REVOLUTIONS, 'Happy revolutions,' ii. 224.
REWLEY ABBEY, i. 273.
REYNOLDS, Miss, Barnard's verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3;
coolness with her brother, i. 486, n. 1;
irresolution, her, i. 486, n. 1;
Johnson's affection for her, i. 486, n. 1;
bequest to her, iv. 402, n. 2;
and the Cotterells, i. 246, n. 2;
dress and study, i. 328, n. 1;
and Garagantua, iii. 256;
and Hannah More, iii. 293; iv. 341, n. 6;
letters to her, i. 486, n. 1;
portrait, ii. 362, n. 1; iv. 229, n. 4, 421, n. 2;
miniatures, paints, i. 326;
oil-painting, ib., n. 7; iv. 229, n. 4;
Montagu, Mrs., paints, iii. 244;
politician, no, ii. 317, n. 2;
purity of mind, i. 486, n. 1; ii. 362, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 82, 215, 319-20, 390, 434.
REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, Abington's, Mrs., benefit, ii. 324;
abused in a newspaper, iv. 29;
Academy, influence in the, iv. 219, n. 4;
amusement is the great end of all employments, ii. 234;
a key to character, iv. 316;
associates with men of all principles, iii. 375;
Baretti's ignorance, gives an instance of, v. 121, n. 4;
is a witness at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1;
Barry quarrels with him, iv. 436, 438;
Beattie, portrait of, v. 90, n. 1; v. 273, n. 4;
books, judgments on, iii. 320;
Boswell, bequest to, i. 11, n. 1;
first acquaintance with, i. 417, n. 1;
gives Johnson's portrait to, i. 392;
letter from, iv. 259, n. 2;
_Life of Johnson_, has a leaf cancelled in, ii. 2, n. 1;
portrait, paints, i. 2, n. 2;
visits, when ill, iii. 391;
Burke's echo, ii. 222, n. 4;
and Johnson on Bacon's Essays, iii. 194, n. 1;
too much under, iii. 261;
wit, v. 32, n. 3;
Cambridge, Mr., dines with, ii. 361;
Camden's, Lord, portrait, ii. 353, n. 2;
_Cecilia_, iv. 223, n. 5;
character drawn by Burke, i. 245, n. 3; v. 102, n. 3;
colouring in conversation, iv. 183;
conversation, his, i. 246;
critics mostly pretenders, ii. 191, n. 1;
Cumberland, dislikes, iv. 384, n. 2;
'Dear Knight of Plympton,' iv. 432;
death, i. 10;
delicacy as regards Pope's note on Johnson, i. 143;
delicate observer of manners, ii. 109; Devonshire, visits, i. 377;
dinners at his house,
gathering of literary men, iii. 65, 250, 317, 337, 381;
iv. 78, 332, 337;
Northcote's description of them, iii. 375, n. 2; iv. 312, n. 3;
Discourses on Painting,
Empress of Russia's testimony of a snuffbox, iii. 370;
first volume published, in. 369;
Johnson described in them, i. 245, n. 3;
his dedication, ii. 2, n. 1;
mentioned in an unfinished _Discourse_, iii. 369, n. 3;
praises them, iv. 320;
Rogers, Samuel, present at the last, iii. 369, n. 2;
translated into Italian, iii. 96;
Dyer, Samuel, portrait of, ii. 453, n. 2;
emigration, iii. 232;
eminence, the cause of, ii. 437, n. 2;
Errol, Lord, portrait of, v. 102;
Essex Head Club, declines to join the, iv. 254, 436;
describes it, iv. 438;
Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4;
Fox's praise of _The Traveller,_, mentions, iii. 252, 261;
too much under, iii. 261;
'furious purposes, his,' iv. 366;
Garrick and the Literary Club, i. 480;
tea, iii. 264, n. 4;
Garrick, Mrs., dines with, iv. 96-9;
genius, account of, ii. 437, n. 2;
Goldsmith's company, likes, ii. 235;
criticised at his table, ii. 28l, n. 1;
