the Duchess prints _Edwin and Angelina_, ii. 337, n. 1;
novelty, i. 441, n. 1;
Padua, at, i. 73, n. 2;
Paoli's, dines at, ii. 220;
paradox, affectation of, i. 4l7;
'three paradoxes,' iii. 376, n. 1;
_Parnell, Life of_, ii. 166;
partiality of his friends against him, iii. 252;
pen in and out of his hand, iv. 29;
pensions to French authors, i. 372, n. 1;
Percy's account of him, i. 413, n. 2;
quarrel with him, iii. 276, n. 2;
'pleasure of being liked,' i. 412, n. 6;
Pope's lines on Addison, ii. 85;
'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3;
powers, did not know his own, i. 213, n. 4;
public make a _point_ to know nothing of his writings, iii. 252;
religion, takes his from the priest, ii. 214;
_Retaliation_, passages quoted:
Attorneys, ii. 126, n. 4;
Burke, i. 472; iii. 233, n. 1; iv. 318;
Burke, William, v. 76, n. 3;
Douglas, Dr., i. 229, n. 1;
Garrick, i. 202, n. 4;
his lines on Goldsmith, i. 412, n. 6;
Lauder, i. 229, n. 1;
'pepper the highest,' iv. 341, n. 6;
Townshend, Tommy, iv. 318-9;
shown to Burke and Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3;
reviewers, ii. 39, n. 4;
Reynolds's explanation of his absurdities, i. 412, n. 6;
his envy, i. 4l3, n. 3;
Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5;
round of pleasures, ii. 274, n. 3;
Royal Academy Professor, ii, 67, n. 1;
Royal Academy dinner, iii. 51, n. 2; iv. 314, n. 3;
Sappho in Ovid, ii. 181;
Savage, compared with, ii. 281, n. 1;
Scotch inns, v. 146, n. 1;
scrupulous, not, i. 213, n. 4;
servitorships, v. 122, n. 1;
settled system, no, i. 414;
or notions, iii. 252;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, copyright of it, iii. 100, n. 1;
dedicated to Johnson, ii. 1, n. 2, 216;
Dedication, ib. n. 3;
dinner on the day of its first performance, iv. 325;
Duke of Gloucester's marriage, ii. 224;
Farquhar copied, v. 133, n. 1;
finding out the longitude, i. 301, n. 3;
ill success predicted, ii. 208;
Johnson's opinion, ii. 205, 208, 233;
naming it, ii. 205, n. 4, 258;
Northcote's account of it to Goldsmith, ii. 233, n. 3;
performed during a Court mourning, iv. 325;
_Rambler_, borrowed from, i. 213, n. 5;
song for Miss Hardcastle, ii. 219;
success on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5;
Tony Lumpkin's song, ii. 219;
Walpole's criticism, ii. 233, n. 3;
Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174;
_shine_, eager to, i. 423; ii. 231, 253, 256;
social, not, iii. 37;
society, his, courted, ii. 257;
Sterne, attacks, ii. 173, n. 2;
calls him a very dull fellow, ii. 222;
straw, on a balancer of a, iii. 231, n. 2;
suicide, on, ii. 229;
Swift's 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3;
tailor, taken for a, ii. 83, n. 2;
tailor's bill, ii. 83, n. 3;
talk; see conversation;
'tell truth and shame the devil,' ii. 222;
Temple, chambers in the, ii. 97, n. 1; iv. 27; v. 37, n. 1;
Temple of Fame, ii. 358;
terror, object of, to a nobleman, i. 450, n. 1;
Townsend, praises Lord Mayor, iv. 175, n. 1;
_Traveller_, brings him into high reputation, iii. 252;
Chamier's doubts as to the author, iii. 252;
