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ii. 408, n. 3; Letters, iv. 36, n. 4; Life by Johnson, ii. 367; Orpheus of highwaymen, ii. 367, n. 1; Queensberry, Duke of, ii. 368. Gazetteer, The, v. 245, n. 2. GELALEDDIN, iv. 195, n. 1. 'GELIDUS, the philosopher,' i. 101, n. 3. GELL, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430-1. GELL, Sir William, ii. 408, n. 3; v. 431, n. 4. General Advertiser, i. 227. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. See under SCOTLAND. GENERAL CENSURE, iv. 313. GENERAL COMPLAINTS, Johnson's dislike of, ii. 357. GENERAL WARRANTS, ii. 72. GENERALS, great, ii. 234. GENIUS, ii. 436-7; iii. 385, n. 1; v. 34-5; made feminine, iii. 374. GENOA, Corsican revolt, ii. 59, n. 2, 71, n. 1; the Doge at Versailles, iv. 270, n. 2. GENTEEL PEOPLE, swear less than formerly, ii. 166, n. 1. GENTILITY, not inseparable from morality, ii. 340; new system, i. 491-2; women more genteel than men, iii. 53. Gentle Shepherd, ii. 220; v. 374, n. 3. GENTLEMAN, Francis, i. 384. GENTLEMAN, English merchant a new species, i. 491, n. 3. GENTLEMAN, a, of eminence in the literary world, iv. 274; one whose house was frequented by low company, iv. 312; a penurious one, iv. 176; one recommending his brother, iv. 21; one who was rich, but without conversation, iv. 83. GENTLEMAN FARMER, at Ashbourne, iii. 188, 197. Gentleman's Magazine, account of it, i. III; effect on it of rebellion of 1745-6, i. 176, n. 2; Hanoverian in 1745-6, i. 176, n. 2; indecency in earlier numbers, i. 112, n. 2; Johnson, Ad Urbanum, i. 113; becomes a regular contributor, i. 115; writes Addresses, Letters, and Prefaces, i. 139-40, 147, 149,153, 157, 161: (for his other contributions See under their several titles); school advertised in it, i. 97; verses wrongly assigned to, i. 178, n. 1; Nichols, edited by, iv. 437; described by Southey, ib.; numbers sold, i. 112, n. i, 152, n. 1; iii. 322; obituaries, i. 237, n. I; prize poems, i. 91; published at the end of the month, i. 340, n. 3; 'Sciolus,' iii. 341, n. 1; value of, in 1754, i. 256, n. 1. See under CAVE and DEBATES. Gentleman's Religion, iv. 311. Gentlewoman, the born, ii. 130. GENTLEWOMAN, a, in liquor, ii. 434. Geographical Grammar, iv. 311. Geography, Dictionary of Ancient. See MACBEAN, Alexander. GEOLOGY, of Etna, ii. 468, n. 1; Johnson's ignorance of it, v. 290, n. 4. GEOMETRY, principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2. GEORGE I, Brett, Miss, i. 174, n. 2; burnt two wills made in favour of his son, ii. 342, n. 1; death, his, ii. 342, n. 1; knew nothing, ii. 342; Oxford, sends a troop of horse to, i. 281, n. i; Shebbeare, satirised by, iii. 15, n. 3; will, his, destroyed by George II, ii. 342; iv. 107, n. 1; wish to restore the crown, ii. 342. GEORGE II, Augustus, not an, i. 209; barbarity, his, i. 147; challenged by Elwall, ii. 164, 251; clemency, his, i. 146; English weary of him, i. 363; fast day of Jan. 30, observed the, ii. 152, n. 1; George I's will, destroys, ii. 342; quarrels with Frederick the Great about it, iv. 107; Johnson's epigram on him, i. 149; v. 348, 350, 404; roars against him, ii. 342; would tell the truth of him, v. 255; Pelham's death, i. 269, n. 1. Pretender's visit to London, v. 201, n. 4; quiet times under the Whigs, iv. 100; mentioned, i. 149, n. 3, 311, n. 2. GEORGE III, Addresses in 1784, iv. 265; authority partly reestablished, iv. 264; baronetcies, ii. 354, n. 2; Beattie, interview with, v. 90, n. 1; Beckford's speech, iii. 201, n. 3; birthday, iv. 128; 'born a Briton', i. 129, n. 3, 353; v. 204; Boswell's relation, v. 379; Capability Brown, intimacy with, iii. 400, n. 2; carelessness in sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1; Chatham's and Garrick's funerals, iv. 208, n. 1; city address in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4; concessions to the people, ii. 353; contempt of Irish peerages, iii. 407, n. 4; coronation, iii. 9, n. 2; Corsica offered to him, ii. 71, n. 1; Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 210, n. 2; Dodd's case, iii. 121; fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1; Fox, the King's competitor, iv. 279; divides the kingdom with him, iv. 292; Gordon Riots, iii. 429, 431; Great Personage, i. 219; Gustavus III, death of, iii. 134, n. 1; Heroic Epistle, reads the, iv. 113, n. 4; hopes formed of him, i. 363; Hume on the weakness of his government, iii. 46, n. 5; Hutton the Moravian, iv. 410, n. 6; indecency, treated with, iv. 261; Irene, has the sketch of, i. 108; Johnson, asks, to write a Life of Spenser, iv. 410; compliments him in The False Alarm, ii. 112; Dedications, ii. 44; iii. 113; for the King against Fox, iv. 292; gives him his Western Islands, ii. 290; four volumes of the Lives, iii. 372, n. 3; interview with, ii. 33; account of it, ii. 42; iii. 32; v. 125, n. 1; second interview, ii. 42, n. 2; pension, i. 372; v. 379; proposed addition to it, iv. 350, n. 1; projected works, has the list of, iv. 381, n. 1; madness, iv. 165, n. 3; manners, his, described by Adams, Johnson and Wraxall, ii. 40-1; militia camps, visits the, iii. 365; minister, his own, i. 424, n. 1; ii. 355, n. 1; ministers his tools, iii. 408, n. 4; oppressed by them, iv. 170; Norton's speech to him as Speaker, ii. 472, n. 2; Paoli, notices, v. 1, n. 3; patron of science and the arts, i. 372; petitions in 1769, ii. 90, n. 5; Pretender, proper designation for the, v. 185, n. 4; recruiting, complains of the difficulty of, iii. 399, n. 3. reign very factious, iv. 200, 296; very unfortunate, iv. 200; respectable empire, his, iii. 241, n. 2; Reynolds, slights, iv. 366, n. 2; Rousseau's pension, ii. 12, n. 1; Scotch favourites, i. 363; sea, at the age of 34 had not seen the, i. 340; n. 1; Shakespeare sad stuff, i. 497, n. 1; Shelburne, Lord, dislikes, iv. 174, n. 5; slave-trade, upholder of the, ii. 480; She Stoops to Conquer, sees, ii. 223; Toryism or Whiggism, prevalence in his reign of, ii. 221; tour in the West of England, iv. 165, n. 3; unpopularity maintained by Johnson, iii. 155; iv. 165; changed into popularity, iii. 156, n. 1; iv. 165; Wilkes at the Levee, iii. 430, n. 4. GEORGE IV, i. 108, n. 1. See PRINCE OF WALES. GEORGIA, i. 127, n. 4. GERARD, Dr., v. 90, 92-3, 130. GERMAINE, Lord George, i. 424, n. 1. GERMAN BARON, story of a, ii. 462. GERMANY, academies at the smaller Courts, v. 276; language, ii. 156; rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4; stocking industry, v. 86. GERVES, John, v. 297, n. 1, 327. GESTICULATION RIDICULED, i. 334; ii. 211; Johnson's aversion to it, iv. 322. GHERARDI, Marchese, iii. 326. GHOSTS, Addison's belief, iv. 95; argument against their existence, belief for it, iii. 230; Boswell introduces the subject, iv. 94, n. 2; Cave, one seen by, ii. 178, 182; Coachmakers' Hall, discussion at, iv. 95; Cock Lane ghost, i. 406-8; iii. 268; evidence for them, iv. 94; experience and imagination, i. 405; Goldsmith's brother, one seen by, ii. 182; Johnson's prayer on his wife's death, i. 235; his state of mind as regards them, i. 343, 406; iii. 297; iv. 94, 298; 'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17; objection to their appearing, ii. 163; Parson Ford's, iii. 349; question undecided after 5000 years, iii. 230,298; Southey on the good end they answer, iii. 298, n. 1; Villiers, Sir George, iii. 351; Wesley's story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394. GIANNONE, iv. 3. GIANO VITALE, iii. 251, n. 2. GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, iii. 410. GIANTS, A Great Personage's, i. 219. GIARDINI, ii. 225. GIBBON, Edward, author best judge of his own performance, iv. 251, n. 2; Autobiography, ii. 448, n. 2; Beggar's Opera, influence of the, ii. 367, n. 1; Boswell attacks him, ii. 67, n. 1, 443, n. 1, 447-8; v. 203, n. 1; name passed over by him, ii. 348, n. 1; and Johnson, replies to, ii. 448, n. 2; Cecilia, reads, iv. 223, n. 5; Clarendon's History and the Oxford riding-school, ii. 424, n. 1; Decline and Fall, 'artful infidelity' of the, ii. 447; composition of vol. I, ii. 236, n. 2, 366; publication, ii. 136, n. 6; iii. 97, n. 3; rough MS. sent to the press, iv. 36, n. 1; the two offensive chapters, iii. 244; domestic discipline, i. 46, n. 2; dress, his, ii. 443, n. 1; Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2; Edinburgh society, ii. 53, n. 1; fame, enjoyment of his, i. 451, n. 3; Foster, Dr. James, iv. 9, n. 5; Fox at Lausanne, iv. 167, n. 1; Fox commenced patriot, iv. 87, n. 1; French Assembly, iv. 434; French society, iii. 254, n. 1; Gloucester, Duke of, affability of the, ii. 2, n. 2; Hailes's Annals, iii. 404, n. 3; history attacked in his presence, ii. 366; Holroyd, visits to, iii. 178, n. 1; 'hornets, accustomed to the buzzing of the,' ii. 448, n. 1; Horsley, Bishop, praises, iv. 437; hospitality, on, iv. 222, n. 2; House of Commons and Nowell's sermon, iv. 296, n. 1; Hume and Robertson, compliment to, ii. 236, n. 3; Hume congratulates him, ii. 447, n. 5; Hume's style, i. 439, n. 2; Inquisition, defends the, i. 465, n. 1; Johnson and the bear, ii. 348; and the ladies, iv. 73: did not like to trust himself with, ii. 366; and Fox, iii. 267; and the graces, iii. 54; matched with, ii. 348; 'Reynolds's oracle,' i. 245, n. 3; scarcely mentioned in his writings, ii. 348, n. 1; iii. 128, n. 4; style, imitates, iv. 389; talks: of his ugliness, iv. 73; Journal des Savans, ii. 39, n. 3; Law, William, character of, i. 68, n. 2; lectures, teaching by, ii. 8, n. 1; Literary Club, i. 479. 481, n. 3; iii. 230, n. 5; in 1777, iii. 128, n. 4; poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1; London, loves the dust of, iii. 178, n. 1; the liberty that it gives, iii. 379, n. 2; Lowth and Warburton, ii. 37, n. 2; Macaulay, on his poverty, iv. 350. n. 1; Mackintosh's comparison of him with Burke, ii. 348, n. 1; Magdalen College Common-room, ii. 443, n. 4; 'Mahometan,' ii. 448; Mallet, David, i. 268, n. 1; Maty, Dr., i. 284, n. 2; Montagu, Mrs., on the Decline and Fall, iii. 244; mutual gain in fair trade, v. 232, n. 1; Newton, Bishop, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1; North, Lord, v. 269, n. 1; Ossian, ii. 302, n. 2; Oxford tutor, his, iii. 13, n. 3; Paley's attack on him, v. 203, n. 1; Pantheon, ii. 169, n. 1; 'Papist, turned,' ii. 448; Parliament, silent in, ii. 366, n. 4; iii. 233, n. 2; found it a school of civil prudence, ib.; Pope's lines applied to him, ii. 133, n. 1; post-chaise, delight in a, ii. 453, n. 1; Price, Dr., iv. 434; Priestley, Dr., iv. 437; quaint manner, iii. 54: described by Colman, ib., n. 2; respectable, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2; Reynolds's, dines at, iii. 250; Round-Robin, signed the, iii. 83; Royal Academy Professor, ii. 67, n. 1; school life not happy, i. 451, n. 2; sneer, his usual, iv. 73; style, study of, iv. 389, n. 2; subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7; Ten Persecutions, The, ii. 255, n. 4; Tillemont, praises, i. 7, n. 1; travelling, the requisites for, iii. 458-9; ugliness, ii. 443, n. 1; iv. 73. GIBBON, an attorney, ii. 93, n. 3. GIBBONS, Rev. Dr., iv. 126, 278. GIBRALTAR, ii. 391. GIBSON, William, iv. 402, n. 2. GIFFARD, the theatre manager, i. 168. GIFFORD, Rev. Richard, v. 118. GIFFORD, William, Baviad and Macviad, iii. 16, n. 1; Johnson's Greek, v. 458, n. 5. GILBERT, GEOFFREY, Law of Evidence, v. 389, n. 5. GILBERT, Rev. Mr., i. 173, n. 1. GILLAM, Justice, iii. 46, n. 5. GILLESPIE, Dr., iv. 262. GILMOUR, J., President of the Session, v. 212. GILPIN, W., v. 431. GIN. See SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS, iii. 304, n. 4. GISBORNE, Dr., iii. 149, n. 2. GLANVILLE, i. 205, n. 3. Glasse's, Mrs., Cookery, iii. 285. GLASS-HOUSES, i. 164, n. 1. GLAUCUS, ii. 129, n. 5. GLEG, Mr., a merchant, v. 73. GLENGARY, Laird of, v. 190. GLENMORISON, Laird of, v. 136, 140. GLOOM, gloomy penitence, iii. 27; 'it is perhaps sinful to be gloomy,' iv. 142. GLOUCESTER, v. 322, n. 1. GLOUCESTER, Duke of (brother of George III), affability to Gibbon, his, ii. 2, n. 2; marriage, ii. 224, n. 1. GLOVER, Richard, account of him, v. 116, n. 4; Duke of Marlborough's papers, v. 175, n. 2; Leonidas, v. 116; Medea, i. 326, n. 3. GLOW-WORM, ii. 55, 232. GLUTTONY, i. 468. GLYNNE, Serjeant, iii. 430, n. 4. 