ABERCROMBIE, James, Esq., of Phila-
delphia, his communications con-
cerning Dr. Johnson, vol. iii. p. 55
Abingdon, Lord, bon mot of, v. 132 n.
Abington, Mrs., iii. 182, 186, 191
Abjuration, oath of, iii. 183 n.
Absentees from their estates, how far
justifiable, iv. 201-4, 280
Abyssinia. See Lobo, Rasselas
Academy, Royal, instituted, ii. 256
Action in publick speaking, iii. 59
Actors, i. 151-3, 184-5; ii. 278; iii.
82-4, 269, 336; iv. 209; v. 150; vi.
65-6 n.

Adams, Miss, vi. 116, 124

Adams, Rev. Dr., i. Advert. xiii, 36–7,
50-1, 54, 112, 114, 162, 171, 180,
251-4, 276; iii. 312; vi. 116, 130, 220
Addison, Johnson's opinion of, i. 212;
ii. 109; iii. 206-7; iv. 46; v. 26

his style compared with John-
son's, i. 211-12

Johnson's Life of, v. 198, 244
Adultery, ii. 245; iii. 97-8
'Adventurer,' Hawkesworth's, i. 192,
221, 237-9, 242

Adye, Miss Mary, i. 16; iii. 338; v.
104

Egri Ephemeris, Johnson's, v. 226
Agar, W. E., Esq., iv. 131 n.
Agriculture, i. 298

Agutter, Rev. Mr., his Sermon on
Johnson's death, vi. 276
Akenside's poetry, iii. 8; iv. 32

his early friendship with Charles
Townshend, iv.

Akerman, Mr., Keeper of Newgate,
character and anecdotes of, v. 127-8

Allen, Mr., the printer, i. 154; iv
302-3; vi. 191, 224

Johnson's letter to, vi. 47.
America and Americans, iii. 153-4
174-7; iv. 231, 326; v. 165, 234
Amyat, Dr., his anecdote of Dr. John-
son, ii. 60 n.

Anderson, Professor, at Glasgow, iv.
132

Angeloni's letters, v. 266
Angels, vi. 122 11.
Anthologia, vi. 232
Antiquities, study of, v. 108
Arbuthnot, ii. 109

Argyle, Archibald, Duke of, iv. 76
Armorial bearings as ancient as the
siege of Thebes, iii. 23-4.
Armstrong, Dr., ii. 30 n.; iv. 130
Arnold, Dr., on insanity, iv. 200
Articles, Thirty-nine, ii. 290, 347
Ascham, Roger, Johnson's Life of, ii.
149

Ash, John, M.D., founder of the
Eumelian Club, vi. 244 2.
Ashbourne, mistress of an inn there,
iv. 233

Astle, Rev. Mr., vi. 146

Astle, Thomas, Esq., v. 291 n.; vi.
146

Aston, Molly, i. 58; v. 28, 206 and n.
Aston, Mrs., her maiden sister, iv.
151; V. 105

Athol porridge, v. 231

Atterbury, Bishop, his funeral sermon
on Lady Cutts, iv. 258

Attornies, Johnson's notion of them,
ii. 318

Auchinleck, Lord (the Authour's
father), iii. 281

place of, iii. 278

Authour, the young (Johnson's poem),

i. 33

Authours, of deciding on their MSS.,
iii. 40; iv. 292; v. 4, 64

of their writing for profit, iv. 185
respect due to them, iv. 348;
v. 266. See Books

should put as much into their
books as they will hold, iii. 85

had better be attacked than un-
noticed, v. 65

their writings shew not their real
characters, but what they wish to
appear, iv. 282
Authourship, v. 18
Avarice, v. 7

BACON, Viscount St. Albans, iv. 219-20
his rules for conversation, vi. 57
Badcock, Rev. Mr., vi. 262 n.
Bagshaw, Rev. Thomas, iii. 110

187

Johnson's letters to, iii. 110; vi.

