Richardson tedious, finds, ii. 174;
sermons, preached two, ii. 176.
ERSKINE, Rev. Dr., v. 391.
ESAU'S BIRTHRIGHT, i. 255.
_Esdras_, ii. 189, n. 3.
ESQUIMAUX, ii. 247.
ESQUIRE, title of, i. 34; ii. 332, n. 1.
_Essay on Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough_, i. 153.
_Essay on Architecture_, i. 306.
_Essay on Death_, ii. 107, n. 1.
_Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, i. 197, n. 2.
_Essay on Epitaphs. See_ EPITAPHS.
_Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise
Lost_, i, 230.
_Essay on the Future Life of Brutes_, ii. 54, n. 1.
_Essay on the Origin of Evil. See_ KING, Archbishop.
_Essay on Truth. See_ BEATTIE, Dr.
_Essay on Wit, Humour, and Ridicule_, iv. 105, n. 4.
_Essays on the History of Mankind_, iii. 436, n. 1.
_Essays on Husbandry_, iv. 78, n. 3.
ESSEX, Club in one of the towns, i. 215;
militia, i. 307, n. 4.
ESSEX, Arthur Capel, first Earl of, v. 403, n. 2.
ESSEX, Robert Devereux, second Earl of,
advice about travelling, i. 431;
_Queen Elizabeth's Champion_, written in his honour, v. 241.
ESTATE, residence on it a duty, iii. 177, 249;
settling, supposed obligation in, ii. 432;
succession in ancient estates, ii. 261;
in those got by trade, ib.
ESTE, House of, i. 383.
ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, iii. 200.
ETERNITY, v. 154.
ETHICS, ii. 408, n. 3.
ETNA, strata of lava, ii. 468, n. 1.
ETON COLLEGE, Boswell places his son there, iii. 12;
dines with the Fellows, v. 15, n. 5;
boys cowed there, iii. 12, n. 1;
line attributed to a boy, iii. 304;
Macdonald, Sir James, a pupil, i. 449, n. 2; iv. 82, n. 1;
Porson on Eton boys, i. 224, n. 1;
Walpole, Horace, revisits it, iv. 127, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 411; iv. 315; v. 97.
_Etymologicon Lingua; Anglicanae_, i. 186, n. 2.
_Etymologicum Anglicanum_, i. 186, n. 2.
ETYMOLOGIES. _See Dictionary_.
EUGENE, Prince, ii. 180.
_Eugenio,_ i. 122; ii. 240.
EUMELIAN CLUB, iv. 394.
EUPHRANOR, iv. 104, n. 2.
EUPOLIS, iii. 267, n. 4.
EURIPIDES, Agamemnon in _Hecuba_, v. 79;
armorial bearings, ii. 179;
'every verse a precept, ii. 86, n. 1;
fragments, iv. 181, n. 3;
Barnes's edition, ib.;
Johnson reads him, i. 70, 72; iv. 311;
Markland's edition, iv. 161, n. 3;
quoted, i. 277;
mentioned, iv. 2.
_European Magazine,_ i. 361, n. 2.
EUTROPIUS, ii. 237.
_Evangelical History Harmonized,_ iv. 381, n. 1.
EVANS, Dr., epigram on Marlborough, ii. 451.
EVANS, Evan, addicted to strong drink, v. 443.
EVANS, John, i. 36, n. 2.
EVANS, Lewis, _Map, &c., of the Middle Colonies_, i. 309.
EVANS, Thomas, bookseller, ii. 209.
EVANS, Mr., iii. 422.
_Evelina. See_ Miss BURNEY.
_Evening Post,_ iv. 140, n. 1.
EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, iv. 299.
_Every island is a prison_, iii. 269; v. 256.
EVIL, origin of, v. 117, 366.
EVIL SPIRIT, personality of the, v. 36, n. 3.
EVIL SPIRITS, their agency, v. 45.
