The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Bolton, Mr. of Birmingham, ii. 32.
Books and Booksellers, ii. 12, 162, 493.
Boothby, Mifs, letter of Johnson to, ii. 360.
Bofcawen, Hon. Mrs. ii. 251.
Bofvile, Godfrey, Efq. ii. 326.
Bofville, Mrs. i. 366.

Birch, Dr. i. 85.

his letter to Johnfon on his Dictionary, Boufflers, Mad. de, i. 513.
i. 158.
Braithwaite, Mr. ii. 493-
Birds, their migration, i. 414.
Bribery, i. 477.

Bithops, ii. 492, 518.

Blackfriar's Bridge, i. 191.

Blacklock's poetry, i. 254.

Blackmore, i. 330.

Johnfon's life of, ii. 358.

Blagden, Dr. i. 510; ii. 344.

Blair, Reverend Dr. Hugh, his Sermons,'

Bofwell (the authour of this work)

introduced to Johnfon, i. 211.

his Account of Corfica,' i. 298, 303,

4, 6, 9, 314.

elected of the Literary Club, i. 408.
his Letter to the People of Scotland,"
on Mr. Fox's India Bill, ii. 478, 480.

For other matters fee i. 257, 274, 283,
298, 329, 393; ii. 3, 276, 425, 556.

Johnfon's arguments in favour of his try-
ing his fortune in London, ii. 536.

Johnfon's letters to him, i. 258, 273,

303, 9, 331, 348, 352, 387, 9, 424, 5, 6,

8, 430, 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 440, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7,

495, 6, 7, 8, 9, 515 ; ii. 1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11,

12, 66, 94, 8, 9, 106, 107, 120, 1, 7, 131,

177, 180, 2, 218, 274, 8, 281, 295, 6,

307, 312, 322, 8, 370, 412, 422, 4, 5, 6,

7, 431, 461, 471, 480, 2, 3, 536, 555, 6.

Letters to Johnfon from him, i. 348,

351, 388, 428, 436, 8, 443, 5, 6, 455,496,.
514; ii. 10, 94, 106, 116, 120, 4, 7, 130,
177, 8, 181, 3, 4, 5, 218, 272, 280, 295,
305, 8, 310, 321, 5.

Bofwell, Mrs. i. 428, 430; ii. 181, 3, 309, 428.
Letters of Johnfon to, ii. 93, 126, 427.
Dr. his character of Johnfon, ii. 47.
Mr. Thomas David, ii. 321, 579.

Boucher, Governour, ii. 381.

Brocklesby, Dr. his kind attention to Johnson,

ii. 439, 460, 481, 527, 570.

Letters of Johnfon to, ii. 462, 537,

& feq.

Brown, Mr. i. 13.

Browne, Sir Thomas, his life by Johnson, i. 169.

Brydone's Tour, ii. 267.

Buchan, Earl of, anecdote of, i. 370.

Buchanan, i. 250.

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progrefs,' i. 408..

Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, anecdotes of and

remarks on, ii. 27, 90, 246, 339, 343,

491, 515, 552, 576.

the authour introduced to him, i. 408.

Burke,

Burke, his Effay on the Sublime,' &c. i. 319.
his Letter on the Affairs of America,'
ii. 165.

Burke, Mr. jun. ii. 453, 4.

Burman, his life by Johnfon, i. 77.

Burnet's Hiftory, i. 392.

Burney, Dr. ii. 277.

Johnfon's letters to him, i. 159, 178, 9,

272; ii. 465, 543—5, 554.

Anecdotes of Johnfon related by him,

i. 514; ii. 411.

Burney, Mifs, Johnfon's praise of her and her

works, ii. 456, 491.

her imitations of Johnson's ftyle, ii. 564.

Burrowes, Reverend Robert, his remarks on
and imitations of Johnfon's ftyle, ii. 564.
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' ii. 23.
• Burton's books,' ii. 477.

Bute, Lord, i. 481, 2; ii. 40, 89, 406.

Butter, Dr. ii. 150, 570.

Byng, Admiral, his epitaph, i. 173.

