Literary Club, original member of the, i. 477, 478, n. 2;
describes it, ii. 192, n. 2, 274, n. 3;
manner, his, acid, ii. 362, n. 2;
lively, ii. 405; iii. 390;
Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, could not read, v. 245;
mother, his, iii. 420; v. 295;
Muswell Hill, house at, ii. 378, n. 1;
Pope's lines on Foster, mentioned, iv. 9;
predominance over his company, iii. 390;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
same one day as another, iii. 192;
satire, love of, i. 249; 'see him again,' iv. 197;
Smith's, Adam, talk, iv. 24, n. 2;
Spence's _Anecdotes of Pope_, iv. 9;
story, mode of telling a, iii. 390;
Thrale, Mrs., hated by, i. 249, n. 1;
truthfulness, his, v. 329, n. 1;
wife, treatment of his, ii. 246, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 357; ii. 318, 379; iii. 209, n. 3; iv. 27, 33, n. 3, 76,
113; v. 103, 215.
BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana, wife of Topham Beauclerk,
account of her, ii. 246, n. 1;
Boswell's 'apology' for her, ii. 246;
bet with her, ii. 330;
charming conversation, ii. 240;
Langton's height, joke about, i. 336, n. 5;
gives him Johnson's portrait, iv. 96;
nurses her husband with assiduity; ii. 292;
left guardian of his children, iii. 420.
BEAUCLERK, Lord Sidney, Topham Beauclerk's father, i. 248, n. 2.
BEAUCLERK, Lady Sydney, v. 295.
BEAUFORT, Duchess of (in 1780), iii. 425.
BEAUMONT, Francis, i. 75, n. 3.
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, co-operation, their literary, ii. 334;
Garrick's adaptation of _The Chances_, ii. 233, n. 4;
Seward's edition of their plays, ii. 467.
_Beauties of Johnson_, iv. 148-151, 421, n. 2.
_Beauties of the Rambler_, i. 214.
BEAUTY, independent of utility, ii. 166; iv. 167.
BEAUX STRATAGEM, Archer quoted, v. 133, n. 1;
acted by Garrick, iii. 52;
Boniface praises his ale, ii. 461;
is done good to by Latin, iii. 89, n. 2;
Scrub, iii. 70.
BECKENHAM, iv. 313.
BECKET, T., the bookseller, ii. 294.
BECKFORD, Alderman, account of him, iii. 76, n. 2;
Chatterton's gain by his death, iii. 201, n. 3;
his English, iii. 76, 201;
Lord Mayor, iii. 459;
monument in Guildhall, iii. 201.
BEDFORD, iv. 132.
BEDFORD, fourth Duke of,
attack on the ministry in 1766, iv. 316;
vails, tries to abolish, ii. 78, n. 1;
vice-roy in Ireland, ii. 130, n. 3.
BEDFORD, fifth Duke of, iii. 284; iv. 126.
BEDFORD, Hilkiah, iv. 286, n. 3.
BEDFORDSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 399.
BEDLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 374;
curiosities of London, one of the, ii. 374, n. 1;
houses built near it, iv. 208.
BEER, allowance of, to servants and soldiers, iii. 9, n. 4.
_Beggar's Opera. See_ GAY, John.
BEGGARS, beg more readily from men than women, iv. 32;
English compared with Scotch, v. 75, n. 1;
many in want of work, iii. 401;
their trade overstocked, iii. 401;
mentioned, iii. 26. See ALMSGIVING.
BEHMEN, Jacob, ii. 122.
BELCHIER, John, the surgeon, iii. 57.
BELGRADE, Siege of, ii. 181.
BELIEF, attacks on it, iii. it; v. 288, n. 3.
BELL, Dr., iv. 1, n. 1.
BELL, Rev. Dr., ii. 204, n. 1.
BELL, Rev. Mr., of Strathaven, iii. 360.
BELL, Mrs., Johnson's epitaph on her, ii. 204, n. 1.
BELL, John, _Travels_, ii. 55.
BELL, John, the bookseller, _Lives of the Poets_, ii. 453, n. 2; iii. 110.
