Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson

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  QUACK DOCTORS, iii. 389. QUAKERS, Boswell loves their simplicity, ii. 457; Johnson liked individual Quakers, but not the sect, ii. 458; on their objection to fine clothes, iii. 188, n. 4; many a man a Quaker without knowing it, ii. 457; Pennsylvanian Quakers, vote of, iv. 212, n. 1; proselyte, a young, iii. 298; slavery, abolitionists of, ii. 478; soldiers, clothing to the, iv. 212; texts, literal interpretation of, iv. 211; tythes and persecution inseparable, v. 423; women preaching, i. 463. See under KNOWLES, Mrs. Qualifying a wrong, iii. 63, n. 1. Qualitied, iv. 174. QUALITY, women of, iii. 353. Queen Elizabeth’s Champion, v. 241, n. 2. QUEEN’S ARMS CLUB, iv. 87. QUEEN’S HOUSE LIBRARY, ii. 33. QUEENSBERRY, family of, iii. 163. QUEENSBERRY, Duke of, Gay and the Beggar’s Opera, ii. 368. QUEENY (Miss Thrale), iii. 422, n. 4; v. 451. Quem Deus vult perdere, &c., ii. 445, n. 1; iv. 181. QUESTIONING, ii. 472; iii. 57, 268. QUIN, James, Bath, praises, iii. 45, n. 1; Beggar’s Opera, anecdote of the, ii. 368; Falstaff, his, iv. 243, n. 6; kings and January 30, v. 382, n. 2; Thomson, intimacy with, iii. 117, n. 2; vanity, his, iii. 264. QUINTILIAN, iv. 35. QUIXOTE, Don. See under CERVANTES. Quos Deus null perdere, prius dementat, ii. 445, n. 1; iv. 181. QUOTATION, the parole of literary men, iv. 102. QUOTATIONS, untraced, iv. 181. Quotidian, v. 345-6.

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  RABELAIS, Garagantua, iii. 256; surpassed by Johnson, ii. 231. Race, The, by Mercurius Spur, Esq., ii. 31. RACINE, ‘goes round the world,’ v. 311. RACKSTROW, Colonel, of the Trained Bands, iv. 319. RADCLIFFE, Charles, his execution, i. 180. RADCLIFFE, Dr., Master of Pembroke College, i. 271. RADCLIFFE, Dr. John, travelling fellowships, iv. 293. RADICALS, iii. 460. RALEIGH, Sir Walter, autograph letter, i. 227; Birch edits his smaller pieces, i. 226; execution, his, i. 180, n. 2; Johnson mentions his Works in the preface to his Dictionary, iii. 194, n. 2. RALPH, James, The Champion, i. 169, n. 2. Rambler, account of it, i. 201-226; contributors, i. 203, 208, n. 3; editions and sale, i. 208, 212, 255; Scotch edition, i. 210; revision of collected edition, i. 203, n. 6; publication, i. 202; sale of a sixteenth-share, ii. 208, n. 3; hastily written, i. 203; iii. 42; could be made better, iv. 309; hints for essays, i. 204-7; origin of the name, i. 202; style, i. 217; club in an Essex town incensed by it, i. 215; friend, learning one’s faults from a, iv. 281, n. 1; Garrick and Prospero, i. 216; ‘hard words,’ i. 208, n. 3; index, iv. 325; in Italian, Il Genio errante and Il Vagabondo, iii. 411; Johnson’s epitaph, quotation from it in, iv. 445; gives a copy to Edwards, iv. 90; opinion of it, i. 210, n. 1; thinks it ‘too wordy,’ iv. 5; portrait prefixed, iv. 421, n. 2; wife praises it, i. 210; ladies strangely formal, i. 223; Langton admires it, i. 247; last number, i. 226, 233; lessons taught by it, i. 213; mottoes translated, i. 210, n. 3, 211, 225; Murphy’s translation from the French, i. 356; Necessity of Cultivating Politeness, v. 82, n. 2; quotation in Colonel Myddelton’s inscription, iv. 443; Russian translation, iv. 277; Shenstone, praised by, ii. 452; suicide, supposed to recommend, iv. 150, n. 2; virtuoso, description of a, iv. 314, n. 2; v. 61, n. 5; Young’s, Dr., copy, i. 214. Rambler, Beauties of the, i. 214. Raniblefs Magazine, i. 202. RAMSAY, Allan, the elder, the poet, dedication to the Countess of Eglintoune, v. 374, n. 3; Gentle Shepherd, ii. 220; Highland Laddie, v. 184, n. 1. RAMSAY, Allan, the son, the portrait-painter, death, iv. 260, n. 1, 366, n. 1; dinners at his house, iii. 331-6,382-3, 407-9; house in Harley Street, iii. 391, n. 2; Italy, visits, iii. 250; iv. 260; Johnson loves him, iii. 336; politeness, praises, iii. 331; Pope’s poetry less admired than formerly, iii. 332; Select Society, founds the, v. 393, n. 4; ‘There lived a young man’ &c., quotes, iii. 252; mentioned, iii. 254; iv. I, n. 1. RANBY, John, Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, iii. 205. RANGER, the character of, ii. 50. RANK, its claims, iii. 55; Johnson’s respect for it, i. 443, 447-8; morals of high people, iii. 353. RANKE, Professor, Sixtus Quintus, v. 239, n. RAPHAEL, Johnson admires his pictures, ii. 392; mentioned, i. 248, n. 3. RAPTURIST, ii. 41, n. 1. RASAY, the Macleods of, account of them, v. 165, 167; estates, v. 412, n. 2; family happiness, v. 178; league with the Macdonalds, v. 174; Johnson compliments them in his Journey, ii. 304; they praise him, ib. RASAY, John