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1776. Argument in support of the Right of immediate and personal

Reprehension from the Pulpit ; dictated to me, acknowl. Proposals for publishing an Analysis for the Scotch Celtick

Language, by the Reverend William Shaw, acknowl. 1777. Dedication to the King of the Posthumous Works of Dr.

Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, acknowl.
Additions to the Life and Character of that Prelate, prefixed

to those works, acknowl.
Various Papers and Letters in favour of the Reverend Dr.

Dodd, acknowl.

1780. Advertisement for his Friend, Mr. Thrale, to the Worthy

Electors of the Borough of Southwark, acknowl.
First Paragraph of Mr. Thomas Davies's Life of Garrick,

acknowl.

1781. Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the Works of the most

eminent English Poets ; afterwards published with the Title

of the Lives of the English Poets, acknowl. Argument on the importance of the Registration of Deeds;

dictated to me for an Election Committee of the House of

Commons, acknowl.
On the Distinction between Tory and Whig; dictated to me,

acknowl.
On Vicarious Punishments, and the great Propitiation for the

Sins of the World by Jesus Christ; dictated to me,

acknowl. Argument in favour of Joseph Knight, an African Negro, who

claimed his Liberty in the Court of Session in Scotland, and

obtained it; dictated to me, acknowl. Defence of Mr. Robertson, Printer of the Caledonian Mercury,

against the Society of Procurators in Edinburgh, for having inserted in his paper a ludicrous paragraph against them; demonstrating that it was not an injurious Libel; dictated

to me, acknowl. 1782. The greatest (part], if not the whole, of a Reply, by the

Reverend Mr. Shaw, to a person at Edinburgh, of the name of Clarke, refuting his arguments for the authenticity of the Poems published by Mr. James Macpherson as Translations from Ossian, intern. evid.

1784. List of the Authors of the Universal History, deposited in the

British Museum, and printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, this year, acknowl.

VARIOUS YEARS.
Letters to Mrs. Thrale, acknowl.
Prayers and Meditations, which he delivered to the Rev. Mr.

Strahan, enjoining him to publish them, acknowl.
Sermons, left for publication by John Taylor, LL.D. Prebendary

of Westminster, and given to the World by the Reverend
Samuel Hayes, A. M. intern. evid.

Such was the number and variety of the prose works of this extraordinary man, which I have been able to discover, and am at liberty to mention'; but we ought to keep in mind, that there must undoubtedly have been many more which are yet concealed; and we may add to the account, the numerous letters which he wrote, of which a considerable part are yet unpublished. It is hoped that those persons, in whose possession they are, will favour the world with them.

James BosweLL.

(This is a strange phrase. What work could it have been that Mr. Boswell was not at liberty to mention ? That there was some peculiar meaning here can hardly be doubted. li perhaps may allude to some publications of a jacobite tendency, written in Johnson's earlier days, and which may have been acknowledged in confidence to Boswell; but this is a mere conjecture. Many of the articles inserted in the foregoing list on internal evidence (particularly those from the magazines) are of very little im. portance, and of very doubtful authenticity. -Ed.)

INDE X.

temptuous severity towards, i. 143,

175 n. ; iv. 339, 340.
Adams, Rev. Dr. William, master of

Pembroke College, Oxford, i. 30, 43,
47, 103, 152, 160, 171, 251, 252, 270,
496, 500; iii. 52, 155, 330; iv. 108,
116, 198; v. 293.
some account of, v. 293 n.
his account of the first representation

of Irene,' i. 171.
his Answer to Hume's Essay on Mi.

racles, iii. 330.
Johnson's letter to, v. 266.
Miss, afterwards Mrs. Hyett, v. 191.
- George, the mathematical instrument
maker, Johnson's dedication to the king
of his · Treatise on the Globes,' i. 307;

ii. 44.
Addison, Joseph, i. 1, 179 12., 180,

439, 513; ii. 241, 279, 316; iii. 3,
221, 411, 520; iv. 87, 140, 357, 446 ;
v. 232, 309, 309 n.

his . Notanda,' i. 179 n.
his · Remarks on Italy,' iii. 4, 221,

221 n.

– his style compared with Johnson's, i.

200.
- absurd observation of Sir J. Hawkins

on the style of, i. 200 n.
- his conduct towards Steele, iv. 420, 465.
- Johnson's opinion of, i. 201, 439, 513;
iv. 205.

Johnson, Life of, iv. 420.
Address of the Painters to George the

ABERBROTAWICK, iii. 540.
Abercrombie, Mr. James, of Philadelphia,

his communications concerning Johnson,

ii. 195, 229 n.
Aberdeen, ii. 317.

