The Life of Samuel Johnson
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IV Works, Published and Projected, and Journals
Account of Corsica, with the Journal of a Tour to that Island : preface quoted by J.B., 297 n. c; publication 287; S.J.’s advice about it 266, 273; S.J. praises the Journal 298; prepares and intends to publish ‘Collections of Scotch antiquities’ 307, 747 n. a; Critical Strictures on Elvira 217; ‘Dictionary of words peculiar to Scotland’, prepares a 307; The Douglas Cause, a ballad 288 n. 250; ‘Epitaph’ on Soame Jenyns, probably by him 170 n. a; essays 864; see also The Hypochondriack; Essence of the Douglas Cause 288 n. 250, 382 n. a; The Hypochondriack, proposed collected edition of the first forty numbers 864; journal: its accuracy 295 n. a; entries made in company 952; four nights in one week given to it 243; imperfectly kept or neglected 298, 460, 706, 709, 715, 726–7, 818, 824, 901, 914, 919, 920, 928, 936, 945–6; kept one in his youth 229; kept with industry 5; kept in quarto and octavo volumes 810; sat up all night on it 243; S.J. – advises him to keep one 229, 375, 453; – pleased with it 664; – helps to record a conversation 664; – reminded that it is kept 762; – quoted or mentioned 213, 645; journal, Ashbourne 635; read by Forbes 635; journal, Chester 748; Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: attacks on it 626; criticized 6; extensive circulation 403, 626; praised: by him 17 n. a; – by others 4, 6, 404; motto 626 n. 721; passages in, repeated by J.B. in the Life 30; quoted or referred to by J.B. in the Life 4, 22, 228 n. a, 922 n. a; read in MS by Mrs Thrale 465; Letter to the People of Scotland against Diminishing the Number of the Lords of Session (1785): mentions George III, 122 n. 90; quotes on the juries of England 526 n. b; Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation (1783) 905–7; sent to Pitt and other eminent persons 907 n. a; Letters of Lady Jane Douglas 288 n. 250; The Life of Johnson (chronological): progress through the press 5; composed in part by Manning 941; printed by Baldwin, see Others: Baldwin, Henry; editions, see Others: Malone, Edmond; additions and corrections to it 7; addenda and new notes to the third edition 9; may be assimilated to the Odyssey 8; compared with the Tour 4; editorial technique – treatment of journal or other raw material 287, 544; – missing words supplied 846 n. a; treatment of persons – of the dead 19 n. b; – of Goldsmith 219; – of Hawkins 19 n. b, 42; – of Monboddo 914 n. b; – of Mrs Piozzi 42, 43 n. a; opinions of – general commendation 8; – praised by Abercrombie 370; by friends or contemporaries of Johnson 973 n. a; – by Dr Knox 983 n. b; – by Reynolds 7; – depreciated by Steevens and Blagden 675 n. 801; ‘A Matrimonial Thought’, a song 317; Scots Magazine, contributes to 66; ‘Thesis in Civil Law’ 271–4; Travels on the Continent, wishes to publish 685, 685 n. a.
OTHERS
Abercrombie, Revd James (1758–1841): 186 n. e, 370, 388 n. b
Aberdeen, bishop of, see Campbell, Hon. and Revd Archibald
Abernethy, Dr John (1680–1740), Presbyterian minister; moderator of the general synod (1715–16); campaigned for the religious and political liberties of Dissenters; repudiated Calvinism; author of Reasons for the Repeal of the Sacramental Test (1733), Discourses concerning the Being and Natural Perfections of God (2 vols., 1740) and Sermons on Various Subjects (4 vols., 1748–51): 617 n. a, 914 n. a
Abington, Mrs Frances (1737–1815), actress; after some success at Drury Lane, enjoyed enormous fame in Dublin in roles such as Mrs Sullen, in The Beaux’ Stratagem (1759); returned to London to become one of the leading comedy actresses of her generation (1765); fractious correspondence with Garrick; most celebrated for role of Lady Teazle, a part written for her, in Sheridan’s The School for Scandal (1777); admired by S.J.; fashion role model: 434, 436, 439, 448
Abingdon, Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of (1740–90), politician; independent who co-operated with Rockingham and Chatham oppositional parties of 1770s and early 1780s; vocal critic of the administration’s American policies; supporter of second Rockingham administration; patron in London music scene; involved in effort to bring Haydn to England; accomplished flautist: 759 n. a
Abreu, Marquis of: 189
