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NABOBS, ii. 339, n. 2; v. 106. NAIL, growth of the, iii. 398, n. 3. NAIRNE, Colonel, v. 69-70. NAIRNE, William (Lord Dunsinan), accompanies Johnson to St. Andrews, v. 54, 56, 58, 62; to Edinburgh Castle, v. 386; praised by him, v. 53; and by Sir Walter Scott, ib., n. 3; mentioned, iii. 41, 126; v. 38, 394-5. NAIRNE, Mr., the optician, iii. 21, n. 2. Namby-Pamby, i. 179. NAMES, queer-sounding, iii. 76. NAMPTWICH, v. 432. NAP after dinner, ii. 407. NAPIER, Rev. Alexander, edition of Boswell, ii. 391, n. 4. NAPLES, iii. 19; v. 54. Naples, History of the Kingdom of, iv. 3, n. 3. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ii. 393, n. 7. NARES, Rev. Mr., iv. 389. NARROW place, how far the mind grows narrow in a, ii. 246 NARROWNESS in expenses, v. 345-6; a fit of narrowness, iv. 191. NASH, Alderman, iii. 460. NASH, Richard ('Beau'), engages in a religious dispute at Bath, iv. 289, n. 1; 'here comes a fool,' i. 3, nn. 2, 3; a pen his torpedo, i. 159, n. 4; put down smoking at Bath, v. 60, n. 2. NASH, Rev. Dr., History of Worcestershire, i. 75, n. 3; iii. 271, n. 5. NATION, state of common life, v. 109, n. 6. NATIONAL CHARACTER, no permanence in, ii. 194. NATIONAL DEBT, ii. 127; iii. 408, n. 4. NATIONAL FAITH, iv, 21. NATIVE PLACE, love of one's, iv. 147. NATIVES. See under INDIANS and SAVAGES. NATURAL HISTORY, iii. 273. Natural History. See GOLDSMITH, Oliver, Animated Nature. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, ii. 55. NATURE, Boswell's want of relish for its beauties, i. 461; all men envious and thieves by nature, iii. 271; state of nature, iii. 49; v. 88. See under SAVAGES. Nature Displayed, iv. 311. Navigation, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362. Navvy, iii. 362, n. 5. NEANDER, ii. 274. NECESSITY, an eternal, v. 47. See under FREE WILL. NECKER, Mme., Garrick's Hamlet, v. 38, n. 2. NEGROES. See SLAVES. NEGROES,—law-cases. See KNIGHT, Joseph, and SOMERSET, James. NELSON, Robert, Festivals and Fasts, ii. 458; iv. 311; friend of Archibald Campbell, v. 357; the original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3. NENI, Count, iii. 35. NERO, ii. 255, n. 4. NERVES, weak, iv. 280. NETHERLANDS, Johnson's projected tour, i. 470; iii. 454; Temple's account of the drinking, iii. 330. Network, defined, i. 294. NEUFCHATEL, ii. 215. New Bath Guide, i. 388, n. 3. NEW FLOODGATE IRON, iv. 193. NEW PLACE, effects of a, iii. 128. New Protestant Litany, i. 176, n. 2. NEW SOUTH WALES, iv. 125, n. 1. New Testament, most difficult book in the world, iii. 298. NEW ZEALAND, iii. 49. NEWBERY, Francis, bookseller, and dealer in quack medicines, v. 30, n. 3; Johnson's advice to him about a fiddle, iii. 242, n. 1. NEWBERY, John, the bookseller, children's books, iv. 8, n. 3; Goldsmith's publisher, iii. 100, n. 1; v. 30, n. 3; James's powder, vendor of, iii. 4, n. 1 'Jack Whirler' of The Idler, v. 30, n. 3; Johnson's debts to him, i. 350, n. 3; publishes his Idler, i. 330, 335, n. 1; The World Displayed, i. 345. NEWCASTLE, famous townsmen, v. 16, n. 4; Johnson passes through it, ii. 264, 266; v. 16; story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394. NEWCASTLE, first Duke of, i. 151. NEWCASTLE, second Duke of, iv. 63. NEWCASTLE FLY, ii. 377, n. 1. NEWCASTLE ship-master, a, v. 312. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LINE, iii. 135, n. 1. NEWCOME, Colonel (in The Newcomes), ii. 300, n. 3. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY, iii. 203, n. 1. NEWHALL, Lord, iii. 151. NEWHAVEN, Lord, iii. 407-8. NEWMAN, Cardinal, Johnson's truthfulness, iv. 305, n. 3; Oxford about the year 1770, ii. 445, n. 1. NEWMARKET, i. 383, n. 3. NEWMARSH, Captain, v. 134. NEWPORT School in Shropshire, i. 50, 132, n. 1. NEWSPAPERS, booksellers, governed by the, v. 402, n. l; everything put into them, iii. 79, 330; knowledge diffused, ii. 170; Macpherson's 'supervision,' ii. 307, n. 4; in the time of the Usurpation, v. 366; whole world informed, ii. 208. NEWSWRITERS, ii. 170, n. 3; iii. 267, n. 1. NEWTON, Sir Isaac, Arguments in Proof of a Deity, i. 309; a worthy carman will get to heaven as well as he, iii. 288; Bentley's verses, mentioned in, iv. 23, n. 3; free from singularities, ii. 74, n, 3; house in St. Martin's Street, iv. 134; infidelity, reported early, i. 455; Johnson's admiration of him, ii. 125; Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287; mathematical knowledge unequalled, iv. 217; poet, as a, v. 35; 'stone dolls,' ii. 439, n. 1. NEWTON, John, Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul's, Account of his own Life, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1; censures Johnson, iv. 285, n. 3; Johnson's retaliation, iv. 285-6; Dissertation on the Prophecies, iv. 286; mentioned, i. 79, n. 2. NEWTON, John, of Lichfield, father of the Bishop, i. 79, n. 2. NEWTON, Rev. John, engaged in the slave trade, iii. 203, n. 1; Johnson's 'conversion,' iv. 272, n. 1. NEWTON, Dr., i. 227, n. 3. NEWTON, Mr., of Lichfield, v. 428. NICCOLSON, of Scorbreck, v. 195. NICHOLS, Dr. Frank, De Anima Medica, iii. 163; physician to the King, turned out by Lord Bute, ii. 354; rule of attendance as a physician, iii. 164. NICHOLS, John, account of him, iv. 437; Anecdotes of William Bowyer, iv. 161, 369, 437; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 437, 438; Gent. Mag., edits, i. 90, n. 4; iv. 437; Johnson, anecdotes of, iv. 407, n. 4; funeral, invitation card to, iv. 419, n. 1; and Henderson the actor, iv. 244, n. 2; last days, iv. 407-10; v. 69, n. 1; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; spells his name wrongly, iv. 36, n. 4; Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, iv. 369, n. 1, 437; Thirlby, memoir of, iv. 161, n. 4; Tyers and The Idler, iii. 308, n. 3; mentioned, i. 84, n. 3, 99, 102, n. 2, 135, 231, n. 2; iv. 359. NICHOLSON ——, an advocate, v. 213. NICKNAMES, i. 385, n. 1. NICOL, George, the bookseller, iv. 251; letter from Johnson, iv. 365. NICOLAIDA, ii. 379. NIDIFICATION, ii. 249. NIGHT-CAPS, v. 268-9, 306. Night Thoughts. See YOUNG. NILE, a waterfall on it, i. 88, n. 2. NISBET, Rev. Mr., v. 73. NISBET, ——, an advocate, v. 213. NISBETT, Sir John, iii. 205, n. 1. NITROGEN, discovery of, iv. 237, n. 6. No Sir, as used by Johnson, ii. 452; iii. 70, 178, 185, 304; explained by Boswell, iv. 315. NOBILITY, fortune-seeking, ii. 126; respect due to them, i. 447; iv. 114; in virtue above the average, iii. 353; unconstitutional influence in elections, iv. 248, 250. NOBLE, Mark, Memoirs of Cromwell, iv. 236, n. 1. NOBLE AUTHORS, iv. 113-5. NOBLEMAN, an indolent Scotch, iv. 87. NODOT, Abbe, iii. 286, n. 2. NOLLEKENS, Joseph, iii. 219, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2. NOLLEKENS, Mrs., iii. 217. NONJURORS, Archibald Campbell, v. 357; Cibber's Nonjuror, applicable to them, ii. 321; comparative criminality in taking and refusing the oaths, ii. 321-2; could not reason, iv. 286-8; Falconer, Bishop, iii. 371-2; Johnson never in one of their meeting-houses, iv. 288. Nonpareil, v. 414, n. 2. NORBURY PARK, iv. 43. NORES, Jason de, ii. 444. NORFOLK, militia, i. 307, n. 4; sale of the Rambler in the county, i. 208, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 134. Norfolk Prophecy, i. 143. NORRIS,—, a staymaker, i. 103. NORTH, Dudley. See LONG. NORTH, Frederick, Lord (second Earl of Guilford), Coalition Ministry, iv. 223, n. I; Conciliatory Propositions, iii. 221; Falkland's Islands, stops the sale of, ii. 136; Fox's dismissal from the Treasury, ii. 274, n. 7; Gibbon, admired by, v. 269, n. 1; humour, v. 409; Johnson, fear of, as an M.P., ii. 137, n. 3; no friend to, ii. 147; goes to his house, v. 248; proposes the degree of LL.D. for, ii. 318, n. 1; writes to the Vice-Chancellor, ii. 331; King's agent, merely the, ii. 355, n. i; Macdonald, Mr., abused by, v. 153, n. 1; ministry: See under MINISTRIES; subscription to the Articles, upholds, ii. 150, n. 7; Thurlow's hatred of him, iv. 349, n. 3. North Briton, essay by Chatterton, iii. 201, n. 3; Johnson's definitions, i. 295, n. 1. See under WILKES. NORTH POLE, voyage to the, v. 236. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, v. 295. NORTHCOTE, James, Boswell's self-reproach, v. 129, i 1; Goldsmith and Cross-Readings, iv. 322, n. 2; Goldsmith on entering a room, i. 413, n. 2; Johnson's character of Mudge, iv. 77, n. 1; Johnson's interview with George III, ii. 42, n. 2; Lowe the painter, iv. 202, n. 1; Pulteney's oratory, i. 152, n. 3; Reynolds appointed painter to the King, iv. 366, n. 2; dinner-parties, iv. 312, n. 3; influence in the Academy, iv. 219, n. 4; and Mrs. Siddons, iv. 242, n. 2; use of 'Sir,' i. 245, n. 3; visit to Devonshire, i. 377, n. 1; Reynolds's, Miss, pictures, iv. 229, n. 4; sees She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 233, n. 3. NORTHEND, iv. 28, n. 7. NORTHINGTON, Lord Chancellor, i. 45, n. 4. NORTHINGTON, second Earl of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1783, iv. 200. NORTHUMBERLAND, a breed of reindeer, ii. 168, n. 1; plantations of trees, iii. 272; price of corn in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2. NORTHUMBERLAND, first Duke of, Capability Brown his guest, iii. 400, n. 2; Dr. Mounsey at his table, ii. 64; Goldsmith's visionary project, iv. 22, n. 3; Irish vice-roy, ii. 132; iv. 22, n. 3; Johnson, civility to, iii. 272, n. 3; iv. 117, n. 1. NORTHUMBERLAND, Elizabeth Duchess of, Batheaston Vase, writes for the, ii. 337; Boswell boasts of her acquaintance, iii. 271, n. 5; Cock Lane Ghost, goes to hear the, i. 407, n, 1. NORTHUMBERLAND, eighth Earl of, v. 403, n. 2. NORTHUMBERLAND, Earls of, Dr. Percy's descent from them, iii. 271, n. 5. NORTON, Sir Fletcher, first Lord Grantley, account of him, ii. 472, n. 1; his ignorance, ii. 91. NORWAY, i. 425; ii. 103; v. 100, n. 1. Nose of the mind, iv. 335. Notes and Queries, Athenian blockhead, i. 73, n. 3; Bowles, William, of Heale, iv. 235, n. 5; Brooke's Earl of Essex, iv. 312, n. 5; Ford family, will and pedigree, i. 49, n. 3; Johnson's calculations about walling a garden, iv. 205, n. 1; house in Bolt Court, ii. 427, n. 1; letter on having a stroke of palsy, reprint of, iv. 229, n. 2; (for his other letters to Hector, Taylor, &c., See under JOHNSON, letters); marriage register, i. 95, n. 2; and Maty, i. 284, n. 3; tutor to Mr. Whitby, i. 84, n. 2; Johnson, Michael, publishes Floyer's [Greek: Pharmako-basanos] i. 36, n. 3; his marriage, i. 35, n. 1; Johnson, Nathanael, i. 90, n. 3; Langton's navigation, ii. 136, n. 2; Pembroke College Gaudy, i. 273, n. 2; solution of continuity, iii. 419, n. 1; Swift 'a shallow fellow,' v. 44, n. 3; Taylor's, Dr., separation from his wife, i. 472, n. 4. NOTTINGHAM, described by Hutton in 1741, i. 86, n. 2; fair, iii. 207, n. 3; a learned pig, iv. 373. NOURSE, the bookseller, iii. 15, n. 2. Nouveau Tableau de Paris, ii. 366, n. 2. NOVA ZEMBLA, v. 392. NOVALIS, iii. 11, n. 1. NOVELTY, boys' restless desire for it, iii. 385; paper on it in The Spectator, iii. 33; Rousseau's love of it, i. 441; Goldsmith, ib., n. 1; iii. 376. NOVEMBER THE FIFTH, Johnson's verses on it, i. 60. NOWELL, Dr., Boswell and Johnson dine with him, iv. 295; fast sermon on Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1; iv. 296. NOYON, ii. 400. Nugae Antiquae, iv. 180. NUGENT, Colonel, ii. 136, n. 5. NUGENT, Dr., account of him, i. 477, n. 4; member of the Literary Club, i. 477; ii. 17, 240; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108. Nullum numen adest, &c., iv. 180. NUMBERS, science of. See ARITHMETIC and MATHEMATICS. NUNCOMAR, iv. 70, n. 2. Nuremberg Chronicle, v. 456. NURSE, putting oneself to, ii. 474. 'Nux gar erchetai,'[Greek] ii. 57. NUYS, iii. 235, n. 1.



