America. Annihilation. i. 358, n. 1; Irish Protestants well- AMORY, Dr. Thomas, iii. 198, n. 2. wishers to the rebellion, iii. 464, n. 3; | AMUSEMENTS, key to character, iv. 365; Johnson avoids the rebellious land,' public, keep people from vice, ii. 195. AMWELL, ii. 387. iii. 494, n. 3; feelings towards the Americans, ii. 549-51; iii. 228; iv. 327;- calls them a 'race of convicts,' | AMYAT, Dr., i. 437, n. I. ii. 357; — ' wild rant,' ii. 360, n. 1; ANACREON, Baxter's edition, iv. 188, iii. 329; — abuse, iii. 358; — parody of Burke on American taxation, iv. 367; 278, 306; v. 429; mentioned, ii. 232. ANAITIS, the Goddess, v. 248–51. Anatomy of Melancholy, ii. 138. ANCESTRY, ii. 176, 299. ANCIENT TIMES worse than Modern, iv. 251. von Patriot, ii. 327; relicks of, in America, ii. 237; -Taxation no Tyranny, ii. 356; Lee, Arthur, agent in England, iii. 78, n. 2; Lexington, iii. 357, n. 6; libels in 1784, i. 134, n. 2; life in the wilds, ii. 262; literature gaining ground, i. 358, n. 1; Loudoun, Lord, General in America, v. 424, n. 1; Mansfield, Lord, approves of burning their houses, iii. 487, n. 1; Markham's, Archbishop, sermon, v. 40, n. 3; money sent to the English army, iv. 121; New England, iv. 413, n. 2; v. 361; North's, Lord, conciliatory propositions, iii. 250; objects for Anecdotes of distinguished persons, iii. observation, i. 425; peace, negotia ANCIENTS, not serious in religion, iii. 12. ANECDOTES, Johnson's love of, ii. 12; v. 43. 140, n. I. ANGEL, Captain, i. 404. ANGELL, John, Stenography, ii. 257–8; iii. 306. ANGER, unreasonable, but natural, ii. 432. tions of, iv. 182, n. 3; preliminary Anfractuosity, iv. 4. treaty of, iv. 325, n. 3; Pennsylvania, ii. 238, n. 1; Philadelphia, i. 358, n. 1; iii. 414, n. 1; iv. 244, n. 3; planters, ii. 31; population, growth of, ii. 359-60; Rasselas, reprint of, ii. 238; Saratoga, iii. 404, n. 3; slavery, England guilty | ANIMAL, noblest, v. 456. of, ii. 551; Susquehannah, v. 361; ANIMAL SUbstances, v. 246. taxation by England, ii. 357; iii. 233- ANIMALS. See BRUTES. 235; iv. 298, n. 2; Virginia, ii. 31, n. 1, 551; war with America popular in Scotland, iv. 298, n. 2; war with the French in 1756–7, i. 356, n. 4; ii. 551; iii. 10, n. 3; Walpole, Horace, on the slaveholders, iii. 228, n. 2; Wesley's Calm Address, v. 39, n. 1; York Town, iv. 162, n. I. AMHERST, Lord, iii. 425, n. 4. AMIENS, ii. 461, n. 2. Animus Æquus, not inheritable, v. 434. Argyle, John. Annual Register. ANNUAL REGISTER, Barnard's verses ARBUTHNOT, Dr. John, Dunciad, an on Johnson, iv. 497–500. ANONYMOUS WRITINGS, iii. 428. ANSON, Lord, i. 135, n. 3; iii. 425. ANSTEY, Christopher, New Bath Guide, i. 449, n. 3. ANSTRUTHER, J., ii. 219, n. 2. ANTAGONISTS, how they should be treated, ii. 505-6; v. 32. notations on the, iv. 354, n. 2; History of John Bull, i. 524, n. 1; v. 49, n. 3; illustrious physician, an, ii. 427; Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, i. 524, n. 1; v. 49, n. 3; universal genius, i. 492; v. 31, n. 3; superior to Swift in coarse humour, v. 49. ARBUTHNOT, Robert, v. 31, 35. Anthologia, Johnson's translations, iv. Archæological Dictionary, iv. 186. ARCHES, semicircular, and elliptical, i. 406. ARCHITECTURE, ornamental, ii. 502-3. