suspicions about Thurlow's letter to Reynolds, iv. 350, n. 1;
about one of Johnson's amanuenses, iv. 262, n. 1;
Taylors of Christ Church, confounds two, i. 76, n. 1;
Walpole, Horace, identifies with a celebrated wit, iii. 388, n. 3.
_Croker Correspondence_,
Johnson's definition of _Oats_, 1. 294, n. 8;
and Pot, iv. 5, n. 1;
sarcasms about trees in Scotland, ii. 301, n. 1;
mistake about the third Earl of Liverpool, iii. 146, n. 1.
Cromwell, Henry, Pope's correspondent, iv. 246, n. 5.
Cromwell, Oliver,
Aberdeen, his soldiers in, ii. 455; v. 84;
Bowles, W., married his descendant, iv. 235, n. 5;
Johnson and Lord Auchinleck quarrel over him, v. 382;
Johnson projects a _Life_ of him, iv. 233;
Noble's _Memoirs_, iv. 236, n. 1;
political principles in his time, ii. 369;
Speeches, his, i. 150, n. 2;
trained as a private man, i. 442, n. 1.
Crosbie, Andrew, account of him, ii. 376, n. 1;
alchymy, learned in, ii. 376;
compares English with Scotch, v. 20;
Scotch schoolmaster's case, ii. 186. n. 1;
witchcraft, on, v. 45;
mentioned, iii. 101; v. 46.
Crosby, Brass, attacked by Johnson, ii. 135, n. 1;
Lord Mayor, iii. 459;
sent to the Tower, ib.; iv. 140, n. 1.
_Cross Readings_, iv. 322.
Crotch, Dr. William, iii. 197, n. 3.
Crouch, Mrs., iv. 227.
Crousaz, John Peter de, dispute with Warburton, i. 157; v. 80;
_Examen of Pope's Essay on Man_, i. 137.
Crown, childish jealousy of it, ii. 170;
dispensing power, iv. 317, n. 1;
influence: See INFLUENCE;
power, has not enough, ii. 170;
revenues, its, ii. 353, n. 4;
right to it, iii. 156-7.
_Crudities_, Coryat's, ii. 176, n. 1.
Cruikshank, the surgeon,
attends Johnson, iv. 239-240, 399; ib. n. 6;
bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
letter from, iv. 365;
recommends him to Reynolds, iv. 219.
Crutchley, Jeremiah, iv. 202, n. 1.
Cucumbers, v. 289.
_Cui bono_ man, a, iv. 112.
Cullen, Dr., an eminent physician, ii. 372;
his opinion on Johnson's case, iv. 262-4;
on the needful quantity of sleep, iii. 169;
talks of sleep-walking, v. 46.
Cullen, Robert, the advocate (afterwards Lord Cullen),
case of Knight the negro, iii. 127, 213;
a good mimic, ii. 154, n. 1;
mentioned, v. 44-5.
Culloden, Battle of, cruelties after it, v. 159, 196;
Johnson's indifference as to the result, i. 430;
the news reaches London, v. 196, n. 3;
order of the clans, ii. 270, n. 1;
Pretender's criticism of the battle, v. 194;
mentioned, v. 140, 187, 190.
Culrossie,--, v. 342, n. 2.
CUMBERLAND, v. 113, n. 1.
CUMBERLAND, William, Duke of, uncle of George III,
cruelties, ii. 374, 375, n. 1; v. 196;
attacked by Dr. King at Oxford, i. 279, n. 5;
praised by the _Gent. Mag_., i. 176, n. 2;
Shipley, Dr., his chaplain, iii. 251, n. 5;
mentioned, v. 188.
CUMBERLAND, Duchess of, iv. 108, n. 4.
CUMBERLAND, Richard, Bentley on Barnes's Greek, iv. 19, n. 2;
Davies's stories, perhaps the subject of one of, iii. 40, n. 3;
_dish-clout_ face, iv. 384, n. 2;
_Fashionable Lover_, v. 176;
_Feast of Reason_, iv. 64;
Johnson, acquaintance with, iv. 384, n. 2;
not admitted into 'the set,' ib.;
cups of tea, i. 313, n. 3;
dress, iii. 325, n. 3;
Greck, iv. 384;
mode of eating, i. 468, n. 3;
_Observer_, iv. 64, 385;
_Odes_, iii. 43;
read backwards, ib., n. 3; iv. 432;
Westminster School, at, i. 395, n. 2.
CUMBERLAND AND STRATHERN, Duke of,
brother of George III, ii. 224, n. 1; iii. 21, n. 2.
CUMMING, Tom, the Quaker, account of him, v. 98, n. 1;
introduces Johnson to a tavern company, v. 230;
ready to drive an ammunition cart, iv. 212;
wrote against Leechman, v. 101.
