SENATE OF LILLIPUT. See under DEBATES.
SENECA, iii. 296, n. 1; v. 296.
_Senectus_, iii. 344.
SENEGAL, v. 98, n. 1.
_Senilia_, iv. 2.
SENSATIONS, 'la theorie des sensations agreables,' i. 344.
_Sentimental Journey_. See STERNE.
SENTIMENTALISTS, iii. 149, n. 2.
SERFS IN SCOTLAND. See SCOTLAND, serfs.
_Serious Call_. See LAW, William.
SERJEANTSON, Rev. James, iv. 393, n. 3.
SERMONS,
attended to better than prayers, ii. 173;
considerable branch of literature, iv. 105;
Johnson's advice about their composition, iii. 437; v. 68;
his opinion of the best, iii. 247
(See under JOHNSON, sermons);
passions, addressed to the, iii. 248;
style, improvement in, iii. 248.
SERVANTS, male and female, ii. 217.
SERVITORS. See OXFORD.
SESSIONAL REPORTS. See OLD BAILEY.
SETTLE, Elkanah,
City-Poet, iii. 76;
Dryden's rival, ib.;
mentioned, i. 55.
SETTLEMENT OF ESTATES, ii. 432.
_Seven Champions of Christendom_, iv. 8, n. 3.
SEVEN PROVINCES, i. 475.
SEVERITY, government by, ii. 186.
SEVIGNE, Mme. de,
existence, the task of, iii. 53;
misprints of her name, iii. 53, n. 2;
Pelisson, her friend, i. 90, n. 1;
style copied by Gray and Walpole, iii. 31, n. 1;
truthfulness on a death-bed, v. 397, n. 1.
SEWARD, Miss Anna,
_Acis and Galatea_, quotation from, iii. 242, n. 2;
Boswell introduced to her, ii. 467;
calls on her, iii. 412;
controversy with her, i. 92, n. 2; ii. 467, n. 4; iv. 331, n. 2;
dines at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 284-300;
fanciful reflection, i. 40, n. 3;
ghosts, iii. 297;
Hayley, correspondence with, iv. 331, n. 2;
Johnson and the learned pig, iv. 373;
praises her poetry, iv. 331;
_Ode on the death of Captain Cook_, iv. 331;
mentioned, iv. 307, 372, n. 4.
SEWARD, Rev. Mr., of Lichfield,
account of him, ii. 467; iii. 151;
valetudinarian, iii. 152, 412;
mentioned, i. 81, n. 2; ii. 471.
SEWARD, William, F.R.S.,
account of him, iii. 123;
Batheaston Vase, perhaps wrote for the, ii. 337, n. 2;
Harington's _Nugae Antiquae_, suggests a motto for, iv. 180;
Johnson and Bacon, iii. 194;
bow to an Archbishop, iv. 198;
epitaph, iv. 423, n, 3, 445;
on the Ministry and Opposition, iv. 139;
recommends him to Boswell, iii. 124;
tetrastrick on Goldsmith, translates, ii. 282, n. 1;
Langton's ancestor and Sir M. Hale, iv. 310, n. 2;
Parr, Dr., letter from, iv. 423, n. 3;
people without religion, iv. 215;
retired tradesman, anecdote of a, iii. 176, n. 1;
Scotland, visits, iii. 123-4, 126;
mentioned, i. 367; ii. 76, 308; iii. 167, 354; iv. 43, 83, n. 1, 444.
SEXES,
equality in another world, iii. 287;
intercourse between the two, ii. 473; iii. 341;
irregular, should be punished, iii. 17.
SHAFTESBURY, fourth Earl of, i. 464.
