Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson

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  Fable of the Bees, iii. 291, n. 4, 292, ns. 1, 2, and 3. Fable of the Glow-worm, ii. 232. FACTION, iv. 200. FACTS, mingled with fiction, iv. 187. Faculty, The, iii. 285, n. 2. FAIRIES, iv. 17. FADEN, W., i. 330, n. 3; iv. 440. FAIRFAX, Edward, iv. 36, n. 4. FAIRLIE, Mr., v. 380. FAITH, merit in, iv. 123. FALCONER, Rev. Mr., iii. 371. FALCONER, Alexander, v. 103. FALKLAND, Lord, iv. 428, n. 2. Falkland’s Islands, Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting, account of it, ii. 134; Johnson’s estimate of it, ii. 147; ‘softened’ in later copies, ii. 135; sale delayed by Lord North, ii. 136; mentioned, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 312; iii. 19, n. 2. FALMOUTH, Viscount, iii. 331. False Alarm, account of it, ii. 111; answers to it, ii. 112; election committees described, iv. 74, n. 3; Johnson’s estimate of it, ii. 147; petitions described, ii. 90, n. 5; rapidly written, i. 71, n. 3, 373, n. 2; Wilkes, answer attributed to, iv. 30; Wilkes attacked, iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 104. FALSE CRIES, transmitted from book to book, iii. 55. False Delicacy, ii. 48. FALSEHOOD, due mostly to carelessness, iii. 228, 229, n. 1; prevalence of it, iii. 229. FALSTAFF, Beauclerk adopts his ‘humorous phrase,’ i. 250; ‘I deny your Major,’ iv. 316; proved no coward, iv. 192, n. 1; mentioned, i. 506. FAME, general desire for it, iii. 263; literary, hard to get, ii. 358; a shuttlecock, v. 400; solicitude about it, i. 451. FAMILIES, Great, chaplains and state servants, ii. 96; continuance of them, ii. 421; desire to propagate the name, ii. 469; estate, living on the, iii. 177, 249; founding one, ii. 429; household, number in the, iii. 316; preference shown them, ii. 153; ruined by extravagance, ii. 428. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON, Birth. FAMILY, affected by commerce, ii. 177. FANCIES, apprehensions, fanciful, i. 470; iii. 4. See BOSWELL, Fancies. FANCY, compared with reason, ii. 277. Fantoccini, i. 414. FARMER, Dr., Colman, criticised by, iv. 18; Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare, iii. 38; Johnson praises it, ib., n. 6; letters to him, i. 368; ii. 114; iii. 427; Percy, in his Ancient Ballads, helps, iii. 276, n. 2; Steevens, friendship with, iii. 281, n. 3; Tristram Shandy, despises, ii. 449, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 141. FARMERS, worthless fellows, often, iii. 353; described by Wesley, ib., n. 5. FARQUHAR, George, Johnson’s opinion of his writings, iv. 7. See Beaux Stratagem. Fashionable Lover, v. 176. FASTING, examined medically, ii. 476-7; justified, ii. 352, n. 2; peevishness caused by it, ii. 435: See JOHNSON, fasting. FAT MEN, iv. 213. FATE. See FREE WILL. FATHER, control over his daughters in marriage, iii. 377; not bound to tell of his children’s faults, iii. 18. Father’s Revenge, The, iv. 246. FAULDER, a bookseller, iv. 387, n. 1. FAULKNER, G., Chesterfield’s account of him, v. 44, n. 2; Ireland drained by England, v. 44; mimicked by Foote, ii. 154; v. 130; mentioned, i. 321. FAWKENER, Sir Everard, i. 181, n. 1. FAWKES, Rev. Francis, i. 382. FAVOUR, granting a, ii. 167. FAVOURITE defined, i. 295, n. 1. FEAR, Charles V’s saying, ii. 81; nothing