D.
D. O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3. DACIER, Madame, in. 333, n. 2. Dacier’s Horace, in. 74, n. 1. Demonology, King James’s, iii. 382. DAGGE, —— , keeper of the Bristol Newgate, iii. 433, n. 1. DAILLÉ, on the Fathers, v. 294. Daily Advertiser, i. 256, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2. Daily Gazetteer, ii. 33, n. 1. Daily Post, i. 503. DALE, Mrs., v. 431. D’ALEMBERT, ii. 54, n. 3. DALIN, Olaf von, ii. 156. DALLAS, Miss, v. 87. DALLAS, Stuart, v. 87. DALRYMPLE, Colonel, v. 399. DALRYMPLE, Sir David. See HAILES, Lord. DALRYMPLE, Sir John, attacks the London booksellers, v. 402, n. 1; Burnet, criticises, ii. 213, n. 3; complains of attacks on his Memoirs, v. 400; foppery, his, ii. 237; Johnson, invites to his house, v. 401; rails at, v. 402; arrives late, v. 404; Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, ii. 210-1; parodied by Johnson, v. 403; style, ‘mere bouncing,’ ii. 210; praised by Boswell, ii. 211; mentioned, ii. 291. DALZEL, Professor, iv. 385. DANCALA, i. 88. DANCING, iv. 79. DANES, colony at Leuchars, v. 70; in Wales, v. 130. DANTE, Boswell’s ignorance of him, iii. 229, n. 4; Purgatory, quoted, iv. 373, n. 1; resemblance between Pilgrim’s Progress and Dante, ii. 238. DANUBE, ii. 133, n. 1. D’ARBLAY, General, iv. 223, n. 4. D’ARBLAY, Mme. See BURNEY, Miss. DARBY, Rev. Mr., v. 453, n. 2. DARIPPE, Captain, v. 135. DARIUS’S shade, iv. 16. DARLINGTON, i. 35, n. 1. DARTINEUF, Charles, ii. 447. DARTMOUTH, Lord, i. 407, n. 1. DARWIN, Charles, v. 428, n. 3. DARWIN, Dr. Erasmus, v. 428, n. 3. DASHWOOD, Sir Francis, ii. 135, n. 2. DASHWOOD, Sir Henry, iii. 407, n. 5. DATES to letters, i. 122, n. 2; iii. 421, n. 3, 428, n. 4. D’AUTEROCHE, Count, iii. 8, n. 3. DAVENANT, Sir William, ii. 168, n. 2. DAVENPORT, William, Strahan’s apprentice, ii. 324, n. 1. DAVIES, Thomas, account of him, i. 390; author, success as an, iii. 434; bankruptcy, iii. 223, 434; Baretti’s trial, exaggerated feelings about, ii. 94; quarrels with him, ii. 205; benefit at Drury Lane, iii. 249; bookseller, his taste as a, iii. 223, n. 1; Boswell to Johnson, introduces, i. 390; iv. 231; Churchill’s lines on him, i. 391, n. 2, 483; iii. 223; sees in the pit, iii. 223, n. 2: Cibber’s genteel ladies, ii. 340; ‘clapped on the back by Tom Davies,’ ii. 344; Conduct of the Allies, ii. 65; dinners at his house, ii. 340; iii. 38; Garrick, Memoirs of. iii. 434, n. 5; Garrick, letter to, iii. 223, n. 2; complains of his unkindness, ib.; Goldsmith’s dislike of Baretti, ii. 205, n. 3; ‘Goldy’s’ play, talks of, ii. 258; v. 308; Hunter, Johnson’s schoolmaster, anecdote of, i. 45, n. 4; Johnson, accurate observer of, ii. 258; candour, iii. 271, n. 2; and Foote, ii. 299; forgives him, ii. 271; laugh, ii. 378; letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters; liberality to him, i. 488; iii. 223; love for him, iv. 231, 365; one of a deputation to, iii. III; sends pork to, iv. 413, n. 2; talking to himself, i. 483; learning enough for a clergyman, had, iv. 13; Maddocks, the straw-man, iii. 231, n. 2; Miscellanies and Fugitive Pieces, ii. 270; Mounsey and Percy, ii. 64; portrait by Hicky, ii. 340, n. 2; ‘potted stories’ of a dramatic author, iii. 40; Quin’s saying about January 30, v. 382, n. 2; Shakespeare, representations of, v. 244, n. 2; stage, his earnings on the, iii. 223; driven from it, ib., iii. 249; ‘statesman all over,’ ii. 65; Thane of Ross, iv. 8; Walker’s ‘distinguished glare,’ ii. 368, n. 3; zealous for the trade, ii. 345; mentioned, i. 175, n. 3, 310, 423; ii. 63, 82, 343-4, 349; iii — 38; iv. 366. DAVIES, Mrs., Tom Davies’s wife, Churchill’s lines on her, i. 391, n. 2, 484. DAVIES, — , of Llanerch, v. 439. DAVIS, Mrs., iv. 239, n. 2, 439. DAVY, Sir Humphry, iv. 119, n. 1. DAVY, Serjeant, iii. 87, n. 3. DAWKINS, ‘Jamaica,’ iv. 126. Dawling, iii. 422; dawdle, iv. 126. DAWSON, George, ii. 456, n. 2. DAWSON’s Lexicon, iii. 407. DAY-LABOURERS, wages of, iv. 176; v. 263. DEAD, form of prayer for the, ii. 