v. 287; on the derivation of languages, ii. 156; mentioned, i. 137. LEICESTER, iii. 4; iv. 402, n. 2. LEICESTER, Robert Dudley, Earl of, v. 438. LEICESTER, Mr. (Beauclerk’s relation), iii. 420. LEISURE, for intellectual improvement, ii. 219; sickness from it, a disease to be dreaded, iv. 352. LELAND, Counsellor, iii. 318. LELAND, John, Itinerary, v. 445. LELAND, Dr. Thomas, History of Ireland, ii. 255; iii. 112; Hurd, attacked by, iv. 47, n. 2; Johnson’s letters to him, i. 489, 518; ii. 2, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 310. LEMAN, Sir William, i. 174, n. 2. LEMAN, Lake, iv. 350, n. 1. LENDING MONEY, influence gained by it, ii. 167. LENNOX, Mrs., character by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 275, n. 2; lived to a great age, ib., n. 3; English version of Brumoy, publishes an, i. 345; Female Quixote, i. 367; Goldsmith advised to hiss her play, iv. 10; Johnson cites her in his Dictionary, iv. 4, n. 3; writes Proposals for publishing her Works, ii. 289; gives a supper in her honour, i. 255, n. 1; Shakespeare Illustrated, i. 255; superiority, her, iv. 275; Translation of Sully’s Memoirs, i. 309. LEOD, v. 233. LEONI, —— , the singer, iii. 21, n. 2. Leonidas, v. 116. LE ROY, Julien, ii. 390, 391. LESLEY, John, History of Scotland, ii. 273. LESLIE, Charles, the nonjuror, iv. 286, n. 3. LESLIE, C. R., anecdote of the Countess of Corke, iv. 108, n. 4. LESLIE, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 92. LESSEPS, M. de, v. 400, n. 4. Let ambition fire thy mind, iii. 197. Lethe, i. 228. Letter to Lord Chesterfield published separately, i. 261, n. 1. Letter to John Dunning, Esq., i. 297, n. 2. LETTER-WRITING, iv. 102. LETTERS, none received in the grave, iv. 413; studied endings, v. 238. See DATES. Letters from Italy, iii. 55. See SHARP, Samuel. Letters of an English Traveller, iv. 320, n. 4. Letters on the English Nation, v. 113. Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson occasioned by his late political Publications, ii. 316. Letters to Lord Mansfield, ii. 229. See ANDREW STUART. Letters to the People of England, iv. 113, n. 1. Lettre de cachet, v. 206. Lettres Persanes, iii. 291, n. 1. LETTSOM, Dr., iii. 68. LEVEE, Johnson’s. See under JOHNSON. LEVEES, Ministers’, ii. 355. LEVELLERS, i. 448. LEVER, Sir Ashton, iv. 335. LEVETT, John, of Lichfield, i. 81; Johnson’s letter to him, i. 160; unseated as member for Lichfield, i. 161, n. 1. LEVETT, Robert, account of him, i. 243; awkward and uncouth, iii. 22; brothers, his, iv. 143; brutality in manners, iii. 461; complains of the kitchen, ii. 215, n. 4; death, iv. 137, 142, 145; Desmoulins, hates, iii. 368; ‘Doctor Levett,’ ii. 214; Johnson’s birth-day dinners, present at, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. 135, n. 1; companion, i. 232, n. 1; ii. 5, n. 1; iii. 220; iv. 145, 233, 249, n. 2; introduced Langton to, i. 47; iv. 145; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; lines on him, iv. 137, 165, 274, 303, n. 2; questioned about, iii. 57; his recommendation to, i. 417; writings, makes out a list of, iii. 321; Johnson’s Court, garret in, ii. 5; marriage, i. 370, 382; mentioned, i. 81, n. 1, 435; iii. 26, 93, 363, 373; iv. 92. LEWIS LE GROS, iii. 32, n. 5. LEWIS XIV, celebrated in many languages, i. 123; charges accumulated on him, ii. 341, n. 4; discontent and ingratitude, on, ii. 167, n. 3; King of Siam sends him ambassadors, iii. 336; La Vallière, Mlle. de, v. 49, n. 3; manners, ii. 41; torture used in his reign, i. 467, n. 1; why endured by the French, ii. 170. LEWIS XVI, execution, ii. 396, n. 1; Hume, when a child makes a set speech to, ii. 401, n. 4; Johnson, seen by, ii. 385, 394-5; Paoli, gives high office in Corsica to, ii. 71, n. 1; torture used in his reign, i. 467, n. 1. LEWIS XVIII, when a child makes a set speech to