Drumgould, Col., of the Ecole
Militaire, ii. 354. Dryden and Pope distinguished by Voltaire, ii. 23.
Dryden characterized by Gray, ii. 23; his profundity praised by Johnson, 90; quoted, 124 characterized under the name of Bayes in the Rehearsal, 164; Lord Hailes collects notices of, iv. 387; quoted, in his preface to All for Love, 65; his ex- cellent Dedication of his Juvenal, 4; Johnson's Life of, referred to, 4; various readings in, 10. Dubas, Jean Baptiste, his Re- flexions Critiques, ii. 94; Vol- taire on, 94 n. Duchess of Portland, the, my noble, lovely, little Peggy," iii.
Duck, epitaph on a, i. 15. Duel, fatal, between Boswell's eldest son, Sir Alexander, and Mr. Stuart of Duncarn, ii. 174; between Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Riddell, iv. 147. Duelling, is it consistent with moral duty? ii. 173, 174; Johnson de- fends, 213; discussed, iv. 147, 148 n.
Duglas, James de, said to have taken the heart of Robert Bruce to the Holy Land, iii. 203. Du Halde's China, i. 97. n; John- son's lively account of the trans- lation of, by Green and Guthrie, iii. 449.
Dunbar, Dr., of Aberdeen, his essays on the history of mankind, iii. 420.
Dunciad, the, written for fame, i. 307; Johnson repeats the last lines of, ii. 90; Pope's emotion on repeating these lines, 90 n. Duncombe, Mr., a very pleasing man, iii. 317.
Dundas, Henry, Lord Melville, i. 207; his Irish accent, ii. 157; his fine speech in favour of the negro, iii. 232.
Dunning, John, Lord Ashburton. known to be a Devonshire man by his accent, ii. 156.
Mr., a member of the Club, iii. 162; his tribute to the power and charm of Johnson's conver- sation, 256.
Dunton's Life and Errors, John- son mentions, iv. 137; reprinted by Nichols, 137 n. Durandi Sententiarum, 1458, seen by Johnson in Paris, ii. 359. Dury, Major-General Alexander, his death, 262; account of, 262 n. Dutch, Low, Johnson sets himself to learn, ii. 244. Dyer, Samuel, a learned member of the Club, ii. 32.
John, his poem the Fleece, iii.
Early habits, force of, ii. 332.
life, particulars of Johnson's, "You shall have them all for two pence," ii. 205.
rising, difficulty of, iii. 195. Earthquake, a shock of, in Staf- fordshire, iii. 168.
East Indies, the practice of going there in quest of wealth dis- cussed, iii. 389.
Easter day, 1775, ii. 327 n.; 1777, impressions and resolutions, iii. 134; 1778, Johnson and Bos- well go to St. Paul's, 319; 1779, Service at St. Paul's, Boswell Idines with Johnson and Mr. Allen, the printer, 373; 1781, "Solemn worship at St. Paul's," after which Johnson's friends dine with him, and he produces the silver salvers, iv. 48, 49; 1783, Service at St. Paul's; Boswell dines with Johnson, but he is not well, and talks little, 146; 1784, Johnson deplores to Boswell that the doctors would not allow him to go to Church, 196. Easton Maudit, Johnson's visit to Dr. Percy at, ii. 8.
Eating, Johnson enjoys good eat-
ing, and defends it, i. 371. Eccles, Isaac Ambrose, one of the guests at Boswell's supper party,
i. 337 n. Ecclesiastical History of England, scheme for, proposed by John- son, i. 394.
Eclogues, the earliest English con- tained in Barclay's Ship of Fools, i. 215.
Ecole Militaire, in Paris, ii. 352. Economy and waste cannot be de- fined, iii. 276.
Edial, near Lichfield, Johnson's school at, i. 61.
Edinburgh, Johnson arrives at, ii.
Editions, different, of books ought
to be collected, iv. 203. Education, Johnson on, ii. 25; "I hate byroads in," 369; influence of, iii. 24; Milton and Locke on, 355; "I am always for get- ting a boy forward in his learn- ing," 377.
Edwards, Edward, Johnson writes to, introducing Dr. Burney, iii.
Rev. J., on free will, iii. 298 n.
Mr., curious meeting of Johnson with, iii. 307; praises country life, 308; gives an ac- count of his life, 308, 309; Johnson's old fellow-collegian, iv. 47. Eglintoune, Alexander, Earl of, his admiration of Johnson, ii. 76; shot by Mungo Campbell, iii. 212.
the Countess of, her regard for Johnson, iii. 361. Egmont, John, Earl of, his History
of the House of Yvery, iv. 136. Egotists, four classes of, iii. 198. Electrical experiments, Miss Wil- liams assists Gray, the electri- cian, in his, ii. 42. Elibank, Patrick, Lord, Johnson's high opinion of him, iii. 75; "no-
thing_conclusive in his talk," 99; Beauclerk gives Johnson his Epitaph on a Lady to turn into Latin, 433 n.
