Shaw, William, his pamphlet on Ossian,
v. 141.

Shawe, Colonel Meyrick, on the affinity
between the Irish and Erse languages,
ii. 149 n.

Shebbeare, Dr., ii. 68, 68 n.; iv. 174 n.,
485; v. 94.

-his Letters on the English Nation,'
under the name of Battista Angeloni,
a Jesuit, iv. 485.
Sheep's head, iii. 38, 38 n.

Shelburne, William Petty, second Earl,
afterwards first Marquess of Lansdowne,
iv. 120, 299; v. 53 n., 70, 180 n.
Goldsmith's blundering speech to, v.54.
Shenstone, William, ii. 494; iii. 41, 157,

339.

-his Essays,' v. 106 n.

— favourite stanza of, v. 18 n.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, i. 143, 348,
363, 380, 387, 398, 424, 497 R.;
ii.
87, 154, 243; iii. 56, 195, 224 n.,
244 n., 367, 450; iv. 86 n., 182, 246;
v. 83.

-his prologue to Savage's Sir Thomas
Overbury,' iii. 479.

- his elegant compliment to Johnson on
his Dictionary, iii. 480.

-proposed by Johnson as a member of
the Literary Club, iii. 480.

-

- his meditated answer to Johnson's
Taxation no Tyranny,' iii. 480 n.
Sheridan, Thomas, esq., i. 363, 387, 395,
398, 403, 465; ii. 87, 88 n.; iii. 195,
480, 481; iv. 86 n., 182, 238, 238n,
246; v. 83.

-Johnson's description of his conversa-
tion, i. 380, 465.

- Mrs., i. 348.

her Sydney Biddulpb,' i. 348.
some account of, i. 348 n., 399.
Dr. Parr's description of her, i. 348 n.
Mrs., formerly Miss Linley, v. 27.
Charles, his Revolution in Sweden,'
iv. 143.

Sherrard, Rev. Robert, afterwards fourth
Earl of Harborough, iv. 512.

'She Stoops to Conquer,' ii. 196 n., 203,
212, 222.

Shiels, Mr. Robert, i. 161, 161 n.; iii.
395, 395 n., 401, 481, 531.
'Ship of Fools,' Barclay's, i. 263.
Shipley, Dr. Jonathan, Bishop of St.
Asaph, iii. 136 n., 141 n., 386 n., 444;
iv. 105, 305, 307, 313 n., 445: ท., 462 n.;
v. 135.

Smith, Rev. Edward, his verses on Po-
cocke, the oriental linguist, iv. 124.
Smith, Dr. Adam, i. 41, 442; ii. 257, 267;
iii. 65, 378; iv. 192, 356, 489; v. 640.
his Wealth of Nations,' iii. 316.
his interview with Johnson, iii. 65,
65 n.; iv. 192 n.

-

- difference between Johnson and, iv.
356 n.

- Garrick's opinion of, iv. 356 n.
Smithson, Sir Hugh, i. 390.
Smoking, i. 305; ii. 295, 295 n.
Smollett, Dr. Tobias, i. 127, 338.
his letter to Wilkes, i. 338.
- his epitaph, corrected by Johnson, iii. 63.
commissary, iii. 60.

'Sober,' in the Idler,' intended as John-
son's portrait, iv. 394.
Society, iv. 151, 152.

- civilized, its customs, i. 453, 456, 460;
ii. 10.

Solander, Dr., ii. 135, 138, 139; iii. 23,

23 n.,

391.

Soldiers, ii. 367; iii. 375; iv. 121.
Solitude, ii. 45; v. 113.

dangerous to reason, iv. 370.

not favourable to virtue, iv. 370.

- reasons against, v. 3.

Somerville, James, thirteenth lord, iv.
418.

some account of, iv. 418.

Somnambulism, Dr. Blacklock's, ii. 281 n.
Sorrow, ii. 299; iv. 461.
Sorbonne, iii. 281.

Souls, Johnson's notion of the middle
state of, after death, i. 219.

Sounds, ii. 183.

South, Dr., his Sermons,' ii. 106; iv.
103.

his Sermons on Prayer recommended
by Johnson, ii. 106.
Southwark, people of, iv. 332 n.
Southwell, Robert, his stanzas upon the
Image of Death,' iii. 143 n.
Southwell, Thomas, second lord, iv. 330;
v. 53.

some account of, iv. 330.
Lady Margaret, iv. 329.
Johnson's letter to, iv. 329.
some account of, iv. 329 n.