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OAKES, Mrs., i. 407, n. 3. OAKOVER, v. 429-30. OATHS, abjuration, oath of, ii. 220, 321, n. 4; examination under oath, v. 390; imposition of oaths, ii. 321, n. 4. See SWEARING. OATS, defined, i. 294; iv. 168; oat-ale, ii. 463; oat-cakes eaten in Lichfield, ii. 463; oatmeal eaten dry, v. 308; 'they who feed on it are barbarians,' v. 406. OBEDIENCE, iii. 294. OBJECTIONS may be made to everything, ii. 128; iii. 26. OBLIGATIONS, moral and ritual, ii. 376; perfect and imperfect, ii. 250; Reynolds's reflection on gaining freedom from them, i. 246. OBLIVION, iv. 27, n. 5; morbid, v. 68. O'BRIEN, William, the actor, described by Walpole, iv. 243, n. 6; his marriage, ii. 328, n. 3. OBSCENITY, repressed in Johnson's company, iv. 295. OBSERVANCE OF DAYS, ii. 458. Observations on Diseases of the Army, iv. 176, n. 1. Observations on his Britanick Majesty's Treaties, &c., i. 308. Observations on the Present State of Affairs, i. 308, 310. Observer, The, iv. 64. OBSTINACY, must be overcome, ii. 184. OCCUPATION, iii. 180; hereditary, v. 120. O'CONNOR, Charles, Johnson's letters to him, i. 321; iii. 111. OCTAVIA, iv. 446. ODD, nothing odd will do long, ii. 449. ODE, Goldsmith's account of one, iv. 13. Ode, Ad Urbanum, i. 113. Ode, An, i. 178. Ode, In Theatre, ii. 324, n. 3. Ode on Solitude, iii. 197. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, i. 420. Ode on the British Nation, iv. 442. Ode on the Peace, iv. 282. Ode on Winter, i. 182. Ode to Friendship, i. 158. Ode to Melancholy, i. 122, n. 4. Ode to Mrs. Thrale, a caricature, iv. 387. Ode to Mrs. Thrale, written in Sky, v. 158. Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain, iii. 374. Ode upon the Isle of Sky, v. 155. Odes. See CIBBER, COLLEY, and GRAY, Thomas. Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion, ii. 334. ODIN, iii. 274. ODYSSEY. See HOMER. Oedipus Tyrannus, Johnson's preface to Maurice's translation, iii. 370, n. 2. Ofellus, i. 104. OFFELY, Mr., i. 97. OFFICER. See SOLDIER. OGDEN, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Sermons, Boswell edified by them, v. 29; caricatured by Rowlandson, ib., n. 1; Johnson wishes to read them, iii. 248; tries to, v. 29, 88; prevailed on to read one aloud, v. 350; on original sin, iv. 123, n. 3; on prayer, v. 38, 58, 68, 282, 325; quotation from one, v. 351. OGILBY, John, i. 55. OGILVIE, Dr. John, Poems, i. 421, 423, n. 1; praises Scotland, i. 425. OGILVY, Sir James, v. 227, n. 4. OGLETHORPE, General, account of him, i. 127, n. 4, 128, n. 1; Belgrade, siege of, ii. 181; birth, ii. 180, n. 2; Boswell and the Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1; to Shebbeare, introduces, iv. 112; communicates particulars of his life to, ii. 351 n. 3; Caligula and the Senate, iii. 283; dinners at his house, ii. 179, 217, 232, 350; iii. 52, 282; v. 138, n. 1; duelling, defends, ii. 179; father, his, iv. 171; Georgia, colonises, i. 127, n. 4; Johnson's London, patronises, i. 127; visits, iv. 170; willing to write his Life, ii. 351; luxury, declaims against, iii. 282; 'never completes what he has to say,' iii. 57; Pope's lines on him, i. 127, n. 4; Prendergast and Sir J. Friend, ii. 182; Prince of Wirtemberg and the glass of wine, ii. 180; vivacity and knowledge, iii. 56; Wesley, Charles, ill-uses, i. 127, n. 4. OGLETHORPE, Mr., ii. 272. 'O'HARA, you are welcome,' v. 263. OIL OF VITRIOL, ii. 155; Johnson's, v. 15, n. 1. O'KANE, the harper, v. 315. OKERTON, i. 194, n. 2. OLD AGE, desirable, how far, iv. 156; evils, its, iii. 337; memory, failure of, iii. 191; men less tender in old age, v. 240, n. 2; mind growing torpid, iii. 254; senectus, iii. 344. OLD BAILEY, Sessional Reports, Baretti's trial, ii. 97, n. 1; Bet Flint's, iv. 103, n. 3; contain 'strong facts,' ii. 65. Old Man's Wish, The, iv. 19. OLD MEN, loss of the companions of their youth, iii. 217; putting themselves to nurse, ii. 474; supposed to be decayed in intellect, iv. 181. OLD STREET CLUB, iii. 443-4; iv. 187. OLD SWINFORD, v. 432. OLDFIELD, Dr., iii. 57. OLDHAM, John, Imitation of Juvenal, i. 118. OLDMIXON, John, i. 294, n. 9. OLDYS, William, account of him, i. 175; author of Busy, curious, thirsty fly, ii. 281, n. 5; Harleian Catalogue, compiles part of the, i. 28; Harleian Library, on the price paid for the, i. 154; notes on Langbaine, iii. 30, n. 1. O'LEARY, Father Arthur, Remarks on Wesley's Letter, ii. 121, n. 1; v. 35 n. 3. OLIVER, Alderman, iv. 140, n. 1. OLIVER, Dame, i. 43. Olla Podrida, iv. 426, n. 3. OMAI, iii. 8. OMBERSLEY, v. 455. ONSLOW, Arthur, the Speaker, challenged by Elwall the Quaker, ii. 164, n. 5; Richardson gave vails to his servants, v. 396. OPERA GIRLS, in France, iv. 171. OPIE, John, iv. 421, n. 2, 443. OPINION, hurt by differences in it, iii. 380. OPIUM, use of it, iv. 171. OPPONENTS, good-humour with them, iii. 10; how they should be treated, ii. 442. OPPOSITION, the, Johnson and Sir P.J. Clerk argue on it, iv. 81; describes it as meaning rebellion, iv. 139, n. 3; in 1783, describes it as 'factious,' iv. 164. OPPOSITION increases political differences, v. 386. ORANGE PEEL, Johnson's use of it, ii. 330, 331, n. 1; iv. 204; manufacture, iv. 204. ORATORS cannot be translated, iii. 36. ORATORY, action in speaking, i. 334; ii. 211; Johnson and Wilkes discuss it, iv. 104; a man's powers not to be estimated by it, ii. 339; old Sheridan's oratory, iv. 207, 222. ORCHARDS, Johnson's advice, ii. 132; Madden's saying, iv. 205; unknown in many parts, iv. 206. ORD, Mrs., iv. 1, n. 1, 325, n. 2. ORDE, Lord Chief Baron, ii. 354, n. 4; v. 28. ORDE, Miss, v. 28, n. 2. ORDINARY OF NEWGATE, and the Cock Lane Ghost, i. 407, n. 1. See Rev. Mr. MOORE and Rev. Mr. VILLETTE. ORFORD, third Earl of, iv. 334, n. 6. ORFORD, fourth Earl of. See WALPOLE, Horace. Oriental Gardening. See CHAMBERS, Sir William. ORIGIN OF EVIL, v. 117, 366. Original Letters. See WARNER, Rebecca. ORIGINAL SIN, Johnson's paper on it, iv. 123; Ogden's sermon, ib., n. 3. Orlando Furioso, i. 278, n. 1. ORME, Captain, iv. 88. ORME, Robert, the historian, admires Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 300; v. 408, n. 4; and his talk, iii. 284; mapping of the East Indies and Highlands of Scotland compared, ii. 356. ORMOND, House of, gives three Chancellors in succession to Oxford, i. 281, n. 1. ORMOND, first Duke of, Life by Carte, v. 296, n. 1. ORMOND, second Duke of, impeached, i. 281, n. 1; leads a Spanish expedition to Scotland, v. 140, n. 3. Orphan of China. See MURPHY. ORPHEUS, i. 458. ORRERY, Earls of, a family of writers, v. 237. ORRERY, first Earl of, a play-writer, v. 237. ORRERY, fourth Earl of, Bentley's antagonist, v. 238, n. 1; his will, ib., n. 5. ORRERY, fifth Earl of, anecdote of the Duchess of Buckingham, iii. 239; caught at literary eminence, ii. 129; iii. 183; dignified, not, iv. 174; feeble writer, i. 185, n. 3; feeble-minded, v. 238; Johnson describes his character, v. 238; Dictionary, presents, to the Academia della Crusca, i. 298; praises the Plan of it, i. 185; friendship with, i. 243; never sought after him, iii. 314; writes a dedication to him for Mrs. Lennox, i. 255; Remarks on Swift, i. 9, n. 1; iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238; mentioned, iv. 17, n. 3, 29, n. 2. ORTON, Job, Memoirs of Doddridge, v. 271. OSBORN, a Birmingham printer, i. 86. OSBORNE, Sir D'Anvers, iv. 181, n. 3. OSBORNE, Francis, ii. 193. OSBORNE, Thomas, Coxeter's collection of poets, buys, iii. 158; Harleian Catalogue, publishes the, i. 28, 154, 158; Harleian Library, buys the, i. 154; Johnson dates a letter from his shop, i. 161; beats him, i. 154, 375, n. 1; iii. 344; describes his 'impassive dulness,' i. 154, n. 2. OSSIAN. See MACPHERSON, James. OSSORY, Lord, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; mentioned, iii. 399, n. 2. OSTENTATION, Boswell's rebuked, i. 465; shown in quoting Lords, iv. 183. OTAHEITE, bread-tree, ii. 248; custom of eating dogs, ii. 232; mode of slaughtering animals, v. 246; rights of children, v. 330; savages from whom nothing can be learnt, iii. 49; Boswell's defence of them, iv. 308. Othello, its moral, iii. 39. OTWAY, Thomas, Johnson's opinion of him, iv. 21; neglected, ii. 341, n. 3; Romeo and Juliet, alters, v. 244, n. 2; tenderness, iv. 21, n. 1; tolling a bell, ii. 131, n. 2. OUGHTON, Sir Adolphus, v. 43; his learning, v. 45, 124; quiets a military revolt, v. 142, n. 2; mentioned, v. 272, 394. OURAN-OUTANG, v. 46, 248. OVERALL, Bishop, v. 356, n. 2. OVERBURY, Sir Thomas, ii. 76. Overbury, Sir Thomas, a Tragedy, iii. 115. OVERTON, Rev. J. H., Life of William Law, ii. 122, n. 6. OVID, Sappho, ii. 181; quotations, Ars Am. 3. 121, v. 204, n. 4; Ars Am. 3. 339, ii. 238, n. 2; Ep. ex. Ponto I. 3, 35, iii. 178, n. 2; v. 265 n. 3; Heroides I. 2, v. 15, n. 5; Heroides I. 4, i. 242, n. 1; Met. I. 1, i. 387; Met. 1. 85, ii. 326, n. 1; Met. 2. 13, iii. 280; Met. iii. 724. i. 108; Met. xiii. 19, i. 314; .Tristia, iv. 10, 51, iv. 443. OXFORD, Harley, first Earl of, Bolingbroke's character of him, iii. 236, n. 3. OXFORD, second Earl of, Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153, 154. OXFORD, advantages for learning, ii. 52; All Souls College, Shenstone's 'enemies in the gate,' i. 94, n. 5; its library the largest in Oxford except the Bodleian, ii. 35; a place for study for a man who has a mind to prance, ii. 67, n. 2; Angel Inn, Boswell and Johnson spend two evenings there, ii. 440, 449; Pitt (Earl of Chatham) hears treasonable songs, i. 271, n. 1; 'Bacon's mansion,' iii. 357; v. 42; Balliol College, ii. 338, n. 2; v. 117, n. 4; balloon ascent, iv. 378; Beattie and Reynolds made Doctors of Law, v. 90, n. 1; Bocardo, Lydiat imprisoned in it, i. 194, n. 2; Bodleian, Annals of the Bodleian, iv. 161, n. 1; Blackstone's portrait, iv. 91, n. 2; Boswell presents MSS. to it, iii. 358, n. 1; closed one week in the year, iii. 367, n. 3; Evelina, iv. 223, n. 4; Johnson presents books to it, i. 274, n. 2, 302; ii. 279, n. 5; a fragment of his Diary among the MSS., ii. 476; largest library in Oxford, ii. 35; Recuyell of the historyes of Troye, v. 459, n. 2; Welsh MS. on music, iii. 367; Bodley's Dome, iii. 357; Boswell's visits to Oxford: See BOSWELL, Oxford; Brasenose College, James Boswell, junior, a member of it, i. 15; Rev. Mr. Churton, a Fellow, iv. 212, n. 4; Johnson seen near its gate, iv. 300, n. 2; The Principal's advice, Cave de resignationibus, ii. 337, n. 4; Broadgates Hall, the ancient foundation of Pembroke College, i. 75, n. 3; Castle (prison), Wesley preaches to the prisoners, i. 459, n. 1; 'caution' money, i. 58, n. 2; Chancellors, three of the House of Ormond, i. 281, n. 1; Earl of Westmoreland, i. 281, n. 1, 348, n. 2; Lord North, ii. 318, n. 1; Christ Church, Bateman, Rev. Mr., a Tutor, i. 76; bequest from Lord Orrery, v. 238, n. 5; Burton, Robert, elected student, i. 59; 'Canons Sir, it is a great thing to dine with the Canons,' ii. 445; dinners lasted six hours, ib., n. 1; devotion of a studious man, i. 296, n. 3; Johnson mocked by the men, i. 77; Library, not so large as All Souls, ii. 35; a place for study for a man who has a mind to prance, ii. 67, n. 2; MSS. on music, iii. 366; Psalmanazar lodged there, iii. 445, 449; Smith, Edmund, a member, i. 75, n. 5; expelled, ii. 187, n. 3; Taylor enters by Johnson's advice, i. 76; confounded with another John Taylor, ib., n. 1; West describes it in 1736, i. 76, n. 1; Christ Church meadow, Johnson slides on the ice, i. 59, 272; walking on it without a band, iii. 13, n. 3; Clarendon Press, Johnson's advice about its management, ii. 424-6, 441; put under better regulations, ii. 35; printing Polybius, ib.; and King Alfred's will, iv. 133, n. 2; Coffee-house, Johnson is wanton and insolent to Sheridan, ii. 320; v. 360; advises Warton to snatch time from the coffee-house, i. 279; Colleges, their authority lessened, iii. 262; bequests to them, iii. 306; College joker, iv. 288; College servants, i. 271, n. 2; Commemoration of 1754, i. 146, n. 1; Common rooms, the students excluded from them, ii. 443; mentioned in Warton's Progress of Discontent, iii. 323, n, 4; condemnation-sermon, i. 273; degree conferred without examination, iii. 13, n. 3; an honorary degree, i. 278, n. 2; Demy, a scholar of Magdalen College, i. 61, n. 1. East Gate, i. 61, n. 3; education not by lectures, iv. 92; execution for forgery, i. 147, n. 1; Gaudies, i. 60, n. 4; ii. 445, n. 1; George I's troop of horse, i. 281, n. 1; Hastings's, Warren, projected institution, iv. 68, n. 2; High-street, Johnson standing astride the kennel, ii. 268, n. 2; walking