Demosthenes, i. 170. 172 n.; iii. 249.
Dempster, George, ii. 184. 219. 227,
His epitaph on
His character of
Journey to the He-

228 n.; vii. 148.
himself, ii. 184.
Johnson's

brides,' v. 159. 236.

Denbigh, v. 200.

Dennis, John, his critical works

worth collecting, vi. 159.
Departed spirits, appearance of, ii.
106. 180.; viii. 69. 279.; ix. 69.
Depression of spirits, treatment of,
i. 113 n.

Derby, china manufactory at, vi. 304.
Derby, Rev. J., curious anecdote of,
vi. 244.

Derrick, Samuel, i. 136.; ii. 156. 167.
242. 243.; iv. 120. 262.; vii. 239.;
viii. 182. 224 n. Some account of,
i. 136 n.

Descriptions, seldom correspond with
realities, iv. 130.; viii. 189.
'Deserted Village,' ii. 309.; iii. 280.
Desmoulins, Mrs., i. 64. 86.; iii. 173.;
vii. 50. 146. 230. 244. 253 n. 296. 349.;
viii, 68. 160. 226. 251.
Despotic governments, vii. 124.
Devaynes, John, esq. viii. 270.
Devonshire, William Cavendish, third
Duke of, vii. 3. His dogged vera.
city, vii. 249.

Devotion, ix. 34.

Dictionary of the English Language,
Johnson's, i. 210. 215, 216.; ii. 2, 3,
4, 5. 7. 24. 27. 33 n. 36. 44. 56. 79.
148. 228.; iii. 164. 182. 238. 240. 244.
302. iv. 40. 92. 305. 313.; vi. 244.
248.; vii. 287. 352.; x. 43. 129. 173.
First published, ii. 44. Wilkes's jeu
d'esprit on, ii. 53. Garrick's epi-
gram on, ii. 53. Johnson's profits
by, ii. 57. Epitome of, ii. 60. Fe-
licity with which the examples are
selected, viii. 281 n.
Dictionaries, ix. 121.
Dido, viii. 185.

Diligence, ix. 218.

Dillingham, Miss Anne, vii. 315.
Dilly, Edward and Charles, iii. 289
vi. 186. 189.; vii. 125, 126, 127, 128.
130, 131. 268. 277. ; viii. 79. 96.
Dilly, Edward, his letter to Boswell
on the 'Lives of the Poets,' vi. 240.
Johnson's letters to, vi. 259.; vii.
275.

'Dining-tables,' Macleod's, iv. 258.
Diploma from Dublin, Johnson's,
on being created a doctor of laws;
ii. 288. From Oxford; v. 270.
'Dirleton's Doubts,' characterised by
Lord Hardwicke, vii. 24.
Disappointment, ix. 116.

Disease, its effect on the mind, viii.
235.

ton's, vi. 77.; viii. 28.
Dialogues, two, by Sir Joshua Rey.
nolds, in imitation of Johnson's
style of conversation, vii. 161.; ix.
261.

Diary, Johnson's, iii. 198 n.; iv. 47.
The utility of keeping one, ii. 218.;
iii. 254.; vii, 56.; viii. 166. ; ix.
117.

Dibdin, Charles, iii. 119.

Dick, Sir Alexander, iv. 41.; v. 153. ;

vi. 262.; viii. 255. 257. 258. His
letter to Johnson on tne good effect
produced in Scotland by his 'Jour-
ney,' vi. 230.

recommended, ix. 143.

260.261. 275-287. 293. 308, 309.; vii

79. 107 n. 121 n.; viii. 198.; ix. 130.
His letters to Johnson, vi. 280. 285.
Johnson's letters to, vi. 282. 285.;
ix. 130.; x. 126. His 'Thoughts in
Prison,' vii. 107. His letter descrip-

tive of Johnson's person and man-
ner, vii. 121.

