friendship for him, iv. 135, 147, 270;
last visit to him, iv. 375;
letters to him: see under JOHNSON, letters;
will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
sister, his, Mrs. Careless, ii. 459.
HEELY, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 30-1; iv. 370;
Johnson's letter to Heely, iv. 371.
_Heinous_, ii. 172.
HEIRS AT LAW, right, their, ii. 432.
HEIRS GENERAL, ii. 414.
HELL,
Johnson's dread of it, iv. 299;
its pavement of good intentions, ii. 360;
of infants' skulls, iv. 226, n. 2;
subsists by truth, iii. 293.
HELMET, hung out on a tower, iii. 273.
HELOT, the drunken, iii. 379.
HELVETIUS,
advises Montesquieu to suppress his _Esprit des Lois_, v. 42, n. 1;
Warburton 'would have _worked_ him,' iv. 261, n. 3.
HELVOETSLUYS, i. 471.
_Hemisphere_, ii. 81.
HENAULT, ii. 383, n. i, 412, 421.
HENDERSON, John, the actor,
his mimicry of Johnson not correct, ii. 326, n. 5;
visits him, iv. 244, n. 2.
HENDERSON, John (of Pembroke College), account of him, iv. 298-9;
Johnson and the nonjurors, iv. 286, n. 3;
mentioned, iv. 151, n. 2.
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN, ii. 452, n. 2, 456.
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, v. 454, n. 2.
HENN, Mr., i. 132, n. 1.
HENRY II. gives Langton a grant of free-warren, i. 248;
_History_ of him by Lyttelton, ii. 38.
_Henry V_, Johnson proposes to act it in Versailles, ii. 395, n. 2.
HENRY VIII. threatens the House of Commons, iii. 408.
HENRY IV. of France, Johnson censures his epitaph, iv. 85, n. I.
HENRY, Prince, of Portugal,
happy for mankind had he never been born, iv. 250.
HENRY, Robert, _History of Great Britain_, iii. 333;
sale maliciously injured, in. 334, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 55, n. 1.
HENS feeding their young, iv. 210.
HEPHAESTION, iv. 274.
HERALD'S OFFICE, i. 255.
HERALDRY, i. 492.
HERBERT, George, 'Hell is full of good meanings,' ii. 360, n. 1.
HERCULES, his shirt, iii. 358;
Johnson, the Hercules who strangled serpents, ii. 260;
'You, and I and Hercules,' iv. 45, n. 3.
HEREDITARY OCCUPATIONS, v. 120.
HEREDITARY TENURES, ii. 421.
_Hermes, or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar_,
ii. 225, n. 2.
HERMETICK PHILOSOPHY. See _Hermippus Redivivus_.
_Hermippus Redivivus_, i. 417; ii. 427, n. 4.
_Hermit_. See under BEATTIE and PARNELL.
_Hermit of Teneriffe_. See _Theodore the Hermit_.
HERMITS, v. 62.
HERNE, Elizabeth, iv. 402, n. 2, 439.
HERODOTUS, Egyptian mummies, iv. 125, n. 4.
_Heroic Epistle_. See MASON, W.
HERTFORD, first Earl of,
Cock-lane ghost, goes to hear the, i. 407, n. 1;
Hume, gets a pension for, ii. 317, n. 1;
Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 34, n. 4.
HERTFORD, Lady, i. 173, n. 3; iii. 139, n. 4.
HERVEY, Hon. Henry, 'Harry Hervey,' i. 106;
Johnson's love for him, i. 106;
intimacy with his family, i, 194;
story of Johnson's ingratitude, iii. 195.
HERVEY, Rev. James,
_Meditations_, v. 351;
parodied by Johnson, v. 352.
HERVEY, Hon. Thomas, Beauclerk's story of him and Johnson, ii. 32;
Johnson, payment to, ii. 33;
separation from his wife, ii. 32, 33, n. 2;
vicious and genteel, ii. 341.
