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Goldsmith, Johnson's epitaphs on him, 312
his bon mots on Johnson, 159, 210, 211, 464,

517

Johnson's opinions of him and his works,
112, 153, 189, 194, 198, 250, 298, 341, 366, 368, 374,
387, 389, 407, 436, 438

Good-breeding, perfect,-in what it consists, 163
Good Friday, 248, 249, 387

Gordon, Lord George, 424, 456

Gower, Earl, his letter to Swift, in favour of Johnson, 31
Graham, Lord, 409, 466

Miss, (now Lady Dashwood,) 417

Grainger, Dr. his 'Sugar Cane,' 280

his Ode on Solitude.' 351

Grammar school, Johnson's plan of a, 22

Granger, Rev. Mr., his Biographical History,' 316
Granville, John Carteret, Earl, 173, n.; anecdote of, 433
Grattan, Henry, Esq. his oratory censured, 529

Gray's poetry, 111, 189, 241, 244, 297, 298, 433

263, n.

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Hammond, James, author of the Elegies, 435
Hanway, Jonas, 82, 175

Happiness, 141, 303, 380. See Life

may be obtained, if we apply our hearts to
piety, 49

the reasonable hope of a happy futurity, the
only solid basis of happiness, 403
Harleian Miscellany, 44
Harrington, Dr., his Nugæ Antiquæ,' 485
Caroline, Countess of, 332

Harris, James, Esq. of Salisbury, 208, 323, 366, 370
his high praise of Johnson's Dictionary, 324
Thomas, Esq. Proprietor of Covent Garden
Theatre, 323

Harte's History of Gustavus Adolphus,' 175, 454
Harwood, Rev. Dr. 299

Hastie. See Schoolmaster

Hastings, Warren, Esq. character of, 449
his letter to the author, 450

Johnson's letters to, 450, 451

Hawkesbury, Lord, Johnson's letter to, 334

his Lordship's high opinion of Johnson,

335.
Hawkesworth, Dr. 48

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Hurd, Dr. (Bishop of Worcester,) 17, 296, 310, n. 360.
488, 521

Hussey, Rev. Mr. John, 483

Rev. Dr. Thomas, 561

Hutton, Mr. 561

Hutton's History of Derby,' 340, n.
Hypochondria, 12

Jackson, Henry (one of Johnson's early friends,) 929
Jackobite, Johnson's ingenious defence of that charac-

ter, 119

Jackson, Mr., Johnson's schoolfellow, 283

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JOHNSON, not prone to inveigh against his own times,
289, 360

never courted the great, 465

never got entirely rid of his provincial pro-
nunciation, 187, 283

by what means he attained his extraordi-
nary accuracy and flow of language, 52

his visit to his native town, where he finds
things altered, 102

his library, 120

his love for the acquaintance of young per-
sons, 123,

his observance of certain days, 134
his custom of talking to himself, 134
his watch inscription, 156

his amusement in his solitary hours, 414
his company sought by a few of the great, 465
general traits of his character and mode of
living, 12, 19, 20, 109, 128, 143, 174, 182, 190, 229,
233, 289, 290, 317, 339, 340, 348, 326, 303, 433, 435,
446, 464, 487, 503, 525

nature abhors a vacuum, 181

men do not, like others, become narrow in a

118

narrow place, 366

Johnson, Michael (Dr. Johnson's father,) 5

his death, 15

Sarah, (Dr. Johnson's mother,) Johnson's let-

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enters at Pembroke College, Oxon. 11.-
Leaves it, 15

becomes usher of Market-Bosworth School,
17. See 561

removes to Birmingham, 17
marries Mrs. Porter, 20, 21
opens an Academy at Edial, 21
goes to London with Garrick, 22

a writer in The Gentleman's Magazine,' 26,
&c. 561

endeavours to obtain the degree of A.M. to
get a School, 31

his distressed circumstances, and filial piety, 40
loses his wife, 61

composes her funeral sermon, 63

visits Oxford, 70; and again, 94, 276, 265
obtains his degree of A.M. from that Univer-

sity, 72

his letters on that occurrence, 74-The di-

ploma, 74

declines taking holy orders, 85
loses his mother, 91

his extreme grief for her loss, 61, 73, 80, 261,
385, 387, 540

obtains a pension of 3001. per Ann. 102 & seq.
See 104, 530

visits Cambridge, 135
created LL.D. by Trinity College, Dublin, 136
by Oxford University, 242, 243
his interview with the king, 150
appointed Professor of Ancient Literature in
the Royal Academy, 159

endeavours to get into Parliament, 180 & seq.
visits the Hebrides, 254. See Hebrides