Doddington, George Bubb, after-
wards Lord Melcombe, i. 253 n.;
viii. 31.

Doddridge, Dr. Philip, iv. 302.
Dodsley, Robert, bookseller, i. 137.
210, 211. 214 n. 220. 229. 234 n.; ii.
11, 12. 72. 82. 104.; vi. 77. 156.; vii.
105. 121. 287. 367. His Public
Virtue,' and tragedy of Cleone,'
vii. 367.

Dodsley, James, i. 210.220. 229.; vi. 77.
Dodwell, Rev. Dr., v. 200.

Dogs, v. 65.; vii. 8.; ix. 51. 91 Custom
of eating them in China, iii. 275.
Domestic companions, ix. 122.
Domestic tragedies, ix. 113.
Dominicetti, Italian quack, his me-
dicated baths, iii. 104. Account of,
iii. 104 n.

Donaldson, Alexander, the piratical
bookseller, ii. 222.

Donne, Dr., his vision, vi. 76 n.
'Don Quixote,' ix. 102.
Dorchester, Catherine Sedley, Coun-
tess of, iv. 42.

Dossie, Robert, author of a 'Trea-
tise on Agriculture,' vii. 359.
Douglas cause, iii. 272, 273.; iv. 19.;
v. 94 n. 106 n. 126 n.; vi. 113 n. ;
vii. 45.

Douglas, crowned heart in the arms
of, vi. 322.

'Douglas,' Home's tragedy of, v.
105. 257; vi. 202..
Douglas, Duchess of, iv. 36.
Douglas, Rev. Dr. John, afterwards

Bishop of Salisbury, i. 139. 156.
269. ; ii. 182. 215. ; iii. 55. 57.; vi. 29. ;
viii. 275. His Milton no Plagiary,'
i. 269.
Douglas, Dr., his collection of edi-
tions of Horace, viii. 277.

Dovedale, v. 196.

Doyle, Sir Francis H., ii. 49
Dragons,' Madame de Sevigne's ap-
plication of the word, vii. 301 n.
Drake, Sir Francis, Johnson's Life of,
i. 164.

Draughts, tranquillising effects of the
game, ii. 72.

Dream, Johnson's, vii. 353.
Dreams, ix. 5.

Dreghorn, Lord, iv. 43 n.
'Drelincourt on Death,' iii. 194.
Drelincourt, Miss, afterwards Lady
Primrose, iv. 209 n.

Dress, i. 231.; v. 109. 297.; vi. 23. ; vii.

178; viii. 50.; ix. 43. 103.

Dressing, time consumed in, iv. 65.
Drinking, iii. 229.; iv. 55. 107. 166.
226.; v. 225 n.; vi. 64, 65. 160. 180. ;
vii. 73. 75. 81. 153. 180. 254. 263. ; viii.
19. 45. 53. 67. 262.

Drinking to excess, the practice
greatly diminished, iv. 56 n.
Drinking, Johnson's arguments
against, v. 60.; vi. 312.

Drinking, its effect upon convers.

ation and benevolence, vi. 160.
Dromore, Bishop of. See Percy
Drowning, suicide by, iv. 49.
Druid's temple, iv. 110. 138.
Drumgould, Colonel, vi. 17. 21.
Drummond of Hawthornden, iv. 198.;
v. 155.

Drummond, Mr. William, the book-
seller, iii. 11. 13. 15. 28 n.; v. 116.
135.; vi. 214.

Drummond, Dr., son of William, vi.
214.; vii. 257.

Drummond, George, of Edinburgh,
iv. 35.
Drunkards, iii. 55.;
Dryden, i. 255 n.;

vii. 264.; viii. 262.
ii. 307.; iii. 86.

200. 285.; iv. 260.; v. 262.; vi. 193.;
vii. 152 n. 208. 253. 278 n.; viii. 12,
13, 14. 91 n.; ix. 18. Johnson's
reverence for, viii. 12. His 'Hind
and Panther' quoted, viii. 13. His
philosophical lines on life, viii.
304. His Aureng-zebe, x. 90.

