Johnson translates it, i. 78, n. 2, 86-9, 340, n. 3;
sees a copy in his old age, iii. 7.
_Loca Solennia_, Boswell writes to Johnson from, ii. 3, n. 1.
LOCAL,
attachment, ii. 103;
consequence, ii. 133;
histories, iv. 218, n. 1;
sanctity, ii. 276.
LOCHBUY, Laird of,
Johnson visits him, v. 341-3;
his dungeon, v. 343.
LOCHBUY, Lady, v. 341-3.
LOCHIEL, Chief of, v. 297, n. 1.
LOCKE, John,
anecdote of him and Dr. Clarke, i. 3, n. 2;
_Common-Place Book_, i. 204;
exportation of coin, on the, iv. 105;
last words to Collins, iii. 363, n. 3;
Latin Verses, v. 93-5;
style, iii. 257, n. 3;
_Treatise on Education_, cold bathing for children, i. 91, n. 1;
the proper age for travelling, iii. 458;
whipping an infant, ii. 184;
Watts, Dr., answered by, ii. 408, n. 3.
LOCKE, William, of Norbury Park, iv. 43.
LOCKHART, Sir George, v. 227, n. 4.
LOCKHART, J. G.,
_Captain Carleton's Memoirs_, on the authorship of, iv. 334, n. 4;
Johnson on the Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2;
Scott and the _Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 193, n. 3.
LOCKMAN, J., i. 115, n. 1;
'_l'illustre Lockman_,' iv. 6.
LODGING-HOUSE LANDLORDS, i. 422.
LOFFT, Capel,
account of him, iv. 278;
his _Reports_ quoted, iii. 87, n. 3.
LOMBE, John, iii. 164.
LONDON
I.
LONDON,
advantages of it, ii. 120;
Black Wednesday, v. 196, n. 3;
bones gathered for various uses, iv. 204;
Boswell's love for London: See BOSWELL, London;
buildings, new, iv. 209;
rents not fallen in consequence, iii. 56, 226;
Burke, described by, iii. 178, n. 1;
burrow, near one's, i. 82, n. 3; iii. 379;
censure escaped in it, See below, freedom from censure;
centre of learning, ii. 75;
circulating libraries, i. 102, n. 2; ii. 36. n. 2;
City, aldermen, political divisions among the, iii. 460;
Camden, Lord, honours shown to, ii. 353, n. 2;
Common-Council, inflammable, ii. 164;
petitions for mercy to Dodd, iii. 120, n. 3, 143;
subscribes to Carte's _History_, i. 42, n. 3;
contest with House of Commons, ii. 300, n. 5; iii. 459-60; iv. 139;
division in the popular party, iii. 460; iv. 175, n. 1;
King, presents a remonstrance to the (1770), iii. 460;
an Address (1770), iii. 201, n. 3;
an Address (1781), iv. 139, n. 4;
'leans towards him' (1784), iv. 266;
'in unison with the Court' (1791), iv. 329, n. 3;
Lord Mayors not elected by seniority, iii. 356, 459-60;
ministers for seven years not asked to the Lord Mayor's feast, iii. 460;
Wilkes, the Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2;
City-poet, iii. 75;
City, women of the, iii. 353;
Culloden, news of, v. 196, n. 3;
dangers from robbers in 1743, i. 163, n. 2;
Johnson attacked, ii. 299;
'dangers of the night,' i. 119, n. 1;
dear to men of letters, ii. 133;
deaths, from hunger, iii: 401;
from all causes, iv. 209;
eating houses unsociable, i. 400;
economy, a place for, iii. 378;
freedom from censure, ii. 356; iii. 378;
Gibbon loves its dust, iii. 178, n. 1;
and the liberty that it gives, iii. 379, n. 2;
gin-shops, iii. 292, n. 1;
glasshouses, i. 164, n. 1;
