Southwell, Thomas, second Lord, i. 162; ii. 286, 464. Southwell, Mr., i. 242. Spain, i. 88, 244, 274, 303, 456. Spanish plays, ii. 344. Spanish proverbs, ii. 227. Spectator, The, i. 137, 383, 460, 483, 599; ii. 23, 351, 356. Spence, Rev. Joseph, i. 312; ii. 329; Anecdotes, ii. 379-80. Spencer, second Earl, member of
the Literary Club, i. 320. Spenser, Edmund, i. 501; ii. 642. Spiritual world, ii. 554. Spleen, The, ii. 26, 304. Spottiswoode, John, ii. 245 seq. Sprat, Bishop, History of the Royal Society, ii. 564.
Staffordshire, i. 414, 669; ii. 485, 593, 604.
Stanhope, first Earl, i. 109. Stanhope, Mr. (Lord Chesterfield's son), ii. 578.
Stanton, Mr., manager of a com- pany of actors, i. 671-2. Stanyan, Temple, ii. 269. Statuary, i. 653.
Statues, reason of their value, ii. 176.
Staunton, Dr. (afterwards Sir George), i. 245; ii. 566.
Steele, Joshua, Prosodia Rationalis, i. 569.
Steele, Mr., of the Treasury, i. 97. Steele, Sir Richard, i. 569; ii. 23, 370-1; Christian Hero, i. 659. Steevens, George, i. 150, 320, 373,
405, 414, 529, 530, 564; ii. 72, 147, 268, 290, 359, 573; anec- dotes of Johnson, ii. 572; aids Johnson in the Lives, ii. 359; edits Shakespeare, i. 410, 478. Sterne, Rev. Laurence, i. 490; Sentimental Journey, i. 455; ii. 356 n.; Tristram Shandy, i. 660. Stevenage, ii. 229.
Stewart, Sir Annesly, ii. 392. Stewart, Francis, Johnson's aman-
uensis, i. 127; ii. 315, 317. Stewart, George, bookseller of Edinburgh, i. 127.
Stewart, Mrs., ii. 315, 317, 526, 529. Still, John, Bishop of Bath and Wells, ii. 648 n. 1.
Stillingfleet, Benjamin, ii. 412. Stinton, Dr., ii. 211, 354. Stockdale, Rev. Percival, i. 222 n., 409, 436.
Stoicism, ii. 274. Stone, Mr., ii. 108 n. Stopford, General, i. 603. Stourbridge, i. 34, 62. Strahan, Andrew, ii. 610. Strahan, Rev. George, Vicar of Is- lington (son of William Strahan), i. 157, 360 n.; ii. 367, 535, 614, 635-6; attends Johnson when dying, ii. 645.
Strahan, William, the King's Printer, i. 427-8, 493, 565, 567; ii. 70, 82, 196, 216, 250, 275, 322, 323; his connexion with John- son's Dictionary, i. 192; ii. 570; Journey to the Western Isles, ii. 68; Patriot, i. 541; Rasselas, i. 226; breakfast and dinner at his house, i. 565; ii. 300. Strahan, Mrs. (wife of William Strahan), i. 143; ii. 407, 438. Strahan, William, junior, ii. 407. Stratford-on-Avon, Boswell and Johnson drink tea there, i. 662; Jubilee, i. 380; Shakespeare's mulberry-tree, i. 676. Stratford Jubilee, The, i. 677. Stratico, Professor, i. 248. Streatham, visits to, i. 385, 627; ii. 6, 172, 185, 188, 260, 263, 284, 294, 434, 442, 449, 453, 454. Strickland, Mrs., ii. 88 n. Stuart, Andrew, Letters to Lord Mansfield, i. 495-6, 680. Stuart, Hon. Colonel James (after- wards Stuart-Wortley), ii. 299, 309, 310, 313.
Stuart, Rev. James, of Killin, i. 354 n.
