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quently indulged himself in colloquial pleasantry; and the heartiest merriment was often enjoyed in his company; with this great advantage, that, as it was entirely free from any poisonous tincture of vice or impiety, it was salutary to those who shared in it. He had accustomed himself to such accuracy in his common conversation,1 that he at all times expressed his thoughts with great force, and an elegant choice of language, the effect of which was aided by his having a loud voice, and a slow deliberate utterance. In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual strength and dexterity, he could, when he pleased, be the greatest sophist that ever contended in the lists of declamation; and, from a spirit of contradiction, and a delight in shewing his powers, he would often maintain the wrong side with equal warmth and ingenuity; so that, when there was an audience, his real opinions could seldom be gathered from his talk; though when he was in company with a single friend, he would discuss a subject with genuine fairness; but he was too conscientious to make errour permanent and pernicious, by deliberately writing it; and, in all his numerous works, he

1 Though a perfect resemblance of Johnson is not to be found in any age, parts of his character are admirably expressed by Clarendon, in drawing that of Lord Falkland, whom the noble and masterly historian describes at his seat near Oxford :-"Such an immenseness of wit, such a solidity of judgement, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination.-His acquaintance was cultivated by the most polite and accurate men, so that his house was an University in less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in conversation."

Bayle's account of Menage may also be quoted as exceedingly applicable to the great subject of this work." His illustrious friends erected a very glorious monument to him in the collection entitled Menagiana. Those who judge of things aright, will confess that this collection is very proper to shew the extent of genius and learning which was the character of Menage. And I may be bold to say, that the excellent works he published will not distinguish him from other learned men so advantageously as this. To publish books of great learning, to make Greek and Latin verses exceedingly well turned, is not a common talent, I own; neither is it extremely rare. It is incomparably more difficult to find men who can furnish discourse about an infinite number of things, and who can diversify them an hundred ways. How many authours are there, who are admired for their works, on account of the vast learning that is displayed in them, who are not able to sustain a conversation. Those who know Menage only by his books, might think he resembled those learned men: but if you show the MENAGIANA, you distinguish him from them, and make him known by a talent which is given to very few learned men. There it appears that he was a man who spoke off-hand a thousand good things. His memory extended to what was ancient and modern; to the court and to the city; to the dead and to the living languages; to things serious and things jocose; in a word, to a thousand sorts of subjects. That which appeared a trifle to some readers of the Menagiana, who did not consider circumstances, caused admiration in other readers, who minded the difference between what a man speaks without preparation, and that which he prepares for the press. And, therefore, we cannot sufficiently commend the care which his illustrious friends took to erect a monument so capable of giving him immortal glory. They were not obliged to rectify what they had heard him say; for, in so doing, they had not been faithful historians of his conversation."

earnestly inculcated what appeared to him to be the truth; his piety being constant, and the ruling principle of all his conduct.

Such was SAMUEL JOHNSON, a man whose talents, acquirements, and virtues were so extraordinary, that the more his character is considered, the more he will be regarded by the present age, and by posterity, with admiration and reverence.

INDEX

ABINGDON, Lord, bon mot of, II. 310 n.
Abingdon, Mrs., I. 531, 533, 536
Abjuration oath of, I. 531

Absentees from their estates, how far justi-
fiable, II. 130, 131, 180

Academy, Royal, instituted, I. 354
Action in public speaking, I. 453

Actors, I. 97, 468-469, 586; II. 134-135
Adams, Miss, II. 517, 521-522

Adams, Rev. Dr., I. 27, 35, 38, 73, 74,
103, 109, 114, 157-158, 172, 312-315; II.
517, 525, 580-581
Addison, Johnson's opinion of, I. 133; 263,
546; II. 32, 242

his style compared with Johnson's, I.
132-133
"Adventurer," Hawkesworth's, I. 121,
138, 148-150 n., 151
Akenside's poetry,

420; II. 23

his early friendship with Charles
Townshend, II. 6

his "Pleasures of the Imagination,"
I. 221-222

Akerman, Mr., Keeper of Newgate,
character and anecdotes of, II. 306-308
Alchymy, I. 566

Alfred, 103

his will, II. 409

Allen, Mr., printer, II. 194, 562, 583
Johnson's letter to, II. 473

America and Americans, I. 512-513, 526-
528; II. 149, 209, 330, 373

Amyat, Dr., his anecdote of Dr. Johnson,

I. 233
Annihilation, II. 212-213
Anthologia, II. 587
Arbuthnot, I. 263

Articles, Thirty-nine, I. 376, 411-412
Ascham, Roger, Johnson's Life of, I. 288
Astle, Rev. Mr., II. 534
"Athol Porridge," II. 372

