corrected by Strahan, v. 92, n. 3;
_verbiage_, ii. 236;
Voltaire's _Louis XIV_, v. 393;
Whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 66, 275, 354, n. 4; iii. 278.
ROBIN HOOD, v. 389.
ROBIN ROY, v. 127, n. 3.
ROBINHOOD SOCIETIES, account of them, iv. 92, n. 5;
Boswell attends one, iv. 95.
ROBINSON, H.C., account of Capel Lofft, iv. 278, n. 3;
Bishop Hampden's 'confirmation,' iv. 323, n. 3;
Burncy's account of Johnson, i. 410, n. 2.
ROBINSON, Sir Thomas, account of him, i. 434;
Chesterfield sends him to Johnson, i. 259, n. 2;
talks the language of a savage, ii. 130.
_Robinson Crusoe_, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5; iii. 268.
ROCHEFORT, expedition to, i. 321.
ROCHEFOUCAULD, i. 246.
ROCHESTER, Mr. Colson,
master of the Free School, i. 101, n. 3;
Johnson visits it, iv. 8, n. 3, 22, 232-3.
ROCHESTER, Wilmot, second Earl of, Flatman,
verses upon, iii. 29;
_Imitations_ of Horace, i. 118, n. 5; v. 52, n. 5;
_Letter from Artemisia_, iii. 386, n. 4;
_Life_ by Burnet, iii. 191;
_Poems_, castration of his, iii. 191;
wrote short pieces iv. 370, n. 1.
ROCHFORD, Earl of, i. 317.
ROCKINGHAM, Marquis of,
his ministry, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 170, n. 1;
Burke's advice about it, ii. 355, n. 2;
his party, ii. 181.
_Rockingham, Memoirs of_, iii. 460.
ROD, use of the, i. 46; v. 99.
_Roderick Random_. See SMOLLETT.
RODNEY, Sir George, ii. 398.
ROGERS, Rev. Mr., of Berkley, iv. 402, n. 2.
ROGERS, Rev. Mr., _Sermons_, i. 89, n. 3.
ROGERS, Samuel, Beauclerk's absence of mind, i. 249, n. 1;
Beckford's speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3;
Fitzpatrick and Hare, iii. 388, n. 3;
Fordyce's, Dr., intemperance, ii. 274, n. 6;
Fox's conversation, iv. 167, n. 1;
on Burnet's style, ii. 213, n. 2;
love of Homer, iv. 218, n. 3;
and the wicked Lord Lyttelton, iv. 298, n. 3;
and Mrs. Sheridan, i. 390, n. 1;
heads on Temple Bar, ii. 238, n. 3;
Hume and his opponents, ii. 441, n. 5;
Johnson, wishes to call on, i. 247, n. 3;
and Lady Lucan, iii. 425, n. 3;
Marley, Dean, iv. 73, n. 1;
Mounsey, Dr., ii. 64, n. 2;
Murphy, Arthur, i. 356, n. 2;
Piozzi, Signor, iv. 339, n. 2;
Price, Dr., iv. 434;
_Rambler_, i. 210, n. 1;
Reynolds's last lecture, iii. 369, n. 2;
Shelburne and Carlisle, Earls of, iv. 246, n. 5;
Wilkes as City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2;
Williams, Miss H.M., iv. 282, n. 3;
Wordsworth and the _Edinburgh Review_, iv. 115, n. 2.
ROKEBY, Lord, i. 434, n. 3.
ROKEBY HALL, i. 434, n. 3.
_Rolliad, The_, Fitzpatrick, partly written by, iii. 388;
Graham, Lord, ridiculed, iii. 382, n. 1;
humorous but scurrilous, i. 116, n. 1;
'Painful pre-eminence,' iii. 82, n. 2.
_Rollin's Ancient History_, iv. 311.
