Belgrade, siege of, described by Paoli, 238

Bell, John, his "Travels," 192

697

Bolingbroke, Lady, her description of Pope, 481
Bolingbroke, Lord, 490, 491, 492, 512, 545;
condemned by Johnson, 89, 109; letter to Sir
William Wyndham, 445n.

Bolingbroke, second Lord, 264
Bologna sausages, praised by Johnson, 244
Bonhours, Dominique, on beauty, 203

"Bon Ton," a play, 293

Brumoy, Père, Johnson translates for Mrs.
Lenox's English version of, 116
Booksellers, provincial, rare in Johnson's time,

Berwick, Memoirs of the Duke of, 466
Bevill, Rev. Mr., his "Defence of Hammond,"

Johnson's Latin conversation, 323
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 238n.
Boswell, Claude Irvine, Lord Balmuto, 389n.
Boswell, David, ancestor of J. Boswell, 325
Boswell, Dr., 149; his description of Johnson,
354

Bickerstaff, Isaac, 201

Boswell, Mrs., 274, 276, 314, 315, 497; dislikes
Johnson, 273; present from Johnson to, 501;
illness and death, 437, 579; letter to Johnson,
587; letters to from Johnson, 386, 586

Collyer," Johnson ridiculed in, 105

Binning, Lord, 240, 484

on the Slave Trade, 433; suffers from hypo-
chondria, 16; first interview with Johnson,

"Biographia Britannica," 339; Johnson declines

to edit, 421; quoted, 482n.
"Biographia Dramatica," 120n.
"Biographical Dictionary," 120n.
Birch, Rev. Dr. T., letters to Mrs. Elizabeth
Carter, 43; to Johnson, 95; letters to, from
Cave, 47, 48, 49; from Johnson, 51, 74,95;
from Earl of Orrery, 61; from Bishop War-
burton, 2

Birmingham, 5, 22, 27, 30; visited by Johnson
23, 25, 342, 579
Bishop, a liquor, 82
Blackfriars Bridge, 117

Blacklock, Dr. Thomas, 111; Johnson's opinion
of his poetry, 160

Blackmore, Sir Richard, his poems, 500; criti-
cised by Johnson, 211; Johnson's Life of,
quoted, 547

Blackstone, Judge, 19, 505, 561; quoted, 305n.
Blackwall, Anthony, 22

Blagden, Dr., 538

Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, 121, 133, 194, 275, 276,
283, 371; his sermons praised by Johnson, 390,
392, 418, 435, 488, 564; attacks Johnson's style,
420; letter to Boswell, 512

Blair, Kev. Robert, "The Grave," a poem, 370
Blake, Admiral, Johnson's Life of, 47
Blanchetti, Marquis and Marchioness, 317
Bland, Richard, of Virginia, 248n.

Blaney, Elizabeth, 6, 669

Blenheim Park, 340

Bocage, 317

Bocardo, 64n.

