colleges and kings, lines on, ii. 223;
_Conquest of Granada_, quoted, iv. 259, n. 3;
dedication, its, v. 239;
converted to Roman Catholicism, iv. 44;
dedications, studied conclusions to his, v. 239;
'delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,' ii. 241, n. l;
_Life of_, Derrick's 'materials'; SEE DERRICK;
dignity of his character, known to himself, i. 264, n. 1;
_Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, i. 197, n. 2; ii. 86, n. 1;
'Fate after him,' &c., iv. 25, n. 3;
'familiar day,' his, iv. 91, n. 1;
foreign words, on, i. 218, n. 1;
genius, his conscious, iii. 405, n. 3;
Hailes, Lord, anecdotes of him by, iii. 397, n. 3;
_Hind and Panther_, quoted, iv. 44;
_Indian Emperour_, quoted, iii. 346, n. 3;
Johnson gathered materials for his _Life_, i. 456; iii. 71; iv. 44; v.
240; writes it, iv. 44-6;
Johnson, resemblance in his character to, iv. 45;
judgment of the public, on the, i. 200, n. 2;
Juvenal, dedication to his, iv. 38;
Latin line wrongly attributed to him, iii. 304, n. 3;
_Life_ not written by contemporaries, v. 415, n. 2;
lines on life: SEE just above, _Aurengzebe_;
love, fine lines on, ii. 85;
Malone, _Life_ by, iii. 397, n. 3;
'mechanical defects,' on, iv. 247;
_Metaphysical Poets_, mentions the, iv. 38;
Milton, lines on, ii. 336; v. 86;
Johnson's translation, _ib., n_. 1;
_Ode on St. Cecilia's Day_, iii. 38;
paid about sixpence a verse for 10,000 verses, i. 193, n. 1;
pleasing a man against his will, on, iii. 69, n. 4;
poets and monarchs, lines on, ii. 223;
Pope, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85;
predestination, puzzled about, iii. 347;
prefaces, his, ii. 444, n. 1; iv. 114, n. 1;
_Prologue to the Tempest_, quoted, i. 361;
prologues, his, ii. 325;
rhyming tragedies, iv. 42, n. 7;
_Rival Ladies_, quoted, iii. 296, n. 1;
Royal Society, lines on the, ii. 241;
Settle, Elkanah, rivalry with, iii. 76;
Shakespeare, admiration of, ii. 86, n. 1;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, its title taken from him, ii. 205. n. 4;
'shorn of his beams,' iii. 363, n. 1;
style, distinguished by his, iii. 280;
traded in corruption, i. 189, n. 1;
Virgil, translation of, iii. 193;
Will's Coffee-house, at, iii. 71;
Zimri, character of, ii. 85.
Du Bos, ii. 90.
DUCK, epitaph on a, i. 40.
DUCKET, George, i. 294, n. 9.
DUCKING-STOOL, iii. 287.
DUDLEY, Lord, v. 457.
DUDLEY, Sir Henry, (_alias_ Rev. Henry Bate), iv. 296, n. 3.
DUEL, trial by, v. 24.
DUELLING,
defended by Johnson and Oglethorpe, ii. 179;
by Johnson as being as lawful as war, ii. 226;
as self-defence, iv. 211;
his serious opinion not given, ib., n. 4;
could not explain its rationality, v. 230;
Thomas, Colonel, killed in one, iv. 211, n. 4;
_Tom Jones_, the lieutenant in, ii. 180.
DUFFERIN, fifth Earl of, i. 358, n. 2.
DUGDALE, William, Sunday work in harvest, iii. 313, n. 3.
DU HALDE, _Description of China_, i. 136, 157; ii. 55; iv. 30.
DUKE, Richard, iv. 36, n. 4.
DUKE, an English one nothing, i. 409;
weighed against a genius, i. 442.
DULL, fellow, a, ii. 126;
magistrate, iv. 312.
_Dum vivimus, vivamus_, v. 271.
DUN, Rev. Mr., v. 381.
