BAKER, ----, an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2.
BAKER, Mrs., ii. 31.
_Bakers Biographia Dramatica_, iv. 37, n. 1.
_Baker's Chronicle_, v. 12.
BALDWIN, Henry, the printer, i. 10, 15; ii. 34, n. 1; iv. 321; v. 1, n. 5.
BALFOUR, John, v. 39, n. 2.
BALIOL, John, v. 204.
BALLADS, modern imitations ridiculed, ii. 212.
BALLANTYNE, Messrs., v. 253, n. 3.
BALLINACRAZY, a young man of, iii. 252.
BALLOONS, account of them, iv. 356, n. 1;
failure of one, iv. 355-6;
first ascent, iv. 357, n. 3;
mere amusement, iv. 358;
one burnt, ib.;
paying for seats, iv. 359;
wings, ib.;
'do not write about the balloon,' iv. 368;
at Oxford, iv. 378.
BALLOW, Henry, a lawyer, iii. 22.
BALMERINO, Lord, i. 180; v. 406, n. 3.
BALMUTO, Lord, v. 70, n. 1.
BALTIC, Johnson's projected tour, ii. 288, n. 3; iii. 134, 454.
BALTIMORE, Lord, iii. 9, n. 4.
BAMBALOES, v. 55, n. 1.
BANCROFT, Bishop, i. 59.
BANKS, Sir Joseph,
admires Johnson's description of Iona, iii. 173, n, 3; v. 334 n. 1;
letter to him, and motto for his goat, ii. 144;
funeral, at, iv. 419;
Literary Club, i. 479; iii. 365, 368;
proposed expedition, ii. 147, 148; iii. 454;
accompanies Captain Cook, v. 328, n. 2, 392, n. 6;
account of Otaheite, v. 246.
BANKS, ----, of Dorsetshire, i. 145.
BAPTISM, by immersion, i. 91, n. 1;
sprinkling, iv. 289;
Barclay's _Apology_ on it, ii. 458.
BAR. See LAW _and_ LAWYERS.
BARBADOES, iv. 332.
_Barbarossa_, ii. 131, n. 2.
BARBAROUS SOCIETY, i. 393.
BARBAULD, Mrs., Boswell, lines on, ii. 4, n. 1;
_Eighteen hundred and Eleven_, ii. 408, n. 3;
genius and learning, on the want of respect to, iv. 117, n. 1;
Johnson's style, imitation of, iii. 172;
_Lessons for Children_, ii. 408, n. 3; iv. 8, n. 3;
marriage and school, ii. 408;
pupils, ib., n. 3;
Priestley, lines, on, iv. 434;
Richardson not sought by 'the great,' iv. 117, n. 1.
BARBER, Francis, account of him, i. 239, n. 1;
Johnson's bequest to him, ii. 136, n. 2; iv. 284, 401, 402, n. 2, 440;
death-bed, iv. 415, n. 1, 418;
devotion to, iv. 370, n. 5;
_Diary_, has fragments of, i. 27; iv. 405, n. 2; v. 427, n. 1;
letters from: see JOHNSON, letters;
prays with him, iv. 139;
instructs him in religion, ii. 359; iv. 417;
recommends him to Windham, iv. 401, n. 4;
sends him to school, ii. 62, 115, 146;
state after his wife's death, describes, i. 241;
Langton, visits, i. 476, n. 1;
Lichfield, retires to, iv. 402, n. 2;
sea, at, i. 348;
returns to service, i. 350;
mentioned, i. 235, 237; ii. 5, 214, 282, 376, 386; iii. 22, 44, 68,
92, 207, 222, 371, 400; iv. 142, 283; v. 53.
BARBER, Mrs. Francis, i. 237; v. 427, n. 1.
BARBEYRAC, i. 285.
BARCLAY, Alexander, i. 277.
BARCLAY, James, an Oxford student, i. 498; v. 273.
BARCLAY, Robert, of Ury, ancestor of Barclay the brewer, iv. 118, n. 1;
_Apology for the Quakers_, in Paoli's library, ii. 61, n. 3;
on infant baptism, ii. 458.
