LONDON
I.
LONDON, advantages of it, ii. 120; Black Wednesday, v. 196, n. 3; bones gathered for various uses, iv. 204; Boswell’s love for London: See BOSWELL, London; buildings, new, iv. 209; rents not fallen in consequence, iii. 56, 226; Burke, described by, iii. 178, n. 1; burrow, near one’s, i. 82, n. 3; iii. 379; censure escaped in it, See below, freedom from censure; centre of learning, ii. 75; circulating libraries, i. 102, n. 2; ii. 36. n. 2; City, aldermen, political divisions among the, iii. 460; Camden, Lord, honours shown to, ii. 353, n. 2; Common-Council, inflammable, ii. 164; petitions for mercy to Dodd, iii. 120, n. 3, 143; subscribes to Carte’s History, i. 42, n. 3; contest with House of Commons, ii. 300, n. 5; iii. 459-60; iv. 139; division in the popular party, iii. 460; iv. 175, n. 1; King, presents a remonstrance to the (1770), iii. 460; an Address (1770), iii. 201, n. 3; an Address (1781), iv. 139, n. 4; ‘leans towards him’ (1784), iv. 266; ‘in unison with the Court’ (1791), iv. 329, n. 3; Lord Mayors not elected by seniority, iii. 356, 459-60; ministers for seven years not asked to the Lord Mayor’s feast, iii. 460; Wilkes, the Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2; City-poet, iii. 75; City, women of the, iii. 353; Culloden, news of, v. 196, n. 3; dangers from robbers in 1743, i. 163, n. 2; Johnson attacked, ii. 299; ‘dangers of the night,’ i. 119, n. 1; dear to men of letters, ii. 133; deaths, from hunger, iii: 401; from all causes, iv. 209; eating houses unsociable, i. 400; economy, a place for, iii. 378; freedom from censure, ii. 356; iii. 378; Gibbon loves its dust, iii. 178, n. 1; and the liberty that it gives, iii. 379, n. 2; gin-shops, iii. 292, n. 1; glasshouses, i. 164, n. 1; Gordon riots, iii. 427-31; greatest series of shops in the world, ii. 218; hackney-coaches, number of, iv. 330; happiness to be had out of it, iii. 363; heaven upon earth, iii. 176, 378; hospitality, ii. 222; hospitals, iii. 53, n. 5; increase, complaints of its, iii. 226; influence extended everywhere, ii. 124; intellectual pleasure, affords, iii. 5, 378; iv. 164; v. 14; Irish chairmen, ii. 101; Johnson loves it, i. 320; ii. 75, 120; iii. 5; iv. 358; returns to it to die, iv. 374-5; life on £30 a year, i. 105; London, described in Johnson’s, i. 118; London-bred men strong, ii. 101; iv. 210; magnitude and variety, i. 421; ii. 75, 473; iii. 21; iv. 201; Minorca, compared with life in, iii. 246; mobs and illuminations, iii. 383: see below, riots; mortality of children, iv. 209; parish, a London, ii. 128; pavement, the new, v. 84, n. 3; Pekin, compared with, v. 305; population not increased, iv. 209; preferable to all other places, iii. 363, 378; press-gangs not suffered to enter the city in Sawbridge’s Mayoralty, iii. 460; Recorder’s report to the King of sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1; relations in London, ii. 177; Reynolds’s love of it, iii. 178, n. 1; riots in 1768. ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5; shoe-blacks, ii. 326; iii. 262; shopkeeper compared with a savage, v. 81, 83; slaughter-houses, v. 247; society, compared with Paris, iii. 253; strikes, iii. 46, n. 5; theatre, proposal for a third, iv. 113; tires of it, no man, iii. 178; Boswell will tire of it, iii. 353; too large, ii. 356; Trained Bands, iv. 319; universality, ii. 133; wall, taking the, i. 110; v. 230; wits, ii. 466; wheat, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.
