Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson

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  OAKES, Mrs., i. 407, n. 3. OAKOVER, v. 429-30. OATHS, abjuration, oath of, ii. 220, 321, n. 4; examination under oath, v. 390; imposition of oaths, ii. 321, n. 4. See SWEARING. OATS, defined, i. 294; iv. 168; oat-ale, ii. 463; oat-cakes eaten in Lichfield, ii. 463; oatmeal eaten dry, v. 308; ‘they who feed on it are barbarians,’ v. 406. OBEDIENCE, iii. 294. OBJECTIONS may be made to everything, ii. 128; iii. 26. OBLIGATIONS, moral and ritual, ii. 376; perfect and imperfect, ii. 250; Reynolds’s reflection on gaining freedom from them, i. 246. OBLIVION, iv. 27, n. 5; morbid, v. 68. O’BRIEN, William, the actor, described by Walpole, iv. 243, n. 6; his marriage, ii. 328, n. 3. OBSCENITY, repressed in Johnson’s company, iv. 295. OBSERVANCE OF DAYS, ii. 458. Observations on Diseases of the Army, iv. 176, n. 1. Observations on his Britanick Majesty’s Treaties, &c., i. 308. Observations on the Present State of Affairs, i. 308, 310. Observer, The, iv. 64. OBSTINACY, must be overcome, ii. 184. OCCUPATION, iii. 180; hereditary, v. 120. O’CONNOR, Charles, Johnson’s letters to him, i. 321; iii. 111. OCTAVIA, iv. 446. ODD, nothing odd will do long, ii. 449. ODE, Goldsmith’s account of one, iv. 13. Ode, Ad Urbanum, i. 113. Ode, An, i. 178. Ode, In Theatre, ii. 324, n. 3. Ode on Solitude, iii. 197. Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, i. 420. Ode on the British Nation, iv. 442. Ode on the Peace, iv. 282. Ode on Winter, i. 182. Ode to Friendship, i. 158. Ode to Melancholy, i. 122, n. 4. Ode to Mrs. Thrale, a caricature, iv. 387. Ode to Mrs. Thrale, written in Sky, v. 158. Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain, iii. 374. Ode upon the Isle of Sky, v. 155. Odes. See CIBBER, COLLEY, and GRAY, Thomas. Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion, ii. 334. ODIN, iii. 274. ODYSSEY. See HOMER. Oedipus Tyrannus, Johnson’s preface to Maurice’s translation, iii. 370, n. 2. Ofellus, i. 104. OFFELY, Mr., i. 97. OFFICER. See SOLDIER. OGDEN, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Sermons, Boswell edified by them, v. 29; caricatured by Rowlandson, ib., n. 1; Johnson wishes to read them, iii. 248; tries to, v. 29, 88; prevailed on to read one aloud, v. 350; on original sin, iv. 123, n. 3; on prayer, v. 38, 58, 68, 282, 325; quotation from one, v. 351. OGILBY, John, i. 55. OGILVIE, Dr. John, Poems, i. 421, 423, n. 1; praises Scotland, i. 425. OGILVY, Sir James, v. 227, n. 4. OGLETHORPE, General, account of him, i. 127, n. 4, 128, n. 1; Belgrade, siege of, ii. 181; birth, ii. 180, n. 2; Boswell and the Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1; to Shebbeare, introduces, iv. 112; communicates particulars of his life to, ii. 351 n. 3; Caligula and the Senate, iii. 283; dinners at his house, ii. 179, 217, 232, 350; iii. 52, 282; v. 138, n. 1; duelling, defends, ii. 179; father, his, iv. 171; Georgia, colonises, i. 127, n. 4; Johnson’s London, patronises, i. 127; visits, iv. 170; willing to write his Life, ii. 351; luxury, declaims against, iii. 282; ‘never completes