his own minister, i. 424, n. 1;
mother and Lord Bute, iv. 127, n. 3;
and the sea, i. 340, n. 1;
George IV in his youth, ii. 33, n. 3;
_Leonidas_ Glover, v. 116, n. 4;
Goldsmith's envy, i. 413, n. 3;
an 'inspired idiot,' i. 412, n. 6;
'silly,' i. 388, n. 3;
and Malagrida, iv. 175, n. 1;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, ii. 208, n. 5;
Gordon Riots, iii. 429, n. 3; v. 328, n. 2;
Gower, Lord, i. 296, n. 1;
Granger's patron, iii. 91;
Gray, Sir James, ii. 177, n. 1;
Grenville, George, ii. 135, n. 2;
Gunning, the Misses, v. 359, n. 2;
Hagley Park, v. 78, n. 3, 456, n. 1;
Hamilton, W. G., i. 520;
_Heroic Epistle_ ascribed to him, iv. 315;
Highland regiment in Jersey, v. 142, n. 2;
highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1;
Hill, Sir John, ii. 38, n. 2;
_History of the House of Yvery_, iv. 198, n. 3;
Hollis, Thomas, iv. 97, n. 3;
Hooke, Nathaniel, v. 175, n. 3;
'Horry' Walpole, iv. 314;
Hotel du Chatelet, ii. 389, n. 2;
Houghton Collection, sale of the, iv. 334, n. 6;
House of Commons' contest with the City in 1771, ii. 300, n. 5;
Hume, David, atheist and bigot, iv. 194, n. 1;
conversation, ii. 236, n. 1;
French, i. 439, n. 2;
Hurd, Bishop, iv. 190, n. 1;
Irish peers, creation of, iii. 407, n. 4;
Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1;
_Jealous Wife, The_, i. 364, n. 1;
Jenkinson, Charles (first Earl of Liverpool), iii. 146, n. 1;
Johnson and Barnard's verses, iv. 433;
'Billingsgate on Milton,' iv. 40, n. 1;
bombast, i. 388, n. 3;
character, ignorant of, iv. 433;
_Debates_, i. 505;
described by, iv. 314;
history reduced to four lines, i. 5, n. 1;
at Lady Lucan's, iii. 425, n. 3;
monument, iv. 423, n. 1;
'not a true admirer' of, iv. 314;
attacks on him, ib., nn. 3 and 5;
at the Royal Academy, iv. 314, n. 3;
on sacrilege, v. 114, n. 2;
writing for money, iii. 19, n. 3;
Johnson the horse-rider, i. 399;
_Junius_, authorship of, iii. 376, n. 4;
Keppel's Court-martial, iv. 12, n. 6;
Kinnoul, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4;
libels in 1770, i. 116, n. 1;
Lort, Rev. Dr., iv. 290, n. 4;
Lovat's execution, i. 181, n. 1;
_Love and Madness_, iv. 187, n. 1;
Lucan's, Lady, bluestocking meeting, iii. 425, n. 3;
Lyttelton, first Lord, i. 267, n. 2;
Lyttelton, second Lord, iv. 298, n. 3;
Maccaroni Club, v. 84, n, 1;
Macclesfield, Earl of, i. 267, n. 1;
Macdonald, Sir J., i. 449, n. 2;
Mackintosh's criticism of his style, iii. 31, n. 1;
Macpherson and the newspapers, ii. 307, n. 4;
Mac Swinny (old Swinney), iii. 71, n. 4;
Mansfield's, Lord, attacks on the press, i. 116, n. 1;
severity, iii. 120, n. 3;
Mason's _Memoirs of Gray_, i. 29, n. 3;
Mead, Dr., iii. 355, n. 2;
Methodists expelled from Oxford, ii. 187, n. 1;
militia in 1778, iii. 360, n, 3, 365, n. 4;
Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3;
Miller, Lady, ii. 336, n. 5;
Miller, Philip, v. 78, n. 3;
