lisher, purchases copyright of J.'s "London," i. 61; advises J. to address plan of his Dictionary to Lord Chesterfield, i. 97, 98; his Preceptor," i. 102; describes effect of J.'s letter to Chester- field, i. 147; his "Cleone" and "Public Virtue," iv. 21; is one of the purchasers of "Rasselas," i. 195; his character, ii. 286. Dogs, Maclean of Col could run down, v. 261; J. separates two fighting dogs, ii. 194; describes a well-shaped bull-dog, iii. 127; eaten at Otaheite and China, ii. 150.
Dominicetti's medicated baths, ii. 66. Donaldson, Alexander, bookseller, i. 253.
Douglas, cause, famous Scots law- suit, ii. 39; v. 12.
Rev. Dr., Bishop of Salis- bury, detects Lauder's forgery, i. 126; sups at the Crown and An- chor with J., ii. 46; his opinion on ecclesiastical discipline, iv. 189.
-, tragedy of, by John Home, J.'s contempt for, ii. 207; v. 287. Draughts, game of, tranquillizes the mind, i. 179.
Dress, ii. 306; J.'s gay dress as a
dramatic author, i. 108; his care- less morning style, i. 228; im- proved dress, iii. 219; iv. 220; his dress on his Scottish tour, v. 5; time wasted in dressing, 45. Drinking, much declined of late years, v. 38; arguments against, iii. 24, 114, 261; v. 257. Drummond, William, the poet, his "Cypress Grove," v. 139; his seat of Hawthornden visited, 318.
Mr. W., the bookseller, J.'s letters to, on translating the Scriptures into the Gaelic lan- guage, ii. 25-27. Dryden, John, compared with Pope, by Voltaire and J., ii. 11, 60; his dedications, v. 189; his coffee- house habits, iii. 45; his religious opinions, 235, iv. 37; his philo- sophical lines on life, iv. 206. Duelling, J.'s defence of, ii. 118; iv. 147; v. 9, 182.
Dunbui, a remarkable rock, v. 68.
EAGLE, Classical fable of, v. 174. Early rising, J.'s aversion to, iii. 113. East Indies, wealth acquired in, iii. 298.
Economy, paltry, iii. 200.
Edensor, Inn, Derbyshire, iii. 140. Edial House, J.'s Academy, i. 43. Edinburgh, J.'s arrival in, v. 7; White Horse Inn, v. 7.
Episcopal Chapel in, v. 12; Parliament House, v. 12; Holyrood House, v. 25; St. Giles's Church, v. 23; College, v. 24; Royal In- firmary, v. 24.
Education, J.'s opinion on, ii. 12,
262; public and private, v. 58; Scotch, ii. 233; national, iv. 150. Edwards on Grace, discussion on, iii. 195.
Rev. Dr., letter from J. to,
Mr., J.'s fellow-collegian, meeting with, iii. 203, 206. Eels, skinning of, iii. 256. Eglintoune, Earl of, remark on J.'s
manners, ii. 48; character of, v. 114; shot by Mungo Campbell, iii. 126.
Countess of, celebrated for her beauty and accomplishments, v. 298; adopts J. as her son, v. 299. Egyptians, ancient, discussion as to appearance, iv. 93.
Eldon, Lord, opinion on law of copy- right, v. 32.
Election, freedom of, ii. 219.
"Elfrida," Mr. Mason's, criticised,
Elgin, v. 79, 81; cathedral, v. 79. Elibank, Lord, his admiration of J.'s powers, iii. 15; J.'s character of, v. 307; letter to Boswell, v. 140; to J., v. 141.
Eliot, Mr., of Port Eliot, iv. 61. Elizabeth, Queen, her learning, iv. 16. Ellis, Jack, the Money Scrivener, iii. 13.
Ellon, Landlady at, her opinion of J. v. 66.
Elphinstone, Mr. James, i. 114, 115; his edition of the "Rambler," i. 114; letters from J., to i. 115, 116; notice of, ii. 146.