Spain, no country less known than, i.

354, 419, 466.
Spanish plays, iv. 348.
Speaking, public, iii. 214.

of one's-self, iv. 183.

Speculum Humanæ Salvationis,' iii. 279.
'Spectator, The,' i. 185 n. ; ii. 200; iii.
246, 397; iv. 87, 357, 364, 446, 465.
Spells, ii. 395 n.

Spelman, Sir Henry, on the fatality at-
tending the inheritance of confiscated
church property, v. 38 n.
Spence, Rev. Joseph, iii. 11, 11 n.

- his very amusing Anecdotes,' iv.
302, 302 n., 340, 434, 434 n.; v. 226.
some account of, iv. 434.
Spencer, John George, second Earl, iv.
139 n., 309, 309 n., 310.

Spendthrifts, iv. 372.

Spirits, appearance of departed, i. 333,
414; ii. 141, 157, 173, 178, 178 n. ;
iv. 35, 467, 469.

— evil, ii. 280.

-

'Spiritual Quixote,' key to the characters

in, iv. 525 n.

Spleen,' the, iii. 402.

Spottiswoode, Mr. John, iv. 186.

Stafford, Marquis of, ii. 132 n.
Stage, the, ii. 357.

Stanhope, Mr., (Lord Chesterfield's son),

i. 255 n.; iv. 448 n.; v. 242.
Stanyan, Temple, great accuracy of his
Account of Switzerland,' iv. 223.
Statuary, iii. 327, 327 n.

VOL. V.

his Tristram Shandy,' iii. 337.
his Sermons,' iv. 513, 513 n.
Stews, licensed, iii. 382.

Stillingfleet, Benjamin, esq., iv. 480.
Stirling, corporation of, Johnson's argu-
ment in favour of, iii. 247, 530.
Stockdale, Rev. Perceval, i. 320; ii. 139;
v. 215 n.

--

- his Remonstrance,' a poem, ii. 116.
- some account of, ii. 116 n.
Stonehenge, v. 129, 129 n.
Stories, truth essential to, iii. 320, 321;
iv. 400.

Story telling, iv. 400.

Stowell, Lord, i. 72 n., 261 n., 337 n.,

473; ii. 108, 126 n., 127, 254, 259,
259 n., 262, 279 n., 401 n.; iii. 117,
122; iv. 117, 122, 122 n., 167, 309,
309 n., 314, 465.

his character of Boswell, iii. 110.

his account of Coulson, the eccentric,
iii. 159 n.

Strahan, Rev. Mr., i. 212, 502; ii. 37 n.,
214, 314 325 n.; iii. 192, 195,
197; iv. 324 n.; v. 168.

difference between Johnson and, iv.
229.

publishes Johnson's 'Prayers and Me-
ditations,' i. 213.

Johnson's letters to, i. 502; iv. 230.
William, esq., iv. 230, 474; v. 64.
his letter recommending Johnson to be
brought into parliament, ii. 125.
Mrs., Johnson's letters to, iv. 474;

v. 12.

N N

Stuart, Hon. Colonel James, father of the
present Lord Wharncliffe, iv. 273, 294,
294 n.

-

- Andrew, esq., ii. 218.

his Letters to Lord Mansfield on the
Douglas Cause,' ii. 118; iii. 365.
Francis, i. 161; iv. 295, 302; v.154.
159, 473.

some account of, v. 473.

Rev. James, translator of the scriptures
into Erse, ii. 29 n., 30.

Study, plan of, i. 420, 443, 468, 469,

472, 475; ii. 17, 247; iv. 143, 220,
256, 283, 341, 352.

Style, i. 195, 196, 197, 198; iv. 113 n.,
138, 406, 428, 430.

- of English writers, how far distin-
guishable, iv. 138.

--

- of different painters, how far distin-
guishable, iv. 138.
Subordination, iv. 254.

necessary to human happiness, i. 455,
460; ii 13, 207, 245.
-impaired in England, by the increase
of money, iv. 117.

- in society, duty of maintaining, iii. 203.
Subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles,
ii. 106, 142, 142 N., 300.
Succession, iii. 300, 304.
Suetonius, iv. 141 n.