CUNINGHAME, Alexander, the opponent of Bentley, v. 373.
CUNINGHAME, Sir John, v. 373.
CUNNING, v. 217.
CUNNINGHAM,----, of the Scots Greys, iv. 211, n. 1.
CURATES, scanty provision for them, ii. 173;
small salaries, iii. 138.
CURIOSITY, mark of a generous mind, i. 89, iii. 450, 454;
two objects of it, iv, 199.
CURLL, Edmund, i. 143, n. 1.
CURLANTS, iv. 206.
CUST, F. C., i. 161, n. 3, 170, n. 1.
CUTTS, Lady, iii. 228.
_Cyder_, Philips's, v. 78.
_Cypress Grove_, v. 180.
D.
D. O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3.
DACIER, Madame, in. 333, n. 2.
_Dacier's Horace_, in. 74, n. 1.
_Demonology_, King James's, iii. 382.
DAGGE, ----, keeper of the Bristol Newgate, iii. 433, n. 1.
DAILLE, _on the Fathers_, v. 294.
_Daily Advertiser_, i. 256, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2.
_Daily Gazetteer_, ii. 33, n. 1.
_Daily Post_, i. 503.
DALE, Mrs., v. 431.
D'ALEMBERT, ii. 54, n. 3.
DALIN, Olaf von, ii. 156.
DALLAS, Miss, v. 87.
DALLAS, Stuart, v. 87.
DALRYMPLE, Colonel, v. 399.
DALRYMPLE, Sir David. See HAILES, Lord.
DALRYMPLE, Sir John,
attacks the London booksellers, v. 402, n. 1;
Burnet, criticises, ii. 213, n. 3;
complains of attacks on his _Memoirs_, v. 400;
foppery, his, ii. 237;
Johnson, invites to his house, v. 401;
rails at, v. 402;
arrives late, v. 404;
_Memoirs of Great Britain
and Ireland_, ii. 210-1;
parodied by Johnson, v. 403;
style, 'mere bouncing,' ii. 210;
praised by Boswell, ii. 211;
mentioned, ii. 291.
DALZEL, Professor, iv. 385.
DANCALA, i. 88.
DANCING, iv. 79.
DANES, colony at Leuchars, v. 70;
in Wales, v. 130.
DANTE, Boswell's ignorance of him, iii. 229, n. 4;
_Purgatory_, quoted, iv. 373, n. 1;
resemblance between _Pilgrim's Progress_ and Dante, ii. 238.
DANUBE, ii. 133, n. 1.
D'ARBLAY, General, iv. 223, n. 4.
D'ARBLAY, Mme. See BURNEY, Miss.
DARBY, Rev. Mr., v. 453, n. 2.
DARIPPE, Captain, v. 135.
DARIUS'S shade, iv. 16.
DARLINGTON, i. 35, n. 1.
DARTINEUF, Charles, ii. 447.
DARTMOUTH, Lord, i. 407, n. 1.
DARWIN, Charles, v. 428, n. 3.
DARWIN, Dr. Erasmus, v. 428, n. 3.
DASHWOOD, Sir Francis, ii. 135, n. 2.
DASHWOOD, Sir Henry, iii. 407, n. 5.
DATES to letters, i. 122, n. 2; iii. 421, n. 3, 428, n. 4.
D'AUTEROCHE, Count, iii. 8, n. 3.
DAVENANT, Sir William, ii. 168, n. 2.
DAVENPORT, William, Strahan's apprentice, ii. 324, n. 1.
DAVIES, Thomas, account of him, i. 390;
author, success as an, iii. 434;
bankruptcy, iii. 223, 434;
Baretti's trial, exaggerated feelings about, ii. 94;
quarrels with him, ii. 205;
benefit at Drury Lane, iii. 249;
bookseller, his taste as a, iii. 223, n. 1;
Boswell to Johnson, introduces, i. 390; iv. 231;
Churchill's lines on him, i. 391, n. 2, 483; iii. 223;
sees in the pit, iii. 223, n. 2:
Cibber's genteel ladies, ii. 340;
'clapped on the back by Tom Davies,' ii. 344;
_Conduct of the Allies_, ii. 65;
dinners at his house, ii. 340; iii. 38;
_Garrick, Memoirs of_. iii. 434, n. 5;
Garrick, letter to, iii. 223, n. 2;
complains of his unkindness, ib.;
Goldsmith's dislike of Baretti, ii. 205, n. 3;
'Goldy's' play, talks of, ii. 258; v. 308;
Hunter, Johnson's schoolmaster, anecdote of, i. 45, n. 4;
Johnson, accurate observer of, ii. 258;
candour, iii. 271, n. 2;
and Foote, ii. 299;
forgives him, ii. 271;
laugh, ii. 378;
letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters;
liberality to him, i. 488; iii. 223;
love for him, iv. 231, 365;
one of a deputation to, iii. III;
sends pork to, iv. 413, n. 2;
talking to himself, i. 483;
learning enough for a clergyman, had, iv. 13;
Maddocks, the straw-man, iii. 231, n. 2;
_Miscellanies and Fugitive Pieces_, ii. 270;
Mounsey and Percy, ii. 64;
portrait by Hicky, ii. 340, n. 2;
'potted stories' of a dramatic author, iii. 40;
Quin's saying about January 30, v. 382, n. 2;
Shakespeare, representations of, v. 244, n. 2;
stage, his earnings on the, iii. 223;
driven from it, ib., iii. 249;
'statesman all over,' ii. 65;
Thane of Ross, iv. 8; Walker's
'distinguished glare,' ii. 368, n. 3;
zealous for the _trade_, ii. 345;
mentioned, i. 175, n. 3, 310, 423; ii. 63, 82, 343-4, 349;
iii--38; iv. 366.