Baker, Sir George, vi. 193
Ballads (ancient), iii. 61
Balloons, vi. 196

Ballow, Thomas, Esq. (the lawyer),
iv. 22

Baltick, Johnson's proposed expedition
to the, iv. 153

Banks, Sir Joseph, his Epigram on his
Goat, ii. 338

his Voyages, ii. 342

Barber, Mr. Francis, i. 221, 223, 226;
ii. 29, 251, 341; vi. 253

Johnson's letters to him, ii.
304
Barclay, Mr., the young authour, ii. 184
Barclay, Mr., one of Mr. Thrale's suc-

cessors, v. 271 n.

Baretti, Joseph, i. 294; ii. 34, 43, 246;
iii. 319; iv. 197; v. 177

the first who received copy-money

in Italy, iv. 185

his Frusta Letteraria, iv. 197
his trial, ii. 282

Johnson's letters to him, ii. 44,
53, 63
Barnard, Dr. Thomas (Lord Bishop
of Limerick), iii. 168; iv. 88; v.
268 n.

Barretier, J. P., Johnson's Life of, i.
129, 131

Barrington, Hon. Daines, iv. 351
Barrow, Rev. Dr., his Sermons, v.
258 n.
Barrowby, Dr., vi. 125

Barry, Sir Edward, Bart., M.D., his
notion that pulsation occasions death
by attrition: refuted by Johnson
iv. 34

Barry, James, Esq. (the painter),
Johnson's letter to, vi. 17
his paintings, vi. 42.

Barter, the enthusiast, iii. 8
Bateman, Edward, Tutor of Christ
Church, his lectures, 52

Bath, Johnson's visit to, iv. 45
Bathurst, Dr. Richard, i. 168, 174,
229, 237-8, 241; v. 172, 178

Baxter, Richard, his works, iii. 105;
v. 348; vi. 44

Baxter, William, his edition of Ana-
creon, v. 326; vi. 63, 92
Bayle's Dictionary, ii. 109
Beach, Thomas, iii. 89 n.
Beattie, Dr., ii. 335, 340; iii. 117; vi.
letter from Johnson to, v. 130
Beauclerk, Topham, Esq., i. 233; iii.
151; iv. 316; v. 80, 120, 152, 344
his violent altercation with John-
son, v. 74

'Beauties of Johnson,' i. 201; v. 309
Beauty, manly, described by Shak-
speare and Milton, v. 224
Bedlam, iii. 235; vi. 24
Beggars, v. 92, 289.

Beggars' Opera,' iii. 227-8; v. 6
Belchier, Surgeon, iv. 56

Bellamy, Mrs., her letter to Johnson,
vi. 66 n.

Belsham, Mr., his 'Essay on Drama-
tick Poetry,' ii. 72 n.

Bentham, the Rev. Dr., iii. 315
Bentley, Dr., verses by, v. 167
Berenger, Richard, Esq., v. 242
Beresford, Mrs. and Miss, vi. 114
Berkeley, Bishop, ii. 155, 323; v. 171
Berwick, Duke of, his Memoirs, iv.
322

Beville, Rev. Mr., his ingenious de-
fence of Hammond, v. 213 n.
Bewley, Mr., his enthusiastick venera-
tion for Johnson, v. 291
Bible, the, should be read with the
comments by Lowth, Patrick, and
Hammond, iv. 57

Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 135-6
Bickerstaff, Mr. Isaac, ii. 271

Bicknell, Mr., i. 306

Biddulph, Miss Sydney,' the Novel,
ii. 71-2

Biographia Britannica,' iv. 198-9;
vi. 103 n.

