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  Anecdotes of some distinguished Persons, by Seward, William (q.v.) l n. 121, 587, 1002, 1061 n. 1018, 1062 nn. 1019 and 1021, 1071 n. 1262

  Aningait and Ajut (by Anne Penny), dedicated to S.J. 1000

  ‘Ant, The’, S.J.’s poem 276

  ‘Apotheosis of Milton’ 82

  ‘Appeal to the publick in behalf of the Editor’, by S.J. 10, 82

  Appius, in the Cato Major of Cicero 972, 1070 n. 1245

  Art of living in London 61

  Artists’ Catalogue, see Catalogue of the Artists’ Exhibition (1762)

  As You Like It 662 (III.ii.205), 951 (I.ii.113)

  Bas Bleu, Le, by More, Hannah (q.v.) 823

  ‘Bayes’, character of 350, 725, 1035 n. 328, 1057 n. 890

  Beauties of Johnson, The 120, 847–8, 1000

  Beaux’ Stratagem, The, by Farquhar, George (q.v.) 511, 545, 1044 n. 567, 1056 n. 635

  Beggar’s Opera, The, by Gay, John (q.v.) 457–8, 501, 594, 630, 696–7, 815–16, 1041 n 486, 1049 n. 687, 1062 n. 1027

  ‘Betty Broom’, story of, The Idler 898

  Bible 21, 251, 277, 341, 475, 509, 547, 657, 716, 819, 913, 936, 977, 990, 996, 1023 n. 65, 1048 n. 667

  ‘Bibliotheca Harleiana’, 11, 12, 20, 88–9, 91; see also Index of Persons, Others: Osborne, Thomas

  ‘Bibliotheque des Savans’, S.J’s Dictionary reviewed in 174

  Biographia Britannica li n. 133, 503, 584, 617, 700, 791, 914

  Biographical Dictionary 192, 584

  Blake, Life of Admiral, contributed by S.J to the Gentleman’s Magazine 11, 85

  Bluebeard 356, 1036 n. 338

  Boniface, character in Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem 511

  Book of Discipline, of the Church of Scotland 352

  ‘Bravery of the English Common Soldiers’, essay by S.J. 14, 179

  ‘Broomstick, The Life of a’ 469

  ‘Burman, Peter, An Account of the Life of, by S.J. 11, 88

  Burton’s Books 904

  Cadet, The 13, 167

  Caledonian Mercury 16, 835

  Canons of Criticism 143

  Carleton’s Memoirs 947

  Casimir’s ‘Ode to Pope Urban’ 67

  Catalogue of the Artists’ Exhibition, 1762, preface by S.J. 15, 196

  Catalogue Raisonne 89, 529

  Catholicon, by Balbus, Joannes (q.v.) 456, 476

  Cento 309, 1033 n. 283

  Champion, The, a periodical 97

  Chances, The, by Beaumont, F. and Fletcher, J. (q.v.) 384

  Cheynel, Life of, by S.J. 12, 127

  Chinese Architecture by Chambers, William (q.v.) 14, 867

  Chinese Stories 79

  Clanranald, book of 428–9

  Claudian 976, 1039 n. 433

  Cleone, by Dodsley, Robert (q.v.) 175, 773

  Cleonice, by Hoole, John (q.v.) 417

  Colombiade, The, by Boccage, Mme du (q.v.) 946

  Common Prayer, Book of 27, 572, 880, 926

  Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage 10, 82

  Compositor, Mr 941

  ‘Conduct of the Ministry relating to the present War’ (1756) 13–14, 167

  Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter Catechisms, agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster 411

  Confutatio stultissimae Burdonum Fabulae, by Scaliger, J. J. (q.v.) 401

  Connoisseur, The, by Thornton, Bonnell and Colman, George (qq.v.) 222

  ‘Considerations on the Case of Dr. Trapp’s Sermons’ 10

  ‘Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and Warburton’, by S.J. 11, 91

  Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty George III and Samuel Johnson, separately issued by J.B. 282, 535

  Convict’s Address by Dodd, Dr William (q.v.) 598–9, 612–13

  Coriat Junior, by Samuel Paterson 353

  Coriolanus 662 (III.ii.256-7)