Johnson's account of, iii. 541.
butter, duel fought for the honour of,

iji. 38 n.
- William Gordon, second Earl of, ii.

360 11.
Aberdonians, ii. 329.
Abernethy, Rev. John, on the effect of

prayer, ii. 303.

some account of, ii. 303 n.
Abingdon, Willoughby Bertie, fourth Earl

of, bon-mot of, iv. 324 n.
Abington, Mrs. the actress, iii. 196, 199,

204, 224, 249.
Abjuration, oath of, iii. 196.
Absenteeism, iv. 28, 104.
Absentee tax, iv. 299.
Absolute princes, iii. 245.
Abstemiousness, Johnson's, i. 74 n., 480;

ii. 8, 44, 173, 259, 435, 487, 510;

iii. 228, 324, 389; iv. 158, 442.
Absurdities, use of delineating, iv. 349.
Abuse, personal, ii. 63, 358.
- Johnson's disregard of, iv. 245, 361.
Abyssinia, Lobo's voyage to, i.55; iii. 373.
- Prince of, see Rasselas.
Academy della Crusca send Johnson their

Vocabulary, i. 283.
Accent, Scotch, overcome by persever-

ance, ii. 152.
Accounts, keeping, v. 56.
Achilles, shield of, iv. 365.
Acis and Galatea, iv. 96 n.
Acquaintance, Johnson's numerous and

various, iii. 386 ; v. 107.
Acquaintances, i. 284; v. 55.
Acting, v. 132, 132 n.
- tragic, Johnson's contempt of, ii. 273.
Action, in public speaking, ii. 199.
Active sports in young people, not to be

reckoned idleness, i. 23.
Activity of body, Johnson's, iv. 451.
- of mind, Johnson's, iv. 197 1., 198 n.
Actor, qualities of a great, iv. 522 n.
Actors, i. 143, 144; ii. 91, 223, 273;

iii. 289; iv. 35; v. 133 n.
- Johnson's prejudice against, and con-

Third on his accession, written by

Johnson, i. 342.
Adey, Mrs. ii. 61, 68; iv. 241, 266.

Miss Mary, i. 11; iii. 355 ; iv. 289.
Admiration, iii. 225, 236.
*Adventurer,' Dr. John Hawkesworth's,

i.181, 211, 224, 237, 239, 240, 310.
the papers marked T, written by John-

son, i. 240; iv. 531, n.
• Adventures of a Guinea,' by whom

written, ii. 500 n.
Adversaria,' specimen of Johnson's, i. 180.
Adversaries, not to be treated with respect,

ii. 266.
Advertisements, Johnson's, in the Gentle-
man's Magazine, i. 66, 132.
in the Universal Chronicle, i. 335.

in the Edinburgh newspapers, iii. 106.
Adultery, ii. 56.

• Ægri Ephemeris,' Johnson's, v. 1, 299.
Æneid, story of the, v. 100.
Æschylus, Potter's translation of, iv. 113.
Affectation, iv. 358 ; v. 469.

in writing, ii. 463.

of familiarity with the great, iv. 432.
Affection, natural, ii. 103; iv. 262; v. 90.

Johnson's, for Miss Boothby, i. 51;

iv. 426.
Agar, Welbore Ellis, esq. iii. 482 n.
Age, old, iv. 44,110, 197, 391 ; v. 60, 174.

Agis,' Home's tragedy of, ii. 424 n..
* Aglaura,' Suckling's play of, iv. 179.
Agutter, Rev. William, v. 185 n.

his sermon on Johnson's death, v. 353.
Aikin, Miss Letitia, afterwards Mrs. Bar-
bauld, iii. 294, 294 n.; iv. 23, 379.

her imitation of Johnson's style, iv. 23.
Air-bath, Lord Monboddo's, iv. 16.
Akenside, Dr. Mark, i. 349 ; ii. 157;

iii. 368, 368 11., 396.
Akerman, Mr., keeper of Newgate, anec.

dotes of, iv. 317.

Johnson's eulogy on, iv. 318.
Alberti, Leandro, bis classical description

of Italy, iii. 3, 221, 221 n.
Alchymy, iii. 250.
Alcibiades, iv. 122.

his dog, iv. 86.
Alfred, Johnson's wish to write the Life
of, i. 152.

his will, v. 5, 5 n.
Algebra, the study of, recommended, iv.