'Gnothi seauton' [original text in greek], i. 298, n. 4. GOBELINS, ii. 390. GOD, infinite goodness, limited, iv. 299; love of him predominated over by fear, iii. 339. GODWIN, William, iv. 278, n. 3. GOLDONI, iii. 162, n. 4. GOLDSMITH, Dr. Isaac, Dean of Cloyne, i. 414, n. 6. GOLDSMITH, Rev. Henry, ii. 182. GOLDSMITH, Mrs., iii. 100. GOLDSMITH, Oliver, absurdity, angry when caught in an, iii. 252; Addison, compared with, ii. 256; ages at which he published his various works, iii. 167, n. 3; Aleppo, projected visit to, iv. 22; anecdotes, excelled by Percy in, v. 255; Animated Nature, engaged in writing it, ii. 181-2, 232, 237; copy in Lord Scarsdale's library, iii. 162; cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2; Maclaurin's yawns, iii. 15; anonymous publications, i. 412; Apology to the public, ii. 209; supposed to be written by Johnson, ib.; architecture, contempt of, ii. 439, n. 1; attacks, better for, v. 274; authors, the neglect of, iii. 375, n. 1, 424, n. 1; authors, patrons and booksellers, v. 59, n. 1: Baretti, dislikes, ii. 205, n. 3; at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1; Bath, describes, ii. 7, n. 4; iii. 45, n. 1; beat, first time he has, ii. 210; Beattie's Essay on Truth, despises, ii. 201, n. 3; v. 273, n. 4; Beauclerk describes him, ii. 192, n. 2; Beauties of English Poetry Selected, iii. 192, n. 2; Bee, The, iii. 83, n. 1; biography, the uses of, v. 79, n. 3; birth, date of his, i. 58, n. 2; iii. 83, n. 1; blank verse, on, i. 427, n. 2; bloom-coloured coat, ii. 83; boastfulness, i. 414: bon ton breaking out in his waistcoats, ii. 274, n. 7; books, could not tell what was in his own, iii. 253; Boswell's account of him, i. 411-17; accused of making a monarchy of what should be a republic, ii. 257: 'honest Goldsmith,' ii. 186; preserves a relic of him, ii. 219, n. 2; takes leave of him, ii. 260; Burke's contemporary at Trinity College, i. 411; recollection of him, iii. 168; Camden, Lord, complains of, iii. 311; Chamier's estimate of him, iii. 252; Chatterton's poems, believes in, iii. 51, n. 2, 276, n. 2; Cibber, Colley, praises, iii. 72, n. 2; Citizen of the World, i. 412; Clare, Lord, ii. 136; Clarke, Dr., anecdote of, i. 3, n. 2; companion, not an agreeable, iii. 247; company, his, liked, ii. 235; compilations and magazines, the causes of, v. 59, n. 1; consequential at times, ii. 258; conversation, does not know how to get off, ii. 196; not temper for it, ii. 231; reported a mere fool in it, i. 412; talks at random, 413; ii. 236; iii. 252; v. 277; talks not to be unnoticed, ii. 186, 257; corrections in his prose composition rare, iv. 36, n. 1; Cow shedding its horns: See above, Animated Nature; Croaker, Johnson's Suspirius, i. 213; ii. 48; Cross Readings, admires, iv. 322, n. 2; Cumberland, disliked, iv. 384, n. 2; death, ii. 274, n. 7, 279, n. 2, 280; iii. 164; iv. 84, n. 2; debts, ii. 280, 281; depopulation, on, ii. 217, n. 5; Deserted Village, dedicated to Reynolds, ii. I, n. 2, 217, n. 5; Johnson's lines in, ii. 7; iii. 418; reiterated corrections, ii. 15, n. 3; Traveller, sometimes an echo of the, ii. 236; Dictionary of Arts and Sciences projected, ii. 204, n. 2; Dilly's, dines at, ii. 247; 'Doctor Minor,' v. 97; Dodd, Dr., satirises, iii. 139, n. 4; Dodsley, dispute on the poetry of the age with, iii. 38; dog-butchers, ii. 232; dress, slovenly, i. 366, n. 1; his fine coat, ii. 83; effect of dress on the mind, ib. n. 3; Dryden's line on poets and monarchs, ii. 223: duelling, question of, ii. 179; Dyer, Samuel, at the Club, iv. II, n. 1; Edinburgh, country round, i. 425; ii. 311, n. 5; Edinburgh University, i. 411, 425; Elements of Criticism, criticises, ii. 90; Enquiry into the present State of Polite Learning, i. 350, n. 3, 412; envy, his, i. 413; ii. 42, 260; Boswell's defence of it, iii. 271; epitaph in Greek, ii. 282; iii. 85, n. 1; epitaph in Latin, iii. 81-3; Round Robin, 84; Europe, disputed his passage through, i. 411; Evans, assaults, ii. 209, n. 2; excelled in what he wrote, iii. 253; fable of the little fishes, ii. 231; fame, his, v. 137; fame, talked for, iii. 247; Fantoccini, the, i. 414; flowered late, iii. 167; France, tour to, i. 414; French meat, ii. 402, n. 2; friendship and the story of Bluebeard, ii. 181; 'furnishing you with argument and intellects,' iv. 313, n. 4; Garrick's compliment to the Queen, attacks, ii. 233; lines on him, i. 412, n. 6; refuses The Good Natured Man, iii. 320; proposes Whitehead as arbitrator, ib. n. 2; 'Gentleman, The,' ii. 182; George III, and She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 223; gets the better when he argues alone, ii. 236; ghost seen by his brother, ii. 182; 'Goldy,' dislikes being called, ii. 258; iii. 101; v. 308; Good Natured Man, Prologue, ii. 42, 45: Croaker, i. 213; ii. 48; refused by Garrick, iii. 320; Gray, attacks, i. 403, n. 1; ii. 328, n. 2; Elegy, mends, i. 404, n. 1; 'happy revolutions,' ii. 224; Harris, James, ii. 225; Haunch of Venison, ii. 136, n. 5; iii. 225, n. 2; Hawkins's account of him, i. 480, n. 1; 'Hesiod' Cooke, v. 37, n. 1; historians, in the first class of, ii. 236; History of England attributed to Lord Lyttelton, i. 412, n. 2; History of Rome, ii. 236-7; iv. 312; Hornecks, Miss, ii. 209, n. 2; iv. 355, n. 4; horses, abhorrence of blood, ii. 232; Humours of Ballamagairy, ii. 219; Idler, buys the, i. 335, n. 1; ignorance of common arts, iv. 22; improvidence, i. 416, n. 1; inscriptions on the written mountains, iv. 22, n. 3; 'inspired idiot,' i. 412, n. 6; irascible as a hornet, v. 97, n. 3; Jacobitism, his, ii. 224, 238, n. 4; jests from the pit of a theatre, on, i. 197, n. 2; Johnson, arguing: see JOHNSON, arguing; a bear only in the skin, ii. 66; the 'big man,' ii. 14; biographer, i. 26, n. 1: buys his Life of Nash, i. 335, n. 1; and a print of him, i. 363, n. 3; claim upon—for more writings, ii. 15; compared with Burke, ii. 260; competition with, i. 417; ii. 216, 257; compliment a cordial, iii. 82, n. 3; could take liberties with, iv. 113; estimation of him as an author, i. 408; ii. 196, 216; places him in the first class, ii. 236; defends him against Mr. Eliot's attack, ii. 265, n. 4; calls him a very great man, ii. 281; defends him against attack at Reynolds's table, ib., n. 1; shows the difference when he had not a pen in his hand, iv. 29; got him sooner into estimation, ii. 216; first visit to him, i. 366, n. 1; goodness of heart, i. 417; influence on his style, i. 222; interview with George III, ii. 42; jealous of, ii. 257; letter to him, ii. 235, n. 2; levee, attends, ii. 118; literary reputation, ii. 233; manner, copies, i. 412; not his style, ii. 216; pension, iv. 113; Prologue to The Good Natured Man, ii. 42, 45; proposes to—that they each review the other's work, v. 274; quarrels with, ii. 253-4; reconciliation, 256; reads the Heroic Epistle to, iv. 113; reproaches, with not going to the theatre, ii. 14; tetrastick on him, ii. 282; tribute to him in the Life of Parnell, ii. 166, n. 2; wishes to write his Life, iii. 100, n. 1; witty contests with, ii. 231; Kenrick, libelled by, i. 498, n. 1; knowledge, 'pity he is not knowing,' ii. 196; 'knows nothing,' ii. 215; 'amazing how little he knows,' ii. 235; 'at no pains to fill his mind,' iii. 253; Langton, letter to, ii. 141, n. 1; Lennox's, Mrs., play, iv. 10; Life not included in the Lives of the Poets, iii. 100, n. 1; Literary Club, member of the, i. 477; ii. 17; absurd verses recited to it, ii. 240; iv. 13; wishes for more members, iv. 183; Lloyd's supper party, i. 395, n. 2; lodgings, miserable, i. 350, n. 3; in the Edgeware Road, ii. 182; 'loose in his principles,' i. 408; luxury, effects of, ii. 217, ib. n. 5; Madeira, bottle of, i. 416; Mallet's reputation, ii. 233; Martinelli's History, ii. 221; mathematics, made no great figure in, i. 411; contempt for them, ii. 437, n. 1; medical studies, i. 411; merit late to be acknowledged, iii. 252; mind, never exchanged, iii. 37; modern imitators of the early poets, despises, iii. 159, n. 2; Montaigne, love of, iii. 72, n. 2; mortified by a German, ii. 257; musical performers' pay, ii. 225; 'mutual acquaintance,' iii. 103, n. 1; martyrdom, ii. 250-1; Natural History: see Animated Nature; nidification, ii. 249; 'Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit,' i. 412; iii. 82; 'Nil te quaesiveris extra,' iv. 27; Northcote's account of him, i. 413, n. 2; Northumberland, Duke of, would have helped him, iv. 22, n. 3; the Duchess prints Edwin and Angelina, ii. 337, n. 1; novelty, i. 441, n. 1; Padua, at, i. 73, n. 2; Paoli's, dines at, ii. 220; paradox, affectation of, i. 4l7; 'three paradoxes,' iii. 376, n. 1; Parnell, Life of, ii. 166; partiality of his friends against him, iii. 252; pen in and out of his hand, iv. 29; pensions to French authors, i. 372, n. 1; Percy's account of him, i. 413, n. 2; quarrel with him, iii. 276, n. 2; 'pleasure of being liked,' i. 412, n. 6; Pope's lines on Addison, ii. 85; 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3; powers, did not know his own, i. 213, n. 4; public make a point to know nothing of his writings, iii. 252; religion, takes his from the priest, ii. 214; Retaliation, passages quoted: Attorneys, ii. 126, n. 4; Burke, i. 472; iii. 233, n. 1; iv. 318; Burke, William, v. 76, n. 3; Douglas, Dr., i. 229, n. 1; Garrick, i. 202, n. 4; his lines on Goldsmith, i. 412, n. 6; Lauder, i. 229, n. 1; 'pepper the highest,' iv. 341, n. 6; Townshend, Tommy, iv. 318-9; shown to Burke and Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3; reviewers, ii. 39, n. 4; Reynolds's explanation of his absurdities, i. 412, n. 6; his envy, i. 4l3, n. 3; Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5; round of pleasures, ii. 274, n. 3; Royal Academy Professor, ii, 67, n. 1; Royal Academy dinner, iii. 51, n. 2; iv. 314, n. 3; Sappho in Ovid, ii. 181; Savage, compared with, ii. 281, n. 1; Scotch inns, v. 146, n. 1; scrupulous, not, i. 213, n. 4; servitorships, v. 122, n. 1; settled system, no, i. 414; or notions, iii. 252; She Stoops to Conquer, copyright of it, iii. 100, n. 1; dedicated to Johnson, ii. 1, n. 2, 216; Dedication, ib. n. 3; dinner on the day of its first performance, iv. 325; Duke of Gloucester's marriage, ii. 224; Farquhar copied, v. 133, n. 1; finding out the longitude, i. 301, n. 3; ill success predicted, ii. 208; Johnson's opinion, ii. 205, 208, 233; naming it, ii. 205, n. 4, 258; Northcote's account of it to Goldsmith, ii. 233, n. 3; performed during a Court mourning, iv. 325; Rambler, borrowed from, i. 213, n. 5; song for Miss Hardcastle, ii. 219; success on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5; Tony Lumpkin's song, ii. 219; Walpole's criticism, ii. 233, n. 3; Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174; shine, eager to, i. 423; ii. 231, 253, 256; social, not, iii. 37; society, his, courted, ii. 257; Sterne, attacks, ii. 173, n. 2; calls him a very dull fellow, ii. 222; straw, on a balancer of a, iii. 231, n. 2; suicide, on, ii. 229; Swift's 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3; tailor, taken for a, ii. 83, n. 2; tailor's bill, ii. 83, n. 3; talk; see conversation; 'tell truth and shame the devil,' ii. 222; Temple, chambers in the, ii. 97, n. 1; iv. 27; v. 37, n. 1; Temple of Fame, ii. 358; terror, object of, to a nobleman, i. 450, n. 1; Townsend, praises Lord Mayor, iv. 175, n. 1; Traveller, brings him into high reputation, iii. 252; Chamier's doubts as to the author, iii. 252; dedicated to his brother, ii. 1, n. 2; editions, i. 415, n. 2; Fox praises it, iii. 252, 261; Johnson's lines in it, i. 381, n. 2; ii. 6; iii. 418; praises it, ii. 5, 236; reviews it, i. 482; recites a passage, v. 344; 'Luke's iron crown,' ii. 6; payment for it, i. 193, n. 1; ii. 6, n. 3; published with author's name, i. 412, n. 2; reiterated correction, ii. 15, n. 3; slow, iii. 253; written after the Vicar but published before, i. 415; iii. 321; travelling in youth, on, iii. 458; unnoticed, afraid of being, ii. 186; Van Egmont's Travels, reviews, iv. 22, n. 3; vanity, i. 413; shown in his talk, i. 413; his clothes, ii. 83; his virtues and vices were from it, iii. 37; Vicar of Wakefield, history of its publication, i. 415; iii. 321; Johnson's opinion of it, i. 415, n. 3; iii. 321; passages expunged, iii. 375-6; visionary project, his, iv. 22; Walpole despises him, i. 388, n. 3; introduced to him, iv. 314, n. 3; Warburton a weak writer, v. 93, n. 1; Westminster Abbey and Temple Bar, ii. 238; deserved a place in the Abbey, iii. 253; spot for his monument chosen by Reynolds, iii. 83, n. 2; 'Williams, I go to Miss, i. 421; Zobeide, wrote a prologue for, iii. 38, n. 5. GOMBAULD, iii. 396. GONDAR, v. 123, n. 3. GOOD-BREEDING, ii. 82; v. 82, 276. GOOD FRIDAY, ii. 356; iii. 300, 313; iv. 203. GOOD-HUMOUR, acquired, not natural, v. 211; dependent upon the will, iii. 335; increases with age, ib.; rare, ii. 362; Johnson a good-humoured fellow, ib. 