Macleod, Laird of, ‘Macgillichallum,’ v. 161, n. 2; his carriage, v. 162, 179, n. 2; income, v. 165, n. 2; patriarchal life, v. 167; befriends the Pretender, v. 190-5; Johnson’s mistake about the chieftainship, ii. 303, 380, 382, 411; correspondence about it, v. 410-413; entertained by, ii. 305; iv. 155; v. 413, n. 1; visits him, v. 165-179, 183. RASAY, old Laird of, out in the ‘45, v. 174, 188, 190, 199. Rascal, Johnson’s use of the term, iii. 1. Rasselas, account of its publication, i. 340-4; date of its composition and publication, i. 342, n. 2, 516; editions, first, i. 340, n, 3; fifth, ii. 208, n. 3; an American one, ii. 207; origin of the name, i. 340, n. 3; price paid for it, i. 341; translations, i. 341; ii. 208; in French by Baretti, ib., n. 2; written in the evenings of one week to pay the expenses of Johnson’s mother’s funeral, i. 341; Boswell’s yearly reading, i. 342; iii. 133; made unhappy by it, iii. 317; Candide, compared with, i. 342; iii. 356; choice of life, ii. 22, n. l; civilisation, advantages of, ii. 73, n. 3; Europeans, the power of the, iv. 119; Gough Square, written in, iii. 405, n. 6; Imlac and the Great Mogul, ii. 40, n. 4; influence of places on the mind, v. 334, n. 1; Johnson reads it in 1781, iv. 119; Lobo’s Abyssinia, partly suggested by, i. 89; Macaulay’s, Dr. J., Bibliography, ii. 208, n. 3; marriages, late, ii. 128, n. 4; misery of life, the, iii. 317; praise to an old man, i. 339, n. 3; resolutions, ii. 113, n. 3; retirement from the world, v. 62, nn. 1 and 4; scholar, the business of a, ii. 119, n. 1; solitude of a great city, iii. 379, n. 2; sorrow, the cure for, iii. 6; spirits of the dead, i. 343; travelling in Europe, i. 340, n. 1; Vanity of Human Wishes, resemblance to the, i. 342. RAT, grey or Hanover, ii. 455; ‘Now, Muse, let’s sing of Rats,’ ii. 453. RAWLINSON, Dr., iv. 161. RAY, John, British insects, ii. 248; Collection of north-country words, ii. 91; Nomenclature, ii. 361. RAY, Miss, iii. 383. RAYMOND, S., ii. 338, n. 2. RAYNAL, Abbé, iv. 434-5. READING, advice of an old gentleman, i. 446; art, its, iv. 207; boys should read any book they will, iii. 385; iv. 21; general amusement, iv. 217, n. 4; hard reading, i. 446; inclination to be followed, i. 428; iii. 43, 193; knowledge got by it compared with that got by conversation, ii. 361; people do not willingly read, iv. 218; reading books to the end, i. 71; ii. 226; iv. 308; reading no more than one could utter, iv. 31; snatches useful, iv. 21; Voltaire testifies to its increase in England, ii. 402, n. 1; youth the season for plying books, i. 446. See JOHNSON, reading. REBELLION, natural to men, v. 394. REBELLION OF 1745-6, Boswell’s projected history of it, iii. 162; would have to be printed abroad, ib.; cruelty shown to the rebels, i. 146; effect on the Gent. Mag., i. 176, n. 2; Highlanders’ wants, ii. 126; Johnson’s occupation at the time, i. 176; noble attempt, iii. 162. REBELS, never friends to arts, ii. 223; successful, ii. 223. Recollecting, iv. 126. Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman, iv 190, n. 2. RECRUITING, iii. 399, n. 3. Recruiting Officer, iv. 7. RECUPERO, Signor, ii. 468, n. 1. Red Coat, v. 140. RED SEA, iii. 134, n. i, 455. REDRESS FOR RIDICULE, v. 295. REED, Isaac, aids Johnson in the Lives, iv. 37; mentioned, i. 169, n. 2; ii. 240, n. 4; iii. 201, n. 3; v. 57, n. 2. REED, John, iii. 281, n. 3. REES, Dr., ii. 203, n. 3. REFINEMENT, in education, iii. 169. Reflections on a grave digging in Westminster Abbey, ii. 26; v. 117, n. 4. Reflections on the State of Portugal, i. 306. REFORMATION, Church revenues lessened, iii. 138; freedom from bondage, iii. 60; the light of revelation obscured upon political motives, ii. 28. REFORMERS, why burnt, ii. 251. Regale, iii. 308, n. 2; v. 347, n. 1. REGATTA, iii. 206, n. 1. REGICIDES, ii. 370. REGISTRATION OF DEEDS, iv. 74. Rehearsal, The, ii. 168; iv. 320. REID, Andrew, iii. 32, n. 5. REID, Professor Thomas, meets Johnson in Glasgow, v. 369, 370; original principles, his, i. 471; Scotticisms corrected by Hume, ii. 72, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1. REIGN OF TERROR, i. 465, n. 1. REINDEER, ii. 168. RELATIONS, a man’s ready friends, v. 105; in London, ii. 177. See FRIENDS, natural. RELIGION, amount of religion in the country, ii. 96; ancients not in earnest as to it, iii. 10; balancing of accounts, iv. 225; chan
