college days, i. 70, n. 3;
dexterity in retort, iv. 185;
funeral, iv. 419;
and Heberden, iv. 399, n. 6;
Latin read with pleasure by few, v. 80, n. 2;
letters to him, iv. 227, 362;
never read the _Odyssey_ through, i. 70, 72, n. 3;
pension, proposed increase of, iv. 338, n. 2;
recommends Frank to him, iv. 401, n. 4;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4;
portrait, ii. 25, n. 2;
rascal, will make a very pretty, iv. 200;
Secretary for Ireland, iv. 200, 227, n. 2;
wants and acquisitions, iii. 354;
Wapping, explores, iv. 201, n. 1;
Warton's, Dr., amazement, ii. 41, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 306; iv. 344.
WINDOW-TAX, v. 301, n. 1.
WINDSOR,
Beauclerk's house, i. 250;
Johnson and the Mayor, iv. 312, n. 4;
mentioned, iii. 400, n. 2.
WINDUS, John, _Journey to Mequinez_, v. 445.
_Windward_, defined, i. 293.
WINE,
abstinence a great deduction from life, iii. 169, 245, 327;
not a diminution of happiness, iii. 245;
does not admit of doubting, iii. 250;
reasons for it, ii. 435; iii. 245;
advice to one who has drunk freely, ii. 436; iii. 389;
benevolence, drunk from, iii. 327;
bottles drunk at a sitting, iii. 243, n. 4;
claret and ignorance, iii. 335;
claret, port, and brandy distinguished, iii. 381; iv. 79;
conversation and benevolence, effect on, iii. 41, 327;
daily consumption of wine, iii. 27, n. 1;
different, makes a man, v. 325;
'drives away care,' ii. 193;
drunk, the art of getting, iii. 389;
drunk for want of intellectual resources, ii. 130;
freezing, iv. 151, n. 2;
_in vino veritas_, ii. 188;
Johnson's abstinence, i. 103, n. 3;
advice to drink wine, ib.;
not to drink it, iii. 169;
'drink water and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306;
life not shortened by a free use of it, iii. 170
(See under JOHNSON, wine);
melancholy increased by it, i. 446;
patron, drinking to please a, iii. 329:
See under BOSWELL, wine, DRINKING and SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.
WINGS OF IRON, iv. 356, n. 1.
WINIFRED'S WELL, v. 442.
WINNINGTON, Thomas, i. 502.
WIRGMAN, keeper of a toy-shop, iii. 325.
WIRTEMBERG, Prince of, ii. 180.
WISE, Francis, Radclivian Librarian,
account of him, i. 275, n. 4;
Johnson visits him at Elsfield, i. 273;
mentioned, i. 278-9, 282, 289, 322.
WISEDOME, Robert, v. 444.
WISHART, George, THE REFORMER, v. 63, n. 3.
WISHART, Dr. William, v. 252.
WIT,
basis of all wit is truth, ii. 90, n. 3;
Chesterfield on the property in it, iii. 351, n. 1;
defined in Barrow's _Sermon_, iv. 105, n. 4;
generally false reasoning, iii. 23, n. 3.
WITCHES,
evidence of their having existed, ii. 178;
Johnson's disbelief in them, ii. 179, n. 1;
'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17;
Shakespeare's, iii. 382; v. 76, 115, 347;
Wesley's belief in them, ii. 178, n. 3;
witchcraft, punished by death, v. 45;
abolished by act of parliament, ib.;
last executions, v. 46, n. 1.
WITNESSES, examination of, v. 243.
WITS,
a celebrated one, iii. 388;
the female wits, iv. 103, n. 1.
WITTEMBERG, iii. 122, n, 2.
WOFFINGTON, Margaret (Peg),
Garrick's tea, iii. 264;
sister of Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3.
WOLCOT, John (Peter Pindar), v. 415, n. 4.
WOLFE, General,' choice of difficulties,' v. 146.
WOLVERHAMPTON,
Elwall the quaker ironmonger, ii. 164;
epitaph in the church, i. 149, n. 2.