BELLAMY, Mrs., acts in Dodsley's _Cleone_, i. 325, n. 3, 326;
Johnson, letter to, iv. 244, n. 2.
BELLEISLE, iii. 343, n. 2.
BELLEISLE, The, a man-of-war, i. 378, n. 1.
_Bellerophon_, i. 277, n. 4.
BELSHAM, William, _Essay on Dramatic Poetry_, i. 389, n. 2.
BEMBRIDGE,--, iv. 223, n. 3.
BENEDICTINES. See PARIS, BENEDICTINES.
_Benefit, free_, v. 243.
BENEVOLENCE, motive to action, iii. 48: mingled with vanity, ib.
BENEVOLISTS, The, iii. 149, n. 2.
BENGAL, iii. 134, n. 1, 233, 455.
BENNET, James, editor of Ascham's _Works_, i. 464.
BENSLEY, Robert, the actor, ii. 45.
BENSON, William, his monument to Milton, i. 227, n. 4; v. 95, n. 2.
BENTHAM, Dr. E., ii. 445.
BENTHAM, Jeremy, on convict-labour, iii. 268, n. 4;
Shelburne's, Lord, wretched education, iii. 36, n. 1;
fearlessness as a minister, iv. 174, n. 4.
BENTLEY, Dr., attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 174;
Barnes's Greek, iv. 19, n. 2;
Boyle, attacked by, v. 238, n. 1;
Cunninghame, criticised by, v. 373;
_Epistles of Phalaris_, iv. 443;
_Horace, Comments on_, ii. 444; iii. 74, n. 1;
Johnson, celebrated by, i. 153, n. 7; v. 174;
'no man written down but by himself,' i. 381, n. 3; v. 274;
Pope and Homer, iii. 256, n. 4;
Preface to his edition of _Paradise Lost_, iv. 24, n. 1;
scholarship perhaps unequalled, iv. 217;
Scotchman, not a, ii. 363, n. 4;
studied hard, i. 71; iv. 21; v. 316;
verses, his, iv. 23;
Wasse's _Greek Trochaics_, v. 445.
BENTLEY, Richard, Junior, iv. 289, n. 1.
BERESFORD, Mrs. and Miss, iv. 283-4.
BERESFORD, Rev. Mr., iii. 284.
BERKELEY, Bishop,
Burke's projected answer to his theory, i. 471;
non-existence of matter, on the, i. 471; iv. 27;
profound scholar, ii. 132;
'reverie,' his, iii. 165;
Warburton's ignorant criticism on him, v. 81, n. 1.
BERRENGER, Richard, iv. 88, 90.
BERWICK, ii. 266.
BERWICK, Duke of, Memoirs, iii. 286.
BESBOROUGH, Earl of, v. 263.
BEST, H. D.,
Gibbon and the Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2;
George Langton, and his pedigree, i. 248, n. 1;
Johnson's visit to Langton, i. 477, n. 1.
BETHUNE, Rev. Mr., v. 208.
BETTERTON, Thomas, iii. 185.
BETTESWORTH, Rev. E., i. 464, n. 2.
BETTESWORTH, Sergeant, iii. 377, n. 1.
_Betty Broom_, iv. 246.
BEWLEY, William, the Philosopher of Massingham, iv. 134.
BEZA, ii. 289.
BIAS the philosopher, iii. 312, n. 5.
BIBLE, The,
calculation for reading it in a year, i. 72, n. 2;
Johnson reads it through, ii. 189, n. 3;
should be read with a commentary, iii. 58;
subscribing it instead of the Articles, ii. 151.
_Bibliopole_, ii. 345.
_Bibliotheca Harleiana_, i. 153.
_Bibliotheca Literaria_, v. 445.
_Bibliotheque, Johnson's scheme of a, i. 283-285.
_Bibl. des Fees_, ii. 391.
_Bibliotheque des Savans_, i. 323.
BICKERSTAFF, Isaac, _account of him_, ii. 82, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 84.
BICKNELL, J. L., i. 315.
_Big_, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 348; v. 425.
_Big man_, ii. 14.