Dublin University, premiums in, ii.

73. Mr. Flood bequeaths his estate

to, ii. 77 n. Grant a diploma to
Johnson, ii. 288.

Du Bos, Abbé, iii. 91.

E.

Sir Henry, viii. 300 n.

Duel, ancient trial by, iv. 14.

Duelling, iii. 216. 217 n. 268.; iv.
249.; viii. 206.

Du Halde, his 'Description of China,'
i. 180.; iii. 46.; vii. 377.
Dunbar, Dr. James, his Essays on
the History of Mankind,' vii. 338.
Dun Can, a Scotch mountain, iv. 183.
186, 187, 188 n.

Duncan's monument, iv. 120.
Dunces, iii. 85.

'Dunciad,' iii. 85.; v. 275.; vii.
195 n.

Duncombe, William, vii. 163.
Dundas, Henry, afterwards Viscount
Melville, ii. 14.; iii. 190 n.; vii. 36.
Dundee, John, Viscount of, his fine
epitaph, iv. 54 n.

Dundonald Castle, v.120.
'Dungeon of Wit,' v. 82.
Dunning, Mr., afterwards Lord Ash-
burton, iii. 188.; vi. 263.; vii. 71.
Dunsinan, William Nairne, Lord, iv.
48 n.; v. 146.

Dunton, John, bookseller, his 'Life

and Errors,' viii. 189.

Dunvegan, iv. 232, 239 n., 240. 253 n.,
254.

Duppa, Richard, his publication of

Johnson's Diary of a Journey into
North Wales,' v. 193.

'Durandi Rationale, 1459,' the third

book printed with a date, v. 215.
Durham on the Galatians,' v. 132.
Durinish, iv. 255.

Dury, Major-General A., ii. 95.
Dutch language, Johnson studies it at
seventy-one, vii. 65. 369.
Dyer, Samuel, i. 219.; ii. 271 n.
count of, 321; iv. 112.
'Fleece,' vi. 83.; vii. 297. 358.

'Dying with a grace,' ix. 124.

Ac-

Early rising, iv. 221.; vi. 310, 311.
Earthquake at Ashbourne, vi. 272.
East Indians, vii. 198.

East Indies, practice of going to, in
quest of wealth, vii. 282.

East Indies, alleged delinquencies in,
viii. 208.

Easter, v. 183.; vi. 142. 225.; vii.
167.; viii. 203.

Eating, ii. 257.; vii. 3. 153.

Eating, Johnson's mode of, ii. 258. ;
iv. 216.; vi. 190.

Eccles, Rev. Mr., his literary fraud,
ii. 126, 126 n.

Eccles, Isaac Ambrose, of Cronroe, ii.
105.

Ecole Militaire, at Paris, vi. 2.
Economy, vii. 101. 147.; viii. 220.
Edinburgh, iv. 12.; v. 134. Castle,
v. 136.

Edinburgh, procurators of, Johnson's
argument against a prosecution for
a libel by, viii. 109, 110. 112.
Education, ii. 309.; iii. 224. ; iv. 100.;
vi. 65. 174; vii. 260.; ix. 5. 118.
149.; x. 25.

Education of children, ii. 239.; ix. 5.
118. 149.

Education, Johnson's plan of, i. 107. ;
vii. 260.

Education, great influence of, vi. 65.
Education, by-roads in, vi. 28.
Education of the people, iii. 224.; vi.
155.

Education in public schools, iv. 85.;
vi. 127. 294.

Education in England, by Milton and
Locke, vii. 222.

Edwards, Thomas, his 'Canons of
Criticism,' ii. 10 n.

His

Edwards, Mr., 'on Grace,' vii. 133.
Edwards, Oliver, Johnson's fellow
collegian, vii. 149 n.; viii. 66.

