John Bull, a, v. 20;
'Johnson's grimly ghost,' iv. 229, n. 4;
Johnson's Court, house in, ii. 5;
furniture, ib. n. 1, 376;
_Johnston_, often called in Scotland, iii. 106, n. 1; v. 341;
journal, attempt to keep a, i. 433, n. 2; ii. 217;
_Journey to the Western Islands_, see _Journey to the Western Islands_;
killing sometimes no murder in a state of nature, v. 87-8;
kindness, Boswell, to, i. 410;
Burney's testimony, i. 410, n. 2; iii. 24, n, 2;
Goldsmith's testimony, i. 417;
features, shown in his, ii. 141, n. 2;
poor schoolfellow, to his, ii. 463;
servants, to, iv. 197;
small matters, in, iv. 201, 344;
unthankful, to the, i. 84; iii. 368, 462;
King's evil, touched for the, i. 42;
kings, ridicules, i. 333;
kitchen, his, ii. 215, n. 4; iii. 461;
knee, takes a young Methodist on his, ii. 120;
a Highland beauty, v. 261;
knotting, tried, iii. 242; iv. 284;
knowledge, at the age of eighteen, i. 445;
exact, iii. 319;
varied, iii. 22; iv. 427; v. 215, 246, 263;
'laboured,' iii. 260, n. 3; v. 77;
ladies, could be very agreeable to, iv. 73;
Langton's devotion to him in his illness, iv. 266, n. 3;
will, ridicules, ii. 261;
language, delicate in it, iii. 303; iv. 442;
suits his to a 'blackguard boy,' iv. 184;
zeal for it, ii. 28;
large, love of the, v. 442, n. 4;
late hours, love of, ii. 407; iii. 1, n. 2, 205;
Latin,
knowledge of, i. 45, 61, 62;
testified to by De Quincey, i. 272, n. 3;
by Dr. Parr, iv. 385, n. 3;
colloquial, ii. 125, 404, 406;
misquotes Horace, iv. 356, n. 2;
modern Latin poetry, loves, i. 90, n. 2;
verse, translates Greek epigrams into Latin, iv. 384;
laugh, his, described, ii. 262, n. 2;
hearty, ii. 378; like a rhinoceros, ib.;
over small matters, ii. 261; v. 249;
resounds from Temple Bar to Fleet Ditch, ii. 262;
'laughter, shakes, out of you,' ii. 231;
law, knowledge of, iii. 22;
lawyer, seeks to become a, i. 134;
would have excelled, ib.;
had not money, v. 35;
laxity of talk, i. 476; ii. 735 iv. 211, n. 4; v. 352;
laziness, trying to cure his, v. 231;
lectured by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 65, n. 1;
lemonade, his, v. 22, 72;
letterwriting an effort, i. 473;
letters may be published after his death, ii. 60; iii. 276;
puts as little as possible into them, iv. 102;
_returns not answers_, ii. 2, n. 3, 279; iii. 209;
studied endings, v. 238, n. 6;
publication by Mrs. Piozzi:
See under Mrs. Thrale, Johnson,
letters;--to
Allen, Edmund, iv. 228;
Argyle, Duke of, v. 363;
Astle, Thomas, iv. 133;
Bagshaw,
Rev. T., ii. 258; iv. 351;
Banks, Joseph, ii. 144;
Barber, Francis, ii. 62, 115, 116; iv. 239, n. 2;
Baretti, i. 361, 369, 380;
Barry, James, iv. 202;
B--d, Mr., ii. 207;
Beattie, Dr., iii. 434;
Birch, Dr., i. 160, 226;
Boothby, Miss, i. 83, n. 2, 305, n. 2; iv. 57, n. 3;
Boswell, James, i. 473; ii. 3, 20, 58, 70, 110, 140, 145, 201, 204,
264-6, 268, 271-3, 274, 276-7, 278, 279, 284, 287, 288, 290,292, 294,
