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Profile in an oval, to the left, without wig
Whole length, in the dress worn by him on the journey to the
Hebrides, with his stick, folio

Do.

1786

[Side-face, to right, the countenance haggard, and exhibiting marks of decay. This was probably the last portrait for which Dr. Johnson sat: it was finished a short time before his death Do. 1786] [Do. prefixed to Harding's Shakspeare; drawing belonged to Dr. Farmer

Do.

1792]

J. HARDING.

Side-face, to right

Trotter.

1782

1718.

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For "Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy," in which Johnson's countenance is analysed upon the principles of that fanciful writer.

[A view of Tunbridge Wells, in which Dr. and Mrs. Johnson are introduced; the figures very small. See Vol. I. p. 218.

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A whole-length, in a cocked hat, ruffles on the hands, holding a stick behind his back. Not known.

There is a whole-length figure in Cambridge's works, 4to., drawn and engraved by Besland.] It forms the frontispiece to Vol. I. of this Edition.

BUST BY NOLLEKENS.

Modelled in clay, but never cut in marble. The artist has represented Dr, Johnson without his wig; substituting for it flowing hair which hangs down the neck, copied from a beggar, who

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was called from the street to serve as a model. (See Smith's Life

of Nollekens.) See Letters 305. & 313.
A drawing by
Ab. Wivell.

STATUE BY BACON.

Vol. VII.

W. T. Fry. 1815

In St. Paul's; the first monument ever placed in that building.
Repeatedly engraved.

There are also several seals with his head cut on them, particularly a very fine one by that eminent artist, Edward Burch, Esq., R. A.; in the possession of the younger Dr. Charles Burney. [Copied and engraved

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Let me add, as a proof of the popularity of his character, that there are copper pieces struck at Birmingham, with his head impressed on them, which pass current as halfpence there, and in the neighbouring parts of the country.

[The most extensive collections of engraved portraits of Dr. Johnson are those in the possession of Lewis Pocock, Esq., Mr. Upcott, and Mr. Murray of Albemarle Street. The latter was made by the late John Thomas Smith, of the British Museum. -J. MURRAY, Jun. 1835.]

INDEX.

The Roman letters refer to the Volume; the Arabic figures to the Page.

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Aberdeen, William Gordon, second
Earl of, iv. 136.
Aberdonians, iv. 96.

Abernethy, Rev. John, on the effect
of prayer, iv. 66. Account of, iv.
66 n.

Abingdon, Willoughby Bertie, fourth
Earl of, bon-mot of, vii, 338 n.
Abington, Mrs., actress, v. 258. 262.
268. 293. 324.

Abjuration, oath of, v. 259.
Absenteeism, vi. 80. 321.
Absolute princes, v. 317.
Abstemiousnesss, v. 113. ; ii. 258. 310.;
iii. 30. 213. ; iv. 226. 291.; v. 8.
297.; vi. 64. 142.; vii. 146.; ix.
325.

Absurdities, use of delineating, vii.
364.

Abuse, personal, iii. 54.; vii. 246. 376.;
ix. 65, 66.

Abyssinia, Lobo's voyage to, i. 90.;
vi. 122.

Abyssinia, Prince of. See Rasselas.
Academia della Crusca send Johnson
their Vocabulary, ii. 51.
Accent, Scotch, overcome by per-
severance, iii. 188.
Accounts, keeping, viii. 167.

Achilles, shield of, vii. 380.
Acis and Galatea, vii. 72.
Acquaintance, Johnson's numerous
and various, vi. 138.; viii. 220.
Acquaintances, ii. 52.; viii. 166.
Acting, viii. 238.

Acting, tragic, Johnson's contempt
of, iv. 27.

Action in public speaking, iii. 249.
Active sports in young people, not to
be reckoned idleness, i. 44.
Activity of body, Johnson's, ix. 2.
Activity of mind, Johnson's, vii, 193.
193. n.

Actor, qualities of a great, ix. 272. n.
Actors, i. 192, 193. 231.; ii. 177.; iii.
93. 277.; iv. 27. 39. 132.; vi. 23.
329.; vii. 99.; viii. 239 n. ; ix. 125.
Actors, Johnson's prejudice against,

and contemptuous severity towards,
i. 192. 231.; vii. 356.
Adams, Rev. Dr. William, master of
Pembroke College, Oxford, i. 58.
75. 80. 146. 205. 215. 227.; ii. 11, 12.
34. 278.; v. 104. 213. ; vi. 72.; viii.
302. 382. Some account of, viii.
382 n.
His account of the first re-
presentation of Irene,' i. 227. His
Answer to Hume's Essay on Mi-
racles, vi. 72.

