written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192;
Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2;
Byron's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3;
death, 'kind nature's signal of retreat,' ii. 106;
De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3;
Garrick's sarcasm on it, i. 194;
Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3;
misery, 'the doom of man,' iii. 198; v. 179;
'Patron and the jail,' i. 264;
_Rasselas_, resemblance to, i. 342;
Scott's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3;
_spreads_ changed into _burns_, iii. 357-8;
Vane and Sedley, v. 49;
Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4.
VANSITTART, Dr.,
account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1;
story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 192.
VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144.
VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163.
VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3.
VENICE,
Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1;
Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19;
mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3.
VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104.
_Veracious_, iv. 39, n. 3.
VERACITY. See TRUTH.
_Verbiage_ ii. 236; iii. 256.
_Verecundulus_, i. 68, n. 1.
VERNON'S Parish Clerk, v. 268, n. 1.
VERSAILLES, ii. 385, 395;
theatre, ii. 395, n. 2.
VERSES, in a dead language, ii. 371;
making them, ii. 15.
_Verses on Ireland_, iii. 319.
_Verses on a Sprig of Myrtle_, i. 92.
_Verses to Mr. Richardson on his Sir Charles Grandison_, ii. 26.
VERTOT, ii. 237; iv. 311.
VESEY, Right Hon. Agmondesham,
gentle manners, his, iv. 28;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; ii. 318;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108.
VESEY, Mrs.,
evenings at her house described by Langton, iii. 424; iv. 1, n. 1;
by Hannah More, iii. 424, n. 3;
by Horace Walpole, iii. 425, n. 3;
by Miss Burney, iii. 426, n. 3;
by Johnson, ib., n. 4;
wishes to introduce Johnson to Raynal, iv. 435.
VESTRIS, the dancer, iv. 79.
_Vexing Thoughts_, iii. 5.
_Vicar of Wakefield_. See GOLDSMITH.
VICE,
character not hurt by it, iii. 349;
compared with virtue, iii. 342;
Mandeville's doctrine: See MANDEVILLE.
_Vicious Intromission_,
Johnson's argument, ii. 196-201, 206; iii. 102; v. 48.
VICTOR, Benjamin, iv. 53.
VICTORIA, Queen, death-warrants, iii. 121, n. 1.
VIDA, i. 230, n. 1.
_Vidit et erubuit_, iii. 304.
VILETTE, Rev. Mr.,
Dodd's dedication to him, iii. 167, n. 1;
his virtues, iv. 329.
_Village, The_, a poem, iv. 121, n. 4, 175.
VILLIERS, Sir George, his ghost, iii. 351.
VINCENT, William, Dean of Westminster, i. 302, n. 1.
_Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage_, i. 140; ii, 60, n. 3.
VIRGIL,
_Aeneid_,
its story, iv. 218;
Aeneas's treatment of Dido, iv. 196;
Burke's ragged copy, iii. 193, n. 3;
farming, love of, v. 78;
Homer, compared with, iii. 193;
Johnson reads him, ii. 288; iv. 218;
juvenile translations, i. 51;
_machinery_, his, iv. 16;
Pope, less talked of than, iii. 332;
printing-house, describes a, v. 311-12;
Theocritus, compared with, iv. 2;
quotations:
_Eclogues_ i. 5--i. 460;
_Eclogues_ i. 11--iii. 310, n. 4;
_Eclogues_ ii. 16--iii. 87, n. 3; 212, n. 2;
_Eclogues_ iii. 64--v. 291, n, 1;
_Eclogues_ iii. 111--v. 279, n. 3;
_Eclogues_ viii. 43--i. 261, n. 3;
_Georgics_ ii. 173--iv. 372, n. 1;
_Georgics_ iii. 9--ii. 329, n. 3;
_Georgics_ iii. 66--ii. 129;
_Georgics_ iv. l32--iv. 173, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ i. 3--v. 392, n. 4;
_Aeneid_ i. l99--iv. 258, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ i. 2O2--v. 333, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ i. 204--v. 392, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ i. 378--iv. 193, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ i. 460-iii. 162, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 5--iii. 64, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 6--ii. 262, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 49--iii. 108, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ ii. l98--iii. 212, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 368--v. 50, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 544--i. 142;
_Aeneid_ iii. 461--ii. 22;
_Aeneid_ vi. 273--v. 311;
_Aeneid_ vi. 4l7--v. 311, n. 4;
_Aeneid_ vi. 660--iv. 193, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ vi. 730--1. 66;
_Aeneid_ xii. 424--ii. 272, n. 1.