ging it, ii. 466; iii. 298; choosing one for oneself, iii. 299; College jokers its defenders, iv. 288; differences of opinion not much thought of, iv. 291; general ignorance, iii. 50; hard, made to appear, v. 316; ignorance of the first notion, iv. 216; joy in it, iii. 339; particular places for it, iv. 226; people with none, iv. 215; perversions, ii. 129; religious conversation banished, ii. 124; State, to be regulated by the, ii. 14; iv. 12; unfitness of poetry for it, iii. 358, n. 3; iv. 39. RELIGIOUS ORDERS. See MONASTERY. Remarks on Dr. Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides, ii. 308, n. 1. Remarks on Johnson’s Life of Milton, i. 231, n. 2. Remarks on the characters of the Court of Queen Anne, iv. 333, n. 5. Remarks on the Militia Bill, i. 307. REMBRANDT, iii. 161. REMEDIES, prescribing, ii. 260. Remembering, distinguished from recollecting, iv. 126. Remonstrance, The, ii. 113. Renegade defined, i. 296. RENTS, carried to a distance, iii. 177; how they should be fixed, v. 293: paid in kind, iv. 18; v. 254, n. 2. See LANDLORDS. REPENTANCE in dying, iv. 212. Republic of Letters, v. 80, n. 4. REPUBLICS, respect for authority wanting, ii. 153. Republics. See Respublicae Elzevirianae. REPUTATION injured by spurious publications, ii. 433. RESENTMENT, iii. 39; iv. 367. RESOLUTIONS, rarely efficacious, ii. 113, 360. RESPECT, not to be paid to an adversary, ii. 442; v. 29. Respectable, iii. 241, n. 2. Respublica Hungarica, ii. 7. Respublicae Elzevirianae, ii. 7, n. 2; iii. 52. REST, man never at rest, iii. 252. RESTORATION, ii. 369, 370; v. 406. RESTRAINT, need of, iii. 53. RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, iv. 93, 95. Retirement, ii. 133, n. 1. RETIREMENT, from the world, v. 62; its vices, ib., n. 5. RETIRING FROM BUSINESS, ii. 337; iii. 176, n. 1. RETREAT, cheap, few places left, ii. 124. Retreat of the Ten Thousand, iv. 32. REVELATION, attacks on it excite anger, iii. 11. Revelation, Book of, ii. 163. REVERENCE, for government impaired, iii. 3; general relaxation of it, iii. 262. REVIEWS AND REVIEWERS, acknowledgments to them improper, iv. 57; defiance, to be set at, v. 274; Monthly and Critical impartial, iii. 32; attack each other, ib., n. 2; payment for articles, iv. 214; well-written, iii. 44. See Critical and Monthly Reviews. Revisal of Shakespeare’s Text, i. 263, n. 3. Revolution, defined, i. 295, n. 1. REVOLUTION OF 1688, could not be avoided, ii. 341; iii. 3; iv. 170, 171, n. 1; Lilliburlero, ii. 347; reverence for government impaired by it, iii. 3; iv. 165; v. 202; writing against it got Shebbeare the pillory and a pension, ii. 112, n. 3. REVOLUTION SOCIETY, the, iv. 40. REVOLUTIONS, ‘Happy revolutions,’ ii. 224. REWLEY ABBEY, i. 273. REYNOLDS, Miss, Barnard’s verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3; coolness with her brother, i. 486, n. 1; irresolution, her, i. 486, n. 1; Johnson’s affection for her, i. 486, n. 1; bequest to her, iv. 402, n. 2; and the Cotterells, i. 246, n. 2; dress and study, i. 328, n. 1; and Garagantua, iii. 256; and Hannah More, iii. 293; iv. 341, n. 6; letters to her, i. 486, n. 1; portrait, ii. 362, n. 1; iv. 229, n. 4, 421, n. 2; miniatures, paints, i. 326; oil-painting, ib., n. 7; iv. 229, n. 4; Montagu, Mrs., paints, iii. 244; politician, no, ii. 317, n. 2; purity of mind, i. 486, n. 1; ii. 362, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 82, 215, 319-20, 390, 434. REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, Abington’s, Mrs., benefit, ii. 324; abused in a newspaper, iv. 29; Academy, influence in the, iv. 219, n. 4; amusement is the great end of all employments, ii. 234; a key to character, iv. 316; associates with men of all principles, iii. 375; Baretti’s ignorance, gives an instance of, v. 121, n. 4; is a witness at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1; Barry quarrels with him, iv. 436, 438; Beattie, portrait of, v. 90, n. 1; v. 273, n. 4; books, judgments on, iii. 320; Boswell, bequest to, i. 11, n. 1; first acquaintance with, i. 417, n. 1; gives Johnson’s portrait to, i. 392; letter from, iv. 259, n. 2; Life of Johnson, has a leaf cancelled in, ii. 2, n. 1; portrait, paints, i. 2, n. 2; visits, when ill, iii. 391; Burke’s echo, ii. 222, n. 4; and Johnson on Bacon’s Essays, iii. 194, n. 1; too much under, iii. 261; wit, v. 32, n. 3; Cambridge, Mr., dines with, ii. 361; Camden’s, Lord, portrait, ii. 353, n. 2; Cecilia, iv. 223, n. 5; character drawn by Burke, i. 245, n. 3; v. 102, n. 3; colouring in conversation, iv. 183; conversation, his, i. 246; critics mostly pretenders, ii. 191, n. 1; Cumberland, dislikes, iv. 384, n. 2; ‘Dear Knight of Plympton,’ iv. 432; death, i. 10; delicacy as regards Pope’s note on Johnson, i. 143; delicate observer of manners, ii. 109; Devonshire, visits, i. 377; dinners at his house, gathering of literary men, iii. 65, 250, 317, 337, 381; iv. 78, 332, 337; Northcote’s description of them, iii. 