debts, ii. 280;
dedicates the _Deserted Village_ to him, ii. 1, n. 2, 217, n. 5;
epitaph, loses the copy of, iii. 82;
fable of the little fishes, ii. 231;
monument, chooses the spot for, iii. 83, n. 2;
rebuked by, v. 273, n, 4;
_She Sloops to Conquer_, suggests a name for, ii. 205, n. 4;
to Walpole, introduces, iv. 314, n. 3;
Hawkesworth's character, i. 253, n. 1;
Hawkins's character, i. 28, n. 1;
hospitality, his, i. 1;
Humphry, the painter, assists, iv. 269, n. 2;
_Idler_, contributes to the, i. 330;
illness in 1764, i. 486;
imaginary praise of him, iv. 18;
inoffensiveness, v. 102, n. 3;
invulnerability, i. 2; v. 102;
Italy, returns from, i. 165, 242, n. 6;
Johnson, admiration for, i. 245;
admiration of Burke, ii. 450;
altercation with Dean Barnard, iv. 431;
apologises for his rudeness, iii. 329;
arguing, ii. 100, n. 1;
'flew upon an argument,' ii. 365;
belabours his confessor, iv. 281;
bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
checked immorality in talk, iv. 295, n. 3;
in a company of booksellers, iii. 311;
conversation, i. 204; iv. 184-5;
convulsive starts, i. 144;
cups of tea, i. 313, n. 3;
desire for reconciliation, ii. 100, n. 1, 109;
_Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4. n. 3;
_dulce decus_, i. 244;
dying requests, iv. 413;
executor, iv. 402, n. 2;
feared by a nobleman, iv. 116, n. 2;
feelings towards foreigners, iv. 169, n. 1;
fond of discrimination, ii. 306;
overcharges characters, iii. 332;
French, ii. 404;
friendship with, i. 2, 242, n. 6, 244, 246; iv. 367;
in 1764 almost--only friend, i. 486;
friendship for Taylor, iii. 180;
on friendship, i. 300;
funeral, iv. 419, n. 1;
garret, i. 328, n. 1;
gestures, v. 18;
interview with George III, ii. 34, n. i, 41;
intoxicated, i. 379, n. 2;
introduces Crabbe to, iv. 175, n. 2;
letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters;
letter to Thurlow, copies, iv. 349. n. 2, 368;
lines in _The Traveller_, ii. 6, n. 3;
making himself agreeable to ladies, iv. 73;
as a member of parliament, ii. 138;
mind ready for use, ii. 365, n. 1;
mode of covering his ignorance, v. 124, n. 4;
monument, iv. 423, n. 1;
inscription, ib., n. 2, 445;
never wrote a line a saint would blot, iv. 295, n. 3;
his obligation to, i. 245, n. 3;
on painting, i. 128, n. 2;
pension, i. 374;
proposed addition to it, iv. 327-8, 336-9, 348, 367-8;
pride, no meanness in it, iv. 429, n. 3;
proud of Reynolds's approbation, iv. 368;
portraits: See under JOHNSON;
prejudice against foreigners, iv. 15, n. 3;
prejudices and obstinacy, i. 293, n. 1;
pride, iii. 345, n. 1;
quarrel with Dr. Warton, ii. 41, n. 1;
_Rambler_, origin of the name, i. 202;
readiness for a reconciliation, ii. 100, n, 1, 256, n. 1;
'rough as winter, mild as summer,' iv. 396, n. 3;
rudeness partly due to his truthfulness, iv. 221, n. 2;
and Savage in St. James's Square, i. 164;
'school,' one of, i. 7, n. 1, 245, n. 3; iii. 230,261, n. 1, 369;
influenced his writings, i. 222;
qualified his mind to think, iii. 369, n. 3;
'Reynolds's oracle,' i. 245, n. 3;
_Shakespeare_, i. 319, n. 4;
talking to a 'blackguard boy,' iv. 184;
and Thrale's copper, i. 363, n. 3;
_Tracts_, his copy of, ii. 315, n. 2;
trip to Devonshire with, i. 377; iv. 322;
truth sacred to, ii. 433, n. 1;