VIRTUE,
how far followed by happiness, i. 389, n. 2;
men naturally virtuous compared with those who overcome
inclinations, iv. 224;
not natural to man, iii. 352;
practised for the sake of character, iii. 342, 349;
scholastic, ii. 223;
why preferable to vice, iii. 342.
_Virtue, an Ethick Epistle_, iii. 199, n. 2.
_Vision of Theodore the Hermit_, i. 192, 483, n. 2.
VIVACITY, an art, ii. 462.
VOLCANOES, strata of earth in them, ii. 467.
VOLGA, iv. 277.
VOLTAIRE,
'Apres tout, c'est un monde passable,' i. 344;
attacks, on answers to, v. 274, n. 4;
Boswell visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5; iii. 301, n. 1; v. 14;
Bouhours, ii. 90, n. 3;
Byng, Admiral, i. 314;
_Candide_, i. 342; iii. 356;
'Cerberes de la litterature,' v. 311, n. 4;
Charles XII's dress, ii. 475, n. 3;
Derham, William, v. 323, n. 4;
Des Maizeaux's _Life of Bayle_, i. 29, n, 1;
Dubos, ii. 90, n. 2;
_Essai sur les Moeurs_, ii. 53, n. 2;
fame, his, iii. 263, 332;
forgotten ideas, the situation of, i. 435, n. 2;
Frederick the Great, contest with, i. 434; v. 103, n. 2;
_Ganganelli's Letters_, iii. 286;
Hay, Lord Charles, iii. 8, n. 3;
Henault, ii. 383, n. 1;
_History of the War in 1741_, v. 272;
_Histoire de Louis XIV_, v. 393;
Holbach's _Systeme de la Nature_, v. 47, n. 4;
Hume, his echo, ii. 53;
insurrection of 1745-6, account of the, iii. 414;
Johnson attacks him, i. 498, 499, n. 1;
praises his knowledge, but attacks his honesty, i. 435, n. 2;
his reply, i. 499;
and Frederick the Great, i. 434;
_Julia Mandeville_, reviews, ii. 402, n. 1;
Kames, Lord, ii. 90, n. 1;
_Le desastre de Lisbonne_, iv. 302, n. 1;
_Le Monde comme il va_, i. 344, n. 2;
Leroi, the watch-maker, ii. 391, n. 5;
Lewis XIV, celebrated in many languages, i. 123;
and Mlle. de la Valliere, v. 49, n. 3;
loved a striking story, iii. 414;
Macdonald, Sir James, v. 152, n. 1;
Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;
master of English oaths, i. 435, n. 1;
Maupertuis's death, ii. 54, n. 3;
middle class in England and France, ii. 402, n. 1;
Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, ii. 88;
Moreri, v. 311, n. 1;
narrator, good, ii. 125;
Newton, Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287, n. 2;
Pope and Dryden, distinguishes, ii. 5;
Pope, visits, i. 499, n. 1;
Pretender, reflections on the, v. 199-200;
read less than formerly, iv. 288;
Reynolds's allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4;
Rousseau, compared with, ii. 12;
Shakespeare, attacks, i. 498; ii. 88, n. 3;
made him known to the French, ii. 88, n. 2;
Stuart, House of, v. 200;
torture in France, i. 467, n. 1;
trial, has not yet stood his, v. 311;
_Universal History_, v. 311;
_Vir est acerrimi ingenii et paucarum literarum_, ii. 406;
Wesley calls him coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1;
witchcraft, v. 46, n. 1;
wonders, caught greedily at, i. 498, n. 4; iii. 229, n. 3.
Vossius, Isaac, i. 186, n. 2.
Voting, privilege of, ii. 340.
Vows, Cowley's lines on them, iii. 357, n. 1;
Johnson's warning against them, ii. 21;
a snare for sin, iii. 357;
if unnecessary a folly and a crime, iii. 357, n. 1.
_Vox Viva_, v. 324.
_Voyage to Lisbon_, i. 269, n. 1.
_Voyages to the South Sea_. See SOUTH SEA.
Vranyken, University of, i. 475.
Vulgar, The, children of the State, ii. 14; iv. 216.
Vyse, Rev. Dr., Boswell, letter to, iii. 125;
Johnson's letter to him, iii. 125;
mentioned, iv. 372, n. 2.
W.
Wade, General,
calls _the_ M'Farlane _Mr._ M'Farlane, v. 156, n. 3;
his Hut, v. 134.
Wager, Charles, ii. 164, n. 5.
Wages, raising those of day-labourers wrong, iv. 176; v. 263;
women-servants' less than men-servants', ii. 217.
Wake, Archbishop, ii. 342, n. 1.
Waldegrave, Lady, ii. 224, n. 1.