  Corsica, Account of, by J.B. i, 9, 266, 273, 287, 292, 297–8, 303, 449, 574, 1032 n. 255

  ‘Corycius Senex’ 860

  Dawson’s Lexicon in Novum Testamentum (1706) 743

  ‘Debate on the Proposal of Parliament to Cromwell’ 11, 86

  Defence of Pluralities, by H. Warton 389, 1038 n. 389

  Deformities of Dr. Johnson, The 847

  Demonax, by Lucian 781

  De veritate Religionis 43, 1021 n. 32

  Diabolus Regis 560, 1048 n. 652

  Dialogues of the Dead, by George Lord Lyttleton (q.v.) 503, 795

  Diary, The 979

  Dictionary of the English Language, by S.J. viii, xv, 12, 30, 101, 104–7, 122, 139–44, 150, 154–6, 159–63, 165, 174, 204, 234, 244, 335–6, 343, 346, 368–9, 399, 581, 583, 609, 628, 709, 742, 765, 883, 944, 989, 997, 1000, 1004, 1023 n. 71; see also Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language

  Dirleton’s Doubts, by Nisbet, Sir John (q.v.) 634

  ‘Dissertation on the Epitaphs written by Pope’, by S.J. 13, 166

  ‘Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authours’, by S.J. 13, 166

  Distressed Mother, The, by Budgell, Eustace (q.v.) 36, 103, 542, 1021 n. 25

  Don Quixote, by Cervantes, Saavedra, Miguel de (q.v.) 459

  Double the Cape, to 476

  Douglas, a tragedy, by Home, John (q.v.) 240, 434, 562

  Drugger, Abel, character in Ben Jonson’s Alchemist 536, 1045

  Drury Lane Journal 122

  Dublin Evening Post 979

  Eagle and Robin Redbreast 69

  Eclogues, by Virgil (q.v.) 884

  Edinburgh Review xlv n. 79

  Eglogues 150

  England’s Gazetteer 936

  ‘Epitaphs, Essay on’, by S.J. 11, 85, 179

  Epocha 590

  ‘Essay on Architecture’, not by S.J. 13, 165

  ‘Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough’, by S.J. 11, 88

  Essay on the Character of Hamlet, by Robertson, Dr Thomas (q.v.) 776

  Eugenio, by Beach, Thomas (q.v.) 72, 387–8, 1037 n. 379

  European Magazine 193, 280, 316

  ‘Examen of Pope’s Essay on Man’ 80

  ‘Excursion, The’, a poem 276

  Fable of the Bees, by Mandeville, Bernard (q.v.) 681–2

  Faculty, The 678

  Fall of Mortimer, The 561

  False Alarm, The ix, 15, 318, 338, 432, 743, 779, 821, 1015

  False Delicacy 288, 1031 n. 246

  Falstaff 136, 869, 938, 1025 n. 102

  Fantoccini 219, 1029 n. 185

  Felixmarte de Hircania, by Melchior Ortega de Ubeda 31

  Female Quixote 12, 196

  Fingal, by Macpherson, James (q.v.) 326, 418, 420, 421, 425, 544, 901–2, 1034 n. 298

  Finnick Dictionary 150–52

  Fitzosborne’s Letters, by Melmoth, William (q.v.) 753, 914

  Fleece, The, by Dyer, John (q.v.) 506

  Fool, The 281

  ‘Foreign History’, in Gentleman’s Magazine 11, 12, 89

  Fortune, a Rhapsody, by Derrick, Samuel (q.v.) 73

  Fossilist 425 Foundling Hospital for Wit 923, 1068 n. 1164

  Fountains, The, by S.J. 15, 85, 276

  Freeholder, by Addison, Joseph (q.v.) 433

  ‘Friendship, an Ode’, by S.J. 91, 276

  Frusta Letteraria, by Baretti, Guiseppe Marc’Antonio (q.v.) 616

  ‘Further Thoughts on Agriculture’ 13,

  Gallia Christiana 475

  Gargantua, Rabelais’s giant 662

  Gazetteer, The 14, 187

  Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, A 873

  General Advertiser 12, 126

  Gentleman’s Magazine viii, 10–12, 14–15, 17, 25, 36, 53, 57, 66, 69, 74, 81, 82, 85–6, 88, 91, 93–5, 101, 103–4, 1o8, 117, 127, 139, 172, 176, 189, 216, 256, 294, 697, 708, 770, 938, 978–9, 994, 1020 n. 13, 1022 nn. 43 and 55, 1059 n. 955