131; gives Johnson a sketch of his life, 136;
anecdote of his childhood. 147n.; goes with
Johnson to Greenwich, 156; to Oxford, 188,
336; to the Pantheon, 233; to Bedlam, 312;
to Birmingham, 342; to Lichfield, 345; to
Bath, 369; to Bristol, 370; to Ashbourne,
404; to Keddleston, 4143; to Derby, 416; to
Shefford, 577; goes abroad, 1623 goes to
Shakespeare Jubilee, 1963; visits the Thrales
at Streatham, 199, 441, 460, presents Paoli to
Johnson, 200; witnesses execution at Tyburn,
204; at Newgate, 652; quarrels with Johnson,
210, 487; marries his cousin, 2213; questions
Johnson as to his history, 232; goes to Mrs.
Abington's benefit, 293; has a room in John-
son's house, 313; consults Lord Hailes about
the entail, 328; his conversation with Captain
Cook, 354; lives with General Paoli, 365;
defends liberty of pulpit, 374; sends Johnson
Lord Hailes "Annals of Scotland," 398;
regrets his censure of "Biographia Britannica,'
421n.; engaged at the Parliamentary Bar, 440;
his shorthand, 459; is introduced to Wesley,
508; his illness, 508; procures for Johnson
information about Pope, 518; attends meeting
of Robin Hood Society, 562, 563; engaged in
ludicrous action in Court of Sessions, 576;
parts with apprehension from Johnson, 612,
613; makes application to Lord Thurlow on
Johnson's behalf, 651; bids farewell to John-
son, 656; letters to Dr. Cullen, 625; to
Dr. Hope, 625; to Johnson, 163, 180, 193,
221-223, 247, 273, 276, 278, 281, 282, 287, 314,
316, 323, 329, 386, 387, 388, 391, 393,394,
397, 399n., 401-403,435, 437, 438, 462, 496,
500, 508, 509, 515, 517, 523, 525, 618, 620; to
Munro, 625; to Dr. Percy, 462; to Pitt,
625n.; letters to, from Dr. Adams, 670, 686n.;
from Rev. Mr. Agutter, 689n.; from Dr.

Beattie, 225n.; from Dr. Blair, 5123; from E.
Dilly, 395; from Sir W. Forbes, enclosing the
Round Robin, 384; from Lord Hailes, 147;
from Warren Hastings, 551; from Johnson,
162, 172, 179, 193, 197, 212, 223, 246, 247, 271
-283, 288, 314-316, 324, 326-330, 369, 386,
387, 389, 392-394,398-400, 401-404, 435-
437, 462, 497, 499, 501, 508-510, 516-519, 523,
526, 553, 579,583,585-588, 614, 618, 620, 624,
625, 626, 660, 661, 671, 672; from Langton,
497, 520; from Mickle, 621; from Lord Thur-
low, 655; from Rev. Dr. Vyse, 400; his
"Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides," 166, 237n.
251, 285.302n., 428, 481n., 497, 591n., 631n.,
635n., 679n.; praised by Courtenay, by Mrs.
Thrale, 272, 315; quoted, 5, 33, 53, 66, 73г., 117,
146, 156, 607n. his "Thesis in Civil Law,
179; his "Account of Corsica" published, 188;
quoted, 197n.; his "Hypochondriac," 204n.,
595; his Matrimonial Thought," 212; his
Essence of the Douglas cause," 257n.;
Journal, 434; quoted, 441; verses to Hon. Miss
Monckton, quoted, 568n.; letter to the People
of Scotland, 5921., 694

Boswell, Thomas, founder of the family, 325
Boswell, Thomas David, 424n., 525; introduced
to Johnson, 523; his account of Johnson's death,
687

Bosville, Mrs., 233

Bouchier, Governor, 560

Bouffier, Claude, 162n.

Boufflers, Madame de, visits Johnson, 215, 323

Boulter, Archbishop, 106

Bouquet, Mr., bookseller, 80

Bourdonne, Madame de, 262n.

Bowles, William, Johnson stays with, 615

Bowyer, William, Life of, 667n.

Boyle, Mr., his "Martyrdom of Theodora," 104
Boydell, Alderman, 282n.

Bradley, in Derbyshire, visited by Johnson, 22
Braithwaite, Mr., of the Post Office, 632

Bramhall, Bishop, on "Liberty and Necessity,"

209

Brett, Colonel, 57n.