Wales, Abergeley, v. 446;
Angle-sea, ii. 284; v. 447;
Bach y Graig (Bachycraigh), iii. 134, n. 1, 454; v. 436, 438;
Bangor, ii. 284; v. 447, 448, 452;
Beaumaris, v. 447-8;
Bible in Welsh, v. 450, 454;
Bodryddan, v. 442, n. 3;
Bodville, v. 449-51;
Boswell proposes a tour, iii. 134, 454;
Brecon, iii. 139;
Bryn o dol, v. 449;
Caernarvon, v. 448, 451;
castles, compared with Scotch, ii. 285; v. 374, n. 1;
vast size, v. 437, 442, 448-9, 452;
charitable establishment, iii. 255;
Chirk Castle, v. 453;
churches at Bodville neglected, v. 450;
Clwyd, River, v. 438;
Conway, v. 446, 452;
Danes, settlement of, v. 130;
Denbigh, ii. 282; v. 437-8, 453;
Dymerchion, v. 438, 440;
Elwy, River, v. 438;
great families kept a kind of court, v. 276;
Gwaynynog, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 440, n. 1, 443, 452-3;
hiring of harvest-men, v. 453;
Holywell, v. 440-2;
inhospitality, v. 452;
inns, v. 446-7;
Johnson's tour to Wales, ii. 279, 281, 282, 284; v. 427:
see _Journey into North Wales_;
Kefnamwyellh, v. 452;
literature, indifference to, v. 443;
Llanerk, v. 450;
Llangwinodyl, v. 449, 451;
Llannerch, v. 439;
Llanrhaiadr, v. 453;
Lleweney Hall, Johnson visits it, ii. 282; v. 435-46;
description of it, v. 436;
pales and gates brought from it, v. 433;
Llyn Badarn, v. 451;
Llyn Beris, v. 451;
Maesmynnan, v. 445;
manuscripts, ii. 383;
Methodists, v. 451;
Mold, v. 435;
mutinous in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
offers nothing for speculation, ii. 284;
Oswestry, v. 454;
parson's awe of Johnson, v. 450, n. 2;
Penmaen Mawr, ii. 284; v. 447, 452;
Penmaen Rhos, v. 446, 452;
Pwlheli, v. 451;
_rivers_, v. 442, n. 4;
Ruabon, v. 450, n, 2;
Ruthin Castle, v. 442;
second sight, ii. 150;
Tydweilliog, v. 449, 451;
Ustrad, River, v. 442, n. 4;
Welsh language, how far related to Irish, i. 322;
scheme for preserving it, v. 443;
used in the Church services, v. 438, 440, 441, 446, 449, 450;
Welshmen, generally have the spirit of gentlemen, iii. 275;
Wrexham, ii. 240, w. 4; v. 453.
WALES, Prince of. See PRINCE OF WALES.
WALKER, John,
'celebrated master of elocution,' iv. 206;
dedication to Johnson, iv. 421, n. 2.
WALKER, Joseph Cooper, i. 321; iii. 111, n. 4.
WALKER, Thomas, the actor, ii. 368.
WALKING, habit of, i. 64, n. 4.
WALL, Dr., iv. 292.
WALL, cost of a garden wall, iv. 205.
WALL, _taking_ the, i. 110; v. 230.
WALLACE, ----, a Scotch author of the first distinction, ii. 53, n. 1.
WALLER, Edmund,
Amoret and Sacharissa, ii. 360;
_Divine Poesie_, the communion of saints, iv. 290, n. 1;
Dryden, studied by, iv. 38, n. 1;
_Epistle to a Lady_, v. 221, n. 1;
grandson, a plain country gentleman, v. 86;
great-grandson, at Aberdeen, v. 85;
_Life_ by Johnson, iv. 36, n. 4, 38, n. 2, 39;
_Loving at first sight_, iv. 36;
_Reflections on the Lord's Prayer_, iv. 290, n. 4;
water-drinker, iii. 327, n. 2;
women, praises of, ii. 57.
WALMSLEY, Gilbert,
character by Johnson, i. 81; iii. 439;
Colson, letter to, i. 102;
debtor to Mrs. Johnson, i. 79, n. 2;
Garrick, letter to, i. 176, n. 2;
scholarship, ii. 377, n. 2;
Greek, knowledge of, iv. 33, n. 3;
house, ii. 467;
Johnson and Garrick, recommends, i. 102;
Johnson threatens to put _Irene_ into the _Spiritual Court_, i. 101;
Whig, a, i. 81, 430; iii. 439, n. 3; v. 386.
WALMSLEY, Mrs., i. 82-3.
WALPOLE, Horatio (afterwards first Baron Walpole), iii. 71, n. 4.
