Poets, iv. 85. The preservers of lan- | Pott, Archdeacon, his Sermons, vi. 91.
guages, vi. 154.
'Polite Philosopher,' vi. 138.
Politeness, iv. 81.; vi. 302.
Politian's Latin poems, i. 94, 94 n.
Politics, modern, v. 297. 316.
Polygamy, iv. 230.
Poor, ix. 31. A decent provision for,
the test of civilisation, iii. 145.
Methods of employing, vii. 352. Of
London, vii. 282.
Pope, Alexander, i. 61. 140. 145. 159,
160. 211. 281 n.; iii. 85, 86.; iv. 79.;
v. 86. 274.; ix. 18. 139. 193. 204. His
'Homer,' vii. 91. His Essay on
Man,' vii. 282, 283 n. His know-
ledge of Greek, vii. 283. His grotto,
vii. 357 n. Johnson's Life of, vii.
205.; viii. 14. Character of his poe-
try, vii. 188.; viii. 15. His limited
conversational powers, viii. 18. His
'Universal Prayer,' vii. 207. Lewis's
verses to, viii. 309 n.
Pope, Dr. Walter, his Old Man's
Wish,' vii. 366.
Popery, i. 281.; iii. 109. 111, 112.
Population, iii. 106.
Porridge Island, ix. 40.
Porter, Mr., of Lichfield, i. 99 n.; viii.
239.
Porter, Mrs., afterwards Johnson's
wife, i. 35. 38. 89. 100, 101 n. 106. 280,
281.
Porter, Miss Lucy, i. 35. 95 n. 281.;
ii. 97.; iii. 162.; vi. 94. 103. 105.
109 n.; vii. 299. 306.; x. 9. 14. John-
son's letters to, i. 232.; ii. 98, 99.
Porter, Mrs., the actress, viii. 238.
Porteus, Dr. Beilby, Bishop of Ches-
ter, afterwards Bishop of London,
vii. 119. 299. 304. 376.
Portland, Lady Margaret, Duchess
Dowager of, viii. 322 n.
Potter, Rev. Robert, vii. 91. ; ix. 22.
Poverty, ii. 226.; viii. 133. 137. 140.;
ix. 90.
Power, despotic, vii. 124.
Praise, iii. 40.; vii. 115. 263. 378.; viii.
57.; ix. 114. 119. 139.
Praise and flattery, v. 202.
Prayer, form of, arguments for, v.
110.; viii. 206.
Prayers, Johnson's classification of,
x. 120.
Prayers and Meditations,' Johnson's,
viii. 382.; x. 34. 95. 130. 154.
Preaching above the capacity of the
congregation, viii. 175.
Precocity, vi. 28.
Preceptor,' i. 220.
Predestination, iii. 109.
Prejudice, viii. 156. Johnson's,against
Scotland, iv. 10.; v. 240 n.; viii.
156 n.
Prendergast, Colonel Sir Thomas, iii.
221 n.
Presbyterians, v. 130. 132.
Prescience of the Deity, vii. 134,
135 n.
Prescription of murder in Scotland,
iv. 14. 87.
Presentiment of death, iii. 221 n.
Press, superfetation of, vii. 188.
Pretender, the Young, account of the
escape of, iv. 208. 329.
Price, Archdeacon, v. 213.
Price, Dr. Richard, viii. 232.
Pride, ix. 79.
Priestley, Dr. Joseph, iii. 138.; vii,
135.; viii. 232 n.
Primrose, Lady Dorothea, viii. 22 n.
Prince of Wales, his situation, viii.
172. Afterwards George IV., üi.
28 n.
'Prince Titi,' history of, vi. 5.
Portrait, inscription on the frame of Pringle, Sir John, iii. 195.; v. 124
Portrait-painting, v. 308.
131 n. 132.; vi. 55. 125. 185. ; vii. 79.
Printer's devil, viii. 76.
Printing, iii. 203. ; v. 215. ; vi. 155 n.
