letters of acceptance, iii: 370, n. 1, 462-4;
seat reserved for him at a lecture, iii. 369, n. 2;
Rudd, Mrs., acquaintance with, ii. 450, n. 1; iii. 79-80;
rural beauties, little taste for, i. 461; v. 112;
Scot, 'Scarce esteemed a Scot,' i. 223;
Scotch accents, ii. 158, 159;
Scotticisms, corrected, iii. 432, n. 2; v. 15, n. 4;
criticised, 425;
Scotch shoeblack, his, ii. 326;
Scotland, forty years' absence from it suggested to him, iii. 26;
finds it too narrow a sphere, 176;
its manners disagreeable to him, ii. 381, n. 1;
vulgar familiarity of its law life, iii. 179, n. 1;
suffers from its rudeness, ii. 381, n. 1;
Scotchman, the one cheerful, iii. 388;
a Scotchman without the faults of one, iii. 347;
_Scots Magazine_, contributes to the, i. 112;
self-tormentor, i. 470;
Seward, controversy with Miss, i. 92, n. 2; iv. 331, n. 2;
Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68;
short-hand, uses a kind of, iii. 270;
his long head equal to it, iv. 166;
slavery, approves of, iii. 200, 203-5, 212;
Smith, Adam, opinion of, ii. 430, n. 1;
praises his facility of manners, v. 19, n. 1;
Socrates, does not affect to be a, ii. 25;
sophist, plays the, iii. 386;
spy, charge of being a, ii. 383, n. 2;
St. Paul's, Easter worship in, ii. 171, 215, 275-7, 360;
iii. 24, 316, 380; iv. 91;
stepmother, on ill terms with his, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 95;
storm, among the Hebrides, in a, v. 281-2;
studies, Johnson's advice as to his, i. 410, 457, 460, 464, 474;
study, has a kind of impotency of, ii. 21, n. 4;
succession, preference of male, ii. 387, n. ii, 411, n. 1, 420, n. 1;
succession to the Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-23;
superstition an enjoyment, ii. 318, n. 3; iv. 94, n. 2;
dreams, i. 235, 236; iv. 379;
Johnson's relief from dropsy, iv. 272:
See above, MYSTERY, and below, GHOSTS, and SCOTLAND-HEBRIDES,
second sight;
swearing, blameless of, ii. 166, n. 1;
talk, not from books, v. 378;
_tanti-man, a, iv. 112;
Temple, enter at the Inner: See above, English Bar;
tenants, kindness to his, iv. 155, n. 1, 163;
tenderness, calls for, iii. 216;
_Thesis_ in Civil Law, ii. 20, 23;
Thrale, Mrs., introduction to, ii. 77;
her 'love' for him, ii. 145, 206, 383;
attacked by her, iv. 318, n. 1; v. 245, n. 2;
argument with her, iv. 72; see under, MRS. THRALE;
Thurlow bows the intellectual knee to, iv. 179, n. 2;
toleration, discusses, ii. 252;
Tory, boasts of the name of, iii. 113, 375, n. 2;
confirmed in his Toryism, iii. 392, n. 2;
town, pleasure in seeing a new, iii. 163;
_Travels,_ wishes to publish his, iii. 300, 301, n. 1;
truthfulness: See AUTHENTICITY;
'universal man, a,' iii. 375, n. 2;
'unscottified,' ii. 242;
Utrecht, goes to, i. 400, 473;
vanity, avows his, i. 12;
in his youth, i. 436, n. 3;
variety of men and manners, sees a, ii. 352, n. 1, 378, n. 1;
Voltaire, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2;
visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5;
vows, love of making, ii. 20, 24: see below, WINE, vows of sobriety;
Walpole, Horace, calls on, iv. 110, n. 3;
who is silent in his presence, iv. 314, n. 5;
Warren, Dr., attended on his death-bed by, iv. 399, n. 5;
water-drinking, tries: See below, WINE;
welcome where-ever he goes, iii. 414;
wife, his search of a, ii. 47, n. 2, 56, n. 2, 169, n. 2;
wife, his, 'a true Montgomerie,' ii. 140, n. 1;
his praise of her, v. 24;
bargain with her, ib. n. 3;
death, i. 236, n. 1;
See BOSWELL, Mrs.;
will, his, iii. 400, n. 1;
Williams, Miss, tea with, i. 421, 463; ii. 99;
Wilkes, dines with, ii. 378, n. 1: See under Wilkes, John;
Wine, bruised and robbed when drunk, i. 13, n. 3;
'intoxicated, but not drunk,' ii. 436, n. 1;
intoxicated at Bishop Shipley's, iv. 88, n. 1;
at Miss Monckton's, 109;
in Sky on punch, v. 258;
penitent, v. 259;
thinks it good for health, v. 260;
Johnson advises him to drink less, ii. 377, n. 1; iv. 266; 274;
to drink water, iii. 169;
life shortened by his indulgence, iii. 170, n. 1;
lover of it, a, iii. 243, n. 4; v. 156;
nerves affected by port, i. 434, iii. 381;
vow of sobriety under the venerable yew, ii. 381, n. 1, 436, n. 1;
to Paoli and Courtenay, ib.;
water-drinking, tries, iii. 170, n. 1, 328;
wits, one of a group of, ii. 324;
works, list of his projected, v. 91, n. 2
(to this list should be added
_An account of a projected Tour to the Isle of Man_, iii. 80);
writings, early, i. 383, n. 3;
York, at, in 1784, iv. 265, 267;
Zelide, a Dutch lady, in love with, ii. 56, n. 2.
