Paoli, notices, v. 1, n. 3;
patron of science and the arts, i. 372;
petitions in 1769, ii. 90, n. 5;
Pretender, proper designation for the, v. 185, n. 4;
recruiting, complains of the difficulty of, iii. 399, n. 3.
reign very factious, iv. 200, 296; very unfortunate, iv. 200;
_respectable_ empire, his, iii. 241, n. 2;
Reynolds, slights, iv. 366, n. 2;
Rousseau's pension, ii. 12, n. 1;
Scotch favourites, i. 363;
sea, at the age of 34 had not seen the, i. 340; n. 1;
Shakespeare sad stuff, i. 497, n. 1;
Shelburne, Lord, dislikes, iv. 174, n. 5;
slave-trade, upholder of the, ii. 480;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, sees, ii. 223;
Toryism or Whiggism, prevalence in his reign of, ii. 221;
tour in the West of England, iv. 165, n. 3;
unpopularity maintained by Johnson, iii. 155; iv. 165;
changed into popularity, iii. 156, n. 1; iv. 165;
Wilkes at the Levee, iii. 430, n. 4.
GEORGE IV, i. 108, n. 1. See PRINCE OF WALES.
GEORGIA, i. 127, n. 4.
GERARD, Dr., v. 90, 92-3, 130.
GERMAINE, Lord George, i. 424, n. 1.
GERMAN BARON, story of a, ii. 462.
GERMANY, academies at the smaller Courts, v. 276;
language, ii. 156;
rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4;
stocking industry, v. 86.
GERVES, John, v. 297, n. 1, 327.
GESTICULATION RIDICULED, i. 334; ii. 211;
Johnson's aversion to it, iv. 322.
GHERARDI, Marchese, iii. 326.
GHOSTS, Addison's belief, iv. 95;
argument against their existence, belief for it, iii. 230;
Boswell introduces the subject, iv. 94, n. 2;
Cave, one seen by, ii. 178, 182;
Coachmakers' Hall, discussion at, iv. 95;
Cock Lane ghost, i. 406-8; iii. 268;
evidence for them, iv. 94;
experience and imagination, i. 405;
Goldsmith's brother, one seen by, ii. 182;
Johnson's prayer on his wife's death, i. 235;
his state of mind as regards them, i. 343, 406; iii. 297; iv. 94, 298;
'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17;
objection to their appearing, ii. 163;
Parson Ford's, iii. 349;
question undecided after 5000 years, iii. 230,298;
Southey on the good end they answer, iii. 298, n. 1;
Villiers, Sir George, iii. 351;
Wesley's story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394.
GIANNONE, iv. 3.
GIANO VITALE, iii. 251, n. 2.
GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, iii. 410.
GIANTS, A Great Personage's, i. 219.
GIARDINI, ii. 225.
GIBBON, Edward,
author best judge of his own performance, iv. 251, n. 2;
_Autobiography_, ii. 448, n. 2;
_Beggar's Opera_, influence of the, ii. 367, n. 1;
Boswell attacks him, ii. 67, n. 1, 443, n. 1, 447-8; v. 203, n. 1;
name passed over by him, ii. 348, n. 1;
and Johnson, replies to, ii. 448, n. 2;
_Cecilia_, reads, iv. 223, n. 5;
Clarendon's _History_ and the Oxford riding-school, ii. 424, n. 1;
_Decline and Fall_, 'artful infidelity' of the, ii. 447;
composition of vol. I, ii. 236, n. 2, 366;
publication, ii. 136, n. 6; iii. 97, n. 3;
rough MS. sent to the press, iv. 36, n. 1;
the two offensive chapters, iii. 244;
domestic discipline, i. 46, n. 2;
dress, his, ii. 443, n. 1;
Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2;
Edinburgh society, ii. 53, n. 1;
fame, enjoyment of his, i. 451, n. 3;
