Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson

  cancel in the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, xxxiii;

  ’copy’ and a book by Professor Watson, xxxvii;

  George Strahan’s election to a scholarship, xxx;

  Miss Williams, taxes due, and a journey, xxvii;

  printing the Dictionary, xxv-xxviii;

  Rasselas, xxviii;

  Suppressions in Taxation no Tyranny, xxxvi;

  letter to Dr. Taylor, xxxviii;

  portraits, lxiv;

  public interest in him, xlviii;

  romantic virtue, xlviii;

  transformation of an actor, lxi;

  trips to the country, lviii; unpublished sermons, lxvi;

  use of the word big, lxix.

  JONES, Sir William, xxxi.

  KENRICK, Dr. William xlviii.

  LANGLEY, Rev. W., xxxv.

  LETTSOM Dr., lvi

  LICHFIELD, Cathedral, xxxiv;

  City, and County, xl;

  described by C. P. Moritz, liv.

  LLOYD, Olivia, xlii.

  LLOYD, Sampson, xlii, liii.

  LOCKE, John, 1.

  LONDON PAVEMENT, lxvii.

  LORT, Dr., lxviii.

  MASON, Rev. William, xxxix.

  MAUD, Rev. Mr., lv.

  MILLAR, Andrew, xxv, xxviii.

  MITCHELL, Andrew, xlvi.

  MORITZ, C. P., Travels in England in 1782, liv, lv.

  MORRISON’S, Mr. Alfred, Collection of Autographs, xxxviii, li.

  NEWTON, Bishop Thomas, xxxiv.

  OXFORD

  The proposed Riding School, l;

  in 1782, lv;

  University College, xxx.

  Palmerin of England, xli.

  PARR, Dr., lix.

  PERCY, Bishop, xlviii, lvii.

  PIOZZI’S, Mrs., ‘Collection of Johnson’s Letters,’ xlviii.

  PLANTA, Joseph, 1.

  PORTEOUS, Captain, xxvii.

  PORTER, Henry, xliii.

  PRETENDER, Young, lxviii.

  PRIESTLEY, Dr. Joseph, lvi.

  Rambler, reported Russian version, lxiii.

  REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, lx.

  ROBERTSON, Dr. William, xxxvii.

  ROUSSEAU, J. J., xlvi.

  ROUTH, Dr., lix.

  RUDD, Mrs., lii.

  SCOTCH Nationality, xlix.

  SHAKESPEARE’S Popularity, lxviii.

  SHAW, Rev. Mr., xxxvii.

  SHEPHERD, Mr. R. H., xlv.

  SIMPSON, Rev. W. Sparrow, xxxiv.

  SMART, Christopher, lii.

  Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris, lix.

  ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, lxv.

  STEWART, Francis, xxvi.

  STRAHAN, George, xxx.

  STRAHAN, William, xxi, xxvi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxvi, xxxviii.

  SYNOD OF COOKS, xlvii.

  TAYLOR, Dr. John, xxxviii.

  TAYLOR, John, of Birmingham, xlii.

  THRALE, Henry, xxxviii.

  TILLOTSON, Archbishop, lxvi.

  ‘UNITARIAN,’ l.

  VACHELL, William, lvi.

  VOLTAIRE, xlvi, lxviii.

  Walfords Antiquarian, xlv.

  WATSON, Rev. Professor, xxxvii.

  WHITEHEAD, William, xxxix.

  WILKES, John, xlv.

  WILLIAMS, Miss, xxvii.

  INDEX

  A.