EXAGGERATION, causes of it, iii. 136;
checked by arithmetic, iv. 171, n. 3;
instances of it--depths of places filled up, v. 292;
earthquake at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3;
editions of _Thomas a Kempis_, iii. 226, n. 4;
opera girls in France, iv. 171.
_Examen of Pope's Essay on Man_, i. 137.
_Examiner, The_ (1873), iv. 202, n. 1.
EXCELLENCE, how acquired, iv. 184, n. 1.
EXCISE, Commissioners of, i. 294, n. 9.
EXCISE, defined, i. 294;
origin of Johnson's violence against it, i. 36, n. 5.
_Excursion, The,_ ii. 26.
EXECUTIONS, account of the capital convictions in 1783-5,
iv. 328, n. 1, 329, n. 2, 359, n. 2;
Boswell's love of seeing them: See under BOSWELL;
condemnation sermon at Oxford, i. 273;
capital punishment, cruel instance of, i. 147, n. 1;
Newgate, removed to, iv. 188;
_Rambler_, mentioned in the, iv. 188, n. 3;
Tyburn, procession to, iv. 188-9.
EXECUTORS, v. 106.
EXERCISE, defined, iv. 151, n. 1;
relief for melancholy, i. 64, 446;
renders death easy, iv. 150, n. 2.
EXETER, City and County, i. 36, n. 4;
freedom given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2;
George III visits it, iv. 165, n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 457; iv. 77.
EXETER, Dr. Ross, Bishop of, iv. 273.
EXHIBITION. See ROYAL ACADEMY.
EXISTENCE, complaints of existence being imposed on man, iii. 53;
terms on which it is offered, iii. 58. See LIFE.
EXPECTATIONS, i. 337, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 2.
EXPENDITURE. See ECONOMY.
EXPERIENCE, great test of truth, i. 454.
_Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost_, i. 128, n. 2.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS, ii. 450.
F.
_Fable of the Bees_, iii. 291, n. 4, 292, ns. 1, 2, and 3.
_Fable of the Glow-worm,_ ii. 232.
FACTION, iv. 200.
FACTS, mingled with fiction, iv. 187.
_Faculty, The_, iii. 285, n. 2.
FAIRIES, iv. 17.
FADEN, W., i. 330, n. 3; iv. 440.
FAIRFAX, Edward, iv. 36, n. 4.
FAIRLIE, Mr., v. 380.
FAITH, merit in, iv. 123.
FALCONER, Rev. Mr., iii. 371.
FALCONER, Alexander, v. 103.
FALKLAND, Lord, iv. 428, n. 2.
_Falkland's Islands, Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting_,
account of it, ii. 134;
Johnson's estimate of it, ii. 147;
'softened' in later copies, ii. 135;
sale delayed by Lord North, ii. 136;
mentioned, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 312; iii. 19, n. 2.
FALMOUTH, Viscount, iii. 331.
_False Alarm_, account of it, ii. 111;
answers to it, ii. 112;
election committees described, iv. 74, n. 3;
Johnson's estimate of it, ii. 147;
petitions described, ii. 90, n. 5;
rapidly written, i. 71, n. 3, 373, n. 2;
Wilkes, answer attributed to, iv. 30;
Wilkes attacked, iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 104.
FALSE CRIES, transmitted from book to book, iii. 55.
_False Delicacy_, ii. 48.
FALSEHOOD, due mostly to carelessness, iii. 228, 229, n. 1;
prevalence of it, iii. 229.
FALSTAFF, Beauclerk adopts his 'humorous phrase,' i. 250;
'I deny your Major,' iv. 316;
proved no coward, iv. 192, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 506.
FAME, general desire for it, iii. 263;
literary, hard to get, ii. 358;
a shuttlecock, v. 400;
solicitude about it, i. 451.
FAMILIES, Great, chaplains and state servants, ii. 96;
continuance of them, ii. 421;
desire to propagate the name, ii. 469;
estate, living on the, iii. 177, 249;
founding one, ii. 429;
household, number in the, iii. 316;
preference shown them, ii. 153;
ruined by extravagance, ii. 428.
See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON, Birth.