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES, iii. 379, ARGENSON, 471. ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, iv. 504. ANTIQUARIANS, iii. 315. Apartment, ii. 456, n. I. APELLES'S VENUS, iv. 120. APICIUS, ii. 511. Apocrypha, ii. 218, n. I. Apollonii pugna Betricia, ii. 302. Apophthegms of Johnson, i. 221, n. 1; iv. 374. APOSTOLICAL ORDINATION, ii. 119. APPLE DUMPLINGS, ii. 152. , ARGUING, good-humour in, iii. 13. ARGUMENT, compared with testimony, iv. 325; getting the better of people in one, ii. 543; opponent, introducing one's, ii. 545. ARGYLE, first Marquis of, v. 406, n. 3. ARGYLE, ninth Earl of, v. 406, n. 3. ARGYLE, tenth Earl (first Duke) of, v. 259, n. I. ARGYLE, John, second Duke of, Beggar's Opera, sees the, ii. 423, n. 2; Elwall, challenged by, ii. 189, n. 2; Walpole as sole minister, attacks, ii. 407, n. 2. ARGYLE, Archibald, third Duke of, librarian, neglects his, i. 216; a narrow man, v. 393; Wilkes visits him, iii. 83. APPLEBY SCHOOL, in Leicestershire, i. ARGYLE, John, fifth Duke of, at Ash Argyle. Athenæum. · with a horse, v. 409, 413; corresponds ARTISTS, Society of. See SOCIETY OF with him, v. 413, 414; lawsuit with Sir A. Maclean, ii. 436, n. 2; iii. 116. ARGYLE, Duchess of (in 1752), i. 285. ARGYLE, Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of, account of her, v. 402, n. 1; at Ashbourne, iii. 235, n. 1; dislikes Boswell, v. 402; slights him, v. 403, 408; he drinks to her, v. 405; Johnson undertakes to get her a book, v. 406, 413; is all attention' to her, v. 409, 413; calls her a Duchess with three tails,' v. 409. ARIAN HERESY, iv. 38. ARNAULD, Antoine, iii. 395. ARNOLD, Thomas, M.D., Observations on Insanity, iii. 200, n. I. ARRAN, Earl of, i. 325. ARRIGHI, A., Histoire de Pascal Paoli, ii. 3, n. 2; v. 57, n. 3. Art of Living in London, i. 122, n. 1. 'ART'S CORRECTIVE,' v. 341. ARTEMISIA, ii. 87. ARTHRITICK TYRANNY, i. 206. ARTICLES. See THIRTY-NINE ARTI CLES. ARTIFICIALLY, iii. 58, n. 4. | ARTISTS. Ascertain, iii. 457, n. I. ASCHAM, Roger, bachelor's degree, takes his, i. 67, n. 3; Life by Johnson, i. 537; quoted, i. 354, n. 3. ASH, Dr., iv. 455, n. 2. ASHBOURNE, church, iii. 205; earthquake, iii. 154; Green Man Inn, iii. 236; Johnson's visits, iii. 512-15; and the Thrales visit it in 1774, v. 490; and Boswell in 1776, ii. 542-5; in 1777, iii. 154-237; school, ii. 370, n. 3; iii. 156; two convicts of the town hang themselves, iv. 414; waterfall, iii. 217. ASHBY, i. 42, n. 2, 92, n. 2. ASTON, Catherine (Hon. Mrs. Henry Aston, Margaret (Mrs. Walmsley), i. 97, n. 1; ii. 534. Aston, Miss (Mrs.), ii. 534, 538; iii. 150, 240, 469, 470; iv. 167, n. 2. ASTON, Molly' (Mrs. Brodie), account of her, i. 96; ii. 536; interest of money, on the, iii. 387; Johnson's epigram on her, i. 96, n. 6; 162, n. 3; iii. 388, n. 1; her letters to, iii. 388, n. 1; quoted by, iii. 388, n. 1; Lyttelton, Lord, preference