SUETONIUS, i. 433, n. 1; iii. 283, n. 1.
_Sufflamina_, i. 273.
SUFFOLK,
militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4;
price of wheat in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.
SUFFOLK, Lady, ii. 342, n. 1.
SUGAR, taken in the servant's fingers, ii. 403; v. 22.
_Sugar Cane, a Poem_. See GRAINGER, James.
SUGER, Abbot, iii. 32, n. 5.
SUICIDE,
Baxter on the salvation of a suicide, iv. 225;
civil suicide, iv. 223;
Fitzherbert's 'melancholy end,' ii. 228;
going to the devil where a man _is_ known, v. 54;
Johnson supposed to recommend it, iv. 150;
martyrdom a kind of voluntary suicide, ii. 250;
motives that lead to it, ii. 228-9.
SUIDAS, i. 277, n. 4.
SULPITIUS, iii. 36, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5.
SUNDAY,
abroad a day of festivity, ii. 72, n. 1;
bird-catching on it, ii. 72, n. 1;
harvest work, iii. 313;
heavy day to Johnson when a boy, i. 67;
legal consultations, ii. 376;
militia exercise, i. 307, n. 4;
reading, v. 323;
relaxation allowed but not levity, v. 69;
scheme of life for it, i. 303;
throwing stones at birds, v. 69.
SUNDERLAND, iii. 297, n. 2.
SUNDERLAND, third Earl of,
Lowther the miser, v. 112, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 160.
'_Sunk upon us_,' ii. 148.
SUPERFOETATION of the Press, iii. 332.
SUPERIORITY, iv. 164.
SUPERNATURAL AGENCY, general belief in it, v. 45.
SUPERNATURAL APPEARANCES,
evidence of them, ii. 150;
use of them, iii. 298, n. 1:
See GHOSTS, WITCHES; and under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, second-sight.
SUPERSTITIONS, not necessarily connected with religion, v. 306.
See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON.
SUPPER, a turnpike, iii. 306.
SURINAM, v. 25, n. 2, 357.
SURNAMES, easily mistaken, iv. 190.
SURREY, militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4.
SUSPICION, often a useless pain, iii. 135.
_Suspicious Husband, The_, ii. 50.
_Suspirius_, i. 213; ii. 48.
SUSSEX,
militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4;
price of wheat in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2;
violence of the waves on its coast, v. 251, n. 2.
SUSSEX, Duke of, ii. 152, n. 2.
SUTER, Mr., v. 164, n. 2.
SWALLOWS, their hibernation, ii. 55, 248.
SWAN, Dr., i. 153.
SWANSEA, i. 164.
SWARKSTONE, i. 79, n. 2.
SWEARING,
Court of Justice, in a, v. 390;
conversation, in,--causes of the custom, ii. 166;
genteel people swear less than formerly, ii. 166, n. 1;
Johnson disapproves of it, ii. 111; iii. 4l;
represented as swearing in Dr. T. Campbell's _Diary_, ii. 338, n. 2;
shows his displeasure, iii. 189.
SWEDEN,
Johnson promised a letter of good-will from it, i. 323;
wishes to visit it, iii. 454; v. 215;
torture used there, i. 467, n. 1.
SWEDEN, King of, knights Dr. Hill, ii. 38, n. 2.
SWEDEN, King of (Gustavus III),
Boswell wishes to see him, v. 215;
his death, iii. 134, n. 1.
_Sweden, History of_, by Daline, ii. I56.
SWEET-MEATS, iii. 186; iv. 90.