Portraits of Dr. Johnson, list of the Printing-house, Virgil's description
Post-chaise travelling, vi. 83. 119. 303.
of the entrance into hell applied
to, v. 43.
Prior, Matthew, iii. 79. ; vii. 10, 11.
Prior's Life of Burke,' quoted, ii.
Pritchard, Mrs., actress, i. 228. ; iii.
94.; iv. 132. ; v. 293.; viii. 238.
Private conversation, viii. 211.
Prize-fighting, iv. 248.
Procrastination, i. 236.
Procurators of Edinburgh, argument
against a prosecution by, viii. 109.
Prologues, i. 209.; iii. 35.; v. 262.
vi. 245.
Propensions, evil, ix. 209.
Property, iii. 294.; vi. 37. 46.
Prophecies, ix. 189.
Propitiatory sacrifice, iv. 89.
Prospects, ix. 39. 95.
Prosperity, vii. 212.
Prostitution, vi. 134.
Prussia, King of, i. 220.; vii. 190.;
viii. 85.
Psalmanazar, George, vii. 163. ; viii.
178. 271.; ix. 62. 132.
Psalms, biblical version of, v. 204.
Public amusements, iii. 202.
Public institutions, administration of,
vi. 175.
Public opinion, ix. 135.
Public schools, vi. 127. ; vii. 316. ; ix.
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Radcliffe, Dr., small success of his
travelling fellowships, viii. 295.
Ralph, James, viii. 30.
Ramsay, Allan, his Gentle Shep-
herd,' iii. 259.
Ramsay, Allan, painter, vii. 82. 84.
186. 188. 193.; viii. 371.
'Rambler,' i. 233, 234. 242. 249. 266,
266 n.; x. 46. 83. 131. Italian trans-
lation of, vii. 295. Translated into
Russian, viii. 274.
Ranby, John, vii. 24.
Ranelagh, iii. 201, 201 n.; vii. 19.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, i. 267.
Rank, its importance in society, ii.
227. 233. 316. ; iii. 211, 211 n. 3C5.;
v. 267.
Rasay, Isle of, iv. 178. 185. 188.
Rasay, John Macleod, Laird of, iv.
178. 188.; v. 163. 167. 325.; vi. 262.
Rasay, Lady, iv. 185.
Rasay, Miss Flora, iv. 195.
'Rasselas,' ii. 101 n. 103, 104. 218.;
vii. 167. 219.; viii. 97.; x. 23. 91. 140.
Ratcliff, Dr., master of Pembroke, his
neglect of Johnson at Oxford, ii. 18.
Rattakin mountain, iv. 153.
Rawlinson, Dr. Richard, the antiqua-
rian, viii. 146 n.
Ray, Miss, vii. 257.
Raynal, Abbé, ix. 37. 329.
Reading, i. 56.; ii. 213.; v. 306.; vi.
163.; vii. 11.; ix. 16. 169.
Red ink, properties of, vii. 332.
Reed, Isaac, i. 229.; iii. 285.; viii. 6.
Registration of deeds, viii. 47.
'Rehearsal,' iii. 200. ; viii. 322. ; ix.18.
Rein-deer, iii. 200.
Relations and relationship, iii. 212. ;
iv. 108.
Religious discipline, viii. 101.
Religious discourse, viii. 210.
Religious impressions, viii. 101.
Religious orders, vi. 63.
Remembrance and recollection, dis-
tinction between, viii. 107.
Renegado, ii. 50.
Rents, iii. 107.; iv. 215.; v. 21.
Repentance, vii. 139.; viii. 206.
Republican, ix. 212.
'Respublicæ,' volumes entitled, vi. 174.
Resurrection, ii. 126.; viii. 69. 207.
Retired tradesmen, v. 278.
139 n.; iii. 140. 208.; vi. 329.; vii.
315.; ix. 66. 192. 202. A contributor
to the Rambler,' i. 235. Johnson's
character of, i. 235. 273 n.; iii. 208.;
v. 147. Johnson's letters to, i. 273.