Adams, Miss, afterwards Mrs. Hyett,
viii. 294.

Adams, George, dedication to the
king of his "Treatise on the Globes,'
ii. 74.; iii. 31.
Addison, Joseph, i. 237, 238. 316. ; ii.
208. 296.; iii. 300.; iv. 37. 81. ; v.

42. 289.; vi. 166. 294.; vii. 60. 123.
373.; viii. 22. 50. 67. 399.; ix. 72.
His Notanda,' i. 238. His Re-
marks on Italy,' v. 289. 289 n. His
style compared with Johnson's, i.
264. His conduct towards Steele,
viii, 22. 67. Johnson's opinion of, i.
265 m.; ii. 208. 296.; vii. 198. John-
son's Life of, viii. 22.

Address of the Painters to George

III. on his accession, written by
Johnson, ii. 118.

Adey, Mrs., iii. 52. 64.; vii. 241. 270.
Adey, Miss Mary, i. 33.; vi.101.; vii. 298.
Admiration, v. 306.

6 Adventurer,' Dr. John Hawkes-
worth's, i. 241. 277. 300, 301. 303.
305.; ii. 70. The papers marked T.
written by Johnson, i. 300.
Adventures of a Guinea,' by whom
written, iv. 307. 307 n.

Air-bath, Lord Monboddo's, vi. 310.
Akenside, Dr. ii. 125., iii. 195.; vi.
117, 117 n. 150.

Akerman, Mr., keeper of Newgate,
anecdotes of, vii. 329, 330, 331.
Alberti, Leandro, his classical descrip-
tion of Italy, v. 42. 289, 289 n.
Alchymy, v. 326.

Alcibiades, vii. 103, 103 n.
Alcibiades, his dog, vii. 59, 59 n.
Alfred, Johnson's wish to write the
Life of, i. 205.

Alfred, his Will, viii. 116, 116 n.
Algebra, the study of, recommended,
ix. 83.

'Alias,' Johnson's exemplication of
the word, viii. 212.

Allen, Edmund, printer, ii. 98 n., 260.;
v. 22.; vi. 277.; vii. 106. 162.; viii.
68. 222. 374. Johnson's letter to,
viii. 222.

'Adversaria,' specimen of Johnson's, Allen, Ralph, iv. 79.

i. 238.

Adversaries, not to be treated with
respect, iv. 20.

Advertisement, Johnson's, in the
Gentleman's Magazine, i. 103. In
the Universal Chronicle, ii. 108. In
the Edinburgh newspapers, v. 166.
Adultery, iii. 46.

'Alley Croker,' vii. 84, 84 n.

All for Love,' Dryden's preface to,
quoted, viii. 91 n.
Alnwick Castle, vii. 109.
Althorp, Lord, afterwards Earl Spen-
cer, vii. 321. See Spencer.
'Amelia,' Fielding's, vi. 163, 163 n.;
ix. 80.

'Egri Ephemeris,' Johnson's, viii. 388. Ambition, vi. 158.
'Eneid,' story of the, viii. 213.
'Eschylus,' Potter's translation of,
vii. 91.

Affectation, vii. 374. ; ix. 185.
Affectation in writing, iv. 260.
Affectation of familiarity with the
great, viii. 33.

Affection, natural, iii. 106.; vii. 265.;
viii. 204.

Agar, Welbore Ellis, vi. 252. n.
Age, old, vii. 10. 88. 88 n., 193. 203.
369.; viii. 171. 275.; ix. 91. 212.
Agis,' Home's tragedy of, iv. 214.
Aglaura,' Suckling's play of, vii. 170.
Agutter, Rev. William, viii. 287 n.
His Sermon on Johnson's death,
viii. 421.

Aikin, Letitia, afterwards Mrs. Bar-
bauld, vi. 28.; vii. 316.; ix. 4.

