one failing, iv. 53, n. 4;
_History of the Newcomes_ quoted, ii. 300, n. 3;
subscribed to the annuity for Johnson's goddaughter, iv. 202, n. 1.
THALES, i. 125, n. 4.
THAMES,
Budgell drowns himself in it, ii. 229; v. 54;
convicts working on it, iii. 268, n. 4;
Johnson and Boswell row to Greenwich, i. 458;
to Blackfriars, ii. 432;
returns on it from Rochester, iv. 233, n. 2;
_London_, mentioned in, i. 460;
New-England men at its mouth, v. 317;
ribaldry of passers-by, iv. 26.
THATCHING, v. 263.
_The one_, iv. 211, n. 2.
THEATRES,
French and English compared in point of decency, ii. 50, n. 3;
orange-girls, v. 185, n. 1;
proposal for a third one, iv. 113:
See under LONDON, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and Haymarket.
THEBES, ii. 179.
THEFT, allowed in Sparta, ii. 176; iii. 293.
THELWALL, John, iv. 278, n. 3.
THEOBALD, Lewis,
_Double Falsehood_, iii. 395, n. 1;
Pope, attacked by, ii. 334, n. 1;
Shakespeare, edits, v. 244, n. 2;
Warburton, compared with, i. 329;
helped by him, v. 80.
THEOCRITUS, iv. 2.
_Theodosius_, ii. 471.
_Theophilus Insulanus_, v. 225.
THEOPHRASTUS, v. 378.
THICKNESSE, Philip, criticises Smollett, iii. 235-6.
THIEVES, all men naturally thieves, iii. 271.
_Thing_, not _the_, iv. 89.
THINKING, liberty of, ii. 249, 252.
THIRLBY, Dr. Styan, iv. 161, n. 4.
THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES,
articles of peace, ii. 104;
meaning of subscription, ii. 151;
petition for removing the subscription, ii. 150;
motion to consider it, ii. 208, n. 4.
THOMAS, Colonel, iv. 211, n. 4.
THOMAS, Nathaniel, iii. 92, n. 2.
THOMSON, James,
blank verse of the _Seasons_, iv. 42, n. 7;
Boswell's assistance to Johnson in his _Life_, ii. 63;
iii. 116, 133, 359;
character, his, not to be gathered from his works, iii. 117, n. 7;
cloud of words, iii. 37;
_Edward and Eleonora_ not licensed, i. 141, n. 1;
family, account of his, iii. 359;
Johnson inserts him among the _Lives_, iii. 109;
letters to his sisters, ii. 64; iii. 117, 360;
licentiousness, ii. 63; iii. 117;
_Lives of Thomson_, iii. 116-7;
'loathed much to write,' iii. 360;
poetical eye, i. 453; ii. 63; iii. 37;
'Queensberry, worthy,' ii. 368, n. 1;
Quin's generosity to him, iii. 117;
Scotland, never returned to, iii. 117;
_Seasons_, quoted, i. 98, n. 1; iii. 151, n. 4;
by Voltaire, i. 435, n. 2;
sisters, generosity to his, ii. 64; iii. 360;
wine, love of, i. 359.
THOMSON, Rev. James,
case of ecclesiastical censure, iii. 58-64, 91.
THOMSON, Mr.,
a schoolmaster (the poet's brother-in-law), ii. 64; iii. 116, 360.
THORNTON, Bonnell,
_Adventurer_, writes for the, i. 252, n. 2;
Boswell enlivened by his witty sallies, i. 395;
_Ode on St. Cecilia's Day_, i. 420;
_Rambler_, parodies the, i. 218, n. 1;
_Student_, writes for the, i. 209.
THORP, Mr. Robert, of Macclesfield, iv. 393. n. 3.
THORPE, iii. 359.
THOUGHTS,
command of one's, ii. 190, 202, n. 2;
inquisitive and perplexing, iv. 370, n. 3;
troublesome at night, ii. 440;
vexing, iii. 5.