ROLT, Richard,
_Dictionary of Trade and Commerce_, i. 358; ii. 344;
_Universal Visitor_, wrote for the, ii. 345;
vanity and impudence, his, i. 359.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM and Roman Catholics,
attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3;
clergy accused of lazy devotion, v. 170, n. 1;
Communion in one kind, ii. 105; iv. 289;
convicts should be attended by a Popish priest, iv. 329;
converts part with nothing, ii. 105;
not interrogated strictly, iv. 289;
doctrines and practice, ii. 105;
England and Ireland, in, ii. 255, n. 3;
Gordon Riots, iii. 428-431;
good timorous men, suited to, iv. 289; and women, ib.;
gross corruptions, iii. 17;
James II's attempt to bring England over to it, ii. 341;
Johnson attacks it, iii. 407;
calls their chapel a mass-house, iii. 429, n. 2;
defends it, i. 465, 476; iv. 289;
prefers it to Presbyterianism, ii. 103;
respects it, ii. 105;
laity and the Bible, ii. 27;
'old religion, the,' ii. 105;
penal laws relaxed, iii. 427-8;
still in force, iii. 427, n. 1;
Popish books burnt in 1784, ib.;
Popery understood by the nation, v. 276, n. 4;
Presbyterianism, differs chiefly in form from, ii. 150;
priests and people deceived, iii. 17;
transubstantiation, v. 71.
_Roman Gazetteers_, i. 147, n. 4.
ROMANCES, fit for youth, iv. 16, n. 3;
historically valuable, iv. 17;
Johnson loved the old ones, i. 49; iii. 2.
ROME and the Romans, ancient, barbarians mostly, ii. 170;
Bolingbroke's references to them, iii. 206, n. 1;
cant in their praise, i. 311; iii. 206, n. 1;
Carthaginian, no feeling for a, iv. 196;
empire, iii. 36;
fountain of elegance, iii. 333;
'Happy to come, happy to depart,' v. 82;
known of them, very little, ii. 153;
secession to _Mons Sacer_, v. 142, n. 2;
Senate, iii. 206;
temples built by Saurus and Batrachus, iv. 446;
Tiber, its duration compared with that of the, iii. 251.
ROME, modern,
Johnson eager to see it, iii. 19;
expected there, iv. 326, n. 3;
licensed stews, iii. 17;
_London_,
mentioned in, i. 119;
pilgrimages to it, iii. 446;
mentioned, iii. 217; v. 153, n. 1.
ROMILLY, Sir Samuel,
capital punishments, iv. 328, n. 1;
Hume and the French atheists, ii. 8, n. 4;
Parr, letter from, iv. 15, n. 5;
Robinhood Societies, iv. 92, n. 5;
Windham's opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4.
ROMNEY, George,
Cumberland's _Odes_ dedicated to him, iii. 43, n. 4.
ROPE DANCING, ii. 440.
RORIE MORE. See SIR RODERICK MACLEOD.
_Rosamond_, v. 376, n. 3.
_Roscommon, Life of_, i. 192.
ROSE, Dr., i. 46, n. 1; iv. 168, n. 1.
_Rosicrucian Infallible Axiomata_, iv. 402, n. 2.
Ross, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 90, 92.
Ross,--, a soldier, v. 197.
ROSSLYN, Earl of. See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord.
ROTHERAM, John, _Origin of Faith_, ii. 478.
ROTHES, Countess Dowagers of, ii. 136, n. 3.
ROTHES, Lady,
Bennet Langton's wife, ii. 77, n. 1, 142, 146; iii. 104, 368;
iv. 8, n. 3, 146, 159, n. 3, 240.
ROTTERDAM, iii. 84, n. 2.
ROUBILIAC, i. 328, n. 1.
ROUGHNESS, breedeth hate, iv. 168, n. 2.
ROUND ROBIN, The, iii. 83-5.
ROUS, FRANCIS, i. 75, n. 3.