along it without a band, iii. 13, n. 3; Iffley, iv. 295; ignorance of things necessary to life, ii. 52, n. 2; scholastic ignorance of mankind, ii. 425; indifference to literature, i. 275, n. 2; Jacobitism, i. 72, n. 3, 146, n. 1, 279, n. 5, 281, n. 1, 282, n. 3, 296, n. 1; ii. 443, n. 4; Jeffrey, Lord, an undergraduate, ii. 159, n. 6; Johnson elevated by approaching it, iv. 284; gives a toast among some grave men, ii. 478; iii. 200; neglected in his youth, i. 77, n. 4; receives the degree of M.A., i. 275, 278, n. 2, 280-283; of D.C.L., i. 488, n. 3; ii. 331-3; says he wished he had learnt to play at cards, iii. 23; (for his visits to Oxford, See iii. 450-3, and under many headings of this title); Kettel Hall, account of it, i. 289, n. 2; Johnson lodges in it, i. 270, n. 5; Lincoln College, Chambers, Robert, a member of it, i. 274, 336; Mortimer, Dr., the Rector, great at denying, ii. 268, n. 2; Wesley, John, a Tutor, i. 63, n. 1; London, effect produced by, i. 127; Magdalen Bridge, built by Gwynn, ii. 438, n. 3; v. 454, n. 2; Magdalen College, Addison elected a Demy, i. 61, n, 1; Gibbon, described by, ii. 443, n. 4; iii. 13, n. 3; Home, Dr., the President, mentioned, ii. 279; Boswell and Johnson drink tea with him, ii. 445; Warton, Thomas, senior, a fellow, i. 449, n. 1; Magdalen Hall, i. 336; Manege projected, ii. 424; Market built by Gwynn, v. 454, n. 2; Merton College, Boswell saunters in the walks, iv. 299; mentioned, ii. 438; Methodists, rise of the, i. 58, n. 3, 68, n. 1; expulsion of six, ii. 187; Murray, William (Earl of Mansfield), matriculates, ii. 194, n. 3; New Inn Hall, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 46; Johnson walks in the Principal's garden, ii. 268, n. 2; Olla Podrida, iv. 426, n. 3; Oriel College, common-room filled on Gilbert White's visits, ii. 443, n. 4; Provost assisted to bed by his butler, ii. 445, n. 1; Oseney Abbey, Johnson views its ruins with indignation, i. 273; Paoli visits it, v. i, n. 3; Parker, Sackville, the bookseller, iv. 308; Parks, i. 279; Pembroke College, ale-house near the gate, iii. 304; Barton, Mr. A. T., Fellow and Tutor, v. 117, n. 4; blue-stocking party, iv. 151, n. 2; butler, i. 271; buttery-books, ii. 444, n. 3; Camden's Latin grace, v. 65, n. 2; caution-book, i. 58, n. 2; chapel, i. 59, n. 1; Common-room, Johnson's games at draughts, ii. 444; his portrait, iv. 151, n. 2; declamations, i. 71, n. 2; Edwards, Oliver, iii. 302-4, 306; eminent members, i. 75; gateway, i. 74; gaudy, i. 60, n. 4, 273, n. 2; Johnson enters, i. 58; leaves, i. 78; length of his residence, ib., n. 2; eulogium on it, i. 75, nn. 3 and 5; first exercise, i. 71; iv. 309; first visit in 1754, i. 271; and Boswell visit it in 1776, ii. 441; Johnson in 1782, iv. 151, n. 2; and Boswell in June, 1784, iv. 285; v. 357; last visit (Nov. 1784), iv. 376; 'nowhere so happy,' ib., n. 2; 'a frolicksome fellow,' i. 73; meets Dr. Price, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; neglected by the Master, i. 272; rooms, i. 72, 73, n. 1; shows it to Hannah More, i. 75, n. 5; iv. 151, n. 2; library, Johnson presents it with his Works, i. 74; Johnson's Tracts, ii. 315, n. 2; Politian, iv. 371, n. 2; Masters, Dr. Panting, i. 72; Dr. Radcliffe, i. 271; Dr. Adams: See under DR. ADAMS; life in the Master's house, iv. 305; Manuscripts, i. 79, n. 2, 90, n. 3; ii. 215, n. 2; iv. 84, n. 4, 94, n. 3, 376, n. 4; members in residence, i. 63, n. 1; 'nest of singing birds,' i. 75; iv. 151, n. 2; November 5 kept with solemnity, i. 60; 'Pembrochienses voco ad certamen poeticum, i. 75, n. 5; property bequeathed to it, iii. 306; residence, length of, i. 78, n. 2; Saturday weekly themes, i. 59, n. 3; sconces, i. 59, n. 3; servitors, i. 73, n. 4; weekly bills, i. 78, n. 1; Whitefield a servitor, i. 59, n. 3, 73, n. 4; population in 1789, iii. 450; post coach, Boswell, Johnson and Gwynn ride in it, ii. 438; iii. 129; Boswell and Johnson, iv. 283; 'Prologue spoken before the Duke of York at Oxford,' ii. 465; Queen's College, Jacobite singing, i. 271, n. 1; Lancaster, Dr., the Provost, i. 61, n. 1; Radcliffe Library, opening, i. 279, n. 5; Wise, Francis, the librarian, i. 275, n. 4; Radcliffe's travelling-fellowships, iv. 293; residence required in 1781, iii. 13, n. 3; Rewley Abbey, Johnson views its ruins with indignation, i. 273; riding school projected, ii. 424; Secker's variation of 'Church and King,' iv. 29; Servitors, hunted, i. 73, n. 4; employed in transcription, i. 276; advantages of servitorships, v. 122; Sheldonian Theatre, Johnson present at the instalment of the Chancellor, i. 348, n. 2; St. Edmund's Hall, expulsion of Methodists, ii. 187, n. 1; St. John's College, Vicesimus Knox, iii. 13, n. 3; St. Mary's Church, Johnson joins there a grand procession, i. 348, n. 2; sermon on his death, iv. 422; Panting's, Dr., sermon, i. 72, n. 3; Whitefield receives the sacrament, i. 68, n. 1; St. Mary's Hall, Principals—Dr. King, i. 279, n. 5; Dr. Nowell, iv. 295; Story, the Quaker, describes the Undergraduates in 1731, i. 68, n. 1. Trinity College, Beauclerk, Topham, i. 248; Boswell and Johnson call on T. Warton, ii. 446; Johnson speaks of taking up his abode there, i. 272; gives Baskerville's Virgil to the library, ii. 67; Langton enters, i. 247, n. 1, 248; Presidents—Dr. Huddesford, i. 280, n. 2; Dr. Kettel, i. 289, n. 2; Walmsley, Gilbert, enters, i. 81, n. 2; Warton, Thomas, a Fellow, i. 270, n. 1; Wise, Francis, a Fellow, i. 275, n. 4; University College, Boswell and Johnson call there in 1776, ii. 440-1; dine on St. Cuthbert's Day, ii. 445; dine with the Master, iv. 308; chapel at six in the morning, ii. 381, n. 2; Common Room, Johnson's dispute in it with Dr. Mortimer, ii. 268, n. 2; his three bottles of port, iii. 245; his portrait, ii. 25, n. 2; inscription on it, iii. 245, n. 3; Coulson, Rev. Mr., v. 459, n. 4; Johnson seen there by a Welsh schoolmaster, v. 447; portraits of distinguished members, ii. 25, n. 2; Scott, William, tutor, iv. 92, n. 2; Wetherell, Dr., the Master: See under WETHERELL, Dr.; University, described by R. West in 1735, i. 76, n. 1; by Dr. Knox in 1781, iii. 13, n. 3; iv. 391, n. l; worst time about 1770, ii. 445, n. 1; University verses, ii. 371; Vacation, Long, i. 63, n. 1; Worcester College, Foote and Dr. Gower, ii. 95, n. 2. OXFORDSHIRE, contested election of 1754, i. 282, n. 3.



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PACKWOOD, Warwickshire, i. 35, n. 1. PADUA, Johnson has a mind to go to it, i. 73; iii. 453; Goldsmith went to it, i. 73, n. 2; mentioned, i. 322. PAIN bodily pain easily supported, i. 157, n, 1; violent pain of mind must be severely felt, ii. 469. PAINTERS, the reputation of, iii. 43, n. 4. PAINTING, inferior to poetry, iv. 321; labour not disproportionate to effect, ii. 439; styles, iii. 280: See under JOHNSON, painting. PALACES, ii. 393. PALATINES, the, iii. 456. PALESTINE, v. 334, n. 1. PALEY, Archdeacon, attacks Gibbon, v. 203, n. 1; Bishop Law's love of parentheses, iii. 402, n. 1; on the right to the throne, v. 202-3. PALMER, John, Answer to Dr. Priestley, iii. 291, n. 2. PALMER, Miss, Sir Joshua Reynolds's niece, iv. 165, n. 4. PALMER, Rev. T. F., dines with Johnson, iv. 125; transported for sedition, i. 467, n. 1; iv. 125, n. 2. Palmerin of England, i. 49, n. 2. Palmerino d' Inghilterra, iii. 2. PALMERSTON, second Viscount, Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; black-balled, iv. 232; elected, ib., n. 2, 326; his respectable pedigree, i. 348, n. 5. PALMERSTON, third Viscount (the Prime-Minister), birth, iv. 232, n. 2. subscribes to an annuity for Johnson's god-daughter, iv. 202, n. 1. PALMYRA, iv. 126. Pamphlet, defined, iii. 319. PANCKOUCKE, i. 288. PANDOUR, A., v. 60. PANEGYRICS, iii. 155. PANTHEON, account of it, ii. 169, n. 1; Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 166, 168. PANTING, Rev. Dr. Matthew, i. 72. 'PANTING TIME,' iv. 25. PANTOMIMES, i. 111, n. 2. PAOLI, General, account of him, ii. 71; Auchinleck, Lord, described by, v. 382, n. 2; Beattie, Johnson and Wilkes, describes, iv. 101; Boswell, beautiful attention to, iii. 51, n. 3; dedicates his Corsica to him, ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1; describes, to Miss Burney, i. 6, n. 2; exact record of his sayings, ii. 434, n. 1; his guest in London, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 35; visits him in Corsica, ii. 2, 4, n. 1; makes himself known to him, i. 404, n. 2; and the omnia vanitas, iv. 112, n. 3; repeats anecdotes to him, i. 432, n. 2; sends him some books, ii. 61; vows sobriety to him, ii. 436, n. 1; death kept out of sight, iii. 154; dinners at his house, ii. 165, 220, 260; iii. 34, 52, 276, 278, 324-331; iv. 330 (Johnson loves to dine with him, ib.); drinks to the great vagabond, iii. 411, n. 1; England, arrives in, ii. 71; Goldsmith, compliments, ii. 224; Good-Natured Man, mentioned in, ii. 45, n. 2; Histoire de Pascal Paoli, par Arrighi, ii. 3, n. 1; Homer, antiquity of, iii. 330; house in South Audley Street, iii. 392; infidelity, ii. 81, n. 1; Johnson's description of his port, ii. 82; funeral, at, iv. 419, n. 1; introduction to him, ii. 80, 404; voracious appetite, iv. 331; languages, knowledge of, ii. 81, n. 3; marriage, state of, ii. 165; Mediterranean a subject for a poem, iii. 36; melancholy, remedy for, ii. 423, n. 1; pension, ii. 71, n. 2; Scotland, visits, v. 22, n. 2, 382, n. 2; sense of touch, ii. 190; Stewart's mission to him, ii. 81, n. 1; subordination and the hangman, i. 408, n. 1; successful rebels and the arts, ii. 223; Tasso, repeats a stanza of, iii. 330; torture, uses, i. 467, n. 1; Wales, visits, v. 448, 449; Walpole's account of him, ii. 82; v. 1, n. 3; Warley Camp, visits, iii. 368; mentioned, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 104, 282; iv. 326, 332. Papadendrion, iii. 103. PAPIER MACHE, v. 458. PAPISTS. See ROMAN CATHOLICS. Papyrius Cursor, iv. 322. PARACELSUS, ii. 36, n. 1. PARADISE, John, account of him, iv. 364, n. 2; Johnson and Priestley meet at his house, iv. 434; Johnson's letter to him, iv. 364; mentioned, i. 64; iii. 104, n. 5, 386; iv. 224, n. 2, 254, 272. PARADISE, Peter, iv. 364, n. 2. Paradise Lost. See MILTON. PARENTAL TYRANNY, i. 346, n. 2; iii. 377. PARENTHESES, a pound of them, iii. 402, n. 1; Johnson disapproves of their use, iv. 190. PARIS AND SUBURBS, account of them in Johnson's Journal, ii. 389-99; Austin Nuns, ii. 392; Avantcoureur, ii. 398; Bastille, ii. 396; 'beastliest town in the universe,' ii. 403, n. 1; beer and brewers, ii. 396; Benedictine friars, ii. 385, 390. 397, 399, 402; iii. 286; iv. 411; boulevards, ii. 393; chairs made of painted boards, ii. 395; chambre de question, ii. 393; Chatlois (Chatelet), Hotel de, ii. 389, 390; Choisi, ii. 392; Colosseum, ii. 394; Conciergerie, ii. 392, n, 2; Court at Fontainebleau, ii. 394; its slovenliness, ii. 395; at Versailles, v. 276; Courts of Justice, ii. 391, 395; Ecole Militaire, ii. 389, 402; Enfans trouves, ii. 398; Fathers of the Oratory, ii. 389; fire first lighted on Oct. 27, ii. 397; foot-ways, ii. 394, n. 3; Gobelins, ii. 390; v. 107; Grand Chartreux, ii. 398; Greve, ii. 396; Hebrides, in novelties inferior to the, ii. 387; horses and saddles, ii. 395; Hospitals, ii. 390; Johnson saw little society, ii. 385; killed, number of people, ii. 393; Library, King's, ii. 397; London, mentioned in, i. 119; looking-glass factory, ii. 396; Louvre, ii. 394; low Parisians described by Mrs. Piozzi, v. 106, n. 4; Luxembourg, ii. 398; mean people only walk, ii. 394; Meudon, ii. 397; Observatory, ii. 389; Palais Bourbon, ii. 393, 394; Palais Marchand, ii. 391, 393; Palais Royal, ii. 392; payments, ii. 393; 396, 398; Place de Vendome, ii. 390; Pont tournant, ii. 392; revival of letters, iii. 254; roads near Paris empty, ii. 393; Sansterre's brewery, ii. 396; Sellette, ii. 392; sentimentalists, iii. 149, n. 2; Sevres, ii. 395, 397; shops, mean, ii. 402; sinking table, ii. 392; society, compared with London for, iii. 253; Sorbonne, ii. 397, 399; v. 406; St. Cloud, ii. 397; St. Denis, ii. 399; St. Eustatia, ii. 398; St. Germain, ii. 399; St. Roque, ii. 390; Sundays, ii. 394; Tournelle, ii. 393; Trianon, ii. 395; Tuilleries, ii. 392, 394; iv. 282, n. 2; University, i. 321, n. 6; v. 91, n. 1; Valet de place, ii. 398. Parisenus and Parismenus, iv. 8, n. 3. PARISH, co-extensive with the manor, ii. 243; compels men to find security for the maintenance of their family, iii. 287; election of ministers, ii. 244; neglected ones, iii. 437. PARISH-CLERKS, iv. 125. PARKER, Chief Baron, i. 45, n. 4. PARKER, John, of Browsholme, v. 