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CLUB as were then in town; and was also honoured with the presence of several of the Reverend Chapter of Westminster. Mr. Burke, Sir Joseph Banks, Mr. Windham, Mr. Langton, Sir Charles Bunbury, and Mr. Colman, bore his pall. His school-fellow, Dr. Taylor, performed the mournful office of reading the burial service.

I trust, I shall not be accused of affectation, when I declare, that I find myself unable to express all that I felt upon the loss of such a 'Guide, Philosopher, and Friend.' I shall, therefore, not say one word of my own, but adopt those of an eminent friend, which he uttered with an abrupt felicity, superior to all studied compositions:-'He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best:-there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.'

Abel Drugger, 298.
Abercrombie, James, 198.
Aberdeen, 184, 362.

Abington, Mrs.,

235-6, 239, 246.

Acting, 343, 344.

INDEX

the actress,

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Authors, attacks on, 240, 417, 468.
Avarice, 311.

Bacon, Francis, 50, 186, 350, 514.
Ballads, 200.

Balloon, account of a, 543, 545.
Banks, Sir Joseph, 132, 559.
Barber, Francis, Johnson's negro
servant, 52-4, 56, 84-5, 138,
156, 184, 250, 256, 355, 415,
518, 552, 557.

Baretti, Joseph, 154, 171, 198,
258-9, 271, 288, 336, 416.
Barnard, Rev. Dr., dean of Derry,
afterwards Bishop of Killaloe,
232, 317, 459, 465.

Barretier, Philip, Life by John-
son, 35.

Barrington, Hon. Daines, 292,
507.

Barry, James, 499, 507.
Bartolozzi, Francis, 324.
Bath, 302-3.

Bathurst, Dr., 43, 52.

Bathurst, Lord Chancellor, 329.
Baxter, Rev. Richard, 220, 485.
Bayle, his Dictionary, 110.
Beattie, Dr. James, 182-3, 460.
534, 535; his Hermit, 486.
Beauclerk Hon. Topham, 59-61,
209, 260, 412, 438, 445, 450;
death, 434; dinners and suppers
at his house, 212, 237, 423-5;
Johnson's affection for him,
439, 460, 483; Johnson's alter-
cations with, 375-6, 421-2.
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, wife of
Topham Beauclerk, 214, 239.
Beauty, of women, 470.

men-

Bedlam, Johnson visits it, 255.
Bellamy, Mrs., the actress, 79.
Bentley, Dr., 16, 442, 443, 496.
Berkeley, Bishop, 130.

Aston, 'Molly', 280.

'Athol porridge', 450.

Auchinleck, 125, 341.

Auchinleck, Lord, 318, 474.

Betty Broom, 506.

Bickerstaff, Isaac, 165-6.

Binning, Lord, 194, 402.

Biography, 1-3, 110, 149, 187,
270, 312, 333, 547.

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Blackstone, Sir William, 18, 421.
Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, 96.
Blaney, Mrs. Elizabeth, 545.
Blank verse, 111.

Blenheim Park, Johnson visits it,
271.

Blue-stocking Clubs, 462.
Boccage, Mme. du, 259.
Boileau, 30.

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first
Viscount, 408, 410; Johnson's
criticisms on, 67, 80.
Bolingbroke, Lady, 397.
Bon-mots, 397.

Books, abundance of modern, 403;
death, leaving one's books at,
391; getting boys to have en-
tertainment from them, 422;
knowledge of the world through
books, 27; looking over their
backs in a library, 253; not read
willingly, 497; seldom read when
given away, 209; variety of them
to be kept about a man, 349.
Booksellers, 75, 245, 322, 468.
Boscawen, Hon. Mrs., 402, 458.
Boscovich, Père, 179, 261

Bosville, Mrs., 188.

Boswell, Sir Alexander, Baronet,
Boswell's eldest son, 318.
Boswell, Dr., 115, 289.

Boswell, James.

Chief Events and

Works: 1760, first visit to
London, 91-2; 1762, second
visit to London, 92; gets to
know Johnson, 94; visits Lon-
don, 138-43; visits London and
Oxford, 152-5; Account of Cor-
sica, 140; 1769, visits London,
151, 320; first visit to Streat-
ham, 159-76; attends the
Stratford Jubilee, 162; 1772,
visits London, 184-97; 1773,
visits London, 199-226; elected
a member of the Literary Club,
214; tour to the Hebrides, 226;
1775, visits London, 232-57;
visits Wilton and Mamhead in
Devonshire, 255; visits Lon-
don, 263-6, 287-315; becomes

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Paoli's constant guest in Lon
don, 298; visits Oxford, Bir-
mingham, Lichfield, and Ash-
bourne with Johnson, 266-87;
visits Bath, 302-4; introduces
Wilkes to Johnson, 307; meets
Johnson at Ashbourne, 326-55;
1778, visits London, 355-413:
attacked violently by Johnson,
406; 1779, visits London (in
the spring), 416-26; visits
London (in the autumn), 427-
32; 1781, visits London, 447-
66; visits Southill with John-
son, 466-70; 1782, death of his
father, 474; 1783, visits Lon-
don, 476-500; visits London,
511-39; visits Oxford with
Johnson, 517-26; Journal of a
Tour to the Hebrides, 257, 333,
348, 494.