II. Localities.
LONDON, Aldersgate Street, Milton’s School, ii. 407, n. 5; Anchor Brewhouse, i. 491, n. 1; Argyll Street, Johnson’s room in Mrs. Thrale’s house, iii. 405, n. 6; iv. 157, 164; Bank of England, Jack Wilkes defends it against the rioters, iii. 430; Barking Creek, iii. 268, n. 4; Barnard’s Inn, No. 6, Oliver Edward’s chambers, iii. 303; Batson’s coffee-house, frequented by physicians, iii. 355, n. 2; Baxter’s (afterwards Thomas’s), Dover Street, Literary Club met there, i. 479, n. 2; v. 109, n. 5; Bedford Coffee-house, Garrick attacks Dodsley’s Cleone, i. 325, n. 3; Bedford Street, ‘old’ Mr. Sheridan’s house, i. 485, n. 1; Billingsgate, Johnson, Beauclerk and Langton row to it, i. 251; Johnson and Boswell take oars for Greenwich, i. 458; Johnson lands there, iv. 233, n. 2; Black Boy, Strand, Johnson dates a letter from it, iii. 405, n. 6; Blackfriars, Boswell and Johnson cross in a boat to it, ii. 432; Blackfriars bridge, Johnson’s letter about the design for it, i. 351; Blenheim Tavern, Bond Street, meeting place of the Eumelian Club, iv. 394, n. 4; Boar’s Head, Eastcheap, a Shakesperian Club, v. 247; Bolt Court, Boswell takes his last leave of Johnson at the entry, iv. 338; Johnson’s last house, ii. 427; iii. 405, n. 6; garden, ii. 427, n. 1; burnt down, ib.; described in Pennant’s London, iii. 275; Oxford post-coach takes up Boswell and Johnson there, iv. 283; Bond Street, i. 174, n. 2; iv. 387, n. 1; Bow Church, confirmation of Bishop Hampden’s election, iv. 323, n. 3; Bow Street, Johnson resides there, iii. 405, n. 6; Sir John Fielding’s office, i. 423; Bridewell Churchyard, Levett buried there, iv. 137; British Coffee House, Boswell and Johnson dine there, ii. 195; club, account of a, iv. 179, n. 1; Guthrie and Captain Cheap, i. 117, n. 2; Buckingham House, ii. 33, n. 3; Butcher Row, account of it, i. 400, n. 2; Boswell and Johnson dine there, i. 400; meet Edwards there, iii. 302; Button’s Coffee-house, Addison frequented it, iv. 91, n. 1; Dryden said to have had his winter and summer chairs there, iii. 71, n. 5; Carlisle House, iv. 92, n. 5; Castle Street, Cavendish Square, Johnson lodged there, i. 111, 135, n. 1; iii. 405, n. 6; visited the Miss Cotterells, i. 244; Catherine Street, Strand, Johnson describes a tavern, v. 230; lodged near it, i. 103; iii. 405, n. 6; Charing Cross, full tide of human existence, ii. 337; iii. 450; Charing Cross to Whitechapel, the greatest series of shops in the world, ii. 218; Clerkenwell, an alehouse where Johnson met Mr. Browne, i. 113, n. 1; Clerkenwell Bridewell, broken open in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; described in Humphry Clinker, ii. 123, n. 2; Clifford’s Inn, Lysons lived there, iv. 402, n. 2; Clifton’s eatinghouse, i. 400; Clubs: See under CLUBS; Coachmaker’s Hall, Boswell attends a religious Robinhood Society, iv. 93, 95; Compters, The, iii. 432; Conduit Street, Boswell lodges there, ii. 166; Cornhill, iv. 233, n. 2; Covent Garden, election mob, iv. 279, n. 2; Hummums, iii. 349, n. 1; Johnson helps the fruiterers, i. 250; Piazzas infested by robbers, i. 163, n. 2; Covent Garden Theatre, Douglas, v. 362, n. 1; Johnson at an oratorio, ii. 324, n. 3; his prologue to Kelly’s comedy, iii. 114; Maddocks the straw-man, iii. 231; She Stoops to Conquer in rehearsal, ii. 208; Sir Thomas Overbury, iii. 115, n. 2; time of sickness, ii. 410, n. 2; Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, Boswell’s supper party, ii. 63, 186; iii. 41; Boswell and Johnson dine there, ii. 192; Cuper’s Gardens, v. 295; Curzon Street, Lord Marchmont’s house, iii. 392; Doctors’ Commons, i. 462, n. 1; Dover Street, Literary Club met at Baxter’s and Le Telier’s, i. 479; Downing Street, Boswell’s lodgings, i. 422; Lord North’s residence, ii. 331; Drury Lane Theatre, Abington’s, Mrs., benefit, ii. 324; Beggar’s Opera refused, iii. 321, n. 3; Boswell lows like a cow, v. 396; Comus