'GOOD MAN, a,' iv. 239. Good Natured Man. See GOLDSMITH. GOODNESS, not natural, v. 211, 214. Goody Two Shoes, iv. 8, n. 3. GORDON, Duke of, iii. 430, n. 6. GORDON, Hon. Alexander, (Lord Rockville), i. 469; v. 394, 397. GORDON, Sir Alexander, ii. 269, n. 2; iii. 104; v. 86, 90-2, 95. GORDON, Captain, of Park, v. 103. GORDON, General C. G., i. 340, n. 3. GORDON, Lord George, Mansfield's charge on his trial, iii. 427, n. 1; St. George's Field meeting, iii. 428; sent to the Tower, iii. 430; trial, iv. 87. GORDON, Professor Thomas, v. 84-5,90-2. GORDON, Rev. Dr., of Lincoln, iii. 359. GORDON, Mr. W., Town-clerk of Aberdeen, v. 90, n. 2. GORDON RIOTS, iii. 427-431, 435, 438. GORLITZ, ii. 122, n. 6. GORY, Monboddo's black servant, v. 82-3. GOSSE, Mr. Edmund, Gray's Works, i. 403, n. 4. GOTHICK BUILDINGS, i. 273. GOUGH,—, ii. 397. GOUT, an attack of, a poetical fiction, i. 179; books on it, v. 210; due to abstinence, i. 103, n. 3. GOVERNMENT, by one, best for a great nation, iii. 46; contracted-more easily destroyed, iii. 283; distance, from a, iv. 213; English—on a broad basis, iii. 283; fittest men not appointed, ii. 157; forms of it indifferent, ii. 170; imperfection inseparable from all, ii. 118; possible through want of agreement in the governed, ii. 102; power cannot be long abused, ii. 170; real power everywhere lost (in 1784), iv. 260, n. 2; reverence for it impaired, iii. 3: See MINISTRY. Government of the Tongue, Boswell quotes it, iii. 379; Johnson perhaps borrows from it, i. 447, n. 2; 'men oppressive by their parts,' iv. 168, n. 2. Governor, v. 185, n. 2. Gower, first Earl, recommends Johnson, i. 133; Plaxton's letter to him, i. 36, n. 2; Renegado, i. 296. GOWER, Dr., Provost of Worcester College, ii. 95, n. 2. GOWER, John, iii. 254. GRACE, in Latin, v. 65: at meals, i. 239, n. 2; ii. 124; v. 123. GRAFTON, third Duke of, ii. 467. GRAHAM, Colonel, ii. 156. GRAHAM, Rev. George, Telemachus, i. 411; iii. 104; insults Goldsmith, v. 97. GRAHAM, Lady Lucy, v. 359, n. 1. GRAHAM, Marquis of (third Duke of Montrose), iii. 382; laughed at in The Rolliad, ib., n. 1; loves liberty, iii. 383; mentioned, iv. 109. GRAHAM, Miss, iii. 407. GRAINGER, Dr. James, character, his, ii. 454; Johnson's Shakespeare, anecdote of, i. 319, n. 3; Ode on Solitude, iii. 197; Sugar Cane, Johnson reviews it, i. 481; does not like it, ii. 454; mice altered to rats, ii. 453; Tibullus, translates, ii. 454. GRAMMAR, advantage of learning it, v. 136. GRAMMAR School, Johnson's scheme for the classes of a, i. 99. GRAND CHARTREUX, iii. 456. GRAND SIGNOR, ii. 250. GRANDEES OF SPAIN, v. 358. GRANGE, Lady, v. 227. GRANGER, Rev. James, Biographical History, iii. 91; v. 255; denies that he is a Whig, iii. 91; 'the dog is a Whig,' v. 255. GRANT, Abbe, v. 153, n. GRANT, Sir Archibald, iii. 103. GRANT, Rev. Mr., v. 120-1, 123,131. GRANT,—, ii. 308, 310. GRANTHAM, ii. 312, n. 4. GRANTHAM, first Baron, i. 434, n. 3. GRANTLEY, first Baron, ii. 472, n. 2. GRANVILLE, G. See under Lansdowne, Lord. GRANVILLE, John Carteret, Earl, described by Lord Chesterfield, iv. 12, n. 5; despatch after the battle of Dettingen, iv. 12; mentioned, ii. 116, n. 1; iv. 78. GRATITUDE, burthen, a, i. 246; fruit of great cultivation, v. 232. GRATTAN, Henry, 'one link of the English chain,' iv. 317; mentioned, iv. 73, n. 1. Grave, The, iii. 47. GRAVES, Morgan, i. 92, n. 2. GRAVES, Rev. Richard, author of The Spiritual Quixote, i. 75, n. 3; Shenstone at Oxford, i. 94, n. 5; property, v. 4S7, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 452. GRAVINA, iv. 199. GRAY, Sir James, ii. 177. GRAY, John, bookseller, i. 153. GRAY, Thomas, abruptness, his, i. 403; Akenside, inferior to, iii. 32; Beattie, friendship with, v. 16, n. 1; blank verse, disliked, i. 427. n. 2; Boswell sat up all night reading him, ii. 335, n. 2; Boswell's Corsica and Paoli, ii. 46, n. 1; Cohnan's Odes to Obscurity, ii. 334; disjecta membra, i. 403, n. 4; Distant Prospect of Eton College quoted, i. 344; doctor's degree offered him at Aberdeen, ii. 267, n. 1; Dryden's 'car,' ii. 5, n. 2; 'dull fellow, a,' ii. 327; Elegy, imitated, v. 117, n. 4; mended by Goldsmith, i. 404, n. 1; quoted, iii. 190, n. 2, 204; sneered at, ii. 328, n. 2; Young's parody of Johnson's criticism on it, iv. 392, n. 1 (see just below under Johnson); happy moments for writing, i. 203, n. 3; Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1; Johnson criticises the Elegy, i. 403; ii. 328, n. 2; finds two good stanzas, ii. 328; criticises the Odes, i. 403; ii. 164, 327, 335; iv. 13, 16, n. 4; criticism attacked, iv. 64; defended by Boswell, i. 404; cites him in his Dictionary, iv. 4, n. 3; praises his Letters, iii. 31, n. 1; writes his Life, iii. 427; works, did not taste, ii. 335; calls him Ursa Major, v. 384, n. 1; Long Story cited, v. 292; Mackintosh criticises his style, iii. 31, n. 1; Mason's Memoirs of him, i. 29; higher in them than in his poems, iii. 31; 'mechanical poet, a,' ii. 327; Odeon Vicissitude, iv. 138, n. 4; Odes praised by Cumberland's Ode, iii. 43, n. 3; Pope's condensation of thought, admires, v. 345, n. 2; and his Homer, iii. 257, n. 1; Progress of Poetry, quoted, iii. 165, n. 2; Remains, his, preparation for publication, ii. 164; Sixteen-string Jack, compared to, iii. 38; Spleen, The, admires, iii. 38, n. 3; Sterne's popularity, ii. 222. n. 1; 'sunshine of the breast,' v. 160, n. 2; 'warm Gray,' ii. 334. Gray's Inn Journal, i. 309, 328, 356. Great, how pronounced, ii. 161. GREAT, the, cant against their manners, iii. 353; Johnson, never courted by, iv. 116; did not seek his society, iv. 117; or Richardson's, ib., n. 1; officious friends, have, ii. 65, n. 4; seeking their acquaintance, ii. 10; iii. 189. 'GREAT HE,' ii. 210. GREAT MOGUL, ii. 40, n. 4. GREAVES, Samuel, iv. 253. GREECE, fountain of knowledge, iii. 333; modern Greece swept by the Turks, ii. 194. GREEK, books for beginners, iii. 407; Genardus's Grammar, iv. 20; essential to a good education, i. 457; like lace, iv. 23; a woman's knowledge of it, i. 122, n. 4. See JOHNSON, Greek. GREEKS, barbarians mostly, ii. 170; dramatists, iv. 16; empire, iii. 36. GREEN, John, Bishop of Lincoln, i. 45. GREEN, Matthew, iii. 405, n. 1. GREEN, Richard, of Lichfield, account of him, ii. 465; his Museum, ib.; iii. 412; Johnson, letter from, iv. 393; mentioned, iii. 393; iv. 399, n. 5. GREEN ROOM, of Drury Lane, i. 201. Green Sleeves, v. 260. GREENE, Burnaby, i. 517. GREENHOUSES, ii. 168; iv. 206. GREENWICH, Boswell and Johnson's day there, i. 457; Hospital, i. 460; Johnson composes part of Irene in the Park, i. 106; lodges in Church Street, i. 107; Park, described by Miss Talbot, i. 106, n. 2; not equal to Fleet Street, i. 461. GREGORY, David, Geometry, v. 294. GREGORY, Dr. James, iii. 126; v. 48. GREGORY, Dr. John, v. 48, n. 3. GREGORY, professors of that name, v. 48, n. 3. GREGORY, ——, iii. 454. GRENVILLE, Right Hon. George, Beckford's Bribery Bill, supports, ii. 339, n. 2; 'could have counted the Manilla ransom,' ii. 135; Johnson's letter to him, i. 376, n. 2. Grenville Act, iv. 74, n. 3; v. 391. GRETNA GREEN, iii. 68. GREVILLE, C. C., Johnson and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3; and Fox, iv. 167, n. 1; 'public dinner' at Lambeth, iv. 367, n. 3. GREVILLE, Richard Fulke, Maxims and Characters, iv. 304; account of him, ib., n. 4; mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1. GREY, first Earl, iii. 424, n. 4. GREY, Dr. Richard, iii. 318. GREY, Stephen, ii. 26. GREY, Dr. Zachary, i. 444, n. 1; iii. 318; v. 225, n. 3. GRIEF, alleviated by recording recollections of the dead, i. 212; digested, to be, not diverted, iii. 28; effect of business engagements on it, ii. 470; Johnson's advice as to dealing with it, iii. 136; iv. 100, 142; not retained long by a sound mind, iii. 136; wears away soon, iii. 136. See SORROW. GRIERSON, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 116. GRIFFITHS, Ralph, the publisher, his evidence worthless, iii. 30, n. 1; war with Smollett, iii. 32, n. 2. GRIFFITHS, ——, of Bryn o dol, v. 449. GRIFFITHS, ——, of Kefnamwycllh, v. 452. GRIMM, Baron, Candide, i. 342; Mme, du Boccage, iv. 331, n. 1. GRIMSTON, Viscount, iv. 80, n. 1. Grongar Hill, iv. 307. GRONOVII, v. 376. GROSVENOR, Lord, v. 458, n. 5. GROTIUS, corporal punishment, on, ii. 157, n. 1; Christian evidences, on, i. 398, 454; De Satisfactione Christi, v. 89; Isaac de Groot his descendant, iii. 125; practised as a lawyer, ii. 430; quoted in Lauder's fraud, i. 229. GROVE, Rev. Henry, papers in the Spectator, iii. 33; read by Baretti, iv. 32. Grove, The, iv. 23, n. 3. Grub Street, defined, i. 296. GUADALOUPE, i. 367, 368, n. 1. GUALTIER, Philip, iv. 181, n. 3. Guarded bed-curtains, v. 433, n. 3. Guardian, The, on public judgment, i. 200, n. 2; end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3. GUARDIANS FOR CHILDREN, iii. 400. GUARDS, The, Boswell's fondness for them, i. 400, n. 1; afraid of the juries, iii. 46. GUARINI, Pastor Fido, iii. 346. GUESSING, iii. 356. Guide-Books, common in Italy, v. 61. GUILLERAGUES, M. de, i. 90, n. 1. GUILTY, ten, should escape, rather than one innocent suffer, iv. 251. GUIMENE, Princess of, ii. 394. GULOSITY, i. 468. GUNNING, the Misses, v. 353, n. 1, 359, n. 2. GUNPOWDER, iii. 361; v. 124. GUNTHWAIT, ii. 169. Gustavus Adolphus, History of, iv. 78. Gustavus Vasa, i. 140. GUTHRIE, William, account of him, i. 116, 117, n. 2; Johnson's character of him, ii. 52; Apotheosis of Milton, i. 140; Debates, i. 116, 118; Duhalde's China, translates, iv. 30; pensioned, i. 117; Scotticisms, i. 118, n. 1. GUYON, Dissertation on the Amazons, i. 150. GWYN. Colonel, i. 414, n. 1. GWYNN, John, the architect, account of him, v. 454, n. 2; buildings designed by him, ii. 438, n. 3; defence of architecture, ii. 439; happy reply, ii. 440; Johnson's advocacy of him, i. 351; letter in his behalf, v. 454, n. 2; London and Westminster Improved, ii. 25; Oxford post-coach, in the, ii. 438; iii. 129; Thoughts on the Coronation of George III, i. 361. GWYNNE, Nell, i. 248, n. 2.