_Thoughts on Executive Justice_, iv. 328, n. 1.
_Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands_.
See _Falkland's Islands_.
THRALE FAMILY, account of the, i. 491, n. 1.
THRALE, John, a London merchant, i. 491, n. 1.
THRALE, 'Old,' the brewer, Henry Thrale's father, i. 490-1.
THRALE, Henry,
account of him, i. 490, 494;
ambition of out-brewing Whitbread, iii. 363, n. 5;
Baretti, present to, iii. 97;
Bath, visits, in 1776, iii. 44;
in 1780, iii. 421;
Boswell's familiarity in speaking of him, i. 492, n. 1;
hospitality to, iii. 45;
writes to him, iii. 372;
brewery,--profits, i. 491; iii. 210, 363, n. 5; iv. 87, n. 1;
beer brewed, ii. 396; iii. 210, n. 5;
L20,000 a year paid in excise, v. 130;
first sale of it, i. 490;
second sale, i. 491; iv. 86, n. 2, 132;
Cator, John, one of his executors, iv. 313;
champagne, his, iii. 119;
churches, intends to beautify two Welsh, v. 450;
death, iv. 84;
false report of it, iii. 107;
dinners and breakfasts at his house, ii. 77, 227, 246, 327,
338, n. 2, 349, 378, n. 1, 427; iii. 27, 248, 344; iv. 80;
dislikes the times, iii. 363;
eating, immoderate in, iii. 422-3; iv. 84, n. 4;
expenses, iii. 210;
France, tour to, ii. 384-401;
Goldsmith's _Haunch of Venison_, mentioned in, iii. 225, n. 2;
questions a statement of his about horses, ii. 232;
Gordon Riots, property in danger, iii. 435;
flees from Bath, ib., n. 2;
Grosvenor Square, house in, iv. 72;
heir, desires a male, ii. 469; iii. 95, 363, n. 4;
highwayman, robbed by a, iii. 239, n. 2;
illness, dangerous, i. 322, n. 1; iii. 397, 423, n. 1;
better, iii. 417, 420;
withdrawn from business, iii. 434;
very ill, iv. 72;
Baretti's account of it, iv. 84, n. 4;
Italy, projected tour to, ii. 423;
given up, iii. 6, 18, 27;
Johnson's affection for him, iii. 397, n. 2; iv. 84-5, 89, 100;
wishes to hear '_The History of the Thrales_ v. 313;
his feelings towards Johnson, ii. 77; iv. 84, 85, n. 1, 145, 340;
'will go nowhere without him,' iii. 27, n. 3;
and the Earl of Marchmont, iii. 345;
epitaph on him, iv. 85, n. 1;
his executor, iv. 85; receives a bequest of L200, iv. 86;
guardian of his children, iv. 198, n. 4;
illness in 1766, i. 521;
intimacy not without restraint, iii. 7;
introduction to his family, i. 490, 520; iii. 451;
kitchen, inquires into, ii. 215, n. 4;
loss by his death, iv. 85, 145, 157-9;
prayer on it, i. 240, n. 5;
suggests, as a member of parliament, ii. 137, n. 3;
writes _The Patriot_ for him, ii. 286;
Lade, Sir John, his nephew, iv. 412, n. 1;
melancholy, suffers from, iii. 363, n. 5;
'worried by the _dog_,' iii. 414, n, 1;
money difficulties, iv. 85, n. 2;
'My Master,' i. 494, n. 3; iii. 119;
portrait, iv. 158, n. 1;
prospects, loves, v. 439, n. 2;
receives L14,000, iii. 134, n. 1, 455;
Rome, will not die in peace without seeing, iii. 27, n. 3;
silent at Oglethorpe's, v. 277;
society in his house, i. 496;
son, loses his only surviving, ii. 468, 470;
grief, his, iii. 18, n. 1;
_orbus et exspes_, iii. 24, n. 5;
at the Assembly Rooms, Bath, iii. 45, n. 2;
son, loses his younger, iii. 4, n. 3;
Southwark,
Member for, i. 490;
receives 'instructions' from the electors, ii. 73, n. 2;
election of 1774, ii. 286, 287;
of 1780, Johnson writes his _Addresses_, iii. 422, n. 1, 439-440;
defeated, iii. 442;
house in the Borough, ii. 286, n. 1; iii. 6; iv. 72, n. 1;
Wales, tour to, ii. 285; v. 427-460;
wife's, his, jealousy, iii. 96, n. 1;
will, afraid of making his, iv. 402, n. 1;
account of it, iv. 86, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 83, n. 3; ii. 136, 311, 411; iii. 22-4, 54, n. 1, 126,
132, 158, n. 1, 190, n. 3, 222, 225, 240, 398, n. 3; v. 84, 102, n. 3.