FAMILY, affected by commerce, ii. 177.
FANCIES, apprehensions, fanciful, i. 470; iii. 4.
See_ BOSWELL, Fancies.
FANCY, compared with reason, ii. 277.
_Fantoccini_, i. 414.
FARMER, Dr., Colman, criticised by, iv. 18;
_Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare_, iii. 38;
Johnson praises it, ib., n. 6;
letters to him, i. 368; ii. 114; iii. 427;
Percy, in his _Ancient Ballads_, helps, iii. 276, n. 2;
Steevens, friendship with, iii. 281, n. 3;
_Tristram Shandy_, despises, ii. 449, n. 3;
mentioned, iv. 141.
FARMERS, worthless fellows, often, iii. 353;
described by Wesley, ib., n. 5.
FARQUHAR, George, Johnson's opinion of his writings, iv. 7.
_See Beaux Stratagem_.
_Fashionable Lover_, v. 176.
FASTING, examined medically, ii. 476-7;
justified, ii. 352, n. 2;
peevishness caused by it, ii. 435:
See JOHNSON, fasting.
FAT MEN, iv. 213.
FATE. See FREE WILL.
FATHER, control over his daughters in marriage, iii. 377;
not bound to tell of his children's faults, iii. 18.
_Father's Revenge, The_, iv. 246.
FAULDER, a bookseller, iv. 387, n. 1.
FAULKNER, G., Chesterfield's account of him, v. 44, n. 2;
Ireland drained by England, v. 44;
mimicked by Foote, ii. 154; v. 130;
mentioned, i. 321.
FAWKENER, Sir Everard, i. 181, n. 1.
FAWKES, Rev. Francis, i. 382.
FAVOUR, granting a, ii. 167.
FAVOURITE defined, i. 295, n. 1.
FEAR, Charles V's saying, ii. 81;
nothing left to fear when a man is bent on killing himself, ii. 229.
See COURAGE.
FEELING FOR OTHERS. See SYMPATHY.
_Felixmarte of Hircania_, i. 49.
FELL, John, _Demoniacs_, v. 36, n. 3.
_Fellow_, ii. 362.
FENCING, v. 66.
FENELON, Archbishop, v. 175, n. 5, 311.
FENTON, Elijah, his advice to Gay, v. 60, n. 4;
Mariamne, i. 102, n. 2;
non-juror, a, ii. 321, n. 4.
FERGUSON, James, the self-taught philosopher, ii. 99; v. 149.
FERGUSON, James, a Scotch advocate, iii. 213, 214, n. 1.
FERGUSSON, Dr. Adam, account of him, v. 42;
mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 45.
FERGUSSON, Sir Adam, ii. 169.
FERMOR, Arabella, ii. 392, n. 8.
FERMOR, Mrs., the Abbess, ii. 392.
FERNE, Mr., v. 123-5.
FERNEY, i. 434; v. 14.
FERNS, Burke's pun on, iv. 73.
_Festivals and Fasts_, ii. 458.
FEUDAL ANTIQUITIES, ii. 202; iii. 414.
'FEUDAL GABBLE,' ii. 134, n. 4.
FEUDAL SYSTEM,
Boswell for, and Johnson against it, ii. 177-8; v. 106;
Johnson has the old feudal notions, iii. 177;
male succession, origin of, ii. 417, 419;
ridiculed by Smollett, v. 106, n. 3.
FICTION, small amount of real, iv. 236.
FIDDLERS, ii. 191.
FIDDLING, dangerous fascination, iii. 242;
little thing, but not disgraceful, iii. 242;
power of art shown in it, ii. 226.