left to fear when a man is bent on killing himself, ii. 229. See COURAGE. FEELING FOR OTHERS. See SYMPATHY. Felixmarte of Hircania, i. 49. FELL, John, Demoniacs, v. 36, n. 3. Fellow, ii. 362. FENCING, v. 66. FÉNELON, Archbishop, v. 175, n. 5, 311. FENTON, Elijah, his advice to Gay, v. 60, n. 4; Mariamne, i. 102, n. 2; non-juror, a, ii. 321, n. 4. FERGUSON, James, the self-taught philosopher, ii. 99; v. 149. FERGUSON, James, a Scotch advocate, iii. 213, 214, n. 1. FERGUSSON, Dr. Adam, account of him, v. 42; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 45. FERGUSSON, Sir Adam, ii. 169. FERMOR, Arabella, ii. 392, n. 8. FERMOR, Mrs., the Abbess, ii. 392. FERNE, Mr., v. 123-5. FERNEY, i. 434; v. 14. FERNS, Burke’s pun on, iv. 73. Festivals and Fasts, ii. 458. FEUDAL ANTIQUITIES, ii. 202; iii. 414. ‘FEUDAL GABBLE,’ ii. 134, n. 4. FEUDAL SYSTEM, Boswell for, and Johnson against it, ii. 177-8; v. 106; Johnson has the old feudal notions, iii. 177; male succession, origin of, ii. 417, 419; ridiculed by Smollett, v. 106, n. 3. FICTION, small amount of real, iv. 236. FIDDLERS, ii. 191. FIDDLING, dangerous fascination, iii. 242; little thing, but not disgraceful, iii. 242; power of art shown in it, ii. 226. FIELDING, Henry, alms-giving, on, ii. 119, n. 4, 212, n. 2; Amelia, dedicated to Ralph Allen, v. 80, n. 5; Johnson reads it at a sitting, iii. 43: complains of the heroine’s broken nose, ib., n. 2; Richardson could not read it, ii. 174, n. 1; ‘sad stuff,’ iii. 43, n. 2; sale rapid, ib.; description of a buck, v. 184, n. 3; Westminster Round-house, i. 249, n. 2; attacks on authors, on, v. 275, n. 1; blockhead, a, ii. 173; barren rascal, a, ii. 174; Burney, Miss, admired by, ii. 174, n. 2; Champion, The, i. 169, n. 2; died at Lisbon, iv. 260; foreigners, not understood by, ii. 49, n. 2; Gibbon’s tribute to him, ii. 175, n. 2; hospitals, on, iii. 53, n. 5; Johnson praises him, ii. 173, n. 2: See above, Amelia, blockhead, and below, Tom Jones; Jonathan Wild, compared with St. Austin, iv. 291; Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1; Joseph Andrews, never read by Johnson, ii. 174; Parson Adams, the original of, iii. 426, n. 1; Cato and The Conscious Lovers, praised by Adams, i. 491, n. 3; Richardson, compared with, ii. 48, 174, ib., n. 2; Richardson’s description of his heroes, ii. 49; of Fielding, ii. 174; of Tom Jones, ii. 175, n. 2; Robinhood Society described, iv. 92, n. 5; Tom Jones, Boswell praises it, ii. 175; Johnson despises it, ii. 174; More, Hannah, read by, ii. 174, n. 2; price paid for it, i. 287, n. 3; Allen the original of Allworthy, v. 80, n. 5; charity to the poor, ii. 212, n. 2; duelling, ii. 180, n. 1; Garrick and Partridge, v. 38; ghosts never speak first, v. 73, n. 3; soldiers, quartering of, iii. 9, n. 4; Squire Western on marriage, ii. 329, n. 2; transpire, iii. 343, n. 2; Voyage to Lisbon, i. 269, n. 1; Ward, the quack-doctor, praises, iii. 389, n. 5; Welch, Saunders, succeeded by, iii. 216; Westminster Justice, salary as a, iii. 217, n. 2. FIELDING, Sir John, Boswell applies to him, i. 422; his house pulled down in the Gordon Riots, iii. 428. FIELDING, Miss, compared with her brother, ii. 49, n. 2. FIELDING, —— , a bookseller, iv. 421, n. 2. FIFE, Earl, v. 109. FIGHTING-COCK, ii. 334. FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS, in