Anacreon," Baxter's edition of a very uncommon Ancestor and his thirty horsemen, 311 Andrews, St, Johnson and Boswell dine at the College, Johnson blamed because he did not visit S. Rule and Dr Watson. "I take great delight in him," Anecdotes, "I love," Johnson on, 544 'Anfractuosity of the mind," one, a reluctance to Anger in controversy a proof of sincerity, 261 the future of, Johnson on, 138 two noblest, a Scotch Highlander and an English Anonymous attacks, Johnson defends, 466 Anthropopathy," and other uncommon words in his "Aphoristically," in time mankind may come to write 66 Apparitions, possible, 413 Appointments, Johnson left them floating in conjecture, Arabic, Johnson wished to learn, 394 Arabs, fidelity of, compared with that of soldiers, 567 Mr, a relation of the celebrated Dr Arbuthnot, 541 Argument, Johnson in, "if his pistol misses fire," etc. lawyers being paid for, not attended to, 467 Johnson in, now he is thinking which side he "an, Sir, I have found, am not obliged to find you Burke and Johnson of the same opinion, if no of deference in, to superiors, 562 and n Argyle, Duke and Duchess of, their hospitality to Argyle, Archibald, Duke of, his mode of building, 635 a narrow man " from letters between him and Johnson, 641 church, "largest and most luminous in any "Barefooted people" in Scotland; supposes it was so leaves the Thrales, 285 his dialogues between two coach-horses, 250 Bargee, Johnson's retort to, on the Thames, "Your Barnard, Mr, Librarian at the Queen's House, 133 Johnson, 472 Bath, Johnson at, with the Thrales and Boswell, 269 on Christian Faith, the best book of evidence, "Beadle, the," in Johnson's mind, 280 Bears," coming in "like a word in a catch," 221 that he was married," 163 Beattie's treatment of Hume in controversy, 541 Ode to Lady Errol severely criticised by written to about Johnson's Scotch Tour, 538 "I do not love Beauclerk the less," Johnson on -Johnson "would walk the diameter of the earth dispute with Johnson on Hackman's trial, 369 death of, 380 Langton's letter on, 382 Lady Di, her "charming society," 189 elegant style of talk, 371 Beauty independent of utility, 168 lying awake in, at morning-happiest time of Bedlam, Johnson's visit to, 228 Beggar will ask from a man rather than a woman, 396 and n Blackmore, Sir R., " A painted vest Prince Vortiger," etc., 152 Blair, Dr, his letter of recollections of Johnson when his sermon on Devotion praised, 357 on "Johnsonian style," and its imitation, 309 Robert, and "The Grave," 270 and n Blenheim never visited by Johnson; his reasons, 623 175 "Blockhead," Johnson applies the term to a house- Blood, animals abhor, etc., 187 irritability of Johnson's; his paring his nails Boar in marble, the first a wonder, 326 Bolt Court, removal of Johnson to, 244 "Bon-mot, not every one can carry a," 221 Book given by Johnson at Inverness, "Cocker's "Books, you do not talk from,” Johnson to Boswell, backs of, Johnson on, 225 Johnson's treatment of other people's, 494 n for study, list of, drawn up by Johnson for Rev. arranges quarrel between Dr Percy and Johnson Boswell, Mrs, her treatment of Johnson, 198 n Boswell, Dr, of Johnson, "a robust genius born to Botanical Garden, the, "Is not every garden one?" Boulton's Soho Works, and "selling power," 253 Bowles, Mr W., Johnson on a visit to, at Heale, Boy, Johnson's talk with a, 215 little, Johnson's intelligible talk to, and Saunders Boyd's Inn, "The White Horse," Johnson's arrival Boys, dull or idle, better at private than at public Brahmins, their exclusiveness, 390 n Breeding, good and bad, difference between, 478 Brentford, on seeing, Johnson's retort to Adam Smith, Brewing, Johnson expounds the art of, and of coining, 595 Brewse, Major, same name as Bruce, 567 Bribery statutes directed against monied upstarts, Brighton, Johnson at, with Mr Thrale, 433 Britain, Ancient, of all that is known of, in a few Broadsword and target, Johnson's "strutting about Brother, Johnson's, account of an impostor that passed Brown of Utrecht's image of the glass, 343 Essay on the Sublime," and Johnson's opinion his " stream of mind perpetual" calls forth all defends Johnson's pension in the House, 477 his wit, Johnson's low opinion of, and instances with the ostler in a stable, 466 if "stopped by a drove of oxen," 543 when jocular, "lets himself down, and is in the his letter to the Sheriff of Bristol, 319 never made a good joke in his life: a "beetle in and Johnson, "enough for me to have rung the Burnet, "History of his own Time," 182 Burney, Dr, his exertion for the Dictionary, 67, 77, Burton's "Anatomy" took Johnson out of bed early, books sought by Johnson, 