Foster, Dr. James, iv. 9, n. 5;
Fox at Lausanne, iv. 167, n. 1;
Fox commenced patriot, iv. 87, n. 1;
French Assembly, iv. 434;
French society, iii. 254, n. 1;
Gloucester, Duke of, affability of the, ii. 2, n. 2;
Hailes's _Annals_, iii. 404, n. 3;
history attacked in his presence, ii. 366;
Holroyd, visits to, iii. 178, n. 1;
'hornets, accustomed to the buzzing of the,' ii. 448, n. 1;
Horsley, Bishop, praises, iv. 437;
hospitality, on, iv. 222, n. 2;
House of Commons and Nowell's sermon, iv. 296, n. 1;
Hume and Robertson, compliment to, ii. 236, n. 3;
Hume congratulates him, ii. 447, n. 5;
Hume's style, i. 439, n. 2;
Inquisition, defends the, i. 465, n. 1;
Johnson and the bear, ii. 348;
and the ladies, iv. 73:
did not like to trust himself with, ii. 366;
and Fox, iii. 267;
and the graces, iii. 54;
matched with, ii. 348;
'Reynolds's oracle,' i. 245, n. 3;
scarcely mentioned in his writings, ii. 348, n. 1; iii. 128, n. 4;
style, imitates, iv. 389;
talks: of his ugliness, iv. 73;
_Journal des Savans_, ii. 39, n. 3;
Law, William, character of, i. 68, n. 2;
lectures, teaching by, ii. 8, n. 1;
Literary Club, i. 479. 481, n. 3; iii. 230, n. 5;
in 1777, iii. 128, n. 4;
poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1;
London, loves the dust of, iii. 178, n. 1;
the liberty that it gives, iii. 379, n. 2;
Lowth and Warburton, ii. 37, n. 2;
Macaulay, on his poverty, iv. 350. n. 1;
Mackintosh's comparison of him with Burke, ii. 348, n. 1;
Magdalen College Common-room, ii. 443, n. 4;
'Mahometan,' ii. 448;
Mallet, David, i. 268, n. 1;
Maty, Dr., i. 284, n. 2;
Montagu, Mrs., on the _Decline and Fall_, iii. 244;
mutual gain in fair trade, v. 232, n. 1;
Newton, Bishop, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1;
North, Lord, v. 269, n. 1;
_Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2;
Oxford tutor, his, iii. 13, n. 3;
Paley's attack on him, v. 203, n. 1;
Pantheon, ii. 169, n. 1;
'Papist, turned,' ii. 448;
Parliament, silent in, ii. 366, n. 4; iii. 233, n. 2;
found it a school of civil prudence, ib.;
Pope's lines applied to him, ii. 133, n. 1;
post-chaise, delight in a, ii. 453, n. 1;
Price, Dr., iv. 434; Priestley, Dr., iv. 437;
quaint manner, iii. 54:
described by Colman, ib., n. 2;
_respectable_, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2;
Reynolds's, dines at, iii. 250;
Round-Robin, signed the, iii. 83;
Royal Academy Professor, ii. 67, n. 1;
school life not happy, i. 451, n. 2;
sneer, his usual, iv. 73;
style, study of, iv. 389, n. 2;
subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7;
Ten Persecutions, The, ii. 255, n. 4;
Tillemont, praises, i. 7, n. 1;
travelling, the requisites for, iii. 458-9;
ugliness, ii. 443, n. 1; iv. 73.
GIBBON, an attorney, ii. 93, n. 3.
GIBBONS, Rev. Dr., iv. 126, 278.
GIBRALTAR, ii. 391.
GIBSON, William, iv. 402, n. 2.
GIFFARD, the theatre manager, i. 168.
GIFFORD, Rev. Richard, v. 118.
GIFFORD, William, _Baviad and Macviad_, iii. 16, n. 1;
Johnson's Greek, v. 458, n. 5.
GILBERT, GEOFFREY, _Law of Evidence_, v. 389, n. 5.
GILBERT, Rev. Mr., i. 173, n. 1.
GILLAM, Justice, iii. 46, n. 5.
GILLESPIE, Dr., iv. 262.
GILMOUR, J., President of the Session, v. 212.