dedicated to his brother, ii. 1, n. 2;
editions, i. 415, n. 2;
Fox praises it, iii. 252, 261;
Johnson's lines in it, i. 381, n. 2; ii. 6; iii. 418;
praises it, ii. 5, 236;
reviews it, i. 482;
recites a passage, v. 344;
'Luke's iron crown,' ii. 6;
payment for it, i. 193, n. 1; ii. 6, n. 3;
published with author's name, i. 412, n. 2;
reiterated correction, ii. 15, n. 3;
_slow_, iii. 253;
written after the _Vicar_ but published before, i. 415; iii. 321;
travelling in youth, on, iii. 458;
unnoticed, afraid of being, ii. 186;
Van Egmont's _Travels_, reviews, iv. 22, n. 3;
vanity, i. 413;
shown in his talk, i. 413;
his clothes, ii. 83;
his virtues and vices were from it, iii. 37;
_Vicar of Wakefield_, history of its publication, i. 415; iii. 321;
Johnson's opinion of it, i. 415, n. 3; iii. 321;
passages expunged, iii. 375-6;
visionary project, his, iv. 22;
Walpole despises him, i. 388, n. 3;
introduced to him, iv. 314, n. 3;
Warburton a weak writer, v. 93, n. 1;
Westminster Abbey and Temple Bar, ii. 238;
deserved a place in the Abbey, iii. 253;
spot for his monument chosen by Reynolds, iii. 83, n. 2;
'Williams, I go to Miss, i. 421;
_Zobeide_, wrote a prologue for, iii. 38, n. 5.
GOMBAULD, iii. 396.
GONDAR, v. 123, n. 3.
GOOD-BREEDING, ii. 82; v. 82, 276.
GOOD FRIDAY, ii. 356; iii. 300, 313; iv. 203.
GOOD-HUMOUR, acquired, not natural, v. 211;
dependent upon the will, iii. 335;
increases with age, ib.;
rare, ii. 362;
Johnson a good-humoured fellow, ib.
'GOOD MAN, a,' iv. 239.
_Good Natured Man_. See GOLDSMITH.
GOODNESS, not natural, v. 211, 214.
_Goody Two Shoes_, iv. 8, n. 3.
GORDON, Duke of, iii. 430, n. 6.
GORDON, Hon. Alexander, (Lord Rockville), i. 469; v. 394, 397.
GORDON, Sir Alexander, ii. 269, n. 2; iii. 104; v. 86, 90-2, 95.
GORDON, Captain, of Park, v. 103.
GORDON, General C. G., i. 340, n. 3.
GORDON, Lord George, Mansfield's charge on his trial, iii. 427, n. 1;
St. George's Field meeting, iii. 428;
sent to the Tower, iii. 430;
trial, iv. 87.
GORDON, Professor Thomas, v. 84-5,90-2.
GORDON, Rev. Dr., of Lincoln, iii. 359.
GORDON, Mr. W., Town-clerk of Aberdeen, v. 90, n. 2.
GORDON RIOTS, iii. 427-431, 435, 438.
GORLITZ, ii. 122, n. 6.
GORY, Monboddo's black servant, v. 82-3.
GOSSE, Mr. Edmund, Gray's _Works_, i. 403, n. 4.
GOTHICK BUILDINGS, i. 273.
GOUGH,--, ii. 397.
GOUT, an attack of, a poetical fiction, i. 179;
books on it, v. 210;
due to abstinence, i. 103, n. 3.
GOVERNMENT, by one, best for a great nation, iii. 46;
contracted-more easily destroyed, iii. 283;
distance, from a, iv. 213;
English--on a broad basis, iii. 283;
fittest men not appointed, ii. 157;
forms of it indifferent, ii. 170;
imperfection inseparable from all, ii. 118;
possible through want of agreement in the governed, ii. 102;
power cannot be long abused, ii. 170;
real power everywhere lost (in 1784), iv. 260, n. 2;
reverence for it impaired, iii. 3:
See MINISTRY.
_Government of the Tongue_, Boswell quotes it, iii. 379;
Johnson perhaps borrows from it, i. 447, n. 2;
'men oppressive by their parts,' iv. 168, n. 2.
_Governor_, v. 185, n. 2.