what he has to say,’ iii. 57; Pope’s lines on him, i. 127, n. 4; Prendergast and Sir J. Friend, ii. 182; Prince of Wirtemberg and the glass of wine, ii. 180; vivacity and knowledge, iii. 56; Wesley, Charles, ill-uses, i. 127, n. 4. OGLETHORPE, Mr., ii. 272. ‘O’HARA, you are welcome,’ v. 263. OIL OF VITRIOL, ii. 155; Johnson’s, v. 15, n. 1. O’KANE, the harper, v. 315. OKERTON, i. 194, n. 2. OLD AGE, desirable, how far, iv. 156; evils, its, iii. 337; memory, failure of, iii. 191; men less tender in old age, v. 240, n. 2; mind growing torpid, iii. 254; senectus, iii. 344. OLD BAILEY, Sessional Reports, Baretti’s trial, ii. 97, n. 1; Bet Flint’s, iv. 103, n. 3; contain ‘strong facts,’ ii. 65. Old Man’s Wish, The, iv. 19. OLD MEN, loss of the companions of their youth, iii. 217; putting themselves to nurse, ii. 474; supposed to be decayed in intellect, iv. 181. OLD STREET CLUB, iii. 443-4; iv. 187. OLD SWINFORD, v. 432. OLDFIELD, Dr., iii. 57. OLDHAM, John, Imitation of Juvenal, i. 118. OLDMIXON, John, i. 294, n. 9. OLDYS, William, account of him, i. 175; author of Busy, curious, thirsty fly, ii. 281, n. 5; Harleian Catalogue, compiles part of the, i. 28; Harleian Library, on the price paid for the, i. 154; notes on Langbaine, iii. 30, n. 1. O’LEARY, Father Arthur, Remarks on Wesley’s Letter, ii. 121, n. 1; v. 35 n. 3. OLIVER, Alderman, iv. 140, n. 1. OLIVER, Dame, i. 43. Olla Podrida, iv. 426, n. 3. OMAI, iii. 8. OMBERSLEY, v. 455. ONSLOW, Arthur, the Speaker, challenged by Elwall the Quaker, ii. 164, n. 5; Richardson gave vails to his servants, v. 396. OPERA GIRLS, in France, iv. 171. OPIE, John, iv. 421, n. 2, 443. OPINION, hurt by differences in it, iii. 380. OPIUM, use of it, iv. 171. OPPONENTS, good-humour with them, iii. 10; how they should be treated, ii. 442. OPPOSITION, the, Johnson and Sir P.J. Clerk argue on it, iv. 81; describes it as meaning rebellion, iv. 139, n. 3; in 1783, describes it as ‘factious,’ iv. 164. OPPOSITION increases political differences, v. 386. ORANGE PEEL, Johnson’s use of it, ii. 330, 331, n. 1; iv. 204; manufacture, iv. 204. ORATORS cannot be translated, iii. 36. ORATORY, action in speaking, i. 334; ii. 211; Johnson and Wilkes discuss it, iv. 104; a man’s powers not to be estimated by it, ii. 339; old Sheridan’s oratory, iv. 207, 222. ORCHARDS, Johnson’s advice, ii. 132; Madden’s saying, iv. 205; unknown in many parts, iv. 206. ORD, Mrs., iv. 1, n. 1, 325, n. 2. ORDE, Lord Chief Baron, ii. 354, n. 4; v. 28. ORDE, Miss, v. 28, n. 2. ORDINARY OF NEWGATE, and the Cock Lane Ghost, i. 407, n. 1. See Rev. Mr. MOORE and Rev. Mr. VILLETTE. ORFORD, third Earl of, iv. 334, n. 6. ORFORD, fourth Earl of. See WALPOLE, Horace. Oriental Gardening. See CHAMBERS, Sir William. ORIGIN OF EVIL, v. 117, 366. Original Letters. See WARNER, Rebecca. ORIGINAL SIN, Johnson’s paper on it, iv. 123; Ogden’s sermon, ib., n. 3. Orlando Furioso, i. 278, n. 1. ORME, Captain, iv. 88. ORME, Robert, the historian, admires Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 300; v. 408, n. 4; and his talk, iii. 284; mapping of the East Indies and Highlands of Scotland compared, ii. 356. ORMOND, House of, gives