BOSWELL, Mrs. (the author's wife),
Boswell praises her as 'a true Montgomerie,' ii. 140, n. 1;
a valuable wife, iii. 160, n. 1, 416;
she describes him as a man led by a bear, ii. 269, n. 1;
death, i. 7, n. 2, 236, n. 1; iv. 136, n. 2;
health, iii. 130-1, 215, 362; iv. 155;
Johnson, feelings towards, ii. 269, n. 1, 272, 275, 379, 380, 383,
387, 411, 412, 418, 420, 422, 424; iii. 86, 93, 95, 104, 105, 210, 372,
436, 442; iv. 149, 155, 226, 264;
hospitality to, v. 23-4, 45, 395;
invites her to his house, iii. 216, 316;
letter to, iv. 157. For letters from--: See JOHNSON, Letters;
sends marmalade to, iii. 105, 108, 120, 129;
receives a set of _The Lives_ and _Poets,_ iii. 372, 436;
Scotch accent, iii. 106;
shrewd observation, her, iii. 160, n. 1;
travelling, dislikes, iii. 219;
mentioned, ii. 265, 416.
BOSWELL, James, the author's second son, birth, iii. 366;
account of him, ib. n. 1;
educated at Westminster School, iii. 12;
describes Malone's friendship with the Boswells, v. 1. n. 5;
writes his father's dying letter, i. 14, n. 1;
supplies notes to the _Life,_ i. 15.
BOSWELL, Miss, ii. 378, n. 1.
BOSWELL, Robert, burnt Boswell's manuscripts, iii. 301, n. 1.
BOSWELL, Thomas (founder of the family), ii. 413; iv. 198; v. 379.
BOSWELL, Veronica, Johnson pleased with her, v. 25;
origin of her name, ib. n. 2;
additional fortune promised her, 26;
death, ib. n. 1;
her Scotch, iii. 105;
mentioned, ii. 379; iii. 86, 93, 372.
BOSWELL, Sir W., i. 194, n. 2.
_Boswelliana,_ variations in Boswell's anecdotes, i. 454, n. 1;
ii. 450, n. 4;
story about Voltaire, iii. 301, n, 1.
BOSWORTH, i. 84; ii. 473; iv. 407, n. 4.
BOTANICAL GARDEN, iv. 128.
BOTANIST, Johnson not a, i. 377, n. 2.
"BOTTOM OF GOOD SENSE," iv. 99.
BOUCHIER, Governor, iv. 88.
BOUFFIER. See BUFFIER.
BOUFFLERS, Comtesse de, visits Johnson, ii. 118, 405;
his letter to her, ib.;
account of her, ib. n. 1.
BOUFFLERS, Marquise de, ii. 405, n. 1.
BOUHOURS, Dominic, ii. 90.
_Boulter's Monument_, i. 318.
BOULTON, Matthew, sells power, ii. 459;
Johnson visits his works, v. 458.
BOUNTY HERRING-BUSSES, v. 161.
BOUNTY ON CORN. See CORN.
BOUQUET, Joseph, bookseller, i. 243,
BOURBON, House of, iv. 139, n. 4.
