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,
31.
Burke, Edmund, 60. 121.
Burke and Johnson
pared, 139.
Byron, Lord, on the “ Vanity
of Human Wishes," 165.;
on the " Lives of the
Poets," 165.
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 on
Johnson, 162.
Coxe, Rev. William, 118.
Curiosity, 2.
Death, 47. 71. 89.
Des Cartes, 246.
Designs, list of Johnson's,
294.
Dictionary, the, 43. 129. 173.
“ Dido," Reed's tragedy of,
63.
Dinner at University, 137.
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-
Education, 25.
Emigration from Scotland,
99.
English Universities, 25.
Envy, 60.
Epitaph, Johnson's, on Mr.
Thrale, 174. ; on his fa-
ther, mother, and brother,
178.
Essex-Head Club, 72.
Eternity, 272.
Eucharist, 113.
Expiatory Penance, 108.
Harry, Jane, 15. 106.
Hartley on Man, 112.
Hawkins, Miss, anecdotes
by, 56.
Hawkesworth's “ Ode on
Life," 98.
Heberden, Dr., 64.
Holcke, Count de, 146.
Homer, 53.
“ Honest Whigs," 123.
Hope, 245.
Hospitality, rights of, 146.
Hume, 149.
Hunting, 100. 136.
Faden, Mr., 65.
Family Prayers, 120.
Farmer on Shakspeare, 6.
Fear of death, 47. 71. 89.
Fielding, 163.
Foote, 124.
Fordyce, Dr. James, on the
Death and Character of
Johnson, 155.
Forgiveness of Injuries, 86.
Fowke, Joseph, anecdotes
by, 119. 254. 262.
Friendship, 90. 270.
Jeux d'Esprit on Johnson's
biographers, 184.
Johnson and Burke com-
pared, 139.
Johnson and Garrick, busts
of, in Lichfield Cathedral,
176.
Johnson and the Thrales,
36.
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. ; “ Lime
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.
“ King David," 135.
King, Dr. William, on John-
son's English, 462.
Knight, Lady, anecdotes by,
48.
6. Know yourself,” 68.
Knowledge, 84.
Knowles, Mrs., her theologi-
cal dialogue with Johnson,
15. 106.
“ Medea" of Euripides, 82.
Melancholy, 266.
Memory, 99.
Mental Derangement, 92.
Milton, 20.
Misery, Balance of, 290.
Money, investment of, 113.
More, Hannah, 151.
Mortification, 1.
Murphy, Arthur, anecdotes
and remarks by, 66.
Music, 31. 135.
Langton, Bennet, 57.; his
letter on Johnson's death,
138.
Lauder's forgery, 64.
Learned ladies, 8.
Levett, Robert, 45. 82. 258,
263,
« Lesson in Biography; or,
How to write the Life of
one's Friend,” 181.
Lichfield, 62.
“ Limæ Labor," Johnson's,
131.
Literary merit, 27.
Literature, 111.
“ Lives of the Poets,” 62.91.
94. 119. 161. 163. 165.
“ London,” 76. 140. 163.
Love of change, 112.
Love of Literature, 111.
“ Lycidas," 20.
Lyttelton, Lord, 114.
Necessity of adapting know.
ledge to the purposes of
life, 84.
Newton, 163.
Nichols, John, anecdotes ana
remarks by, 62.
Nollekens's bust of Johnson,
104.
Northcote, John, R. A., anec-
dotes by, 1.
Mackintosh, Sir James, on
the Character of Johnson,
168.
Madness, 92.
Man, a completely wicked, 3.
Man; a respectable, 122.
Manuscripts, reading, 19.
Marriage, 111.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 276.
“ Measure for Measure," 90.
VOL. X.
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.
Pinder, 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, 143.
Pope's Homer, 53.
Pope's Satires, 185.
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.
93. 139.
Pride, 5.
Public education, 25.
Pursuit of virtue, 86.
Reading manuscripts, 19.
Reading and study, 59.
Rebuke to a talkative lady
110.
“ Rehearsal,” 149.
Religious Poetry, 161.
Resentment, iniquity of, 85.
“Respectable man," 122.
Retirement from the World,
87.
Revenge, 84.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 7. 61.
Richardson, 2.
Richardson and Fielding,
163.
Richardson on Painting, 4.
Rights of hospitality, 146.
Robertson, 287.
Rochefoucault, 113.
“ Roxana and Statira,” 63.
Rubens, 7.
Sacrament, 113.
Savage, Richard, 47, 97
122.
Saying good chings, 8.
Scepticism, eleven causes of,
121.
Scott, Sir Walter, on John-
son and his Writings, 166
Secrecy, 112.
Seward, Anna, anecdotes by,
9.
Sex, 59.
Scotch gooseberries, 100.
Scotland, emigration from,
99.
Shakspeare, 6. 31. 91. 139.
Similitudes, unconscious, 24
“ Rambler," 46. 83. 131. 173.
“ Rasselas," 23. 91. 140.
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