member of the Literary Club, i. 479;
mentioned, ii. 34, n. 1.
LEEK, in Staffordshire, i. 37; iii. 136.
LE FLEMING, Bishop of Carlisle, i. 461, n. 4.
LE FLEMING, Sir Michael, i. 461, n. 4.
_Leeward_, i. 293.
LEEWARD ISLANDS, ii. 455.
LEGITIMATION, ii. 456.
LEGS, putting them out in company, iii. 54.
LEIBNITZ,
controversy with Clarke, v. 287;
on the derivation of languages, ii. 156;
mentioned, i. 137.
LEICESTER, iii. 4; iv. 402, n. 2.
LEICESTER, Robert Dudley, Earl of, v. 438.
LEICESTER, Mr. (Beauclerk's relation), iii. 420.
LEISURE,
for intellectual improvement, ii. 219;
sickness from it, a disease to be dreaded, iv. 352.
LELAND, Counsellor, iii. 318.
LELAND, John, _Itinerary_, v. 445.
LELAND, Dr. Thomas,
_History of Ireland_, ii. 255; iii. 112;
Hurd, attacked by, iv. 47, n. 2;
Johnson's letters to him, i. 489, 518; ii. 2, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 310.
LEMAN, Sir William, i. 174, n. 2.
LEMAN, Lake, iv. 350, n. 1.
LENDING MONEY, influence gained by it, ii. 167.
LENNOX, Mrs.,
character by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 275, n. 2;
lived to a great age, ib., n. 3;
English version of Brumoy, publishes an, i. 345;
_Female Quixote_, i. 367;
Goldsmith advised to hiss her play, iv. 10;
Johnson cites her in his _Dictionary_, iv. 4, n. 3;
writes _Proposals_ for publishing her _Works_, ii. 289;
gives a supper in her honour, i. 255, n. 1;
_Shakespeare Illustrated_, i. 255;
superiority, her, iv. 275;
_Translation of Sully's Memoirs_, i. 309.
LEOD, v. 233.
LEONI, ----, the singer, iii. 21, n. 2.
_Leonidas_, v. 116.
LE ROY, Julien, ii. 390, 391.
LESLEY, John, _History of Scotland_, ii. 273.
LESLIE, Charles, the nonjuror, iv. 286, n. 3.
LESLIE, C. R., anecdote of the Countess of Corke, iv. 108, n. 4.
LESLIE, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 92.
LESSEPS, M. de, v. 400, n. 4.
_Let ambition fire thy mind,_ iii. 197.
_Lethe_, i. 228.
_Letter to Lord Chesterfield_ published separately, i. 261, n. 1.
_Letter to John Dunning, Esq._, i. 297, n. 2.
LETTER-WRITING, iv. 102.
LETTERS,
none received in the grave, iv. 413;
studied endings, v. 238. See DATES.
_Letters from Italy_, iii. 55. See SHARP, Samuel.
_Letters of an English Traveller_, iv. 320, n. 4.
_Letters on the English Nation_, v. 113.
_Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson occasioned by his late political
Publications_, ii. 316.
_Letters to Lord Mansfield_, ii. 229. See ANDREW STUART.
_Letters to the People of England_, iv. 113, n. 1.
_Lettre de cachet_, v. 206.
_Lettres Persanes_, iii. 291, n. 1.
LETTSOM, Dr., iii. 68.
LEVEE, Johnson's. See under JOHNSON.
LEVEES, Ministers', ii. 355.
LEVELLERS, i. 448.
LEVER, Sir Ashton, iv. 335.
LEVETT, John, of Lichfield, i. 81;
Johnson's letter to him, i. 160;
unseated as member for Lichfield, i. 161, n. 1.
LEVETT, Robert,
account of him, i. 243;
awkward and uncouth, iii. 22;
brothers, his, iv. 143;
brutality in manners, iii. 461;
complains of the kitchen, ii. 215, n. 4;
death, iv. 137, 142, 145;
Desmoulins, hates, iii. 368;
'_Doctor_ Levett,' ii. 214;
Johnson's birth-day dinners, present at, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. 135, n. 1;
companion, i. 232, n. 1; ii. 5, n. 1; iii. 220; iv. 145, 233,
249, n. 2;
introduced Langton to, i. 47; iv. 145;
letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters;
lines on him, iv. 137, 165, 274, 303, n. 2;
questioned about, iii. 57;
his recommendation to, i. 417;
writings, makes out a list of, iii. 321;
Johnson's Court, garret in, ii. 5;
marriage, i. 370, 382;
mentioned, i. 81, n. 1, 435; iii. 26, 93, 363, 373; iv. 92.
LEWIS LE GROS, iii. 32, n. 5.