Gower, first Earl, recommends Johnson, i. 133;
Plaxton's letter to him, i. 36, n. 2;
_Renegado_, i. 296.
GOWER, Dr., Provost of Worcester College, ii. 95, n. 2.
GOWER, John, iii. 254.
GRACE, in Latin, v. 65:
at meals, i. 239, n. 2; ii. 124; v. 123.
GRAFTON, third Duke of, ii. 467.
GRAHAM, Colonel, ii. 156.
GRAHAM, Rev. George, _Telemachus_, i. 411; iii. 104;
insults Goldsmith, v. 97.
GRAHAM, Lady Lucy, v. 359, n. 1.
GRAHAM, Marquis of (third Duke of Montrose), iii. 382;
laughed at in _The Rolliad_, ib., n. 1;
loves liberty, iii. 383;
mentioned, iv. 109.
GRAHAM, Miss, iii. 407.
GRAINGER, Dr. James, character, his, ii. 454;
Johnson's Shakespeare, anecdote of, i. 319, n. 3;
_Ode on Solitude_, iii. 197;
_Sugar Cane_, Johnson reviews it, i. 481;
does not like it, ii. 454;
_mice_ altered to _rats_, ii. 453;
_Tibullus_, translates, ii. 454.
GRAMMAR, advantage of learning it, v. 136.
GRAMMAR School, Johnson's scheme for the classes of a, i. 99.
GRAND CHARTREUX, iii. 456.
GRAND SIGNOR, ii. 250.
GRANDEES OF SPAIN, v. 358.
GRANGE, Lady, v. 227.
GRANGER, Rev. James,
_Biographical History_, iii. 91; v. 255;
denies that he is a Whig, iii. 91;
'the dog is a Whig,' v. 255.
GRANT, Abbe, v. 153, n.
GRANT, Sir Archibald, iii. 103.
GRANT, Rev. Mr., v. 120-1, 123,131.
GRANT,--, ii. 308, 310.
GRANTHAM, ii. 312, n. 4.
GRANTHAM, first Baron, i. 434, n. 3.
GRANTLEY, first Baron, ii. 472, n. 2.
GRANVILLE, G. See under Lansdowne, Lord.
GRANVILLE, John Carteret, Earl,
described by Lord Chesterfield, iv. 12, n. 5;
despatch after the battle of Dettingen, iv. 12;
mentioned, ii. 116, n. 1; iv. 78.
GRATITUDE, burthen, a, i. 246;
fruit of great cultivation, v. 232.
GRATTAN, Henry, 'one link of the English chain,' iv. 317;
mentioned, iv. 73, n. 1.
_Grave, The_, iii. 47.
GRAVES, Morgan, i. 92, n. 2.
GRAVES, Rev. Richard,
author of _The Spiritual Quixote_, i. 75, n. 3;
Shenstone at Oxford, i. 94, n. 5;
property, v. 4S7, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 452.
GRAVINA, iv. 199.
GRAY, Sir James, ii. 177.
GRAY, John, bookseller, i. 153.
