Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson

  I.

  ICELAND, Horrebow’s Natural History, iii. 279; Johnson talks of visiting it, i. 242; iii. 454; iv. 358, n. 2. ICOLMKILL. See IONA. Idea, improperly used, iii. 196. IDLENESS, active sports not idleness, i. 48; hidden from oneself, i. 331, n. 1; miseries of it, i. 331; upon principle, iv. 9; why we are weary when idle, ii. 98. Idler, The (an earlier paper than Johnson’s), i. 330, n. 2. Idler, The (Johnson’s), account of it, i. 331-5; Betty Broom, story of, iv. 246; collected in volumes, i. 335; Johnson draws his own portrait in Mr. Sober, iii. 398, n. 3; writes on his mother’s death, i. 331, n. 4, 339, n. 3; mottoes, i. 332; No. 22 omitted in collected vols., i. 335; pirated, i. 345, n. 1; profits on first edition, i. 335, n. 1; tragedians, a hit at, v. 38, n. 1. IFFLEY, iv. 295. IGNORANCE, guilt of voluntarily continuing it, ii. 27; in men of eminence, ii. 91; people content to be ignorant, i. 397. ILAM. See ISLAM. Ilk, defined in Johnson’s Dictionary, iii. 326, n. 4; ‘Johnson of that Ilk,’ ii. 427, n. 2. ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, ii. 457. IMAGES, worship of, iii. 17, 188. Imagination, iii. 341. IMITATIONS OF POEMS, i. 118, n. 5, 122. IMLAC, why so spelt, iv. 31. See also under Rasselas. IMMORTALITY, belief of it impressed on all, ii. 358; of brutes, ii. 54. IMPARTIALITY IN TELLING LIES, ii. 434. IMPIETY, inundation of it due to the Revolution, v. 271; repressed in Johnson’s company, iv. 295. IMPORTANCE, imaginary, iii. 327. IMPOSTORS, Literary, Douglas, Dr., i. 360; Du Halde, ii. 55, n. 4; Eccles, Rev. Mr., i. 360; Innes, Rev. Dr., i. 359; Rolt, E., i. 359. Impransus, i. 137. IMPRESSIONS, trusting to them, iv. 122-3; early ones, iv. 197, n. 1. In Theatro, ii. 324, n. 3. INCE, Richard, a contributor to the Spectator, iii. 33. Inchkenneth, Ode on, ii. 293; v. 325. Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim, iv. 181, n. 3. INCIVILITY, iv. 28. INCOME, living within one’s, iv. 226. INDECISION OF MIND, iii. 300. Index-scholar, iv. 407, n. 4, 442. INDIA, despotic governor the best, iv. 2l3; ‘don’t give us India,’ v. 209; grant of natural superiority, iv. 68; hereditary trades, v. 120, Johnson’s wish to visit it, iii. 134; n. 1, 456; judges there engaging in trade, ii. 343; mapping of it, ii. 356; nursery of ruined fortunes, iv. 213, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 194. See EAST INDIES and INDIES. INDIAN BILL, Fox’s, Ministry dismissed on it, i. 311, n. 1; Lee’s piece of parchment, iii. 224, n. 1. INDIANS, American, story told of them by two officers, iii. 246; v. 135; their weak children die, iv. 210; wronged, i. 308, n. 2. See NATIVES. INDICTMENT, prosecution by, iii. 16, n. 1. INDIES, the, discovery of the passage thither a misfortune, i. 455, n. 3; proverb about bringing home their wealth, iii. 302. Indifferently, i. 180. INDOLENCE, iv. 352. INFERIORITY, ‘half a guinea’s worth of it,’ ii. 169. INFIDELITY abroad, iv. 288; affectation of showing courage, ii. 81; gloom of it, ii. 81; outcry about it, ii. 359. See CONJUGAL INFIDELITY. INFIDELS, compared with atrocious criminals, iii. 55; credulity, their, v. 331; ennui, must suffer from, ii. 442, n. 1; keeping company with them, iii. 409-10; number in England, ii. 359; treating them with