Boswell's Life of Johnson

WHITE, Mr., Librarian of the Royal 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, #.
I; Sheridan and the Irish Parlia
ment, iii. 429, n. I; Sheridan's pen-
sion, i. 447,.N. I.

WICKEDNESS, no abilities required for
it, v. 247.

WHITEFIELD, Rev. George, Boswell,
personally known to, ii. 91, n. 2;
Bristol Newgate, forbidden to preach
in the, iii. 491, n. 3; Johnson knew
him at Oxford, i. 91, n. 1; iii. 465; v. | WICKHAM, iv. 222.
38; Law's Serious Call, reads, i. 79, WIDOWs, ii. 88.
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,

iv. 372.

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.

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, . 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.

WIGAN, iii. 153, n. I.

WIGHT, Mr., a Scotch advocate, iii.
241, n. 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, n. 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

'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,
22.5; 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.
'animosity' against him, i.
404;
- attacks him, ii. 155, n. 2; iii.
74; v. 386;
attacks, i. 496, n. 2;

208;

Wilkie.

Dictionary, letter H, i. 347, 404, n.
1; —, meets, at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 75,
90, 228; v. 386, n. 4; second meet-
ing, iv. 117-24; -, invites, to dinner,
iv. 259, n. 2; letter to him, ib.;
and Mrs. Macaulay's footman,
iii. 89; — political definitions, i. 342,
N. 1;
repartee about a resolution
of the House, iv. 121;

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, n. 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, n. 1; - Earl of Bute attacked,
ii. 343, n. 4; oratory, on, iv. 120;
phoenix of convivial felicity,' iii.
208; physiognomy, ii. 176, n. 2;
Pope's repartee, iv. 58-9; prison, in,
ii. 128, n. 2; iii. 54, n. 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, n. 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,
n. 3; v. 355-6; 'Wilkite, no,' iii. 489,

n. I.

WILKES, Miss, iv. 259, n. 2.

WILKIE, William, D.D., Hume's Scotch
Homer, ii, 60, n. 1; iv. 215, n. I.

Wilkin.

WILKIN, Simon, editor of Sir Thomas
Brown's Works, iii. 333, n. 2.
WILKINS, Bishop, ii. 294, n. 2.
WILKINS, landlord of the Three

Crowns, Lichfield, ii. 528-9; iii. 468.
WILKS, the actor, acted Juba in Cato,
v. 143, n. 3; Addison's loan to Steele,
iv. 62; Johnson celebrates his virtues,
i. 193, n. 1; manager of Drury Lane
Theatre, v. 277, n. 6.
WILL, free. See FREE WILL.
WILL-MAKING, ii. 300; iv. 463, n. 3.
WILLES, Chief Justice, attached to
the Prince of Wales,' i. 169, n. 1;
Bet Flint's trial, iv. 120, n. 1; John-
son's schoolfellow, i. 53, n. I.
WILLIAM III, Dodwell, Henry, will

not persecute, v. 498, n. 3; Irish, not
the lawful sovereign of the, ii. 293;
Johnson's Dictionary, in, i. 342, n. 1;
resplendent qualities, his, ii. 391, n.
1; Revolution Society, commemo-
rated by the, iv. 48, n. 2; Shebbeare,
satirised by, ii. 129, n. 2; iii. 18, n.
I; torture in Scotland, legal in his
reign, i. 540, n. 2; worthless scoun-
drel,' ii. 391; that scoundrel,' v.
290; mentioned, iv. 395; v. 267.
WILLIAMS, Anna, account of her, i.
269; ii. 114; iv. 271, n. 1, 276, n. 4;
allowance from Mrs. Montagu, iii.
55, n. 4 iv. 75, n. 2; from Lady
Philipps, v. 314, n. 2; Adventurer,

Wilson.

498, n. 7; eating, mode of, iii. 30;
electrical experiments, ii. 29, n. 7:
Garrick refuses her an order, i. 454:
Gordon Riots, left London at the,
iii. 494; hates everybody,' iii. 418;
Hetherington's Charity, ii. 328; ill-
ness, ii. 473; iii. 107, 109, 140, 146,
150, 239, 244, 413; iv. 164, 196, 269;
jealousy, iii. 63; Johnson's atten-
tion to her, iii. 388; pleasure in
her society, i. 269, n. 1; iii. 524; iv.
271, 276, 278, 287, n. 3; takes the
sacrament in her room, iv. 271, n. I,
311; tea with her, i. 488; ii. 114;
turns Captain Macheath, iv. 110;
Johnson's Court, room in, ii. 5; Mis-
cellanies, i. 171, 205, n. 2; ii. 29; iii.
119; peevishness, iii. 30, 146, 249;
quarrels with the rest of the house-
hold, iii. 418, 523; second sight, in-
stance of, ii. 172; tea, mode of mak-
ing, ii. 114; will, her, iv. 278; men-
tioned, i. 263, n. 3, 280–1, 319, 378,
380, 405, n. 3, 428, 442; ii. 51, 88,
188, 240, 245, 247, 259, 278, 308, 354,
381, 409, 412, 442, 497; iii. 6, 51, 90,
105, 252, 306-7, 356, 432; iv. 107,
243; V. III.
WILLIAMS, Sir Charles Hanbury,
Johnson's pamphlet against him, ii.
37; speaks contemptuously of
him, v. 305; lines on Pulteney, v.
305, n. 2.