DAVIES, Mrs., Tom Davies's wife,
Churchill's lines on her, i. 391, n. 2, 484.
DAVIES,--, of Llanerch, v. 439.
DAVIS, Mrs., iv. 239, n. 2, 439.
DAVY, Sir Humphry, iv. 119, n. 1.
DAVY, Serjeant, iii. 87, n. 3.
DAWKINS, 'Jamaica,' iv. 126.
_Dawling_, iii. 422;
_dawdle_, iv. 126.
DAWSON, George, ii. 456, n. 2.
DAWSON's _Lexicon_, iii. 407.
DAY-LABOURERS, wages of, iv. 176; v. 263.
DEAD, form of prayer for the, ii. 163;
libels on them, iii. 13;
recommending and praying for them, i. 190, n. 2, 236, 240; ii. 163;
iv. 137, 158, n. 3;
their spirits perhaps present, i. 212;
why we wish for their return, i. 240, n. 1.
DEAF AND DUMB, Academy for the, v. 399.
DEAN, Rev. Richard, ii. 53.
DEATH, act of dying not of importance, ii. 107;
affectation in dying, v. 397;
best men most afraid of it, iii. 154;
Browne, Sir T., on it, iii. 153, n. 1;
business preparation for it, v. 316;
change beyond man's understanding, ii. 163, n. 3;
dispositions on one's death-bed, v. 239;
'dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1;
fear of it cannot be got over, ii. 106, 298; iii. 295;
natural to man, ii. 93; iii. 153, 158, 294; v. 179;
resolution, met with, iii. 295;
sight, kept out of, iii. 154;
some die well, few willingly, i. 365;
sudden death in sin, iv. 225;
Swift dreads it, ii. 93, n. 4;
describes what reconciles man to it, iii. 295, n. 2;
thinking constantly of it, v. 316;
violent, i. 338;
'a whole system of hopes swept away,' i. 236, n. 3.
See under JOHNSON, death, dread of.
DEATH WARRANTS, iii. 121, n. 1; v. 239-40.
_Debate on the Proposal of Parliament to Cromwell_, i. 150.
DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT,
account of them, i. 115-118, 150-152, 501-512;
written at first by Guthrie and corrected by Johnson, i. 115-6,
136, 503, 509;
written solely by Johnson, i. 118, 150-2, 157, 503;
wrongly assigned to Johnson, i. 509;
authenticity generally accepted, i. 152, 505;
Chesterfield, speeches attributed to, iii. 351;
Croker's inaccuracy about them, i. 509!
'debating,' absence of, i. 506;
discontinued, i. 176, n. 2, 512;
Gent. Mag., increased sale of, i. 152, n. 1;
House of Commons passes resolutions against publication, i. 115, 502, 510;
House of Lords 'a Court of Record,' i. 502;
'Hurgoes,' 'Clinabs,' 'Walelop,' 'Hon. Marcus Cato,' i. 502;
'Pretor of Mildendo,' i. 503;
Johnson's conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408;
_Debates_ not authentic, i. 118, 503-9;
rapid composition, i. 504; iv. 409;
successor, i. 512;
_London Magazine_, reports of the, i. 502, 508-510;
monument to Walpole's greatness, i. 512;
Murphy's account of them, i. 504;
prosecution of Cave, i. 501;
of Cooley and the printer of the _Daily Post_, i. 503;
of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1;
reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510;
reporters, 'fellows who thrust themselves into the gallery,' i. 502;
reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504;
Seeker's reports, i. 507, 509;
'Senate of Lilliput,' i. 115, 502;
speakers' names disguised, i. 501;
speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504;
many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7;
sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508;
table of the order of publication, i. 510;
translated, i. 505;
unreality, i. 506;
volumes, collected in, i. 152;
Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314.
