Beauty independent of utility, ii.
109; an insipid beauty, v. 183.
Beckford, Lord Mayor of London, iii.
136.

Bedlam visited by J., ii. 239.

Beggar's Opera, J.'s opinion of, ii.
235.

Bellamy, Mrs., the actress, letter to
J. from, iv. 167.
Bentley, Dr. Richard, J.'s approba-
tion of, ii. 285; v. 135; English
verses by, iv. 23.
Bentham, Dr., canon of Christchurch,

ii. 285.

Beresford, Mrs. and daughter, travel
with J. in coach to Oxford, iv.
194.

Berkeley, Bishop, his ideal system
refuted, i. 273; iv. 26; his learn-
ing, ii. 87.

Berwick, Memoirs of the Duke of,
by the Abbé Hook, iii. 192.
Betterton, the actor, inferior to
Foote, iii. 124.

Bible, Lowth and Patrick's commen-
taries, iii. 34.

Bibliothèque, J.'s scheme of, i. 160.
Binning, Lord (Langton's brother-
in-law), ii. 122; iii. 223.
Biography esteemed by J., v. 54;
defects as well as virtues should
be recorded, 188; literary biogra-
phy in England very defective,
190; King George III. proposes
literary biography to J., ii. 34.
Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Greek epi-
gram to, i. 84; his writing dull
compared with his conversation,
i. 84; had more anecdotes than
any man, v. 201; Letters to, from
J., i. 84, 161; Letter from, to J.,
i. 161.
Birmingham Market, attended by
J.'s father, i. 2; J.'s visits to his
friends there, i. 34; iv. 100, 254.
Bishops, few made for their learning,
ii. 227; v. 54; high degree of
decorum necessary in, iv. 59.
Bishop, a liquor relished by J., i.
137.

Blackfriars Bridge, its erection, i.
200.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, life of,
praised, iv. 44.
Blackstone, Sir William, his Com-

mentaries, v. 158; composed with
a bottle of port before him, iv. 69.
Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, iii. 61, 228,
269; v. 23, 44; his Sermons, iii.
62, 112; criticises J.'s style in
his lectures, iii. 116; letter to
Boswell on conversation with J. v.,
315.

Rev Robert, his poem of the
"Grave," iii. 28.
Blaney, Elizabeth, passion for J.'s
father; her death and burial,
i. 3; J. repairs her tomb, iv.

252.

Blank verse inferior to rhyme, i. 247;
ii. 83; iv. 36.

Blasphemy, question as to literary
property in, v. 32.

Bleeding, periodical, disapproved of,
iii. 102.

Blenheim Park visited, ii. 288.
Blind persons cannot distinguish co-
lours by the touch, ii. 124.
Blue-stocking clubs, origin of name
of, iv. 80.

Boar's Head Club in Eastcheap, v.

195.

Bodleian Library, Oxford, i. 154.
Boileau, iii. 235.

Bolingbroke, Viscount St. John, J.'s
striking character of, i. 148; said
to have supplied Pope with sub-
stance of his "Essay on Man," iii.
270.

Bones, human, J.'s horror at sight
of, v. 131; uses of old bones, iv.

141.

Bon mots, iii. 216.
Books seldom read unless purchased,
ii. 148; J. fond of looking at libra-
ries, ii. 234; such as are read with
pleasure, iv. 151; common for peo-
ple to talk from books, v. 301;
number of books in Skye, v. 208.
Booksellers liberal patrons of litera-
ture, i. 162, 173.

Boothby, Mrs. Hill, i. 32; Miss, iv.
46.

