on him, ii. 510; Chatterton's forgery, WATSON, Mr., 'out in the '45,' v..181,
exposes, iii. 58, n. 5; iv. 163, n. 1;
contributions to the Life of Johnson,
i. 9; Eagle and Robin Redbreast, i.
135, n. 2; Heroick Epistle, the au-
thorship of the, iv. 364; Huggins,
quarrels with, iv. 8; Idler, contribut-
ed to the, i. 382; Johnson, estrange-
ment with, i. 313, n. 2; letters to
him: see under JOHNSON, letters;
Oxford visit in 1754, i. 313;
odies his poetry, iii. 179, n. 3;
preface to his Dictionary, i. 344, n.
3; Literary Club, member of the, i.
554; Observations on Spenser's Fairy
Queen, i. 314, n. 1, 321, 335; iv. 8;
Ode on the First of April, iii. 180,
n. 2; poet-laureate, i. 213, n. 2; Pro-
fessor of Poetry, i. 374, n. 1; Progress
of Discontent, i. 328, n. 2; iii. 368, ».
1; pupils and lectures, i. 323, n. 3;
Savage's Bastard, i. 191; Shake-
speare, notes on, i. 389; ii. 132; men-
tioned, i. 91, n. 1, 92, n. 1, 376.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas (the father of
the two Wartons), i. 519, n. 3.
WASHINGTON, George, ii. 550.
WASSE, Christopher, v. 508.
WASTE, iii. 301, 361.
WATER, Johnson's advice to drink it,
WATERS, Ambrose, iv. 463, n. 3.
WATERS, Mr., Paris banker, ii. 3.
WATFORD, ii. 234, π. I, 345, n. I.
WATSON, Richard, Bishop of Llan-
daff, bishops' revenues, iv. 137, 11. 2; |
WATTS, Dr. Isaac, Abney, Sir Thomas,
lived with, i. 570, n. 4; descends
from the dignity of science, ii. 468,
n. 3; Johnson adds him to the Lives,
iii. 143, 421; iv. 41, n. 3;
mends his Works, iv. 360; poetry,
his, better in its design than in itself,
iii. 408; taught Dissenters elegance
of style, i. 361.
WEALTH. See MONEY.
Wealth of Nations.
Adam.
WEATHER and Seasons, their influence
acknowledged, i. 385, n. 1; ii. 302;
iv. 299, n. 2, 407, 415; ridiculed by
Johnson in The Idler, i. 384; ii. 302,
n. 2; at the Mitre, i. 493; 'all im-
agination,' i. 523; weather does not
affect the frame, ii. 410; iii. 347;
ridiculed by Reynolds, i. 385, n. 1;
Gray's fantastic foppery,' i. 235, n.
5; talking of the weather, i. 493, n.
2; iv. 415, n. 2.
WEBSTER, Rev. Dr. Alexander, ac-
count of him, ii. 309, n. 2; v. 56; his
manuscript account of Scotch par-
ishes, ii. 314, 22. I; mentioned, ii.
309, 311, 315; v. 441, n. 4, 446, 449,
452.
WEDDERBURNE, Alexander. Sce
LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord.
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WEDDERBURNE, Mr., of Ballandean,
iii. 243, n. I.
WELCH, Father, ii. 459.
Chemical Essays, iv. 137, 268, n. 3; WELCH, Miss, iii. 246.
how to rise in the world, ii. 369, | WELCH, Saunders, account of him, iii.
WATSON, Professor Robert, of St. An-
drews, History of Philip II, iii. 118,
Johnson, entertains, v. 65-8, 72, 76;
manners, wonders at, v. 79; talks
on composition, v. 75.
245-6; death, iii. 248, n. 1; exami-
nation of a boy, iv. 213; Johnson,
letter from, iii. 246; London poor,
state of the, iii. 455.
WELL-BRED MAN, distinguished from
an ill-bred, iv. 369.
WELSH. See under WALES.
WELWYN, iv. 138; v. 308.
WENDOVER, ii. 18, n. 2.
WENTWORTH, Mr., master of Stourbridge School, i. 57.
WENTWORTH HOUSE, 'public dinners,' iv. 423, n. 3.
WESLEY, Rev. Charles, ill-used by Oglethorpe, i. 147, n. 4 ; more stationary man than his brother,' iii. 338.
