Goldsmith, Johnson's epitaphs on him, 312 517 Johnson's opinions of him and his works, Good-breeding, perfect,-in what it consists, 163 Gordon, Lord George, 424, 456 Gower, Earl, his letter to Swift, in favour of Johnson, 31 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 Gray's poetry, 111, 189, 241, 244, 297, 298, 433 263, n. Hammond, James, author of the Elegies, 435 Happiness, 141, 303, 380. See Life may be obtained, if we apply our hearts to the reasonable hope of a happy futurity, the Harris, James, Esq. of Salisbury, 208, 323, 366, 370 Harte's History of Gustavus Adolphus,' 175, 454 Hastie. See Schoolmaster Hastings, Warren, Esq. character of, 449 Johnson's letters to, 450, 451 Hawkesbury, Lord, Johnson's letter to, 334 his Lordship's high opinion of Johnson, 335. Hurd, Dr. (Bishop of Worcester,) 17, 296, 310, n. 360. Hussey, Rev. Mr. John, 483 Rev. Dr. Thomas, 561 Hutton, Mr. 561 Hutton's History of Derby,' 340, n. Jackson, Henry (one of Johnson's early friends,) 929 ter, 119 Jackson, Mr., Johnson's schoolfellow, 283 JOHNSON, not prone to inveigh against his own times, never courted the great, 465 never got entirely rid of his provincial pro- by what means he attained his extraordi- his visit to his native town, where he finds his library, 120 his love for the acquaintance of young per- his observance of certain days, 134 his amusement in his solitary hours, 414 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- 143 enters at Pembroke College, Oxon. 11.- becomes usher of Market-Bosworth School, removes to Birmingham, 17 a writer in The Gentleman's Magazine,' 26, endeavours to obtain the degree of A.M. to his distressed circumstances, and filial piety, 40 composes her funeral sermon, 63 visits Oxford, 70; and again, 94, 276, 265 sity, 72 his letters on that occurrence, 74-The di- ploma, 74 declines taking holy orders, 85 his extreme grief for her loss, 61, 73, 80, 261, obtains a pension of 3001. per Ann. 102 & seq. visits Cambridge, 135 endeavours to get into Parliament, 180 & seq. 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 his will and codicil, 589-Remarks on them, 559 his MS. account of his own life, 560 his death, 563 his funeral, 364 his monuments and epitaphs, 564, 565. His his peculiarities of person and manners, 6, his candour, 111, 489; increased as he ad- not a complainer; 463, 483; seldom courted his course of study desultory and irregular, his instructions for study, 349 his early acquisition of general knowledge, 123 - his censure of one of his Ramblers,' 431 -his manner of composing his other works, never looked at his Rasselas since it was wrote six sheets of translation from the wrote a hundred lines of the Vanity of Hu- wrote seventy lines of the Vanity of Human wrote three columns of the Gentleman's Ma- wrote forty-eight of the printed octavo pages his style formed on Sir William Temple's, his own remarks on, and masterly vindication 461, n. his superlative power of wit, 210 his dexterity in retort, 107, 488 his conversation eminently distinguished by his early, long, habitual, and systematic his independence, 122 his awful fear of death, 165, 170, 175, 233, his general tenderness of nature, humanity, Laughter, the various modes of, indicate what kind of Laughers, the, use of sometimes living with them, 487 his instructor, Mr. Ballow, author of the 'Trea- his opinion as to the study and practice of, 141, 1.5, Law-arguments on several cases, viz. on School-masters and their duty, 195 rights of law-patrons, 213 Stirling Corporation case, 255 liberty of the Pulpit, 304, 315 case of the Procurators of Edinburgh, 469 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 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; 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, Life, reflections on, 176, 177, 209, 302, 304, 340, 524,533 Line, the improper use of that word, 350 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 'Lives of the English Poets,' Johnson's, 321, 322, 323 published, 406, 439, 478 Lock, William, Esq. of Norbury Park,) 441 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, London, art of living in, 23 Johnson's poem of, 27-30, 49 Long, Dudley, Esq. See North Loudoun, Countess of, 404 Lovat, Lord, anecdotes of, and epigram on, 46 Loughborough, Lord, 106 Lowe, (Johnson's Schoolfellow,) 7 Mr. Mauritius, the Painter, 468, 495, 559 Methodists, 127, 175, 176, 239, 533 Meynell, Hugo, Esq., his happy expressions concerning 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. Johnson's Life of, & seq. See 59 & seq. more thinking in him and Butler, than in any his plan of education impracticable, 422 Miracles, in proof of the Christian religion, supported 'Mirror, the,' a periodical paper, 535 Monasteries, 100, 275 Monboddo, Lord, and his works, 161, 183, 206, 220, 257, Monckton, Hon. Miss, (now Countess of Cork,) 463 Monro, Dr. 512 Montagu, Mrs., her Essay on Shakspeare,' 164 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, Miss Hannah, 369, 459, 460, 463, 516, 526 Mourning Bride,' description of the temple in that Dr. 103 his Life of Swift, 367 Osborn, Francis, his works, 197 Othello,' the drunken dialogue in that play the most the doctrine in that play- he that is robb'd,' Otway, 435 Oxford University, highly praised, 155 Palmer, the Rev. Thomas Fysche, 468 the Rev. John, his answer to Dr. Priestley on Palmerston, Henry, the second Viscount, 96, 501 Panting, Dr. 14 Paoli, General, 160, 162, 189, 207, 203, 297, 337, 391, 533 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 Patriotism, 247 Pearce, Dr. Zachary, Bishop of Rochester, 79, 222 of Scotland, and their undue influence, 507, 508 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, Percy, Dr. Bishop of Dromore,) letters on a difference proved to be the heir male of the ancient Earls of 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 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, letter from her to Johnson, 422 Pitt, Right Hon. William, Earl of Chatham, 198, 401, Right Hon. William, his letter to the Author, on Pity, not natural to man, 121 Planta, Mr. 263, n. Planting trees, 319, 353 Plaxton, Rev. George, 4, n. Players,-Porter, Clive, Pritchard, 505 Pococke, Edward, the Orientalist, 373. 437 not definable, 299 Poetry, the cause of languages being preserved, 996. -- of Johnson, while young, 5, 9, & seq. 19 Poets, Johnson's Lives of. See Lives Politian's Poems, Johnson's projected edition of, 1) Pope, 30, n. 34, 140, 248, 363, 398, 412, 526 Lady Bolingbroke's description of, 391 Johnson's translation of his Messiah,' 11 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, |