SPENSER, Edmund, Bunyan, read by, ii. 238;
_Dictionary_, as an authority for a, iii. 194, n. 2;
George III suggests that Johnson should write his _Life_,
ii. 42, n. 2; iv. 410;
imitations of him, iii. 158, n. 4;
_Ruines of Rome_, iii. 251, n. 1;
'Spenser, Mr. Edmund,' iv. 325, n. 3.
SPHINX, the, iii. 337.
SPINOSA, i. 268, n. 2; iii. 448.
SPIRIT, evidence for. See JOHNSON, spirit.
SPIRITS. See GHOSTS.
SPIRITS, evil, iv. 290.
_Spiritual Quixote_,
its author, a member of Pembroke College, i. 75, n. 3;
and a friend of Shenstone, i. 94, n. 5; ii. 452, n. 4;
on clean shirts, v. 60, n. 4.
SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS,
felicity of drunkenness cheaply attained by them, iii. 381, n. 3;
misery caused by them, ii. 435, n. 7; iii. 292, n. 1;
pleasant poison, v. 346, n. 2.
_Spleen, The_, iii. 38, 405.
SPLENDOUR, iv. 337.
SPOONER, Rev. Mr., v. 73.
SPOTTISWOODE, Dr., ii. 323, n. 2.
SPOTTISWOODE, John, iii. 326-7.
SPRAT, Bishop,
_History of the Royal Society_, iv. 311;
_Life_ quoted, i. 34, n. 5;
meets Bentley, v. 274, n 4;
style, iii. 257, n. 3.
SQUILLS, iv. 355.
_Squire Richard_, iv. 284.
SQUIRES, Rev. Mr., i. 208, n. 3.
STAGE, Mr., iv. 257, n. 2.
STAFFORD, ii. 164, n. 5.
STAFFORDSHIRE,
fruit, very little, iv. 206;
Jacobite fox-hunt, iii. 326, n. 1;
nursery of art, iii. 299, n. 2;
Toryism, its, ii. 461;
two young Methodists from it, ii. 120;
Whig, a Staffordshire, iii. 326.
STAGE. See PLAYERS.
STAGE-COACHES, i. 340, n. 1. See COACH.
STAIR, Earl of, v. 372.
ST. ALBAN'S,
Boswell and Johnson pass the night there, iii. 4;
monument to John Thrale, i. 491, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 459; iv. 80, n. 1.
ST. ALBAN'S, first Duke of, i. 248, n. 2.
ST. ASAPH, ii. 284; v. 436.
ST. AUBYN, Sir John, i. 508.
ST. AUGUSTINE,
'_misericordia domini inter pontem et fontem_' iv. 212, n. 2;
weighed against Jonathan Wild plus three-pence, iv. 291.
ST. CAS, expedition to, i. 338, n. 2.
ST. COLUMBA, v. 335, 337, 338.
ST. CROSS, at Winchester, iii. 124.
ST. CUTHBERT'S DAY, at University College, ii. 445.
ST. GLUVIAS, i. 436.
ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA, i. 77.
ST. JEROME, ii. 358, n. 3.
ST. JOHN. See BOLINGBROKE.
ST. MALO,
expedition sent against it, i. 338, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 82, n. 3.
ST. PAUL,
'chief of sinners,' iv. 294;
converted by supernatural interposition, iii. 295;
fear of being a cast-away, iv. 123;
saw unutterable things, ii. 123;
thorn in the flesh, v. 64;
'warring against the law of his mind,' iv. 396.
ST. PETERSBURGH, iv. 277, n. 1.
ST. QUINTIN, ii. 401.
ST. VITUS'S DANCE, i. 143.
STAMP ACT, Burke's speeches, ii. 16.
STANHOPE, first Earl, i. 160.
STANHOPE, third Earl,
presided at a meeting of the Revolution Society, iv. 40, n. 4.
STANHOPE, fifth Earl,
on the author of _Captain Carleton's Memoirs_, iv. 334, n. 4.
STANHOPE, Mr. (Lord Chesterfield's son),
Boswell's description of him, i. 266, n. 2;
Johnson's, iv. 333, n. 1;
Harte, Dr., his tutor, iv. 78, n. 1. 333:
See CHESTERFIELD, Earl of, Letters to his Son.
STANHOPE, Mr., mentioned in Tickell's _Epistle_, iii. 388, n. 3.
STANISLAUS, King, ii. 405, n. 1.
STANLEY, Dean,
_Memorials of Westminster Abbey_--Ephraim Chambers's epitaph,
i. 219, n. 1;
Goldsmith's epitaph and Johnson's Latin, iii. 82, n. 3;
Johnson's and Macpherson's graves, ii. 298, n. 2.
STANTON, Mr., manager of a company of actors, ii. 464, 465.
STANYAN, Temple, iii. 356.
