Boothby, Miss Hill, i. 50, iii. 187.

See Johnsoniana, for letters to
and from.

Bouquet, Mr., bookseller, and friend

of Johnson, i. 192.
Bouchier, Governor, iii. 213.
Boufflers, Madame de, her visit to

Johnson, ii. 228, n.

Boulter, Dr., his poem, a Monu-
ment, i. 258, n.

Boulton, Mr., the iron chieftain of
Birmingham, sells what all desire
to have, "power," ii. 275.
Bouhours, Dominique, writes to
prove that all beauty depends on
truth, i. 486.

Bouts-rimés, Lady Miller's, ii. 167,
168.

Bow-wow manner of Johnson, ii.
158, n., iv. 7.

Bower, Mr., wrote the history of the
Romans, iii. 460.

Bowles, William,
visits, iii. 334.

Esq., Johnson

Bowyer, Mr., his life, by Nichols,

Boxing, Johnson an adept in the
art of, iv. 204, n.

Boys, dull or idle, should not be
at a large public school, iv. 67.
Boyle, John, Earl of Orrery, i. 142,
n.; letter from to Dr. Birch,
142, 143.

Boyle, Mr., his Martyrdom of Theo-

dora, characterized by Johnson,

i. 252.
Boyse, Samuel, an early friend of
Johnson, iii. 484.

Bradshaigh, Lady, her flattery of
Richardson, i. 156.

Braidwood, Mr., his academy for
the deaf and dumb visited, iv.
364.

"Brave we," a peculiar exclamation
of Johnson's, iv. 329.

Bread, Boswell distributes wheat, to
Highlanders who had never tasted
it, iv. 118.

Brewse, Major, iv. 101.

Brewery, Thrale's, sold to Barclay,

Perkins, and Co., iii. 112.

Brighthelmstone, Johnson's stay
there, ii. 364.

Britain, state of ancient, little known
of it, iii. 46.

British Princes, the poem, absurd
lines from, i. 502, n.

British synonymy, Mrs. Piozzi's, iii.
486.
Brocklesby, Dr., iii. 287; his gene-
rous liberality to Johnson, 419;
Johnson's letters to, 432; his ac-
count of Johnson's state of mind,
488.

Bromley in Kent, Mrs. Johnson

buried at, i. 190; epitaph on her
tombstone, 190, n.

Brooke, Henry, author of the Fool
of Quality, i. 105.

Brown, L., Capability, the horticul-
turist, iii. 105.

18.

Tom, Johnson's first master, i.

Rev. Robert, and his sayings,
i. 416.

Browne, Sir Thomas, imitated by
Johnson, i. 174, n.; his saying
about devils, iii. II.

Bruce. Boswell prides himself on
having the blood of Bruce in his
veins, iv. 14, n.; many ways of
spelling the name, 101.
Brundusium, Observations on the
brook mentioned in Horace's
journey to, ii. 502.

Brydone, Mr., the traveller, and his
tour through Sicily and Malta,
ii. 282, iii. 67.
Buchan's Buller, the Pot, near
Aberdeen, visited by Johnson,
iv. 80.

Buchanan, George, a fine poet, i.
376, 377; the only man of genius
Scotland ever produced! iii. 295.
Buck. Johnson announced
"young buck," iv. 158.

as a

Buckles. Mrs. Thrale makes John-

son buy new ones, iii. 38.
Budgell, Eustace, ii. 76.

Buffier, Père, his works recom-
mended, i. 386.

Bumpers, Sir W. Temple drinks his
by proxy, iii. 43.

Bunyan, John, his Pilgrim's Pro-
gress, praised by Johnson, ii. 83.

Burgess ticket, or freedom of Aber-
deen, presented to Johnson, iv. 72.
Burgoyne, General, his surrender,
iii. 66.

Burke, Edmund, his saying that
Johnson's ladies were all "John-
sons in petticoats," i. 176; his
counsel to "live pleasant," 281;
Johnson on, 422; his essay
on the Sublime and Beautiful, i.
485; an extraordinary man, ii.
266, 326, 358; his four folios of
manuscript given to Campbell,
546, 551; his classical pun on
Wilkes being carried by the
mob, iii. 36; joke on Dean Mar-
lay, iii. 201; his fine place, Bea-
consfield, and Johnson's saying
on, iii. 25, n.; was suspected of
being the author of Junius' letters,
85; did not like to live always on
his good behaviour, 86; the only
man whose common conversation
corresponds with the general
fame, 155; "I love to be a boy,"
207; defends Johnson in the mat-
ter of the pension, 403; anecdote
of Burke and Johnson, 408; John-
son's opinion and description of
him, iv. 19, 20, n, 188; he quotes
Cicero in describing Johnson, iii.
453, n.; his appreciation of John-
son, iii. 162; his affectionate re-
spect shown during Johnson's ill-
ness, iii. 482.