acted, i. 227; Davies’s benefit, iii. 249; Earl of Essex, iv. 312, n. 5; Fleetwood’s management, i. 111, n. 2; Garrick, opened by, i. 181; Goldsmith and Lord Shelburne there, iv. 175, n. 1; Irene performed, i. 153, 196-8, 200-1; Johnson in the Green Room, i. 201; iv. 7; management by Booth, Wilks, and Cibber, v. 244, n. 2; Duke Street, St. James’s, No. 10, Mrs. Bellamy’s lodgings, iv. 244, n. 2; Durham Yard, Johnson mentions it in dating a letter, iii. 405, n. 6; the site of the Adelphi, ii. 325, n. 3; East-India House, John Hoole one of the clerks, ii. 289, n. 2; Essex Head, Essex Street, iv. 253: See under CLUBS; Exeter-Change, iv. 116, n. 2; Exeter Street, Johnson’s first lodgings, i. 103; iii. 405, n. 6; said to have written there some of the Debates, i. 504-5; Falcon Court, Fleet Street, Boswell and Johnson step aside into it, iv. 72; Farrar’s-Buildings, Boswell lodges there, i. 437; Fetter Lane, Johnson lodges there, iii. 405, n. 6; has sudden relief by a good night’s rest, iii. 99, n. 4; Levett woos his future wife in a coal shed, i. 370, n. 3; Fleet-ditch, Johnson’s voice seems to resound to it, ii. 262; Fleet Prison, broken open in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; Endymion Porter’s pun on it, v. 137, n. 4; Lloyd a prisoner, i. 395, n. 2; Oldys a prisoner, i. 175, n. 2; Savage lodges in its liberties, i. 125, n. 4, 416, n. 1; Fleet Street, animated appearance, ii. 337; compared with Tempé and Mull, iii. 302; Boswell meets Johnson ‘moving along,’ iv. 71; dangers, its, i. 163, n. 2; Goldsmith lodges in a court opening ou
t of it, i. 350, n. 3; Greenwich Park not equal to it, i. 461; Johnson’s favourite street, ii. 427; iii. 450; Johnson helps a gentlewoman in liquor across it, ii. 434; Kearsley the bookseller, i. 214, n. 1; Langton lodges there during Johnson’s illness, iv. 266, n. 3; Lintott’s shop at the Cross Keys, iv. 80, n. 1; Macaulay describes its ‘river fog and coal smoke,’ iv. 350, n. 1; the Museum, iv. 319; Fox Court, Brook Street, Holborn, Savage’s birthplace, i. 170, n. 5; Gerrard Street, Boswell’s lodgings, iii. 51, n. 3; Goodman’s Fields, Garrick’s first appearance, i. 168, n. 3; Gough Square, Johnson lives there from 1749-1759 (writes the Dictionary, Rambler, Rasselas, and part of the Idler), i. 188, 350, n. 3; iii. 405, n. 6; described by Carlyle, i. 188, n. 1; by Dr. Burney, i. 328; Gray’s Inn, Johnson lodges there, i. 350, n. 3; iii. 405, n. 6; Osborne’s bookshop, i. 161; Great Russell Street, Beauclerk’s library, iv. 105, n. 2; Gresham College, iii. 13; Grosvenor Square, Mr. Thrale’s house, Johnson’s room in it, iii. 324, n. 4, 405, n. 6; iv. 72; Mr. Thrale dies there, iv. 84; Grub Street, defined, i. 296; saluted, ib., n. 2; Johnson had never been there, ib.; history of it, i. 307, n. 2; ‘Let us go and eat a beefsteak in Grub Street,’ iv. 187; Guildhall, Beckford’s monument, iii. 201; its Giants, v. 103, n. 1; Wilkes on his way to it, iv. 101, n. 2; Haberdashers’ Company, i. 132, n. 1; Half-Moon Street, Boswell’s lodgings, ii. 46, n. 2, 59; Harley Street, Johnson dines at Allan Ramsay’s house, No. 67, iii. 391, n. 2; Haymarket Theatre, Foote and George III, iv. 13, n. 3; Foote’s patent, iii. 97, n. 2; Gordon Riots, open at the, iii. 429, n. 3; Spectator, mentioned in the, iii. 449; Hedge Lane, Johnson visits a man in distress, iii. 324; Henrietta Street, i. 485, n. 1; Holborn, Boswell starts from it in the Newcastle Fly, ii. 377, n. 1; Johnson twice resides there, iii. 405, n. 6; writes there his Hermit of Teneriffe, i. 192, n. 1; Tyburn procession along it, iv. 189, n. 1; Hummums, iii. 349; Hyde Park, Boswell takes an airing in Paoli’s coach, ii. 71, n. 2; troops reviewed there at Dodd’s execution, iii. 120, n. 3; Hyde Park Corner, iii. 450; Inner Temple: See below under TEMPLE; Ironmonger Row, Old Street, Psalmanazar lived there, iii. 443, 444; Islington, Johnson goes there for change of air, iv. 