STAPYLTON, family of, v. 442, n. 3.
_Starvation_, ii. 160, n. 1.
STATE,
its right to regulate religion, ii. 14; iv. 12;
the vulgar are its children, ii. 14; iv. 216.
_State_ used for _statement_, iii. 394.
STATE OF NATURE, v. 365.
_State Trials_, i. 157.
STATIONERS' COMPANY, ii. 345.
STATIUS, i. 252.
STATUARY, ii. 439.
STATUES, reason of their value, iii. 231.
STAUNTON, Dr. (afterwards Sir George),
Johnson's letter to him, i. 367;
_Debates_, iv. 314.
'_Stavo bene, &c._,' ii. 346.
STEELE, Joshua, _Prosodia Rationalis_, ii. 327.
STEELE, Mr., of the Treasury, i. 141.
STEELE, Sir Richard,
Addison's loan, iv. 52, 91;
_Apology_, ii. 448, n. 3;
_British Princes_, ridicules the, ii. 108, n. 2;
_Christian Hero_, ii. 448;
_Conscious Lovers_, i. 491, n. 3;
grammar-schools, account of, i. 44, n. 2;
Ince, praise of, iii. 33;
Marlborough's, Duke of, papers, v. 175, n. 1;
old age, ii. 474, n. 3;
'practised the lighter vices,' ii. 449.
STEEVENS, George,
Boswell complains of his unkindness, iii. 281, n. 3;
praises his principles, iii. 282;
character by Garrick and Parr, iii. 281, n. 3;
Chatterton's poems, iii. 50, n. 5;
Courtenay's _Poetical Review_, mentioned in, i. 223;
Davies, Tom, sneers at, i. 390, n. 3;
Fox's election to the Club, ii. 274, n. 7;
generosity, iii. 100;
assists Mrs. Goldsmith, ib.;
_Hamlet_, proposed emendation of, ii. 204, n. 3;
Hawkins, attacked by, iv. 406, n. 1;
Johnson,
anecdotes of, iv. 324;
not trustworthy, ib., n. 1;
epitaph, iv. 444;
aids, in the _Lives_, iv. 37;
interpretation of two passages in _Hamlet_, iii. 55, n. 2;
letters to him, ii. 273; iii. 100;
levee, attends, ii. 118;
'the old lion,' ii. 284, n. 2;
reflection on Garrick, ii. 192, n. 2;
and the spunging-house, i. 303, n. 1;
and Torre's fireworks, iv. 324;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
election, ii. 273;
present, ii. 318;
literary impostures, his, iv. 178, n. 1;
outlaw, leads the life of an, ii. 375;
deserves to be hanged or kicked, iii. 281;
anonymous attacks, iv. 274;
Rochester's _Poems_, castrates, iii. 191;
Shakespeare, edits, ii. 114, 204;
Shakespearian editors, i. 497, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 58, 107; iii. 354, 386; iv. 438.
STELLA (Mrs. Johnson), ii. 389, n. 1.
_Stella in Mourning_, i. 178.
STEPHANI, the,
Henry Stephens' _Greek Dictionary_, ii. 74, n. 1;
Maittaire's _Stephanorum Historia_, iv. 2;
what they did for literature, iii. 254.
STEPHENS, Alexander, Beckford's speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3.
STEPNEY, George, iv. 36, n. 4.
STERNE, Rev. Laurence,
beggars, iv. 32, n. 4;
death, ii. 222, n. 1;
dinner engagements, ii. 222;
Goldsmith calls him a blockhead, ii. 173, n. 2;
and 'a very dull fellow,' ii. 222;
indecency, ii. 222, n. 2;
Johnson's opinion of him, ii. 222;
Monckton, Miss, finds him pathetic, iv. 109;
_Sentimental Journey_, imitation of it, ii. 175;
_Sermons_ read by Johnson in a coach, iv. 109, n. 1;
seen by him at Dunvegan, v. 227;
_Tristram Shandy_, Burns's bosom favourite, i. 360, n. 2;
'did not last,' ii. 449;
Farmer, Dr., foretells that it will be speedily forgotten,
ii. 449, n. 3;
Gray mentions it, ii. 222, n. 1;
Harris's _Hermes_, anecdote of, ii. 225, n. 2;
Walpole describes it as 'the dregs of nonsense,' ii. 449, n. 3;
references to it, 'daily regularity of a clean shirt,' v. 60, n. 4;
_Lilliburlero_, ii. 347, n. 2.
STEVENAGE, iii. 303.
STEVENS, R., a bookseller, i. 330, n. 3.
STEVENSON, Dr., v. 369.
STEWART, Sir Annesly, iv. 78.
STEWART, Commodore, v. 445.