375, n. 2; iv. 312, n. 3; Discourses on Painting, Empress of Russia’s testimony of a snuffbox, iii. 370; first volume published, in. 369; Johnson described in them, i. 245, n. 3; his dedication, ii. 2, n. 1; mentioned in an unfinished Discourse, iii. 369, n. 3; praises them, iv. 320; Rogers, Samuel, present at the last, iii. 369, n. 2; translated into Italian, iii. 96; Dyer, Samuel, portrait of, ii. 453, n. 2; emigration, iii. 232; eminence, the cause of, ii. 437, n. 2; Errol, Lord, portrait of, v. 102; Essex Head Club, declines to join the, iv. 254, 436; describes it, iv. 438; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; Fox’s praise of The Traveller,, mentions, iii. 252, 261; too much under, iii. 261; ‘furious purposes, his,’ iv. 366; Garrick and the Literary Club, i. 480; tea, iii. 264, n. 4; Garrick, Mrs., dines with, iv. 96-9; genius, account of, ii. 437, n. 2; Goldsmith’s company, likes, ii. 235; criticised at his table, ii. 28l, n. 1; debts, ii. 280; dedicates the Deserted Village to him, ii. 1, n. 2, 217, n. 5; epitaph, loses the copy of, iii. 82; fable of the little fishes, ii. 231; monument, chooses the spot for, iii. 83, n. 2; rebuked by, v. 273, n, 4; She Sloops to Conquer, suggests a name for, ii. 205, n. 4; to Walpole, introduces, iv. 314, n. 3; Hawkesworth’s character, i. 253, n. 1; Hawkins’s character, i. 28, n. 1; hospitality, his, i. 1; Humphry, the painter, assists, iv. 269, n. 2; Idler, contributes to the, i. 330; illness in 1764, i. 486; imaginary praise of him, iv. 18; inoffensiveness, v. 102, n. 3; invulnerability, i. 2; v. 102; Italy, returns from, i. 165, 242, n. 6; Johnson, admiration for, i. 245; admiration of Burke, ii. 450; altercation with Dean Barnard, iv. 431; apologises for his rudeness, iii. 329; arguing, ii. 100, n. 1; ‘flew upon an argument,’ ii. 365; belabours his confessor, iv. 281; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; checked immorality in talk, iv. 295, n. 3; in a company of booksellers, iii. 311; conversation, i. 204; iv. 184-5; convulsive starts, i. 144; cups of tea, i. 313, n. 3; desire for reconciliation, ii. 100, n. 1, 109; Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4. n. 3; dulce decus, i. 244; dying requests, iv. 413; executor, iv. 402, n. 2; feared by a nobleman, iv. 116, n. 2; feelings towards foreigners, iv. 169, n. 1; fond of discrimination, ii. 306; overcharges characters, iii. 332; French, ii. 404; friendship with, i. 2, 242, n. 6, 244, 246; iv. 367; in 1764 almost — only friend, i. 486; friendship for Taylor, iii. 180; on friendship, i. 300; funeral, iv. 419, n. 1; garret, i. 328, n. 1; gestures, v. 18; interview with George III, ii. 34, n. i, 41; intoxicated, i. 379, n. 2; introduces Crabbe to, iv. 175, n. 2; letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters; letter to Thurlow, copies, iv. 349. n. 2, 368; lines in The Traveller, ii. 6, n. 3; making himself agreeable to ladies, iv. 73; as a member of parliament, ii. 138; mind ready for use, ii. 365, n. 1; mode of covering his ignorance, v. 124, n. 4; monument, iv. 423, n. 1; inscription, ib., n. 2, 445; never wrote a line a saint would blot, iv. 295, n. 3; his obligation to, i. 245, n. 3; on painting, i. 128, n. 2; pension, i. 374; proposed addition to it, iv. 327-8, 336-9, 348, 367-8; pride, no meanness in it, iv. 429, n. 3; proud of Reynolds’s approbation, iv. 368; portraits: See under JOHNSON; prejudice against foreigners, iv. 15, n. 3; prejudices and obstinacy, i. 293, n. 1; pride, iii. 345, n. 1; quarrel with Dr. Warton, ii. 41, n. 1; Rambler, origin of the name, i. 202; readiness for a reconciliation, ii. 100, n, 1, 256, n. 1; ‘rough as winter, mild as summer,’ iv. 396, n. 3; rudeness partly due to his truthfulness, iv. 221, n. 2; and Savage in St. James’s Square, i. 164; ‘school,’ one of, i. 7, n. 1, 245, n. 3; iii. 230,261, n. 1, 369; influenced his writings, i. 222; qualified his mind to think, iii. 369, n. 3; ‘Reynolds’s oracle,’ i. 245, n. 3; Shakespeare, i. 319, n. 4; talking to a ‘blackguard boy,’ iv. 184; and Thrale’s copper, i. 363, n. 3; Tracts, his copy of, ii. 315, n. 2; trip to Devonshire with, i. 377; iv. 322; truth sacred to, ii. 433, n. 1; unsuspicious of hypocrisy, i. 418, n. 3; iii. 44
