INDEX.

A.

ABERCROMBIE, James, Esq. of Philadelphia, his communi-
cations concerning Dr. Johnson, vol. ii. 294.

Abingdon, Lord, bon mot of, iv. 271, n.

Abington, Mrs. iii. 48, 51, 55.

Abjuration, oath of, ii. 305.

Absentees from their estates, how far justifiable, iv. 19, 20.

Abyssinia, see Lobo, Rasselas.

Academy, Royal, instituted, ii. 161.

Action in public speaking, ii. 298.

Actors, i. 130, 152; ii. 180, 319; iii. 186; iv. 25, 287; v. 123.
Adams, Rev. Dr. i. 32, 43, 47, 95, 97, 145, 153, 208; iii. 164,
165, 167; v. 177, 260.

Miss, v. 176.

Addison, Johnson's opinion of, i. 176; ii. 33; iii. 70.

his style compared with Johnson's, i. 176.
Johnson's Life of, iv. 330.

Adey, Miss Mary, i. 14; iii. 188.

"Adventurer," Hawkesworth's, i. 162, 183, 198, 201.

Adultery, ii. 150; iv. 179.

Egri Ephemeris, Johnson's, v. 266.

Agar, W. E. Esq. iii. 313, n.

Agutter, Rev. Mr. his sermon on Johnson's death, v. 309.
Agriculture, i. 248.

Akenside's poetry, ii. 252; iii. 225.

his early friendship with Charles Townshend, iii. 199
Akerman, Mr. Keeper of Newgate, character and anecdotes of
iv. 266.

Allen, Mr. the printer, ii. 72; iv. 151; v. 235.
Johnson's letter to, v. 108.

America and Americans, iii. 22, 40, 42, 43; iv. 45, 129, 362.
Amyat, Dr. his anecdote of Dr. Johnson, i. 311, n.
Anderson, Professor, at Glasgow, iii. 314.

Angelone's Letters, iv. 390,

Angels, v. 174, n.

Anthologia, v. 271.

Antiquities, study of iv. 250.

Arbuthnot, ii. 33.

Argyle, Archibald, Duke of, iii. 264.

Armorial bearings, as ancient as the siege of Troy, ii. 266.

Armstrong, Dr. i. 341; iii. 312.

Arnold, Dr. on insanity', iv. 17.

Articles, thirty-nine, ii. 240.

Ascham, Roger, Johnson's life of, ii. 68.

Ash, John, M. D. founder of the Eumelian Club, v. 282.
Ashbourne, mistress of an inn there, iv. 47.

Astle, Thomas, Esq. v. 18,

Rev. Mr. v. 195.

Aston, Molly, i. 50, 326; iv. 178, 336, n.
- Mrs. her maiden sister, iii. 188.

Athol porridge, iv. 360.

Atterbury, Bishop, his funeral sermon on Lady Cutts, iv. 69.
Attornies, Johnson's notion of them, ii. 144.

Avarice, iii. 263; iv. 159.

Auchinleck, Lord, (the Authour's father), iii. 136.
place of, iii. 134.

Authours, of deciding on their MSS. ii. 280; iv. 157.
of their writing for profit, iv. 3.

respect due to them, iv. 152. See Books.

should put as much into their books as they will hold,

ii. 321.

had better be attacked than unnoticed, iv. 212.

Authour, the young, (Johnson's poem), i, 24.
Authourship, iv. 157.

B.

Bacon, Lord Verulam, iv. 34; v. 165.
his rules for conversation, v. 117.

Badcock, Rev. Mr. v. 297, n.

Bagshaw, Rev. Thomas, ii. 343.

Johnson's letters to, ii. 343; v. 232.

Baker, Sir Geo. v. 237.
Ballads, (ancient), ii. 299.'
Balloons, v. 240.

Ballow, Thomas, Esq. (the lawyer), iii. 216.

Baltick, Johnson's proposed expedition to the, iii. 333.
Banks, Sir Joseph's Epigram on his Goat, ii. 232.
his Voyages, ii. 237.

Barber, Mr. Francis, i. 184, 188; ii. 202, 203; iv. 429.
Johnson's letters to him, ii. 156.

Barclay, Mr. the young authour, ii. 98.

Mr. one of Mr. Thrale's successors, iv. 395.
Baretti, Joseph, i. 297, 306, 338; ii. 152; iii. 287.
the first who received copy money in Italy, iii. 287.
his Frustra Letteraria, iv. 14.

his trial, ii. 181.

Johnson's letters to him, i. 298, 306, 314.

Barnard, Rev. Dr. (Bishop of Limerick), iii. 35; iv. 392.

Barretier, J. P. Johnson's Life of, i. 109.

Barrington, Hon. Daines, ii. 333; iv. 152.

Barrow, Rev. Dr. his sermons, iv. 383.

Barrowby, Dr. v. 176.

Barry, Sir Edward, M. D. his notion that pulsation occasions
death by attrition: refuted by Johnson, iii. 227.

James, Esq. (the painter), Johnson's letter to, v. 84.

his paintings, v. 105.

Bateman, Edward, Tutor of Christ-church, his lectures, i. 47.
Bath, Johnson's visit to, iii. 236.

Bathurst, Dr. Richard, i. 197, 199, 336.
Baxter, Richard, his works, ii. 261; v. 105.
Anacreon, v. 122.

Bayle's Dictionary, ii. 33.

Beech, Thomas, ii. 3.

Beattie, Dr. ii. 230, 234; v. 71.

letter from Johnson to, iv. 269.

Beauclerk, Topham, Esq. i. 194; iv. 261.

his violent altercation with Johnson, iv. 220.
his death, iv. 261.