HERVEY, Mrs., iii. 244, n. 2.
HERVEY, Miss, iii. 195, n. 1.
HERVEY, Miss E., iii. 435; n. 4.
HESIOD, _Pasoris Lexicon_, iii. 407;
quoted, v. 63.
HESKETH, Lady, iii. 36, n. 3.
HESSE, Landgrave of, v. 217.
HETHERINGTON'S CHARITY, ii. 286.
HEYDON, John, iv. 402, n. 2.
HEYWOOD, i. 84, n. 2.
HICKES, Rev. Dr., account of him, v. 357, n. 4;
mentioned, iv. 287.
HICKY, Thomas, ii. 340.
HIERARCHY, English,
Johnson's reverence for it, iv. 75, 197, 274; v. 61;
its theory and practice, iii. 138.
_Hierocles, Jests of_, i. l50; v. 308, n. 1.
HIGGINS, Dr., iii. 354, 386.
_High_, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 118, n. 3.
HIGH DUTCH, resemblance to English, iii. 235.
_High Life below Stairs_, iv. 7.
HIGHWAYMEN,
evidence of H. Walpole, Wesley, and Baretti as to their frequency,
iii. 239, n. 1;
Gay their Orpheus, ii. 367, n. 1;
question of shooting them, iii. 239, 240, n. 1.
HILL, Dr. Sir John,
account of him, ii. 38, n. 2, 39, n. 2;
wrote _Mrs. Glasses Cookery_, iii. 285;
in the _Heroic Epistle_, iv. 113, n. 3.
HILL, Joseph (Cowper's friend), i. 395, n. 2.
HILL, Miss, of Hawkestone, v. 433-4.
HILL, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64-5.
HILL, Sir Rowland, of Hawkestone, v. 433.
HILL, Thomas Wright, v. 455, n. 1.
HINCHCLIFFE, John, Bishop of Peterborough,
member of the Literary Club, i. 479;
hated Whiggism, iii. 422.
HINCHINBROOK, iii. 383, n. 3.
HINCHMAN, ----, iv. 402, n. 2.
HINDOOS, iv. 12, n. 2.
_Histoire de Pascal Paoli_, ii. 3, n. 1.
_Historia Studiorum_, Johnson's, iii. 321.
HISTORIAN,
great abilities not needed, i. 424;
inferiority of English, i. 100, n. 1; ii. 236, n. 2;
licence allowed, i. 355.
HISTORY,
almanac, no better than an, ii. 366;
authentic, little, ii. 365;
Bolingbroke's caution about reading it, ii. 213, n. 3;
Bolingbroke, Burke, and Fox on it, ii. 366, n. 1;
character and motives generally unknown, ii. 79; iii. 404;
colouring and philosophy conjecture, ii. 365;
Johnson's indifference to general history, iii. 206, n. 1;
recommendation of many histories, iv. 312, n. 1;
manners and common life, of, iii. 333; v. 79;
oral at first, v. 393;
'painted form the taste of this age,' iii. 58;
records only lately consulted, i. 117; v. 220;
spirit contrary to minute exactness, i. 155;
shallow stream of thought in it, ii. 195;
unsupported by contemporary evidence, v. 403.
_History of the Council of Trent_, i. 107.
_History of England_, in Italian. See MARTINELLI.
_History of John Bull_, i. 452, n. 2;
written by Arbuthnot, i. 452, n. 2;
quoted by Johnson, ii. 235, n. 1.
_History of the War_, projected, i. 354.
_Historyes of Troye_, v. 459, n. 2.
HITCH, Charles, i. 183.
HOADLEY, Archbishop, i. 318, n. 4.
HOADLEY, Dr. Benjamin, _Suspicious Husband, The_, ii. 50, n. 2.
HOADLEY, Dr. John, letter to Garrick, ii. 69, n. 1.
_Hob in the Well_, ii. 465.
HOBBES, Thomas,
Bathurst's verses to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
mentioned, iii. 448.