399.
Alias,' Johnson's exemplification of the

word, v. 97.
Allen, Rev. Thomas, ii. 523 n.

Edmund, the printer, i. 326 n., 481;
ii. 523 ; iii. 504; iv. 125, 171, 466 ;
v. 284.

Johnson's letter to, v. 109.
Ralph, esq., ii. 314.
· Alley Croker,' iv. 107, 107 n.
* All for Love,'Dryden's preface to, quoted,

iv. 486 11.
Alnwick Castle, iii. 538; iv. 128
Althorp, Lord, now Earl Spencer, iv. 309.

See Spencer.
• Amelia,' Fielding's, iii. 408, 408 n.
Ambition, iii. 404
America, and the Americans, iii 167, 169,

188; iv. 54, 57, 148, 174, 324 n.,
v. 64 n., 182.

right of Great Britain to tax, iv, 57.
Amusements, country, iv. 370.
- a man known by his, v. 212.
Amyat, Dr. i. 367.
Ana,' the, French, iii. 4.
Anacreon, Baxter's, iii. 73; v. 42, 42 n.,

159.
- Dove of, translated by Johnson, iv.548 n.

- Fawkes's translation of, iv. 548 n.
Anaitis, temple of, i. 439, 442.
Analogy between body and mind, i. 28.

Anatomy of Melancholy,' Burton's, i.

379; iii. 329.
Ancestry, ii. 144.
• Ancient Ballads,' Dr. Percy's, iv. 137.
Ancient times, folly of praising, at the ex.

pense of modern, v. 98.
Anderdon MSS. v. 293, 307.
Anderson, Professor, at Glasgow, iii. 64,

66, 483.
- Dr. Robert, his Life of Johnson,'

i. 22, 71, 172.
- Mr., his ‘Sketches of the Native Irish,'

ii. 149; iii. 476.
Andrew's, St., ii. 296 ; iii. 539.

its library, ii. 299 n.
- ruins of its cathedral, iii. 539.

its university, iii. 540.
Anecdotes, Johnson's love of, ii. 274.

general inaccuracy of, v. 261 n.
- at second hand, little to be relied on,

v. 322 n.
Anfractuosities of the human mind, iv. 336.
Angel, Mr. John, his ‘Stenography, 'ii.213.
Angel, fallen, v. 118.
Anne, Queen, Johnson touched by, for the

evil, i 16.
- wits of her reign, iv. 202 11.
Annihilation, iii, 519; iv. 154.
• Animus equus,' the, not inheritable,

iii. 77.
Anonymous writings, iv. 246.
• Annus Mirabilis, Tasker's, v. 49 11.
Anson, Lord, iv. 244, 244 n.
- Johnson's epigram on his temple of the

winds, iv. 244 n.
Anthologia,' v. 299.
Antiquarian researches, iv. 194.
Apelles, the Venus of, iv. 477, 477 n.
Apocrypha, iv. 32.
Apology,' Cibber's, iii. 435.
Apology for the Quakers,' Barclay's,

iii. 345.
Apology, Johnson's readiness to make one,

v. 218.
* Apotheosis of Milton,' not written by

Johnson, i. 111.
Apparitions, i. 332, 414; ii. 11, 141,

157, 173, 178, 178 n; iv. 466, 469.
Appetite, riders out in quest of, v. 229.
Appius, Cicero's character of, applied to

Johnson, v. 291 n.
Applause, iv. 363.
April fools' day, iii. 473, 473 1.
Arabs, fidelity of, ii. 356.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, i. 439; ii. 279.

Robert, esq. Ü. 265, 265 n.
· Arcadia,' Sidney's, iii. 495 n.
Arches, comparative strength of semicir.

cular and elliptical, i. 340.
Architecture, ornamental, iii. 327.
Areskine, Sir John, ii. 521.
Arguing, Johnson's mode of, and fondness

for, iii. 371, 388; iv. 483 ; v. 179,
179 n., 210.

452 ;

i. 52, 207, 207 n., 208; iv. 426 th,

427 n.
Aston, Miss Mary, Johnson's epigram ad-

dressed to, i. 110; iv. 207 n.
- Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 52; ii. 45 n., 119;
iii. 255, 354, 358, 496; iv. 61.
Johnson's letters to, ii. 45, 70; iii. 468,

470, 499; iv. 62, 237, 241, 265,

291, 292; v. 25, 158.
Astley, Mr. Philip, the equestrian, iv. 285,

285 n.

• As You Like It,' the clown's answer in,

iv. 372.
Atheism, ii. 282.
Athol porridge,' iv. 449.

