such good spirits, ii. 511, iii. 21;
anecdote of, 421.
Hanway, Mr. Jonas, his Essay on
Tea, i. 252, 253; his travels, and
Eight Days' Journey from Lon-
don to Portsmouth, i. 514.
Happiness, i. 416; nothing gives so
much happiness as a good inn,
ii. 267; Johnson persists that no
one is happy in the present, but
only in hope for the future, 179,
180, n.; degrees of, in a future
state, iii. 7.

Hard riding of Johnson, iv. 227, n.
Hardyknute, the ballad of, i. 486.
Harrington, Dr., author of the "
very
pretty book" Nuga Antiquæ, iii.

291.

Harris, the island of, oppression
practised there, iv. 203, n.

Mr. James, "an eminent Gre-
cian," ii. 72, n., 382-4, iv. 345.
Harrison, Elizabeth, her miscel-
lanies reviewed by Johnson, i.
252.

Harry, Miss, the proselyte to Qua-
kerism, iii. 14.

Harte, Walter, the historian of Gus-

tavus Adolphus, commended by
Johnson, i. 512, iii. 414.
Harwood, Dr., publishes a transla-

tion of the New Testament with
a Socinian twist, ii. 320.
Harwich, Johnson accompanies
Boswell to, when starting on his
travels, 381-7.

from

Hastie, the schoolmaster, defended
by Boswell, ii. 36.
Hastings, Warren, iii. 194; letter
from, to Boswell, 195;
Johnson to Hastings, 196-8.
Hawkins, Mr., afterwards Sir John,
his memoirs of Johnson described
by Boswell, i. 2, 3; one of the
Ivy Lane Club, i. 146; an un-
clubbable man, 392; his preju-
diced view of Johnson's character
and conduct, iii. 449, 450.

Johnson's schoolmaster, i. 543.
Mr., author of Siege of Aleppo,
anecdote of, ii. 510.
Hawkesworth, the author of some
pieces attributed to Johnson, i.
136; imitates Johnson's style,

185, 200; his Voyages to the
South Sea, ii. 92.
Hawthornden visited, iv. 366, 367.
Hay, Lord Charles, iii. 158.

John, one of the Highland
guides, iv. 108, 113, 120.
Hearth-brush, Dr. Burney's joke
with Bewley about, iii. 253, n.
Heath, Dr. Benjamin, his library,
iii. 201.

the Witches', of Macbeth, iv. 94.
Heberden, Dr., sent for to attend
Johnson, iii. 330.

Hebrides, Tour to the, pleasant me-
mories of, iii. 305.

Johnson and Boswell deter-
mine to visit the, i. 368, 455,
iv. 1; Johnson's account of his
journey to, published, ii. 137-
144.

Hector, Edmund, Johnson's school-
fellow and friend, i. 12, 51, 52, 53,
60; letter from, 60, 569; John-
son and Boswell visit, ii. 270; he
gives Boswell many particulars
of Johnson's early life, 275; John-
son travels to see him, iii. 254;
he sends Johnson the same notes
he afterwards gave to Boswell,
454, n.; Johnson's last letter to,
456.

Hedge Lane, Charing Cross, iii. 37.
Heely, Mr. and Mrs., i. 436, 437, iii.

449.

Hell, Virgil's description of the en-
trance to, applied by Johnson to
the press, iv. 282.

Henderson, Mr., the actor, visits
Johnson, iii. 343, n.

Mr. John, student of Pem-
broke College, iii. 389, n.
Henry, Robert, D.D., his History
of Great Britain, iii. 46, n.
Hermes, by Mr. Harris, iv. 345.
Hermippus Redivivus, by Cohau-
sen, translated by Dr. John
Campbell, i. 341, n.

Hermit, Beattie's poem of, its
pathos, iii. 296.

Johnson's fancy for the life of
a, iv. 47.

Heroic Epistle, The, by Mason, iii.

401, n.

Hertford, Lord, applied to by John-

son for rooms in Hampton Court,
ii. 316; his answer, 317, n.
Hervey, Hon. Henry, Johnson's
love for, i. 72, 73.

Thomas, i. 438; ii. 171.

Miss E., Johnson's admiration
of, iii. 134, n.

Hickey, Thomas, portrait painter,
ii. 170.

Hickman, Miss, i. 58.