271, 415; mentioned, iii. 273, 450; Ivy Lane: See under CLUBS, Ivy Lane Club; Johnson Buildings, iii. 405, n. 6; Johnson’s Court, Johnson removes to it, ii. 5; Boswell and Beauclerk’s veneration for it, ii. 229, 427; ‘Johnson of that Ilk,’ ib., n. 2; iii. 405, n. 6; Kennington Common, iii. 239, n. 2; Kensington, Elphinston’s academy, ii. 171, n. 2; Boswell and Johnson dine there, ii. 226; Kensington Palace, Dr. Clarke and Walpole sit up there one night, iii. 248, n. 2; King’s Bench Prison, broken open in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; Lydiat imprisoned, i. 194, n. 2; Smart dies in it, i. 306, n. 1; Wilkes imprisoned, iii. 46, n. 5; King’s Bench Walk, Johnson hears Misella’s story, i. 223, n. 2; ‘Persuasion tips his tongue,’ &c., ii. 339, n. 1; King’s Head: See CLUBS, Ivy Lane; Knightsbridge, v. 286; Lambeth-marsh, Johnson said to have lain concealed there, i. 141; Lambeth Palace, public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3; Leicester-fields, Reynolds lived there, ii. 384, n. 3; Le Telier’s Tavern: See above under DOVER STREET; Lincoln’s Inn, Warburton appointed preacher, ii. 37, n. 1; Little Britain, Benjamin Franklin lodged next door to Wilcox’s shop, i. 102, n. 1; mentioned by Swift, i. 129, n. 3; London Bridge, Old, account of it, iv. 257, n. 1; booksellers on it, iv. 257; shooting it, i. 458, n. 2; Lower Grosvenor Street, iv. 110; Ludgate prison, Dr. Hodges dies in it, ii. 341, n. 3; Magdalen House, iii. 139, n. 4; Mansion-House, Boswell dines there, ii. 378, n. 1; Marshalsea, broken open at the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; described by Wesley, i. 303, n. 1; Marylebone-Gardens, Johnson said to have begun a riot there, iv. 324; Mile-End Green, iii. 450; Mitre Tavern, Johnson’s resort, i. 399; Boswell and Johnson’s first evening there, i. 401; Johnson, Boswell, and Goldsmith, i. 417; Boswell’s supper, i. 423; Boswell and Johnson alone on a rainy night, i. 426; supper on Boswell’s return from abroad, ii. 8; supper with Temple, ii. 11; dinners in 1769, ii. 73, 98; dinner with two young Methodists, ii. 120; farewell dinner with Dr. Maxwell, ii. 132; Boswell and Johnson, dinner in 1772, ii. 157; Boswell loses a dinner there, ii. 178; Boswell and Johnson, dinner in 1773, ii. 242; Boswell, Johnson and a Scotchman, ii. 307; Johnson and young Col in 1775, ii. 411; Boswell, Johnson and Murray in 1776, iii. 8; Boswell and Johnson in 1777, ‘Hermit hoar’ composed, iii. 159, n. 3; Boswell’s mistake about, ii. 291, n. 1; ‘the custom of the Mitre’ kept up, iii. 341; ‘we will go again to the Mitre,’ iv. 71; Cole, the landlord, v. 139; Johnson and Murphy dine there, i. 375, n. 1; Moorfields, John Hoole born there, iv. 187; mad-houses, ii. 251; iv. 208; mass-house burnt at the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; New Street, Fetter Lane, Strahan’s printing office, ii. 323, n. 2; iv. 371; New Street, Strand, Johnson dined at the Pine Apple, i. 103; Newgate, Akerman the keeper, iii. 431-433; profits of his office, iii. 431, n. 1; Baretti imprisoned, ii. 97, n. 1; burnt in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; Cooley imprisoned, i. 503; Dodd, Dr., iii. 166; executions removed there, iv. 188, n. 2, 328; Hawkins’s story of a man sentenced to death, iii. 166, n. 3; Moore, Rev. Mr., the Ordinary, iv. 329, n. 3; Villette, Rev. Mr., the Ordinary: See VILLETTE; Wesley’s description of its horrors, iii. 431, n. 1; improvement, ib.; Newgate Street, iv. 204; Northumberland-House, Dr. Percy’s apartment burnt, iii. 420, n. 5; next shop to it a pickle-shop, ii. 218; Old Bailey, Baretti’s trial, ii. 96; Bet Flint’s trial, iv. 103; Savage’s, i. 162, n. 3; Sessions House plundered in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; Sessions in 1784, iv. 328, n. 1 (see Old Bailey Sessions Paper); Old Bond Street, Boswell’s lodgings, ii. 82; Old Devil Tavern, iv. 254, n. 4; Old