306.; ii. 42. 56, 57. Compared with
Fielding, iii. 38. 208. His limited
conversational powers, vii. 375.
Richardson, Martha, his second
daughter, ii. 139 n.
Richardson, Jonathan, son of the
painter, i. 141.
Richardson, Mr., attorney, i. 254.
Riches, ii. 225.; iii. 199.; iv. 116.
Riddoch, Rev. Mr., iv. 87, 88. 91. 96.
Retirement from the world, iv. 58.; Ridicule, vii. 251. 364.; ix. 253.
Reviews and reviewers, viii. 208.
Reviews, monthly and critical, vi. 150.
409.
Revolution of 1688, iii. 264.; viii. 159.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, i. 159. 291. 236.;
ii. 131. 138. 271. 273. 275.; iii. 118.
279.; iv. 112. 135.; v. 225 n. 239. 308.
311.; vi. 61 n. 120. 160. 208. 210.;
vii. 148. 159, 160. 181. 354.; viii. 318.;
ix. 39. 259. His prices for portraits,
ii. 82 n. His visit to Devonshire
with Johnson, ii. 146. Johnson's
letters to, ii. 283. ; iii. 163. 168.; vi.
204. 206. 216.; viii. 115. 214. 221. 249.
371. Two dialogues by, in imita-
tion of Johnson's style of convers.
ation, vii. 161 n.; ix. 261.
Reynolds, Miss, i. 283 n. ; ii. 82. 283 n.;
v. 308.; vi. 20 n. Her character by
Johnson, i. 283 n. Johnson's letters
to, vi. 152. 164. 206.; vii. 240. 297.
332.; viii. 115. 134. Her Essay on
Taste,' viii. 115. Her Recollec-
tions' of Johnson, ix. 202
Rhetorical gesture, ii. 90.
Rheumatism, recipe for, v. 307.
Rhubarb, viii. 258.
Rhudland Castle, v. 203.
Rhyme, its excellence over blank
verse, ii. 212.
Riots of 1780, vii. 326. 330. 338.
Ritter, Joseph, iii. 109.; iv. 47 n.; vi.
31 n.
Rivers, Earl, i. 196.
Rizzio, David, iv. 35.
Robertson, Dr. James, iv. 34.
Robertson, Dr. William, the historian,
ii. 62.; iii. 15. 43. 232. 280.; iv. 3.
22. 30. 33. 35. 125.; v. 117. 145. 150.;
vii. 186. 190. 192. 286.; viii. 53.; ix.
20. His style formed upon that of
Johnson, vi. 316. His History of
Scotland,' vii. 190.; viii, 53.
Robin-Hood Society, religious, viii. 69.
Robinson Crusoe, vii. 103.; ix. 102.
Robinson, Dr. Richard, Primate of
Ireland, iii. 147.
Robinson, Sir Thomas, ii. 219.; iii.
146.
Rochefoucault, Duc de, ix. 32. ; x. 113.
Rochester, John Wilmot, second Earl
of, his poems, iv. 206.; vii. 10.
Rockville, Alexander Gordon, Lord,
ii. 259 n.; v. 146.
Rod, punishment of the, i. 42. ; iv. 100.
Rodney, Admiral Lord, vi. 16.
Roffette, Abbé, vi. 21 n.
Rogers, Captain Francis, ii. 147.
Rollin, ix. 7.
Rolt, Richard, his Dictionary of
Commerce,' ii. 125.
Roman Catholic Church, i. 281 n. ; iii.
Richardson, Samuel, i. 162. 243 n. ; ii. 109. 111, 112. 177.
Romance, ix. 71.
Romances, i. 45.; vii. 363.
Romans, ii. 66.
Rome, the fountain of elegance, vii.
188.
Romney, Mr., painter, vi. 164.
Rose, Dr., of Chiswick, viii, 156.
Rose, Rev. Charles, ii. 287.
Rose, Mrs., her anecdotes of Johnson,
ix. 252.