Stuart, Hon. and Rev. W., ii. 479. Stuart, the House of, i. 121, 235,
287-8, 488; ii. 119-20, 457, 546. Stuart Clan, i. 526. Stubbs, George, ii. 636.
Student, The, or Oxford and Cam- bridge Miscellany, i. 140, 153. Study, method of, i. 48, 274, 286- 7, 305, 307, 316; ii. 306, 339-40. Style in composition, i. 293, 467; ii. 133, 185, 189, 196, 210. See Johnson.
Subordination, i. 273, 295, 299, 570; ii. 56, 199, 214, 245, 267, 288. Succession, male, Boswell and the
Barony of Auchinleck, i. 631-41. Suicide, i. 494-5, 512; ii. 446, 498. Sunday, harvest work, ii. 236; legal consultations, i. 603; scheme of life for it, i. 202.
Supernatural appearances, i. 438. Swallows, their hibernation, i. 371, 510.
Swan, Dr., i. 104.
Swearing, the habit of, i. 408, 449; ii. 28, 145.
Swift, Jonathan, Conduct of the Allies, i. 377; Drapier's Letter, i. 565; Gulliver's Travels, ib.; Journal, ii. 465; Plan for the Improvement of the English Lan- guage, i. 565; Sentiments of a Church of England man, i. 565 n.; Sermon on the Trinity, ib.; Tale of a Tub, i. 302, 564; Johnson's attacks on him, i. 302, 377, 564; ii. 378; praises, i. 424, 467; re- commended to him, i. 90; ii. 378; writes his Life, ii. 378–9; mentioned, i. 467; ii. 235. Swinfen, Dr. Samuel, i. 44, 53, 56. Swinton, Rev. Mr., i. 181. Swiss, the, i. 105; ii. 151. Sydenham, Dr. Thomas, i. 99; Life by Johnson, i. 26, 104. Sydney, Algernon, i. 482. Sylvanus's First Book of the Iliad, ii. 306.
Sympathy, i. 394-5, 675, 677; ii. 114-5.
Tacitus, remarks on, i. 466. Talbot, Miss Catharine, i. 136. Tasker, Rev. Mr., ii. 281-2. Taste, defined, i. 467; refinement
of it, ii. 582; Reynolds's rule for judging it, ii. 567. Tatler Revived, i. 135. Taverns, i. 661; ii. 389. Taxation no Tyranny, planned, i. 544; account of it, i. 560-3, 576; mentioned, ii. 154, 169, 215. Taylor, Chevalier, a quack, ii. 392. Taylor, Jeremy, ii. 551-2; Golden Grove, ii. 552.
Taylor, Rev. Dr. John, i. 31, 51, 132, 159, 161; ii. 99, 104, 106, 115– 22, 126, 134, 138-9, 142–7, 153, 157-8, 170, 500, 533, 598, 605, 614, 616, 637, 648, 649 n.; visited at Ashbourne by Johnson, i. 679; ii. 104; dinners at his Lon- don house, ii. 35, 182; anecdotes of, i. 115, 126; ii. 115, 145; his character by Johnson, i. 679-80; ii. 106, 139.
Taylor, John, a Birmingham trader, i. 57.
Taylor, John (Demosthenes), ii. 240. Taylor, Mr., a gentleman-artist, of Bath, ii. 319.
Teaching, liberty of, ii. 493; wretch- edness of, i. 57. Temple, Rev. William Johnson, i.
292, 339, 510, 563, 599; ii. 449. Temple, Sir William, i. 214, 499, 639; ii. 249, 616; gave ca- dence to English prose, ii. 196; his style a model to Johnson, i. 148.
Testimony, compared with argu- ment, ii. 542.
Thames, Johnson and Boswell row to Greenwich, i. 305; to Black- friars, i. 649; ribaldry of passers- by, ii. 351.
Theobald, Lewis, i. 219. Theocritus, ii. 334-5.
Thicknesse, Philip, criticizes Smol- lett, ii. 180.