WESLEY, Rev. John, Behmen's Myste
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rium Magnum, ii. 141, n. 2; bleeding, opposed to, iii. 172, n. 4; Boswell introduced to him by Johnson, iii. 448; Calm Address to our American Colonies, v. 39, n. 1; Cheyne's rules of diet, iii. 31, n. 1; conversation, iii. 261, 337; Dodd, Dr., visits, iii. 138, n. 2; Edinburgh, filthy state of, v. 24, 12. 2; farmers dull and discontented, iii. 402, n. 1; French prisoners, i. 409, n. 1; ghost, believed in a Newcastle, iii. 337, 448; Hall, Rev. Mr., his brother-in-law, iv. 107, n. 1; highwayman, never met a, iii. 271, n. 1; Johnson complains that he is never at leisure, iii. 261; - letters to him, iii. 448; v. 39, n. 1; two hours with, iii. 261, n. 2; journeys on foot, i. 74, n. 5; Law's Serious Call, i. 79, n. 1; leisure, never at, iii. 261; luxury, attacks the apologists of, iii. 65, n. 1; manners and cheerfulness, iii. 261, ns. 2, 3; Marshalsea prison, i. 351, n. 1; Meier, Rev. Mr., ii. 290, n. 2; Methodists and a Justice of the Peace, i. 460, n. 1; —, name of, i. 530, n. 3; Moravians, quarrels with the, iii. 138, n. 3; muddy, uses the term, ii. 415, n. 3; Nash, silences, iv. 333, n. 2; Newgate prisons in London and Bristol, iii. 490, 12. I; 'old woman, an,' iii.
195; Oxford, devotional meetings at, i. 67, n. 3; Paoli's arrival in England, ii. 81, n. 2; plain preaching, i. 532, n. I; polite audiences, iii. 402, 1. I; politician, a, v. 39, n. 1; prisoners under sentence of death, iii. 138, n. 2; iv. 380, n. 2; - almost regrets a reprieve to one, v. 228, n. 4; readings and writings, range of his, iii. 337, n. 2; Robertson's Charles V, ii. 272, n. 1; rod, taught to fear the, i. 54, n. 3; Roman Catholics, attacks the, v. 39, n. 1; Rousseau and Voltaire, v. 430, n. 4; Rutty, Dr., iii. 194, n. 1; St. Andrews, students of, v. 71, n. 2; sister, his, Mrs. Hall, iv. 107; slaves, religious education of, ii. 31, n. 1; solitary religion, v. 70, n. 5; tea, against the use of, i. 362, 12. 4; travels and sufferings, ii. 142, n. 1; iii. 337, n. 2; University life in England and Scotland, i. 73, n. I ; Warburton, answers, v. 105; witchcraft, believes in, ii. 205, n. I. WESLEY, Mrs. (mother of Charles and John Wesley), i. 54, n. 3. WEST, Gilbert, in the army, iii. 303, ". I; translation of Pindar, iv. 33. WEST, Richard, describes Christ Church, Oxford, i. 89, n. 1; lines on his own death, iii. 188, ». f. WEST, Rev. W., edition of Rasselas, i. 394, 22. 2.
WEST INDIAN ISLANDS in 1779, iii.
464, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 521. see JAMAICA and SLAVES. WESTCOTE, Lord, Johnson and the Thrales visit him, v. 520, n. 1; Lord Lyttelton's vision, iv. 344-5; portrait at Streatham, iv. 181, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 66, n. 1, 68, n. 2. WESTERN ISLANDS. See under BosWELL, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Journey to the Western
Islands, MARTIN, M., and SCOT- WHIGGISM, corrupted since the Revo-
WESTMINSTER. See under LONDON.
WESTMINSTER, Deanery of, resignation
of the, iii. 128, n. 4.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Chambers's epi-
taph, i. 253, n. 3; Cibber's, Mrs.,
grave, v. 144, n. 3; Goldsmith's epi-
taph, iii. 94; and Johnson at the
Poets' Corner, ii. 273; Handel musi-
cal meeting, iv. 326; Johnson's grave,
iv. 483, 487; Jonson's, Ben, grave, v.
459, n. 3; Macpherson's grave, ii.
341, ". I; Milton's monument, i. 264,
n. I; Reynolds describes its monu-
ments, iv. 488, n. 2; walls disgraced
with an English inscription,' iii. 97.
WESTMORELAND, seventh Earl of,
Chancellor of the University of Ox-
ford, i. 402, n. 4; meets the Pretend-
er in London, i. 324, n. 2.
WETHERELL, Rev. Dr., Boswell and
Johnson visit him, ii. 504; Johnson's
letter to him, ii. 486; mentioned, ii.
409; iv. 355.
WEY, River, ii. 156, n. 4; iii. 412, n. 4.
WHARNCLIFFE, Lord, iii. 453, n. I.
WHARTON, Marquis of, iv. 367, n. I.
WHARTON, Rev. Henry, ii. 278, n. 2.
lution, ii. 135; hounds, its, iv. 47, 74;
Lyttelton's vulgar Whiggism, ii. 253;
no room for it in heaven, v. 439.