  ABBREVIATING NAMES, Johnson’s habit of, ii. 258, n. 1. ABEL DRUGGER, iii. 35. ABERCROMBIE, James, ii. 206, 241, n. 3. ABERDEEN, second Earl of, v. 130. ABERNETHY, Dr., iv. 272, n. 4. ABERNETHY, Rev. John, v. 68. ABINGDON, fourth Earl of, iii. 435, n. 4. ABINGTON, Mrs., her jelly, ii. 349; Johnson at her benefit, ii. 321, 324, 330; She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 208, n. 5. ABJURATION, oath of, ii. 321, n. 4. ABNEY, Sir Thomas, i. 493, n. 3. ABREU, Marquis of, i. 353. ABRIDGMENTS, defended by Johnson, i. 140, n. 5; iv. 381, n. 1; like a cow’s calf, v. 72. ABROAD, advice to people going, iv. 332. ABRUPTNESS, i. 403. ABSOLUTE PRINCES, ii. 370. ABSTEMIOUS, Johnson, not temperate, i. 468. ABSURDITIES, delineating, iv. 17. ABUD, —— , v. 253, n. 3. ABUSE, coarse and refined, iv. 297. Abyssinia, A Voyage to, i. 86. Academia delta Crusca, i. 298, 443. Academy, Mr. Doble’s notes on the authorship of The Whole Duty of Man, ii. 239, n. 4. Accommodate, v. 310, n. 3. Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude, i. 274, n. 2, 301, 303, n. 1; ii. 125, n. 4. Account of the late Revolution in Sweden, iii. 284. Account of Scotland in 1702, iii. 242. ACCOUNT-KEEPING, iv. 177. ACCURACY, requires immediate record, ii. 217, n. 4; and vigilance, iv. 361; needful in delineating absurdities, iv. 17; Johnson’s sayings not accurately reported, ii. 333. See BOSWELL, authenticity. ACHAM, v. 454, n. 2. ACHILLES, shield of, iv. 33. Acid, ii. 362. Acis and Galatea, iii. 242, n. 2. ACQUAINTANCE, should be varied, iv. 176; making new, iv. 374. ACTING, iv. 243-4; v. 38. ACTION IN SPEAKING, ridiculed, i. 334; useful only in addressing brutes, ii. 211. ACTORS. See PLAYERS. Ad Lauram parituram Epigramma, i. 157. Ad Ricardum Savage, i. 162, n. 3. Ad Urbanum, i. 113. ADAM, Robert, Works in Architecture, iii. 161. ADAMITES, ii. 251. ADAMS, George, Treatise on the Globes, ii. 44. ADAMS, John, the American envoy, ii. 40, n. 4. ADAMS, Rev. William, D.D., Boswell, letter to, i. 8; everlasting punishment, on, iv. 299; Hume, answers, i. 8, n. 2; ii. 441; iv. 377, n. a; dines with him, ii. 441; Johnson awed by him, i. 74; and Boswell visit him in 1776, ii. 441; in June, 1784, iv. 285; well-treated, iv. 311; and Chesterfield, i. 265-6; and Dr. Clarke, iv. 416, n. 2; Dictionary, i. 186; hypochondria, i. 483; last visit, iv. 376; nominal tutor, i. 79; Prayers and Meditations, iv. 376, n. 4; projected book of family prayers, 293; and Dr. Price, iv. 434; projected Bibliotheque, i. 284; projected Life of Alfred, i. 177; undergraduate days, i. 26, n. l, 57, 59, 73; ii. 441; will, not mentioned, in, iv. 402, n. 2; Master of Pembroke College, v. 455, n. 2; rector of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, v. 455; mentioned, i. 133, 134; v. 122, n. 2. ADAMS, Mrs., iv. 285, 300. ADAMS, Miss, defends women against Johnson, iv. 291; describes him in letters, iv. 151, n. 2, 305, n. 1; his death, iv. 376, n. 2; his gallantry, iv. 292; mentioned, iv. 285. ADAMS, William, founder of Newport School, i. 132, n, 1. ADAMS, the brothers, the architects, ii. 325. ADBASTON, i. 132, n. 1. ADDISON, Bonn’s edition, iv. 190, n. 1; borrows out of modesty, v. 92, n. 4; Boswell’s projected work, i. 225, n. 2; Budgell’s papers in the Spectator, iii. 46; Epilogue to The Distressed Mother, ib.; Cato, Dennis criticises it, iii. 40, n. 2; Johnson, i. 199, n. 2; Parson Adams praises it, i. 491, n. 3; Prologue, i. 30, n. 2; eight quotations added to the language, i. 199, n. 2; quotations from it, ‘Honour’s a sacred tie,’ v. 82; ‘Indifferent in his choice,’ iii. 68, n. 1; The Numidian’s luxury, iii. 282; ‘obscurely good,’ iv. 138, n. 1; ‘Painful pre-eminence,’ iii. 82, n. 2; ‘the Romans call it Stoicism,’ i. 333; ‘Smothered in the dusty whirlwind,’ v. 291; ‘This must end ‘em,’ ii. 54, n. 2; Christian religion, defence of the, v. 89, ‘2. 