Gregory, i. 58, n., 546.
Hierarchy, Johnson's reverence for
the, ii. 405, iii. 203, 204.
Highland conviviality, iv. 132.
Highlanders, liked Johnson's "Jour-
ney," better than the low-country
Scots, ii. 145.

Hill, Dr., discussed in the conver-
sation between the King and
Johnson, i. 444, 445, n.

Hill, Dr. Birkbeck, his work on
Johnson, his Friends and Critics,
i. 572.

Historian, requisites for the, 348.
History, very little real and authen-
tic, ii. 192; English would be
thought as improbable as Jewish
history, if told as shortly, iv. 310.
Hoadly, Dr. Benjamin, writes the
play of The Suspicious Husband,
i. 454, n.

Hodge, Johnson's cat, iii. 303.
Hogshead of sense, Johnson called
a, iv. 311.

Hogarth, his account of first seeing
Johnson, i. 108, 110; Garrick's
epitaph on, corrected by Johnson,
567.

Holbrook, Mr., one of Johnson's
teachers at school, i. 19, 543.
Holidays, observed by the Church,

Horace, translations of, i. 25:
quoted, 173; Francis' transla-
tion, iii. 67.

Horne, Dr., Johnson wishes him to
edit Walton's Lives, ii. 263; his
paper on the character of John-
son, iii. 499.

Hoole, John, ii. 128; Johnson in-
troduces him to Warren Hast-
ings, iii. 198; his regular educa-
tion in Grub Street, 296; his
journal kept while attending John-
son in his last illness, iii. 546.
Hornecks, Miss, friends of Gold-
smith, i. 338, n.

Horrebow's History of Iceland, and
the chapter on snakes, ii. 5.
Hospitality, ii. 21; is there much in
London? 68, iii. 154, 324.

Hope, Dr. John, Johnson's com-
panion as far as Newcastle in
his return journey to London, iv.
368; gives his advice in John-
son's illness, iii. 359.

House of Commons, ii. 488, 489, iii.

I12.

Hovel, wretched, near Loch Ness,
iv. 109.

66

Hottentot, the respectable, sup-
posed to allude to Johnson, i. 215;
shown to be improbable, 215, n.
Huddesford, Rev. Dr., Johnson's
letter of thanks to, i. 226.
Hudibras, Johnson's copy of, i. 145;
a great deal of bullion in it,” iì.
195, 196.
Hume, David, his style, i. 360;
his infidelity, ii. 418; his sup-
pressed article on Henry's his-
tory, iii. 46, n.; his house in Edin-
burgh the house in which Johnson
stayed on his first arrival in Scot-
land, iv. 10, n.; Johnson's opinion
of, 17; Adam Smith describes his
admirable character, 18.
Humour, bad or good, depends on
will, iii. 48.

Humphry, Ozias, letter to, regarding
a young painter, iii. 363, n.
Hunter, Mr., Johnson's master at
Lichfield, i. 18, 19, 20.

Hunting, Johnson fond of, iv. 227.
Hurd, Dr., Bishop of Worcester,
iii. 298.

Hurlothrumbo, by S. Johnson, from
Cheshire, iv. 266, 267, n.
Husbands,his miscellany containing
Johnson's translation of Pope's
Messiah, i. 34.

Hussey, Rev. Thomas, D.D., a
Catholic friend of Johnson's, iii.
485.

Mr. John, letter to, iii. 79.
Hutcheson's Moral Philosophy, ar-
gument on the misery of the
brute creation, ii. 331.
Hutton, his excellent History of
Derby, ii. 428.

Hyacinthe de Themiseul, account
of, ii. 553-558.
Hypochondria, Johnson

suffers

from, i. 35-38, 395, ii. 452.
Hypochondriack, The, seventy
essays in the London Magazine,
by Boswell, i. 38, iii. 291.
Hypocrite. "No man is a hypocrite
in his pleasures," iii. 402; the
character of the, in Cibber's play,
not so applicable to the Metho-
dists as to the Nonjurors, ii.
154.

Iceland, Horrebow's History of,
and the chapter on snakes, ii. 527.
Icolmkill, Iona, visited, iv. 305-8;
cathedral at, 306.

Idea, Johnson's indignation against
the misuse of the word, ii, 456.
Idleness, a disease, i. 351.
Idler, The, essays in, i. 266; written
hastily, 267-81; account with New-
bery respecting, 183, n.

Idle. "If you are idle be not solitary,
if you are solitary be not idle," iii.