BIGAMY, v. 217.
_Bills_, i. 376.
BINDLEY, James, i. 15.
BINNING, Lord, ii. 186; iii. 331.
_Biographia Britannica_, first edition, iv. 272, n. 4;
Dr. John Campbell a contributor, ii. 447;
Johnson asked to edit a new edition, iii. 174;
edited by Kippis, ib.;
account of it, ib. n. 3.
BIOGRAPHICAL CATECHISM, iv. 376.
BIOGRAPHY, authentic material difficult to get, iii. 71;
best when autobiography, i. 25;
can be written only by a man's intimates, ii. 166, 446; iii. 155, n. 3;
Goldsmith's praise of it, v. 79, n. 3;
Johnson's excellence in it, i. 256; iv. 34, n. 5;
fondness for it, i. 425; iii. 206, n. 1; iv. 34; v. 79;
literary, ii. 40; v. 240;
method of writing it, i. 32;
men should be drawn as they are, i. 31; iv. 53, 395; v. 238;
'common cant' against it, iii. 275, n. 2;
minute particulars to be given, i. 33;
and peculiarities, iii. 154;
rarely well executed, ii. 446;
vices, how far to be mentioned, iii. 155;
writing trifles with dignity, iv. 34, n. 5.
BIRCH, Rev. Thomas, D.D.,
account of him by H. Walpole, i. 29, n. 2;
by I. D'Israeli, i. 159, n. 4;
anecdotes, full of, v. 255;
conversation and writings, i. 159;
correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 138;
Cave, i. 139, 150-3;
Johnson, i. 160, 226, 285;
Earl of Orrery, i. 185;
_History of the Royal Society_, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2;
Johnson's epigram to him, i. 140;
Raleigh's smaller pieces, edits, i. 226;
_Rambler_, anecdote of the, i. 203, n. 6;
Society for the Encouragement of Learning, member of the, i. 153, n. 2.
BIRDS, migration of, ii. 248;
nidification, 249.
BIRKENHEAD, Sir John, v. 57, n. 2.
BIRMINGHAM,--_Birmingham Journal, i. 85, n. 3;
_Birmingham Daily Post_, i. 85, n. 3;
'boobies of Birmingham,' ii. 464;
book-shops, i. 36, 85, n. 3;
buttons, v. 458;
Castle Inn, i. 92, n. 1;
cost of living in 1750, i. 103, n. 2;
_Directory_ for 1770, v. 458, n. 1;
Edinburgh, likeness to, v. 23, n. 2;
Hector's house, ii. 456, n. 2;
in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
Johnson's head on copper coins, iv. 421, n. 2;
reads _The History of Birmingham_, iv. 218, n. 1;
resides there, i. 85-7, 90-6;
visits it in 1761-2, i. 370, n. 5;
in 1774, v. 458;
in 1776 with Boswell, ii. 456;
in 1781, iv. 135;
in 1784, iv. 375;
jealousy of the manufacturers, ii. 459, n. 1;
Old Square, ii. 456, n. 2;
rapid growth of population, iii. 450;
riots of 1791, i. 86, n. 3; iv. 238, n. 1;
Soho, ii. 459;
St. Martin's Church, i. 90, n. 3;
Stork Hotel, ii. 456, n. 2;
Swan Tavern, i. 85, n. 3.
BIRNAM-WOOD, iii. 73.
BIRTH, respect for. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON.
_Bis dat qui cito dat_, ii. 290, n. 4.
BISCAY, language of, i. 322.
BISHOP, contradicting one, iv. 274;
House of Lords, in the, ii. 171;
how made, ii. 352; v. 80;
Johnson dines with two Bishops in Passion Week, iv. 88-9;
learning, their, iv. 13;
dulness, ib. n. 3;
liberties taken in their presence, iv. 295;
losses and gain by preferment, iv. 286, n. 1;
'necessity of holding preferments _in commendam_,' iv. 118, n. 2;
'Seven Bishops,' iv. 287;
tippling-house, at a, iv. 75;
a rout, ib. See HIERARCHY.