GILPIN, W., v. 431.
GIN. See SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS, iii. 304, n. 4.
GISBORNE, Dr., iii. 149, n. 2.
GLANVILLE, i. 205, n. 3.
_Glasse's, Mrs., Cookery_, iii. 285.
GLASS-HOUSES, i. 164, n. 1.
GLAUCUS, ii. 129, n. 5.
GLEG, Mr., a merchant, v. 73.
GLENGARY, Laird of, v. 190.
GLENMORISON, Laird of, v. 136, 140.
GLOOM, gloomy penitence, iii. 27;
'it is perhaps sinful to be gloomy,' iv. 142.
GLOUCESTER, v. 322, n. 1.
GLOUCESTER, Duke of (brother of George III),
affability to Gibbon, his, ii. 2, n. 2;
marriage, ii. 224, n. 1.
GLOVER, Richard, account of him, v. 116, n. 4;
Duke of Marlborough's papers, v. 175, n. 2;
_Leonidas_, v. 116;
_Medea_, i. 326, n. 3.
GLOW-WORM, ii. 55, 232.
GLUTTONY, i. 468.
GLYNNE, Serjeant, iii. 430, n. 4.
'Gnothi seauton' [original text in greek], i. 298, n. 4.
GOBELINS, ii. 390.
GOD, infinite goodness, limited, iv. 299;
love of him predominated over by fear, iii. 339.
GODWIN, William, iv. 278, n. 3.
GOLDONI, iii. 162, n. 4.
GOLDSMITH, Dr. Isaac, Dean of Cloyne, i. 414, n. 6.
GOLDSMITH, Rev. Henry, ii. 182.
GOLDSMITH, Mrs., iii. 100.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver,
absurdity, angry when caught in an, iii. 252;
Addison, compared with, ii. 256;
ages at which he published his various works, iii. 167, n. 3;
Aleppo, projected visit to, iv. 22;
anecdotes, excelled by Percy in, v. 255;
_Animated Nature_, engaged in writing it, ii. 181-2, 232, 237;
copy in Lord Scarsdale's library, iii. 162;
cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2;
Maclaurin's yawns, iii. 15;
anonymous publications, i. 412;
_Apology to the public_, ii. 209;
supposed to be written by Johnson, ib.;
architecture, contempt of, ii. 439, n. 1;
attacks, better for, v. 274;
authors, the neglect of, iii. 375, n. 1, 424, n. 1;
authors, patrons and booksellers, v. 59, n. 1:
Baretti, dislikes, ii. 205, n. 3;
at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1;
Bath, describes, ii. 7,_ n_. 4; iii. 45, n. 1;
beat, first time he has, ii. 210;
Beattie's _Essay on Truth_, despises, ii. 201,_ n_.
3; v. 273, n. 4;
Beauclerk describes him, ii. 192, n. 2;
_Beauties of English Poetry Selected_, iii. 192, n. 2;
_Bee, The_, iii. 83, n. 1;
biography, the uses of, v. 79, n. 3;
birth, date of his, i. 58, n. 2; iii. 83, n. 1;
blank verse, on, i. 427, n. 2;
bloom-coloured coat, ii. 83;
boastfulness, i. 414:
_bon ton_ breaking out in his waistcoats, ii. 274, n. 7;
books, could not tell what was in his own, iii. 253;
Boswell's account of him, i. 411-17;
accused of making a monarchy of what should be a republic, ii. 257:
'honest Goldsmith,' ii. 186;
preserves a relic of him, ii. 219, n. 2;
takes leave of him, ii. 260;
Burke's contemporary at Trinity College, i. 411;
recollection of him, iii. 168;
Camden, Lord, complains of, iii. 311;
Chamier's estimate of him, iii. 252;
Chatterton's poems, believes in, iii. 51, n. 2, 276, n. 2;
Cibber, Colley, praises, iii. 72, n. 2;
_Citizen of the World_, i. 412;
Clare, Lord, ii. 136;
Clarke, Dr., anecdote of, i. 3, n. 2;
companion, not an agreeable, iii. 247;
company, his, liked, ii. 235;