Sailor, English, v. 153.; vii. 102.
St. Andrew's, iv. 48.
St. Asaph, Bishop of. See Shipley, v
201.; viii. 241.
St. Columba, v. 74. 76.
St. Kilda, iii. 41, 42. 174.; iv. 311.
St. Rule's chapel, iv. 57 n.
St. Vitus's dance, i. 160.; iv. 9.
Saints, worship of, iii. 111.
Salamanca, University of, ii. 242.
Roscommon, Johnson's Life of, i. 220. Salisbury, Bishop of. See Douglas, x.
Roslin Castle, v. 155.
Ross, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Exeter, Salisbury, Mrs., mother of Mrs.
viii. 270.
Thrale, v. 329.
Rothes, Lady, Bennet Langton's wife, Sallust, viii. 184.
iii. 153 n. 165.; vi. 232.
Round-robin on the subject of Gold-
smith's epitaph, vi. 208. 210.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, ii. 224, 225.
314, 315.; iii. 74.; viii. 289.
Round numbers false, ix. 138.
Rowe, Mrs., ii. 66.
Rowley, Thomas, vi. 171.
Royal Academy, iii. 65.
Royal Family, iv. 302.; vi. 295.
Rudd, Margaret Caroline, vi. 80 n.
200.; vii. 185.
Ruddiman, Thomas, i. 246 n.; iii. 2.
254.; iv. 74. ; vii. 240.
Rudeness of manner, Johnson's occa.
sional, v. 112.; vi. 168. 185.; vii.
258. 361. 375.; viii. 18. 71.
Ruffhead's Life of Pope,' iii. 198.
Ruins, artificial ones, v. 214 n.
Russia, Catherine, Empress of, vii.
236.; viii. 274.
Russell, Lord, iii. 248.; vii. 114.
Sacheverel, Dr., i. 33, 34. ; v. 75.
Sacrament, iv. 122. ; vii. 254.; viii.
;
101. 291 n.; ix. 180. ; x. 113.
Sagacity and intuition, viii. 337.
Sailor, life of a, ii. 112.; iv. 145. 273.;
vi. 66.; vii. 102.
Salter, Rev. Dr., i. 219 n.
Sanderson, Bishop, iii. 110 n.
Sanderson, Professor, iii. 227 n.
Sandwich, John, sixth Earl of, vii. 257.
Santerre, Parisian brewer, vi. 14.
Saratoga, surrender at, vii. 219.
Sardinia, iii. 83 n.
Sarpi, Father Paul, his
the Council of Trent,'
153.
Sastres, Mr., vi. 139. Johnson's let-
ters to, x. 277.
Satire, general, ix. 44.
Savage, Richard, Life of, i. 138,
139 n. 179. 186 n., 187, 188. 190, 191.
194-201. His tragedy of Sir Tho
mas Overbury,' vi. 247. His' Wan-
derer,' quoted, viii. 288.
Savage girl of Amiens, iv. 113.
Savage life, iii. 269.
Savages, iii. 73. 197. 269. 290,; iv.
80. 82 n.; vi. 170. 174.; viii. 204.
312.
Scalpa, island of, iv. 175.
Scarsdale, Lord, v. 196.; vi. 300. 302.
Scepticism, iv. 40. 314. Eleven causes
of, x. 121.
Schomberg, Dr. Ralph, vi. 99.
Schoolmasters, i. 41. 103. ; iii. 171.
185. 204. 222.; ix. 8. 131.
Schools, public, vi. 127 n.; ix. 78,
Science, books of, iv. 146 n.
Scorpions, iii. 45.
Score, a song in, v. 265 n.
Scotch, Johnson's feelings towards, i. | Sellette, vi. 6 n.
208.; iii. 43. 78. 136. 188. 231. 286.;
iv. 32. 87. 272. ; v. 80. 236. 240. 248.
310.; vi. 58 n.; vii. 79. 262. 359.;
viii. 79. 113. 156 n. 176, 177.