unsuspicious of hypocrisy, i. 418, n. 3; iii. 444;
vocation to public life, iv. 359;
watch over himself, iv. 396, n. 3;
writings, 'won't read,' ii. 317, n. 2;
_Johnsoniana_, his, iv. 182;
_Journey to Flanders_, iv. 423, n. 2;
knighted, i. 103, n. 3;
Leicester Fields, house in, ii. 384;
liberality, iv. 133;
literary characters, a nobleman's terror of, i. 450, n. 1;
Literary Club, founder of the, i. 477;
attendance at it, ii. 17; iii. 128, n. 4, 230, n. 5;
London, loves, iii. 178, n. 1;
Lowe, the painter, iv. 202, n. 1;
_Macbeth_, note on, v. 129;
Malone one of his executors, iv. 133;
_Shakespeare_, praises, v. 129, n. 1;
matrimonial wishes about him, iv. 161, n. 5;
militia camps, visits the, iii. 365;
modesty, unaffected, iv. 133;
Monckton's, Miss, at, iv. 108, n. 4;
Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, likes, ii. 88-9; v. 245;
Morris, Miss, picture of, iv. 417, n. 3;
Moser, Keeper of the Academy, eulogium on, iv. 227, n. 4;
_Muddy_, ii. 362, n. 3;
Mudge, Rev. Mr., influenced by the, i. 378, n. 3;
_Sermons_, praises, iv. 98;
obligations, the relief from, i. 246;
observant in passing through life, iv. 6;
Oxford degree of D.C.L., v. 90, n. 1;
painter to the King, iv. 366, n. 2, 368, n. 3;
paralytic attack, iv. 161, n. 5;
Parr's defence of Johnson, iv. 422;
persuaded, easily, v. 286;
pictures, runs to, ii. 365;
placidity, i. 1;
planet, always under some, iii. 261;
players, defends, ii. 234-5;
Pope's hand, touches, i. 377, n. 1;
portrait of himself holding his ear in his hand, iii. 273, n. 1;
at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
price of portraits and income, i. 326, 363, 370, 382;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 109;
prosperity, not to be spoilt by, v. 102, n. 3;
Reviews, wonders to find so much good writing in the, iii. 44;
Richardson's talk, iv. 28;
'rival, without a,' i. 363;
round of pleasures, in a, ii. 274, n. 3;
Round Robin, signs the, iii. 83;
carries it to Johnson, iii. 84;
Royal Academy, intends to resign the presidency of the, iv. 366, n. 2;
same all the year round, iii. 5, 192;
_Savage, The Life of_, reads, i. 165, 245;
Shelburne, Lord, portrait of, iv. 174, n. 5;
Siddons, Mrs., portrait of, iv. 242, n. 2;
sister, dislikes the paintings by his, i. 326, n. 7; iv. 229, n. 4;
Smith's, Adam, talk, iv. 24, n. 2;
St. Paul's, proposes monuments in, iv. 423, n. 2;
Streatham library, pictures by him in, iv. 158, n. 1;
Suard visits him, iv. 20, n. 1;
Sunday painting, iv. 414;
taste, taking the altitude of a man's, iv. 316;
how acquired, ii. 191, n. 1;
Thurlow, letter from, iv. 350, n. 1;
titles, in addressing people did not use, i. 245, n. 3;
truthfulness of his stories, ii. 433, n. 2;
understanding, judging a man's, iv. 316;
Vanburgh, defends, iv. 55;
Vesey's, Mr., at, iii. 425;
virtue in itself preferable to vice, iii. 342, 349;
Voltaire, supposed attack on, v. 273, n. 4;
weather, ridicules the influence of, i. 332, n. 2;
wine, defends the use of, iii. 41;
his fondness for it, ii. 292; iii. 329-30;
reproached by Johnson with being far gone, iii. 329;
mentioned, ii. 82, 83, n. 2, 232, 265, n. 4, 347; iii. 43, 301,
305, 386, 390, 434; iv. 1, n. 1, 32, 76, 84, 88, 159, 178,
219, n. 3, 224, n. 2, 334, 341, 344, 355, n. 4; v. 215.