BARCLAY, Robert, the brewer, account of him, iv. 118, n. i;
anecdote of Boswell's tablets, i. 6, n. 2;
buys Thrale's brewery, iv. 86, n. 2;
holds money of Johnson's, iv. 402, n. 2.
BARD, a reverend, iii. 374.
BARETTI, Joseph, account of him, i. 302; iii. 96, n. 1;
Barber's devotion to Johnson, describes, iv. 370, n. 5;
Boswell, dislikes, ii. 97, n. 1; v. 121;
calls not quite right-headed, iii. 135, n. 2;
_Carmen Sectilare_, adapts the, iii. 373;
character by Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 57, n. 3;
at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1;
by Miss Burney and Malone, iii. 96, n. 1;
conversation, ii. 57;
copy-money in Italy, on, iii. 162;
Davies, quarrel with, ii. 205;
_Dialogues_, ii. 449;
ducking-stool, describes a, iii. 287, n. 1;
_Easy Lessons in Italian and English_, ii. 290;
English love of melted butter and roast veal, i. 470, n. 2;
fees in England, on, v. 90, n. 2;
Foote's conversations, describes, iii. 185, n. 1;
'French not a cheerful race,' ii. 402, n. 1;
French prisoners, i. 353, n. 2;
foreigners in London, i. 353, n. 2;
_Frusta Letteraria_, iii. 173;
hatred of mankind, ii. 8;
infidelity, ii. 8;
_Italian and English Dictionary_, i, 353;
Italy, revisits, i. 361; ii. 8, n. 3;
_Italy, account of the Manners and Customs of_, ii. 57;
Johnson, calls him a bear, ii. 66;
charity, i. 302, n. 1;
and Mr. Cholmondeley, iv. 345, n. 6;
delight in old acquaintance, iv. 374, n. 4;
in France, ii. 401, n. 3;
habit of musing, v. 73, n. 1;
ignorance of character, v. 17, n. 2;
letters from, i. 361, 369, 380;
memory, iii. 3l8, n. 1; v. 368, n. 1;
payment for _Rasselas_, i. 341, n. 3;
prejudice against foreigners, iv. 15, n. 3;
and 'Presto's supper,' iv. 347;
and Mrs. Salusbury, ii. 263, n. 6;
trade was wisdom, iii. 137, n. 1;
verse-making, ii. 15, n. 4;
want of toleration, ii. 252, n. 1;
want of observation, iii. 423, n. 1;
_Journey from London to Genoa,_ i. 361, n. 3, 365, n. 2;
languages, knowledge of, i. 361-2; ii. 386;
London, love of, i. 371, n. 5;
Madrid in 1760, v. 23, n. 1;
_Misella's story,_ i. 223, n. 2;
Newgate, in, ii. 97, n. 1;
_Pater Noster_, ignorance about the, v. 121, n. 4;
Piozzi, Mrs., attacked by, iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1;
his brutal attack on her, iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1;
portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
_Rasselas_, translates, ii. 208, n. 2;
Reynolds's _Discourses_, translates, iii. 96;
robbers, never met any, iii. 239, n. 1;
Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the, ii. 97, n. 1;
_Spectator_, effect of reading a, iv. 32;
Thrales, projected tour to Italy with the, iii. 19, 27, n. 3,97, n. 1;
accompanies them to Bath, iii. 6;
hopes for an annuity from them, iii. 96, n. 1;
money payments from them, ib., 97;
quarrels with them, iii. 96;
apparent reconciliation, ib., n. 1;
Thrale's, Mr., grief for his son's death, describes, iii. 18;
his appetite, iii. 423, n. 1;
Thrale, Mrs., flatters, iii. 49, n. 1;
mentions her echo of Johnson's 'beastly kind of wit,' ii. 349, n. 5;
_Tolondron_, iv. 370, n. 5;
_Travels through Spain_, i. 382, n. 2;
tried for murder, ii. 94, 96-8;
consultation for the defence, iv. 324;
Williams, Mrs., describes, ii. 99, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 260, 274, 278, 336.
BARKER'S Bible, v. 444.