7; conversation, ii. 256; iii. 339; death of a piece with a man’s life, v. 397, n. 1; death-bed described by H. Walpole, v. 269, n. 2; dedication of Rosamond, v. 376, n. 3; encouraged a man in his absurdity, v. 243; English historians, ii. 236, n. 2; familiar day, his, iv. 91, n. 1; Freeholder, i. 344, n. 4; ii. 61, n. 4, 319, n. 1; Freeport, Sir Andrew, ii. 212; v. 328; French learning, v. 310; general knowledge in his time rare, iv. 217, n. 4; ghosts, iv. 95; Italian learning, ii. 346; v. 310; Johnson praises him, i. 425; judgment of the public, i. 200, n. 2; Latin verses, i. 61, n. 1; Leandro Alberti, ii. 346; Life by Johnson, iv. 52-4; ‘mixed wit,’ i. 179, n. 3; Newton on space, v. 287, n. 1; ‘nine-pence in ready money,’ ii. 256; notanda, i. 204; party-lying, ii. 188, n. 2; Pope’s lines on him, ii. 85; procerity, i. 308; prose, iv. 5, n. 2; Remarks on Italy, ii. 346; v. 310; Socrates, projected tragedy on, v. 89, n. 7; Spectator, his half of the, iii. 33; dexterity rewarded by a king, iii. 231; knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; pamphleteer, iii. 319, n. 1; portrait of a clergyman, iv. 76; preacher in a country town, iv. 185, n. 1; Sir Roger de Coverley’s incipient madness, i. 63, n. 2; ii. 371; death, ii. 370; story of the widow, ii. 371; Thames ribaldry, iv. 26; The Old Man’s Wish sung to him, iv. 19, n. 1; Stavo bene &c., ii. 346; Steele, loan t
o, iv. 52, 91; style, i. 224, 225, n. 1; Swift, compared with, v. 44; wine, love of, i. 359; iii. 155; iv. 53, 398: v. 269, n. 2; warm with wine when he wrote Spectators, iv. 91. Address of the Painters to George III, i. 352. Address to the Throne, i. 321. ADDRESSES TO THE CROWN IN 1784, i. 311; iv. 265. ADELPHI, built by the Adams, ii. 325, n, 3; Beauclerk’s ‘box,’ ii. 378, n. 1; iv. 99; Boswell and Johnson at the rails, iv. 99; Garrick’s house, iv. 96. ADEY, Miss, i. 38, 466; iii. 412; iv. 142. ADEY, Mrs., ii. 388; iii. 393. ADMIRATION, ii. 360. ADOPTION, ancient mode of, i. 254. Adriani morientis ad animam suam, iii. 420, n. 2. ADULTERY, comparative guilt of a husband and wife, ii. 56; iii. 406; confusion of property caused by it, ii. 55. ADVENT-SUNDAY, ii. 288. Adventurer, started by Hawkesworth, i. 234; contributors, i. 252, n. 2, 253-4; v. 238; Johnson’s contributions, i. 252-5; his love of London, i. 320; papers marked T., i. 207. Adventures of a Guinea, v. 275. Adversaria, Johnson’s, i. 205. ADVERSARIES. See ANTAGONISTS. Advice to the Grub-Street Verse-Writers, i. 143, n. 1. ADVISERS, the common deficiency of, iii. 363. àgri Ephemeris, iv. 381. AESCHYLUS, Darius’s shade, iv. 16, n. 2; Potter’s translation, iii. 256. àsop at Play, iii. 191. AFFAIRS, managing one’s, iv. 87. AFFECTATION, distress, of, iv. 71; dying, in, v. 397; familiarity with the great, of, iv. 62; rant of a parent, iii. 149; silence and talkativeness, iii. 261; studied behaviour, i. 470; bursts of admiration, iv. 27. See SINGULARITY. AFFECTION, descends, iii. 390; natural, ii. 101; iv. 210; AGAMEMNON, v. 79, 82, n. 4. AGAR, Welbore Ellis, iii. 118, n. 3. AGE, old. See OLD AGE. AGE, present, better than previous ones, ii. 341, n. 3; except in reverence for government, iii. 3; and authority, iii. 262; not worse, iv. 288; querulous declamations against, iii. 226. Agis, Home’s, v. 204, n. 6. Agriculture, Memoirs of, by R. Dossie, iv. 11. AGUTTER, Rev. William, iv. 286, n. 3, 298, n. 2, 422. AIKIN, Miss. See BARBAULD, Mrs. AIR, new kinds of, iv. 