Jewry, Dr. Foster’s Chapel, iv. 9, n. 5; Old Street, Johnson attends a club there, iii. 443; iv. 187; Old Swan, Boswell and Johnson land there, i. 458; Opera House, Boswell at the performance of Medea, iii. 91, n. 2; Oxford Street, The Pantheon, ii. 168-9; Pall Mall, Dodsley’s shop, i. 135, n. 1; Pall Mall, King’s Head, The World Club, iv. 102, n. 4; Park Lane, Warren Hastings’s house, iv. 66; Parsloe’s Tavern: See ST. JAMES STREET; Paternoster Row, Cooper the bookseller, v. 117, n. 4; Piccadilly, Boswell’s lodgings, ii. 219; Walpole describes a procession, iv. 296, n. 3; Poultry, No. 22, Messieurs Dilly’s house: See under DILLY, Messieurs; Prince’s Tavern: See SACKVILLE STREET; Printing House Square, ii. 323, n. 2; Pye Street, iv. 371; Queen Square, Bloomsbury, Dr. John Campbell’s house, i. 418, n. 4; Ranelagh, barristers should not go too often, iv. 310; Evelina, described in, ii. 169, n. 1; ‘girl, a Ranelagh,’ iii. 199, n. 1; Gordon Riots, open at the, iii. 429, n. 3; Highland Laddie, sung there, v. 184, n. 1; Johnson’s admiration of it, ii. 168; his first visit, iii. 199; often went, ii. 119; riot of footmen, ii. 78, n. 1; Thornton’s Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day performed there, i. 420, n. 2; Ranelagh House, ii. 31, n. 1; Red Lion Street, v. 196, n. 2; Rotherhithe, iii. 21, n. 1; Round-house, Garrick ‘will have to bail Johnson out of it,’ i. 249; Captain Booth taken to it, ib., n. 2; Johnson carried to it, ii. 299; Royal Exchange, Jack Ellis, the scrivener, iii. 21; Russell Street, Covent Garden, No. 8, Tom Davies’s house, where Boswell first saw Johnson, i. 390; Sackville Street, Prince’s Tavern, The Literary Club met there, i. 479; v. 109, n. 5; Slaughter’s Coffee-house, i. 115, n. 1; iv. 15; Smithfield, boxing-ring, iv. 111, n. 3; v. 229, n. 2; joustes held there, iv. 268, n. 2; Snow-hill, Mrs. Gardiner’s shop, i. 242; iii. 22; iv. 246; Soho-Square, house of the Venetian Resident, i. 274; Somerset Coffee-house, Strand, Boswell and Johnson start from it for Oxford, ii. 438; Somerset-House, built by Sir W. Chambers, iv. 187, n. 4; Somerset Place, Exhibition of the Royal Academy, iv. 202; South Audley Street, General Paoli’s house, iii. 391-2; Southampton-Buildings, Chancery-Lane, Burke and Johnson in consultation there, iv. 324; Southwark Elections: See THRALE, Henry, Southwark; kennels running with blood, v. 247; Thrale’s house, ii. 286, n. 1, 427; Johnson’s apartment in it, i. 493; iii. 405, n. 6; Spring Garden, afterwards Vauxhall, iv. 26; St. Andrew’s, Holborn, i. 170; St. Clement Danes, Boswell and Johnson attend service there, ii. 214, 356, 357; iii. 17, 24, 26, 302, 313; iv. 90, 203, 209; hear a sermon on evil-speaking, iii. 379; Johnson’s seat, ii. 214; returns thanks after recovery, iv. 270
, n. 1; St. George’s-Fields, meeting place of the ‘Protestants’ at the Gordon Riots, iii. 428; St. George’s, Hanover Square, Dodd tries to get the living by a bribe, iii. 139, n. 3; Thomas Newton resigns the lectureship, iv. 286, n. 1; St. James’s Palace, Lord Mayor Beckford’s address, iii. 201, n. 3; St. James’s Square, Johnson and Savage walk round it, i. 163, n. 2, 164; St. James’s Street, a new gaming club, iii. 23, n. 1; Parsloe’s Tavern, The Literary Club meet there, i. 479; Wirgman’s, the toy-shop, iii. 325; St. John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, indecent books sold there by Cave, i. 112, n. 2; Johnson’s reverence for it, i. 111; his room, i. 504; meets Boyse there, iv. 407, n. 4; Savage’s visits, i. 162; mentioned, i. 123, n. 3, 135, n. 1, 151; St. Luke’s Hospital, iv. 208; St. Martin’s in the Fields, i. 135; St. Martin’s Street, Dr. Burney occupies Newton’s house, iv. 134; St. Paul’s Cathedral, Boswell’s Easter ‘going up ‘: See under BOSWELL, St. Paul’s; described by an Indian king in the Spectator, i. 450, n. 3; Johnson’s monument, iv. 423-4, 444-6; monuments, proposal to raise, ii. 