296, 307, 309, 379, 381-4, 387, 411, 412, 415-424; iii. 44, 86, 88, 93,
94, 104, 105, 108, 120, 124, 127, 130-2, 135, 210, 214, 215, 277, 362,
368, 372, 391, 395, 396, 413, 416, 420, 435, 441; iv. 71, 136, 145, n. 2,
148, 151, 153, 154-6, 163, 231, 241, 248, 259, 261, 262,
264-5, 348, 351, 378-9, 380:
for Boswell's letters to Johnson, See BOSWELL;
Boswell, Mrs., iii. 85, 129; iv. 156;
Boufflers, Mme, de, ii. 405;
Brocklesby, Dr., iv. 234, 353-9;
Burney, Dr., i. 286, 323, 327, 500; iv. 239, 360-1, 377;
Bute, Earl of, i. 376, 380;
Cave, Edward, i. 91, 107, 120-3, 136-8, I55-7;
Chamberlain, the Lord, iii. 34, n. 4;
Chambers, R., i. 274;
Chapone, Mrs., iv. 247;
Chesterfield, Earl of, i. 261;
fictitious one, a, i. 238, n. 3;
Clark, Alderman, iv. 258;
clergyman at Bath, iv. 150;
clergyman, young, iii. 436;
Cruikshank,----, iv. 365;
Davies, Thomas, iv. 231, 365;
Dilly, Charles, iii. 394; iv. 257;
Dilly, Edward, iii. 126
(really written to W. Sharp, ib., n. 1);
Dodd, Dr., iii. 145, 147;
Drummond, William, ii. 27-31;
Edwards, Dr., iii. 367;
Elibank, Lord, v. 182;
Elphinstone, James, i. 210-2, 236, n. 3; iii. 364, n. 2;
Farmer, Dr., to, ii. 114; iii. 427;
_General Advertiser_, i. 227;
_Gentl. Mag_. about Savage, i. 164;
Goldsmith, ii. 235, n. 2;
Green, the Lichfield apothecary, iv. 393;
Grenville, George, i. 376, n. 2;
about Gwynn the architect, v. 454, n. 2;
Hamilton, W. G., iv. 245, 363;
Hawkins, Sir John, iv. 435;
Hastings, Warren, iv. 66, 68-70;
Hector, Edmund, i. 64, n. 1; 87, n. 1, 189, n. 2, 340, n. 1,
370, n. 5; ii. 460, n. 3; iv. 145, n. 2, 146-7, 378;
Heely, ----, iv. 371;
Hickman, ----, i. 78, n. 2;
Hoole, John, ii. 289; iv. 359-60;
Humphry, Ozias, iv. 268-9;
Hussey, Rev. John, iii. 369;
Jenkinson, Charles (first Earl of Liverpool), iii. 145;
Johnson, Mrs., his mother, i. 512, 513,514;
Kearsley, ----, i. 214, n. 1;
Lady, a, asking for a recommendation, i. 368;
Langton, Bennet, i. 288, 324, 337, 338, 357; ii. 16, 17, 45, 135, 142,
146, 280, 361, 379; iii. 124, 365; iv. 132, 145, 240, 276-8, 352, 361;
Langton, Miss Jane, iv. 271;
Lawrence, Dr., ii. 296; iii. 419; iv. 137;
Latin letter, iv. 143;
Lawrence, Miss, iv. 144, n. 3;
Leland, Dr., i. 489, 518; ii. 2, n. 1;
Levett, ----, of Lichfield, i. 160;
Levett, Robert, ii. 282, 385; iii. 92;
Macleod, Laird of, v. 266, n. 2;
Macpherson, James, ii. 298;
Malone, E., iv. 141;
Montague, Mrs., i. 232, n. 1; iii. 223, n. 1; iv. 239, n. 4;
Mudge, Dr., iv. 240;
Nichols, John, iv. 36, n. 4, 58, 160, 161, 163, n. 1, 369;
Nicol, George, iv. 365;
O'Connor, Charles, i. 321; iii. 111;
Paradise, John, iv. 364;
Parr, Dr., iv. 15, n. 5;
Perkins, ----, ii. 286; iv. 118, 153, 257, 363;
Porter, Miss, i. 212, n. 1, 346, n. 1, 513-6; ii. 387-8; iii.
393; iv. 89, 142-3, 145, n. 2, 203, 232, 256, 261, 394;
Portmore, Lord, iv. 268, n. 1;
Rasay, Laird of, v. 412;
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, i. 486; ii. 141, 144; iii. 81, 82, 90; iv.