_Miss_, a, v. 185, n. 1;
Montagu, Mrs., at the Academy, ii. 88, n. 3;
at Lady Lucan's, iii. 425, n. 3;
Morell, Dr., v. 350, n. 1;
_Motion, The_, a caricature, v. 285, n. 1;
'mystery, the wisdom of blockheads,' iii. 324, n. 4;
Nichols's _Life of Bowyer_, iv. 437;
North, Lord, and Mr. Macdonald, v. 153, n. 1;
Northumberland, Duchess of, ii. 337, n. 1;
Northumberland, Earl of, ii. 132, n. 1;
Norton, Sir Fletcher, ii. 472, n. 2;
Oglethorpe, General, i. 128, n. 1;
Orford, Earl of, becomes, iii. 191, n. 2;
Otaheitans, The, v. 328, n. 1;
Pantheon in Oxford Street, ii. 169, n. 1;
pantomimes, i. 111, n. 2;
Paoli, ii. 71, n. 2, 82, n. 1; v. 1, n. 3;
Paris, ii. 403, n. 1; iii. 352, n. 2;
Patagonia, Giants of, v. 387, n. 6;
peerages, new, iv. 249, n. 4;
Pelham's death, i. 269, n. 1;
Pembroke, tenth Earl of, ii. 371, n. 3;
petitions to the king against the House of Commons, ii. 90, n. 5;
Philipps, Sir John and Lady, v. 276, n. 2;
press prosecutions, ii. 60, n. 3;
prize-fighting, v. 229, n. 2;
public affairs in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
Richardson's novels, ii. 174, n. 2;
Royal Academy dinner, iii. 51, n. 2;
Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2;
Savage, Richard, i. 170, n. 5;
Scotch and the Gordon Riots, ii. 300, n. 5;
and the House of Commons, ii. 300, n. 5;
officers of militia, iii. 399, n. 2;
recruiting in London, iii. 399, n. 3;
Scotland engendering traitors, iii. 430, n. 6;
Seeker, Archbishop, iv. 29, n. 1;
Shebbeare, Dr., broken Jacobite physician, iv. 113, n. 1;
pension, ii. 112, n. 3;
trial for libelling dead kings, iii. 15, n, 3;
sinecure office, iii. 19, n. 3;
slavery, iii. 200, n. 4, 204, n. 1;
Smollett's abuse of Lord Lyttelton, iii. 33, n. 1;
_Humphry Clinker_, i. 351, n. 1;
Southwark election of 1774, ii. 287, n. 2;
speeches in parliament, effect of, iii. 233, n. 1;
Strawberry, v. 456, n. 2;
tea, universal use of, i. 313, n. 2;
Thurot's descent on Ireland, iv. 101, n. 4;
title, succeeds to the, iv. 314, n. 1;
Townshend, Charles, ii. 222, n. 3;
_transpire_, iii. 343, n. 2;
Trecothick, Alderman, iii. 76, n. 2;
_Tristram Shandy_, ii. 449, n. 3;
Tyrawley, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4;
Usher of the Exchequer, iii. 19, n. 3;
vails, ii. 78, n. 1;
Vesey's, Mrs., _Babels_, iii. 425, n. 3;
Voltaire, letter from, ii. 88, n. 2;
Walpole's, Sir R., great plan of honesty, i. 131, n. 1;
low opinion of history, ii. 79, n. 3;
Warburton and Helvetius, iv. 261, n. 3;
Westmoreland, Earl of, at Oxford, i. 281, n. 1;
Whigs and Tories, iv. 117, n. 5;
Whitaker's _Manchester_, iii 333, n. 3;
Whitehead, Paul, i. 125, n. 1;
Whitehead, William, i. 401, n. 1;
Willes, Chief Justice, iv. 103, n. 3;
_World, The_, contributor to, i. 257, n. 3;
Yonge, Sir William, i. 197, n. 4;
Young, Dr., v. 269, n. 2;
Young, Professor, parody of Johnson, iv. 392, n. 1;
_Zobeide_, iii. 38, n. 5.