239; iv. 423; mentioned, iii. 349; St. Paul’s Churchyard, Innys the bookseller, iv. 402, n. 2, 440; Johnson’s old club dines at the Queen’s Arms, iv. 87, 435; Rivington’s book-shop, i. 135, n. 1; St. Sepulchre’s Churchyard, the bellman on the wall, iv. 189, n. 1; St. Sepulchre’s Ladies’ charity-school, iv. 246; Staple Inn, Isaac Reed’s Chambers, i. 169, n. 2; iv. 37; Johnson’s chambers, i. 350, n. 3, 516; iii. 405, n. 6; Rasselas not written there, iii. 405, n. 6; Stepney, Mead’s chapel, iii. 355, n. 2; Strand, Boswell and Johnson walk along it one night, i. 457; dangers of it, i. 163, n. 1; Johnson lodges in it, iii. 405, n. 6; mentioned, iv. 144: See under SOMERSET COFFEE HOUSE and TURK’S HEAD COFFEE HOUSE; Temple, Chambers’s, Sir Robert, chambers in, ii. 260; Goldsmith’s, ii. 97, n. 1; iv. 27; Johnson’s, i. 250; iv. 134; Johnson’s walk, i. 463; Scott’s chambers, iii. 262; Steevens’s, iv. 324; Temple Bar, Goldsmith’s whisper about the heads on it, ii. 238; heads first placed on it in William III’s time, iii. 408, n. 3; Johnson’s voice seems to resound from it to Fleet-ditch, ii. 262; mentioned, ii. 155; iv. 92, n. 5; Temple Church, Johnson attends the service, ii. 130; Dr. Maxwell assistant preacher, ii. 116; Temple-gate, ii. 262; Inner Temple, Boswell enters at it, ii. 377, n. 1; rent of his chambers there, iii. 179, n. 1; Middle Temple, Burke enters there, v. 34, n. 3; Middle Temple Gate, Lintott’s bookshop, iv. 80, n. 1; Temple Stairs, Boswell and Johnson take a sculler there, i. 457; land there, ii. 434; Temple Lane, Inner, Boswell lodges at the bottom of it, i. 437; Johnson’s chambers, iii. 405, n. 6; described by Fitzherbert, i. 350, n. 3; by Murphy, i. 375, n. 1; Boswell pays his first visit to Johnson, i. 395; Mme. de Boufflers visits him, ii. 405; Thames; See THAMES; Tom’s Coffee-house, iii. 33; Tower, Earl of Essex’s Roman death in it, v. 403, n, 2; mentioned, i. 163, n. 2; Tower Hill, Lord Kilmarnock beheaded, v. 105; Lord Lovat, v. 234; Turk’s Head Coffee-house, Strand, Boswell and Johnson sup there, i. 445, 452, 462, 464; talk of visiting the Hebrides, i. 450; ii. 291, n. 1; Turk’s Head, Gerrard Street, Literary Club meet there, i. 478; ii. 330, n. 1; v. 109, n. 5; Vauxhall Gardens, iii. 308; iv. 26, n. 1; Wapping, Boswell and Windham explore it, iv. 201; Warwick Lane, i. 165, n. 1, 175, n. 3; Water Lane, Goldsmith’s tailor, ii. 83; Westminster, election of 1741, iv. 198, n. 3; election of 1784, iv. 266, 279, n. 2; scrutiny, iv. 297, n. 2; Westminster Abbey: Cloisters and Dean’s-Yard, Dr. Taylor’s house, i. 238; iii. 222; Goldsmith and Johnson survey Poets’ Corner, ii. 238; Goldsmith’s monument, iii. 81-5; Johnson’s funeral, iv. 419; Reynolds on the overcrowding of the monuments, iv. 423, n. 2: See under STANLEY, Dean, Memorials of Westminster Abbey; Westminster Hall, iv. 309; v. 57: See under LAWYERS; Westminster Police Court, Henry Fielding the magistrate, iii. 217, n. 2; Johnson attends it, iii. 216; iv. 184; Westminster School, Beckford a pupil, iii. 76, n. 2; Boswell’s son James a pupil, iii. 12; bullying, ib., n. 3; group of remarkable boys, i. 395, n. 2; Lewis, an usher, iv. 307; Will’s Coffee-house, Dryden’s summer and winter chairs, iii. 71; iv. 91, n. 1; Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, Goldsmith’s lodgings, i. 366, n. 1; Wood Street Compter, broken open, iii. 429; Woodstock Street, Hanover Square, Johnson lodges there, i. 111; iii. 405, n. 6. London, a Poem, account of its publication, i. 118-31; correspondence with Cave, i. 120-4; price paid for it, i. 124, 193, n. 1; published by Dodsley, i. 123-4; in May, 1738, i. 118; the same day as Pope’s ‘1738,’ i. 126; second edition, i. 127; sold at a shilling a copy, ib., n. 3; Attorneys attacked, ii. 126, n. 4; Boileau’s and Oldham’s imitations of the same satire, i. 118-20; Boswell quotes it at Greenwich, i. 460; composed rapidly, i. 125, n. 