163; libels on them, iii. 13; recommending and praying for them, i. 190, n. 2, 236, 240; ii. 163; iv. 137, 158, n. 3; their spirits perhaps present, i. 212; why we wish for their return, i. 240, n. 1. DEAF AND DUMB, Academy for the, v. 399. DEAN, Rev. Richard, ii. 53. DEATH, act of dying not of importance, ii. 107; affectation in dying, v. 397; best men most afraid of it, iii. 154; Browne, Sir T., on it, iii. 153, n. 1; business preparation for it, v. 316; change beyond man’s understanding, ii. 163, n. 3; dispositions on one’s death-bed, v. 239; ‘dying with a grace,’ iv. 300, n. 1; fear of it cannot be got over, ii. 106, 298; iii. 295; natural to man, ii. 93; iii. 153, 158, 294; v. 179; resolution, met with, iii. 295; sight, kept out of, iii. 154; some die well, few willingly, i. 365; sudden death in sin, iv. 225; Swift dreads it, ii. 93, n. 4; describes what reconciles man to it, iii. 295, n. 2; thinking constantly of it, v. 316; violent, i. 338; ‘a whole system of hopes swept away,’ i. 236, n. 3. See under JOHNSON, death, dread of. DEATH WARRANTS, iii. 121, n. 1; v. 239-40. Debate on the Proposal of Parliament to Cromwell, i. 150. DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT, account of them, i. 115-118, 150-152, 501-512; written at first by Guthrie and corrected by Johnson, i. 115-6, 136, 503, 509; written solely by Johnson, i. 118, 150-2, 157, 503; wrongly assigned to Johnson, i. 509; authenticity generally accepted, i. 152, 505; Chesterfield, speeches attributed to, iii. 351; Croker’s inaccuracy about them, i. 509! ‘debating,’ absence of, i. 506; discontinued, i. 176, n. 2, 512; Gent. Mag., increased sale of, i. 152, n. 1; House of Commons passes resolutions against publication, i. 115, 502, 510; House of Lords ‘a Court of Record,’ i. 502; ‘Hurgoes,’ ‘Clinabs,’ ‘Walelop,’ ‘Hon. Marcus Cato,’ i. 502; ‘Pretor of Mildendo,’ i. 503; Johnson’s conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408; Debates not authentic, i. 118, 503-9; rapid composition, i. 504; iv. 409; successor, i. 512; London Magazine, reports of the, i. 502, 508-510; monument to Walpole’s greatness, i. 512; Murphy’s account of them, i. 504; prosecution of Cave, i. 501; of Cooley and the printer of the Daily Post, i. 503; of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1; reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510; reporters, ‘fellows who thrust themselves into the gallery,’ i. 502; reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504; Seeker’s reports, i. 507, 509; ‘Senate of Lilliput,’ i. 115, 502; speakers’ names disguised, i. 501; speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504; many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7; sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508; table of the order of publication, i. 510; translated, i. 505; unreality, i. 506; volumes, collected in, i. 152; Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314. Debrett’s Royal Kalendar, iv. 350, n. 1. DEBTOR. ‘The pillow of a debtor,’ iv. 152, n. 1. DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127; for Johnson’s warnings, see BOSWELL, debts; law of arrest, iii. 77; small and great, i. 347. Decay of Christian Piety, v. 227. De Claris Oratoribus, iv. 316. DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4; flattery allowed, v. 285; Johnson’s to all the Royal Family, ii. 2; skill in them, ii. 1; Works without any, i. 257, n. 2; means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2; one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1; studied conclusions, v. 239. Defence of Pluralities, ii. 242. DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1. DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245. DEFINITIONS. See under DICTIONARY, and separate words. DE FOE, Daniel, Captain Carleton’s Memoirs, iv. 334, n. 4; Drelincourt on Death, ii. 163, n. 4; his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1; Johnson’s praise of him, iii. 267; the opposite of