Byng, Hon. John, his Letter to Mr. Malone,

relative to Johnfon's death, ii. 579.

CALLIMACHUS, ii. 329.

Cambridge Univerfity, Johnfon's vifit to, i. 266.

Cameron, Dr. Archibald, i. 77.

Campbell, Hon. Archibald, i. 394; ii. 497.
Dr. John, i. 226, 394; ii. 198.
his Political Survey,'

ii. 26.

Dr. Thomas, i. 473, 5, 9.
Mungo, ii. 166.

Camus Melchior, i. 503.

Capel's Shakspeare, ii. 331.

Careless, Mrs. ii. 33.

Careless Hufband, origin of a fcene in that

comedy, i. 94.

Carleton, Captain, his Memoirs,' ii. 524.

Carlifle, Earl of, his poems, ii. 397.

Charles I. i. 490, Johnfon's opinion of.

Chaftity, ii. 31, 569, and fee Marriage.

Chatterton's poems, ii. 69.

Chesterfield, Lord, i. 99, 138, 391, 467; ii. 265,

289, 438, 524.

his Letters,' i. 144; ii. 71.

Johnson's fevere letter to him, i

and fee i. 372; ii. 245.

Johnson's letters to him, i. 41, 50, 61, 2,

3, 70, 1, 82, 3.

Chamberlayne, Reverend Mr. ii. 498.

Chambers, Sir Robert, i. 432.

Letter from Johnson to him, i. 149.

Chapone, Mrs. letter of Johnfon to, ii. 470.

Charlemont, Earl of, ii. 376.

141.

Cheyne's English Malady,' ii. 94.

Children, i. 14, 245, 514; ii. 58, 126.

Chriftian religion, evidence of, i. 246; ii. 166,

Coachmakers'-hall debating fociety, ii. 384, 5.

Cobb, Mrs. ii. 37, 306.

Cock-lane ghoft, i. 220; ii. 212.

Collections in writing, their ufe, i. 320.
Collins, the poet, i. 207.

Colman, George, Efq. i. 461; ii. 100, 334.
his Letter from Lexiphanes,' ii. 562.

Compliments, ii. 197.

Condefcenfion, ii. 44.

Congé d' Elire, ii. 518.

Congreve, his works, i. 317, 322

his tragedy, ii. 470.

Carter, Mrs. i. 71; ii.

Congreve, Reverend Mr. i. 13; ii. 33.

Connoiffeur,' The, i. 228.

491.

Cator, John, Efq. Johnson's character of him- O'Conor, Charles, Efq. Johnson's letters to, on
and his fine feat, ii.
his Account of Ireland,' i. 177; ii. 113.
513.
Cattle extraordinary, ii. 141.
Controverfial writings, ii. 24, 49.

Cave, Mr. Edward, his life by Johnfon, i. 138, Convents, i. 277.

Conversation, ii. 25, 28, 41, 73, 164, 256, 396,

433.

Clergy The, i. 368, 9, 409, 410, & feq. ii. 133,

235, 240, 373, 4, 381.

Advice to a young clergyman, ii. 323.

Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, ii. 377.

Clive, Lord, ii. 298.

Clive, Mrs. the actress, ii. 332, 468.

Club, Effex-Head, eftablished by Johnson, ii.
475, 6, 8.

Cook, Capt. ii. 47.

Convocation The, of the Clergy, i. 253; ii.

Courtenay, John, Efq. extracts from his poem
on Johnfon's character, i. 26, 121, 173,
187,427; ii. 559.

Cowley, Johnfon's life of, ii. 346.

Cowper, Gilbert, i. 344.

Crabbe, Reverend Mr. his Village,' ii. 438.

Croft, Reverend Herbert, ii. 505, 510.

his Life of Young,' ii. 361.

Cromwell, Oliver, Johnson's defign of writing

his life, ii. 463.

Croufaz, i. 71, 84.

Cruikshank, Mr. letter of Johnfon to, ii. 547.
Cullen, Dr. confulted on Johnfon's illnefs, ii. 482.
Cumberland, Richard, Efq. ii. 365, 560,

DALRYMPLE, Sir John, his Memoirs,'
i. 391.