Suicide, ii. 217, 290; v. 27, 106.
Sunday consultations, lawyers', iii. 249.
ii. 73, 74, 202, 304; iii. 18.

-

Johnson's mode of passing, i. 287;
ii. 5, 202; iii. 18.

Superstition of the press, prejudiced to
good literature, iv. 193.

Superiors, deference to, ii. 337, 337 n.
Superstitions, i. 496; ii. 141, 534; iv. 239.
Suppers, iv. 165.

'Surveillance,' no English word to de-
scribe, iii. 198 n.

Suspicion, iii. 498.

Swallows, ii. 56.

Sympathy with others in distress, ii. 92.
Sydenham, Dr., his description of St.
Vitus's dance, i. 115.

- Johnson's Life of, i. 11, 129.
Sydney, Sir Philip, his Arcadia,' iii.
495 n.

Sydney, Algernon, ii. 198.

'Sydney Biddulph,' i. 399.

Système de la Nature,' ii. 282.

T.

'Table Talk,' Selden's, iii. 4; v. 64 n.
Table, sinking, invented by Louis XV.,
iii. 272, 272 n.

Tacitus, style of, ii. 182.

'Tale of a Tub,' i. 464 ; ii. 279; iii. 194,
194 n.

Talisker, ii. 475, 481; iii. 557.

Talk' and conversation,' Johnson's
distinction between, v. 65.

Talkers, exuberant public, ridiculed, ii.
231.

Talking above the capacity of one's com-
pany, v. 63.

Tallow-chandler, story of one, iii. 213.
Tasker, Rev. William, iv. 243; v. 29.
- his 'Carmen Seculare' of Horace, iv. 243.
- his Ode to the Warlike Genius of
Britain,' iv. 243; v. 49 n.
-some account of, iv. 243 n.
Tasso, iv. 191.

- Hoole's translation of, iv. 372.

- refinement of, v. 248.
Tavern, the chair of a, iii. 339.

Taverns, iii. 338, 339 n. ; iv. 445.
Tavistock, Lady, her excessive grief for
the loss of her husband, ii. 94.

Taxation no Tyranny,' iii. 187, 211,
480; iv. 74, 143.

- sundry suppressed passages in, iii. 189.
Taylor, Jeremy, i. 197; v. 188 n., 194,
324 n., 335.

-

his forms of prayer, v. 193, 193 n.
Rev. Dr. John, i. 29, 33, 51, 144,
159, 171, 197 n., 217, 218, 360; ii.
10 n., 118, 160; iii. 356, 363, 444,
501 n., 503, 516, 520; iv. 1, 17,
32, 42, 44, 58, 197 n., 267; v. 109,

165 n.

-

Taylor, Rev. John, Johnson's letters to,
i. 218; v. 109, 164.

--

Chevalier, iv. 261.

- John, esq., i. 61 n., 172 n.; ii. 47 n.
Tea, Johnson's defence of, and fondness
for, i. 297, 301; ii. 260; iv. 56, 120;
v. 230.

Teapot, Johnson's, i. 297 n.
Telemachus,' iii. 4, 253, 467.
Temple, Sir William, i. 196.

his style, iv. 113, 113 n., 190.

Rev. Mr., i. 450; ii. 11, 231; iii. 192.

his character of Gray, v. 32.

Temptation, iv. 93.

Tenants, ii. 521, 532.

Terence, iv. 350.

Testimony, v. 179.

Thatching, ii. 489.

Theft allowed in Sparta, iv. 152.

Theobald, Lewis, i. 316.

Theocritus, his character as a writer, iv.
334.

-some account of, v. 39 n.

Thicknesse, Philip, esq., his Travels,'
iv. 91.

Things, attention to small, v. 69.
Thinking too well of mankind, v. 228.
Thirty-nine Articles, the, ii. 106, 142.
Thirlby, Dr. Styan, iv. 337; v. 39.
Thomas, Mr. Nathaniel, iii. 456 n.
Thompson, William, author of the Man
in the Moon,' iii. 109.

Thomson, the poet, i. 464; ii. 64; iii.
401, 473, 481, 496; iv. 226, 419 n.
. Rev. James, his case, iii. 424.
Johnson's argument in favour of, iii.

522.