348.

Bathurst's Essays in the, i. 294-5; WILLIAMS, Helen Maria, iv. 325.
benefit at Drury Lane, i. 183, n. 1, | WILLIAMS, Zachariah, i. 319, n. 1,
454, n. 2; Bet Flint, did not love, iv.
119, n. 2; Bolt Court, room in, ii.
489, n. I; Boswell's envy of Gold-
smith's taking tea with her, i. 488;
— ' a privileged man,' i. 536; ii. 114;
and the Jack Wilkes dinner, iii.
77; -, 'loves,' ii. 167; carving, ii.
114, n. 1; conversation, i. 536; death,
iv. 75, n. 2, 271; drunkenness, on, ii.

WILLIS, Dr. Thomas, De Anima Bru-
torum, v. 357, n. 3.

WILMOT, Chief Justice, i. 53, n. I.
Wilson against Smith and Armour, ii.
225, n. I.

WILSON, Father, ii. 447.
WILSON, Florence, De tranquillitate
animi, iii. 244.

Wilson.

WILSON, Rev. Mr., dedicates his Ar-
chæological Dictionary to Johnson,
iv. 186.

WILSON, Thomas, Fellow of Trinity

College, Dublin, i. 566.
WILTON, Boswell visits it, ii. 374, n. I,
426; writes to Johnson from it, iii.
134, 139.

WILTON, Miss, ii. 314.

Wine.

opposition to good measures, iv. 232,
n. 1; portrait, ii. 28, n. 2; rascal, will
make a very pretty, iv. 232; Secre-
tary for Ireland, iv. 231, 262, n. 2;
wants and acquisitions, iii. 403; Wap-
ping, explores, iv. 232, n. 2; War-
ton's, Dr., amazement, ii. 47, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 350; iv. 397.
WINDOW-TAX, v. 342, n. 2.

WILTSHIRE, militia bill of 1756, i. 356, WINDSOR, Beauclerk's house, i. 290;

n. 2; mentioned, iv. 274.
WINCHESTER, capital convictions in
1784, iv. 379, n. 1; cathedral, iii. 518;
Franklin visits it, ii. 68, n. 3; John-
son visits it in 1762, i. 574, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 132.
WINCHESTER COLLEGE, Johnson places
Burney's son there, iii. 418; Morell
visits it, v. 398, n. 2; Peregrine
Pickle's governor, v. 210, n. 4.
WINDHAM, Right Hon. William, ac-

count of him in 1784, iv. 469, n. 2;
balloons, love of, iv. 410, n. 3;
Burke's merriment, iv. 319; Essex
Head Club, member of the, iv. 293,
505; Eumelian Club, member of the,
iv. 455, n. 2; Glasgow University, at,
iii. 135; Horsley's character, iv. 504;
Johnson's advice to him, iv. 232, n.
I;
at Ashbourne, visits, iv. 411,

days, i. 82, n. I; dexterity in re-
tort, iv. 214; funeral, iv. 484;
and Heberden, iv. 460, n. 5; Lat-
in read with pleasure by few, v. 90,
1. 2;
letters to him, iv. 262, 418;
- never read the Odyssey through,
i. 82, n. 1; pension, proposed in-
crease of, iv. 390, n. 2;
mends Frank to him, iv. 463, n. 1;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 554;

recom-

Johnson and the Mayor, iv. 360, n.
4; mentioned, iii. 455, n. 2.
WINDUS, John, Journey to Mequinez,
v. 508.

