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Trecothick, Barlow, Lord Mayor, 382, 432
Trianon, Johnson at the, 319
Trimlestown, Lord, 441, 442
Tuilleries, The, Johnson at, 318

INDEX

Turk's Head Coffee House, Johnson sups at,
152

Turk's Head, meeting place of The Club, 164
Tursellinus, his "Life of St. Ignatius Loyola," 20
Turton, Dr., 416
Twalmley,
box-iron, 600

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Veal, Mrs., story of the ghost of, 231
Versailles, visited by Johnson, 315, 319
Verses to Lady Firebrace, by Johnson, 42
Vertot, René Aubert, Sieur de, his "Révolutions
Romaines," 260

Vesey, Mr., 164, 291, 537

Vestris, report of Johnson's taking dancing lessons
with, 557

Vilette, Rev. Mr., Chaplain of Newgate, praised
by Johnson, 652

Virgil, 18, 19, 87, 280, 485; Johnson's translation

from, 11; edited by Dr. Joseph Warton,
83n.; compared with Homer, 429; with
Theocritus, 526; discussed, 610; quoted, 17,
157, 180, 218, 247, 436n., 592, 600
"Vision of Theodore the Hermit," by Johnson,63
"Vitalis, Janus," quoted, 451

Voltaire 96n., 175, 191, 203, 318., 323, 466, 485;
his cruel jest on Admiral Byng, 105; his com-
parison between Pope and Dryden, 173; at-
tacks Johnson in "Dictionnaire Philosoph-
ique," 171; his "Candide," compared with
"Rasselas," 114, 495; quoted, 115, 148
Vyse, Rev. Dr., letters to, from Johnson, 400
526m.; his letter to Boswell 400

717

WALDEGPAVE, Ladies, Reynolds' portrait of,

II2N.

Wales, Johnson's impression of, 279

Walker, Joseph Cooper, 107; his letter to Bos-
well, quoted, 395n.

Walker, Mr., master of elocution, his conversation
with Johnson, 605

Wall, Dr., physician at Oxford, 638
Waller, Edmund, quoted, 307n., 540, 636n.; Life
of, in "Biographia Britannica," quoted, 482n.;
Johnson's Life of, quoted, 541

Walmsley, Gilbert, eulogised by Johnson, in
"Lives of Poets" 21; consulted by John-
son about "Irene," 29; his prediction about
Johnson, 65; his letter to Rev. J. Colson, 30
Walpole, Horace, 112n., 153n.; contributes to
"The World," 85n. ; sale of his pictures, 654;
Johnson on, 645; his "Reminiscences," 300.;
his account of Dr. Dodd, 406n. ; his collection of
bons mots, 428n.; his Memoirs of the Reign of
George III., 647n.; quoted, 139n., 233n., 598n.,
601n., 639n.; his Letters, 134n., 256n., 298n.,
quoted, 492.

Walpole, Sir R., 44n., 447, 647; Johnson on, 40,
244, 373, 558

Walton, Izaak, 308; his "Complete Angler,"
43.; his Lives, 277, 278, 338, 339, 393; praised
by Johnson, 308

Warburton, Bishop, 1847.,232n., 635; his com-
pliment to Johnson, 57; his friendly message
to Johnson, 87; compared by Johnson with
Theobald, 109; his controversy with Lowth,
185; on Mallet's "Life of Bacon," 429; his style
of comment, 475.; tribute to from Johnson,
544; his "Divine Legation," 545; his letter to
Dr. Birch,quoted, 2

Ward, well-known quack, 507

Wardlaw, Lady, her ballad of Hardyknute, 204
Warley Camp, Johnson visits, 497

Warren, Dr., Johnson's physician, 165, 680, 685
Warren, John, of Pembrokeshire, 24
Warren, Mr., bookseller, 23, 24

Warton, Rev. Joseph, 35n., 165, 1842., 187, 499;
his Essay on Pope, praised by Johnson, 153,
232, 442; letters to from Johnson, 83, 214
Warton, Thomas, the elder, Professor of Poetry,
83n.
Warton, Rev. T., the younger, 35"., 83., 164;
his account of Johnson's visit to Oxford, 90;
his poem, "The Progress of Discontent," 94n.
elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 108л.;
writes in "The Idler," 110; visited by Johnson,
339; Johnson criticises his poetry, 414; his
History of English Poetry, 4642.; his dispute
with Huggins about Ariosto, 528, 529; his
witty saying, 647; letters to from Johnson
quoted, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 108, 111, 196,
213

Watson, Dr., Bishop of Llandaff, his “ Chemical
Essays," 572

Watts, Dr. Isaac, his poems, 500; criticised by
Johnson, 104, 401, 496; Johnson's Life of,

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Welch, Saunders, 511; his intimacy with Johnson,
437, 438n.; anecdote of, 596; letter to from
Johnson, 437

Wentworth, Mr., Master at Stourbridge School,

IO, II

Wesley, Rev. John, believes Newcastle ghost
story, 470; Johnson's opinion of his conversa-
tion, 443; quoted, 2162.; letter to from John-
son, 509

West, G., his translation of Pindar criticised by
Johnson, 537

Westmoreland, Earl of, 117n.