three Chancellors in succession to Oxford, i. 281, n. 1. ORMOND, first Duke of, Life by Carte, v. 296, n. 1. ORMOND, second Duke of, impeached, i. 281, n. 1; leads a Spanish expedition to Scotland, v. 140, n. 3. Orphan of China. See MURPHY. ORPHEUS, i. 458. ORRERY, Earls of, a family of writers, v. 237. ORRERY, first Earl of, a play-writer, v. 237. ORRERY, fourth Earl of, Bentley’s antagonist, v. 238, n. 1; his will, ib., n. 5. ORRERY, fifth Earl of, anecdote of the Duchess of Buckingham, iii. 239; caught at literary eminence, ii. 129; iii. 183; dignified, not, iv. 174; feeble writer, i. 185, n. 3; feeble-minded, v. 238; Johnson describes his character, v. 238; Dictionary, presents, to the Academia della Crusca, i. 298; praises the Plan of it, i. 185; friendship with, i. 243; never sought after him, iii. 314; writes a dedication to him for Mrs. Lennox, i. 255; Remarks on Swift, i. 9, n. 1; iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238; mentioned, iv. 17, n. 3, 29, n. 2. ORTON, Job, Memoirs of Doddridge, v. 271. OSBORN, a Birmingham printer, i. 86. OSBORNE, Sir D’Anvers, iv. 181, n. 3. OSBORNE, Francis, ii. 193. OSBORNE, Thomas, Coxeter’s collection of poets, buys, iii. 158; Harleian Catalogue, publishes the, i. 28, 154, 158; Harleian Library, buys the, i. 154; Johnson dates a letter from his shop, i. 161; beats him, i. 154, 375, n. 1; iii. 344; describes his ‘impassive dulness,’ i. 154, n. 2. OSSIAN. See MACPHERSON, James. OSSORY, Lord, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; mentioned, iii. 399, n. 2. OSTENTATION, Boswell’s rebuked, i. 465; shown in quoting Lords, iv. 183. OTAHEITE, bread-tree, ii. 248; custom of eating dogs, ii. 232; mode of slaughtering animals, v. 246; rights of children, v. 330; savages from whom nothing can be learnt, iii. 49; Boswell’s defence of them, iv. 308. Othello, its moral, iii. 39. OTWAY, Thomas, Johnson’s opinion of him, iv. 21; neglected, ii. 341, n. 3; Romeo and Juliet, alters, v. 244, n. 2; tenderness, iv. 21, n. 1; tolling a bell, ii. 131, n. 2. OUGHTON, Sir Adolphus, v. 43; his learning, v. 45, 124; quiets a military revolt, v. 142, n. 2; mentioned, v. 272, 394. OURAN-OUTANG, v. 46, 248. OVERALL, Bishop, v. 356, n. 2. OVERBURY, Sir Thomas, ii. 76. Overbury, Sir Thomas, a Tragedy, iii. 115. OVERTON, Rev. J. H., Life of William Law, ii. 122, n. 6. OVID, Sappho, ii. 181; quotations, Ars Am. 3. 121, v. 204, n. 4; Ars Am. 3. 339, ii. 238, n. 2; Ep. ex. Ponto I. 3, 35, iii. 178, n. 2; v. 265 n. 3; Heroides I. 2, v. 15, n. 5; Heroides I. 4, i. 242, n. 1; Met. I. 1, i. 387; Met. 1. 85, ii. 326, n. 1; Met. 2. 13, iii. 280; Met. iii. 724. i. 108; Met. xiii. 19, i. 314; .Tristia, iv. 10, 51, iv. 443. OXFORD, Harley, first Earl of, Bolingbroke’s character of him, iii. 236, n. 3. OXFORD, second Earl of, Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153, 154. OX