Biography, remarks on, i. 1-11; ii.
109; iii. 69, 317-8; iv. 74-5, 176–7;
vi. 249

Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, i. 132, 134
n., 144, 214

Johnson's letters to, i. 214, 276

his letter to Johnson on his Dic-
tionary, i. 277

Birds, their migration, iii. 99
Bishops, vi.108, 158. See Clergy
Blackfriars Bridge, ii. 31

Black-letter books, their value, ii. 311
Blacklock's poetry, ii. 150
Blackmore, Sir Richard, assisted in
his 'Creation,' ii. 295.

Johnson's Life of, v. 201
Blackstone, Sir William, iii. 215 n.,
=280 n.; v. 243
Blackwall, Anthony, i. 59
Blagden, Dr., v. 175

Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, his Sermons,
iv. 103, 112, 190, 196; v. 26, 250

his account of Pope's Essay on
Man v. 94

Blair, Rev. Robert, authour of 'The
Grave,' iv. 47 n.

Blair, Robert, Esq., Solicitor-General
- for Scotland, iv. 47 n.

Blake, Admiral, Johnson's Life of, i. 129
Blaney, Elizabeth, i. 14; vi. 216.
Blank verse, ii. 111, 315; iv. 289; v.
19, 163, 187, 209.
Blenheim Park, iii. 320
Blue-stocking Club, v. 261

Boerhaave, Johnson's Life of, i. 122
petius magis Philosophus quàm
Christianus, ii. 318

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first
Viscount, his works, i. 256
Bolton, Mr., of Birmingham, iii. 330
Bonaventura, ii. 186

Books and Booksellers, iii. 295; iv.
121, 321; vi. 75, 109-10
Boothby, Miss Hill, some account of,

Bosville, Godfrey, Esq., v. 137
Bosville, Mrs., iii. 13

BOSWELL (the Authour of this Work)
introduced to Johnson, ii. 74,.78
his 'Account of Corsica,' ii. 236,
247-8, 259-60

elected of the LITERARY CLUB,
iii. 88

his 'Letter to the People of Scot-
land,' v. 336 n.

his Letter on Fox's India Bill,
vi. 85, 87

for other matters, see ii. 157, 189,
236, 293-5; iii. 63, 278; iv. 330; v.
34, 51, 55, 105, 108, 316

Johnson's argument in favour of
his trying his fortune in London,
vi. 186

Johnson's excellent letter to him
on his succeeding to his estate, v. 316
Johnson's other letters to him,
ii. 157, 188, 207, 247, 259, 298, 333,
369; iii. 53. 116, 118-9, 121, 125-6,
128, 130, 133-5, 141, 144-5, 148, 150,
154, 157, 171, 239, 241, 243-4, 248,
275, 277, 281-2, 287, 289, 291-3;
iv. 44, 93, 99, 101, III, 114, 118,
134, 137, 143, 147, 148-9, 154, 236,
241-2, 312; V. 51, 81, 86, 88, 107,
III, 115, 131, 142, 222, 309, 313;
vi. 51, 63, 72, 85-6, 89, 91, 93, 183,
223; and seq.

letters to Johnson from him, ii.
210-13, 248, 333, 335, 338; iii. 51,
123, 133, 135, 139-40, 149, 153, 155,
169, 246, 272, 291; iv. 91, 94, 97,
113, 115, 117, 128, 142, 146, 148, 152,
235, 238, 247, 249, 251, 311; v. 47,
81, 87, 104, 109, 129; vi. 63
Boswell, Mrs., iii. 122, 125-6; iv.
182 n., 242; V. III

Johnson's letters to, iv. 90, 146;
v. 319; her answer, v. 321
Boswell, Dr., his character of Johnson,
iv. 8

Boswell, James, Esq. (the authour's
second son), iv. 12, 307 2.

Boswell, Thomas David, Esq., v. 129;
vi. 270

Boswell, Veronica (the authou 's eldest
daughter), iv. 148 n.

Boufflers, Mad. de, iii. 2

Boulter, Dr. Hugh, A chbishop of
Armagh, some account of, i. 310 ..