Wetherell, Dr., Master of University College,
Oxford, 306; Johnson calls on, 337; dines with,
644; letters to from Johnson, 330
Wheatley, near Oxford, Johnson at, 644
Wheeler, Rev. Dr., 524; letter to from Johnson,
498

Whitaker, Rev. J. 2112; his "History of Man-
chester," 485

White, Rev. Dr., Bishop of Episcopal Church in
Virginia, letter to from Johnson, 248
Whitefield, George, the preacher, 19; Johnson's
opinion of his oratory, 200, 514
Whitefoord, Caleb, his amusing essays, 649
Whitehead, Paul, Johnson's prejudice against, 38
Whitehead, William, Poet Laureate, 60; Mason's
Memoirs of, 3; his Elegy to Lord Villiers,
quoted, 570

"Whole Duty of Man," Johnson discusses author-
ship of, 261

Wickins, Lichfield draper, his anecdote of John-

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Wilkes, John, 38n., 42, 132, 133, 175, 198; essay
in "The Public Advertiser," 100; befriends
Francis Barber, 117; Johnson writes against,
212; meets Johnson at the Dilly's, 377-383;
Johnson on, 424; his conversation with Boswell,
440; his attack on Garrick, 506; his conduct
during the Gordon riots, 521, 522; repeats re-
partee of Pope's, 545; his conversation with
Johnson, 565-567; tells sentimental anecdote,
659n; letter to from Dr. Smollett, 117
Willes, Chief Justice, 566

William III., Johnson's opinion of, 268, 300
Williams, Anna, 80, 84, 225, 255; her account of
Mrs. Johnson, 272.; lives with Johnson, 76,
173; his intimacy with Johnson, 142, 159; with
Johnson at Oxford, 196n.; her dexterity in
making tea, 206; petitioner for Hetherington's

charity, 279; Johnson's forbearance with, 361,
378, 489; angry with the Thrales, 372; dines
with Dr. Percy, 459; her illness, 389, 390, 399,
402, 403, 435, 498, 591; her death, 615; her
writings, 47, 181; Johnson's tale in her "Mis-
cellanies," 258

Williams, Helen Maria, complimented by John-
son, 633
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 184
Williams, Dr. Zachariah, Johnson writes a pam-
phlet for, 912., 100

Wilson, case of, Johnson's opinion on, 244
Wilson, Father, 317

Wilson, Rev. Mr., dedicates to Johnson his
"Archæological Dictionary," 588; letter to
from Johnson, 588

Wilton, Joseph, R.A., 2752.

Windham, Right Hon. William, 165, 286, 494.
597, 622, 631, 658, 663; at Johnson's death-
bed, 685, 686; pall-bearer, 688; letters to from
Johnson, 613, 665

Windsor, visited by Johnson, 82
"Winter's Walk, The," by Johnson, quoted, 58
Wirgman's toy-shop in St. James's St., 481
Wise, F., Radclivian librarian, 90
Woffington, Peg, anecdote of, 457
Wood, Antony à, quoted, 14
Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, criticised
by Johnson, 217

"World, The," 85, 86; Johnson's opinion of, 142
"World Displayed, The," Introduction to by
Johnson, 116

Wraxall, N.W., 520; his Memoirs quoted, 593.
Wray, Sir Cecil, 627n.

Wurtemberg, Prince of, anecdote of, 238
Wyndham, Sir William, letter from Bolingbroke
to, quoted, 445n

XENOPHON, his "Treatise of Economy," 389
Xerxes, 256, 431

YALDEN, poems by, 500
Yonge, Sir William, 230; writes Epilogue to
"Irene," 65

York, Edward, Duke of, 172
Young, Dr., 71, 451; his "Universal Passion,"
549; his Satires," 573n.; his "Night
Thoughts," 206, 549; quoted, 417, 474, 565,
640; life of, by Sir Herbert Croft, 548
Young, Professor, imitates Johnson, 677
Young, son of the poet, 572
Yvery, House of, 601

ZECK, George and Luke, 174

Zon, Mr., His Excellency, Venetian Resident, 91

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