_Bishop_, a bowl of, i. 251.
BISHOP STORTFORD, ii. 62.
BISHOPRIC, resignation of a, iii. 113, n. 2.
BISMARCK, Prince, iv. 27, n. 1.
BLACK, why part of mankind is, i. 401.
_Black dog, the_, iii. 414.
BLACK-GUARDS, and red-guards, ii. 164, 251.
BLACK-LETTER BOOKS, ii. 120.
BLACKET, Sir Thomas, v. 148, n. 1.
BLACKIE'S _Etymological Geography_, v. 237, n. 3.
BLACKLOCK, Dr., blindness and poetry, i. 466;
Hume, extolled by, iv. 186, n. 2;
tutor to his nephew, v. 47, n. 3;
Johnson, meets, v. 47;
talks of scepticism, ib.;
letter in explanation, v. 417;
_Poems_, quotation from his, i. 334;
mentioned, v. 394.
BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, attorney, son of an, ii. 126, n. 4;
teaches a school, i. 97, n. 2;
_Creation_, his, ii. 108;
honoured too much by attacks, ii. 107;
Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3, 54-6;
describes himself in the _Life_, iv. 55;
saves him from the critics, ib., n. 1;
_Literary Club of Lay Monks_, i. 388, n. 3; v. 384, n. 2;
supposed lines on Prince Voltiger, ii. 108;
Swift, ridiculed by, iv. 80, n. 1.
BLACKSTONE, Sir William, _Borough English_, v. 320;
_Commentaries_ written when he had little practice, ii. 430;
composed with the help of port wine, iv. 91;
crown revenues, ii. 353; n. 4;
Hackman's trial, iii. 384;
Hawkins's _Siege of Aleppo_, approves of, iii. 259;
House of Hanover, right of the, v. 202;
legal succession, ii. 414, n. 2;
Pembroke College, member of, i. 75;
portrait in the Bodleian, iv. 91, n. 2;
_stultifying_ oneself, v. 342, n. 1.
BLACKWALL, Anthony, i. 84; iv. 311, 407, n. 4.
BLACKWELL, Thomas, _Memoirs of the Court of Augustus_, i. 309, 311.
BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 467, n. 1.
BLAGDEN, Dr., iv. 30.
BLAINVILLE, H., ii. 346.
BLAIR, Rev. Dr. Hugh, Boswell, letter to, iii. 402;
Boswell's lowing like a cow, v. 396;
composed slowly, v. 67;
conversation, his, iii. 339, n. 1; v. 397, n. 3;
_Dissertation on Ossian_, i. 396; ii. 296, 302, n. 2; iii. 50;
Johnson, in awe of, ii. 63;
'den,' i. 395;
misunderstanding with, ii. 275, 278;
record of a talk with, v. 398;
Johnsonian style, remarks on the, iii. 172;
_Lectures on Rhetoric_, iii. 172;
Pope, anecdotes of, iii. 402-3;
preached in a shamefully dirty church, v. 41;
'Scotchman, though the dog is a,' &c., iv. 98;
_Sermons_, publication, iii. 97;
price paid, iii. 98;
popularity, iii. 167, n. 2, 211;
Johnson praises them, iii. 97, 104, 109, 167, 211; iv. 98;
but criticises the _Sermon on Devotion_, iii. 338;
whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 387, 394.
BLAIR, Rev. Dr. John, iii. 402.
BLAIR, Rev. Robert, iii. 47, n. 3.
BLAIR, Robert, Solicitor-General of Scotland, iii. 47, n. 3.
_Blake, Life of_, i. 147, n. 5.
BLAKESLEY, Dean, iv. 125, n. 4.
BLAKEWAY, Rev. J., i. 15.
BLANCHARD, ----, iv. 358, n. 1.
BLANCHETTI, Marquis, ii. 390.
BLAND, J., i. 123, n. 3.
BLANEY, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 37; iv. 372.
BLANK VERSE, Goldsmith and Gray's estimate of it, i. 427, n. 2;
Johnson's estimate of it, i. 427; ii. 124; iv. 20, 42-3, 60;
'verse only to the eye,' iv. 43;
described by a shepherd, ib., n. 1.