  Gentleman’s Religion 936

  Geographical Grammar 936

  Geography, Dictionary of Ancient, by Macbean, Alexander (q.v.) 15, 369, 532 />
  Georgics 45, 328, 860, 884

  Good-natured Man, The, by Goldsmith, Oliver (q.v.) 103, 119, 285, 287, 696

  Government of the Tongue 728, 858, 1057 n. 896

  Gray’s Inn Journal, by A. Murphy 156, 166, 190

  Grongar Hill, by Dyer, John (q.v.) 934, 1086 n. 1182

  Guardian, The 112, 977

  Gustavus Adolphus, History of, by Harte, Dr Walter (q.v.) 323, 807

  Gustavus Vasa, by Brooke, Henry (q.v.) 10, 82

  Hamlet 69 (III.iv.62), 345 (III.ii.39–40), 417 (III.ii.358), 422 (III.i.80), 465 (III.ii.66), 546 (III.i.58–90 and V.ii.44), 614 (III.i.68), 620 (I.iii.41), 643 (I.ii.184), 713 (I.ii.133), 804 n. a (III.iv.54–61), 948 (I.ii.184)

  Happy Life, The 276

  Hardcastle, Mrs and Miss, in She Stoops to Conquer 376

  ‘Hardyknute, Ballad of 307

  Harleian Catalogue, see ‘Bibliotheca Harleiana’

  Harleian Miscellany viii, 12, 100

  Hebrides, Journal of a Tour to the, by J.B. x, xxxiii, li n.133, lii n. 136, 4, 25, 65, 84, 88, 96, 113, 124, 171, 186, 228, 238–9, 254, 355, 375, 403, 419, 424, 465, 575, 606, 626, 669, 698, 719, 859, 880, 914, 916, 922, 986, 1003, 1049 n. 676

  1 Henry IV 136 (V.iv.156-7), 938 (II.v.452)

  2 Henry IV 863 (I.ii.10)

  Henry V 3o5

  Henry VIII 17 (IV.ii.69–72), 169 (III.ii.359), 803 n. a (IV.ii.50–51, 67–8), 896

  Hermippus Redivivus, by Campbell, Dr John (q.v.) 221, 493, 1043 n. 539

  Hermit, The, see Vision of Theodore the Hermit 12, 108

  Heroic Epistle, by Mason, William (q.v.) 825, 938

  High Life below Stairs 766, 1059 n. 944

  Histoire genealogique de la maison royale de France 475

  History of the Council of Trent, see Index of Persons, Others: Sarpi, Father Paul

  History of the War 189

  Hob in the Well or The Country Wake, by Cibber, Colley (q.v.) 513, 1044 n. 570

  Honore mutant mores (Polydore Vergil) 173, 835, 1063 n. 1062, 1027 n. 139

  ‘Humours of Ballamagairy’ 376

  Hypochondriack, The, by J.B. 864, 1064 n. 1094

  Hypocrite, The 434

  Idler, The (an earlier paper than S.J.’s) 177

  Idler, The, by S.J. viii, ix, xv, liii n. 158, 14, 131, 161, 177–9, 184, 197, 898, 1021

  Imitatio Christi 646–7, 774, 917; see also Index of Persons, Others: Kempis, Thomas à

  Imlac (why so spelt) 779; see also Rasselas

  Impransus 80

  Introduction to the Game of Draughts, by Payne, William (q.v.) 14, 171

  ‘Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain’, by S.J. 13, 166

  Introductions by S.J. 10–12, 14–16, 52, 85–6, 88, 91, 93, 100, 101, 107–8, 127,139, 159–60, 161–2, 171, 174, 191, 196, 260, 261, 276, 307, 362, 369, 379, 417, 446, 475, 573, 578, 584, 596, 627, 643, 718, 724, 746, 781–2, 922, 953, 977, 1027 n. 130