----

not a

Windward, defined, i. 339.
WINE, abstinence a great deduction
from life, iii. 193, 278, 372;
diminution of happiness, iii. 278;
does not admit of doubting, iii. 283;
- reasons for it, ii. 498; iii. 278;
advice to one who has drunk freely,
ii. 499; iii. 442; benevolence, drunk
from, iii. 373; bottles drunk at a sit-
ting, iiï. 276, n. 2; claret and igno-
rance, iii. 382; claret, port, and
brandy distinguished, iii. 433; iv. 91;
conversation and benevolence, effect
on, iii. 47, 372-3; daily consumption
of wine, iii. 31, n. 1; different, makes
a man, v. 370; 'drives away care,' ii.
222; drunk, the art of getting, iii.
442; drunk for want of intellectual
resources, ii. 149; freezing, iv. 174,
n. 2; in vino veritas, ii. 215; John-
son's abstinence, i. 120, n. 1; ad-
vice to drink wine, ib.; not to drink
it, iii. 192; 'drink water and put in
for a hundred,' iii. 348; life not
shortened by a free use of it, iii. 193
(see under JOHNSON, wine); melan-
choly increased by it, i. 517; patron,
drinking to please a, iii. 375: see un-
der BOSWELL, wine, DRINKING and
SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.

Wings of Iron.

WINGS OF IRON, iv. 410, n. 3.
WINIFRED'S WELL, v. 504.
WINNINGTON, Thomas, i. 582.
WIRGMAN, keeper of a toy-shop, iii.
369.

WIRTEMBERG, Prince of, ii. 207.
WISE, Francis, Radclivian Librarian,
account of him, i. 320, n. 2; John-
son visits him at Elsfield, i. 317;
mentioned, i. 323-4, 327, 335,
374.

WISEDOME, Robert, v. 506.

WISHART, George, THE REFORMER, v.

71, n. 3.

WISHART, Dr. William, v. 287.
WIT, basis of all wit is truth, ii. 103,
n. 4; Chesterfield on the property in
it, iii. 399, n. 1; defined in Barrow's
Sermon, iv. 122, n. 3; generally false
reasoning, iii. 27, n. 2.
WITCHES, evidence of their having ex-

isted, ii. 205; Johnson's disbelief in
them, ii. 205, n. 2; 'machinery of
poetry,' iv. 20; Shakespeare's, iii.
434; v. 86, 131, 395; Wesley's belief
in them, ii. 205, n. 3; witchcraft,
punished by death, v. 51; abol-
ished by act of parliament, ib.;
last executions, v. 51, n. 2.
WITNESSES, examination of, v. 277.
WITS, a celebrated one, iii. 441; the
female wits, iv. 119, n. 2.
WITTEMBERG, iii. 139, ". 1.
WOFFINGTON, Margaret (Peg), Gar-
rick's tea, iii. 300; sister of Mrs.
Cholmondeley, iii. 362, 1. 1.
WOLCOT, John (Peter Pindar), v. 474,

1. I.

WOLFE, General, 'choice of difficul-
ties,' v. 167.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Elwall the quaker
ironmonger, ii. 188; epitaph in the
church, i. 172, n. I.

Woodcocks.

3; carefulness with money, iv. 39;
cookery, cannot make a book of, i
324; employment of them, ii. 415, #.
I; envy of men's vices, iv. 336; few
opportunities of improving their
condition, iv. 39; fortune, of, iii. 3:
genteel, more, than men, iii. 62;
gluttony, i. 541, n. 2; Greek and
pudding-making, i. 142, n. 1; indif-
ferent to characters of men, iv. 336;
knowledge, none the worse for, il
87; v. 257; little things, can take up
with, iii. 274; marrying a pretty
woman, iv. 152; men have more
liberty allowed them, iii. 325; natu-
ral claims, ii. 480; over-match for
men, v. 257; Papists, surprising that
they are not, iv. 334; pious, not
more, than men, iv. 334; portrait-
painting improper for them, ii. 415.
power given them by nature and
law, v. 257, n. 2; preaching, i. 535.
quality of, iii. 401-2; reading, iii.
378; iv. 251, n. 3; soldiers, as, v.
261; temptations, have fewer, iii.
326; understandings better cultivat-
ed, iii. 4; virtuous, more, than of
old, iii. 4.

WOMEN SERVANTS, wages, ii. 249.
WOMEN OF THE TOWN, how far ad-

mitted to taverns, iv. 87; narrate
their histories to Johnson, i. 259, #.
I; iv. 456; one rescued by him, iv.
371; wretched life, i. 529.
WONDERS, catching greedily at them,
i. 576, n. 4; propagating them, iii.
260, n. I.

WOOD, Anthony à, Assembly Man, v.
64, n. 2; on Burton's tutor at Christ
Church, i. 68; Rawlinson's collec-
tions for a continuation of the
Athenæ, iv. 185, n. 3; styles Black-
more gentleman, ii. 145, #. 3.

WOMEN, Addison's time, in, iv. 251, n. Woodcocks, ii. 63, 284.

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