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_Habeas Corpus_, ii. 73. _Habeas Corpus Bill_ of 1758, iii. 233, n. 1. HABERDASHERS' COMPANY, i. 132, n. 1. HABITATIONS, attachment to, ii. 103. HABITS, early, force of, ii. 366. HACKMAN, Rev. Mr., Boswell attends his trial, iii. 383; and execution, iii. 384, n. 1; altercation about him, iii. 384-5; described in _Love and Madness_, iv. 187, n. 1. HADDINGTON, seventh Earl of, iii. 133. HADDO, Professor, v. 64. HADDOCKS, dried, v. 110. _Hadoni exequioe_, iv. 159, n. 1. HAGLEY, described by Walpole, v. 78, n. 3, 456, n. 2; Johnson visits it, v. 456-7. HAGUE, v. 25, n. 2. HAILES, Lord (Sir David Dalrymple), account of him, i. 432; v. 48; _Annals of Scotland_, a new mode of history, ii. 383; accuracy, ii. 421; a book of great labour, iii. 372; exact, but dry, iii. 404; praised by Gibbon, ib., n. 3; revised by Johnson, ii. 278-9, 283-4, 287, 293. 333, 379-80, 383-4, 387, 411-12, 421; iii. 120, 216, 219, 360; praised by him, iii. 58; Boswell, letters to, i. 432; v. 406; _Catalogue of the Lords of Session_, v. 213; Chesterfield's 'respectable Hottentot,' on, i. 267; consulted on the entail of Auchinleck, ii. 415, 418, 420-22; critical sagacity, ii. 201; v. 48; Elgin Cathedral, account of, v. 114; Inch Keith, account of, v. 55; Johnson, introduced to, v. 48; asks, to write a character of Bruce, ii. 386-7; compares, with Swift, i. 433; is not convinced by his _Suasorium_, iii. 91; records a talk with him, v. 399; sends him anecdotes for his _Lives_, iii. 396-7; drinks a bumper to him, i. 451; love for him, ii. 293; Knight, the negro's case, iii. 216, 219; _La credulite des Incredules_, v. 332; _Lactantius_, edits, iii. 133; modernizes John Hales's language, iv. 315; _Ossian_, faith in, ii. 295; Percy, resemblance to, iii. 278; Prior, censures, iii. 192; _Remarks on the History of Scotland_, v. 38-9; _Sacred Poems_, iii. 192; Stuarts, unfair to the, v. 255; _Vanity of Human Wishes_, corrects the, v. 49; _Walton's Lives_, proposal to edit, ii. 279, 283, 285, 445; mentioned, ii. 294; iii. 102, 129, 155; iv. 157, 216, 232, 241; v. 394. HAIR, growth of the, iii. 398, n. 3. HAKEWILL, Rev. George, i. 219. HALL, Sir Matthew, devoted to his office, ii. 344; knowledge varied, ii. 158; _Life_ by Burnet, iv. 311; _Primitive Origination of Mankind_, i. 188, n. 4; rules of health and study, iv. 310; sentenced witches to death, v. 45, n. 5. HALES, John, of Eton, iv. 315. HALES, Stephen, _On Distilling Sea-Water_, i. 309; _Statical Essays_, v. 247, n. 1. HALIFAX, Dr., ii. 97, n. 1. HALKET, Elizabeth, ii. 91, n. 2. HALL, Dr., Master of Pembroke College, iv. 298, n. 2. HALL, General, iii. 361, 362, n. 1. HALL, John, the engraver, iii. 111; iv. 421, n. 2. HALL, Mrs., account of her, iv. 92; Johnson turns Captain Macheath, iv. 95; talks of the resurrection, iv. 93. HALL, Rev. Robert, influenced by a metaphysical tailor, iv. 187, n. 2; studied at Aberdeen, v. 85, n. 2. HALL, Rev. Westley (Wesley's brother-in-law), iv. 92, n. 3. HALL, ——, v. 98. HALLAM, Henry, ii. 210, n. 3. HALLAM, Henry, the younger, ii. 94, n. 2. HALLE, University of, i. 148, n. 1. HALLS, fire-place in the middle, i. 273; in squires' houses, v. 60. HALSEY, Edmund, i. 491, n. 1. HAM, posterity of, i. 401. HAMILTON, Archibald, the printer, ii. 226. HAMILTON, Captain, iv. 295, n. 5. HAMILTON, sixth Duke of, v. 359. n. 2. HAMILTON, eighth Duke of, ii. 50, n. 4; ii. 219; v. 43, 353, n. 1. HAMILTON, Gavin, ii. 270. HAMILTON, Lady Betty, v. 354, 358. HAMILTON, Sir William, member of the Literary Club, i. 479. HAMILTON, William, of Bangour, Johnson talks slightingly of him, iii. 150-1; verses on Holyrood, v. 43; to the Countess of Eglintoune, v. 374, n. 3. HAMILTON, William, of Sundrum, v. 38. HAMILTON, William Gerard, Boswell's _Johnson_, pays for a cancel in, i. 520; Burke, engagement and rupture with, i. 519; ranks very high, iv. 27, n. 1; character by H. Walpole and Miss Burney, i. 520; 'eminent friend,' an, iv. 280, n. 2; Jenyns's character, iii. 289, n. 1; Johnson accompanied him to the street-door, i. 490; arguing on the wrong side, iv. 111, n. 2; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; complaint of the Ministry, ii. 317; death makes a chasm, iv. 420; engaging in politics with him, i. 489, 518-20; 'envied but one thing,' he had said, iv. 112; esteem for him, i. 489; long intimacy, ii. 317; as a fox-hunter, i. 446, n. 1; generous offer to, iv. 245, 363, n. 1; letters to him, iv. 245, 363; pension, ii. 317; on public speaking, ii. 139; _Junius_, suspected to be, iii. 376, n. 4; _Parliamentary Logick_, i. 518; satisfactory coxcomb, describes a, iii. 245, n. 1; 'Single-speech,' i. 489, n, 4; Warton, Dr., letter to, i. 519; mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1, 159, n. 3, 344. HAMILTON and BALFOUR, booksellers, iii. 334, n. 2. _Hamlet, an Essay on the Character of_, iv. 25, n. 4; rescued from rubbish, ii. 85, n. 7, 204, n. 3. HAMMOND, Dr. Henry, iii. 58. HAMMOND, James, _Life_, by Johnson, iii. 30, n. 1; _Love Elegies_, iv. 17; v. 268. HAMPDEN, Dr., Bishop of Hereford, iv. 323, n. 3. HAMPSTEAD, Mrs. Johnson's lodgings, i. 192, 238; Johnson composes most of _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ there, i. 192; takes an airing to it, iv. 232; mentioned, v. 223. HAMPTON, James, _Translation of Polybius_, i. 309. HAMPTON COURT, Johnson's application for a residence in it, iii. 34, n. 4; mentioned, iii. 400, n. 2. HANDASYD, General, ii. 218, n. 1. HANDEL, musical meeting in his honour, iv. 283; his poet, v. 350, n. 1. HANMER, Sir Thomas, epitaphs on him, i. 177; ii. 25; Hervey's _Letter to Sir Thomas Hanmer_, ii. 32, n. 1, 33, n. 2; Shakespeare, edits, i. 175, 178; v. 244, n. 2. HANNIBAL, iii. 40. HANOVER, House of, Johnson attacks it, i. 141: asserts its unpopularity, iii. 155; calls it _isolee_, iv. 165; says that it is weak because unpopular, v. 271; oaths as to the disputed right, ii. 220; pleasure of cursing it, i. 429; right to the throne, v. 202-4; unpopular at Oxford, i. 72, n. 3 (see under OXFORD, Jacobite); becomes generally popular, iv. 171, n. 1 (see under GEORGE III, unpopularity). HANOVER RAT, ii. 455. HANWAY, Jonas, _Eight Days' Journey_, i. 309; ii. 122; _Essay on Tea_, i. 309. 313-4, 348, n. 3; iii. 264, n. 4; v. 23; Johnson's rejoinder, i. 314. HAPPINESS, attained by studying little things, i. 433, 440; iii. 165; business of a wise man, iii. 135; cannot be found in this life, v. 180; counterfeited, ii. 169, n. 3; cultivated, to be, iii. 164; experience shows that men are less happy, iii. 237; hope the chief part of it, i. 234, n. 2; ii. 351; Hume's notion, ii. 9; iii. 288; inn, produced most by a good, ii. 452; its throne a tavern chair, ib., n. 1; one solid basis of it, iii. 363; Pantheon, at the, ii. 169; pleasure, compared with, iii. 246; present time never happy but when a man is drunk, ii. 350, 435, n. 7; iii. 5; or when he forgets himself, iii. 53; public matters, little affected by, ii. 60, n. 4, 170; schoolboys, happiness of, i. 451; struggles for it, iii. 199; Swift, defined by, ii. 351, n. 1; virtue, not the certain result of, i. 389, n. 2. _Happy Life, The_, ii. 25. HARCOURT, Lord Chancellor, i. 75, n. 3. HARCOURT, Lord, iii. 426, n. 3. HARDCASTLE, Mrs., in _She Stoops to Conquer_, i. 213, n. 5. HARDING, ——, a painter, iv. 421, n. 2. HARDINGE, first Viscount, ii. 183, n. 1. HARDWICKE, Lord Chancellor, _Dirleton's Doubts_, on, iii. 205; Dr. Foster becomes popular through him, iv. 9, n. 5; prime minister, on the office of a, ii. 355, n. 2; Radcliffe's trial, i. 180, n. 2; Spectator, paper in the, iii. 34; mentioned, ii. 157, n. 3. HARDWICKE, second Lord, i. 260, n. 3. HARDYKNUTE, ii. 91. HARE, James, iii. 388, n. 3. HARE, W., the murderer, v. 227, n. 4. HARGRAVE, ——, the barrister, iii. 87, n. 3. HARINGTON, Dr., iv. 180. HARINGTON, Sir John, iv. 180, n. 3; 420, n. 3. HARLEIAN Library and Catalogue, i. 153, 158. _Harleian Miscellany, Preface to the_, i. 175. HARRINGTON, Countess of, iii. 141. HARRIS, James (Hermes Harris), account of him, ii. 225, n. 2; a coxcomb, v. 377; _Hermes or Philological Inquiries_, iii. 115, 245, 258; v. 377; Johnson's _Dictionary_, praises, iii. 115; talk with, iii. 256-9; pleasantry, his sense of, v. 378, n. 2; scholar and prig, iii. 245; mentioned, ii. 365. HARRIS, Thomas, of Covent Garden Theatre, iii. 114. HARRISON, Rev. Cornelius, iv. 401, n. 3. HARRISON, Elizabeth, _Miscellanies_, i. 309, 312. HARRISON, John, the inventor of the chronometer, i. 301, n. 3. HARRISON, ——, iv. 222, n. 2. HARROGATE, i. 287, n. 3; iii. 45, n. 1. HARRY, Miss Jane, iii. 298, n. 2. HARTE, Dr. Walter, companionable and a scholar, ii. 120; _Essays on Husbandry_, iv. 78; _History of Gustavus Adolphus_, ii. 120; iv. 78; Johnson and the screen, i. 163, n. 1; tutor to Eliot and Stanhope, iv. 78, 333. HARTLEBURY, v. 455. HARVEST OF 1777, iii. 226, n. 2; of 1775, iii. 313, n. 3. HARVEY. See HERVEY. HARWICH, i. 471; stage-coach, 465. HARWOOD, Dr. Edward, _Liberal Translation of the New Testament_, iii. 38. HASLERIG, Sir Arthur, ii. 118. HASTIE, a Scotch schoolmaster, his case, ii. 144, 146, 156, 157; Johnson's argument for him, ii. 183; Mansfield's speech, ii. 186; had his deserts, ii. 202. HASTINGS, Warren, Boswell, letter to, iv. 66; charges against him, iv. 213; Johnson, letters from, iii. 455; iv. 66, 68-70; Macaulay on his answer to Johnson, iv. 70, n. 2; scheme about Oxford and Persian literature, iv. 68, n. 2; trial, iv. 66, n. 1; Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2. HATE, steadier than love, iii. 150. HATSEL, Mrs., iv. 159, n. 3. HATTER, anecdote of a, ii. 287, n. 2. HAVANNAH EXPEDITION, i. 191, n. 5, 242, n. 1, 382. HAWES, L., i. 183, n. 1. HAWKESBURY, Lord. See JENKINSON, Charles. HAWKESTONE, v. 433-4. HAWKESWORTH, Dr. John, edits the _Adventurer_, i. 234; Cook's Voyages, edits, ii. 247; iii. 7; payment for it, i. 341, n. 4; ii. 247, n. 5; passage against a particular providence, v. 282; Courtenay's lines on him, i. 223; death, causes of his, v. 282, n. 2; _Debates_, continues the, i. 512; Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 436; Johnson's imitator, i. 233, 252; ii. 216; tribute to him, i. 190, n. 3; Psalmanazar, anecdote of, iii. 443; spoilt by success, i. 253, n. 1; _Swift, Life of_, i. 190, n. 3; ii. 319, n. 1; mentioned, i. 241, 242; ii. 118. HAWKINS, Sir John, account of him, i. 27-8; Addison's style, i. 224, n. 1; 'Attorney, an,' i. 190; Barber, attacks, iv. 370, 402, n. 2; 440; Boswell attacks him indirectly, i. 226, n. 3; slights, i. 28, n. 1, 190, n. 4; 'bulky tome,' his, ii. 452, n. 1; Burke, rudeness, to, i. 480; ill-will towards, ii. 450; Cave, Edward, i. 113, n. 1; Dodd, Dr., iii. I20, n. 2; English lexicographers, i. 186; gentility, on, i. 162, n. 3; Goldsmith at the Club, i. 480, n. 1; Hector's notes of Johnson, iv. 375; _History of Music_, v. 72; Hogarth's physicians, iii. 288, n. 4; inaccuracy, his general, i. 27, n. 1; iii. 229; iv. 327, n. 5, 371; instances of it—Addison's _notanda_, i. 204; Essex Head Club, iv. 254, 437; _ignorance_ for _arrogance_, iv. 138, n. 2; _Irene_, reception of, i. 197, n. 5; Johnson's _Adversaria_, i. 208, n. 1; 'enmity' to Milton, i. 230; fear of death, iv. 395; fondness for his wife, i. 234; and Heely, ii. 31, n. 1; loan of books, iv. 371, n. 2; and Millar, i. 287, n. 2; mother's death, i. 339, n. 2; operating on himself, iv. 399, n. 6, 418, n. 1; 'ostentatious bounty to negroes,' iv. 402, n. 2; warrants against, i. 141; wife's apparition, i. 240; will, iv. 370; Literary Club, i. 479-80; _Rasselas_, i. 341; _Review of Burke's Sublime and Beautiful_, i. 310; _Vicar of Wakefield_, sale of the copy of the, i. 415; Ivy Lane Club, iv. 253; Johnson's apologies, iv. 321, n. 1; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; executors, one of, iv. 402, n. 2; funeral, iv. 420, n. 1; house in Johnson's Court, ii. 5, n. 1; humour, ii. 262, n. 2; letters to him, iv. 435; _London_ and Savage, i. 125, n. 4; mode of eating, i. 468, n. 2; not a stayed, orderly man, iv. 371, n. 2; praise of a tavern chair, ii. 452, n. 1; quickness to see good in others, i. 161, n. 2; readiness to forgive injuries, iv. 349, n. 2; said to have slandered, iv. 420, n. 1; separation from his wife, i. 163, n. 2; sinking into indolence, iii. 98, n. 1; title