LEWIS XIV,
celebrated in many languages, i. 123;
charges accumulated on him, ii. 341, n. 4;
discontent and ingratitude, on, ii. 167, n. 3;
King of Siam sends him ambassadors, iii. 336;
La Valliere, Mlle. de, v. 49, n. 3;
manners, ii. 41;
torture used in his reign, i. 467, n. 1;
why endured by the French, ii. 170.
LEWIS XVI,
execution, ii. 396, n. 1;
Hume, when a child makes a set speech to, ii. 401, n. 4;
Johnson, seen by, ii. 385, 394-5;
Paoli, gives high office in Corsica to, ii. 71, n. 1;
torture used in his reign, i. 467, n. 1.
LEWIS XVIII, when a child makes a set speech to Hume, ii. 401, n. 4.
LEWIS, David,
verses to Pope, iv. 307;
_Miscellany_, ib., n. 3.
LEWIS, Dean, i. 370, n. 1, 382.
LEWIS, F., translates mottoes for the _Rambler_, i. 225.
LEWSON, Mrs., iii. 425.
LEXICOGRAPHER,
defined, i. 296;
Bolingbroke's anecdote of one, ib., n. 3;
referred to in the _Rambler_, i. 189, n. 1.
LEXIPHANES, ii. 44.
LEYDEN, iv. 241; v. 376.
LIBELS,
actions for them, iii. 64;
dead, on the, iii. 15;
England and America, in, i. 116, n. 1;
Fox's Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1;
juries, judges of the law, iii. 16, n. 1;
refuse to convict, i. 116, n. 1;
pulpit, from the, iii. 58;
severe law against libels, i. 124, n. 1.
LIBERTY,
all _boys_ love it, iii. 383;
clamours for it, i. 131, n. 1; iii. 201, n, 1;
conscience, of, ii. 249; iv. 216;
destroying a portion of it without necessity, iii. 224;
liberty and licentiousness, ii. 130;
luxury, effects of, ii. 170;
political and private, ii. 60, 170;
press, of the: See PRESS;
pulpit, of the, iii. 59;
_taedium vitae_, kept off by the notion of it, i. 394;
teaching, of, ii. 249; iv. 216;
thinking, preaching, and acting, of, ii. 252.
LIBERTY and Necessity. See FREE WILL.
LIBRARIES,
Johnson helps in forming the King's library, ii. 33, n. 4;
describes the Oxford libraries, ii. 35, 67, n. 2;
key of one always lost, v. 65;
_Stall Library_, iii. 91.
LICENSING ACT for plays, i. 141, n. 1.
LICHFIELD,
ale, ii. 461; iv. 97;
antiquities, iv. 369;
_Beaux Stratagem_, scene of the, ii. 461, n. 3;
Bishop's palace, ii. 467;
Boswell and Johnson visit it in 1776, ii. 461;
Boswell shown real 'civility,' iii. 77;
Boswell visits it in 1779, iii. 411-2;
boys dipped in the font, i. 91, n. 1;
Cathedral, i. 81, n. 2; ii. 466; v. 456;
Johnson in the porch, ii. 466, n. 3;
city of philosophers, ii. 464;
city and county in itself, i. 36, n. 4;
coach-journey from London, i. 340, n. 1;
postchaise, iii. 411;
Darwin's house, v. 428, n. 3;
drunk, all the _decent_ people got, v. 59;
English spoken there, purity of the, ii. 463-4;
_Evelina_ not heard of there, ii. 463, n. 4;
Friary, The, ii. 466; iii. 412;
George Inn, iii. 411;
Green's museum, ii. 465; iii. 412; v. 428;
Hospital, v. 445;
Hutton describes the town in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
Jacobite fox-hunt, iii. 326, n. 1;
Johnson, Michael, a magistrate, i, 36; ii. 322, n. 1;
Johnson, his barber, ii. 52, n. 2;
beloved in his native city, ii. 469;
respect shown him by the corporation, iv. 372, n. 2;
defines it in his _Dictionary_, iv. 372;
hopes to set a good example, iv. 135;
house, i. 75; ii. 461; iv. 372, n. 2; 402, n. 2;
Latin verses to a stream, iii. 92, n, 1;
as Lord Lichfield, iii. 310;
loses three old friends, iv. 366;
monument in the Cathedral, iv. 423;
portrait admired there, ii. 141;
saucer in the Museum, iii. 220, n. 1;
theatre, tosses a man into the pit of the, ii. 299;
in love with an actress, ii. 464;
praises an actor, ii. 465;
attends it with Boswell, ii. 464-5, 471;
visits the town for the first time after living in London, i. 370;
last visit, iv. 372;
(for his other visits see iii. 450-3);
weary of it, ii. 52;
willow tree, iv. 372, n. 1;
lecture on experimental philosophy, v. 108;
manufactures, ii. 464;
oat ale and cakes, ii. 463;
people sober and genteel, ii. 463;
population in 1781, iii. 450;
Prerogative Court, i. 81, 101;
Sacheverell preaches there, i. 39, n. 1;
_Salve, magna parens_, iv. 372;
school, account of it in Johnson's time, i. 43-9;
compared with Stourbridge School, i. 50;
buildings dilapidated, i. 45, n. 4;
endowment, v. 445, n. 3;
famous scholars, i. 45;
service for a sick woman, v. 444;
Seward's, Miss, verses on it, iv. 331;
St. Mary's Church repaired, i. 67;
Johnson attends it in 1776, ii. 466;
St. Michael's Church, graves of Johnson's parents and brother, iv. 393;
Stowhill, ii. 470; iii. 412;
Swan Inn, v. 428;
Thrales, the, visit it in 1774 with Johnson, v. 428, 440, n. 2;
Three Crowns Inn, ii. 461; iii. 411;
_Warner's Tour_, iv. 373, n. 1.