FORD, advantages for learning, ii. 52; All Souls College, Shenstone’s ‘enemies in the gate,’ i. 94, n. 5; its library the largest in Oxford except the Bodleian, ii. 35; a place for study for a man who has a mind to prance, ii. 67, n. 2; Angel Inn, Boswell and Johnson spend two evenings there, ii. 440, 449; Pitt (Earl of Chatham) hears treasonable songs, i. 271, n. 1; ‘Bacon’s mansion,’ iii. 357; v. 42; Balliol College, ii. 338, n. 2; v. 117, n. 4; balloon ascent, iv. 378; Beattie and Reynolds made Doctors of Law, v. 90, n. 1; Bocardo, Lydiat imprisoned in it, i. 194, n. 2; Bodleian, Annals of the Bodleian, iv. 161, n. 1; Blackstone’s portrait, iv. 91, n. 2; Boswell presents MSS. to it, iii. 358, n. 1; closed one week in the year, iii. 367, n. 3; Evelina, iv. 223, n. 4; Johnson presents books to it, i. 274, n. 2, 302; ii. 279, n. 5; a fragment of his Diary among the MSS., ii. 476; largest library in Oxford, ii. 35; Recuyell of the historyes of Troye, v. 459, n. 2; Welsh MS. on music, iii. 367; Bodley’s Dome, iii. 357; Boswell’s visits to Oxford: See BOSWELL, Oxford; Brasenose College, James Boswell, junior, a member of it, i. 15; Rev. Mr. Churton, a Fellow, iv. 212, n. 4; Johnson seen near its gate, iv. 300, n. 2; The Principal’s advice, Cave de resignationibus, ii. 337, n. 4; Broadgates Hall, the ancient foundation of Pembroke College, i. 75, n. 3; Castle (prison), Wesley preaches to the prisoners, i. 459, n. 1; ‘caution’ money, i. 58, n. 2; Chancellors, three of the House of Ormond, i. 281, n. 1; Earl of Westmoreland, i. 281, n. 1, 348, n. 2; Lord North, ii. 318, n. 1; Christ Church, Bateman, Rev. Mr., a Tutor, i. 76; bequest from Lord Orrery, v. 238, n. 5; Burton, Robert, elected student, i. 59; ‘Canons Sir, it is a great thing to dine with the Canons,’ ii. 445; dinners lasted six hours, ib., n. 1; devotion of a studious man, i. 296, n. 3; Johnson mocked by the men, i. 77; Library, not so large as All Souls, ii. 35; a place for study for a man who has a mind to prance, ii. 67, n. 2; MSS. on music, iii. 366; Psalmanazar lodged there, iii. 445, 449; Smith, Edmund, a member, i. 75, n. 5; expelled, ii. 187, n. 3; Taylor enters by Johnson’s advice, i. 76; confounded with another John Taylor, ib., n. 1; West describes it in 1736, i. 76, n. 1; Christ Church meadow, Johnson slides on the ice, i. 59, 272; walking on it without a band, iii. 13, n. 3; Clarendon Press, Johnson’s advice about its management, ii. 424-6, 441; put under better regulations, ii. 35; printing Polybius, ib.; and King Alfred’s will, iv. 133, n. 2; Coffee-house, Johnson is wanton and insolent to Sheridan, ii. 320; v. 360; advises Warton to snatch time from the coffee-house, i. 279; Colleges, their authority lessened, iii. 262; bequests to them, iii. 306; College joker, iv. 288; College servants, i. 271, n. 2; Commemoration of 1754, i. 146, n. 1; Common rooms, the students excluded from them, ii. 443; mentioned in Warton’s Progress of Discontent, iii. 323, n, 4; condemnation-sermon, i. 273; degree conferred without examination, iii. 13, n. 3; an honorary degree, i. 278, n. 2; Demy, a scholar of Magdalen College, i. 61, n. 1. East Gate, i. 61, n. 3; education not by lectures, iv. 92; execution for forgery, i. 147, n. 1; Gaudies, i. 60, n. 4; ii. 445, n. 1; George I’s troop of horse, i. 281, n. 1; Hastings’s, Warren, projected institution, iv. 68, n. 2; High-street, Johnson standing astride the kennel, ii. 268, n. 2; walking along it without