Buchanan, George, Johnson admires his poems,
157, 205, 597

Buckingham, Duchess of, 447
Budgell, Eustace, 257, 369
Budworth, Rev. Mr., 22n.
Bulse, Indian measure of diamonds, 495
Bunbury, Henry, 140
Bunbury, Sir Charles, 165, 275, 291, 505n; pall-
bearer at Johnson's funeral, 688
Bunyan, John, admired by Johnson, 260
Burgoyne, General, his surrender at Saratoga, 495
Burke, Edmund, 115, 164, 177, 221, 238, 2541.,
261, 268, 302n., 369, 383, 455, 473, 475, 502, 503,
536, 548, 556, 558, 564, 630, 658; in praise of
Johnson, 24, 376; Johnson's views on, 154, 219,
340, 450n.; witness at Baretti's trial, 206; Gold-
smith's view of his oratory, 270; writes Round
Robin, 385; his equable disposition, 428; his
witticisms, 481, 554; his argument on happiness,
642; his speech parodied by Johnson, 648; his
defence of Johnson, 648: differs from Johnson
on Baretti's case, 650; compares Johnson to Ap-
pius, 670n.; at Johnson's sick bed, 683; pall-
bearer at Johnson's funeral, 688; his "Vindica-
tion of Natural Society," 159n.; his essay on the
Sublime and Beautiful, 203; his speech on
American Taxation, 282; his "Letter to the
Sheriff of Bristol," criticised by Johnson, 426
Burke, Richard, 165, 667; his death, 6ron.; his
argument with Johnson, 654

Burlington, Lord, 491

Burnet, Bishop, "History of his own Times,"

criticised by Johnson, 250

586

Bristol, Johnson visits, 370

Brocklesby, Dr., 593, 614, 619, 622, 625, 629; his
generosity to Johnson, 656, 680; his account
of Johnson's death, 686; letter to Johnson,
615n., letters to, from Johnson, 615, 661-664

Bromley, in Kent, 79

Brooke, Henry, author of "The Fool of Quality
and "Gustavus Vasa," 44n.; Johnson's essay
on the latter, 44

Brooks's Club, origin of, 360n.
Broome, Life of, by Johnson, 545
Brown, Capability, 340, 511
Browne, Isaac Hawkins, 299, 629

Browne, Rev. Dr. John, of Cambridge, 218

Brown, Rev. Robert, of Utrecht, 174, 467

Brown, Tom, teaches Johnson, 8

Browne, Sir Thomas, 19n., 469; influence on
Johnson's style, 73; his "Christian Morals,"
edited by Johnson, with life prefixed, 102

Bruce, James, criticised by Johnson, 297
Bruce, Robert, 273n.

Brydone, Patrick, "A tour through Sicily and

Malta," 301, 348, 495

Buchan, Earl of, 236

Burrowes, Rev. Robert, his "Essay on the style of
Dr. Samuel Johnson." 675

Burton, Robert, at Oxford, 14; his "Anatomy of
Melancholy" praised by Johnson, 215, 337

Burton's Books, 623

Bute, Earl of, 125, 129, 292n., 304, 305, 383;
Johnson's opinion of, 349; letters from Johnson
to, 126, 127

Butler, Samuel, 261; Johnson's opinion of
"Hudibras," 310; quoted, 639

Butter, Dr., of Derby, 351, 412, 416, 680
Byng, Admiral, 218; defended by Johnson, 105;
his Epitaph quoted, 105

Byng, Hon. John, his letter to Malone, 687

CADELL, Mr., 331, 486

Caesar, Julius, Bacon's remark on, 4
Caledonian Mercury, The, quoted, 576
Callimachus, Johnson's opinion of, 527
Cambridge, visited by Johnson, 167
Cambridge, Richard Owen, 307, 451; com
municates particulars about Johnson, 600; hi
death, 601n.

Camden, Lord, 290; his judgment on Dougl
Cause, 257n.; anecdote of, 476

Camden, William, his "Remains," 473, 608
Cameron, Dr. Archibald, execution of, 46
Campbell, Archibald, his "Lexiphanes," satire
on Johnson, 188

Campbell, Hon. Archibald, non-juring bishop,

251; praised by Johnson, 635

Campbell, Sir Archibald, 374

Campbell, Rev. Dr., of St. Andrew's, 121
Campbell, Dr. John, 190, 289; Johnson's opinion
of, 141, 251, 339, 448

Campbell, Rev. John, of Kippen, letter to
Boswell, 182n.