HOCKLEY-IN-THE-HOLE, iii. 134, n. 1; 454.
HODGE, the cat, iv. 197.
HODGES, Dr., ii. 341, n. 3.
HOG, William, i. 229.
HOGARTH, William,
Garrick's acting, describes, iii. 35, n. 1;
Johnson's belief, describes, i. 147, n. 2;
conversation, ib.;
finds more like David than Solomon, iii. 229, n. 3;
like his _Idle Apprentice_, i. 250;
takes for an idiot, i. 146;
_Modern Midnight Conversation_, iii. 348;
partisan of George II, i. 146;
physicians, his, iii. 288, n. 4;
prints, his, at Slains Castle, v. 102;
at Streatham, iii. 348;
Wilkes, print of, v. 186.
HOGG, James, _Jacobite Relics_, v. 142, n. 2.
_Hogshead_ of sense, v. 341.
HOLBACH, Baron,
anecdote of Hume and seventeen Atheists, ii. 8, n. 4;
_Systeme de la Nature_, v. 47, n. 4.
HOLBROOK, ----, Usher at Lichfield School, i. 44.
HOLDER, ----, an apothecary, iv. 137, 144, 402, n. 2.
HOLIDAYS OF THE CHURCH, ii. 458.
HOLINSHED, quoted by Boswell, iv. 268, n. 2.
HOLLAND,
exportation of coin free, iv. 105, n. 1;
Dutch fond of draughts and smoking, i. 317;
free from spleen, iv. 379;
English books printed there, iii. 162;
France, pressed by, in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
Johnson's proposed tour there, i. 470; iii. 454;
lead from two Cathedrals shipped to it, v. 114, n. 2;
populous, iii. 233;
Scotch regiment at Sluys, iii. 447;
suspension of arms in 1782-3, iv. 282, n. 1;
torture employed there, i. 466;
trade, i. 218, n. 3.
HOLLAND, the actor, iv. 7.
HOLLAND, Dr., ii. 94, n. 2.
HOLLAND, first Lord, iv. 174, n. 5, 219, n. 3.
HOLLAND, third Lord,
Boswell and Horace Walpole, iv. 314, n. 5;
Jeffrey's 'narrow English,' ii. 159, n. 6;
Johnson and Fox, iv. 167, n. 1;
and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3.
HOLLAND HOUSE, iv. 174, n. 5.
HOLLIS, Thomas, iv. 97.
HOLLOWAY, Mr. M. M.,
autograph letters of Johnson, iv. 260, n. 2; v. 405, n. 1, 454.
HOLROYD, John (Lord Sheffield), i. 465, n. 1; ii. 150, n, 7;
iii. 178, n. 1.
HOLY LAND, iii. 177.
HOME, Francis, Experiments on Bleaching, i. 309.
HOME, Henry. See LORD KAMES.
HOME, John,
_Agis_, ii. 320, n. 1; v. 204;
Athelstanford, minister of, iii. 47, n. 3;
Bute's errand-goer, ii. 354;
and favourite, i. 386, n. 3;
Carlyle, Dr. A., described by, v. 362, n. 1;
Derrick's lines, parodied, i. 456;
_Douglas_, Garrick rejects it, v. 362, n. 1;
Hume and Scott admire it, ii. 320, n. 1;
Johnson despises it, ii. 320;
not ten good lines in it, v. 360-2;
Sheridan gives the author a gold medal for it, ii. 320; v. 360;
lines in it applicable to Johnson, iii. 80;
quotations from it, v. 361, n. 1;
Elibank, Lord, his patron, v. 386;
_History of the Rebellion of 1745_, iii. 162, n. 5;
Hume's bequest to him, ii. 320, n. 1;
dislike of the Whigs, iv. 194, n. 1;
remark on the incapacity of the period, iii. 46, n. 5;
Settle, likened to, iii. 76;
Shakespeare of Scotland, iv. 186, n. 2;
better than Shakspeare, v. 362, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1, 381, n. 1.