SWIFT, Jonathan,
_Advice to the Grub-Street Verse Writers_, i. 143, n. 1;
affectation of familiarity with the great, iv. 62;
anonymously, published, ii. 319;
_Apology for the Tale of a Tub_, ii. 319, n. 1;
_Artemisia_, ii. 76, n. 3;
_Beggar's Opera_, opinion of the, ii. 369, n. 1;
Bettesworth, Sergeant, iii. 377, n. 1;
Blackmore, Sir Richard, ii. 108, n. 2; iv. 80, n. 1;
broomstick, could write finely on a, ii. 389, n. 1;
_Conduct of the Allies_, ii. 65;
death, troubled by thoughts of, ii. 93, n. 4;
what reconciles us to it, iii. 295, n. 2;
Delany's _Observations_: See DELANY;
_Drapier's Letter_, ii. 319;
Dryden's prefaces, iv. 114, n. 1;
_Epistle to Captain Gulliver_, v. 139;
_Eugenia_, ii. 240, n. 4;
Faulkner, G., ii. 154, n. 3;
feared by a country squire, iv. 295, n. 5;
flowered late, iii. 167, n. 3;
French writers superficial, i. 454, n, 3;
frugal but liberal, iii. 265, n. 1;
Gay's writings for children, ii. 408, n. 3;
geniuses united, the power of, i. 206;
Glover's _Leonidas_, v. 116, n. 4;
Goldsmith on his 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3;
Grimston, Viscount, iv. 80, n. 1;
_Gulliver's Travels_, ii. 319;
quoted in Johnson's _Dictionary_, ib., n. 3;
brought its author money, iii. 20, n. 1;
happiness, definition of, ii. 351, n. 1;
Hawkesworth's _Life_ of him, i. 190, n. 3;
_History of John Bull_, v. 44, n. 4;
Howard, Hon. Edward, ii. 108, n. 2;
inferior to his contemporaries, v. 44;
Ireland his debtor, ii. 132;
reception there in 1713, iii. 249, n. 6;
return to it in 1714, iii. 249, n. 6;
Johnson's attacks on him, i. 452; ii. 65, 318; iv. 61; v. 44;
recommended to him, i. 133; iv. 61;
worse than Swift,' v. 211;
writes his Life, iv. 61-3;
_Journal_, iv. 177;
laugh, did not, ii. 378, n. 2;
_Letter to Tooke the Printer_, ii. 319, n. 1;
_Lines on Censure_, ii. 61, n. 4;
low life, love of, v. 307, n. 3;
Manley, Mrs., satirised in _Corinna_, iv. 200, n. 1;
_Memoirs of Scriblerus_, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4;
_Miscellanies in Prose and Verse_, i. 125, n. 4;
_Ode for Music_, ii. 67, n. 1;
_On the death of Dr. Swift_, iii. 441, n. 3;
original in a high degree, ii. 319, n. 2;
Orrery's, Lord, _Remarks_: See ORRERY, fifth Earl of;
'paper-sparing Pope,' i. 142;
payment for writing, iii. 20, n. 1;
_Plan for the Improvement of the English Language_, ii. 319;
_Poetry; a Rhapsody_, ii. 108, n. 2;
Pope's condensation of sense, v. 345, n. 2;
parting with, iii. 312;
P. P. _clerk of this parish_, i. 383, n. 3;
Prendergast, attacks, ii. 183, n. 1;
projectors, i. 301, n. 3;
_Rules to Servants_, ii. 148, n. 2;
Sacheverell's sermon at the end of his suspension, i. 39, n. 1;
saving, habit of, iv. 61-2;
_scoundrel_, use of, iii. 1, n. 2;
'screen between me and death,' iii. 441, n. 3;
_Sentiments of a Church of England man_, ii. 319, n. 1;
_Sermon on the Trinity_, ii. 319, n. 1;
shallow fellow, a, v. 44, n. 3;
singularities, given to, ii. 74, n. 3;
'spectacles and pills,' iv. 285;
Steele, lines on, i. 125, n. 4;
Stella's 'artifice of mischief,' v. 243;
_Stella's birthday_, iv. 181, n. 3, 285, n. 2;
strong sense his excellence, i. 452;
study, hours of, ii. 119, n. 2;
style, a good neat, ii. 191;
according to Hume not correct, ib., n. 3;
praised by him, iii. 257, n. 3;
Tale of a Tub,
doubts as to the authorship, i. 452; ii. 318, 319, n. 1;
he gives a copy to Mrs. Whiteway, i. 452, n. 2;
lost him a bishopric, i. 452, n. 2;
much superior to his other writings, ii. 318; v. 44;
quotations from it
Boswell like Jack, ii. 235;
dirtiness of the Scotch churches, v. 41, n. 3;
Temple's style, iii. 257, n. 3;
'washed himself with oriental scrupulosity,' iv. 5, n. 2;
'Whiggism and Atheism,' i. 431, n. 1.
SWIMMING. See JOHNSON, swimming.
SWINFEN, Dr. Samuel,
Johnson's godfather, i. 34, n. 2;
consults him about his health, i. 64;
intimate with him, i. 80, 83;
kind to his daughter, iii. 222, n. 3;
leaves a legacy to his grandson, iv. 440;
Pembroke College, a member of, i. 58, n. 1.
SWINNEY. See MAC SWINNY, Owen.
SWINTON, Rev. Mr., i. 273.
SWISS,
Johnson praises their wonderful policy, i. 155;
suffer from the _maladie du pays_, iii. 198.
SWISS GUARDS, iv. 282, n. 2.
SYDENHAM, Dr. Thomas,
_Life_ by Johnson, quoted, i. 38;
published, i. 153;
Locke's Latin verses, v. 93;
St. Vitus's dance, i. 143.
SYDNEY, Algernon, ii. 210.
