315; attends Johnson in his last illness, 319.
Hounds, Johnson follows the, but finds no pleasure in it, 84. Household, Johnson's, described, 306, 307.
Hume, David, Johnson's intoler- ance for, 130.
Humour, Johnson's rich vein of, 74.
Hunter, Mr., the schoolmaster, hated by Johnson, 12.
Ill health, Johnson's, 35, 53, 185, 289, 398; softened without weakening his mind, 291; Fanny Burney on his last illness, 314, 319, 321.
Impransus, Johnson so signs his letter, 378.
Improvement of the Mind, by Watts, a favourite book with Johnson, 126.
Improvisation, Johnson's power of, 62, 69.
Improvisatore, an Italian, John- son's surprise at, 130. Inconsistencies of character, John- son's, 79.
Incredulity, Johnson's, 59.
Infidels, Johnson's aversion to, openly expressed, 41. Inn, The, Shenstone's poem, re- peated by Johnson, 330. Inscription, Latin, written by Mr. Beauclerk under Johnson's por- trait, 130.
Instruction, Johnson's story of the young man who desired, 93. Interest, Johnson's, in everything of every kind, 205.
Invasion, foolish panic about, irri-
tates Johnson, 37. In vino veritas, discussed, 104; only good for those who lie when sober, 132; Dr. Campbell's ac- count of the discussion, 256. Ireland and Irish affairs discussed by Johnson and Dr. Campbell,
Irene, presented by Johnson to Miss Boothby, 159, 160, 174; Murphy's account of, 429, 431. Irreparable or irrepairable? asked for a wager, 92.
Ivy Lane, The Club in, members of, 385.
James, Dr., acquainted with John- son's early life, 16.
Jesuits, Boileau says they lengthen the Creed and shorten the Deca- logue, 291.
Johnson, Andrew, Johnson's uncle, a wrestler and boxer, 6; Michael, Johnson's father, 6, 7, 185, 363.
Mrs., Johnson's wife, read comedy well, 62; Garrick's ac- count of her, ibid.
Rev. Samuel, of the Bowling Green Club, Rumford, 94. Joke, nothing produces enmity so surely as an untimely, 19. Jones, the Orientalist, Johnson's panegyric on, 84.
Jordan, Mr., Johnson's tutor at Pembroke, 15, 19.
Jortin, Dr., Johnson likes his ser- mons, but not his Life of Eras- mus, 131.
Journey to the Western Islands, Johnson's satisfaction at the commendation it received, 127; written without the assistance of books, 201.
Junius, his letters mentioned, 19 20; not all by one hand, 247.
Kames, Lord, his Elements of Criticism, 133.
Kelly, Hugh, Johnson said, wrote more than he read, 128. Knowledge, every day, the most useful, 80; Johnson's saying that it was divided among the Scots, like bread in a besieged town, 105.
"Know thyself," Johnson's poem entitled, 398-400.
Lamp. Rasselas, a lamp of wisdom,
Langton, Bennet, Johnson's regard for, 34; obtains Topham Beau- clerk's portrait of Johnson, 130; his children, 300; Johnson's character of, 341.
Late hours, Johnson loved, 52. Latin, Johnson spoke, with fluency, 43, 126.
Lauder, his imposition concerning Milton, 387, 388. Laugh, Johnson's, 118. Lawrence, Dr., his melancholy in- terview with Johnson, 34; Hill Boothby mentions, 142. Leap, Cornelius Ford's famous, 6. Learning, in Scotland, 105. Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte, her Female Quixote, 305. Letters, Johnson's, to Mrs. Thrale
during the Scotch Tour, 67; Johnson's interest in Lady Mary Wortley's, 103; from Miss Hill Boothby, 141-60, 161-74; from Johnson to Hill Boothby, 160, 175-9; Lord Chester- field's to his son, described by Johnson, 190; Johnson famed for letter-writing, 198; his cele- brated letter to Lord Chester- field, 395.
Levett, Dr., Johnson's fine verses
on, 50; Tyers' remarks on them, 203; Bishop Percy on, 229. Lexiphanes, an attack on Johnson, 396.
Library, The, at Streatham, 116, 117.
"Life, a pill none of us can swallow
without gilding," said Johnson, to excuse the indulgences he granted to the poor, 38. Life and death, 184, 392. Lions, Dr. Campbell is asked if he came to London "to see the lions," 265.
Literary assistance,
liberality in giving, 24, 128, 198. Literary history, Johnson's great knowledge of, 90.
Lives of great men, Johnson de- lighted in the, 129.
Living, Johnson offered a good,
Lobo, his voyage to Abyssinia, Murphy's account of Johnson's translation of, 367-72. London, a poem, Johnson's, praised by Pope, 187.
London, Johnson's first arrival at, 186; Dr. Campbell's illustration of the vast size of, 256.