Adam, Robert (d. 1792) and James (d. 1794), architects: 436, 609, 759
Adams, Dr William (1706–89), Master of Pembroke College, Oxford; Church of England clergyman; tutor of S.J. at Pembroke College, Oxford, remarking ‘I was his nominal tutor, but he was above my mark’; archdeacon of Llandaff (1777); attended first performance of S.J.’s Irene (1749); author of An Essay on Mr Hume’s Essay on Miracles (1752); encouraged S.J. to produce his Prayers and Meditations (1785): 6, 38, 39 n. c, 45, 47, 77, 78, 101, 106, 110, 111 and n. a, 143–4, 155, 500, 921, 926, 928, 929, 936, 973, 989 n. a, 997
n. a Adams, George (d. 1773), maker of scientific instruments and globes; mathematical instrument maker to the Office of Ordnance (1748–72); mathematical instrument maker to the Prince of Wales (the future George III) (1756); Treatise on his new 18 and 12 in. globes of 1766 included a dedicatory contribution by S.J.: 15, 286
Adams, Mrs, wife of Dr W. Adams: 921, 929
Adams, Sarah (1746–1804), daughter of Dr W. Adams: 921, 925
Adams, William (fl. 1656), founder of Newport School, Salop: 76 n. a
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), writer and politician; Whig and member of the Kit-Cat Club; friend of Swift, Steele and Congreve; a commissioner of appeal in Excise (1704); under-secretary in the office of the Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1705); secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1708); Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1717–18); contributor to Steele’s Tatler before founding The Spectator (1711) and publishing the most important literary criticism of the century before S.J.; playwright of the hugely successful Cato (Drury Lane, 1713): 21, 114, 125 and n. a, 166, 178, 192, 225, 258, 304, 373, 398, 433 n. b, 447 and n. a, 459, 536, 542, 555, 606, 649, 676, 690, 695, 707, 776, 791–3, 806, 814, 816, 866, 987–8; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Spectator, The
Adey, Mrs Joseph, Felicia Hammond (d. 1778): 469, 735
Adey, Mary (1742–1830): 26, 513, 745, 844
Aelian (fl. c.ad 200), ancient Greek historian and zoologist: 976 n. a
Aeschylus (525–456 bc), ancient Greek tragic poet; combatant in the Persian Wars, fighting at Marathon and possibly also Salamis; author of some ninety plays, of which seven have survived –Suppliants, Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Vinctus and the trilogy The Oresteia; the founder of Greek tragedy: 662, 771
Agar, Welbore Ellis (1735–1805), commissioner of customs: 584
Agutter, Revd William (1758–1835), Church of England clergyman; strong loyalist; committed to abolition of slave trade; used example of the contrasting deathbeds of S.J. and Hume to demonstrate ‘the difference between the death of the righteous and the wicked’to Oxford University congregation atStMary’s Church (23 July 1786): 922 n. b, 928 n. a, 1001 n. a
Aikin, Miss, see Barbauld, Mrs
Akenside, Mark (1721–70), poet and physician; edited The Museum (1746–7), publishing work byS.J. and Christopher Smart; physician-in-ordinarytoQueen Charlotte (1761); author of ‘The Pleasures of the Imagination’, a philosophical poem in blank verse that greatly influenced Wordsworth and Coleridge; published on medical themes, De dysenteria commentarius (1764): 192, 347, 520, 535, 794
Akerman, Richard (c.1722–92), keeper of Newgate: 600, 756, 757
Alberti, Leandro (1479–1553), author of the Descrittione di tutta l’Italia (Venice, 1577): 447
Alcibiades (fl. c. 450 bc), a noble Athenian politician and military commander of exceptional beauty and talent, but also unscrupulous and dissolute: 648, 667
Aldrich, Revd Stephen (d. 1789), rector of Clerkenwell: 216 n. a
Alexander the Great (356–323 bc), kingofMacedon, the most successful military commander of antiquity; conqueror of Asia, Syria, Egypt, Persia and India; responsible for the dissemination of Greek culture over the Near East: 22, 136, 362, 915
Alfred the Great (848–99), king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons, man of great learning; the founder, defender and saviour of the English nation: 101, 838 and n. a
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Allen, Edmund (1726–84), printer: 247, 446, 598, 600, 668, 692, 729, 888, 889, 959 and n. b, 963, 967, 969, 975
Allen, Mr (?Hollyer, b. 1730), of Magdalen Hall: 179
