Abel Drugger, 298.
Abercrombie, James, 198.
Aberdeen, 184, 362.
235-6, 239, 246.
Acting, 343, 344.
Authors, attacks on, 240, 417, 468.
Avarice, 311.
Bacon, Francis, 50, 186, 350, 514.
Ballads, 200.
Balloon, account of a, 543, 545.
Banks, Sir Joseph, 132, 559.
Barber, Francis, Johnson's negro
servant, 52-4, 56, 84-5, 138,
156, 184, 250, 256, 355, 415,
518, 552, 557.
Baretti, Joseph, 154, 171, 198,
258-9, 271, 288, 336, 416.
Barnard, Rev. Dr., dean of Derry,
afterwards Bishop of Killaloe,
232, 317, 459, 465.
Barretier, Philip, Life by John-
son, 35.
Barrington, Hon. Daines, 292,
507.
Barry, James, 499, 507.
Bartolozzi, Francis, 324.
Bath, 302-3.
Bathurst, Dr., 43, 52.
Bathurst, Lord Chancellor, 329.
Baxter, Rev. Richard, 220, 485.
Bayle, his Dictionary, 110.
Beattie, Dr. James, 182-3, 460.
534, 535; his Hermit, 486.
Beauclerk Hon. Topham, 59-61,
209, 260, 412, 438, 445, 450;
death, 434; dinners and suppers
at his house, 212, 237, 423-5;
Johnson's affection for him,
439, 460, 483; Johnson's alter-
cations with, 375-6, 421-2.
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, wife of
Topham Beauclerk, 214, 239.
Beauty, of women, 470.
Bedlam, Johnson visits it, 255.
Bellamy, Mrs., the actress, 79.
Bentley, Dr., 16, 442, 443, 496.
Berkeley, Bishop, 130.
Betty Broom, 506.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 165-6.
Binning, Lord, 194, 402.
Biography, 1-3, 110, 149, 187,
270, 312, 333, 547.
Blackstone, Sir William, 18, 421.
Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, 96.
Blaney, Mrs. Elizabeth, 545.
Blank verse, 111.
Blenheim Park, Johnson visits it,
271.
Blue-stocking Clubs, 462.
Boccage, Mme. du, 259.
Boileau, 30.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first
Viscount, 408, 410; Johnson's
criticisms on, 67, 80.
Bolingbroke, Lady, 397.
Bon-mots, 397.
Books, abundance of modern, 403;
death, leaving one's books at,
391; getting boys to have en-
tertainment from them, 422;
knowledge of the world through
books, 27; looking over their
backs in a library, 253; not read
willingly, 497; seldom read when
given away, 209; variety of them
to be kept about a man, 349.
Booksellers, 75, 245, 322, 468.
Boscawen, Hon. Mrs., 402, 458.
Boscovich, Père, 179, 261
Bosville, Mrs., 188.
Boswell, Sir Alexander, Baronet,
Boswell's eldest son, 318.
Boswell, Dr., 115, 289.
Chief Events and
Works: 1760, first visit to
London, 91-2; 1762, second
visit to London, 92; gets to
know Johnson, 94; visits Lon-
don, 138-43; visits London and
Oxford, 152-5; Account of Cor-
sica, 140; 1769, visits London,
151, 320; first visit to Streat-
ham, 159-76; attends the
Stratford Jubilee, 162; 1772,
visits London, 184-97; 1773,
visits London, 199-226; elected
a member of the Literary Club,
214; tour to the Hebrides, 226;
1775, visits London, 232–57;
visits Wilton and Mamhead in
Devonshire, 255; visits Lon-
don, 263-6, 287-315; becomes
Paoli's constant guest in Lon
don, 298; visits Oxford, Bir-
mingham, Lichfield, and Ash-
bourne with Johnson, 266-87;
visits Bath, 302-4; introduces
Wilkes to Johnson, 307; meets
Johnson at Ashbourne, 326-55;
1778, visits London, 355-413:
attacked violently by Johnson,
406; 1779, visits London (in
the spring), 416-26; visits
London (in the autumn), 427-
32; 1781, visits London, 447-
66; visits Southill with John-
son, 466-70; 1782, death of his
father, 474; 1783, visits Lon-
don, 476-500; visits London,
511-39; visits Oxford with
Johnson, 517-26; Journal of a
Tour to the Hebrides, 257, 333,
348, 494.
