Moor Park and the Temple of the Winds, iii. 83. More, Miss Hannah, ii. 511, iii. 11, 421; her poem the Bas-bleu, iii. 229.
Morgan, Maurice, supplied two anecdotes of Johnson to Boswell, iii. 300.
Morris, Miss, her beautiful portrait by Reynolds, as Hope nursing Love, iii. 490. Motion, the, a caricature of Wal- pole, iv. 256, n.
Mounsey, Dr. Messenger, i. 465. Mourning, Johnson's anxiety to be suitably dressed in, iii. 408. Mudge, Dr. Zachariah, Prebendary of Exeter, a man idolized in the West, i. 309.
Dr., son of the preceding, entertains Johnson and Reynolds at Plymouth, i. 309. Mull, cave
on the coast of, iv.
303. Munificence of persons accustomed to the handling of large sums of money, iii. 144. Murphy, Mr., commencement of acquaintance with Johnson, i. 290, 291, n.; introduces Johnson to the Thrales, 405, 517; his essay on Johnson quoted, 576. Musgrave, Dr., reads a poem to Johnson, iii. 32, 33.
Music, the effect of, owing to asso- ciation of ideas, ii. 457; Johnson has no taste for, but likes the bagpipes, iv. 285.
Mylne, Mr., the architect, i. 286. Myrtle, verses on receiving a sprig of, i. 59.
Nairn, "a miserable place," iv. 96. Nairne, Mr., Advocate, afterwards
Lord Dunsinane, handsome com- pliment paid to him in the
Nap. "I never take a nap after dinner, but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me," ii. 229.
Nares, Rev. Mr., is said to have imitated Johnson's style, iii. 466. Narrow. "A mind as narrow as the
Navigation in coast waters, im-
portance of in Arctic regions, iv. 211, n.
Nelson's Festivals and Fasts-its enormous sale, ii. 274.
New Testament, translation of into Erse, chiefly owing to Johnson's influence, iv. 338; the most diffi- cult book in the world, for which the study of a life is required, iii. 15. Ness Loch, beauty of, iv. 108. Newspapers, knowledge diffused by, ii. 24.
Negotiation, the "pious," to en- able Johnson to travel for his health, iii. 427.
Newton, Sir Isaac, i. 516; if he had applied to poetry, would have made a fine epic poem, iv. 22. Nichols, Mr., printer of The Lives of the Poets, letters to, from Johnson, iii. 170, 447; Johnson's letters to, a few days before his death, 459, n.; gives Boswell par- ticulars of Johnson's last illness, 482-4.
Nichols, Dr., turned out to make
way for a Scotchman, ii. 183. Night Thoughts, Young's, iii. 190-91. Nil admirari, discussed, ii. 187. Noblesse, the old, anecdote of, iv. 86.
Notes. All works describing man- ners require notes, in time, ii. 60. Nollekens, his bust of Johnson, ii. 541; iii. 493, n. Nonjurors, the, Johnson said he never knew a nonjuror who could reason, ii. 154; ridiculed in the "Hypocrite,” iii. 379, 380. Norton, Sir Fletcher, an instance of the power of application to one object, ii. 287.
Nowell, Dr., and his political ser- mon, iii. 387.
Nugæ Antiquæ, by Dr. Harrington, commended as 66 a very pretty work," iii. 291.
Oak stick, Johnson's, iv. 7; Homeric, 64; lost, or, as Johnson said, stolen as timber, 289.
Oat cakes of graddaned meal, iv.
Oban, Johnson reaches, iv. 314. Observance, general, Johnson's re- gard for, iii. 409.
O'Connor, Charles, Johnson's fine letter to, on Irish literature, i. 260; second letter to, ii. 380, n., 381, n., and Johnson's relations with, 566. Occupation, necessary to happiness, ii. 441; hereditary customary in the Highlands, iv. 98. Odd, nothing, will last long, ii. 266. Oddity, Johnson so called by the jolly landlord of the Edenser Inn, ii. 465.
Ode, on the Isle of Sky, iv. 130; to Mrs. Thrale, iv. 132, 133; on Inch Kenneth, 296, n. Odes, Mr. Cumberland's, ii. 324; Gray's, iii. 150.