His letters to Johnson, 155, 229,
322, 425, 548.
Johnson's letters to Boswell, 155,

182, 198, 226, 257-8, 321-2,
326, 415, 425, 447, 540.
Boswell, Mrs. (the author's wife),
257, 318, 322, 325, 415, 474,
500, 548.

Boswell, Veronica (Boswell's eld-
est daughter), 318, 416.

Boufflers, Comtesse de, 177, 260.
Brandy, the drink for heroes, 419,
451.

Brighthelmstone (Brighton), 159,

475.

Bristol, Boswell and Johnson's
visit, 303.

Brocklesby, Dr., 481, 503, 507.
536, 538, 542, 551, 552, 555.
556.

Brown, Launcelot (Capability).
271, 428.

Brown, Tom, author of a spelling-
book, 8.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 50.

Brutes, their future life, 153.
Budgell, Eustace, 209.

Bulkeley, Mrs., 203.

Bull-dog, Dr. Taylor's, 347.
Bunbury, Sir Charles, 132, 234.
559.

Bunyan, John, 214.

Burke, Edmund, 131, 214, 222,

315, 370, 390, 396, 445, 449, 450

INDEX

494, 553, 559; Letter on the
Affairs of America, 345; his bon-
mots, 397; his universal knowl-
edge, 318, 442, 444, 478, 513;
his appreciation and criticisms
of Johnson, 528; Johnson's
opinions of him, 181, 193, 271,
418, 444, 453.

Burke, Richard, junior (Edmund
Burke's son), 132, 497, 545.
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salis-
bury, 349.

Burney, Dr. Charles, 71, 77, 80,
97, 261, 458, 471, 504, 548; his
anecdotes of Johnson, 261-3,
471.

Burney, Dr. Charles (jun.), 549.
Burney, Frances (Mme. D'Ar-
blay), 499, 513.
Burney, Mrs., 492.

Burton, Robert, 179, 268.

Bute, third Earl of, 88, 89, 314,
427, 466, 469.

Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, 300.
Butter, Dr., 286, 333, 337, 464,
551.

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Carte, Thomas, History of Eng-
land, 245.

Carter, Miss Elizabeth, (Mrs.),
339, 458.

Catherine II, 514.

Cave, Edward, 28-9, 56, 191, 554.
Chambers, Catherine, 150.
Chambers, Sir Robert, 151, 224-5.
Chamier, Andrew, 131, 365.
Charlemont, first Earl of, 121,
212, 412, 450.
Charles I, 478.
Charles II, 59, 117, 149, 243.
Charles XII, of Sweden, 371.
Charlotte, Queen, 211.

Chastity, 154.

563

Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of,
31, 197.

Chatsworth, Boswell visits it, 355;
Johnson visits it, 542-5.
Chatterton, Thomas, 303.
Chesterfield, fourth Earl of, 200,
328, 423, 535; Plan of the
Dictionary, addressed to, 41, 62;
seeks to flatter Johnson, 62-3;
Johnson's severe reply, 63-4;
470; Letters, 304; Miscellane-
ous Works, 411.
Chichester, 476.

Children, 297; method of rearing
them, 173; prematurely wise,
262.

China, wall of, 372-3.
Cholmondeley, Mrs., 179, 367, 394.
Christianity, dictates of, 379;
differences chiefly in forms;
102, 184, 347; evidences for it,
102, 121, 139, 142, 347; immor-
tality its great doctrine, 347.
Church of England, 126, 243.
Churchill, Charles, 103, 107.
Cibber, Colley, 100, 150, 169, 235,
242, 343, 505.
Cibber, Theophilus,

Lives of the Poets, 42.

edits the

Cibber, Mrs. (wife of Theophi-
lus), 45, 169.

Claret, for boys, 419, 451.

Clarke, Rev. Dr. Samuel, 16, 442.

Clergy, the, 386, 450.

Clive, Lord, 404, 428.

Clive, Mrs., the actress, 437, 505.
Cobb, Mrs., 280.

Cobham, Lord 410.

Cock-Lane Ghost, 103, 372.

Coke, Lord, 186.

Collins, William, 70.

Colman, George, the elder, 132,
234, 395, 439, 441, 559.
Colson, Rev. J., 25.

Comedy, distinguished from farce,
170; its great end, 211.
Commerce, 202, 249.
Community of goods, 219.
Composition, fine passages to be

struck out, 213; man writing
from his own mind, 245.

Comus, Johnson's Prologue to,
51.

Condescension, 436.

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