WALPOLE, Sir Robert,
banished to the House of Lords, i. 510;
Bath, Lord, sarcastic speech to, v. 339, n. 1;
Clarke's refusal of a bishopric, iii. 248, n. 2;
debates, reports of, unfair, i. 502; iv. 314;
Elwall's challenge, ii. 164, n. 5;
ferment against him, i. 129, 131; ii. 348, n. 2;
fixed star, a, i. 131; v. 339;
'happier hour, his,' iii. 57, n. 2; iv. 364, n. 1;
_Hosier's Ghost_, v. 116, n. 4;
indecent pamphlet against him, iii. 239;
Johnson attacks him in _London_, i. 129;
in _Marmor Norfolciense_, i. 141;
inveighs against him, i. 164;
learned, neglected the, v. 59, n. 1;
levee, his bow at a, iii. 90;
ministry stable and grateful, ii. 348;
patriots, iv. 87, n. 2;
peace-minister, i. 131; v. 339, n. 3;
Pitt, distinguished from, ii. 195;
Pope's pride in him, iii. 347, n. 2;
prime-minister, a real, ii. 355; iv. 81;
'read, I cannot,' ii. 337, n. 4;
read Sydenham, v. 93, n. 4;
talked bawdy at his table, iii. 57;
Tories and Jacobites, confounded, i. 429, n. 4;
'Walelop' and 'Right Hon. M. Tullius Cicero,' i. 502;
Whiggism under him, ii. 117;
Yonge, Sir W., character of, i. 197, n. 4;
mentioned, v. 285, n. 1.
WALSALL, i. 86, n. 2.
WALSH, William,
'knowing,' i. 251, n. 2;
_Retirement_, ii. 133, n. 1.
WALSINGHAM, Admiral, iii. 21, n. 2.
WALTON, Isaac, _Complete Angler_, iv. 311;
Donne's vision, ii. 445;
_Lives_, his, one of Johnson's favourite books, ii. 363;
projected edition, ii. 279, 283-5, 445; iii. 107;
low situation in life, ii. 364;
a great panegyrist, ib.;
quotes Topsell, i. 138, n. 5.
WANTS, fewness of, ii. 474, n. 3, 475.
WAR,
encourages falsehoods, iii. 267, n. 1;
Kames's opinion ridiculed, i. 393, n. 2;
lawfulness, ii. 226;
miseries of it, ii. 134;
one side or other must prevail, iv. 200;
talk of it, iii. 265.
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester,
abuse, extended his, v. 93;
Allen's niece, married, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80;
Birch, Dr., letter to, i. 28;
'blazes,' v. 81;
Boswell imitates his manner, iii. 310, n. 4;
Churchill attacks him, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2;
_Divine Legation_, i. 235, n. 3; iv. 48;
quotations from it, v. 423;
_Doctrine of Grace_, v. 93;
'flounders well,' v. 93, n. 1;
general knowledge, ii. 36;
Helvetius, would have _worked_, iv. 261, n. 3;
infidelity, prevalence of, ii. 359, n. 1;
Johnson's account of him, v. 80;
and Chesterfield, i. 263;
gratitude to him, i. 176;
and he cannot bear each other's style, iv. 48;
_Macbeth_, praises, i. 175;
meets him, iv. 47, n. 2, 48;
praises him, i. 263, n. 3; iv. 46-9;
treats him with great respect, iv. 288;
_lie_, use of the word, iv. 49;
Lincoln's Inn preacher, ii. 37, n. 1;
Lowth, controversy with, ii. 37; v. 125, 423;
Mallet attacks him, i. 329;
_Life of Bacon_, iii. 194;
projected _Life of Marlborough_, iii. 194;
metaphysics, ignorance of, v. 81, n. 1;
Parr's _Tracts by Warburton, &c._, iv. 47, n. 2;
Pope's _Essay on Man_, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1; v. 80;
made him a Bishop, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80;
want of genius, v. 92, n. 4
reading, great and wide, ii. 36; iv. 48-9; v. 57, n. 3, 81;
_Shakespeare_, edition of, i. 175, 176, 329; iv. 46; v. 244, n. 2;
lines applicable to it, iv. 288;
Strahan, intimate with, v. 92; ii. 34, n. 1;
Theobald, compared with, i. 329;
helped, v. 80;
_To the most impudent Man alive_, i. 329;
'vast sea of words,' i. 260, n. 1, 278;
_View of Bolingbroke's Philosophy_, i. 330, n. 1;
writes and speaks at random, v. 92;
Wycherly's definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3.