BOURDALOUE, ii. 241, n. 3; v. 311.
BOURDONNE, Mme. de, ii. 241, n. 3.
_Bouts rimes_, ii. 336.
BOWEN, Emanuel, _Complete System of Geography_, iii. 445.
BOWLES, William, Johnson dines with him, iv. 1, n. 1;
visits him, iv. 234-9;
his wife a descendant of Cromwell, iv. 235, n. 5.
BOWLES, ----, of Slains Castle, v. 106, n. 1.
BOWOOD, iv. 192, n. 2.
BOWYER, William, iv. 369, 437.
_Box_, a tradesman's, v. 291, n. 4.
BOYD, Hon. Charles, v. 97-107;
'out in the '45,' v. 99.
BOYDS OF KILMARNOCK, v. 104.
BOYDELL, Alderman, ii. 293, n. 2.
BOYLE, family of, v. 237. See ORRERY, Earls of.
BOYLE, Hon. Hamilton, (sixth Earl of Corke and Orrery), i. 257, n. 3;
v. 238.
BOYLE, Hon. Robert, _Martyrdom of Theodora_, i. 312;
compares argument and testimony, iv. 281, n. 3.
BOYSE, Samuel, account of him, iv. 407, n. 4, 441;
compared with Derrick, iv. 192, n. 2.
BRADLEY in Derbyshire, i. 82, 366.
BRADSHAW, William, iv. 200, n. 2.
BRAHMINS, admit no converts, iv. 12, n. 2;
the mastiffs of mankind, iv. 88.
BRAIDWOOD, Thomas, v. 399.
BRAITHWAITE, Mr., iv. 278.
BRAMHALL, Archbishop, ii. 104.
BRAMSTON, James, i. 73, n. 3.
BRANDY, the drink for heroes, iii. 381; iv. 79.
BRANTOME, v. 55.
'BRAVE WE,' v. 360.
_Bravery of the English Common Soldiers,_ i. 335.
BRAZIL, iv. 104, n. 3;
language, v. 242, n. 1.
BREAD TREE, ii. 248.
BREEDING, good, ii. 82; v. 82, 211, 276.
BRENTFORD, iv. 186; v. 369.
BRETT, Colonel, i. 174, n. 2.
BRETT, Mrs., i. 166, n. 4.
BRETT, Miss, i. 174, n. 2.
BRETT, Rev. Dr. Thomas, the nonjuror, iv. 287.
BREWERS, thwart the 'grand scheme of subordination,' i. 490.
BREWING in Paris, ii. 396.
See THRALE, Henry.
BREWOOD, iv. 407, n. 4.
BREWSE, Major, v. 123-5.
BRIBERY, statutes against, ii. 339.
BRIDGENORTH, v. 455.
BRIDGEWATER, Duke of, v. 359, n. 2.
BRIGHT, John, _Speeches_, quoted, ii. 480.
BRIGHTHELMSTONE (Brighton),
books burnt there as Popish, iii. 427, n. 1;
Johnson describes it, iii. 92, n. 3;
finds it very dull, iii. 93;
does not much like it, iii. 442;
stays there in 1782, iv. 159-60;
other visits, iii. 452-3;
Ship Tavern, iii. 423, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 45, n. 1, 397.
BRILLE, iii. 458.
BRISTOL, Boswell and Johnson's visit in 1776, iii. 50;
bad inn, iii. 51;
Burke its representative, iii. 378;
Hannah More keeps a school there, iv. 341, n. 5;
Newgate prison, Savage dies in it, i. 164;
described by Wesley, iii. 431, n. 1;
Dagge, the keeper, praised by Johnson, iii. 433, n. l;
Whitefield forbidden to preach in it, ib.;
St. Mary Redcliff, iii. 51.
BRISTOL, first Earl of, i. 106, n. 1.
BRISTOL-WELL (Clifton), iii. 45, n. 1.
BRITAIN, ancient state, iii. 333.
BRITAIN and Great Britain, Swift dislikes the names of, i. 129, n. 3.
BRITISH MUSEUM, library, iv. 105, n. 2;
papers deposited by Boswell, ii. 297, n. 2, 307, 399, n. 2;
mentioned, iv. 14.
_British Princes, The_, ii. 108, n. 2.
BRITON, Johnson's use of the term, i. 129, n. 3;
George III gloried in being born one, ib.
