Kames, Lord (Henry Home), 35, 155.
Kemble, John, 504-6.
Kempis, Thomas à, 515.
Kindness, duty of cultivating it, 343.
Kings, 109, 117, 147, 189. Knitting, 362.
Knowledge, desire of it innate, 122; diffusion of it not a dis- advantage, 403-4. Knowles, Mrs., the Quakeress, 314, 377-82.
Langton, Bennet, account of him, 58-9; a 'frisk,' 60-1; Johnson visits him at Langton, 130; at Rochester, 442-3, 502; at War- ley Camp, 413; dinners and suppers at his house, 375-6, 406-7; his expenditure and foibles criticised, 321, 392, 393; his attention to Johnson in his last illness, 553; present at his funeral, 558; his reminiscences of Johnson, 9, 81, 436-46; men- tioned, 222, 241, 245, 247, 300. Langton, Mrs. (Bennet Lang-
ton's mother), 79, 130, 436. Langton, Miss Jane, Johnson's god-daughter, 511. Langton, old Mr. (Bennet Lang- ton's father), 112, 130, 436, Language, formed on manners,
163-4; origin, 492; scanty and inadequate, 497; speaking one imperfectly lets a man down, 260.
Latin, essential to a good educa- tion, 122.
Laughers, time to be spent with them, 484. Laughter, 256, 407.
Law, the study and practice of, 525.
Law, William, 15, 16.
Lawrence, Dr. Thomas, 79, 294,
Lawyers, 140, 185, 212, 244, 256, 387, 525.
Learning, 118, 122, 496. Lectures, 139, 456. Lee, Arthur, 309, 313. Leeds, Duke of, 440. Levellers, 119.
Levett, Robert, 56, 58, 87, 107, 114, 138, 200, 293, 396, 414; his death, 473; Johnson's lines on him, 477, 512.
Lexicographer, defined, 74. Libels, 290.
Liberty, 155-6, 188, 217, 219-20, 420, 496.
Lichfield, 3, 4, 8, 9, 15, 18, 230, 314; Johnson's visits to, 87, 153, 181, 472, 543, 545-6. Lies, 115, 205.
Life, general reflections on, 197, 365-6, 523.
Lincolnshire, 414, 491. Lintot the younger, 115. Literary Club, list of members,
131-2; Johnson's attendances at, 144, 222, 234, 358, 439, 454; his last dinner there, 532; mentioned, 212, 214, 239, 325, 372, 375, 434, 440, 445, 484, 559.
Literary fame, 211, 250. Literary Journals, 148. Literary property, 245, 415. Literary reputation, 211. Literature, state of, 390, 403-4. Lives of the Poets, 323, 327, 408, 415-7, 423, 432, 446-8, 461. Lives of the Poets, by Theophilus Cibber, 42.
Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. Sampson, 274. Lobo's Abyssinia, 289. Lochlomond, 420, 483. Lofft, Capel, 515.
London, a Poem, 30-1, 44. London, its immensity and va- riety, 108, 160, 181, 202, 248, 293, 428; its advantages and superiority over the country, 366; living in, 26, 204, 248, 493; Boswell's love of, 126, 181, 287, 341, 364; Johnson's love of, 76, 160, 178, 287, 341, 544, 546.
Long, Dudley (afterwards North),
449, 452. Loughborough, Lord (Alexander Wedderburne, afterwards Earl of Rosslyn), 88–9, 255. Louis XIV, 149, 189.
Louis XVI, 258.
Love, passion of, 275.
Lucan, first Earl of, 132, 434, 532. Lucan, Lady, 434, 532. Luton Hoe, 466, 469. Luxury, 188, 202, 357.
Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine, 119, 203, 240, 302, 314, 344. Macbean, Alexander, Johnson's amanuensis, 42, 198, 296, 457. Macclesfield, Countess of, 39. Macpherson, James, 96, 229-31, 233, 245, 304, 484.
Madness, 14, 97, 296. 'Mahogany', a drink, 450. Malagrida, 481.
Mallet, David, 67, 80, 187, 210,496. Malone, Edmond, 51, 471, 532, 557.
Man, 378, 448. Mankind, 115, 359. Manley, Mrs., 490. Manners, 412.
Mansfield, William Murray, first Earl of, 186, 194, 197, 234, 329, 371, 482.
Marchmont, Hugh, fourth Earl of, 407-9, 425.
Marie Antoinette, 258. Marlborough, John, first Duke of, 271, 306.
Marriage, 161, 177, 275-6, 283, 287.
Martyrdom, 218, 440. Marylebone Gardens, 531
Mason, Rev. William, 2, 380, 527. Materialism, 184.
Matter, non-existence of, 130. Maxwell, Rev. Dr., Collectanea of
Johnson, 177–81.
Mayo, Rev. Dr., 217-20.