WARBURTON, Mrs., ii. 36, n. 2, 37, n. 1.
WARD, the quack doctor, iii. 389.
WARDLAW, Sir Henry, ii. 91, n. 2.
WARLEY CAMP, iii. 360-2, 365;
visited by the King, ib., n. 3;
by Paoli, iii. 368.
WARNER, Rebecca, _Original Letters_, iv. 34, n. 5.
WARNER, Rev. R., _Tour through the Northern Counties_, iv. 373, n. 1.
WARRANTS, general, ii. 72.
WARREN, Sir Charles, iv. 399, n. 5.
WARREN, Dr.,
attends Johnson, iv. 399, 411;
member of the Literary Club, i. 479;
mentioned, iii. 425.
WARREN, John, of Pembrokeshire, i. 89.
WARREN, Mr., the Birmingham bookseller, i. 85-9.
WARRINGTON, iii. 416; v. 441.
WARTON, Rev. Dr. Joseph, Headmaster of Winchester College,
_Adventurer_, wrote for the, i. 252, n. 2, 253;
Bolingbroke's share in Pope's _Essay on Man_, iii. 402, n. 1;
Burke and Chambers, recommends, to W. G. Hamilton, i. 519;
Clarke's, Dr., agility, i. 3, n. 2;
Donatus on a passage in Terence, ii. 358, n. 3;
enthusiast by rule, iv. 33, n. 1;
_Essay on Pope_, Johnson reviews it, i. 309; iii. 229;
second volume delayed, i. 448; ii. 167;
Garrick's offence at Johnson, ii. 192, n. 2;
Goldsmith's conversation, i. 412, n. 1;
Hamilton, W. G., letter from, i. 519;
Hooke's payment from the Duchess of Marlborough, v. 175, nn. 3 and 5;
inoculates his children, iv. 293, n. 2;
Johnson and Dr. Burney's son, in. 367;
estrangement with, i. 270, n. i; ii. 41, n. 1;
letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters;
_Lear_, note on, ii. 115;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
manner, lively, ii. 41;
taken off by Johnson, ib., n. 1; iv. 27, n. 3;
Pope's cousin, meets, iii. 71, n. 5;
rapturist, ii. 41, n. 1;
Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83;
a scholar, yet a fool, iii. 84, n. 2;
Thompson, praises, iii. 117;
_World, The_, origin of the name, i. 202, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 325, 418, n. 1, 449, n. 1; ii. 34, n. 1; iii. 125.
WARTON, Mrs. Joseph, i. 496, n. 2.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas,
account of him, i. 270, n. 1;
appearance, ii. 41, n. 1;
described by Miss Burney, iv. 7, n. 1;
Boswell and Johnson call on him, ii. 446;
Chatterton's forgery, exposes, iii. 50, n, 5; iv. 141, n. 1;
contributions to the _Life of Johnson_, i. 8;
_Eagle and Robin Redbreast_, i. 117, n. 1;
_Heroick Epistle_, the authorship of the, iv. 315;
Huggins, quarrels with, iv. 6;
_Idler_, contributed to the, i. 330;
Johnson, estrangement with, i. 270, n. 1;
letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters;
Oxford visit in 1754, i. 270;
parodies his poetry, iii. 158, n. 3;
preface to his _Dictionary_, i. 297, n. 3;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
_Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen_, i. 270, n. 2, 276, 289; iv. 6;
_Ode on the First of April_, iii. 159, n. 1;
poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
Professor of Poetry, i. 323, n. 3;
_Progress of Discontent_, i. 283, n. 2; iii. 323, n. 4;
pupils and lectures, i. 279, n. 2;
Savage's _Bastard_, i. 166;
_Shakespeare_, notes on, i. 335-6; ii. 114;
mentioned, i. 78, n. 2, 79, n. 1, 325.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas (the father of the two Wartons), i. 449, n. 1.
WASHINGTON, George, ii. 478.
WASSE, Christopher, v. 445.
WASTE, iii. 265, 317.
WATER, Johnson's advice to drink it, iii. 169.
WATERS, Ambrose, iv. 402, n. 2.