Ofella, Johnson's, in the art of living in London, i. 71.
Ogden, Boswell's favourite preacher, his Sermons on Prayer, ii. 500,
iv. 319. Oglethorpe, General, one of the earliest admirers of Johnson's "London," i. 91, 92; dinner at his house defends duelling, ii. 31, 32; tells an anecdote of his evading a duel, 33; dinners at his house, 78, 179; never com- pletes what he has to say, 334; his vivacity made his conversa- tion seem desultory, ibid. Old age, not necessarily a time of insensibility, ii. 506; serene and solemn, iii. 50.
Old man, Johnson hopes there is nothing of the, in his conversa- tion, iii. 49.
Old men should take heed of put- ting themselves out to nurse, ii. 288.
Old families disinterestedly re- spected by Johnson, ii. 7. Oldham, John, his satires, i. 83. Oldys, William, selects the pam- phlets in Harleian Miscellany, i. 134.
Oliver, Dame, teaches Johnson to read, i. 18.
Olla Podrida contains an excellent paper on Johnson, iii. 499. Omai, the gentlemanlike savage, ii. 296.
Opiates, Johnson refuses, iii. 487. Oratory is, Johnson says, the power of beating your adversary, iii. 225. Orchards, Johnson and Boswell discourse on, iii, 311.
Orde, Lord Chief Baron, iv. 16. Oriental gardening, account of, by Sir Wm. Chambers, iv. 160. Origin of Evil, inquiry into by Soame Jenyns, admirably re- viewed by Johnson, i, 254; John- son discourses on, iv. 334. Original sin, Johnson discourses on, iii. 242.
Orme, Robert, the historian, saying regarding Johnson's "Journey," ii. 138; his high commendation of Johnson, iii. 3. Osborne, the bookseller, beaten by Johnson, i. 115.
Ossian, pretended translation of, i. 323, ii. 138, 139; Boswell takes it up, 146.
Othello, the great defect of the tragedy of, ii. 321.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, tragedy of, by Savage, ii. 383. Oxford, Johnson at the University of, i. 32, 48; compelled to leave, 46; visits, 216, 218, 220, 284, 451; Boswell follows Johnson to, 452 ; Johnson's scheme for literary work at, 550; Johnson's length of residence at, considered, 569 and foll.; Johnson visits with Boswell, ii. 258, 266; visits again, iii. 376, 398; visits for the last time, 454
Paley, Archdeacon, on submission to government, iv. 171, 178; on the Christian revelation, 178, n. Palmer, Rev. Mr. John, his answer to Priestly, iii. 10.
Rev. Thomas Fysche, a here- tical teacher, iii. 243, n. Palmerino, Il, d'Inghilterra, an Italian romance praised by Cer- vantes, studied by Johnson forthe language, ii. 290.
Palsy, Johnson smitten with, iii. 329. Pamphlet, a, may be prose or poetry, iii. 33. Pamphlets, Johnson's, The False Alarm, i. 504; The Falkland Islands, 524; The Patriot, ii. 124; Taxation no Tyranny, 147; collected into a volume called Political Tracts, 150. Panchoucke, C. J., celebrated
French publisher, i. 233, n. Panegyric, not a life, ii. 419. Pantheon, the, Johnson and Boswell visit, ii. 23, n.
Paoli, Gen., i. 472, 'presented to Johnson, 478, 480; entertains Johnson and Boswell at dinner, ii. 19, 67, 102, 316, iii. 37, 412. Papers, relating to Johnson, burned in Scotland, iii. 73, n. Paradise, John, i. 36, iii. 443. Parenthesis, Johnson disapproves of, iii. 298.
Paris, Johnson's visit to, ii. 212 and foll.; his journal kept during that visit, ibid.
Parker, Mr. Sackville, bookseller, Oxford, Johnson's visit to, iii. 395.
Parliament, i. 526, 527, n.; is a large council to the king, ii. 184; John- son denied the corruption of, 463. House, Edinburgh, visited by Johnson, iv. 26, n. Parliamentary Journals first con- sulted by Guthrie, i. 82.
oratory discussed, ii. 488.
debates, Johnson's, i. 81, 112, 113, 572 and foll.
Parnell, observations on John- son's Life of, iii. 185; Johnson's epitaph on, 185.
