Pulteney and Walpole, v. 339, n. 1.
_King, The, v. Topham_, iii. 16, n. 1.
KING'S EVIL,
Johnson touched for it, i. 42;
account of it, ib., n. 3.
'KING'S FRIENDS,' iv. 165, n. 3.
KING'S LIBRARY, i. 108.
KING'S PAINTER, iv. 368, n. 3.
KING'S Printing-house, ii. 323, n. 2.
KINGS,
conversing with them, ii. 40, n. 3;
flattered at church and on the stage, ii. 234;
flatter themselves, ib.;
great kings always social, i. 442;
ill-trained, i. 442, n. 1;
Johnson ridicules them, i. 333;
minister, should each be his own, ii. 117;
oppressive kings put to death, ii. 170;
praises exaggerated, ii. 38;
reverence for them depends on their right, iv. 165;
resistance to them sometimes lawful, i. 424;
servants of the people, i. 321, n. 1;
'the king can do no wrong,' i. 423;
want of inherent right, iv. 170.
KINGSNORTON, i. 35, n. 1.
KINNOUL, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4.
KINVER, v. 455.
KIPPIS, Dr. Andrew,
edits _Biographia Britannica_, iii. 174;
his 'biographical catechism,' iv. 376;
mentioned, iv. 282; v. 88, n. 2.
KNAPTON, Messieurs, the booksellers, i. 183, 290, n. 2.
KNELLER, Sir Godfrey,
as a Justice of the Peace, iii. 237;
his portraits, iv. 77, n. 1.
KNIGHT, Captain, i. 378, n. 1.
KNIGHT, Joseph, a negro,
account of him, iii. 214, n. 1;
Cullen's answer, iii. 127;
Maclaurin's plea, iii. 86, 88;
Johnson offers a subscription, ib.;
interested in him, iii. 95, 101, 129;
_argument_, iii. 200, 202-3;
decision, iii. 212, 216, 219.
KNIGHTON, i. 132, n. 1.
KNITTING, iii. 242.
KNIVES not provided in foreign inns, ii. 97, n. 1.
KNOLLES, Richard, _Turkish History_, i. 100.
KNOTTING, iii. 242; iv. 284.
KNOWLE, near Bristol, i. 353, n. 2.
KNOWLEDGE,
all kinds of value, ii. 357;
desirable per se, i. 417;
desire of it innate, i. 458;
diffusion of it not a disadvantage, iii. 37, 333;
question of superiority, ii. 220;
two kinds, ii. 365.
See EDUCATION and LEARNING.
KNOWLES, Mrs., the Quakeress,
courage and friendship, on, iii. 289;
death, on, iii. 294;
Johnson, meets, in 1776, iii. 78;
in 1778, iii. 284-300;
her account of the meeting, iii. 299, n. 2;
describes his mode of reading, iii. 284;
liberty to women, argues for, iii. 286;
proselyte to Quakerism, defends a, iii. 298;
sutile pictures, her, iii. 299, n. 2.
KNOX, John, the Reformer,
Cardinal Beaton's death, v. 63, n. 3;
his 'reformations,' v. 6l;
burial-place, ib., n. 4;
set on a mob, v. 62;
his posterity, v. 63.
KNOX, John, bookseller and author, ii. 304, 306.
KNOX, Rev. Dr. Vicesimus,
_Boswell's Life of Johnson_, praises, iv. 391, n. 1;
Johnson's biographers, attacks, iv. 330, n. 2;
imitates his style, i. 222, n. 1; iv. 390;
Oxford, attacks, iii. 13, n. 3; iv. 391, n. 1;
popularity as a writer, iv. 390, n. 2.
KRISTROM, Mr., ii. 156.
L.
_Labefactation_, ii. 367.
LABOUR, all men averse to it, ii. 98-99; iii. 20, n. 1.
LABRADOR, iv. 410, n. 6.
LA BRUYERE. See BRUYERE.
LACE, a suit of, ii. 352.
_Laceration_, ii. 106; iii. 419, n. 1.
_Lactantius_, iii. 133.
LADD, Sir John. See LADE.
LADE, Sir John,
account of him, iv. 412, n. 1;
Johnson's advice to him about marriage, ii. 109, n. 2;
lines on him, iv. 413.
LADIES OF QUALITY, iii. 353.
LADY AT BATH, an empty-headed, iii. 48.
LAFELDT, battle of, iii. 251.
LAMB, Charles,
account of Davies's recitation, i. 391, n. 2;
Methodists saying grace, v. 123, n. 1;
no one left to call him Charley, iii. 180, n. 3.
LANCASHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4.
LANCASTER, Boswell at the Assizes, iii. 261, n. 2.
LANCASTER, Dr., Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, i. 61, n. 1.