4; extracts from it, i. 130; Oxford, effect produced by it at, i. 127; Pope’s opinion of it, i. 129, 143; quoted, i. 77, n. 1, n. 3; rhymes, imperfect, i. 129; Thales and Savage, i. 125, n. 4. London Chronicle, Goldsmith’s ‘apology’ published in it, ii. 209; Johnson writes the Introduction, i. 317; takes it in, i. 318; ii. 103; printed by Strahan, iii. 221; mentioned, i. 251, 327, 481; ii. 412. London Evening Debates, iii. 460. London Magazine, Boswell’s Hypochondriacks published in it, iv. 179, n. 5; debates in Parliament, i. 502; Wesley attacks it, v. 35, n. 3. London Packet, ii. 209, n. 2. LONDONERS, ii. 101; iv. 210. LONG, Dudley (afterwards North), iv. 75, 81, 83. LONGINUS, i. 3, n. 1. LONGITUDE, ascertaining the, i. 267, n. 1, 274, n. 2; ii. 67, n. 1; parliamentary reward, i. 301; Swift and Goldsmith refer to it, i. 301, n. 3. LONGLANDS, Mr., a solicitor, ii. 186. LONGLEY, Archbishop, iv. 8, n. 3. LONGLEY, John, Recorder of Rochester, iv. 8. LONGMAN, Messieurs, i. 183, 290, n. 2. LONSDALE, first Earl of brutality to Boswell, ii. 179, n. 3; courted by him, i. 5, n. 2; v. 113, n. 1; a cruel tyrant, v. 113, n. 1. ‘LOPLOLLY,’ i. 378, n. 1. LORD, valuing a man for being one, iii. 347. LORD, Scotch, celebrated for drinking, iii. 170, 329. LORD C., abbreviation for Lord Chamberlain, iii. 34, n. 4. LORD —— , no mind of his own, iv. 29. LORD —— , who carried politeness to an excess, iv. 17. LORD’S DAY BILL OF 1781, iv. 92, n. 5. LORD’S PRAYER, The, v. 121. LORDS, few cheat, iii. 353. LORDS, great, and great ladies, iv. 116. LORDS, House of. See DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT. LORDS, ignorance in ancient times, iv. 217. LORDS, quoting the authority of, iv. 183. LORT, Rev. Dr., iv. 0 [Transcriber’s note: sic], n. 4. LOUDOUN, Countess of, iii. 366; v. 371. LOUDOUN, Earl of, iii. 118; v. 178, n. 3; ‘jumps for joy,’ v. 371; character by Boswell, v. 372; by Franklin, ib., n. 3. LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord (Alexander Wedderburne, afterwards Earl of Rosslyn), Bute’s errand-goer, ii. 354; career, i. 387; cold affectation of consequence, iv. 179, n. 1; Dunning, afraid of, iii. 240, n. 3; Foote, associates with, i. 504; ii. 374; Gibbon, congratulated by, iii. 241, n. 2; Johnson’s pension, i. 373-5; 376, 380; oratory, i. 387; pronunciation, i. 386; taught by Sheridan, ib.; iii. 2; and by Macklin, ib.; solicited employment, ii. 430, n. 2; Taylor’s, Dr., law-suit, iii. 44; mentioned, ii. 152, n. 2. LOUGHBOROUGH, the town, iii. 2. LOUIS, Brother, the Moravian, iii. 122, n. 1. LOUIS PHILIPPE, ii. 391, n. 6. LOVAGE, ii. 361. LOVAT, Master of, iii. 399, n. 3. LOVAT, Simon, Lord, a boast of his, v. 397; helped to carry off Lady Grange, v. 227, n. 4; Lines on his Execution, i. 180; monument to his father, v. 234; trial and execution, i. 181, n. 1; i. 501. LOVAT, Thomas, Lord, v. 234. LOVE, effects exaggerated, ii. 122; romantic fancy that a man can be in love but once, ii. 460. LOVE, James, an actor, ii. 159. Love and Madness, iv. 187. Love in a Hollow Tree, iv. 80. LOVEDAY, John, ii. 258, n. 3. LOVEDAY, Dr. John, ii. 258, n. 3. LOVELACE, in Clarissa, ii. 341. LOVIBOND, Edward, i. 101. LOW COMPANY, iv. 312. LOW DUTCH, Johnson studies, ii. 263; iv. 21; resemblance to English, in. 235; iv. 22. LOW LIFE, v. 307. LOWE, Canon, i. 45, 48. LOWE, Charles, Life of Prince Bismarck, iv. 27, n. 1 LOWE, Mauritius, account of him, iv. 202, n. 1; house in Hedge Lane, iii. 324, n. 2; Johnson’s bequest to his children, iv. 402, n. 2; picture refused by the Academy, iv. 201-3; subscription for his daughters, iv. 202, n. 1; sups with Johnson, iii. 380; visits him, iv. 209-10. LOWNDES, W. T., Bibl. Man. error about The World newspaper, iii. 16, n. 1. LOWTH, Robert, Bishop of London, English Grammar, iv. 311; Prelections, v. 57, n. 3; rose by his learning, v. 81; Warburton, controversy with, ii. 37; v. 125, 423. LOWTH, William, iii. 58.
