Newgate,
Akerman the keeper, iii. 431-433;
profits of his office, iii. 431, n. 1;
Baretti imprisoned, ii. 97, n. 1;
burnt in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429;
Cooley imprisoned, i. 503;
Dodd, Dr., iii. 166;
executions removed there, iv. 188, n. 2, 328;
Hawkins's story of a man sentenced to death, iii. 166, n. 3;
Moore, Rev. Mr., the Ordinary, iv. 329, n. 3;
Villette, Rev. Mr., the Ordinary: See VILLETTE;
Wesley's description of its horrors, iii. 431, n. 1;
improvement, ib.;
Newgate Street, iv. 204;
Northumberland-House, Dr. Percy's apartment burnt, iii. 420, n. 5;
next shop to it a pickle-shop, ii. 218;
Old Bailey,
Baretti's trial, ii. 96;
Bet Flint's trial, iv. 103;
Savage's, i. 162, n. 3;
Sessions House plundered in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429;
Sessions in 1784, iv. 328, n. 1 (see _Old Bailey Sessions Paper_);
Old Bond Street, Boswell's lodgings, ii. 82;
Old Devil Tavern, iv. 254, n. 4;
Old Jewry, Dr. Foster's Chapel, iv. 9, n. 5;
Old Street, Johnson attends a club there, iii. 443; iv. 187;
Old Swan, Boswell and Johnson land there, i. 458;
Opera House, Boswell at the performance of _Medea_, iii. 91, n. 2;
Oxford Street, The Pantheon, ii. 168-9;
Pall Mall, Dodsley's shop, i. 135, n. 1;
Pall Mall, King's Head, The World Club, iv. 102, n. 4;
Park Lane, Warren Hastings's house, iv. 66;
Parsloe's Tavern: See ST. JAMES STREET;
Paternoster Row, Cooper the bookseller, v. 117, n. 4;
Piccadilly,
Boswell's lodgings, ii. 219;
Walpole describes a procession, iv. 296, n. 3;
Poultry, No. 22, Messieurs Dilly's house: See under DILLY, Messieurs;
Prince's Tavern: See SACKVILLE STREET;
Printing House Square, ii. 323, n. 2;
Pye Street, iv. 371;
Queen Square, Bloomsbury, Dr. John Campbell's house, i. 418, n. 4;
Ranelagh,
barristers should not go too often, iv. 310;
_Evelina_, described in, ii. 169, n. 1;
'girl, a Ranelagh,' iii. 199, n. 1;
Gordon Riots, open at the, iii. 429, n. 3;
_Highland Laddie_, sung there, v. 184, n. 1;
Johnson's admiration of it, ii. 168;
his first visit, iii. 199;
often went, ii. 119;
riot of footmen, ii. 78, n. 1;
Thornton's _Ode on St. Cecilia's Day_ performed there, i. 420, n. 2;
Ranelagh House, ii. 31, n. 1;
Red Lion Street, v. 196, n. 2;
Rotherhithe, iii. 21, n. 1;
Round-house,
Garrick 'will have to bail Johnson out of it,' i. 249;
Captain Booth taken to it, ib., n. 2;
Johnson carried to it, ii. 299;
Royal Exchange, Jack Ellis, the scrivener, iii. 21;
Russell Street, Covent Garden, No. 8,
Tom Davies's house, where Boswell first saw Johnson, i. 390;
Sackville Street, Prince's Tavern,
The Literary Club met there, i. 479; v. 109, n. 5;
Slaughter's Coffee-house, i. 115, n. 1; iv. 15;
Smithfield,
boxing-ring, iv. 111, n. 3; v. 229, n. 2;
joustes held there, iv. 268, n. 2;
Snow-hill, Mrs. Gardiner's shop, i. 242; iii. 22; iv. 246;
Soho-Square, house of the Venetian Resident, i. 274;
Somerset Coffee-house, Strand,
Boswell and Johnson start from it for Oxford, ii. 438;
Somerset-House, built by Sir W. Chambers, iv. 187, n. 4;
Somerset Place, Exhibition of the Royal Academy, iv. 202;