4; vocation to public life, iv. 359; watch over himself, iv. 396, n. 3; writings, ‘won’t read,’ ii. 317, n. 2; Johnsoniana, his, iv. 182; Journey to Flanders, iv. 423, n. 2; knighted, i. 103, n. 3; Leicester Fields, house in, ii. 384; liberality, iv. 133; literary characters, a nobleman’s terror of, i. 450, n. 1; Literary Club, founder of the, i. 477; attendance at it, ii. 17; iii. 128, n. 4, 230, n. 5; London, loves, iii. 178, n. 1; Lowe, the painter, iv. 202, n. 1; Macbeth, note on, v. 129; Malone one of his executors, iv. 133; Shakespeare, praises, v. 129, n. 1; matrimonial wishes about him, iv. 161, n. 5; militia camps, visits the, iii. 365; modesty, unaffected, iv. 133; Monckton’s, Miss, at, iv. 108, n. 4; Montagu’s, Mrs., Essay, likes, ii. 88-9; v. 245; Morris, Miss, picture of, iv. 417, n. 3; Moser, Keeper of the Academy, eulogium on, iv. 227, n. 4; Muddy, ii. 362, n. 3; Mudge, Rev. Mr., influenced by the, i. 378, n. 3; Sermons, praises, iv. 98; obligations, the relief from, i. 246; observant in passing through life, iv. 6; Oxford degree of D.C.L., v. 90, n. 1; painter to the King, iv. 366, n. 2, 368, n. 3; paralytic attack, iv. 161, n. 5; Parr’s defence of Johnson, iv. 422; persuaded, easily, v. 286; pictures, runs to, ii. 365; placidity, i. 1; planet, always under some, iii. 261; players, defends, ii. 234-5; Pope’s hand, touches, i. 377, n. 1; portrait of himself holding his ear in his hand, iii. 273, n. 1; at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; price of portraits and income, i. 326, 363, 370, 382; professor in the imaginary college, v. 109; prosperity, not to be spoilt by, v. 102, n. 3; Reviews, wonders to find so much good writing in the, iii. 44; Richardson’s talk, iv. 28; ‘rival, without a,’ i. 363; round of pleasures, in a, ii. 274, n. 3; Round Robin, signs the, iii. 83; carries it to Johnson, iii. 84; Royal Academy, intends to resign the presidency of the, iv. 366, n. 2; same all the year round, iii. 5, 192; Savage, The Life of, reads, i. 165, 245; Shelburne, Lord, portrait of, iv. 174, n. 5; Siddons, Mrs., portrait of, iv. 242, n. 2; sister, dislikes the paintings by his, i. 326, n. 7; iv. 229, n. 4; Smith’s, Adam, talk, iv. 24, n. 2; St. Paul’s, proposes monuments in, iv. 423, n. 2; Streatham library, pictures by him in, iv. 158, n. 1; Suard visits him, iv. 20, n. 1; Sunday painting, iv. 414; taste, taking the altitude of a man’s, iv. 316; how acquired, ii. 191, n. 1; Thurlow, letter from, iv. 350, n. 1; titles, in addressing people did not use, i. 245, n. 3; truthfulness of his stories, ii. 433, n. 2; understanding, judging a man’s, iv. 316; Vanburgh, defends, iv. 55; Vesey’s, Mr., at, iii. 425; virtue in itself preferable to vice, iii. 342, 349; Voltaire, supposed attack on, v. 273, n. 4; weather, ridicules the influence of, i. 332, n. 2; wine, defends the use of, iii. 41; his fondness for it, ii. 292; iii. 329-30; reproached by Johnson with being far gone, iii. 329; mentioned, ii. 82, 83, n. 2, 232, 265, n. 4, 347; iii. 43, 301, 305, 386, 390, 434; iv. 1, n. 1, 32, 76, 84, 88, 159, 178, 219, n. 3, 224, n. 2, 334, 341, 344, 355, n. 4; v. 215. Rhedi de generations insectarum, iii. 229, n. 4. RHEES, David ap, Welsh Grammar, v. 443. RHEUMATISM, medicine for it, ii. 361. Rhodochia, i. 223. RHONE, iv. 277. RHOPALIC VERSES, v. 269, n. 3. RHYME, essential to English poetry, iii. 257. See BLANK-VERSE. RICCOBONI, Mme., credulity of the English, v. 330, n. 3; French and English stage in point of decency, ii. 50, n. 3; sentimentalists of Paris, iii. 149, n. 2; want of respect to nobility on the English stage, v. 106, n. 4. RICH, the manager of Covent Garden Theatre, brings out the Beggar’s Opera, iii. 321, n. 3; ‘is this your tragedy or comedy?’ iv. 246, n. 5; refuses a play in false English, iii. 259. RICHARD II, iv. 268, n. 2. RICHARDS, John, R.A., iii. 464. RICHARDS, Thomas, i. 186, n. 3. RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the elder, Treatise on Painting, i. 128, n. 2. RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the younger, i. 128, 142. RICHARDSON, Samuel, Chesterfield’s estimate of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Cibber, respects, ii. 93; iii. 184; Clarissa, German translation of, iv. 28; Lovelace’s character, ii. 341; Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2; death, i. 370, 382; Familiar Letters — description of a visit to Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1; and the procession to Tyburn, iv. 189, n. 1; Fielding, compared with, ii. 49, 174, ib., n. 2; disparages, ii. 49, 174, 175, n. 2; Fielding, Miss, letter to, ii. 49, n. 2, 174, n. 1; flattery, love of, v. 396, n. 1, 440, n. 2; foreigners, read by, ii. 49, n. 2; Hanoverian, a, i. 146, n. 1; Johnson asks for an index for Clarissa, ii. 175, n. 1; Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4; draws his character, v. 395; gives him a pheasant, i. 326; letters to him; i. 303, n. 1; ii. 175, n. 1; meets Hogarth at his house, i. 145; and Young, v. 269; sought after him, iii. 314; under arrest, helps, i. 303, n. 1; King, Dr. W., a Jacobite