237. AIR-BATH, iii. 168. AJACCIO, i. 119, n. 1. AKENSIDE, Mark, M.D., Gray and Mason, superior to, iii. 32; Life, by Johnson, iv. 56; medicine, defence of, iii. 22, n, 4; Odes, ii. 164; Pleasures of the Imagination, i. 359; ii. 164; Rolt’s impudent claim, i. 359; Townshend, friendship with, iii. 3. AKERMAN, — , Keeper of Newgate, Boswell’s esteemed friend, iii. 431; courage at the Gordon riots, and at an earlier fire, ib.; praised by Burke and Johnson, iii. 433; profits of his office, iii. 431, n 1. mentioned, iii. 145. ALBEMARLE, Lord, Memoirs of Rockingham, iii. 460; v. 113, n. 1. ALBERTI, LEANDRO, ii. 346; v. 310 Albin and the Daughter of Mey, v. 171. ALCHYMY, ii. 376. Alciat’s Emblems, ii. 290. n. 4. ALCIBIADES, his dog, iii. 231; alluded to by William Scott, iii. 267. ALDRICH, Dean, ii. 187, n. 3. ALDRICH, Rev. S., i. 407, n. 3. ALEPPO, iii. 369; iv. 22. ALEXANDER THE GREAT, i. 250; ii. 194; iv. 274. Alexandreis, iv. 181, n. 3. ALFRED, Life, i. 177; will, iv. 133, n. 2. Alias, iv. 217. ALKERINGTON, iv. 335, n. 1. All for Love, iv. 114, n. 1. ALLEN, Edmund, the printer, dinner at his house, i. 470; Dodd, kindness to, iii. 141, 145; Johnson’s birth-day dinners, at, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. 135, n. 1, 239, n. 2; imitated, iii. 269-270; iv. 92; landlord and friend, iii. 141, 269; letter from, iv. 228; loan to, i. 5l2, n. 1; pretended brother, exposes, v. 295; grieves at his death, iv. 354, 360, 366, 369, 379. Marshall’s Minutes of Agriculture, iii. 313; Smart’s contract with Gardner, ii. 345; mentioned, iii. 380. ALLEN, Ralph, account of him, v. 80, n. 5; Warburton married his niece, ii. 37, n. 1. ALLEN, H., of Magdalen Hall, i. 336. ALLEN, —— , i. 36, n. 2. ALLESTREE, Richard, ii. 239, n. 4. ALMACK’S, iii. 23, n. 1. ALMANAC, history no better than an, ii. 366. ALMON’S Memoirs of John Wilkes, i. 349, n. 1. Almost nothing, ii. 446, n. 3; iii. 154, n. 1. ALMS-GIVING, Fielding, condemned by, ii. 119, n. 4, 212, n. 2; Johnson’s practice, ii. 119; ib. n. 4; money generally wasted, iv. 3; better laid out in luxury, iii. 56; Whigs, condemned by true, ii, 212. ALNWICK CASTLE, Johnson, visited by, iii. 272, n. 3; Pennant, described by, iii. 272-3; mentioned, iv. 117, n. 1. ALONSO THE WISE, ii. 238, n. 1. ALTHORP, Lord (second Earl Spencer), iii. 424. ALTHORP, Lord (third Earl Spencer), iii. 424, n. 4. AMBASSADOR, a foreign, iii. 410; Wotton’s, Sir H., definition, ii. 170, n. 3. AMBITION, iii. 39. Amelia. See FIELDING. AMENDMENTS OF A SENTENCE, iv. 38. AMERICA; Beresford, Mrs., an American lady, iv. 283; Boston Port Bill, ii. 294, n. 1; Burgoyne’s surrender, iii. 355, n. 3; Carolina library, i. 309, n. 2; Chesapeak, iv. 140, n. 2. City address to the King in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4; Clinton, Sir Henry, iv. 140, n. 2; Concord, iii. 314, n. 6; Congress, ii. 312, 409, 479; Constitutional Society, subscription raised by the, iii. 314, n. 6; Convict settlements, ii. 312, n. 3; Cornwallis’s capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv. 140, n. 2; discovery of, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479; dominion lost, iv. 260, n. 2; emigration to it an immersion in barbarism, v. 78: See Emigration, and Scotland, emigration; English opposition to the American war, iv. 81; France, assistance from, iv. 21; Franklin’s letter to W. Strahan, iii. 364, n. 1: See Dr. Franklin; Georgia, i. 90, n. 3, 127, n. 4; v. 299; Hume’s opinion of the war, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 194, n. 1; independence, chimerical, i. 309, n. 2; influence on mankind, i. 309, n. 2; Irish Protestants well-wishers to the rebellion, iii. 408, n. 