Davies, Mr. Thomas, character and anecdotes

of, i. 210, 211, 305, 7, 321, 429, 476, 9 ;

ii. 63, 186, 201, 460.

Johnfon's kind letters to, ii. 460, 548.
his Memoirs of Garrick,' ii. 322.
Deane's Future Life of Brutes,' i. 301.
Death, reflections on, i. 320, 9; ii. 229, 239,
456, and fee Johnfon.

Dedications and Prefaces by Johnson, and

remarks on, i. 85, 94, 9, 138, 174, 194,

8, 9, 208, 272, 3, 285, 297, 389, 399;
ii. 109, 114, 559.

Defoe, Daniel, ii. 212.

Delaney's • Obfervations on Swift,' ii. 202.

Dempfter, George, Efq. i. 236, 451.

Dennis, John, ii. 64.

Derby, fome particulars as to, ii. 150.

Derrick, i. 213, 247, 8; ii. 460..
Defmoulins, Mrs. ii. 186.
Devaynes, Mr. ii. 489.

Devil, his influence upon the fouls of men,
ii. 500.
Devonshire, Duke of, ii. 165; and Duchefs,
ii. 541
Dick, Sir Alexander, his letters to and concern-
ing Johnson, ii. 104, 125, 480..

Dictionary of the English Language,' Johnson's,

i. 98, 9, 101, &c. 358, 389; ii. 301, 330.

Firft publifhed, i. 162.

Epitome of, i. 168.

Garrick's Epigram on, i. 166.

Dodfley, Robert, ii. 26, 62, 339.

Dominicetti, i. 324.

Doffie, Mr. ii. 334.

Douglas, Dr. (Bishop of Carlisle,) i. 125; ii. 492.

Douglas caufe, i. 300, 400, 3; ii. 183.

Drake, Admiral, his life by Johnson, i. 77, 8.

Draughts, the game of, i. 174.

Dreams, ii. 331.

Drummond, Mr. William, Johnson's letters to,

i. 286, 8, 9.

Dr. ii. 95.

Drunkenness.-See Wine.

Dryden, Johnfon's life of, ii. 85, 350.

Duelling, i. 372, 400; ii. 450.

Du Halde's Account of China,' i. 302.

Dunbar, Dr. ii. 323.
Duncombe, Mr. ii. 240.

Dundas, Right Hon. Henry, ii. 180.
Dunning, Mr. his high compliment to Johnfon,

ii. 197.

Dilly, Meffieurs, ii. 80, 111, 400, 9.

letters of Johnson to, ii. 123, 477.

Dodd, Reverend Dr. ii. 118, 19, 144, 152,

201, 214, 221.

Johnson's affiftance to him, ii. 119, 124,

134, 512.

Dyer's Fleece,' ii. 29.

Dyer, Mr. ii. 334.

115.

Elwal, the enthufiaft, i. 363.

Emigration, ii. 191.
Entails, ii. 3, & feq. 9, 16, 18.
Johnfon's letters on, ii. 4, 7

Epilogue to The Distreft Mother,' i. 22.

Epifcopacy, ii. 280, 492, 518.

Epitaphs, i. 514; ii. 450, 565.

Erfkine, Hon. Thomas, i. 369, 370.

Eumelian club, ii. 567.

Exhibition of paintings, i. 197-

Garrick, Peter, i. 457; ii. 34, 7, 306.

Mrs. ii. 386.

Gaftrel, Mrs. ii. 39, 40, 306.

General warrants, i. 310.

Gentility, i. 268, 474.
Gentleman, Mr. Francis, i. 208.

Fame, i. 245; ii. 210, 258, 491.

Farmer, Reverend Dr. letters from Johnfon to, Gentleman's Magazine, i. 56, &c.
i. 3345 ii. 317.
King George I. i. 474.

II. i. 77, 8, 94, 474.

III. his acceffion and character,
i. 204; ii. 319.

FABLE, sketch of one by Johnfon, i. 404.

Falconer, Reverend Mr. ii. 280.

Falkland's iflands, i. 345.