Boscawen, Hon. Mrs., iii. 223.
Boswell, James (the author), his an-
cestors, v. 11, 62; his character
drawn by himself, v. 32; his intro-

duction to J., i. 225; his account
of Corsica, ii. 51; elected a mem-
ber of the Literary Club, 155; ac-
companies J. to the Hebrides, 172;
his Journal of the Tour praised by
J., v. 178; resolves to write the
Life of J., v. 248; instance of his
servile attentions to J., v. 211; in-
sulted by J. at Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds's, iii. 227; his tendency to
jollity, v. 196, 205; a clubable
man, iv. 174; Letters from J. to,
i. 274; ii. 10, 20, 48, 51, 73, 134,
170, 171, 178-184, 189-193, 200,
241, 242-244, 247, 263, 264, 266-
272; iii. 26, 55, 56, 59, 60, 66, 67,
69, 79, 81, 84, 86, 89, 141, 143,
144, 187, 244, 248, 252, 265, 266,
277, 278, 280, 292, 297; iv. 56,
101, 108, 110-114, 117, 158, 171,
178, 180, 181, 182, 235, 256-258;
His Letters to J., ii. 21-23, 43, 93,
97,174, 179, 180, 183, 189-192, 199,
246, 261, 271; iii. 55, 56, 57, 64,
67, 68, 69, 76, 80, 83, 85, 86, 88,
140, 142, 144, 147, 148, 186, 242,
251, 262, 265, 275, 277, 291, 294;
Letter from E. Dilly, iii. 72; from
Dr. Vyse, 82; from Mr. Langton,
283; from Dr. Blair, 270; from
Warren Hastings, iv. 53; from
Lord Thurlow, 225; to Garrick
from Inverness, with Garrick's
answer, v. 276.

Boswell, Mrs. (the author's wife), her
marriage, ii. 92; her attentions to
J., ii. 174; v. 9; her witticism on
J's influence over her husband,
ii. 174; Letters of J. to, iii. 54,
85; iv. 113; answer, 115.

Veronica (author's daugh-

ter), v. 10.

Sir Alexander and James, his
sons, v. 182.

Dr., his uncle, v. 29.
David, his brother, iii. 291,

298.
Boufflers, Madame de, visits J.,
260.

ii.

Bowles, W., Esq., Heale, visited by
J., iv. 159.

Boyd, Hon. Charles, Slains Castle,
v. 67.

Boyd's Inn (White Horse), Edin-
burgh, v. 7.

Boy at school, happiest of beings,

260.

Braidwood, his academy for deaf and
dumb, v. 316.

Brandy, drink for heroes, iii. 257;
iv. 62.

Brett, Colonel, Mrs. and Miss, i. 93.
Bristol, J.'s excursion to, iii. 29.
British Poets, J.'s Lives of, terms
with publishers, iii. 77, 92.
Brocklesby, Dr. Richard, iv. 125;
his liberality, 227; Letters from
J. to, iv. 160, 237.
Brothers and sisters, born to friends,
i. 184.

Browne, Sir Thomas, his Anglo-Latin
diction and elevated style imitated
by J., i. 121; his remark concern-
ing devils, iii. 197.

Brown, Tom, dedicates his spelling-
book to the universe, i. 7.

-, Capability, the landscape gar-
dener, iii. 269.

Brooks, Mrs., the actress, and her
father, v. 121.

Bruce, James, Esq., the Abyssinian
traveller, ii. 216.

Brutes not endowed with reason, ii.
160.

Buchan, Earl of, his refusal to go to
Spain as secretary, ii. 115.

Buller of, v. 69.

Buchanan, George, his elegant verses
to Queen Mary, i. 265; his learn-
ing and genius, ii. 64; iv. 131.
Buckles, shoe, v. 6; J.'s silver
buckles, iii. 219.

Buck, a term ludicrously applied to
J., v. 145.

Budgell, Eustace, his suicide, ii.
148.

Bull-dogs, iii. 127.

Bull, one uttered by J., iv. 218.
Bunyan, John, praise of his "Pil-
grim's Progress," ii. 155.
Burgoyne, General, his disaster at
Saratoga, iii. 240.
Burial service, iv. 148.

