[1784 expressed his thoughts with great force, and an elegant choice of language, the effect of which was aided by his having a loud voice, and a slow deliberate utterance. In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual strength and dexterity, he could, when he pleased, be the greatest sophist that ever contended in the lists of declamation; and, from a spirit of contradiction and a delight in shewing his powers, he would often maintain the wrong side with equal warmth and ingenuity; so that, when there was an audience, his real opinions could seldom be gathered from his talk; though when he was in company with a single friend, he would discuss a subject with genuine fairness: but he was too conscientious to make errour permanent and pernicious, by deliberately writing it; and, in all his numerous works, he earnestly inculcated what appeared to him to be the truth; his piety being constant, and the ruling principle of all his conduct.
Such was SAMUEL JOHNSON, a man whose talents, acquirements, and virtues, were so extraordinary, that the more his character is considered, the more he will be regarded by the present age, and by posterity, with admiration and
There it appears that he was a man who spoke off-hand a thousand good things. His memory extended to what was ancient and modern; to the court and to the city; to the dead and to the living languages; to things serious and things jocose; in a word, to a thousand sorts of subjects. That which appeared a trifle to some readers of the Menagiana, who did not consider circumstances, caused admiration in other readers, who minded the difference between what a man speaks without preparation, and that which he prepares for the press. And, therefore, we cannot sufficiently commend the care which his illustrious friends took to erect a monument so capable of giving him immortal glory. They were not obliged to rectify what they had heard him say; for, in so doing, they had not been faithful historians of his conversations.'
Abel Drugger, ii. 24.
Abercrombie, James, i. 479-80.
Aberdeen, i. 437, 522, 543-4; ii.
185, 274, 493.
Abernethy, Dr., ii. 535 n.
Abingdon, fourth Earl of, ii.
328 n.1.
Abington, Mrs., the actress, i. 565,
568, 571, 584.
Abjuration, oath of, i. 566 n.
Abreu, Marquis of, i. 235.
Abuse, coarse and refined, ii. 554.
Abyssinia, A Voyage to, i. 58.
Academia della Crusca, i. 200, 296.
Account of an Attempt to ascertain
the Longitude, i. 182 n. 2, 202.
Account of Scotland in 1702, ii. 185.
Account-keeping, ii. 465-6.
Acting, ii. 141.
Action in speaking, i. 221, 482.
Ad Lauram parituram Epigramma,
i. 108.
Ad Ricardum Savage, i. 111 n. 2.
Ad Urbanum, i. 77.
Adam, Robert, Works in Architec-
ture, ii. 123.
Adamites, i. 513.
Adams, George, Treatise on the
Globes, i. 365.
Adams, Rev. William, D.D. (Mas-
ter of Pembroke College), i. 5,
40, 41, 50, 52, 91, 127, 132, 175,
176, 190, 323, 370, 655-7; ii.
544-64, 614, 637, 645 n.
Adams, Mrs., ii. 544, 555.
Adams, Miss, ii. 544, 550, 562.
Adams, William, founder of New-
port School, i. 89 n.
Adams, the brothers, architects, i.
568.
Addison, Joseph, i. 137, 517; ii.
31-2, 118, 176, 214, 351, 390, 400,
401; Johnson's criticisms on,
i. 284, 483, 582; ii. 23, 256; his
style compared with Johnson's,
i. 150-1; Johnson's Life of, ii.
370-2, 633.
Address of the Painters to George III,
i. 235.
Address to the Throne, i. 213.
Adelphi, Boswell and Johnson at
the rails, ii. 406; Garrick's house,
ii. 404.
Adey, Miss, i. 27, 673; ii. 309, 439,
440.
Adey, Mrs., i. 612; ii. 393.
Admiration, i. 591.
Adoption, ancient mode of, i. 169.
Adultery, i. 372; ii. 305.
Adventurer, Hawkesworth's, i. 139,
156; Johnson's contributions, i.
139, 167-9.
Adversaria, Johnson's, i. 137.
Egri Ephemeris, ii. 618.
Esop at Play, ii. 146.
Affectation, i. 314; ii. 114, 616;
of distress, ii. 386; of bursts of
admiration, ii. 352; of familiarity
with the great, ii. 378.
Affection, i. 399; ii. 293, 488-9.
Agar, Welbore Ellis, ii. 88 n.
