described by Mrs. Piozzi, v. 103, n. 1;
Johnson, visits, iv. 242;
Reynolds compliments her, ib., n. 2;
in _The Stranger_, iv. 244, n. 1.
_Side_, ii. 155.
SIDNEY, Algernon, ii. 210.
SIDNEY, Sir Philip,
as an authority for a _Dictionary_, iii. 194, n. 2;
misprint in a quotation from him, iii. 131, n. 2.
_Sidney Biddulph_, i. 358, n. 4, 389.
_Siege_, a popular title for a play, iii. 259, n. 1; v. 349, n. 1.
_Siege of Aleppo_, iii. 259, n. 1.
_Siege of Marseilles_, v. 349, n. 1.
SIENNA, iv. 373, n. 1.
SIGHT of great buildings, ii. 385, 393.
SIGNS, conversation by, ii. 247.
SILENCE of Carthusians, absurd, ii. 435.
SILK, v. 216.
SILK-MILL, iii. 164.
SILVER BUCKLES, iii. 325.
SIMCO, John, iv. 421, n. 2.
SIMILE, when made by the ancients, iii. 73.
SIMPSON, Joseph,
account of him, iii. 28;
Johnson's letter to him, i. 346;
mentioned, i. 488; ii. 476.
SIMPSON, Thomas, the mathematician, i. 351, n. 1.
SIMPSON, Rev. Mr., iii. 359.
SIMPSON, Mr., of Lichfield (father of Joseph Simpson), i. 81, 346.
SIMPSON, Mr., Town-clerk of Lichfield, iv. 372, n. 2.
SIMPSON, Mr., of Lincoln, ii. 16.
SIMPSON, Mr., owner of a vessel, v. 279-284, 286.
SIN,
balancing sins against virtues, iv. 398;
heinous, ii. 172;
original, iv. 123.
SINCLAIR, Sir John, iv. 136.
SINCLAIR, Robert, iii. 335, n. 1.
SINCLAIR, Mr., stabbed by Savage, i. 125, n. 4.
SINGULARITY,
Johnson's dislike of it, ii. 74, n. 3;
making people stare, ii. 74;
the gentleman in _The Spectator_, ii. 75.
See under AFFECTATION.
SINNERS, chief of, iv. 294.
SION HOUSE, iii. 400, n. 2.
_Sister, The_, iv. 10, n. 1.
SIXTEEN-STRING JACK, iii. 38.
SIXTUS QUINTUS, V. 239.
SKENE, General, v. 142, n. 2.
SKENE, Sir John, iii. 414, n. 3.
SKINNER, Stephen, i. 186.
SLANDER, action for, iii. 64.
SLATER, Mr., the druggist, iii. 68.
SLAUGHTER'S COFFEE-HOUSE, i. 115, n. 1; iv. 15.
SLAVES and SLAVERY,
Bathurst, Dr., on it, iv. 28;
Boswell's justification of it, iii. 200, 203-5, 212;
drivers of negroes, iii. 201;
England's guilt, ii. 479;
Georgia, i. 127, n. 4;
Grainger's _Sugar Cane_, i. 481, n. 4;
Johnson's hatred of it, ii. 478-480; iii. 200-4;
toast to an insurrection, ii. 478; iii. 200;
religious education, ii. 27, n. 1;
Slavetrade, abolition of it attempted, iii. 203-4;
England's hypocrisy in upholding it, ii. 480;
London Alderman's defence of it, iii. 203, n. 1;
Walpole's, Horace, hatred of slavery, iii. 200, n. 4.
See KNIGHT, Joseph, SOMERSET, James, and under SCOTLAND, serfs.
SLEEP,
quantity needful, iii. 169;
sleep-walking, v. 46.
SLEEPLESSNESS, 'light a candle and read,' iv. 409, n. 1.
SLOE, 'bringing the sloe to perfection,' ii. 78.
SLUYS, iii. 447.
SMALBROKE, Dr., i. 134.
