meetings between him and Johnson, 308 & req.

Johnson's opinion of, 346

anecdotes of gallantry related by him, 530

his advice how to speak at the Bar of the House
of Commons, 360

his pleasantry on Johnson and himself as to ther
politics and religion, 360

William III., King, 243

Williams, Mr. Zachary, CO, 272, n. 80, 81

Mrs. Anna, 60, 116, 128, 166, 184, 308, 316, 317,
328, 330, 403

her general peevishness, 295, 358, 459
Johnson's tenderness for her, 295, 396
her death, 502, 505

Miss Helen Maria, 519

Sir Charles Hanbury, 150

Wilson, Rev. Mr.,-Johnson's letter to, 481
Windham, Right Hon. William, 325, 491, 562
Johnson's high eulogium on, 542
Johnson's letters to, 499, 544

Wine, the use of, 196, 275, 299, 342, 365, 366, 367, 3,
302, 394, 411, 452, 454, 457

Wirtemberg, Prince of, anecdote of, 194
Wit, 461

Witches, 193, 409. See Shakspeare

Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, 177

Words, big ones, not to be used for little matters, 131, 34
Wraxall, N. W. Esq. 423

'World, the,' Periodical Essays, 116

Xenophon's Treatise on Economy, 316

Retreat of the Ten Thousand,' (Book!

affords the earliest specimen of a delincation of che
racters, 439

Xerxes, Juvenal's fine verses on, 209

368

anecdotes of, 447, 448, 466

pined for preferment, yet affected to despise

his fine image of delicate satire, 523

Mr. (Professor of Greek at Glasgow,) his 'Cr
ticisms on Gray's Elegy,' in imitation of Johnsa,

555