Elwal, the heretic, ii. 109. Emigration, iii. 156; v. 11. 53, 160. England, Church of, ii. 114; disci- pline of, iv. 190.
English Divines, iii. 166; Law, iv. 210; English and Jewish History compared, v. 269. Englishmen, their reserve towards strangers, iv. 134.
and Frenchmen com-
pared, iv. 17. Entails, ii. 276; v. 70; J.'s letters on, ii. 266, 269, 271. Enthusiasm, ancient Highland, v. 113 Envy, natural to mankind, iii. 182. Epictetus on the voyage of death, v. 221.
Epigram, Johnson's, to Richard Sa- vage, i. 86; Garrick's, on J.'s Dic- tionary, i. 169; on a miracle, iii. 205; one of the finest in the lan- guage, v. 216. Epitaphs, on Elizabeth Blaney, i. 3; on Phillips, the singer, i. 76; on Mrs. Johnson, i. 133; on Admiral Byng, i. 178; on Soame Jenyns, by Boswell, i. 179; on Goldsmith, iii. 52; on Dr. Adams, iv. 255; on Dr. J., iv. 287; on Smollett, v. 292; on Sir J. Macdonald, v. 115; J.'s essay on, i. 75. Erasmus, iv. 202.
Errol, Earl of, visit to, v. 67, 71. Countess of, v. 67, 68. Erskine, Hon. Thomas, afterwards Lord, ii. 114, 115; Sir Harry, i. 222; Rev. Dr., v. 311. Estates, sale of, v. 254.
Extravagance, iii. 178, 212, 236.
FALCONER, non-juring Bishop, iii. 251. Falkland Islands, J.'s pamphlet on, ii. 90.
"False Alarm," J.'s pamphlet, ii. 75,
76; remarks on answer to, iv. 28. Fame, remarks on, iii. 177; v. 317; Literary, ii. 230.
Family Chronicle, v. 116; pride v.
210; Farmer, Rev. Dr., letters from J. to, ii. 77; iii. 284. Farquhar, George, his writings, iv.
Faulkner, George, v. 26.
Female characters, J.'s, i. 122. Ferguson, Sir Adam, ii. 111; Dr. Adam, v. 24.
Ferns, Deanery of, iv. 58.
Fiction, real, little in the world, iv. 161.
Fidelity, conjugal, iii. 15.
Fielding, Henry, i. 139; ii. 114; and Richardson, curious comparison be- tween, ii. 38, 114. Fife, Earl of, v. 76. Findlater, Lord, v. 77.
Fitzherbert, Mr., remarks on, iii. 100; Alleyne, Minister to Court of Russia, i. 32. Fladder, Isle of, v. 133.
Flattery, generally pleasing, ii. 234; of Johnson, iii., 197.
Flaxman, Mr., origin of J.'s dislike to, iv. 220.
Fleet Street, i. 266; ii. 218; iii. 202. Flint, Bet, iv. 77.
Florentine Boar, iii. 156.
Florizel and Perdita, song in, ii. 55. Floyd, Thomas, the author, i. 263. Floyer, Sir John, "Treatise on Cold
Baths," i. 38; iv. 183.
Foote, Sam., ii. 63, 64, 103, 195, 259; iii. 43, 124; iv. 189; v. 19, 219. Forbes, Sir William, v. 10, 28. Let- ter to Boswell, v. 325.
Ford, Parson, i. 11; story of his ghost, iii. 236. Forests, Scotch, v. 188. Forres, v. 81; pillar, v. 82. Fort Augustus, v. 100; George, v. 88. Fortitude and Insensibility, i. 19. Foster, Elizabeth, grand-daughter of Milton, i. 125.
Foulis, Messrs., v. 296; Sir James, v. 114, 191.
"Fountains the," a tale by J., ii. 24. Fox, Right Hon. Charles James, iii.