Hume, ii. 401, n. 4. LEWIS, David, verses to Pope, iv. 307; Miscellany, ib., n. 3. LEWIS, Dean, i. 370, n. 1, 382. LEWIS, F., translates mottoes for the Rambler, i. 225. LEWSON, Mrs., iii. 425. LEXICOGRAPHER, defined, i. 296; Bolingbroke’s anecdote of one, ib., n. 3; referred to in the Rambler, i. 189, n. 1. LEXIPHANES, ii. 44. LEYDEN, iv. 241; v. 376. LIBELS, actions for them, iii. 64; dead, on the, iii. 15; England and America, in, i. 116, n. 1; Fox’s Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1; juries, judges of the law, iii. 16, n. 1; refuse to convict, i. 116, n. 1; pulpit, from the, iii. 58; severe law against libels, i. 124, n. 1. LIBERTY, all boys love it, iii. 383; clamours for it, i. 131, n. 1; iii. 201, n, 1; conscience, of, ii. 249; iv. 216; destroying a portion of it without necessity, iii. 224; liberty and licentiousness, ii. 130; luxury, effects of, ii. 170; political and private, ii. 60, 170; press, of the: See PRESS; pulpit, of the, iii. 59; taedium vitae, kept off by the notion of it, i. 394; teaching, of, ii. 249; iv. 216; thinking, preaching, and acting, of, ii. 252. LIBERTY and Necessity. See FREE WILL. LIBRARIES, Johnson helps in forming the King’s library, ii. 33, n. 4; describes the Oxford libraries, ii. 35, 67, n. 2; key of one always lost, v. 65; Stall Library, iii. 91. LICENSING ACT for plays, i. 141, n. 1. LICHFIELD, ale, ii. 461; iv. 97; antiquities, iv. 369; Beaux Stratagem, scene of the, ii. 461, n. 3; Bishop’s palace, ii. 467; Boswell and Johnson visit it in 1776, ii. 461; Boswell shown real ‘civility,’ iii. 77; Boswell visits it in 1779, iii. 411-2; boys dipped in the font, i. 91, n. 1; Cathedral, i. 81, n. 2; ii. 466; v. 456; Johnson in the porch, ii. 466, n. 3; city of philosophers, ii. 464; city and county in itself, i. 36, n. 4; coach-journey from London, i. 340, n. 1; postchaise, iii. 411; Darwin’s house, v. 428, n. 3; drunk, all the decent people got, v. 59; English spoken there, purity of the, ii. 463-4; Evelina not heard of there, ii. 463, n. 4; Friary, The, ii. 466; iii. 412; George Inn, iii. 411; Green’s museum, ii. 465; iii. 412; v. 428; Hospital, v. 445; Hutton describes the town in 1741, i. 86, n. 2; Jacobite fox-hunt, iii. 326, n. 1; Johnson, Michael, a magistrate, i, 36; ii. 322, n. 1; Johnson, his barber, ii. 52, n. 2; beloved in his native city, ii. 469; respect shown him by the corporation, iv. 372, n. 2; defines it in his Dictionary, iv. 372; hopes to set a good example, iv. 135; house, i. 75; ii. 461; iv. 372, n. 2; 402, n. 2; Latin verses to a stream, iii. 92, n, 1; as Lord Lichfield, iii. 310; loses three old friends, iv. 366; monument in the Cathedral, iv. 423; portrait admired there, ii. 141; saucer in the Museum, iii. 220, n. 1; theatre, tosses a man into the pit of the, ii. 299; in love with an actress, ii. 464; praises an actor, ii. 465; attends it with Boswell, ii. 464-5, 471; visits the town for the first time after living in London, i. 370; last visit, iv. 372; (for his other visits see iii. 450-3); weary of it, ii. 52; willow tree, iv. 372, n. 1; lecture on experimental philosophy, v. 108; manufactures, ii. 464; oat ale and cakes, ii. 463; people sober and genteel, ii. 463; population in 1781, iii. 450; Prerogative Court, i. 81, 101; Sacheverell preaches there, i. 39, n. 1; Salve, magna parens, iv. 372; school, account of it in Johnson’s time, i. 43-9; compared with Stourbridge School, i. 50; buildings dilapidated, i. 45, n. 4; endowment, v. 445, n. 3; famous scholars, i. 45; service for a sick woman, v. 444; Seward’s, Miss, verses on it, iv. 331; St. Mary’s Church repaired, i. 67; Johnson attends it in 1776, ii. 466; St. Michael’s Church, graves of Johnson’s parents and brother, iv. 393; Stowhill, ii. 470; iii. 412; Swan Inn, v. 428; Thrales, the, visit it in 1774 with Johnson, v. 428, 