prayers, iv. 294. FILBY, John, ii. 83. FINE AND RECOVERY, ii. 429, n. 1. FINE CLOTHES, iv. 179; v. 364. FINES, iii. 323. Fingal. See MACPHERSON, James. Finnick Dictionary, i. 276, 278-9. FIRE, going round the, i. 60, n. 4; superstitious tricks to make it burn, iii. 404. FIREBRACE, Lady, i. 136. FIRST CAUSE, iii. 316. FISHER, Dr., ii. 268, n. 2, 445, n. 1. FISHER, Kitty, v. 185, n. 1. FISHMONGER, story of a, iii. 381. FITZ-ADAM, Adam (Edward Moore), i. 257, n. 3. FITZHERBERT, Alleyne (Lord St. Helen’s), i. 82. FITZHERBERT, Mrs., i. 82-3; iv. 33. FITZHERBERT, William, affected man, dealing with an, iii. 149; Baretti’s trial, at, ii. 97, n. 1; bon mot, on carrying a, ii. 350; character, his, drawn by Johnson, iii. 148; and by Burke, ib., n. l; felicity of manner, iii. 386; Foote’s small beer, anecdote of, iii. 69-70; friend, had no, ii. 228; iii. 149; hanged himself, ii. 228, n. 3; iii. 149, n. 1, 384, n. 4; Johnson in Inner Temple-lane, describes, i. 350, n. 3; defends in parliament, iv. 318, n. 3; makes a present of wine to, i. 305, n. 2; parliament, elected to, i. 363; Townshend’s, Charles, jokes, ii. 222; tragedy, anecdote of a, iii. 239; mentioned, i. 82; iv. 28, 33. FITZMAURICE, Thomas, ii. 282, n. 3. Fitzosborne’s Letters, iii. 424; iv. 272, n. 4. FITZPATRICK, Richard, iii. 388, n. 3. FITZROY, Lord Charles, ii. 467. FITZWILLIAM, Lord, iv. 367, n. 3. FLAGEOLET, iii. 242. FLATMAN, Thomas, iii. 29. FLATTERY, flattered by him whom every one else flatters, ii. 227; pleases generally, ii. 364; stage, on the, ii. 234. FLEA and a lion, ii. 194; precedency between a flea and a louse, iv. 193. Fleece, The, ii. 453. FLEETWOOD, Bishop, v. 294, n. 2. FLEETWOOD, Charles, patentee of Drury-lane theatre, i. 111, 153. FLEETWOOD, Everard, iii. 323, n. 3. FLEMING, Lady, i. 461, n. 5. FLEXMAN, Rev. Mr., iv. 325. FLEXNEY, the bookseller, ii. 113, n. 2. FLINT, Bet, iv. 103. FLINT, Professor, v. 64. FLINT, — , v. 430. FLODDEN FIELD, ii. 413; v. 379. FLOGGING, less than of old, ii. 407. See ROD. FLOOD, Right Hon. Henry, Johnson’s Debates, on, i. 321, n. 5, 506; ii. 139; sepulchral verses on, iv. 424. FLORENCE, Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19 statue of a boar, iii. 231; wine, iii. 381. FLOYD, Thomas, i. 457. FLOYER, Sir John, M.D., advises the ‘regal touch,’ i. 42; asthma, book on, iv. 353; corrupted the register, iv. 267; Touchstone of Medicines, i. 36, n. 3; Treatise on Cold Baths, i. 91. FLUDYER, Rev. John, ii. 444. FLYING MAN, iv. 357, n. 3. FOLIOS, i. 428, n. 1. FONDNESS, distinguished from kindness, iv. 154. FONTAINEBLEAU, ii. 385, 394
. FONTANERIUS, Paulus Pelissonius (Pelisson), i. 90, n. 1. FONTENELLE, ‘Fontenellus, ni falior,’ &c., ii. 125, n, 5; Mémoires, iii. 247; Newton, on, ii. 74, n. 3; Panegyrick on Dr. Morin, i. 150. FONTENOY, Battle of, i. 355; iii. 8, n. 3. FOOD, production of, ii. 102. Fool, The, ii. 33. FOOLS, Latin needful to a fool’s completeness, i. 73, n. 3; ‘let us be grave, here comes a fool,’ i. 4; spaniel and mule fools, v. 226. FOOTE, Samuel, Baretti’s trial, ii. 94; Bedlam, visits, ii. 374; ‘black broth,’ ii. 215; Burke, compared with, iv. 276; Chesterfield, satire on, iv. 333; conversation between wit and buffoonery, ii. 155; Cozeners, The, iv. 333, n. 3; death, fear of, ii. 106; death, his, iii. 185, n. 1, 387, n. 4, 453; Edinburgh, at, ii. 