ROUSSEAU, J.J.,
beating time, iv. 283, n. 1;
Boswell, sympathy with, ii. 11, n. 3;
visits him, ii. 12, 215;
_Contrat-Social_, ii. 249, n. 2;
coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1;
exile and visit to England, ii. 11;
Foundling Hospital, put his children into the, ii. 398, n. 4;
French not a gay people, ii. 402, n. 1;
Geneva, first departure from, i. 58, n. 2;
Goldsmith, resemblance to, i. 413, n. 1;
Hume on Rousseau's heroes, the Greeks and Romans, i. 353, n. 2;
inequality of mankind, i. 439;
Johnson's character of him, ii. 11;
justification of himself, ii. 12, n. 2;
liberty of teaching, opposed to, ii, 249, n. 2;
novelty, love of, i. 441;
pension from George III, ii. 12, n. 1;
_Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard_, ii. 12;
read less than formerly, iv. 288;
savage life, preference of, ii. 12;
talked nonsense well, ii. 74;
untruthfulness, ii. 434, n. 2;
Voltaire, compared with, ii. 12;
want of readiness, ii. 256, n. 3;
writings, effect of his, ii. 11.
ROWE, Elizabeth, i. 312.
ROWE, Nicholas,
an indecent poem included in his _Works_, iv. 36, n. 4;
Johnson's memory of his plays, iv. 36, n. 3.
ROWLANDSON, Thomas,
caricature of _Boswell revising the Second Edition_, v. 148, n. 1.
_Rowley's Poetry_. See CHATTERTON.
ROYAL ACADEMY,
Boswell Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1;
his letters of acceptance of office, iii. 370, 462-4;
and Robertson at the Exhibition, iii. 278;
club-nights, ii. 97, n. 1;
dinners,
Goldsmith, Johnson, Reynolds and Walpole present, iv. 314, n. 3;
Goldsmith, Johnson and Walpole, talk about Chatterton, iii. 51, n. 2;
Johnson speaks Latin to a Frenchman at dinner, ii. 404;
in 1780 sits over against an Archbishop, iv. 198, n. 2;
in 1784 has a race upon the stairs, iv. 355;
is kept waiting by the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2;
Exhibition of 1780, ii. 400, n. 3; iv. 198, n. 2;
Johnson's monument, subscription to, iv. 423, n. 2;
intercession for Lowe's picture, iv. 201-3;
minister, not dependent on a, iii. 464;
Moser, the keeper, iv. 227, n. 4;
origin, its, i. 363, n. 2;
professors and secretaries, ii. 67; iv. 220;
Reynolds's influence in it, iv. 219, n. 4;
his intention to resign the presidency, iv. 366, n. 2;
travelling students, iv. 202, n. 1.
ROYAL FAMILY, Johnson's dedications, ii. 2, 225;
unpopular, ii. 234.
ROYAL MARRIAGE BILL, ii. 152.
_Royal Recollections_, i. 116, n. 1.
ROYAL SOCIETY, Dryden's lines, ii. 241;
Johnson improves the method of the _Philosophical Transactions_,
ii. 40, n. 2;
Presidents--Earl of Macclesfield, i. 267, n. 1;
Sir John Pringle, iii. 65, n. 1;
mentioned, iv. 92, n. 5.
RUDD, Mrs., account of her, ii. 450, n. 1;
Boswell's acquaintance with her, iii. 79;
approved by Johnson, iii. 79, 80, 330.
RUDDIMAN, Thomas, Boswell projects his _Life_, ii. 216;
Johnson's regard for him, i. 211;
Laurence Kirk, projected monument at, v. 75;
Librarian of Advocates' Library, ii. 216;
'Ruddiman is dead,' ii. 21;
mentioned, iii. 372.
RUFFHEAD, Owen, _Life of Pope_, ii. 166; iv. 50, n. 1.
RUFFLES, laced, iv. 80.
RUINS, artificial, v. 456.
RUNDEL, Bishop, ii. 283, n. 2; iv. 29, n. 1.
_Runick Inscription_, i. 156, n. 3.
_Runts_, iii. 337.
RUSKIN, Mr. John, anecdote of Northcote, i. 377, n. 1;
_Bibliotheca Pastorum_, iii. 94, n. 2;
New Town of Edinburgh, v. 68, n. 1.