Campbell, Mungo, case of, 427

Campbell, Dr. Thomas, 298, 300, 303, 395, his
"Diary of a Visit to England" quoted, 28n.,
106; his "Philosophical Survey of the South
of Ireland," 299

Candide, compared with Rasselas, 114, 495
Canus, Melchior, of Toledo, 318

Cardross, Lord, see Buchan, Earl of
Careless, Mrs., Johnson's first love, 344, 345
Carleton, Captain, his "Memoirs," 654
Carlisle, Frederick, fifth Earl of, his poems

criticised by Johnson, 570, 619, 620

Carmichael, Miss, 440

Carter, Dr. Nicholas, 37n.

Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, 80, 153n., 563, 630;
account of, 37n.; advised by Johnson, 40;
writes in the "Rambler," 66; her early rising,
418; letter from Dr. Birch to, 43

Carteret, Lord, see Granville, Lord

Catcot, George, 371
Catiline, Sallust on, 4

Cator, Mr., 646

Catullus, quoted, 595

Cave, Miss, 25n.

Cave, Edward, 34, 35, 47, 51, 5312., 69, 480;
Johnson's first publisher, 30; begins Gentle-
man's Magazine, 33; sees a ghost, 237;
Johnson's opinion of, 684; his letters to Dr.
Birch, 44, 48, 49; letters from Johnson to, 25,
31. 37, 38, 42, 43, 50; Johnson's life of, 85

Cavendish Debates, 648n.
Caxton, William, 453
Cecil, Colonel, 239

Cervantes, 311

Chalmers, George, 48n.

Chamberlayne, Rev. Mr., 636

Chambers, Catherine, 113, 114, 187

Chambers, Ephraim, his "Proposal" for the
Dictionary, 72

Chambers, Sir Robert, 111, 124, 164, 271, 274,
277, 360, 552, 658; his intimacy with Johnson,
181; Vinerian Professor, 1883; draws
Langton's will, 270; his marriage, 275; letter
to, from Johnson, 91

Chambers, Sir William, his "Chinese Archi-
tecture" praised by Johnson, 598
Chamier, Mr., 164, 301n., 437,452
"Champion, The," quoted, 54
Chapone, Mrs., writes for the "Rambler," 66;
letter from Johnson to, 620
Charlemont, James, first Earl of, 164, 259, 494,
556, 557

Charles I., 250, 310, 311

Charles II., 81, 150, 187, 310, 311; defended by
Johnson, 299

Charles V., witty saying of, 2013; censured by

Lord Kames, 450

Charles Edward, Prince, 94n., 146

699

Charles XII. of Sweden, 457; Johnson's lines on.
64

Charlotte, Queen, 222
Charterhouse, the, 61, 526

Chatham, Earl of, 217, 2547., 256, 290; Johnson's
opinion of, 495; first speech in House of Lords,
647

Chatsworth, visited by Johnson, 663
Chatterton, T., the "Rowley Poems," 371, 581
Chelsea College, 194

Chesterfield, Philip, fourth Earl of, 28n., 48, 94n.
299, 379, 506, 556; "Plan" of Dictionary
addressed to, 60; his insolence, 85, 593; his
eulogy of the "Dictionary" in the "World,"
85; his epigram on Sir Thomas Robinson
148n.; his pronunciation, 230; Johnson's opinion
of him, 88, 250, 653; letter from Johnson to, 86;
Dilly's edition of his miscellaneous works,
493; his "Letters," criticised by Johnson, 88,
295, 372; Literary Property of letters con-
tested, 89; quoted, ro

Chesterfield, Philip, fifth Earl of, at Dodd's trial,
406

Cheyne, Dr. George, "The English Malady,"