His letters to Johnson, 155, 229,
322, 425, 548.
Johnson's letters to Boswell, 155,
182, 198, 226, 257-8, 321-2,
326, 415, 425, 447, 540.
Boswell, Mrs. (the author's wife),
257, 318, 322, 325, 415, 474,
500, 548.
Boswell, Veronica (Boswell's eld-
est daughter), 318, 416.
Boufflers, Comtesse de, 177, 260.
Brandy, the drink for heroes, 419,
451.
Brighthelmstone (Brighton), 159,
Bristol, Boswell and Johnson's
visit, 303.
Brocklesby, Dr., 481, 503, 507,
536, 538, 542, 551, 552, 555,
556.
Brown, Launcelot (Capability),
271, 428.
Brown, Tom, author of a spelling-
book, 8.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 50.
Brutes, their future life, 153.
Budgell, Eustace, 209.
Bulkeley, Mrs., 203.
Bull-dog, Dr. Taylor's, 347.
Bunbury, Sir Charles, 132, 234,
559.
Bunyan, John, 214.
Burke, Edmund, 131, 214, 222,
315, 370, 390, 396, 445, 449, 450,
494, 553, 559; Letter on the
Affairs of America, 345; his bon-
mots, 397; his universal knowl-
edge, 318, 442, 444, 478, 513;
his appreciation and criticisms
of Johnson, 528; Johnson's
opinions of him, 181, 193, 271,
418, 444, 453.
Burke, Richard, junior (Edmund
Burke's son), 132, 497, 545.
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salis-
bury, 349.
Burney, Dr. Charles, 71, 77, 80,
97, 261, 458, 471, 504, 548; his
anecdotes of Johnson, 261-3,
471.
Burney, Dr. Charles (jun.), 549.
Burney, Frances (Mme. D'Ar-
blay), 499, 513.
Burney, Mrs., 492.
Burton, Robert, 179, 268.
Bute, third Earl of, 88, 89, 314,
427, 466, 469.
Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, 300.
Butter, Dr., 286, 333, 337, 464,
551.
Cadell, Thomas, 323.
Cambridge, 146.
Cambridge, R. O., 251, 253, 364.
Camden, Lord, 390.
Campbell, Dr. John, 233, 263, 363.
Campbell, Dr. Thomas, 241-3,
246.
Campbell, Mungo, 347.
Cant, clearing the mind of, 498.
Cards, 294, 418.
Careless, Mrs. Johnson's first
love, 275-6.
Carmichael, Miss, 356, 415.
Carte, Thomas, History of Eng-
land, 245.
Carter, Miss Elizabeth, (Mrs.),
339, 458.
Catherine II, 514.
Cave, Edward, 28-9, 56, 191, 554.
Chambers, Catherine, 150.
Chambers, Sir Robert, 151, 224-5.
Chamier, Andrew, 131, 365.
Charlemont, first Earl of, 121,
212, 412, 450.
Charles I, 478.
Charles II, 59, 117, 149, 243.
Charles XII, of Sweden, 371.
Charlotte, Queen, 211.
Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of,
31, 197.
Chatsworth, Boswell visits it, 355;
Johnson visits it, 542-5.
Chatterton, Thomas, 303.
Chesterfield, fourth Earl of, 200,
328, 423, 535; Plan of the
Dictionary, addressed to, 41, 62;
seeks to flatter Johnson, 62-3;
Johnson's severe reply, 63-4;
470; Letters, 304; Miscellane-
ous Works, 411.
Chichester, 476.
Children, 297; method of rearing
them, 173; prematurely wise,
262.