BROADLEY, Captain, iii. 359.
BROCKLESBY, Dr., account of him, iv. 176;
Boswell and Johnson dine with him, iv. 273;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254;
generosity towards Johnson and Burke, iv. 338;
Johnson's physician in 1783-4, iv. 229, n. 2, 230-1, 245, 262-4, 267,
360, 378;
attends his death-bed, iv. 399;
quotes Shakespeare, iv. 400;
Juvenal, iv. 401;
instructed by Johnson in Christianity, iv. 414,416;
tells him that he cannot recover, iv. 415;
bequest from him, iv. 402, n. 2.
For Johnson's letters to him, See JOHNSON, LETTERS.
BRODIE, Captain, i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466.
BROMLEY, i. 241; ii. 258; iv. 351-2, 394.
BROOKE, Henry, _Earl of Essex_, iv. 312, n. 5;
_Gustavus Vasa_, i. 140;
subscription raised for him, i. 141, n. 1.
BROOKE, Mrs., _Siege of Sinope_, iii. 259, n. 1.
BROOKS, Mrs., the actress, v. 158.
BROOKS, unchanged for ages, iii. 250.
_Broom's Constitutional Law_, iii. 87, n. 3.
BROOME, William, iii. 427; iv. 49.
_Broomstick, Life of a_, ii. 389.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, born friends, i. 324.
BROWN, Dr. John, account of him, ii. 131, n. 2;
_Athelstan_, ii. 131, n. 2;
_Barbarossa_, ii. 131, n. 2;
_Estimate_, ii. 131.
BROWN, Launcelot, (_Capability_),
account of him, iii. 400, n. 2;
improves Blenheim park, ii. 451;
anecdote of Clive, iii. 401.
BROWN, Professor, of St. Andrew's, v. 64.
BROWN, Rev. Robert, of Utrecht, ii. 9; iii. 288.
BROWN, Tom, author of a spelling-book, i. 43.
BROWN, ----, Keeper of the Advocates' Library, v. 40.
BROWNE, Hawkins, iv. 272.
BROWNE, Isaac Hawkins, delightful converser, ii. 339, n. 1;
_De Animi Immortalitate_, v. 156;
drank freely, v. 156;
parodied Pope, ii. 339, n. 1;
silent in Parliament, ii. 339.
BROWNE, Patrick, _History of Jamaica_, i. 309.
BROWNE, Sir Thomas, Anglo-Latian diction, i. 221;
'Brownism,' ib., 308;
_Christian Morals_, i. 308;
death, on, iii. 153, n. 1;
'do the devils lie?' iii. 293;
fortitude in dying, iv. 394, n. 3;
_Life by Johnson_, i. 308, 328;
oblivion, on, iv. 27, n. 5;
Pembroke College, member of, i. 75, n. 3.
BROWNE, Mr., 'a luminary of literature,' i. 113, n. 1.
_Brownism_, i. 221, 308.
BRUCE, James, the traveller, ii. 333; v. 123, n. 3.
BRUCE, Robert, Boswell's ancestor, v. 25, n. 2, 379, n. 3;
not the lawful heir to the throne, v. 204.
BRUCE, ways of spelling it, v. 123.
BRUMOY, Peter, i. 345.
BRUNDUSIUM, iii. 250.
BRUNET, ----, ii. 394.
BRUNSWICK, House of. See HANOVER, House of.
BRUTES, future life, their, ii. 54;
misery caused them recompensed by existence, iii. 53;
not endowed with reason, ii. 248.
BRUTUS, Marcus Junius, i. 389, n. 2.
BRUYERE, La, ii. 358, n. 3; v. 378.
BRYANT, Jacob, his antediluvian knowledge, v. 458, n. 5;
Johnson's knowledge of Greek, v. 458, n. 5;
mentioned, iv. 272; v. 303, n. 3.
BRYDGES, Sir Egerton, ii. 296, n. 1; v. 384, n. 1.
BRYDONE, Patrick, _Travels_, ii. 346;
antimosaical remark, ii. 468; iii. 356.
_Bubbled_, v. 29. n. 6.
BUCCLEUGH, third Duke of, v. 142, n. 2.
BUCHAN, sixth Earl of, ii. 173, 177.