95, n. 2; Englishman in Paris, ii. 395, n. 2; ‘Foote, quatenus Foote superior to all,’ iii. 185 Footeana, iii. 185, n. 1; Garrick’s bust, iv. 224; and the ghost of a halfpenny, iii. 264; compared with, iii. 69, 183; v. 391; George III at the Haymarket, iv. 13, n. 3; Haymarket theatre, gets a patent for, iii. 97, n. 2; ‘Hesiod’ Cooke introduces him, v. 37; humour not comedy but farce, ii. 95; impartiality in lying, ii. 434; incompressible, v. 391; infidel, an, ii. 95; Johnson and the French players, ii. 404; intended to exhibit, ii. 95, 155, n. 2, 299; in Paris, ii. 398, 403; pleased against his will, iii. 69; regret for his death, iii. 185, n. 1, 374, n. 4; witticism, fathered on him, ii. 410, n. 1; knowledge and reading, his, iii. 69; Law-Lord, on a dull, iv. 178; leg, loses a, ii. 95, n. 1, 155, n. 1; iii. 97, n. 2; depeditation, v. 130; Life of him, by W. Cooke, iv. 437; Macdonald, Sir A., should ridicule, v. 277; making fools of his company, ii. 98; mimic, not a good, ii. 154; iii. 69; ‘Monboddo, an Elzevir Johnson,’ ii. 189 n. 2; v. 74, n. 3; Murphy and The Rambler, i. 356; Murphy’s account of a dinner at his house, i. 504; Nabob, The, iii. 23, n. 1; Orators, The, ii. 154, n. 3; v. 130, n. 2; patent, sells his, iii. 97; Piety in Pattens, ii. 48, n. 2; rising in the world, ii. 155, n. 2; small-beer and the black boy, iii. 70; stories, his, dismissed from the mind, ii. 433, n. 2; Townshend, Charles, surpassed by, ii. 222, n. 3; wit of escape, has the, iii. 69; wit under no restraint, iii. 69; Worcester College, Oxford, at, ii. 95, n. 2; wicked pleasure in circulating an anecdote, i. 453. FOPPERY never cured, ii. 128. FORBES, Bishop, v. 252. FORBES, Rev. Mr., v. 75. FORBES, Sir William, and Co., v. 253. FORBES, Sir William, of Pitsligo, sixth Baronet, Beattie, Life of, v. 25, n. 1, 273, n. 4; Boswell’s eulogium on him, v. 24, 413, n. 3; executor, iii. 301, n. 1; children, guardian to, iii. 400, n. 1; journals, reads, iii. 208; v. 413; letter to, v. 413; Carre’s Sermons, edits, v. 28; Errol, Lord, account of, v. 103, n. 1; honest lawyers, on the duty of, v. 26-7, 72; Johnson at Garrick’s funeral, iii. 371, n. 1; Round Robin, account of the, iii. 82-5; Scott’s tribute to him, v. 25, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 41, 42, 221; v. 32, 44, 46, 393. FORBES, Sir William, seventh baronet, v. 253, n. 3. FORD, Cornelius (Johnson’s uncle), i. 49. FORD, Rev. Cornelius (Johnson’s cousin), Hogarth’s ‘Parson Ford,’ i. 49; iii. 348; Johnson’s account of him, ib.; his ghost, iii. 349. FORD, Dr. Joseph, i. 49, n. 3. FORD FAMILY, i. 34; pedigree, i. 49, n. 3. FORDYCE, Dr. George, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; ii. 274, 318; iii. 230, n. 5; iv. 326; anecdote of his drinking, ii. 274, n. 6. FORDYCE, Rev. Dr. James, i. 396; iv. 411. Foreign History in Gent. Mag. i. 154. FOREIGNER, an eminent, iv. 14. FOREIGNERS, ‘are fools,’ i. 82, n. 3; iv. 15; writing a book in England, ii. 221; attaching themselves to a party, ib.: see JOHNSON, Foreigners. Forenoon, changed into morning, ii. 283, n. 3. FORGETFULNESS, iv. 126. Form, iv. 321. Former, the, the latter, iv. 190. FORMOSA, iii. 443; v. 209. Formosa, Historical and Geographical Description of, iii. 444. FORMS, tenacity of, iv. 104. Formular, ii. 234. FORNICATION, heinous sin, not a, ii. 172; misery