BARNARD, Rev. Dr., Dean of Derry, afterwards Bishop of Killaloe, arbitrary
power, in favour of, iii. 84, n. 1;
Johnson's charade on him, iv. 195;
double-edged wit, ii. 307;
draws up a Round-Robin to, iii. 84;
and Garrick coming up to London, i. 101, n. 1;
regard for him, iv. 115;
writes verses on, iv. 115, n. 4, 431-3;
kept his countenance, iv. 99;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
presents it with a hogshead of claret, iii. 238;
Twalmley and Virgil, iv. 193;
Wilkes, sarcasm on, iv. 107, n. 2.
BARNARD, Dr. (Provost of Eton), account of him, iii. 426, n. 1;
Johnson at Mr. Vesey's, meets, iii. 425-6, ib., n. 4;
breeding, does justice to, iii. 54, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 449, n. 2.
BARNARD, Francis, King's librarian, ii. 33, 40;
Johnson's letter to him, 33. n. 4.
BARNARD, Sir John, i. 503.
BARNES, Joshua, attacked by Baxter, W., v. 376;
dedication to the Duke of Marlborough, v. 376, n. 3;
Greek, knowledge of, iv. 19;
Homer and Solomon identified, iv. 19, n. 2;
Maccaronic verses, iii. 284.
BARNET, iii. 4; v. 428.
BARNEWALL, Nicholas, iii. 227, n. 3.
BARNSTON, Miss Letitia, iii. 413, n. 3.
BARON, 'the Baron and the Barrister united,' iii. 16, n. 1.
BARONET, story of a, v. 353.
BARONETS, _regular_, v. 322, n. 1.
BARRET, William, the Bristol surgeon, iii. 50.
BARRETIER, Philip, education, his, ii. 407, n. 5;
Johnson, resemblance to, i. 71, n. 1;
_Life_, by Johnson, i. 148, 149, n. 3;
_Additions to the Life_, i. 153; republished, i. 161.
BARRINGTON, Hon. Daines, _Essay on the Migration of Birds_, ii. 248;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 436;
Johnson seeks his acquaintance, iii. 314;
Observations on the Statutes, iii. 314;
mentioned, iv. 112.
BARRINGTON, Lord, v. 77, n. 2.
BARRISTERS. See LAWYERS.
BARROW, Dr., iv. 105, n. 4.
BARROWBY, Dr., iv. 292.
BARRY, Sir Edward, M.D., _System of Physic_, iii. 34.
BARRY, James, the painter,--Burke, William, letter from, ii. 16, n. 1;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 436;
French with the Irish, contrasts the, ii. 402, n. 1;
Johnson, compliments, iv. 224, n. 1;
letter from, iv. 202;
praises his pictures, iv. 224;
Reynolds, quarrels with, iv. 436;
women, on the employment of, ii. 362, n. 1.
BARRY, Spranger, the actor, i. 196, n. 3, 197; ii. 349, n. 6.
BARTER,--, a miller, ii. 164.
BARTOLOZZI, Francis, iii. 111; iv. 421, n. 2.
BARTON in Yorkshire, i. 239, n. 1.
BARTON, Mr. A. T., Fellow of Pembroke College, v. 117, n. 4.
_Bas Bleu_, iii. 293, n. 5; iv. 108.
BASKERVILLE, John, _Barclay's Apology_, edition of, ii. 458;
_Virgil_, ii. 67.
_Bastard, The_, i. 166.
BASTIA, i. 119, n. 1; ii. 4, n. 1.
BAT, formation of the, iii. 342.
BATE, Rev. Henry (Sir H. Dudley), account of him, iv. 296.
BATE, James, i. 79, n. 2.
BATEMAN, Edmund, tutor of Christ Church, i. 76.
BATH, account of it, iii. 45, n. 1.
Boswell and Johnson visit it in 1776, iii. 6;
epigram on a religious dispute held there, iv. 289, n. 1;
Goldsmith visits it, ii. 136;
Gordon Riots, suffers from the, iii. 428, n. 4, 435, n. 1;
Harington, Dr., iv. 180;
'King of Bath,' i. 394, n. 2, 455;
lectures, i. 394, n. 2; ii. 7, n. 4;
Miller, Lady, ii. 336;
musical lessons, price of, iii. 422;
Paoli visits it, v. 1, n. 3;
smoking in the rooms, v. 60, n. 2;
Thrale family visits it in 1776, iii. 6;
in 1780, iii. 421;
Mrs. Piozzi in 1816, v. 427, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 441; iv. 140.