Burke, Edmund, interided to answer
Berkeley, i. 274; his stream of
mind perpetual, ii. 287; his ap-
pearance in the House of Com-
mons, ii. 17, 87; J.'s remark on
seeing Burke's fine house and lands
at Beaconsfield, iii. 208; his con-

versational powers, iv. 21, 119,

189; v. 16; J. denies that Burke
had wit, 16, 168.

Burnet, Bishop, his "History of his

own Times," ii. 138; v. 225.
Burney, Dr. Charles, his History
of Music," v. 48; his visit to J. in
Gough Square, i. 185; his note of
J.'s sayings, ii. 261; recommended
by J. to friends in Oxford, iii. 247;
relates anecdote of J., iv. 99; Let-
ters from J. to, i. 290; iv. 164,
242, 256.

Miss Frances, afterwards Ma-
dame D'Arblay, iv. 154, 188; her
imitation of J.'s style, 265.
Busts of J., iv. 285.

Butcher, J. discourses on trade of, v.
195.

Bute John, Earl of, Prime Minister
when J. received his pension, i.
213; a theoretical man, ii. 228,
303; his influence and nationality,
v. 159; Letters to, i. 215, 217.

Ann, Countess of, married Lord
Strichen; her account of her mar-
riage, v. 74.

Butler, Samuel, the poet, ii. 154, 236;
v. 36, 177.

Butler, Bishop, his "Analogy," v. 29.
Butter, Dr. W., iii. 1, 103, 109.
Byng, Admiral, his epitaph, i. 178;
J's. defence of, i. 177.

- Hon. John, letter on J.'s death,
iv. 282.

Byron, Lord, his simile of the struck
eagle, v. 174.

Campbell, General, v. 206.
Principal, v. 61.

"Candide," Voltaire's, iii. 240.
Cant, iv. 152.

Card-playing, iii. 14.

Carlisle, Earl of, "Father's Revenge,"
iv. 169; poems by, iv. 85.
Carr, Rev. Mr., Episcopal Minister
in Edinburgh, v. 12.

Carte's "Life of the Duke of Or-
mond," v. 236.

Carter, Elizabeth, i. 61, 70, 71; iii.
113.

Cascade, Rorie More's, v. 163, 170.
Caste, J.'s defence of Oriental system
of, iv. 67.

Castiglione's "Il Corteggiano," v.

219.

Cat, story of dead, iii. 127.
Catalogue of J.'s works, iii. 216.
Catechism of Churchof England, v. 47.
Cave, Mr. Edward, proprietor of Gen-
tleman's Magazine, i. 38, 54, 76;
J.'s Life of, i. 142. J.'s ode to,
i. 55; Letters from, i. 77; letters
from J. to, i. 38, 50, 59, 60, 61, 69,
70, 110, 111.

Caves, remarkable, v. 155, 187.
Cawdor Castle,'v. 84; family of, v. 85.
Chambers, Sir Robert, ii. 23; v. 4, 7.

Sir William, architect, iv.
132; letter from J. to, i. 153.
Catherine, death of, ii. 35.
Chamberlayne, Rev. Mr., conversion
to Romanism, iv. 197.

Chancellor of Oxford's letter to Uni-
versity, i. 158.

Chantilly, ii. 256.

Chapone, Mrs., letter from J. to, iv.
170.

Charade by J., iv. 135.

Charity, rules for the distribution of,
v. 298.

Charles the Twelfth of Sweden, i.

Chatterton, his literary forgeries, iii.
29; iv. 104.
Cheating, ii. 220.
Chester, iii. 276-8.
Chesterfield, Lord, i. 97, 143-148;
iii. 32; iv. 224; J. dedicates plan
of Dictionary to, i. 97, 98; J.'s
quarrel with, i. 143-148; his papers
in the "World," i. 143; J.'s cele-
brated letter to, i. 145; iv. 95;
applies epithet of "respectable Hot-
tentot" to J., i. 148; his puns,
ii. 138; "Letters to his Son," i.
148; ii. 213; Dilly's edition of
his works, iii. 238.