Thinking, liberty of, i. 511, 514. Thirlby, Dr. Styan, ii. 454. Thirty-nine Articles, articles of peace, i. 402; meaning of sub- scription, i. 438; petition for removing the subscription, ib.
Thomas, Colonel, ii. 490 n. Thomas, Nathaniel, ii. 67. Thomson, James, i. 376, 597; ii. 26, 271, 396 n.; Johnson in- serts him among the Lives, ii. 80, 87, 101.
Thomson, Rev. James, case of ecclesiastical censure,ii. 39-46,66. Thomson, Mr., a schoolmaster (the poet's brother-in-law), i. 376; ii. 87, 271.
Thornton, Bonnell, i. 140, 147 n., 264; Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, i. 280.
Thrale, 'Old,' the brewer, Henry Thrale's father, i. 328. Thrale, Henry, i. 327-31, 351, 380, 497, 538-40, 608-9; ii. 13, 16, 17, 30-1, 69, 79, 274, 281, 298, 314, 317, 327, 332-3, 387, 453, 565, 583 seq.; death, ii. 396-7, 407, 442; Johnson as executor, ii. 397; dinners and breakfasts at his house, i. 385, 482-4, 493– 5, 509, 556, 569, 584, 645; ii. 4, 19-24, 188, 260, 393. Thrale, Henry (son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thrale), death, i. 675, 677. Thrale, Hester Lynch (Miss Salus- bury, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi), i. 329-31, 385-6, 483, 494, 538-40, 584, 607, 628, 676; ii. 1, 30-1, 69, 160, 163, 172-5, 185, 189, 238, 245, 260 seq, 274, 281, 298, 303, 318 seq., 359, 374, 387, 389, 394 seq., 418, 431, 452 seq., 456 seq., 501, 539, 568, 612, 623; her engagement to Piozzi, ii. 583; Anecdotes of Johnson, cited, cor- rected, or explained, i. 28 n. 1, 30, 47 n., 62 n. 2, 277, 278 n., 321, 469 n.; ii. 175, 215 n., 481, 583– 9; British Synonymy, ii. 643; Letters, ii. 102 n., 322, 513, 566, 577, 583 n. 1, 622 n. 1, 629, 631. Thrale, Miss, i. 609, 628; ii. 4, 318. Thuanus (De Thou), i. 22; John- son thinks of translating his His- tory, ii. 642.
Thucydides, ii. 249, 352.
Thurlow, first Lord, i. 581; ii. 15,
467, 563, 580; legal opinion on Rev. J. Thomson's case, ii. 44-6; proposed addition to Johnson's pension, ii. 574-5, 589-90, 607- 8; letter to Johnson, ii. 333. Tickell, Thomas, i. 405; Life by Johnson, ii. 374.
Tillotson, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, Sermons, ii. 188. Toland, John, i. 19.
Toleration, i. 511-5; ii. 341, 493; universal, ii. 286.
on her giving the Authour a Purse, i. 351. Tonson, Jacob, ii. 32.
Tooke, Horne (at first Rev. John Horne), criticizes Johnson's ety- mologies, ii. 268; Letter to Mr. Dunning, ib.
Topham, Edward, proprietor of The World, case of, ii. 11 n. Toplady, Rev. Mr., meets John- son at Dilly's, i. 510, 516. Tories and Toryism, ii. 419, 549, 553; defined, i. 198; how gen- erated, ii. 245; reverence for government, ii. 406-7.
Torré, M., firework maker, ii. 572. Torture of accused persons, i. 312. Towers, Dr. J., Essay on the Life of Johnson, ii. 362; Letter to Dr. Johnson, &c., i. 562.
Townley, C., an engraver, ii. 649 n. Townley, Charles, ii. 88 n. Townshend, Right Hon. Charles, i. 490; ii. 2.
Townshend, Right Hon. Thomas (afterwards first Viscount Syd- ney), ii. 568.
