name of, i. 458, n. 3;
Moravians, quarrels with the, iii. 122, n. 1;
_muddy_, uses the term, ii. 362, n. 3;
Nash, silences, iv. 289, n. 1;
Newgate prisons in London and Bristol, iii. 431, n. 1;
'old woman, an,' iii. 172;
Oxford, devotional meetings at, i. 58, n. 3;
Paoli's arrival in England, ii. 71, n. 2;
plain preaching, i. 459, n. 1;
polite audiences, iii. 353, n. 5;
politician, a, v. 35, n. 3;
prisoners under sentence of death, iii. 121, n. 3; iv. 329, n, 2;
almost regrets a reprieve to one, v. 201, n. 2;
readings and writings, range of his, iii. 297, n. 1;
Robertson's _Charles V_, ii. 236, n. 4;
rod, taught to fear the, i. 46, n. 4;
Roman Catholics, attacks the, v. 35, n. 3;
Rousseau and Voltaire, v. 378, n. 1;
Rutty, Dr., iii. 170, n. 4;
St. Andrews, students of, v. 63, n. 2;
sister, his, Mrs. Hall, iv. 92;
slaves, religious education of, ii. 27, n. 1;
solitary religion, v. 62, n. 5;
tea, against the use of, i. 313, n. 2;
travels and sufferings, ii. 123, n. 3; iii. 297, n. 1;
University life in England and Scotland, i. 63, n. 1;
Warburton, answers, v. 93;
witchcraft, believes in, ii. 178, n. 3.
WESLEY, Mrs. (mother of Charles and John Wesley), i. 46, n. 4.
WEST, Gilbert, in the army, iii. 267, n. 1;
translation of Pindar, iv. 28.
WEST, Richard, describes Christ Church, Oxford, i. 76, n. 1;
lines on his own death, iii. 165, n. 3.
WEST, Rev. W., edition of _Rasselas_, i. 340, n. 3.
WEST INDIAN ISLANDS in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 455:
see JAMAICA and SLAVES.
WESTCOTE, Lord, Johnson and the Thrales visit him, v. 456, n. 1;
Lord Lyttelton's vision, iv. 298;
portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
mentioned, iv. 57, n. 1, 58, n. 3.
WESTERN ISLANDS. See under BOSWELL, _Journal of a Tour to the
Hebrides, Journey to the Western
Islands_, MARTIN, M., and SCOTLAND, Hebrides.
WESTMINSTER. See under LONDON.
WESTMINSTER, Deanery of, resignation of the, iii. 113, n. 2.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Chambers's epitaph, i. 219, n. 1;
Cibber's, Mrs., grave, v. 126, n, 5;
Goldsmith's epitaph, iii. 82;
and Johnson at the Poets' Corner, ii. 238;
Handel musical meeting, iv. 283;
Johnson's grave, iv. 419, 423;
Jonson's, Ben, grave, v. 402, n. 5;
Macpherson's grave, ii. 298, n. 2;
Milton's monument, i. 227, n. 4;
Reynolds describes its monuments, iv. 423, n. 2;
'walls disgraced with an English inscription,' iii. 85.
WESTMORELAND, seventh Earl of,
Chancellor of the University of Oxford, i. 348, n. 2;
meets the Pretender in London, i. 279, n. 5.
WETHERELL, Rev. Dr., Boswell and Johnson visit him, ii. 440;
Johnson's letter to him, ii. 424;
mentioned, ii. 356; iv. 308.
WEY, River, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362, n. 5.
WHARNCLIFFE, Lord, iii. 399, n. 1.
WHARTON, Marquis of, iv. 317, n. 3.
WHARTON, Rev. Henry, ii. 242, n. 3.
WHEAT, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.
See CORN.
WHEATLEY, near Oxford, iv. 308.
WHEATLEY, Mr. H. B., Wraxall's _Memoirs_, ii. 40, n. 4.
_Wheatly and Bennet on the Common Prayer_, iv. 212, n. 4.