of Doctor, i. 488, n. 3; will, iv. 402; _Works_, edits, i. 190, n. 4; writing for money, iii. 19, n. 3; knighted, i. 190, n. 4; Literary Club, account of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479; Pitt and Pulteney, oratory of, i. 152; pockets Johnson's _Diary_, iv. 406, n. 1; Porson, satirised by, ii. 57, n. 5; iv. 370, n. 5, 406, n. 1; 'rigmarole,' his, i. 351, n. 1; Thrale's, Mrs., second marriage, iv. 339; unclubable, i. 27, n. 2, 480, n. 1; iv. 254, n. 2. HAWKINS, Miss, 'Boswell, Mr. James,' i. 190, n. 4; Burke's estimate of his son, iv. 219, n. 3; Hawkins's attack on the Essex Head Club, iv. 438. HAWKINS, Rev. Professor William, member of Pembroke College, i. 75; quarrel with Garrick, ib., n. 2; iii. 259. HAWKINS, ——, under-master of Lichfield School, i. 43. HAWTHORNDEN. See DRUMMOND, William. HAY, Lord, v. 105. HAY, Lord Charles, at the Battle of Fontenoy, iii. 8, n. 3; his courtmartial, iii. 9. HAY, Sir George, i. 349. HAY, Dr., i. 349, 351, n. 1. HAY, John, v. 131, 137, 144. HAY, William, a translation of _Martial_, v. 368. HAYES, Rev. Mr., iii. 181. HAYLEY, William, correspondence with Miss Seward, iv. 331, n. 2; dedication to Romney, iii. 43, n. 4. HAYMAN, Francis, i. 263, n. 3. HAYWARD, Abraham, _Thraliana_, iv. 343, n. 4. HAZLITT, William, Baxter at Kidderminster, iv. 226, n. 2; Dr. Foster's popularity, iv. 9, n. 5; grieves at the defeat of Napoleon, iv. 278, n. 3. See under NORTHCOTE,_Conversations of Northcote_. HEALE, iv. 234-9. HEALTH, rules to restore it, iv. 153. _Heard_, Johnson's pronunciation of, iii. 197. HEARNE, Thomas, Duke of Brunwick's accession-day, i. 72, n. 3; Leland's _Itinerary_, v. 445, n. 3; Pembroke College Chapel, i. 59, n. 1; Psalmanazar at Oxford, iii. 449. HEATH, Dr., iv. 73. HEATH, James, the engraver, iv. 421, n. 2. HEAVEN, degrees of happiness in it, iii. 288. See FUTURE STATE. HE-BEAR AND SHE-BEAR, iv. 113, n. 2. HEBERDEN, Dr., account of him, iv. 228, n. 2; Johnson, attends, iv. 230-1, 260, n. 2, 262; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; Markland, assists, iv. 161, n. 3; _ultimus Romanorum_, iv. 399, n. 4; _timidorum timidissimus_, iv. 399, n, 6; mentioned, ii. 311; iv. 353-4, 355, n. 1. HEBREW, Leibnitz traces all languages up to it, ii. 156. HEBRIDES. See under BOSWELL, _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides; Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland_; and SCOTLAND, Highlands. HECTOR, Edmund, Birmingham, his house in, ii. 456, n. 2; Boswell and Johnson visit him in 1776, ii. 456, 457; 459-461; Johnson's chastity, i. 164; early life, gives Boswell particulars of, ii. 459; iv. 375, n. 2; early verses, i. 157, n. 5; friendship for him, iv. 135, 147, 270; last visit to him, iv. 375; letters to him: see under JOHNSON, letters; will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2; sister, his, Mrs. Careless, ii. 459. HEELY, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 30-1; iv. 370; Johnson's letter to Heely, iv. 371. _Heinous_, ii. 172. HEIRS AT LAW, right, their, ii. 432. HEIRS GENERAL, ii. 414. HELL, Johnson's dread of it, iv. 299; its pavement of good intentions, ii. 360; of infants' skulls, iv. 226, n. 2; subsists by truth, iii. 293. HELMET, hung out on a tower, iii. 273. HELOT, the drunken, iii. 379. HELVETIUS, advises Montesquieu to suppress his _Esprit des Lois_, v. 42, n. 1; Warburton 'would have _worked_ him,' iv. 261, n. 3. HELVOETSLUYS, i. 471. _Hemisphere_, ii. 81. HENAULT, ii. 383, n. i, 412, 421. HENDERSON, John, the actor, his mimicry of Johnson not correct, ii. 326, n. 5; visits him, iv. 244, n. 2. HENDERSON, John (of Pembroke College), account of him, iv. 298-9; Johnson and the nonjurors, iv. 286, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 151, n. 2. HENLEY-IN-ARDEN, ii. 452, n. 2, 456. HENLEY-ON-THAMES, v. 454, n. 2. HENN, Mr., i. 132, n. 1. HENRY II. gives Langton a grant of free-warren, i. 248; _History_ of him by Lyttelton, ii. 38. _Henry V_, Johnson proposes to act it in Versailles, ii. 395, n. 2. HENRY VIII. threatens the House of Commons, iii. 408. HENRY IV. of France, Johnson censures his epitaph, iv. 85, n. I. HENRY, Prince, of Portugal, happy for mankind had he never been born, iv. 250. HENRY, Robert, _History of Great Britain_, iii. 333; sale maliciously injured, in. 334, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 55, n. 1. HENS feeding their young, iv. 210. HEPHAESTION, iv. 274. HERALD'S OFFICE, i. 255. HERALDRY, i. 492. HERBERT, George, 'Hell is full of good meanings,' ii. 360, n. 1. HERCULES, his shirt, iii. 358; Johnson, the Hercules who strangled serpents, ii. 260; 'You, and I and Hercules,' iv. 45, n. 3. HEREDITARY OCCUPATIONS, v. 120. HEREDITARY TENURES, ii. 421. _Hermes, or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar_, ii. 225, n. 2. HERMETICK PHILOSOPHY. See _Hermippus Redivivus_. _Hermippus Redivivus_, i. 417; ii. 427, n. 4. _Hermit_. See under BEATTIE and PARNELL. _Hermit of Teneriffe_. See _Theodore the Hermit_. HERMITS, v. 62. HERNE, Elizabeth, iv. 402, n. 2, 439. HERODOTUS, Egyptian mummies, iv. 125, n. 4. _Heroic Epistle_. See MASON, W. HERTFORD, first Earl of, Cock-lane ghost, goes to hear the, i. 407, n. 1; Hume, gets a pension for, ii. 317, n. 1; Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 34, n. 4. HERTFORD, Lady, i. 173, n. 3; iii. 139, n. 4. HERVEY, Hon. Henry, 'Harry Hervey,' i. 106; Johnson's love for him, i. 106; intimacy with his family, i, 194; story of Johnson's ingratitude, iii. 195. HERVEY, Rev. James, _Meditations_, v. 351; parodied by Johnson, v. 352. HERVEY, Hon. Thomas, Beauclerk's story of him and Johnson, ii. 32; Johnson, payment to, ii. 33; separation from his wife, ii. 32, 33, n. 2; vicious and genteel, ii. 341. HERVEY, Mrs., iii. 244, n. 2. HERVEY, Miss, iii. 195, n. 1. HERVEY, Miss E., iii. 435; n. 4. HESIOD, _Pasoris Lexicon_, iii. 407; quoted, v. 63. HESKETH, Lady, iii. 36, n. 3. HESSE, Landgrave of, v. 217. HETHERINGTON'S CHARITY, ii. 286. HEYDON, John, iv. 402, n. 2. HEYWOOD, i. 84, n. 2. HICKES, Rev. Dr., account of him, v. 357, n. 4; mentioned, iv. 287. HICKY, Thomas, ii. 340. HIERARCHY, English, Johnson's reverence for it, iv. 75, 197, 274; v. 61; its theory and practice, iii. 138. _Hierocles, Jests of_, i. l50; v. 308, n. 1. HIGGINS, Dr., iii. 354, 386. _High_, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 118, n. 3. HIGH DUTCH, resemblance to English, iii. 235. _High Life below Stairs_, iv. 7. HIGHWAYMEN, evidence of H. Walpole, Wesley, and Baretti as to their frequency, iii. 239, n. 1; Gay their Orpheus, ii. 367, n. 1; question of shooting them, iii. 239, 240, n. 1. HILL, Dr. Sir John, account of him, ii. 38, n. 2, 39, n. 2; wrote _Mrs. Glasses Cookery_, iii. 285; in the _Heroic Epistle_, iv. 113, n. 3. HILL, Joseph (Cowper's friend), i. 395, n. 2. HILL, Miss, of Hawkestone, v. 433-4. HILL, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64-5. HILL, Sir Rowland, of Hawkestone, v. 433. HILL, Thomas Wright, v. 455, n. 1. HINCHCLIFFE, John, Bishop of Peterborough, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; hated Whiggism, iii. 422. HINCHINBROOK, iii. 383, n. 3. HINCHMAN, ——, iv. 402, n. 2. HINDOOS, iv. 12, n. 2. _Histoire de Pascal Paoli_, ii. 3, n. 1. _Historia Studiorum_, Johnson's, iii. 321. HISTORIAN, great abilities not needed, i. 424; inferiority of English, i. 100, n. 1; ii. 236, n. 2; licence allowed, i. 355. HISTORY, almanac, no better than an, ii. 366; authentic, little, ii. 365; Bolingbroke's caution about reading it, ii. 213, n. 3; Bolingbroke, Burke, and Fox on it, ii. 366, n. 1; character and motives generally unknown, ii. 79; iii. 404; colouring and philosophy conjecture, ii. 365; Johnson's indifference to general history, iii. 206, n. 1; recommendation of many histories, iv. 312, n. 1; manners and common life, of, iii. 333; v. 79; oral at first, v. 393; 'painted form the taste of this age,' iii. 58; records only lately consulted, i. 117; v. 220; spirit contrary to minute exactness, i. 155; shallow stream of thought in it, ii. 195; unsupported by contemporary evidence, v. 403. _History of the Council of Trent_, i. 107. _History of England_, in Italian. See MARTINELLI. _History of John Bull_, i. 452, n. 2; written by Arbuthnot, i. 452, n. 2; quoted by Johnson, ii. 235, n. 1. _History of the War_, projected, i. 354. _Historyes of Troye_, v. 459, n. 2. HITCH, Charles, i. 183. HOADLEY, Archbishop, i. 318, n. 4. HOADLEY, Dr. Benjamin, _Suspicious Husband, The_, ii. 50, n. 2. HOADLEY, Dr. John, letter to Garrick, ii. 69, n. 1. _Hob in the Well_, ii. 465. HOBBES, Thomas, Bathurst's verses to him, iv. 402, n. 2; mentioned, iii. 448. HOCKLEY-IN-THE-HOLE, iii. 134, n. 1; 454. HODGE, the cat, iv. 197. HODGES, Dr., ii. 341, n. 3. HOG, William, i. 229. HOGARTH, William, Garrick's acting, describes, iii. 35, n. 1; Johnson's belief, describes, i. 147, n. 2; conversation, ib.; finds more like David than Solomon, iii. 229, n. 3; like his _Idle Apprentice_, i. 250; takes for an idiot, i. 146; _Modern Midnight Conversation_, iii. 348; partisan of George II, i. 146; physicians, his, iii. 288, n. 4; prints, his, at Slains Castle, v. 102; at Streatham, iii. 348; Wilkes, print of, v. 186. HOGG, James, _Jacobite Relics_, v. 142, n. 2. _Hogshead_ of sense, v. 341. HOLBACH, Baron, anecdote of Hume and seventeen Atheists, ii. 8, n. 4; _Systeme de la Nature_, v. 47, n. 4. HOLBROOK, ——, Usher at Lichfield School, i. 44. HOLDER, ——, an apothecary, iv. 137, 144, 402, n. 2. HOLIDAYS OF THE CHURCH, ii. 458. HOLINSHED, quoted by Boswell, iv. 268, n. 2. HOLLAND, exportation of coin free, iv. 105, n. 1; Dutch fond of draughts and smoking, i. 317; free from spleen, iv. 379; English books printed there, iii. 162; France, pressed by, in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; Johnson's proposed tour there, i. 470; iii. 454; lead from two Cathedrals shipped to it, v. 114, n. 2; populous, iii. 233; Scotch regiment at Sluys, iii. 447; suspension of arms in 1782-3, iv. 282, n. 1; torture employed there, i. 466; trade, i. 218, n. 3. HOLLAND, the actor, iv. 7. HOLLAND, Dr., ii. 94, n. 2. HOLLAND, first Lord, iv. 174, n. 5, 219, n. 3. HOLLAND, third Lord, Boswell and Horace Walpole, iv. 314, n. 5; Jeffrey's 'narrow English,' ii. 159, n. 6; Johnson and Fox, iv. 167, n. 1; and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3. HOLLAND HOUSE, iv. 174, n. 5. HOLLIS, Thomas, iv. 97. HOLLOWAY, Mr. M. M., autograph letters of Johnson, iv. 260, n. 2; v. 405, n. 1, 454. HOLROYD, John (Lord Sheffield), i. 465, n. 1; ii. 150, n, 7; iii. 178, n. 1. HOLY LAND, iii. 177. HOME, Francis, Experiments on Bleaching, i. 309. HOME, Henry. See LORD KAMES. HOME, John, _Agis_, ii. 320, n. 1; v. 204; Athelstanford, minister of, iii. 47, n. 3; Bute's errand-goer, ii. 354; and favourite, i. 386, n. 3; Carlyle, Dr. A., described by, v. 362, n. 1; Derrick's lines, parodied, i. 456; _Douglas_, Garrick rejects it, v. 362, n. 1; Hume and Scott admire it, ii. 320, n. 1; Johnson despises it, ii. 320; not ten good lines in it, v. 360-2; Sheridan gives the author a gold medal for it, ii. 320; v. 360; lines in it applicable to Johnson, iii. 80; quotations from it, v. 361, n. 1; Elibank, Lord, his patron, v. 386; _History of the Rebellion of 1745_, iii. 162, n. 5; Hume's bequest to him, ii. 320, n. 1; dislike of the Whigs, iv. 194, n. 1; remark on the incapacity of the period, iii. 46, n. 5; Settle, likened to, iii. 76; Shakespeare of Scotland, iv. 186, n. 2; better than Shakspeare, v. 362, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1, 381, n. 1. HOMER, advice given to Diomed (Glaucus), ii. 129; antiquity, his, iii. 331; quoted by Thucydides, ib.; characters, does not describe, v. 79; detached fragments, not made up of, v. 164; _Iliad_, a collection of pieces, iii. 333; prose translation of it suggested, ib.; Latin version, ib., n. 2; Johnson's early translation from him, i. 53; knowledge of him, iv. 218, n. 3; v. 79, n. 2; 'machinery,' his, iv. 16; _Odyssey_, Johnson's liking for it, iv. 218; Fox's, ib., n. 3; _Life of Johnson_ likened to it, i. 12; quoted, iv. 444; prince of poets, ii. 129; Sarpedon, Earl of Errol likened to, v. 103, n. 1; shield of Achilles, iv. 33; v. 78; translated by Cowper, iii. 333, n. 2; by Dacier, ib.; by Macpherson, ii. 