FOX, Mrs., iv. 279, n. 2. FOX-(Faux, or Vaux) HALL, iv. 26, n. 1. FOX-HUNTING, i. 446, n. 1. FRA PAOLO. See SARPI. FRANCE AND THE FRENCH, Academy takes forty years to compile their Dictionary, i. 186, 301, n. 2; sends Johnson a copy, i. 298; on the resistance of the air, v. 253; affectation of philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3; Americans, assistance to the, iv. 21; Ana, their, v. 311; anglomania, ii. 126; Assembly, iv. 434; authors and their pensions, i. 372, n. 1; authors superficial, i. 454; commercial policy, masters of the world in, iii. 232, n. 1; commercial treaty, v. 232, n. 1; contented race, v. 106, n. 4; cookery, ii. 385, 403; Corsica, government of, ii. 71, n. 1; credulity, v. 330; crossroads, ii. 391; difference between English and French, iv. 14; England, contrasted with, i. 227, n. 4; English language injured by Gallicisms, iii. 343; ‘fluency and ignorance,’ iv. 15, n. 4; invasion feared, iii. 326, 360, n. 3, 365, n. 4; ‘French maxims abolish mercy,’ iii. 204, n. 1. Garrick’s account of their sameness, iv. 15, n. 3; gay people, not a, ii. 402, n. 1; great people live magnificently, ii. 402; houses gloomy, ii. 388, n. 2; hunting, v. 253; Irish, contrasted with the, ii. 402, n. 1; Jersey, attack on, v. 142, n. 2; Johnson’s tour, ii. 384-404; Journal, ii. 389-401; account given by him to Boswell, 401; made more satisfied with England, iii. 352; saw little of French society, ii. 385, 401, 403, n. 4; Lewis XIV, under, ii. 170; literati, v. 229; literature, art of accommodating, v, 310; book on every subject, iv. 237; high in every department, ii. 125; little original, v. 311; not so general as in England, iii. 254; in its second spring, ib.; literary society described by Gibbon and Walpole, iii. 254, n. 1; magistrates and soldiers, ii. 391, 395; manners indelicate, ii. 403; gross, iii. 352; habit of spitting, ii. 403; iii. 352; iv. 237; meals gross, ii. 389; meat, fit for a gaol, ii. 402, 403; described by Smollett as good, ii. 402, n. 2; by Goldsmith as bad, ib.; men know no more than the women, iii. 253; middle rank, no, ii. 394, 402; military character respected, iii. 10; mode of life not pleasant, ii. 388; national petulance, ii. 126; novels, ii. 125; opera girls, iv. 171; Paris: See PARIS; peace of 1762, i. 382, n. 1; of 1782-3, iv. 282, n. 1; people, misery of the, ii. 402; philosophy, pursuit of, iii. 305, n. 2; players, ii. 404; politeness, iv. 237; poor laws, no, ii. 390; prisoners in England, i. 353; private life unaffected by despotic power, ii. 170; privileges little abused, v. 106, n. 4; Provence, gaiety of, ii. 402, n. 1; Scotland, compared with, ii. 403; sentiments, ii. 385, n. 5; soldiers and a woman, story of some, ii, 391; stage, delicacy of the, ii. 50, n. 3; subordination, happy in, v. 106; talking, must be always, iv, 15; tavern life in no perfection, ii. 451; torture, use of, i. 467, n. 1; treatment of Indians, i. 308, n. 2; trees along a road, ii. 395; words, use big, i. 471: See under ROUSSEAU, SMOLLETT, MRS. THRALE, H. WALPOLE. FRANCE, Queen of, flattered, iii. 322. FRANCIS, Rev. Dr. Philip, praises Johnson’s Debates, i. 504; translates Horace, iii. 356. FRANCIS, Sir Philip, censures Burke’s style, iii. 187, n. 1. Francklin, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Johnson, inscribes his Lucian to, iv. 34; Murphy, attacks, i. 355; Rosciad, in the, iv. 34, n. 1; Round Robin, did not sign the, iii. 83, n. 3. FRANCK, Johnson’s servant. See BARBER. FRANCK, post office, ii. 266; iv. 361, n. 3. FRANCKLAND, Sir Thomas, iv. 235, n. 5. FRANKLIN, Dr. Benjamin, books bought in his youth, iv. 257, n. 2; books, high price of English, i. 438, n. 2; Boswell, dines with, ii. 59; civil liberty compared with liberty of trading, ii. 60, n. 4; conversion from vegetarianism, iii. 228, n. 1; England, hypocrisy of, ii. 480; Georgia, settlement of, i. 127, n. 4; good that one man can do, iv. 97, n. 3; Hollis, Thomas, iv. 97, n. 3; human felicity how produced, i. 433, n. 4; inoculation, iv. 293, n. 2; Johnson’s pension and W. Strahan, ii. 137, n. 1; Lee, Arthur, iii. 68, n. 3; life, wished to repeat his, iv. 302, n. 1; Loudoun, Lord, v. 372, n. 3; man, definition of, iii. 245; v. 32, n. 3; Mansfield’s, Lord, house burnt, iii. 429, n. 1; Old Man’s Wish, iv. 19, n. 1; pamphlets, iii. 319, n. 1; Paris Foundling Hospital, ii. 398, n. 5; population, rule of increase of, ii. 314; Priestly and Price, iv. 434; Pringle, Sir John, iii. 65, n. 1; Quakers of Philadelphia, iv. 212, n. 1; Ralph, James, i. 169, n. 2; riots in London in 1768, ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5; rise of himself and Strahan, ii. 226, n. 2; Shipley, Bishop, friendship with, iv. 246, n. 4; Wilcox, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2; Strahan, letter to, iii. 364, n. 1; Whitefield’s oratory, ii. 79, n. 4; ‘Wilkes and liberty,’ ii. 60, n. 2. FRANKLIN, Thomas, iii. 83. n. 3. FRASER, Dr., v. 108. FRASER, General, iii. 2. FRASER, Mr., of Balnain, v. 133. FRASER, Mr., the engineer, iii. 326. FRASER, Mr., of Strichen, v. 107. FRAUDS, none innocent, ii. 434, n. 2. FREDERICK, Prince of Wales. See under PRINCE OF WALES. FREDERICK THE GREAT, difficulties of his youth, i. 442, n. 1; dressed plainly, ii. 475; George II, quarrel with, iv. 107; Johnson downs Robertson with him, iii. 334-5; opinion of his poetry, i. 434; writes his Memoirs, i. 308; Maupertuis, lines to, ii. 54, n. 3; overawes Hanover, v. 201, n. 4; power as a despotic prince, ii. 158; prose and poetry, i. 434-5; social, i. 442; taken by the nose, risk of being, ii. 229; torture, forbade use of, i. 467, n. 1; Voltaire, contends with, i. 434; v. 103, n. 2. FREDERICK-WILLIAM the First, i. 308. FREE AGENT, iv. 123. FREE WILL, Boswell introduces discussion, ii. 82, 104; iii. 290; consults Johnson by letter, iv. 71; ‘we know our will is free,’ ii. 82; iv. 329; ‘all theory against it,’ iii. 291; best for mankind, v. 117. Freeholder, ii. 61, n. 4; 319, n. 1. FREEPORT, Sir Andrew, ii. 212. FREIND, Dr., i. 177, n. 2. FRENCH, Mrs., iv. 48. FRENCH COOK, a nobleman’s, i. 469. FRERON, father and son, ii. 392, 406. FRESCATI, v. 153, n. 1. FRIEND, Sir John, ii. 183. FRIENDS, comparing minds, iii. 387; example of good set by them, ii. 478; few houses to be nursed at, iv. 181; future state, in a, ii. 162; iii. 312, 438; iv. 279-80; Goldsmith and the story of Bluebeard, ii. 181; ‘he that has friends has no friend,’ i. 207; iii. 149, 289, 386; natural, iv. 147, 198, n. 4; v. 105; pleasure in talking over past scenes, iii. 217; survivor, the, iii. 312. FRIENDSHIP, Christian virtue, how far a, iii. 289; formed, how, iii. 165; formed mostly by caprice or chance, iv. 280; often formed ill, ii. 162; mathematics, not as in, iii. 65; neglect of it, iv. 145; ‘repair,’ need of, i. 300; rupture of old, v. 89, 147; test, put to the, iii. 238, 396. Friendship, an Ode, i. 158; ii. 25. FRISICK LANGUAGE, i. 475. FROOM, iv. 402, n. 2. FRUGALITY, iv. 163. FRUIT, RAW, iv. 353. Frusta Letteraria, iii. 173. FRY, Thomas, the painter, iii. 21, n. 1. FULLARTON, of Fullarton, iii. 356. FULLER, Thomas, his dedications, ii., n. 2. Fun and funny, ii. 335, n. 3; iii. 91, n. 2. FUNDS, the, iv. 164. Further Thoughts on Agriculture, i. 306. FUTURE STATE, Boswell leads Johnson to discuss it, ii. 161; confidence in respect to it, iv. 395; due attention to it and to this world, v. 154; gloom of uncertainty, iii. 154; hope in it the basis of happiness, iii. 363; knowledge of friends, ii. 162; iii. 438; things made clear gradually, iii. 199.