Love, Johnson on the passion of,
"Lovely courier of the sky," Ana-
creon's Dove translated, 22. Ludicrous. Always looking at things in a ludicrous light a most dangerous habit, 456. Lydiat, account of, 429. Lyttelton, Lord, Johnson's Life of,
Madden, Dr., his liberality to Johnson, 227.
Madness, of Johnson's father, 6. Manufactures, Johnson had con- siderable knowledge of, 137. Marchmont, Lord, gives Johnson some particulars relating to Pope, 127.
Markland, Jeremiah, 101. Marmor Norfolciense, a pamphlet by Johnson against Sir Robert Walpole, 378.
Marriage. Misery of late mar riages, 9; Johnson's, 62, 373; "I advise no one to marry who is not likely to propagate under- standing," 42; description of a mercenary marriage, 102; second marriage," the triumph of hope over experience," 125; objects for marriage, 129. Martial, A Modern, Johnson's say. ing of these verses, that they contained too much folly for madness, and too much madness for folly, 28. Maxim, Johnson quotes a malicious one of Rochefoucault's, 39.
Melancholy, story of, " You and I and Hercules, all troubled with," 24; Johnson afflicted with, 334. Memory, Johnson's, 8; accuracy of, 49; Johnson's reply to a person complaining of the want of, 340.
Messiah, Pope's, done into Latin verse by Johnson, 186. Millar, Mr. Andrew, the Mæcenas of the age, 127; Dr. Campbell calls him a "dilettanti man,"
Milton, Johnson exhibits more of his excellencies, but also more of his defects than Addison, 203; Lauder's fraudulent attempt to defame, 387, 388, 390; John- son's dislike of his political prin- ciples, 443; Johnson's criticism on Paradise Lost, "a sublime composition," 446; his grand- daughter's benefit, 390. Minor, Dr., and Goodman Dull, Goldsmith's annoyance at being so called, 75.
Mirth, "the size of a man's under- standing may be measured by his mirth," 118.
Mitre, Johnson and Boswell tête-
à-tête at the, 452, 454. Molière, not sufficiently apprecia- ted by Johnson, 112. Money, the value of, should be taught, 80.
Montagu, Mrs., her praise of Johnson's writings, 75; John- son's compliments to her, 84; Mrs. Piozzi's note on her Essay on Shakespeare, 122; Johnson's fun with Fanny Burney about,
with Johnson, and they try who can "pepper the highest," 285; Johnson comes to tea with the Miss Mores, 285; her petite assemblée when Johnson and Garrick began a close encounter, 286; finds Boswell a very agree- able, good-natured man, 287; sits for her picture to Miss Rey. nolds, Johnson talking to her to make her look well, 288; umpire in a trial of skill between Garrick and Boswell, which could most nearly imitate John- son's manner, 289; goes to Oxford, and Johnson shows her about, 290; describes Johnson softened by illness, 291; and his death, and the impression made by it, 292, 294.
Mother, Johnson's, 7, 13, 15, 82. Mulso, Miss, lines by, repeated by Johnson, 330.
Murphy, Mr. Arthur, persuades Mr. Thrale to invite Johnson to his house, 52; curious circum- stances of his first acquaintance with Johnson, 95, 397; trans- lates Johnson's epitaph on Mrs. Salusbury, 55; Dr. Campbell meets, 256; he irritates Johnson by setting up Barry against Garrick, 262; his Essay on the Life and Writings of Johnson, 361. Musgrave, Sir Richard, urges Johnson to write the lives of our prose authors, 116. Music, Johnson could not enjoy, 42; the only sensual pleasure without vice, 125. Myrtle, Lines on receiving a Sprig of, 17.
Mysteriousness in trifles much of- fended Johnson, 107. Mystery, where, begins, vice or roguery not far off, 125.
National Debt, extraordinary cal- culation of Johnson's about the, 35.
Necessity made Johnson what he was, 211.
Needlework, much approved of by Johnson, 107.
Negroes, Johnson thought an in- ferior race, 86.
Nettle, a lady who was like a dead, she would sting if alive, 71. Newspaper abuse, Johnson's con- tempt for, 76.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 196, 197. New Year, congratulations on the, to Miss Boothby, 160. Nichols, Mr., editor of the Gentle-
man's Magazine, 375, 419, 421. Night, Young's description of, quoted, 27; night was Johnson's time for composition, 189. Nile, discovery of the head of the, by Lobo, 369-72.
Nugarum contemptor, an expres- sion used by Johnson in reverie,
Number and numeration defined, 35.
Numbers, round, always false, 126.
Ode to Mrs. Thrale, from the Isle of Sky, 67 n.