for, iv. 66. ASTON, Sir Thomas, i. 96, 123, n. I. ASTON HALL, ii. 522, n. 2. ATHEISM, v. 53. Athelstan, ii. 150, n. 4. Athenæum, The, Boswell's letters of Athenæum. acceptance as Secretary of the Royal Academy, iii. 420, n. 3; mistake in Forster's Goldsmith, ii. 239, n. 2. Athenian Letters, i. 52, n. 2. ATHENIANS, barbarians, ii. 196; brutes, 242. ATHOL, Earl of, ii. 8; family of, v. 267. ATLANTIC, Johnson on the, v. 186. ATTACKS ON AUTHORS; attack is the reaction, ii. 384; better to be attacked than unnoticed, iii. 426; v. 311; part of a man's consequence, iv. 487; 'fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 456; very rarely hurt an author, iii. 481; useful, in subjects of taste, v. 313; felt by authors, ib. n. 1; Addison, Hume, Swift, Young on them, ii. 70, n. 2; Bentley, ii. 70, n. 2; v. 312, n. 4; Boerhaave, ii. 70, n. 2; Fielding, v. 313, n. 1; Rambler, Vicar of Wakefield, Hume, and Boileau, iii. 426, n. 3; Johnson's solitary reply to one, i. 363-4; ii. 70, ib. n. 2. ATTERBURY, Bishop, elegance of his English, ii. 109, n. 2; Funeral Sermon on Lady Cutts, iii. 258; Sermons, iii. 281; mentioned, i. 181. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Diabolus Regis, iii. 89. ATTORNEYS converted into Solicitors, iv. 149, n. 2; Johnson's hits at them, ii. 145, ib. n. 3; iv. 362. AUCHINLECK, Lord, account of him, v. 427-8, 435, n. 3; Baxter's Anacreon, collated, iv. 278; attentive to remotest relations, v. 149; Boswell's ignorance of law, ii. 24, n. 4; v. 123, n. 1; Boswell, his disposition towards: see BOSWELL, father; contentment, iii. 273; v. 434; death, iv. 177; ' in a place where there is no room for Whiggism,' v. 439; described in Author. a Hypochondriack, i. 493, n. 4; Douglas Cause, ii. 57, n. 2; entails his estate in perpetuity, ii. 474; Gillespie, Dr., honorarium to, iv. 303; heirs general, preference for, ii. 474-5; calls Johnson a dominie, i. 112, n. 1; v. 435, n. 3; a Jacobite fellow, v. 428; Ursa Major, v. 437; a brute, ii. 436, n. 4; v. 437, n. 3; him the Lives, iii. 423; · proposes to send visits him, three topics in which contest, v. 435 v. 427-438; they differ, v. 428; 7; - polite parting, v. 438; Knight the negro's case, iii. 245; Laird of Lochbuy, trial of the, v. 391; loves labour, ii. 114; planter of trees, iii. 118; v. 433; respected, v. 103, 149, 154; second wife, ii. 161, n. 1; v. 427, n. 4; Boswell on ill terms with her, ii. 432, n. 1; iii. 91, n. 4; tenderness, want of, iii. 207; windows broken by a mob, v. 402, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 5, 236, 332, 333; iii. 146. AUCHINLECK PLACE. See SCOTLAND, Auchinleck. AUCTIONEERS, long pole at their door, ii. 400. AUGUSTAN AGE, flattery, ii. 268. n. I. AUSTEN, Miss, Pride and Prejudice, iii. 340, n. 1. AUSTERITIES, religious. See MONAS TERY. AUSTRIA, House of, epigram on it, v. 265. AUTEROCHE, Chappe d', iii. 386. AUTHOR, an, of considerable eminence, iv. 373; one of restless vanity, iv. 368; who married a printer's devil, iv. 114; who was a voluminous rascal, ii. 125. Authority. AUTHORITY, from