Townson, Rev. Dr., i. 518 n.; ii. 558 n.
Trade, remarks on, i. 327, 397, 456, 487, 647.
'Trade, The' (the booksellers of London), i. 292, 582; ii. 216. Translations, ii. 477; how to judge of their merit, ii. 195; what books can and what cannot be translated, ii. 25, 195. Trapp, Dr., ii. 620 n.
Travellers, ancient and modern,
ii. 269; mean to tell the truth, ii. 180; modern mostly laughed at, ii. 227; unsatisfactory un- less trustworthy, i. 575. Travelling, advice about it, i. 289; its grand object, ii. 24-5; supplies little to the conversation, ii. 267; time ill spent on it in early man- hood, ii. 266.
Travels, books of, ii. 227. Trecothick, Alderman, his English, ii. 55, 154.
Trimlestown, Lord, ii. 173-4. Trinity, doctrine of the, i. 515-6; ii. 189.
Trotter, Beatrix, ii. 271. Trotter, -, an engraver, ii. 649 n. Trotz, Professor, i. 318. Truth, children to be strictly
trained in it, ii. 175; devia- tions from it very frequent, ii. 303; moral and physical, ii. 338; how far obligatory, ii. 241, 283-4, 559-60; perpetual vigi- lance needed, ii. 176, 601; society held together by it, ii. 222. Tunbridge School, ii. 576. Turkey and the Turks, i. 469, 639. Turkish Spy, ii. 480. Turton, Dr., ii. 125. Twalmley, the great, ii. 476. Twickenham, Boswell and John- son's drive to it, i. 593. Twiss, Richard, Travels, i. 582. Tyburn, executions at, ii. 473. Tyers, Jonathan, ii. 232. Tyers, Thomas, account and anec- dotes of, i. 107; ii. 232; Bio- graphical Sketch of Dr. Johnson, ii. 233.
Tyrconnel, Lord, i. 119. Tyrwhitt, Thomas, Chatterton's poems, ii. 438 n.
Tytler, William, i. 554; History of Mary Queen of Scots, i. 235.
Universal History, ii. 564. Universal Visiter, i. 121 n., 204, 581-2.
University, should be a school where everything may be learnt,
i. 599; theory and practice, i. 369-70; ii. 106; value of fel- lowships, ii. 9.
Usher, Archbishop, i. 424. Usury, law against, ii. 18. Uttoxeter Market, Johnson does penance there, ii. 612.
Vacancies, eagerness for, ii. 191. Vails, i. 386.
Valetudinarians, i. 668; ii. 1, 116. Vallancy, Colonel, ii. 535, 536, 539. Vanbrugh, Sir John, ii. 372. Vanity of Human Wishes, account of it, i. 129-32, 342; Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, ii. 91 n.
Vansittart, Dr., i. 231, 468. Vauxhall Gardens, ii. 232. Veal, Mrs., her ghost, i. 447. Veale, Thomas, ii. 392 n. Versailles, i. 608, 617. Vertot, i. 501; ii. 564. Vesey, Right Hon. Agmondesham, i. 320, 564; ii. 352. Vesey, Mrs., ii. 320-1. Vestris, the dancer, ii. 393. Vicarious punishment, ii. 424. Vice, ii. 221, 222, 259, 264-5. 'Vicious intromission,' Johnson's argument, i. 470-6; ii. 74. Victor, Benjamin, ii. 371. Vilette, Rev. Mr., ii. 576. Villiers, Sir George, his ghost, ii. 266.
Virgil, i. 422; ii. 251, 334-5, 344; compared with Homer, ii. 148; and Theocritus, ii. 335; John- son's juvenile translations, i. 35. Virtue, men naturally virtuous compared with those who over- come inclinations, ii. 497; not natural to man, ii. 266; prac- tised for the sake of character, ii. 259, 264; why preferable to vice, ii. 259; scholastic virtue, i. 491.
Vivacity, an art, i. 670. Volcanoes, strata of earth in them, i. 674.