Edward, Rev. Dr. Edward, account
of, vii. 232 n. His Xenophon's
'Memorabilia,' vii. 232 n.

Eel, vii. 254.

Egalité, Duke of Orleans, viii.
162 n.

Eglintoune, Alexander, Earl of, iii.
59.; v. 121.; vii. 6. 166.
Eglintoune, Susanna, Countess of, v.
118.; vii. 231. Some account of, v.
120 n. 121.

Egmont, John, first Earl of, his 'His-
tory of the House of Yvery,' viii.
188.

Egmont, John, second Earl of, his

'Faction Detected,' i. 158 n.
Egotists, the four classes of, vi. 314.
Egyptians, ancient, question as to
their colour, viii. 105 n.

Eld, Mr., of Staffordshire, vii. 179.
Eldon, Earl of, iv. 45.

Election committees, duty of mem-
bers of parliament sitting upon,
viii. 48.
'Elements

of Criticism,' Lord
Kaimes's, i. 165.; ii. 166.; iii. 91. ;
ix. 144.

'Elfrida,' Mason's, v. 275.
Elgin, iv. 117 n.

Elibank, Patrick Murray, fifth Lord,
iii. 161. 224.; iv. 5.; v. 50. 135. 138.
144. 182.; vi. 142 n. 179.; vii.
358 n.; viii. 95. Letters to Boswell
and Johnson, iv. 200, 201.
Eliot, Mr., afterwards Lord, vi. 176.;
vii. 307 n.; viii. 52 n. 53.
Elizabeth, Queen, ii. 119.; vii. 361.;
viii. 60 n.

Ellis, John, the money-scrivener, vi.
138.

Ellis, Sir Henry, of the British Mu-
seum, v. 205 n.
Elphinston, Archbishop, iv. 92.
Elphinston, James, iii. 14. 246. 267.;
v. 238.; vii. 251n. His edition of
the Rambler,' i. 245. Johnson's
letters to, i. 246, 247. Some ac-
count of, i. 245. His translations
of the mottoes to the 'Rambler,
i. 266. Johnson's character of, iii.

204. His translation of Martial, vii.
9.3.
'Elvira,' Mallet's tragedy of, ii. 184.
Elwall, E., the enthusiast, iii. 195.
294.

Emigration, iv. 17. 77. 214. 310.;
v. 28.

Emphasis, modes of placing, in read-
ing the ninth commandment, i. 193.
Employment, vi. 324.

Employment, female, iv. 374.
Employment of wealth, viii. 162.
Emulation, iv. 101.

English and Dutch languages radi-
cally the same, vii. 353.; viii. 369.
'English Malady,' Cheyne's, vi. 213.
English bar, viii. 312.

English clergy, iv. 276.

English drama, viii. 256. 243.
'English Poets,' Johnson's edition of,
See Lives of the Poets.'
Englishmen, their cold reserve to.
wards strangers, viii. 181.
Englishmen and Frenchmen com-
pared, i. 215.; vii. 87. 362.
Englishmen and Scotchmen com.
pared, iv. 10.; vii. 359.

Entails, iv. 103.; vi. 36. 46. 55. 59.
Johnson's letters on, vi. 37. 38. 42.
41. 46.

Envy, vii. 108. 159 n. 871.
Epigram, Johnson's, to Mrs. Carter
i. 154.

Epigram on George II., i. 166.
Epigram, ad Lauram Parituram, i.

180.

Epigram, ad Ricardum Savage, i.
187 n.

Epigram, Garrick's, on Johnson's
Dictionary, ii. 53.

Epigram on the marriage of an Aus-
trian Archduchess to Bonaparte, iv.
254 n.

Epigram on seeing Blenheim, vi. 81.
Epigram to Miss Mary Aston, vii.
200 n.

Epigram on Lord Anson's Temple of
the Winds, vii. 246.

Epigram, Dr. Trapp's celebrated,
ix. 10.