LANCASTER, House of, iii. 157.
LAND,
advantage produced by selling it all at once, ii. 429;
entails and natural right, ii. 416;
investments in it, iv. 164; v. 232;
part to be left in commerce, ii. 428.
LAND-TAX in Scotland, ii. 431.
LANDLORDS,
leases, not giving, v. 304;
rents, raising, ii. 102;
right to control tenants at elections, ii. 167, 340;
Scotch landlords, high situation of, i. 409;
tenants, their dependancy, ii. 102;
difficulty of getting, iv. 164;
to be treated liberally, i. 462;
under no obligation, ii. 102.
LANDOR, W. S., Johnson's geographical knowledge, i. 368, n. 1.
LANG, Dr., ii. 312, n. 3.
LANGBAINE, Gerard, iii. 30, n. 1.
LANGDON, Mr., iii. 207, n. 3.
LANGLEY, Rev. W., ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138; v. 430.
LANGTON, Bennet,
account of him, i. 247;
_acceptum et expensum_, iv. 362;
Addison and Goldsmith, compares, ii. 256;
Addison's conversation, iii. 339;
Aristophanes, reads, iv. 177, n. 3, 362;
Barnes's Maccaronic verses, quotes, iii. 284;
Beauclerk, his early friend, i. 248:
makes him second guardian to his children, iii. 420;
leaves him a portrait of Garrick, iv. 96;
birth and matriculation at Oxford, i. 247, n. 1, 337;
Blue stocking assembly, at a, v. 32, n. 3;
Boswell, letter to, iii. 424;
Boswell's obligations to him, ii. 456, n. 3;
Burke and Johnson, comparing Homer and Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3;
v. 79, n. 2;
Burke's wit, i. 453, n. 2;
carpenter and a clergyman's wife, anecdote of a, ii. 456, n. 3;
children, his, too much about him, iii. 128;
mentioned, ii. 146; iii. 89, 93, 104, 130;
Clarendon's style, praises, iii. 257;
coach, on the top of a, i. 477;
collection of Johnson's sayings, iv. 1-34;
daughters to be taught Greek, iv. 20, n. 2;
dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 259; iii. 279, 280, 338;
economy, no turn to, iii. 363, n. 2;
expenditure and foibles criticised, iii. 48, n. 4, 93, 104, 128, 222,
300, 315, 317, 348, 362, 379; iv. 362;
_frisk_, joins in a, i. 250;
Greek, knowledge of, iv. 8, n. 3;
Clenardus's _Greek Grammar_, iv. 20;
recitation, ib., n. 2;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
Hale, Sir Matthew, anecdote of, iv. 310;
_Idler_, anecdote of the, i. 33l;
introduces subjects on which people differ, iii. 186;
Johnson, afraid of, iv. 295;
at fairest advantage with him, i. 248, n. 3;
bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
and Burke, an evening with, iv. 26;
conversation before dinner, repeats, iii. 279;
_confessor_, iv. 280-1;
death, unfinished letter on, iv. 418, n. 1;
deference to, iv. 8, n. 3;
devotion to, when ill, iv. 266, n. 3;
when dying, iv. 406-7, 414, n. 2, 439;
dress as a dramatic author, describes, i. 200;
estimate of Spence, v. 317, n. 1.
first acquaintance with him, i. 247; iv. 145;
friendship with him, iv. 132, 145, 352;
rupture in it, ii. 256, n. 2, 261, n. 2, 265, 282; v. 89;
reconciliation, ii. 292;
funeral, at, iv. 419;
gives him a copy of his letter to Chesterfield, i. 260;
imitates, iv. 1, n. 2;
Jacobitism, i. 430;
letters to him: see under JOHNSON, letters;
levee, attends, ii. 118;
loan to him, ii. 136, n. 2; iv. 402, n. 2;
repaid in an annuity to Barber, ib.;
_Ode on Inchkenneth_, alters, ii. 295, n. 2;
and Parr, an evening with, iv. 15;
_poemata_, edits, ii. 295, n. 2; iv. 384; v. 155, n. 2, 326, n. 2;
portrait, removes the inscription on, iv. 181;
praises his worth, iii. 161;
exclaims, '_Sit anima mea cum Langtono_,' iv. 280;
_Prologue_, criticises, iv. 25;
rebuked by, ii. 254;
urges him to keep accounts, iv. 177, n. 3;
visits him at Langton, i. 476, 477, n. 1;
at Rochester, iv. 8, n. 3, 22, 232-3;