4; Johnson ‘avoids the rebellious land,’ iii. 435, n. 4; feelings towards the Americans, ii. 478-480; iii. 200-1; iv. 283; calls them a ‘race of convicts,’ ii. 312; ‘wild rant,’ ii. 315, n. 1; iii. 290; abuse, 315; parody of Burke on American taxation, iv. 318; Patriot, ii. 286; relicks of, in America, ii. 207; Taxation no Tyranny, ii. 312; Lee, Arthur, agent in England, iii. 68, n. 3; Lexington, iii. 314, n. 6; libels in 1784, i. 116, n. 1; life in the wilds, ii. 228; literature gaining ground, i. 309, n. 2; Loudoun, Lord, General in America, v. 372, n. 3; Mansfield, Lord, approves of burning their houses, iii. 429, n. 1; Markham’s, Archbishop, sermon, v. 36, n. 3; money sent to the English army, iv. 104; New England, iv. 358, n. 2; v. 317; North’s, Lord, conciliatory propositions, iii. 221; objects for observation, i. 367; peace, negotiations of, iv. 158, n. 4; preliminary treaty of, iv. 282, n. 1; Pennsylvania, ii. 207, n. 2; Philadelphia, i. 309, n. 2; iii. 364, n. 1; iv. 212, n. 1; planters, ii. 27; population, growth of, ii. 314; Rasselas, reprint of, ii. 207; Saratoga, iii. 355, n. 3; slavery, England guilty of, ii. 479; Susquehannah, v. 317; taxation by England, ii. 312; iii. 205-7, 221; iv. 259, n. 1; Virginia, ii. 27, n. 1; 479; war with America popular in Scotland, iv. 259, n. 1; war with the French in 1756-7, i. 308, n. 2; ii. 479; iii. 9, n. 1; Walpole, Horace, on the slaveholders, iii. 200, n. 4; Wesley’s Calm Address, v. 35, n. 3; York Town, iv. 140, n. 2. AMHERST, Lord, iii. 374, n. 3. AMIENS, ii. 402, n. 2. AMORY, Dr. Thomas, iii. 174, n. 3. AMUSEMENTS, key to character, iv. 316; public, keep people from vice, ii. 169. AMWELL, ii. 338. AMYAT, Dr., i. 377, n. 2. Ana, v. 311, n. 2, 414. ANACREON, Baxter’s edition, iv. 163, 241, 265; v. 376; mentioned, ii. 202. ANAITIS, the Goddess, v. 218, 220, 224. Anatomy of Melancholy, ii. 121. ANCESTRY, ii. 153, 261. ANCIENT TIMES worse than Modern, iv. 217. ANCIENTS, not serious in religion, iii. 10. ANDERDON, J. L., iii. 195, n. 1. ANDERSON, John, Nachrichten von Island, iii. 279, n. 1. ANDERSON, Professor, of Glasgow, iii. 119; v. 369, 370. ANDREWS, Francis, i. 489. Anecdote, ii. 11, n. 1. ANECDOTES, Johnson’s love of, ii. 11; v. 39. Anecdotes of distinguished persons, iii. 123, n. 1. Anfractuosity, iv. 4. ANGEL, Captain, i. 349. ANGELL, John, Stenography, ii. 224; iii. 270. ANGER, unreasonable, but natural, ii. 377. ANIMAL, noblest, v. 400. ANIMAL SUBSTANCES, v. 216. ANIMALS. See BRUTES. Animus Aequus, not inheritable, v. 381. Animus irritandi, iv. 130. Aningait and Ajut, iv. 421, n. 2. Annals of Scotland. See LORD HAILES. ANNE, Queen, ‘touches’ Johnson, i. 42; grant to the Synod of Argyle, iii. 133; writers of her age, i. 425. ANNIHILATION, Hume’s principle, iii. 153; worse than existence in pain, 295-6; v. 180. ANNUAL REGISTER, Barnard’s verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3. ANONYMOUS WRITINGS, iii. 376. ANSON, Lord, i. 117, n. 2; iii. 374. ANSTEY, Christopher, New Bath Guide, i. 388, n. 3. ANSTRUTHER, J., ii. 191, n. 2. Ant, The, ii. 25. ANTAGONISTS, how they should be treated, ii. 442; v. 29. Anthologia, Johnson’s translations, iv. 384. Anti-Artemonius, i. 148, n. 1. Antigallican, i. 320. ANTIMOSAICAL REMARK, ii. 468. Antiquae Linguae: Britannicae Thesaurus, i. 186, n. 3. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES, iii. 333, 414. ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, iv. 436.