Atlas,' the race-horse, iii. 126 n.
Atonement, the great article of Christianity,

ii. 322, 322 11. ; iv. 41 n., 498, 498 n. ;

v. 332 n.
Attack, advantages which authors derive

from, ii. 499, 500; iii. 211.
Atterbury, Dr. Francis, Bishop of Ro-

chester, iv. 83, 102.
- bis funeral sermon on Lady Cutts, iv. 83.
- style of his sermons, iv. 102.
Attorney general, ludicrous title given to,

iii. 440.
Attorneys, i. 385; iii. 39; v. 210.
Avarice, iii. 9, 404, 434; iv. 182, 372,

375.
Auchinleck estate, iii. 74, 75 n., 299, 300,

565; iv. 30.

Lord, Boswell's father, iii. 71, 72,

442 n. ; v. 12.
- some account of, iii. 78, 78 n.
- designates Johnson' Ursa Major,'iii.79.
Auchnasheal, ii. 372.
Author, rarely hurt by his critics, iv. 307.
- the Young,' a poem by Johnson, i. 524.

Virgil's description of the entrance into
hell applied to, iii 5.
Authors, i. 240; ii. 63, 222, 294, 499,

500; iii. 219, 384 ; iv. 33, 81, 180,
194, 195, 243, 244, 246, 495; v. 215,
227.

modern, the moons of literature, iv. 194.
· attacks on them useful, ii. 499.
- the casuistry which passes on the world
the production of one, for that of an.
other, condemned, i. 240, 240 n.

Argument, Johnson's, on schoolmasters

and their duty, ii. 179, 540.
on vicious intromission, ii. 189, 542.
in defence of lay patronage, ii. 229, 546.
against Dr. Memis's complaint, that he
Was styled doctor of medicine,' instead

of physician,' iii. 529.
- in favour of the corporation of Stirling,

üi. 530.
on entails, iii. 302.
on the liberty of the pulpit, iii. 425, 532.
on the registration of deeds, iv. 444.
in favour of a negro claiming his li.

berty, iv. 54, 507.
- against a prosecution by the procurators

of Edinburgh against the publisher of a
libel, iv. 504, 523.

and testimony, v. 179.
Argyle, Archibald, fourth Duke of, iii.

41.
- John, fifth Duke of, iii. 48.

Johnson's visit to, iii. 51.
Johnson's letter to, iii. 58.
his letter to Johnson, iii. 59.
Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of, iii. 48,

48 n.
Ariosto, iv. 338.
Aristotle, saying of, iv. 345.
- his • Poetics,' iii. 403, 403 n.
Arithmetic, Johnson's resort to, when his

fancy was disordered, iv. 394.
Arkwright, Sir Richard, v. 233.
Armidale, ii. 380, 501.
Armorial bearings, ii. 173.
Arms, piling of, why insisted on, iv. 222.
Armstrong, Dr. John, i. 338 1. ; iii. 481.
Army, officers of the, iii. 94.
Arnauld, Anthony, iv. 214.
Arnold, Dr. Thomas, his Observations

on Insanity,' iv. 26.
• Art of Living in London,' i. 74.
Artificial ruins, iii. 157.
* Arts corrective,' ii. 527.
Articles, subscription to the thirty-nine,

ii. 106, 142, 142 n , 300.
Ascham, Roger, Johnson's Life of, i.

476.
Asaph, Bishop of, see Shipley.
Ascanius,' ii

. 416 n,, 418 n., 421 n.
Ash, Dr. John, founder of the Eumelian

club, v. 304 n.
Ashbourne, iv. 31, 59.
Ashburton, Lord, see Dunning.
Assertion, v. 180 n.
Assize, maiden one, iv. 116.
Association of ideas, iv. 151.
Astle, Thomas, esq., keeper of the re-

cords in the Tower, i. 139.
Johnson's letter to, v. 4.
his notes on Alfred's will, v. 5, 5 n.
Rev. Mr., Johnson's advice to, as to

his studies, v. 208.
Aston, Sir Thomas, i. 52, 52 n.

Miss Mary, afterwards Mrs. Brodie,

Båch y Graig, iii. 135, 135 n.
Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, ü. 456;
iv. 46.
Mallet's Life' of, iv. 47.
his . History of Henry VII.,' ii. 44).

his precept for conversation, v. 121.
Badcock, Rev. Samuel, v. 321.

his visit to Johnson, v. 321.
- some account of, v. 321 n.
Badenoch, Lord of, ii. 346, 346 n,

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