WOMEN,
Addison's time, in, iv. 217, n. 4;
carefulness with money, iv. 33;
cookery, cannot make a book of, iii. 285;
employment of them, ii. 362, n. 1;
envy of men's vices, iv. 291;
few opportunities of improving their condition, iv. 33;
fortune, of, iii. 3;
genteel, more, than men, iii. 53;
gluttony, i. 468, n. 1;
Greek and pudding-making, i. 122, n. 4;
indifferent to characters of men, iv. 291;
knowledge, none the worse for, ii. 76; v. 226;
little things, can take up with, iii. 242;
marrying a pretty woman, iv. 131;
men have more liberty allowed them, iii. 286;
natural claims, ii. 419;
over-match for men, v. 226;
Papists, surprising that they are not, iv. 289;
pious, not more, than men, iv. 289;
portrait-painting improper for them, ii. 362;
power given them by nature and law, v. 226, n. 2;
preaching, i. 463;
quality, of, iii. 353;
reading, iii. 333; iv. 217, n. 4;
soldiers, as, v. 229;
temptations, have fewer, iii. 287;
understandings better cultivated, iii. 3;
virtuous, more, than of old, iii. 3.
Women Servants, wages, ii. 217.
Women of the Town, how far admitted to taverns, iv. 75;
narrate their histories to Johnson, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396;
one rescued by him, iv. 321;
wretched life, i. 457.
Wonders, catching greedily at them, i. 498, n. 4;
propagating them, iii. 229, n. 3.
Wood, Anthony a, _Assembly Man_, v. 57, n. 2;
on Burton's tutor at Christ Church, i. 59;
Rawlinson's collections for a continuation of the _Athenae_,
iv. 161, n. 1;
styles Blackmore gentleman, ii. 126, n. 4.
Woodcocks, ii. 55, 248.
Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, i. 225, n. 1, 520; ii. 127.
Woodstock. See BLENHEIM.
Woodward, Henry, the actor, ii. 208, n. 5.
Woodward, John, iv. 23, n. 3.
Woollen Act, ii. 453, n. 2.
Woolston, Rev. Thomas, v. 419, n. 2,
Woolwich, iii. 268.
Worchester, Gwynn's bridge over the Severn, v. 454, n. 2;
Johnson visits it, v. 456;
mentioned, iii. 176, n. 1.
Worcester, Battle of, iv. 234, n. 1; v. 319.
_Word to the Wise_, iii. 113.
Words, big words for little matters, i. 471;
words describing manners soon require notes, ii. 212.
Wordsworth, William,
_Edinburgh Review_ and Lord Byron, iv. 115, n. 2;
_Excursion_, quoted, v. 424;
lines to Lady Fleming, i, 461, n. 5;
Lonsdale's, first Lord, cruelty to him, v. 113, n. 1;
poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
_Solitary Reaper_, v. 117, n. 3;
'We live by admiration,' ii. 360, n. 3.
Work. See LABOUR.
_Work_ him, iv. 261, n. 3; v. 243.
Workhouse, parish, iii. 187.
World, complaints of it unjust, iv. 172;
counterfeiting happiness, ii. 169, n. 3;
despised, not to be, i. 144, n. 2;
Johnson's knowledge of it, i. 215;
likes the society of a man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3;
judgment must be accepted, i. 200;
knowledge not strained through books, i. 105;
peevishly represented as very unjust, iii. 237, n. 1;
running about it, i. 215;
running from it, iv. 161, n. 3.
World, The, a club, iv. 102, n. 4.
_World, The_, Bedlam, visitors to, ii. 374, n. 1;
Chesterfield's papers on the _Dictionary_, i. 257-9;
confounded with _The World_ of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1;
contributors, i. 257, n. 3; v. 48, 238;
Johnson thinks little of it, i. 420;
name chosen by Dodsley, i. 202, n. 4.
_World, The_, newspaper of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1.
_World Displayed, Introduction to the_, i. 345.
WORRALL, T., i. 166, n. 4.
WORSHIP OF IMAGES, iii. 17, 188.
WORTHINGTON, Dr., V. 443, 449, 453.
WOTTON, Sir Henry, ii. 170, n. 3.
WOTY, Mr., i. 382.