Immortality, the belief in, universal,
ii. 186.

Impressions, some not to be trusted,
iii. 241.

Improvisation, Johnson's power of,
ii. 232.
Impudence, difference between
Irish and Scotch, ii. 143.
Incomes of the clergy, ii. 405.
Inchkenneth, Scott's note describ-
ing, iv. 293; a happy Sunday
there, 296; ruined chapel of,
298.

Inch Keith visited, iv. 104.
Index, Johnson advises Richardson
to add one to Clarissa, i. app.
548.

maker, the, who enraged John-
son, iii. 409.

India, ten thousand pounds in Eng-
land better than twenty thousand
pounds in, iii. 105.

Indolence, resolution to struggle
against, i. 44.

Infancy, Johnson's, i. 14, 538,
539.
Inheritance, the question of, con-
sidered, ii. 234-43.

Innovation, the age running mad
after, iii. 297.

Inn, Shenstone's lines on an, quoted
with much feeling by Johnson, ii.
268.
Insanity dreaded by Johnson, i. 37,
38, ii. 437, 438.

observations on, by Dr. Arnold,
M.D., ii. 438.
Inscription, on Johnson's watch, i.
461, n.; placed by Beauclerk on
Johnson's portrait, iii. 292.
Interview of Johnson with the King,
i. 440-6.

Interest on money, rate of, explained,
iii. 53, n.

Invasion panic in 1778, iii. 39,

40.
Inverary, Castle of, account of visit
at, iv. 323-8.

Inverness, reached, iv. 104.
Ireland, of old the seat of piety and
learning, i. 260; Johnson's regard
for, iii. 113; Johnson's warning
against the Union, 113.
Irene, tragedy of, i. 68, 73, 74-7,

78, 113; sketch of preserved by
Langton, 75; brought out by Gar-
rick at Drury Lane, 151; Epilogue
to, by Sir W. Yonge, 152; charac-
ter of, 152, 153; acted only nine
nights, 152, n.; Aaron Hill's de-
scription of, 153, n.

Isa, the little island on Loch Dun-
vegan offered by Macleod to John-
son, iv. 223.

Italian, Johnson purposes to apply
vigorously to the study of, ii. 362.
Ivy Lane Club, instituted, i. 146;
dinner of its surviving members,
iii. 350, n.

Jackson, Harry, Johnson's friend,
ii. 399.

Mr., the all-knowing, ii. 305;
commends the sensible remarks
on trade in Johnson's "Journey,"
ii. 405.

James, Dr., i. 120; his death, ii. 292.
Jacobitism, i. 352.

Jennings, Mr., the well-known col-
lector of antiques, ii. 485, 486.
Jenyns, Soame, his Inquiry into
the Origin of Evil, i. 254, 255; his
Evidences of the Christian Re-
ligion, iii. 7; his epitaph on John-
son and Johnson's retaliation, i.
255, 256.

Jodrell, Mr., a member of the Essex
Street Club, iii. 367.
Johnson, Michael, Johnson's father,
i. 9-12, ii. 156; books published
by, iii. 452, n.; epitaph on, 469.
Sarah, Johnson's mother, i. 9-
12, 274-7.

Nathaniel, Johnson's brother,
i. 56, n.

Thomas, a poor relation whom
Johnson assists, ii. 533.

Elizabeth, Johnson's wife, i.
61-4; Garrick's mimicry of her,
66; death of, 185-187.

Charles, author of Adventures
of a Guinea, iv. 246, n.

Samuel, Librarian of St. Mar-
tin-in-the-Fields, i. 99.

S., from Cheshire, the author
of Hurlo Thrumbo, iv. 266, 267, n.
- W. S., of Connecticut, John-
son's letter to, app. ii. 531.