431. PARKER, Sackville, the Oxford book-seller, iv. 308. PARLIAMENT, awed the press, i. 115; corruption alleged, iii. 206; crown influence, ii. 118; debates: See DEBATES; disadvantages of a seat, iv. 220; dissolution: See under HOUSE OF COMMONS; duration immaterial, ii. 73; bill for shortening it, ib., n. 2; iii. 460; duration of parliaments from 1714 to 1773, v. 102, n. 2; governing by parliamentary corruption, ii. 117; Highlander's notion of one, v. 193; Houses of Commons and of Lords: See under HOUSE OF COMMONS and HOUSE OF LORDS; Johnson projects an historical account, i. 155; suggested as a member, ii. 136-9; larger council, a, ii. 355; Long Parliament, ii. 118; members free from arrest by a bailiff, iv. 391, n. 2; Pitt's motion for reform, iv. 165, n. 1; speakers and places, iv. 223; speeches, effect produced by, iii. 233-5; upstarts getting into it, ii. 339; use of it, ii. 355. Parliamentary History, Johnson's Debates, i. 503, 508; prosecution of Whitehead and Dodsley, i. 125, n. 3. Parliamentary Journals, i. 117. PARLOUR, company for the, ii. 120, n. 1. PARNELL, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Contentment, iii. 122, n. 2; drank too freely, iii. 155; iv. 54, n. 1, 398; Goldsmith writes his Life, ii. 166; Hermit, a disputed passage in his, iii. 220, 392-3; Johnson writes his epitaph, iv. 54; v. 404; and his Life, iv. 54; Milton, compared with, v. 434; Night Piece, ii. 328, n. 2. PARODIES, Johnson's parodies of ballads, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4; parodies of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, style. PARR, Rev. Dr. Samuel, describes himself as the second Grecian in England, iv. 385, n. 2; Johnson, argues with, iv. 15; character, describes, iv. 47, n. 2; epitaph, writes, iv. 423-4,444-6; Life, thinks of writing, iv. 443; Latin scholarship, praises, iv. 385, n. 3; reputation, defends, iv. 423; writes him a letter of recommendation, iv. 15, n. 5; neglected at Cambridge, i. 77, n. 4; Priestley, defends, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; Romilly, letter to, iv. 15, n. 5; Sheridan's system of oratory, i. 394, n. 2; Steevens, character of, iii. 281, n. 3; Tracts by Warburton, &c., iv. 47, n. 2; White's Bampton Lectures, iv. 443. PARRHASIUS, iv. 104, n. 2. PARSIMONY, quagmire of it, iii. 348; timorous, iv. 154; wretchedness, iii. 317. PARSON, the life of a. See CLERGYMEN. PARSONS, the impostor in the Cock Lane Ghost, i. 406, n. 3. PARTNEY, ii. 17. PARTY, Burke's definition, ii. 223, n. 1; sticking to party, ii. 223; v. 36. PASCAL, Johnson gives Boswell Les Pensees, iii. 380; read by Hannah More, iv. 88, n. 1. Passenger, iv. 85, n. 1. PASSION-WEEK. See JOHNSON, Passion-week. PASSIONS, purged by tragedy, iii. 39. Pastern, defined, i. 293, 378. Pastor Fido, iii. 346. PATAGONIA, v. 387. Pater Noster, the, v. 121. PATERNITY, its rights lessened, iii. 262. PATERSON, Samuel, ii. 175; iii. 90; iv. 269, n. 1. PATERSON, a student of painting, iii. 90; iv. 227, n. 3, 269. Paterson against Alexander, ii. 373. PATRICK, Bishop, iii. 58. Patriot, The, by Johnson, account of it, ii. 286, 288; written on a Saturday, i. 373, n. 2; election-committees described, iv. 74, n. 3. Patriot, The, a tragedy by J. Simpson, iii. 28. Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3. PATRIOTISM, last refuge of a scoundrel, ii. 348. PATRIOTS, defined, iv. 87, n, 2; Dilly's 'patriotic friends,' iii. 66, 68; 'don't let them be patriots,' iv. 87; patriotic groans, iii. 78. PATRONAGE, Church, ii. 242-6; rights of patrons, ii. 149. PATRONS, of authors, iv. 172; defined, i. 264, n. 4; harmful to learning, v. 59; mentioned in the Rambler, i. 259, n. 4; Letter to Chesterfield, i. 262; Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 264. PATTEN, Dr., iv. 162. PATTISON, Mark, General Oglethorpe, i. 127, n. 4; Oxford in 1770, ii. 445, n. 1; Bishop Warburton, v. 81, n. 1. PAUL, Father. See SARPI. PAUL, Sir G.O., v. 322, n. 1. PAUSANIAS, v. 220. PAVIA, ii. 125, n. 5. PAYNE, Mr. E.J., defends Burke's character, iii. 46, n. 1; describes his love of Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3. PAYNE, John, account of him, i. 317, n. 1; Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 435; Johnson's friend in 1752, i. 243; publishes the first numbers of The Idler, i. 330, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 369, n. 3. PAYNE, William, i. 317. PEARCE, Zachary, Bishop of Rochester, Johnson, sends etymologies to, i. 292; iii. 112; writes the dedication to his posthumous works, iii. 113; wishes to resign his bishopric, iii. 113, n. 2; mentioned, i. 135. PEARSON, John, Bishop of Chester, edits Hales's Golden Remains, iv. 315, n. 2; Johnson recommends his works, i. 398. PEARSON, Rev. Mr., ii. 471; iv. 142, 256. PEATLING, i. 241, n. 2. PEERS, creations by Pitt, iv. 249, n. 4; influence in the House of Commons, v. 56; interference in elections, iv. 248, 250; judges, as, iii. 346; Temple's proposed reform, ii. 421. See HOUSE OF LORDS. PEKIN, v. 305. PELEW ISLANDS, v. 276, n. 2. PELHAM, Fanny, iii. 139, n. 4. PELHAM, Right Hon. Henry, Garrick's Ode on his Death, i. 269; pensions Guthrie, i. 117, n. 2; Whiggism under him and his brother, ii. 117. PELISSON, i. 90, n. 1. PELLET, Dr., iii. 349. PEMBROKE, eighth Earl of, 'lover of stone dolls,' ii. 439, n. 1. PEMBROKE, tenth Earl of, Boswell visits him, ii. 371; iii. 122, n. 2; Johnson's bow-wow way, describes, ii. 326, n. 5; v. 18, n. 1; author of Military Equitation, v. 131. PENANCE in churches, v. 208. PENELOPE, v. 85. PENGUIN, v. 225. PENITENCE, gloomy, iii. 27. PENN, Governor Richard, iii. 435, n. 4. PENNANT, Thomas, Bach y Graig, v. 436, n. 3; bears, ii. 347; Bolt Court and Johnson, mentions in his London, iii. 274-5; Fort George described, v. 124; rents racked in the Hebrides, v. 221, n. 3; Tour in Scotland, praised by Johnson, iii. 128, 271, 274, 278, v. 221; censured by Percy, iii. 272; and Boswell, iii. 274; v. 222; Voltaire, visits, i. 435, n. 1; a Whig, iii. 274-5; v. 157. PENNINGTON, Colonel, v. 125, 127. PENNY-POST. See POST. PENRITH, ii. 4, n. 1; v. 113, n. 1. Pensioner, defined, i. 294, n. 7, 374-5. PENSIONS, defined, i. 294, 374-5; French authors, given to, i. 372, n. 1; George III's system, ii. 112; Johnson, conferred on, i. 372-7; not for life, i. 376, n. 2; ii. 317; nor for future services, i. 373, n. 2, 374; ii. 317; not increased after his Pamphlets, ii. 147, 317; proposed addition, iv. 326-8, 336-9, 348-50; 367-8; attacked, i. 142, 373, 429; ii. 112; iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 116; in parliament, iv. 318; Beauclerk's quotation in reference to it, i. 250; effect of it on Johnson's work, i. 372, n. 1; on his travelling, iii. 450; effect had it been granted earlier, iv. 27; entry in the Exchequer Order Book, i. 376, n. 2; 'out of the usual course,' iv. 116; Johnson unchanged by it, i. 429; Strahan his agent in receiving it, ii. 137. PENURIOUS GENTLEMAN, a, iii. 40. PEOPLE, the judges afraid of the, v. 57. PEPYS, Sir Lucas, iv. 63, 169, 228. PEPYS, Samuel, Lord Orrery's plays, v. 237, n. 4; Spring Garden, iv. 26, n. 1; tea, i. 313, n. 2. PEPYS, William Weller, account of him, iv. 82, n. 1; Johnson, attacked by, iv. 65, n. 1; over-praised by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 82; attacked again, iv. 159, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 228, n. 1; iii. 425. Perce-forest, iii. 274, n. 1. PERCEVAL, Lord (second Earl of Egmont), i. 508; iv. 198, n. 3. PERCEVAL, Lady Catharine, v. 449, n. 1. PERCY, Earl, iii. 142, 276-7. PERCY, Dr. Thomas, Dean of Carlisle, afterwards Bishop of Dromore, Alnwick, at, ii. 142; anecdotes, full of, v. 255; Boswell, letter to, i. 74; Dean of Carlisle, made, iii. 365; 'very populous' there, iii. 416, 417; death, on parting with his books in, iii. 312; dinner at his house, iii. 271; Dyer, Samuel, describes, iv. 11, n. 1; Easton Maudit, rector of, i. 486; iii. 437; Goldsmith and the Duchess of Northumberland, ii. 337, n. 1; epitaph, settles the dates in, iii. 81; lodgings, i. 350, n. 3; quarrels with, iii. 276, n. 2; visionary project, iv. 22, n. 3; Grainger's character, draws, ii. 454, n. 1; reviews his Sugar-cane, i. 481; admires it, ii. 454, n. 2; 'Grey Rat, the History of the' ii. 455; Hawkins, draws the character of, i. 28, n. 1; heir male of the ancient Percies, iii. 271; Hermit of Warkworth, ii. 136; Johnson attacks him about Dr. Mounsey, ii. 64; about Percy's calling him short-sighted, iii. 271-3; Percy's uneasiness, iii. 275; Boswell's friendly scheme, iii. 276-8; at variance for the third time iii. 276 n. 2; conversation, iii. 317; first visit to Goldsmith, i. 366, n. 1; Garrick's awe and ridicule of, i. 99, n. 1; method in writing his Dictionary, i. 188, n. 2; parodies his poems, ii. 136, n. 4; 212, n. 4; praises him in a letter to Boswell, iii. 276, 278; projected Life of Goldsmith, iii. 100, n. 1; questions his daughter about Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 238, n. 5; serves him in his Ancient Ballads, iii. 276, n. 2; visits him, i. 49, 486; Vision of Theodore, i. 192; Levett, account of, iii. 220, n. 1; Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479; loses by a fire, iii. 420; neglected parishes, iii. 437; Newport School, at, i. 50, n. 2; Northern Antiquities, iii. 274; Pennant, attacks, iii. 272; professor in the imaginary college, v. 109; Reliques, quoted, iv. 307, n. 3; Spectator, projects an edition of the, ii. 212, n. 1; wolf, is writing the history of the, ii. 455; mentioned, i. 142, 319, n. 3; ii. 63, 3l8, 375. n. 2; iii. 256; iv. 98, 344, 402, n. 2. Peregrinity, v. 130. PERFECTION, to be aimed at, iv. 338. PERIODICAL BLEEDING, iii. 152. PERKINS, Mr.. Account of him, ii. 286, n. 1; Johnson's letters to him. See JOHNSON, letters; likeness in his counting-house, ii. 286, n. 1; manager of Thrale's brewery, iv. 80, 85, n. 2; mountebanks, on, iv. 83; mentioned, iv. 245, n. 2, 402, n. 2. PERKS, Thomas, i. 95, n. 3. PERREAU, the brothers, ii. 450, n. 1. PERSECUTION, the test of religious truth, ii. 250; iv. 12. PERSECUTIONS, The Ten, ii. 255. PERSEVERANCE, i. 399. PERSIAN EMPIRE, iii. 36. Persian Heroine, The, iv. 437. PERSIAN LANGUAGE, iv. 68. Persian Letters, i. 74, n. 2. PERSIUS, quotations, Sat. i. 7, iv. 27, n. 6; Sat. i. 27, v. 25, n. 2. PERSONAGE, a great, i. 219; v. 125, n. 1. PERTH, Duke of, Chancellor of Scotland, iii. 227. PERUVIAN BARK, i. 368; iv. 293. PETER THE GREAT, worked in a dockyard, v. 249. PETER PAMPHLET, i. 287, n. 3. Peter Pindar, v. 415, n. 4. PETERBOROUGH, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of, iv. 333. PETERS, Mr., Dr. Taylor's butler, ii. 474. PETHER or PEFFER, an engraver, iii. 21, n. 1. PETITIONS, Dodd's case, iii. 120; how got up, ii. 90, n. 5; Johnson on petitioning, ii. 90; iii. 120, 146; Middlesex election, ii. 103; mode of distressing government, ii. 90. PETRARCH, Aeglogues, i. 277, n. 2; read by Johnson, i. 57, 115, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5. PETTY, Sir William, allowance for one man, i. 440; employment of the poor, iv. 3; Quantulumcunque, i. 440, n. 2. PETWORTH, iv. 160. PEYNE, Mr., of Pembroke College, i. 60, n. 5. PEYTON, Mr., Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187; ii. 155; death, ii. 379, n. 1. PHAEAX, iii. 267, n. 4. PHALLICK MYSTERY, iii. 239. PHARAOH, ii. 150. PHARMACY, simpler than formerly, iii. 285. PHILIDOR, the musician, iii. 373. Philip II, History of, by Watson, v. 58. PHILIPPS, Sir Erasmus, Diary, i. 60, n. 4, 273, n. 2. PHILIPPS, Sir John, v. 276. PHILIPPS, Lady, v. 276. PHILIPS, Ambrose, Blackmore's Creation, describes the composition of, ii. 108, n. 1; Distressed Mother, i. 181, n. 4; Life by Johnson, iv. 56; Namby Pamby, called by Pope, i. 179, n. 4; 'seems a wit,' i. 318, n. 4; mentioned, iii. 427. PHILIPS, C. C., a musician, his epitaph, i. 148; ii. 25; v. 348. PHILIPS, John, Cyder, a poem, v. 78. PHILIPS, Miss (Mrs. Crouch), iv. 227. PHILIPS, Mr., one of Johnson's old friends, iv. 227. PHILOSOPHERS, ancient philosophers disputed with good humour, iii. 100; Edwards tries to be one, iii. 305; also White, ib., n. 2; French philosophers, ib. PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY, iii. 291, n. 2. PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, iv. 36, n. 4. Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, ii. 339; iv. 320, n. 4. Philosophical Transactions, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2. PHILOSOPHICAL WISE MAN, ii. 475. PHIPPS, Captain, v. 236, 392, n. 6. PHOCYLIDIS, v. 445. PHOENICIAN LANGUAGE, iv. 195. PHYSIC, a science and trade, iii. 22, n. 4; irregular practisers in it, iii. 389: See under JOHNSON, physic. PHYSICIAN, a foppish one, iv. 319; history of an unfortunate one, ii. 455; one recommended by Dr. Taylor, ii. 474; one not sober for twenty years, iii. 389; one who lost his practice by changing his religion, ii. 466. PHYSICIANS, ancients failed, moderns succeeded, iii. 22, n. 4; bag-wigs, wore, iii. 288; Fortune of Physicians, i. 242, n. 1; Hogarth's pictures of one, iii. 288, n. 4; intruders, do not love, ii. 331, n. 1; Johnson celebrates their beneficence, iv. 263; has pleasure in their company, iv. 293; esteems them, v. 183; his conversation compared to the practice of one, ii. 15; title: See under DR. MEMIS. PIAZZAS, v. 115. PICKLES, ii. 219. Pickwick, story of the man who ate crumpets, iii. 384, n. 4. PIERESC, his death and papers, ii. 371. PIETY, comparative piety of women and wicked fellows, iv. 289; crazy piety, ii. 473. Piety in Pattens, ii. 48, n. 1. PIG, a learned, iv. 373. Pilgrim's Progress, Fearing and the screen, i. 163, n. 1; Fearing and death, iv. 417, n. 2; Johnson praises it highly, ii. 238; wishes it longer, i. 71, n. 1. PILING ARMS, iii. 355. PILKINGTON, James, Present State of Derbyshire, iii. 161, n. 2. PILLORY, how far it dishonours, iii. 315; 'a place or the pillory,' iv. 113, n. 1; Parsons of the Cock Lane Ghost set in it, i. 406, n. 3. Pindar, Johnson asks Boswell to get him a copy, ii. 202; receives it, ii. 205; West's translation, iv. 28. PINK, Dr., i. 194, n. 2. PINKERTON, John, iv. 330. PINO, ii. 451, n. 3. PIOZZI, Signor, account of him, iv. 339, n. 2; attacked by Baretti, iii. 49, n. 1; Thrale, Mrs., attached to him, iv. 158, n. 4; marries him, ii. 328, n. 4; iv. 339. PIOZZI, Mrs. See THRALE, Mrs. Piozzi Letters. See under MRS. THRALE, Johnson's letters to her. Pit, to, iii. 185. PITCAIRNE, Archibald, v. 58. PITT, William. See Chatham, Earl of. PITT, William, the son, Boswell, neglects, iii. 213, n. 1, 464; iv. 261, n. 3; letter to him, iv. 261, n. 3; his answer, ib.; called to order, iv. 297, n. 2; Fox a political apostate, calls, iv. 297, n. 2; compared with, iv. 292; honesty of mankind, on the, iii. 236, n. 3; Johnson's pension, proposed addition to, iv. 350, n. 1; Macaulay, attacked by, ib.; ministry, his, iv. 165, n. 3, 170, n. 1, 264, n. 2; motion for reform of parliament, iv. 165, n. 1; tax on horses, v. 51. PITTS, Rev. John, iv. 181, n. 3. PITY, not natural to man, i. 437. PLACE-HUNTERS, iii. 234. PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT, v. 295, n. 2. PLAGUE OF LONDON, Dr. Hodges, ii. 341, n. 3. PLAIDS, v. 85. Plain Dealer, i. 156, 173, n. 3, 174. Plan of the Dictionary. See Dictionary. PLANTA, Joseph, ii. 399, n. 2. PLANTATIONS (settlements), ii. 12. PLANTERS. See AMERICA, planters. PLANTING TREES, Johnson recommends, iii. 207. See SCOTLAND, trees. PLASSEY, Battle of, v. 124, n. 2. PLAUTUS, quoted, i. 467, n. 2. PLAXTON, Rev. G., i. 36, n. 2. PLAYERS, action of all tragic players is bad, v. 38; below ballad-singers, iii. 184; Camden's, Lord, familiarity with Garrick, iii. 311; change in their manners, i. 168; Churchill's lines on them, i. 168, n. 1; Collier's censure, i. 167, n. 2; dancing-dogs, like, ii. 404; declamation too measured, ii. 92, n. 4; drinking tea with a player, v. 46; emphasis wrong, i. 168; 'fellow who claps a hump on his back,' iii. 184; 'fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling,' ii. 234; Johnson's prejudice against them shown in the Life of Savage, i. 167; Life of Dryden, ib., n. 2; more favourable judgment, i. 201; iv. 244, n. 2; lawyers, compared with, ii. 235; past compared with present, v. 126; Puritans, abhorred by, i. 168, n. 1; Reynolds defends them, ii. 234; transformation into characters, iv. 243-4; Whitehead's compliment to Garrick, i. 402. See GARRICK, profession. PLEASED WITH ONESELF, iii. 328. PLEASING, negative qualities please more than positive, iii. 149. PLEASURE, aim of all our ingenuity, iii. 282; happiness, compared with, iii. 246; harmless pleasure, iii. 388; monastic theory of it, iii. 292; in itself a good, iii. 327; no man a hypocrite in it, iv. 316; partakers in it, iii. 328; 'public pleasures counterfeit,' iv. 316, n. 2. Pleasures of the Imagination. See AKENSIDE, MARK. Pledging oneself, iii. 196. PLINY, v. 220. PLOTT, Robert, History of Staffordshire, iii. 187. PLOWDEN, iv. 310. Plum, defined, iii. 292, n. 2. PLUNKET, W. C. (afterwards Lord), ii. 366, n. 2. PLUTARCH, Alcibiades quoted, iii. 267, n. 4; apophthegms and memorabilia, v. 414; biography, i. 31; Euphranor and Parrhasius, iv. 104, n. 2; Monboddo follows him in the approval of slavery, v. 77, n. 2; Solon quoted, iii. 255. PLYMOUTH, French ships of war in sight, iii. 326, n. 5; Johnson visits it, i. 377; hates a 'docker,' i. 379; mentioned, iv. 77. PLYMPTON, iv. 432. POCOCK, Dr. Edward, the Orientalist, iii. 269, n. 3; iv. 28. POCOCK, Mr., catalogue of sale of autographs, ii. 297, n. 2. POCOCKE, Richard, Travels, ii. 346. POEMS, preserved by tradition, ii. 347; temporary ones, iii. 318. POET-LAUREATES, i. 185, n. 1. Poetical Calendar, i. 382. Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of Dr. Johnson. See COURTENAY, John. POETRY, devotional, iii. 358, n. 3; iv. 39; mediocrity in it, ii. 351; modern imitators of the early poets, ii. 136, 212; iii. 158-160; translated, cannot be, iii. 36, 257; what is poetry? iii. 38. POETS, collection of all the English poets proposed, iii. 158; English divided into four classes, i. 448, n. 2; fundamental principles, knowledge of, iii. 347; preserve languages, iii. 36; rarity, their, v. 86. Poets, Lives of the. See Lives of the Poets. Poets, The, Apollo Press edition, iii. 118. POKER CLUB, ii, 376, n. 1, 431, n. 1. POLAND, hospitality to strangers, iv. 18; Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 456. Polemo-middinia, iii. 284. Polite Philosopher, The, iii. 22. POLITENESS, 'fictitious benevolence,' v. 82; its universal axiom, v. 82, n. 2. Politian, i. 90; iv. 371, n. 2. Political Conferences, iii. 309. POLITICAL IMPROVEMENT, schemes of, ii. 102. Political Survey of Great Britain, ii. 447. Political Tracts by the Author of the Rambler, ii. 315; copy in Pembroke College, ib., n. 2; attacked, ii. 315-317; preface to it suggested, ii. 441. POLITICS, modern, devoid of all principle, ii. 369; in the seventeenth century, ii. 369. 'POLL,' Miss Carmichael, iii. 368. Polluted, iv. 402, n. 2. POLYBIUS, ii. 35. POLYGAMY, v. 209, 217. POLYPHEME, i. 278. POLYPHEMUS, v. 82, n. 4. POMFRET, John, Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 370; his Choice, ib., n. 7. Pomponius Mela de situ Orbis, i. 465. Pomposo, i. 406. PONDICHERRY, v. 124, n. 2. PONSONBY, Hon. Mr., v. 263. POOR, cannot agree, ii. 103; condition of them the national distinction, ii. 130; deaths from hunger in London, iii. 401; education, ii. 188, n. 6: See under STATE; employment under the poor-law, iv. 3; France, in, ii. 390; 'honour, have no,' iii. 189; injured by indiscriminate hospitality, iv. 18; provision for them, ii. 130; rich, at the mercy of the, v. 304; superfluous meat for them, v. 204. POPE, Alexander, Addison's 'familiar day,' iv. 91, n. 1; Adrian's lines, translation of, iii. 420, n. 2; Beggar's Opera, his expectation about the, ii. 369, n. 1; Benson's monument to Milton, v. 95, n. 2; Blair, anecdotes of him by, iii. 402-3; bleeding, advised to try, iii. 152, n. 3; Blount, Martha, i. 232, n. 1. Bolingbroke's present to Booth, v. 126, n. 2; Bolingbroke's enmity, i. 329; Bolingbroke, Lady, described by, iii. 324; 'borrows for want of genius,' v. 92, n. 4; Budgell, Eustace, ii. 229, n. 1; Characters of Men and Women, ii. 84; Cibber's Careless Husband, ii. 340, n. 4; iii. 72, n. 4; condensing sense, art of, v. 345; confidence in himself, i. 186, n. 1; Congreve, dedicates the Iliad to, iv. 50, n. 4; conversation, iii. 392, n. 1; iv. 49; Cooke, correspondence with, v. 37, n. 1; Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2; Crousaz's Examen, i. 137; death, reflection on the day of his, iii. 165; his death imputed to a saucepan, i. 269, n. 1; death-bed confession, v. 175, n. 5; Dodsley, assisted, ii. 446, n. 4; Dryden, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85; in his boyhood saw him, i. 377; n. 1; Dunciad, annotators, its, iv. 306, n. 3; concluding lines, ii. 84; Dennis's thunder, iii. 40, n. 2; resentment of those attacked, ii. 61, n. 4; written for fame, ii. 334; Dying Christian to his Soul, iii. 29; Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate Lady, i. 173 n. 2; epigram on Lord Stanhope attributed to him, iv. 102, n. 4; Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet, iv. 235, n. 2; Epitaphs, Johnson's Dissertation on his, i. 335; Essay on Criticism, ii. 36, n. 1; iv. 217, n. 4; Essay on Man, Bolingbroke's share in it, iii. 402-3; Warburton's comments, ii. 37, n. 1; fame, his, said to have declined, ii. 84; iii. 332; female-cousin, his, iii. 71, n. 5; Fermor, Mrs., describes him, ii. 392; Flatman, borrowed from, iii. 29; friends, his, iii. 347; iv. 50; gentlemen, on the ignorance of, iv. 217, n. 4; Goldsmith's reflection on his 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3; Greek, knowledge of, iii. 403; grotto, his, iv. 9; verses on it, iv. 51; happy, says that he is, iii. 251; Homer, his, attacked by Bentley, iii. 256, n. 4; and Cowper, iii. 257, n. 1; praised by Johnson, iii. 257; and Gray, ib., n. 1; his pretended reason for translating it into blank verse, ii. 124, n. 1; written on the covers of letters, i. 143, n. 1; Iliad, written slowly, i. 319, n. 3; Odyssey, translated by the help of associates, iv. 49; imitations, fondness for, i. 118, n. 5; intimidated by prosecution of P. Whitehead, i. 125, n. 3; Johnson criticises his Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, iv. 16, n. 4; defends him as a poet, iv. 46; Dictionary, apparently interested in, i. 182; estimate of the Dunciad, ii. 84, n. 4; recommends, to Lord Gower, i. 132, n. 1, 133, 143; to J. Richardson, ib.; translates his Messiah, i. 61, 272; 'will soon be deterre,' i. 129; ii. 85; writes his Life, iv. 46-7; labour his pleasure, ii. 99, n. 1; laugh, did not, ii. 378, n. 2; Lewis's verses to him, iv. 307; Lintot, quarrels with, i. 435, n. 4; Lords, gave all his friendship to, iii. 347; 'low-born Allen,' v. 80, n. 5; Mallet paid to attack his memory, i. 329; 'Man never is but always to be blest' ii. 350; Marchmont's, Earl of, anecdotes of him, iii. 342-5, 392, 418; Pope's executor, iv. 51; Memoirs of Scriblerus, v. 44, n. 4; mill, his mind a, v. 265; Miscellanies, transplants an indecent piece into his, iv. 36, n. 4; lines applicable to Gibbon, ii. 133, n. 1; 'modest Foster,' iv. 9; monument proposed in St. Paul's, ii. 239; 'narrow man, a,' ii. 271, n. 2; 'nodded in company,' iii. 392, n. 1; pamphlets against him, kept the, iv. 127; 'paper-sparing,' i. 142; papers left at his death, iv. 51, n. 1; parents, behaviour to his, i. 339, n. 3; parodied by I.H. Browne, ii. 339, n. 1; parsimony, i. 143, n. 1; Pastorals, ii. 84; Patriot King, clandestinely printed copies of the, i. 329, n. 3; pensioners, satirises, i. 375; Philips, Ambrose, attacks, i. 179, n. 4; pleasure in writing, iv. 219, n. 1; Prendergast and Sir John Friend, ii. 183; priests where a monkey is the god, ii. 135, n. 1; Prince of Wales, repartee to the, iv. 50; Radcliffe's doctors, iv. 293, n. 1; Rape of the Lock, ii. 392, n. 8; reading, his, i. 57, n. 1; ii. 36, n. 1; of the modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 2; Rich, anecdote of, iv. 246, n. 5; Ruffhead's Life of Pope, ii. 166; Settle, the City Poet, iii. 76, n. 1; Seventeen hundred and thirty-eight, i. 125, n. 3, 126, 127, n. 3; Shakespeare, edition of, v. 244, n. 2; Spence at Oxford, visits, iv. 9; Steele, letter to, iii. 165, n. 3; Swift, his prudent management for, iii. 20, n. 1; Swift's letter on parting with him, iii. 312; Theobald, revenge on, ii. 334, n. 1; introduces him in the Dunciad, iii. 395, n. 1; Tory and Whig, called a, iii. 91; Tyburn psalm, iv. 189, n. 1; Tyrawley, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4; 'un politique' &c., iii. 324; valetudinarian, iii. 152, n. 1; vanity, iii. 347, n. 2; Verses on his Grotto, iv. 51; Latin translation, i. 157; versification, ii. 84, n. 6; iv. 46; Voltaire, i. 499, n. 1; Walpole's 'happier hour,' iii. 57, n. 2; Warburton at first attacks him, v. 80; defends him, i. 329; makes him a Christian, ii. 37, n. 1; made by him a bishop, ib.; Ward the quack-doctor, iii. 389, n. 5; Warton's Essay, i. 448; ii. 167; wit, definition of, v. 32, n. 3.