THRALE, Henry (son of Mr. and Mrs. Thrale),
death, ii. 468, 471; iii. 4;
Johnson's letter on it, i. 236, n. 3;
his love of him, ii. 469; iii. 4.
THRALE, Hester Lynch (Miss Salusbury, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi),
account of her, i. 492-6;
birth, i. 149, n. 5, 520;
character by Johnson, i. 494;
by Miss Burney, iv. 82, n. 4;
dress and person, i. 494-5;
accident to her eye, iii. 214;
Argyll Street, house in, iv. 157, 164;
Baretti, character of, ii. 57, n. 3;
flatters her, iii. 49, n. 1;
ignorance of the scriptures, v. 121, n. 4;
knowledge of languages, i. 362, n. 1;
quarrel with, ii. 205, n. 3; iii. 49, n. 1, 96;
her account, ib., n. 1;
Bath, visits, in 1776, iii. 6, 44;
in 1780, iii. 421;
an evening at Mrs. Montagu's, iii. 422;
in 1783, iv. 166, 198, n. 4;
Beattie, Dr., loves, ii. 148;
Beauclerk's anecdote of the dogs, v. 329, n. 1;
Beauclerk, hatred of, i. 249, n. 1; v. 329, n. 1;
his truthfulness, ib.;
birthplace, v. 449-51;
Boswell,
accuses, of spite, iv. 72, n. 1;
of treachery, iv. 318, n. 1, 343;
advises, not to publish the _Life of Sibbald_, iii. 228;
alludes to her second marriage, iii. 49;
argues with, on Shakespeare and Milton, iv. 72;
brother David, iii. 434, n. 1;
compliments, on his long head, iv. 166;
controversy with, about Mrs. Montagu, v. 245;
dines with her, iv. 166;
hospitality to, iii. 45;
introduced to her, ii. 77;
'loves,' ii. 145, 206;
MS. _Journal_, reads, ii. 383;
proposes an epistle in her name, v. 139;
_British Synonymy_, iv. 412;
Burke's son, can make nothing of, iv. 219, n. 3;
Burney, Miss, letters to, iv. 340, n. 3;
calculating and declaiming, iii. 49;
canvasses for Mr. Thrale, iii. 442, n. 1;
character, influence of vice on, iii. 350;
children, her,
births, ii. 46, n. 3, 280; iii. 210, n. 4, 363, 393;
deaths, ii. 281, n. 2; iii. 109;
three living out of twelve, iv. 157, n. 3;
unfriendly with her married daughter, v. 427, n. 1;
Johnson's kindness to them, iv. 345;
clerk, gives a crown to an old, v. 440;
_clippers_, warned of, iii. 49;
common-place book, iv. 343;
conceit of parts, iii. 316;
Congreve, quotes from, ii. 227;
dates, neglects, i. 122, n. 2; iv. 88, n. 1;
Demosthenes's 'action,' ii. 211;
'despicable dread of living in the Borough,' iv. 72, n. 1;
divorces, iii. 347-8;
'dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1;
Errol, Lord, at the coronation, v. 103, n. 1;
estate, prefers the owner to the, ii. 428;
fall from her horse, ii. 287;
Fermor's, Mrs., account of Pope, ii. 392, n. 8;
flattery, coarse mode of, ii. 349;
Johnson talks with her about it, v. 440;
Foster's _Sermons_, quotes, iv. 9, n. 5;
France, tour to, ii. 384-401;
French, contentment of the, v. 106, n. 4;
Convent, visits a, ii. 385;
maxims, attacks, iii. 204, n. 1;
Garrick's poetry, praises, ii. 78;
good breeding, want of, iv. 83;