at Warley Camp, iii. 360-2;
King, gives the sketch of _Irene_ to the, i. 108;
and the catalogue of Johnson's projected works, iv. 381, n. 1;
'Lanky,' ii. 258; v. 308;
laughed at, iii. 338, n. 3;
Lincoln, highly esteemed in, iii. 359;
literary character, his, i. 248, n. 3;
Literary Club, original member of the, i. 477;
marries Lady Rothes, ii. 77, n. 1;
militia, in the, iii. 123, 130, 360, 362, 368, 397;
appointed Major, iii. 365, n. 1;
_navigation_, his, ii. 136;
Nicolaida visits him, ii. 379;
orchard, has no, iv. 206;
Paoli visits him at Rochester, iv. 8, n. 3;
Paris, visits, i. 381;
pedigree, his, i. 248, n. 1;
personal appearance, i. 248, n. 3, 336;
Pitt's neglect of Boswell, blames, iii. 213, n. 1;
Pope reciting the last lines of the _Dunciad_, ii. 84, n. 2;
religious discourse, introduces, ii. 254; iv. 216; v. 89;
Richardson, introduced to, iv. 28;
Round-Robin, refuses to sign the, iii. 84, n. 2;
Royal Academy, professor of the, ii. 67, n. 1; iii. 464;
ruining himself without pleasure, iii. 317, 348;
_Rusticks_, writes, i. 358;
school on his estate, establishes a, ii. 188;
silent, too, iii. 260;
sluggish, iii. 348;
story, thought a story a, ii. 433;
table, his, iii. 128, 186;
talks from books, v. 378, n. 4;
_Traveller_, praises the, iii. 252;
Vesey's, Mr., an evening at, iii. 424; iv. i, n. 1;
will, makes his, ii. 261;
'worthy,' iii. 379, n. 4;
Young, account of, iv. 59;
mentioned, i. 336, 418, n. 1; ii. 34, n. 1, 63, 124, 141, n. 1, 186,
192, 232, 247, 279, 318, 338, 347, 350, 362, n. 2, 379; iii. 41, 119,
221, 250, 282, 326, 328, 354, 386, 417; iv. 71, 78, 197, 219, n. 3,
284, 317, 320, 344; v. 249, 295.
LANGTON, Cardinal Stephen, i. 248.
LANGTON, old Mr. (Bennet Langton's father),
canal, his, iii. 47;
exuberant talker, an, ii. 247;
freedom from affectation, iv. 27;
Johnson's Jacobitism, believes in, i. 430;
in his being a Papist, i. 476;
offers a living to, i. 320;
picture, would not sit for his, iv. 4;
stores of literature, his, iv. 27;
mentioned, i. 357; ii. 16.
LANGTON, Mrs. (Bennet Langton's mother), i. 325, 357, 476; ii. 146;
iv. 4, 268.
LANGTON, George (Bennet Langton's eldest son), i. 248, n. 1; ii. 282;
iv. 146.
LANGTON, Miss Jane (Bennet Langton's daughter),
Johnson's goddaughter, iii. 210, 11. 3; iv. 146, 268;
his letter to her, iv. 271.
LANGTON, Miss Mary (Bennet Langton's daughter), iv. 268.
LANGTON, Peregrine (Bennet Langton's uncle), ii. 17-19.
LANGTON, in Lincolnshire,
Johnson invited there, i. 288; ii. 142;
visits it, i. 476, 477, n. 1; ii. 17;
describes the house, v. 217.
LANGUAGES,
formed on manners, ii. 80;
origin, iv. 207;
pedigree of nations, ii. 28; v. 225;
scanty and inadequate, iv. 218;
speaking one imperfectly lets a man down, ii. 404;
writing verses in dead languages, ii. 371.
LANGUOR, following gaiety, iii. 199.
LANSDOWNE, Viscount (George Granville), _Drinking Song to Sleep_, i. 251.
LAPIDARY INSCRIPTIONS, ii. 407.
LAPLAND, i. 425; ii. 168, n, 1.
LAPLANDERS, v. 328.
LAPOUCHIN, Madame, iii. 340.
LASCARIS' _Grammar_, v. 459.
LAST, horror of the, i. 331, n. 7.
LATIN,
beauty of Latin verse, i. 460;
difficulty of mentioning in it modern names and titles, iv. 3, 10;
essential to a good education, i. 457;
few read it with pleasure, v. 80, n. 2;
modern Latin poetry, i. 90, n. 2;
pronunciation, ii. 404, n. 1.
See EPITAPHS.
_Latiner_, a, iv. 185, n. 1.
LA TROBE, Mr., iv. 410.
LAUD, Archbishop,
assists Lydiat, i. 194, n. 2;
_Diary_ quoted, ii. 214;
his Scotch Liturgy, ii. 163.
LAUDER, William,
account of his fraud about Milton, i. 228-231;
deceives Johnson, i. 229, 231, n. 2.
LAUDERDALE, Duke of, Burnet's dedication to him, v. 285.