America and the Americans, v. 224.
226. 248.; vii. 21. 25. 133. 338 n.;
viii. 55. 176. 284.; ix. 11. 30.
Amusements, country, ix. 196.
Amusements, a man known by his,
viii. 319.

Amyat, Dr., ii. 246.

'Ana,' the French, v. 42.

Anacreon, Baxter's, v. 124. ; viii. 151.
260.

Anacreon, Dove of, translated by
Johnson, ix. 13.

'Anacreon,' Fawkes's translation of,
ix. 14.

Anaitis, temple of, iv. 232. 235.

Analogy between body and mind, i. 56.
'Anatomy of Melancholy,' Burton's,
iii. 135, 135 n.; vi. 70.
Ancestry, iii. 179.

Ancient Ballads,' Dr. Percy's, ix.

193. 241.

Arches, comparative strength of se-
micircular and elliptical, ii. 116.

Areskine, Sir John, v. 21.

Ancient times, folly of praising, at the Architecture, ornamental, vi. 68.
expense of modern, viii, 212.
Anderson, Professor, at Glasgow, v.
114. 117.; vi. 253.

Anderson, Dr. Robert, his Life of
Johnson,' i. 43. 111.

Anderson, Mr., his 'Sketches of the
Native Irish,' vi. 243.

Andrew's, St., iv. 57. 60.

Anecdotes, Johnson's love of, iv. 31.
Anfractuosities of the human mind,
vii, 352.

Angel, John, his Stenography,' iii.
265.

Anne, Queen, Johnson touched by,
for the evil, i. 38. 319.

Anne, Queen, wits of her reign, vii.
195 n.

Annihilation, vi. 293.; vii. 140.
'Animus æquus," the, not inheritable,
V. 129.

Anonymous writings, vii. 248.
Anson, Lord, vii. 245. Johnson's epi.
gram on his Temple of the Winds,
vii. 245 n.; ix. 26.
'Anthologia,' viii. 389.

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vi. 89.

Arguing, Johnson's mode of, and
fondness for, vi. 120. 141.; viii. 88.
281. 317.
Argument, Johnson's, on Schoolmas-
ters and their duty, iii. 222. 311.
On Vicious Intromission, iii. 233.
314. In defence of lay patronage
iii. 286. 319. Against Dr. Memis's
complaint, that he was styled 'doc-
tor of medicine,' instead of 'physi-
cian,' v. 320. 334. In favour of the
corporation of Stirling, v. 322. On
entails, vi. 38. On the liberty of
the pulpit, vi. 181. 334. On the
registration of deeds, viii. 47. In
favour of a negro claiming his li
berty, vii. 20, 21. Against a prose-
cution by the procurators of Edin-
burgh against the publisher of a
libel, viii. 110.

Argument and testimony, viii. 281.
Argyle, Archibald, third Duke of, v.
41. 86.

Argyle, John, fifth Duke of, v. 95.
Johnson's visit to, v. 102. John-
son's letter to, v. 108. His letter to
Johnson, v. 108.

Argyle, Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess
of, v. 94, 94 n.

Apology, Johnson's readiness to make Ariosto, vii. 335.

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Apparitions, ii. 106. 180. 313. ;iii. 175.
194. 213. 220, 220 n.; viii. 69. 71. ;
ix. 5. 69.

Appetite, riders out in quest of, ix.
152.

Appius, Cicero's character of, applied
to Johnson, viii. 380.

Applause, vii. 379.

April fools' day, vi. 239, 239 n.
Arabs, fidelity of, iv. 131.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, ii. 208. ; iv. 37.
Arbuthnot, Robert, iv. 19, 19 n.
{ Arcadia,' Sidney's, vi. 266, 266 n.

Aristotle, saying of, vii. 361. His
'Poetics,' vi. 158, 158 n.

Arithmetic, Johnson's resort to, when
his fancy was disordered, ix. 27.
Arkwright, Sir Richard, ix. 148.
Armidale, iv. 159. 307.

Armorial bearings, iii. 215.

Arms, piling of, why insisted on, vii.
219.

Armstrong, Dr. John, ii. 112.; vi. 259.
Army, officers of the, v. 151.
Arnauld, Anthony, vii. 208.
Arnold, Dr. Thomas, his Observ.

ations on Insanity,' vi. 319.
"Art of Living in London,' i. 114.
Art of Thinking, ix. 259.

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