dines with General Oglethorpe
when Boswell annoys Johnson
with questions, 263; sees the
king go to give the royal assent
to the Restraining Bill, 264;
hears Dr. Dodd preach, 264;
calls on Johnson, 267; goes to
Bath, 269; describes the beaux
and belles there, 269, 270; his
conversation with Johnson in
1781 on Ireland and Irish affairs,
273, 274; takes his History of
the Revolutions of Ireland to
the booksellers, 274; visits and
describes Paris, 275; describes
Brighton and the society there,
277, 278; English and French
society compared, 279; brings
his Life of Goldsmith to show to
Bishop Percy, 279.

Candide, Voltaire's, published at
the same time as Johnson's Ras-
selas, 436.

Canters, to be scorned, 100.
"Canting, Prithee, my dear, have
done with," 28.

Cards, dress, and dancing advo-
cated by Johnson, 46.
Caricature, imitation of contempo-
rary poets, 30, 31.

Carter, Mrs., her papers in the
Rambler, 23; her varied accom-
plishments, 130; Dr. Campbell's
description of her, 249.
Cat, Johnson's favourite, Hodge,

Characters, Johnson's delight ir
drawing, 341.

Charity, Johnson's boundless, 45,
202, 426, 427.

Charles XII., Life of, by Voltaire,
praised by Johnson, 130.
Chat, unprofitable, Jolinson's
hatred of, 79.

Chelsea China, a dessert service
of, presented to Johnson, pre-
served at Holland House, 222;
Johnson's visits to the manufac-
tory of, 222.

Chemistry, Johnson's dangerous
experiments in, 95.

Chester, Dr. Campbell visits, 237.
Chesterfield, Lord, Tyers' account
of, 191; Murphy's account of,
383, 394; Johnson's letter to,
395, 396.
Childhood, Johnson speaks of his
own, 10, 11, 12.
Children, often made annoying by
fond parents, 8; their books, 10;
their management, 13; Johnson
tells that he had often found
them asleep on thresholds and
stalls and put pennies into their
hands, 342; the Langton's,
troublesome, 300; Mrs. Thrale's,
well managed, 300.

China, Johnson conceives the idea
that he can improve the manu-
facture of, 222.

Cholmondeley, Mr., Johnson's
rudeness to, 103.

Churchill, the satirist, 70; chal-
lenges Johnson, 194; his satire,
The Ghost, in which Johnson is
Pomposo," 451; his Epistle to
Hogarth, 452.

66

Cicerone, Johnson is Hannah
More's at Oxford, 290.

City, cost of lighting and paving
the, 244, 253.

Cleanliness, Mrs. Johnson worries

Johnson with her excessive,

61.

Clerke, Sir Philip Jennings, his
discussion with Johnson, on
some political questions, 314.

Club, The Literary, at first a
supper party, 51; Murphy's
account of, 385; at the Turk's
Head, 405.

Coach, Johnson's love for driving
in a, 110.
College, particulars of Johnson's
life at, gathered from Dr. Adams
and Dr. Taylor, 15, 186, 365.
Collier, Dr., condemned for senti-
ments applauded when uttered
by Johnson, 73.
Colours, Johnson's love of bright,

111.

Combe, John-a, distich to, wrongly

ascribed to Shakespeare, 239 n.
Common things said by Johnson

in the newest manner, 200.
Commonplace book, Mrs. Thrale's,
noticed by Johnson, 21.
Composition, night was Johnson's
usual time for, 189; Bishop
Percy's account of, 226; Mur-
phy's, 408.

Comus, the Masque of, acted by
lords and ladies it was written
to entertain, 5.
Congé d'élire, Johnson's definition
of, 137.
Congreve, Archdeacon, Johnson's
schoolfellow, 245.
Contradicting, Johnson's habit of,

90.

Conversation, Johnson's love of,

13, 85; he preferred that which
was without effort, 76, 109; his
great power in, 200; historical
and political, not liked by him,
36; Johnson's, described by Bos-
well, 452, 454.
Converser, Johnson a tremendous,
82.

Conway described by Dr. Camp-
bell, 236, 239.

Mrs., Johnson criticises
Pope's epitaph on, 7.
Corbet, Young, Johnson's com-
panion at Oxford, 365.
Corke, Lord, presents the Dic-
tionary to the Academia at Flo-
rence, 191.

Corneille to Shakespeare, as a
clipped hedge to a forest, 27.
Corpore vili and the rejoinder of a
poor man, 127.