Gordon Riots, alarmed at the, iii. 428, n. 4;
Gray's _Odes_, admires, ii. 327;
Grosvenor Square, removes to, iv. 72, n. 1;
Hogarth's account of Johnson, i. 147, n. 2;
illness, in 1779, iii. 397;
inaccuracy,
her extreme,
in general, i. 416, n. 2; iii. 226, 229;
no anxiety about truth, iii. 243, 404;
her defence of it, iii. 228;
instances of it--_Anecdotes_, iv. 340-7;
anecdote about in _vino veritas_, ii. 188, n. 3;
Barber's visit to Langton, i. 476, n. 1;
Garrick's election to the Club, i. 481;
Goldsmith and the _Vicar of Wakefield_, i. 415, 416, n. 2;
Johnson's answer to Robertson, iii. 336, n. 2;
and G. J. Cholmondeley, iv. 345;
harshness, i. 410;
lines on Lade, iv. 412, n. 1;
mother calling _Sam_, iv. 94, n. 4;
and small kindnesses, iv. 201, 343-4;
_Verses to a Lady_, i. 92, n. 2;
'natural history of the mouse,' ii. 194, n. 2;
_sutile_ mistaken for _futile_, iii. 284, n. 4;
indelicacy, iv. 84, n. 4;
insolence of wealth, shows the, iii. 316;
interpolation in one of Johnson's letters, suspected, ii. 383, n. 2;
Italian, an, on clean shirts, v. 60, n. 4;
jelly, her, compared with Mrs. Abington's, ii. 349;
Johnson's account of French sentiments and meat, ii. 385, n. 5;
advice about the brewery, iii. 382, n. 1;
about sweet-meats, iii. 186; iv. 90;
on Mr. Thrale's death, iii. 136, n. 2;
anxiety not to offend, iii. 54, n. 1;
appeals to her love and pity, iv. 229, n. 3;
appearances of friendship kept up with, iv. 164, 166;
apprehensive of evil, v. 232, n. 5;
asperses, i. 28;
wishes to depreciate him, i. 66, n. 2;
belief, fantastical account of, i. 68, n. 3;
biographers, i. 26, n. 1;
blames her conduct, iv. 277;
his friendly animadversions, iii. 48;
change in her feeling towards, iv. 340, n. 3;
on children's books, iv. 8, n. 3;
conversation too strong for the great, iv. 117;
copyist, iv--37;
dislike of extravagant praise, iii. 225;
of singularity, ii. 74, n. 3;
doubts her friendship, iv. 145, n. 2;
dress, iii. 325;
drives her from his mind, iv. 339, n. 3;
and the Earl of Marchmont, iii. 344;
her 'enchantment over,' v. 14;
epigram, translates, i. 83, n. 3;
flatters, ii. 332, n. 1, 349;
flatters her, iii. 34;
household, asks about, iii. 461-2;
illness in 1766, i. 521;
introduction to her, i. 520;
_Journey into North Wales_, v. 427, n. 1;
her kindness to, i. 520;
laugh, ii. 262, n. 2;
lectures, iv. 65, n. 1;
Letters,
publishes them for L500, i. 124, n. 4; ii. 43, n. 1;
arranged inaccurately, i. 122, n. 2;
error in date, iii. 453;
possible alterations and interpolations, ii. 383, n. 2;
iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1;
read by Walpole, iv. 314;
her own 'studied epistles,' iii. 421;
his letters to her from Scotland, ii. 303, 305;
about the Gordon Riots, iii. 428-30;
her letters to him in Scotland, v. 84, n. 2
(for other letters, See under JOHNSON, letters);