STEWART, Dugald,
authorship in Scotland, ii. 53, n. 1;
existence of matter, i. 471, n. 2;
Glasgow University, at, v. 369, n. 3;
Hume's Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2;
Select Society, The, v. 393, n. 4;
Smith's, Adam, conversation, iii. 307, n. 2;
peculiarities, iv. 24, n. 2.
STEWART, Francis,
Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187;
Johnson buys his old pocket-book, iii. 418, 421;
and a letter, iv. 262, 265.
STEWART, George, bookseller of Edinburgh, i. 187.
STEWART, Sir James, iii. 205, n. 1.
STEWART, Mr., sent on a secret mission to Paoli, ii. 81.
STEWART, Mrs., iii. 418, 421; iv. 262, 265.
STILL, John, Bishop of Bath and Wells, iv. 420, n. 3.
STILLINGFLEET, Benjamin, iv. 108.
STINTON, Dr., iii. 279; iv. 29.
STOCKDALE, Rev. Percival,
account of him, ii. 113, n. 2;
Johnson's defence of drunkenness, ii. 435, n. 7;
on dictionary-making, ii. 203, n. 3;
on expectations, i. 337, n. 1;
_Works_, edits two volumes of, i. 190, n. 4; 335, n. 3;
_Remonstrance, The_, ii. 113;
Russia, offered a post in, iv. 277, n. 1;
St. Andrews, lodgings at, v. 65, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 148.
STOICK, the, in _Lucian_, iii. 10.
STONE, Mr., iii. 143, n. 1.
STONEHENGE, iv. 234, n. 2.
STOPFORD, General, ii. 376.
STORMONT, seventh Viscount (afterwards second Earl of Mansfield),
v. 362, n, 1.
STORY, Thomas, the Quaker, i,68, n. 1.
STORY, its value depends on its being true, ii. 433.
STOURBRIDGE,
Johnson at the school, i. 49; v. 456, n. 1;
the town formerly in the parish of Old Swinford, v. 432.
STOW, Richard, i. 163, n. 1.
STOWE, iii. 400, n. 2.
STOWELL, Lord. See SCOTT, William.
STRAHAN, Andrew, iv. 371.
STRAHAN, Rev. George, Vicar of Islington (son of William Strahan),
attends Johnson when dying, iv. 415-6;
Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
_Prayers and Meditations_, edits, i. 235, n. 1; ii. 476; iv. 376-7;
omits some passages, iv. 84, n. 4;
visits him, iv. 271, 415;
will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 37, n. 1; iv. 49.
STRAHAN, William, the King's Printer,
purchaser in whole or in part of Blair's _Sermons_, iii. 97;
_Cook's Voyages_, ii. 247, n. 5;
_Duke of Berwick's Life_, iii. 286;
_Gibbon's Decline and Fall_, ii. 136, n. 6; iii. 97, n. 3;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, i. 287; iv. 32l;
_Journey to the Western Isles_, ii. 94;
_Patriot_, ii. 288;
_Rasselas_, i. 341;
Mackenzie's _Man of Feeling_, i. 360;
Boswell's praise of him, i. 288;
breakfast and dinner at his house, ii. 321; iii. 400;
coach, keeps his, ii. 226;
Elphinston's _Martial_, iii. 258;
epigram, how far a judge of an, iii. 258;
Franklin's letter to him on their rise in the world, ii. 226, n. 2;
on the American war, iii. 364, n. 1;
Gordon Riots, iii. 428-9, 435;
Hume left him his manuscripts, ii. 136, n, 6;
corrected Hume's style, v. 92, n. 3;
Johnson's altercation with Adam Smith, iii. 331;
attempts to bring, into Parliament, ii. 137-9;
difference with, iii. 364;
friendly agent, ii. 136;
interested in one of his apprentices, ii. 323;
letter to him, iii. 364;
letters to Scotland, franked, iii. 364;
one of a deputation to, iii. 111;
_London Chronicle_, printer of the, iii. 221;
member of parliament, ii. 137;
obtuse, iii. 258;
Robertson's style, corrected, v. 92, n. 3;
small certainties, on, ii. 322;
Smith's, Adam, letter to him, v. 30;
Spottiswoode, Dr., his greatgrandson, ii. 323, n. 2;
Warburton's letter, shows, v. 92-3;
Wedderburne, anecdote of, ii. 430;
mentioned, i. 243, 303, n. 1; ii. 34, n. 1, 282, 310.
STRAHAN, Mrs. (wife of William Strahan),
Johnson's letters to her, iv. 100, 140;
mentioned, i. 212.
STRAHAN, William, junior, death, iv. 100.
STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, v. 225.
_Stranger, The_, iv. 244, n. 1.
STRATAGEM, iii. 275, 324, n. 3.
STRATFORD-ON-AVON,
Boswell and Johnson drink tea there, ii. 453;
Jubilee, ii. 68;
Shakespeare's mulberry-tree, ii. 470.
_Stratford Jubilee, The_, ii. 471.