Favours, unreafonable, i. 200.

Females, of their fucceffion to land, ii. 3, 9, 39.

Ferguffon, Sir Adam, i. 367.

Ferguffon, the aftronomer, i. 324.
Johnfon's interview with, i. 291.
Feudal fyftem, i. 371, 387, 423; ii. 3, &c. 15, Ghofts, i. 219, 363, 372; ii. 190, 231, 294,

384.

209, 210.

Fielding's works, i. 299, 369; ii. 66.

Fingal. See Offian.

Fitzherbert, Mr. ii. 141.

Flatman's poems, ii. 59.

Flint, Bet, anecdotes of, ii. 390.

Flood, Right Hon. Henry, his epitaph on

Johnfon, ii. 582.

Floyer, Sir John, anecdotes of, ii. 485.
Foote, Samuel, anecdotes and character of,
i. 321, 2, 3, 357; ii. 19, 83, 4, 163, 4,
456, 491.

Forbes, Sir William, ii. 176.

Ford, Parfon, ii. 263.

Fox, Right Hon. C. J. ii. 212, 433, 502.
France, Johnson's vifit to, i. 498, 9.
his Journal there, i. 501,
&feq.
Francis's Horace, ii. 267.
Franklin, Rev. Dr. his Demonax, ii. 344.
French language, Johnson's knowledge of, i. 314,
512.
French, their manners and writings, i. 342;
ii. 265, 464.

Frederick III. his life by Johnson, i. 169.

Friends and Friendship, i. 84, 165, 373; ii. 195,

226, 289.

departed, i. 115; ii. 132, 239, 312,

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fome ftories as to, i. 371, 4; ii. 231,

263.

Gibbon, Edward, Efq. i. 478, 488; ii. 372.

his imitation of Johnfon's ftyle, ii. 563.

Gillespie, Dr. confulted on Johnson's illness,

ii. 480.

Glow-worm, Johnfon's fable of, i. 404.

Gluttony, i. 255.

Goldfmith, Dr. Oliver, character of, i. 223, & feq.

anecdotes of, i. 225, 230, 296, 316,

374, 390, 4, 8, 9, 418, 420, 1, 2; ii. 63,

244, 283, 397, 438.

his death, i. 436.

ii. 4

Johnfon's epitaphs on him, ii. 91, 3.
his bon mots on Johnson, i. 307, 404, 7;

• 490.

Johnfon's opinion of him and his

works, i. 221, 275, 6, 297, 9, 377, 382,
390, 3, 4, 403, 5, 6, 437, 484; ii. 62,
153, 200, 3, 214, 29, 341.

Gordon, Lord George, 11. 317, 380.
Gower, Earl, his letter to Swift, i. 67.
Graham, Lord, ii. 287, 394.
Grainger, Dr. his Sugar Cane,' ii. 29.
his Ode on Solitude,' ii. 171.
Grammar-fchool, Johnfon's plan of, i. 46.
Granger, Reverend Mr. his Biograpical Dic-
tionary,' ii. 97.

Granville, Lord, anecdote of, ii. 335.

Gray's poetry, i. 218, 466, 471; ii. 59, 63,
335,425.
Green, Mr. of Lichfield, his museum, ii. 36,
306.

Letter from Johnfon to him, ii. 566.
Greenwich hofpital, i. 250.

Greville, Richard Fulke, Efq. his Maxims,"

&c. ii. 507.

Grey, Dr. i. 510.

Grief, ii. 132.

Grierfon, Mr. i. 336.

De Groot, a defcendant of Grotius, ii. 123.

Guthrie, William, i. 58, 300.

Gwyn, Mr. the architect, ii. 21.

HABEAS

Hill, Dr. his works, i. 291.

History and Historians, reflections on, i. 231,
314, 381, 397, 406, 487; ii. 51, 302.

Hogarth, i. 77.

Hollis, Mr. Thomas, ii. 387.

Home, Mr. John, his parody on Derrick, i. 248.
his propofed hiftory of the rifing in 1745,
i. 149:

HABEAS CORPUS, i. 311.

Hackman, Reverend Mr. ii. 287.