him, i. 506; Robinson Crusoe, iii. 268. Deformities of Johnson, iv. 148-9. DEGENERACY OF MANKIND, ii. 217, v. 77. DE GROOT, Isaac, iii. 125. DEIST, no honest man one, ii. 8. DELANY, Dr., Observations on Swift, iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238. DELAP, Rev. Dr., i. 521. DELAY, danger of, i. 324. Dementat, iv. 181, n. 3. DEMOCRITUS, iv. 105, n. 4. DEMONAX, iv. 34. DE MORGAN, Professor, i. 284, n. 3. DEMOSTHENES, Johnson compared with him, i. 504; spoke to barbarians, ii. 171; to brutes, ii. 211; mentioned, iii. 351; v. 214. DEMPSTER, George, account of him, i. 408, n. 4; argues for merit, i. 440-2; Boswell, letter to, v. 407; Boswell’s eulogium on him, v. 409, n. 3; Critical Strictures, i. 409; Johnson’s conversation, struck with, i. 434; dines with, ii. 195; Journey, praises, ii. 303; iii. 301; sister, his, iii. 242; iv. 284; unfixed in his principles, i. 443; virtuous and candid, ii. 305. DENBIGH, Earls of, ii. 175, n. 2. DENHALL IN WIRHALL, v. 445, n. 3. DENHAM, Sir John, iv. 38, n. 1. DENMAN, first Lord, ii. 408, n. 3. DENMARK, King of, v. 100. DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2. DENNIS, John, criticisms on Blackmore and Cato, iv. 36, n. 4; on
Cato, iii. 40, n. 2; on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. 4; Critical Works worth collecting, iii. 40; his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2. DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5. Depeditation, v. 130. DEPOPULATION, ii. 217, n. 5. DE QUINCEY, account of Bishop Watson, iv. 119, n. 1; criticises Johnson’s Vanity, &c., i. 193, n. 3; praises his Latin, i. 272, n. 3. Derange, iii. 319, n. 1. DERBY, account of it in 1741, i. 86, n. 2; Highlanders there in 1745, iii. 162; v. 196, n. 3; Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. 160; see the china-manufactory, iii. 163; silk-mill, iii. 164; v. 432; Johnson married there, i. 95, n. 2, 96; mentioned, iii. 1, 135, n. 1; iv. 359. DERBY, fifteenth Earl of, v. 354, n. 1. DERBY, Rev. Mr., iii. 113. DERBYSHIRE, ii. 474. DERRICK, Samuel, Boswell’s ‘first tutor,’ i. 456; his ‘governor,’ iii. 371; introduced him to Davies, iv. 231, n. 1; Dryden’s Miscellaneous Works, edits, i. 456, n. 3; Home’s parody on him, i. 456; Humphry Clinker, described in, i. 124, n. 2; Johnson’s kindness for him, i. 385; v. 117, 240; projected Life of Dryden, gathers materials for, i. 456; v. 240; lines on, i. 124; ‘King of Bath,’ i. 394, n. 2, 455; Letters from Leverpoole, i. 456, n. 1; v. 117; outrunning his character, i. 394; presence of mind, i. 457; pun about the Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5; Smart, compared with, iv. 192. DESCRIPTION, falls short of reality, iv. 199. Deserted Village. See GOLDSMITH. DES MAIZEAUX, i. 29. DESMOULINS, John, Johnson’s will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2; bequest to him, ib.; mentioned, iv. 415, n. 1, 440. DESMOULINS, Mrs., account of her, iii. 222, n. 3; hates Levett and Williams, iii. 368, 461; Johnson allows her half a guinea a week, iii. 222; death, present at, iv. 418; kitchen under her care, ii. 215, n. 4; house, lodged in, iii. 222, 380, n. 3; leaves it, iv. 233, 255, n. 1; not complaining of the world, iv. 171; mentioned, i. 64, 83, 237; ii. 148; iii. 313, 363,373; iv. 92, 1422, 170, 210, 239, n. 2, 322, n. 1. DESPONDENCY, speculative, iv. 112. DESPOTIC GOVERNMENTS, iii. 283. DE THOU. See THUANUS. DETTINGEN, Battle of, iv. 12. DEVAYNES, Mr., iv. 273. De veritate Religionis, i. 68, n. 3. DEVILS do not lie to each other, iii. 293; their influence upon our minds, iv. 290. DEVONPORT, i. 379, n. 1. DEVONSHIRE, Johnson’s trip to, i. 37l, n. 3, 377; iii. 457; militia, its, i. 36, n. 4, 307, n. 4. DEVONSHIRE, third Duke of, faithful to his word, iii. 186; dogged veracity, iii. 378. DEVONSHIRE, fourth Duke of, ii. 78, n. 1. DEVONSHIRE, fifth Duke and Duchess of, hospitality to Johnson, iv. 357, 367; mentioned, iv. 126. DEVONSHIRE, seventh Duke of, ‘public dinners at Chatsworth,’ iv. 