Gordon riots, iii. 427-31;
greatest series of shops in the world, ii. 218;
hackney-coaches, number of, iv. 330;
happiness to be had out of it, iii. 363;
heaven upon earth, iii. 176, 378;
hospitality, ii. 222;
hospitals, iii. 53, n. 5;
increase, complaints of its, iii. 226;
influence extended everywhere, ii. 124;
intellectual pleasure, affords, iii. 5, 378; iv. 164; v. 14;
Irish chairmen, ii. 101;
Johnson loves it, i. 320; ii. 75, 120; iii. 5; iv. 358;
returns to it to die, iv. 374-5;
life on L30 a year, i. 105;
_London_, described in Johnson's, i. 118;
London-bred men strong, ii. 101; iv. 210;
magnitude and variety, i. 421; ii. 75, 473; iii. 21; iv. 201;
Minorca, compared with life in, iii. 246;
mobs and illuminations, iii. 383: see below, riots;
mortality of children, iv. 209;
parish, a London, ii. 128;
pavement, the new, v. 84, n. 3;
Pekin, compared with, v. 305;
population not increased, iv. 209;
preferable to all other places, iii. 363, 378;
press-gangs not suffered to enter the city in Sawbridge's Mayoralty,
iii. 460;
Recorder's report to the King of sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1;
relations in London, ii. 177;
Reynolds's love of it, iii. 178, n. 1;
riots in 1768. ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5;
shoe-blacks, ii. 326; iii. 262;
shopkeeper compared with a savage, v. 81, 83;
slaughter-houses, v. 247;
society, compared with Paris, iii. 253;
strikes, iii. 46, n. 5;
theatre, proposal for a third, iv. 113;
tires of it, no man, iii. 178;
Boswell will tire of it, iii. 353;
too large, ii. 356;
Trained Bands, iv. 319;
universality, ii. 133;
wall, taking the, i. 110; v. 230;
wits, ii. 466;
wheat, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.
II. Localities.
LONDON,
Aldersgate Street, Milton's School, ii. 407, n. 5;
Anchor Brewhouse, i. 491, n. 1;
Argyll Street, Johnson's room in Mrs. Thrale's house, iii. 405, n. 6;
iv. 157, 164;
Bank of England, Jack Wilkes defends it against the rioters, iii. 430;
Barking Creek, iii. 268, n. 4;
Barnard's Inn, No. 6, Oliver Edward's chambers, iii. 303;
Batson's coffee-house, frequented by physicians, iii. 355, n. 2;
Baxter's (afterwards Thomas's), Dover Street, Literary Club met there,
i. 479, n. 2; v. 109, n. 5;
Bedford Coffee-house, Garrick attacks Dodsley's _Cleone_, i. 325, n. 3;
Bedford Street, 'old' Mr. Sheridan's house, i. 485, n. 1;
Billingsgate, Johnson, Beauclerk and Langton row to it, i. 251;
Johnson and Boswell take oars for Greenwich, i. 458;
Johnson lands there, iv. 233, n. 2;
Black Boy, Strand, Johnson dates a letter from it, iii. 405, n. 6;
Blackfriars, Boswell and Johnson cross in a boat to it, ii. 432;
Blackfriars bridge, Johnson's letter about the design for it, i. 351;
Blenheim Tavern, Bond Street, meeting place of the Eumelian Club,
iv. 394, n. 4;
Boar's Head, Eastcheap, a Shakesperian Club, v. 247;
Bolt Court,
Boswell takes his last leave of Johnson at the entry, iv. 338;
Johnson's last house, ii. 427; iii. 405, n. 6;
garden, ii. 427, n. 1;
burnt down, ib.;