Althorp, George John Spencer, Viscount, afterwards 2nd Earl Spencer (1758– 1834), politician and book-collector; pupil of Sir William Jones; member of the Club (1778); fellowof the Royal Society (1780); Rockingham Whig; crossed the floor to join Pitt in the wake of the French Revolution; first lord of the Admiralty (1794); patron of the poet John Clare; in retirement, assembled the greatest private library in Europe, and served as the first president of the Roxburghe Club: 731, 753
Amory, Dr Thomas (1701–74), Nonconformist divine: 617 n. a
Amyatt, Dr John (c.1732–1810), physician: 201 n. a
Anacreon (fl. sixth century bc), lyric poet whose work survives only in fragments, dealing chiefly with the pleasures of love and wine: 368, 855, 895, 909
Anderson, John (1726–96), natural philosopher; chair of natural philosophy at Glasgow University (1757), voting for himself; hatched grandiose and impractical scheme to found new university at Glasgow; nicknamed Jolly Jack Phosphorus; active in Glasgow literary society; member of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Natural History Society of London; author of the Institutes of Physics (1777): 585
Andrews, Dr Francis (d. 1774), provost of Trinity College, Dublin: 257
Angell, Captain Henry (d. 1777), RN of the Stag, frigate: 186
Angell, John, the elder (d. 1764), writer on shorthand; stenographer; published Stenography, or, Shorthand Improved (1758), a work to which S.J. subscribed: 379, 669
Anne (1665–1714), queen of Great Britain and Ireland; fourth child and second daughter of James II; younger sister of Mary II, wife of William of Orange, later William III; married to Prince George of Denmark; reconciled to William after the death of Mary (1694); acceded to the throne on William’s death in 1702; early ally of the Tories; presided over the peace treaty of Utrecht (1713), announcing Britain as a major world power; twelve-year reign ushered in eighteenth-century peace and prosperity after the warring and uncertainty that closed the previous century: 28, 29, 225, 594
Anson, George, Baron (1697–1762), naval officer and politician; rear admiral (1745); vice-admiral (1746); Commander of the Squadrons in the Channel; driving force behind the Admiralty board of 1744; full admiral (1749); vice-admiral of Great Britain (1750); first lord of the Admiralty (1751–62); made unpopular by the loss of Minorca: 726
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of, see Craven, Baroness
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, see Marcus Aurelius
Apicius, the famous epicure who lived during the reign of the emperor Tiberius: 503
Apollonius Rhodius (c.295–215 bc), poet and librarian; author of The Argo-nautica, a Greek epic on the subject of Jason, which influenced Virgil: 158 and n. a, 401
Arblay, Mme d’, see Burney, Frances
Arbuthnot, Dr John (1667–1735), physician and satirist; intimate friend of Swift; author of five best-selling ‘John Bull’ pamphlets in support of Robert Harley; formed the ‘Scriblerus Club’ with Swift, Pope, Parnell, Grey and Lord Treasurer Oxford; co-wrote Three Hours After Marriage with Pope and Gay (1717); accomplished and witty letter-writer; described by S.J. in the Life of Pope as ‘a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination’: 225, 460
Argenson, Antoine Rene´ de Voyer, Marquis de Paulmy d’ (1722–87), statesman and bibliophile: 471
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of (1682–1761): 107, 557
Argyll, Jane (Warburton), Duchess of (c.1683–1767), wife of the 2nd Duke of Argyll: 134
Argyll, John Campbell, 5th Duke of (1723–1806): 573–4
Ariosto, Ludovico (1473–1533), Italian poet and author of Orlando Furioso (1516): 151, 766
Aristotle (384–322 bc), Greek philosopher: 109n.b,538, 680, 769, 821, 976n.a
Armagh, Archbishops of, see Stuart, Hon. and Revd William; Ussher, Dr James
Armstrong, Dr John (1709–79), poet and physician: 186 n. e, 584
Arnauld, Antoine (1612–94), Jansenist theologian: 711
Arnold, Dr Thomas (1742–1816), physician and mad-doctor; physician at Leicester Infirmary (1771); took over father’s mad-house in Leicester (1766); major work, Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity, Lunacy, or Madness, 2 vols. (1782, 1786); pioneered shift towards ‘moral’ treatment of the insane: 618 n. a
Arran, Charles Butler, Earl of (d. 1758), chancellor of Oxford University: 152–3