Richard, son of Ed. Burke, iii.

322.
Burman, Johnson's account of the
Life of, i. 114.

Burnet's History of his own Times,
entertaining, but the style mere
chitchat, ii. 61, iv. 257.
Burney, Dr., delighted with the
Rambler, writes to Johnson for
six copies of the Dictionary, i.
231; Johnson's letters to, 232,
263, 264; his sketch of Johnson,
265; letter to, 410; Johnson's
sayings reported by, ii. 229; John-
son's opinion of, iii. 76, 296; and
his friend Bewley, 253.

Miss, iii. 325; imitates John-
son's style, 465; Mr. Croker's
treatment of, 526-529.

Burrowes, Dr., Rector of St. Cle-
ment Danes, preaches on evil
speaking, iii. 87.

Burrowes, Dr., Dean of Cork, his
essay on the style of Dr. John-
son, i. 171, n., iii. 461, 462.
Burton's Books, Johnson desires to
possess, iii. 354, n.

Burton, Robert, ii. 259, n.; his
Anatomy of Melancholy, the only
book that ever took Johnson out
of bed two hours sooner than he
wished to rise, i. 513.

Bust of Johnson, by Nollekins, ii.
541, 542, iii. 493; by Bacon, app.
vol. iii.

Butter, Dr., one of the physicians who

attended Johnson, ii. 288; at one
time lived at Derby, 426, 427, n.
Butter, Aberdeen, duel fought in
honour of, iv. 313.

Bute, Earl of, and Johnson's pen-

sion, i. 305; Johnson's letters to,
307, 311; Johnson on his political
character, ii. 182-4, iii. 281, n.
Byng, Admiral, his cause pleaded by
Johnson, i. 253, 254, n. ; Voltaire's
efforts in his behalf, ibid., n.
Byron on Johnson's Vanity of Hu-
man Wishes, i. 148, n. ; on Sheri-
dan doing everything of the best,
ii. 384, n.

Cabbage. Such a woman might be
cut out of a cabbage," iv. 206.
Cabbages. Johnson proposes as
the subject for a poem, ii. 270.
Cadell, Mr., the bookseller, ii. 246,
247.

Cadogan, Dr., on the gout, iv. 184.
Calder, the castle of the Thane of
Cawdor's seat, iv. 97.

Caledonian Mercury, Johnson and
Boswell find a bundle of the, at
Inch-Kenneth, iv. 294.

Called, being, mysterious facts re-
lated, iii. 218.

Caliban, the, of literature, Johnson
is called, i. 518.

Callimachus, a writer of little ex-
cellence, iii. 142.

Cambridge, Johnson with Beau-
clerk visits, i. 399.

Cambridge, Richard Owen, enter-

tains Johnson, Reynolds, &c., at
his beautiful villa on the banks
of the Thames, 189; his library,
ii. 191; fortunate senex, iii. 302.
Camden, Lord, accused by Gold-
smith of neglecting him, iii. 26.
Cameron, Dr. Archibald, executed,
i. 109.

Campbell, Bishop Archibald, on a
middle state, iv. 325, n.; account
of, 326, ii. 543-5-

Rev. Dr., of St. Andrew's, his
MS. essay published by Mr. Innes
as his own, i. 294.

Dr. John, author of Hermip-
pus Redivivus, i. 341, 342, n., ii.
62; not much in his Political
Survey, 264, iv. 294; anecdote of
him and Johnson, 295.

Rev. Dr. Thomas, the Irish
Dr. Campbell, i. 257; comes to
London to see Johnson, ii. 172,
178, 179; strange recovery of his
Diary, 545-51.

Rev. Mr. John, extract from
letter concerning Mr. James
Stuart, i. 435.

Candide, its resemblance to Ras-
selas, i. 278, n. ; has more power
than any other of Voltaire's
writings, iii. 67.

Candour, anecdote exemplifying
Johnson's, iii. 300.

Cant, clear your mind of, iii. 324.

a man who has canted all his
life may cant to the last, ii. 5.
Capability Brown, the gardener, iii.
105.