Hailes, Lord, his and Johnson's opinion of each

other, i. 235, 245:

his Annals of Scotland,' i. 435, 7, 8,
9, 445, 470, 496, 7, 8, 9, 516; ii. 1, 10,
74, 119, 272, 281, 302.

his opinion on entails, ii. 7.
Hale, Lord Chief Juftice, anecdote of, ii. 511.
Hales, venerable John, his works, ii. 514.
Hall, General, his politenefs to Johnfon at
Warley camp, ii. 274.
Hamilton, Rt. Hon. William Gerard, his kind
offers to Johnfon, ii. 469.

Letters of Johnfon to, ii. 469, 546.

Hamilton's poems, ii. 142.

Hanway, Mr. Jonas, i. 172, 341.

Happiness, i. 276: ii. 71, 225.-See Life.

Harleian mifcellany, i. 94.

his Voyages,' i. 414.
Hawkins, Sir John, remarks on his life of
Johnson, i. 2, ibz.

circumftances as to Johnfon related by
him contradicted or explained, i. 64, 54,
87, 103, 110, 112, 126, 7, 130, 159, 170,
184, 225, 262, 290, 7; ii. 521, 551, 567,
570, 5.

Harris, James, Efq. ii. 199, 207.

Harte's Hiftory of Guftavus,' i. 339; ii. 376. Horne Tooke, Mr. ii. 266.

Harvey, Hon. Thomas, i. 291.

Hofpitality, ii. 338, 455.

Houghton gallery, ii. 525.

Houfe of Commons, ii. 187, 192, 303, 4, 373,

391, 504.

Harvey, Henry, i. 50.

Haftie.-See Schoolmaster.

Haftings, Warren, Efq. character of, ii. 365.

Letter from him to the authour, ii. 366.

Letters of Johnfon to, ii. 367, 9, 370.

Hawkesbury, Lord, Johnfon's letter to, relative

to Dr. Dodd, ii. 138.

Hawkefworth, Dr. i. 102.

Peers, ii. 261.
Huggins, Mr. ii. 332.
Hume, David, his ftyle, i. 238.

quits the Literary Club, i. 262.

Hawkins, Mr. i. 13.
Hay, Lord Charles, ii. 48, 341.
Heberden, Dr. his kind attendance on Johnfon,

ii. 460, 481, 570..
Hebrides, Johnfon's wish to vifit, i. 244, 252,
3c0, 349, 354, 387, 404, 424.

Johnfon's tour to them, i. 427.

Johnfon's publifhed Account of his

Journey,' i. 436, 9, 441, 3, 450, 3, 4, 7,

486; ii. 104, 157, 233, 247.
Hector, Mr. i. 17; ii. 30, 1, 412, 488, 553.
Letters from Johnson to, ii. 420, 1,

Homer, Johnfon's tranflations from, i. 18.
critiques on the merits of that poet,
ii. 169, 251, 3.

Hoole, John, Efq. his Taffo,' i. 208.

his Cleonice,' i. 442.

Letters of Johnson to him, 542, 3.
Hoole, John, Efq. his attention to Johnfon
during his laft illness, ii. 575.

Hope, Dr. confulted on Johnfon's illness, ii.
482.
Horace, Johnfon's tranflations from, i. 19.
criticifm on a paffage in that Latin poet,
ii. 86.
Horne, Reverend Dr. ii. 25, 583.

his fcepticifm, i. 241, 276; ii. 24, 143.

his Life,' ii. 118.

Humphry, Ozias, Efq. antiquity of his family,
and letters of Johnson to, ii. 486, 7.

Hunter, Mr. i. 13, 14,

Hurd, Dr. (Bishop of Worcester,) ii. 86, 500.

Huffey, Reverend Mr. John, i. 279.

Dr. Thomas, ii.

I. and J.

ii.

JAMES, Dr. his Medical Dictionary,' i. 85+
55-
his death, ii. and fee ii. 59.
45,

• Idler,' Johnson's, i. 181, 3, 7-

Jennyns, Soame, Efq. his Origin of Evil,'
i. 173.