[The following Prayer was compofed and ufed by Doctor Johnfon previous to his receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, on Sunday December 5, 1784.] A LMIGHTY and moft merciful Father, I am ** now, as to human eyes it seems, about to commemorate, for the laft time, the death of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Saviour and Redeemer. Grant, O Lord, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits and thy mercy; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance; make this commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son Jefus Christ effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardom the multitude of my offences. Blefs my friends; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death; and receive me, at my death, to everlafting happiness, for the fake of Jefus Christ. Amen. * He died the 13th following. INDE X. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and A. BERBROTHICK, account of the town of, viii. 216. Of Aberdeen, account of, x. 2.1. Dr. Johnson meets with an old ac- Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and not fought Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, vi. 289. dby finia, preface to the tranflation of Father Lobo's voyage to, ii. Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it, ix. 88. Acaftus, an inftance of the commanding influence of curiofity, vi. 60. Achilles, his addrefs to a Grecian prince fupplicating life, improper Action (dramatick), the laws of it stated and remarked, vi. 97. Action (in oratory), the want of, confidered, vii. 361. Tends to Actions, every man the beft relator of his own, vii. 259. The in- Adam unparadifed, a MSS. fuppofed to be the embryo of Para- Adams, Parfon, of Fielding, not Edward, but William Young, xi. Addifon, Jofeph, fuppofed to have taken the plan of his Dialogues Ggz His His life, x. 73. Born at Milfton, in Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, 73. The various fchools at which he received inftruction, 73. Cultivates an early friendship with Steele, 74. Lends 100l. to Steele, and reclaims it by an execution, 75. Entered at Oxford, 1687, 75. Account of his Latin poems, 76. Account of his English poems, 76. On being introduced by Congreve to Mr. Montague, becomes a courtier, 78. Obtains a penfion of 3007. a year, that he might be enabled to travel, 78. Publishes his travels, 79. Succeeds Mr. Locke as Commiffioner of Appeals, as a reward for his poem The battle of Blenheim, 81. Went to Hanover with Lord Halifax, 81. Made Under-fecretary of State, 81. Writes the opera of Rofamond, 81. Afifts Steele in writing the Tender Husband, 81. Goes to Ireland with Lord Wharton as Secretary, 81. Made Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's Tower, S2. The oppofite characters of him and Wharton, 82. His reafon for refolving not to remit any fees to his friends, 82. Wrote in the Tatler, 83. Wrote in the Spectators, 83. His tragedy of Cato brought on the ftage, and fupported both by the Whigs and Tories, 89. 91. Cato warmly attacked by Dennis, 92. Other honours and enmities fhewed to Cato, 93. Cato tranflated both into Italian and Latin, 93: Writes in the Guardian, 94. His fignature in the Spectator and Guardian, 95. Declared by Steele to have been the author of the Drummer, with the ftory on which that comedy is founded, 95. Wrote feveral political pamphlets, 96. Appointed Secretary to the Regency, 98. In 1715 publishes the Freeholder, 98. Marries the Countefs of Warwick, Aug. 2, 1716, 99. Secretary of State, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore refigns it, 100. Sir J. Hawkins's Defence of the Character he had given of Addifon in his Hiftory of Mufick against the author of the Biog. Brit. 104. Purposes writing a tragedy on the death of Socrates, 100. Engages in his Defence of the Chriftian religion, 101. Had a defign of writing an English dictionary, 101. His controverfy with Steele on the Peerage Bill, 102. During his laft illness fends for Gay, informs him that he had injured him, and promifes, if he recovered, to recompence him, 105. Sends for the young Earl of Warwick, that he might fee how a Chriftian ought to die, 105. Died June 17, 1719, 106. His character, 106. The courfe of his familiar day, 109. His literary character, 112. Account of his works, 113. Extracts from Dennis's Obfervations on Cato, 119. Confidered as a critick, 137. Commended as a teacher of wifdom, 140. Character of his profe works, 140. Example of his difinterested conduct in difpofing of places, 141. A converfation with Pope on Tickell's tranflation of Homer, 233. Becomes a rival of Pope, xi. 95. Supposed to have been the tranflator of the Iliad, published under the name of Tickell, 99. His critical capacity remarked, v. 91. 140. 143. Obfervations on his tragedy of Cato, xi. 99. Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal operation, Adventurer, Adventurer, No. xxxiv. iii. 137. No. xli. 144. No. xlv. 150. 194. No. Adverfity, a feafon fitted to convey the moft falutary and ufeful in- Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, vii. 160. The caufes of this af Affability, the extenfive influence of this amiable quality, vi. 2. Africa, progrefs of the discoveries made on that coast by the Portu- Age, the prefent an age of authors, iii. 252. Agriculture, its extenfive ufefulnefs confidered, vi. 28. Thoughts on, Ajut, his hiftory, vi. 267. 276. Akenfide, Dr. Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, xi. 275. His Alabafer, Roxana, commended, ix. 87. Gg3 A'acrity, Alacrity, the cultivation of it the fource of perfonal and focial pleasure, Albion, in lat. 3°, account of the friendly inhabitants found there by Alexandrian Library, its lofs lamented, vii. 263. Aliger, his character, vi. 354. Alien, Mr. of Bath, praised by Pope in his Satires, xi. 135. All's Well that Ends Well, obfervations on Shakespeare's, ii, 147. Almamoulin, the dying fpeech of Nouradin, his father, to him, v. 314, Altilia, her coquetry defcribed, vi. 246. Amazons, obfervations on the hiftory of the, vii. 351. Old maids Ambition, generally proportioned to capacity, xii. 17. A quality America, Taxation no Tyranny, or, an answer to the Refolutions and Amicus, his reflections on the deplorable cafe of prostitutes, v. Amoret, Lady Sophia Murray celebrated by Waller under that name, ix. 233. Amusements, by what regulations they may be rendered useful, v. Anacreon, Ode ix. tranflated, i. 159. Anatomy, cruelty in anatomical refearches reprobated, vii. 66. education |