POPE, quotations, _Dunciad_, i. 41, iv. 189, n. 1; i. 87, iii. 76, n. 1; i. 141, i. 55, n. 2; i. 253, ii. 321, n. 1; (first edition) iii. 149, v. 419, n. 2; iii. 325, i. 227, n. 4; iv. 90, i. 266, n. 1; iv. 111, v. 95, n. 2; iv. 167, iii. 182, n. 1; iv. 249, v. 219, n. 2; iv. 342, iii. 199, n. 2; _Eloisa to Abelard_, i. 38, i. 272; i. 134, v. 325, n. 2; _Epitaph on Craggs_, iv. 445; _Essay on Criticism_, i. 66, iii. 72; i. 297, v. 32, n. 3; i. 370, v. 290, n. 3; _Essay on Man_, i. 99, iii. 98, n. 2; i. 221, iv. 373, n. 2; ii. 20, iii. 80, 253, n. 3; ii. l0, i. 202; iii. 3, iv. 270, n. 2; iv. 57, ii. 9, n. 1 iv. 219, v. 83, n. 2; iv. 267, iii. 82, n. 2; iv. 380, iii. 342; iv. 383, iii. 19; n. l; iv. 390, iv. 420; _Moral Essays_, i. 69, i. 3; i. 174, iv. 316, n. 2; ii. 275, i. 249; iii. 25, iii. 346, n. 3; iii. 242, i. 481; iii. 392, i. 375, n. 2; _Prologue to Addison's Cato_, i. 30; _Satires, Prologue_, l. 99, i. 318; l. 135, i. 251, n. 2; l. 247, i. 227, n. 4; l. 259, ii. 368, n. 1; l. 283, iii. 328; l. 350, v. 415, n. 4; 1. 378, ii. 229, n. 1; _Satires, Epilogue, i. 29, iii. 57, n. 2; iv. 364, n. 1; i. 131, iv. 9, n. 5; i. 135, iii. 48, n. 2; ii. 70, i. 508; ii. 283, n. 1; iv. 29, n. 1; ii. 208, iii. 380, n. 1; _Imitations of Horace, Epistles_, i. vi. 3, ii. 158, n. 2; i. vi. 120, ii. 211, n. 4; i. vi. 126, iii. 386, n. 4; ii. i. 14, v. 372, n. 2; ii. i. 71, i. 118; ii. i. 75, iv. 102, n. 2; ii. i. 180, iii. 389, n. 5; ii. i. 221, ii. 132, n. 2; ii. ii. 23, iii. 237, n. 2; ii. ii. 78, v. 265, n. 1; ii. ii. 157, i. 220; ii. ii. 276, i. 127, n. 4; _Satires_, ii. i. 67, iii. 91, n. 6; ii. i. 78, iv. 318, n. 2; ii. ii. 3, i. 105, n. 1; _Universal Prayer_, iii. 346. POPE, Mrs., i. 499, n. 1. POPE, Dr. Walter, iv. 19. POPERY. See ROMAN CATHOLICS. POPULAR ELECTIONS, of the clergy, ii. 149. POPULATION, America, increase in, ii. 314; changes in density, ii. 101-2; comparative population of counties in 1756, i. 307, n. 4; emigration, how far affected by, iii. 232-3; high convenience where it is large, v. 27. PORSON, Richard, Bentley not a Scotchman, ii. 363, n. 4; described by Dr. Parr, iv. 385, n. 2; Hawkins, Sir J., ridicules, i. 224, n. 1; ii. 57, n. 5; iv. 370, n. 5; natural abilities, ii. 437, n. 2. PORT, family of, iii. 187. PORT, liquor for men, iii. 381; iv. 79. PORT ELIOT, iv. 334. PORTER, Endymion, v. 137, n. 4. PORTER, Henry (Mrs. Johnson's first husband), Birmingham mercer, i. 86; family registry of births, &c., i. 94, n. 3; insolvency, i. 95, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 77. PORTER, Captain (Henry Porter's son), i. 94, n. 3; ii. 462. PORTER, —— (Henry Porter's son), ii. 388; iv. 89; death, iv. 256. PORTER, Sir James, iii. 402. PORTER, Mrs. (afterwards Mrs. Johnson). See under JOHNSON, Mrs. PORTER, Mrs., the actress, i. 369, 382; iv. 243; ib., n. 6. PORTER, Miss Lucy (Henry Porter's daughter and Johnson's stepdaughter), birth, i. 94, n. 3; Boswell calls on her, ii. 462; iii. 412, 414; Dodd's _Convicts Address_, reads, iii. 141, n. 2; fortune, her, and house, ii. 462; Johnson's account of her, i. 370; earlier letters to her, ii. 387, n. 3 (for his letters, See under JOHNSON, letters); feelings towards her, i. 515; ii. 462, n. 1; her feelings towards, ii. 462, 469; memory, i. 40; personal appearance, i. 94; present to her of a box, ii. 387; prologue to Kelly's comedy, disowns, iii. 114, n. 1; will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2; mother's wedding-ring, does not value her, i. 237; residence in Lichfield, i. 110, 346, n. 1, 347, 515; verses said to be addressed to her, i. 92, n. 2; mentioned, i. 103, 340, n. 1, 512; ii. 468; iii. 132, 417; iv. 374, 394. PORTER, A STREET-, Johnson drives a load off his back, iv. 71. PORTER, Johnson sends a present of, ii. 272, 275. PORTEUS, Beilby, Bishop of Chester (afterwards of London), Boswell, attentive to, iii. 413, 415; Jenyns's, Soame, conversion, i. 316, n. 2; _Life of Secker_, iv. 29; reverend fops, iv. 76; Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 124, 279, 280. PORTLAND, third Duke of, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 174, n. 3. See COALITION MINISTRY. PORTLAND, Dowager Duchess of, iii. 425. PORTMORE, Lord, Johnson's letter to him, iv. 268, n. 1. PORTRAITS, their chief excellence, v. 219; portrait-painting, improper for women, ii. 362; of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, portraits. PORTUGAL, iii. 23, 445. PORTUGAL PIECES, iv. 104. PORTUGUESE, discovery of the Indies, i. 455; n. 3; ii. 479; iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 12, n. 2. POSSIBILITIES, v. 46. POST, Brighton, to, iii. 92, n. 3; double letters, i. 283, n. 1; franking letters, iii. 364; iv. 361, n. 3; penny-post, i. 121, 151; postage from Lisbon, iii. 23; to Oxford, i. 283, n. 1. POST-CHAISE, driving from, or to something, iii. 5, 457; Gibbon delights in them, ii. 453, n. 1; also Johnson, ii. 453; if accompanied by a pretty woman, iii. 162; in 1758, v. 56, n. 2. POST-HORSES, charge per mile, v. 427. POSTERITY, prescribing rules to, ii. 417. POT, Mr., iv. 5, n. 1. POTT, Rev. Archdeacon, ii. 459. POTT, Mr., a surgeon, iv. 239. POTTER, Robert, translation of Aeschylus, iii. 256. POVERTY, 'All this excludes but one evil—poverty,' iii. 160; arguments for it, i. 441; a great evil, iv. 149, 152, 155, 157, 163, 351. POWELL, a clerk, iv. 223, n. 3. POWER, all power desirable, ii. 357; despotic, iii. 283; of the Crown, ii. 170. POWERSCOURT, Lord, v. 253. PRACTICE. See PRINCIPLES. PRAGUE, iii. 458. PRAISE, on compulsion, ii. 51; extravagant, iii. 225; iv. 82; value of it, iv. 32, 255, n. 2. PRATT, Chief Justice. See CAMDEN, Lord. PRAYER, arguments against it, v. 38; dead, for the, ii. 163; efficacy, its, v. 68; family prayer, v. 121; form of prayer, v. 365; Hume on Leechman's doctrine, v. 68, n. 4; Johnson designs a _Book of Prayers_, iv. 293, 376; offered a large sum for one, iv. 410; lies in prayers, iv. 295; reasoning on its nature unprofitable, ii. 178. PRAYERS, by Johnson, against inquisitive and perplexing thoughts, iv. 370, n. 3; before his last communion, iv. 416-7; before study, iii. 90; before the study of law, i. 489; Chambers, Catherine, for, ii. 43; death of his wife, on the, i. 235; _Dictionary_, on beginning vol. ii. of his, i. 255; Easter Day, 1777, iii. 99; engaging in Politicks with H——, i. 489; forgiveness for neglect of duties in married life, i. 240; January 1, 1753, i. 251; new scheme of life, i. 350; 'On my return to life,' i. 234, n. 2; _Rambler_, before the, i. 202; repentance and pardon, for, iv. 397; resolutions, on, i. 483; study of philosophy, on the, i. 302; Trinity, the, invoked, ii. 255. _Prayers and Meditations_, Johnson's, i. 235, n. 1; ii. 476; publication, iv. 376, n. 4. PREACHERS, women, i. 463. PREACHING, above the capacity of the congregation, iv. 185; plain language needed, i. 459; ii. 123. _Preceptor, The_, i. 192. PRECISENESS, iv. 89. PRECOCITY, ii. 408. PREDESTINATION, ii. 104. PREFACES, Johnson's talent for, i. 292. PREMIER, i. 295, n. 1. PREMIUM-SCHEME, i. 318. PRENDERGAST (Prendergrass), an officer, ii. 182, 183, n. 1. _Presbyterian_, in the sense of _Unitarian_, ii. 408, n. 1. PRESBYTERIANS AND PRESBYTERIANISM, compared with Church of Rome, ii. 103; differ from it chiefly in forms, ii. 150; doctrine, ii. 104; form of prayer, no, ii. 104; frightened by Popery, v. 57. PRESCIENCE, of the Deity, iii. 290. PRESCRIPTION OF MURDER. See MURDER. _Present State of England_, iv. 311. PRESENT TIME, never happy, ii. 350. PRESENT TIMES, Johnson never inveighed against them, iii. 3. PRESS, awed by parliament as regards report of debates, i. 115; iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1; complete freedom obtained, i. 116; Johnson attacks its liberty, ii. 60; vindicates it, ib., n. 3; discusses it with Dr. Parr, iv. 15, n. 5; Mansfield tries to stifle it, i. 116, n. 1; law of libel, iii. 16, n. 1; licentiousness, its, i. 116; debate on it, iv. 318, n. 3; prosecutions in 1764, ii. 60, n. 3; superfoetation, its, iii. 332. PRESS-GANGS, iii. 460. PRESTBURY, v. 432, n. 2. PRESTICK, ii. 271, n. 4. PRESTON, iii. 135, n. 1. PRESTON, Sir Charles, iv. 154. PRETENDER, the Young, account of his escape, v. 187-205, 264; dresses in women's clothes, v. 188; at Kingsburgh, v. 185, 189; shoes, ib.; in Rasay, v. 174, n. 1, 190-4; fears assassination, v. 194; speaks of Culloden, ib.; returns to Sky, v. 195; pretends to be a servant, v. 195, 196-7; his odd face, v. 196; goes to Mackinnon's country, v. 197; to Knoidart, v. 199; reward offered for him, v. 186, 199, n. 1; agitating a rebellion in 1752, i. 146, n. 2; base character, his, v. 200, n. 1; Charles III, ii. 253; Derby, march to, iii. 162; designation proper for him, v. 185, n. 4; Johnson sleeps in his bed, v. 185; London, in, i. 279, n. 5; v. 196, n. 2, 201; Voltaire's reflections on him, v. 199. PRICE, Archdeacon, v. 454. PRICE, Dr. Richard account of him, iv. 434; Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson would not meet him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; London-born children, iv. 210. PRICE, ——, a vain Welsh scholar, v. 438. _Prideauxs Connection_, iv. 311. PRIESTLEY, Dr. Joseph, Boswell attacks him, iv. 238, n. 1, 433; Parr defends him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; discoveries in chemistry, iv. 237, n. 6, 238; Elwall's trial, account of, ii. 164, n. 5; Franklin praises his moderation, iv. 434; Gibbon and Horsley attack him, iv. 437; Heberden, Dr., a benefactor to him, iv. 228, n. 2; house burnt by rioters, iv. 238, n. 1; 'index-scholar,' iv. 407, n. 4; Johnson's estimate of his writings, iv. 407, n. 4; interview with, iv. 434; on the pronunciation of Latin, ii. 404, n. 1; Mackintosh's character of him, iv. 443; Philosophical necessity, iii. 291, n. 2; iv. 433-4; Shelburne, Lord, lives with, iv. 191, n. 4; theological works, ii. 124. PRIESTS, enemies to liberty, v. 255, n. 5. PRIME MINISTER, name and office, ii. 355; n. 2; not in Johnson's _Dictionary_, i. 295, n. 1; no real one since Walpole's time, ii. 355. PRIMROSE, Lady, v. 201. PRINCE, the bookseller, i. 291. PRINCE FREDERICK (brother of George III), v. 185, n. 1, PRINCE OF WALES, happiest of men, i. 368, n. 3; iv. 182. PRINCE OF WALES (Frederick, father of George III), generosity, shows, v. 188, n. I; Mallet's dependence on him, i. 329, n. 3; Pope's repartee to him, iv. 50; Vane, Anne, his mistress, v. 49, n. 4. PRINCE OF WALES (George III), v. 185, n. 1. PRINCE OF WALES (George IV), Boswell carries up an address to him, iv. 248, n. 2; insolence, his, iv. 270, n. 2; Johnson pleased with his knowledge of the Scriptures as a child, ii. 33, n. 3; language as a young man, his, ib.; Thurlow and Sir John Ladd, iv. 412, n. 1. PRINCESS OF WALES, Dowager, (mother of George III), presents to Lord Bute, iv. 127, n. 3. _Prince Titi_, ii. 391. _Prince Voltiger_, ii. 108. PRINCIPLE, goodness founded upon it, i. 443; things founded on no principle, v. 159. PRINCIPLES, general, must be had from books, ii. 361. PRINCIPLES and practice, i. 418, n. 3; ii. 341; iii. 282; iv. 396; v. 210, 359. PRINGLE, Sir John, Johnson could not agree with him, iii. 65; v. 376, 384; madness, on the cause of, iii. 176, n. 1; President of the Royal Society, iii. 65, n. 1; Smith's _Wealth of Nations_, ii. 430; mentioned, ii. 59, n. 3, 164; iii. 7, 15, n. 2, 247; v. 97. PRINTER'S DEVIL, iv. 99. PRINTERS, keeping their coach, ii. 226; wages of journeymen, ii. 323. PRINTING, early printed books, v. 459; effect on learning, iii. 37; people without it barbarous, ii. 170. PRIOR, Sir James, Johnson's projected _Life of Goldsmith_, iii. 100, n. 1. PRIOR, Matthew, amorous pedantry, iii. 192, n. 2; _Animula vagtila_, translation of, iii. 420, n. 2; borrowing, instances of his, iii. 396; _Chameleon_, ii. 158, n. I; _Despairing Shepherd_, ii. 78, n. 2; Goldsmith republishes two of his poems, iii. 192, n. 2; _Gualterus Danistonus ad Amicos_, translation of, iii. 119, n. 6; Hailes, Lord, censured by, iii. 192; lady's book, a, iii. 192; love verses, ii. 78; 'My noble, lovely little Peggy,' iii. 425, n. 2; _Paulo Purganti_, iii. 192; Pitcairne, translation from, v. 58. PRIOR PARK, v. 80, n. 5. PRISONS, Johnson's praise of a good keeper, iii. 433. See under LONDON, Newgate, &c. PRITCHARD, Mrs., the actress, good but affected, v. 126; _Irene_, acted, i. 197; in common life a vulgar idiot, iv. 243; mechanical player, ii. 348; mentioned, ii. 92. PRIVATE CONVERSATION, iv. 216. PRIZE-FIGHTING, v. 229. PRIZE VERSES, in the _Gent. Mag_., i. 91, n. 2, 136. PRIZES, money arising from, ii. 353, n. 4. _Probationary Odes for the Laureateship_, A Great Personage, i. 219, n. 3; Boswell ridiculed, i. 116, n. 1; and the two Wartons, ii. 41, n. 1. PROBATIONER, cause of a, ii. 171. _Probus Britannicus_, i. 141. _Procerity_, i. 308. _Prodigious_, iii. 231, n. 4, 303; v. 396, n. 3. PROFESSION, choice of one, v. 47; misfortune not to be bred to one, iii. 309, n. 1; time and mind given to one not very great, ii. 344. _Profession, The_, iii. 285, n. 2. PROFESSIONAL MAN, solemnity of manner, iv. 310. _Profitable Instructions, &c._, i. 431, n. 2. PROFUSION, iii. 195. _Progress of Discontent_, i. 283, n. 2. _Project, The_, iii. 318. _Project for the Employment of Authors_, i. 306, n. 3. _Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre_, i. 181; ii. 69; iv. 25, 310. PRONUNCIATION, difficulty of fixing it, ii. 161; Irish, Scotch, and provincial, ii. 158-160. _Properantia_, i. 223. PROPERTY, depends on chastity, ii. 457; permanent property, ii. 340. PROPITIATION, doctrine of the, iv. 124; v. 88. _Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana_, i. 153. PROSE, English. See STYLE. PROSPERITY, vulgar, iii. 410. PROSPERO, i. 216. PROSTITUTION, severe laws needed, iii. 18. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION, iii. 427, n. 1. PROTESTANTISM, converts to it, ii. 106. PROVIDENCE, entails not an encroachment on his dominions, ii. 420, 421; his hand seen in the breaking of a rope, v. 104; a particular providence, iv. 272, n. 4. PROVISIONS, carrying, to a man's house, v. 73. _Provoked Husband, The, or The Journey to London_, ii. 48, 50; iv. 284. PRUDENCE, '_Nullum numen,'_ &c., iv. 180. PRUSSIA, Queen of, (the mother of Frederick the Great), iv. 107, n. 1. PSALM 36, v. 444. PSALMANAZAR, George, account of him, Appendix A, iii. 443-9; arrives in London, iii. 444, 447; at Oxford, iii. 445, 449; birth, education, and wanderings, iii. 446-7; writes his _Memoirs_, iii. 445; Club in Old Street, his, iv. 187; _Complete System of Geography_, article in the, iii. 445; _Description of Formosa_, iii. 444; hypocrisy, never free from, iii. 444; 448-9; Innes, Dr., aided in his fraud by, i. 359; invention of his name, iii. 447; Johnson sought after him, iii. 314; respected him as much as a Bishop, iv. 274; _Spectator_, ridiculed in the, iii. 449. PUBLICATIONS, spurious, ii. 433. _Publick Advertiser_, i. 300; ii. 46, n. 2, 71, n. 2, 93, n. 3. PUBLIC AFFAIRS vex no man, iv. 220. See ENGLAND. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, ii. 169. _Public dinners_, iv. 367, n. 3. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, iii. 53. PUBLIC JUDGMENT. See WORLD. _Public Ledger_, iii. 113, n. 3. PUBLIC LIFE, eminent figure made in it with little superiority of mind, iv. 178. PUBLIC OVENS, ii. 215. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. See SCHOOLS. PUBLIC SPEAKING, ii. 139, 339. _Public Virtue_, iv. 20. PUBLIC WORSHIP, i. 418, n. 1; iv. 414, n. 1. PUBLISHERS. See BOOKSELLERS. _Pudding, Meditation on a_, v. 352. PUFFENDORF, corporal punishment, ii. 157; _Introduction to History_, iv. 311; not in practice as a lawyer, ii. 430. PULPIT, liberty of the, iii. 59, 91. PULSATION, effect on life, iii. 34. PULTENEY, William. See BATH, Earl of. PUNCH, bowl of, i. 334. PUNCTUATION, Lyttelton's _History of Henry II_, iii. 32, n. 5. PUNIC WAR, iii. 206, n. 1. PUNISHMENT, eternal, iii. 200; iv. 299. PUNS, 'dignifying a pun,' v. 32, n. 3. Johnson's contempt for them, ii. 241; iv. 316; Boswell's approval of them, ib.; one in _Menagiana_, ii. 241. See under BURKE and JOHNSON. PUNSTER, defined, ii. 241, n. 2. PURCELL, Thomas, ii. 343. PURGATORIANS, ii. 162. PURGATORY, ii. 104, 163. See MIDDLE STATE. PUTNEY, ii. 444. PYE, Henry James, poet laureate, i. 185, n. 1. PYM, John, member of Broadgates Hall, i. 75, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 118. PYRAMIDS of Egypt, iii. 352. PYTHAGOREAN DISCIPLINE, iii. 261.



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QUACK DOCTORS, iii. 389. QUAKERS, Boswell loves their simplicity, ii. 457; Johnson liked individual Quakers, but not the sect, ii. 458; on their objection to fine clothes, iii. 188, n. 4; many a man a Quaker without knowing it, ii. 457; Pennsylvanian Quakers, vote of, iv. 212, n. 1; proselyte, a young, iii. 298; slavery, abolitionists of, ii. 478; soldiers, clothing to the, iv. 212; texts, literal interpretation of, iv. 211; tythes and persecution inseparable, v. 423; women preaching, i. 463. See under KNOWLES, Mrs. Qualifying a wrong, iii. 63, n. 1. Qualitied, iv. 174. QUALITY, women of, iii. 353. Queen Elizabeth's Champion, v. 241, n. 2. QUEEN'S ARMS CLUB, iv. 87. QUEEN'S HOUSE LIBRARY, ii. 33. QUEENSBERRY, family of, iii. 163. QUEENSBERRY, Duke of, Gay and the Beggar's Opera, ii. 368. QUEENY (Miss Thrale), iii. 422, n. 4; v. 451. Quem Deus vult perdere, &c., ii. 445, n. 1; iv. 181. QUESTIONING, ii. 472; iii. 57, 268. QUIN, James, Bath, praises, iii. 45, n. 1; Beggar's Opera, anecdote of the, ii. 368; Falstaff, his, iv. 243, n. 6; kings and January 30, v. 382, n. 2; Thomson, intimacy with, iii. 117, n. 2; vanity, his, iii. 264. QUINTILIAN, iv. 35. QUIXOTE, Don. See under CERVANTES. Quos Deus null perdere, prius dementat, ii. 445, n. 1; iv. 181. QUOTATION, the parole of literary men, iv. 102. QUOTATIONS, untraced, iv. 181. Quotidian, v. 345-6.