Melancholy, 14, 268, 287, 340-1. Merit, 116-18, 480. Metcalfe, Philip, 471, 475. Methodists, 123, 178-9, 194. Meynell, 'old,' 441.
Mickle, William Julius, 193, 299, 506, 524.
Middle Class, 259.
Middlesex election, 430.
Milton, John, 51, 429, 448, 523,
Miracles, 346.
Misery, 296, 352, 523.
Modern times, better than an- cient, 496.
Modesty, how far natural, 411. Monboddo, Lord, 160, 203, 339, 512.
Monckton, Hon. Mary (Countess of Cork), 463.
Money, 188, 248, 341, 343, 371, 420, 441, 468.
Montagu, Mrs., 168, 180, 446, 449, 513.
Monthly Review, 149.
Moody, the player, 242-3.
More, Hannah, 367, 458-9, 462, 513, 523.
Morris, Miss, 557.
Mounsey, Dr., 157.
Mudge, Rev. Zachariah, 90, 459. Murphy, Arthur, 85, 89, 507, 512. Music, 352, 442.
Pity, not natural to man, 115. Plantations (settlements), 141. Players and the art of acting, 38, 45, 211, 260, 343, 505. Pleasure, 363, 399, 424, 528. Poetry, 200, 247, 299, 334, 367-8. Politics, 255.
Pope, Alexander, 13, 30-3, 68,
138, 165-6, 214, 240, 366-7, 403, 407-9, 438.
Port, liquor for men, 419, 451. Porter,
Miss Lucy (Johnson's step-daughter), 6, 53, 277, 281- 2, 490, 546, 550. Portraits, Johnson's, 94, 181, 483. Poverty, a great evil, 117, 335. Praise, 357, 453. Prayer, 191, 521.
Prayers, by Johnson, 47, 61, 132; before study, 74, 134, 318-19; death of his wife, 52, 53; for Catherine Chambers, 150; New Year, 61; birthday, 132; Eas- ter, 319; last communion, 556. Presbyterians, 184.
Press, liberty of, 29, 156. Priestley, Dr. Joseph, 503. Printing, 189.
Prior, Matthew, 163, 349. Pritchard, Mrs., the actress, 45, 169, 246, 505.
Prologues at Drury Lane Thea- tre, 40, 51, 443.
literary, and provincial, 186. Prostitution, severe laws needed, 122, 291.
Psalmanazar, George, 392, 486, 512.
Public amusements, 188. Purgatory, 174.
Quakers, 125, 381, 494. Quality, women of, 412. Quotations, 461.
Rabelais, 210, 367. Rambler, 46-51, 58, 85, 302, 432, 437, 455, 525, 531.
Ramsay, Allan, the elder, 204. Ramsay, Allan, the son, por- trait-painter, 402-5, 420, 430. Ranelagh, 178, 525. Rank, 119.
Rasselas, 81-2, 466.
Reading, advice and observa- tions on, 17, 112, 118, 207, 251, 302, 349, 422, 442, 524. Rebellion of 1745–6, 34, 39, 337. Rehearsal, The, 529.
Religion, remarks on, 171, 381-2, 440, 496.
Reynolds, Miss, 79, 367, 394-5. Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 37-8, 57-8,
90-1, 149, 165-7, 210-12, 245, 300, 317, 370, 383, 390-1, 399- 402, 423-5, 434, 445, 449, 458-9, 471, 476, 482, 507, 527-8, 529, 530, 533, 537-41, 544-5, 555; dinners, 364, 394-7, 405-6, 419, 450-1, 535, 538; on Johnson, 33, 37, 47, 57, 89, 484; por- traits, 94, 181, 483.
Rhyme, essential to English poetry, 368.
Richardson, Samuel, 35, 87, 152, 190, 343, 392, 436, 445. Ridicule, 418.
Rising early, 339.
Robertson, Dr. William, 153, 210, 213-4, 402-5.
Rochester, Wilmot, second Earl of, 349.
Roman Catholicism and Roman Catholics, 127, 173-5, 184, 222, 243, 291.
Rome and the Romans, 187, 291-2, 298, 404.
Round Robin, the, 316-8.
Rousseau, J. J., 115–7, 140, 201. Rudd, Mrs., 315.
Sacheverell, Rev. Dr. Henry, 5. Sagacity, 536.
St. Paul's Cathedral, 116, 189, 201, 214, 250, 295, 456. Saints, invocation of, 174. Salamanca, University of, 121. Salusbury, Mrs. (Mrs. Thrale's mother), 405. Salvation, 522-3.
Savage, Richard, 36–9, 324, 519. Savages, 115, 160, 208, 217, 286, 493, 524.
Schools, discipline in, 193-4, 262, 526.
Scotland and the Scotch, 162, 168,
186, 233, 313-14, 322, 362; character of people, 162, 233, 237, 424, 432, 439, 460-1, 504; church, 123, 126; education, 153, 252-3; Johnson and the Scotch, 41-2, 110, 162, 226-7, 231-3, 252-3, 314, 340, 364, 410, 424, 432, 439, 460, 478, 485; laws and institutions, 286, 313-14, 460.