367, n. 3. DEVONSHIRE, Georgiana, Duchess of, Genius made feminine to compliment her, iii. 374; Johnson, eager to hear, iii. 425, n. 4; painted in the same picture with him, iv. 224, n. 1. DEVONSHIRE FAMILY, ii. 474. DEVOTION, abstracted, ii. 10; particular places for, iv. 226. Devotional Exercises. See PRAYERS. DEVOTIONAL POETRY. See POETRY. DE WITT, i. 32. DEXTERITY, deserves applause, iii. 231. Diabolus Regis, iii. 78. DIAL, i. 205. Dialogues of the Dead, ii. 447. DIAMOND, —— , an apothecary, i. 242; iii. 454. Diary, The, iv. 381, n. 1. Diary of a Visit to England in 1775, ii. 338, n. 2. DIBDEN, Charles, ii. 110. DICEY, Professor, Law of the Constitution, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 317, n. 1. DICK, Sir Alexander, gold medal for rhubarb, iv. 263, n. 1; hospitality, his, iv. 204; Johnson consults him about his health, iv. 261-3; letter to, iii. 102, 128; meets, v. 48, 394, 401. DICK, —— , a messenger, v. 201. ‘DICK WORMWOOD,’ ii. 407, n. 5. DICKENS, Charles, iv. 202, n. 1. DICTIONARY, might be compiled from Bacon, iii. 194; from Elizabethan authors, iii. 194, n. 2; ‘perfection’ of one, i. 292, n. 2; pronunciation, of, ii. 161; Scotland, of words peculiar to, ii. 91; watches, like, i. 293, n. 3. Dictionary, Johnson’s, account of it, i. 182-9, 256-266, 291-301; Abridgement, i. 264, n. 4, 300, n. 1, 303, n. 1. 305; in Lord Scarsdale’s dressing-room, iii. 161; accents of words, ii. 161; authors quoted, i. 189; iv. 4, 416, n. 2; Bacon often quoted, iii. 194; Birch, Dr., on it, i. 285; bound and lettered, i. 283; commencement, date of its, i. 182, n. 3; composition, its, i. 186-9; deficiency of previous, i. 187, n. 1; definitions, erroneous, i. 293; definitions, Johnson’s genius shown in them, i. 293; instances of erroneous, i. 293; political and capricious, i. 294-6; iii. 343; iv. 87, n. 2, 217: See under separate words; dictionary-makers described, i. 189, n. 2; dictionary-making not very unpleasant, i. 189, n. 2; ii. 202, n. 2, 203, n. 3; ‘muddling work,’ ib.; Dodsley’s suggestion, i. 182, 286; iii. 405; drudgery, v. 418; etymologies, i. 186, 292; explanation, difficulty of, i. 294, n. 2; edition, fourth, preparing, ii. 142,143, n. 3, 155; sent to press, ii. 202, n. 2, 209; published, ii. 203, 205; mentioned, i. 293, n. 2, 294, n. 7, 295, n. 1, 375, n. 2; iv. 4, n. 3, 87, n. 2; Garrick’s Epigram, i. 300; Gifford’s Contemplation quoted, v. 117, n. 4; Gough Square, compiled in, i. 188; Harris,Hermes, praised by, iii. 115; honours and praises, i. 298, 323; Johnson’s portrait, iv. 421, n. 2; Johnson’s praise of its execution, iii. 405; Manning, the compositor, iv. 321; outlines sketched, its, i. 176; particles, changes of the, ii. 45, n. 3; patrons and opponents, i. 288; payments, i. 183, 287, 304; Plan, dedicated to Lord Chesterfield, i. 183; draft of it, i. 185, n. 2; not noticed in Gent. Mag. i. 176, n. 2; published, i. 182; poetry, harder to write than, v. 47; Preface, i. 291-9; pronunciation, ii. 161, n. 1; published, i. 288, 291; publishers, i. 183; Sheridan’s, R. B., compliment to it, iii. 115; Smith, Adam, reviewed by, i. 298, n. 2; time taken in writing, i. 186, 287, 291, 443; volume ii. begun, i. 255; Wilkes and the letter H, i. 300; words, big, i. 2l8; written in sickness and sorrow, i. 263, n. 1; iv. 427. Dictionary of Arts and Sciences projected by Goldsmith, ii. 204, n. 2. DIDEROT, Denys, anecdote of Hume, ii. 8, n. 4; on acting, iv. 244, n. 1. DIDO, iv. 196. Dies Irae, iii. 358, n. 3. DIFFICULTIES, raising, iii. 11, n. 1. DIGGS, the actor, i. 386, n. 1. DILLY FAMILY, account of it, iii. 396, n. 2. DILLY, Messrs. Edward and Charles, booksellers, Boswell’s Corsica, publish, ii. 46, n. 1; Conversation between George III, &c., ii. 34, n. 1; Life of Johnson, ib.; Chesterfield’s Miscellaneous Works, publish, iii. 351; dinners at their house, ii. 247, 338; iii. 65-79, 284-300, 357-8, 392, n. 2; iv. 101-7, ib., n 2, 278, 330; v. 57, n. 3; always gave a good dinner, iii. 285; hospitality to literary