RUSSELL, Alexander, _Natural History of Aleppo_, i. 309; iv. 171.
RUSSELL, Lady, ii. 210, n. 3.
RUSSELL, Lord William, ii. 210.
RUSSIA, alchymist, a Russian, ii. 377;
Beauclerk's library offered to the ambassador, iii. 420;
Bell's _Travels_, ii. 55;
Lapouchin's, Mme., punishment, iii. 340;
population increasing, ii. 101;
rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 131, n. 2:
See CATHERINE II.
RUSTIC HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE, iv. 175; v. 293.
RUTLAND, Duchess of, iv. 224, n. 1.
RUTLAND, Roger, Earl of, i. 431.
RUTTY, Dr., account of him, iii. 170, n. 4;
extracts from his _Diary_, iii. 170-2.
RYLAND, Mr.,
Johnson's friend in 1752, i. 242;
letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters;
member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 360;
and Ivy Lane Club, iv. 435.
RYMER, Thomas, i. 498, n. 4; ii. 444, n. 2.
RYSWICK, peace of, iii. 446.
S.
SABBATH. See SUNDAY.
SACHEVERELL, Rev. Dr. Henry,
Johnson heard him preach at Lichfield, i. 39;
sale of his _Trial_, i. 34, n 5.
SACHEVERELL, W.,
_Account of the Isle of Man_, v. 309, n. 1, 336.
SACRAMENT,
preparation for it, iv. 122;
in one kind, ii. 105.
See under JOHNSON.
SADNESS. 'Sadness only multiplies self,' iii. 136, n. 2.
SAGACITY, iv. 335.
SAILORS,
estimation in which they are held, iii. 265-6;
generosity, v. 400;
Johnson's description of their life, i. 348; ii. 438; iii. 266;
iv. 250; v. 137;
mortality among them, i. 348, n. 3; iii. 266, n. 2;
noble animal, v. 400;
riot in London, iii. 46, n. 5;
rudeness, i. 378, n. 1.
SAINT MARTIN, iii. 36, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5.
SAINTS,
Invocation of the, ii. 105, 255; iii. 407; iv. 289;
resurrection of the bodies of the, iv. 95.
SALAMANCA, University of, i. 455; ii. 479.
SALE, _avoiding_ a, v. 321.
SALE, George, iii. 424, n. 1.
SALISBURY, iv. 233, 237.
SALISBURY, Bishop of. See Rev. Dr. DOUGLAS.
SALLUST, characters, his, ii. 79;
Catiline's character, i. 32;
Johnson takes a copy on his tour in Scotland, v. 122;
translates part of the _De Bella Catilinario_, iv. 381, n. 1;
quoted, ii. 181, n. 2;
translation by a Spanish prince, iv. 195.
SALMASIUS, iv. 444.
SALONICA, iv. 364, n. 2.
SALT HILL, v. 458, n. 5.
SALTER, Dr., i. 190, n. 5.
SALUSBURY FAMILY, v. 435, n. 2.
SALUSBURY, H.L., afterwards Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Piozzi, i. 492.
SALUSBURY, Lady, v. 276.
SALUSBURY, Mr., Mrs. Thrale's father, v. 438, n. 5.
SALUSBURY, Mrs., Mrs. Thrale's mother, her death, ii. 263;
saying about Johnson and runts, iii. 337.
SALUSBURY, Mr., iv. 343, n. 4.
SALVATION,
divine intimation of acceptance, iii. 295;
conditional, iv. 278, 299.
_Samson Agonistes_, i. 231, n. 2.
SANADON'S _Horace_, iii. 74, n. 1.
SANCROFT, Archbishop, iv. 287, n. 2.
SANDERSON, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln,
Johnson's style partly formed on his, i. 219;
use of the word _polluted_, iv. 402, n. 2;
mentioned, iv. 406, n. 1.
SANDFORD, Mr., v. 263.
SANDS, MURRAY, and COCHRAN,
printers of Edinburgh, i. 210, n. 3.