WRAXALL, Sir Nathaniel W.,
George III's manners, ii. 40, n. 4;
Johnson, describes, iii. 426, n. 4;
and the Duchess of Devonshire, iii. 425, n. 4;
and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1;
meets, at Mrs. Vesey's, iii. 425;
driven away by him, iii. 426, n. 4;
Malagrida's name, iv. 174, n. 5;
_Tour to the Northern Parts of Europe_, iii. 425.
WREN, Sir Christopher, v. 249.
WRIGHT, Thomas, of Shrewsbury, v. 455, n. 1.
WRITERS. See AUTHORS.
WRITING,
Johnson's calculation about amount produced, ii. 344;
money, for, iii. 19, 162;
pleasure in it, iv. 219;
writing from one's own mind, ii. 344.
_Wronghead, Sir Francis_, ii. 50.
WURTZBURG, Bishopric of, v. 46, n. 1.
WYCHERLY, William, definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3.
WYNNE, Colonel, v. 449.
WYNNE, Sir Thomas and Lady, v. 448, 449.
WYNNE, Mrs., v. 451.
X.
XAVIER, Francis, v. 392, n. 5.
XENOPHON,
delineation of characters in the _Anabasis_, iv. 31;
_Memorabilia_, iii. 367, w. 2; v. 414;
_Treatise of Oeconomy_, iii. 94.
XERXES,
described in Juvenal, ii. 228;
weeping at seeing his army, iii. 199.
XYLANDER, i. 208, n. 1.
Y.
YALDEN, Rev. Thomas,
Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 370;
his _Hymn to Darkness_, ib., n. 8.
YATES, Mr. Justice, i. 437, n. 2.
YAWNING, anecdote of, iii. 15.
YONGE, Sir William,
character, i. 197, n. 4;
_Epilogue to Irene_, i. 197;
pronunciation of _great_, ii. 161.
_Yorick's Sermons_, iv. 109, n. 1.
YORK, Address to the King, iv. 265; mentioned, iii. 439.
YORK, Archbishops of, their public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3.
See MARKHAM, Archbishop.
YORK, Duke of (James II), v. 239, n. 1.
YORK, Duke of,
goes to hear the Cock Lane ghost, i. 407, n. 1;
Johnson dedicates music to him, ii. 2;
kindness to Foote, iii. 97, n. 2.
YORK, House of, iii. 157.
YORKSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 362.
_You was_, iv. 196, n. 1.
YOUNG, Arthur,
Birmingham manufacturers in 1768, ii. 459, n. 1;
roads in the north of England, iii. 135, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 161, n. 2.
YOUNG, Dr. Edward,
blank verse of _Night Thoughts_, iv. 42, n. 7, 60;
Britannia's daughters and Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1;
_Brunetta and Stella_, v. 270;
_Card, The_, ridiculed in, v. 270, n. 4;
Cheyne, Dr., iii. 27, n. 1;
compared with Shakespeare and Dryden, ii. 86, n. 1;
_Conjectures on Original Composition_, v. 269;
critics, defies, ii. 61, n. 4;
'death-bed a detector of the heart,' v. 397, n. 1;
epigram on Lord Stanhope, iv. 102, n. 4;
'For bankrupts write,' &c., iii. 434, n. 6;
gloomy, how far, iv. 59, 120;
'Good breeding sends the satire,' &c., iv. 298;
housekeeper, his, v. 270;
Johnson and Boswell visit his house, iv. 119-21;
Johnson calls him 'a great man,' iv. 120;
describes meeting him, v. 269;
_Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3;
estimate of his poetry, ii. 96; iv. 60; v. 269--70;
knotting, on, iii. 242, n. 3;
knowledge not great, v. 269, n. 3;
Langton's account of him, iv. 59;
_Life_ by Croft, iv. 58; v. 270, n. 4;
_Love of Fame_, v. 270;
Mead, Dr., compliments, iii. 355, n. 2;
_Night Thoughts_, ii. 96; iv. 60-1; v. 270;
'Nor takes her tea,' &c., iii. 324, n. 3;
'O my coevals,' in. 307;
preferment, pined for, iii. 251; iv. 121;
quotations, iv. 102, n. 1;
'quotidian prey,' v. 346;
_Rambler_, his copy of the, i. 215;
'Small sands the mountain,' &c., iii. 164;
sundial, iv. 60;
_Universal Passion_,
money received for it lost in the _South Sea_, iv. 121;
'Words all in vain pant,' &c., iv. 25, n. 3.