LICHFIELD, fourth Earl of, iii. 309.
LICHFIELD, Leonard, an Oxford bookseller, i. 61, n. 3.
LIDDELL, Sir Henry, ii. 168, n. 1.
LIES,
'Consecrated lies,' i. 355;
disarm their own force, ii. 221;
Johnson's _Adventurer_ on lying, ii. 221, n. 2;
use of the word _lie_, iv. 49;
lying to the public, ii. 223;
servants 'not at home,' i. 436;
to the sick, iv. 306;
of vanity, iv. 167:
See FALSEHOOD and TRUTH.
LIFE,
changes in its form desirable at times, iii. 128;
changes in its modes, ii. 96: See under MANNERS;
choice, few have any, iii. 363;
just choice impossible, ii. 22, 114;
climate, not affected by, ii. 195;
composed of small incidents, i. 433, n. 4; ii. 359, n. 2;
domestick life little touched by public affairs, i. 381;
Dryden's lines, ii. 124; iv. 303;
every season has its proper duties, v. 63;
expecting more from it than life will afford, ii. 110;
happiest part lying awake in the morning, v. 352;
imbecility in its common occurrences, iii. 300;
method, to be thrown into a, iii. 94;
miseries, i. 299, n. 1, 331, n. 6;
'balance of misery,' iv. 300;
'nauseous draught,' iii. 386;
none would live it again, ii. 125, iv. 301-3;
pain better than death, iii. 296; iv. 374;
progress from want to want, iii. 53;
progression, must be in, iv. 396, n. 4;
state of weariness, ii. 382;
studied in a great city, iii. 253;
system of life not easily disturbed, ii. 102;
a well-ordered poem, iv. 154.
_Life of Alfred_, Johnson projects a, i. 177.
LILLIBURLERO, ii. 347.
LILLIPUT, Senate of, i. 115.
LILLY, William, iii. 172.
LINCOLN,
a City and County, i. 36, n. 4;
visited by Boswell, iii. 359.
LINCOLN'S INN, Society of, iv. 290, n. 4.
LINCOLNSHIRE,
militia, i. 36, n. 4; iii. 361;
orchards very rare, iv. 206;
reeds, v. 263;
mentioned, v. 286.
_Line_, the civil, iii. 196.
LINEN, v. 216.
_Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius_, i. 294, n. 6.
LINLEY, Miss, ii. 369, n. 2.
LINLITHGOW, Earl of, v. 103, n. 1.
LINTOT, Bernard, the bookseller,
quarrels with Pope, i. 435, n. 4;
mentioned, ii, 133, n. 1; iv. 80, n. 1.
LINTOT the younger,
Johnson said to have written for him, i. 103;
his warehouse, i. 435.
LIQUORS, scale of, iii. 381; iv. 79.
LISBON,
earthquake, i. 309, n. 3;
parliamentary vote of L100,000 for relief, i. 353, n. 2;
packet boat to England, iv. 104, n. 3;
persecution of Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;
postage to London, iii. 22;
mentioned, ii. 211, n. 4.
_Literary Anecdotes_, Nichols's, iv. 369, n. 1.
LITERARY CLUB. See CLUBS.
LITERARY FAME, ii. 69, n. 3, 233, 353.
LITERARY friend, a pompous, iv. 236.
LITERARY IMPOSTORS. See IMPOSTORS.
LITERARY JOURNALS, ii. 39.
_Literary Magazine or Universal Review_, i. 307, 320, 328, 505.
LITERARY man, life of a, iv. 98.