WHEELER, Rev. Dr., death, iii. 366, n. 4; iv. 233, n. 3;
experience as a country parson, iii. 437;
Johnson's liking for his talk, iii. 366, n. 4; 307;
letter to him, iii. 366;
mentioned, v. 458, n. 1.
WHEELER, Mr., of Birmingham, v. 458.
WHIGGISM, corrupted since the Revolution, ii. 117;
hounds, its, iv. 40, 63;
Lyttelton's vulgar Whiggism, ii. 221;
no room for it in heaven, v. 385.
WHIGS, almsgiving, against, ii. 212;
_bottomless_, iv. 223;
defined, i. 294, 431, n. 1;
devil, the first Whig the, iii. 326; iv. 317, n. 3;
every bad man a Whig, v. 271;
Fergusson 'a vile Whig,' ii. 170;
governed, not willing to be, ii. 314;
hall fireplace, moved the, i. 273;
humane one, a, v. 357;
'is any King a Whig?' iii. 372, n. 3;
nation quiet when they governed, iv. 100;
parson's gown, in a, v. 255;
pretence to honesty ridiculous, v. 339;
scoundrel and Whig, ii. 444;
Staffordshire Whig, iii. 326;
Tories, enmity with, iv. 291;
Tories when in place, i. 129;
'Whig dogs,' i. 504.
WHISTON, John, bookseller, iv. 111.
WHISTON, William,
Bentley's verses iv. 23, n. 3;
'Wicked Will Whiston,' ii. 67, n. 1.
WHITAKER, Rev. John, _History of Manchester_, iii. 333.
WHITAKER, Rev. Mr., ii. 108, n. 2.
WHITBREAD, Samuel, the brewer, iii. 363, n. 5.
WHITBREAD, Samuel, M.P., the son, bill for parochial schools,
iv. 200, n. 4.
WHITBREAD, Miss, iii. 96, n. 1.
WHITBY, Daniel, _Commentary_, v. 276.
WHITBY, Mr., of Heywood, i. 84, n. 2.
WHITE, Rev. Gilbert,
hibernation of swallows, ii. 55, n. 2, 248, n. 1;
Oriel College common-room, ii. 443, n. 4.
WHITE, Rev. Dr., _Bampton Lectures_ of 1784, iv. 443.
WHITE, Rev. Dr., of Pennsylvania, ii. 207.
WHITE, Rev. Henry, of Lichfield, iv. 372-3.
WHITE, Mr., Librarian of the Royal Society, ii. 40, n. 2.
WHITE, Mr., a factor, v. 122.
WHITE, Mr., tried to be a philosopher, iii. 305, n. 2.
WHITE, Mr., v. 427, n. 1.
WHITE, Mrs., Johnson's servant, iv. 402, n. 2.
WHITEFIELD, Rev. George,
Boswell, personally known to, ii. 79, n. 4;
Bristol Newgate, forbidden to preach in the, iii. 433, n. 1;
Johnson knew him at Oxford, i. 78, n. 2; iii. 409; v. 35;
Law's _Serious Call_, reads, i. 68, n. 2;
lower classes, of use to the, iii. 409;
mixture of politics and ostentation, v. 35;
'old woman, an,' iii. 172;
oratory for the mob, v. 36;
Oxford, persecuted at, i. 68, n. 1;
Pembroke College, servitor of, i. 73, n. 4, 75; v. 122, n. 1;
popularity owing to peculiarity, ii. 79; iii. 409;
preaching described by Southey and Franklin, ii. 79, n. 4; v. 36, n. 1;
_sconced_, i. 59, n. 3;
_Spiritual Quixote_, ridiculed in the, i. 75, n. 3;
Trapp's _Sermons_, attacked in, i. 140, n. 5.
WHITEFOORD, Caleb, _Cross-readings_, iv. 322.
WHITEHEAD, Paul,
Churchill's lines on him, i. 125;
Johnson undervalues him, i. 124-5;
_Manners_, i. 125; v. 116.