SHAKESPEARE, William,
Boar's Head Club, v. 247;
'Boswell,' needed a, v. 415;
'brought into notice,' ii. 92;
Capel's edition, iv. 5;
Catharine of Aragon, character of, iv. 242;
Congreve, compared with, ii. 85-7,
Corneille and the Greek dramatists, compared with, iv. 16
diction of common life, iii. 194
Dogberry boasting of his losses, i. 65, n. 1;
editions published between 1725-1751, v. 244, n. 2;
fame, his, iii. 263;
fault, never six lines without a, ii. 96;
Hamlet's description of his father, iv. 72, n. 3;
the ghost, iv. 16, n. 2; v. 38,
(see below under Johnson's edition);
Hanmer's edition, i. 178, n. 1;
imitations, ii. 225, n. 2;
Johnson's admiration of him, ii. 86, n. 1;
Johnson's edition, account of it, _Proposals_, i. 175, n. 3, 318, 327;
delayed, i. 176, 319, 322, 327, 329, 496, n. 3; ii. 1, n. 1;
subscribers, i. 319, n. 3, 323, 327, 336, 499;
list lost and money spent, iv. 111;
published, i. 496;
went through several editions, ii. 204;
re-published by Steevens, ii. 114, 204;
attacked by Churchill, i. 319-320;
confesses his ignorance where ignorant, i. 327;
edited it from necessity, iii. 19, n. 3;
Garrick not mentioned, ii. 92;
reflection on him, ii. 192;
Kenrick's attack, i. 497;
newspaper criticisms, ii.
notes on two passages in _Hamlet_, iii. 55;
preface, i. 496, 497, n. 3;
Warburton criticised, i. 329;
Warton, J. and T., notes by, i. 335; ii. 114-5;
Johnson's _Prologue_, iv. 25;
Jubilee, ii. 68;
Ladies' Shakespeare Club, v. 244, n. 2;
Latin, knowledge of, iv. 18;
_Macbeth_, description of night, ii. 90;
never read through by Mrs. Pritchard, ii. 349;
speech to the witches, v. 76, 115;
castle, v. 129, 348;
worse for being acted, ii. 92;
Malone's edition, i. 8; iv. 142, 181, n. 3;
mulberry tree, i. 83, n. 4;
Mulberry Tree, a poem i. 101;
name omitted in an _Essay on the English Poets_, i. 140;
night, descriptions of, ii. 87, 90;
_Othello_, dialogue between Iago and Cassio, iii. 41;
moral, iii. 39;
plays worse for being acted, ii. 92;
representations of his plays, v. 244, n. 2;
Reynolds's note on Macbeth's castle, v. 129;
_Romeo and Juliet_ neglected, v. 244, n. 2;
altered by Otway and Garrick, ib.
Shakspeare, _Mr._ William, iv. 325, n. 3;
_Shakespearian ribbands_, ii. 69;
spelling of his name, v. 124;
style ungrammatical, iv. 18, n. 2;
terrifies the lonely reader, i. 70;
Timon's scolding, iv. 26;
tragedies inferior to Home's _Douglas_, ii. 320, n. 1;
Warburton's edition, i. 175, 176, n. 1, 329;
witches, iii. 382;
quotations
_As you Like it_, iii. 2. 210-iii. 255, n. 4
_Coriolanus_, iii. 1 325-iii. 256, n. 1; iv. 4, 5-i. 263, n. 3;
_Cymbeline_, iii. 3. 38-iii. 450; iv. 2. 261-iv. 235, n. 1;
_Hamlet_, i. 2. 133-v. 155, n. 1; i. 2 185-iv. 335, n. 3; i. 3.