_Debrett's Royal Kalendar_, iv. 350, n. 1.
DEBTOR. 'The pillow of a debtor,' iv. 152, n. 1.
DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127;
for Johnson's warnings, see BOSWELL, debts;
law of arrest, iii. 77;
small and great, i. 347.
_Decay of Christian Piety_, v. 227.
_De Claris Oratoribus_, iv. 316.
DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4;
flattery allowed, v. 285;
Johnson's to all the Royal Family, ii. 2;
skill in them, ii. 1;
_Works_ without any, i. 257, n. 2;
means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2;
one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1;
studied conclusions, v. 239.
_Defence of Pluralities_, ii. 242.
DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1.
DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245.
DEFINITIONS. See under DICTIONARY, and separate words.
DE FOE, Daniel, _Captain Carleton's Memoirs,_ iv. 334, n. 4;
_Drelincourt on Death,_ ii. 163, n. 4;
his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1;
Johnson's praise of him, iii. 267;
the opposite of him, i. 506;
_Robinson Crusoe_, iii. 268.
_Deformities of Johnson_, iv. 148-9.
DEGENERACY OF MANKIND, ii. 217, v. 77.
DE GROOT, Isaac, iii. 125.
DEIST, no honest man one, ii. 8.
DELANY, Dr., _Observations on Swift_, iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238.
DELAP, Rev. Dr., i. 521.
DELAY, danger of, i. 324.
_Dementat_, iv. 181, n. 3.
DEMOCRITUS, iv. 105, n. 4.
DEMONAX, iv. 34.
DE MORGAN, Professor, i. 284, n. 3.
DEMOSTHENES, Johnson compared with him, i. 504;
spoke to barbarians, ii. 171;
to brutes, ii. 211;
mentioned, iii. 351; v. 214.
DEMPSTER, George, account of him, i. 408, n. 4;
argues for merit, i. 440-2;
Boswell, letter to, v. 407;
Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 409, n. 3;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 409;
Johnson's conversation, struck with, i. 434;
dines with, ii. 195;
_Journey_, praises, ii. 303; iii. 301;
sister, his, iii. 242; iv. 284;
unfixed in his principles, i. 443;
virtuous and candid, ii. 305.
DENBIGH, Earls of, ii. 175, n. 2.
DENHALL IN WIRHALL, v. 445, n. 3.
DENHAM, Sir John, iv. 38, n. 1.
DENMAN, first Lord, ii. 408, n. 3.
DENMARK, King of, v. 100.
DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2.
DENNIS, John,
criticisms on _Blackmore_ and _Cato_, iv. 36, n. 4;
on _Cato_, iii. 40, n. 2;
on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. _4_;
_Critical Works_ worth collecting, iii. 40;
his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2.
DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5.
_Depeditation_, v. 130.
DEPOPULATION, ii. 217, n. 5.
DE QUINCEY, account of Bishop Watson, iv. 119, n. 1;
criticises Johnson's _Vanity_, &c., i. 193, n. 3;
praises his Latin, i. 272, n. 3.
_Derange_, iii. 319, n. 1.
DERBY, account of it in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
Highlanders there in 1745, iii. 162; v. 196, n. 3;
Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. 160;
see the china-manufactory, iii. 163;
silk-mill, iii. 164; v. 432;
Johnson married there, i. 95, n. 2, 96;
mentioned, iii. 1, 135, n. 1; iv. 359.
DERBY, fifteenth Earl of, v. 354, n. 1.
DERBY, Rev. Mr., iii. 113.
DERBYSHIRE, ii. 474.
DERRICK, Samuel,
Boswell's 'first tutor,' i. 456;
his 'governor,' iii. 371;
introduced him to Davies, iv. 231, n. 1;
Dryden's _Miscellaneous Works_, edits, i. 456, n. 3;
Home's parody on him, i. 456;
_Humphry Clinker_, described in, i. 124, n. 2;
Johnson's kindness for him, i. 385; v. 117, 240;
projected _Life of Dryden_, gathers materials for, i. 456; v. 240;
lines on, i. 124;
'King of Bath,' i. 394, n. 2, 455;
_Letters from Leverpoole_, i. 456, n. 1; v. 117;
outrunning his character, i. 394;
presence of mind, i. 457;
pun about the Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5;
Smart, compared with, iv. 192.
DESCRIPTION, falls short of reality, iv. 199.
_Deserted Village_. See GOLDSMITH.
DES MAIZEAUX, i. 29.
DESMOULINS, John,
Johnson's will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2;
bequest to him, ib.;
mentioned, iv. 415, n. 1, 440.
DESMOULINS, Mrs., account of her, iii. 222, n. 3;