Eliot, Mr., afterwards Lord, travels with Mr. Stanhope, iv. 38, 244; sends Johnson Carleton's Me- moirs, 245.
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, his good pro- nunciation, ii. 157; his beautiful ballad, 157 n.
Ellis, Jack, the literary scrivener, iii. 73 n.
Mrs., on Fanny Burney's novels, iv. 369. Elphinston, Mr. James, publishes the Rambler in Edinburgh, i. 157; Johnson's letters to, 158, 159, ii. 167; entertains Johnson and Boswell at dinner, 213; his Martial, a most extraordi- nary translation, iii. 271. Elrington, Bishop,doubts Johnson's assertion respecting Newton, i. 360.
Elizabeth, Historical Memoirs of Queen, ii. 184.
Ellis, John, the literary money- scrivener, iii. 73.
Elvira, Mallet's tragedy of, at- tacked by Boswell and two friends, i. 324.
Elwal, Mr., the heretic, the trial of, ii. 161, 235. Emigration, discussed at the Club, iii. 249.
Emmett, Mrs., the actress, iii. 47. Emphasis, Johnson, Garrick, and Giffard on, i. 123.
Emulation, good effects of, ii. 369. Enfans trouvés, visited, ii. 361. Engagements, Johnson's journal of, iii. 336 n.
English poets, Johnson's lives of,
iii. 151 n. Engravings, Johnson asks Boswell to procure him portraits of Scotch men of learning, iv. 192; from portraits of Johnson, 108; on Mr. W. Smith's list, 412. Entails are encroachments on the
dominion of Providence, iii. 10; Scotch law of, 9, 10 n.; reasons why entails are good, iii. 18. Epigram, Johnson's Latin, i. 43;
Greek and Latin, to Eliza, 84, 100; on George II. and Colley Cibber, 107; ad Lauram, 114; ad Ricardum Savage, 118; to Molly Aston, iii. 340 n.; to the Temple of the Winds in Moor Park, 369; Garrick's, on the Dictionary, i. 236; on the Duke of Marlborough's grand bridge over a small rivulet, 35; on the miracle at Cana, 309; on a quack doctor, by Garrick, ii. 54; occasioned by a religious dispute at Bath, iv. 212; Greek Epigrams translated by Johnson during his sleepless nights, 292. Epilogue, spoken by the lady who personated the ghost of Hermi- one, by Johnson, i. 28; to the Distressed Mother, by Addison, 134; to Irene, by Sir Wm. Yonge, 146.
Epitaph, Johnson's, on Philips, i.
106; on Hogarth, ii. 383; on Goldsmith, iii. 120; on Parnell, iv. 17; on his Father, Mother, and Brother, 300 n.
on Johnson, by Dr. Parr, in Latin, iv. 326; from Camden's Remains, on a Very Wicked Man, 148; the famous one quoted by Addison, translated, ii. 316 n.
Epitaphs, Johnson's Essay on, i. 106; some exaggeration of praise allowable in, ii. 369. Equality is obtained in civilized life by the number of different kinds of superiority, i. 312. Erse books, given to Johnson, ii.
grammar by Shaw, Johnson writes the proposals for, iii. 141. poetry, Boswell thinks there are some ancient manuscripts of, ii. 286; Johnson denies this, 287, 288.
Erskine, Hon. Andrew, i. 324.
the Hon. Thomas, his elo- quence and vivacity, ii. 168; account of, 169 n.
Essay on Truth, by Dr. Beattie, approved by Johnson, ii. 193.
on Man, Pope's, statement that the scheme was drawn up by Bolingbroke, iii. 391; partly true and partly false, 392.
on Taste, by Miss Reynolds, iv. 83. Essays, original, by Johnson, in the Literary Magazine, i. 240; Boswell says the best is that on Soame Jenyns's "Inquiry into the Origin of Evil," 246.
on the history of mankind, by Dr. Dunbar, iii. 420.
Boswell's,TheHypochondriac, published in the London Maga- zine, iv. 122. Essex, Lord, his advice to his kinsman, "Rather to go one hundred miles te speak with one wise man, than five miles to see a fair town," i. 343; supposed to have been written by Bacon,
Etou, Boswell sends his eldest son to, iii. 66.
Etymologies, Johnson is asked
"How he should get these," for his Dictionary? i. 138, 140, 230, 231.
Eugenio, misquoted by Johnson, ii. 225; author of, 225. Eumelian Club, The, founded by Dr. Ash, iv. 302.
Eupheues, a character in one of the Ramblers, supposed to be from George Bubb Doddington, i. 163. Euripides, quoted on armorial bearings, ii. 173; Johnson reads, on the journey to London,
Evans, Dr., his epigram on the Duke of Marlborough's fine bridge, iii. 35.
the bookseller, beaten by Goldsmith, ii. 199.
