ence with Mrs. Carter, i. 269, n. 1 ; Greenwich Park, describes, i. 123, n. 2; Rambler, contributes to the, i. 235; criticises it, i. 241, n. 2, 242, n. 1; Williams, Mrs., account of, i. 269,
Tale of a Tub. See SWIFT.
TALES, telling tales of oneself, ii. 540. TALK, above the capacity of the audi- ence, iv. 213; distinguished from conversation, iv. 215; Johnson loved to have it out, iii. 261; talking for fame, iii. 280; from books, v. 431; of oneself, iii. 66; on one topic, ib. TALKERS, exuberant public, ii. 283. TALLEYRAND, v. 452, n. 3. TALLOW-CHANDLER, in retirement, ii.
TAMEOS, V. 276, n. I. TANNING, v. 280.
TAR, V. 246.
TARTARY, ii. 179.
Tartuffe, ii. 367, n. 1; iii. 509. TASKER, Rev. Mr., iii. 425-6. TASSO, borrows a simile from Lucre- tius, iii. 376.
TASTE, changes in it, iii. 218, n. 4; defined, ii. 219; refinement of it, iv. 391; Reynolds's rule for judging it, iv. 365.
Tatler, end of its publication, i. 233, n. 3; esquire, title of, i. 40, n. 2; ru- ral esquires, v. 67, n. 5; great perfec- tions without good breeding, ii. 294,
Tatler Revived, i. 234. TAUNTON, iv. 38.
TAVERNS, admitting women, iv. 87; felicity of England in its tavern life, ii. 516; tavern chair the throne of human felicity, ii. 517, 12. 2. Taxation no Tyranny, account of it— planned, ii. 334; published, ii. 356; written at the desire of ministers, i.
432, n. 1; ii. 357; corrected by them, ii. 358-60; not attacked enough, ii. 384; pelted with answers, ii. 384, n. 2; sale, ii. 384, n. 1; Birmingham traders praised, ii. 531, π. 5; drivers of negroes, iii. 228; Macaulay, Mrs., attacked, ii. 384, 1. 3; mentioned, iii. 250.
TAXES, effect of their increase, ii. 409. TAYLOR, Chevalier, a quack, iii. 443. TAYLOR, Jeremy, 'chief of sinners,' iv. 339; Golden Grove, iv. 340; Holy Dying, iii. 39, n. 5.
TAYLOR, Rev. Dr. John, account of him and his establishment, ii. 542; his person, ii. 543; his character by Johnson, ii. 542-3; iii. 158, 206; all his geese swans, iii. 215; Ashbourne, his daily life, iii. 150; iv. 436; the water-fall, iii. 217; garden, iii. 227; bleeding, habit of, iii. 172; Boswell, gives, particulars of Johnson, iv. 433;
laughed at by, iii. 154, n. 1; and Johnson visit him in 1776, ii. 542; in 1777, iii. 154; bull-dog, his, iii. 216; 'bullocks, his talk is of,' iii. 206; cattle, iii. 170, 206, n. 3; chan- delier of crystal, iii. 178; Christ Church, Oxford, enters, i. 89; din- ners at his London house, iii. 60, 270; eagerness for preferments, ii. 542, ". I; 'elegant phraseology,' his, ii. 543, ". I; Garrick's emphasis, an- ecdote of, i. 194-5; mediates between Garrick and Johnson, i. 227; house in Westminster, i. 276; iii. 251; Johnson's character, iii. 170; company, not very fond of, iii. 206; correspondence with, iii. 205, n. 3 see under JOHNSON, letters ; dread of annihilation, iii. 337, 22. I; funeral, iv. 484; heart, knowl- ledge of, i. 30, n. 1; —, invites, to dine on a hare, iii. 236; - Reyn-
olds's explanation of his intimacy with, iii. 206; roars him down, iii. 170; himself roused to a pitch of bellowing, iii. 176; serious talk with him, iii. 337, n. I; wearies of Ashbourne life, iii. 175, 240; iv. 411, 412, n. 2, 417, 421, 436; will, not in, iv. 463, n. 3; for him, i. 279; iii. 206; youth, friend of, iv. 312; Johnson's, Mrs., death, i. 276; iii. 205, π. 3; Langley, quarrels with, iii. 156, π. 3; lawsuit, ii. 543, 2. I; iii. 51, 22. 3, 59, n. 3; Lichfield School, at, i. 52; living in ruins and rubbish, iv. 436; matriculation, i. 89; neighbours, iii. 157; sermons, iii. 206-7; sleep, observation on, iii. 192; Whig, a, ii. 542; iii. 176; widower, anecdote of a, iii. 155; wife, separation from his, i. 546, n. 4; wit, single instance of his, iii. 218; mentioned, ii. 532, 536; iii. 211-12. TAYLOR, Mrs., Rev. Dr. John Taylor's
wife, separated from her husband, i. 546, n. 4; mentioned, i. 276. TAYLOR, John, a Birmingham trader, i. 100.