GRAY, Thomas, abruptness, his, i. 403;
Akenside, inferior to, iii. 32;
Beattie, friendship with, v. 16, n. 1;
blank verse, disliked, i. 427. n. 2;
Boswell sat up all night reading him, ii. 335, n. 2;
Boswell's _Corsica_ and Paoli, ii. 46, n. 1;
Cohnan's _Odes to Obscurity_, ii. 334;
_disjecta membra_, i. 403, n. 4;
_Distant Prospect of Eton College_ quoted, i. 344;
doctor's degree offered him at Aberdeen, ii. 267, n. 1;
Dryden's 'car,' ii. 5, n. 2;
'dull fellow, a,' ii. 327;
Elegy, imitated, v. 117, n. 4;
mended by Goldsmith, i. 404, n. 1;
quoted, iii. 190, n. 2, 204;
sneered at, ii. 328, n. 2;
Young's parody of Johnson's criticism on it, iv. 392, n. 1
(see just below under Johnson);
happy moments for writing, i. 203, n. 3;
Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1;
Johnson criticises the Elegy, i. 403; ii. 328, n. 2;
finds two good stanzas, ii. 328;
criticises the Odes, i. 403; ii. 164, 327, 335; iv. 13, 16, n. 4;
criticism attacked, iv. 64;
defended by Boswell, i. 404;
cites him in his Dictionary, iv. 4, n. 3;
praises his Letters, iii. 31, n. 1;
writes his Life, iii. 427;
works, did not taste, ii. 335;
calls him _Ursa Major_, v. 384, n. 1;
_Long Story_ cited, v. 292;
Mackintosh criticises his style, iii. 31, n. 1;
Mason's Memoirs of him, i. 29;
higher in them than in his poems, iii. 31;
'mechanical poet, a,' ii. 327;
_Odeon Vicissitude_, iv. 138, n. 4;
_Odes_ praised by Cumberland's _Ode_, iii. 43, n. 3;
Pope's condensation of thought, admires, v. 345, n. 2;
and his _Homer_, iii. 257, n. 1;
_Progress of Poetry_, quoted, iii. 165, n. 2;
_Remains_, his, preparation for publication, ii. 164;
Sixteen-string Jack, compared to, iii. 38;
_Spleen, The_, admires, iii. 38, n. 3;
Sterne's popularity, ii. 222. n. 1;
'sunshine of the breast,' v. 160, n. 2;
'warm Gray,' ii. 334.
_Gray's Inn Journal_, i. 309, 328, 356.
_Great_, how pronounced, ii. 161.
GREAT, the, cant against their manners, iii. 353;
Johnson, never courted by, iv. 116;
did not seek his society, iv. 117;
or Richardson's, ib., n. 1;
officious friends, have, ii. 65, n. 4;
seeking their acquaintance, ii. 10; iii. 189.
'GREAT HE,' ii. 210.
GREAT MOGUL, ii. 40, n. 4.
GREAVES, Samuel, iv. 253.
GREECE, fountain of knowledge, iii. 333;
modern Greece swept by the Turks, ii. 194.
GREEK, books for beginners, iii. 407;
Genardus's _Grammar_, iv. 20;
essential to a good education, i. 457;
like lace, iv. 23;
a woman's knowledge of it, i. 122, n. 4.
See JOHNSON, Greek.
GREEKS, barbarians mostly, ii. 170;
dramatists, iv. 16;
empire, iii. 36.
GREEN, John, Bishop of Lincoln, i. 45.
GREEN, Matthew, iii. 405, n. 1.
GREEN, Richard, of Lichfield, account of him, ii. 465;
his Museum, ib.; iii. 412;
Johnson, letter from, iv. 393;
mentioned, iii. 393; iv. 399, n. 5.
GREEN ROOM, of Drury Lane, i. 201.
_Green Sleeves_, v. 260.
GREENE, Burnaby, i. 517.
GREENHOUSES, ii. 168; iv. 206.
GREENWICH, Boswell and Johnson's day there, i. 457;
Hospital, i. 460;
Johnson composes part of _Irene_ in the Park, i. 106;
lodges in Church Street, i. 107;
Park, described by Miss Talbot, i. 106, n. 2;
not equal to Fleet Street, i. 461.
GREGORY, David, _Geometry_, v. 294.
GREGORY, Dr. James, iii. 126; v. 48.
GREGORY, Dr. John, v. 48, n. 3.
GREGORY, professors of that name, v. 48, n. 3.
GREGORY, ----, iii. 454.
GRENVILLE, Right Hon. George,
Beckford's Bribery Bill, supports, ii. 339, n. 2;
'could have counted the Manilla ransom,' ii. 135;
Johnson's letter to him, i. 376, n. 2.
_Grenville Act_, iv. 74, n. 3; v. 391.
GRETNA GREEN, iii. 68.