WHITEHEAD, William,
_Birth-day Odes_, i. 402, n. 1;
_Elegy to Lord Villiers_, iv. 115;
Garrick's 'reader' of new plays, i. 402, n. 3;
proposes him to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 320, n. 2;
grand nonsense, i. 402;
_Memoirs_ by Mason, i. 31;
poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1.
WHITEWAY, Mrs., i. 452, n. 2.
WHITING, Mrs., iv. 402, n. 2.
'WHO rules o'er freemen,' iv. 312.
_Whole Duty of Man_,
its authorship, ii. 239;
Johnson made to read it, i. 67;
recommends it, iv. 311.
_Wholesome_ severities, v. 423.
WHOREMONGER, ii. 172.
WHYTE, S.,
Home's gold medal, ii. 320, n. 2;
Johnson's walk, i. 485, n. 1;
Sheridan and the Irish Parliament, iii. 377, n. 2;
Sheridan's pension, i. 386, n. 1.
WICKEDNESS, no abilities required for it, v. 217.
WICKHAM, iv. 192.
WIDOWS, ii. 77.
WIFE,
'Artemisias,' ii. 76;
buying lace for one, ii. 352;
choosing fools for wives, v. 226;
death of one, iii. 419;
disputes with them, v. 226, n. 1;
learned, none the worse for being, ii. 76, 128;
negligent of pleasing, ii. 56;
Overbury's lines, ii. 76;
praise from one, i. 210;
religious, should be, ii. 76;
singing publicly for hire, ii. 369;
story of an unfaithful wife, v. 389;
of one who made a secret purse, iv. 319;
studious or argumentative, iv. 32;
superiority of talents, ii. 56.
WIGAN, iii. 135, n. 1.
WIGHT, Mr., a Scotch advocate, iii. 212, n. 2.
WIGHTMAN, General, v. 140, n. 3.
WIGS,
bag-wigs now worn by physicians, iii. 288;
tye-wigs, ib., n. 4;
flowing bob-wig, iii. 325, n. 3;
powdered, iii. 254:
See under JOHNSON, wigs.
WILCOX, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2.
_Wildair, Sir Harry_, ii. 465.
WILKES, Dr., i. 148.
WILKES, Friar, ii. 399.
WILKES, John,
Alderman, elected, iii. 460;
Aylesbury, member for, iii. 73;
Beauclerk's library, iv. 105;
Boswell
apologises for his intimacy with him, iii. 64, n. 3;
defends him, v. 339, n. 5;
relishes his excellence, in. 64;
brings Johnson and him together, iii. 64;
proposes a third meeting, iv. 224, n. 2;
companion in Italy, ii. 11;
dines with him, ii. 378, n. 1, 436, n. 1;
enlivened by his sallies, i. 395;
receives a letter from 'Lord Mayor Wilkes,' ii. 381, n. 1;
writes to him, iv. 224, n. 2;
Burke's pun on him, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3;
want of taste, iv. 104;
City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1;
City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2;
Courts of Justice afraid of him, iii. 46, n. 5;
_Dedication of Mortimer,_ i. 353, n. 1;
dress, iii. 68; iv. 101, n. 2;
English tenacious of forms, iv. 104;
_Fall of Mortimer_, iii. 78, n, 4;
_False Alarm_, answer to the, iv. 30;
Garrick's want of a friend, iii. 386;
wit, like Chesterfield's, iii. 69;
general warrants, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3, 73;
George III praises his good breeding, iii. 68, n. 4;
goat, the, not the kid, iv. 107, n. 2;
Gordon Riots, iii. 430;
'grave, sober, decent,' iii. 77;
_Heroic Epistle_, attacked in the, v. 186;
Hogarth, caricatured by, v. 186;
Horace, a contested passage in, iii. 73;
House of Commons afraid of him, iv. 140, n. 1;
expunges the resolution for his expulsion, ii. 112:
See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION;
how to speak at its bar, iii. 224;
Inverary, visits, iii. 73;
'Jack Ketch,' iii. 66;
Johnson's account of 'Jack's' conversation, iii. 183;
'animosity' against him, i. 349;
attacks him, ii. 135, n. 1; iii. 64; v. 339;
attacks, i. 429, n. 1; iii. 64, n. 2;
after their reconciliation, in. 79, n. 1;
calls on, iv. 107;
compared with, iii. 64, 78;
_Dictionary_, letter _H_, i. 300, 349, n. 1;
meets, at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 64-79, 201; v. 339, n. 5;
second meeting, iv. 101-7;
invites, to dinner, iv. 224, n. 2;
letter to him, iv. 224, n. 2;
and Mrs. Macaulay's footman, iii. 78;
political definitions, i. 295, n. 1;
repartee about a resolution of the House, iv. 104;
says that he 'should be well ducked,' i. 394;
sends him the Lives, iv. 107;
talking of liberty, iii. 224;
tete-a-tete with, iv. 107;
_Junius_, suspected to be, iii. 376, n. 4;
_Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL.D._, iv. 30, n. 3;
libel, prosecution for, iii. 78;
library, sells his, iv. 105, n. 2;
Lord Mayor, iii. 68, n. 4, 459-460;
kept from being, v. 339;
_Memoirs_ by Almon, i. 349, n. 1;
Middlesex election: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION;
Monks of Medmenham Abbey, i. 125, n. 1;
_North Briton_, No. 45, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3;
Earl of Bute attacked, ii. 300, n. 5;
oratory, on, iv. 104;
'phoenix of convivial felicity,' iii. 183;
physiognomy, ii. 154, n. 1;
Pope's repartee, iv. 50;
prison, in, ii. 111, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5, 460;
profanity, his, iv. 216;
quotation, censures, iv. 102;
riots in London in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5;
Scotland, raillery at, iii. 73, 77; iv. 101;
sentimental anecdote, iv. 347, n. 2;
Settle, the City Poet, iii. 75;
Shelburne, opposed by, iv. 175, n. 1;
Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;
Sheriff, v. 186, n. 4;
Smollett's letter to him, i. 348;
'Wilkes and Liberty,' ii. 60, n. 2; v. 312;
'Wilkite, no,' iii. 430, n. 4.
WILKES, Miss, iv. 224, n. 2.
WILKIE, William, D.D., Hume's Scotch Homer, ii. 53, n. 1; iv. 186, n. 2.
WILKIN, Simon, editor of Sir Thomas Brown's _Works_, iii. 293, n. 2.
WILKINS, Bishop, ii. 256, n. 3.
WILKINS, landlord of the Three Crowns, Lichfield, ii. 461, 462; iii. 411.
WILKS, the actor,
acted Juba in _Cato_, v. 126, n. 2;
Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 53;
Johnson celebrates his virtues, i. 167, n, 1;
manager of Drury Lane Theatre, v. 244, n. 2.
WILL, free. See FREE WILL.
WILL-MAKING, ii. 261; iv. 402, n. 1.
WILLES, Chief Justice,
'attached to the Prince of Wales,' i. 147, n. 1;
Bet Flint's trial, iv. 103, n. 3;
Johnson's schoolfellow, i. 45, n. 4.
WILLIAM III,
Dodwell, Henry, will not persecute, v. 437, n. 3;
Irish, not the lawful sovereign of the, ii. 255;
Johnson's_ Dictionary_, in, i. 295, n. 1;
resplendent qualities, his, ii. 341, n. 4;
Revolution Society, commemorated by the, iv. 40, n. 4;
Shebbeare, satirised by, ii. 112, n. 3; iii. 15, n. 3;
torture in Scotland, legal in his reign, i. 467, n. 1;
'worthless scoundrel,' ii. 341-2;
'that scoundrel,' v. 255;
mentioned, iv. 342; v. 234.