speech by, i. 146, n. 1; literary ladies, his, iv. 246, n. 6; v. 396; Macaulay’s high praise of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Nelson, Robert, the original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3; novels, his, compared with the French, ii. 125; Oxford University, the Jacobitism of, i. 281, n. 1; portrait, i. 434, n. 3; Rambler, praised in the, i. 203; praises it, i. 209, n. 1; contributes to it, i. 203; read for the sentiment, not story, ii. 175; rear, Johnson can make him, iv. 28; talks of his own works, iv. 28; Tunbridge Wells, at, i. 190, n. 1; vanity, iv. 28, n. 7; v. 396; Walpole’s, Horace, contempt of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Williams, Mrs., visits him, i. 232, n. 1. RICHARDSON, William, i. 303, n. 1. RICHELIEU, Cardinal, ii. 134, n. 4. RICHES. See MONEY. RICHMOND, third Duke of, attacks Lord Sandwich and Miss Ray, iii. 383, n. 3; discusses history and poetry, ii. 366, n. 1; libelled by Henry Bate, iv. 296, n. 3. RIDDELL, Mr., of the Horse Grenadiers, iv. 211, n. 1. RIDDOCH, Rev. Mr., v. 87, 91, 95-96. RIDICULE, abuse of it, iv. 17; Johnson defends its use, iii. 379. Riding, the, i. 36, n. 4. RIDLEY, the bookseller, iii. 325. RIGBY, Richard, iii. 76, n. 2. Rio verde, Rio verde, ii. 212, n. 4. RIOT ACT, iii. 46, n. 5. RIOTS, Franklin’s description of the street riots in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5; Gordon riots in 1780, iii. 46, n. 5, 428; St. George’s Fields in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5. RISEN IN THE WORLD, jealousy of men who have, iii. 2. RISING early, its difficulty, iii. 168. RITTER, Joseph, Boswell’s Bohemian servant, accompanies Boswell to the Hebrides, v. 53, 74, 76, 83,163, 286, 318, 363, 371; mentioned, ii. 103, 411; iii. 216. RIVERS, Earl, Savage’s reputed father, i. 166, n. 4, 170, 172. RIVINGTON, Mr., the bookseller, i. 135, n. 1. RIZZIO, David, v. 43. ROADS, described by Arthur Young, iii. 135, n. 1; toll gates, v. 56, n. 2. See under SCOTLAND, roads. ROBERT BRUCE, ii. 386-7. ROBERT II, v. 373. ROBERTS, J., the bookseller, i. 165, 175. n. 3. ROBERTS, Mr., Register of Bangor, v. 447, 452. ROBERTS, Miss, old Mr. Langton’s niece, i. 336; 430. ROBERTSON, Mr., of Cullen, v. 110, 111. ROBERTSON, Mr., a publisher, of Edinburgh, iv. 129. ROBERTSON, Professor James, v. 42. ROBERTSON, Dr. William, Beattie, compared with, ii. 195, n. 1; Boswell appears against him in Court, ii. 381, n. 1; letters to, v. 15, 32; Charles V, criticised by Wesley, ii. 236, n. 4; price offered for it, ii. 63, n. 2; Clive’s character, expatiates on, iii. 334; companionable and fond of wine, iii. 335; conversation, iii. 339, n. 1; Elibank, Lord, his early patron, v. 386; Gibbon, complimented by, ii. 236, n. 3; Histories, his, romances, ii. 237; pictures, but not likenesses, iii. 404; History of America, iii. 270; History of Greece, projects a, ii. 237, n. 4; History of Scotland, Johnson ‘won’t talk of it,’ ii. 53; published in 1759, iv. 78, n. 2; sale, iii. 334; £6000 made by the publishers, ib.; editions, ib., n. 2; mentioned, ii. 270; Johnson, awe of, ii. 63; iii. 332; v. 371; criticises his History and style, ii. 236-7; v. 57, n. 3; estimation of him, ii. 30, n. 1; v. 397; introduced to, iii. 331; asks him to translate the Iliad, iii. 333; dines with him in Boswell’s house, v. 32-4; breakfasts, v. 38-9; shows him St. Giles, v. 41; the College, v. 42; Holyrood, v. 43; dines with him, v. 44; welcomes him on his return, v. 392; ‘love’ for him, ii. 53; proposed tour to the Hebrides, writes about, ii. 232; refusal to hear Scotch preachers, iii. 336; v. 121; style, recognises, i. 308; imitates it, iii. 173; iv. 388; worship, complains of, iii. 331; liberality of sentiment, v. 393; packs his gold in wool, ii. 237; paraphrased other people’s thoughts, v. 397, n. 3; party in the church, his, v. 213; preferment, his church, iii. 334, n. 2; Principal of Edinburgh College, v. 41, n. 2; romantic humour, his, iii. 335; Southey calls him a rogue, ii. 238, n. 1; style, i. 439, n. 2; ii. 236-7; corrected by Strahan, v. 92, n. 3; verbiage, ii. 236; Voltaire’s Louis XIV, v. 393; Whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1; me