LITERARY PROPERTY. See COPYRIGHT.
LITERARY REPUTATION, ii. 233.
LITERARY REVIEWS. See Critical and Monthly.
LITERATURE,
amazing how little there is, iii. 303, n. 4;
dignity, its, iii. 310;
England, neglected in, ii. 447, n. 5;
before France in it, iii. 254;
general courtesy of literature, iv. 246;
generally diffused, iv. 217, n. 4;
how far injured by abundance of books, iii. 332;
respect paid to it, iv. 116;
wearers of swords and powdered wigs ashamed to be illiterate, iii. 254.
LITTLE THINGS,
contentment with them, iii. 241;
danger of it, iii. 242.
LITTLETON, Adam, i. 294, n. 6.
LIVELINESS, study of, ii. 463.
LIVERPOOL, iii. 416.
LIVERPOOL, first Earl of. See JENKINSON, Charles.
LIVERPOOL, third Earl of, iii. 146, n. 1.
LIVES OF THE POETS,
account of its publication
advertised, iii. 108;
_Advertisement_, iv. 35, n. 1;
Johnson's engagement with the booksellers, iii. 109;
design greatly enlarged, iv. 35;
payment agreed on, iii. 111;
extraordinarily moderate, ib., n. 1;
L100 added, iv. 35;
payment for a separate edition, ib., n. 3;
progress of their composition, iii. 313, 317, n. 1;
first four volumes published, iii. 370, 380, n. 3;
Johnson's indolence in finishing the last six, iii. 418, 435;
iv. 34, 58, n. 3;
published, iv. 34;
printed separately, iv. 35, n. 3, 63;
additions, ib., n. 1.
reprinting, iv. 153;
new edition, iv. 157;
attacks expected, iii. 375;
attacked, iv. 63-5;
booksellers, impudence of the, iv. 35, n. 3;
Boswell has the proof sheets, iii. 371;
and most of the manuscript, iv. 36, 71, 72;
his observations on some of the _Lives_, iv. 38-63;
commended generally, iv. 146;
contemporaries, difficulty in writing the _Lives_ of, iii. 155, n. 3;
copies presented to Mrs. Boswell, iii. 372;
to the King, ib., n. 3;
to Wilkes, iv. 107;
to Langton, iv. 132;
to Bewley, iv. 134;
to Rev. Mr. Wilson, iv. 162;
to Cruikshank, iv. 240;
to Miss Langton, iv. 267;
to Johnson's physicians, iv. 399, n. 5;
Dilly's account of the undertaking, iii. 110;
Johnson's anger at an indecent poem being inserted, iv. 36, n. 4;
collects materials, iii. 427;
not the _editor_ of this Collection of Poets, iii. 117, n. 8, 137,
370; iv. 35, n. 3;
inattention to minute accuracy, iii. 359, n. 2;
letters to Nichols the printer, iv. 36, n. 4;
portraits in different editions, iv. 421, n. 2;
recommends the insertion of four poets, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3;
trusted much to his memory, iv. 36, n. 3;
Nichols, printed by, iv. 36, 63, n. 1, 321;
piety, written so as to promote, iv. 34;
Rochester's _Poems_ castrated by Steevens, iii. 191;
rough copy sent to the press, iv. 36;
Savage, many of the anecdotes from, i. 164;
titles suggested, iv. 36, n. 4;
words, learned, iv. 39.
_Lives of the Poets_ (Bell's edition), ii. 453, n. 2; iii. 110.
_Lives of the Poets_, by Theophilus Cibber, i. 187; iii. 29-30.
LIVINGS, inequality of, ii. 172.
LIVY, i. 506; ii. 342.
LLANDAFF, Bishopric of, iv. 118, n. 2.
LLOYD, A., _Account of Mona_, v. 450.
LLOYD (Llwyd), Humphry, v. 438.
LLOYD, Mrs., Savage's god-mother, i. 172.
LLOYD, Olivia, i. 92.
LLOYD, Robert, the poet,
account of him, i. 395, n. 2;
_Connoisseur_, i. 420, n. 3; ii. 334, n. 3;
_Odes to Obscurity_, ii. 334.
LLOYD, Mr. and Mrs. Sampson,
Boswell and Johnson dine with them, ii. 456, 457;
_Barclay's Apology_, ii. 458;
observance of days, ii. 458.
LLOYD, William, Bishop of St. Asaph,
his learning in ready cash, ii. 256, n. 3;
his palace, v. 437.
LLOYD, ----, of Maesmynnan, v. 445.
LLOYD, ----, schoolmaster of Beaumaris, v. 447.
LOAN, government, raised at eight per cent, in 1779, iii. 408; n. 4.
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