Cotterel, Miss, at her house John-
son and Reynolds first met, 329;
"downed" by Johnson in one
of his early visits, 338.
Council of Trent, History of, partly
translated by Johnson, 189.
Country life, Johnson's sneer at
the pleasures of, 106.
Courtesy, Johnson's ceremonious,
to poor dependents, 35.
Cowley, Johnson's Life of, 439.
Critic, Johnson as a, 202, 203, 439.
Crousaz, M., his Examen of Pope's
Essay on Man, 378.

Cumberland, Richard, his recollec-
tions of Johnson, 211-21; his
verses on Johnson, 215.

213.

Mrs., her genial tea-table,

Cummyns, Mr., the Quaker, a
victim to newspaper abuse, 76.

Dancing, cards, and dress, advo-
cated by Johnson, 46.
D'Arblay, Madame, Extracts from

her Diary and Letters, 297-322.
Davies, Tom, publishes Fugitive
Pieces without Johnson's con-
sent, 26.
Death, Johnson's dread of, 110,

111.

The, of Johnson, 183, 206,
292, 293, 322.

Effect of, on the public
mind, 362.

Rev. T. Twining on, 324;
Murphy on, 340, 396.
Debates, Johnson's Parliamentary,
187; Murphy's account of, 357,
358.

Declamation, Johnson's power of,
119, 128.

Decline, gradual, gentle, impossi-
ble to arrest, 77.

Degree, M.A., Oxford, Johnson'
obtains, 394; LL.D., 406.

Dorange, Johnson would not allow
the use of this word, 137.
Diary, The, of Dr. Thomas Camp-
bell, 235-80.

Dictionary, The, Johnson thought
he could have done it in two
years, 25; new edition of, 25;
dedication of, 154; "composed
amid inconvenience and distrac-
tion, in sickness and sorrow,"
185, 191; remuneration for,
191; Bishop Percy on the man-
ner of its compilation, 227;
Murphy's account of the under-
taking of, 382-436; Johnson's
poem written after revising,
398-400; completed,

436.

393,

writings on, 125.

Sheridan's

Elphinston, Mr. James, 152.

English feeling towards the Irish
better than Dr. Campbell had
expected, 251.

Epigram, by Johnson, 32, 33; Dr.
Trapp's on Oxford and Cam-
bridge, 19.

Epitaph, on Mrs. Salusbury, 54,
55; on Mr. Thrale, 56; on
Hogarth, 57; on Miss Hill
Boothby, 179; on Levett, 203;
Johnson's epitaphs, both Latin
and English,much admired, 206;
extemporary epitaphs, written
on each other by a merry party,
including Johnson, Burke, Gold.
smith, &c., 218, 219.
Equality, the, of man, Johnson's
absurd illustration of, 126.
Evelina, discussed at Streatham,
306, 308.

Eyes, Johnson's piercing, 118.
Eyesight, Johnson's defective, 43.

Facility, Johnson's, in writing, 23,

236.

Faden, Mr., the printer, Johnson

pays his debt to, 421.
False Alarm, The, Johnson's first
and favourite pamphlet, 20.

Family history, Johnson tells some
of his to Mrs. Thrale, 6.
Fashionable society at Brighton in
1787, 279.

Faulkener's Chelsea quoted, 222.
Fawkes, Frank, his translation of
Anacreon's Dove, 22.

Ferguson, his book on Civil Society
praised, 28.

Fielding and Richardson compared,

81.

Fitzherbert, Mr., 148, 168, 169;
Johnson's regard and esteem for
Mrs. Fitzherbert, 66.

Flattery, Johnson liked, delicately

administered, 76; his rough
speech to Hannah More on her
too emphatic, 76.
Flint, Bet, and her verses, 303.
Foote, Sam, Johnson's tribute to
his talents, 72; congratulates
him on being kicked in Dublin,
126, 407; his wit and readiness
praised, 128.

Footing, Boswell on a good, with
Johnson, 452.

Ford, Cornelius, Johnson's athletic
uncle, 6; his son, Hogarth's
parson, 9; his excellent advice
to Johnson, 10, 363.

Sarah, Johnson's mother,
7-13, 201.
Foster, Mrs. Thrale puts Johnson
in a passion by praising his
sermons, 247.

Mrs. Eliza, Milton's grand-
daughter, her benefit, 390.
French, the, have few sentiments,
but express them neatly, "little
meat, but dress it well," 44.

literature much read by
Johnson, 112.
French society compared with Eng.
lish, 279.

Friends, something pleasing in
the misfortunes of our best,
39.