JOHNSON, SAMUEL, his character
described by Boswell, iv. 6; his
abhorrence of affectation, iii.
162; bow-wow way of speaking,
ii. 158, n.; courage, ii. 136, 137;
candour and amiability, iii. 300;
charity, ii. 478, iii. 376; conver-
sation, i. 5-8, iii. 3, 232, 279, 294;
dexterity at retort, iii. 295; dress,
iv. 7; in Paris, ii. 226, n.; dread
of death, i. 500, iii. 12, 371, 390;
extraordinary fertility of mind, i
160; fondness for children and
animals, iii. 300-3; gesticulations,
ii. 158; good humour, ii. 190; in-
sensibility to music and painting,
i. 297, 298, ii. 230, 231; kindness
to servants, iii. 303; love of late
hours, ii. 462, n.; laugh, ii. 104,
202, iv. 224; melancholy, i. 35,
242, 366, ii. 258, 437, 438, iv. 189;
his powerful memory, iii. 151, iv.
336; prejudice against Scotland,
iii. 281, iv. 8; his power of rapid
composition, i. 147, 156, ii. 340, n.,
iv. 52; style of writing, i. 170-
177; superstition (alleged), i. 396;
tenderness, i. 274, 449, iii. 406;
unjust contempt for foreigners,
iii. 152.

Johnsoniana, or Bon-mots of Dr.
Johnson, ii. 252; sells well, iii.

39.
Johnstone, Arthur, i. 377, n.; John-
son desires to have a bust of him
to place in his room, iii. 360; his
poems vainly sought at Aberdeen,
iv. 76.

Sir James, his conversation
with Johnson regarding the argu-
ments of paid counsel at the bar,
iii. 374.

Joke, the lady who had no notion of
a, and had a mighty unpliable
understanding, iv. 267.

Jones, Miss, the Chantress, i. 261, n.

1 The leading events of his life
will be found in their natural se-
quence in the Contents to each
volume, as well as all the chief
points of his character, manners,
and habits, of which therefore but
few are repeated here.

Jorden, Mr., Johnson's tutor at col-

lege, i. 32.

Jortin, his sermons, commended as
elegant, ii. 500.

Journal, Boswell's, shown to John-

son, iv. 202; advantages of keep-
ing, i. 355, ii. 185, iii. 288; John-
son attempts to keep one, but
cannot persevere, ii. 63: Swift's
Journal to Stella disparaged, 289.
Journal des Savans, Johnson's and
Gibbon's opinion of, i. 445, n.
Journey to the Western Islands,
Johnson's, ii. 129, 137, 138; the
cavillings against, excited John-
son's contempt, 144.

Judges must not engage in trade, ii.
172.

Judgment takes the place of ad-
miration as men advance in years,
ii. 187.

Julius Cæsar, an egotist of the first-
class, ii. 434.

Junius, the letters of, iii. 85.
Juvenal, imitation of tenth satire by
Johnson, iii. 68, n.; Johnson
quotes, iv. 330.

Kenrick, Dr. William, attacks John-
son's Shakespeare, i. 408, 463.
Kerr, Mr. James, iv. 26.
Kilda, St., i. 455. 456, ii. 4 ; Kenneth
Macaulay's history of, ii. 5; every-
one catches cold when strangers
arrive at, iv. 249.

King, Dr., i. 225, n.; brings John-
son the diploma, 225.

Kingsburgh and Flora Macdonald,
iv. 159.

Kippis, Dr., heard Johnson speak
on mechanics, i. 529; edited the
'Biographia Britannica,' ii. 436,
437, n.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, story of, ii.

491.

Knox, John, Johnson's indignation
at his reformations, iv. 47.

Rev. Mr., an imitator of John-
son, iii. 466.

Mr. John, the bookseller, his
remarks on Johnson's Journey,
ii. 140.

Knolles' History of the Turks, i. 68.
Knowles, Mrs., the Quaker lady, ii.
351; who worked "sutile pic-
tures," 352, iii. 3, 6, 8, 12, 15, 16, n.
Kristrom, Mr., a Swede, ii. 10.

Labefactation, the, of principles, ii.

193.

Lade, Sir John. Johnson's verses
on his coming of age, iii. 486.
Ladies, "timorous but not cautious,"
i. 560; Johnson very agreeable to
them, iii. 202; Burke's saying
that Johnson's ladies were John-
sons in petticoats, i. 176.
Laird, Boswell becomes a, iii. 278.
Lamps, Johnson's delight at arriving

within the focus of, ii. 276.
Land, property in, ii. 237 and foll.
Landlords, i. 496, ii. 170, iii. 278,
iv. 265, 276.

Langton, Bennet, Johnson's much
valued friend, i. 195, n. ; Johnson
proud of Langton's old family,
196; letters to, 233, 262, 270, 271-
4, 291, 421, 423, 450, 525, ii. 120;
"earth does not bear a worthier
man," 425; he endeavours to
economise, iii. 73; his collection
of Johnson's sayings, 141 and foll.;