HOMER,
advice given to Diomed (Glaucus), ii. 129;
antiquity, his, iii. 331;
quoted by Thucydides, ib.;
characters, does not describe, v. 79;
detached fragments, not made up of, v. 164;
_Iliad_, a collection of pieces, iii. 333;
prose translation of it suggested, ib.;
Latin version, ib., n. 2;
Johnson's early translation from him, i. 53;
knowledge of him, iv. 218, n. 3; v. 79, n. 2;
'machinery,' his, iv. 16;
_Odyssey_, Johnson's liking for it, iv. 218;
Fox's, ib., n. 3;
_Life of Johnson_ likened to it, i. 12;
quoted, iv. 444;
prince of poets, ii. 129;
Sarpedon, Earl of Errol likened to, v. 103, n. 1;
shield of Achilles, iv. 33; v. 78;
translated by Cowper, iii. 333, n. 2;
by Dacier, ib.;
by Macpherson, ii. 298, n. 1; iii. 333, n. 2;
by Pope, iii. 256;
Virgil, compared with, iii. 193; v. 79, n. 2;
less talked of than, iii. 332.
HOMFREY, family of, iv. 268, n. 1.
_Homo caudatus_, ii. 383.
HONESTY, iii. 237.
HONITON, iii. 287, n. 1.
HOOD, James, v. 66.
HOOKE, Dr. (at St. Cloud), ii. 397.
HOOKE, Nathaniel,
writes the Duchess of Marlborough's _Apology_, v. 175.
HOOKER, Richard, i. 219.
HOOLE, John,
account of him, ii. 289, n. 2; iv. 70;
_Ariosto_, iv. 70;
_Cleonice_, ii. 289, n. 3;
dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 334; iii. 37, 342; iv. 88, 251;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 258;
Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
collects a City Club for, iv. 87;
friendship with him, iv. 360;
and Goldsmith, i. 414, n. 4;
last days, iv. 399, n. 1, 406, 410, n. 2, 414;
letters to him, ii. 289; iv. 359-60;
recommends him to Warren Hastings, iv. 70;
writes the dedication of his _Tasso_, i. 383;
regularly educated, iv. 187;
uncle, his, the metaphysical tailor, iii. 443; iv. 187;
mentioned, iv. 266.
HOOLE, Mrs., iv. 359.
HOOLE, Rev. Mr.,
Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
reads the service to, iv. 409;
mentioned, iii. 436, n. 2.
_Hop-Garden, The_, ii. 454.
HOPE,
'A continual renovation of hope,' iv. 222, n. 5;
Prince of Wales's enjoyment of it, iv. 182;
a species of happiness, i. 368; ii. 351.
HOPE, Dr., of Edinburgh, iv. 263-4.
HOPE, Professor, of Edinburgh, v. 404.
HOPE, Sir William, v. 66.
HOPETON, second Earl of, iv. 43, n. 1.