Parr, Dr., his conversation pleased Johnson, iii. 152; his saying when Johnson died, iii. 494.
Party, is it to be followed, right or wrong, ii. 70.
Passions, the purging of the, the purpose of tragedy, ii. 320. Paternoster, an Italian inquires, who is the author of, iv. 99. Paterson, Mr. Samuel, ii. 28; his son recommended by Johnson to Ozias Humphry, 362, iii. 364.
Patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel, ii. 177.
Patronage, obsolete, iv. 45, iii. 284. lay, Johnson's argument for, ii. 87, 90.
Patten, Dr. Thomas, Johnson's letter to, iii. 277, 510.
Payments for literary work, i. 99, 117; for Dictionary, 140; for the poem London, 147; for Vanity of Human Wishes, 147, n.; for Irene, 152; for Dictionary, 246; for Lives of the Poets, ii. 380, iii. 169, n.
Payne, Mr. William, publishes a book on the game of draughts, with dedication by Johnson, i. 256.
Pearce, Dr., Bishop of Rochester, sends Johnson twenty etymologies for his Dictionary, i. 238; John- son's dedication of his posthu- mous works to the King, ii. 382. Pearson, Rev. Mr., Lucy Porter compares his manner of speak- ing with Johnson's, ii. 286, n. Peculiarities should be mentioned in writing a man's life, ii. 419. Peers, House of, has made noble stands, iv. 81.
Peiresc, his death lamented in forty languages, ii. 197, n. Pembroke College, Johnson enters at, i. 32; his love for, 44; eminent men educated at, 45; visits, 218. Pembroke, Lord, cleverly describes Johnson's bow wow manner, ii. 158, n., iv. 107.
Penance, Johnson's act of at Ut- toxeter, iii. 451.
Pennant, Mr., iv. 132, 195; his de- scription of Johnson, ii. 523. Pension, Johnson's granted by George III., i. 305; reflections to his prejudice on account of, 351, n.; his thankfulness for, iii. 235.
Pensées de Pascal, Johnson pre- sents to Boswell, iii. 87. Penurious gentleman, a, described, ii. 321.
Pepys, W. W., iii. 209. Percy, Dr., Bishop of Dromore, i. 22; Johnson visits, 398; dines
with Boswell to meet Johnson, | 464; Johnson's fun about his poetry, ii. 270, 422; Johnson and Boswell dine with, 519; John- son's altercation with, 520-522, 524, 526; Johnson describes his 66 stream of anecdotes," iv. 228. Peregrinity, a word coined by John- son, iv. 107.
Perkins, Mr., the brewer, letters to, ii. 125.
Petrarch, Johnson reads when a boy,
Peterborough, Lord, best account of, in Carleton's Memoirs, iii. 414.
Peyton, Mr., one of Johnson's ama-
nuenses, his death, ii. 10, n. Philips, a musician, beautiful epi- taph on, i. 110, III.
Philidor, Andrew, the chess player, iii. 82.
Philosophers, the ancient, argued calmly because they were not particularly interested in the truth of their theories, ii. 297. Philosophical Survey of Ireland, Campbell's, ii. 169. Physicians, the most eminent, kindly attend on Johnson, iii. 474. Piazzas, the, in Elgin, iv. 93. Picture, The, Massinger's play, re-
fined sentiments in, iii. 110. Pilgrim's Progress praised, ii. 83. Pillow. "That will do all that a pillow can do," iii. 485. Piozzi, Mrs., her British Synonymy, iii. 486; her Anecdotes of John- son criticised by Boswell, i. 40, iii. 421.
Poetry. "What is poetry," ii. 320. Polemomiddinia, the, of Drummond of Hawthornden, iii. 3. Politian, Latin poems of, proposal to translate, i. 56. Political tracts, collected, ii. 150. Political character, Johnson's, i. 250, ii. 66.
Politics, modern, devoid of principle, ii. 195.
Politeness enjoined, iv. 64.
Polite man, Johnson thinks himself a very, iv. 331.
Pope, Alexander, his Messiah translated into Latin by John- son, i. 34; endeavours to find out Johnson after the publication of
London,' 92; paper sparing, 106;his note about Johnson, 107; his Homer the greatest work of the kind, ii. 508; Johnson on, iii. 45, 60; observations on Life of, 178, 183.