G.
GABBLE, iii. 350; iv. 5. GABRIEL, Don, a Spanish Prince, iv. 195, n. 6. GAELICK. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse. GAGNIER, — , ii. 390. GAIETY, a duty, iii. 136, n. 2. GALILEO, i. 194, n. 2. GALLICISMS, iii. 343, n. 3. GALWAY, Lady, iv. 109. GAMA, iv. 250. GAMING, produces no intermediate good, ii. 176; more ruined by adventurous trade, iii. 23. GAMING-CLUB, a, iii. 23. Ganganelli’s Letters, iii. 286. GAOL FEVER, iv. 176, n. 1. GARAGANTUA, iii. 255. GARDEN, a walled, iv. 205. GARDENERS, good, Scotchmen, ii. 77. GARDENSTON, Lord (F. Garden), v. 75-6. GARDINER, Mrs., account of her, i. 242, n. 5; iv. 245-6; Johnson’s bequest to her, iv. 402, n, 2; mentioned, iii. 22, 104, n. 5; iv. 239, n. 2. GARDNER, T., bookseller, ii. 344. GARRET, the scholar’s, i. 264. GARRICK, Captain, i. 81; iii. 387. GARRICK FAMILY, striking likeness in all the members, ii. 462. GARRICK, David, Abel Drugger, iii. 35; Adelphi, house in the, iv. 96, 99; airs of a great man, iii. 263; appealed to by a drunken physician, iii. 389; Archer in The Beaux Stratagem, iii. 52; attacks helped his reputation, v. 273; avarice, reputation for, iii. 71; Baretti’s trial, gives evidence at, ii. 97, n. 1, 98; Bickerstaff, I., letter from, ii. 82, n. 3; Bonduca, epilogue to, ii. 325, n. 2; Bon Ton, ii. 325, n. 1; book of praise and abuse, kept a, v. 273; Boswell, correspondence with: see BOSWELL, correspondence; Boswell’s Corsica, praises, ii. 46, n. 1; Boswell slyly introduces hi
s name, iii. 263; British Coffee-house Club, iv. 179, n. 1; Brown, Dr. John, said to have assisted, ii. 131; brought out his tragedies, ib., n. 2; Budgell’s Epilogue, anecdote of, iii. 46, n. 3; Burke’s epitaph on him, ii. 234, n. 6; Camden, Lord, intimacy with, iii. 3; Chances, The, ii. 233; characters, acted a great variety of, iii. 35; iv. 243; was not ‘transformed’ into them, iv. 244; Chatham, Lord, correspondence with, ii. 227; cheerfullest man of his age, iii. 387; Chesterfield, in wit compared with, iii. 69; Christmas dinner at his house, ii. 155, n. 2; Clive, Mrs., compared with, iv. 243; clutching the dagger, v. 46; Colson’s academy, at, i. 103; concoction of a play, iii. 259; Congreve and Shakespeare, compares, ii. 85; conversation, sprightly, i. 398; no solid meat in it, ii. 464; Court, at, i. 333, n. 3; Cumberland’s dishclout face, iv. 384, n. 2; Cumberland’s Odes, iii. 43, n. 3; iv 432; Dane, letter from a, v. 46, n. 2; Davies, letter from, iii. 223, n. 2; Davy, called, v. 348; death, his, iii. 371; ‘eclipsed the gaiety of nations,’ i. 82; iii. 387; decayed actor, will soon be a, ii. 439; decent liver, a, iii. 387; declaimer, no, iv. 243; Dodsley, quarrels with, i. 325; Douglas, rejects, v. 362, n. 1; Drury-lane theatre, manager of, i. 181, 196; Elphinston’s Martial, his opinion of, iii. 258; emphasis, wrong, i. 168; v. 127; epigrammatist, an, iii. 258; excellence shown by his getting £100,000, iii. 184; face, wear and tear of his, ii. 410; False Delicacy, ii. 48, n. 2; father and family, his, iii. 387; fine-bred gentleman, fails as a, v. 126; first appearance in London, i. 168, n. 3; Fitzherbert, affection for, iii. 148, n. l; Florizel and Perdita, ii. 78; Foote, compared with, iii. 69, 183; v. 391; ‘ghost of a halfpenny,’ iii. 264; witticism about his bust, iv. 224; fortunam reverenter habet, iii. 263; French, sameness of the, iv. 15, n. 3; friends, but no friend, had, iii. 386; funeral, iv. 208; account of its pomp, iv. 208; Bishop Horne’s lines, ib. n. 1; the Club called the Literary Club at it, i. 477; Johnson at his grave, iii. 371, n. 1; generous treatment of authors, ii. 349, n. 6; Gentleman, F., letter from, i. 384, n. 2; Gibbon, letter from, iii. 128, n. 4; Goldsmith’s dress, ii. 83; Good Natured Man, refuses the, ii. 48, n. 2; iii. 320; Gray’s Odes, i. 403, n. 1; great, courted by the, ii. 227; iii. 263; Hamlet rescued from rubbish, ii. 85, n. 7, 204, n. 3; Hamlet’s soliloquy, iii. 184; Hawkesworth and Lord Sandwich, ii. 247, n. 5; Hawkins’s Siege of Aleppo, iii. 259; High Life Below Stairs, iv. 7; Hill, Sir John, epigrams on, ii. 38, n. 2; Hogarth’s account of his acting, iii. 35, n. 1; humour, varying, iii. 264; illness, sufferings from, iii. 387, n. 1; inaccurate in delineating absurdities, iv. 17; Ireland, visits, iii. 388, n. 1; Johnson affected by his success, i. 167, 216, n. 2; ii. 69; attacked by Garrick’s correspondents, ii. 69, n. 1; attacks on him, accounts for, iii. 184, n. 5; awe of, i. 99, n. 1; and Chesterfield, i. 260, n. 1; designs to write his epitaph, iv. 394, n. 2; Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4; epigram on it, i. 300; as a dramatist, i. 198, I99, n. 2; epigram on George II and Cibber, i. 149; v. 350; epitaph on Philips, i. 148; in the Green Room, i. 201; hard on him, v. 244; Imitations of Juvenal, i. 194; intercourse with him, iv. 7; Irene, acts, i. 196-8; suggests the strangling scene in it, 197, n. 2; travels with him to London, i. 101; looked upon him as his property, iii. 312; let nobody attack him, i. 27, n. 2, 393, n. 1; iii. 70, 312, n. 1; in the Lichfield play-house, ii. 299; low opinion of his acting, ii. 92, n. 4; iii. 184; iv. 7; v. 38; and of his mimicry, ii. 326, n. 3; mimicks, ii. 326, 464; mow of hay, ii. 79; offers to write his Life, iii. 371, n. 1; iv. 99, n. 2; ‘played round,’ ii. 82; praises his prologues, ii. 325; parody of Percy’s Hermit, ii. 136, n. 4; writes him a Prologue, i. 181; iv. 25; pupil; i. 97: into good spirits, puts, iii. 260, n. 5; Rambler, i. 209, n. 1; reflection on him in his Shakespeare, ii. 192; iv. 371, n. 2; and the Roundhouse, i. 249, 251; sends his love to, v. 350; Shakespeare, not mentioned in, ii. 92; v. 244; sorrow for his death, iii. 371; iv. 99; taste in theatrical merit, ii. 465; thinking which side he should take, iii. 24; tribute to him, i. 81; iv. 96, n. 6; use of orange-peel, ii. 330; want of taste for the highest poetry, iii. 151; wife, account of, i. 95, 98, 99; wit, ii. 231; Kenrick’s libel, i. 498, n. 1; Kitely, ii. 92, n. 3; Latin, has not enough, ii. 377; lawyer, intends to become a, i. 101; Lear, ii. 182, n. 3: Lethe, i. 228; liberality, gave more money than any man, iii. 70, 264, 387; instances of his, iii. 264, n. 3; Lichfield grocer, scorned by a, iii. 35, n. 1; Lichfield School, at, i. 45, n. 4; life with great uniformity, saw, iii. 386; Literary Club, election to the, i. 479-481; name given at his funeral, i. 477; v. 109, n. 5; low characters, ashamed of his, iii. 35; Mallet, fooled by, v. 175, n. 2; manner, his significant smart, v. 249; Marplot, i. 325, n. 3; Memoirs by T. Davies, iii. 434, n. 5; Mickle, quarrels