133, 161, 201, 219, 227, 253, 283, 348-9; 366-8;
Richardson, Samuel, i. 303, n. 1; ii. 175, n. 1;
Ryland, ----, iv. 352, n. 3, 357, n. 3, 369, n. 3;
Sastres, iv. 368, n. 1, 374, n. 5;
Sharp, V., iii. 126, n. 1;
Simpson, Joseph, i. 346;
Smart, Mrs., iii. 454; iv. 358, n. 2;
Staunton, Dr., i. 367;
Steevens, George, ii. 273; iii. 100;
Strahan, W., iii. 364;
Strahan, Mrs., iv. 100, 140;
Taylor, Dr., i. 80, n. 1, 83, n. 2, 103, n. 3. 153. n. 4, 238,
472, n. 4; ii. 74, n. 3, 202, n. 2, 256, n. 1, 264, n. 1, 324, n. 1,
336, n. 1, 387, n. 2, 468, n. 2; iii. 120, n. 2, 136, n. 2, 180,
n. 3, 326, n. 5, 397, n. 2; iv. 139. n. 4, 151, n. 1, 155, n. 4,
162, n. 2, 165, n. 1, 191, n. 4, 213, n. 1, 228, 249, n. 2, 260, n. 2,
270, 409, n. 1, 443; v. 52, n. 6, 217, n. 1, 226, n. 2, 405, n. 1;
Thrale, Mrs., iii. 134, n. 1, 423, 428; iv. 229, 242, 245;
See THRALE, Mrs.;
Thrale, Miss, iv. 245;
Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, iv. 349; v. 364, n. 1;
Vice-Chancellors of Oxford, i. 282; ii. 333;
Vyse, Rev. Dr., iii. 125;
Warton, Dr. Joseph, i. 253, 276, n. 2, 496, n. 2; ii. 115;
Warton, Rev. Thomas, i. 270, 275-280, 282-284, 289-291, 322, 335, 336;
ii. 67, 114;
Welch, Saunders, iii. 217;
Wesley, John, iii. 394; v. 35, n. 3;
Westcote, Lord, iv. 57, n. 1;
Wetherell, Rev. Dr., ii. 424;
Wheeler, Dr., iii. 366;
White, Rev. Mr., ii. 207;
Wilkes, John, iv. 224, n. 2;
Wilson, Rev. Mr., iv. 162;
Windham, Right Hon. William, iv. 227, 362;
letters to Johnson
from Argyle, Duke of, v. 363;
Bellamy, Mrs., iv. 244, n. 2;
Birch, Dr., i. 285;
Boswell, Mrs., iv. 157;
Croft, Rev., H., iv. 59, n. 1;
Dodd, Dr., iii. 147;
Elibank, Lord, v. 182;
Thrale, Mrs., iii. 421;
Thurlow, Lord, iii. 441;
levee, i. 247, 307, n. 2; ii. 5, n. 1, 118;
in Edinburgh, v. 395;
liberality, i. 488; iii. 222;
liberty,
love of, i. 310, 311, 321, n. 1, 424; ii. 60, n. 3, 61, 118, 170;
contempt of popular liberty, ii. 60, 170;
of liberty of election, ii. 167, 340;
library,
described by Hawkins, i. 188, n. 3;
by Boswell, i. 435;
Johnson puts his books in order, iii. 7, 67;
sale by auction, iv. 402, n. 2;
Lichfield play-house, in the, ii. 299;
_lie_, use of the word, iv. 49;
life, balance of misery in it, iv. 300-304;
dark views of it, iv. 300, n. 2, 427;
more to be endured than enjoyed, ii. 124;
struggles hard for it, iv. 360;
would give one of his legs for a year of it, iv. 409;
operates on himself, iv. 418, n. 1;
light and airy, growing, iii. 415, n. 2;
literary career in 1745-6, almost suspended, i. 176;
Literary Club: see CLUBS and JOHNSON, club;
literary reputation, estimated by Goldsmith, ii. 233;
_Lives of the Poets_, proof of his vigour, iii. 98, n. 1;
effect on his mind, iv. n. 1: see _Lives of the Poets_;
London life, knowledge of, iii. 450;
'permanent London object,' v. 347: see LONDON;
Lords, did not quote the authority of, iv. 183: see JOHNSON, great;
lost five guineas by hiding them, iv. 21;
love, in love with Olivia Lloyd, i. 92;
Hector's sister, ii. 460;
Mrs. Emmet, ii. 464;
_love_, Garrick sends him his, v. 350;
low life, cannot bear, v. 307;
_Lusiad_, projected translation of the, iv. 251;
machinery, knowledge of, ii. 459, n. 1;