Fast, Johnson's strict, ii. 322. Father's Revenge, The, a tragedy by the Earl of Carlisle, sub- mitted to Johnson, iv. 175; Johnson's letter on, 176, 177. Faulkner, George, ii. 151 n. Feeling, Johnson says,
feeling people pay you by feel- ing," ii. 97; The Man of, a novel by Henry Mackenzie, published by a Mr. Eccles as his own, i.
285. Felixmarte of Hircania, the old Spanish romance, i. 22. Ferguson, Sir Adam, M.P. for Ayrshire, ii. 165.
James, the self-taught philo- sopher, ii. 100; his works re- edited, 101 n.
Ferney, Boswell at, i. 346. Ferns, Deanery of, Burke calls it a barren title, iv. 34. Festivals and Fasts, Nelson's, its great sale, iii. 42.
Feudal system, Boswell argues in favour of, ii. 172.
Fiction, not to be mingled with facts, iv. 128.
Fielding, Henry, i. 123, 193; writes in praise of Johnson's Life of Savage, 128; and Richardson compared, ii. 62, 63, 169; his Amelia, iii. 89.
Sir John, brother of Henry Fielding, i. 336 n. Filby, John, at the Harrow, in Water Lane, Goldsmith's tailor, ii. 89.
Fingal, poem of, a mere uncon-
nected rhapsody, ii. 125, iv. 180. Fire, tricks to make the fire burn, are they vulgar tricks or philo- sophical expedients? iii. 393. Fireworks, Johnson at a display of, iv. 238.
Fitzherbert, Mr. William, John- son's portrait of, iii. 179, 378; his suicide, ii. 215. Flageolet, Johnson buys one, but
never made out a tune, iii. 257. Flatman, Thomas, his poems dis. cussed, iii. 79 n.; Rochester's verses on, 80.
Flattery, stage, of royalty a mere formula, ii. 220; pleases very generally, 331.
Fleet Street, preferred by Johnson to Greenwich Park, i. 366; cheerfulness of, ii. 310.
Flint, Bet, Johnson's account of her, iv. 56, 57; a verse of her Life quoted, ibid. n. Flogging, not so common as it was, ii. 369.
Flood, Mr., the orator, his endow- ment of a professorship of the Irish language, i. 252; sepul- chral verses by, on Johnson, iv. 328.
Floyd, the poor author, who found Derrick asleep upon a bulk, i.
Floyer, Sir John, i. 55; his asthma and long life, iv. 193, 263; his book on asthma borrowed by Johnson when at Lichfield for the last time, 263.
Fludyer, a fellow student, with whom Johnson played draughts, iii. 30.
Fontainebleau, visited, ii. 356. Fool of Quality, novel by Henry Brooke, i. 101.
Fool, The, a pamphlet attacking Thomas Hervey, to which John- son wrote a reply, ii. 50. Fools, Ship of, Barclay's, contains the earliest Eclogues in the lan- guage, i. 215.
Foote, Samuel, called the modern Aristophanes,i. 324 n.; threatens
to caricature Johnson on the stage, 324; Johnson on, ii. 96, 97 n., 99; not a good mimic, 151, 278; Johnson's description of him, iii. 111, 112 n. ; quite impartial,
for he tells lies of every body, iii. 22, 23 n.; his death, 132; compared with Garrick, 208, 209; story of, and Garrick's bust, iv. 156; a comical fellow,
Foundling Hospital for Wit, quoted, iv. 212.
Foppery, incurable, ii. 126. Forbes, Sir William, of Pitsligo, his account of the Round Robin, iii. 121, 122; his delight with Boswell's Journal, 228; his amusing simile of the bottle of beer, 89.
Ford, Sarah, Johnson's mother, i. 9;" Parson," 10, 22, iii. 347; ac- count of the family of, 9, 10; Johnson's uncle, i. 388.
Gifford's Life of the Drama- tist, quoted, on Johnson's know- ledge of Greek, iv. 292. Fordyce, Dr. James, author of Sermons to Young Women, i. 314; a Presbyterian, but a warm friend of Johnson's, iv.
Dr. George, elected member of the Club, ii. 255; present at the famous conversation reported by Boswell, iii. 247. Foreigners, their difficulty in writing of a people they are merely visiting, ii. 209; John- son's absurd contempt for, iii.
Foreboding, Johnson's, nervous, in Paris, ii. 354.
Forster, John, his Life of Gold- smith referred to, ii. 90. Foster, Dr. James, an eminent preacher, iii. 432.
Mrs. Elizabeth, Milton's grand daughter, i. 173 n. Fountains, The, a fairy tale, by Johnson, ii. 43.
Former and latter, expressions much disliked by Johnson, iv.
Forster, his Voyage to the South Seas, iii. 205.
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