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RABELAIS, Garagantua, iii. 256; surpassed by Johnson, ii. 231. Race, The, by Mercurius Spur, Esq., ii. 31. RACINE, 'goes round the world,' v. 311. RACKSTROW, Colonel, of the Trained Bands, iv. 319. RADCLIFFE, Charles, his execution, i. 180. RADCLIFFE, Dr., Master of Pembroke College, i. 271. RADCLIFFE, Dr. John, travelling fellowships, iv. 293. RADICALS, iii. 460. RALEIGH, Sir Walter, autograph letter, i. 227; Birch edits his smaller pieces, i. 226; execution, his, i. 180, n. 2; Johnson mentions his Works in the preface to his Dictionary, iii. 194, n. 2. RALPH, James, The Champion, i. 169, n. 2. Rambler, account of it, i. 201-226; contributors, i. 203, 208, n. 3; editions and sale, i. 208, 212, 255; Scotch edition, i. 210; revision of collected edition, i. 203, n. 6; publication, i. 202; sale of a sixteenth-share, ii. 208, n. 3; hastily written, i. 203; iii. 42; could be made better, iv. 309; hints for essays, i. 204-7; origin of the name, i. 202; style, i. 217; club in an Essex town incensed by it, i. 215; friend, learning one's faults from a, iv. 281, n. 1; Garrick and Prospero, i. 216; 'hard words,' i. 208, n. 3; index, iv. 325; in Italian, Il Genio errante and Il Vagabondo, iii. 411; Johnson's epitaph, quotation from it in, iv. 445; gives a copy to Edwards, iv. 90; opinion of it, i. 210, n. 1; thinks it 'too wordy,' iv. 5; portrait prefixed, iv. 421, n. 2; wife praises it, i. 210; ladies strangely formal, i. 223; Langton admires it, i. 247; last number, i. 226, 233; lessons taught by it, i. 213; mottoes translated, i. 210, n. 3, 211, 225; Murphy's translation from the French, i. 356; Necessity of Cultivating Politeness, v. 82, n. 2; quotation in Colonel Myddelton's inscription, iv. 443; Russian translation, iv. 277; Shenstone, praised by, ii. 452; suicide, supposed to recommend, iv. 150, n. 2; virtuoso, description of a, iv. 314, n. 2; v. 61, n. 5; Young's, Dr., copy, i. 214. Rambler, Beauties of the, i. 214. Raniblefs Magazine, i. 202. RAMSAY, Allan, the elder, the poet, dedication to the Countess of Eglintoune, v. 374, n. 3; Gentle Shepherd, ii. 220; Highland Laddie, v. 184, n. 1. RAMSAY, Allan, the son, the portrait-painter, death, iv. 260, n. 1, 366, n. 1; dinners at his house, iii. 331-6,382-3, 407-9; house in Harley Street, iii. 391, n. 2; Italy, visits, iii. 250; iv. 260; Johnson loves him, iii. 336; politeness, praises, iii. 331; Pope's poetry less admired than formerly, iii. 332; Select Society, founds the, v. 393, n. 4; 'There lived a young man' &c., quotes, iii. 252; mentioned, iii. 254; iv. I, n. 1. RANBY, John, Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, iii. 205. RANGER, the character of, ii. 50. RANK, its claims, iii. 55; Johnson's respect for it, i. 443, 447-8; morals of high people, iii. 353. RANKE, Professor, Sixtus Quintus, v. 239, n. RAPHAEL, Johnson admires his pictures, ii. 392; mentioned, i. 248, n. 3. RAPTURIST, ii. 41, n. 1. RASAY, the Macleods of, account of them, v. 165, 167; estates, v. 412, n. 2; family happiness, v. 178; league with the Macdonalds, v. 174; Johnson compliments them in his Journey, ii. 304; they praise him, ib. RASAY, John Macleod, Laird of, 'Macgillichallum,' v. 161, n. 2; his carriage, v. 162, 179, n. 2; income, v. 165, n. 2; patriarchal life, v. 167; befriends the Pretender, v. 190-5; Johnson's mistake about the chieftainship, ii. 303, 380, 382, 411; correspondence about it, v. 410-413; entertained by, ii. 305; iv. 155; v. 413, n. 1; visits him, v. 165-179, 183. RASAY, old Laird of, out in the '45, v. 174, 188, 190, 199. Rascal, Johnson's use of the term, iii. 1. Rasselas, account of its publication, i. 340-4; date of its composition and publication, i. 342, n. 2, 516; editions, first, i. 340, n, 3; fifth, ii. 208, n. 3; an American one, ii. 207; origin of the name, i. 340, n. 3; price paid for it, i. 341; translations, i. 341; ii. 208; in French by Baretti, ib., n. 2; written in the evenings of one week to pay the expenses of Johnson's mother's funeral, i. 341; Boswell's yearly reading, i. 342; iii. 133; made unhappy by it, iii. 317; Candide, compared with, i. 342; iii. 356; choice of life, ii. 22, n. l; civilisation, advantages of, ii. 73, n. 3; Europeans, the power of the, iv. 119; Gough Square, written in, iii. 405, n. 6; Imlac and the Great Mogul, ii. 40, n. 4; influence of places on the mind, v. 334, n. 1; Johnson reads it in 1781, iv. 119; Lobo's Abyssinia, partly suggested by, i. 89; Macaulay's, Dr. J., Bibliography, ii. 208, n. 3; marriages, late, ii. 128, n. 4; misery of life, the, iii. 317; praise to an old man, i. 339, n. 3; resolutions, ii. 113, n. 3; retirement from the world, v. 62, nn. 1 and 4; scholar, the business of a, ii. 119, n. 1; solitude of a great city, iii. 379, n. 2; sorrow, the cure for, iii. 6; spirits of the dead, i. 343; travelling in Europe, i. 340, n. 1; Vanity of Human Wishes, resemblance to the, i. 342. RAT, grey or Hanover, ii. 455; 'Now, Muse, let's sing of Rats,' ii. 453. RAWLINSON, Dr., iv. 161. RAY, John, British insects, ii. 248; Collection of north-country words, ii. 91; Nomenclature, ii. 361. RAY, Miss, iii. 383. RAYMOND, S., ii. 338, n. 2. RAYNAL, Abbe, iv. 434-5. READING, advice of an old gentleman, i. 446; art, its, iv. 207; boys should read any book they will, iii. 385; iv. 21; general amusement, iv. 217, n. 4; hard reading, i. 446; inclination to be followed, i. 428; iii. 43, 193; knowledge got by it compared with that got by conversation, ii. 361; people do not willingly read, iv. 218; reading books to the end, i. 71; ii. 226; iv. 308; reading no more than one could utter, iv. 31; snatches useful, iv. 21; Voltaire testifies to its increase in England, ii. 402, n. 1; youth the season for plying books, i. 446. See JOHNSON, reading. REBELLION, natural to men, v. 394. REBELLION OF 1745-6, Boswell's projected history of it, iii. 162; would have to be printed abroad, ib.; cruelty shown to the rebels, i. 146; effect on the Gent. Mag., i. 176, n. 2; Highlanders' wants, ii. 126; Johnson's occupation at the time, i. 176; noble attempt, iii. 162. REBELS, never friends to arts, ii. 223; successful, ii. 223. Recollecting, iv. 126. Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman, iv 190, n. 2. RECRUITING, iii. 399, n. 3. Recruiting Officer, iv. 7. RECUPERO, Signor, ii. 468, n. 1. Red Coat, v. 140. RED SEA, iii. 134, n. i, 455. REDRESS FOR RIDICULE, v. 295. REED, Isaac, aids Johnson in the Lives, iv. 37; mentioned, i. 169, n. 2; ii. 240, n. 4; iii. 201, n. 3; v. 57, n. 2. REED, John, iii. 281, n. 3. REES, Dr., ii. 203, n. 3. REFINEMENT, in education, iii. 169. Reflections on a grave digging in Westminster Abbey, ii. 26; v. 117, n. 4. Reflections on the State of Portugal, i. 306. REFORMATION, Church revenues lessened, iii. 138; freedom from bondage, iii. 60; the light of revelation obscured upon political motives, ii. 28. REFORMERS, why burnt, ii. 251. Regale, iii. 308, n. 2; v. 347, n. 1. REGATTA, iii. 206, n. 1. REGICIDES, ii. 370. REGISTRATION OF DEEDS, iv. 74. Rehearsal, The, ii. 168; iv. 320. REID, Andrew, iii. 32, n. 5. REID, Professor Thomas, meets Johnson in Glasgow, v. 369, 370; original principles, his, i. 471; Scotticisms corrected by Hume, ii. 72, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1. REIGN OF TERROR, i. 465, n. 1. REINDEER, ii. 168. RELATIONS, a man's ready friends, v. 105; in London, ii. 177. See FRIENDS, natural. RELIGION, amount of religion in the country, ii. 96; ancients not in earnest as to it, iii. 10; balancing of accounts, iv. 225; changing it, ii. 466; iii. 298; choosing one for oneself, iii. 299; College jokers its defenders, iv. 288; differences of opinion not much thought of, iv. 291; general ignorance, iii. 50; hard, made to appear, v. 316; ignorance of the first notion, iv. 216; joy in it, iii. 339; particular places for it, iv. 226; people with none, iv. 215; perversions, ii. 129; religious conversation banished, ii. 124; State, to be regulated by the, ii. 14; iv. 12; unfitness of poetry for it, iii. 358, n. 3; iv. 39. RELIGIOUS ORDERS. See MONASTERY. Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides, ii. 308, n. 1. Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton, i. 231, n. 2. Remarks on the characters of the Court of Queen Anne, iv. 333, n. 5. Remarks on the Militia Bill, i. 307. REMBRANDT, iii. 161. REMEDIES, prescribing, ii. 260. Remembering, distinguished from recollecting, iv. 126. Remonstrance, The, ii. 113. Renegade defined, i. 296. RENTS, carried to a distance, iii. 177; how they should be fixed, v. 293: paid in kind, iv. 18; v. 254, n. 2. See LANDLORDS. REPENTANCE in dying, iv. 212. Republic of Letters, v. 80, n. 4. REPUBLICS, respect for authority wanting, ii. 153. Republics. See Respublicae Elzevirianae. REPUTATION injured by spurious publications, ii. 433. RESENTMENT, iii. 39; iv. 367. RESOLUTIONS, rarely efficacious, ii. 113, 360. RESPECT, not to be paid to an adversary, ii. 442; v. 29. Respectable, iii. 241, n. 2. Respublica Hungarica, ii. 7. Respublicae Elzevirianae, ii. 7, n. 2; iii. 52. REST, man never at rest, iii. 252. RESTORATION, ii. 369, 370; v. 406. RESTRAINT, need of, iii. 53. RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, iv. 93, 95. Retirement, ii. 133, n. 1. RETIREMENT, from the world, v. 62; its vices, ib., n. 5. RETIRING FROM BUSINESS, ii. 337; iii. 176, n. 1. RETREAT, cheap, few places left, ii. 124. Retreat of the Ten Thousand, iv. 32. REVELATION, attacks on it excite anger, iii. 11. Revelation, Book of, ii. 163. REVERENCE, for government impaired, iii. 3; general relaxation of it, iii. 262. REVIEWS AND REVIEWERS, acknowledgments to them improper, iv. 57; defiance, to be set at, v. 274; Monthly and Critical impartial, iii. 32; attack each other, ib., n. 2; payment for articles, iv. 214; well-written, iii. 44. See Critical and Monthly Reviews. Revisal of Shakespeare's Text, i. 263, n. 3. Revolution, defined, i. 295, n. 1. REVOLUTION OF 1688, could not be avoided, ii. 341; iii. 3; iv. 170, 171, n. 1; Lilliburlero, ii. 347; reverence for government impaired by it, iii. 3; iv. 165; v. 202; writing against it got Shebbeare the pillory and a pension, ii. 112, n. 3. REVOLUTION SOCIETY, the, iv. 40. REVOLUTIONS, 'Happy revolutions,' ii. 224. REWLEY ABBEY, i. 273. REYNOLDS, Miss, Barnard's verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3; coolness with her brother, i. 486, n. 1; irresolution, her, i. 486, n. 1; Johnson's affection for her, i. 486, n. 1; bequest to her, iv. 402, n. 2; and the Cotterells, i. 246, n. 2; dress and study, i. 328, n. 1; and Garagantua, iii. 256; and Hannah More, iii. 293; iv. 341, n. 6; letters to her, i. 486, n. 1; portrait, ii. 362, n. 1; iv. 229, n. 4, 421, n. 2; miniatures, paints, i. 326; oil-painting, ib., n. 7; iv. 229, n. 4; Montagu, Mrs., paints, iii. 244; politician, no, ii. 317, n. 2; purity of mind, i. 486, n. 1; ii. 362, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 82, 215, 319-20, 390, 434. REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, Abington's, Mrs., benefit, ii. 324; abused in a newspaper, iv. 29; Academy, influence in the, iv. 219, n. 4; amusement is the great end of all employments, ii. 234; a key to character, iv. 316; associates with men of all principles, iii. 375; Baretti's ignorance, gives an instance of, v. 121, n. 4; is a witness at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1; Barry quarrels with him, iv. 436, 438; Beattie, portrait of, v. 90, n. 1; v. 273, n. 4; books, judgments on, iii. 320; Boswell, bequest to, i. 11, n. 1; first acquaintance with, i. 417, n. 1; gives Johnson's portrait to, i. 392; letter from, iv. 259, n. 2; Life of Johnson, has a leaf cancelled in, ii. 2, n. 1; portrait, paints, i. 2, n. 2; visits, when ill, iii. 391; Burke's echo, ii. 222, n. 4; and Johnson on Bacon's Essays, iii. 194, n. 1; too much under, iii. 261; wit, v. 32, n. 3; Cambridge, Mr., dines with, ii. 361; Camden's, Lord, portrait, ii. 353, n. 2; Cecilia, iv. 223, n. 5; character drawn by Burke, i. 245, n. 3; v. 102, n. 3; colouring in conversation, iv. 183; conversation, his, i. 246; critics mostly pretenders, ii. 191, n. 1; Cumberland, dislikes, iv. 384, n. 2; 'Dear Knight of Plympton,' iv. 432; death, i. 10; delicacy as regards Pope's note on Johnson, i. 143; delicate observer of manners, ii. 109; Devonshire, visits, i. 377; dinners at his house, gathering of literary men, iii. 65, 250, 317, 337, 381; iv. 78, 332, 337; Northcote's description of them, iii. 375, n. 2; iv. 312, n. 3; Discourses on Painting, Empress of Russia's testimony of a snuffbox, iii. 370; first volume published, in. 369; Johnson described in them, i. 245, n. 3; his dedication, ii. 2, n. 1; mentioned in an unfinished Discourse, iii. 369, n. 3; praises them, iv. 320; Rogers, Samuel, present at the last, iii. 369, n. 2; translated into Italian, iii. 96; Dyer, Samuel, portrait of, ii. 453, n. 2; emigration, iii. 232; eminence, the cause of, ii. 437, n. 2; Errol, Lord, portrait of, v. 102; Essex Head Club, declines to join the, iv. 254, 436; describes it, iv. 438; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; Fox's praise of The Traveller,, mentions, iii. 252, 261; too much under, iii. 261; 'furious purposes, his,' iv. 366; Garrick and the Literary Club, i. 480; tea, iii. 264, n. 4; Garrick, Mrs., dines with, iv. 96-9; genius, account of, ii. 437, n. 2; Goldsmith's company, likes, ii. 235; criticised at his table, ii. 28l, n. 1; debts, ii. 280; dedicates the Deserted Village to him, ii. 1, n. 2, 217, n. 5; epitaph, loses the copy of, iii. 82; fable of the little fishes, ii. 231; monument, chooses the spot for, iii. 83, n. 2; rebuked by, v. 273, n, 4; She Sloops to Conquer, suggests a name for, ii. 205, n. 4; to Walpole, introduces, iv. 314, n. 3; Hawkesworth's character, i. 253, n. 1; Hawkins's character, i. 28, n. 1; hospitality, his, i. 1; Humphry, the painter, assists, iv. 269, n. 2; Idler, contributes to the, i. 330; illness in 1764, i. 486; imaginary praise of him, iv. 18; inoffensiveness, v. 102, n. 3; invulnerability, i. 2; v. 102; Italy, returns from, i. 165, 242, n. 6; Johnson, admiration for, i. 245; admiration of Burke, ii. 450; altercation with Dean Barnard, iv. 431; apologises for his rudeness, iii. 329; arguing, ii. 100, n. 1; 'flew upon an argument,' ii. 365; belabours his confessor, iv. 281; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; checked immorality in talk, iv. 295, n. 3; in a company of booksellers, iii. 311; conversation, i. 204; iv. 184-5; convulsive starts, i. 144; cups of tea, i. 313, n. 3; desire for reconciliation, ii. 100, n. 1, 109; Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4. n. 3; dulce decus, i. 244; dying requests, iv. 413; executor, iv. 402, n. 2; feared by a nobleman, iv. 116, n. 2; feelings towards foreigners, iv. 169, n. 1; fond of discrimination, ii. 306; overcharges characters, iii. 332; French, ii. 404; friendship with, i. 2, 242, n. 6, 244, 246; iv. 367; in 1764 almost—only friend, i. 486; friendship for Taylor, iii. 180; on friendship, i. 300; funeral, iv. 419, n. 1; garret, i. 328, n. 1; gestures, v. 18; interview with George III, ii. 34, n. i, 41; intoxicated, i. 379, n. 2; introduces Crabbe to, iv. 175, n. 2; letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters; letter to Thurlow, copies, iv. 349. n. 2, 368; lines in The Traveller, ii. 6, n. 3; making himself agreeable to ladies, iv. 73; as a member of parliament, ii. 138; mind ready for use, ii. 365, n. 1; mode of covering his ignorance, v. 124, n. 4; monument, iv. 423, n. 1; inscription, ib., n. 2, 445;