440, n. 2; Three Crowns Inn, ii. 461; iii. 411; Warner’s Tour, iv. 373, n. 1. LICHFIELD, fourth Earl of, iii. 309. LICHFIELD, Leonard, an Oxford bookseller, i. 61, n. 3. LIDDELL, Sir Henry, ii. 168, n. 1. LIES, ‘Consecrated lies,’ i. 355; disarm their own force, ii. 221; Johnson’s Adventurer on lying, ii. 221, n. 2; use of the word lie, iv. 49; lying to the public, ii. 223; servants ‘not at home,’ i. 436; to the sick, iv. 306; of vanity, iv. 167: See FALSEHOOD and TRUTH. LIFE, changes in its form desirable at times, iii. 128; changes in its modes, ii. 96: See under MANNERS; choice, few have any, iii. 363; just choice impossible, ii. 22, 114; climate, not affected by, ii. 195; composed of small incidents, i. 433, n. 4; ii. 359, n. 2; domestick life little touched by public affairs, i. 381; Dryden’s lines, ii. 124; iv. 303; every season has its proper duties, v. 63; expecting more from it than life will afford, ii. 110; happiest part lying awake in the morning, v. 352; imbecility in its common occurrences, iii. 300; method, to be thrown into a, iii. 94; miseries, i. 299, n. 1, 331, n. 6; ‘balance of misery,’ iv. 300; ‘nauseous draught,’ iii. 386; none would live it again, ii. 125, iv. 301-3; pain better than death, iii. 296; iv. 374; progress from want to want, iii. 53; progression, must be in, iv. 396, n. 4; state of wear
iness, ii. 382; studied in a great city, iii. 253; system of life not easily disturbed, ii. 102; a well-ordered poem, iv. 154. Life of Alfred, Johnson projects a, i. 177. LILLIBURLERO, ii. 347. LILLIPUT, Senate of, i. 115. LILLY, William, iii. 172. LINCOLN, a City and County, i. 36, n. 4; visited by Boswell, iii. 359. LINCOLN’S INN, Society of, iv. 290, n. 4. LINCOLNSHIRE, militia, i. 36, n. 4; iii. 361; orchards very rare, iv. 206; reeds, v. 263; mentioned, v. 286. Line, the civil, iii. 196. LINEN, v. 216. Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius, i. 294, n. 6. LINLEY, Miss, ii. 369, n. 2. LINLITHGOW, Earl of, v. 103, n. 1. LINTOT, Bernard, the bookseller, quarrels with Pope, i. 435, n. 4; mentioned, ii, 133, n. 1; iv. 80, n. 1. LINTOT the younger, Johnson said to have written for him, i. 103; his warehouse, i. 435. LIQUORS, scale of, iii. 381; iv. 79. LISBON, earthquake, i. 309, n. 3; parliamentary vote of £100,000 for relief, i. 353, n. 2; packet boat to England, iv. 104, n. 3; persecution of Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5; postage to London, iii. 22; mentioned, ii. 211, n. 4. Literary Anecdotes, Nichols’s, iv. 369, n. 1. LITERARY CLUB. See CLUBS. LITERARY FAME, ii. 69, n. 3, 233, 353. LITERARY friend, a pompous, iv. 236. LITERARY IMPOSTORS. See IMPOSTORS. LITERARY JOURNALS, ii. 39. Literary Magazine or Universal Review, i. 307, 320, 328, 505. LITERARY man, life of a, iv. 98. LITERARY PROPERTY. See COPYRIGHT. LITERARY REPUTATION, ii. 233. LITERARY REVIEWS. See Critical and Monthly. LITERATURE, amazing how little there is, iii. 303, n. 4; dignity, its, iii. 310; England, neglected in, ii. 447, n. 5; before France in it, iii. 254; general courtesy of literature, iv. 246; generally diffused, iv. 217, n. 4; how far injured by abundance of books, iii. 332; respect paid to it, iv. 116; wearers of swords and powdered wigs ashamed to be illiterate, iii. 254. LITTLE THINGS, contentment with them, iii. 241; danger of it, iii. 242. LITTLETON, Adam, i. 294, n. 6. LIVELINESS, study of, ii. 463. LIVERPOOL, iii. 416. LIVERPOOL, first Earl of. See JENKINSON, Charles. LIVERPOOL, third Earl of, iii. 146, n. 1. LIVES OF THE POETS, account of its publication advertised, iii. 108; Advertisement, iv. 35, n. 1; Johnson’s engagement with the booksellers, iii. 109; design greatly enlarged, iv. 35; payment agreed on, iii. 111; extraordinarily moderate, ib., n. 1; £100 added, iv. 35; payment for a separate edition, ib., n. 3; progress