Thornton, Bonnel, esq., i. 183, 194 n., 239 n.
his burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia's
Day,' i. 432.

Mr. Henry, iv. 332 n.

Thoughts, inquisitive and perplexing,
Johnson's prayer against, v. 285.
in Prison,' Dr. Dodd's, iv. 126.
Thrale, Henry, esq., i. 300, 506, 514; ii.
68, 124, 361, 502; iii. 162, 357, 372,
383, 472, 493; iv. 240, 267, 268,
332 n., 384, 441, 451, 456, 474; v. 228.
Johnson's introduction into the family
of, i. 506, 508, 512; iv. 332, 332 n.
his design of bringing Johnson into
parliament, ii. 124.

-

Johnson's letters to, iii. 445, 493.
his Address to the Electors of South-
wark, written by Johnson, iv. 328.
his death, iv. 457, 458; v. 18.
sale of his brewery, v. 1.

Mrs., sce Piozzi, Johnson's Latin
Ode to, ii. 388, 388 n.

Threshing, ii. 489.

Thuarus. Johnson's proposed translation
of, v. 320.
Thucydides, iv. 191.

Time and space, iv. 357.
Timidity, v. 209.

Titi, History of Prince, iii. 271 n.
Toasts, iv. 361.

Toleration, ii. 233, 237; iv. 343.

universal, iv. 250, 343.

Tomkison, Mr., Johnson's letter to, v.
127.

Tooke, Rev. John Horne, iv. 172 n., 221.
his Letter to Mr. Dunning on the
English Particle,' iv. 221.

-

- his Diversions of Purley,' iv. 221 n.
Topham, the King versus, for a libel

against Earl Cowper, deceased, iii. 381 n.
Tories, ii. 209, 498; iv. 185, 210, 390,
474; v. 71.

Tory, Johnson's definition of, i. 280.

and Whig, Johnson's description of, iv.
491; v. 190.

Torture in Holland, i. 479.

Towers, Dr. Joseph, his Letter to Dr.
Johnson on his Political Publications,"
iii. 191.

-

his Essay on Johnson,' iv. 408, 408 n.
Town life, iv. 28, 109.

Townley, Charles, esq., iii. 482 #.
Townshend, Right Hon. Charles, ii. 211;
iii. 368, 368 n., 482.

Trade, ii. 99, 170; iii. 22, 316.
the rage of, ii. 456.

Tradesmen, opulence of, iii. 22.

unhappiness of retired, iii. 213.
Tradeswomen, iv. 220.
Tradition, ii. 306.

Tragedy, the purpose of, iii. 403.
Tragic acting, Johnson's contempt of, ii.
273.

Translation, iii. 400.

Translations, ii. 27; iv. 113.
Transubstantiation, ii. 306, 322.
'Transpire,' definition of the word, iv.
210, 210 n.

Trapaud, Mr., ii. 366.

Travel, Lord Essex's advice on, i. 446.
Traveller,' Goldsmith's, i. 427, 494; ii.
6, 224; iii. 40; iv. 107.

Travelling, i. 381, 419, 446, 475; ii.
119; iii. 339, 370, 373, 400, 414, 538,
550; iv. 91, 124, 159, 220, 223.
the use of, iii. 550.

in quest of health, Johnson's rules for,
v. 31.

— Mrs., iii. 212 n.

-

Vicar of Wakefield,' i. 427; iv. 180,
245.

Vice, iv. 151, 209, 217, 218.
Vices in retirement, v. 228.
'Vicious Intromission,' ii. 189, 194, 283.
Johnson's argument in favour of, ii.
542.

"Vidit et erubuit,' &c. by whom written,
iv. 163, 163 n.

Vilette, Rev. Mr., v. 238, 238 n., 311 n.
Villiers, Sir George, ghost story respect-
ing, iv. 219.

Vincent, Dr., i. 286 n.

"Vindication of Natural Society,' Burke's,
i. 474.

Virgil, i. 388; iv. 46.

Johnson's juvenile translations from,
i. 521.

comparative excellence of Homer and,
iv. 46.

superior to Theocritus, iv. 334.

his description of the entrance into Hell
applied to a printing house, iii. 5.
Virtue, i. 447; iv. 151, 209, 217, 218,
219, 376.

- happiness dependant upon, iv. 151.