Capitulate. "I will be conquered, I

will not capitulate," iii. 453.
Card playing, ii. 308, 309; Johnson
wished he had learned, iv. 368.
Careless, Mrs., Johnson's first love,

ii. 275.

Carmichael, Miss, lives in Johnson's
House, ii. 478.

Carte, his Life of Ormond ill
written, iv. 267.

Cartwright, Edmund, letter of Mr.
Griffiths to, ii. 562.

Case for Dr. Johnson's opinion, iii.
98.

Case given by Prince Charles Ed-
ward to Dr. Macleod when he
escaped, iv. 169.

Caste, defended by Johnson, iii.
213.

Castiglione, his excellent book on
good breeding, iv. 247.

Cator, Mr., his seat, Beckenham,
iii. 400.

Cattle, fine, reared by Mr. Taylor,
ii. 415.

Cave, fine, at Rasay, iv. 147; Mac-
kinnon's, i. 302.

Cave, Edward, compiler and editor
of the Gentleman's Magazine, i.
57; Johnson's first publisher, 70,
78, 81; his accounts with Johnson,
99; Johnson's Life of, 205, iii. 36;
Letters to, i. 57, 74, 86, 87, 88,
100, 101, 102-16, 118; Latin
verses to, i. 80.

Certainties, small, the bane of men
of talent, ii. 156.

Chalmers, George, his edition of the
Debates, i. 572.

Cham, Johnson the great, of litera-
ture, i. 285.

Chamberlayne, Mr., a conscientious
pervert, iii. 380.

Chambers, Catherine, maid to John-
son's mother, i. 275; his fare-
well when she was dying, i.
448, n.

Mr., letters to, inquiring about
MSS., i. 220, n.

Sir William, architect, submits
his manuscript to Johnson's cor-
rection, iii. 297.

Chantress, the, Miss Jones, i. 262.
Chapone, Mrs., Johnson's letter to,
respecting Lord Carlisle's tragedy,
iii. 345.

Characters in Ramblers, originals
of, i. 169, n.

of nature and of manners, i.
453-

Charade, composed by Johnson, iii.

301.
Charing Cross, "the full tide of

66

human existence is at," ii. 169.
Charity, Johnson's, ii. 478, iii. 376.
Chatham, Lord, was a Dictator,"
iii. 67; bold speech of, 402.
Chatterton, "a most extraordinary
young man. It is wonderful how
the whelp wrote such things," ii.
330; his forgery, iii. 258.
Chemical experiments, Johnson's,
ii. 10, iii. 103, 336.
Chesterfield, Lord, i. 140; his neg-
lect of Johnson, 207; attempts
to conciliate Johnson, 207, 208;
letter from Johnson to, 209-13;
a wit among lords, 214; his witty
sayings all puns, ii. 59; the great
sale of his "Letters," 161; his
celebrated speeches, i. 574, iii.
63; copy of the famous letter
to, given by Johnson to Boswell,
iii. 246.

Childhood, Johnson's reminiscences
of, i. 540.

Children should not be intruded on
company, ii. 313, 396, n.; John-
son's love for, iii. 303.

China, Du Halde's, extracts from,
for the Gentleman's Magazine, i.

100.

Cholmondeley, Mr., Mrs. Piozzi's
story of Johnson's rudeness to, iii.
424.

Mrs., iii. 33.
Christ Church meadows, Johnson
slides in, i. 218.

Christ, satisfaction of, discussed, iv.
70.

Chronicle, The London, Johnson

writes Introduction to, i. 257.
Churchill's poetry depreciated by
Johnson, i. 343.

Cibber, Colley, account of, i. 328,
n.; his Apology, praised by John-
son as very entertaining," 487;
Johnson's contempt for, ii. 170,
348, 445.

Cibber, Mrs., a fine actress, iv. 103.
Cibber's Lives of the Poets, com-
piled by Shiels, ii. 314, 560-2.
Clarke, Dr., his sermons good in
style, but not orthodox, ii. 500.

Clarendon Press, the origin of, ii.
244, 245, n.

Classics, Addison's quotations from,
ii. 175.

Churton, Rev. Mr., on the burial
service, iii. 317; note on Bos-
well's work, 530 app.

Claret, Johnson writes a petition to
Dean Barnard for another hogs-
head of claret for the Club, ii. 492.
Clarissa, Richardson's, i. 547; wants
an index, 548.

Clennard, Nicholas, traveller and
linguist, iii. 156.