"Oft in danger, yet alive," verses to Mrs. Thrale, 68. Oglethorpe, General, Dr. Camp- bell dines with, and Boswell teases Johnson with questions, 263; Johnson begs him to write his own life, 263. Ombersley, the seat of Lord Sandys, the only place where Johnson acknowledged he had enough fruit, 44. Ordinary, Dr. Campbell dines at one in the Strand, and describes the guests, 251.
Osborne, Tom, the bookseller, knocked down by Johnson, 94, 190, 382; Boswell's true version of the story, 382 n.
Ossian, Poems of, their authenti- city examined by Johnson,
Oxford, Johnson's partiality for, 18; his exploits at, 15, 16; luxurious living at, 240; John- sou visits, at the same time as Hannah More, 290.
The Earl of, his library bought by Osborne and cata- logued by Johnson, 381.
Packthread, story of the man who had scruples concerning, 91, 92. Palmira, Johnson gives a lesson on the history, geography, and chronology of, 142.
Pamphlets, Johnson's political, Mrs. Piozzi's account of, 19; Murphy's account of, 437; The False Alarm, his first and favourite, 20; the Falkland Islands, attacking Junius, 408, 437, 438; Dr. Campbell hears the talk of the clubs about Taxation no Tyranny, 244; Johnson anxious to know how it is received, 247; answers to Taxation no Tyranny, 255, 259; another answer called Resistance no Rebellion, 266; The Patriot, 408.
Panic, an invasion, annoys John-
Paoli, General, Johnson delighted by his fine manner, 132. Paralytic stroke, Johnson's speech affected by a, 416.
Paris, Dr. Campbell's impressions of, 275. Parliamentary Debates, Tyers'
account of Johnson's, 187; Murphy's account of, 380, 381, 438; the only parts of his writings which gave Johnson any compunction, 421. Parodies by Johnson of celebrated poets, 29-31. Patience, Johnson's, 96; Mrs. Cumberland's, in making tea for Johnson, 213.
Patriot, The, a pamphlet of John- son's, 408.
Patrons, Johnson said his earliest were Dodsley and Cave, 187; Johnson's definition of one, in his letter to Lord Chesterfield, 396.
Pennies put by Johnson into the
hands of sleeping children, 342. Pension, Johnson's, 195; Murphy describes his going to offer it to Johnson, 403, 404. Pepper Alley, people live as long in, as in Salisbury Plain, 84. Pepys, Mr., Johnson's altercation with, 59.
Percy, Bishop, his Anecdotes and Remarks, being notes to Ander- son's Life of Johnson, 225-31.
his account of Johnson's method of composition, 227. Person, Johnson's, described by Mrs. Thrale, 117; by Bishop Percy, 225; by Cumberland, 212; by Dr. Campbell, 247; by Fanny Burney, 298; by Murphy, 423.
Philosophic Survey, The, Dr. Campbell goes to London to publish, in 1776, 278. Piety, Johnson's exemplary, 40, 293, 320, 336, 355, 423, 426. Pindar, Johnson is reading, at breakfast, when Dr. Campbell calls, 267.
Pinkethman, Mrs., Johnson's ac- count of, 304.
Poetry, devotional, Johnson's dis- like of, 77; his idea of poetry magnificent, ibid.; his power of repeating, 119, 128, 330. Poets, Lives of the, success of, 195; Murphy's account of, 439-
Campbell and Johnson discuss those of Ireland, 273, 274. Poor, Johnson's indulgence to the,
37; and benevolence to, 38. Pope, Johnson's high opinion of, 26, 330, 331; his conversation described, 127; his praise of Johnson's London, 187, 376. Porridge Island and its cooks' shops, 44.
Portico, a preface likened to a, 3. Portrait, Johnson's, begun by Sir
Joshua for Mrs. Thrale, but not finished, called by Johnson himself Blinking Sam, 99, 335, 336 n.; one at Streatham,117; one painted for Mr. Beauclerk, now Mr. Murray's, Mrs. Thrale thinks very like, 130.
poetical, by Mrs. Piozzi, of Johnson, 117.
Hannah More sits to Miss Reynolds for her, and Johnson talks to her to make her look well, 288.
Postscript, Mrs. Piozzi's, on a re- mark of Boswell's, 122. Poverty an evil to be avoided by all honest means, 102. Pride, Johnson's neither mean nor vain, 121.
Prior quoted on suffering, 197. Prosperity, even, could not spoil Reynolds, 78.
Psalmanazar, George, the best man Johnson knows, 72; sup- posed to be a person of great piety, 131.
Punchinello, a literary, Johnson's name for Cooper, 178.
Puns, Johnson no friend to, 134. Purgatory, Johnson on the doc- trine of, 392.
Pyramid, Boswell so calls his Life of Johnson, 294.
Quarrels, all, should be studiously avoided, 61.
Quixote, Don, Mrs. Piozzi's digres sion on, 112; Charlotte Len- nox's Female Quixote, 305.
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