460 Bustling and fidgetting like getting on horseback in a Bute, Lord, compared to Augustus, 256 Bute's, Lord, seat, Luton Hoe, visit to, 420, 423 CABINET now governs the country, not a Prime Caliban of literature, 158 "Called, being," by the dead, 413 Cambridge, at, Johnson, with Beauclerk, 120 Cambridge, Mr, and his villa on the Thames praised, 442 Cameron, Dugald, and Montrose's letters to the comes to London to see Johnson, 219 Capel's Shakspeare, Preface to, Johnson would have Careless, Mrs, née Hector, Johnson's early love, 253. "Carriage" for "boat," so called in the Hebrides, 578 "Probationer" in Scotland: objected to for Castes of men defended by Johnson, 412 Casual contributions, reviews, etc., to Magazines by Catalogue of his works, Johnson asked for, 352 - Johnson's defence of their doctrines, 150 Cator, Mr, praised, 476. Cattle, hornless, at Auchinleck, 646 Cave, Johnson's connection with, 18 Johnson's letters to, 25, 34-35 and the ghost, 172 and his nervousness as to the sale of his maga Cave's nervous anxiety about his magazine, 506 Cawston's (Windham's servant) account of Johnson's Caxton printed only two books that were not "Cecilia," Miss Burney's, "if you talk of Cecilia, Chamberlayne, convert to Catholicity, giving up great Chambers, Sir W., his "Chinese Architecture," 440 marries Miss Wilton, 200 Change of scene, profits, 159 Character, no national, 176 drawing of, Johnson's power of, 263 closing description one of Johnson's, by of Johnson: his bearing, walk, dress, peculiarities, Characters depicted in history, first instance in Charade, Johnson's, on Dr Barnard, 442 Charlemont, Lord, and his story of the serpent, 361 where," Johnson, 651 II. praised, 219 XII., and his blue coat and black stock, 258 Boswell, from Flora Macdonald's narrative and Chatterton, Johnson's opinion of, 271 wild adherence to, 427 Cheyne, Dr, on "The English Malady," 265 Chief, a, and his lady should make their house like a, sentiments of, towards his tenants, 606 Chiefs, in the Hebrides destroying their jurisdiction, Children, on, exhibiting in company, 265 Johnson's love of: "pretty dears," 442 no child better than another natively, but we China, the Great Wall of, Johnson's enthusiasm on, Cholmondeley, Mrs, Johnson to: "you crown me Chorusing in the boat going to Rasay, 578 sects, differences between, of little consequence, Christianity, Johnson on the arguments for, 350 "the wilds of, its briars and thorns still hang Church, English, in Scotland: "we are here as "Church, honest, he belongs to an," Johnson giving Churches the best places for devotion, 450 Cibber, Theophilus, his Lives of the Poets." Query Cibber, Colley, 98 praise of, 219 reading his ode to Johnson, 312 Swinney, all he could recall of Dryden, 277 Cibber's "Apology," Johnson on, 147 Plays, good, "because they were his trade," Citizen of the world, Boswell's boast, 539 Clans, chief of, denominated, by their surnames alone, Clarendon Press, origin, 243 Claret, hogshead of, wanted from Dean Barnard, 328 270 Clarke, Dr, an Arian, but full on the Propitiatory Classical knowledge, the deficiency in common, 392 Clergy not to be taught elocution, 445 Clergy, Scotch and English compared: and discussion, Clergyman rebuked by Johnson for reading "The Old Man's Wish," 392 Clerical fop only "half a beau," 409 Clive, Lord, and "Capability," Brown, 374 sluggish in company, but rousing himself, 355 and Mrs Pritchard, described by Johnson Clothes, free use of, to secure respect, 258 Club, the, how Boswell got into it. "Some wished to Coarse language in the House of Commons preferable Cobb, Mrs, at Lichfield, 255 Cock Lane ghost, 100 Coin, old, likely to be found in change, 441 Col praised by Johnson, 630 country the, of, described, 622 the travellers at, 617 the young laird of, described, 607 farewell to, his death, 631 could run down a greyhound; praise of him, 631 Col's seat at Breacacha described, 619 Cold, Johnson catches, at Dunvegan, 595 College, Edinburgh, visit to, 545 Johnson at, his conduct at Oxford described, 13 Colman, G., his parody of Gray and Mason, 217 Colson, letter of Walmesley to, 21 "Combination and form," the, of Johnson described, Coote, Sir Eyre, at Fort George, 567 Corelli, coming to England to see Purcell? 219 Cork and Orrery, Lord, described, 158 Cork, late Earl of, wished to maintain literary Corn-laws in Ireland, 158 Corpulency arises from too much eating, 447 Correcting and improving writings, three ways of: Corrichatachin, Pennant's present, Johnson on, "more Cotterels, the Miss, and Johnson, 56 Council-Post," Scotch for "express messenger," 584 Country, living in the, Johnson on, 483 life, 176 |