ANTIQUARIANS, iii. 278. Apartment, ii. 398, n. 1. APELLES’S VENUS, iv. 104. APICIUS, ii. 447. Apocrypha, ii. 189, n. 3. Apollonii pugna Belricia, ii. 263. APOLLONIUS RHODIUS, i. 289. Apophthegms of Johnson, i. 190, n. 4; iv. 324. APOSTOLICAL ORDINATION, ii. 103. Apotheosis of Milton, i. 140. APPARITIONS. See SPIRITS. Appeal to the publick, etc. i. 140. APPETITE, riding for an, i. 467, n. 2. APPIUS, in the Cato Major, iv. 374. APPLAUSE, iv. 32. APPLE DUMPLINGS, ii. 132. APPLEBY SCHOOL, in Leicestershire, i. 82, n. 2; 132, n. 1. APPLICATION, to one thing more than another, v. 34-5. APPREHENSIONS. See FANCIES. ARABIC, iv. 28. ARABS, v. 125. ARBUTHNOT, Dr. John, Dunciad, annotations on the, iv. 306, n. 3; History of John Bull, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4; illustrious physician, an, ii. 372; Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4; universal genius, i. 425; v. 29, n. 2; superior to Swift in coarse humour, v. 44. ARBUTHNOT, Robert, v. 29, 32. Archaeological Dictionary, iv. 162. ARCHBISHOP, Johnson’s bow to an, iv. 198. ARCHES, semicircular, and elliptical, i. 35l. ARCHITECTURE, ornamental, ii. 439. ARESKINE, Sir John, v. 293. ARGENSON, — , ii. 391. ARGONAUTS, i. 458. ARGUING, good-humour in, iii. 11. ARGUMENT, compared with testimony, iv. 281-2; getting the better of people in one, ii. 474; opponent, introducing one’s, ii. 475. ARGYLE, first Marquis of, v. 357, n. 3. ARGYLE, ninth Earl of, v. 357, n. 3. ARGYLE, tenth Earl (first Duke) of, v. 227, n. 4. ARGYLE, John, second Duke of, Beggar’s Opera, sees the, ii. 369, n. 1; Elwall, challenged by, ii. 164, n. 5; Walpole as sole minister, attacks, ii. 355, n. 2. ARGYLE, Archibald, third Duke of, librarian, neglects his, i. 187; a narrow man, v. 345; Wilkes visits him, iii. 73. ARGYLE, John, fifth Duke of, at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1; Boswell calls on him, v. 353-4; estates in Col. v. 293; Tyr-yi, v. 312; Iona, v. 335; Gordon riots, rumour about him at the, iii. 430, n. 6; Johnson dines with him, v. 355-9; is provided by him with a horse, v. 359, 362; corresponds with him, v. 363-4; lawsuit with Sir A. Maclean, ii. 380, n. 4; iii. 101, 102. ARGYLE, Duchess of (in 1752), i. 246. ARGYLE, Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of, account of her, v. 353, n. 1; at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1; dislikes Boswell, v. 353; slights him, v. 354, 358-9; he drinks to her, v. 356; Johnson undertakes to get her a book, v. 356, 363; is ‘all attention’ to her, v. 359, 363; calls her ‘a Duchess with three tails’, v. 359. ARIAN HERESY, iv. 32. ARIOSTO, i. 278; v. 368, n. 1. ARISTOTLE, Barrow, quoted by, iv. 105, n. 4; difference between the learned and unlearned, iv. 13; friendship, on, iii. 386, n. 3; Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2; lying, on, ii. 221, n. 2; purging of the passions, iii. 39. ARITHMETIC, Johnson’s fondness for it, i. 72; iv. 171, n. 3, 271; principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2. ARKWRIGHT, Richard, ii. 459, n. 1. ARMORIAL BEARINGS, ii. 179. ARMS, piling, iii. 355. ARMSTRONG, Dr., iii. 117. ARMY. See SOLDIERS. ARNAULD, Antoine, iii. 347. ARNE, Dr., v. 126, n. 5. ARNOLD, Thomas, M.D., Observations on Insanity, iii. 175, n. 3. ARRAN, Earl of, i. 281. ARRIGHI, A., Histoire de Pascal Paoli, ii. 3, n. I; v. 51, n. 3. Art of Living in London, i. 105, n. 1. ‘ART’S CORRECTIVE,’ v. 299. ARTEMISIA, ii. 76. ARTHRITICK TYRANNY, i. 179. ARTICLES. See THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES. ARTIFICIALLY, iii. 50, n. 4. ARTISTS, Society of. See SOCIETY OF ARTISTS. Ascertain, iii. 402, n. 2. ASCHAM, Roger, bachelor’s degree, takes his, i. 58, n. 3; Life by Johnson, i. 464; quoted, i. 307, n. 2. ASH, Dr., iv. 394, n. 4. ASHBOURNE, church, iii. 180; earthquake, iii. 136; Green Man Inn, iii. 208; Johnson’s visits, iii. 