  Jealous Wife, The, by Colman, George, the elder (q.v.) 195, 1028 n. 163

  Johnny Armstrong’s Last Goodnight 214

  Johnsoniana; or a Collection of Bon Mots. By Dr. Johnson and Others 496, 697, 1001

  Journal Britannique 155

  Journal des Savans 284

  Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, see Hebrides, Journal of a Tour to the

  Journey into North Wales 413

  Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by S.J. ix, 15, 243, 423, 426–8, 429, 433, 455–6, 570, 574, 596, 616, 671, 686, 802, 858, 867, 1017, 1039 n. 430

  King Lear 658 (III.iv.135), 729 (II.iv.i23ff.)

  ‘Let ambition fire thy mind’ 630

  Lethe, a dramatic satire 127, 1024 n. 94

  Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson occasioned by his late political Publications, by Towers, Joseph (q.v.) 432

  Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 779

  Lexiphanes, by Campbell, Archibald (q.v.) 286

  ‘Lilliburlero’, ballad of 447, 1040 n. 458

  Literary Magazine, or Universal Review, The 13, 166, 169, 172, 176, 648

  Lives of the Poets, by Bell, John and Cibber, Theophilus (qq.v.) 106–7, 534–5, 538

  Lives of the Poets, by S.J. xlviii, 44, 61, 709, 718, 724, 726, 732, 734, 737, 749, 781, 783, 798–9, 804, 822, 846, 853, 894, 921, 941, 1000–1001, 1035 n. 327, 1043 n. 553, 1053 n. 793, 1060 n. 983, 1062 n. 1028

  London: A Poem, by S.J. viii, xxvi, 10, 51, 57, 6^, 73–4, 75–7, 83, 108–9, 239, 242, 3°4, 555, 671, 761, 1034 n. 306, 1056 n. 879

  London Chronicle, The 14–15, 171, 253, 313, 372, 643, 807

  London Gazette 226 London Magazine, The ix, xvi, xli n. 6, xlii n. 28, xlvi n. 92, liv n. 161, 82, 330, 1020 n. 13, 1064 n. 1094

  Love and Madness, by Croft, Herbert (q.v.) 867, 1064 n. 1103

  Love in a Hollow Tree, by Grimston, Viscount (q.v.) 808

  Love’s Labour’s Lost 816–17 (II.i. 66–76)

  Lusiad, The 900–901; see also Index of Persons, Others: Mickle,

  William Julius Lyce, To, by S.J. 101–2

  Macbeth 12, 100–101, 162, 306–7, 435, 448, 988, 1033 n. 282, 1039 n. 438, 1046 n. 638, 1059 n. 946, 1071 nn. 1269–70

  Mag. Extraordinary, see Gentleman’s Magazine 90

  Mahomet and Irene viii, 10, 59, 62, 64–5, 73, 88, 110–11, 127, 130, 765, 1022 n. 48

  Man of Feeling and Man of the World, see Index of Persons, Others: Mackenzie, Henry 192

  ‘Manners’, a poem, by Whitehead, Paul (q.v.) 73

  Marmor Norfolciense, by S.J. 10, 82–3

  Matrimonial Thought, A, by J.B. 317

  Memoirs of Frederick III [II], King of Prussia, by S.J. 13, 166

  Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph, by Sheridan, Frances (q.v.) 191, 206 Messiah, by Pope 10, 39–40, 147, 1025 n. 112

  ‘Military Dictionary’ 81

  Mirror, The 983

  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, ‘by the Author of the Rambler’, published by Tom Davies 405

  Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, by S.J. 12, IOO–IOI

  ‘Misella’, of The Rambler 125

  Monthly Review, The liii n. 157, 284, 534–5, 1043 n. 555

  Morning Chronicle 848–9

  Morton’s ‘Exercise’ 976

  mottoes 178; see also Adventurer, Idler and Rambler

  Mourning Bride, by Congreve, William (q.v.) 207, 304–5, 1033 n. 272

  Much Ado About Nothing 679 (III.v.33)