BATH, William Pulteney, Earl of, his oratory, i. 152;
a paltry fellow, v. 339;
'Pulnub' and 'Hon. Marcus Cato,' i. 502;
Williams's, Sir C. H., lines on him, v. 268, n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 239.
BATHEASTON VILLA, ii. 336.
BATHIANI, ii. 390.
BATHS, cold, i. 91, n. 1;
medicated, ii. 99.
BATHURST, Colonel, i. 239, n. 1.
BATHURST, Dr., account of him, i. 190, 242, n. 1;
_Adventurer_, wrote for the, i. 234, 252, 254;
Barber, F., his father's slave, i. 239, n. 1;
company of a new person, on the, iv. 33;
death, i. 242, n. 1, 382;
'hater, a very good,' i. 190, n. 2;
Johnson, letters to, i. 242, n. 1;
'recommended' by, i. 240, n. 5;
medical practice, i. 242, n. 1;
on slavery, iv. 28;
mentioned, i. 183.
BATHURST, first Earl,
Pope's friend, iii. 347; iv. 50;
account of Pope's _Essay on Man_, iii. 402-3;
speeches, i. 151, 509.
BATHURST, second Earl, Lord Chancellor; Dodd, Dr., attempts to bribe him,
iii. 139, n. 3;
writes to him, iii. 142.
BATHURST, Lady, iii. 139, n. 3.
BATHURST, Ralph, verses to Hobbes, iv. 402, n. 2.
_Batrachomyomachia_, v. 459.
BATRACHUS, iv. 445.
BATTIE, Dr., iv. 161, n. 4.
BATTISTA ANGELONI (Dr. Shebbeare), iv. 113.
BATTLES, fighting, for a man, ii. 474.
BATTOLOGIA, v. 444.
_Baudius on Erasmus_, v. 444.
_Baviad and Maeviad_, iii. 16, n. 1.
BAXTER, Andrew, v. 81, n. 1.
BAXTER, Rev. Richard, _Call to the Unconverted_, iv. 257;
Johnson praises all his books, iv. 226;
Kidderminster, sermon at, iv. 226, n. 2;
_Reasons of the Christian Religion_, iv. 237;
rule of preaching, iv. 185;
scruple, troubled by a, ii. 477;
suicide, on the salvation of a, iv. 225;
toleration, on, ii. 253;
mentioned, i. 205; v. 89.
BAXTER, William, _Anacreon_. See ANACREON.
Barnes, the antagonist of, v. 376;
_Horace_, edition of, iii. 74, n. 1.
'BAYES,' character of, ii. 168; iii. 373.
BAYLE, confutation of him by Leibnitz, v. 287;
his _Dictionary_, i. 425;
_Life_, by Des Maizeaux, i. 29, n. 1;
Menage, his account of, iv. 428, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 285.
BEACH, Thomas, ii. 240, n. 4.
BEACONSFIELD, Johnson visits it in 1774, ii. 285, n. 3; v. 460;
Mackintosh visits it in 1793, iv. 316, n. 1.
BEAR., See JOHNSON, bear.
BEAR-GARDEN 'Bruisers,' i. 111, n. 2.
BEARCROFT,--, a barrister, iii. 389, n. 4.
BEATON, Cardinal, v. 63.
BEATON, Rev. Mr., v. 227.