298, n. 1; iii. 333, n. 2; by Pope, iii. 256; Virgil, compared with, iii. 193; v. 79, n. 2; less talked of than, iii. 332. HOMFREY, family of, iv. 268, n. 1. _Homo caudatus_, ii. 383. HONESTY, iii. 237. HONITON, iii. 287, n. 1. HOOD, James, v. 66. HOOKE, Dr. (at St. Cloud), ii. 397. HOOKE, Nathaniel, writes the Duchess of Marlborough's _Apology_, v. 175. HOOKER, Richard, i. 219. HOOLE, John, account of him, ii. 289, n. 2; iv. 70; _Ariosto_, iv. 70; _Cleonice_, ii. 289, n. 3; dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 334; iii. 37, 342; iv. 88, 251; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 258; Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; collects a City Club for, iv. 87; friendship with him, iv. 360; and Goldsmith, i. 414, n. 4; last days, iv. 399, n. 1, 406, 410, n. 2, 414; letters to him, ii. 289; iv. 359-60; recommends him to Warren Hastings, iv. 70; writes the dedication of his _Tasso_, i. 383; regularly educated, iv. 187; uncle, his, the metaphysical tailor, iii. 443; iv. 187; mentioned, iv. 266. HOOLE, Mrs., iv. 359. HOOLE, Rev. Mr., Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; reads the service to, iv. 409; mentioned, iii. 436, n. 2. _Hop-Garden, The_, ii. 454. HOPE, 'A continual renovation of hope,' iv. 222, n. 5; Prince of Wales's enjoyment of it, iv. 182; a species of happiness, i. 368; ii. 351. HOPE, Dr., of Edinburgh, iv. 263-4. HOPE, Professor, of Edinburgh, v. 404. HOPE, Sir William, v. 66. HOPETON, second Earl of, iv. 43, n. 1. HORACE, Art of Poetry, a contested passage in the, iii. 73-5; _Carmen Seculare_ set to music, iii. 373; Mr. Tasker's version, ib., n. 3; cheerfulness, iii. 251; inconstancy, ib.; editions collected by Douglas, iv. 279; gratitude to his father, iii. 12; Hamilton's _Imitations_, iii. 151; Johnson translates _Odes_, i. 22, and ii. 9; i. 51-2; and _Ode_, iv. 7; iv. 370; Journey to _Brundusium_ mentioned, iii. 250; metres, ii. 445, n. 1; middle-rate poets, on, ii. 351; _Nil admirari_, ii. 360; read as far as the Rhone, iv. 277; religion, absence of, iv. 215; '_sapientiae consultus_,' iii. 280; translations of the lyrics, iii. 356; Francis's, ib.; villa, iii. 250; quotations: 1 _Odes_, i. 2, i. 244; 1 _Odes_, ii. v. 101, n. 2; 1 _Odes_, ii. 21, i. 483, n. 4; 1 _Odes_, xii. 46, iv. 356, n. 3; 1 _Odes_, xxii. 5, ii. 140; 1 _Odes_, xxiv. 9, iv. 290, n. 4; 1 _Odes_, xxvi. 1, ii. 140; 1 _Odes_, xxxiv. 1, iii. 279; 1 _Odes_, xxxiv. 1, iv. 215, n. 4; 2 _Odes_, i. 4, i. 207; 2 _Odes_, i. 24, iv. 374, n. 3; 2 _Odes_, xvi. 1, v. 163; 2 _Odes_, xiv., iii. 193; v. 68, n. 2; 2 _Odes_, xx. 19, iv. 277, n. 2; 3 _Odes_, i. 34, ii. 207; 3 _Odes_, ii. 13, i. 181, n. 1; 3 _Odes_, xxiv. 21, iii. 160, n. 1; 3 _Odes_, ii., iii. 204; 3 _Odes_, xxx. 1, ii. 291, n. 3; 4 _Odes, iii. 2, i. 351, n. 1; iv. 57, n. 4; 4 _Odes_, ix. 25, v. 415, n. 3; Epodes, xv. 19, iv. 320, n. 1; 1 _Sat_. i. 66, iii. 322, n. 2; 2 _Sat_. i. 86, iv. 129, n. 3; 1 _Sat_. iii. 33, iv. 180, n. 5; 1 _Sat_ iv. 34, ii. 79; 2 _Sat_. ii. 3, i. 105, n. 1; 1 _Epis_. i. 15, v. 283, n. 2; 1 _Epis_. ii. 41, iv. 120, n. 3; 1 _Epis_. vi. 1, ii. 360, n. 3; 1 _Epis_. vii. 96, ii. 337, n. 4; 1 _Epis_. xi. 29, v. 381, n. 2; 1 _Epis_. xiv. 13, iii. 417, n. 1; 2 _Epis_. ii. 84, ii. 337, n. 3; 2 _Epis_. ii. 102, i. 200; 2 _Epis_. ii. 110, i. 220; 2 _Epis_. ii. 212, iv. 355, n. 2; _Ars Poet_., line. 11, iii. 281, n. 4; l. 15, iv. 38, n. 5; l. 25, v. 78, n. 5; l. 39, iii. 404, n. 6; l. 41, ii. 126; l. 48, i. 221; l. 97, v. 399, n. 3; l. 126, v. 348, n. 1; l. 128, iii. 73; l. 142, ii. 13, n. 2; l. 161, v. 283, n. 3; l. 188, iii. 229, n. 3; l. 221, v. 375. n. 5; l. 317, i. 165: l. 372, ii. 351; l. 388, i. 196. HORNE, Dr., President of Magdalen College, (afterwards Bishop of Norwich), Garrick's funeral, lines on, iv. 208, n. 1; Garrick and Mickle, anecdote of, ii. 182, n. 3; Johnson's character, iv. 426, n. 3; _Letter to Adam Smith_, v. 30, n. 3; neglected state of churches, v. 41, n. 3; _Walton's Lives_, projected edition of, ii. 279, 283-4, 445. HORNE, Rev. John. See TOOKE, Horne. HORNECK, The Misses, i. 414, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2, 274, n. 5; iv. 355, n. 4. HORREBOW, Niels, iii. 279. HORSE-TAX, v. 51. HORSEMAN, ——, iv. 435. HORSES, old, iv. 248, 250. HORSLEY, Dr. (afterwards Bishop of Rochester), account of him, iv. 437; member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 254. HORTON, Mrs., ii. 224, n. 1. _Hosier's Ghost_, v. 116, n. 4. HOSPITALITY, ancient, ii. 167; less need for it now, iv. 18; elaborate attention, iv. 222; in London, ii. 222; promiscuous, ii. 167; waste of time, iv. 221. HOSPITALS, their administration, iii. 53. HOSTILITY, temporary, iv. 266. HOT-HOUSES, iv. 206. 'HOTTENTOT, a respectable,' i. 266; not Johnson, i. 267, n. 2. HOUGHTON COLLECTION, iv. 334, n. 6. HOUSE OF COMMONS, afraid of the populace, v. 102; Bolingbroke, described by iii. 234, n. 2; bribed, must be, iii. 408; coarse invectives in 1784, iv. 297; city, contest with the, in 1771, ii. 300, n. 5; iv. 139; corruption, iii. 206, 234; Crosby the Lord Mayor committed by it to prison, iii. 459; debates: see DEBATES; dissolution of 1774, ii. 285; v. 460; of 1784. iv. 264, n. 2; election-committees, iv. 74; figure made by insignificant men, v. 269; influence of the Crown, motion on the, iv. 220; influence of the peers, v. 56; Johnson's account of it as it originally was, iii. 408; anecdote of Henry VIII, ib.; only once inside the building, i. 503-4; Middlesex Election: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION; mixed body, iii. 234; Nowell's sermon on January 30, iv. 296; power of the nation's money, iv. 170; relation to the people, iv. 30; speaking at the bar, iii. 224; Wilkes's advice, ib.; speaking before a Committee, iv. 74; counsel paid for speaking, iv. 281; speeches, how far affected by, iii. 234-5; tenacity of forms, iv. 104; Wilkes, afraid of, iv. 140, n. I; resolution to expel him expunged, ii. 112. HOUSE OF LORDS, Copy-right Case, ii. 272; Corporation of Stirling Case, ii. 374; dissatisfaction with its judicature, ii. 421, n. 1; Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1; lay peers in law cases, iii. 345; 'noble stands,' made, v. 102; Scotch Schoolmaster's Case, ii. 144, 186; wise and independent, iii. 204. HOUSEBREAKERS, iv. 127. HOVEDEN, iv. 310, n. 3. HOWARD, Hon. Edward, ii. 108, n. 2. HOWARD, General Sir George, ii. 375, n. 1. HOWARD, Lord, v. 403, n. 2. HOWARD, Sir Robert, ii. 168, n. 2. HOWARD,—, of Lichfield, i. 80, 515, 516; iii. 222. HOWARD,—, of Lichfield, the younger, iii. 222. HOWELL, James, in the Fleet, v. 137, n. 4; _'Stavo bene,'_ &c., ii. 346, n. 6. _Howell's State Trials_, Somerset's Case, iii. 87, n. 3. HUDDESFORD, Rev. Dr., Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, i. 280, 322; Johnson's letter to him, i. 282. _Hudibras. See_ BUTLER, Samuel. HUET, Bishop, iii. 172, n. 1. HUGGINS, William, quarrel with Warton, iv. 6; mentioned, i. 382. HUGHES, John, _Memoir_ by Duncombe, iii. 314, n. 2; _Sieges of Damascus_, iii. 259, n. 1; Spenser, edits, i. 270; mentioned, iv. 36, n. 4. HUGILL, an attorney, iii. 297, n. 2. HULK, The Justitia, iii. 268. HUMANITY, its common rights, iv. 191, 284. HUMBLE-BEE, v. 380, n. 3. HUME, David, account of his publications, v. 31, n. 1; Adams, Dr., answers his _Essay on Miracles_, i. 8, n. 2; ii. 441; iv. 377, n. a; v. 274; Adams the architects, ii. 325, n. 3; Agutter's sermon, attacked in, iv. 422, n. 1; American war, iv. 194, n. 1; ancient history, ii. 237, n. 4; art, indifference to, i. 363, n. 3; atheists in Paris, dines with seventeen, ii. 8, n. 4; attacks, reply to, ii. 61, n. 4; benefited by some, v. 274; Beattie's _Essay on Truth: see_ BEATTIE; Blacklock, the blind poet, i. 466, n. I; v. 47, n. 3; books, the small number of good, iii. 20, n. 1; Boswell intimate with him, ii. 59, n 3,437; n. 2; v30; preserves memoirs of him, ib.; Boufflers, Mme. de, ii. 405, n. 2; Carlyle's, Dr., account of him, v. 30, n. 1; change of ministry in 1775, expects a, ii. 381, n. 1; Charles II, partiality for, ii. 341, n. 2; Cheyne, Dr., letter to, iii. 27, n. 1; composed with facility, v. 66, n. 3; conceit, his, v. 29; conversation, ii. 236, n. 1; death, said that he had no fear of, ii. 106; iii. 153; dedications, iv. 105, n. 4; Deist, denied that he was a, ii. 8; _Dialogues on Natural Religion_, i. 268, n, 4; dines with those who had written against him, ii. 441, n. 5; Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1; education and disposition, opinion on, ii. 437, n. 2; England on the decline, ii. 127, n. 4; English and French politeness, iv. 237, n. 3; English, his hatred of the, ii. 300, n. 5; v. 19, n. 4; neglect of polite letters, ii. 447, n. 5; prejudice against the Scotch, ii. 300, n. 5; prose, iii. 257, n. 3; and Scotch education, iii. 12, n. 2; _Essays Moral and Political_, sale of his, iv. 440; fame, his, v. 31; Fergusson's _Essay on Civil Society_, v. 42, n. 1; France on the decline, thinks, ii. 127, n. 4; his reception there, ii. 401, n. 4; French, ignorance of, i. 439, n. 2; French prisoners, account of the, i. 353, n. 2; Germany, barbarians of, ii. 127, n. 4; Gibbon's praise of him, ii. 236, n. 3; Glasgow professorship, sought a, v. 369, n. 2; 'gone to milk the bull,' i. 444; happiness, equality in, ii. 9; iii. 288; happy with small means, i. 372, n. 1; Henry's _History_, reviews, iii. 334, n. 1; _History of England_, his alterations in it on the Tory side, iv. 194, n. 1; Adam Smith's _Letter_ prefixed, v. 30, n. 3; slow sale of the first volume, v. 31, n. 1; written for want of occupation, iii. 20, n. 1; mentioned, iv. 78, n. 2; Hobbist, a, v. 272; Home, John, and Shakespeare, ii. 320, n. 1; Home, bequest to, ii. 320, n. 1; house, his, in James Court, v. 22, n. 2; in St. David Street, v. 28, n. 2; Hurd and the Warburtonian school, iv. 190, n. 1; hypocrite, longs to be a successful, iv. 194, n. 1; 'infidel pensioner,' called an, ii. 317; infidels, attacks, iii. 334, n. 1; infidelity, his death-bed, iii. 153; infidelity, his, less read, iv. 288; Johnson and Convocation, i. 464; _Dictionary_, absurdities in, ii. 317, n. 1; in the Green Room, i. 201; had not (in 1773) read his _History_, ii. 236; likes him better than Robertson, v. 57, n. 3; violent against him, v. 30; Kames and Voltaire, ii. 90, n. 1; Keeper of the Advocates' Library, v. 40, n. 1; Leechman's _Sermon on Prayer_, v. 68, n. 4; _Life_, with Adam Smith's letter prefixed, iii. 119; Macdonald, Sir James, i. 449, n. 2; Macpherson's _Homer_ and _History of Britain_, ii. 298, n. 1; Mallet and Bolingbroke, i. 268, n. 4; Mallet's _Life of Marlborough_, iii. 386, n. 1; middle class in Scotland, absence of a, ii. 402, n. 1; Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3; ministry, imbecility of Lord North's, iii. 46, n. 5; _Miracles, Essay on_, i. 444; iii. 188: see under Dr. ADAMS and BEATTIE; Monboddo's _Origin of Language_, ii. 259, n. 5; Murray (Lord Mansfield), at Lovat's trial, speech of, i. 181, n. 1; national debt, ii. 127, n. 4; neglect of a book, iii. 375, n. 1; New Testament, ignorance of the, ii. 9; iii. 153; _Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2; _Parties in General_, iii. 11, n. 1; _Parties of Great Britain_, ii. 402, n. 1; pension, ii. 317, n. 1; philosopher, anecdote of a, iii. 305, n. 2; Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1; _Political Discourses_, ii. 53, n. 2; Pretender's base character, v. 200, n. 1; visit to London, i. 279, n. 5; v. 201, n. 3; priests and dissenters, v. 255, n. 5; 'principle, has no,' iv. 194, n. 1; v. 272; Reynolds's allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4; resistance, doctrine of, ii. 170. n. 2: Robertson's _Scotland_, price offered for, iii. 334, n. 2; Rousseau's visit to England and his pension, ii. 11, n. 4, 12, n. 1; Russia, barbarians of, ii. 127, n. 4; Sanquhar's trial, v. 103, n. 2; Scotch writers, foolish praise of, iv. 186, n. 2; Scotticisms, ii. 72; corrected by Strahan, v. 92, n. 3; second-sight, ii. 10, n. 3; Select Society, member of the, v. 393, n. 4; sentiments, unanimity and contrariety of, iii. 11, n. 1; Smith's, Adam, _Letter_, v. 30; answered by Dr. Home, ib., n. 3; Smith's, suggested knocking of his head against, iii. 119; soldiers, iii. 9, n. 3; Strahan, leaves his MSS. to, ii. 136, n. 6; style, i. 439; Swift's style, ii. 191, n. 3; Tory by chance, iv. 194; v. 272; Toryism, growth of his, iv. 194, n. 1; touchstones of party-men, i. 354, n. 1; tragedy, anecdote of a, iii. 238, n. 2; _Treatise of Human Nature_, i. 127, n. 1; Tytler, attacked by, v. 274; 'Voltaire, an echo of,' ii. 53; mentioned, ii. 160, n. 2. HUME, Mrs., James Thomson's grandmother, iii. 359. _Humiliating_, ii. 155. HUMMUMS, The, iii. 349. HUMOUR. See GOOD HUMOUR. HUMOUR, Scotch nation not distinguished for it, iv. 129. _Humours of Ballamagairy_, ii. 219, n. 1. HUMPHRY, Ozias, account of him, iv. 268, n. 2; Johnson's letters to him, iv. 268-9; his miniature, iv. 421, n. 2. _Humphry Clinker_. See SMOLLETT. HUNGARY, hospitality to strangers, iv. 18. HUNTER, John, the surgeon, i. 243, n. 3; iv. 220, n. 1. HUNTER, Dr. William, iv. 220. HUNTER, ——, Johnson's schoolmaster, i. 44-6; ii. 146, 467. HUNTER, Miss, iv. 183, n. 2. HUNTER, Mrs., i. 516. HUNTING, v. 253. HUNTINGDON, tenth Earl of, iii. 84, n. 1. HURD, Richard, Bishop of Worcester, accounts for everything systematically, iv. 189; Addison, impertinent notes on, iv. 190, n. 1; archbishop, declined to be, iv. 190; Boswell attacks him, iv. 47, n. 2; _Cowley's Select Works_, edits, iii. 29, 227; evil spirits, on, iv. 290; v. 36, n. 3; Horace, notes on, iii. 74, n. 1; Hume, attacks, iv. 190, n. 1; Johnson praises him, iv. 190; _Moral and Political Dialogues_, iv. 190; _Parr's Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian_, iv. 47, n. 2; mentioned, i. 404, n. 1; ii. 36, n. 2; iv. 407, n, 4. 