civility, ii. 442; writings allowed to pass without censure, v. 271; writers drop into oblivion, iv. 288. INFLUENCE, America might be governed by it, iii. 205; crown influence salutary, ii. 118; Bute’s attempt to govern by, ii. 353; lost and recovered, iii. 4; vote of the House of Commons against it, iv. 220; in domestic life, iii. 205, n. 4; Ireland governed by it, iii. 205; property, in proportion to, v. 56; wealth, from, v. 112. INFLUENZA, ii. 410. INGENHOUSZ, Dr., ii. 427, n. 4. INGRATITUDE, complaints of, iii. 2; Lewis XIV’s saying, ii. 167. INNES, or INNYS, Rev. Dr., fraud about Dr. Campbell, i. 359; about Psalmanazar, i. 359, n. 3; iii. 444-5, 447-8. INNKEEPERS, soldiers quartered on them, ii. 218, n. 1. INNOCENT, punishment of the, iv. 251. INNOVATION, iv. 188. INNS, felicity of England in the, ii. 451; Shenstone’s lines, ii. 452. INNYS, William, the bookseller, iv. 402, n. 2, 440. INOCULATION, iv. 293; v. 226. INQUISITION, i. 465. INSANITY. See JOHNSON, madness, and MADNESS. INSCRIPTIONS. See EPITAPHS. INSECTS, their numerous species, ii. 248. INSURRECTION OF 1745, Boswells projected History of it, iii. 162, 414; Voltaire’s account, ib., n. 6; hard to write impartially, v. 393. INTELLECTUAL IMPROVEMENT, due to subordination, ii. 219. INTELLECTUAL LABOUR, mankind’s aversion to it, i. 397. INTENTIONS, ii. 12; Hell paved with good intentions, ii. 360. INTEREST, how far we are governed by it, ii. 234. INTEREST OF MONEY, iii. 340. INTOXICATION, said to be good for the health, v. 260; see DRUNKENNESS, SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, WINE; and JOHNSON, intoxicated, and wine; and BOSWELL, wine. Introduction to the Game of Draughts, i. 317. Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain, i. 307. Introduction to the World displayed, iv. 251. INTUITION, iv. 335. INVASION, fears of an, iii. 326, 360, n. 3. INVITATION, going into the society of friends without one, ii. 362. INVOCATION OF SAINTS. See SAINTS. INWARD LIGHT, ii. 126. IRELAND and IRISH, accent, ii. 160; ancient state, i. 321; iii. 112; baronets, traditional, v. 322, n. 1; Belanager, iii. 111, n. 4; British government, barbarous, ii. 121; Burke’s saying about the Roman Catholics, ii. 255, n. 3; Catholics persecuted by Protestants, ii. 255; penal code against them, ii. 121, n. 1; their students abroad, iii. 447 (see below under WESLEY); clergy, ii. 132; condemned to ignorance, ii. 27, n. 1; corn-laws, ii. 130; corrupt government, iv. 200, n. 4; cottagers, ii. 130, n. 2; ‘drained’ by England, v. 44; Drogheda, ii. 156; drunkenness of the gentry, v. 250, n. 1; Dublin, Derrick’s poem to it, i. 456; Capital, only a worse, iii. 410; Evening Post, iv. 381, n. 1; freedom of the guild given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2; ‘not so bad as Iceland,’ iv. 358, n. 2; physicians, iii. 288, n. 4; Rolt’s fraud, i. 359; Theatre, Douglas acted, ii. 320, n. 2; riot in it, i. 386; Miss Philips the singer, iv. 227; University, Burke and Goldsmith at Trinity College, i. 411; Flood’s bequest for the study of Irish, i. 321, n. 5; M.A. degree in vain sought for Johnson, i. 133; LL.D. degree conferred, i. 488; duelling, ii. 226, n. 5; export duties, ii. 131, n. 1; fair people, a, ii. 307; Falkland, ii. 116; family pride, v. 263; Ferns, iv. 73; French, contrasted with, ii. 