DUNBAR, Dr., Johnson introduces him to Boswell, iii. 436;
described by Mackintosh and Colman, ib., n. 1; v. 92.
DUNCAN, Dr., ii. 354, n. 2.
DUNCES, ii. 84.
DUNCOMBE, William, iii. 314.
DUNDAS, Lord President, ii. 50, n. 4, 302, n. 2; iii. 213.
DUNDAS, Henry (Viscount Melville),
account of him, ii. 160, n. 1;
Boswell's malice against him, iii. 213, n. 1;
George III, and a baronetcy for an apothecary, ii. 354, n. 2;
government of India bill, iv. 213, n. 1;
Knight, the negro, case of, iii. 213;
Literary Property Case, i. 266;
Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2;
Robertson, a jaunt with, iii. 335, n. 1;
Scotch accent, his, ii. 160; iii. 213;
serfdom in Scotland, on, iii. 202, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 191, n. 2.
DUNDEE, John, Viscount of, v. 58, n. 1.
'DUNGEON OF WIT,' v. 342.
DUNKIRK, iii. 326.
DUNMORE, fourth Earl of, v. 142, n. 2.
DUNNING, John (first Lord Ashburton),
business, his way of getting through, iii. 128, n. 5;
Devonshire accent, ii. 159;
'great lawyer, the,' iii. 128;
influence of the Crown, motion on the, iv. 220, n. 5;
Johnson, willing to listen to, iii. 240;
_Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle_, iii. 254;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
elected, iii. 128;
Loughborough, Lord, afraid of him, iii. 240, n. 3;
Reynolds's dinner parties, describes, iii. 375, n. 2;
Somerset's case, in, iii. 87, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 437, n. 2.
DUNSINNAN, Lord. See NAIRNE, William.
DUNSTABLE, v. 428.
_Dunton's Life and Errors_, iv. 200.
_Dupin's History of the Church_, iv. 311.
DUPPA, Bishop, _Holy Rules_, iv. 402, n. 2.
DUPPA, R.,
edits Johnson's _Journey into North Wales_, ii. 285, n. 2; v. 427, n. 1.
_Durandi Rationale Officiorum Divinorum_, ii. 397, n. 2; v. 459.
_Durandi Sanctuarium_, ii. 397.
_Durham on the Galatians_. v. 383.
DURHAM (City), iii. 297, n. 2, 457; v. 56, n. 2.
DURHAM (County), Militia Bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4.
DURY, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 338, n. 2.
DURY, Major-General, i. 338, n. 2.
DUTCH. See HOLLAND.
DYER, Sir James, i. 75.
DYER, John, _Fleece, The,_ ii. 453;
S. Dyer's portrait passed off as his, ib., n. 2.
DYER, Samuel, account of him, iv. 11, n. 1;
Hawkins's character, draws, i. 28, n. 1;
Hawkins slanders him, i. 480, n. 1;
Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 436;
Johnson buys his portrait, iv. 11, n. 1;
_Junius,_ suspected to be, iv. 11;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2,479, 480, n. 2; ii. 17;
held in high estimation, iv. 10-11;
mathematician, a, v. 109;
Reynolds's portrait of him, i. 363, n. 3; ii. 453, n. 2.
DYING. See DEATH.
E.
_Eagle and Robin Redbreast,_ i. 117, n. 1.
EARLY HABITS, ii. 366.
EARLY RISING. See under BOSWELL, early rising, and JOHNSON, rising.
EARTHQUAKE, at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3;
in Staffordshire, iii. 136.
EAST INDIANS, barbarians, iii. 339.
EAST INDIES,
Johnson receives a letter thence, iii. 20, 23;
once thought of going there, iii. 20;
quest of wealth, iii. 400;
Scotch soldiers refuse to go there, v. 142, n. 2.
See INDIA.
EASTER. See under JOHNSON.
EASTER to Whitsuntide, propitious to study, ii. 263.
EASTON MAUDIT, i. 486; iii. 437, 451.