16, 362, 387

China, wall of, 458
Cheynel, Johnson's Life of, 75
Choïsi, Abbé, 486
Cholmondeley, George James, anecdote of, 658
Cholmondeley, Hon. Mrs., 217, 454, 455, 479
Christian, Rev. Mr., of Docking, 191
Churchill, Rev. C., 133, 143n., 451; satirizes
Johnson in "The Ghost," 137; his poems criti-
cised by Johnson, 141; his "Prophecy of Fam-
ine," 142; his "Rosciad," 186n., 195n.; quoted,
38, 107, 166, 440

Churton, Rev. Ralph, 269n.; his views on a pas-
sage in the burial service, 608n.; on Boswell's
Life of Johnson, 641n.

Cibber, Colley, 57n., 85, 456; Johnson's epigram
on, 47, 135; his opinion of, 135, 204, 299, 618;
Poet Laureate, 60n.; his recollection of Dryden,
380; consults Johnson, 425; his "Provoked
Husband," 189; his "Nonjuror," 292; quoted,
207, 630

Cibber, Mrs., 65, 204

Cibber, Theophilus, "Lives of the Poets," 363
Clare, Lord, see Nugent, Robert

Clarendon, Lord, his " History," 99n.; his MSS.
presented to the University of Oxford, 330;
criticised by Johnson, 454; his account of
Villiers' Ghost, 493; his character of Falk-
land, 691n

Clarendon Press, 330, 337
Clark, Mr., of Edinburgh, his pamphlet answered
by Johnson, 622

Clark, Alderman Richard, letter from Johnson
to, 624

Clarke, Rev. Dr., 62n., 134, 209, 686; his ser-

Derby, Rev. Mr., Johnson writes Dedication for,
396

Derrick, Samuel, 614n.; Johnson on, 129, 132, 155,
599; quoted, 38; anecdote of, 156

Desmoulins, Mrs., 224, 615; supported by Dr.
Johnson, 16, 22, 440; her story of Mrs.
Johnson's selfishness, 78; her illness, 591, 623;
her anecdote of Johnson, 649; at Johnson's
death-bed, 687

Devaynes, Mr., apothecary to His Majesty, 629
Devonshire, Duchess of, 501

Devonshire, Duke and Duchess of, entertain
Johnson at Chatsworth, 663
Devonshire, William, third Duke of, characterised
by Johnson, 426
Diamond, Mr., 79

Diary, Johnson's, quoted, 18, 21, 22, 83, 84, 168,
172, 579, 580, 615, 631; his "Egri Ephemeris,"

672

Dibden, C., 212

Dick, Sir Alexander, Bart., 401; consulted by
Johnson, 625; his letter to Johnson, 392

Dictionary of the English Language, by Johnson,
72, 85, 95, 96, 129n., 151, 159, 227, 247, 249,
269, 527; first proposed to Johnson by Dodsley,
59, 513; publication of Plan, 59; its dedi
cation to Lord Chesterfield, 60; praised by
Lord Orrery, 61; mode of writing, 62; dis-
cussed, 97-100; not a financial success, 101;
reviewed in the "Bibliothèque des Savans,
108; quoted, 60, 82n., 98, 99, 430n., 490; parody
of, quoted, 675

Dictionary, Medicinal, Johnson's Dedication to
Dr. Mead, quoted, 51

Dilly, Charles and Edward, 264, 331, 353, 466;
Johnson dines with, 298, 377, 465, 495, 496, 508,
565, 631, 652; letters to Charles from Johnson,
509, 623; letter from Edward to Boswell, 395;
death of Edward, 510

Dilly, Mr., of Southill, Beds., 86, 264; Johnson
stays with, 572

Diogenes Laertius, records saying of Aristotle,

531

D'Israeli, Isaac, "Calamities and Quarrels of
Authors," 35n.

