1 company, and of the party almost throughout. It has given very general fatisfaction; and those who have found most fault with a paffage here and there, have agreed that they could not help going through, and being entertained through the whole. I wish, indeed, some few grofs expreffions had been softened, and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more fhaded; but it is useful to fee the weakneffes incident to great minds; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told." Such a fanction to my faculty of giving a just representation of Dr. Johnfon I could not conceal. Nor will I fupprefs my fatisfaction in the confcioufness, that by recording fo confiderable a portion of the wisdom and wit of "the brightest ornament of the eighteenth century," I have largely provided for the inftruction and entertainment of mankind. London, April 20, 1791, *See Mr. Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare. ALPHABETICAL ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF CONTENT S, TO BOTH VOLUMES. The Letters refer to the Volume, the Figures to the Page. Antiquities, the study of, ii. 308, Architecture, ii. 22. Argyle, Archibald, Duke of, ii. 85. Afcham, Roger, Johnfon's life of, i. 253. Afhbourne, fingular anecdote of the mistress of Reverend Mr. ii. 512. Auchinleck, Lord, (the Authour's father,) ii. 4, 426. Place of, ii. 100. Authours, of deciding on their MSS. ii. 381; ii. 207, 244, 282. of their writing for profit, ii. 149. the respect due to them, ii. 239, 397. 1 Johnson's Letters to him, i. 196, 201, 3. Barnard, Dr. (Bishop of Killaloe) i. 454; ii. 92, Barretier, J. P. his life by Johnfon, i. 77, 81. Barrington, Hon. Daines, ii. 241. Barrow, Dr. his Sermons, ii. 391. Barry, Dr. his Syftem of Phyfick,' ii. 60. Barry, Mr. his paintings, ii. 426. Bath, Johnfon's vifit to, ii. 66. Beggars, ii. 298, 330. Beggar's Opera,' i. 488, 9; ii. 245. Berwick, Duke, his Memoirs,' ii. 224. Bewley, Mr. his enthufiaftick veneration for Bibliotheca Harkiana,' i. 81. Biddulph, Sidney,' the novel, i. 210. Biographia Britannica, ii. 157, 489. Biography, remarks on, i. 1-7; ii. 26, 85, 144, 357, 387, 553, 570. Boerhaave, his life by Johnson, i. 77. Bolingbroke, Lord, his works, i. 145. Bolton, Mr. of Birmingham, ii. 32. Books and Bookfellers, ii. 12, 162, 493. Boothby, Mifs, letter of Johnfon to, ii. 360. Bofvile, Godfrey, Efq. ii. 326. Bofwell (the authour of this work) introduced to Johnson, i. 211. his Account of Corfica,' i. 298, 303, elected of the Literary Club, i. 408. his Letter to the People of Scotland," For other matters fee i. 257, 274, 283, - Johnson's letters to him, i. 258, 273, Letters to Johnfon from him, i. 348, Bofwell, Mrs. i. 428, 430; ii. 181, 3, 309, 428. Boucher, Governour, ii. 381. his letter to Johnfon on his Dictionary, Boufflers, Mad. de, i. 513. i. 158. Birds, their migration, i. 414. Bithops, ii. 492, 518. Blackfriar's Bridge, i. 191. Blackmore, i. 330. Blacklock's poetry, i. 254. Johnfon's life of, ii. 358. Effay on Man,' ii. 299. ii. 68. Blake, Admiral, his life by Johnfon, i. 77. Braithwa te, Mr. ii. 493. Bribery, i. 477. Brocklefby, Dr. his kind attention to Johnfon, Letters of Johníon to, ii. 462, 537> his tragedy, ii. 470. Carter, Mrs. i. 71; ii. 491. Charles I. i: 490, Johnson's opinion of. Chastity, ii. 31, 569, and fee Marriage. Chesterfield, Lord, i. 99, 138, 391, 467; ii. 265, 141. his Letters,' i. 144; ii. 71. Johnfon's fevere letter to him, i. Cheyne's English Malady,' ii. 94. 242. Cibber, Colley, i. 94, 217, 320, 423; ii. 85, Theophilus, his Lives of the Poets,' ii. 59, 62. Clarke, Richard, Efq. ii. 478. Clarke, Dr. his works, Clergy The, i. 368, 9, 409, 410, & feq. ii. 1-33, 235, 240, 373, 4, 381. Advice to a young clergyman, ii. 323. Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, ii. 377. Clive, Mrs. the actress, ii. 332, 468. Club, Effex-Head, established by Johnfon, ii. 475, 6, 8. Coachmakers'-hall debating fociety, ii. 384, 5. Cock-lane ghoft, i. 220; ii. 212. Collections in writing, their use, i. 320. Collins, the poet, i. 207. Colman, George, Efq. i. 461; ii. 100, 334. Cator, John, Efq. Johnfon's character of him- O'Conor, Charles, Efq. Johnfon's letters to, cni and his fine feat, ii. 513. Cattle extraordinary, ii. 141. Cave, Mr. Edward, his life by Johnfon, i. 138, Johnfon's letters to him, i. 41, 50, 61, 2, Chamberlayne, Reverend Mr. ii. 498. Letter from Johnson to him, i. 149. Courtenay, John, Efq. extracts from his poem on Johnson's character, i. 26, 121, 173, 187,427; ii. 559. Crabbe, Reverend Mr. his Village,' ii. 438. Croft, Reverend Herbert, ii. 505, 510. Cruikshank, Mr. letter of Johnson to, ii. 547. Ꭰ. DALRYMPLE, Sir John, his Memoirs,' i. 391. Davies, Mr. Thomas, character and anecdotes of, i. 210, 211, 305, 7, 321, 429, 476, 9 ; ii. 63, 186, 201, 460. Johnson's kind letters to, ii. 460, 548. Deane's Future Life of Brutes,' i. 301. Dodfley, Robert, ii. 26, 62, 339. Douglas, Dr. (Bishop of Carlisle,) i. 125; ii. 492. Douglas caufe, i. 300, 400, 3; ii. 183. Drake, Admiral, his life by Johnson, i. 77, 8. Draughts, the game of, i. 174- Drammend, Mr. William, Johnfon's letters to, Dryden, Johnfon's life of, ii. 85, 350. Drunkennefs.-See Wine. Du Halde's Account of China,' i. 302. Duncombe, Mr. ii. 240. Dundas, Right Hon. Henry, ii. 180. Dunning, Mr. his high compliment to Johnfon, ii. 197. remarks on, i. 85, 94, 9, 138, 174, 194, 8, 9, 208, 272, 3, 285, 297, 389, 399; Delaney's Obfervations on Swift,' ii. 202. Dempfter, George, Efq. ï. 236, 451. Derby, fome particulars as to, ii. 150. Dick, Sir Alexander, his letters to and concern- ing Johnfon, ii. 104, 125, 480. Dictionary of the English Language,' Johnson's, i. 98, 9, 101, &c.. 358, 389; ii. 301, 330. Dilly, Meffieurs, ii. 80, 111, 400, 9. Eliot, Mr. of Port-Eliot, (now Lord,) ii. 376. 115. Letters from Johnson to him, i, 114, Elwal, the enthufiaft, i. 363. Entails, ii. 3, & feq. 9, 16, 18. Johnfon's letters on, ii. 4, 7. Epilogue to The Diftreft Mother,' i. 22.. Epifcopacy, ii. 280, 492, 518. Epitaphs, i. 514; ii. 450, 566. Erskine, Hon. Thomas, i. 369, 370. Eumelian club, ii. 567. Exhibition of paintings, i. 197. |