Cheyne, Dr. George, on the "English
Malady," i. 32; iii. 55; J.'s opinion
of his works, iii. 16; his rules for
living, v. 117.

Cheynel, J.'s "Life of," i. 126.
Chief, Highland, duty of, v. 161,
183, 218.

Children, education of, i. 9, 23, 260;
should not always be brought into
company, iii. 17.

China, manufacture of, iii. 109.
Chinese, remarks on the, iii. 228.
Cholmondeley, Hon. Mrs., iii. 173,
213; v. 196.

Church, attendance at, iii. 269; holi-
days of, ii. 292.

Cibber, Colley, i. 143, 231, 232; ii.
219; iii. 45, 123; Lives of the
Poets, iii. 18; Mrs., v. 91.

Clarke, Dr. S., i. 229; ii. 69; iii.
166.

Clark, Alderman, letter from J. to,
iv. 177.

Clarendon, style of, iii. 174.

Claret and Port, J.'s comparison be-
tween, iii. 256.

Classical terms, modern use of, iii.
189; quotations, iv. 128.
Classics, iv. 151.

Clement Danes, St., Church of, ii.
139, 229; iii. 202; inscription in
J.'s pew at, ii. 138.

Clergy, Scotch and English com-
pared, v. 199.

Clerical decorum and dress, iv. 59, 60.
Clive, Lord, remarks on, iv. 225, 269.
Mrs., the actress, iv. 13.
Cloth, Scotch process of "wawking,"
v. 138.

Club in Ivy Lane, formed by J., i.

Coll, island of, ii. 172; v. 238.
Colchester, siege of, i. 271,
Colman, George, ii. 206; iv. 220.
Colquhoun, Sir James and Lady
Helen, entertain J. at Rosedow,
v. 288.
"Collectanea," Dr. Maxwell's, ii.
78-88.

Colleges, bequests to, iii. 206.
Collins the poet, his melancholy, i.
219; J.'s "Life of," i. 219.
Colson, Rev. Mr., letter to, from Gil-
bert Walmesley, i. 48.
Composition, instructions relative to,
iii. 293; v. 44.

Compositor, story of a, iv. 218.
Compliment, letters of, to J. from
abroad, iv. 12.

"Comus," J.'s prologue to, i. 124.
Condescension, iv. 11.

Congreve, fine passage in "Mourning
Bride," of, ii. 59; Life of, iv. 45.
Congè d'elire, J.'s definition of, iv.
219.

Convents, ii. 14, 280.

Conversation, remarks on, ii. 231,

304; iii. 180; Evening Society for,
iv. 68; Mrs. Thrale's remarks on
J.'s, iv. 87; general remarks on,
iv. 118, 218.
Convicts, religious instruction of, iv.

222.

Cooke, Captain, iii. 5.

Mr., his singular presentation
of Foote, v. 19.

Cookery, Mrs. Glass's, iii. 192.
Coote, Sir Eyre, v. 89, 92.
"Coriat Junior," book of Travels,
ii. 114.

Cork, Earl of, J.'s remark on, iii.
122.

Corneille and Shakspeare, iv. 18.
Corpulency, iv. 128.

Corrichatachin, J.'s kind reception
at, v. 119.

Cotterel, Misses, incidents of J.'s
acquaintance with, i. 134.

Country, love of, ii. 68; life in the,
iii 239, iv 227; v. 75.
Courage, iv. 202.

Court of Session, mode of pleading
in, v. 316.

Coverley, Sir Roger de, ii. 237.
Cowdray Hall, iv. 115.
Cowley, Hurd's Select Works of, iii.
17; J.'s Life of, iv. 34; his con-
densation of thought, v. 274.
Coxeter, Thomas Eyre, makes large
collection of Works of British Poets,
iii. 105.