ntioned, ii. 66, 275, 354, n. 4; iii. 278. ROBIN HOOD, v. 389. ROBIN ROY, v. 127, n. 3. ROBINHOOD SOCIETIES, account of them, iv. 92, n. 5; Boswell attends one, iv. 95. ROBINSON, H.C., account of Capel Lofft, iv. 278, n. 3; Bishop Hampden’s ‘confirmation,’ iv. 323, n. 3; Burncy’s account of Johnson, i. 410, n. 2. ROBINSON, Sir Thomas, account of him, i. 434; Chesterfield sends him to Johnson, i. 259, n. 2; talks the language of a savage, ii. 130. Robinson Crusoe, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5; iii. 268. ROCHEFORT, expedition to, i. 321. ROCHEFOUCAULD, i. 246. ROCHESTER, Mr. Colson, master of the Free School, i. 101, n. 3; Johnson visits it, iv. 8, n. 3, 22, 232-3. ROCHESTER, Wilmot, second Earl of, Flatman, verses upon, iii. 29; Imitations of Horace, i. 118, n. 5; v. 52, n. 5; Letter from Artemisia, iii. 386, n. 4; Life by Burnet, iii. 191; Poems, castration of his, iii. 191; wrote short pieces iv. 370, n. 1. ROCHFORD, Earl of, i. 317. ROCKINGHAM, Marquis of, his ministry, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 170, n. 1; Burke’s advice about it, ii. 355, n. 2; his party, ii. 181. Rockingham, Memoirs of, iii. 460. ROD, use of the, i. 46; v. 99. Roderick Random. See SMOLLETT. RODNEY, Sir George, ii. 398. ROGERS, Rev. Mr., of Berkley, iv. 402, n. 2. ROGERS, Rev. Mr., Sermons, i. 89, n. 3. ROGERS, Samuel, Beauclerk’s absence of mind, i. 249, n. 1; Beckford’s speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3; Fitzpatrick and Hare, iii. 388, n. 3; Fordyce’s, Dr., intemperance, ii. 274, n. 6; Fox’s conversation, iv. 167, n. 1; on Burnet’s style, ii. 213, n. 2; love of Homer, iv. 218, n. 3; and the wicked Lord Lyttelton, iv. 298, n. 3; and Mrs. Sheridan, i. 390, n. 1; heads on Temple Bar, ii. 238, n. 3; Hume and his opponents, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson, wishes to call on, i. 247, n. 3; and Lady Lucan, iii. 425, n. 3; Marley, Dean, iv. 73, n. 1; Mounsey, Dr., ii. 64, n. 2; Murphy, Arthur, i. 356, n. 2; Piozzi, Signor, iv. 339, n. 2; Price, Dr., iv. 434; Rambler, i. 210, n. 1; Reynolds’s last lecture, iii. 369, n. 2; Shelburne and Carlisle, Earls of, iv. 246, n. 5; Wilkes as City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2; Williams, Miss H.M., iv. 282, n. 3; Wordsworth and the Edinburgh Review, iv. 115, n. 2. ROKEBY, Lord, i. 434, n. 3. ROKEBY HALL, i. 434, n. 3. Rolliad, The, Fitzpatrick, partly written by, iii. 388; Graham, Lord, ridiculed, iii. 382, n. 1; humorous but scurrilous, i. 116, n. 1; ‘Painful pre-eminence,’ iii. 82, n. 2. Rollin’s Ancient History, iv. 311. ROLT, Richard, Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, i. 358; ii. 344; Universal Visitor, wrote for the, ii. 345; vanity and impudence, his, i. 359. ROMAN CATHOLICISM and Roman Catholics, attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3; clergy accused of lazy devotion, v. 170, n. 1; Communion in one kind, ii. 105; iv. 289; convicts should be attended by a Popish priest, iv. 329; converts part with nothing, ii. 105; not interrogated strictly, iv. 289; doctrines and practice, ii. 105; England and Ireland, in, ii. 255, n. 3; Gordon Riots, iii. 428-431; good timorous men, suited to, iv. 289; and women, ib.; gross corruptions, iii. 17; James II’s attempt to bring England over to it, ii. 341; Johnson attacks it, iii. 407; calls their chapel a mass-house, iii. 429, n. 2; defends it, i. 465, 476; iv. 289; prefers it to Presbyterianism, ii. 103; respects it, ii. 105; laity and the Bible, ii. 27; ‘old religion, the,’ ii. 105; penal laws relaxed, iii. 427-8; still in force, iii. 427, n. 1; Popish books burnt in 1784, ib.; Popery understood by the nation, v. 276, n. 4; Presbyterianism, differs chiefly in form from, ii. 150; priests and people deceived, iii. 17; transubstantiation, v. 71. Roman Gazetteers, i. 147, n. 4. ROMANCES, fit for youth, iv. 16, n. 3; historically valuable, iv. 17; Johnson loved the old ones, i. 49; iii. 2. ROME and the Romans, ancient, barbarians mostly, ii. 170; Bolingbroke’s references to them, iii. 206, n. 1; cant in their praise, i. 311; iii. 206, n. 1; Carthaginian, no feeling for a, iv. 196; empire, iii. 36; fountain of elegance, iii. 333; ‘Happy to come, happy to depart,’ v. 82; known of them, very little, ii. 153; secession to Mons Sacer, v. 142, n. 2; Senate, iii. 206; temples built by Saurus and Batrachus, iv. 446; Tiber, its duration compared with that of the, iii. 251. ROME, modern, Johnson eager to see it, iii. 19; expected there, iv. 326, n. 3; licensed stews, iii. 17; London, mentioned in, i. 119; pilgrimages to it, iii. 446; mentioned, iii. 217; v. 153, n. 1. ROMILLY, Sir Samuel, capital punishments, iv. 328, n. 1; Hume and the French atheists, ii. 8, n. 4; Parr, letter from, iv. 15, n. 5; Robinhood Societies, iv. 92, n. 5; Windham’s opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4. ROMNEY, George, Cumberland’s Odes dedicated to him, iii. 43, n. 4. ROPE DANCING, ii. 440. RORIE MORE. See SIR RODERICK MACLEOD. Rosamond, v. 376, n. 3. Roscommon, Life of, i. 192. ROSE, Dr., i. 46, n. 1; iv. 168, n. 1. Rosicrucian Infallible Axiomata, iv. 