Scotch, accent, overcome by perseve-
rance, iii. 189. Clergy, iv. 276. Im-
pudence, v. 241. Origin of John-
son's antipathy to, viii. 156 n. Ex-
treme nationality of, iii. 286. High-
lander, v. 153. Learning of the, v.
310. Cause of their success in Lon-
don, viii. 177. Lairds, ii. 185. Jea-
lousy of the, v. 240. Nationality of
the, v. 240, 241. 263.; viii. 177.
Scotland, episcopal church of, vii.
Scotland, peers of, their interference
in the elections of the commons,
viii. 244, 245.
Scots, Mary, Queen of, ii. 119.; iv. 32.
Scott, Sir Walter, iv. 168. 185. 240,
241. 257. 263.; v. 7. 9. 15. 37. Cha-
racter of Johnson by, x. 166.
Scott, George Lewis, i. 224; vi. 250.
Scott, John, of Amwell, v. 280. 296.
Scott, Sir William. See Lord Stowell,
'Scoundrel,' Johnson's use and ap-
plication of the epithet, vi. 87 n.
115 n. ; ix. 137.
Scoundrelism, iv. 109.
Scripture phrases, iii. 250.
Scriptures, proposal to translate them
into Erse, iii. 10. 12.
Scruples, viii. 396.; ix. 44. 82.
Sea-life, vi. 66.
Seasons, influence of, iii. 307.
Secker, Archbishop, vii. 376.
whence taken, viii. 171 n.
Seneca, v. 24.
Selwyn, George, vii. 263.
'Senectus,' use of the word, vii. 203 n.
Sensual intercourse, vii. 76. 201.
'Sentimental Journey,' Sterne's, vi
379.
'Serious Call,' Law's, i. 69.; iii. 137.;
ix. 153.
Sermons, the best English, for style,
vii. 79. Collections of, viii. 83.
Advice on the composition of, vii.
340.
Settle, Elkana, vi. 196 n.
Sêves china, vi. 304.
Sevigné, Madame de, iii. 26 n.; vi.
175.; vii. 301 n.
Seward, Rev. Mr., of Lichfield, vi.
102.291.
Seward, William, iii. 75 n.; vi. 256.
260.; vii. 312.; vili. 314. Anec-
dotes by, ix. 255. ; x. 110.
Seward, Miss Anna, i. 36 n. 95. 98, 99.
280 n.; v. 194. 269 n.; vi. 102.; vii.
72. 126. 133. 141, 142 n. 144 m.; viii.
333. Anecdotes by, x. 9.
Shakspeare, i. 204. ; ii. 74. 84. 138. 275.
298. 300. 302.; iíi. 87. 97.; iv. 129.;
vii. 90. 256. 365. 372 n.; viii. 45, 46
n.; ix. 19. 86. 256. ; x. 6. 31. 91. 139.
'Shall' and 'will,' use of the words,
i. 96.; vii. 258.
Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrew's,
his monument, iv. 62 n. 65 n.
Sharp, Samuel, his 'Letters on Italy,
vi. 177 n.
Second sight, ii. 313.; iii. 175.; iv. Sharp, Dr. John, ii. 283.
171. 177. 245 n. 329.
Secrecy, ix. 131..; x. 112.
Sharpe, Rev. Dr. Gregory, i. 145 n.
Shaving, varieties in, vi. 304.
Sedley, Catherine, Countess of Dor- Shaw, Cuthbert, iii. 16.
chester, iv. 42 n.
Seduction, vii. 211.; ix. 42.
Seed, Rev. Jeremiah, his Sermons,'
Self-importance, vi. 314.
Self-praise, vii. 176.
Shaw, William, his Analysis of the
Scotch Celtic Language,' vi. 234.
237. His pamphlet on Ossian, viii.
247, 248.
Shebbeare, Dr., iii. 59 n.; vii. 165.;
viii. 90. 208.
Selden's 'Table Talk,' i. 113 n. ; v. 42.; Sheep's head, v. 83 n.
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