LAUGHERS, time to be spent with them, iv. 183.
LAUGHTER,
a faculty which puzzles philosophers, ii. 378;
Chesterfield, Johnson, Pope and Swift on it, ib., n. 2;
laughing at a man to his face, iii. 338.
See JOHNSON, laugh.
LAUREL, the, i. 185.
LAUSANNE, iv. 167, n. 1.
LA VALLIERE, Mlle, de, v. 49, n. 3.
LAVATER'S _Essay on Physiognomy_, iv. 421, n. 2.
LAW, Archdeacon, iii. 416.
LAW, Edmund, Bishop of Carlisle,
Cambridge examinations, iii. 13, n. 3;
parentheses, loved, iii. 402, n. 1;
remarks on Pope's _Essay on Man_, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1.
LAW, Robert, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489.
LAW, William,
Behmen, a follower of, ii. 122;
each man's knowledge of his own guilt, iv. 294;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3;
_Serious Call_,
praised by Johnson, i. 68; ii. 122; iv. 286, n. 3, 311;
by Gibbon, Wesley and Whitefield, i. 68, n. 2;
by Psalmanazar, iii. 445.
LAW,
Coke's definition of it, iii. 16, n. 1;
honesty compatible with the practice of it, ii. 47, 48, n. 1; v. 26, 72;
laws last longer than their causes, ii. 416;
manners, made and repealed by, ii. 419;
particular cases, not made for, iii. 25;
primary notion is restraint, ii. 416;
reports, English and Scotch, ii. 220;
writers on it need not have practised it, ii. 430.
LAW-LORD, a dull, iv. 178.
LAWRENCE, Chauncy, iv. 70.
LAWRENCE, Sir Soulden, ii. 296, n. 1.
LAWRENCE, Dr. Thomas,
account of him, ii. 296, n. 1;
President of the College of Physicians, ii. 297; iv. 70;
death, iv. 230, n. 2;
illness, iv. 143-4;
Johnson addresses to him an Ode, iv. 143, n. 2;
learnt physic from him, iii. 22;
long friendship with him, i. 82; iv. 143,144, n. 3
(for his letters to him, see JOHNSON, letters);
wife, death of his, iii. 418;
mentioned, i. 83, 326; iii. 93, 123, 436; iv. 355.
LAWRENCE, Miss, i. 82; iv. 143;
Johnson's letter to her, iv. 144, n. 3.
LAWYERS,
barristers have less law than of old, ii. 158;
'nobody reads now,' iv. 309;
chance of success, iii. 179;
Johnson's advice, iv. 309;
Sir W. Jones's, ib., n. 6;
Sir M. Hale's, iv. 310, n. 3;
bookish men, good company for, iii. 306;
Charles's, Prince, saying about them, ii. 214;
consultations on Sundays, ii. 376;
honesty: see under LAW;
knowledge of great lawyers varied, ii. 158;
multiplying words, iv. 74;
players, compared with, ii. 235;
plodding-blockheads, ii. 10;
soliciting employment, ii. 430;
work greatly mechanical, ii. 344.
LAXITY OF TALK. See JOHNSON, laxity.
LAY-PATRONS. See SCOTLAND, Church.
LAYER, Richard, i. 157.
LAZINESS, worse than the toothache, v. 231.
LEA, Rev. Samuel, i. 50.
LEANDRO ALBERTI, ii. 346; v. 310.
LEARNED GENTLEMAN, a, ii. 228.
LEARNING,
decay of it, i. 445; iv. 20; v. 80;
degrees of it, iv. 13;
difficulties, v. 316;
giving way to politics, i. 157, n. 2;
important in the common intercourse of life, i. 457;
'more generally diffused,' iv. 217;
trade, a, v. 59: see AUTHORS.
LEASOWES, v. 267, n. 1, 457.
LECKY, W.E.H., History of England, ii. 130, n. 3.
LE CLERK, i. 285.
LECTURES, teaching by, ii. 7; iv. 92.
LE DESPENCER, Lord, ii. 135, n. 2.
_Ledger, The_, iv. 22, n. 3.
LEE, Alderman, iii. 68, n. 3, 78, 79, n. 2.
LEE, Arthur, iii. 68, 76, 79, n. 2.
LEE, John (Jack Lee),
account of him, iii. 224, n. 1;
at the bar of the House of Commons, iii. 224;
on the duties of an advocate, ii. 48, n. 1.
LEECHMAN, Principal William,
account of him, v. 68, n. 4;
Johnson calls on him, v. 370;
writes on prayer, v. 68;
answered by Cumming, v. 101.
LEEDS, iii. 399, 400.
LEEDS, Duke of, verses on his marriage, iv. 14.
LEEDS, fifth Duke of,