Cradock, Mr., author of "Zobeide,"
iii. 23.

Credulity, French, v. 262; English
not less than Scotch, v. 308.
Creeds and confessions, v. 86.
Criticism not injurious to authors, iii.

283; Kames's Elements of, ii. 61.
Cromwell, J.'s projected Life of, iv.

160.

Crosbie, Mr. Andrew, ii. 240; v. 27;
his comparison of the English and
Scotch, v. 7.

Crosses, ancient, v. 132.

Crowns, Three, Inn, at Lichfield, ii.

295.

Cruikshank, Mr., surgeon, J.'s letter
to, iv. 246.

Cullen, town of, v. 76.

Dr., iv. 179; v. 26.
Culloden, battle of, ii. 174; v. 151.
Cumberland, Mr., Odes of, iii. 26;

his "Fashionable Lovers," v. 136.
Cumming, Thomas, the Quaker, v. 69.

DALRYMPLE, Sir John, entertains J.,
v. 317; his Memoirs of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, ii. 136.

Sir David, vide Hailes.
Dancing, report of J.'s learning, iv.

62.

Danes, colony of in Fifeshire, v. 47.
Davies, Thomas, actor and bookseller,
character of, i. 224; introduces
Boswell to J., i. 225; his wife re-
markable for beauty, i. 224, 281;
his Life of Garrick, iii. 291; letters
from J. to, iv. 157, 246.
Death, remarks on, i. 191; ii. 62; iv.
109, 191, 203; v. 139; fear of, ii.
71; iii. 197, 210; warrants signed
by Sixtus Quintus on his death-bed,
190.

Deeds, remarks on registration of, iv
58.

De Foe, Daniel, J.'s opinion of, iii.
180.

"Deformities of J.," iv. 108.
Dempster, George, Esq., his high
opinion of J.'s conversation, i. 251;
letter on J.'s Journey, v. 321.
Demonax Johnson, so styled by Rev.
Dr. Francklin, iv. 30.

Denis, St., J.'s description of, ii. 256.
Dennis, John, the critic, iii. 24.
Derby, manufactory of china at, iii.
109; J.'s marriage at, i. 42.
Derrick, Mr., the poet, J.'s regard
for, i. 221.

Desmoulins, Mrs., i. 21, 131; J.'s
kindness to, iii. 151, 298; her ac-
count of J., i. 32.

Devil, printer's, marriage of a, iv. 73.
Devonshire, J.'s trip to, i. 215; Duke
of, iii. 125.

Devotion, remarks on, iv. 155.
Diary, J.'s, i. 27.

Diaries, remarks on, ii. 141.
Dictionary of the English language,
by J., i. 96, 97, 143; 271; plan
of, dedicated to Lord Chesterfield,
i. 97; anecdote of its commence-
ment, i. 97; amanuenses employed
on, i. 99; principal publishers of,
i. 97, 162; published, i. 165; pre-
face to, i. 165, 168; definitions in,
i. 167, 168; Garrick's compli-
mentary epigram on, i. 169; au-
thorities cited, iv. 11.
Dictionaries, pronouncing, ii. 106.
Dick, Sir Alexander, iv. 179; v. 29;
letter to J. from, iii. 65.

Dilly, Messrs., booksellers, iii. 4, 40;

dinners at, ii. 218; iii. 40-43, 191;
iv. 76, 190; letters from J. to, iii.
83; iv. 177; death of E. Dilly, iii.
266.

Dinner, at J.'s house, on Easter
Sunday, ii. 140.

Divorce, remarks on, iii. 236.
Dixie, Sir Wolstan, i. 34.
Dodd, Dr., iii. 78, 79, 110; iv. 144;
J.'s interference in behalf of, iii.
93-100; his "Thoughts in Prison,"
iii. 181.

Doddridge, Dr. Philip, his fine epi-
gram. v. 216.

Dodsley, Robert, author and pub-