_Rhedi de generations insectarum_, iii. 229, n. 4.
RHEES, David ap, _Welsh Grammar_, v. 443.
RHEUMATISM, medicine for it, ii. 361.
_Rhodochia_, i. 223.
RHONE, iv. 277.
RHOPALIC VERSES, v. 269, n. 3.
RHYME, essential to English poetry, iii. 257.
See BLANK-VERSE.
RICCOBONI, Mme.,
credulity of the English, v. 330, n. 3;
French and English stage in point of decency, ii. 50, n. 3;
sentimentalists of Paris, iii. 149, n. 2;
want of respect to nobility on the English stage, v. 106, n. 4.
RICH, the manager of Covent Garden Theatre,
brings out the _Beggar's Opera_, iii. 321, n. 3;
'is this your tragedy or comedy?' iv. 246, n. 5;
refuses a play in false English, iii. 259.
RICHARD II, iv. 268, n. 2.
RICHARDS, John, R.A., iii. 464.
RICHARDS, Thomas, i. 186, n. 3.
RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the elder, _Treatise on Painting_, i. 128, n. 2.
RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the younger, i. 128, 142.
RICHARDSON, Samuel,
Chesterfield's estimate of him, ii. 174, n. 2;
Cibber, respects, ii. 93; iii. 184;
_Clarissa_, German translation of, iv. 28;
Lovelace's character, ii. 341;
Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2;
death, i. 370, 382;
_Familiar Letters_--description of a visit to Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1;
and the procession to Tyburn, iv. 189, n. 1;
Fielding, compared with, ii. 49, 174, ib., n. 2;
disparages, ii. 49, 174, 175, n. 2;
Fielding, Miss, letter to, ii. 49, n. 2, 174, n. 1;
flattery, love of, v. 396, n. 1, 440, n. 2;
foreigners, read by, ii. 49, n. 2;
Hanoverian, a, i. 146, n. 1;
Johnson asks for an index for _Clarissa_, ii. 175, n. 1;
_Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4;
draws his character, v. 395;
gives him a pheasant, i. 326;
letters to him; i. 303, n. 1; ii. 175, n. 1;
meets Hogarth at his house, i. 145;
and Young, v. 269;
sought after him, iii. 314;
under arrest, helps, i. 303, n. 1;
King, Dr. W., a Jacobite speech by, i. 146, n. 1;
literary ladies, his, iv. 246, n. 6; v. 396;
Macaulay's high praise of him, ii. 174, n. 2;
Nelson, Robert, the original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3;
novels, his, compared with the French, ii. 125;
Oxford University, the Jacobitism of, i. 281, n. 1;
portrait, i. 434, n. 3;
_Rambler_, praised in the, i. 203;
praises it, i. 209, n. 1;
contributes to it, i. 203;
read for the sentiment, not story, ii. 175;
_rear_, Johnson can make him, iv. 28;
talks of his own works, iv. 28;
Tunbridge Wells, at, i. 190, n. 1;
vanity, iv. 28, n. 7; v. 396;
Walpole's, Horace, contempt of him, ii. 174, n. 2;
Williams, Mrs., visits him, i. 232, n. 1.
RICHARDSON, William, i. 303, n. 1.
RICHELIEU, Cardinal, ii. 134, n. 4.
RICHES. See MONEY.
RICHMOND, third Duke of,
attacks Lord Sandwich and Miss Ray, iii. 383, n. 3;
discusses history and poetry, ii. 366, n. 1;
libelled by Henry Bate, iv. 296, n. 3.
RIDDELL, Mr., of the Horse Grenadiers, iv. 211, n. 1.