YOUNG, Mr. (Dr. Young's son),
Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 119-21;
quarrel with his father, v. 270.
YOUNG, Professor, of Glasgow, imitates Johnson's style, iv. 392.
YOUNG PEOPLE,
generous sentiments, i. 445;
Johnson loves their acquaintance, i. 445.
YOUTH,
companions of our, iv. 147;
scenes, i. 370; ii. 461, n. 1; v. 450.
_Yvery, History of the House of_, iv. 198.
Z.
ZECK, George and Luke, ii. 7.
ZECKLERS, ii. 7 n. 3.
ZEILA, i. 88.
ZELIDE, ii. 56, n. 2.
ZENOBIA, ii. 127, n. 3.
_Zobeide_, iii. 38.
ZOFFANI, J., iv. 421, n. 2.
ZON, Mr., i. 274.
ZOZIMA, i. 223.
DICTA PHILOSOPHI.
A CONCORDANCE OF JOHNSON'S SAYINGS.
ABANDON. 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would
abandon his mind to it,' iv. 183.
ABSTRACT. 'Why, Sir, he fancies so, because he is not accustomed
to abstract,' ii. 99.
ABSURD. 'When people see a man absurd in what they understand, they
may conclude the same of him in what they do not understand,' ii. 466.
ABUSE. 'Warburton, by extending his abuse, rendered it ineffectual,'
v. 93;
'They may be invited on purpose to abuse him,' ii. 362;
'You _may_ abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one,' i. 409.
ACCELERATION. 'You cannot conceive with what acceleration I advance
towards death,' iv. 411.
_Accommode_. 'J'ai accommode un diner qui faisait trembler toute la
France' (recorded by Boswell), v. 310, n. 3.
ACTION. 'Action may augment noise, but it never can enforce
argument,' ii. 211.
ADMIRATION. 'Very near to admiration is the wish to admire,'
iii. 411, n. 2.
AGAIN. 'See him again' (Beauclerk), iv. 197.
ALIVE. 'Are we alive after all this satire?' iv. 29.
ALMANAC. 'Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than
an almanac' (Boswell), ii. 366.
AMAZEMENT. 'His taste is amazement,' ii. 41, n. 1.
AMBASSADOR. 'The ambassador says well,' iii. 411.
AMBITION. 'Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a
wag,' iv. 1, n. 2.
AMERICAN. 'I am willing to love all mankind, except an American,'
iii. 290.
AMUSEMENTS. 'I am a great friend to public amusements,' ii. 169.
ANCIENTS. 'The ancients endeavoured to make physic a science and
failed; and the moderns to make it a trade and have succeeded'
(Ballow), iii. 22, n. 4.
ANGRY. 'A man is loath to be angry at himself,' ii. 377.
ANTIQUARIAN. 'A mere antiquarian is a rugged being,' iii. 278.
APPLAUSE. 'The applause of a single human being is of great
consequence,' iv. 32.
ARGUES. 'He always gets the better when he argues alone' (Goldsmith),
ii. 236.
ARGUMENT. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged
to find you an understanding,' iv. 313;
'Nay, Sir, argument is argument,' iv. 281;
'All argument is against it; but all belief is for it,' iii. 230;
'Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow' (Boyle), iv. 282.
ASINUS. 'Plus negabit unus asinus in una hora quam centum philosophi
probaverint in centum annis,' ii. 268, n. 2.
ASPIRED. 'If he aspired to meanness his retrograde ambition was
completely gratified,' v. 148, n. 1.
ATHENIAN. 'An Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads,' i. 73.
ATTACKED. 'I would rather be attacked than unnoticed,' iii. 375.
ATTENTION. 'He died of want of attention,' ii. 447.
ATTITUDENISE. 'Don't _attitudenise_,' iv. 323.