TAYLOR, John, of Christ Church, Oxford, confounded with Dr. John Taylor, i. 89, n. I.
TAYLOR, John (Demosthenes Taylor), iii. 362.
TAYLOR, William, of Norwich, ii. 468,
n. 4; run tea, v. 512, n. 1; tea-making à l'Anglaise, ii. 462; weak, generally made, iii. 300, n. 1; Wesley attacks its use, i. 362, n. 4. TEACHING, wretchedness of, i. 98-9. Tears of Old May-day, i. 118. Telemachus, a Mask, i. 475; ii. 435. TEMPÉ, iii. 343.
TEMPLE, second Earl, iv. 288, π. 1. TEMPLE, Right Rev. Frederick, Bishop of London, i. 505, n. 2. TEMPLE, Rev. William Johnson, account of him, i. 505; iii. 473, n. 2; Boswell, correspondence with, i. 505, 12. 2; - and he read Gray all night, ii. 383, n. 3; executor, iii. 342, n.
last letter written to him, i.
I; 17, 22. I; in the Temple, i. 505;
TEMPLE, Sir William, drinking by deputy, iii. 375; Dutch free from spleen, iv. 437; English prose, gave cadence to, iii. 292; great generals, ii. 269; Heroic Virtue, ii. 269, n. 2;. Ireland, ancient state of, i. 372; peerages and
property, ii. 482; style condemned by Hume, iii. 292, n. I; Mackintosh, ib.; Johnson, i. 253. TEMPLE OF FAME, ii. 410. TEMPTATION, exposing people to it, iii. 269.
TENANTS, their independence, v. 346: see LANDLORDS, and under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, landlords and ten
TENDERNESS OF HEART, v. 273. Tenders, v. 222, n. I. TENERIFFE, iv. 413.
TENISON, Thomas, Archbishop of Can- terbury, Psalmanazar introduced to him, iii. 508.
TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord, poet-laure- ate, i. 213, n. 2; Ulysses quoted, v. 317, n. 2.
TENURES, ancient, ii. 232; iii. 471. TERENCE, quoted, i. 149, n. 2; ii. 410, n. 3, 532, n. 3.
iii. 449, n. 1; Pope, attacked by, ii. 382, n. 1; Shakespeare, edits, v. 277, n. 6; Warburton, compared with, i. 381; helped by him, v. 90. THEOCRITUS, iv. 2. Theodosius, ii. 539. Theophilus Insulanus, v. 256. THEOPHRASTUS, V. 431.
THICKNESSE, Philip, criticises Smol- lett, iii. 267.
THIEVES, all men naturally thieves, iii. 307.
TESTIMONY, compared with argument, Thing, not the, iv. 103.
THINKING, liberty of, ii. 286, 289. THIRLBY, Dr. Styan, iv. 186, n. I.
THACKERAY, W. M., Addison's Cato, THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES, articles of
quotations from, i. 230, n. 5; - one failing, iv. 62, n. 4; History of the Newcomes quoted, ii. 343, n. 2; sub- scribed to the annuity for Johnson's goddaughter, iv. 234, n. I. THALES, i. 145, n. 3.
THAMES, Budgell drowns himself in it, ii. 263; v. 61; convicts working on it, iii. 305, n. 1; Johnson and Boswell row to Greenwich, i. 530; to Black- friars, ii. 495; Johnson returns on it from Rochester, iv. 269, n. 2; Lon- don, mentioned in, i. 532; New-Eng- land men at its mouth, v. 361; ribald- ry of passers-by, iv. 31. THATCHING, V. 299. The one, iv. 243, 1. 2. THEATRES, French and English com- pared in point of decency, ii. 57, n. I; orange-girls, v. 210, n. 3; proposal for a third one, iv. 132: see under LON- DON, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and Haymarket. THEBES, ii. 205.
THEFT, allowed in Sparta, ii. 202; iii. 333.