LOWTHER FAMILY, v. 113. LOWTHER, Sir James, a rich miser, v. 112. LOYALTY OF THE NATION, ii. 370; blasted for a time, iv. 171, n. 1. LOYOLA, Ignatius, i. 77. LUARD, Rev. Dr., iii. 83, n. 3. Lucan, quoted, i. 320, n. 4. LUCAN, first Earl of, Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; Johnson intimate with him and Lady Lucan, iii. 425; iv. i, n. 1, 326; anecdote of Johnson as Thrale’s executor, iv. 86. LUCAS, Dr. Charles, Johnson writes in his defence, i. 311; reviews his Essay on Waters, i. 91, n. 1, 309, 311. LUCAS, Richard, Enquiry after Happiness, v. 294. LUCAS DE LINDA, ii. 82. Lucian, iii. 238, n. 2; Combabus, story of, iii. 238, n. 2; Epicurean and the Stoick, pleadings of the, iii. 10; Francklin’s translation, iv. 34. Lucius Florus, ii. 237. Lucretius, quoted, i. 283; iv. 390, n. 3, 425, n. 4; Tasso borrows a simile from him, iii. 330. Luctus, ii. 371. LUKE, in The Traveller, ii. 6. LUMISDEN, Andrew, ii. 401, n. 2; v. 194. LUMM, Sir Francis, ii. 34, n. 1. LUNARDI, ‘the flying man in the balloon,’ iv. 357, n. 3, 358, n. 1. Lusiad, The, Johnson’s projected translation, iv. 251. See under MICKLE. LUTHER, Martin, v. 217. LUTON, iv. 128. LUTON HOE, iv. 118, 127. LUTTEREL, Colonel, ii. 111. LUXURY, dread of it visionary, ii. 169-170; money better spent on it than in almsgiving, iii. 56, 291; no nation ever hurt by it, ii. 217-9; produces much good, iii. 55; querulous declamations against it, iii. 226; every society as luxurious as it can be, iii. 282; man not diminished in size by it, v. 358; reaches very few, ii. 218; Wesley attacks its apologists, iii. 56, n. 2. Lyce, To, i. 178. LYDIA, v. 220. LYDIAT, Thomas, i. 194, n. 2; ii. 7. LYE, Edward, ii. 17. LYNNE REGIS, i. 141, 285. LYONS, iii. 446. LYSONS —— , of Clifford’s Inn, iv. 402, n. 2. LYTTELTON, George, first Lord, Boothby, Miss, admired, iv. 57, n. 2; Boswell’s Corsica, praises, ii. 46, n. 1; caricature, lines on him in a, v. 285, n. 1; character by Chesterfield and Walpole, i. 267, n. 2; Chesterfield, Cibber, and Johnson, anecdote of, i. 256; Critical Reviewers, thanks the, iv. 57, 58, n. 1; Debates, speech in the, ii. 61, n. 4; epitaph on Sir J. Macdonald, v. 151; Dialogues of the Dead, ii. 126, 447; iv. 57; Goldsmith’s History of England, supposed to have written, i. 412, n. 2; History of Henry II, Johnson criticises it to the King, ii. 38; thirty years spent on it, iii. 32; punctuation, ib.; kept back for fear of Smollett, iii. 33; its whiggism, ii. 221; Hume’s Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2; Johnson, Life by, iv. 57-8; attacks on it, iv. 64; Johnson’s unfriendliness, iv. 57; Montague, Mrs., friendship with, iv. 64; Persian Letters, i-74, n. 2; ‘respectable Hottentot,’ i. 267, n. 2; Smollett, attacked by, iii. 33, n. 1; Thomson’s ‘loathing to write,’ iii. 360; mentioned, ii. 64, n. 2, 124, n. 1. LYTTELTON, Thomas, second Lord, character, his, iv. 298, n. 3; timidity, v. 454; vision, iv. 298; mentioned, iv. 296, n. 3. LYTTELTON, Sir Edward, v. 457.
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