a band, iii. 13, n. 3; Iffley, iv. 295; ignorance of things necessary to life, ii. 52, n. 2; scholastic ignorance of mankind, ii. 425; indifference to literature, i. 275, n. 2; Jacobitism, i. 72, n. 3, 146, n. 1, 279, n. 5, 281, n. 1, 282, n. 3, 296, n. 1; ii. 443, n. 4; Jeffrey, Lord, an undergraduate, ii. 159, n. 6; Johnson elevated by approaching it, iv. 284; gives a toast among some grave men, ii. 478; iii. 200; neglected in his youth, i. 77, n. 4; receives the degree of M.A., i. 275, 278, n. 2, 280-283; of D.C.L., i. 488, n. 3; ii. 331-3; says he wished he had learnt to play at cards, iii. 23; (for his visits to Oxford, See iii. 450-3, and under many headings of this title); Kettel Hall, account of it, i. 289, n. 2; Johnson lodges in it, i. 270, n. 5; Lincoln College, Chambers, Robert, a member of it, i. 274, 336; Mortimer, Dr., the Rector, great at denying, ii. 268, n. 2; Wesley, John, a Tutor, i. 63, n. 1; London, effect produced by, i. 127; Magdalen Bridge, built by Gwynn, ii. 438, n. 3; v. 454, n. 2; Magdalen College, Addison elected a Demy, i. 61, n, 1; Gibbon, described by, ii. 443, n. 4; iii. 13, n. 3; Home, Dr., the President, mentioned, ii. 279; Boswell and Johnson drink tea with him, ii. 445; Warton, Thomas, senior, a fellow, i. 449, n. 1; Magdalen Hall, i. 336; Manège projected, ii. 424; Market built by Gwynn, v. 454, n. 2; Merton College, Boswell saunters in the walks, iv. 299; mentioned, ii. 438; Methodists, rise of the, i. 58, n. 3, 68, n. 1; expulsion of six, ii. 187; Murray, William (Earl of Mansfield), matriculates, ii. 194, n. 3; New Inn Hall, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 46; Johnson walks in the Principal’s garden, ii. 268, n. 2; Olla Podrida, iv. 426, n. 3; Oriel College, common-room filled on Gilbert White’s visits, ii. 443, n. 4; Provost assisted to bed by his butler, ii. 445, n. 1; Oseney Abbey, Johnson views its ruins with indignation, i. 273; Paoli visits it, v. i, n. 3; Parker, Sackville, the bookseller, iv. 308; Parks, i. 279; Pembroke College, ale-house near the gate, iii. 304; Barton, Mr. A. T., Fellow and Tutor, v. 117, n. 4; blue-stocking party, iv. 151, n. 2; butler, i. 271; buttery-books, ii. 444, n. 3; Camden’s Latin grace, v. 65, n. 2; caution-book, i. 58, n. 2; chapel, i. 59, n. 1; Common-room, Johnson’s games at draughts, ii. 444; his portrait, iv. 151, n. 2; declamations, i. 71, n. 2; Edwards, Oliver, iii. 302-4, 306; eminent members, i. 75; gateway, i. 74; gaudy, i. 60, n. 4, 273, n. 2; Johnson enters, i. 58; leaves, i. 78; length of his residence, ib., n. 2; eulogium on it, i. 75, nn. 3 and 5; first exercise, i. 71; iv. 309; first visit in 1754, i. 271; and Boswell visit it in 1776, ii. 441; Johnson in 1782, iv. 151, n. 2; and Boswell in June, 1784, iv. 285; v. 357; last visit (Nov. 1784), iv. 376; ‘nowhere so happy,’ ib., n. 2; ‘a frolicksome fellow,’ i. 73; meets Dr. Price, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; neglected by the Master, i. 272; rooms, i. 72, 73, n. 1; shows it to Hannah More, i. 75, n. 5; iv. 151, n. 2; library, Johnson presents it with his Works, i. 74; Johnson’s Tracts, ii. 315, n. 2; Politian, iv. 371, n. 