WALPOLE, Horace (afterwards fourth Earl of Orford),
Adams the architects, ii. 325, n. 3;
addresses to the King in 1784, iv. 265, n. 5;
arbitrary power, courtiers in favour of, iii. 84, n. 1;
arithmetician, a woeful, iii. 226, n. 4;
Professor Sanderson and the multiplication table, ii. 190, n. 3;
Astle, Thomas, i. 155, n. 2;
atheism and bigotry first cousins, iv. 194, n. 1;
Atterbury on Burnet's _History_, ii. 213, n. 3;
balloons, iv. 356, n. 1;
Barrington, Daines, iv. 437;
Barry's _Analysis_, iv. 224, n. 1;
Bate and the _Morning Post_, iv. 296, n. 3;
Beauclerk's library, iv. 105, n. 2;
Beckford's Bribery Bill, ii. 339, n. 2;
speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3;
tyrannic character, iii. 76, n. 2;
_Biographia Britannica_, iii. 174, n. 3;
Blagden on Boswell's _Life_, iv. 30, n. 2;
Boccage, Mme. du, iv. 331, n. 1;
_bonmots_, collection of, iii. 191, n. 2;
Boswell calls on him, iv. 110, n. 3;
_Corsica_, ii. 46, n. 1, 71, n. 2;
_Life of Johnson_, iv. 314, n. 5;
presence, silent in, ib.;
Burke's wit, iv. 276, n. 2;
Bute's, Lord, familiar friends, i. 386, n. 3;
and the tenure of the judges, ii. 353, n. 3;
Cameron's execution, i. 146, n. 2;
Chambers's _Treatise on Architecture_, iv. 187, n. 4;
Chatham's funeral, iv. 208, n. 1;
Chatterton and Goldsmith, iii. 51, n. 2;
Chesterfield as a patron, iv. 331, n. 1;
wit, ii. 211, n. 3;
Cibber, Colley, i. 401, n. 1; iii. 72, n. 4;
City Address to the King in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4;
City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1;
Clarke, Dr., and Queen Caroline, iii. 248, n. 2;
Clive, Mrs., iii. 239, n. 1; iv. 243, n. 2;
Cock Lane Ghost, i. 407, n. 1;
_Codrington, Life of Colonel_, iii. 204, n. 1;
Cornwallis's capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3;
_Critical Review_, iii. 32, n. 4;
_Cross Readings_, iv. 322, n. 2;
Cumberland, William, Duke of, cruelty of, ii. 375, n. 1;
Cumberland's _Odes_, iii. 43, n. 3;
Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 210, n. 2;
Dashwood, Sir F., ii. 135, n. 2;
Devonshire, third Duke of, iii. 186, n. 4;
Dodd's execution, iii. 120, n. 3;
attempt to bribe the Chancellor, iii. 139, n. 3;
sermon at the Magdalen House, iii. 139, n. 4;
Dodsley, Robert, ii. 447, n. 2;
Drummond's _Travels_, v. 323, n. 3;
Dublin theatre riot, i. 386, n. 1;
duelling, ii. 226, n. 5;
Dundas, 'Starvation,' ii. 160, n. 1;
Dunning's motion on the influence of the Crown, iv. 220, n. 5;
Eton, revisits, iv. 127, n. 1;
Fitzherbert's suicide, ii. 228, n. 3;
Fitzpatrick, Richard, iii. 388, n. 3;
freethinking, iii. 388, n. 3;
French, affect philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3;
gentleman's visit to London in 1764, iv. 92, n. 5;
ladies, indelicacy of the talk of, ii. 403, n, 1; iii. 352, n. 2;
meals, ii. 402, n. 2;
middling and common people, ii. 402, n. 1;
philosophy, iii. 305, n. 2;
_savans_, iii. 254, n. 1;
'talk gruel and anatomy,' iv. 15, n. 4;
gaming-clubs, iii. 23, n. 1;
Garrick's acting, iv. 243, n. 6;
funeral, iv. 208, n. 1;
George I and Miss Brett, i. 174, n. 2;
burnt two wills, ii. 342, n. 1;
his will burnt, ib.; iv. 107, n. 1;
George II and _Alexander's Feast_, i. 209, n. 2;
character, i. 147, n. 1;
and the fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1;
and his father's will, ii. 342, n. 1; iv. 107, n. 1;
George III aims at despotism, i. 116, n. 1;
as commander-in-chief, iii. 365, n. 4;
coronation, iii. 9, n. 2; v. 103, n. 1;
and Sir John Dalrymple, ii. 210, n. 2;
and the fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1;
and Johnson's _Journey_, ii. 290, n. 2;
ministers his tools, iii. 408, n. 4;