451-3; and the Thrales visit it in 1774, v. 430; and Boswell in 1776, ii. 473-6; in 1777, iii. 135-208; school, ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138; two convicts of the town hang themselves, iv. 359; water-fall, iii. 190. ASHBY, i. 36, n. 3, 79, n. 2. ASHMOLE, Elias, iii. 172; iv. 97, n. 3. ASIATIC SOCIETY, ii. 125, n. 4. ASSENT, a debt or a favour, iv. 320. ASSYRIANS, ii. 176; iii. 36. ASTLE, Rev. Mr., iv. 311. ASTLE, Thomas, letter from Johnson, iv. 133; mentioned, i. 155; iv. 311. ASTLEY, the equestrian, iii. 409. ASTOCKE, i. 79, n. 1. ASTON, Catherine (Hon. Mrs. Henry Hervey), i. 83, n. 4. ASTON, Margaret (Mrs. Walmsley), i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466. ASTON, Miss (Mrs.), ii. 466, 469; iii. 132, 211, 412, 414; iv. 145, n. 2. ASTON, ‘Molly’ (Mrs. Brodie), account of her, i. 83; ii. 466; interest of money, on the, iii. 340-1; Johnson’s epigram on her, i. 83, n. 3; 140, n. 4; iii. 341, n. 1; her letters to, iii. 341, n. 1; quoted by, iii. 341, n. 1; Lyttelton, Lord, preference for, iv. 57. ASTON, Sir Thomas, i. 83, 106, n. 1. ASTON HALL, ii. 456, n. 2. ATHEISM, v. 47. Athelstan, ii. 131, n. 2. Athenoeum, The, Boswell’s letters of acceptance as Secretary of the Royal Academy, iii. 370, n. 1; mistake in Forster’s Goldsmith, ii. 208, n. 5. Athenian Letters, i. 45, n. 2. ATHENIANS, barbarians, ii. 171; brutes, 211. ATHOL, Earl of, ii. 7; family of, v. 234. Athol porridge, iv. 78. ATLANTIC, Johnson on the, v. 163. ATONEMENT, The, v. 88. ATTACKS ON AUTHORS; attack is the reaction, ii. 335 better to be attacked than unnoticed, iii. 375 v. 273 part of a man’s consequence, iv. 422 ‘fame is a shuttlecock,’ v. 400 very rarely hurt an author, iii. 423 useful, in subjects of taste, v. 275 felt by authors, ib. n. 1 Addison, Hume, Swift, Young on them, ii. 61, n. 4 Bentley, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 274, n. 4; Boerhaave, ii. 61, n. 4 Fielding, v. 275, n. 1 Rambler, Vicar of Wakefield, Hume, and Boileau, iii. 375, n. 1 Johnson’s solitary reply to one, i. 314; ii. 61, ib. n. 4. ATTERBURY, Bishop, elegance of his English, ii. 95, n. 2 Funeral Sermon on Lady Cutts, ii. 228 Sermons, iii. 247 mentioned, i. 157. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Diabolus Regis, iii. 78. ATTORNEYS converted into Solicitors, iv. 128, n. 3 Johnson’s hits at them, ii. 126, ib. n. 4; iv. 313. AUCHINLECK, Lord, account of him, v. 375-6, 382, n. 2 Baxter’s Anacreon, collated, iv. 241 attentive to remotest relations, v. 131 Boswell’s ignorance of law, ii. 21, n. 4; v. 108, n. 2 Boswell, his disposition towards: See BOSWELL, father contentment, iii. 241; v. 381 death, iv. 154 ‘in a place where there is no room for Whiggism,’ v. 385 described in a Hypochondriack, i. 426, n. 3 Douglas Cause, ii. 50, n. 4 entails his estate in perpetuity, ii. 413-4 Gillespie, Dr., honorarium to, iv. 262 heirs general, preference for, ii. 414-5 calls Johnson a dominie, i. 96, n. 1; v. 382, n. 2 a Jacobite fellow, v. 376 Ursa Major, v. 384 a brute, ii. 381, n. 1; v. 384, n. 1 proposes to send him the Lives, iii. 372 visits him, v. 375-385 three topics in which they differ, v. 376 contest, v. 382-4 polite parting, v. 385 Knight the negro’s case, iii. 216 Laird of Lochbury, trial of the, v. 343 loves labour, ii. 99; planter of trees, iii. 103; v. 380 respected, v. 91, 131, 135 second wife, ii. 140, n. 1; v. 375, n. 4; Boswell on ill terms with her, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 80, n. 2 tenderness, want of, iii. 182 windows broken by a mob, v. 353, n. 1 mentioned, ii. 4, 206, 290, 291; iii. 129. AUCHINLECK PLACE. See SCOTLAND, Auchinleck. AUCTIONEERS, long