41-iii. 178, n. 3; iii. 1. 56-v. 279, n. 2; iii. 1. 78-ii. 298, n. 3;
iii. 2. 40-ii. 159, n. 5; iii. 2. 68-ii. 384; iii. 2 371-ii. 291, n. 2;
iii. 4. 60-v. 19, n. 3; iii. 4. 63-i. 118;
_1 Henry IV_, v. 4. 161-i. 250;
_2 Henry IV_, i. 2. 9-iv. 178, n. 5; iii. 1. 9-v. 140, n. 2;
iii. 2. 67-v. 310, n. 3; iv. 1 179-iv. 406, n. 1;
_1 Henry VI_, i. 2. 12-v. 284, n. 1;
_2 Henry VI_, iii. 3. 29-v. 113, n. 1; iv. 2. 141-iii. 51, n. 1;
_Henry VIII_, iii. 2. 358-i. 315, n. 3; iv. 2. 51--67-iv. 71,
n. 3; iv. 2. 76-i. 24;
_Julius Caesar_, i. 2. 92-i. 180, n. 1
_King Lear_, ii. 2. 17-iv. 26, n. 2; ii. 2. 160-ii. 446, n. 3;
ii. 4. 18-iii. 381, n. 1; iii. 4. 140-v. 145, n. 1;
_Love's Labour Lost_, ii. 1. 66-iv. 97, n. 1;
_Macbeth_, i. 3. 72-v. 119, n. 4; ii. 2. 12-ii. 322;
ii. 3. 91-i. 299; ii. 4. 12-i. 263, n. 3; iii. 4. 17-ii. 472, 1;
v. 3. 40-iv. 400, n. 2; v. 5. 23-ii. 92, n. 2; v. 8. 30-v. 347, n. 5;
_Measure for Measure_, iii. 1. 115-iv. 399, n. 6;
iv. 3. e-iii. 196, n. 1;
_Much Ado about Nothing_, iii. 5. 35-iii. 287, n. 2;
_Othello_, ii. 1. 59-ii. 408; iii. 3. 165-v. 30, n. 3;
iii. 3. 346-iii. 347, n. 3;
v. 2. 345-v. 416, n. 1;
_Rape of Lucrece_, l. IIII, iv. 181, n. 3;
_Richard II_, i. 3. 309-i. 129, n. 3; ii. 300; iv. 191; v. 20;
_Romeo and Juliet_, ii. 2. 115-ii. 85; v. i. 40-ii. 148;
_Taming of the Shrew_, i. 1. 39-i. 428, n. 1;
_Tempest_, i. 2. 355-iv. 5, n. 3; iv. 1. l0-iv. 25, n. 3;
iv. 1. 53-ii. 467, n. 1.
_Shakespeare Illustrated_, i. 255.
_'Sh'apprens t'etre vif,'_ ii. 463.
SHARP, James, Archbishop of St. Andrews, v. 39, n. 2, 61, 65, 68.
SHARP, John, Archbishop of York, i. 452, n. 2.
SHARP, Dr. John, i. 487, 517.
SHARP, J., ii. 69, n. 1.
SHARP, Miss, v. 68.
SHARP, Samuel, _Letters from Italy_, ii. 57, n. 2; iii. 55.
SHARPE, Rev. Gregory, ii. 130.
SHARPE, Mr., a surgeon, i. 357.
SHAVERS, a thousand, iii. 163.
SHAVINGTON HALL, v. 433, n. 2.
SHAW, Cuthbert,
account of him, ii. 31;
tutor to Lord Chesterfield, iii. 140, n. 1.
SHAW, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64, 68, 70.
SHAW, Dr. Thomas, iv. 112.
SHAW, Rev. William,
_Erse Grammar_, iii. 106, 107;
_Proposals_ written by Johnson, ib.;
pamphlet on _Ossian_, iv. 252-3;
mentioned, iii. 214.
_She Stoops to Conquer_. See GOLDSMITH.
SHEBBEARE, Dr. John,
_Battista Angeloni_, iv. 113;
Boswell becomes acquainted with him, iv. 112;
praises him, iii. 315; iv. 113;
Johnson, joined with, in the _Heroic Epistle_, v. 113;
and in parliament, iv. 318, n. 3;
_Letters on the English Nation_, iv. 113;
_Letters to the People of England_, iii. 315, n. 1; iv. 113;
libel, tried for, iii. 15, n. 3;
payment as a reviewer, iv. 214;
pension, ii. 112, n. 3; iii. 79, n. 1;
pillory, sentenced to the, iii. 315: iv. 113, n. 1;
'She-bear,' iv. 113, n. 2.
SHEET OF A REVIEW, iv. 214, n. 2.
SHEFFIELD, Lord. _See _HOLROYD, John.
SHEFFORD, iv. 131.