South Audley Street, General Paoli's house, iii. 391-2;
Southampton-Buildings, Chancery-Lane,
Burke and Johnson in consultation there, iv. 324;
Southwark Elections: See THRALE, Henry, Southwark;
kennels running with blood, v. 247;
Thrale's house, ii. 286, n. 1, 427;
Johnson's apartment in it, i. 493; iii. 405, n. 6;
Spring Garden, afterwards Vauxhall, iv. 26;
St. Andrew's, Holborn, i. 170;
St. Clement Danes,
Boswell and Johnson attend service there, ii. 214, 356, 357;
iii. 17, 24, 26, 302, 313; iv. 90, 203, 209;
hear a sermon on evil-speaking, iii. 379;
Johnson's seat, ii. 214;
returns thanks after recovery, iv. 270, n. 1;
St. George's-Fields,
meeting place of the 'Protestants' at the Gordon Riots, iii. 428;
St. George's, Hanover Square,
Dodd tries to get the living by a bribe, iii. 139, n. 3;
Thomas Newton resigns the lectureship, iv. 286, n. 1;
St. James's Palace, Lord Mayor Beckford's address, iii. 201, n. 3;
St. James's Square, Johnson and Savage walk round it, i. 163, n. 2, 164;
St. James's Street,
a new gaming club, iii. 23, n. 1;
Parsloe's Tavern, The Literary Club meet there, i. 479;
Wirgman's, the toy-shop, iii. 325;
St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell,
indecent books sold there by Cave, i. 112, n. 2;
Johnson's reverence for it, i. 111;
his room, i. 504;
meets Boyse there, iv. 407, n. 4;
Savage's visits, i. 162;
mentioned, i. 123, n. 3, 135, n. 1, 151;
St. Luke's Hospital, iv. 208;
St. Martin's in the Fields, i. 135;
St. Martin's Street, Dr. Burney occupies Newton's house, iv. 134;
St. Paul's Cathedral,
Boswell's Easter 'going up ': See under BOSWELL, St. Paul's;
described by an Indian king in the _Spectator_, i. 450, n. 3;
Johnson's monument, iv. 423-4, 444-6;
monuments, proposal to raise, ii. 239; iv. 423;
mentioned, iii. 349;
St. Paul's Churchyard,
Innys the bookseller, iv. 402, n. 2, 440;
Johnson's old club dines at the Queen's Arms, iv. 87, 435;
Rivington's book-shop, i. 135, n. 1;
St. Sepulchre's Churchyard, the bellman on the wall, iv. 189, n. 1;
St. Sepulchre's Ladies' charity-school, iv. 246;
Staple Inn,
Isaac Reed's Chambers, i. 169, n. 2; iv. 37;
Johnson's chambers, i. 350, n. 3, 516; iii. 405, n. 6;
_Rasselas_ not written there, iii. 405, n. 6;
Stepney, Mead's chapel, iii. 355, n. 2;
Strand,
Boswell and Johnson walk along it one night, i. 457;
dangers of it, i. 163, n. 1;
Johnson lodges in it, iii. 405, n. 6;
mentioned, iv. 144:
See under SOMERSET COFFEE HOUSE and TURK'S HEAD COFFEE HOUSE;
Temple,
Chambers's, Sir Robert, chambers in, ii. 260;
Goldsmith's, ii. 97, n. 1; iv. 27;
Johnson's, i. 250; iv. 134;
Johnson's walk, i. 463;
Scott's chambers, iii. 262;
Steevens's, iv. 324;
Temple Bar,
Goldsmith's whisper about the heads on it, ii. 238;
heads first placed on it in William III's time, iii. 408, n. 3;
Johnson's voice seems to resound from it to Fleet-ditch, ii. 262;
mentioned, ii. 155; iv. 92, n. 5;
Temple Church,
Johnson attends the service, ii. 130;
Dr. Maxwell assistant preacher, ii. 116;
Temple-gate, ii. 262;
Inner Temple, Boswell enters at it, ii. 377, n. 1;
rent of his chambers there, iii. 179, n. 1;
Middle Temple, Burke enters there, v. 34, n. 3;