HORACE,
Art of Poetry, a contested passage in the, iii. 73-5;
_Carmen Seculare_ set to music, iii. 373;
Mr. Tasker's version, ib., n. 3;
cheerfulness, iii. 251;
inconstancy, ib.;
editions collected by Douglas, iv. 279;
gratitude to his father, iii. 12;
Hamilton's _Imitations_, iii. 151;
Johnson translates _Odes_, i. 22, and ii. 9; i. 51-2;
and _Ode_, iv. 7; iv. 370;
Journey to _Brundusium_ mentioned, iii. 250;
metres, ii. 445, n. 1;
middle-rate poets, on, ii. 351;
_Nil admirari_, ii. 360;
read as far as the Rhone, iv. 277;
religion, absence of, iv. 215;
'_sapientiae consultus_,' iii. 280;
translations of the lyrics, iii. 356;
Francis's, ib.;
villa, iii. 250;
quotations:
1 _Odes_, i. 2, i. 244;
1 _Odes_, ii. v. 101, n. 2;
1 _Odes_, ii. 21, i. 483, n. 4;
1 _Odes_, xii. 46, iv. 356, n. 3;
1 _Odes_, xxii. 5, ii. 140;
1 _Odes_, xxiv. 9, iv. 290, n. 4;
1 _Odes_, xxvi. 1, ii. 140;
1 _Odes_, xxxiv. 1, iii. 279;
1 _Odes_, xxxiv. 1, iv. 215, n. 4;
2 _Odes_, i. 4, i. 207;
2 _Odes_, i. 24, iv. 374, n. 3;
2 _Odes_, xvi. 1, v. 163;
2 _Odes_, xiv., iii. 193; v. 68, n. 2;
2 _Odes_, xx. 19, iv. 277, n. 2;
3 _Odes_, i. 34, ii. 207;
3 _Odes_, ii. 13, i. 181, n. 1;
3 _Odes_, xxiv. 21, iii. 160, n. 1;
3 _Odes_, ii., iii. 204;
3 _Odes_, xxx. 1, ii. 291, n. 3;
4 _Odes, iii. 2, i. 351, n. 1; iv. 57, n. 4;
4 _Odes_, ix. 25, v. 415, n. 3;
Epodes, xv. 19, iv. 320, n. 1;
1 _Sat_. i. 66, iii. 322, n. 2;
2 _Sat_. i. 86, iv. 129, n. 3;
1 _Sat_. iii. 33, iv. 180, n. 5;
1 _Sat_ iv. 34, ii. 79;
2 _Sat_. ii. 3, i. 105, n. 1;
1 _Epis_. i. 15, v. 283, n. 2;
1 _Epis_. ii. 41, iv. 120, n. 3;
1 _Epis_. vi. 1, ii. 360, n. 3;
1 _Epis_. vii. 96, ii. 337, n. 4;
1 _Epis_. xi. 29, v. 381, n. 2;
1 _Epis_. xiv. 13, iii. 417, n. 1;
2 _Epis_. ii. 84, ii. 337, n. 3;
2 _Epis_. ii. 102, i. 200;
2 _Epis_. ii. 110, i. 220;
2 _Epis_. ii. 212, iv. 355, n. 2;
_Ars Poet_., line. 11, iii. 281, n. 4;
l. 15, iv. 38, n. 5;
l. 25, v. 78, n. 5;
l. 39, iii. 404, n. 6;
l. 41, ii. 126;
l. 48, i. 221;
l. 97, v. 399, n. 3;
l. 126, v. 348, n. 1;
l. 128, iii. 73;
l. 142, ii. 13, n. 2;
l. 161, v. 283, n. 3;
l. 188, iii. 229, n. 3;
l. 221, v. 375. n. 5;
l. 317, i. 165:
l. 372, ii. 351;
l. 388, i. 196.
HORNE, Dr., President of Magdalen College, (afterwards Bishop of Norwich),
Garrick's funeral, lines on, iv. 208, n. 1;
Garrick and Mickle, anecdote of, ii. 182, n. 3;
Johnson's character, iv. 426, n. 3;
_Letter to Adam Smith_, v. 30, n. 3;
neglected state of churches, v. 41, n. 3;
_Walton's Lives_, projected edition of, ii. 279, 283-4, 445.
HORNE, Rev. John. See TOOKE, Horne.
HORNECK,
The Misses, i. 414, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2, 274, n. 5; iv. 355, n. 4.
HORREBOW, Niels, iii. 279.
HORSE-TAX, v. 51.
HORSEMAN, ----, iv. 435.
HORSES, old, iv. 248, 250.
HORSLEY, Dr. (afterwards Bishop of Rochester),
account of him, iv. 437;
member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 254.
HORTON, Mrs., ii. 224, n. 1.
_Hosier's Ghost_, v. 116, n. 4.
HOSPITALITY,
ancient, ii. 167;
less need for it now, iv. 18;
elaborate attention, iv. 222;
in London, ii. 222;
promiscuous, ii. 167;