with, ii. 182, n. 3; v. 349, n. 1; Milton’s granddaughter’s benefit, i. 227; money, great hunger for, iii. 387; money exhausted, his, i. 102, n. 2; Montagu’s, Mrs., Essay, praises, ii. 88; praised by her, v. 245; More, Hannah, flatters him, iii. 293; his kindness to her, ib. n. 4; calls her Nine, iv. 96, n. 3; Murphy, controversy with, i. 327, n. 1; sarcasm against him, ii. 349; praise of his liberality, iii. 264, n. 3; nation to admire him, has a, iv. 7; Necker, Mme., on his acting, v. 38, n. 2; niece, his, Miss Doxy, iii. 417-8: Ode on Pelham’s death, i. 269; ostentation, i. 216, n. 2; parsimony, Foote’s ghost of a halfpenny, iii. 264; Peg Woffington’s tea, ib.; refuses an order to Mrs. Williams, i. 392; Partridge in Tom Jones, v. 38; pious reverence, i. 269; poor at first, iii. 70, 387; portraits at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; in Mrs. Garrick’s house, iv. 96; Beauclerk’s inscription on one, ib.; profession, advanced the dignity of his, ii. 234, n. 6; iii. 263; ‘his profession made him rich, and he made it respectable,’ iii. 371, n. 2; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; Prospero, i. 216; provincial accents, ii. 464, n. 2; Queen, compliments the, ii. 233; retiring from the stage, ii. 438; iii. 388; Reynolds’s defence of him, ii. 234; Riccoboni, Mme., letters from, ii. 50, n. 3; in. 149, n. 2; v. 106, n. 4, 330, n. 3; Richard III, his, seen by Hogarth, in. 35, n. 1 Johnson’s sarcasm on, iii. 184; was not ‘transformed into,’ iv. 244; Romeo and Juliet, alters, v. 244, n. 2: Sallad, proposes, as a name for The World, i. 202, n. 4; scholarship, ii. 377, n. 2; Scotch, nationality of the, ii. 325; Scotland, never in, iii. 388; ‘Scrub, will play,’ iii. 70; sensibility as a writer, ii. 79; sentiment, his, ii. 464; Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68, n. 2, 69; Shakespeare, scarce editions of, ii. 192; intends to read, v. 244, n. 2; Sheridan, Thomas, engages, i. 358, n. 3; describes the vanity of, ii. 87; Smith’s, Adam, conversation, iv. 24, n. 2; splendour, too much, iii. 71; spoilt, not, iii. 263, n. 3, 264; Steevens, letters from, ii. 274, n. 7; 284, n. 2; slandered by, iii. 281, n. 3; table, at the head of a, iv. 243; talking from books, v. 378, n. 4; Thrales, introduction to the, i. 493, n. 2; universality in acting, ii. 37; iv. 243; v. 126; unkindness, accused by Davies of, iii. 223, n. 2; vanity, ii. 227; iii. 263, 264; variety his excellence, iii. 35; Walpole, H., on his acting, iv. 243, n. 6; wealth, iii. 184, 263; Whitehead, W., compliments him in verse, i. 402; engaged as his ‘reader,’ ib. n. 3; proposed to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 320, n. 2; wife, love for his, iv. 96, n. 7; v. 349, n. 2; Winter’s Tale, new version of the, ii. 78, n. 4; witness, examined as a, v. 243; woman’s riding-hood, in a, iv. 7; Wonder, The, in, iv. 8; writer, sprightly, iii. 263; Woffington, Peg, iii. 264; mentioned, i. 243, 268, n. 4; ii. 59, n. 3, 110, 255, 362, n. 2; iii. 256. GARRICK, Mrs., dinners at her house, iv. 96-9; 220, n. 3; grief for her husband, iv. 96; leaves Garrick’s funeral expenses, unpaid, iv. 208, n. 1; neglects Johnson’s proposal to write Garrick’s Life, iii. 371, n. 1; iv. 99, n. 2; survived Garrick forty-three years, iv. 96, n. 7, 275, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 84, n. 3. GARRICK, George, Johnson’s pupil, i. 97; calls him ‘a tremendous companion,’ i. 496, n. 1; iii. 139. GARRICK, Peter, anecdotes of Irene, i. 100, 111; resemblance to his brother, ii. 311, 462, 466; mentioned, ii. 467; iii. 35, n. 1, 412; iv. 57, n. 3. GARTH, Sir Samuel, M.D., lines on dying, ii. 107, n. 1; Johnson’s praise of physicians, iv. 263. GASTRELL, Bishop, v. 323. GASTRELL, Rev. Mr., cut down Shakespeare’s mulberry-tree, i. 83, n. 4; ii. 470. GASTRELL, Mrs., i. 83, n. 4; ii. 470; iii. 412. GATAKER, Thomas, v. 302. GATES, General, iii. 3
55, n. 3. GAUBIUS, Professor, i. 65. Gaudium, ii. 371. GAUDY, College, i. 60, n. 4, 273, n. 2; ii. 445, n. 1. GAY, John, advised to buy an annuity, v. 60, n. 4; Beggar’s Opera, ‘As men should serve a cucumber,’ v. 289; Boswell’s delight in it, ii. 368; iii. 198; projected work on it, v. 91, n. 2; Burke thinks it has no merit, iii. 321; Cibber, refused by, iii. 321, n. 3; Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1; Johnson’s opinion of it, iii. 321; Johnson turns Captain Macheath, IV. 95; morality, its, ii. 367; ‘labefactation,’ ib.; ‘practical philosophers,’ ii. 442; Rich made gay and Gay rich, iii. 321, n. 3; run of 63 nights, iii. 116, n. 1; children, writing for, ii. 408, n. 3; Letters, iv. 36, n. 4; Life by Johnson, ii. 367; Orpheus of highwaymen, ii. 367, n. 1; Queensberry, Duke of, ii. 368. Gazetteer, The, v. 245, n. 2. GELALEDDIN, iv. 195, n. 1. ‘GELIDUS, the philosopher,’ i. 101, n. 3. GELL, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430-1. GELL, Sir William, ii. 408, n. 3; v. 431, n. 4. General Advertiser, i. 227. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. See under SCOTLAND. GENERAL CENSURE, iv. 313. GENERAL COMPLAINTS, Johnson’s dislike of, ii. 357. GENERAL WARRANTS, ii. 72. GENERALS, great, ii. 234. GENIUS, ii. 436-7; iii. 385, n. 1; v. 34-5; made feminine, iii. 374. GENOA, Corsican revolt, ii. 59, n. 2, 71, n. 1; the Doge at Versailles, iv. 270, n. 2. GENTEEL PEOPLE, swear less than formerly, ii. 166, n. 1. GENTILITY, not inseparable from morality, ii. 340; new system, i. 491-2; women more genteel than men, iii. 53. Gentle Shepherd, ii. 220; v. 374, n. 3. GENTLEMAN, Francis, i. 384. GENTLEMAN, English merchant a new species, i. 491, n. 3. GENTLEMAN, a, of eminence in the literary world, iv. 274; one whose house was frequented by low company, iv. 312; a penurious one, iv. 176; one recommending his brother, iv. 21; one who was rich, but without conversation, iv. 83. GENTLEMAN FARMER, at Ashbourne, iii. 188, 197. Gentleman’s Magazine, account of it, i. III; effect on it of rebellion of 1745-6, i. 176, n. 2; Hanoverian in 1745-6, i. 176, n. 2; indecency in earlier numbers, i. 112, n. 2; Johnson, Ad Urbanum, i. 113; becomes a regular contributor, i. 115; writes Addresses, Letters, and Prefaces, i. 139-40, 147, 149,153, 157, 161: (for his other contributions See under their several titles); school advertised in it, i. 97; verses wrongly assigned to, i. 178, n. 1; Nichols, edited by, iv. 437; described by Southey, ib.; numbers sold, i. 112, n. i, 152, n. 1; iii. 322; obituaries, i. 237, n. I; prize poems, i. 91; published at the end of the month, i. 340, n. 3; ‘Sciolus,’ iii. 341, n. 1; value of, in 1754, i. 256, n. 1. See under