THELWALL, John, iv. 321, n. 3.
THEOBALD, Lewis, Double Falsehood,
peace, ii. 119; meaning of subscrip- tion, ii. 173; petition for removing the subscription, ii. 173; motion to consider it, ii. 239, n. I. THOMAS, Colonel, iv. 244, n. 2. THOMAS, Nathaniel, iii. 105, 12. 3. THOMSON, James, blank verse of the
Seasons, iv. 50, n. 3; Boswell's assist- ance to Johnson in his Life, ii. 72; iii. 132, 150, 409; character, his, not to be gathered from his works, iii. 133, 1.5; cloud of words, iii. 43; Edward and Eleonora not licensed, i. 163, n. 1; family, account of his, iii. 409; Johnson inserts him among the Lives, iii. 124; letters to his sis- ters, ii. 72; iii. 133, 409; licentious- ness, ii. 72; iii. 133; Lives of Thom- son, iii. 132-3; 'loathed much to write,' iii. 409; poetical eye, i. 524 ; ii. 72; iii. 43; 'Queensberry, worthy,' ii. 422, n. 1; Quin's generosity to him, iii. 132; Scotland, never re- turned to, iii. 133; Seasons, quoted, i. 114, n. 1; iii. 171, n. 4; by Vol- taire, i. 503, 11. 2; sisters, generosity to his, ii. 72; iii. 409; wine, love of, i. 416.
THOMSON, Rev. James, case of ecclesi- astical censure, iii. 67-73, 104. THOMSON, Mr., a schoolmaster (the poet's brother-in-law), ii. 72; iii. 132, 409. THORNTON,
Bonnell, Adventurer,
writes for the, i. 292, n. 3; Boswell enlivened by his witty sallies, i. 457; Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, i. 486; Rambler, parodies the, i. 252, n. I Student, writes for the, i. 243. THORP, Mr. Robert, of Macclesfield, iv. 454, n. I. THORPE, iii. 408.
THOUGHTS, Command of one's, ii. 218, 232, n. 2; inquisitive and perplexing, iv. 426, n. 3; troublesome at night, ii. 504; vexing, iii. 6.
Thoughts on Executive Justice, iv. 379,
Thoughts on the late Transactions re- specting Falkland's Islands. See Falkland's Islands.
THRALE FAMILY, account of the, i. 567, 12. 4.
THRALE, John, a London merchant, i. 567, n. 4.
THRALE, Old,' the brewer, Henry
Thrale's father, i. 567, n. 4. THRALE, Henry, account of him, i. 568, 571; ambition of out-brewing Whitbread, iii. 413, n. 4; Baretti, present to, iii. 110; Bath, visits, in 1776, iii. 51; in 1780, iii. 478; Bos- well's familiarity in speaking of him, i. 569, n. 2; —, hospitality to, iii. 52;
writes to him, iii. 423; brewery, -profits, i. 568; iii. 239, 413, n. 4 ; iv. IOI, n. 1; beer brewed, ii. 455; iii. 239, n. 5; £20,000 a year paid in excise, v. 148; first sale of it, i. 567; second sale, i. 568; iv. 100, n. 2, 153; Cator, John, one of his executors, iv. 361; champagne, his, iii. 136;
churches, intends to beautify two Welsh, v. 514; death, iv. 97; false report of it, iii. 122; dinners and breakfasts at his house, ii. 88, 260, 282, 374, 387, n. 2, 400, 433, n. 3, 489; iii. 31, 282, 391; iv. 93; dis- likes the times, iii. 413; eating, im- moderate in, iii. 480; iv. 97, n. 4; expenses, iii. 239; France, tour to, ii. 441-59; Goldsmith's Haunch of Venison, mentioned in, iii. 255, n. 2; questions a statement of his about horses, ii. 267; Gordon Riots, prop- erty in danger, iii. 494; flees from Bath, ib., n. 1; Grosvenor Square, house in, iv. 83; heir, desires a male, ii. 537; iii. 109, 413, n. 3; highway- man, robbed by a, iii. 271, n. 2; ill- ness, dangerous, i. 373, n. 1; iii. 451, 480, n. 2; better, iii. 474, 478; withdrawn from business, iii. 493; very ill, iv. 83; Baretti's account of it, iv. 97, n. 4; Italy, projected tour to, ii. 484; given up, iii. 7, 21, 32; Johnson's affection for him, iii. 451, n. 2; iv. 97, 103, 116; - wishes to hear 'The History of the Thrales,' v. 356; his feelings towards Johnson, ii. 88; iv. 97, 98, n. 1, 167, 392; 'will go nowhere without him,' iii. 32, n. I; and the Earl of March- mont, iii. 392; epitaph on him, iv. 98, n. 1; - his executor, iv. 99 ; receives a bequest of £200, iv. 100; guardian of his children, iv. 229, 1. 2; illness in 1766, i. 603-4; timacy not without restraint, iii. 8; introduction to his family, i. 567, 604; iii. 512; kitchen, inquires into, ii. 247, n. 3; loss by his death, iv. 99, 167, 181-3; prayer on it, i. 278, n. 5, suggests, as a member of parliament, ii. 158, n. 2;
writes The Patriot for him, ii.