China, wall of, 372-3.
Cholmondeley, Mrs., 179, 367,394.
Christianity, dictates of, 379;
differences chiefly in forms;
102, 184, 347; evidences for it,
102, 121, 139, 142, 347; immor-
tality its great doctrine, 347.
Church of England, 126, 243.
Churchill, Charles, 103, 107.
Cibber, Colley, 100, 150, 169, 235,
242, 343, 505.
Cibber, Theophilus, edits the
Lives of the Poets, 42.
Cibber, Mrs. (wife of Theophi-
lus), 45, 169.
Claret, for boys, 419, 451.
Clarke, Rev. Dr. Samuel, 16, 442.
Clergy, the, 386, 450.
Clive, Lord, 404, 428.
Clive, Mrs., the actress, 437, 505.
Cobb, Mrs., 280.
Cobham, Lord 410.
Cock-Lane Ghost, 103, 372.
Coke, Lord, 186.
Collins, William, 70.
Colman, George, the elder, 132,
234, 395, 439, 441, 559.
Colson, Rev. J., 25.
Comedy, distinguished from farce,
170; its great end, 211.
Commerce, 202, 249.
Community of goods, 219.
Composition, fine passages to be
struck out, 213; man writing
from his own mind, 245.
Comus, Johnson's Prologue to,
51.
Condescension, 436.
Congreve, Rev. Charles, 275, 285.
Congreve, William, 166, 207, 346.
Conjugal infidelity, 154, 295.
Conscience, 496.
Conversation, 209, 250-1, 269,
271, 305, 363, 388, 423, 465,
477, 482, 486, 488, 496.
Convocation, 126.
Cook, Captain, 524.
Cooper, John Gilbert, 180, 436.
Copyright, 415.
Corsica, 140, 151, 155, 159.
Cotterells, the Miss, 57, 87.
Country gentlemen, 341, 476-7.
Country life, 365, 412, 498, 539.
Courage, 164, 242, 372, 379, 522.
Court mourning, 531.
Courtenay, John, 132, 390, 527.
Cowley, Abraham, 446.
Crabbe, Rev. George, 481.
Craven, Lady, 293.
Critical Review, 149.
Crown, the, 189, 498.
Cruikshank, the surgeon, 504, 551.
Cumberland, Richard, 446, 549.
Cumming, Tom, the Quaker, 495.
Curiosity, 489.
Dalrymple, Sir John, 213.
Dancing, 451.
Dante, 214.
Dartineuf, Charles, 270.
Davies, Mrs., 133, 502.
Davies, Thomas, 93-6, 109, 133,
158, 170, 198, 227, 231, 257,
323, 356, 438, 502; dinners at
his house, 242, 300.
Dead, prayers for the, 53, 55.
Death, reflections on, 169, 175,
332, 334.
Debates of Parliament, 29, 389,
527, 554.
Dedications, 41, 62, 138.
Dempster, George, 114-6, 197,
383, 518.
Derby, 23, 335, 337.
Derbyshire, 285, 542.
Derrick, Samuel, 121, 488.
Desmoulins, Mrs., 53, 356, 382,
392, 415, 416, 456, 479-80, 557.
Devonshire, fifth Duke and Duch-
ess of, 469, 542, 545.
Dick, Sir Alexander, 320, 490.
Dictionary, Johnson's, 40-3, 62-7,
72-4, 198, 408, 429, 436.
Dilly, Charles, 534.
Dilly, Messrs, Edward and
Charles, booksellers, 217, 241,
307-15, 377-80, 413, 460-2,
515.
Dilly, Squire, 466-70.
Dodd, Rev. Dr. William, 328-32,
338, 492.
Dodsley, Robert, 40-1, 45, 65, 70,
270, 299, 429, 442.
Douglas, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop
of Salisbury, 30, 103, 112, 132,
158.
Dreams, 52.
Dress, 46, 286, 483.
Drunkenness, 340.