Friendship, Johnson ridicules one
who preached on, to a fashion-
able congregation, 64.
Fruit, Johnson's love of, 44.

Fugitive Pieces, Johnson's, printed
without his knowledge, 26.

Garrick, David, Johnson teases,
26; his story of Johnson throw-
ing a man and a chair into the
pit, 48; Johnson would not be-
lieve in his being ill, 77; Gar-
rick and Johnson have a "close
encounter," telling old stories of
their boyish days, 286; his face
becomes worn and old-looking
by constant play of the muscles,
298; Cumberland describes
Johnson at Garrick's grave,
220; described by Dr. Camp-
bell, 245; his epilogue to Bon-
duca, 298; Johnson will not
allow anyone else to abuse him,
299; Murphy's account of, 373,
374, 427; "Johnson and Garrick
can never be properly enjoyed
unless together," says Hannah
More, 286; imitates Johnson's
reciting poetry, 289; his re-
markable saying contrasting the
tragedy of Shakespeare and
Johnson, 385.

Mrs., helps Hannah More to
prepare for a party, 286; mirth-
ful conversation at her house,
289.

General scholarship and general
knowledge possessed by John-
son, 214.

Genius, Johnson on, 317.
Gesticulations, Johnson's, men.
tioned by Tyers, 185; Miss
Reynolds describes Johnson's
extraordinary, 343.

Ghost, Johnson, like one, will not

speak till he is spoken to, 85.
Ghost, The, by Churchill, a satire
in which Johnson is Pomposo,

451.

Gibraltar, the account of Elliot's
defence of, disbelieved by John-
son, 58.
Goat, Sir Joseph Banks', Johnson's
inscription for. 32.

Goldsmith, Oliver, Mrs. Thrale
thinks will be Johnson's bio-
grapher, 16; offended at being
called Dr. Minor, 75; and Good-
man Dull, ibid.; tells what he
felt when his play was hissed,
98; Johnson sells the Vicar of
Wakefield for him, 50; Cum-
berland's account of, 216, 218-
20; his epitaph on Cumberland
in Retaliation, 219; his death,
219; his appearance described
by Miss Reynolds, 332.
Gower, Lord, his efforts for John-
son, 197, 376, 377.
Graham, Eaton, calls Goldsmith
Dr. Minor, 75.

Grainger, his Ode on Solitude, re-
peated by Johnson, 342.
Grandison, Sir Charles,
Boothby on, 149.

Miss

Gray, the very Torré of poetry,
136; Johnson's opinion of, 203,
440.

Greek, Johnson not so ignorant of,

as he chose to say, 26, 198.
Greenwich, Johnson and Boswell

take a boat to go to, 457.
Grierson, Mr., Johnson's good
stories of him, 49.

Grotto, Johnson's sharp speech to
a lady showing one off, 83.
Gwatkin, Miss, Reynolds' grand-
niece, 351.

Hailes, Lord, Boswell's letters to,
449-459; Boswell entreats his
good offices with his father, 450.
Hamilton, Mr., the printer, John-
son repays, 422.

Hamlet, Johnson reads, when nine
years old, 12.

Hampton Court, Dr. Campbell
visits, 269.

Happiness, professions of, Johnson
thinks" all cant," 112.
Harleian, The, Miscellany, com-
piled by Johnson, 381.
Harris, James, six grammatical
faults, in his dedication of four-
teen lines, 27.

Health, Johnson's, always bad, 35;

becomes worse, 53; greatly
benefited by the attentions of
Mrs. Thrale, 53; of the hun-
dred sublunary things given to
man, health is ninety-nine, 184.
Heaven and Hell, the first time
Johnson heard of, 15.

Hector, Johnson's friend, occasion-
ally his amanuensis, 367.
Hermit of Teneriffe, said to be
composed in one night, 187.
Hervey, Mr. Thomas, Johnson
cites his brilliant manners and
genuine force of mind, 65; John-
son's love for every one of that
name, ibid.

Historical conversation not liked
by Johnson, 36.
Hodge, Johnson's cat, 103.
Hogarth. Johnson's cousin, Cor-
nelius Ford, was the parson in
one of his pictures, 9; his
anxiety that Mrs. Thrale should
obtain the friendship of Johnson,

57.

Holland House, a dessert service
given to Johnson preserved there,
222.

Holyhead. Dr. Campbell visits,

235.

Honour. "If you do not see the

honour, I feel the disgrace," 83.
Hoole, Mr., accompanies Fanny
Burney to Johnson's sick room,