madness, dreaded, i. 66;
melancholy, confounded it with, iii. 175;
'mad, at least not sober,' i. 35, 65; v. 215;
often near it, i. 276, n. 2; iii. 99;
majestic, v. 135;
mankind, describes the general hostility of, iii. 236, n. 4;
mankind less just and more beneficent, iii. 236;
less expected of them, iv. 239;
manners, disgusted with coarse, v. 307;
total inattention to established manners, v. 70;
his roughness, ii. 13. 66, 376;
in contradicting, iv. 280;
only external, ii. 362; iii. 80-81;
partly due to his truthfulness, iv. 221, n. 2;
rough as winter and mild as summer, iv. 396, n. 3;
had been an advantage, iv. 295;
Mickle never had a rough word, iv. 250;
Malone never heard a severe thing from him, iv. 341;
Miss Burney's account, iv. 426, n. 2;
Macleods of Dunvegan Castle delighted with him, v. 208, n. 1;
softened, iv. 65, n. 1, 220, n. 3;
marriage, i. 95;
Master of Arts degree, i. 132, 275, 278, n. 2, 279-283;
medicine, knowledge of: see JOHNSON, physic;
melancholy, confounds it with madness, iii. 175;
constitutional, v. 17;
exaggerated by Boswell, ii. 262, n. 2;
inherited 'a vile melancholy,' i. 35;
'morbid melancholy,' i. 63, 343;
proposes to write the history of it, ii. 45, n. 1;
remedies against it, i. 446:
see JOHNSON, health;
memory, extraordinary, early instances, i. 39, 48;
shown in remembering, Ariosto, v. 368, n. 1;
Bet Flint's verses, iv. 103, n. 2;
Greek hymns, iii. 318, n. 1;
Hay's _Martial_, v. 368;
letter to Chesterfield, i. 263, n. 2;
Rowe's plays, iv. 36, n. 3;
verses on the Duke of Leed's marriage, iv. 14;
complains of its failure, iii. 191, n. 1;
men as they are, took, iii. 282;
men and women, his subjects of inquiry, v. 439, n. 2;
mental faculties, tests his, iv. 21;
metaphysics, fond of, i. 70;
withheld from their study, v. 109, n. 3;
method, want of, iii. 94;
'Methodist in a dignified manner,' i. 458, n. 3;
military matters, interest in, iii. 361;
militia, drawn for the, iv. 319;
mill, compared to a, v. 265;
mimicry, hatred of gesticular, ii. 326, n. 3;
mind, his
means of quieting it, i. 317;
ready for use, i. 204; ii. 365, n. 1; iv. 428, 445;
strained by work, i. 268, n. 4; 372, n. 1;
moderation in his character, absence of, iv. 72;
in wine, difficult, ii. 435: see JOHNSON, abstinence;
modesty, iii. 81;
monument in St. Paul's, i. 226, n. 1; iv. 423;
subscription for it, ib., n. 1 and 3;
epitaph, iv. 424, 444-6;
mother, his
death, i. 331, n. 4, 339, 512-15; ii. 124;
debt, takes upon himself her, i. 160;
dreads to lose her, i. 212, n. 1;
letters, burns her, iv. 405, n. 1;
wishes to see her, i. 288;
music,
account of his feelings towards it, ii. 409, n. 1;
affected by it, iii. 197; iv. 22;
bagpipe, listens to the, v. 315;
flageolet, bought a, iii. 242;
had he learnt it would have done nothing else, iii. 242; v. 315;
insensible to its power, iii. 197;
talks slightingly of it, ii. 409;
wishes to learn the scale, ii. 263, n. 4;
would be glad to have a new sense given him, ii. 409;
musing, habit of, v. 73, n. 1;
name, his, fraudulently used, v. 295;
nature, affected by, iii. 455;
description of a Highland valley, v. 141, n. 2;
of various country scenes, v. 439, n. 2;
