JOHNSON, goes to school at Lichfield, i. 21-at Stourbridge, i. 26. i. 52. becomes usher of Market-Bosworth School, i. 57. See removes to Birmingham, i. 59. marries Mrs. Porter, i. 72. opens an Academy at Edial, i. 73. goes to London with Garrick, i. 78. a writer in The Gentleman's Magazine,' i. 91, &c. endeavours to obtain the degree of A. M. to get a 144. his distressed circumstances, and filial piety, i. 143, loses his wife, i. 213. .his extreme grief for her loss, i. 214, 257, 280; ii. composes her funeral Sermon, i. 219. ..visits Oxford, i. 247; and again, i. 330; ii. 458; iv. .......obtains his degree of A. M. from that University, i. 254. . his letters on that occurrence, i. 259, &c.—The diplo- ..obtains a pension of £300, per Ann. i. 356, et seq.; 346. visits Cambridge, i. 468. created LL.D. by Trinity College, Dublin, i. 470. ... his interview with the King, ii. 37. ...appointed Professor of Ancient Literature in the Royal endeavours to get into Parliament, ii. 137, et seq. visits to the Hebrides, ii. 275. See Hebrides. France, ii. 395, 397. his account of it, ii. 401, 402, 403, &c. his various places of Residence, iii. 437. 2 JOHNSON, his long and gradual decline, iv. 245, 246. .... his will and codicil, iv. 443, 444, 445, 446, 447.—Re- ... his burning his MSS. iv. 448. his MS, account of his own life, iv. 449. his funeral, iv. 463. his monuments and epitaphs, iv. 463, 467, 468. ... his peculiarities of person and manners, i. 18, 69, 74, his attention to small things, i. 447; iii. 362; iv. 354 increased as he advanced in life, iv. 258. ........ not a complainer, iv. 122, 186, 385; seldom courted not prone to inveigh against his own times, iii. 4, 247. never courted the great, iv. 123. never got entirely rid of his provincial pronunciation, ..... by what means he attained his extraordinary accuracy .... his visit to his native town, where he finds things al- his library, i. 417. his love for the acquaintance of young persons, i. 426. : his observance of certain days, i. 464. his custom of talking to himself, i. 465. his watch-inscription, ii. 58. his amusements in his solitary hours, iii. 429. his company sought by few of the great, iv. 123. general traits of his character and mode of living, i. 40, ...... his course of study desultory and irregular, i. 411. JOHNSON, continued his studies to near the time of his death, hav- his early acquisition of general knowledge, i. 427. his manner of composing his Poetical Works, ii 13. his censure of one of his Ramblers,' iv. 4. at a late period of life could have made his 'Ramblers' ..... his manner of composing his other works, iii. 62, n. .... wrote six sheets of translation from the French in one ...... wrote a hundred lines of the Vanity of Wishes in a day, composed seventy lines of the Vanity of Human Wishes wrote three columns of the Gentleman's Magazine, wrote forty-eight of the printed octavo pages of the his style formed on Sir William Temple's, a paper of his own remarks on, and masterly vindication of his ...... his extraordinary memory, i. 16, 24. retained in it verses of obscure authours, ii, 133, n. his superlative power of wit, ii. 237. his dexterity in retort, i. 375; iv. 200. his conversation eminently distinguished by fecundity of fancy, and choice of language, iii. 344. nothing of the old man in it, iii. 364; iv. 199. his early, long, habitual, and systematick piety, i. 15, JOHNSON, his independence, i. 424. his superstition, i. 466; ii. 405. his awful fear of death, ii. 89, 103, 123, 312; iii. his general tenderness of nature, humanity, and affa- his warm and sometimes violent manner, i. 223; 103, 121; iii. 23, 201, 296, 316, 341, 366, 374, 415; iv. his placability, ii. 106; iii. 297. his charity, ii. 118. his occasional jocularity, i. 178, 251, 380, 409; his invariable regard to truth, i. 129, 232, 336, 418 his love of little children, iv. 210. his kindness to his servants, iii. 95; iv. 210. his fondness for animals which he had taken under his his bow to an Archbishop, iv. 212. his laugh, ii. 389. his engaging to write the history of the Authour's .... his respect to birth and family, i. 116, 118, 127, 428; 312. his love of good eating, i. 449; iii. 70, 204, 311; iv. his political character and opinions, i. 16, 290, 406, ...... 469. his pamphlets, i. 120, 121; ii. 108, 109, 135, 136, For his other works see their different titles, and see iv. 453. catalogue of his works, i. xxix. JOHNSON, catalogue of works proposed to be executed by him, .... stories to his prejudice refuted, iii. 213; iv. 182, 183, ... various portraits of him, iv. 465, 466. Jones, Miss, i. 302. Sir William, ii. 125. n. iii. 416. Jorden, Mr. i. 37, 38. Journal, or diary of life, its utility, i. 315, 415; ii. 223, 369; 66 Journey to the Hebrides," contains a great deal that the world Ireland, and the Irish, i. 300, 301; ii. 247, 321; iii. 442. Irishmen mix better with Englishmen than the Scots do, ii. 247. .. their disregard of quantity in Latin verse, ii. 132. 'Irene,' Johnson's tragedy of, i. 77, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, ...... acted, i. 174, 175, 176, 177, 178. Islam, a description of, iii. 205. Judges, ii. 355, 356. Junius, ii. 136; iii. 407; iv. 334. Juries, iii. 16, n. Justitia hulk, an inadequate punishment, iii. 291. K. K ought to be retained in the words, publick, musick, critick, &c. Kames, Lord, ii. 207. ...... ...... his Elements of Criticism,' ii. 86. his Sketches of the History of Man,' iii. 269, 368, 369, 381. Kelly, Hugh, Johnson's prologue to his 'Word to the Wise,' iii. 121. curious anecdote of, iv. 452. Kemble, J. P. Esq. iv. 263. Kempis, Thomas à, iii. 247; iv. 21, 305. Ken, Bishop, iii. 185, n. Kennedy, Rev. Dr. his Astronomical Chronology,' i. 349. M. D. A singular Tragedy by, iii. 260. |