caused by it, i. 457; penance for it, v. 208; probationer, cause of a, ii. 171; a sectary guilty of it, ii. 472; should be punished by law, iii. 17, 407. FORRESTER, Colonel, iii. 22. FORSTER, George, Voyage to the South Sea, iii. 180. FORSTER, John, Bickerstaff, I., ii. 82, n. 3; Boswell’s stories, on variations of, i. 445, n. 1; Bute’s pensioners, i. 373, n. 1; Churchill’s Rosciad, i. 419, n. 5; Davies and ‘Goldy,’ ii. 258, n. 2; Drelincourt on Death, ii. 163, n. 4; George III’s pensioners, ii. 112, n. 3; Goldsmith’s assault on Evans, ii. 209, n. 2; Good-Natured Man, ii. 48, n. 2; quarrel with Johnson, ii. 253, n. 4, She Stoops to Conquer, and the Royal Marriage Act, ii. 224, n. 1; its production on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5; its title, ii. 205, n. 4; and Sterne, ii. 173, n. 2; Traveller, the first line in, iii. 253, n. 1; inaccuracy about ‘Hesiod’ Cooke, v. 37, n. 1; Johnson’s letter to Goldsmith, ii. 235, n. 2; and the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2; Moore, Edward, mistakes for Dr. John Moore, iii. 424, n. 1; taste, changes in public, iii. 192, n. 2. Fort, a pun on it, ii. 241, n. 3. FORTITUDE, iv. 374, n. 5. Fortune, a Rhapsody, i. 124. FORTUNE, wasting a, iii. 317. FORTUNE-HUNTERS, ii. 131. FORWARDNESS, ii. 449. FOSSANE, ii. 400, n. 2. Fossilist, ii. 304, n. 1; v. 408, n. 1. FOSTER, Dr. James, iv. 9. FOSTER, John, head-master of Eton, iv. 8, n. 3. FOSTER, Mrs., i. 227. See MILTON, granddaughter. FOTHERGILL, Rev. Dr. ii. 331, 333. FOULIS, Sir James, v. 150, 242. FOULIS, Messrs., Glasgow booksellers, ii. 380; ‘Elzevirs of Glasgow,’ v. 370. Foundling Hospital for Wit, iv. 289, n. 1. Fountains, The, ii. 26, 232. FOWKE, Mr., iii. 71, n. 5; iv. 34, n. 5. FOWLER, Mr., ii. 63. FOX, Charles James, Boswell on the India Bill, iv. 258, n. 2; Burnet’s style, ii. 213, n. 2; Charles II, descended from, iv. 292, n. 2; ‘commenced patriot,’ iv. 87, n. 2; Covent Garden mob, iv. 279, n. 2; described by Lord Holland, Gibbon, Mackintosh, and Rogers, iv. 167, n. 1; Walpole and Hannah More, iv. 292, n. 3; Fitzpatrick’s ‘sworn brother,’ iii. 388, n. 3; George III’s competitor, iv. 279; divides the kingdom with Caesar, 292; George III his own minister, i. 424, n. 1; Goldsmith’s Traveller, praises, iii. 252, 261; Homer, reads, iv. 218, n. 3; India Bill, i. 311, n. 1; iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 258, n. 2; Johnson’s epitaph, iv. 443; ‘friend,’ iv. 292; for the King against Fox, but for Fox against Pitt, iv. 292; in parliament, defends, iv. 318, n. 3; presence, silent in, iii. 267; iv. 166; thinks highly of his abilities, iii. 267; accounts for his silence in company, iv. 167; Kirkwall, returned for, iv. 266, n. 2; Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479, 481, n. 3; ii. 274, 318; iii. 128, n. 4; Lyttelton, second Lord, character of the, iv. 298, n. 3; Palmer and Muir’s case, iv. 125, n. 2; Pitt’s pertness, iv. 297, n. 2; poetry truth, not history, ii. 366, n. 1; Reynolds too much under him, iii. 261; Sandwich’s, Lord, removal, motion for, iii. 383, n. 3; subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7; Sydney Biddulph, praises, i. 390, n. 1; Treasury, dismissal from the, ii. 274, n. 7; Westminster election, iv. 266, 292, n. 3. FOX, Henry. See HOLLAND, First Lord. FOX, Lady Susan, ii. 328, n. 3.