327; Lade, Sir John, his nephew, iv. 475, n. 2; melancholy, suffers from, iii. 413, n. 4; 'worried by the dog,' iii. 470, n. 2; money difficul- ties, iv. 99, n. 1; 'My Master,' i. 572, n. 1; iii. 135; portrait, iv. 181, n. 3; prospects, loves, v. 501, n. 1; receives £14,000, iii. 152, n. 1, 517; Rome, will not die in peace without seeing, iii. 32, n. 1; silent at Ogle- thorpe's, v. 315; society in his house, i. 573; son, loses his only surviving, ii. 536, 539; grief, his, iii. 21, n. I; orbus et exspes, iii. 28, n. 3; at the Assembly Rooms, Bath, iii. 52, n. 2; son, loses his younger, iii. 5, n. 1; Southwark, Member for, i. 567; receives 'instructions from the electors, ii. 83, n. 3; election of 1774, ii. 327, 328; of 1780, Johnson writes his Addresses, iii. 479, n. 2, 499; defeated, iii. 501; house in the Borough, ii. 327, n. 1; iii. 6; iv. 83, n. 2; Wales, tour to, ii. 326; v. 487– 524; wife's, his, jealousy, iii. 109, n. 6; will, afraid of making his, iv. 463. n. 3; account of it, iv. 100, n. 1; mentioned, i. 96, n. 6; ii. 157, 355, 471; iii. 26-8, 62, n. 2, 143, 150, 179, n. I, 217, n. 2, 251, 255, 272, 452, n. 3; v. 95, 115, n. 6.
flatters her, iii. 57, n. 1; rance of the scriptures, v. 138, n. 4; knowledge of languages, i. 419, 22. I; - quarrel with, ii. 235, n. 1 ; iii. 57, n. 1, 109; her account, ib., n. 6; Bath, visits, in 1776, iii. 7, 51; in 1780, iii. 478; an evening at Mrs. Montagu's, iii. 479; in 1783, iv. 191, 229, n. 2; Beattie, Dr., loves, ii. 170; Beauclerk's anecdote of the dogs, v. 375, n. I; Beauclerk, hatred of, i. 288, n. 3; v. 375, 12. ; his truth- fulness, ib.; birthplace, v. 512-14; Boswell, accuses, of spite, iv. 83, n. 2; of treachery, iv. 367, n. 2, 396; advises, not to publish the Life of Sibbald, iii. 258; · alludes to her second marriage, iii. 57; -, argues with, on Shakespeare and Milton, iv. 84; - brother David, iii. 492, n. I; —, compliments, on his long head, iv. 192; -, controversy with, about Mrs. Montagu, v. 279, ib., n. I; dines with her, iv. 191; —, hospi- tality to, iii. 52; introduced to her, ii. 88; -, 'loves,' ii. 167, 236; MS. Journal, reads, ii. 439; proposes an epistle in her name, v. 159; British Synonymy, iv. 475; Burke's son, can make nothing of, iv. 253, n. 3; Burney, Miss, letters to, iv. 392, n. 4; calculating and de- claiming, iii. 56; canvasses for Mr. Thrale, iii. 501, n. 2; character, in- fluence of vice on, iii. 398; children, her, births, ii. 52, n. 3, 321; iii. 239, n. 4, 413, 447;—deaths, ii. 321, n. 2; iii. 124; three living out of twelve, iv. 181, n. 2; unfriendly with her married daughter, v. 487, n. 1 ; Johnson's kindness to them, iv. 398; clerk, gives a crown to an old, v. 502; clippers, warned of, iii. 56; common- place book, iv. 396; conceit of parts,
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