Wales, 227

France, 257

his account of it, 259

his various places of residence, 416

his long and gradual decline, 508

his various disorders, 504, 510, 541, 547

medical opinions on his case, 512, 515

his proposed tour to Italy for his health, 532, 535
progress of his dissolution, 556, to the end

his will and codicil, 589-Remarks on them, 559
his burning his MSS. 559

his MS. account of his own life, 560

his death, 563

his funeral, 364

his monuments and epitaphs, 564, 565. His
Character and Manners

his peculiarities of person and manners, 6,
20, 33, 64, 65, 106, 133, 242, 265, 308, 402, 487, n.
his attention to small things, 129, 361

his candour, 111, 489; increased as he ad-
vanced in life, 304

not a complainer; 463, 483; seldom courted
others, 388

his course of study desultory and irregular,

his instructions for study, 349

his early acquisition of general knowledge, 123
his manner of composing his Poetical Works,
his Rambler,' 300

- his censure of one of his Ramblers,' 431
at a late period of life could have made his
• Ramblers,' better 527

-his manner of composing his other works,
306, n.

never looked at his Rasselas since it was
first published, 466

wrote six sheets of translation from the
French in one day, 469

wrote a hundred lines of the Vanity of Hu-
man Wishes' in a day, 143

wrote seventy lines of the Vanity of Human
Wishes' in a day, without putting one of them on
paper, till all was finished, 48

wrote three columns of the Gentleman's Ma-
gazine, containing Parlimentary Debates, in an
hour, 561

wrote forty-eight of the printed octavo pages
of the Life of Savage at a sitting, 41

his style formed on Sir William Temple's,
paper of Ephraim Chambers respecting the second
edition of his Dictionary, and Sir Thomas Browne,
57, 370, n.

his own remarks on, and masterly vindication
of his style, 343
his extraordinary memory, 6, 9
retained in its verses of obscure authors, 179,

461, n.

his superlative power of wit, 210

his dexterity in retort, 107, 488

his conversation eminently distinguished by
fecundity of fancy, and choice of language, 368, 389
nothing of the old man in it, 396, 487

his early, long, habitual, and systematic
piety, 6, 13, 65, 134, 136, 145, 152, 159, 171, 182, 15.
204, 229, 249, 250, 314, 317, 366, 387, 409, 415, 431,
515, 521, 547, 557, 561, 563

his independence, 122
his superstition, 135, 260

his awful fear of death, 165, 170, 175, 233,
337, 382, 515, 518, 524

his general tenderness of nature, humanity,
and affability, 16, 61, 73, 76, 79, 112, 115, 124, 14
152, 159, 171, 227, 234, 250, 283, 312, 328, 331, 346,
359, 385, 467, 471, 486, 488, 515, 519, 531, 534, 555
his warm and sometimes violent manner, 64,
162, 170, 175, 294, 346, 374, 380, 388, 394, 38, 410,
463, 483, 516, 535

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Laughter, the various modes of, indicate what kind of
company the laugher has kept, 124

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Laughers, the, use of sometimes living with them, 487
Law, Johnson's intention of studying, 136

his instructor, Mr. Ballow, author of the 'Trea-
tise on Equity,' 294

his opinion as to the study and practice of, 141, 1.5,
153, 199, 206, 345, 527

Law-arguments on several cases, viz.

on School-masters and their duty, 195
vicious intromission, 318

rights of law-patrons, 213
Dr. Memis's case, 254

Stirling Corporation case, 255
entails, 274

liberty of the Pulpit, 304, 315
registration of Deeds, 452

case of the Procurators of Edinburgh, 469
Law, Archdeacon, (now Bishop of Elphin,) 420
Law's Serious Call,' 13, 180

Lawrence, Dr. 16, 472

letters to, 232, 474

Lea, Rev. Samuel, 8

Learning, 126, 196

Lectures, their inutility, 141, 457

Lee, Arthur, Esq. 308

John, Esq. (the late barrister,) 36C

Leeds, Duke of, 433

Leland, Rev. Dr. Thomas, 136

Lenox, Mrs. Charlotte, 94, 100, 229, 432, 516

Lesley, Charles, 521, n.

Leverian Museum, 534

Levett, Mr. Robert, 63, 64, 120, 227, 257, 315, 502
Johnson's letters to, 227, 258, 315

Mr. Robert, his death, 472

Johnson's elegiac verses on him, 473

Lewis, the Rev. Francis, 58

David, his lines to Pope, 559

Lexiphanes, 153

letter from, 554

Libels on the dead, and the general doctrine of, 292;
See Topham's case

Libel Bill, the late, superfluous, 292, n.