EATING. See under JOHNSON.
ECCLES, Mr., an Irish gentleman, i. 423.
_Ecclesiastes,_ iv. 300, n. 2.
ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURE, iii. 59, 91.
ECONOMY, anxious saving, ii. 131;
art of--, iii. 265, 362;
blundering--, iii. 300.
EDDYSTONE, i. 377.
EDENSOR INN, iii. 208.
EDIAL, i. 97; ii. 143.
_Edinburgh Magazine and Review,_ iii. 334, n. 1.
_Edinburgh Review,
_Campbell's _Diary of a Visit to England,_ ii. 338, n. 2, 343, n. 2;
payment to writers in it, iv. 214, n. 2.
_Edinburgh Review_ of 1755, i. 298, n. 2.
_Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions,_ iv. 25, n. 4.
EDITIONS OF A BOOK, iv. 279.
EDUCATION, by-roads, ii. 407;
'Dick Wormwood' in _The Idler,_ ii. 407, n. 5;
fear, use of, i. 46; v. 99;
influence of it compared with nature, ii. 436;
Johnson attacks and defends the 'common way,' ii. 407, n. 5;
defends popular--, ii. 188; iii. 37;
his plan, iii. 358, n. 2;
Locke's plan, iii. 358;
Mill, J. S., on the new system, ii. 146, n. 4;
Milton's plan, iii. 358;
'wonders' performed by him, ii. 407, n. 5;
perfection attained in it, ii. 407;
_refine,_ not to, in it, iii. 169;
Socrates's plan, iii. 358, n. 2; iv. 444;
what should be taught first? i. 452.
See BOOKS, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, SCHOOLS,
and SCOTLAND, Education, Learning, and Schools.
EDWARD, Prince, brother of George III, iii. 139, n. 4.
EDWARDS, Rev. Dr., Johnson's letter to him, iii. 367;
editing Xenophon, ib.;
death, ib., n. 1.
EDWARDS, Jonathan, _On Grace_, iii. 290.
EDWARDS, Oliver,
Johnson, meets, iii. 302-7; iv. 90;
sends him _The Rambler_, ib;
tried philosophy, iii. 305.
EDWARDS, Thomas, _Canons of Criticism_, i. 263, n. 3.
EDWIN, the comedian, iv. 381, n. 1.
EEL, iii. 381.
EGLINTOUNE, Alexander, tenth Earl of,
calls Johnson a dancing-bear, ii. 66;
his character, v. 374;
death, iii. 188.
EGLINTOUNE, Archibald, eleventh Earl of, iii. 107, 214, 316; v. 149.
EGLINTOUNE, Countess of,
Johnson visits her, v. 373-5;
is adopted by her, iii. 366; v, 375, 401.
_Epilogues_, i. 277.
EGMONT, second Earl of, iv. 198, n. 3; v. 449, n. 1.
EGOTISM, iv. 323.
EGOTISTS, iii. 171.
EGYPT, iii. 233.
EGYPTIANS, ancient, iv. 125.
_Eighteen Hundred and Eleven_, ii. 408, n. 3.
ELD, Mr., iii. 326.
ELDON, Earl of. See SCOTT, John.
ELECTION, General, of 1768, ii. 60, n. 2;
of 1774, ii. 285;
of 1780, iii. 440;
of 1784, iv. 165, n. 3.
ELECTION-COMMITTEES, iv. 74.
ELECTIONS,
boroughs bought, ii. 153;
by Nabobs, v. 106;
lost by vice, iii. 350;
rascals to be driven out of the county, ii. 167, 340.
_Elegy in a Country Churchyard_. See GRAY.
_Elements of Criticism_. See KAMES.
_Elements of Orthoepy_, iv. 389, n. 6.
_Elfrida_, ii. 335.
ELGIN, Earls of, v. 25, n. 2.