Drury Lane Theatre, 40, 44, 51,
437.
Dryden, John, 122, 133, 215, 236,
Duelling, 191, 494.
Dunning, John, first Lord Ash-
burton, 131, 186, 361.
Dyer, John, The Fleece, 273.
East Indies, 292, 294, 427.
Edial, 23.
Edinburgh, 110, 126.
Education, 8, 120, 262.
Edwards, Oliver, 384-8, 455.
Eglintoune, Alexander, tenth Earl
of, 158, 347, 393.
Elibank, Patrick, fifth Lord, 295,
305, 466.
Eliot, Edward, first Lord Eliot,
305, 450, 532.
Ellis, Jack,' a scrivener, 293.
Elphinston, James, 48-9, 207, 368.
Emigration, 359.
Emmet, Mrs., the actress, 279.
Erskine, Hon. Thomas, after-
wards Lord Erskine, 190.
Essex Head Club, 507, 543.
Eternal punishment, 522-3.
Eugenio, 215.
Excise, defined, 73, 408.
Faith, merit in, 382.
Fame, 250, 370.
Families, 185, 281.
Fergusson, Sir Adam, 188-9.
Gaming, 190, 294.
Garagantua, 366-7.
Garden, a walled, 491.
Gardiner, Mrs., 293, 506.
Garrick, David, 20, 24, 28, 35, 38-
40, 44, 51, 61, 132, 165, 263,
367-9, 380, 390, 423, 436, 443,
458-60, 499; Johnson's criti-
cisms and appreciations of, 95,
98, 163, 168-9, 196, 207-8, 212,
237, 278-9, 298, 304, 310-12,
344, 370-1, 423-4, 438, 505.
Garrick, Mrs., 458-60, 513.
Garrick, Peter, 28, 277, 280.
Gastrell, Mrs., 282.
Gay, John, 254, 396, 457.
Gentility, 164, 242, 305, 445.
Gentleman's Magazine, 28-9.
George I, 243.
George II, 34, 243, 462.
George III, 88, 145-50, 376.
Ghosts, arguments for and against
their existence, 103, 187, 191,
358, 381, 410, 426, 452.
Giant's Causeway, 430.
Gibbon, Edward, 246, 251, 305,
372, 449.
Gibbons, Rev. Dr., 469, 515.
Gluttony, 127.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 104-7, 109,
142-3, 150, 165, 172, 191-4,
197, 199, 201, 209-14, 249-50,
299, 339, 364-5, 390, 439-40,
443, 445, 465, 491, 484, 512,
his death, 338; Johnson's epi-
taphs on, 228, 315-18; Ani-
mated Nature, 193, 213, 290,
336; Deserted Village, 212;
Good-natured Man, 151-2, 395;
History of Rome, 213; Life of
Parnell, 187; She Stoops to Con-
quer, 198, 202, 203, 205-6, 211,
395, 531; The Traveller, 106,
138, 212, 365, 370, 396; The
Vicar of Wakefield, 106, 396,
417.
Good-breeding, 164.
Good Friday, 248, 392, 418, 455,
490.
Good-humor, 252, 404.
Gothic buildings, 69.
Government, forms of, 189.
Gower, first Earl of, 73.
Graham, Marquis of (third Duke
of Montrose), 420, 463.
Grainger, Dr. James, 273.
Gray, Thomas, 101, 187, 238, 300,
380, 440.
Greek, 122, 443, 549.
Greeks, 189.
Green, Richard, of Lichfield, 279,
550.
Greenwich, 122-4.
Gresham College, 290.
Grief, 50, 283, 297, 326.
Gwynn, John, the
266-7.
Hailes, Lord (Sir David Dal-
rymple), 333, 349.
Hale, Sir Matthew, 185.
Hanover, House of, 112, 477.
Happiness, 114, 116, 139, 188, 287,
Harleian Library and Catalogue,
36.
Harrington, Countess of, 328.
Harris, James (Hermes Harris),
206. 253, 367-9.
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