WHIGS, almsgiving, against, ii. 243:
bottomless, iv. 257; defined, i. 341,
499, 2. I; devil, the first Whig the,
iii. 371; iv. 367, n. 1; every bad man
a Whig, v. 309; Fergusson ‘a vile
Whig,' ii. 195; governed, not willing
to be, ii. 359; hall fire-place, moved
the, i. 317; humane one, a, v. 406;
'is any King a Whig?' iii. 423, π. 3;
nation quiet when they governed, iv.
116; parson's gown, in a, v. 291; pre-
tence to honesty ridiculous, v. 386;
scoundrel and Whig, ii. 509; Stafford-
shire Whig, iii. 371; Tories, enmity
with, iv. 336; Tories when in place,
i. 150; Whig dogs,' i. 585.
WHISTON, John, bookseller, iv. 128.
WHISTON, William, Bentley's verses,
iv. 27, n. 3; 'Wicked Will Whiston,'
ii. 76, n. 3.
WHITAKER, Rev. John, History of
Manchester, iii. 379.
WHITAKER, Rev. Mr., ii. 124, n. 3.
WHITBREAD, Samuel, the brewer, iii.
413, 12. 4.
WHEAT, price of, in 1778, iii. 256, 11. 3. | WHITBREAD, Samuel, M.P., the son,
Wheatly and Bennet on the Common WHITBY, Mr., of Heywood, i. 97, n. 3.
Prayer, iv. 245, n. 3.
WHEELER, Rev. Dr., death, iii. 416, n.
4; iv. 270, n. 1; experience as a
country parson, iii. 497; Johnson's
liking for his talk, iii. 416, n. 4, 417;
letter to him, iii. 416; mentioned,
V. 522, n. I.
WHITE, Rev. Gilbert, hibernation of
swallows, ii. 63, n. 2, 285, n. 1; Oriel
College common-room, ii. 507, n. 4.
WHITE, Rev. Dr., Bampton Lectures of
1784, iv. 510.
WHITE, Rev. Dr., of Pennsylvania, ii.
238.
WHEELER, Mr., of Birmingham, v. | WHITE, Rev. Henry, of Lichfield, iv.
WHITE, Mr., Librarian of the Royal
Society, ii. 45, n. 4.
WHITE, Mr., a factor, v. 139.
WHITE, Mr., tried to be a philosopher,
iii. 346, n. 3.
WHITE, Mr., v. 487, n. I.
WHITE, Mrs., Johnson's servant, iv.
463, 12. 3.
WHITEFIELD, Rev. George, Boswell,
personally known to, ii. 91, n. 2;
Bristol Newgate, forbidden to preach
in the, iii. 491, 12. 3; Johnson knew
him at Oxford, i. 91, n. 1; iii. 465; v.
38; Law's Serious Call, reads, i. 79,
n. I ; lower classes, of use to the, iii.
465; mixture of politics and osten-
tation, v. 39; 'old woman, an,' iii.
195; oratory for the mob, v. 40; Ox-
ford, persecuted at, i. 78, n. 3; Pem-
broke College, servitor of, i. 85, n. 3.
88; v. 139, n. 1; popularity owing to
peculiarity, ii. 91; iii. 465; preaching
described by Southey and Franklin,
ii. 91, n. 2; v. 40, n. 1; sconced, i. 68,
n. 3; Spiritual Quixote, ridiculed in
the, i. 87, n. 4: Trapp's Sermons, at-
tacked in, i. 162, n. 4.
WHITEFOORD, Caleb, Cross Readings,
WHITEHEAD, Paul, Churchill's lines
on him, i. 145; Johnson undervalues
him, i. 144-5; Manners, i. 145; v.
132.
WHITEHEAD, William, Birthday Odes,
i. 465, n. 1; Elegy to Lord Villiers,
iv. 133; Garrick's 'reader' of new
plays, i. 466, n. 1;
proposes him
to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 364,
n. 2; grand nonsense, i. 465; Me-
moirs by Mason, i. 36; poet-laureate,
i. 213, n. 2.
WHITEWAY, Mrs., i. 524, n. I.
WHITING, Mrs., iv. 463, n. 3.
'WHO rules o'er freemen,' iv. 361.
Whole Duty of Man, its authorship,
ii. 275; Johnson made to read it, i.
77; recommends it, iv. 359.
Wholesome severities, v. 484.
WHOREMONGER, ii. 198.
WHYTE, S., Home's gold medal, ii.
366, n. 2; Johnson's walk, i. 561, n.
I; Sheridan and the Irish Parlia-
ment, iii. 429, n. 1; Sheridan's pen-
sion, i. 447, n. I.
WICKEDNESS, no abilities required for
it, v. 247.
| WICKHAM, iv. 222.
WIDOWs, ii. 88.
WIFE, 'Artemisias,' ii. 87; buying lace
for one, ii. 403; choosing fools for
wives, v. 257; death of one, iii. 476;
disputes with them, v. 257, 12. I ;
learned, none the worse for being,
ii. 87, 147; negligent of pleasing, ii.