BACON, Viscount St. Albans, II. 141
Bagshaw, Rev. Thomas, I. 64

Johnson's letters to, I. 64; II. 560
Banks, Sir Joseph, his epigram on his
goat, I. 406

his voyages, I. 409
Barber, Mr. Francis, Johnson's negro
servant, I. 139, 140, 141, 143, 214, 216,
313, 351, 565; II. 516, 599, 609

Johnson's letters to, I. 352, 384, 385
Baretti, Joseph, I. 183, 217, 223, 348, 354,
369; II. 15, 68

Baretti, Joseph, his trial, I. 370-371

Johnson's letters to, I. 223, 229, 235
Barnard, Dr. Thomas (Lord Bishop of
Limerick), I. 522; II. 58, 394 n.
Barretier, Philip, Johnson's Life of, I. 83, 85
Bateman, Edward, tutor of Christ Church,
his lectures, I. 37

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his death, II. 302

his library sold, II. 388-389
Bedlam, Johnson's visits to, I. 564-565
Beggars, II. 284

"Beggars' Opera," I. 559-560; II. 229,
381-382

Bentley, Dr., verses by, II. 332
Berkeley, Bishop, I. 292, 397; II. 334
Betterton, I. 135

Bibliotheca Harle:ana, I. 87-88, 102
Biography, remarks on, I. 5-11, 617; 11.
50-51, 115

Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, I. 85, 86 n., 92
-Johnson's letters to, I. 93, 134, 172.
his letter to Johnson on his Diction
ary, I. 172

Bishops, II. 368-369

Blacklock's poetry, I. 289

Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, his sermons, II.
69, 74, 123, 242, 383

Blair, Rev. Robert, his poem of "The
Grave," II. 33

Blake, Admiral, Johnson's Life of, I. 83
Blaney, Elizabeth, I. 13; II. 578
Blank verse, I. 265, 391; II. 186, 344
Blue-stocking Clubs, II. 390

Boerhaave, Johnson's Life of, I. 79
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first Vis-
count, his works, I. 159-160

Boswell, James, his introduction to John-
son, I. 242, 244-245

Johnson's letters to, I. 293, 312, 323,
349, 356, 380, 403, 407, 446, 449, 489,
490, 491, 492, 494-501, 504-514, 524, 567-
570, 572, 590, 591, 594-602; II. 31, 61,
62, 66, 67, 74, 76, 78, 88, 90, 94, 97, 98,
101, 152, 155, 156, 258, 262, 265, 277,
280, 282, 285, 294, 296, 299, 309, 316,
365, 411, 420, 422, 424, 425, 427, 430,
476, 489, 497, 498, 499, 501, 502, 583

his account of Corsica, I. 342
Boswell, Mrs. See Letters to Boswell
Johnson's letters to, II. 60, 96, 425;
her answer, 428

Brocklesby, Dr., II. 439, 475 seq.
Browne, Sir Thomas, Johnson's Life of, I.

-

131

his style, how far imitated by John-
son, I. 131

Brutes, the hardships suffered by them
recompensed by the care of man, II. 36

619

Buchanan, I. 285; II. 445
Bunyan, his " Pilgrim's Progress," I. 470-

471
Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, anecdotes of,
and remarks on, etc., I. 44, 212, 320,
396, 619; II. 268, 269, 334, 510, 513, 538,
603,

"Essay on the Sublime," etc., I. 367
his letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
censured by Johnson, II. 136
Burnet's "History of his own Times," I.
454

his Life of Rochester, II. 140
Burney, Dr., II. 261, 262

Johnson's letters to, I. 173, 196, 199;
II. 568

his anecdotes of Johnson, I. 200, 589,
590; II. 409

Burney, Miss, and her works, II. 470-471,

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Cock-lane Ghost, I. 252; II. 192
Collins, the poet, I. 237
Condescension, II. 319

Congreve, his works, I. 365, 370
"Connoisseur," the, I. 260
Convents, I. 316

Conversation, I. 616; II. 38, 392, 432-
433, 445-446

Johnson's, Mrs. Thrale's simile of,
II. 396; 444, 480

Cook, Captain, II. 9
Cookery, II. 204

Corn-laws of Ireland, I. 396

Country life, II. 183, 217, 252, 551
Coverley, Sir Roger, I. 561-562

Cowley, Johnson's Life of, considered by
him his best, II. 341

Crabbe, Rev. Mr., his "Village," II. 438
Cumberland, Richard, Esq., II. 31
Curates, question of raising their salaries
discussed, II. 103

DAVIES, Mr. Thomas, I. 241-243, 301, 352-
354, 369, 545; II., 163, 179-180, 322, 325,
475, 573