179; iv. 119, 191, 200; his con- versation, iv. 119.
France, J.'s, visit to, ii. 243; Journal of Tour in, ii. 249; royal family of, ii. 252; state of literature in, iii. 171.
Fraser, Mr., of Strichen, v. 74; Ge- neral, iii. 3.
Freewill, remarks on, iii. 195; iv.
French writers, their superficial cha- racter, i. 261; character, ii. 259; Maid of honour, flattery by a, iii. 210; invasion, fear of, iii. 219; garrulity, iv. 17; blunder from ignorance of language, iv. 28; li- terature, iv. 162; manners, iv. 17, 162; credulity, v. 262. Friday, Good, J.'s strict observance of, ii. 227; iii. 210. Friends, J.'s anxiety for religious im- provement; of, iv. 280; attention of, in J.'s last illness, iv. 276. Friendship, ii. 231; iii. 195; acti- vity of J.'s, iv. 231; importance of old, v. 61; ode to, i. 82. Funeral, an extraordinary one, v. 186; J.'s, iv. 283.
Future State, recognition in, ii. 107.
GAELIC, proposal to translate Bible into, ii. 24-7. Gaming, ii. 115; iii. 14. Garragantua, J. compared to, iii. 173. Gardening, oriental, v. 145. Gardens, remarks on, iv. 142. Gardenstone, Lord, v. 50. Gardiner, Mrs., i. 133.
Gardner, Mr., the bookseller, ii. 222. Garrick, David, i. 43, 47, 75, 103, 106, 169, 226, 229, 279; ii. 55, 59, 87, 147, 151, 211, 262; iii. 21, 31, 44, 173, 174, 175, 177, 209,
259; iv. 71, 188; v. 90, 193, 217; J.'s envy of, i. 88, 226; iii. 14, 209; becomes manager of Drury Lane Theatre, i. 106; epigram on J.'s Dictionary, i. 169; death of, iii. 251; monument in Lichfield Cathedral, iii. 251; expense of his funeral, iv. 144; J.'s eulogium on, iii. 160; his embarrassment in Westminster Hall, v. 193; and Foote compared, v. 310; letter from, to Boswell, v. 277; Mrs., account of, iv. 71; Captain, i. 31; George, i. 43; Peter, i. 46; ii. 282, 296, 299; iii. 276.
Gastrel, Mrs., ii. 302; iii. 276. Gataker "On Lots and the Christian Watch," v. 240.
Gay's "Beggar's Opera," ii. 235, Gentleman's Magazine, i. 54, 55, 56,
57, 71, 75, 76, 78, 81, 87, 95, 181; extrordinary sale of, iii. 216. George II., i. 74, 114; III. pre- sented with manuscript of " Irene," i. 51; accession of i. 202, 213; v. 159; pension to J. from, i. 213; J.'s interview with, ii. 30-4; reign of, iv. 139.
Gerard, Dr., v. 63.
Ghosts, ii. 108, 116, 119; iii. 155, 199, 236, 238, 180; iv. 71. Gibbon, Edward, the historian, ii. 223; iii. 32, 169.
Gibbons, Dr., dissenting minister, iv. 93.
"Gifford, Old," manager of Good- man's-Fields' Theatre, i. 89. Gillespie, Dr., iv. 179. Glasgow, ii. 172.
Glenelg, wretched inn at, v. 110. Gleig, Mr., Montrose, v. 49. Glenshiel, v. 106.