described in Pennant's _London_, iii. 275;
Oxford post-coach takes up Boswell and Johnson there, iv. 283;
Bond Street, i. 174, n. 2; iv. 387, n. 1;
Bow Church, confirmation of Bishop Hampden's election, iv. 323, n. 3;
Bow Street, Johnson resides there, iii. 405, n. 6;
Sir John Fielding's office, i. 423;
Bridewell Churchyard, Levett buried there, iv. 137;
British Coffee House,
Boswell and Johnson dine there, ii. 195;
club, account of a, iv. 179, n. 1;
Guthrie and Captain Cheap, i. 117, n. 2;
Buckingham House, ii. 33, n. 3;
Butcher Row,
account of it, i. 400, n. 2;
Boswell and Johnson dine there, i. 400;
meet Edwards there, iii. 302;
Button's Coffee-house,
Addison frequented it, iv. 91, n. 1;
Dryden _said_ to have had his winter and summer chairs there,
iii. 71, n. 5;
Carlisle House, iv. 92, n. 5;
Castle Street, Cavendish Square,
Johnson lodged there, i. 111, 135, n. 1; iii. 405, n. 6;
visited the Miss Cotterells, i. 244;
Catherine Street, Strand,
Johnson describes a tavern, v. 230;
lodged near it, i. 103; iii. 405, n. 6;
Charing Cross, full tide of human existence, ii. 337; iii. 450;
Charing Cross to Whitechapel, the greatest series of shops in the
world, ii. 218;
Clerkenwell, an alehouse where Johnson met Mr. Browne, i. 113, n. 1;
Clerkenwell Bridewell, broken open in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429;
described in _Humphry Clinker_, ii. 123, n. 2;
Clifford's Inn, Lysons lived there, iv. 402, n. 2;
Clifton's eatinghouse, i. 400;
Clubs: See under CLUBS;
Coachmaker's Hall, Boswell attends a religious Robinhood Society,
iv. 93, 95;
Compters, The, iii. 432;
Conduit Street, Boswell lodges there, ii. 166;
Cornhill, iv. 233, n. 2;
Covent Garden,
election mob, iv. 279, n. 2;
Hummums, iii. 349, n. 1;
Johnson helps the fruiterers, i. 250;
Piazzas infested by robbers, i. 163, n. 2;
Covent Garden Theatre,
_Douglas_, v. 362, n. 1;
Johnson at an oratorio, ii. 324, n. 3;
his prologue to Kelly's comedy, iii. 114;
Maddocks the straw-man, iii. 231;
_She Stoops to Conquer_ in rehearsal, ii. 208;
_Sir Thomas Overbury_, iii. 115, n. 2;
time of sickness, ii. 410, n. 2;
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand,
Boswell's supper party, ii. 63, 186; iii. 41;
Boswell and Johnson dine there, ii. 192;
Cuper's Gardens, v. 295;
Curzon Street, Lord Marchmont's house, iii. 392;
Doctors' Commons, i. 462, n. 1;
Dover Street, Literary Club met at Baxter's and Le Telier's, i. 479;
Downing Street,
Boswell's lodgings, i. 422;
Lord North's residence, ii. 331;
Drury Lane Theatre,
Abington's, Mrs., benefit, ii. 324;
_Beggar's Opera_ refused, iii. 321, n. 3;
Boswell lows like a cow, v. 396;
_Comus_ acted, i. 227;
Davies's benefit, iii. 249;
_Earl of Essex_, iv. 312, n. 5;
Fleetwood's management, i. 111, n. 2;
Garrick, opened by, i. 181;
Goldsmith and Lord Shelburne there, iv. 175, n. 1;
_Irene_ performed, i. 153, 196-8, 200-1;
Johnson in the Green Room, i. 201; iv. 7;
management by Booth, Wilks, and Cibber, v. 244, n. 2;
Duke Street, St. James's, No. 10, Mrs. Bellamy's lodgings, iv.