CAVE and DEBATES. Gentleman’s Religion, iv. 311. Gentlewoman, the born, ii. 130. GENTLEWOMAN, a, in liquor, ii. 434. Geographical Grammar, iv. 311. Geography, Dictionary of Ancient. See MACBEAN, Alexander. GEOLOGY, of Etna, ii. 468, n. 1; Johnson’s ignorance of it, v. 290, n. 4. GEOMETRY, principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2. GEORGE I, Brett, Miss, i. 174, n. 2; burnt two wills made in favour of his son, ii. 342, n. 1; death, his, ii. 342, n. 1; knew nothing, ii. 342; Oxford, sends a troop of horse to, i. 281, n. i; Shebbeare, satirised by, iii. 15, n. 3; will, his, destroyed by George II, ii. 342; iv. 107, n. 1; wish to restore the crown, ii. 342. GEORGE II, Augustus, not an, i. 209; barbarity, his, i. 147; challenged by Elwall, ii. 164, 251; clemency, his, i. 146; English weary of him, i. 363; fast day of Jan. 30, observed the, ii. 152, n. 1; George I’s will, destroys, ii. 342; quarrels with Frederick the Great about it, iv. 107; Johnson’s epigram on him, i. 149; v. 348, 350, 404; roars against him, ii. 342; would tell the truth of him, v. 255; Pelham’s death, i. 269, n. 1. Pretender’s visit to London, v. 201, n. 4; quiet times under the Whigs, iv. 100; mentioned, i. 149, n. 3, 311, n. 2. GEORGE III, Addresses in 1784, iv. 265; authority partly reestablished, iv. 264; baronetcies, ii. 354, n. 2; Beattie, interview with, v. 90, n. 1; Beckford’s speech, iii. 201, n. 3; birthday, iv. 128; ‘born a Briton’, i. 129, n. 3, 353; v. 204; Boswell’s relation, v. 379; Capability Brown, intimacy with, iii. 400, n. 2; carelessness in sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1; Chatham’s and Garrick’s funerals, iv. 208, n. 1; city address in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4; concessions to the people, ii. 353; contempt of Irish peerages, iii. 407, n. 4; coronation, iii. 9, n. 2; Corsica offered to him, ii. 71, n. 1; Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 210, n. 2; Dodd’s case, iii. 121; fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1; Fox, the King’s competitor, iv. 279; divides the kingdom with him, iv. 292; Gordon Riots, iii. 429, 431; Great Personage, i. 219; Gustavus III, death of, iii. 134, n. 1; Heroic Epistle, reads the, iv. 113, n. 4; hopes formed of him, i. 363; Hume on the weakness of his government, iii. 46, n. 5; Hutton the Moravian, iv. 410, n. 6; indecency, treated with, iv. 261; Irene, has the sketch of, i. 108; Johnson, asks, to write a Life of Spenser, iv. 410; compliments him in The False Alarm, ii. 112; Dedications, ii. 44; iii. 113; for the King against Fox, iv. 292; gives him his Western Islands, ii. 290; four volumes of the Lives, iii. 372, n. 3; interview with, ii. 33; account of it, ii. 42; iii. 32; v. 125, n. 1; second interview, ii. 42, n. 2; pension, i. 372; v. 379; proposed addition to it, iv. 350, n. 1; projected works, has the list of, iv. 381, n. 1; madness, iv. 165, n. 3; manners, his, described by Adams, Johnson and Wraxall, ii. 40-1; militia camps, visits the, iii. 365; minister, his own, i. 424, n. 1; ii. 355, n. 1; ministers his tools, iii. 408, n. 4; oppressed by them, iv. 170; Norton’s speech to him as Speaker, ii. 472, n. 2; Paoli, notices, v. 1, n. 3; patron of science and the arts, i. 372; petitions in 1769, ii. 90, n. 5; Pretender, proper designation for the, v. 185, n. 4; recruiting, complains of the difficulty of, iii. 399, n. 3. reign very factious, iv. 200, 296; very unfortunate, iv. 200; respectable empire, his, iii. 241, n. 2; Reynolds, slights, iv. 366, n. 2; Rousseau’s pension, ii. 12, n. 1; Scotch favourites, i. 363; sea, at the age of 34 had not seen the, i. 340; n. 1; Shakespeare sad stuff, i. 497, n. 1; Shelburne, Lord, dislikes, iv. 174, n. 5; slave-trade, upholder of the, ii. 480; She Stoops to Conquer, sees, ii. 223; Toryism or Whiggism, prevalence in his reign of, ii. 221; tour in the West of England, iv. 165, n. 3; unpopularity maintained by Johnson, iii. 155; iv. 165; changed into popularity, iii. 156, n. 1; iv. 165; Wilkes at the Levee, iii. 430, n. 4. GEORGE IV, i. 108, n. 1. See PRINCE OF WALES. GEORGIA, i. 127, n. 4. GERARD, Dr., v. 90, 92-3, 130. GERMAINE, Lord George, i. 424, n. 1. GERMAN BARON, story of a, ii. 462. GERMANY, academies at the smaller Courts, v. 276; language, ii. 156; rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4; stocking industry, v. 86. GERVES, John, v. 297, n. 1, 327. GESTICULATION RIDICULED, i. 334; ii. 211; Johnson’s aversion to it, iv. 322. GHERARDI, Marchese, iii. 326. GHOSTS, Addison’s belief, iv. 95; argument against their existence, belief for it, iii. 230; Boswell introduces the subject, iv. 94, n. 2; Cave, one seen by, ii. 178, 182; Coachmakers’ Hall, discussion at, iv. 95; Cock Lane ghost, i. 406-8; iii. 268; evidence for them, iv. 94; experience and imagination, i. 405; Goldsmith’s brother, one seen by, ii. 182; Johnson’s prayer on his wife’s death, i. 235; his state of mind as regards them, i. 343, 406; iii. 297; iv. 94, 298; ‘machinery of poetry,’ iv. 17; objection to their appearing, ii. 163; Parson Ford’s, iii. 349; question undecided after 5000 years, iii. 230,298; Southey on the good end they answer, iii. 298, n. 1; Villiers, Sir George, iii. 351; Wesley’s story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394. GIANNONE, iv. 3. GIANO VITALE, iii. 251, n. 2. GIANT’S CAUSEWAY, iii. 410. GIANTS, A Great Personage’s, i. 219. GIARDINI, ii. 225. GIBBON, Edward, author best judge of his own performance, iv. 251, n. 2; Autobiography, ii. 448, n. 2; Beggar’s Opera, influence of the, ii. 367, n. 1; Boswell attacks him, ii. 67, n. 1, 443, n. 1, 447-8; v. 203, n. 1; name passed over by him, ii. 348, n. 1; and Johnson, replies to, ii. 448, n. 2; Cecilia, reads, iv. 223, n. 5; Clarendon’s History and the Oxford riding-school, ii. 424, n. 1; Decline and Fall, ‘artful infidelity’ of the, ii. 447; composition of vol. I, ii. 236, n. 2, 366; publication, ii. 136, n. 6; iii. 97, n. 3; rough MS. sent to the press, iv. 36, n. 1; the two offensive chapters, iii. 244; domestic discipline, i. 46, n. 2; dress, his, ii. 443, n. 1; Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2; Edinburgh society, ii. 53, n. 1; fame, enjoyment of his, i. 451, n. 3; Foster, Dr. James, iv. 9, n. 5; Fox at Lausanne, iv. 167, n. 1; Fox commenced patriot, iv. 87, n. 1; French Assembly, iv. 434; French society, iii. 254, n. 1; Gloucester, Duke of, affability of the, ii. 2, n. 2; Hailes’s Annals, iii. 404, n. 3; history