Glenmoriston, laird of, v. 102. Gobelin's Tapestry, ii. 249. Goldsmith, Oliver, i. 239, 240, 241; ii. 16, 127, 144, 149, 150, 153, 155, 167; iii. 22, 170, 182; v. 76, 103; his peculiar dress, ii. 58; love of talking, ii. 122, 163, 165, v. 219; quarrel with Evans the bookseller, ii. 136; quarrel with Johnson, ii. 163; anecdotes of, i. 240; ii. 35, 58, 167; iv. 14, 26; v. 67; project of going to Aleppo, iv. 23; his death, ii. 181; debt at his death,
ii. 181; J.'s epitaph on, iii. 52; his "Vicar of Wakefield," iii. 215; his comedies refused by Garrick and Colman, iii. 215; J.'s prologue to "Goodnatured Man," ii. 36; "Traveller," ii. 11; "Deserted Village," ii. 12; "Life of Parnell," ii. 109; 66 Animated Nature," ii. 119, 150; "Goldy," so called, by J., ii. 166.
Good breeding, in what it consists, ii. 57; effect of, iv. 216. Goodier, Samuel, Esq., v. 19. Good humour acquirable, v. 166. Goodness, observations upon natural, v. 169.
Gordon, Lord George, iii. 286; iv. 66; his riots, J.'s account of, iii. 285-9.
Graham, Lord, iii. 257; Miss (Lady Dashwood), iii. 273.
Grainger, Dr., ii. 290; his Biogra- phical Dictionary, v. 202; Ode on Solitude, iii. 133. Grange, Lady, strange history of, v. 179.
Grant, Rev. Mr., of Daviot, v. 86, 96. Gratitude, a fruit of cultivation, v. 184.
Grattan, Mr., Speech on Irish free- dom, iv. 215.
"Grave," Blair's, iii. 28. Gray, the poet, J.'s opinion of, i. 232; poems, ii. 108, 212, 217; odes, iv.
Greek, J.'s advice on study of, iii. 272; J.'s knowledge of, iv. 262; compared to lace by J., iv. 23; Clenardus's Grammar, iv. 21. Green, Mr. Richard, apothecary, iii.
275; his muscum, ii. 298; letter from J. to, iv. 167. Greenwich, J.'s residence at, i. 50; J. and B. at, i. 265. Gregory, Dr., Edinburgh, v. 29. Grief on loss of friends, iii. 92. Groot, De, J.'s kindness to, iii.
Ground, consecrated, v. 131. Grub Street, iv. 132.
Grugach Stones, Highland supersti- tion, v. 127. Guardians, iii. 268.
Gulliver, Mrs., Pope's epistle in name of, v. 104.
Gustavus, Adolphus, Dr. Heart's History of, iv. 61.
Guthrie, Mr. William, i. 57. Gwyn, the architect, ii. 281.
HABIT, force of, ii. 217. Hackman, Mr., trial of, for murder of Miss Ray, iii. 258. Hailes, Lord (Sir David Dalrymple), i. 148, 260; ii. 242, 264, 268, 271; iv. 214; v. 20, 29; "Annals of Scotland," ii. 179; iii. 34; Letter to Boswell, v. 320.
Hales, John, of Eton, iv. 214. Hale, Lord Chief Justice, iv. 211. Hall, Bishop, ii. 13; Mrs., Letter from John Wesley to, iv. 69. Hamilton, Hon. Gerard, i. 285; Let- ters from J. to, iv. 169, 245; kind- ness to J., iv. 169; of Bangor's Poems, iii. 101.
Mr., of Sundrum, v. 19. Duke of, v. 283; Lady Betty,
Hammond's "Love Elegies," v. 214. Hampstead, Mrs. J.'s lodgings at, i. 131.
Hanmer, Sir Thomas, his edition of Shakespeare, i. 93; epitaph on, i. 94; ii. 24.
Happiness, ii. 13; iii. 108, 134, 194; Pope's remark on, ii. 225; not to be found in this life, v. 140; in a cottage considered, v. 233. Hardyknute, Ballad of, ii. 61. Harleian Miscellany, J.'s preface to,
Harrington, Dr., "Nuga Antiquæ, iv. 128.
Harris, Mr., of Salisbury, iii. 173; v. 301.
Harrison, Elizabeth, her "Miscel- lanies," i. 176.
Harte, Dr., "Gustavus Adolphus," ii. 81; his excessive vanity, iv. 61. Harwich, J. accompanies Boswell to, i. 270-4.