RIDDOCH, Rev. Mr., v. 87, 91, 95-96.
RIDICULE,
abuse of it, iv. 17;
Johnson defends its use, iii. 379.
_Riding_, the, i. 36, n. 4.
RIDLEY, the bookseller, iii. 325.
RIGBY, Richard, iii. 76, n. 2.
_Rio verde, Rio verde_, ii. 212, n. 4.
RIOT ACT, iii. 46, n. 5.
RIOTS,
Franklin's description of the street riots in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5;
Gordon riots in 1780, iii. 46, n. 5, 428;
St. George's Fields in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5.
RISEN IN THE WORLD, jealousy of men who have, iii. 2.
RISING early, its difficulty, iii. 168.
RITTER, Joseph, Boswell's Bohemian servant,
accompanies Boswell to the Hebrides, v. 53, 74, 76, 83,163, 286,
318, 363, 371;
mentioned, ii. 103, 411; iii. 216.
RIVERS, Earl, Savage's reputed father, i. 166, n. 4, 170, 172.
RIVINGTON, Mr., the bookseller, i. 135, n. 1.
RIZZIO, David, v. 43.
ROADS,
described by Arthur Young, iii. 135, n. 1;
toll gates, v. 56, n. 2.
See under SCOTLAND, roads.
ROBERT BRUCE, ii. 386-7.
ROBERT II, v. 373.
ROBERTS, J., the bookseller, i. 165, 175. n. 3.
ROBERTS, Mr., Register of Bangor, v. 447, 452.
ROBERTS, Miss, old Mr. Langton's niece, i. 336; 430.
ROBERTSON, Mr., of Cullen, v. 110, 111.
ROBERTSON, Mr., a publisher, of Edinburgh, iv. 129.
ROBERTSON, Professor James, v. 42.
ROBERTSON, Dr. William, Beattie, compared with, ii. 195, n. 1;
Boswell appears against him in Court, ii. 381, n. 1;
letters to, v. 15, 32;
_Charles V_,
criticised by Wesley, ii. 236, n. 4;
price offered for it, ii. 63, n. 2;
Clive's character, expatiates on, iii. 334;
companionable and fond of wine, iii. 335;
conversation, iii. 339, n. 1;
Elibank, Lord, his early patron, v. 386;
Gibbon, complimented by, ii. 236, n. 3;
_Histories_, his, romances, ii. 237;
pictures, but not likenesses, iii. 404;
_History of America_, iii. 270;
_History of Greece_, projects a, ii. 237, n. 4;
_History of Scotland_, Johnson 'won't talk of it,' ii. 53;
published in 1759, iv. 78, n. 2;
sale, iii. 334;
L6000 made by the publishers, ib.;
editions, ib., n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 270;
Johnson, awe of, ii. 63; iii. 332; v. 371;
criticises his _History_ and style, ii. 236-7; v. 57, n. 3;
estimation of him, ii. 30, n. 1; v. 397;
introduced to, iii. 331;
asks him to translate the _Iliad_, iii. 333;
dines with him in Boswell's house, v. 32-4;
breakfasts, v. 38-9;
shows him St. Giles, v. 41;
the College, v. 42;
Holyrood, v. 43;
dines with him, v. 44;
welcomes him on his return, v. 392;
'love' for him, ii. 53;
proposed tour to the Hebrides, writes about, ii. 232;
refusal to hear Scotch preachers, iii. 336; v. 121;
style, recognises, i. 308;
imitates it, iii. 173; iv. 388;
worship, complains of, iii. 331;
liberality of sentiment, v. 393;
packs his gold in wool, ii. 237;
paraphrased other people's thoughts, v. 397, n. 3;
party in the church, his, v. 213;
preferment, his church, iii. 334, n. 2;
Principal of Edinburgh College, v. 41, n. 2;
romantic humour, his, iii. 335;
Southey calls him a rogue, ii. 238, n. 1;
style, i. 439, n. 2; ii. 236-7;