attacked in his presence, ii. 366; Holroyd, visits to, iii. 178, n. 1; ‘hornets, accustomed to the buzzing of the,’ ii. 448, n. 1; Horsley, Bishop, praises, iv. 437; hospitality, on, iv. 222, n. 2; House of Commons and Nowell’s sermon, iv. 296, n. 1; Hume and Robertson, compliment to, ii. 236, n. 3; Hume congratulates him, ii. 447, n. 5; Hume’s style, i. 439, n. 2; Inquisition, defends the, i. 465, n. 1; Johnson and the bear, ii. 348; and the ladies, iv. 73: did not like to trust himself with, ii. 366; and Fox, iii. 267; and the graces, iii. 54; matched with, ii. 348; ‘Reynolds’s oracle,’ i. 245, n. 3; scarcely mentioned in his writings, ii. 348, n. 1; iii. 128, n. 4; style, imitates, iv. 389; talks: of his ugliness, iv. 73; Journal des Savans, ii. 39, n. 3; Law, William, character of, i. 68, n. 2; lectures, teaching by, ii. 8, n. 1; Literary Club, i. 479. 481, n. 3; iii. 230, n. 5; in 1777, iii. 128, n. 4; poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1; London, loves the dust of, iii. 178, n. 1; the liberty that it gives, iii. 379, n. 2; Lowth and Warburton, ii. 37, n. 2; Macaulay, on his poverty, iv. 350. n. 1; Mackintosh’s comparison of him with Burke, ii. 348, n. 1; Magdalen College Common-room, ii. 443, n. 4; ‘Mahometan,’ ii. 448; Mallet, David, i. 268, n. 1; Maty, Dr., i. 284, n. 2; Montagu, Mrs., on the Decline and Fall, iii. 244; mutual gain in fair trade, v. 232, n. 1; Newton, Bishop, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1; North, Lord, v. 269, n. 1; Ossian, ii. 302, n. 2; Oxford tutor, his, iii. 13, n. 3; Paley’s attack on him, v. 203, n. 1; Pantheon, ii. 169, n. 1; ‘Papist, turned,’ ii. 448; Parliament, silent in, ii. 366, n. 4; iii. 233, n. 2; found it a school of civil prudence, ib.; Pope’s lines applied to him, ii. 133, n. 1; post-chaise, delight in a, ii. 453, n. 1; Price, Dr., iv. 434; Priestley, Dr., iv. 437; quaint manner, iii. 54: described by Colman, ib., n. 2; respectable, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2; Reynolds’s, dines at, iii. 250; Round-Robin, signed the, iii. 83; Royal Academy Professor, ii. 67, n. 1; school life not happy, i. 451, n. 2; sneer, his usual, iv. 73; style, study of, iv. 389, n. 2; subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7; Ten Persecutions, The, ii. 255, n. 4; Tillemont, praises, i. 7, n. 1; travelling, the requisites for, iii. 458-9; ugliness, ii. 443, n. 1; iv. 73. GIBBON, an attorney, ii. 93, n. 3. GIBBONS, Rev. Dr., iv. 126, 278. GIBRALTAR, ii. 391. GIBSON, William, iv. 402, n. 2. GIFFARD, the theatre manager, i. 168. GIFFORD, Rev. Richard, v. 118. GIFFORD, William, Baviad and Macviad, iii. 16, n. 1; Johnson’s Greek, v. 458, n. 5. GILBERT, GEOFFREY, Law of Evidence, v. 389, n. 5. GILBERT, Rev. Mr., i. 173, n. 1. GILLAM, Justice, iii. 46, n. 5. GILLESPIE, Dr., iv. 262. GILMOUR, J., President of the Session, v. 212. GILPIN, W., v. 431. GIN. See SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS, iii. 304, n. 4. GISBORNE, Dr., iii. 149, n. 2. GLANVILLE, i. 205, n. 3. Glasse’s, Mrs., Cookery, iii. 285. GLASS-HOUSES, i. 164, n. 1. GLAUCUS, ii. 129, n. 5. GLEG, Mr., a merchant, v. 73. GLENGARY, Laird of, v. 190. GLENMORISON, Laird of, v. 136, 140. GLOOM, gloomy penitence, iii. 27; ‘it is perhaps sinful to be gloomy,’ iv. 142. GLOUCESTER, v. 322, n. 1. GLOUCESTER, Duke of (brother of George III), affability to Gibbon, his, ii. 2, n. 2; marriage, ii. 224, n. 1. GLOVER, Richard, account of him, v. 116, n. 4; Duke of Marlborough’s papers, v. 175, n. 2; Leonidas, v. 116; Medea, i. 326, n. 3. GLOW-WORM, ii. 55, 232. GLUTTONY, i. 468. GLYNNE, Serjeant, iii. 430, n. 4. ‘Gnothi seauton’ [original text in greek], i. 298, n. 4. GOBELINS, ii. 390. GOD, infinite goodness, limited, iv. 299; love of him predominated over by fear, iii. 339. GODWIN, William, iv. 278, n. 3. GOLDONI, iii. 162, n. 4. GOLDSMITH, Dr. Isaac, Dean of Cloyne, i. 414, n. 6. GOLDSMITH, Rev. Henry, ii. 182. GOLDSMITH, Mrs., iii. 100. GOLDSMITH, Oliver, absurdity, angry when caught in an, iii. 252; Addison, compared with, ii. 256; ages at which he published his various works, iii. 167, n. 3; Aleppo, projected visit to, iv. 22; anecdotes, excelled by Percy in, v. 255; Animated Nature, engaged in writing it, ii. 181-2, 232, 237; copy in Lord Scarsdale’s library, iii. 162; cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2; Maclaurin’s yawns, iii. 15; anonymous publications, i. 412; Apology to the public, ii. 209; supposed to be written by Johnson, ib.; architecture, contempt of, ii. 439, n. 1; attacks, better for, v. 274; authors, the neglect of, iii. 375, n. 1, 424, n. 1; authors, patrons and booksellers, v. 59, n. 1: Baretti, dislikes, ii. 205, n. 3; at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1; Bath, describes, ii. 7, n. 4; iii. 45, n. 1; beat, first time he has, ii. 210; Beattie’s Essay on Truth, despises, ii. 201, n. 3; v. 273, n. 4; Beauclerk describes him, ii. 192, n. 2; Beauties of English Poetry Selected, iii. 192, n. 2; Bee, The, iii. 83, n. 1; biography, the uses of, v. 79, n. 3; birth, date of his, i. 58, n. 2; iii. 83, n. 1; blank verse, on, i. 427, n. 2; bloom-coloured coat, ii. 83; boastfulness, i. 414: bon ton breaking out in his waistcoats, ii. 274, n. 7; books, could not tell what was in his own, iii. 253; Boswell’s account of him, i. 411-17; accused of making a monarchy of what should be a republic, ii. 257: ‘honest Goldsmith,’ ii. 186; preserves a relic of him, ii. 219, n. 2; takes leave of him, ii. 260; Burke’s contemporary at Trinity College, i. 411; recollection of him, iii. 168; Camden, Lord, complains of, iii. 311; Chamier’s estimate of him, iii. 252; Chatterton’s poems, believes in, iii. 51, n. 2, 276, n. 2; Cibber, Colley, praises, iii. 72, n. 2; Citizen of the World, i. 412; Clare, Lord, ii. 136; Clarke, Dr., anecdote of, i. 3, n. 2; companion, not an agreeable, iii. 247; company, his, liked, ii. 235; compilations and magazines, the causes of, v. 59, n. 1; consequential at times, ii. 258; conversation, does not know how to get off, ii. 196; not temper for it, ii. 231; reported a mere fool in it, i. 412; talks at random, 413; ii. 236; iii. 252; v. 277; talks not to be unnoticed, ii. 186, 257; corrections in his prose composition rare, iv. 36, n. 1; Cow shedding its horns: See above, Animated Nature; Croaker, Johnson’s Suspirius, i. 213; ii. 48; Cross Readings, admires, iv. 322, n. 2; Cumberland, disliked, iv. 384, n. 2; death, ii. 274, n. 7, 279, n. 2, 280; iii. 164; iv. 84, n. 2; debts, ii. 280, 281; depopulation, on, ii. 217, n. 5; Deserted Village, dedicated to Reynolds, ii. I, n. 2, 217, n. 5; Johnson’s lines in, ii. 7; iii. 418; reiterated corrections, ii. 15, n. 3; Traveller, sometimes an echo of the, ii. 236; Dictionary