STRATICO, Professor, i. 371.
STRAW, balancing a, iii. 231.
_Straw, beating his_, ii. 374.
STREATHAM,
Church, Thrale's monument, iv. 85, n. 1;
Johnson's farewell, iv. 159;
Common, ii. 72, n. 1;
Thrale's Villa, Boswell's first visit to it, ii. 77;
visit in 1778, iii. 225;
dining-room, iii. 348;
luxurious dinners, iii. 423, n. 1;
Johnson gives a bible to one of the maids, iii. 247;
'home,' i. 493, n. 3; iii. 405, n. 6, 451;
laboratory, iii. 398, n. 3;
last dinner, iv. 159, n. 1;
musing over the fire, ii. 109, n. 2;
parting use of the library, iv. 158;
library, compared with the one at St. Andrews, v. 64, n. 1;
pictures round it, iv. 158, n. 1;
'none but itself can be its parallel,' iii. 395, n. 1;
Omai dines there, iii. 8;
Shelburne, Lord, let to, iv. 158, n. 4;
summerhouse, iv. 134;
village, iii. 451;
mentioned, iii. 392.
STREETS, passengers who excite risibility, i. 217.
STRICHEN, Lord, v. 107, n. 1.
STRICKLAND, Mrs., iii. 118, n. 3.
STRIKES in London, iii. 46, n. 5.
STUART, Andrew,
duel with Thurlow, ii. 230, n. 1;
_Letters to Lord Mansfield_, ii. 229-30, 475.
STUART, Gilbert, iii. 334, n. 1.
STUART, Hon. Colonel James (afterwards Stuart-Wortley),
Boswell, accompanies him to London, iii. 399;
to Lichfield, iii. 411;
to Chester, iii. 413;
raises a regiment, iii. 399;
ordered to Jamaica, iii. 416, n. 2.
STUART, Rev. James, of Killin, ii. 28, n. 2.
STUART, Hon. and Rev. W., iv. 199.
STUART, Mrs. ii. 377, n. 1.
STUART, the House of,
Johnson defends it, i. 354;
has little confidence in it, i. 430;
maintains its popularity, iii. 155-6; iv. 165;
his tenderness for it, i. 176;
right to the throne, ii. 220; iii. 156; v. 185, n. 4, 202-4;
Scotch Episcopal Church, faithful to it, iii. 371;
Scotch non-jurors give up their allegiance, iv. 287;
Voltaire sums up its story, v. 200;
mentioned, ii. 26.
STUART CLAN, ii. 270.
STUBBS, George, iv. 402, n. 2.
_Student, The, or Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany_, i. 209, 228.
STUDIED BEHAVIOUR, i. 470.
STUDY,
all times wholesome for it, iv. 9;
Johnson's advice to Boswell, i. 410, 457, 460, 474; iii--407;
five hours a day sufficient, i. 428;
particular plan not recommended, i. 428;
studying hard, i. 70.
_Stultifying_ oneself, v. 342.
STYLE,
elegance universally diffused, iii. 243;
foreign phrases dragged in, iii. 343, n. 3;
Hume and Mackintosh on English prose, iii. 257, n. 3;
Johnson's dislike of Gallicisms, i. 439;
metaphors, iii. 174; iv. 386, n. 1;
peculiar to every man, iii. 280;
seventeenth century style bad, iii. 243;
studiously formed, i. 225;
Temple gave cadence to prose, iii. 257;
unharmonious periods, iii. 248;
which is the best? ii. 191.
See under ADDISON and JOHNSON.
STYLE, Old and New, i. 236, n. 2, 251.
SUARD,
Johnson introduces him to Burke, iv. 20, n. 1;
Voltaire and Mrs. Montague, ii. 88, n. 3.
SUBORDINATION,
breaking the series of civil subordination, ii. 244;
broken down, iii. 262;
conducive to the happiness of society, i. 408, 442; ii. 219;
iii. 26; v. 353;
essential for order, iii. 383;
feudal, ii. 262; v. 106;
French happy in their subordination, v. 106;
grand scheme of it, i. 490;
high people the best, iii. 353;
Johnson's great merit in being zealous for it, ii. 261;
Mrs. Macaulay's footman, i. 447; iii. 77;
mean marriages to be punished, ii. 328-9;
men not naturally equal, ii. 13;
promoted by a Corsican hangman, i. 408, n. 1;
without it no intellectual improvement, ii. 219.
SUBSCRIPTION to the Thirty-nine Articles. See THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES.
SUCCESSION, male,
Boswell and the Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-423;
Johnson's advice to Boswell, ii. 415-423;
his zeal for it in Langton's case, ii. 261;
as regards the Thrale family, ii. 469; iii. 95.
SUCKLING, Sir John, _Aglaura_, iii. 319, n. 1.
SUENO, King of Norway, v. 289.