GREVILLE, C. C.,
Johnson and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3;
and Fox, iv. 167, n. 1;
'public dinner' at Lambeth, iv. 367, n. 3.
GREVILLE, Richard Fulke, _Maxims and Characters_, iv. 304;
account of him, ib., n. 4;
mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1.
GREY, first Earl, iii. 424, n. 4.
GREY, Dr. Richard, iii. 318.
GREY, Stephen, ii. 26.
GREY, Dr. Zachary, i. 444, n. 1; iii. 318; v. 225, n. 3.
GRIEF, alleviated by recording recollections of the dead, i. 212;
digested, to be, not diverted, iii. 28;
effect of business engagements on it, ii. 470;
Johnson's advice as to dealing with it, iii. 136; iv. 100, 142;
not retained long by a sound mind, iii. 136;
wears away soon, iii. 136.
See SORROW.
GRIERSON, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 116.
GRIFFITHS, Ralph, the publisher, his evidence worthless, iii. 30, n. 1;
war with Smollett, iii. 32, n. 2.
GRIFFITHS, ----, of Bryn o dol, v. 449.
GRIFFITHS, ----, of Kefnamwycllh, v. 452.
GRIMM, Baron, _Candide_, i. 342;
Mme, du Boccage, iv. 331, n. 1.
GRIMSTON, Viscount, iv. 80, n. 1.
_Grongar Hill_, iv. 307.
GRONOVII, v. 376.
GROSVENOR, Lord, v. 458, n. 5.
GROTIUS, corporal punishment, on, ii. 157, n. 1;
Christian evidences, on, i. 398, 454;
_De Satisfactione Christi_, v. 89;
Isaac de Groot his descendant, iii. 125;
practised as a lawyer, ii. 430;
quoted in Lauder's fraud, i. 229.
GROVE, Rev. Henry, papers in the _Spectator_, iii. 33;
read by Baretti, iv. 32.
_Grove, The_, iv. 23, n. 3.
_Grub Street_, defined, i. 296.
GUADALOUPE, i. 367, 368, n. 1.
GUALTIER, Philip, iv. 181, n. 3.
_Guarded_ bed-curtains, v. 433, n. 3.
_Guardian, The_, on public judgment, i. 200, n. 2;
end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3.
GUARDIANS FOR CHILDREN, iii. 400.
GUARDS, The, Boswell's fondness for them, i. 400, n. 1;
afraid of the juries, iii. 46.
GUARINI, _Pastor Fido_, iii. 346.
GUESSING, iii. 356.
_Guide-Books_, common in Italy, v. 61.
GUILLERAGUES, M. de, i. 90, n. 1.
GUILTY, ten, should escape, rather than one innocent suffer, iv. 251.
GUIMENE, Princess of, ii. 394.
GULOSITY, i. 468.
GUNNING, the Misses, v. 353, n. 1, 359, n. 2.
GUNPOWDER, iii. 361; v. 124.
GUNTHWAIT, ii. 169.
_Gustavus Adolphus, History of_, iv. 78.
_Gustavus Vasa_, i. 140.
GUTHRIE, William, account of him, i. 116, 117, n. 2;
Johnson's character of him, ii. 52;
_Apotheosis of Milton_, i. 140;
Debates, i. 116, 118;
Duhalde's _China_, translates, iv. 30;
pensioned, i. 117;
Scotticisms, i. 118, n. 1.
GUYON, _Dissertation on the Amazons, i. 150.
GWYN. Colonel, i. 414, n. 1.
GWYNN, John, the architect, account of him, v. 454, n. 2;
buildings designed by him, ii. 438, n. 3;
defence of architecture, ii. 439;
happy reply, ii. 440;
Johnson's advocacy of him, i. 351;
letter in his behalf, v. 454, n. 2;
_London and Westminster Improved_, ii. 25;
Oxford post-coach, in the, ii. 438; iii. 129;
_Thoughts on the Coronation of George III_, i. 361.
GWYNNE, Nell, i. 248, n. 2.
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