Porter, Mrs., afterwards Mrs. John- son, i. 61, 62.
Mrs. Lucy, i. 14, 15, 56 ; letters to, 275-277, 547, 551, 552, 556- 558, 561, 563, 566; ii. 210, 211; Johnson and Boswell visit, ii. 277.
Port wine, the fitting beverage for men, iii. 88.
Portraits, Johnson on, iv. 193, 194; of Johnson, the first by Reynolds, afterwards given to Boswell, i. 320; one given to Lucy Porter, 530, n.; much admired, 531, iii. 493; note in app. vol. iii. Post-chaise, Johnson's favourite vehicle, ii. 292, 425; in, he travels to Scotland, iv. 5. Potentiality. Johnson at the sale of Thrale's brewery, says he is there to sell the potentiality of grow- ing rich, iii. 212.
Potted stories, an author that lived on, ii. 322.
Poverty, Johnson's, i. 45-7; evils of, 362; by all virtuous means to be avoided, iii. 268.
Praise, exaggerated, effects of, iii. 209.
Prayer, Abernethy's theory con- cerning, iv. 53, n.; on death of
his wife, i. 186; Johnson's, before the study of Law, 401; forms of, iii. 385.
Prayers and Meditations quoted, i. 64, 187, 189, 245, 275, 289, 394, 532, ii. 41, 98, 362, 369, 378, iii. 18, 139, 253, 254, 256, 260, 274; pub- lished by Strahan, 455, 555. Prefaces written by Johnson, to Lobo's Abyssinia, i. 54; to Life of Father Paul, 103; to Gent.'s Mag., 110, 111; to the Harleian Misc., 134; toa System of Ancient Geography, 144; to Mr. Dodsley's Preceptor, 146; to Dictionary, 237; to Introduction to the Game of Draughts, 256; to Rolt's Dic- tionary of Trade and Commerce, 293; to Baretti's Easy Lessons in Italian and English, ii. 128. Prejudice, Johnson's, against Scot- land, iv. 8.
Prendergast, Sir Thomas, foretells his death, ii. 35, 36, n. Pretender, the Young, and Flora Macdonald, iv. 159; account of the Prince's escape, 161, 173; the history should be written, iv. 358, n. Prince of Wales, his the happiest position, iii. 292; anecdote of Frederick, iv. 162, n.
Principles and practice often differ,
Propitiation, the peculiar doctrine of Christianity, iii. 243.
Proselytes, Johnson's horrorof, iii.15. Pronunciation, ii. 15, 16; peculiari- ties of Johnson's, 456.
Psalmanazar, George, greatly re- spected by Johnson, iii. 29, n., 368.
Public virtue, by Dodsley, a poem in "fine blank," iii. 156. Pudding, Meditation on a, John- son's burlesque, iv. 321. Pulpit, liberty of the, ii. 336, 340. Pulteney, "a Whig who pretended to be honest," iv. 309. Purgatory, Johnson on, i. 498. Purging the passions, Aristotle's doctrine of, discussed, ii. 320. Purley, The Diversions of, iii. 65, 66, n.
Punch bowl, Sir Alexander Mac- donald's handsome but empty, iv. 124, n.
Puns, Johnson's contempt for, ii. 85, 86.
Quakers, Johnson likes individuals but not the sect, ii. 273. Quarrels, the danger and responsi- bility of those who provoke them, ii. 446.
Quality, women of, iii. 65. Queen's Arms Club, the members not to be "patriots,” iii. 212. Quern for grinding wheat used, iv. 230.
Questioning, not the mode of conver-
sation among gentlemen, ii. 286; disliked exceedingly by Johnson,
517. Quickness in composition should be practised, iv. 52.
Quin, the actor, ii. 194, 514. Quotation, Johnson defends, iii. 224.
Rackstraw, Mr., Colonel of the
trained band of militia in which Johnson was drawn to serve, iii. 403, 404. Radcliffe, Dr., Master of Pembroke, i. 218; his travelling fellowships not very successful, iii. 385. Raleigh, Johnson interested in an edition of his smaller pieces, i.178.
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