Death, I. 377-378; II. 212, 425, 512

Johnson's fear of, I. 368, 377-378, 516;
II. 114, 212, 520, 595
Derrick, Samuel, Esq., I. 238, 244, 281-
283; II. 449

Desmoulins, Mrs. Johnson's generosity to,
etc., II. 162, 224, 262, 434, 435, 477, 609
Devil, the first Whig, II. 232

Dr. Hurd's sermon upon, II. 520-521
"Dictionary of the English Language,"
Johnson's, I. 106-109; 178-181; II. 287
Garrick's epigram on, 183

Dodd, Rev. Dr., II. 87, 88-89, 94, 114,
122-123, 194, 459

Johnson's efforts on his behalf, and
letters to, II. 104-111

Dodsley, Robert, I. 106, 107, 116, 118 n.,
158; II. 329

Drake, Sir Francis, Johnson's Life of, I.
83, 85

Drummond, Mr. William, Johnson's letters
to, I. 329, 331, 332.

Drunkenness. See Wine

Dryden, compared with Pope, I. 313, 365

Duelling, I. 430, 463; II. 463-464
Dyer's "Fleece," I. 621

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433, 522

France and the French, Johnson's opinion
of, II. 251, 480

Frederick the Great, Johnson's criticism
on, I. 269

Frenchman, difference between an English-
man and a, II. 326

story of his ghost, II. 249
Friendship, I. 182; II. 208, 274
Frisick language, less cultivated than

any of the Northern dialects, I. 296
Future state of man, I. 418-420; II. 223

GAMING, I. 427; II. 18
Garrick, David, Johnson's opinion of him,
etc., I. 39, 49, 51, 54, 55, 61, 105, 114,
135, 160, 183, 198, 243, 247, 299, 361,
368, 533-534, 612, 629; II. 35, 49, 50,
134, 135, 190-191, 274, 275, 320, 384,
471, 485

anecdotes of, 52, 54 n., 84, 97, 146,
148, 361, 364, 463; II. 25, 187, 322, 323,

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George II., I. 544

Ghosts, I. 251-252, 429, 433; II., 167, 213,
381

Gibbon, Edward, Esq., I. 547, 559; II.
368
Goldsmith, Dr. Oliver, character of, I. 253,
255 seq.; II. 121, 194-195, 229

anecdotes of, I. 126, 256-258, 260, 262,
273 n., 339, 363-364, 435, 452, 455, 461,
462, 466, 470, 482, 484-485, 486-487, 554 ;
II. 27, 334, 393, 438, 444

Johnson's opinion of him and his
works, I. 253, 313, 343, 431-432, 441, 456,
468, 469-470, 472; II. 123, 178, 182, 331,
336

his bon mots on Johnson, I. 354, 466
his death, I. 501-502

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Guardians to children, instructions relative
to appointment of, II. 284

Guthrie, William, Esq., I. 64, 345

Habeas Corpus, I. 358

Habits, early, not conquerable without un-
remitting exertion, I. 559

Hailes, Lord (Sir David Dalrymple, Bart.),
his and Johnson's opinion of each other,
I. 268, 279

his "Annals of Scotland," II. 39
Hall, Mrs., II. 380, 381

Happiness, I. 113, 211, 315, 441, 549; II.
7, 36, 177

in a future state, II. 207, 208, 210
Hastings, Warren, Esq., character of, II
361

Johnson's letters to, II. 363, 364, 365
his letter to author, II. 361
Hawkesworth, Dr., I. 111, 138, 143, 149
his voyages, I. 478
Hawkins, Sir John, I. 111

119

remarks on his life of Johnson, I. 6,

contradicted and corrected, I. 70 n.,
80, 94 m., 119, 122 n., 137, 138, 142, 174 N.,
188, 206 m., 257, 298, 340; II. 577, 595
Hebrides, Johnson's journey to, and "Ac-
count of," I. 500, 502, 507, 517, 530, 557;
II. 73, 103, 127, 216, 453

a great deal in it that the world did
not know before, II. 232

Hector, Mr. Edmund, I. 19, 20, 24 N., 47,
91, 95, 625, etc.; II. 580, 582

Hell, paved with good intentions, I. 555
Hervey, Hon. Henry, I. 57

Hervey, Hon. Thomas, I. 334

History and historians, I. 268, 361, 440,
558-559

Homer, I. 395

critiques on, II. 141, 236, 237, 338
Horace, his odes cannot be perfectly
translated, II. 253, 466

Hospitality, II. 328, 469

promiscuous, does not procure lasting
regard, I. 422

in London, I. 460

Hume, David, his style french, I. 272
his scepticism, I. 275, 288, 615; II.

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