FIELDING, Henry, alms-giving, on, ii. 119, n. 4, 212, n. 2;
_Amelia_, dedicated to Ralph Allen, v. 80, n. 5;
Johnson reads it at a sitting, iii. 43:
complains of the heroine's broken nose, ib., n. 2;
Richardson could not read it, ii. 174, n. 1;
'sad stuff,' iii. 43, n. 2;
sale rapid, ib.;
description of a _buck_, v. 184, n. 3;
Westminster Round-house, i. 249, n. 2;
attacks on authors, on, v. 275, n. 1;
blockhead, a, ii. 173;
barren rascal, a, ii. 174;
Burney, Miss, admired by, ii. 174, n. 2;
_Champion, The_, i. 169, n. 2;
died at Lisbon, iv. 260;
foreigners, not understood by, ii. 49, n. 2;
Gibbon's tribute to him, ii. 175, n. 2;
hospitals, on, iii. 53, n. 5;
Johnson praises him, ii. 173, n. 2:
See above, _Amelia_, blockhead, and below, _Tom Jones;
_Jonathan Wild_, compared with St. Austin, iv. 291;
Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1;
_Joseph Andrews_, never read by Johnson, ii. 174;
Parson Adams, the original of, iii. 426, n. 1;
_Cato_ and _The Conscious Lovers_, praised by Adams, i. 491, n. 3;
Richardson, compared with, ii. 48, 174, ib., n. 2;
Richardson's description of his heroes, ii. 49;
of Fielding, ii. 174;
of _Tom Jones_, ii. 175, n. 2;
Robinhood Society described, iv. 92, n. 5;
_Tom Jones_, Boswell praises it, ii. 175;
Johnson despises it, ii. 174;
More, Hannah, read by, ii. 174, n. 2;
price paid for it, i. 287, n. 3;
Allen the original of Allworthy, v. 80, n. 5;
charity to the poor, ii. 212, n. 2;
duelling, ii. 180, n. 1;
Garrick and Partridge, v. 38;
ghosts never speak first, v. 73, n. 3;
soldiers, quartering of, iii. 9, n. 4;
Squire Western on marriage, ii. 329, n. 2;
transpire, iii. 343, n. 2;
_Voyage to Lisbon_, i. 269, n. 1;
Ward, the quack-doctor, praises, iii. 389, n. 5;
Welch, Saunders, succeeded by, iii. 216;
Westminster Justice, salary as a, iii. 217, n. 2.
FIELDING, Sir John, Boswell applies to him, i. 422;
his house pulled down in the Gordon Riots, iii. 428.
FIELDING, Miss, compared with her brother, ii. 49, n. 2.
FIELDING, ----, a bookseller, iv. 421, n. 2.
FIFE, Earl, v. 109.
FIGHTING-COCK, ii. 334.
FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS, in prayers, iv. 294.
FILBY, John, ii. 83.
FINE AND RECOVERY, ii. 429, n. 1.
FINE CLOTHES, iv. 179; v. 364.
FINES, iii. 323.
_Fingal_. See MACPHERSON, James.
_Finnick Dictionary_, i. 276, 278-9.
FIRE, going round the, i. 60, n. 4;
superstitious tricks to make it burn, iii. 404.
FIREBRACE, Lady, i. 136.
FIRST CAUSE, iii. 316.
FISHER, Dr., ii. 268, n. 2, 445, n. 1.
FISHER, Kitty, v. 185, n. 1.
FISHMONGER, story of a, iii. 381.
FITZ-ADAM, Adam (Edward Moore), i. 257, n. 3.
FITZHERBERT, Alleyne (Lord St. Helen's), i. 82.
FITZHERBERT, Mrs., i. 82-3; iv. 33.
FITZHERBERT, William,
affected man, dealing with an, iii. 149;
Baretti's trial, at, ii. 97, n. 1;
_bon mot_, on carrying a, ii. 350;
character, his, drawn by Johnson, iii. 148;
and by Burke, ib., n. l;
felicity of manner, iii. 386;
Foote's small beer, anecdote of, iii. 69-70;
friend, had no, ii. 228; iii. 149;
hanged himself, ii. 228, n. 3; iii. 149, n. 1, 384, n. 4;
Johnson in Inner Temple-lane, describes, i. 350, n. 3;
defends in parliament, iv. 318, n. 3;
makes a present of wine to, i. 305, n. 2;
parliament, elected to, i. 363;
Townshend's, Charles, jokes, ii. 222;
tragedy, anecdote of a, iii. 239;
mentioned, i. 82; iv. 28, 33.
