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,
"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.
Knox on the Character of
Johnson, 153.; on John-
son's "Prayers and Medi-
tations," 154.
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,
181.
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.
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.
son, 33.; on
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.
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.
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