BLASPHEMY, property in, v. 50.
BLEEDING, habit of, iii. 152, n. 3.
BLENHEIM PARK,
Johnson had not seen it by 1773, v. 303;
and Boswell visit it, ii. 451;
and the Thrales, v. 458.
BLIND, distinguishing colour by the touch, ii. 190.
BLOCKHEAD, Churchill, applied to, i. 419;
Fielding, ii. 173;
Sterne, ib., n. 2;
woman, a, ii. 456.
BLOIS, i. 389, n. 1.
'BLOOD,' Johnson had no pretensions to it, ii. 261;
Boswell's pride in it, v. 51.
BLOUNT, Martha, i. 232, n. 1.
BLOXAM, Rev. Matthew, iii. 304.
BLUEBEARD, ii. 181.
BLUE-STOCKING MEETINGS, iii. 425, n. 3; iv. 108; v. 32, n. 3.
BOARS, statues of, iii. 231.
BOCCAGE, ----, ii. 390.
BOCCAGE, Mme. du, makes tea _a l'Angloise_, ii. 403;
her _Columbiade_, iv. 331;
mentioned by Walpole and Grimm, ib., n. 1.
BODENS, George, iii. 428, n. 4.
BODLEIAN LIBRARY. See OXFORD.
BOERHAAVE, Herman, attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4;
executions, on, iv. 188, n. 3;
Johnson, _Life_ by, i. 140, 268, n. 2; ii. 372;
resemblance to, iv. 430, n. 1;
sleepless nights, iv. 384, n. 1.
BOETHIUS (Hector Bocce), favourite writer of the middle ages, ii. 127;
Johnson translates some verses by him, i. 139;
tries to get his portrait, iv. 265.
BOHEMIA, iii. 458.
BOHEMIAN LANGUAGE, ii. 156.
BOHEMIAN SERVANT, Boswell's. See RITTER, Joseph.
BOILEAU, corrected by Arnauld, iii. 347;
'cultivez vos amis,' iv. 352;
despised modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 1;
_Imitation of Juvenal_, i. 118;
imitated by Murphy, i. 356, n. 1;
'Le vainqueur des vanqueurs,' &c., i. 261, n. 2;
_Life by Desmaiseaux_, i. 29;
on the neglect of a book, iii. 375, w.i.
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, first Viscount,
Burnet's _History of his Own Time_, ii. 213, n. 3;
Booth's _Cato_, v. 126, n. 2;
crown revenues, ii. 353, n. 4;
dictionary-makers, i. 296, n. 3;
English historians, ii. 236, n. 2;
Garrick's _Ode_, i. 269;
history to be read with suspicion, ii. 213, n. 3;
authorised romance, ii. 366, n. 1;
House of Commons, describes the, iii. 234, n. 2;
Johnson's attack on his fame, i. 268, 330;
Leslie and Bedford, iv. 286, n. 3;
Mallet's edition of his _Works_, i. 268, 329, n. 3;
Oxford, Lord, character of, iii. 236, n. 3;
Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3;
Pope, enmity against, i. 329;
_Essay on Man_, share in, iii. 402-3;
executor, iv. 51;
friendship with, iv. 50, n. 4;
Rome, references to, iii. 206, n. 1;
schools, v. 85, n. 3;
Shelburne's (Lord) character of him, i. 268, n. 3;
Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4;
_transpire_, iii. 343.
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, iii. 324.
BOLINGBROKE, second Viscount, ii. 246, n. 1; iii. 349, n. 3.
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, divorced from the second Viscount.
See BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana.
BOLOGNA, ii. 195; v. 115.
BOMBAY, v. 55, n. 1.
_Bon Chretien_, v. 414, n. 2.
_Bon-mots_, instances of, iii. 322;
'carrying' one, ii. 350.
_Bon Ton_, ii. 325.
BONAVENTURA, i. 500.
BOND, Mrs. iv. 402, n. 2.
BONES, uses of old, iv. 204;
Johnson's horror at the sight of them, v. 169, 327.