SMALRIDGE, George, Bishop of Bristol, iii. 248.
SMART, Christopher (Kit),
account of him, i. 306, n. 1;
Derrick, compared with, iv. 192;
_Hop Garden_, ii. 454, n. 3;
madness, i. 397; ii. 345;
_Rambler_, praises the, i. 208, n. 3;
_Universal Visitor_, contract about the, ii. 345;
Johnson wrote for him, ib.;
mentioned, iv. 183, n. 2.
SMART, Mrs. Christopher,
Johnson's letters to her, in. 454! iv. 358, n. 2.
SMART, Mrs. Newton, iv. 8, n. 3.
SMELT, Mr., iv. i, n. 1.
SMITH, Adam,
absence of mind, iv. 24, n. 2;
Barnard's verses, mentioned iii, iv. 433;
blank verse, dislikes, i. 427;
Boswell attends his lectures, v. 19;
praised by him, ib., n. 1;
attacks his _alliance_ with Hume, v. 30, n. 3;
bounty on corn, iii. 232, n. 1;
on herring-busses, v. 161, n. 1;
composed slowly, v. 66, n. 3;
conversation, iii. 307, n. 2; iv. 24, n. 2;
decisive professorial manner, iv. 24;
Glasgow and Brentford, iv. 186; v. 369;
gold, importation of, iv. 104, n. 3;
'hotbed of genius,' raised in a, ii. 53, n. 1;
Hume's _Dialogues on Natural Religion_, i. 268, n. 4;
letter from, iv. 194, n. 1;
_Life_, iii. 119; v. 30-2, 369, n. 5;
suggested knocking of his head against, iii. 119;
Johnson, altercation with, iii. 331;
imaginary altercation, v. 369, n. 5;
compared with, iv. 24, n. 2;
Dictionary_, reviews, i. 298, n. 2;
knowledge of books, i. 71;
meeting with, i. 427;
preface to his _Shakespeare_, i. 496, n. 4;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; iii. 128, n. 4;
elected when the club had 'lost its select merit,' ii. 430, n. 1;
Macdonald, Sir J., death of, i. 449, n. 2;
Macpherson's _Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2;
Milton's shoe-latchets, v. 19;
Oxford student, i. 503; iv. 391, n. 1;
philosophers and porters, i. 102, n. 2;
Professor of Logic, v. 369, n. 2;
Professor of Moral Philosophy, v. 369, n. 3;
Select Society, member of the, v. 393, n. 4;
_Theory of Moral Sentiments_, v. 30, n.;
Universities,
reflection on English, iii. 13, n. 1, 14, n. 1; iv. 391. n. 1.
_Wealth of Nations_, publication of, ii. 429-30;
condemned by the Inquisition, i. 465, n. 1;
Johnson's ignorance of it, ii. 430, n. 1;
valued by Boswell, v. 30, n. 3.
SMITH, Captain, iii. 362.
SMITH, Edmund,
expulsion from Oxford, ii. 187, n. 3;
_Life, quoted, i. 75, n. 5, 81;
lines on Pococke, iii. 269.
SMITH, General, Foote's _Nabob,_ iii. 23, n. 1.
SMITH, 'Gentleman,' the actor, ii. 208, n. 5.
SMITH, John, Lord Chief Baron, iv. 152, n. 3; v. 27.
SMITH, Rev. Mr., vicar of Southill, iv. 126, 330.
SMITH, Sydney, v. 360, n. 1.
SMITH, William, Bishop of Lincoln, v. 445, n. 3.
SMITH, Mr., ii. 116.
SMOKING,
gone out, v. 60;
sedative effect, i. 317; v. 60.
SMOLLETT, Commissary,
'solid talk,' v. 365;
monument to Dr. Smollett, v. 366.