Liberty, political and private, 157

subordination and order necessary to the enjoy-

ment of true liberty, 409

and necessity of the will, 163, 168, 381, 451

Lichfield, remarks on, 381

Johnson's last visit to, 543

Liddel, Sir Henry, his spirited expedition to Lapland,
190

Life, reflections on, 176, 177, 209, 302, 304, 340, 524,533
should be thrown into a method, that every hour
may bring employment, 316

Line, the improper use of that word, 350
LITERARY CLUB, 133, 239, 323, 378, 487, 533

Johnson's high opinion of it, 484

Literary frauds, 66, 98-instances of, 559

property, 121, 219, 224, 246, 553

men, the written accounts of their lives may be
made as entertaining as those of any other class, 460
Literature, state of, 87

'Lives of the English Poets,' Johnson's, 321, 322, 323

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published, 406, 439, 478
critique on, and account

Lock, William, Esq. of Norbury Park,) 441
Locke, his plan of Education imperfect, 402
Lockman, Mr. John, 431

Loft, Capel, Esq. 517

Lombe's silk mill, at Derby, 340

London, its immensity, 116, 249, 492

its superiority over the country, 161, 174, 176,

289, 344, 543, 549

Johnson's and the Author's love of, 85, 127,
225, 289, 344, 543, 549

London, art of living in, 23

Johnson's poem of, 27-30, 49
Chronicle, 85, 168

Long, Dudley, Esq. See North
Longly, Mr., of Rochester, 432
Lort, Rev. Mr. 522

Loudoun, Countess of, 404

Lovat, Lord, anecdotes of, and epigram on, 46
Love, 175, 221, 250, 283. See Marriage
Loveday, Dr. John, 219

Loughborough, Lord, 106

Lowe, (Johnson's Schoolfellow,) 7

Mr. Mauritius, the Painter, 468, 495, 559
Lowth, Robert, Bishop of London, 151

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Methodists, 127, 175, 176, 239, 533

Meynell, Hugo, Esq., his happy expressions concerning
London, 408

Mickle, William Julius, 194, 527

-his Lusiad,' 508

Middle state of souls, 169, 188

Millar, Andrew, 77

Miller, Lady, 244

Milner, Rev. Mr., his defence of the Methodists, 127, n.
Milton, his grand-daughter, 59, 60

Johnson's Life of, & seq. See 59 & seq.
and 526

more thinking in him and Butler, than in any
of the English poets, 212

his plan of education impracticable, 422
Mimickry, 186

Miracles, in proof of the Christian religion, supported
by the strongest evidence, 123

'Mirror, the,' a periodical paper, 535
'Modern characters from Shakspeare,' 309

Monasteries, 100, 275

Monboddo, Lord, and his works, 161, 183, 206, 220, 257,
468, 516

Monckton, Hon. Miss, (now Countess of Cork,) 463
the Author's verses to, 463, n.

Monro, Dr. 512

Montagu, Mrs., her Essay on Shakspeare,' 164
Montagu, Mrs., anecdotes of, 365, 452, 517

Montrose, the late Duke of, 364, n.

Monuments in St Paul's church, 463

Moody, Mr., the Actor, 212

Moor, Dr. (Greek Professor at Glasgow,) 299
More, Dr. Henry, 188

More, Miss Hannah, 369, 459, 460, 463, 516, 526
Morris, Miss, Johnson's last words spoken to her, 563
Mounsey, Dr., of Chelsea, his character, 158
Mountstuart, Lord (now Marquis of Bute, 143, 74, 315,
418, 469

Mourning Bride,' description of the temple in that
play, highly commended, 164
Mudge, Rev. Mr. Zachariah, 103, 453

Dr. 103

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his Life of Swift, 367

Osborn, Francis, his works, 197
Osborne, Thomas, the Bookseller, 38
Ossian, Poems of, their merit and authenticity discussed,
109, 176, 231, 232, 233, 236, 237, 302, 487, 508, 509
Ostentation, 129, 156, 301, 431, 487, 561
Othello,' its useful moral, 299

Othello,' the drunken dialogue in that play the most
excellent of its kind, 299

the doctrine in that play- he that is robb'd,'
&c. controverted, 398

Otway, 435

Oxford University, highly praised, 155

Palmer, the Rev. Thomas Fysche, 468

the Rev. John, his answer to Dr. Priestley on
Philosophical Necessity, 331, n.