ELIBANK, Patrick, fifth Lord, account of him, v. 386;
Boswell, correspondence with, v. 14, 16, 181, 316;
death, v. 181, n. 2;
epitaph on his wife, iv. 10;
Home, patronises, v. 386;
Johnson's definition of oats, i. 294, n. 8;
and the great, iv. 117;
letter to him, v. 182
meets him in Edinburgh, v. 385-8, 393-4;
visits him, v. 394;
power of arguing, iii. 24;
praises him, iii. 24; v. 182, 385;
society, loves, v. 181-2;
Robertson, patronises, v. 386;
admires the moderation of, v. 393;
talk, nothing conclusive in his, iii. 57;
mentioned, ii. 140, 147, 187, 192, 275; v. 307.
ELIOT, Edward, of Port Eliot, first Lord Eliot, Chesterfield, Lord,
praised by, iv. 334, n. 5;
dines at Sir Joshua's, iv. 78, 332;
Goldsmith, sarcasm on, ii. 265, n. 4;
Harte, Dr., his tutor, iv. 78, 333;
Johnson and the graces, iii. 54;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; iv. 326;
_latiner_, story of a, iv. 185, n. 1;
_young_ Lord, a, iv. 334.
ELIZA, epigram to. See MRS. CARTER.
ELIZABETH, Madame, ii. 394.
ELIZABETH, Queen, authors of her age, iii. 194, n. 2;
fashion to exalt her reign, i. 354;
had learning enough for a bishop, iv. 13.
ELLENBOROUGH, first Lord, iv. 414, n. 1.
ELLIOCK, Lord, iii. 213.
ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, third Baronet, ii. 160.
ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert,
fourth Baronet (afterwards first Earl of Minto), ii. 71, n. 1.
ELLIOT, Mr., i. 349.
ELLIOT,--, iii. 352, n. 2.
ELLIS, Sir Henry, i. 260, n. 2; v. 444, n. 2.
ELLIS, 'Jack,' a scrivener, iii. 21.
ELLIS, Welbore, ii. 337; n. 4.
ELLIS, Mr., ii. 116.
ELLSFIELD, i. 273, 289.
ELOCUTION, iv. 206.
ELPHINSTON, James, _Forty Years Correspondence_, ii. 305;
Johnson, letters from: See JOHNSON, letters;
_Martial_, translation of, iii. 258;
manner, his, ii. 171; iii. 379;
mother, loses his, i. 211;
_Rambler_, brings out a Scotch edition of the, i. 210;
translates the mottoes, i. 225;
reading books through, on, ii. 226;
school, his, ii. 171, 226;
mentioned, ii. 30.
ELPHINSTONE, Bishop, v. 91.
ELRINGTON, Bishop, ii. 39, n. 1.
_Elvira_, i. 408.
ELWALL, E., ii. 164, 251.
ELWALLIANS, ii. 164.
ELWIN, Rev. W., Pope's _Universal Prayer_, iii. 346, n. 3.
_Embellishment_, iii. 209.
EMIGRATION, complaints of it, iii. 231;
effects of it on population, iii. 232;
on happiness, v. 27;
caused by oppressive landlords, ib. n. 3;
immersion in barbarism, v. 78. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, emigration.
EMINENT PUBLIC CHARACTER, an, ii. 222.
EMMET, Mrs., ii. 464.
EMPHASIS. See COMMANDMENT.
EMPLOYMENTS, their end is to produce amusement, ii, 234.
EMULATION, i. 46; v. 99.
ENGHIEN, Duke of, ii. 393, n. 7.