"Dissertation on the State of Literature and
Authors," by Johnson, 102
Dixie, Sir Wolstan, Johnson disagrees with, 22
Dodd, Rev. Dr. William, 401, 463; history of his
crime, 406-410; his execution, 399, 409; John-
son's opinion of, 398, 417, 605; his sermons,
450; his poem, Thoughts in Prison," 459;
his letters to Johnson, 408, 409
Doddington, Mr., see (Lord Melcombe), 549n.
Dodsley, James, 59, 65

Dodsley, Robert, 37, 38, 60, 66n, 80, 88, 95, 106,
114, 339; suggests the "Dictionary" to John-
son, 59, 513; buys "Irene," 65; disputes with
Goldsmith, 366; "Public Virtue," a poem by,
533; "Cleone," a tragedy by, 112, 534

Dominicetti, Italian quack, 207
Donaldson, Alexander, bookseller, censured by

Johnson, 149

Donne, Dr., Walton's Life of, 339; praised by

Johnson, 308

Don Quixote, 18n.

Dosa, the brothers, 174n.

Dossie, Mr., Johnson's kindness to, 530

Douglas, his collection of editions of Horace, 632
Douglas, Dr., Bishop of Salisbury, 44, 86n, 165,

701

194, 195, his history, 39; detects Lauder's
forgery, 75; investigates Cock Lane Ghost,
137; anecdote of Johnson by, 146; Johnson dines
with, 323; calls on Johnson, 631
Douglas, Dr., his literary fraud, 121
Douglas Estate, litigation concerning the, 257,

355

Douglas, Mr. and Lady Jane, 257

Douglas, Sir James, 422

Doxy, Miss, Garrick's niece, 517n., 518
Drake, Sir Francis, Johnson's Life of, 47
"Draughts, Introduction to the Game of," John-
son's dedication for, 106
Dreghorn, Lord, see Maclaurin, Mr.
Drelincourt on Death, 231
Dromore, Bishop of, see Percy, Dr.
Drumgold, Colonel, Johnson dines with, 321;
praised by Johnson, 322
Drummond, Dr., 387, 504

Drummond of Hawthornden, his "Polemo-Mid-
dinia," 465

Drummond, William, 181; letters from Johnson,

to, 181-83

Drury Lane Journal, 72
Drury Lane Theatre, 33, 49, 59, 64, 75, 138, 293
Dryden, J., 233, 541; Johnson on, 202, 293, 491;
quoted, 217, 254, 262, 543, 642; Johnson's Life
of, quoted, 543
Dublin Journal, 227
Dublin Society, 106n.

Dublin, Trinity College, 139; confers Doctor's
degree on Johnson, 168; Flood's bequest to,

192, 538

Dunbar, Dr., of Aberdeen, 524
"Dunciad," The, 49n.

Duncombe, Mr., of Canterbury, praised by John-
son, 477

Dundas, Henry, (Lord Melville), 89; his pro-
nunciation, 230; counsel for Joseph Knight
(the negro), 436

Dunfermline, contested election for, 374
Dunning, John, Lord Ashburton, 164, 402; his
accent, 229; compliments Johnson, 447

Dunsinan, Lord, 367
Dunvegan, House of, 315
Du Ros, his "Réflexions Critiques sur la Poésie

et la Peinture," 203

Dury, Major-General Alexander, 111
Dyer, John, "The Fleece," by, 341
Dyer, Samuel, 164, 177n., 530

EASTON MAUDIT, visited by Johnson, 167
Eccles, Rev. Mr., literary fraud by, 121
Eccles, Mr., 143

Ecclesiasticus, quoted, 424

Ecole Militaire, visited by Johnson, 317
Eddystone, Johnson tries to land on, 126
Edial, 33, 223; Johnson's school at, 27
Edinburgh visited by Johnson, 272, 273; Advo-
cate's Library at, 69n.; Transactions of Royal

Society of, quoted, 536n.

Edward I., Lord Hailes on, 278
Edwards, fellow-collegian of Johnson's, 472,
561

Edwards, of New England, on Grace, 467, 468