neglect, dread of, iv. 137, n. 2;
would not brook it, ii. 118;
neglected at Brighton in 1782, iv. 159, n. 3;
negligence in correcting errors, iii. 359, n. 2; iv. 51, n. 2;
newspapers, accustomed to think little of them, iv. 150;
constantly mentioned in them, iv. l27;
'maintained' them, ii. 17;
reads the _London Chronicle_, ii. 103;
nice observer of behaviour, iii. 54;
night-cap, did not wear a, v. 268, 306;
nights, restless, ii. 143, 202, n. 2, 215, n. 2; iii. 92, 99, n. 4,
109, n. 1, 218, 363, 369;
when sleepless translated Greek into Latin verse, iv. 384;
_nil admirari_, much of the, v. 111;
notions, his, enlarged, v. 442;
_Novum Museum_, ii. 17, n. 3;
'O brave we!' v. 360;
oak-sticks for Foote and Macpherson, ii. 299, 300, n. 1;
for his Scotch tour, v. 19, 82;
lost, v. 318;
oath, his pardon asked by Murphy for repeating an, iii. 41;
obligation, drawn into a state of, iii. 345, n. 1;
impatient of them, i. 246, n. 1;
obstinacy in supporting opinions, i. 293, n. 2;
'Oddity,' iii. 209;
offend, attentive not to, iii. 54, n. 1;
'oil of vitriol,' his, v. 15, n. 1;
old, never liked to think of being, iii. 302, 307;
old man in his talk, nothing of the, iii. 336;
oracle, a kind of public, ii. 118;
orange-peel, use of, ii. 330;
oratorio, at an, ii. 324, 72. 3;
original writer, ii. 35;
Oxford undergraduate, an, i. 58;
pain, courage in bearing, iv. 240;
easily supports it, i. 157, n. 1, 215;
never totally free from it, i. 64, n. 1;
operates on himself, iv. 399;
painting,
account of his feelings towards it, i. 363, n. 3;
allegorical, historical, and portrait painting, compares, i. 363, 72;
v. 219, n. 3;
Barry's pictures, praises, iv. 224;
Exhibition, despises the, i. 363;
laughs at talk about it, ii. 400, n. 3;
prints, a buyer of, i. 363, n. 3; iv. 202, n. 1, 265;
sale of his, i. 363, n. 3;
Thrale's copper, asks Reynolds to paint, i. 363, n. 3;
_Treatise on Painting_, reads a, i. 128, n. 2;
palsy, struck with, iv. 168, n. 2, 227-33;
pamphlets written against him, iv. 127;
papers, burns his, i. 108; iii. 30, n. 1 iv. 405, 406, n. 1;
papers, not to be burnt, ii. 420;
Papist, if he could would be a, iv. 289;
pardon, once begs, iv. 49, n. 3;
Parliament, attacked and defended in it, iv. 318, n. 3;
eulogised in it by Burke, iv. 407, n. 3;
attempts made to bring him into it, ii. 137-139;
projects an historical account of it, i. 155;
parodies on Percy, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4;
Warton, iii. 158, n. 3;
party-opposition, averse to, ii. 348, n. 2;
passions, his, iv. 396, n. 3;
Passion-week, Johnson has an awe on him, ii-476;
dines out every day, iii. 300, n. 1;
dines with two Bishops, iv. 88;
paper on it in _The Rambler_, i. 214; iv. 88;
pastoral life, desires to study, iii. 455;
pathos, want of, iv. 45;
patience, iii. 26; v. 146-7;
payment for his writings: see JOHNSON, works;
peats, brings in a supply of, v. 303;
peculiarities
absence of mind, ii. 268, n. 2; iv. 71;
avoiding an alley, i. 485;
beating with his feet, v. 60, n. 3;
blowing out his breath, i. 485; iii. 153;
convulsive starts, i. 95;
mentioned by Pope, i. 143;
described, ib., i. 144, n. 1;
astonish Hogarth, i. 146;