Scott, Dr. (afterwards Sir William Scott, and Lord Stowell), 124, 132, 268, 370, 389, 456, 486. Scotticisms, 160, 168. Scripture phrases, 200. Second sight, 184, 234. Selden, John, 186.
Seward, Miss Anna, 377, 546. Seward, Rev. Mr., of Lichfield, 280, 283, 331.
Seward, William, F.R.S., 161, 232, 338, 350, 495. Sexes, 291, 378.
Shakespeare, Johnson's edition, 76, 137.
Shakespeare, William, 80, 166-8, 370, 441, 443-4; Hamlet, 16, 448; Henry VIII, 505; Mac- beth, 168, 246, 420, 551;
Othello, 301; Timon of Athens. 444.
Shenstone, William, 18.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 132, 254, 324.
Sheridan, Thomas (father of R. B. Sheridan), 89, 92-3, 167, 235, 478, 495, 499, 528, 534.
Shiels, R., Johnson's amanuensis, 42, 56, 299.
Ship, worse than a gaol, 84, 266. Shorthand, 206, 373, 478. Siddons, Mrs., visits Johnson, 504 -5.
Simpson, Joseph, 83.
Sixteen-string Jack, 300.
Slavery, 353.
Sleep, 339, 437.
Smart, Christopher (Kit), 97, 245. 488.
Smith, Adam, 16, 111, 402, 443. Smollett, Dr. Tobias, 84. Snakes, in Iceland, 375. Society, 116-17, 185, 217, 239. Socrates, 371.
Soldiers, 164, 202, 371, 413-4. South Sea, 289, 524. Southill, 63, 466-70. Spain, 121.
Spectator, The, 160, 193, 444. Spenser, Edmund, 214. Spleen, The, 300, 429.
Spottiswoode, John, 399. Staffordshire, 178, 276, 491. Stanhope, Mr.
field's son), 535.
Statuary, 267.
Steele, Sir Richard, 237, 270. Steevens, George, 132, 155, 176, 177, 234, 349, 423, 531. Sterne, Rev. Laurence, 204, 271. Stourbridge, 11.
Strahan, Rev. George, Vicar of Islington, 52, 511, 556. Strahan, William, the King's Printer, 207, 226, 235-6, 323, 368, 402, 427, 530. Stratford-on-Avon, 273, 282-3. Streatham, visits to, 162, 261.
357, 364, 408, 410, 425, 472, 475. Stuart, the House of, 39, 112, 204, 477.
Study, method of, 16, 104, 112, 123, 439.
Style in composition, 362, 368.
Subordination, 104, 117, 119, 203, 239, 314, 399, 412, 420. Suicide, 208, 218. Sunday, 74, 256.
Swearing, the habit of, 300, 347. Swift, Jonathan, 121, 158, 234-5, 391.
Swinfen, Dr. Samuel, 14, 19. Sympathy, 169-70, 281-2.
Taste, 527, 539.
Taverns, 272, 449.
Taxation no Tyranny, 233, 240, 353, 376.
Taylor, Rev. Dr. John, 8, 18, 38, 44, 54, 55, 284-6, 304, 326-7, 331-5, 340, 342, 345-9, 352, 354, 56, 510, 547, 559. Teaching, 21, 496.
Temple, Rev. William Johnson, 115, 140, 217, 255.
Temple, Sir William, 211, 368, 402.
Tenantry, 125.
Thames, 122–3, 264, 444. Theobald, Lewis, 80.
Thinking, liberty of, 217, 220. Thrale, Henry, 134-7, 159, 162,
199, 207-10, 216, 237-8, 246, 258, 263, 281-3, 288, 291-2, 294-5, 297-300, 302, 364, 408, 415, 451-2, 454-5, 475, 539-40. Thrale, Henry (son of Mr. and Mrs. Thrale), 281-3. Thrale, Hester Lynch (afterwards Mrs. Piozzi), 106, 136-7, 159, 162-3, 200, 207, 246-7, 257-8,* 263, 281, 283, 286, 302, 357-8, 362, 364, 393, 398, 408-9, 416, 448, 450, 452-4, 466, 475-8, 501, 514, 534, 539, 540, 546, 550. Thurlow, first Lord, 245, 293, 435, 526, 533, 536, 540, 545. Toleration, 217-21, 440, 496. Toplady, Rev. Mr., 217, 221. Tories and Toryism, 73, 398, 520. Townshend, Right Hon. Charles, 204.
Townshend, Right Hon. Thomas,
Trade, remarks on, 135, 191, 202. Translations, 299, 367.
Travellers, ancient and modern, 359, 383.
Travelling, 113, 298, 411.
Trinity, doctrine of the, 221. Truth, 357-8, 395, 498. Tyers, Thomas, 388.
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