personal respect, ii. 507; lessened, iii. 297. AUTHORS, attacks on them; see ATTACKS; best part of them in their books, i. 521, n. 1; chief glory of a people from them, i. 344, n. 3; ii. 143; complaints of, iv. 188; contrast between their life and writings, ii. 295, n. 1; consolation in their hours of gloom, ii. 79, n. 2; dread of them, i. 521, n. 1; eminent men need not turn authors, iii. 207; fit subjects for biography, iv. 114, n. 2; flatter the age, v. 67; hunted with a cannister at their tail, iii. 364; Johnson consulted by them-'a man who wrote verses,' ii. 58; · Colley Cibber, ii. 106; 'a lank and reverend bard,' iii. 425; Crabbe, iv. 141, n. 1; advises a tragedy - writer, iv. 282, n. 1; young Mr. Tytler, v. 458; to print boldly, ii. 224; - advice very difficult to give, ii. 364; -willing to assist them, iii. 424, n. 1; iv. 141; v. 458; - put to the torture, ib.; Project for the employment of Authors, i. 355, n. 1; wonders at their number, v. 67; judgment of their own works, i. 222, n. 1; iv. 290, n. 1; language characteristical, iv. 364; lie, whether ever allowed to, iv. 352-3; modern, the moons of literature, iii. 378-9; obscure ones, i. 355, n. 3; patrons, iv. 198; patronage done with, v. 66; payments received: Adventurer, two guineas a paper, i. 293-4; Baretti, translation of some of Reynolds's Discourses into Italian, twenty-five guineas, iii. Averroes. four guineas, ib.; Fielding, Tom Jones, £700, i. 332, n. 3; Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, £60, i. 480; Traveller, £21, i. 481, n. 1; Hawkesworth, £6000 for editing Cook's Voyages, i. 395, n. 4; Hill, Sir John, fifteen guineas a week, ii. 43, n. 2; Hooke, £5000 for the Duchess of Marlborough's Apology, v. 200, n. 1; Johnson see JOHNSON, payments for his writings; payment by line, i. 224, n. 1; Piozzi, Mrs., for Johnson's Letters, £500, ii. 49, n. 1; Robertson offered £500 for one edition of his History of Scotland, iii. 380, n. 2; £6000 made by the publishers; offered 3000 guineas for Charles V, ii. 72, n. 1; Sacheverell, £100 for a sermon, i. 45, n. 2; Shebbeare six guineas for a sheet for reviews, iv. 247; Savage, Wanderer, ten guineas, i. 144, n. 3; Whitehead, Paul, ten guineas for a poem, i. 144; pleasure in writing for the journals, v. 67, n. 1; privateers, like, iv. 220, n. 2; private life, in, i. 455; public, the, their judges, i. 232; putting into a book as much as a book will hold, ii. 272; regard for their first magazine, i. 130; reluctance to write their own lives, i. 29, n. 2; respect due to them, iii. 353; iv. 132; sale of their works to the booksellers, iii. 37980; styles, distinguished by their, iii. 318; treatment by managers of theatres, i. 227, n. 2; writing for profit, iii. 184; on subjects in which they have not practised, ii. 492. 110; Blair, Sermons, vol. i. £200, vol. ¦ Authors by Profession, i. 135. ii. £300, vol. iii. £600, iii. 112; Bos- AVARICE, despised not hated, iii. 81; well, Corsica, 100 guineas, ii. 52, n. 1; not inherent, iii. 366. 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