'Boulter's Monument,' Dr. Madden's
poem on, i. 310

Bourchier, Governour, v. 239
Bowles, William, Esq., vi. 53
Bowyer, William, Printer, his Life, vi.

212

Boyse, Mr. Samuel, vi. 261 n.
Braithwaite, Daniel, Esq., vi. 109
Bramhall, Archbishop, his work on
Liberty and Necessity, ii. 291
Bribery, iii. 209

Brocklesby, Dr., his kind attention to
Johnson, v. 339; vi. 49, 54, 90, 93,
172, 250, 268

Johnson's letters to, vi. 54, 189,
and seq.

Brodie, Captain, i. 58 n. ; iii. 338
Brown, Capability, v. 92

Brown, Isaac Hawkins, Esq., iii. 200
Brown, Mr. Thomas, Johnson's Eng-
lish teacher, i. 21

Brown, Rev. Dr. John, ii. 322
Brown, Rev. Mr. Robert, of Utrecht,
his confutation of Hume, ii. 193; iv.
325
Browne, Sir Thomas, Johnson's Life
of, i. 208, 297

his style how far imitated by
Johnson, i. 208
Brutes, the hardships suffered by them
recompensed by the care of man, iv.

51-2

not endued with reason, iii. 100
Brutus, Marcus, a ruffian, ii. 73 n.
Brydone's Tour, v. 44

Buchan, Earl of, anecdote of, iii. 21
Buchanan, i. 142-3, 281; vi. 1

Buckingham, Catharine, Duchess of,
iv. 269

Budgell Eustace, iv. 46
Budworth, Mr., vi. 261 m.
Buffon, remark on, iv. 89 n.
Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress,' iii. 87
Burial Service, vi. 32

Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, anec-
dotes of, and remarks on, i. 64; ii. 25,
201, 331; iii. 319; iv. 83, 347; v. 68,
170, 329; vi. 106-7, 137, 153, 260
his bon-mots, v. 8

his universal knowledge, v. 165
the Authour introduced to him,
iii. 89

his Letter to the Sheriffs of
Bristol censured by Johnson, iv. 212

Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, his
'Essay on the Sublime,' &c., ii. 276
his Letter on the Affairs
America,' iv. 212

Burke, Richard, jun., Esq., vi. 38-9
his death, vi. 38 n.

Burman, Johnson's Life of, i. 135
Burnet's History of his own Times,
iii. 61

his Life of Rochester, iv. 218
Burney, Dr., v. 56-8; vi. 2, 233

Johnson's letters to him, i. 278,
315; ii. 4, 185; vi. 60, 199, 222

bis Anecdotes of Johnson, ii. 5;
iii. 273; V. 290

Burney, Miss, and her Works, vi. 42,
106, 201, 239
Burney, Mrs., ii. 179 n.; vi. 24
Burrowes, Rev. Robert, remarks and
imitations by, vi. 234

'Burton's books,' more numerous than
Johnson supposed, vi. 82
list of them, ib. n.

Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' i.
38; ii. 311; iii. 311

Bute, Earl of, ii. 56; iii. 214; iv. 82:
V. 282

Johnson's letters to, ii. 59, 62
Butter, Dr., iv. 1, 176, 185; vi. 250
Byng, Admiral, ii. 319

his epitaph, i. 306

Byng, Hon. John, his Letter to Mr.
Malone, vi. 271

CALLIMACHUS, V. 146

Cambridge, Richard Owen, Esq., iii.
225; iv. 281; vi. 9-10

Cambridge University, Johnson's visit
to, ii. 172

Camden, Charles, first Lord, iv. 348
Cameron, Dr. Archibald, 127
Campbell, Hon. Archibald, iii. 64;
vi. 118

Campbell, Dr. John, ii. 100, 241;
64; iv. 273

his Political Survey,' iii. 318
Campbell, Mungo, iv. 214
Campbell, Rev. Dr. Thomas, iii. 199,

202

Candidates at Elections, Johnson's ex-
cellent advice to them, for their
conduct during the contest, vi. 94
Canus Melchior, iii. 254
Capell's Shakspeare, v. 148

Cardan, his method of composing his
mind, iv. 201 n.
Careless, Mrs., Dr. Johnson's first
love, iii. 331

Careless Husband,' Comedy of, i.
160 n.