Voltaire, i. 335, 339, 340; ii. 199,
312; Candide, i. 227; ii. 269; Johnson's criticisms on, i. 290-1, 332, 419; ii. 251. Voting, privilege of, i. 578. Vows, Johnson's warning against them, i. 347; a snare for sin, ii. 270.
Vranyken, University of, i. 318. Vyse, Rev. Dr., ii. 93, 94, 611 n.
Wages, raising those of day-la- bourers wrong, ii. 465; women- servants' less than men-servants', i. 486.
Wales, Boswell proposes a tour, ii. 102 n., 103; castles of, com- pared with Scotch, i. 539; cha- ritable establishment, ii. 194; Johnson's tour, i. 536, 538; manuscripts, i. 607; offers no- thing for speculation, i. 538; second sight, i. 438; Welsh lan- guage, how far related to Irish, i. 214; Welshmen, generally have the spirit of gentlemen, ii. 208. Wales, Prince of, happy situation of, ii. 469.
Walker, John, 'celebrated master of elocution,' ii. 485, 649 n. Walker, Joseph Cooper, i. 213; ii. 83 n.
Walker, Thomas, the actor, i. 597. Wall, Dr., physician at Oxford, ii.
Wall, taking the, i. 75.
Waller, Edmund, i. 373, 592; Di-
vine Poesie, the communion of saints, ii. 548 n.; Life by John- son, i. 373; ii. 236, 246 n., 358 n., 360-1; Reflections on the Lord's Prayer, ii. 549 n.
Walmsley, Gilbert, i. 68-70, 674; character by Johnson, i. 53-4; ii. 331; recommends Johnson and Garrick, i. 69. Walmsley, Mrs., i. 54-5. Walpole, Horace (afterwards fourth
Earl of Orford), i. 276 n. 1; ii. 66, 147 n., 473 n. 1, 566. Walpole, Sir Robert, i. 88, 413, 470, 584, 588; ii. 38, 65, 182,
394; Johnson attacks him, i. 87, 97, 112; ii. 566. Walton, Isaac, Complete Angler, ii. 564; his Lives, i. 594; pro- jected edition by Johnson, i. 534, 537, 594, 658; ii. 78. Wapping, ii. 481.
War, i. 425, 493; ii. 201, 480. Warburton, William, Bishop of Gloucester, i. 19, 120, 185; ii. 149, 301, 367; Divine Legation, ii. 367; Shakespeare, edition of, i. 120, 219; ii. 366; Johnson's opinion of him, i. 175, 219, 360; ii. 367, 546-7.
Ward, the quack doctor, ii. 292. Warley Camp, ii. 272-3, 275, 278. Warren, Dr., i. 320; ii. 321; at-
tends Johnson in his last illness, ii. 633, 642.
Warren, John, of Pembrokeshire, i. 60.
Warren, Mr., the Birmingham bookseller, i. 57–60. Warrington, ii. 313.
Warton, Rev. Dr. Joseph, Head Master of Winchester College, i. 167-8, 217, 320, 363, 410; ii. 60 n., 93, 277; Essay on Pope, i. 205, 299, 450; ii. 87, 175, 302 n.
Warton, Rev. Thomas, i. 5, 53 n., 114, 135, 178-86, 189, 214, 320, 658-9; ii. 338, 438 n., 566; his account of Johnson's Oxford visit in 1754, i. 179-81. Waste, ii. 201, 239.
Water, Johnson's advice to drink it, ii. 126.
Waters, Mr., Paris banker, i. 334. Watson, Richard, Bishop of Llan- daff, ii. 419.
Watson, Professor Robert, of St. Andrews, History of Philip II, ii. 75.
Watts, Dr. Isaac, i. 208; ii. 270; Johnson adds him to the Lives, ii. 94, 280; recommends his Works, ii. 564.
Wealth, i. 450; ii. 7, 200, 417, 426, 463.
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