men, iii. 65; house, their, No. 22 in the Poultry, iii. 5, 65, n. 2; ‘patriotic friends,’ their, iii. 66. DILLY, Charles, comparative happiness, on, iii. 288; Johnson, letters from, iii. 394; iv. 257; Milton’s Tractate on Education, on, iii. 358; quotations for sale, account of, iv. 102, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 396, n. 2; iv. 118, 126. DILLY, Edward, Boswell, letter to, iii. 110; Boswell parts with him, iii. 396; Lives of the Poets, account of the, iii. 110; Johnson, letter from, iii. 126. DILLY, Squire, Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 118-32; mentioned, i. 260; ii. 247; iii. 396, n. 2. DINGLEY, Mrs., iv. 177, n. 2. DINNER, cost in London in 1737, i. 103,105; in 1746, i. 103, n. 2; in Edinburgh, in 1742, ib.; a measure of emotion, i. 355; ii. 94; iv. 220; waiting for it, ii. 83; better where there is no solid conversation, iii. 57. See JOHNSON, dinners and eating. DIOCLETIAN, ii. 255, n. 4. DIOGENES LAERTIUS, iii. 386, n. 3; iv. 13. DIOMED, ii. 129. DIONYSIUS’S Periegesis, iv. 444. Diot, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430. Dirleton’s Doubts, iii. 205. Disarrange, iii. 319, n. 1. Discourses on Painting by Reynolds. See REYNOLDS, Discourses. DISCOVERIES, Johnson dislikes them, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479; iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 1; Walpole describes the harm done by them, v. 276, n. 2, 328, n. 2. DISEASES, acute and chronical, iv. 150. DISLIKE, mutual, iii. 423. DISPUTES, encouraging, iii. 185. D’ISRAELI, Isaac, Barnes’s Homer, iv. 19, n. 2; Birch, Dr., i. 159, n. 4; Campbell’s Hermippus Redivivus, ii. 427, n. 4; Chatterton and Lord Mayor Beckford, iii. 201, n. 3; Churchill’s abhorrence of blotting, i. 419, n. 5; Davies’s taste as a bookseller, iii. 223, n. 1; Dedications, ii. 1, n. 2; Dennis’s thunder, iii. 40, n. 2; Du Halde’s China, ii. 55, n. 4; Flexney and Stockdale, ii. 113, n. 2; Guthrie’s letter, i. 117, n. 2; Hill, Sir John, ii. 39, n. 2; Johnson’s hints for the Life of Pope, iv. 46, n. 1; Oldys the author of Busy, curious, thirsty fly, ii. 281, n. 5; his notes on Langbaine, iii. 30, n. 1; Pieresc, ii. 371, n. 2; Steevens’s literary impostures, iv. 178, n. 1; Tasker, Rev. Mr., iii. 374, n. 1. DISSENTERS, bill for their relief rejected, ii. 208, n. 4; Country-party, of the, v. 255, n. 5; taught the graces of language, i. 312; tossing snails into their gardens,
ii. 268, n. 2. Dissertation on the Epitaphs written by Pope, i. 306. Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authours, i. 306. Dissertations on the History of Ireland, i. 321. Dissertations on the Prophecies, iv. 286. DISSIMULATION, ii. 47. DISTANCE, of time and of place, ii. 471. DISTINCTIONS, all are trifles, iii. 355; love of them, i. 474. Distressed Mother, Budgell’s Epilogue, i. 181; really written by Addison, iii. 46; Johnson’s Epilogue, i. 55, n. 3. DISTRESSES OF OTHERS, ii. 94-5. DISTRUST, iii. 135. Diversions of Purley, iii. 354, n. 2. DIVES, ii. 162. Divine Legation. See WARBURTON, W. DIVINES, English, iv. 105, n. 3. DIVORCES, iii. 347-8. DIXEY, Sir Wolstan, i, 84. DOBLE, Mr. C. E., on the authorship of the Whole Duty of Man, ii. 239, n. 4; Psalmanazar at Christ Church, iii. 449. Dockers, i. 379. DOCKING, ii. 52. DOCTOR, title of, i. 488, n. 3; ii. 373. See JOHNSON, doctor, and DR. MEMIS. DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, respect shown to a, ii. 124. DOCTORS’ COMMONS, i. 134, 462, n. 1. Doctrine of Grace, Warburton’s, v. 93. DODD, Rev. Dr. William, account of him, iii. 139; Allen’s kindness to him, iii. 141; Boswell’s anxiety for his pardon, iii. 119; canted all his life, iii. 270; character, iii. 122, 166; currat lex, iv. 207; dedication to Rev. Mr. Villette, iii. 167, n. 1; execution, iii. 120-1, 148; forgery, guilty of, iii. 140; Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 144-5, 147; describes, iii. 140, n. 2; writes for him Convict’s Address, iii. 121, 141-2, 167, 295, n. 