Carleton, Captain, his 'Memoirs,' vi.
168

Carlisle, Earl of, v. 266; vi. 70
Carte, Thomas, the historian, i. 20
Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 104 m., 120,
187; iv. 191; v. 248-9; vi. 106
Carthusians, iii. 306
Cathcart, Lord, v. 34

Cátor, John, Esq., Johnson's character
of him, and his fine seat, vi. 148
Cattle, extraordinary, iv. 171
Cave, Mr. Edward, Johnson's Life of,
i. 244; iii. 23; v. 7; vi. 262

- Johnson's letters to him, i. 66, 86,

101-4, 117-20, 137, 139

Chamberlayne, Rev. Mr., vi. 120
Chambers, Catharine, ii. 17 n., 233
Chambers, Ephraim, his proposal for
his Dictionary (probably for the
second edition of it), and Sir W.
Temple's writings contributed to form
Johnson's style, i. 206-7

Chambers, Sir Robert, iii. 113, 116–7
Johnson's letter to him, i. 262
Chambers, Sir William, vi. 3

'Heroick Epistle' to him approved
by Johnson, vi. 266

Chamier, Anthony, Esq., ii. 162; iv.
284

Chapone, Mrs., i. 187

Johnson's letter to, vi. 70
Characters, the first instance of their
delineation, in the first book of
Xenophon's 'Retreat of the ten
thousand,' v. 176

Charade, Johnson's, on Dr. Barnard,
Lord Bishop of Limerick, vi. 9.
Charlemont, James, first Earl of, v. 232
Charles I. iii. 230 Johnson's opi-
Charles II. iii. 201nion of
Charles V., his celebration of his fune-
ral obsequies in his life-time, iv. 278
Chastity, iii. 327. See Marriage
Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, vi.

TO 151

Chatterton's poems, iv. 49-50
Chesterfield, Lord, i. 168, 244, 253-4;
iii. 60, 190; v. 40, 77, 337 ; vi. 167
VOL. VI.

Christian, Rev. Mr., his solution of a
strange fact at St. Kilda, ii. 241
Christian religion, evidence of, ii. 87,
111, 149; iv. 213; V. I
Churchill's poetry, ii. 101

Churton, Rev. Mr. Ralph, his excel-
lent remarks, vi. 32 n., 143 n.
Chymistry, vi. 58

Cibber, Colley, i. 131, 160 m.; ii. 85,
278; iii. 201; iv. 75, 209; vi. 65.
See George II.

Cibber, Theophilus, his 'Lives of the
Poets,' i. 172; iv. 30-2

Clarendon, Edward, Earl of, con.
tinuation of his 'History,' iii. 294
his style, iv. 291

commendation of, ii. 268

Claret, its inefficacy as wine, v. 71
Clarke, Rev. Dr., his Works, vi. 269
Clarke, Richard, Esq., vi. 84
Clenard, Nicholas, his Greek Gram-
mar, not much read by scholars in
England, v. 163

his Latin Account of his Travels,
ibid.
'Cleone,' Dodsley's, ii. 2, 3; iv. 163
'Cleonice,' Hoole's, iii. 147

Clergy, the, ii. 314; iii. 17, 91; iv.
157, 341, 351; v. 249, 349
Clergyman, advice to a young one, v.
133

Clerk, Sir P. J., v. 236

Climate, contributes little to happi-
ness, iii. 41

Clive, Lord, v. 92

Clive, Mrs., the Actress, v. 150; vi. 65
Club, Essex-Head, vi. 78
Club, Eumelian, vi. 244
CLUB, LITERARY. See L

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