'HURGOES,' i. 502. HUSSEY, Rev. John, Johnson's letter to him, iii. 369. HUSSEY, Rev. Dr. Thomas, iv. 411. HUTCHESON, Francis, on _merit_, iv. 15, n. 5. HUTCHINSON, John, _Moral Philosophy_, iii. 53. HUTCHISON, William, of Kyle, v. 107, n. 1. HUTTON, the Moravian, iv. 410. HUTTON, William (of Birmingham), Bedlam, visits, ii. 374, n. 1; Birmingham, cost of living at, i. 103, n. 2; _Derby, History of_, iii. 164, n. 1; sufferings as a factory-boy, iii. 164, n. 1. HYDER ALI, v. 124, n. 2. HYPOCAUST, a Roman, v. 435. HYPOCHONDRIA, i. 66, 343; iii. 192. See under BOSWELL, JOHNSON, and MELANCHOLY. _Hypochondriack, The_, iv. 179, n. 5. HYPOCRISY, little suspected by Johnson, i. 418, n. 3; middle state between it and conviction, iv. 122; no man a hypocrite in his pleasures, iv. 316. _Hypocrite, The_, ii. 321.



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ICELAND, Horrebow's Natural History, iii. 279; Johnson talks of visiting it, i. 242; iii. 454; iv. 358, n. 2. ICOLMKILL. See IONA. Idea, improperly used, iii. 196. IDLENESS, active sports not idleness, i. 48; hidden from oneself, i. 331, n. 1; miseries of it, i. 331; upon principle, iv. 9; why we are weary when idle, ii. 98. Idler, The (an earlier paper than Johnson's), i. 330, n. 2. Idler, The (Johnson's), account of it, i. 331-5; Betty Broom, story of, iv. 246; collected in volumes, i. 335; Johnson draws his own portrait in Mr. Sober, iii. 398, n. 3; writes on his mother's death, i. 331, n. 4, 339, n. 3; mottoes, i. 332; No. 22 omitted in collected vols., i. 335; pirated, i. 345, n. 1; profits on first edition, i. 335, n. 1; tragedians, a hit at, v. 38, n. 1. IFFLEY, iv. 295. IGNORANCE, guilt of voluntarily continuing it, ii. 27; in men of eminence, ii. 91; people content to be ignorant, i. 397. ILAM. See ISLAM. Ilk, defined in Johnson's Dictionary, iii. 326, n. 4; 'Johnson of that Ilk,' ii. 427, n. 2. ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, ii. 457. IMAGES, worship of, iii. 17, 188. Imagination, iii. 341. IMITATIONS OF POEMS, i. 118, n. 5, 122. IMLAC, why so spelt, iv. 31. See also under Rasselas. IMMORTALITY, belief of it impressed on all, ii. 358; of brutes, ii. 54. IMPARTIALITY IN TELLING LIES, ii. 434. IMPIETY, inundation of it due to the Revolution, v. 271; repressed in Johnson's company, iv. 295. IMPORTANCE, imaginary, iii. 327. IMPOSTORS, Literary, Douglas, Dr., i. 360; Du Halde, ii. 55, n. 4; Eccles, Rev. Mr., i. 360; Innes, Rev. Dr., i. 359; Rolt, E., i. 359. Impransus, i. 137. IMPRESSIONS, trusting to them, iv. 122-3; early ones, iv. 197, n. 1. In Theatro, ii. 324, n. 3. INCE, Richard, a contributor to the Spectator, iii. 33. Inchkenneth, Ode on, ii. 293; v. 325. Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim, iv. 181, n. 3. INCIVILITY, iv. 28. INCOME, living within one's, iv. 226. INDECISION OF MIND, iii. 300. Index-scholar, iv. 407, n. 4, 442. INDIA, despotic governor the best, iv. 2l3; 'don't give us India,' v. 209; grant of natural superiority, iv. 68; hereditary trades, v. 120, Johnson's wish to visit it, iii. 134; n. 1, 456; judges there engaging in trade, ii. 343; mapping of it, ii. 356; nursery of ruined fortunes, iv. 213, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 194. See EAST INDIES and INDIES. INDIAN BILL, Fox's, Ministry dismissed on it, i. 311, n. 1; Lee's piece of parchment, iii. 224, n. 1. INDIANS, American, story told of them by two officers, iii. 246; v. 135; their weak children die, iv. 210; wronged, i. 308, n. 2. See NATIVES. INDICTMENT, prosecution by, iii. 16, n. 1. INDIES, the, discovery of the passage thither a misfortune, i. 455, n. 3; proverb about bringing home their wealth, iii. 302. Indifferently, i. 180. INDOLENCE, iv. 352. INFERIORITY, 'half a guinea's worth of it,' ii. 169. INFIDELITY abroad, iv. 288; affectation of showing courage, ii. 81; gloom of it, ii. 81; outcry about it, ii. 359. See CONJUGAL INFIDELITY. INFIDELS, compared with atrocious criminals, iii. 55; credulity, their, v. 331; ennui, must suffer from, ii. 442, n. 1; keeping company with them, iii. 409-10; number in England, ii. 359; treating them with civility, ii. 442; writings allowed to pass without censure, v. 271; writers drop into oblivion, iv. 288. INFLUENCE, America might be governed by it, iii. 205; crown influence salutary, ii. 118; Bute's attempt to govern by, ii. 353; lost and recovered, iii. 4; vote of the House of Commons against it, iv. 220; in domestic life, iii. 205, n. 4; Ireland governed by it, iii. 205; property, in proportion to, v. 56; wealth, from, v. 112. INFLUENZA, ii. 410. INGENHOUSZ, Dr., ii. 427, n. 4. INGRATITUDE, complaints of, iii. 2; Lewis XIV's saying, ii. 167. INNES, or INNYS, Rev. Dr., fraud about Dr. Campbell, i. 359; about Psalmanazar, i. 359, n. 3; iii. 444-5, 447-8. INNKEEPERS, soldiers quartered on them, ii. 218, n. 1. INNOCENT, punishment of the, iv. 251. INNOVATION, iv. 188. INNS, felicity of England in the, ii. 451; Shenstone's lines, ii. 452. INNYS, William, the bookseller, iv. 402, n. 2, 440. INOCULATION, iv. 293; v. 226. INQUISITION, i. 465. INSANITY. See JOHNSON, madness, and MADNESS. INSCRIPTIONS. See EPITAPHS. INSECTS, their numerous species, ii. 248. INSURRECTION OF 1745, Boswells projected History of it, iii. 162, 414; Voltaire's account, ib., n. 6; hard to write impartially, v. 393. INTELLECTUAL IMPROVEMENT, due to subordination, ii. 219. INTELLECTUAL LABOUR, mankind's aversion to it, i. 397. INTENTIONS, ii. 12; Hell paved with good intentions, ii. 360. INTEREST, how far we are governed by it, ii. 234. INTEREST OF MONEY, iii. 340. INTOXICATION, said to be good for the health, v. 260; see DRUNKENNESS, SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, WINE; and JOHNSON, intoxicated, and wine; and BOSWELL, wine. Introduction to the Game of Draughts, i. 317. Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain, i. 307. Introduction to the World displayed, iv. 251. INTUITION, iv. 335. INVASION, fears of an, iii. 326, 360, n. 3. INVITATION, going into the society of friends without one, ii. 362. INVOCATION OF SAINTS. See SAINTS. INWARD LIGHT, ii. 126. IRELAND and IRISH, accent, ii. 160; ancient state, i. 321; iii. 112; baronets, traditional, v. 322, n. 1; Belanager, iii. 111, n. 4; British government, barbarous, ii. 121; Burke's saying about the Roman Catholics, ii. 255, n. 3; Catholics persecuted by Protestants, ii. 255; penal code against them, ii. 121, n. 1; their students abroad, iii. 447 (see below under WESLEY); clergy, ii. 132; condemned to ignorance, ii. 27, n. 1; corn-laws, ii. 130; corrupt government, iv. 200, n. 4; cottagers, ii. 130, n. 2; 'drained' by England, v. 44; Drogheda, ii. 156; drunkenness of the gentry, v. 250, n. 1; Dublin, Derrick's poem to it, i. 456; Capital, only a worse, iii. 410; Evening Post, iv. 381, n. 1; freedom of the guild given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2; 'not so bad as Iceland,' iv. 358, n. 2; physicians, iii. 288, n. 4; Rolt's fraud, i. 359; Theatre, Douglas acted, ii. 320, n. 2; riot in it, i. 386; Miss Philips the singer, iv. 227; University, Burke and Goldsmith at Trinity College, i. 411; Flood's bequest for the study of Irish, i. 321, n. 5; M.A. degree in vain sought for Johnson, i. 133; LL.D. degree conferred, i. 488; duelling, ii. 226, n. 5; export duties, ii. 131, n. 1; fair people, a, ii. 307; Falkland, ii. 116; family pride, v. 263; Ferns, iv. 73; French, contrasted with, ii. 402, n. 1; Grattan's speeches, iv. 317; History, Johnson exhorts Maxwell to write its, ii. 121; hospitality to strangers, iv. 18; independence in 1782, iv. 139, n. 4; influence, governed by, ii. 205; Insolvent Debtors' Relief Bill of 1766, iii. 377, n. 2; Irish chairmen in London, ii. 101; Johnson averse to visit it, iii. 410; kindness for the Irish, iii. 410; pity for them, ii. 121; prejudice against them, i. 130; lady's verses on Ireland, iii. 319; landlords and tenants, v. 250, n. 1; language, i. 321, n. 5, 322; ii. 156, 347; iii. 112, 235; literature, i. 321; Londonderry, iv. 334; v. 319; Lucan, v. 108, n. 8; Lucas, Dr., i. 311; mask of incorruption never worn, iv. 200, n. 4; minority prevails over majority, ii. 255, 478; mix with the English better than the Scotch do, ii. 242; iv. 169, n. 1; nationality, free from extreme, ii. 242; orchards never planted by Irishmen, iv. 206, n. 1; parliament, duration of, i. 311, n. 2; long debates in 1771, i. 394, n. 1; peers created in 1776, iii. 407, n. 4; players, succeed as, ii. 242; Pope's lines on Swift, ii. 132, n. 2; premium-scheme, i. 318; professors at Oxford and Paris Irish, i. 321, n. 6; Protestant rebels in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; rebellion ready to break out in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; scholars incorrect in quantity, ii. 132; school of the west, iii. 112; Swift, their great benefactor, ii. 132; Thurot's descent, iv. l01, n. 4; Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, iv. 385; union wished for by artful politicians, iii. 410; Johnson's warning against it, ib.; volunteers, not allowed to raise, iii. 360, n. 3; Wesley against toleration, v. 35, n. 3; William III and the Irish parliament, ii. 255. Irene, altered for the stage and acted, i. 192, n. 3, 196; nine nights' run, i. 197, n. 5; never brought on the stage again, i. 198, n. 1; begun at Edial, i. l00; continued at Greenwich, i. 106; finished at Lichfield, i. 107; refused by Fleetwood, i. 153; offered to a bookseller, ib.; blank verse, iv. 42, n. 7; Cave, shown to, i. 123; dedication, no, ii. 1, n. 2; Demetrius's speech quoted, i. 237; dramatic power wanting, i. 198, 199, n. 2, 506; Epilogue, i. 197; Hill, Aaron, present at the benefit, i. 198, n. 4; Johnson hears it read aloud, iv. 5; reads it himself, ib., n. 1; his receipts from the acting and copyright, i. 198; original sketch of it, i. 108; Pot admires it, iv. 5, n. 1; Prologue, i. 196; quotable lines, i. 199, n. 2. IRISH GENTLEMAN, an, on the blackness of negroes, i. 401. IRISH PAINTER, an, Johnson's Ofellus, i. 104. IRON-WORKS at Holywell, v. 441. IRVINE, Mr., of Drum, v. 98. IRVING, Rev. Edward, iv. 9, n. 5. IRWIN, Captain, ii. 391. ISIS, THE, iv. 295. ISLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, i. 183, n. 4; iii. 187; Johnson and the Thrales, v. 429, 434, 457. ISLAND, retiring to one, v. 154. ISLE OF MAN, Boswell's projected tour, iii. 80; Burke's motto, ib.; Sacheverell's Account. See under Sacheverell, W.; mentioned, v. 233. ITALY, condemned prisoners, treatment of, iv. 331; copy-money, iii. 162; Guide-Books, v. 61; inferiority in not having seen it, iii. 36, 456; Johnson's wish to visit it: see JOHNSON, Italy; revival of letters, iii. 254; silk-throwing, iii. 164, n. 1. IVY LANE CLUB. See under CLUBS.