SHELBURNE, second Earl of (afterwards first Marquis of Lansdowne),
Bentham praises him as a minister, iv. 174, n. 4;
Bolingbroke, Lord, i. 268, n. 3;
Burke, speaks with malignity of, iv. 191, n. 4;
Bute's, Lord, character, ii. 353, n. 1, 363, n. 4;
Chambers, Sir R., ii. 264, n. 1;
Chatham's, Lord, opinion of schools, iii. 12, n. 1;
coarse manners, iv. 174;
Crown--its power increased by Lord Bute, iii. 416, n. 2;
Douglas, last Duke of, v. 43, n. 4;
Douglas, Lord, ii. 230, n. 1;
Dunning and Lord Loughborough, iii. 240, n. 3;
economy, rules of, iii. 265;
education, iii. 36, n. 1; iv. 174, n. 3;
Fitzpatrick's brother-in-law, iii. 388, n. 3;
French--their superficial knowledge, ii. 363, n. 4;
George III, letter from, iii. 241, n. 2;
Ingenhousz, Dr., ii. 427, n. 4;
'Jesuit of Berkeley Square,' iv. 174, n. 5;
Johnson's character of him, iv. 174;
intimacy with him, iv. 191, 192, n. 2;
King, Dr. William, i. 279, n. 5;
'Lord, his parts pretty well for a,' iii. 35;
Lowther the miser, v. 112, n. 4;
_Malagrida_, iv. 174;
Mansfield, Lord, in the copyright case, 1. 437, n. 2;
at Oxford, ii. 194, n. 3;
untruthfulness, ii. 296, n. 2;
ministry, iv. 158, n. 4, 170, n. 1, 174, n. 3;
peace of 1782-3, iv. 158, n. 4, 282, n. 1;
petition for his impeachment, ii. 90, n. 5;
portrait by Reynolds, iv. 174, n. 5;
Price, Dr., iv. 434;
Priestley's account of the company at his house, iv. 191, n. 4;
Scotch--their superficial knowledge, ii. 363, n. 4;
untruthfulness, ii. 296, n. 2, 301, n. 5;
painstaking habits, ib.;
Secretary of State at the age of twenty-nine, iii. 36, n. 1;
Streatham, rents Mrs. Thrale's house at, iv. 158, n. 4;
Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4;
Townsend, Alderman, iii. 460; iv. 175, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 177, n. 1.
SHELLEY, Lady, iv. 159, n. 3.
SHENSTONE, William,
Dodsley's _Cleone_, the sale of, i. 325, n. 3;
hair, wore his own, i. 94, n. 5;
'I prized every hour,' &c., iv. 145, n. 6;
inn, lines in praise of an, ii. 452;
Johnson, admiration of, ii. 452;
account of him, v. 267, 457, nn. 2 and 4;
estimate of his poems, ii. 452;
writes to him, v. 268, n. 1;
layer-out of land, v. 267;
Leasowes, v. 457;
letters, his, v. 268;
London streets in 1743, i. 163, n. 2;
_Love Pastorals_, v. 267;
Pembroke College, member of, i. 75; iv. 151, n. 2;
pension, v. 457;
Pope's condensation of thought, v. 345;
'She gazed as I slowly withdrew,' v. 267;
witty remark on divines and the tree falling, iv. 226.
SHERIDAN, Charles, iii. 284.
SHERIDAN, Mrs. Frances,
wife of Thomas Sheridan the son, i. 358, 386, n. 1, 389.
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley
(grandson of Dr. Thomas Sheridan and son of Thomas Sheridan),
birth, i. 358, n. 2;
Comedies, dates of his, iii. 116, n, 1;
_Duenna_, run of the, iii. 116, n. 1;
father, estranged from his, i. 388, n. 1;
despises his oratory, i. 394, n. 2;
funeral, i. 227, n. 4;
Johnson, compliments, in a Prologue, iii. 115;
praises his comedies, iii. 116;
projects an attack on, ii. 315, n. 3;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
election, iii. 116;
present, iii. 230, n. 5;
marriage, ii. 369;
Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83;
_Sydney Biddulph_ and _The School for Scandal_, i. 390, n. 1.
SHERIDAN, Dr. Thomas (the father),
anecdote of Swift and a country-squire, iv. 295, n. 5;
'Sherry,' ii. 258, n. 1.