1; Last Solemn Declaration, iii. 143; Observations, iii. 120, n. 4, 142; Occasional Papers (conclusion), iii. 148; petitions and letters, iii. 121, 142, 144; and his speech to the Recorder, iii. 126, 141; Last Prayer, iii. 270; life, longing for, iii. 154; Literary Club, tried to join the, iii. 280; Magdalen House, chaplain at, iii. 139, n. 4; mind concentrated, his, iii. 167; Newgate, closely watched in, iii. 166; petitions in his favour, ii. 90, n. 5; iii. 120, 143; saint, not to be made a, iv. 208; Sermons, his, iii. 248; Thoughts in Prison, iii. 270; ‘unfortunate,’ iii. 120, n. 2; Wesley visits him in prison, iii. 121, n. 3; ‘wretched world, not a,’ iii. 166; mentioned, iii. 132. DODD, Mrs., iii. 142. DODDRIDGE, Dr., epigram by him, v. 271. DODSLEY, James, i. 182; ii. 447. DODSLEY, Robert, Cleans, acted, i. 324, n. 1, 325-6; compared by Johnson with Otway, iv. 21; ‘more blood than brains,’ iv. 20; Collection of Poems, ii. 467; iii. 21, n. 1, 38, 149, n. 2, 269, 280; iv. 24; ‘Dartineuf’s’ footman, ii. 447; ‘Doddy,’ ii. 258, n. 1; Garrick, quarrel with, i. 325; Goldsmith, dispute on poetry with, iii. 38; imprisoned by the House of Lords, i. 125, n. 3; Irene, publishes, i. 198; Johnson’s Dictionary, suggests, i. 182, 286; iii. 405; one of the publishers, i. 183, 264; asks to have the Plan inscribed to Chesterfield, i. 183; London published by him, i. 121-4; Rasselas, i. 341; Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 193, n. 1. ‘patron,’ i. 326; Life should be written, his, ii. 446; Muse in Livery, ii. 446; Pope, assisted by, ii. 446, n. 4; Pope’s executors, application to, iv. 51, n. 1; Preceptor, i. 192; Public Virtue, iv. 20; wife’s death, his, i. 277; World, The, i. 202, n. 4; mentioned, i. 135, n. 1, 243, 290, 317; ii. 453, n. 2; iv. 333, n. 1. DODWELL, Henry, v. 437. Doggedly, v. 40. DOGGET, Thomas, ii. 465, n. 1. DOGS attack butchers, ii. 232; eaten in China and Otaheite, ib.; have not power of comparing, ii. 96. DOING NOTHING, v. 39. Dolus latet in universalibus, v. 105. Domesticated, i. 268, n. 1. Domina de North et Gray, iv. 10. DOMINICETTI, ii. 99. DONALDSON, Alexander, Boswell’s first publisher, i. 383, n. 3; intimacy with him, i. 439. n. 1; Copyright case, i. 437-9; ii 345. n. 2. DONATUS, ii. 204, n. 4, 358, n. 3. Don Belianis, i. 49, n. 2. DONCASTER, ii. 300, n. 5. DONNE, Dr., saw a vision, ii. 445; uses the term quotidian, v. 346. Don Quixote, wished longer, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5; Don Quixote’s death, ii. 370. DOOR, ‘author concealed behind the door,’ i. 396. Dorando, A Spanish Tale, ii. 50, n. 4. DORSET, third Duke of, iv. 421, n. 2. DOSA, ii. 7, n. 3. DOSSIE, Robert, iv. 11. DOUBLE LETTERS. See POST. DOUGHTY, the engraver, ii. 286, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2. DOUGLAS, Archibald, (at first Archibald Stewart, at last Baron Douglas, of Douglas Castle), ii. 50, n. 4, 230. DOUGLAS, last Duke of, v. 43, n. 4. DOUGLAS, Duchess of, v. 43, n. 4. DOUGLAS, Sir James, journey to the Holy Land, iii. 177. DOUGLAS, James, M.D., editions of Horace, iv. 279. DOUGLAS, Lady Jane, ii. 50, n. 4, 230. DOUGLAS, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Salisbury, British Coffee-house Club, a member of the, iv. 179, n. 1; Church of England, on the discipline of the, iv. 277; Cock Lane Ghost exposes the, i. 407; Goldsmith’s lines on him, i. 229, n. 1, 407, n. 2; iii. 139, n. 4; Conduct of the Allies, praises the, ii. 65; Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson’s London, anecdote of, i. 127; Lauder’s imposition, i. 228; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; mentioned, i. 140, 260, n. 3, 430; ii. 63, 125, n. 5. DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN, iii. 163. DOUGLAS, Lady Lucy, v. 359. DOUGLAS CAUSE, account of it, ii. 50, 230; Boswell one of the counsel before House of Lords, iii. 8, 219; v. 378, n. 2; and the Duchess of Argyle, v. 353, 359; Essence of the Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1; Judges’ windows broken, v. 353, n. 1; Letters to Lord Mansfield, ii. 229; ‘shook the security of birth-right,’ v. 28. Douglas, a tragedy. SEE HOME, John. DOVEDALE, v. 430. DOVER, iv. 260, n. 1. DOVER CLIFF, Shakespeare’s description of, ii. 87. Downed, iii. 335, n. 2. DOXY, Miss, iii. 417-8. Drake, Life of, i. 147, n. 5. DRAMA, the English, characteristics of its dialogue, iv. 247. DRAPER, the bookseller, iii. 46. DRAUGHTS, game of, i. 317; ii. 444, DRAYTON’S Polyolbion, v. 225, n. 3. DREAMS, communication by them, i. 235; contest of wit in one, iv. 5; Prendergast’s dream, ii. 183. Drelincourt on Death, ii. 163. DRESDEN, i. 266, n. 2. DRESS, effects on the mind, i. 200; ii. 475; if fine, should be very fine, iv. 179; v. 364. DRESSING, time spent in, v. 67. DREWRY, SIR R., ii. 445, n. 4. DRINKING, time it can go on, iii. 243, n. 4; in Johnson’s youth, v. 59-60; rule about drinking to another, v. 356: SEE DRUNKENNESS and WINE. Drinking Song to Sleep, i. 251. DROGHEDA, fifth Earl of, iii. 30, n, 1. DROMORE, Bishop of. SEE PERCY. DROWNING, suicide by, v. 54. DRUID’S TEMPLE, a, v. 107, 132. DRUMGOLD, Colonel, ii. 397, 399, 401. DRUMMOND, ALEXANDER, Travels, v. 323. DRUMMOND, DR., iii. 88, 383. DRUMMOND, GEORGE, v. 43. DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, of Hawthornden, Cypress Grove, v. 180; Polemomiddinia, iii. 284; Jonson, Ben, visited by, v. 402, 414. DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, bookseller of Edinburgh, account of him, ii. 26; Johnson’s letters to him, ii. 27-31; Johnson, meets, v. 385, 394, 400; his son, iii. 88, n. 1. DRUNKENNESS, as an art, iii, 389; ‘elevated,’ v. 156, n. 2; its felicity, ii, 351; 435. n. 7; iii. 381, n. 3; on a little, iii. 170. Drury Lane Journal, i. 218, n. 1. DRURY LANE THEATRE, Prologue on the opening of, i. 181; iv. 25. SEE LONDON, Drury Lane. DRYDEN, JOHN, Absalom and Achitophel, sale, i. 34, n. 5; quoted, ii. 348, n. 2; iv. 73, n. 3; All for Love, preface quoted, iv. 114, n 1; Annus Mirabilis, quoted, ii. 241, n. 1; Aurengsebe, quoted, ii. 125; iv. 303, n. 3; Bayes in The Rehearsal, ii. 168: booksellers’ mercantile ruggedness, suffered from the, i. 305, n. 1; borrows for want of leisure, v. 92, n. 4; Collier, censured by, i. 167, n. 2; iv. 286, n. 3; colleges and kings, lines on, ii. 223; Conquest of Granada, quoted, iv. 259, n. 3; dedication, its, v. 239; converted to Roman Catholicism, iv. 44; dedications, studied conclusions to his, v. 239; ‘delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,’ ii. 241, n. l; Life of, Derrick’s ‘materials’; SEE DERRICK; dignity of his character, known to himself, i. 264, n. 1; Essay of Dramatick Poesie, i. 197, n. 2; ii. 86, n. 1; ‘Fate after him,’ &c., iv. 25, n. 3; ‘familiar day,’ his, iv. 91, n. 1; foreign words, on, i. 218, n. 1; genius, his conscious, iii. 405, n. 3; Hailes, Lord, anecdotes of him by, iii. 397, n. 3; Hind and Panther, quoted, iv. 44; Indian Emperour, quoted, iii. 346, n. 3; Johnson gathered materials for his Life, i. 456; iii. 71; iv. 44; v. 240; writes it, iv. 44-6; Johnson, resemblance in his character to, iv. 45; judgment of the public, on the, i. 200, n. 2; Juvenal, dedication to his, iv. 38; Latin line wrongly attributed to him, iii. 304, n. 3; Life not written by contemporaries, v. 415, n. 2; lines on life: SEE just above, Aurengzebe; love, fine lines on, ii. 85; Malone, Life by, iii. 397, n. 3; ‘mechanical defects,’ on, iv. 247; Metaphysical Poets, mentions the, iv. 38; Milton, lines on, ii. 336; v. 86; Johnson’s translation, ib., n. 1; Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, iii. 38; paid about sixpence a verse for 10,000 verses, i. 193, n. 1; pleasing a man against his will, on, iii. 69,