Palmerston, Henry, the second Viscount, 96, 501
Pamphlets, 389

Panting, Dr. 14

Paoli, General, 160, 162, 189, 207, 203, 297, 337, 391, 533
Paradise, John, Esq. 410

character of, and Johnson's letter to, 545

Parentheses, disapproved of by Johnson, 489

Parish Clerks, 468

Parker, Mr. Sackville, 527

Parnell, Dr., Goldsmith's Life of, 189

Johnson's Life of, and Epitaph on, 446

a disputed passage in one of his poems, 412

Parr, Rev. Dr. 434, 504, 565

Parson, the life of a conscientious one, not an easy life,

384

Passion Week, 197

Paterson, Mr. Samuel, 192, 315

his son, 315, 500, 514

'the Patriot,' a tragedy by Mr. Joseph Simpson, found
among Johnson's Papers, and falsely imputed to
him, 296

Patriotism, 247
Patten, Dr. 481

Pearce, Dr. Zachary, Bishop of Rochester, 79, 222
Peers, House of, ought generally to exercise their judi-
cial power, 398

of Scotland, and their undue influence, 507, 508
Pelham, Right Hon. Henry, Garrick's Ode on his Death,
70

Pembroke College, Oxford, eminent men of, 15

Henry, late Earl of, 241, n.

Pennant's Tour,' 374, 375

'London,' 375

Penison, Johnson's, 105. See Johnson

Pepys, William Weller, Esq. 455

Percy, Dr. (Bishop of Dromore,) 8, 14, 34, 48, 134, 135,
158, 180, 280, n. 374, 376, 404, 420, 421, 427

Percy, Dr. Bishop of Dromore,) letters on a difference
between Johnson and him, 375, 376

proved to be the heir male of the ancient Earls of
Northumberland, 374

Perkins, Mr. successor to Mr. Thrale, 455

letters from Johnson to, 228, 465, 478, 545

Peters, Mr., Dr. Taylor's upper servant, 287

Peterborough, Earl of, 534

Petitions, popular, to distress Government, easily ob-

tained, 165

Peyton, Mr. 48, 186

Phæax, contrasted with Mr. Fox, 372, n.

Philips, the Musician, Johnson's epitaph on, 36

the Poet, Johnson's Life of, 446

Miss, the Singer, now Mrs. Crouch. See Crouch

Οι φίλοι οι φίλος, 53, 310, 410

Philosophers, ancient, their good humour with each
other in disputation, accounted for, 290

Philosophy, 385

Pieresc, 254"

Pig, the learned, 549

Pindar, West's translation of, 437

Piozzi, Mrs. 138, 273, 327, 388, 455, 456, 490, 517

anecdotes of Johnson related by her, corrected,
or explained, 6, 13, n. 112, 134, 197, 193, 247, 330,
537, 539

letter from her to Johnson, 422
from Johnson to her, 422, 500
burlesque ode to her, 553, n.

Pitt, Right Hon. William, Earl of Chatham, 198, 401,
529

Right Hon. William, his letter to the Author, on
his exertions for Government, 511

Pity, not natural to man, 121

Planta, Mr. 263, n.

Planting trees, 319, 353

Plaxton, Rev. George, 4, n.

Players,-Porter, Clive, Pritchard, 505
Plymouth, Johnson's visit to, 103

Pococke, Edward, the Orientalist, 373. 437
Poetry, reflections on, 248, 299, 333, 370

not definable, 299

Poetry, the cause of languages being preserved, 996.
The beauties not translatable, ib.

-- of Johnson, while young, 5, 9, & seq. 19

Poets, Johnson's Lives of. See Lives

Politian's Poems, Johnson's projected edition of, 1)
Poor, in England, better provided for than in any other
country, 142

Pope, 30, n. 34, 140, 248, 363, 398, 412, 526
compared with Dryden, 140

Lady Bolingbroke's description of, 391
his Life, by Ruffoead, 190

Johnson's translation of his Messiah,' 11
Homer,' 369

his

his

Universal Prayer,' 415

his Essay on Man,' 416

his Epitaphs, 82

Johnson's Life of, 443

Dr. Walter, his Old Man's Wish, 434

Porter, Mrs. (afterwards Johnson's wife,) 20

Miss Lucy, 19, n. 283, 419

Johnson's letters to, 258, 259, 412, 457, 474, 501,

510, 511, 556

Mrs. the Actress, 505

Porteus, Dr. Beilby, Lord Bishop of London, 377, 419,

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