of Arts and Sciences projected, ii. 204, n. 2; Dilly’s, dines at, ii. 247; ‘Doctor Minor,’ v. 97; Dodd, Dr., satirises, iii. 139, n. 4; Dodsley, dispute on the poetry of the age with, iii. 38; dog-butchers, ii. 232; dress, slovenly, i. 366, n. 1; his fine coat, ii. 83; effect of dress on the mind, ib. n. 3; Dryden’s line on poets and monarchs, ii. 223: duelling, question of, ii. 179; Dyer, Samuel, at the Club, iv. II, n. 1; Edinburgh, country round, i. 425; ii. 311, n. 5; Edinburgh University, i. 411, 425; Elements of Criticism, criticises, ii. 90; Enquiry into the present State of Polite Learning, i. 350, n. 3, 412; envy, his, i. 413; ii. 42, 260; Boswell’s defence of it, iii. 271; epitaph in Greek, ii. 282; iii. 85, n. 1; epitaph in Latin, iii. 81-3; Round Robin, 84; Europe, disputed his passage through, i. 411; Evans, assaults, ii. 209, n. 2; excelled in what he wrote, iii. 253; fable of the little fishes, ii. 231; fame, his, v. 137; fame, talked for, iii. 247; Fantoccini, the, i. 414; flowered late, iii. 167; France, tour to, i. 414; French meat, ii. 402, n. 2; friendship and the story of Bluebeard, ii. 181; ‘furnishing you with argument and intellects,’ iv. 313, n. 4; Garrick’s compliment to the Queen, attacks, ii. 233; lines on him, i. 412, n. 6; refuses The Good Natured Man, iii. 320; proposes Whitehead as arbitrator, ib. n. 2; ‘Gentleman, The,’ ii. 182; George III, and She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 223; gets the better when he argues alone, ii. 236; ghost seen by his brother, ii. 182; ‘Goldy,’ dislikes being called, ii. 258; iii. 101; v. 308; Good Natured Man, Prologue, ii. 42, 45: Croaker, i. 213; ii. 48; refused by Garrick, iii. 320; Gray, attacks, i. 403, n. 1; ii. 328, n. 2; Elegy, mends, i. 404, n. 1; ‘happy revolutions,’ ii. 224; Harris, James, ii. 225; Haunch of Venison, ii. 136, n. 5; iii. 225, n. 2; Hawkins’s account of him, i. 480, n. 1; ‘Hesiod’ Cooke, v. 37, n. 1; historians, in the first class of, ii. 236; History of England attributed to Lord Lyttelton, i. 412, n. 2; History of Rome, ii. 236-7; iv. 312; Hornecks, Miss, ii. 209, n. 2; iv. 355, n. 4; horses, abhorrence of blood, ii. 232; Humours of Ballamagairy, ii. 219; Idler, buys the, i. 335, n. 1; ignorance of common arts, iv. 22; improvidence, i. 416, n. 1; inscriptions on the wr
itten mountains, iv. 22, n. 3; ‘inspired idiot,’ i. 412, n. 6; irascible as a hornet, v. 97, n. 3; Jacobitism, his, ii. 224, 238, n. 4; jests from the pit of a theatre, on, i. 197, n. 2; Johnson, arguing: see JOHNSON, arguing; a bear only in the skin, ii. 66; the ‘big man,’ ii. 14; biographer, i. 26, n. 1: buys his Life of Nash, i. 335, n. 1; and a print of him, i. 363, n. 3; claim upon — for more writings, ii. 15; compared with Burke, ii. 260; competition with, i. 417; ii. 216, 257; compliment a cordial, iii. 82, n. 3; could take liberties with, iv. 113; estimation of him as an author, i. 408; ii. 196, 216; places him in the first class, ii. 236; defends him against Mr. Eliot’s attack, ii. 265, n. 4; calls him a very great man, ii. 281; defends him against attack at Reynolds’s table, ib., n. 1; shows the difference when he had not a pen in his hand, iv. 29; got him sooner into estimation, ii. 216; first visit to him, i. 366, n. 1; goodness of heart, i. 417; influence on his style, i. 222; interview with George III, ii. 42; jealous of, ii. 257; letter to him, ii. 235, n. 2; levee, attends, ii. 118; literary reputation, ii. 233; manner, copies, i. 412; not his style, ii. 216; pension, iv. 113; Prologue to The Good Natured Man, ii. 42, 45; proposes to — that they each review the other’s work, v. 274; quarrels with, ii. 253-4; reconciliation, 256; reads the Heroic Epistle to, iv. 113; reproaches, with not going to the theatre, ii. 14; tetrastick on him, ii. 282; tribute to him in the Life of Parnell, ii. 166, n. 2; wishes to write his Life, iii. 100, n. 1; witty contests with, ii. 231; Kenrick, libelled by, i. 498, n. 1; knowledge, ‘pity he is not knowing,’ ii. 196; ‘knows nothing,’ ii. 215; ‘amazing how little he knows,’ ii. 235; ‘at no pains to fill his mind,’ iii. 253; Langton, letter to, ii. 141, n. 1; Lennox’s, Mrs., play, iv. 10; Life not included in the Lives of the Poets, iii. 100, n. 1; Literary Club, member of the, i. 477; ii. 17; absurd verses recited to it, ii. 240; iv. 13; wishes for more members, iv. 183; Lloyd’s supper party, i. 395, n. 2; lodgings, miserable, i. 350, n. 3; in the Edgeware Road, ii. 182; ‘loose in his principles,’ i. 408; luxury, effects of, ii. 217, ib. n. 5; Madeira, bottle of, i. 416; Mallet’s reputation, ii. 233; Martinelli’s History, ii. 221; mathematics, made no great figure in, i. 411; contempt for them, ii. 437, n. 1; medical studies, i. 411; merit late to be acknowledged, iii. 252; mind, never exchanged, iii. 37; modern imitators of the early poets, despises, iii. 159, n. 2; Montaigne, love of, iii. 72, n. 2; mortified by a German, ii. 257; musical performers’ pay, ii. 225; ‘mutual acquaintance,’ iii. 103, n. 1; martyrdom, ii. 250-1; Natural History: see Animated Nature; nidification, ii. 249; ‘Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit,’ i. 412; iii. 82; ‘Nil te quaesiveris extra,’ iv. 27; Northcote’s account of him, i. 413, n. 2; Northumberland, Duke of, would have helped him, iv. 22, n. 3; the Duchess prints Edwin and Angelina, ii. 337, n. 1; novelty, i. 441, n. 1; Padua, at, i. 73, n. 2; Paoli’s, dines at, ii. 220; paradox, affectation of, i. 4l7; ‘three paradoxes,’ iii. 376, n. 1; Parnell, Life of, ii. 166; partiality of his friends against him, iii. 252; pen in and out of his hand, iv. 29; pensions to French authors, i. 372, n. 1; Percy’s account of him, i. 413, n. 2; quarrel with him, iii. 276, n. 2; ‘pleasure of being liked,’ i. 412, n. 6; Pope’s lines on Addison, ii. 85; ‘strain of pride,’ iii. 165, n. 3; powers, did not know his own, i. 213, n. 4; public make a point to know nothing of his writings, iii. 252; religion, takes his from the priest, ii. 214; Retaliation, passages quoted: Attorneys, ii. 126, n. 4; Burke, i. 472; iii. 233, n. 1; iv. 318; Burke, William, v. 76, n. 3; Douglas, Dr., i. 229, n. 1; Garrick, i. 202, n. 4; his lines on Goldsmith, i. 412, n. 6; Lauder, i. 229, n. 1; ‘pepper the highest,’ iv. 341, n. 6; Townshend, Tommy, iv. 318-9; shown to Burke and Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3; reviewers, ii. 39, n. 4; Reynolds’s explanation of his absurdities, i. 412, n. 6; his envy, i. 4l3, n. 3; Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5; round of pleasures, ii. 274, n. 3; Royal Academy Professor, ii, 67, n. 