  Musarum Deliciae 695

  Muse in Livery, by Dodsley, Robert (q.v.) 503

  Musical Travels of Joel Collier 170

  Nature Displayed 936

  New and General Biographical Dictionary (1761-2) 584

  New Testament xxv, xxxiv, 221, 265, 278, 344, 374, 410, 469, 538, 605, 684, 743, 924, 930; see also Bible

  Nugce Antiques 864, 1000, 1064 n. 1097

  ‘Observations on his Britannick Majesty’s Treaties’, by S.J. 13, 166

  ‘Observations on the Present State of Affairs’, by S.J. 13, 166–7

  Observer, The, by Cumberland, Richard (q.v.) 799, 979, 1070 n. 1256

  ‘Ode, An’, by S.J. 101

  ‘Ode on Winter’, by S.J. 104

  Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain, by Tasker, Revd William (q.v.) 726

  Odyssey, by Homer (q.v.) 884

  Old Bailey, Sessional Reports 295, 309, 820

  Old Man’s Wish, The, by Pope, Walter (q.v.) 772, 1059 n. 960

  Olla Podrida, by Horne, Dr George (q.v.) 1044, 1072 n. 1296

  Orphan of China, by Murphy, Arthur (q.v.) 176

  Othello 481 (II.i.162), 539–40, 712 (III.iii.347-8)

  Overbury, Sir Thomas, a tragedy, by Savage, Richard (q.v.) 300, 582

  ‘Palmerin of England’, ‘Palmerino d’Inghilterra’ 519, 1044 n. 580

  parliamentary journals 69

  Pastor Fido, by Guarini, G. B. (q.v.) 711

  Paterson v. Alexander, Scottish law case 461

  Patriot, The, by S.J. 15, 415–16, 432

  Patriot, The, a tragedy, by Simpson, Joseph (q.v.) 53
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  Philosophical Transactions 13, 167, 284

  Piozzi Letters, by Thrale, Mrs (q.v.), Letters to and from Dr. Johnson 17

  Plain Dealer 90, 100 Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, by S.J. 12, 104, 106, 139, 140, 156

  Poetical Calendar, by Fawkes and Woty 15, 203

  Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson: LL.D, by Courtenay, John (q.v.) 40, 433

  Poets, Lives of the, see Lives of the Poets

  Polite Philosopher, The, by Col. James Forrester (q.v.) 530

  Political Tracts, by S.J. 432, 500

  Prayers and Meditations, by S.J. 17, 28, 57, 113, 130, 164–5, 177, 187, 189, i9i, 241, 460, 472, 57i, 728, 973, 998

  Preceptor, The 12, 108

  Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the Works of the English Poets, by S.J., see Lives of the Poets

  Present State of England, by Edward Chamberlayne 936

  Prince Titi, by Themiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe 471

  Proceedings of the Committee… for Cloathing French Prisoners of War 15, 189

  Profession, The 6j8, 935

  Project, The, by Tickell, R. (q.v.) 695

  Prologue… at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, by S.J. 10, 103, 297, 773, 1068 n. 1185

  ‘Properantia’ 125 Provoked Husband, The, or The Journey to London, by Cibber, Colley and Vanbrugh, Sir John (qq.v.) 288, 1031 n. 247

  Psalmorum Codex 476

  Public Advertiser, The 163, 1034 n. 308

  Rambler, The, by S.J. viii, xv, 12, 81, 112–17, 119–21, 125, 139, 156, 177, 190, 218, 229–30, 336, 401, 405, 432, 505, 616, 812–13, 838, 916, 943, 991, iooo

  Rambler, Beauties of the, see Beauties of Johnson, The Rambler’s Magazine 113

  Rasselas, by S.J. ix, 14, 41, 182–4, 229–30, 371, 522, 594, 694, 716, 771, 931, 954, 1021 n. 29, 1022 n. 41, 1044 n. 581, 1068 n. 1175

  Recueil des Poètes 737

  ‘Reflections on a Grave digging in Westminster Abbey’, by Miss Williams 276

  ‘Reflections on the Stage of Portugal’, not by S.J. 13, 165

  Rehearsal, The, by Buckingham, the 2nd Duke of (q.v.) 350, 940

  Remarks on Dr. Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides 427

 

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