BEATTIE, Dr. James,
complains of Boswell, v. 96, n. 2;
correspondence with him, ii. 148, n. 2; v. 15-16;
Burns, praised by, v. 273, n. 4;
'caressed by the great,' ii. 264;
conversation, iii. 339, n. 1; iv. 323, n. 2;
English, describes a Scotchman's study of, i. 439, n. 2;
English and Scotch universities compared, v. 85, n. 2;
_Essay on Truth_, editions and translations, ii. 201, n. 3;
a thing of the past, v. 273, n. 4;
Goldsmith's opinion of it, ii. 201, n. 3; v. 273, n. 4;
Johnson's opinion of it, ii. 201, 203; v. 29;
Forbes, _Life_ by, v. 25, n. 1;
Gray, visited by, v. 16;
hackney coaches, No. 1 and No. 1000, sees, iv. 330;
_Hermit_, iv. 186;
Hume, controversy with: See above, _Essay on Truth_;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3;
gentler manner, speaks of, iv. 101, n. 1;
letter from, iii. 434;
praise of Hannah More, iii. 293, n. 5;
regard for him, ii. 148, 149;
his love of--, iii. 435, n. 1;
use of wine, i. 103, n. 3;
visits, ii. 141, n. 3, 142, 145, 203; v. 16;
Monboddo's hatred of Johnson, iv. 273, n. 1;
_Ode on Lord Hay_, v. 105;
_original principles_, his, i. 471;
Oxford degree of D.C.L., ii. 267, n. 1; v. 90, n. 1, 273, n. 4;
pension, ii. 264, n. 2; v. 90, n. 1, 360;
Professor at Aberdeen, ii. 141, 145; v. 15;
Reynolds's allegorical picture of him, v. 90, n. 1, 273, n. 4;
Robertson, compared with, ii. 195, n. 1;
Thrale's bequest to Johnson, on, iv. 86, n. 1;
Warburton and Strahan, anecdote of, v. 92, n. 3;
Wilkes, meets, iv. 101;
wine, indulges in, iv. 330, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1, 205, 259, 265-6; iii. 82, 123; iv. 332.
BEATTIE, Mrs., ii. 145, 148.
BEAUCLERK, Hon. Topham,
account of him by Boswell and Johnson, i. 248 250;
Burke, ii. 246, n. 1;
Johnson, iii. 420, 424;
Langton, ib.;
absent-minded, i. 249, n. 1;
Adelphi, 'box' at the, ii. 378, n. 1;
Addison's _Remarks on Italy_, ii. 346;
adultery, his, with Lady Bolingbroke whom he afterwards married,
ii. 246; iii. 349; v. 303;
Baretti and Johnson's projected Italian tour, iii. 19;
Baretti's trial, ii. 97, n. 1, 98;
'Beau,' name of, ii. 258;
'_bear_, like a word in a catch,' ii. 347;
Boswell an unnatural Scotchman, calls, iii. 388;
zealous for his election to the Literary Club, ii. 235; v. 76;
Charles II, descended from, i. 248; iii. 390, n. 1;
chemistry, love of, i. 250;
children, his, iii. 420;
conversation, i. 248; iii. 390, 425; iv. 433; v. 76;
little affected by his travels, iii. 352, 449, 458;
Cumberland's _Odes_, iii. 43, n. 3;
Davies, Tom, clapping a man on the back, ii. 344;
death, iii. 420, 424;
dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 235. 325, 378, n. 1; iii. 354, 387;
facility, wonderful, iii. 425;
'frisk,' his, i. 250;
gambling at Venice, i. 381, n. 1;
gaming-club, account of a, iii. 23;
Garrick's portrait, inscription on, iv. 96;
Goldsmith and Malagrida, iv. 175, n. 1;
health, his, ii. 292, 311; iii. 104, 417;
Italy, tour to, i. 369, 381;
Johnson, first acquaintance with, i. 248;
accompanies to Cambridge, i. 487;
affection for him, iv. 10, 99, 180;
altercations with, iii. 281, 384;
reconciliation, iii. 385;
and Mme. de Boufflers, ii. 405;
'coalition' with, i. 249;
dress as a dramatic author, i. 200, n. 4:
and Thomas Hervey, ii. 32;
and a Mr. Hervey, iii. 194-6, 209-211;
Jacobitism, i. 430;
levee, attends, ii. 118;
marriage, i. 96;
pension, saying about, i. 250;
portrait, inscription on, iv. 180;
and the two dogs, ii. 299; v. 329;
use of orange peel, ii. 330;
visits him at Windsor, i. 250;
Johnson's Court, veneration for, ii. 229;
laboratory, his, ii. 378, n. 1;
library, his, ii. 378, n. 1;
sold, iii. 420, n. 4; iv. 105;
sermons in it, ib.;
_Lilliburlero_, effect of, ii. 347;