WATERS, Mr., Paris banker, ii. 3.
WATFORD, ii. 204, n. 1, 301, n. 1.
WATSON, Richard, Bishop of Llandaff,
bishops' revenues, iv. 118, n. 2;
_Chemical Essays_, iv. 118, 232, n. 3;
how to rise in the world, ii. 323, n. 1.
WATSON, Professor Robert., of St. Andrews,
_History of Philip II_, iii. 104;
Johnson, entertains, v. 58-60, 64, 68;
manners, wonders at, v. 70;
talks on composition, v. 66.
WATSON, Mr., 'out in the '45,' v. 158, n. 3.
WATTS, Dr. Isaac,
Abney, Sir Thomas, lived with, i. 493, n. 3;
descends from the dignity of science, ii. 408, n. 3;
Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 126, 370; iv. 35, n. 3;
recommends his _Works_, iv. 311;
poetry, his, better in its design than in itself, iii. 358;
taught Dissenters elegance of style, i. 312.
WEALTH. See MONEY.
_Wealth of Nations_. See/ SMITH, Adam.
WEATHER and Seasons,
their influence acknowledged, i. 332, n. 2; ii. 263;
iv. 259, n. 3, 353, 360;
ridiculed by Johnson in _The Idler_, i. 332; ii. 263, n. 2;
at the Mitre, i. 426;
'all imagination,' i. 452;
weather does not affect the frame, ii. 358; iii. 305;
ridiculed by Reynolds, i. 332, n. 2;
Gray's 'fantastic foppery,' i. 203, n. 3;
talking of the weather, i. 426, n. 1; iv. 360, n. 2.
WEBSTER, Rev. Dr. Alexander,
account of him, ii. 269, n. 4; v. 50;
his manuscript account of Scotch parishes, ii. 274, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 270-2, 275; v. 387, n. 2, 391, 394, 397.
WEDDERBURNE, Alexander. See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord.
WEDDERBURNE, Mr., of Ballandean, iii. 214, n, 1.
WELCH, Father, ii. 401.
WELCH, Miss, iii. 217.
WELCH, Saunders,
account of him, iii. 216; death, iii. 219, n. 1;
examination of a boy, iv. 184;
Johnson, letter from, iii. 217;
London poor, state of the, iii. 401.
WELL-BRED MAN, distinguished from an ill-bred, iv. 319.
WELSH. See under WALES.
WELWYN, iv. 119; v. 270.
WENDOVER, ii. 16, n. 1.
WENTWORTH, Mr., master of Stourbridge School, i. 49.
WENTWORTH HOUSE, 'public dinners,' iv. 367, n. 3.
WESLEY, Rev. Charles,
ill-used by Oglethorpe, i. 127, n. 4;
'more stationary man than his brother,' iii. 297.
WESLEY, Rev. John,
Behmen's _Mysterium Magnum_, ii. 122, n. 6;
bleeding, opposed to, iii. 152, n. 3;
Boswell introduced to him by Johnson, iii. 394;
_Calm Address to our American Colonies_, v. 35, n. 3;
Cheyne's rules of diet, iii. 27, n. 1;
conversation, iii. 230, 297;
Dodd, Dr., visits, iii. 121, n. 3;
Edinburgh, filthy state of, v. 23, n. 1;
farmers dull and discontented, iii. 353, n. 5;
French prisoners, i. 353, n. 2;
ghost, believed in a Newcastle, iii. 297, 394;
Hall, Rev. Mr., his brother-in-law, iv. 92, n. 3;
highwayman, never met a, iii. 239, n. 1;
Johnson complains that he is never at leisure, iii. 230;
letters to him, iii. 394; v. 35, n. 3;
spends two hours with, iii. 230, n. 3;
journeys on foot, i. 64, n. 4;
Law's _Serious Call_, i. 68, n. 2;
leisure, never at, iii. 230;
luxury, attacks the apologists of, iii. 56, n. 2;
manners and cheerfulness, iii. 230, nn. 3 and 4;
Marshalsea prison, i. 303, n. 1;
Meier, Rev. Mr., ii. 253, n. 2;
Methodists and a Justice of the Peace, i. 397, n. 1;