SMOLLETT, Dr. Tobias,
Blackfriars Bridge, praises, i. 351, n. 1;
British coffee-house club, iv. 179, n. 1;
Churchill, attacked by, i. 419, n. 1;
_Critical Review_, edits the, iii. 32, n. 2;
attacks Griffiths and the _Monthly_, ib.;
Cumming the Quaker, v. 98, n. 1;
epitaph, v. 367;
feudal system, v. 106, n. 3;
French houses, ii. 388, n. 2;
meat and cookery, ii. 402, n. 2;
_valets de place_, ii. 398, n. 2;
grumbler, a great, as a traveller, iii. 236, n. 2;
Hamilton the bookseller, ii. 226, n. 3;
heritable jurisdictions, v. 177, n. 1;
_Humphry Clinker_ described by H. Walpole, i. 351, n. 1;
Johnson's _Debates_, i. 505-6;
Johnson and he 'never cater-cousins,' i. 349;
Londoners and the Battle of Culloden, v. 196, n. 3;
Lyttelton, Lord, afraid of him, iii. 33;
monument, v. 366;
Johnson corrects the inscription, v. 367;
_Ode on Leven Water_, v. 367, n. 2;
_Tears of Scotland_, v. 196, n. 3;
_Travels_ criticised by Thicknesse, iii. 235-6;
Wilkes, letter to, i. 348;
quotations, &c. from his works--
_Humphry Clinker_, authors sleeping on bulks, i. 457, n. 2;
in the pillory, iii. 315, n. 1;
Bath described, iii. 45, n. 1;
Butcher Row, i. 400, n. 2;
Edinburgh Cawdies, iv. 129, n. 1;
Edinburgh a hot-bed of genius, ii. 53, n. 1;
Elibank, Lord, v. 386, n. 1;
'gardy loo,' v. 22, n. 3;
_Hemisphere_, ii. 81, n. 2;
Highland funeral, v. 332, n. 2;
libels, i. 116, n. 1;
Methodists, ii. 123, n. 2;
_Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2;
Psalmanazar, George, iii. 443;
Queensberry, Duke of, ii. 368, n. 1;
Quin at Bath, iii. 264, n. 1;
Scotch, English prejudice against the, ii. 300, n. 5;
Scotch churches, dirtiness of, v. 41, n. 3;
Scotland as little known as Japan, v. 392, n. 6;
Smollett's, Commissary, house, v. 365, n. 1;
St. Andrews, v. 61, n. 5;
_straw_ in Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 2;
whisky as a medicine for infants, v. 346, n. 2;
_Peregrine Pickle_,
governor, v. 185, n. 2;
Lady Vane, v. 49, n. 4;
_Roderick Random_,
'cham,' i. 348, n. 5;
finding a person comprehension, iv. 313, n. 4;
hospital on a man-of-war, iii. 266, n. 2;
_loblolly boy_, i. 378, n. 1;
Lyttelton, Lord, said to be abused in it, iii. 33, n. 1.
SMOLLETT, Mrs., v. 366.
SMUGGLING, iii. 188, n. 5.
SNAILS and Dissenters, ii. 268, n. 2.
SNAKES, concerning, iii. 279.
SNOWDON, ii. 284; v. 451.
SOBIESKI, King, v. 185, n. 4, 200.
SOCIAL ATTENTIONS, i. 477.
SOCIETY,
condition upon which all societies subsist, ii. 374;
duty to it, v. 62;
external advantages of great value, i. 440;
held together by respect for birth, ii. 153;
right to prohibit propagation of dangerous opinions, ii. 249;
submitting to its determinations, v. 87;
truth, held together by, iii. 293.
SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, i. 363;
_Preface to the Catalogue_, ib., n. 2, 367.
_Society of Arts and Sciences_,
Johnson tries to speak there, ii. 139;
is recommended by Hollis, iv. 97;
votes against a Scotchman, iv. 11;
mentioned, iv. 92, n. 5.
SOCIETY for Conversation, iv. 90.
SOCIETY for the Encouragement of learning, i. 153, n. 2.
SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL,
Archbishop Markham's Sermon, v. 36, n. 3;
bequest of slaves made to it, iii. 204, n. 1.
SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, ii. 27-30, 279; v. 370.
SOCRATES,
compared with Charles XII, iii. 265;
education, on, iii. 358, n. 2;
learnt to dance, iv. 79;
passing through the fair at Athens, i. 334, n. 2;
reduced philosophy to common life, i. 217.
SODOR AND MAN, Bishop of, iii. 412.
_Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris_, iv. 181, n. 3.
SOLANDER, Dr.,
account of him, v. 328;
proposed expedition, ii. 147, 148; iii. 454.
_Soldiers Letter_, i. 156.
SOLDIERS,
breeding, their, ii. 82;
character high, iii. 9;
common soldiers usually gross, iii. 9;
Coronation, at the, iii. 9, n. 2;
courage, iii. 266;
deaths from gaol fever, iv. 176, n. 1;
Dicey, Professor,
on the difficulties of their position, iii. 46, n. 5;
English stronger than French, v. 229;
estimation in which they are held, iii. 265-6;
fame, get little, v. 137;
France, respect paid to them in, iii. 10;
governed by want of agreement, ii. 103;
insolence, iii. 9, nn. 2 and 3;
Johnson's estimate of them in his talk and study, iii. 266-7;
Mutiny Act, iii. 9, n. 4;
officers, their ignorance, v. 398;
respected, iii. 9;
superiority of their accommodation, iii. 361, 365;
pay, ii. 218;
peace, in time of, iii. 267, n. 1;
quartered in inns, ii. 218, n. 1; iii. 9, n. 4;
real life and modern fiction, in, ii. 134, n. 3;
regularity, want of, iii. 266, n. 4;
relish of existence, iii. 413, n. 4;
riches in them do not excite anger, v. 328;
shot at for five-pence a day, ii. 250;
trial of two soldiers for murder, iii. 46, n. 5.
SOLICITORS, iv. 128-31. See ATTORNEYS.
SOLITUDE, Burton's warning against it, iii. 415.
See under JOHNSON, solitude.
SOMERS, Lord,
patron of learning, v. 59, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 157, n. 3.
SOMERSET, James, a negro,
account of his case, iii. 87, n. 3, 212; v. 401, n. 3;
Hargrave's _Argument_ quoted, v. 401, n. 3;
Knight the negro reads his case, iii. 214, n. 1.
SOMERSET, Duchess of, i. 452, n. 2.
SOMERSETSHIRE, iii. 226, n. 2.
SOMERVILLE, Lord, iv. 50.
SOMMELSDYCK, family of, v. 25, n. 2.
_Somnium_, i. 60.
SORROW,
inherent in humanity, v. 64;
remedies for it, ib., n. 2;
useless, iii. 137, n. 1.
See GRIEF.
SOUND, beauty in a simple sound, ii. 191.
SOUTH, Dr. Robert,
Johnson criticises his _Sermons_, iii. 248;
recommends his _Sermons on Prayer_, ii. 104.
_South Briton_, a libel, iv. 318, n. 3.
SOUTH SEA, voyages to the, ii. 247; iii. 8; iv. 308.
_South Sea Report_, i. 157.
SOUTH SEA SCHEME,
Dr. Young loses by it, iv. 121;
Fenton's advice to Gay, v. 60, n. 4.
SOUTHAMPTON, Lord, ii. 323, n. 1.
SOUTHEY, Robert,
_Adventurer_, i. 252, n. 2;
Colman and Lloyd, ii. 334, n. 3;
correcting _doggedly_, v. 40, n. 3;
dreams, i. 235, n. 2;
English historians, ignorance of, v. 220, n. 1;
_Gentleman's Magazine_, despises the, iv. 437;
Georgia, settlement of, i. 127, n. 4;
_Methodists_, origin of the term, i. 458, n. 3;
poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
Robertson's, Dr., omissions, ii. 238, n. 1; v. 220, n. 1;
Robinson, Sir T., i. 434, n. 3;
supernatural appearances, iii. 298, n. 1;
walks, the habit of taking long, i. 64, n. 4;
want of readiness, ii. 256, n. 3;
Wesley's manners, iii. 230, nn. 3 and 4;
Wesley warned by 'a serious man,' v. 62, n. 5;
Westminster School, account of, iii. 12, n. 3;
Whitefield's oratory, ii. 79, n. 4; v. 36, n. 1;
_Whole Duty of Man_, ii. 239, n. 4.