BUCHANAN, George, born _solo et seculo inerudito_, v. 182;
_Calendae Maiae_, v. 398;
_Centos_, ii. 96;
Johnson's retort about him, iv. 185;
learning, v. 57;
poetical genius, i. 460; ii. 96;
mentioned, v. 225.
_Buck_, v. 184, n. 3.
BUCKHURST, Lord, v. 52, n. 5.
BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, second Duke of, The Rehearsal, ii. 168, n. 2;
_Zimri_, ii, 85, n. 4.
BUCKINGHAM, Duchess of, iii. 239.
BUCKLES, iii. 325; v. 19.
BUDGELL, Eustace, calls Addison cousin, iii. 46, n. 3;
Addison wrote his _Epilogue to The Distressed Mother_, i. 181, n. 4;
iii. 46;
mended his _Spectators_, ib.;
his suicide, ii. 229; v. 54.
BUDWORTH, Captain, iv. 407, n. 4.
BUDWORTH, Rev. Mr., i. 84, n. 3; iv. 407, n. 4.
BUFFIER, Claude, i. 471.
BUFFON, account of the cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2;
his conversation, v. 229, n. 1.
_Builder, The_. King's Head, i. 191, n. 5.
_Bulk_, i. 164, n. 1, 457.
BULKELEY, Lord, v. 447.
BULKELEY, Mrs., ii. 219.
BULL, Alderman, Lord Mayor, iii. 459-60;
attacks Lord North, iii. 460.
BULL-DOG, Dr. Taylor's, iii. 190.
BULLER, Mr., ii. 228, n. 3.
BULLER, Mrs., iv. 1, n. 1.
_Bulse_, iii. 355, n. 1.
BUNBURY, Sir Charles,
member of the Literary Club, i. 479; ii. 274, 318;
at Johnson's funeral, iv. 419.
BUNBURY, H.W., Burns sheds tears over one of his pictures, v. 42,
marries Miss Horneck, i. 414, n. 1; ii. 274, n. 5.
BUNYAN, John, Johnson praises _The Pilgrim's Progress_, ii. 238;
Franklin buys his works, iv. 257, n. 2.
BURBRIDGE, ----, i. 170 n. 5.
BURCH, Edward, R.A., iv. 421, n. 2.
BURGESS-TICKET, Johnson's, at Aberdeen, v. 90.
BURGOYNE, General, disaster to his army, iii. 355.
BURGOYNE, ----, iii. 388, n. 3.
BURIAL SERVICE, iv. 212.
BURKE, D., iv. 358, n. 1.
BURKE, Edmund, affection, on the descent of, iii. 390;
Akerman, keeper of Newgate, praises, iii. 433;
America, increase of population in, ii. 314, n. 3;
American taxation, speech on, ii. 294;
arguing on either side, on, iii. 24, n. 2;
Bacon's _Essays_, iii. 194, n. 1;
balloon, sees a, iv. 358, n. 1;
Baretti's trial, gives evidence on, ii. 97, n. 1, 98;
the consultation for the defence, iv. 324;
Barnard's verses, mentioned in, iv. 433;
Beaconsfield, Johnson visits it, ii. 285, n. 3;
'_non equidem invideo_,' iii. 310;
Gibbon mentions it, 128, n. 4;
Beauclerk's character, draws, ii. 246, n. 1;
Berkeley, projects an answer to, i. 472;
Bible, on subscribing the, ii. 151, n. 3;
Birmingham buttons, likens the Spanish Declaration to, v. 458, n. 3;
Boswell's epithets for him, ii. 222, n. 4;
good-nature, describes, iii. 362, n. 2; v. 76;
hopes for place from him, iv. 223, 249, n. 1;
_Life of Johnson_, admires, i. 10, n. 1;
looks upon him as continually happy, iii. 5, n. 5;
meets him for the first time, ii. 240;
successful _negotiation_, admires, iii. 79;
visits him, iv. 210;
bottomless Whig, a, iv. 223;
boy, loves to be a, iv. 79;
Bristol, would be upon his good behaviour at, iii. 378;
Brocklesby, Dr., gives him L1000, iv. 338, n. 2;
'bulls enough in Ireland,' iii. 232;
_Cecilia_, reads, iv. 223, n. 5;
Chatham and the Woollen Act, jokes about, ii. 453, n. 2;
Cicero or Demosthenes, not like, v. 214;
composition, promptitude of, iii. 85;
conversation, his, its 'affluence,' ii. 181;