FITZMAURICE, Thomas, ii. 282, n. 3.
_Fitzosborne's Letters_, iii. 424; iv. 272, n. 4.
FITZPATRICK, Richard, iii. 388, n. 3.
FITZROY, Lord Charles, ii. 467.
FITZWILLIAM, Lord, iv. 367, n. 3.
FLAGEOLET, iii. 242.
FLATMAN, Thomas, iii. 29.
FLATTERY, flattered by him whom every one else flatters, ii. 227;
pleases generally, ii. 364;
stage, on the, ii. 234.
FLEA and a lion, ii. 194;
precedency between a flea and a louse, iv. 193.
_Fleece, The_, ii. 453.
FLEETWOOD, Bishop, v. 294, n. 2.
FLEETWOOD, Charles, patentee of Drury-lane theatre, i. 111, 153.
FLEETWOOD, Everard, iii. 323, n. 3.
FLEMING, Lady, i. 461, n. 5.
FLEXMAN, Rev. Mr., iv. 325.
FLEXNEY, the bookseller, ii. 113, n. 2.
FLINT, Bet, iv. 103.
FLINT, Professor, v. 64.
FLINT,--, v. 430.
FLODDEN FIELD, ii. 413; v. 379.
FLOGGING, less than of old, ii. 407.
See ROD.
FLOOD, Right Hon. Henry,
Johnson's _Debates_, on, i. 321, n. 5, 506; ii. 139;
sepulchral verses on, iv. 424.
FLORENCE, Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19
statue of a boar, iii. 231;
wine, iii. 381.
FLOYD, Thomas, i. 457.
FLOYER, Sir John, M.D., advises the 'regal touch,' i. 42;
asthma, book on, iv. 353;
corrupted the register, iv. 267;
_Touchstone of Medicines_, i. 36, n. 3;
_Treatise on Cold Baths_, i. 91.
FLUDYER, Rev. John, ii. 444.
FLYING MAN, iv. 357, n. 3.
FOLIOS, i. 428, n. 1.
FONDNESS, distinguished from kindness, iv. 154.
FONTAINEBLEAU, ii. 385, 394.
FONTANERIUS, Paulus Pelissonius (Pelisson), i. 90, n. 1.
FONTENELLE, 'Fontenellus, ni falior,' &c., ii. 125, n, 5;
Memoires, iii. 247;
Newton, on, ii. 74, n. 3;
_Panegyrick on Dr. Morin_, i. 150.
FONTENOY, Battle of, i. 355; iii. 8, n. 3.
FOOD, production of, ii. 102.
_Fool, The_, ii. 33.
FOOLS, Latin needful to a fool's completeness, i. 73, n. 3;
'let us be grave, here comes a fool,' i. 4;
spaniel and mule fools, v. 226.
FOOTE, Samuel, Baretti's trial, ii. 94;
Bedlam, visits, ii. 374;
'black broth,' ii. 215;
Burke, compared with, iv. 276;
Chesterfield, satire on, iv. 333;
conversation between wit and buffoonery, ii. 155;
_Cozeners, The_, iv. 333, n. 3;
death, fear of, ii. 106;
death, his, iii. 185, n. 1, 387, n. 4, 453;
Edinburgh, at, ii. 95, n. 2;
_Englishman in Paris_, ii. 395, n. 2;
'Foote, _quatenus_ Foote superior to all,' iii. 185
_Footeana_, iii. 185, n. 1;
Garrick's bust, iv. 224;
and the ghost of a halfpenny, iii. 264;
compared with, iii. 69, 183; v. 391;
George III at the Haymarket, iv. 13, n. 3;
Haymarket theatre, gets a patent for, iii. 97, n. 2;
'Hesiod' Cooke introduces him, v. 37;
humour not comedy but farce, ii. 95;
impartiality in lying, ii. 434;
incompressible, v. 391;