SANDWICH, fourth Earl of,
confounded with Bishop Seeker, i. 508;
disposal of a crown living, iv. 296, n. 3;
Fox's motion for his removal, iii. 383, n. 3;
Hawkesworth and Cook's _Voyages_, ii. 247, n. 5;
Ray, Miss, iii. 383, n. 3.
SANDYS, second Lord, Johnson visits him, v. 455;
portrait of him at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1.
SANDYS, Sir Edwin, _View of the State of Religion_, i. 219.
SANDYS, George, _Travels_, iv. 311.
SANDYS, Samuel, the 'Motionmaker,' i. 509.
SANQUHAR, Lord, v. 103, n. 2.
SANSTERRE THE BREWER, ii. 396.
SAPPER, Thomas, iv. 358, n. 2.
SAPPHO IN OVID, ii. 181.
SARDINIA, Island of, its _lingua rustica_, ii. 82.
SARDINIA, Charles Emmanuel III, King of, death, iv. 325, n. 1.
SARPEDON, v. 103, n. 1.
SARPI, Father Paul, i. 135, 136;
dying prayer, i. 478, n. 3;
_Life_ by Johnson, i. 139; v. 67, n. 2.
_Sartum tectum_, ii. 417.
_Sassenach More_, ii. 267, n. 2.
SASTRES, Signor, the Italian master,
Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
letters to him, iv. 368, _n_. 1, 374, n. 5;
mentioned, iii. 22; iv. 405, n. 1.
SATISFACTION OF CHRIST, v. 88.
SAULT, Mr., iv. 200.
SAUNDERS, Dr., iii. 32, n. 5.
SAUNDERS, Prince, a negro, iv. 108, n. 4.
SAUNDERSON, Professor, ii. 190.
SAURIN, v. 42, n. 1, 47, n. 4.
SAURUS, iv. 446.
SAVAGE, Richard,
account of him, i. 125, _n_. 4, 161-174;
_Ad Ricardum Savage_, i. 162, n. 3;
Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 53;
author, an, without paper, i. 350, n. 3; iii. 115, n. 1;
_Bastard, The_, i. 166;
Caroline, Queen, gives him a yearly bounty, i. 125, n. 4;
character and mode of life, i. 161-4, 166, n. 4, 173, 416, n. 1;
correction for the press, iv. 321, n. 2;
death, i. 156, n. 1, 164;
dignity, asserted his, i. 77, n. 2;
epitaph, i. 156, n. 3;
equality of man, asserted the, ii. 479;
evidence of his story examined, i. 170-4;
Johnson gathers materials for his _Life_, i. 156;
publishes it, i. 165;
payment for it and editions, ib., n. 1;
reviewed in _The Champion_, i. 169;
wrote forty-eight pages at a sitting, i. 166; v. 67;
intimacy with, i. 162-4;
likeness to him, i. 166, n. 4;
quotes _The Wanderer_, iv. 288
virtue, impairs, i. 164; iv. 395;
letter to a lord, i. 161, n. 3;
life, knowledge of, iii. 237, n. 1;
_On Public Spirit_, ii. 13, n. 1;
oppressed by the booksellers, i. 305, n. 1;
pension from Lord Tyrconnel, i. 372, n. 1;
Reynolds reads his _Life_, i. 165;
Sinclair, stabs: See below, trial for murder;
_Sir Thomas Overbury_ revived at Covent-Garden, iii. 115;
its composition, ib., n. 1;
subscribes to Husbands's _Miscellany_, i. 61, n. 3;
subscription, lived on a, i. 125, n. 3;
_Thales_ of Johnson's _London_, i. 125, n. 4;
Thomson, intimacy with, iii. 117, n. 7;
trial for murder, i. 125, n. 4, 162, n. 3;
vanity, ii. 281, n. 1;
veracity, i. 170, n. 2;
Wales, sets out for, i. 125, n. 4, 161, n. 2;
Walpole's, Sir Robert, talk, iii. 57, n. 2;
_Wanderer_, i. 124, n. 4.
_Savage, Life of_, an earlier one than Johnson's, i. 170.