64; Overbury's lines, ii. 87; praise
from one, i. 243; religious, should be,
ii. 87; singing publicly for hire, ii.
423; story of an unfaithful wife, v.
444; of one who made a secret
purse, iv. 369; studious or argumen-
tative, iv. 37; superiority of talents,
ii. 64.
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WIGAN, iii. 153, n. I.
WIGHT, Mr., a Scotch advocate, iii.
241, 22. 2.
WIGHTMAN, General, v. 160, n. 2.
WIGS, bag-wigs now worn by physi-
cians, iii. 327; tye- wigs, ib., n. 4;
flowing bob-wig, iii. 370, ". 2; pow-
dered, iii. 288: see under JOHNSON,
wigs.
WILCOx, the bookseller, i. 118, n. 4.
Wildair, Sir Harry, ii. 532.
WILKES, Dr., i. 171.
WILKES, Friar, ii. 458.
WILKES, John, Alderman, elected, iii.
523; Aylesbury, member for, iii. 84;
Beauclerk's library, iv. 122; Boswell
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'Lord Mayor Wilkes,' ii. 436, n. 4;
writes to him, iv. 259, n. 2; Burke's
pun on him, iii. 367; v. 36, n. ;
want of taste, iv. 120; City and
Blackfriars Bridge, i. 406, n. 1; City
Chamberlain, iv. 117, n. 1; Courts of
Justice afraid of him, iii. 54, n. 2;
Dedication of Mortimer, i. 408, n. 2;
dress, iii. 78; iv. 117, n. 1; English
tenacious of forms, iv. 121; Fall of
Mortimer, iii. 89, n. 6; False Alarm,
answer to the, iv. 36; Garrick's want
of a friend, iii. 439;
wit, like
Chesterfield's, iii. 79; general war-
rants, i. 456, n. 1; ii. 83, n. 1; George
III praises his good breeding, iii. 78,
n. 3; goat, the, not the kid, iv. 125,
n. 1; Gordon Riots, iii. 488; 'grave,
sober, decent,' iii. 89; Heroic Epistle,
attacked in the, v. 212; Hogarth,
caricatured by, v. 212; Horace, a
contested passage in, iii. 84; House
of Commons afraid of him, iv. 161,
n. 5;
expunges the resolution for
his expulsion, ii. 128: see under MID-
DLESEX ELECTION; how to speak
at its bar, iii. 254; Inverary, visits, iii.
83; 'Jack Ketch,' iii. 75; Johnson's
account of 'Jack's' conversation, iii.
208;
'animosity' against him, i.
404; attacks him, ii. 155, n. 2; iii.
74; v. 386; attacks, i. 496, n. 2;
ii. 74, 12. I; after their reconciliation,
iii. 90, 12. 1; -, calls on, iv. 124; -,
compared with, iii. 74, 89, 90;
n. I;
repartee about a resolution
of the House, iv. 121;
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says that
he should be well ducked,' i. 456;
sends him the Lives, iv. 124;
talking of liberty, iii. 254; -, tête-
à-tête with, iv. 124; Junius, sus-
pected to be, iii. 428, n. 3; Letter to
Samuel Johnson, LL.D., iv. 36, n. 1;
libel, prosecution for, iii. 89; library,
sells his, iv. 122, n. 1; Lord Mayor,
iii. 78, 22. 3, 522-3; kept from be-
ing, v. 386; Memoirs by Almon, i.
404, n.; Middlesex election: see un-
der MIDDLESEX ELECTION; Monks
of Medmenham Abbey, i. 144, n. 4;
North Briton, No. 45, i. 456, n. 1;
ii. 82, 12. I; - Earl of Bute attacked,
ii. 343, n. 4; oratory, on, iv. 120;
'phoenix of convivial felicity,' iii.
208; physiognomy, ii. 176, 12. 2;
Pope's repartee, iv. 58-9; prison, in,
ii. 128, n. 2; iii. 54, 12. 2, 522; pro-
fanity, his, iv. 249; quotation, cen-
sures, iv. 118; riots in London in
1768, iii. 54, n. 2; Scotland, raillery
at, iii. 83, 88; iv. 117; sentimental
anecdote, iv. 400, n. 3; Settle, the
City Poet, iii. 86; Shelburne, op-
posed by, iv. 201, 2. 2; Shelburne
and Malagrida, iv. 201, n. 1; Sheriff,
v. 212, n. 4; Smollett's letter to him,
i. 403; Wilkes and Liberty,' ii. 68,
12. 3; v. 355-6; 'Wilkite, no,'
' iii. 489,
WILKES, Miss, iv. 259, n. 2.
WILKIE, William, D.D., Hume's Scotch
Homer, ii. 60, n. 1; iv. 215, n. I.
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