244, n. 2;
Durham Yard,
Johnson mentions it in dating a letter, iii. 405, n. 6;
the site of the Adelphi, ii. 325, n. 3;
East-India House, John Hoole one of the clerks, ii. 289, n. 2;
Essex Head, Essex Street, iv. 253: See under CLUBS;
Exeter-Change, iv. 116, n. 2;
Exeter Street,
Johnson's first lodgings, i. 103; iii. 405, n. 6;
said to have written there some of the _Debates_, i. 504-5;
Falcon Court, Fleet Street, Boswell and Johnson step aside into it,
iv. 72;
Farrar's-Buildings, Boswell lodges there, i. 437;
Fetter Lane,
Johnson lodges there, iii. 405, n. 6;
has sudden relief by a good night's rest, iii. 99, n. 4;
Levett woos his future wife in a coal shed, i. 370, n. 3;
Fleet-ditch, Johnson's voice seems to resound to it, ii. 262;
Fleet Prison,
broken open in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429;
Endymion Porter's pun on it, v. 137, n. 4;
Lloyd a prisoner, i. 395, n. 2;
Oldys a prisoner, i. 175, n. 2;
Savage lodges in its liberties, i. 125, n. 4, 416, n. 1;
Fleet Street,
animated appearance, ii. 337;
compared with Tempe and Mull, iii. 302;
Boswell meets Johnson 'moving along,' iv. 71;
dangers, its, i. 163, n. 2;
Goldsmith lodges in a court opening out of it, i. 350, n. 3;
Greenwich Park not equal to it, i. 461;
Johnson's favourite street, ii. 427; iii. 450;
Johnson helps a gentlewoman in liquor across it, ii. 434;
Kearsley the bookseller, i. 214, n. 1;
Langton lodges there during Johnson's illness, iv. 266, n. 3;
Lintott's shop at the Cross Keys, iv. 80, n. 1;
Macaulay describes its 'river fog and coal smoke,' iv. 350, n. 1;
the Museum, iv. 319;
Fox Court, Brook Street, Holborn, Savage's birthplace, i. 170, n. 5;
Gerrard Street, Boswell's lodgings, iii. 51, n. 3;
Goodman's Fields, Garrick's first appearance, i. 168, n. 3;
Gough Square,
Johnson lives there from 1749-1759 (writes the _Dictionary, Rambler,
Rasselas_, and part of the _Idler_), i. 188, 350, n. 3; iii. 405, n. 6;
described by Carlyle, i. 188, n. 1;
by Dr. Burney, i. 328;
Gray's Inn,
Johnson lodges there, i. 350, n. 3; iii. 405, n. 6;
Osborne's bookshop, i. 161;
Great Russell Street, Beauclerk's library, iv. 105, n. 2;
Gresham College, iii. 13;
Grosvenor Square, Mr. Thrale's house,
Johnson's room in it, iii. 324, n. 4, 405, n. 6; iv. 72;
Mr. Thrale dies there, iv. 84;
Grub Street,
defined, i. 296;
saluted, ib., n. 2;
Johnson had never been there, ib.;
history of it, i. 307, n. 2;
'Let us go and eat a beefsteak in Grub Street,' iv. 187;
Guildhall,
Beckford's monument, iii. 201;
its Giants, v. 103, n. 1;
Wilkes on his way to it, iv. 101, n. 2;
Haberdashers' Company, i. 132, n. 1;
Half-Moon Street, Boswell's lodgings, ii. 46, n. 2, 59;
Harley Street,
Johnson dines at Allan Ramsay's house, No. 67, iii. 391, n. 2;
Haymarket Theatre,
Foote and George III, iv. 13, n. 3;
Foote's patent, iii. 97, n. 2;
Gordon Riots, open at the, iii. 429, n. 3;
_Spectator_, mentioned in the, iii. 449;
Hedge Lane, Johnson visits a man in distress, iii. 324;
Henrietta Street, i. 485, n. 1;
Holborn,
Boswell starts from it in the Newcastle Fly, ii. 377, n. 1;
Johnson twice resides there, iii. 405, n. 6;
writes there his _Hermit of Teneriffe_, i. 192, n. 1;
Tyburn procession along it, iv. 189, n. 1;