WILLIAMS, Anna,
account of her, i. 232; ii. 99; iv. 235, n. i, 239, n. 4;
allowance from Mrs. Montagu, iii. 48, n. 1; iv. 65, n. 1;
from Lady Philipps, v. 276, n. 2;
_Adventurer_, Bathurst's Essays in the, i. 254;
benefit at Drury Lane, i. 159 n. 1, 393, n. 1;
Bet Flint, did not love, iv. 103, n. 1;
Bolt Court, room in, ii. 427, n. 1;
Boswells envy of Goldsmith's taking tea with her, i. 421;
'a privileged man,' i. 463; ii. 99;
and the Jack Wilkes dinner, iii. 67;
'loves,' ii. 145;
carving, ii. 99, n. 2;
conversation, i. 463;
death, iv. 65, n. 1, 235;
drunkenness, on, ii. 435, n. 7;
eating, mode of, iii. 26;
electrical experiments, ii. 26, n. 2;
Garrick refuses her an order, i. 392;
Gordon Riots, left London at the, iii. 435;
'hates everybody,' iii. 368;
Hetherington's Charity, ii. 286;
illness, ii. 412; iii. 93, 95; 123, 128, 132, 211, 215, 363;
iv. 142, 170, 233-4;
jealousy, iii. 55;
Johnson's attention to her, iii. 341;
pleasure in her society, i. 232, n. 1; iii. 462;
iv. 235, 239, 241, 249, n. 2;
takes the sacrament in her room, iv. 235, n. 1, 270;
tea with her, i. 421; ii. 99;
turns Captain Macheath, iv. 95;
Johnson's Court, room in, ii. 5;
_Miscellanies_, i. 148, 177, n. 2; ii. 25-6; iii. 104;
peevishness, iii. 26, 128, 220;
quarrels with the rest of the household, iii. 368, 461;
second sight, instance of, ii. 150;
tea, mode of making, ii. 99;
will, her, iv. 241;
mentioned, i. 227, n. 2, 241, 242, 274, 326, 328, 350, n. 3,
369, 382; ii. 45, 77, 164, 209, 214, 215, 226, 242, 269, 310, 333,
357, 360, 386, 434; iii. 6, 44, 79, 92, 222, 269, 271, 313, 380;
iv. 92, 210; v. 98.
WILLIAMS, Sir Charles Hanbury,
Johnson's pamphlet against him, ii. 33;
speaks contemptuously of him, v. 268;
lines on Pulteney, v. 268, n. 3.
WILLIAMS, Helen Maria, iv. 282.
WILLIAMS, Zachariah, i. 274, n. 2, 301.
WILLIS, Dr. Thomas, _De Anima Brutorum_, v. 314, n. 1.
WILMOT, Chief Justice, i. 45, n. 4.
_Wilson against Smith and Armour_, ii. 196, n. 1.
WILSON, Father, ii. 390.
WILSON, Florence, _De tranquillitate animi_, iii. 215.
WILSON, Rev. Mr.,
dedicates his _Archaeological Dictionary_ to Johnson, iv. 162.
WILSON, Thomas, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489.
WILTON,
Boswell visits it, ii. 326, n. 5, 371;
writes to Johnson from it, iii. 118, 122.
WILTON, Miss, ii. 274.
WILTSHIRE,
militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4;
mentioned, iv. 237.
WINCHESTER,
capital convictions in 1784, iv. 328, n. 1;
cathedral, iii. 457;
Franklin visits it, ii. 60, n. 2;
Johnson visits it in 1762, i. 496, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 115.
WINCHESTER COLLEGE,
Johnson places Burney's son there, iii. 367;
Morell visits it, v. 350, n. 1;
Peregrine Pickle's governor, v. 185, n. 2.
WINDHAM, Right Hon. William,
account of him in 1784, iv. 407, n. 2;
balloons, love of, iv. 356, n. 1;
Burke's merriment, iv. 276;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 438;
Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4;
Glasgow University, at, iii. 119;
Horsley's character, iv. 437;
Johnson's advice to him, iv. 200, n. 4;
at Ashbourn, visits, iv. 356, 362, n. 2;
attends, when dying, iv. 407, 411, 415, n. 1;
his servant nurses him, iv. 418, n. 2;
bequest to him, iv. 402, n, 2;
gift, iv. 440;