402, n. 2. Ross, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 90, 92. Ross, — , a soldier, v. 197. ROSSLYN, Earl of. See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord. ROTHERAM, John, Origin of Faith, ii. 478. ROTHES, Countess Dowagers of, ii. 136, n. 3. ROTHES, Lady, Bennet Langton’s wife, ii. 77, n. 1, 142, 146; iii. 104, 368; iv. 8, n. 3, 146, 159, n. 3, 240. ROTTERDAM, iii. 84, n. 2. ROUBILIAC, i. 328, n. 1. ROUGHNESS, breedeth hate, iv. 168, n. 2. ROUND ROBIN, The, iii. 83-5. ROUS, FRANCIS, i. 75, n. 3. ROUSSEAU, J.J., beating time, iv. 283, n. 1; Boswell, sympathy with, ii. 11, n. 3; visits him, ii. 12, 215; Contrat-Social, ii. 249, n. 2; coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1; exile and visit to England, ii. 11; Foundling Hospital, put his children into the, ii. 398, n. 4; French not a gay people, ii. 402, n. 1; Geneva, first departure from, i. 58, n. 2; Goldsmith, resemblance to, i. 413, n. 1; Hume on Rousseau’s heroes, the Greeks and Romans, i. 353, n. 2; inequality of mankind, i. 439; Johnson’s character of him, ii. 11; justification of himself, ii. 12, n. 2; liberty of teaching, opposed to, ii, 249, n. 2; novelty, love of, i. 441; pension from George III, ii. 12, n. 1; Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard, ii. 12; read less than formerly, iv. 288; savage life, preference of, ii. 12; talked nonsense well, ii. 74; untruthfulness, ii. 434, n. 2; Voltaire, compared with, ii. 12; want of readiness, ii. 256, n. 3; writings, effect of his, ii. 11. ROWE, Elizabeth, i. 312. ROWE, Nicholas, an indecent poem included in his Works, iv. 36, n. 4; Johnson’s memory of his plays, iv. 36, n. 3. ROWLANDSON, Thomas, caricature of Boswell revising the Second Edition, v. 148, n. 1. Rowley’s Poetry. See CHATTERTON. ROYAL ACADEMY, Boswell Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1; his letters of acceptance of office, iii. 370, 462-4; and Robertson at the Exhibition, iii. 278; club-nights, ii. 97, n. 1; dinners, Goldsmith, Johnson, Reynolds and Walpole present, iv. 314, n. 3; Goldsmith, Johnson and Walpole, talk about Chatterton, iii. 51, n. 2; Johnson speaks Latin to a Frenchman at dinner, ii. 404; in 1780 sits over against an Archbishop, iv. 198, n. 2; in 1784 has a race upon the stairs, iv. 355; is kept waiting by the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2; Exhibition of 1780, ii. 400, n. 3; iv. 198, n. 2; Johnson’s monument, subscription to, iv. 423, n. 2; intercession for Lowe’s picture, iv. 201-3; minister, not dependent on a, iii. 464; Moser, the keeper, iv. 227, n. 4; origin, its, i. 363, n. 2; professors and secretaries, ii. 67; iv. 220; Reynolds’s influence in it, iv. 219, n. 4; his intention to resign the presidency, iv. 366, n. 2; travelling students, iv. 202, n. 1. ROYAL FAMILY, Johnson’s dedications, ii. 2, 225; unpopular, ii. 234. ROYAL MARRIAGE BILL, ii. 152. Royal Recollections, i. 116, n. 1. ROYAL SOCIETY, Dryden’s lines, ii. 241; Johnson improves the method of the Philosophical Transactions, ii. 40, n. 2; Presidents — Earl of Macclesfield, i. 267, n. 1; Sir John Pringle, iii. 65, n. 1; mentioned, iv. 92, n. 5. RUDD, Mrs., account of her, ii. 450, n. 1; Boswell’s acquaintance with her, iii. 79; approved by Johnson, iii. 79, 80, 330. RUDDIMAN, Thomas, Boswell projects his Life, ii. 216; Johnson’s regard for him, i. 211; Laurence Kirk, projected monument at, v. 75; Librarian of Advocates’ Library, ii. 216; ‘Ruddiman is dead,’ ii. 21; mentioned, iii. 372. RUFFHEAD, Owen, Life of Pope, ii. 166; iv. 50, n. 1. RUFFLES, laced, iv. 80. RUINS, artificial, v. 456. RUNDEL, Bishop, ii. 283, n. 2; iv. 29, n. 1. Runick Inscription, i. 156, n. 3. Runts, iii. 337. RUSKIN, Mr. John, anecdote of Northcote, i. 377, n. 1; Bibliotheca Pastorum, iii. 94, n. 2; New Town of Edinburgh, v. 68, n. 1. RUSSELL, Alexander, Natural History of Aleppo, i. 309; iv. 171. RUSSELL, Lady, ii. 210, n. 3. RUSSELL, Lord William, ii. 210. RUSSIA, alchymist, a Russian, ii. 377; Beauclerk’s library offered to the ambassador, iii. 420; Bell’s Travels, ii. 55; Lapouchin’s, Mme., punishment, iii. 340; pop
ulation increasing, ii. 101; rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 131, n. 2: See CATHERINE II. RUSTIC HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE, iv. 175; v. 293. RUTLAND, Duchess of, iv. 224, n. 1. RUTLAND, Roger, Earl of, i. 431. RUTTY, Dr., account of him, iii. 170, n. 4; extracts from his Diary, iii. 170-2. RYLAND, Mr., Johnson’s friend in 1752, i. 242; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 360; and Ivy Lane Club, iv. 435. RYMER, Thomas, i. 498, n. 4; ii. 444, n. 2. RYSWICK, peace of, iii. 446.