compilations and magazines, the causes of, v. 59, n. 1;
consequential at times, ii. 258;
conversation, does not know how to get off, ii. 196;
not temper for it, ii. 231;
reported a mere fool in it, i. 412;
talks at random, 413; ii. 236; iii. 252; v. 277;
talks not to be unnoticed, ii. 186, 257;
corrections in his prose composition rare, iv. 36, n. 1;
Cow shedding its horns: See above, _Animated Nature_;
Croaker, Johnson's _Suspirius_, i. 213; ii. 48;
_Cross Readings_, admires, iv. 322, n. 2;
Cumberland, disliked, iv. 384, n. 2;
death, ii. 274, n. 7, 279, n. 2, 280; iii. 164; iv. 84, n. 2;
debts, ii. 280, 281;
depopulation, on, ii. 217, n. 5;
_Deserted Village_, dedicated to Reynolds, ii. I, n. 2, 217, n. 5;
Johnson's lines in, ii. 7; iii. 418;
reiterated corrections, ii. 15, n. 3;
_Traveller_, sometimes an echo of the, ii. 236;
_Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_ projected, ii. 204, n. 2;
Dilly's, dines at, ii. 247;
'Doctor Minor,' v. 97;
Dodd, Dr., satirises, iii. 139, n. 4;
Dodsley, dispute on the poetry of the age with, iii. 38;
dog-butchers, ii. 232;
dress, slovenly, i. 366, n. 1;
his fine coat, ii. 83;
effect of dress on the mind, ib. n. 3;
Dryden's line on poets and monarchs, ii. 223:
duelling, question of, ii. 179;
Dyer, Samuel, at the Club, iv. II, n. 1;
Edinburgh, country round, i. 425; ii. 311, n. 5;
Edinburgh University, i. 411, 425;
_Elements of Criticism_, criticises, ii. 90;
_Enquiry into the present State of Polite Learning_, i. 350, n. 3, 412;
envy, his, i. 413; ii. 42, 260;
Boswell's defence of it, iii. 271;
epitaph in Greek, ii. 282; iii. 85, n. 1;
epitaph in Latin, iii. 81-3;
_Round Robin_, 84;
Europe, disputed his passage through, i. 411;
Evans, assaults, ii. 209, n. 2;
excelled in what he wrote, iii. 253;
fable of the little fishes, ii. 231;
fame, his, v. 137;
fame, talked for, iii. 247;
Fantoccini, the, i. 414;
flowered late, iii. 167;
France, tour to, i. 414;
French meat, ii. 402, n. 2;
friendship and the story of Bluebeard, ii. 181;
'furnishing you with argument and intellects,' iv. 313, n. 4;
Garrick's compliment to the Queen, attacks, ii. 233;
lines on him, i. 412, n. 6;
refuses _The Good Natured Man_, iii. 320;
proposes Whitehead as arbitrator, ib. n. 2;
'Gentleman, The,' ii. 182;
George III, and _She Stoops to Conquer_, ii. 223;
gets the better when he argues alone, ii. 236;
ghost seen by his brother, ii. 182;
'Goldy,' dislikes being called, ii. 258; iii. 101; v. 308;
_Good Natured Man_, Prologue, ii. 42, 45:
Croaker, i. 213; ii. 48;
refused by Garrick, iii. 320;
Gray, attacks, i. 403, n. 1; ii. 328, n. 2;
_Elegy_, mends, i. 404, n. 1;
'happy revolutions,' ii. 224;
Harris, James, ii. 225;
_Haunch of Venison_, ii. 136, n. 5; iii. 225, n. 2;
Hawkins's account of him, i. 480, n. 1;
'_Hesiod_' Cooke, v. 37, n. 1;
historians, in the first class of, ii. 236;
_History of England_ attributed to Lord Lyttelton, i. 412, n. 2;
_History of Rome, ii. 236-7; iv. 312;
Hornecks, Miss, ii. 209, n. 2; iv. 355, n. 4;
horses, abhorrence of blood, ii. 232;
_Humours of Ballamagairy_, ii. 219;
_Idler_, buys the, i. 335, n. 1;