402, n. 1; Grattan’s speeches, iv. 317; History, Johnson exhorts Maxwell to write its, ii. 121; hospitality to strangers, iv. 18; independence in 1782, iv. 139, n. 4; influence, governed by, ii. 205; Insolvent Debtors’ Relief Bill of 1766, iii. 377, n. 2; Irish chairmen in London, ii. 101; Johnson averse to visit it, iii. 410; kindness for the Irish, iii. 410; pity for them, ii. 121; prejudice against them, i. 130; lady’s verses on Ireland, iii. 319; landlords and tenants, v. 250, n. 1; language, i. 321, n. 5, 322; ii. 156, 347; iii. 112, 235; literature, i. 321; Londonderry, iv. 334; v. 319; Lucan, v. 108, n. 8; Lucas, Dr., i. 311; mask of incorruption never worn, iv. 200, n. 4; minority prevails over majority, ii. 255, 478; mix with the English better than the Scotch do, ii. 242; iv. 169, n. 1; nationality, free from extreme, ii. 242; orchards never planted by Irishmen, iv. 206, n. 1; parliament, duration of, i. 311, n. 2; long debates in 1771, i. 394, n. 1; peers created in 1776, iii. 407, n. 4; players, succeed as, ii. 242; Pope’s lines on Swift, ii. 132, n. 2; premium-scheme, i. 318; professors at Oxford and Paris Irish, i. 321, n. 6; Protestant rebels in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; rebellion ready to break out in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; scholars incorrect in quantity, ii. 132; school of the west, iii. 112; Swift, their great benefactor, ii. 132; Thurot’s descent, iv. l01, n. 4; Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, iv. 385; union wished for by artful politicians, iii. 410; Johnson’s warning against it, ib.; volunteers, not allowed to raise, iii. 360, n. 3; Wesley against toleration, v. 35, n. 3; William III and the Irish parliament, ii. 255. Irene, altered for the stage and acted, i. 192, n. 3, 196; nine nights’ run, i. 197, n. 5; never brought on the stage again, i. 198, n. 1; begun at Edial, i. l00; continued at Greenwich, i. 106; finished at Lichfield, i. 107; refused by Fleetwood, i. 153; offered to a bookseller, ib.; blank verse, iv. 42, n. 7; Cave, shown to, i. 123; dedication, no, ii. 1, n. 2; Demetrius’s speech quoted, i. 237; dramatic power wanting, i. 198, 199, n. 2, 506; Epilogue, i. 197; Hill, Aaron, present at the benefit, i. 198, n. 4; Johnson hears it read aloud, iv. 5; reads it himself, ib., n. 1; his receipts from the acting and copyright, i. 198; original sketch of it, i. 108; Pot admires it, iv. 5, n. 1; Prologue, i. 196; quotable lines, i. 199, n. 2. IRISH GENTLEMAN, an, on the bl
ackness of negroes, i. 401. IRISH PAINTER, an, Johnson’s Ofellus, i. 104. IRON-WORKS at Holywell, v. 441. IRVINE, Mr., of Drum, v. 98. IRVING, Rev. Edward, iv. 9, n. 5. IRWIN, Captain, ii. 391. ISIS, THE, iv. 295. ISLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, i. 183, n. 4; iii. 187; Johnson and the Thrales, v. 429, 434, 457. ISLAND, retiring to one, v. 154. ISLE OF MAN, Boswell’s projected tour, iii. 80; Burke’s motto, ib.; Sacheverell’s Account. See under Sacheverell, W.; mentioned, v. 233. ITALY, condemned prisoners, treatment of, iv. 331; copy-money, iii. 162; Guide-Books, v. 61; inferiority in not having seen it, iii. 36, 456; Johnson’s wish to visit it: see JOHNSON, Italy; revival of letters, iii. 254; silk-throwing, iii. 164, n. 1. IVY LANE CLUB. See under CLUBS.