of their composition, iii. 313, 317, n. 1; first four volumes published, iii. 370, 380, n. 3; Johnson’s indolence in finishing the last six, iii. 418, 435; iv. 34, 58, n. 3; published, iv. 34; printed separately, iv. 35, n. 3, 63; additions, ib., n. 1. reprinting, iv. 153; new edition, iv. 157; attacks expected, iii. 375; attacked, iv. 63-5; booksellers, impudence of the, iv. 35, n. 3; Boswell has the proof sheets, iii. 371; and most of the manuscript, iv. 36, 71, 72; his observations on some of the Lives, iv. 38-63; commended generally, iv. 146; contemporaries, difficulty in writing the Lives of, iii. 155, n. 3; copies presented to Mrs. Boswell, iii. 372; to the King, ib., n. 3; to Wilkes, iv. 107; to Langton, iv. 132; to Bewley, iv. 134; to Rev. Mr. Wilson, iv. 162; to Cruikshank, iv. 240; to Miss Langton, iv. 267; to Johnson’s physicians, iv. 399, n. 5; Dilly’s account of the undertaking, iii. 110; Johnson’s anger at an indecent poem being inserted, iv. 36, n. 4; collects materials, iii. 427; not the editor of this Collection of Poets, iii. 117, n. 8, 137, 370; iv. 35, n. 3; inattention to minute accuracy, iii. 359, n. 2; letters to Nichols the printer, iv. 36, n. 4; portraits in different editions, iv. 421, n. 2; recommends the insertion of four poets, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3; trusted much to his memory, iv. 36, n. 3; Nichols, printed by, iv. 36, 63, n. 1, 321; piety, written so as to promote, iv. 34; Rochester’s Poems castrated by Steevens, iii. 191; rough copy sent to the press, iv. 36; Savage, many of the anecdotes from, i. 164; titles suggested, iv. 36, n. 4; words, learned, iv. 39. Lives of the Poets (Bell’s edition), ii. 453, n. 2; iii. 110. Lives of the Poets, by Theophilus Cibber, i. 187; iii. 29-30. LIVINGS, inequality of, ii. 172. LIVY, i. 506; ii. 342. LLANDAFF, Bishopric of, iv. 118, n. 2. LLOYD, A., Account of Mona, v. 450. LLOYD (Llwyd), Humphry, v. 438. LLOYD, Mrs., Savage’s god-mother, i. 172. LLOYD, Olivia, i. 92. LLOYD, Robert, the poet, account of him, i. 395, n. 2; Connoisseur, i. 420, n. 3; ii. 334, n. 3; Odes to Obscurity, ii. 334. LLOYD, Mr. and Mrs. Sampson, Boswell and Johnson dine with them, ii. 456, 457; Barclay’s Apology, ii. 458; observance of days, ii. 458. LLOYD, William, Bishop of St. Asaph, his learning in ready cash, ii. 256, n. 3; his palace, v. 437. LLOYD, —— , of Maesmynnan, v. 445. LLOYD, —— , schoolmaster of Beaumaris, v. 447. LOAN, government, raised at eight per cent, in 1779, iii. 408; n. 4. Lobo’s Abyssinia, Johnson translates it, i. 78, n. 2, 86-9, 340, n. 3; sees a copy in his old age, iii. 7. Loca Solennia, Boswell writes to Johnson from, ii. 3, n. 1. LOCAL, attachment, ii. 103; consequence, ii. 133; histories, iv. 218, n. 1; sanctity, ii. 276. LOCHBUY, Laird of, Johnson visits him, v. 341-3; his dungeon, v. 343. LOCHBUY, Lady, v. 341-3. LOCHIEL, Chief of, v. 297, n. 1. LOCKE, John, anecdote of him and Dr. Clarke, i. 3, n. 2; Common-Place Book, i. 204; exportation of coin, on the, iv. 105; last words to Collins, iii. 363, n. 3; Latin Verses, v. 93-5; style, iii. 257, n. 3; Treatise on Education, cold bathing for children, i. 91, n. 1; the proper age for travelling, iii. 458; whipping an infant, ii. 184; Watts, Dr., answered by, ii. 408, n. 3. LOCKE, William, of Norbury Park, iv. 43. LOCKHART, Sir George, v. 227, n. 4. LOCKHART, J. G., Captain Carleton’s Memoirs, on the authorship of, iv. 334, n. 4; Johnson on the Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2; Scott and the Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 193, n. 3. LOCKMAN, J., i. 115, n. 1; ‘l’illustre Lockman,’ iv. 6. LODGING-HOUSE LANDLORDS, i. 422. LOFFT, Capel, account of him, iv. 278; his Reports quoted, iii. 87, n. 3. LOMBE, John, iii. 164.
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