Harwood, Dr., iii. 23.
Hastings, Warren, J.'s correspondence with, iv. 52-6.
Hastie, the schoolmaster, prosecuted, ii. 120; J.'s argument in favour of, ii. 120-2. Hawkesworth, Dr., i. 94; happy imi- tations of J.'s style, i. 138. Hawthornden, v. 318. Hay's Martial, v. 293.
Hay, Lord Charles, iii. 6; Court- martial on, iv. 23. Heberden, Dr., iv. 238. Hebrides, ii. 173, Journey to, pub- lished, ii. 195; origin of J.'s ex- pedition to, v. 1.
Hector, Mr., i. 35, 40, 82; ii. 292, 294; iv. 101, 254; letters from J. to, iv. 107, 256.
Heeley, Mr., iv. 249; letters from J. to, iv. 250.
Hell, Virgil's description of entrance to, v. 247.
Henderson, Mr. John, iv. 203. Henry, Dr. Robert, History of Bri- tain, iii. 224. Hereditary right, iii. 104. Hervey, Hon. Henry, i. 50.; Hon. F., ii. 28; "Hervey's Meditations," v. 279.
Hetherington's Charity, Miss Wil- liams' petitions for, ii. 185. "High life below Stairs," iv. 13. Highland hut, description of, v. 98; travelling, v. 96; forest, v. 188; tradition relative to two houses, v. 240; roads, formation of, v. 96. Hill, Dr., ii. 33; v. 42.
History, remarks on, ii. 234; v. 54; of England, v. 369. Historians, ii. 126. Hodge, J.'s cat, iv. 136.
Hogarth, his first interview with J., i. 74.
Holbrooke, Mr., i. 8.
Hollis, Mr. Thomas, iv. 72.
Home, John, parody by, i. 263; his
tragedy of "Douglas," iii. 51; v. 287. Homer, i. 14; v. 53; antiquity of, iii. 222; compared with Virgil, iii. 129, 224; J.'s veneration for, ii. 86; v. 128; opinions respecting, v. 53; Pope's "Homer," iii. 174. Honesty, iv. 154.
Hooke, Mr., and Duchess of Marl- borough, v. 136.
Hoole, Mr., his "Cleonice," ii. 187; iv. 132, 276; letter from J. to, iv. 242; evening with, iv. 192. Hope, Dr., iv. 181; v. 319. Horace, i. 120, 121; ii. 231; iii. 169, 240; quotations from, ii. 226; v. 140; Francis's "Horace," iii. 241; translations of, i. 13; J. repeats ode of, v. 126; Bentley and Jason de Nore's comments on, ii. 285; "Art of Poetry," iii. 176. Horne, Bishop, ii. 285; Rev. Mr., his letter on the English particle, iii. 239.
Hospitality, remarks on, iv. 20, 141, 153; ancient, ii. 110.
House of Commons, talents required in, v. 214.
Houses, subterranean, v. 131, 187.. Households, large, iii. 212. Howard, Mr., i. 31; iii. 151.
Hoy, Mr. James, Gordon Castle, V. 81.
Huddesford, Dr., Vice-chancellor of Oxford, letter to, i. 158, 159. Huggins, translator of " Ariosto,"
Humanity, instance of J.'s, iv. 218. Hume, David, i. 253, 256; ii. 13; v. 13; his political principles, iv. 135; Dr. A. Smith's panegyrical letter upon, v. 14.
Humphrey, Ozias, letter from J. to, iv. 184.
Hunter, Mr., i. 8, 9.
Hunting, French, v. 200.
Hurd, Bishop, iv. 133, 198.
Hussey, Rev. Mr., letter from J. iii. 249.
Hutchison, William, remarkable ho- nesty of, v. 74.
Hypochondria, "The English Mala- dy," i. 22; Professor Gaubin's dis- tinction between, and madness, i. 22.
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