pole at their door, ii. 349. AUGUSTAN AGE, flattery, ii. 234. AUGUSTUS, ii. 234, 470. AULUS GELLIUS, v. 232. AUSONIUS, i. 184; ii. 35, n. 5; iii. 263, n. 3. AUSTEN, Miss, Pride and Prejudice, iii. 299, n. 2. AUSTERITIES, religious. See MONASTERY. AUSTRIA, House of, epigram on it, v. 233. AUTEROCHE, Chappe d’, iii. 340. AUTHOR, an, of considerable eminence, iv. 323 one of restless vanity, iv. 319 who married a printer’s devil, iv. 99 who was a voluminous rascal, ii. 109. AUTHORITY, from personal respect, ii. 443 lessened, iii. 262. AUTHORS, attacks on them; See ATTACKS; best part of them in their books, i. 450, n. 1; chief glory of a people from them, i. 297, n. 3; ii. 125; complaints of, iv. 172; contrast between their life and writings, ii. 257, n. 1; consolation in their hours of gloom, ii. 69, n. 3; dread of them, i. 450, n. 1; eminent men need not turn authors, iii. 182; fit subjects for biography, iv. 98, n. 4; flatter the age, v. 59; hunted with a cannister at their tail, iii. 320; Johnson consulted by them ‘a man who wrote verses,’ ii. 51; Colley Cibber, ii. 92; ‘a lank and reverend bard,’ iii. 373’ Crabbe, iv. 121, n. 4; a tragedy-writer, iv. 244, n. 2; young Mr. Tytler, v. 402; advises to print boldly, ii. 195; advice very difficult to give, iii. 320; willing to assist them, iii. 373, n. 1; iv. 121; v. 402; put to the torture, ib. Project for the employment of Authors, i. 306, n. 3; wonders at their number, v. 59; judgment of their own works, i. 192, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 2; language characteristical, iv. 315; lie, whether ever allowed to, iv. 305-6; modern, the moons of literature, iii. 333; obscure ones, i. 307, n. 2; patrons, iv. 172; patronage done with, v. 59; payments received: Adventurer, t
wo guineas a paper, i. 253; Baretti, translation of some of Reynolds’s Discourses into Italian, twenty-five guineas, iii. 96; Blair, Sermons, vol. i, £200, vol. ii. £300, vol. iii. £600, iii. 98; Boswell, Corsica, 100 guineas, ii. 46, n. 1; Critical Review, two guineas a sheet, iv. 214, n. 2; Monthly, sometimes four guineas, ib.; Fielding, Tom Jones, £700, i. 287, n. 3; Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, £60, i. 415; Traveller, £21, ib., n. 2; Hawkesworth, £6000 for editing Cook’s Voyages, i. 341, n. 4; Hill, Sir John, fifteen guineas a week, ii. 38, n. 2; Hooke, £5000 for the Duchess of Marlborough’s Apology, v. 175, n. 3; Johnson: See JOHNSON, payments for his writings; payment by line, i. 193, n. 1; Piozzi, Mrs., for Johnson’s Letters, £500, ii. 43, n. 1; Robertson offered £500 for one edition of his History of Scotland, iii. 334, n. 2; £6000 made by the publishers; offered 3000 guineas for Charles V, ii. 63, n. 2; Sacheverell, £100 for a sermon, i. 39, n. 1; Shebbeare six guineas for a sheet for reviews, iv. 214; Savage, Wanderer, ten guineas, i. 124, n. 4; Whitehead, Paul, ten guineas for a poem, i. 124; pleasure in writing for the journals, v. 59, n. 2; privateers, like, iv. 191, n. 1; private life, in, i. 393; public, the, their judges, i. 200; putting into a book as much as a book will hold, ii. 237; regard for their first magazine, i. 112; reluctance to write their own lives, i. 25, n. 1; respect due to them, iii. 310; iv. 114; sale of their works to the booksellers, iii. 333-4; styles, distinguished by their, iii. 280; treatment by managers of theatres, i. 196, n. 2; writing for profit, iii. 162; on subjects in which they have not practised, ii. 430. Authors by Profession, i. 116. AVARICE, despised not hated, iii. 71 not inherent, iii. 322. AVENUES, v. 439. AVERROES, i. 188, n. 4. AVIGNON, iii. 446. AYLESBURY, Lady, iii. 429, n. 3.