love of her children, iv. 198, n. 4;
'loved' by her and Boswell, ii. 427;
mode of eating, i. 470, n. 2;
and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1, 65, n. l;
neglects, iv. 158-9;
leaves him in sickness and solitude, iv. 249, n. 2;
'one pleasant day since she left him,' iv. 436;
nursed in her house, iv. 141, 181;
_Ode_ to her, v. 157-8;
parody on Burke, iv. 317;
pleasure in her society, i. 493-6;
severe to her, iv. 159, n. 3;
stuns her, v. 288;
style, iii. 19, n. 2;
supposed wish to marry her, iv. 387, n. 1;
takes leave of her in April, 1783, iv. 198, n. 4;
talk, iv. 237, n. 1;
tenderness to her mother, ii. 263, n. 6;
urges economy, iv. 85, n. 2;
wishes for her and Mr. Thrale in the Hebrides, iii. 455;
would not toast her in whisky, v. 347;
'yoke' put upon her, iv. 340;
Lennox, Mrs., liked by nobody, iv. 275, n. 2;
Lichfield, visits, v. 428, nn. 1 and 3;
Long, Dudley, praises, iv. 81;
Lyttelton's vision, iv. 298, n. 3;
Malone's criticism on her _Anecdotes_, iv. 341;
marriage, second, alluded to by Boswell, ii. 328;
signs that it was coming on, iv. 158, n. 4;
takes place, iv. 339;
marrying inferiors in rank, ii. 328;
middle class abroad, absence of a happy, ii. 402, n. 1;
Montagu, Mrs., praises, iv. 275, n. 3;
mother, death of her, ii. 263;
Musgrave, Mr., ii. 343, n. 2; iv. 323, n. 1;
'My Mistress,' or 'Madam,' i. 494;
_officious_, iv. 137, n. 2;
Paris, contradictions in, iii. 352, n. 2;
_Piozzi Letters_:
See above under MRS. THRALE, _Johnson's Letters_;
Pope's _Universal Prayer_, iii. 346-7;
portrait, iv. 158, n. 1;
praise, blasts by, iv. 82;
Presto, the dog, iv. 347;
Prior's love verses, praises, ii. 78;
purse, uneasiness at losing her, v. 442;
_regale_, v. 347, n. 1;
Richardson's love of praise, v. 396, n. 1;
'severe and knowing,' iii. 318, n. 3;
Siddons, Mrs., as Euphrasia, v. 103, n. 1;
son, loses her only surviving, ii. 468, 470; iii. 6, 45, n. 2;
Johnson's advice to her, iii, 136, n. 2;
son, loses her younger, iii. 4, n. 3;
Thrale family, describes the rise of the, i. 491, n. 1;
Thrale's death, iv. 84;
effect on her and Johnson, v. 157;
describes his manners, i. 494, n. 1;
jealous of him, iii. 96, n. 1;
_Three Warnings_, ii. 26;
tongue, could not restrain her, iv. 82;
truth, indifference to: See above under inaccuracy;
Wales, estate in it, ii. 281;
tour there, ii. 285; v. 427-60;
wit, iv. 103, n. 1;
Young's, Dr., ignorance of rhopalick verses, v. 269, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 142, 364, n. 3, 379; i11. 29, 33, 95, 126, 132,
248, 372; iv. 5, n. 1, 75, 80, 169, 242; v. 110.
THRALE, Miss,
Baretti's _Dialogues_ written for her, ii. 449, n. 2;
Bath, at, in 1780, iii. 422;
birth-day party, iii. 157, n. 3;
harpsichord, playing on the, ii. 409;
Johnson teaches her Latin, iv. 345, n. 2; v. 451, n. 2;
is visited by her in his last illness, iv. 339, n. 3;