n. 4; poets and monarchs, lines on, ii. 223; Pope, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85; predestination, puzzled about, iii. 347; prefaces, his, ii. 444, n. 1; iv. 114, n. 1; Prologue to the Tempest, quoted, i. 361; prologues, his, ii. 325; rhyming tragedies, iv. 42, n. 7; Rival Ladies, quoted, iii. 296, n. 1; Royal Society, lines on the, ii. 241; Settle, Elkanah, rivalry with, iii. 76; Shakespeare, admiration of, ii. 86, n. 1; She Stoops to Conquer, its title taken from him, ii. 205. n. 4; ‘shorn of his beams,’ iii. 363, n. 1; style, distinguished by his, iii. 280; traded in corruption, i. 189, n. 1; Virgil, translation of, iii. 193; Will’s Coffee-house, at, iii. 71; Zimri, character of, ii. 85. Du Bos, ii. 90. DUCK, epitaph on a, i. 40. DUCKET, George, i. 294, n. 9. DUCKING-STOOL, iii. 287. DUDLEY, Lord, v. 457. DUDLEY, Sir Henry, (alias Rev. Henry Bate), iv. 296, n. 3. DUEL, trial by, v. 24. DUELLING, defended by Johnson and Oglethorpe, ii. 179; by Johnson as being as lawful as war, ii. 226; as self-defence, iv. 211; his serious opinion not given, ib., n. 4; could not explain its rationality, v. 230; Thomas, Colonel, killed in one, iv. 211, n. 4; Tom Jones, the lieutenant in, ii. 180. DUFFERIN, fifth Earl of, i. 358, n. 2. DUGDALE, William, Sunday work in harvest, iii. 313, n. 3. DU HALDE, Description of China, i. 136, 157; ii. 55; iv. 30. DUKE, Richard, iv. 36, n. 4. DUKE, an English one nothing, i. 409; weighed against a genius, i. 442. DULL, fellow, a, ii. 126; magistrate, iv. 312. Dum vivimus, vivamus, v. 271. DUN, Rev. Mr., v. 381. DUNBAR, Dr., Johnson introduces him to Boswell, iii. 436; described by Mackintosh and Colman, ib., n. 1; v. 92. DUNCAN, Dr., ii. 354, n. 2. DUNCES, ii. 84. DUNCOMBE, William, iii. 314. DUNDAS, Lord President, ii. 50, n. 4, 302, n. 2; iii. 213. DUNDAS, Henry (Viscount Melville), account of him, ii. 160, n. 1; Boswell’s malice against him, iii. 213, n. 1; George III, and a baronetcy for an apothecary, ii. 354, n. 2; government of India bill, iv. 213, n. 1; Knight, the negro, case of, iii. 213; Literary Property Case, i. 266; Palmer and Muir’s case, iv. 125, n. 2; Robertson, a jaunt with, iii. 335, n. 1; Scotch accent, his, ii. 160; iii. 213; serfdom in Scotland, on, iii. 202, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 191, n. 2. DUNDEE, John, Viscount of, v. 58, n. 1. ‘DUNGEON OF WIT,’ v. 342. DUNKIRK, iii. 326. DUNMORE, fourth Earl of, v. 142, n. 2. DUNNING, John (first Lord Ashburton), business, his way of getting through, iii. 128, n. 5; Devonshire accent, ii. 159; ‘great lawyer, the,’ iii. 128; influence of the Crown, motion on the, iv. 220, n. 5; Johnson, willing to listen to, iii. 240; Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle, iii. 254; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; elected, iii. 128; Loughborough, Lord, afraid of him, iii. 240, n. 3; Reynolds’s dinner parties, describes, iii. 375, n. 2; Somerset’s case, in, iii. 87, n. 3; mentioned, i. 437, n. 2. DUNSINNAN, Lord. See NAIRNE, William. DUNSTABLE, v. 428. Dunton’s Life and Errors, iv. 200. Dupin’s History of the Church, iv. 311. DUPPA, Bishop, Holy Rules, iv. 402, n. 2. DUPPA, R., edits Johnson’s Journey into North Wales, ii. 285, n. 2; v. 427, n. 1. Durandi Rationale Officiorum Divinorum, ii. 397, n. 2; v. 459. Durandi Sanctuarium, ii. 397. Durham on the Galatians. v. 383. DURHAM (City), iii. 297, n. 2, 457; v. 56, n. 2. DURHAM (County), Militia Bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4. DURY, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 338, n. 2. DURY, Major-General, i. 338, n. 2. DUTCH. See HOLLAND. DYER, Sir James, i. 75. DYER, John, Fleece, The, ii. 453; S. Dyer’s portrait passed off as his, ib., n. 2. DYER, Samuel, account of him, iv. 11, n. 1; Hawkins’s character, draws, i. 28, n. 1; Hawkins slanders him, i. 480, n. 1; Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 436; Johnson buys his portrait, iv. 11, n. 1; Junius, suspected to be, iv. 11; Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2,479, 480, n. 2; ii. 17; held in high estimation, iv. 10-11; mathematician, a, v. 109; Reynolds’s portrait of him, i. 363, n. 3; ii. 453, n. 2. DYING. See DEATH.
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