2; Masters, Dr. Panting, i. 72; Dr. Radcliffe, i. 271; Dr. Adams: See under DR. ADAMS; life in the Master’s house, iv. 305; Manuscripts, i. 79, n. 2, 90, n. 3; ii. 215, n. 2; iv. 84, n. 4, 94, n. 3, 376, n. 4; members in residence, i. 63, n. 1; ‘nest of singing birds,’ i. 75; iv. 151, n. 2; November 5 kept with solemnity, i. 60; ‘Pembrochienses voco ad certamen poeticum, i. 75, n. 5; property bequeathed to it, iii. 306; residence, length of, i. 78, n. 2; Saturday weekly themes, i. 59, n. 3; sconces, i. 59, n. 3; servitors, i. 73, n. 4; weekly bills, i. 78, n. 1; Whitefield a servitor, i. 59, n. 3, 73, n. 4; population in 1789, iii. 450; post coach, Boswell, Johnson and Gwynn ride in it, ii. 438; iii. 129; Boswell and Johnson, iv. 283; ‘Prologue spoken before the Duke of York at Oxford,’ ii. 465; Queen’s College, Jacobite singing, i. 271, n. 1; Lancaster, Dr., the Provost, i. 61, n. 1; Radcliffe Library, opening, i. 279, n. 5; Wise, Francis, the librarian, i. 275, n. 4; Radcliffe’s travelling-fellowships, iv. 293; residence required in 1781, iii. 13, n. 3; Rewley Abbey, Johnson views its ruins with indignation, i. 273; riding school projected, ii. 424; Secker’s variation of ‘Church and King,’ iv. 29; Servitors, hunted, i. 73, n. 4; employed in transcription, i. 276; advantages of servitorships, v. 122; Sheldonian Theatre, Johnson present at the instalment of the Chancellor, i. 348, n. 2; St. Edmund’s Hall, expulsion of Methodists, ii. 187, n. 1; St. John’s College, Vicesimus Knox, iii. 13, n. 3; St. Mary’s Church, Johnson joins there a grand procession, i. 348, n. 2; sermon on his death, iv. 422; Panting’s, Dr., sermon, i. 72, n. 3; Whitefield receives the sacrament, i. 68, n. 1; St. Mary’s Hall, Principals — Dr. King, i. 279, n. 5; Dr. Nowell, iv. 295; Story, the Quaker, describes the Undergraduates in 1731, i. 68, n. 1. Trinity College, Beauclerk, Topham, i. 248; Boswell and Johnson call on T. Warton, ii. 446; Johnson speaks of taking up his abode there, i. 272; gives Baskerville’s Virgil to the library, ii. 67; Langton enters, i. 247, n. 1, 248; Presidents — Dr. Huddesford, i. 280, n. 2; Dr. Kettel, i. 289, n. 2; Walmsley, Gilbert, enters, i. 81, n. 2; Warton, Thomas, a Fellow, i. 270, n. 1; Wise, Francis, a Fellow, i. 275, n. 4; University College, Boswell and Johnson call there
in 1776, ii. 440-1; dine on St. Cuthbert’s Day, ii. 445; dine with the Master, iv. 308; chapel at six in the morning, ii. 381, n. 2; Common Room, Johnson’s dispute in it with Dr. Mortimer, ii. 268, n. 2; his three bottles of port, iii. 245; his portrait, ii. 25, n. 2; inscription on it, iii. 245, n. 3; Coulson, Rev. Mr., v. 459, n. 4; Johnson seen there by a Welsh schoolmaster, v. 447; portraits of distinguished members, ii. 25, n. 2; Scott, William, tutor, iv. 92, n. 2; Wetherell, Dr., the Master: See under WETHERELL, Dr.; University, described by R. West in 1735, i. 76, n. 1; by Dr. Knox in 1781, iii. 13, n. 3; iv. 391, n. l; worst time about 1770, ii. 445, n. 1; University verses, ii. 371; Vacation, Long, i. 63, n. 1; Worcester College, Foote and Dr. Gower, ii. 95, n. 2. OXFORDSHIRE, contested election of 1754, i. 282, n. 3.