Oat cakes of graddaned meal, iv.

142.

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,

i. 30.

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.

Signor, iii. 420.

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.