Middle Temple Gate, Lintott's bookshop, iv. 80, n. 1;
Temple Stairs,
Boswell and Johnson take a sculler there, i. 457;
land there, ii. 434;
Temple Lane, Inner,
Boswell lodges at the bottom of it, i. 437;
Johnson's chambers, iii. 405, n. 6;
described by Fitzherbert, i. 350, n. 3;
by Murphy, i. 375, n. 1;
Boswell pays his first visit to Johnson, i. 395;
Mme. de Boufflers visits him, ii. 405;
Thames; See THAMES;
Tom's Coffee-house, iii. 33;
Tower,
Earl of Essex's _Roman death_ in it, v. 403, n, 2;
mentioned, i. 163, n. 2;
Tower Hill, Lord Kilmarnock beheaded, v. 105;
Lord Lovat, v. 234;
Turk's Head Coffee-house, Strand,
Boswell and Johnson sup there, i. 445, 452, 462, 464;
talk of visiting the Hebrides, i. 450; ii. 291, n. 1;
Turk's Head, Gerrard Street,
Literary Club meet there, i. 478; ii. 330, n. 1; v. 109, n. 5;
Vauxhall Gardens, iii. 308; iv. 26, n. 1;
Wapping, Boswell and Windham _explore_ it, iv. 201;
Warwick Lane, i. 165, n. 1, 175, n. 3;
Water Lane, Goldsmith's tailor, ii. 83;
Westminster,
election of 1741, iv. 198, n. 3;
election of 1784, iv. 266, 279, n. 2;
scrutiny, iv. 297, n. 2;
Westminster Abbey:
Cloisters and Dean's-Yard, Dr. Taylor's house, i. 238; iii. 222;
Goldsmith and Johnson survey Poets' Corner, ii. 238;
Goldsmith's monument, iii. 81-5;
Johnson's funeral, iv. 419;
Reynolds on the overcrowding of the monuments, iv. 423, n. 2:
See under STANLEY, Dean, _Memorials of Westminster Abbey_;
Westminster Hall, iv. 309; v. 57: See under LAWYERS;
Westminster Police Court,
Henry Fielding the magistrate, iii. 217, n. 2;
Johnson attends it, iii. 216; iv. 184;
Westminster School,
Beckford a pupil, iii. 76, n. 2;
Boswell's son James a pupil, iii. 12;
bullying, ib., n. 3;
group of remarkable boys, i. 395, n. 2;
Lewis, an usher, iv. 307;
Will's Coffee-house, Dryden's summer and winter chairs, iii. 71;
iv. 91, n. 1;
Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, Goldsmith's lodgings, i. 366, n. 1;
Wood Street Compter, broken open, iii. 429;
Woodstock Street, Hanover Square, Johnson lodges there, i. 111;
iii. 405, n. 6.
_London, a Poem_,
account of its publication, i. 118-31;
correspondence with Cave, i. 120-4;
price paid for it, i. 124, 193, n. 1;
published by Dodsley, i. 123-4;
in May, 1738, i. 118;
the same day as Pope's '1738,' i. 126;
second edition, i. 127;
sold at a shilling a copy, ib., n. 3;
Attorneys attacked, ii. 126, n. 4;
Boileau's and Oldham's imitations of the same satire, i. 118-20;
Boswell quotes it at Greenwich, i. 460;
composed rapidly, i. 125, n. 4;
extracts from it, i. 130;
Oxford, effect produced by it at, i. 127;
Pope's opinion of it, i. 129, 143;
quoted, i. 77, n. 1, n. 3;
rhymes, imperfect, i. 129;
_Thales_ and Savage, i. 125, n. 4.
_London Chronicle_,
Goldsmith's 'apology' published in it, ii. 209;
Johnson writes the _Introduction_, i. 317;
takes it in, i. 318; ii. 103;
printed by Strahan, iii. 221;
mentioned, i. 251, 327, 481; ii. 412.
_London Evening Debates_, iii. 460.
_London Magazine_,
Boswell's _Hypochondriacks_ published in it, iv. 179, n. 5;
debates in Parliament, i. 502;
Wesley attacks it, v. 35, n. 3.