SYLVANUS'S _First Book of the Iliad_, iii. 407.
_Sylvanus Urban_, i. 111.
SYMPATHY, ii. 94-5, 469-471; iii. 149.
SYNOD, 'A Synod of Cooks,' i. 470.
SYNONYMES, iv. 207.
_System of Ancient Geography_, i. 187.
_Systeme de la Nature_, v. 47.
SZEKLERS, ii. 7, n. 3.
T.
T', fitted to a, iv. 288.
TAAF, Mr., ii. 398.
TACITUS,
_Agricola_, quoted, iii. 324, n. 5; iv. 204;
_Germania_, quoted, v. 381;
his writings are notes for an historical work, ii. 189.
TAILOR, the metaphysical. See METAPHYSICAL.
TAIT, Rev. Mr., v. 128.
TAIT, Mr., an organist, v. 84.
TALBOT, Lord Chancellor, i. 232, n. 1.
TALBOT, second Lord, i. 507, 508.
TALBOT, Miss Catharine,
correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 232, n. 1;
Greenwich Park, describes, i. 106, n. 2;
_Rambler_, contributes to the, i. 203;
criticises it, i. 208, nn. 2 and 3;
Williams, Mrs., account of, i. 232, n. 1.
_Tale of a Tub_. See SWIFT.
TALES, telling tales of oneself, ii. 472.
TALK,
above the capacity of the audience, iv. 185;
distinguished from conversation, iv. 186;
Johnson loved to have it out, iii. 230;
talking for fame, iii. 247;
from books, v. 378;
of oneself, iii. 57;
on one topic, ib.
TALKERS, exuberant public, ii. 247.
TALLEYRAND, v. 397, n. 1.
TALLOW-CHANDLER, in retirement, ii. 337.
TAMEOS, v. 242, n. 1.
TANNING, v. 246.
TAR, v. 216.
TARTARY, ii. 156.
_Tartuffe_, ii. 321, n. 1; iii. 449.
TASKER, Rev. Mr., iii. 373-5.
TASSO, borrows a simile from Lucretius, iii. 330.
TASTE,
changes in it, iii. 192, n. 2;
defined, ii. 191;
refinement of it, iv. 338;
Reynolds's rule for judging it, iv. 316.
_Tatler_,
end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3;
esquire, title of, i. 34, n. 3;
rural esquires, v. 60, n. 4;
great perfections without good breeding, ii. 256, n. 3.
_Tatler Revived_, i. 202.
TAUNTON, iv. 32.
TAVERNS,
admitting women, iv. 75;
felicity of England in its tavern life, ii. 451;
tavern chair the throne of human felicity, ii. 452, n. 1.
_Taxation no Tyranny_,
account of it
planned, ii. 292;
published, ii. 312;
written at the desire of ministers, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 313;
corrected by them, ii. 313-5;
not attacked enough, ii. 335;
pelted with answers, ii. 336, n. 1;
sale, ii. 335, n. 4;
Birmingham traders praised, ii. 464, n. 3;
drivers of negroes, iii. 201;
Macaulay, Mrs., attacked, ii. 336, n. 2;
mentioned, iii. 221.
TAXES, effect of their increase, ii. 357.
TAYLOR, Chevalier, a quack, iii. 389-39.
TAYLOR, Jeremy,
'chief of sinners,' iv. 294;
_Golden Grove_, iv. 295;
_Holy Dying_, iii. 34, n. 3.