Beauty, manly, described by Shakspeare and Milton, iv. 353.
Beauties of Johnson, i. 168; v. 36.

Bedlam, iii. 96; v. 90.

Beggars, iv. 236.

Beggars' Opera,' iii. 88, 89; iv. 158.

Belchier, Surgeon, iii. 246.

Bellamy, Mrs. her letter to Johnson, v. 125, n.

Belsham, Mr. his Essay on Dramatick Poetry, i. 322.

Bentham, the Rev. Dr. iii. 168.
Bentley, Dr. verses by, iv. 302, n.
Berenger, Richard, Esq. iv. 369.
Beresford, Mrs. and Miss, v. 167.
Berkeley, Bishop, ii. 74, 219; iv. 306.
Berwick, Duke of, his memoirs, iv. 125.

Beville, Rev. Mr. his ingenious defence of Hammond, iv. 343, π.
Bewley, Mr. his enthusiastick veneration for Johnson, v. 19.
Bible, the, should be read with the comments by Lowth, Patrick,
and Hammond, iii. 247.

'Bibliotheca Harleiana,' i. 115.
Bicknel, Mr. i. 255.

Bickerstaff, Mr. Isaac, ii. 173.

'

Biddulph, Miss Sydney,' the Novel, i. 322.
Biographia Britannica,' iv. 15.

Biography, remarks on, i. 1, 10; iii. 169, 354.
Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, i. 123, n. 144.

Johnson's letters to, i. 178, 229.

his letter to Johnson on his Dictionary, i. 230.

Birds, their migration, ii. 190, 333.

Bishops, iv. 355, 356. See Clergy.

Blackfriars Bridge, i. 289, n.

Black-letter books, their value, ii. 208.

Blacklock's poetry, ii. 69.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, assisted in his

Creation,' ii. 195.

Johnson's Life of, iv. 333.

Blackstone, Sir William, ii. 366, 429; iv. 219, 378.

Blackwell, Anthony, i. 51.

Blagden, Dr. iv. 309.

Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, his Sermons, iii. 288; iv. 13, 50, 176.
his account of Pope's Essay on Man,' iv. 237.

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Rev. Robert, author of The Grave,' iii. 238.

Robert, Esq. Solicitor-General for Scotland, iii. 238, n.

Blake, Admiral, Johnson's Life of, i. 109.

Blaney, Elizabeth, i. 13; v. 257.

Blank verse, ii. 212; iv. 96, 157, 320, 340.

Blenheim Park, iii. 172.

Blue-stocking Club, iv. 385.

Boerhaave, Johnson's Life of, i. 102.

Boetius magis Philosophus quàm Christianas, ii. 215.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first Viscount, his works, i. 211.

Bolton, Mr. Birmingham, iii. 181.

Bonaventura, ii. 99.

Books and booksellers, iii. 149; iv. 16.

Boothby, Miss Hill, some account of, iv. 536, n.

Boothby, Johnson's letter to, iv. 335, n.
Boscawen, Hon. Mrs. iv. 168.
Boscovitch, Pere, iii. 128.

Bosville, Godfrey, Esq. iv. 195, 276.
Mrs. ii. 257.

BOSWELL, (the Authour of this Work.)

introduced to Johnson, i. 318, and ii. 2, 3, 6.

his Account of Corsica,' ii. 107, 119, 153, 163, n.
elected of the LITERARY CLUB, ii. 323.

his Letter to the People of Scotland,' v. 141.

his Letter on Fox's India Bill, v. 143.

Johnson's argument in favour of his trying his fortune
in London, v. 231.

Johnson's excellent letter to him on his succeeding to
his estate, v. 41.

Johnson's other letters to him, ii. 74, 101, 117, 152,
163, 197, 228, 234, 289, 292, 349, 350, 351, 353, 356, 357,
359; iii. 1, 4, 5, 6, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, 23, 25, 38, 98, 100,
103, 106, 131, 133, 136, 137, 142, 144, 146, 147, 148, 236,
278, 279, 284, 236, 295, 297, 303, 315, 318, 324, 327, 328,
329, 334; iv. 49, 53, 55, 116, 199, 205, 209, 226, 232, 249,
252, 256, 270, 351; v. 21, 22, 34, 36, 40, 41, 44, 111, 130,
141, 143, 145, 147, 148, 265.

letters to Johnson from him, ii. 120, 153, 228, 233,
290, 354; iii. 9, 10, 18, 21, 23,36, 105, 128, 145, 277,280,
282, 291, 296, 299, 300, 310, 316, 317, 322, 327, 331; iv.
48, 50, 54, 59, 61, 62, 115, 196, 208, 226, 231, 246, 251,
268.

Mrs. ii. 356, 359; iv. 2, 60, 258.

Johnson's letters to, iii. 277, 326; v. 43, 45; her

answer, v. 45.

Dr. his character of Johnson, iii. 203.
Thomas David, Esq. iv. 268; v. 304.

James, Esq. (the authour's second son), iii. 207.
Veronica, (the authour's eldest daughter), iii. 297.

Bouchier, Governour, iv. 367.

Boufflers, Mad. de, iii. 128.

• Boulter's Monument,' a poem, i. 257.

Bowles, William, Esq. v. 115.

Bowyer, printer, his life, v. 253.

Boyse, Mr. Samuel, v. 291.

Braithwaite, Daniel, Esq. v. 162.

Bramhall, Archbishop, his work on Liberty and Necessity, ii. 100.
Bribery, iii. 64.

Brocklesby, Dr. his kind attention to Johnson, v. 114, 149, 150,
218, 233, 303.