Clergy, Scotch and English com-
pared, iv. 226.

Clergyman, letter to a young, iii.
135-7; Johnson's ideas of pro-
priety in, iii. 204.

Addison's portrait of, in Spec-
tator, iii. 204; Johnson's portrait
of, iii. 205.

Climate, a small element in happi-
ness, ii. 45.

Clive, Lord, his character, iii. 47,
63.

Mrs., and Johnson, iii. 146;
the best actress Johnson ever
saw, iv. 103.

Club, a, Johnson's definition of, iii.
353; Blue Stocking, origin of the
title, iii. 229; Ivy Lane, instituted,
i. 146; dinner of four surviving
members, iii. 350, n.; The, after-
wards the Literary Club, i. 391,
422, 577; explosion at, ii. 177,
529; number of members increased
from twenty to thirty, 375; John-
son and Beauclerk's altercation at,
iii. 90-2; at the Essex Head, in-
stituted by Johnson, iii. 351; the
Boar's Head, in Eastcheap, iv.
221; the Queen's Arms, St.
Paul's Churchyard, iii. 212; in
Old Street, iii. 296; the Eume-
lian, iii. 470; the Franciscans, i.
90.
Clubbable man, Johnson called
Boswell a very, iii. 352.
Coat, Goldsmith's bloom-coloured,
i. 481.

Cocker's Arithmetic, Johnson pre-
sents a copy of, to a young girl in
the Highlands, iv. 113.

Communion, the, of Saints, iii. 382.
Compiègne, ii. 224.
Composition, Johnson's extraordi-
nary powers of, i. 576, ii. 340;
advice respecting, iv. 51.
Compton, Rev. James, Malone's
note on, iii. 524.
Concoction, the, of a play, ii. 510.
Condescension betrays a man into
absurdity, iii. 143.

Condolence, Johnson's letter of, to
Mrs. Thrale, ii. 559.
Confession, Johnson on, i. 499.
Congratulations received by John-
son on his return from the tour,
iv. 358.

Congreve, Charles, i. 19; always
muddy, ii. 275-

W., the poet, his fine passage
in the Mourning Bride, i. 482,
483, ii. 275, 448.

Connor, Charles O', letters from
Johnson to, i. 260, ii. 380, and
appendix.

Content, Johnson said no one is,
ii. 494

Contractions, Johnson's, of his
friends' names, ii. 100, iv. 280.
Conversation and talk compared,
iii. 296; Johnson's, i. 5-8, iii. 279,
294; described by Mr. Orme, iii.
3, 232; Burke's great excellence
in, iii. 155; between George III.
and Johnson published, i. 442, n. ;

the happiest when it is a quiet
interchange of sentiments, ii. 186.
Conversion from Popery to Protes-
tantism, i. 499, 500.

Convocation, Johnson advocates its
restoration, i. 380, 381.
Convents, valuable as retreats, i.
417, ii. 254, 255, iv. 47, 48.
Cook, Captain, his accuracy of
statement, ii. 295; his voyages
published, iii. 396.

Cooke, T., the translator of Hesiod
who lived twenty years on a trans-
lation of Plautus, iv. 24.
Cookery, good, the importance of,
iii. 4.

Cooper, John Gilbert, called Johnson
Caliban, and was called by him
Punchinello, i. 518; tells a good
story of Johnson about the autho-
rities cited in the Dictionary, iii.
144.

Coote, Sir Eyre, entertains Johnson
at Fort George, iv. 101, 102.
Copy-money in Italy, first received
by Baretti, ii. 426.

Copyright, i. 359, iv. 56.

Cordonnier, Hyacinthe de, author
of Prince Titi, ii. 553-5-

Corelli, the singer, came to England
to see Purcell, ii. 172.

Coriat, Tom, the traveller and
humourist, ii. 28, n.
Corichatachan, agreeable stay at,
iv. 132.

Cork, Earl of, described, i. 519, ii.

444.

Corn laws. "Would you prevent any
people from feeding themselves if
by any honest means they can do
it?" i. 520.

Corneille and Shakespeare may be
compared, iii. 153.

Cornish drink called Mahogany,
iii. 206, 207.

Corsica, account of, by Boswell, i.
451; Gray's opinion of, i. 451, n.,
469.
Cortegiano, Il, the best book that
ever was written on good breed-
ing, iv. 247.

Corycius Senex, Virgil's saying of,
applied to Burke, iii. 285.
Cotterell, the Misses, visited by