Blue-stocking Parties, 116.
Bolingbroke, Lord, 67.
Bolt Court, 57.
Book and Author, 113.
Books, 151.
Books of Travels, 152.
Boothby, Miss Hill, 9. 244.
249.
Boswell, 18. 60, 61. 71. 123.
141. 143. 145. 149. ; brief
Memoir of, by Malone, 201.;
his Letters to Malone, 209.;
his Tour to Corsica, 221.
Boyse, Samuel, 63.
Buchan, Earl of, 122.
Building without a scaffold,
110.
Burney's History of Music,
Cambridge, 26.
Carter, Mrs., on Johnson's
death, 117.
Chalmers, Alexander, on
Johnson's "Lima Labor,"
181.; his "Lesson in
Biography," 184.
Change, love of, 112.
Charles the Twelfth, 53.
Chedworth, Lord, 118.
Chesterfield, Lord, 25. 142.
Choice of a wife, 111.
Cibber, Colley, 119.
"Clarissa," 2.
Cobb, Mrs., 13.
Colloquial eloquence, John-
son's, 101.
Colman, George, his " Post-
humous Work of S. John-
son," 193.; his Imitation
of Johnson's Style, 286.
Complainers, 60.
Compliments, 7.
"Completely wicked man,"
3.
Cowper, William, on Bos-
well's Life of Johnson,
145.; on Johnson's Criti-
cism on Watts, 160.; on
the "Lives of the Poets,"
161.; his Epitaph
Johnson, 162.
Coxe, Rev. William, 118.
Curiosity, 2.
Death, 47. 71. 89.
Des Cartes, 246.
Dinner at University, 187.
Disorders of intellect, 92.
Dodd, Dr., 126.
Donne v. Pope, 135.
Drake, Dr. Nathan, his cri-
tical remarks on "Lon-
don," 76.; on "Vanity of
Human Wishes," 78.; on
"Irene," 80.; on "Ram-
Jeux d'Esprit on Johnson's
biographers, 184.
Johnson and Burke com-
Johnson and Peter Pindar, 7.
Johnson at Langton in 1764,
126.; in a Stage-coach,
136. 151.; in Garrick's
Library, 124.; described
by Gregory Nazianzen,25.;
sketched by himself, 67.
88.; a German Traveller's
interview with, 147.; his
agility, 144.; his "Beau-
ties," 9.; his catalogue of
Designs, 293. ; his church-
.manship, 28.; his collo-
quial eloquence, 101.; con-
versation, 140.; courtship,
10.; "Dictionary," 43.;
dying advice, 65. 100.;
death, 28. 117. 138.; fu
neral, 27.
Johnson's character, by Lady
Knight, 50.; by Mr. Mur-
phy, 73.; by Dr. Vicesi-
mus Knox, 153.; by Dr.
Fordyce, 155.; by Sir
Walter Scott, 166.; by Sir
James Mackintosh, 168.
Johnson's Epitaph on Thrale,
174.; on his father, mo-
ther, and brother, 175.
Johnson's Imitations of Ju-
venal, 30.; his last visit to
Lichfield, 20.; his "Let-
ters," 94. 141.; "Lima
Labor," 131.; manner of
composing, 42.; monu-
ment, 29.; person and
dress, 56.; personal pecu-
liarities, 41. 56.; powerful
memory, 99; Prayers and
Meditations, 34. 95.; Pre-
face to Shakspeare, 31.;
pride, 5.; "Rambler," 46.;
recitation of poetry, 125.;
"Sermons," 95.; his silver
tea-pot, 105.; his watch
and punch-bowl, 106.; his
willow, 128.
"Johnson's Ghost," 187.
Johnson's parents, anecdotes
of, 180.
Johnson's Portraits, 5. 97.
311.
Johnson, Mrs., 48.
Johnsonian words, 129.
Jones, Sir William, 163.
Juvenal, 30.
son, 33.; on Johnson's
churchmanship, 28.; his
projected Life of Johnson,
22. 30.; his reflections on
Johnson's death, 28.
Party heat, 145.
Pearce, Bishop, 29.
Pepys, W. W., 114.
Percy, Bishop, anecdotes and
remarks by, 40.
Personal peculiarities, 41.
"Peter Paul Rubens," 7.
Pilgrim's Progress," 137.
Pindar, Peter, his poetical
and congratulatory epistle
to Boswell, 193.
Piozzi, Mr., 19. 100.
Piozzi, Mrs., 19. 100.
Pleasure of hunting, 136.
"Pleasures of Hope," 140.
Pomponius Gauricus, 148.
Pope's Homer, 53.
Pope's Satires, 135.
Porter, Lucy, 9. 14.
Portraits of Johnson, 5. 97.
312.
Poverty and mortification, 1.
Prayers, 120.
"Prayers and Meditations,"
34. 95. 130. 154.
"Preface to Shakspeare," 31.
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