ignorance of common arts, iv. 22;
improvidence, i. 416, n. 1;
inscriptions on the _written mountains_, iv. 22, n. 3;
'inspired idiot,' i. 412, n. 6;
irascible as a hornet, v. 97, n. 3;
Jacobitism, his, ii. 224, 238, n. 4;
jests from the pit of a theatre, on, i. 197, n. 2;
Johnson, arguing: see JOHNSON, arguing;
a bear only in the skin, ii. 66;
the 'big man,' ii. 14;
biographer, i. 26, n. 1:
buys his _Life_ of Nash, i. 335, n. 1;
and a print of him, i. 363, n. 3;
claim upon--for more writings, ii. 15;
compared with Burke, ii. 260;
competition with, i. 417; ii. 216, 257;
compliment a cordial, iii. 82, n. 3;
could take liberties with, iv. 113;
estimation of him as an author, i. 408; ii. 196, 216;
places him in the first class, ii. 236;
defends him against Mr. Eliot's attack, ii. 265, n. 4;
calls him a very great man, ii. 281;
defends him against attack at Reynolds's table, ib., n. 1;
shows the difference when he had not a pen in his hand, iv. 29;
got him sooner into estimation, ii. 216;
first visit to him, i. 366, n. 1;
goodness of heart, i. 417;
influence on his style, i. 222;
interview with George III, ii. 42;
jealous of, ii. 257;
letter to him, ii. 235, n. 2;
levee, attends, ii. 118;
literary reputation, ii. 233;
manner, copies, i. 412;
not his style, ii. 216;
pension, iv. 113;
_Prologue to The Good Natured Man_, ii. 42, 45;
proposes to--that they each review the other's work, v. 274;
quarrels with, ii. 253-4;
reconciliation, 256;
reads the _Heroic Epistle_ to, iv. 113;
reproaches, with not going to the theatre, ii. 14;
tetrastick on him, ii. 282;
tribute to him in the _Life of Parnell_, ii. 166, n. 2;
wishes to write his _Life_, iii. 100, n. 1;
witty contests with, ii. 231;
Kenrick, libelled by, i. 498, n. 1;
knowledge, 'pity he is not knowing,' ii. 196;
'knows nothing,' ii. 215;
'amazing how little he knows,' ii. 235;
'at no pains to fill his mind,' iii. 253;
Langton, letter to, ii. 141, n. 1;
Lennox's, Mrs., play, iv. 10;
_Life_ not included in the _Lives of the Poets_, iii. 100, n. 1;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 477; ii. 17;
absurd verses recited to it, ii. 240; iv. 13;
wishes for more members, iv. 183;
Lloyd's supper party, i. 395, n. 2;
lodgings, miserable, i. 350, n. 3;
in the Edgeware Road, ii. 182;
'loose in his principles,' i. 408;
luxury, effects of, ii. 217, ib. n. 5;
Madeira, bottle of, i. 416;
Mallet's reputation, ii. 233;
Martinelli's _History_, ii. 221;
mathematics, made no great figure in, i. 411;
contempt for them, ii. 437, n. 1;
medical studies, i. 411;
merit late to be acknowledged, iii. 252;
mind, never exchanged, iii. 37;
modern imitators of the early poets, despises, iii. 159, n. 2;
Montaigne, love of, iii. 72, n. 2;
mortified by a German, ii. 257;
musical performers' pay, ii. 225;
'_mutual_ acquaintance,' iii. 103, n. 1;
martyrdom, ii. 250-1;
_Natural History_: see _Animated Nature_;
nidification, ii. 249;
'Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit,' i. 412; iii. 82;
'_Nil te quaesiveris extra_,' iv. 27;
Northcote's account of him, i. 413, n. 2;
Northumberland, Duke of, would have helped him, iv. 22, n. 3;