ENGLAND, air too pure for slaves to breathe in, iii. 87, n. 3;
Condition (1780), 'difficulty very general,' iii. 420;
(1782) seems to be sinking, iv. 139, n. 4;
(1783) all things as bad as they can be, iv. 173;
dreadful confusion, iv. 249:
times dismal and gloomy, iv. 260, n. 2;
Corsica, treatment of, ii. 71, n. 1;
common people, courage of the, iii. 262, n. 1;
cruelty to black men, ii. 479;
Englishman to a Frenchman, proportion of an, i. 186;
felicity in its inns, ii. 451;
genius and learning little respected, iv. 117, n. 1;
government loan raised at 8 per cent. in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
history of it scarcely credible, v. 340;
knowledge of the common people, ii. 170, n. 3;
language injured by foreign words, iii. 343, n. 3;
literature: See LITERATURE;
lost, found by the Scotch, iii. 78;
loyal in general, ii. 370;
poor, provision for the, ii. 130;
reason and soil best cultivated, ii. 125;
Reign of Terror, a kind of, iv. 328, n. 1;
reserve, English, iv. 191, 284;
roads, iii. 135, n. 1; v. 56, n. 2;
slave trade, upholds the, ii. 480;
stature of the people not lessened, ii. 217.
_England's Gazetteer_, iv. 311.
_English Humourists_, i. 199, n, 2.
_English Malady, The_, i. 65; iii. 27, n. 1.
_English Poets, Bell's_, ii. 453, n. 2.
ENGLISH PROSE. See STYLE
_Englishman in Paris_, ii. 395, n. 2.
ENTAILS, advantage of them, ii. 428;
Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-423;
Johnson's letters on it, ii. 415-423;
limits should be set, ii. 428-9;
nobles must be kept from poverty, ii. 421, n. 1; v. 101.
ENTHUSIASM, of curiosity, iii. 7;
in farming, v. 111.
ENTHUSIAST, by rule, iv. 33.
_Enucleated_, iii. 346.
ENVY, all men naturally envious, iii. 271.
EPICHARMUS, ii. 107, n. 1.
EPICTETUS, v. 279.
EPICUREAN in _Lucian_, iii. 10.
EPIGRAM, judge of an, iii. 259.
EPISCOPACY, iii. 371; iv. 277. See BISHOPS and HIERARCHY.
_Epistle of St. Basil_, iv. 20.
EPITAPHS addressed to the passersby, iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1;
Latin for learned men, iii. 84, n. 2; v. 154, 366;
man killed by a fall, on a, iv. 212;
mixed languages or styles, iv. 444;
the writer not upon oath, ii. 407; iii. 387, n. 5; iv. 443.
_Epitaphs, Essay on_, i. 148, 335; iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1.
_Epocha_, iii. 128.
EPSOM, iii. 453.
EQUALITY OF MANKIND, would turn men into brutes, ii. 219;
none happy in it, iii. 26;
mercy abolished by it, iii. 204, n. 1;
natural, ii. 13; n. 1, 479; iii. 202.
See SUBORDINATION.
_Equitation_, v. 131.
ERASMUS, _Adagiorum Chiliades_, iv. 379, n. 2;
_battologia_, v. 444;
_Ciceronianus_, iv. 353;
Dutch epitaph on him would be offensive, iii. 84, n. 2;
epigram on him, v. 430;
_Letter to the Nuns_, v. 446;
_Militis Christiani Enchiridion, iii. 190, n. 3;
_Manita Paedagogica_, quoted, i. 418, n. 2.
ERROL, Earls of, their property, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1.
ERROL, thirteenth Earl of, account of him, v. 103;
says grace with decency and sees the hand of Providence, v. 104;
his drinking, iii. 170, n. 2, 329; v. 104;
educates a surgeon, v. 101;
portrait by Reynolds, v. 102.
ERROL, Lady, v. 98-9, 105, 130.
ERROR, taking delight in, iv. 204.
ERSE. See IRELAND and SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse.
ERSKINE, Hon. Andrew,
_Correspondence with James Boswell, Esq., i. 383, n. 3; iii. 150, n. 4;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 408;
poet and critick, iii. 150.
ERSKINE, Lady Anne, v. 387.
ERSKINE, Hon. Archibald, v. 387.
ERSKINE, Sir Harry, i. 386.
ERSKINE, Hon. Henry, v. 39, n. 4.
ERSKINE, Hon. Thomas (afterwards Lord Erskine),
account of him, ii. 173, n. 1;
Johnson, meets, ii. 173-177;