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Jack the Giant Killer, ii. 58, n. 1; iv. 8, n. 3. JACKSON, Henry, of Lichfield, ii. 463; iii. 131. JACKSON, Rev. Mr., i. 239, n. 1. JACKSON, Richard, all-knowing, iii. 19; commends Johnson's Journey, iii. 137. JACKSON, Thomas, Michael Johnson's servant, i. 38. JACOB, Giles, v. 419, n. 2. JACOBITES, identified with Tories, i. 429, n. 4. JACOBITISM. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON. JAMAICA, constitutions of, iii. 202; den of tyrants, ii. 478; story of a young man going there, iv. 332; mentioned, i. 239, n. 1, 242, n. 1; iii. 76, n. 2, 416, n. 2. JAMES I (of England), Daemonology, iii. 382; Johnson, resemblance to, v. 12; Nairne, witticism about, v. 117, n. 3; Raleigh's trial, i. 180, n. 2; Sanquhar's trial, v. 103, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 175. JAMES II, deposition needful, i. 430; ii. 341; George III, compared with, iv. 139, n. 4; king, very good, ii. 341; Sedley, Catherine, v. 49, n. 5; mentioned, ii. 437, n. 2; v. 297, n. 1, 357, n. 3. JAMES I of Scotland, ii. 7. JAMES IV, patron of Boswell's family, ii. 413; v. 91. JAMES V, v. 181. JAMES, King (the Pretender), i. 429. JAMES, Dr. Robert, death, i. 81; iii. 4; Dissertation on Fevers, iii. 389, n. 2; Greek, knowledge of, iv. 33, n. 3; Johnson describes his character, i. 81, 159; learnt physic from him, iii. 22; opinion of his medicines, iv. 355; dedication to his Medicinal Dictionary, i. 159; assisted him in writing the Medicinal Dictionary, iii. 22; powder, his, its sale, iii. 4; traduced, iii. 389, n. 2; suspected of being not sober for twenty years, iii. 389, n. 2; wrote first line of the epigram Ad Lauram, i. 157, n. 5; mentioned, iii. 318, n. 1. JANES, ——, a naturalist, v. 149, 163, 408, n. 1. JANSENISTS, iii. 341, n. 1. JANUARY 30, fast of, ii. 152; old port and solemn talk on it, iii. 371. Janus Vitalis, iii. 251. JAPAN, five persecutions, v. 392. JAPIX, Gisbert, Rymelerie, i. 476. JARVIS, ——, a Birmingham person, i. 86, n. 1. JARVIS, or Jervis, the maiden name of Johnson's wife, i. 86, n. 1, 241, n. 2. Jealous Wife, The, i. 364. JEALOUSY, little people given to it, iii. 55. JEFFERIES, Judge, v. 113, n. 1. JEFFREY, Francis (Lord Jeffrey), birth, v. 24, n. 4; helps Boswell to bed, ib.; Edinburgh Review, payment to writers, iv. 214, n. 2; Scotch accent, loses his, ii. 159, n. 6; title, his, v. 77, n, 4; trees in Scotland, ii. 301, n. 1. JENKINSON, Right Hon. Charles (first Earl of Liverpool), account of him, iii. 146, n. 1; Johnson's letter to him, iii. 145-7. JENNINGS, Mr., iii. 231. JENYNS, Soame, benevolence as a motive to action, iii. 48; character, his, iii. 289, n. 1; conversion, i. 316, n. 2; iii. 280; 'Epitaph,' i. 316, n. 2; Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, i. 309, 315; Johnson's Review of it, i. 315-316; ii. 188, n. 6; iii. 48, n. 3; Johnson, attacks, i. 316; View of the Internal Evidence, &c., iii. 48, n. 3, 288; World, contributor to the, i. 257, n. 3. JEPHSON, Robert, i. 262, n. 1. JERSEY, v. 142, n. 2. JERSEY, Earl of, i. 31, n. 4. JERUSALEM, ii. 275-6. Jests of Hierocles, i. 150. JESUITS, attacked by Psalmanazar, iii. 444; persecuted in Japan, v. 392, n. 5. JEWISH KINGS, v. 340. JEWITT, Mr. L., ii. 324, n. 1. JOCULARITY, low, i. 449. JODDREL (Jodrell), R. P., iv. 254, 272, 437. JODRELL, Sir R. P., M.D., iv. 437. JOHN, King, i. 248. John Bull, v. 20, n. 2. Johnny Armstrong, quoted by Johnson for its abruptness, i. 403; in Holyrood, v. 43. JOHNSON, B., the actor, iv. 243, n. 6. JOHNSON, Andrew (Johnson's uncle), great at boxing and wrestling, iv. 111, n. 3; v. 229, n. 2. JOHNSON, Charles, author of The Adventures of a Guinea, v. 275, n. 2. JOHNSON, D., i. 79, n. 2. JOHNSON, Elizabeth (Dr. Johnson's wife, H. Porter's widow, maiden name Jarvis or Jervis), i. 86, n. 1; account of her, i. 95; her age, i. 95, n. 2; character, i. 241, n. 4; death, i. 203, n. 1, 234; epitaph, i. 241, n. 2; Ford's ghost, iii. 349; Garrick's mimicry of her, i. 99; Hampstead lodgings, i. 192; indulgencies, i. 238; Johnson's conversation, admires, i. 95; lodgings in her last illness, iv. 377, n. 1; marriage, i. 95; ii. 77; marriage-settlement, i. 95, n. 3; personal appearance, i. 95, 99; 238; Rambler, admiration of the, i. 210; Tetty or Tetsey, i. 98; ii. 77; wedding-ring, i. 237; mentioned, i. 488, 500; iii. 46. See JOHNSON, wife. JOHNSON, Fisher, and his sons (Johnson's cousins), iv. 402, n. 2. JOHNSON, 'the gigantick,' i. 388, n. 3. JOHNSON, Hester (Stella), iv. 177, n. 2; v. 243. JOHNSON, the horse-rider, i. 399; iii. 231. JOHNSON, Michael (Johnson's father), account of him, i. 34-7; accompanies his son to Oxford, i. 59; bankrupt, i. 78-9; iv. 402, n. 2; book-trade, i. 36; Chester fair, at, v. 435; death, i. 80; disapproved of tea, i. 313, n. 2; epitaph, i. 79, n. 2; iv. 393; excise prosecution, i. 36, n. 5; fire in the parlour on Sunday, v. 60; 'foolish old man,' i. 40; house, his, iv. 372, n. 2; Jacobite, a, i. 37; marriage register, i. 35, n. 1; melancholy, i. 35; oath of abjuration, signs the, ii. 322; observer, no careless, i. 34, n. 5; sheriff of Lichfield, i. 36, n. 4; Uttoxeter market, at, iv. 373. JOHNSON, Mr., in Blackmore's Lay Monastery, v. 384, n. 2. JOHNSON, Nathanael (Johnson's younger brother), complains of his brother, i. 90, n. 3; death, i. 35, 90, n. 3; epitaph, ib.; iv. 393; letter from him, i. 90, n. 3; succeeds his father, i. 90. JOHNSON, Samuel, Rev., i. 135. JOHNSON, SAMUEL, CHIEF EVENTS OF His LIFE. (For his publications see also i. 16-24; for a complete list of his travels and visits, iii. 450-3; and for his residences, iii. 405, n. 6.) 1709 Birth, i. 34. 1712 'Touched by Queen Anne, i. 43. 1716 (about) Enters Lichfield School, i. 43. 1725 Enters Stourbridge School, i. 49. 1726 Returns home, i. 50. 1728 Enters Pembroke College, i. 58. Translates Pope's Messiah, i. 61. 1729 Returns home, i. 78, n. 2. 1731 Death of his father, i. 80. 1732 Usher at Market Bosworth, i. 84. 1733 At Birmingham, i. 85, 86, n. 1. 1734 Returns to Lichfield, i. 89. Publishes proposals for printing Politian, i. 90. Returns to Birmingham, i. 90. Offers to write for the Gent. Mag. i. 91. 1735 Publishes Lobo's Abyssinia, i. 87. Marries Mrs. Porter and opens a school at Edial, i. 95, n. 2, 96. 1737 Visits London with Garrick, i. 101. Returns to Lichfield and finishes Irene, i. 107. Removes to London, i. 110. 1738 Becomes a writer in the Gent. Mag. i. 113. London, i. 118. Begins to translate Father Paul Sarpi's History, i. 135. Life of Father Paul Sarpi, i. 139. 1739 Seeks the Mastership of Appleby School and the degree of Master of Arts, i. 132-3. Life of Boorhaave, i. 140. Marmor Norfolciense, i. 141. 1740 Lives of Blake, Drake, and Barretier, i. 147. Begins to write the Debates, i. 150. 1741 Debates, i. 150. 1742 Debates, i. 150. Lives of Barman and Sydenham, i. 153. Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153. 1743 Finishes the Debates, i. 150. 1744 Life of Savage, i. 161. 1745 Miscellaneous Observations on Macbeth, i. 175. Sketching outlines of his Dictionary, i. 176, 182, n. 3. 1746 Gets to know Levett, i. 243. 1747 Prologue on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, i. 181. Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language, i. 182. 1748 Writing the Dictionary. Life of Roscommon, i. 192. The Vision of Theodore the Hermit, i. 192. 1749 Writing the Dictionary. Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 192. Irene acted, i. 196. Forms the Ivy Lane Club, i. 190, n. 5. Living in Gough Square, iii. 405, n. 6. 1750 Writing the Dictionary. Begins the Rambler, i. 201. Prologue for the benefit of Milton's Grand-daughter, i. 227. 1751 Writing the Dictionary. The Rambler. Lauder's fraud exposed, i. 228. Life of Cheynel, i. 228. 1752 Writing the Dictionary. Ends The Rambler, i. 203. Death of his wife, i. 234. Miss Williams begins to reside with him, i. 232. Gets to know Reynolds, i. 245, n. 1. 1753 Writing the Dictionary. Writes for The Adventurer, i. 252. 1754 Writing the Dictionary. Life of Cave, i. 256. Visits Oxford, i. 270. Gets to know Murphy, i. 356, n. 2. 1755 Letter to Lord Chesterfield, i. 261. Becomes an M.A. of Oxford, i. 281. Publishes the Dictionary, i. 291. Projects a Biblitheque, i. 284. Gets to know Langton (about this year), i. 247, n. 1. 1756 Publishes an abridgement of the Dictionary, i. 305. Writes for The Universal Visitor, i. 306. Superintends and writes for The Literary Magazine, i. 307. Life of Sir Thomas Browne, i. 308. Proposals for an edition of Shakespeare, i. 318. 1757 Writes for the Literary Magazine, i. 320. Editing Shakespeare, i. 496, n. 3. 1758 Editing Shakespeare, i. 496, n. 3. Begins The Idler, i. 330. Gets to know Dr. Burney, i. 328. 1759 The

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