_London Packet_, ii. 209, n. 2.
LONDONERS, ii. 101; iv. 210.
LONG, Dudley (afterwards North), iv. 75, 81, 83.
LONGINUS, i. 3, n. 1.
LONGITUDE,
ascertaining the, i. 267, n. 1, 274, n. 2; ii. 67, n. 1;
parliamentary reward, i. 301;
Swift and Goldsmith refer to it, i. 301, n. 3.
LONGLANDS, Mr., a solicitor, ii. 186.
LONGLEY, Archbishop, iv. 8, n. 3.
LONGLEY, John, Recorder of Rochester, iv. 8.
LONGMAN, Messieurs, i. 183, 290, n. 2.
LONSDALE, first Earl of
brutality to Boswell, ii. 179, n. 3;
courted by him, i. 5, n. 2; v. 113, n. 1;
a cruel tyrant, v. 113, n. 1.
'LOPLOLLY,' i. 378, n. 1.
LORD, valuing a man for being one, iii. 347.
LORD, Scotch, celebrated for drinking, iii. 170, 329.
LORD C., abbreviation for Lord Chamberlain, iii. 34, n. 4.
LORD ----, no mind of his own, iv. 29.
LORD ----, who carried politeness to an excess, iv. 17.
LORD'S DAY BILL OF 1781, iv. 92, n. 5.
LORD'S PRAYER, The, v. 121.
LORDS, few cheat, iii. 353.
LORDS, great, and great ladies, iv. 116.
LORDS, House of. See DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT.
LORDS, ignorance in ancient times, iv. 217.
LORDS, quoting the authority of, iv. 183.
LORT, Rev. Dr., iv. 0 [Transcriber's note: sic], n. 4.
LOUDOUN, Countess of, iii. 366; v. 371.
LOUDOUN, Earl of, iii. 118; v. 178, n. 3;
'jumps for joy,' v. 371;
character by Boswell, v. 372;
by Franklin, ib., n. 3.
LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord (Alexander Wedderburne, afterwards Earl of Rosslyn),
Bute's errand-goer, ii. 354;
career, i. 387;
cold affectation of consequence, iv. 179, n. 1;
Dunning, afraid of, iii. 240, n. 3;
Foote, associates with, i. 504; ii. 374;
Gibbon, congratulated by, iii. 241, n. 2;
Johnson's pension, i. 373-5; 376, 380;
oratory, i. 387;
pronunciation, i. 386;
taught by Sheridan, ib.; iii. 2;
and by Macklin, ib.;
solicited employment, ii. 430, n. 2;
Taylor's, Dr., law-suit, iii. 44;
mentioned, ii. 152, n. 2.
LOUGHBOROUGH, the town, iii. 2.
LOUIS, Brother, the Moravian, iii. 122, n. 1.
LOUIS PHILIPPE, ii. 391, n. 6.
LOVAGE, ii. 361.
LOVAT, Master of, iii. 399, n. 3.
LOVAT, Simon, Lord,
a boast of his, v. 397;
helped to carry off Lady Grange, v. 227, n. 4;
_Lines on his Execution_, i. 180;
monument to his father, v. 234;
trial and execution, i. 181, n. 1; i. 501.
LOVAT, Thomas, Lord, v. 234.
LOVE,
effects exaggerated, ii. 122;
romantic fancy that a man can be in love but once, ii. 460.
LOVE, James, an actor, ii. 159.
_Love and Madness_, iv. 187.
_Love in a Hollow Tree_, iv. 80.
LOVEDAY, John, ii. 258, n. 3.
LOVEDAY, Dr. John, ii. 258, n. 3.
LOVELACE, in _Clarissa_, ii. 341.
LOVIBOND, Edward, i. 101.
LOW COMPANY, iv. 312.
LOW DUTCH,
Johnson studies, ii. 263; iv. 21;
resemblance to English, in. 235; iv. 22.
LOW LIFE, v. 307.
LOWE, Canon, i. 45, 48.