SOUTHILL, the residence of Squire Dilly,
Boswell visits it in 1779, iii. 396;
Boswell and Johnson in 1781, i. 260; iv. 118;
the church, i. 315; iv. 122.
SOUTHWELL, Thomas, second Lord, i. 243; iii. 380;
'most qualified man,' iv. 174.
SOUTHWELL, Mr., i. 362.
SOUTHWELL, Robert, the Jesuit, v. 444.
SPACE, _quasi sensorium numinis_, v. 287.
SPAIN, Boswell, David, lives there, n. 195, n. 3;
embassy to it in 1766, ii. 177;
expedition to Scotland in 1719, v. 140, n. 3;
exportation of coin, iv. 105, n. 1;
Johnson attacks it in _London_, i. 130, 455;
in _Lives of Blake and Drake_, i. 147, n. 5;
wishes that it should be travelled over, i. 365, 410, 455; iii. 454;
Spanish invasion, fears of a, iii. 360, n. 3;
treaty of peace of 1782-83, iv. 282, n. 1.
SPANISH PLAYS, iv. 16.
SPANISH PROVERBS, i. 73, n. 3; iii. 302.
SPARTA, ii. 176; iii. 293.
SPEAKING, of another, iv. 32;
of oneself, iii. 323;
public speaking, ii. 139, 339.
SPEARING, Mr., an attorney, i. 132, n. 1.
_Spectator_,
Addison, badness of the part not written by, iii. 33;
Baretti, read by, iv. 32;
Bonn's edition, iv. 190, n. 1;
Bouhours quoted, ii. 90, n. 3;
bows of the Spectator's banker, i. 440, n. 1;
_British Princes_, ii. 108, n. 3;
curious epitaph, iv. 358, n. 2;
edition with notes, ii. 212;
end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3;
_Epilogue to the Distressed Mother_, i. 181, n. 4;
'find
variety in one,' iii. 424, n. 2;
Freeport, Sir Andrew, ii. 212, n. 2;
'Gentleman, The,' ii. 182;
Grove's paper on Novelty, iii. 33;
Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1;
Kurd's notes, iv. 190, n. 1;
Ince's papers, iii. 33, n. 3;
Indian King at St. Paul's, i. 450, n. 3;
Johnson praises it, ii. 370;
milking a ram, i. 444, n. 1;
motto to No. 379, v. 25, n. 2;
Osborne's _Advice to a Son_, ii. 193, n. 2;
paper of notanda, i. 205;
_Philip Homebred_, iii. 34;
Pope's letter to Steele, iii 420, n. 2;
Psalmanazar ridiculed, iii. 449;
reputation enjoyed by chance
writers in it, iii. 33; singularity, ii. 75;
Two-penny Club, iv. 254, n. 1;
_Whole Duty of Man_, i. 216, n. 1:
See under ADDISON.
SPEDDING, James, _Bacon's Works_, i. 431, n. 2.
SPEECH-MAKING, a knack, iv. 179.
SPELLING, in the seventeenth century, v. 299, n. 1.
See JOHNSON, spelling.
SPENCE, Rev. Joseph, account of him, v. 317;
_Anecdotes_, iv. 63; v. 414;
Blacklock's poetry, i. 466;
Pope visits him at Oxford, iv. 9;
mentioned, ii. 84, n. 2.
SPENCER, second Earl, member of the Literary Club, i. 479.
SPENCER, Lady, iii. 425, n. 3.