1; Royal Academy dinner, iii. 51, n. 2; iv. 314, n. 3; Sappho in Ovid, ii. 181; Savage, compared with, ii. 281, n. 1; Scotch inns, v. 146, n. 1; scrupulous, not, i. 213, n. 4; servitorships, v. 122, n. 1; settled system, no, i. 414; or notions, iii. 252; She Stoops to Conquer, copyright of it, iii. 100, n. 1; dedicated to Johnson, ii. 1, n. 2, 216; Dedication, ib. n. 3; dinner on the day of its first performance, iv. 325; Duke of Gloucester’s marriage, ii. 224; Farquhar copied, v. 133, n. 1; finding out the longitude, i. 301, n. 3; ill success predicted, ii. 208; Johnson’s opinion, ii. 205, 208, 233; naming it, ii. 205, n. 4, 258; Northcote’s account of it to Goldsmith, ii. 233, n. 3; performed during a Court mourning, iv. 325; Rambler, borrowed from, i. 213, n. 5; song for Miss Hardcastle, ii. 219; success on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5; Tony Lumpkin’s song, ii. 219; Walpole’s criticism, ii. 233, n. 3; Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174; shine, eager to, i. 423; ii. 231, 253, 256; social, not, iii. 37; society, his, courted, ii. 257; Sterne, attacks, ii. 173, n. 2; calls him a very dull fellow, ii. 222; straw, on a balancer of a, iii. 231, n. 2; suicide, on, ii. 229; Swift’s ‘strain of pride,’ iii. 165, n. 3; tailor, taken for a, ii. 83, n. 2; tailor’s bill, ii. 83, n. 3; talk; see conversation; ‘tell truth and shame the devil,’ ii. 222; Temple, chambers in the, ii. 97, n. 1; iv. 27; v. 37, n. 1; Temple of Fame, ii. 358; terror, object of, to a nobleman, i. 450, n. 1; Townsend, praises Lord Mayor, iv. 175, n. 1; Traveller, brings him into high reputation, iii. 252; Chamier’s doubts as to the author, iii. 252; dedicated to his brother, ii. 1, n. 2; editions, i. 415, n. 2; Fox praises it, iii. 252, 261; Johnson’s lines in it, i. 381, n. 2; ii. 6; iii. 418; praises it, ii. 5, 236; reviews it, i. 482; recites a passage, v. 344; ‘Luke’s iron crown,’ ii. 6; payment for it, i. 193, n. 1; ii. 6, n. 3; published with author’s name, i. 412, n. 2; reiterated correction, ii. 15, n. 3; slow, iii. 253; written after the Vicar but published before, i. 415; iii. 321; travelling in youth, on, iii. 458; unnoticed, afraid of being, ii. 186; Van Egmont’s Travels, reviews, iv. 22, n. 3; vanity, i. 413; shown in his talk, i. 413; his clothes, ii. 83; his virtues and vices were from it, iii. 37; Vicar of Wakefield, history of its publication, i. 415; iii. 321; Johnson’s opinion of it, i. 415, n. 3; iii. 321; passages expunged, iii. 375-6; visionary project, his, iv. 22; Walpole despises him, i. 388, n. 3; introduced to him, iv. 314, n. 3; Warburton a weak writer, v. 93, n. 1; Westminster Abbey and Temple Bar, ii. 238; deserved a place in the Abbey, iii. 253; spot for his monument chosen by Reynolds, iii. 83, n. 2; ‘Williams, I go to Miss, i. 421; Zobeide, wrote a prologue for, iii. 38, n. 5. GOMBAULD, iii. 396. GONDAR, v. 123, n. 3. GOOD-BREEDING, ii. 82; v. 82, 276. GOOD FRIDAY, ii. 356; iii. 300, 313; iv. 203. GOOD-HUMOUR, acquired, not natural, v. 211; dependent upon the will, iii. 335; increases with age, ib.; rare, ii. 362; Johnson a good-humoured fellow, ib. ‘GOOD MAN, a,’ iv. 239. Good Natured Man. See GOLDSMITH. GOODNESS, not natural, v. 211, 214. Goody Two Shoes, iv. 8, n. 3. GORDON, Duke of, iii. 430, n. 6. GORDON, Hon. Alexander, (Lord Rockville), i. 469; v. 394, 397. GORDON, Sir Alexander, ii. 269, n. 2; iii. 104; v. 86, 90-2, 95. GORDON, Captain, of Park, v. 103. GORDON, General C. G., i. 340, n. 3. GORDON, Lord George, Mansfield’s charge on his trial, iii. 427, n. 1; St. George’s Field meeting, iii. 428; sent to the Tower, iii. 430; trial, iv. 87. GORDON, Professor Thomas, v. 84-5,90-2. GORDON, Rev. Dr., of Lincoln, iii. 359. GORDON, Mr. W., Town-clerk of Aberdeen, v. 90, n. 2. GORDON RIOTS, iii. 427-431, 435, 438. GORLITZ, ii. 122, n. 6. GORY, Monboddo’s black servant, v. 82-3. GOSSE, Mr. Edmund, Gray’s Works, i. 403, n. 4. GOTHICK BUILDINGS, i. 273. GOUGH, — , ii. 397. GOUT, an attack of, a poetical fiction, i. 179; books on it, v. 210; due to abstinence, i. 103, n. 3. GOVERNMENT, by one, best for a great nation, iii. 46; contracted-more easily destroyed, iii. 283; distance, from a, iv. 213; English — on a broad basis, iii. 283; fittest men not appointed, ii. 157; forms of it indifferent, ii. 170; imperfection inseparable from all, ii. 118; possible through want of agreement in the governed, ii. 102; power cannot be long abused, ii. 170; real power everywhere lost (in 1784), iv. 260, n. 2; reverence for it impaired, iii. 3: See MINISTRY. Government of the Tongue, Boswell quotes it, iii. 379; Johnson perhaps borrows from it, i. 447, n. 2; ‘men oppressive by t
heir parts,’ iv. 168, n. 2. Governor, v. 185, n. 2. Gower, first Earl, recommends Johnson, i. 133; Plaxton’s letter to him, i. 36, n. 2; Renegado, i. 296. GOWER, Dr., Provost of Worcester College, ii. 95, n. 2. GOWER, John, iii. 254. GRACE, in Latin, v. 65: at meals, i. 239, n. 2; ii. 124; v. 123. GRAFTON, third Duke of, ii. 467. GRAHAM, Colonel, ii. 156. GRAHAM, Rev. George, Telemachus, i. 411; iii. 104; insults Goldsmith, v. 97. GRAHAM, Lady Lucy, v. 359, n. 1. GRAHAM, Marquis of (third Duke of Montrose), iii. 382; laughed at in The Rolliad, ib., n. 1; loves liberty, iii. 383; mentioned, iv. 109. GRAHAM, Miss, iii. 407. GRAINGER, Dr. James, character, his, ii. 454; Johnson’s Shakespeare, anecdote of, i. 319, n. 3; Ode on Solitude, iii. 197; Sugar Cane, Johnson reviews it, i. 481; does not like it, ii. 454; mice altered to rats, ii. 453; Tibullus, translates, ii. 454. GRAMMAR, advantage of learning it, v. 136. GRAMMAR School, Johnson’s scheme for the classes of a, i. 99. GRAND CHARTREUX, iii. 456. GRAND SIGNOR, ii. 250. GRANDEES OF SPAIN, v. 358. GRANGE, Lady, v. 227. GRANGER, Rev. James, Biographical History, iii. 91; v. 255; denies that he is a Whig, iii. 91; ‘the dog is a Whig,’ v. 255. GRANT, Abbé, v. 153, n. GRANT, Sir Archibald, iii. 103. GRANT, Rev. Mr., v. 120-1, 123,131. GRANT, — , ii. 308, 310. GRANTHAM, ii. 312, n. 4. GRANTHAM, first Baron, i. 434, n. 3. GRANTLEY, first Baron, ii. 472, n. 2. GRANVILLE, G. See under Lansdowne, Lord. GRANVILLE, John Carteret, Earl, described by Lord Chesterfield, iv. 12, n. 5; despatch after the battle of Dettingen, iv. 12; mentioned, ii. 116, n. 1; iv. 78. GRATITUDE, burthen, a, i. 246; fruit of great cultivation, v. 232. GRATTAN, Henry, ‘one link of the English chain,’ iv. 317; mentioned, iv. 73, n. 1. Grave, The, iii. 47. GRAVES, Morgan, i. 92, n. 2. GRAVES, Rev. Richard, author of The Spiritual Quixote, i. 75, n. 3; Shenstone at Oxford, i. 94, n. 