Hummums, iii. 349;
Hyde Park,
Boswell takes an airing in Paoli's coach, ii. 71, n. 2;
troops reviewed there at Dodd's execution, iii. 120, n. 3;
Hyde Park Corner, iii. 450;
Inner Temple: See below under TEMPLE;
Ironmonger Row, Old Street, Psalmanazar lived there, iii. 443, 444;
Islington,
Johnson goes there for change of air, iv. 271, 415;
mentioned, iii. 273, 450;
Ivy Lane: See under CLUBS, Ivy Lane Club;
Johnson Buildings, iii. 405, n. 6;
Johnson's Court,
Johnson removes to it, ii. 5;
Boswell and Beauclerk's veneration for it, ii. 229, 427;
'Johnson of that _Ilk_,' ib., n. 2; iii. 405, n. 6;
Kennington Common, iii. 239, n. 2;
Kensington,
Elphinston's academy, ii. 171, n. 2;
Boswell and Johnson dine there, ii. 226;
Kensington Palace,
Dr. Clarke and Walpole sit up there one night, iii. 248, n. 2;
King's Bench Prison,
broken open in the Gordon Riots, iii. 429;
Lydiat imprisoned, i. 194, n. 2;
Smart dies in it, i. 306, n. 1;
Wilkes imprisoned, iii. 46, n. 5;
King's Bench Walk,
Johnson hears Misella's story, i. 223, n. 2;
'Persuasion tips his tongue,' &c., ii. 339, n. 1;
King's Head: See CLUBS, Ivy Lane;
Knightsbridge, v. 286;
Lambeth-marsh, Johnson said to have lain concealed there, i. 141;
Lambeth Palace, _public_ dinners, iv. 367, n. 3;
Leicester-fields, Reynolds lived there, ii. 384, n. 3;
Le Telier's Tavern: See above under DOVER STREET;
Lincoln's Inn, Warburton appointed preacher, ii. 37, n. 1;
Little Britain,
Benjamin Franklin lodged next door to Wilcox's shop, i. 102, n. 1;
mentioned by Swift, i. 129, n. 3;
London Bridge, Old,
account of it, iv. 257, n. 1;
booksellers on it, iv. 257;
_shooting_ it, i. 458, n. 2;
Lower Grosvenor Street, iv. 110;
Ludgate prison, Dr. Hodges dies in it, ii. 341, n. 3;
Magdalen House, iii. 139, n. 4;
Mansion-House, Boswell dines there, ii. 378, n. 1;
Marshalsea,
broken open at the Gordon Riots, iii. 429;
described by Wesley, i. 303, n. 1;
Marylebone-Gardens, Johnson said to have begun a riot there, iv. 324;
Mile-End Green, iii. 450;
Mitre Tavern,
Johnson's resort, i. 399;
Boswell and Johnson's first evening there, i. 401;
Johnson, Boswell, and Goldsmith, i. 417;
Boswell's supper, i. 423;
Boswell and Johnson alone on a rainy night, i. 426;
supper on Boswell's return from abroad, ii. 8;
supper with Temple, ii. 11;
dinners in 1769, ii. 73, 98;
dinner with two young Methodists, ii. 120;
farewell dinner with Dr. Maxwell, ii. 132;
Boswell and Johnson, dinner in 1772, ii. 157;
Boswell loses a dinner there, ii. 178;
Boswell and Johnson, dinner in 1773, ii. 242;
Boswell, Johnson and a Scotchman, ii. 307;
Johnson and young Col in 1775, ii. 411;
Boswell, Johnson and Murray in 1776, iii. 8;
Boswell and Johnson in 1777, 'Hermit hoar' composed, iii. 159, n. 3;
Boswell's mistake about, ii. 291, n. 1;
'the custom of the Mitre' kept up, iii. 341;
'we will go again to the Mitre,' iv. 71;
Cole, the landlord, v. 139;
Johnson and Murphy dine there, i. 375, n. 1;
Moorfields, John Hoole born there, iv. 187;
mad-houses, ii. 251; iv. 208;
mass-house burnt at the Gordon Riots, iii. 429;
New Street, Fetter Lane, Strahan's printing office, ii. 323, n. 2;
iv. 371;
New Street, Strand, Johnson dined at the Pine Apple, i. 103;