TAYLOR, Rev. Dr. John,
account of him and his establishment, ii. 473;
his person, ii. 474;
his character by Johnson, ii. 474; iii. 139, 181;
all his geese swans, iii. 189;
Ashbourne, his daily life, iii. 132; iv. 378;
the water-fall, iii. 190;
garden, iii. 199;
bleeding, habit of, iii. 152;
Boswell, gives, particulars of Johnson, iv. 375;
laughed at by, iii. 135, n. 2;
and Johnson visit him in 1776, ii. 473;
in 1777, iii. 135;
bull-dog, his, iii. 189;
bullocks, his talk is of,' iii. 181;
cattle, iii. 150, 181, n. 3;
chandelier of crystal, iii. 157;
Christ Church, Oxford, enters, i. 76;
dinners at his London house, iii. 52, 238;
eagerness for preferments, ii. 473, n. 1;
'elegant phraseology,' his, ii. 474, n. 1;
Garrick's emphasis, anecdote of, i. 168;
mediates between Garrick and Johnson, i. 196;
house in Westminster, i. 238; iii. 222;
Johnson's character, iii. 150
company, not very fond of, iii. 181;
correspondence with, iii. 180, n. 3:
See under JOHNSON, letters;
dread of annihilation, iii. 296, n. 2;
funeral, iv. 420;
heart, knowledge of, i. 26, n. 1;
invites, to dine on a hare, iii. 207;
Reynolds's explanation of his intimacy with, iii. 180;
roars him down, iii. 150;
himself roused to a pitch of bellowing, iii. 156;
serious talk with him, iii. 296, n. 2;
wearies of Ashbourne life, iii. 154, 211; iv. 356, 357, n. 3,
362, 365, 378;
will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
writes sermons for him, i. 241; iii. 181;
youth, friend of, iv. 270;
Johnson's, Mrs., death, i. 238; iii. 180, n. 3;
Langley, quarrels with, iii. 138, n. 1;
lawsuit, ii. 474, n. 1; iii. 44, n. 3, 51, n. 3;
Lichfield School, at, i. 44;
living in ruins and rubbish, iv. 378;
matriculation, i. 76;
neighbours, iii. 138;
sermons, iii. 181-2;
sleep, observation on, iii. 169;
Whig, a, ii. 474; iii. 156;
widower, anecdote of a, iii. 136;
wife, separation from his, i. 472, n. 4;
wit, single instance of his, iii. 191;
mentioned, ii. 464, 468; iii. 185, 187.
TAYLOR, Mrs., Rev. Dr. John Taylor's wife,
separated from her husband, i. 472, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 239.
TAYLOR, John, a Birmingham trader, i. 86.
TAYLOR, John, of Christ Church, Oxford,
confounded with Dr. John Taylor, i. 76, n. 1.
TAYLOR, John (_Demosthenes_ Taylor), iii. 318.
TAYLOR, William, of Norwich, ii. 408, n. 3.
TAYLOR, Mr., an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2.
TAYLOR, Mr., a gentleman-artist, of Bath, iii. 422.
TEA,
Garrick charges Peg Woffington with making it too strong, iii. 264;
his finest sort, i. 216, n. 3;
Hanway's attack on its use, and
Johnson's defence, i. 313;
Johnson a hardened tea-drinker, i. 103, n. 3:
see under JOHNSON;
price of it in 1734, i. 313, n. 2;
run tea, v. 449, n. 1;
tea-making _a l'Anglaise_, ii. 403;
weak, generally made, iii. 264, n. 4;
Wesley attacks its use, i. 313, n. 2.
TEACHING, wretchedness of, i. 85.
_Tears of Old May-day,_ i. 101.
_Telemachus, a Mask_, i. 411; ii. 380.
TEMPE, iii. 302.
TEMPLE, second Earl, iv. 249, n. 3.
TEMPLE, Right Rev. Frederick, Bishop of London, i. 436, n. 3.
TEMPLE, Rev. William Johnson,
account of him, i. 436; iii. 416, n. 3;
Boswell, correspondence with, i. 436, n. 3;
and he read Gray all night, ii. 335, n. 2;
executor, iii. 301, n. 1;
last letter written to him, i. 14, n. 1;
occupies his chambers in the Temple, i. 437;
visits him at Mamhead, ii. 371;
Gray's character, writes, i. 436, n. 3; ii. 316; iv. 153, n. 1;
Johnson, compares, with the 'infidel pensioner Hume,' ii. 316;
introduced to, ii. 11;
political speculations, unfit for, ii. 312, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 433, n. 3; ii. 3, n. 2, 247.
TEMPLE, Sir William,
drinking by deputy, iii. 330;
Dutch free from spleen, iv. 379;
English prose, gave cadence to, iii. 257;
great generals, ii. 234;
_Heroic Virtue_, ii. 234, n. 4;
Ireland, ancient state of, i. 321;
peerages and property, ii. 421;
style condemned by Hume, iii. 257, n. 3;
praised by Mackintosh, ib.;
a model to Johnson, i. 218.
TEMPLE OF FAME, ii. 358.
TEMPTATION, exposing people to it, iii. 237.
TENANTS, their independence, v. 304:
See LANDLORDS, and under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, landlords and tenants.
TENDERNESS OF HEART, v. 240.
_Tenders_, v. 196, n. 1.
TENERIFFE, iv. 358.
TENISON, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury,
Psalmanazar introduced to him, iii. 447.
TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord, poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
_Ulysses_ quoted, v. 278, n. 2.
TENURES, ancient, ii. 202; iii. 414.
TERENCE, quoted, i. 129, n. 1; ii. 358, n. 3, 465, n. 3.
TESTIMONY, compared with argument, iv. 281.
_Tetty_ or _Tetsey_, i. 98.
THACKERAY, W. M.,
Addison's _Cato_, quotations from, i. 199, n. 2;