5; property, v. 4S7, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 452. GRAVINA, iv. 199. GRAY, Sir James, ii. 177. GRAY, John, bookseller, i. 153. GRAY, Thomas, abruptness, his, i. 403; Akenside, inferior to, iii. 32; Beattie, friendship with, v. 16, n. 1; blank verse, disliked, i. 427. n. 2; Boswell sat up all night reading him, ii. 335, n. 2; Boswell’s Corsica and Paoli, ii. 46, n. 1; Cohnan’s Odes to Obscurity, ii. 334; disjecta membra, i. 403, n. 4; Distant Prospect of Eton College quoted, i. 344; doctor’s degree offered him at Aberdeen, ii. 267, n. 1; Dryden’s ‘car,’ ii. 5, n. 2; ‘dull fellow, a,’ ii. 327; Elegy, imitated, v. 117, n. 4; mended by Goldsmith, i. 404, n. 1; quoted, iii. 190, n. 2, 204; sneered at, ii. 328, n. 2; Young’s parody of Johnson’s criticism on it, iv. 392, n. 1 (see just below under Johnson); happy moments for writing, i. 203, n. 3; Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1; Johnson criticises the Elegy, i. 403; ii. 328, n. 2; finds two good stanzas, ii. 328; criticises the Odes, i. 403; ii. 164, 327, 335; iv. 13, 16, n. 4; criticism attacked, iv. 64; defended by Boswell, i. 404; cites him in his Dictionary, iv. 4, n. 3; praises his Letters, iii. 31, n. 1; writes his Life, iii. 427; works, did not taste, ii. 335; calls him Ursa Major, v. 384, n. 1; Long Story cited, v. 292; Mackintosh criticises his style, iii. 31, n. 1; Mason’s Memoirs of him, i. 29; higher in them than in his poems, iii. 31; ‘mechanical poet, a,’ ii. 327; Odeon Vicissitude, iv. 138, n. 4; Odes praised by Cumberland’s Ode, iii. 43, n. 3; Pope’s condensation of thought, admires, v. 345, n. 2; and his Homer, iii. 257, n. 1; Progress of Poetry, quoted, iii. 165, n. 2; Remains, his, preparation for publication, ii. 164; Sixteen-string Jack, compared to, iii. 38; Spleen, The, admires, iii. 38, n. 3; Sterne’s popularity, ii. 222. n. 1; ‘sunshine of the breast,’ v. 160, n. 2; ‘warm Gray,’ ii. 334. Gray’s Inn Journal, i. 309, 328, 356. Great, how pronounced, ii. 161. GREAT, the, cant against their manners, iii. 353; Johnson, never courted by, iv. 116; did not seek his society, iv. 117; or Richardson’s, ib., n. 1; officious friends, have, ii. 65, n. 4; seeking their acquaintance, ii. 10; iii. 189. ‘GREAT HE,’ ii. 210. GREAT MOGUL, ii. 40, n. 4. GREAVES, Samuel, iv. 253. GREECE, fountain of knowledge, iii. 333; modern Greece swept by the Turks, ii. 194. GREEK, books for beginners, iii. 407; Genardus’s Grammar, iv. 20; essential to a good education, i. 457; like lace, iv. 23; a woman’s knowledge of it, i. 122, n. 4. See JOHNSON, Greek. GREEKS, barbarians mostly, ii. 170; dramatists, iv. 16; empire, iii. 36. GREEN, John, Bishop of Lincoln, i. 45. GREEN, Matthew, iii. 405, n. 1. GREEN, Richard, of Lichfield, account of him, ii. 465; his Museum, ib.; iii. 412; Johnson, letter from, iv. 393; mentioned, iii. 393; iv. 399, n. 5. GREEN ROOM, of Drury Lane, i. 201. Green Sleeves, v. 260. GREENE, Burnaby, i. 517. GREENHOUSES, ii. 168; iv. 206. GREENWICH, Boswell and Johnson’s day there, i. 457; Hospital, i. 460; Johnson composes part of Irene in the Park, i. 106; lodges in Church Street, i. 107; Park, described by Miss Talbot, i. 106, n. 2; not equal to Fleet Street, i. 461. GREGORY, David, Geometry, v. 294. GREGORY, Dr. James, iii. 126; v. 48. GREGORY, Dr. John, v. 48, n. 3. GREGORY, professors of that name, v. 48, n. 3. GREGORY, —— , iii. 454. GRENVILLE, Right Hon. George, Beckford’s Bribery Bill, supports, ii. 339, n. 2; ‘could have counted the Manilla ransom,’ ii. 135; Johnson’s letter to him, i. 376, n. 2. Grenville Act, iv. 74, n. 3; v. 391. GRETNA GREEN, iii. 68. GREVILLE, C. C., Johnson and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3; and Fox, iv. 167, n. 1; ‘public dinner’ at Lambeth, iv. 367, n. 3. GREVILLE, Richard Fulke, Maxims and Characters, iv. 304; account of him, ib., n. 4; mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1. GREY, first Earl, iii. 424, n. 4. GREY, Dr. Richard, iii. 318. GREY, Stephen, ii. 26. GREY, Dr. Zachary, i. 444, n. 1; iii. 318; v. 225, n. 3. GRIEF, alleviated by recording recollections of the dead, i. 212; digested, to be, not diverted, iii. 28; effect of business engagements on it, ii. 470; Johnson’s advice as to dealing with it, iii. 136; iv. 100, 142; not retained long by a sound mind, iii. 136; wears away soon, iii. 136. See SORROW. GRIERSON, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 116. GRIFFITHS, Ralph, the publisher, his evidence worthless, iii. 30, n. 1; war with Smollett, iii. 32, n. 2. GRIFFITHS, —— , of Bryn o dol, v. 449. GRIFFITHS, —— , of Kefnamwycllh, v. 452. GRIMM, Baron, Candide, i. 342; Mme, du Boccage, iv. 331, n. 1. GRIMSTON, Viscount, iv. 80, n. 1. Grongar Hill, iv. 307. GRONOVII, v. 376. GROSVENOR, Lord, v. 458, n. 5. GROTIUS, corporal punishment, on, ii. 157, n. 1; Christian evidences, on, i. 398, 454; De Satisfactione Christi, v. 89; Isaac de Groot his descendant, iii. 125; practised as a lawyer, ii. 430; quoted in Lauder’s fraud, i. 229. GROVE, Rev. Henry, papers in the Spectator, iii. 33; read by Baretti, iv. 32. Grove, The, iv. 23, n. 3. Grub Street, defined, i. 296. GUADALOUPE, i. 367, 368, n. 1. GUALTIER, Philip, iv. 181, n. 3. Guarded bed-curtains, v. 433, n. 3. Guardian, The, on public judgment, i. 200, n. 2; end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3. GUARDIANS FOR CHILDREN, iii. 400. GUARDS, The, Boswell’s fondness for them, i. 400, n. 1; afraid of the juries, iii. 46. GUARINI, Pastor Fido, iii. 346. GUESSING, iii. 356. Guide-Books, common in Italy, v. 61. GUILLERAGUES, M. de, i. 90, n. 1. GUILTY, ten, should escape, rather than one innocent suffer, iv. 251. GUIMENÉ, Princess of, ii. 394. GULOSITY, i. 468. GUNNING, the Misses, v. 353, n. 1, 359, n. 2. GUNPOWDER, iii. 361; v. 124. GUNTHWAIT, ii. 169. Gustavus Adolphus, History of, iv. 78. Gustavus Vasa, i. 140. GUTHRIE, William, account of him, i. 116, 117, n. 2; Johnson’s character of him, ii. 52; Apotheosis of Milton, i. 140; Debates, i. 116, 118; Duhalde’s China, translates, iv. 30; pensioned, i. 117; Scotticisms, i. 118, n. 1. GUYON, Dissertation on the Amazons, i. 150. GWYN. Colonel, i. 414, n. 1. GWYNN, John, the architect, account of him, v. 454, n. 2; buildings designed by him, ii. 438, n. 3; defence of architecture, ii. 439; happy reply, ii. 440; Johnson’s advocacy of him, i. 351; letter in his behalf, v. 454, n. 2; London and Westminster Improved, ii. 25; Oxford post-coach, in the, ii. 438; iii. 129; Thoughts on the Coronation of George III, i. 361. GWYNNE, Nell, i. 248, n. 2.
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