LOWE, Charles, _Life of Prince Bismarck_, iv. 27, n. 1
LOWE, Mauritius,
account of him, iv. 202, n. 1;
house in Hedge Lane, iii. 324, n. 2;
Johnson's bequest to his children, iv. 402, n. 2;
picture refused by the Academy, iv. 201-3;
subscription for his daughters, iv. 202, n. 1;
sups with Johnson, iii. 380;
visits him, iv. 209-10.
LOWNDES, W. T.,
_Bibl. Man_. error about _The World newspaper_, iii. 16, n. 1.
LOWTH, Robert, Bishop of London,
_English Grammar_, iv. 311;
_Prelections_, v. 57, n. 3;
rose by his learning, v. 81;
Warburton, controversy with, ii. 37; v. 125, 423.
LOWTH, William, iii. 58.
LOWTHER FAMILY, v. 113.
LOWTHER, Sir James, a rich miser, v. 112.
LOYALTY OF THE NATION, ii. 370;
blasted for a time, iv. 171, n. 1.
LOYOLA, Ignatius, i. 77.
LUARD, Rev. Dr., iii. 83, n. 3.
_Lucan_, quoted, i. 320, n. 4.
LUCAN, first Earl of,
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
Johnson intimate with him and Lady Lucan, iii. 425; iv. i, n. 1, 326;
anecdote of Johnson as Thrale's executor, iv. 86.
LUCAS, Dr. Charles,
Johnson writes in his defence, i. 311;
reviews his _Essay on Waters_, i. 91, n. 1, 309, 311.
LUCAS, Richard, Enquiry after Happiness, v. 294.
LUCAS DE LINDA, ii. 82.
_Lucian_, iii. 238, n. 2;
Combabus, story of, iii. 238, n. 2;
Epicurean and the Stoick, pleadings of the, iii. 10;
Francklin's translation, iv. 34.
_Lucius Florus_, ii. 237.
_Lucretius_,
quoted, i. 283; iv. 390, n. 3, 425, n. 4;
Tasso borrows a simile from him, iii. 330.
_Luctus_, ii. 371.
LUKE, in _The Traveller_, ii. 6.
LUMISDEN, Andrew, ii. 401, n. 2; v. 194.
LUMM, Sir Francis, ii. 34, n. 1.
LUNARDI, 'the flying man in the balloon,' iv. 357, n. 3, 358, n. 1.
_Lusiad, The_, Johnson's projected translation, iv. 251.
See under MICKLE.
LUTHER, Martin, v. 217.
LUTON, iv. 128.
LUTON HOE, iv. 118, 127.
LUTTEREL, Colonel, ii. 111.
LUXURY,
dread of it visionary, ii. 169-170;
money better spent on it than in almsgiving, iii. 56, 291;
no nation ever hurt by it, ii. 217-9;
produces much good, iii. 55;
querulous declamations against it, iii. 226;
every society as luxurious as it can be, iii. 282;
man not diminished in size by it, v. 358;
reaches very few, ii. 218;
Wesley attacks its apologists, iii. 56, n. 2.
_Lyce, To_, i. 178.
LYDIA, v. 220.
LYDIAT, Thomas, i. 194, n. 2; ii. 7.
LYE, Edward, ii. 17.
LYNNE REGIS, i. 141, 285.
LYONS, iii. 446.
LYSONS ----, of Clifford's Inn, iv. 402, n. 2.
LYTTELTON, George, first Lord,
Boothby, Miss, admired, iv. 57, n. 2;
Boswell's _Corsica_, praises, ii. 46, n. 1;
caricature, lines on him in a, v. 285, n. 1;
character by Chesterfield and Walpole, i. 267, n. 2;
Chesterfield, Cibber, and Johnson, anecdote of, i. 256;
Critical Reviewers, thanks the, iv. 57, 58, n. 1;
_Debates_, speech in the, ii. 61, n. 4;
epitaph on Sir J. Macdonald, v. 151;
_Dialogues of the Dead_, ii. 126, 447; iv. 57;
Goldsmith's _History of England_,
supposed to have written, i. 412, n. 2;
_History of Henry II_, Johnson criticises it to the King, ii. 38;
thirty years spent on it, iii. 32;
punctuation, ib.;
kept back for fear of Smollett, iii. 33;