SHERIDAN, Thomas (the son, father of R. B. Sheridan),
Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 91;
America, threatens to go to, iv. 2l5;
Boswell's instructor in pronunciation, ii. 159;
puns with, iv. 316;
conversation, ii. 122;
_Dictionary_, ii. 161;
Dublin Theatre, i. 386;
dull naturally, i. 453;
_Earl of Essex_, iv. 312, n. 5;
formal endings of letters, criticises, v. 239;
good, but a liar, iv. 167;
Home's gold medal, ii. 320; v. 360;
house in Bedford Street, i. 485, n. 1;
insolvent debtor, iii. 377;
Irish Parliament compliments him, iii. 377;
Johnson, account of, i. 385;
antipathy to the Scotch, iv. 169;
attack on Swift, iv. 61; v. 44, n. 3;
describes his acting, i. 358; ii. 88;
his reading, iv. 207;
pension, i. 374;
quarrels with, i. 385; iii. 115;
attacks him, i. 388; ii. 88;
irreconcileable, i. 387; iv. 222, 330;
_Lectures on the English Language_, i. 385
(See below, Oratory);
lies of vanity, iv. 167;
_Life of Swift_, i. 388; ii. 88, 319, n. 1;
miser, maintains the happiness of a, iii. 322;
'Old Mr. Sheridan,' iv. 207, n. 1;
oratory, at Bath, i. 394;
at Dublin, ib., n. 2;
described by Dr. Parr, ib.;
despised by his son, ib.;
laughed at by Johnson, i. 453; ii. 87; iv. 222;
'enthusiastic about it as ever,' iv. 207;
pension, i. 385-6;
'Sherry derry,' ii. 258;
son's marriage, his, ii. 369;
quarrels with him, i. 388, n. 1;
Wedderburne, taught, i. 386;
found him ungrateful, iii. 2;
vanity and Quixotism, ii. 128.
SHERLOCK, Dr.,
_On Providence_, iv. 300, n. 2;
style elegant, iii. 248;
mentioned, iv. 311.
SHERLOCK, Rev. Martin, iv. 320, n. 4.
SHERWIN, J. K., iii. 111.
SHIELS, R.,
Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187, 241;
share in Cibber's _Lives of the Poets_, i. 187; iii. 29-31, 37, 117.
SHIP,
worse than a gaol, i. 348; ii. 438; v. 137, 249;
misery of the sailors' quarters, iii. 266;
hospital, ib,, n. 2;
worse than a Highland inn, v. 147.
See SAILORS.
_Ship of Fools_, i. 277.
SHIPLEY, Bishop of St. Asaph,
army chaplain, an, iii. 251; v. 445;
assemblies, his, iv. 75, n. 3;
Franklin, Dr., a friend of, iv. 246, n. 4;
Johnson dines with him in Passion-week, iv. 88, n. 1;
visits his palace, v. 437;
knowing and conversible, iii. 250, n. 2; iv. 246;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
election, iv. 75, n. 3;
present, iv. 326;
Reynolds's dinner, at, iii. 250-5;
rout, at a, iv. 75;
mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1, 48, n. 1.
SHIRT,
changes of, v. 60;
clean-shirt days, i. 105.
SHOE-BUCKLES, iii. 325; v. 19.
SHOP-KEEPERS, of London, v. 81, 83.
SHOPS,
a stately one, iv. 319;
turn the balance of existence, v. 27, n. 4.
SHORE, Jane, v. 49, n. 2.
SHORT-HAND, i. 136; ii. 224; iii. 270.
SHREWSBURY,
Circuit, ii. 194;
Johnson visits it, v. 454-5;
mentioned, ii. 441.
SHROPSHIRE, i. 39, n. 1.
SHRUBBERY, a, iv. 128.
_Shuckford's Connection_, iv. 311.
SIAM, King of, iii. 336.
_Sibbald, Life of Sir Robert_, iii. 227.
_Sicilian Gossips_, iv. 2.
SICK MAN,
consolation in finding himself not neglected, iv. 234;
duty of telling him the truth, iv. 306;
impossible to please, iv. 311;
his thoughts, iv. 362.
SICK WOMAN, church service for a, v. 444.
SICKNESS, at a friend's house, iv. 181.
SIDDONS, Mrs.,