Agutter, Rev. William, ii. 546 n. 2,
554 n., 650.
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Allen, Edmund, the printer, i. 314,
581; ii. 107, 111, 204, 236, 286,
401, 500, 606 seq., 616.
Almsgiving, i. 483; ii. 37-8.
Althorp, Lord (second Earl Spen-
cer), ii. 320.
Ambition, ii. 27.
America and Americans, i. 544,
546, 560-2; ii. 156-7, 169, 219,
237, 328 n. 1, 394, 492, 543, 568.
Amyat, Dr., i. 251 n.
Ana, ii. 243.
Ancestry, i. 440, 520.
Anderson, Professor, of Glasgow,
ii. 89.
Andrews, Francis, i. 326.
Angell, John, Stenography, i. 492.
Anne, Queen, 'touches' Johnson,
i. 30.
Annihilation, ii. 117, 224.
Anson, Lord, ii. 282.
Ant, The, i. 351.
Antagonists, how they should be
treated, i. 655–6.
Anthologia, Johnson's translations,
ii. 621.
Antiquarian researches, ii. 251, 311.
Antiquarians, ii. 211.
Apostolical Ordination i. 401.
Apparitions. See Spirits.
Applause, ii. 355.
Appleby School, i. 89 n.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, i. 284, 600.
Argyle, Archibald, third Duke of,
i. 128; ii. 52.
Argyle, John, fifth Duke of, ii. 73.
Ariosto, i. 185; ii. 338.
Armstrong, Dr., i. 232 n. 4; ii. 87.
Arnauld, Antoine, ii. 262.
Arnold, Thomas, M.D., Observa-
tions on Insanity, ii. 135.
Arran, Earl of, i. 187.
Art of Living in London, i. 71.
Ascham, Roger, Life by Johnson,
i. 310.
Ash, Dr., ii. 629 n.1.
Ashbourne, Johnson and Boswell
visit it in 1776, i. 679-80; in
1777, ii. 103-58; mentioned, ii.
593, 599, 603.
Astle, Rev. Mr., ii. 564.
Astle, Thomas, i. 105; ii. 432, 564.
Astley, the equestrian, ii. 307.
Aston, Catherine (Hon. Mrs. Henry
Hervey), i. 55 n. 2.
Aston, Margaret (Mrs. Walmsley),
i. 55 n. 2, 673.
Aston, Miss (Mrs.), i. 673, 676; ii.
101, 160, 310, 311.
Aston, 'Molly' (Mrs. Brodie), i.
55, 673; ii. 257, 374.
Aston, Sir Thomas, i. 55.
Athol, Earl of, i. 336.
'Athol porridge,' ii. 392.
Atterbury, Bishop, i. 107; Funeral
Sermon on Lady Cutts, ii. 174;
Sermons, ii. 188.
Attorneys, ii. 565.
Auchinleck, i. 309, 526, 606, 631
seq.; ii. 136, 161; under Bos-
well's management, ii. 456.
Auchinleck, Lord, i. 479; ii. 61,
67, 69, 80, 164, 281, 298, 510; his
death, ii. 449.
Authors, attacks on, i. 209, 576;
ii. 283, 319, 650; the right of
abridging, ii. 620 n.; uncertainty
of their profits, ii. 422.
Avarice, ii. 51; not inherent, ii.
243.
Ayrshire petition, ii. 388.
Bacon, Francis, i. 148, 443, 639;
ii. 148, 506, 539.
Bacon, John, R.A., ii. 651 n.
Badcock, Rev. Samuel, ii. 640 n.
Bagshaw, Rev. Thomas, i. 518,
592.
Baily, Hetty, ii. 440.
Baker, Sir George, ii. 596.
Baker, - an engraver, ii. 650 n.
Baker, Mrs., i. 356.
Baldwin, Henry, the printer, i. 6,
9; ii. 570.
Ballads, modern imitations ridi-
culed, i. 483.
Balloon, account of a, ii. 598, 600,
608, 615.
Ballow, Henry, a lawyer, ii. 15.
Balmerino, Lord, i. 123.
Baltic, Johnson's projected tour, i.
541 n. 2; ii. 102.
Banks, Sir Joseph, i. 320, 432, 435-
6; ii. 276, 278, 648.
Bannatyne, George, i. 240.
Barbauld, Mrs., i. 628; ii. 132.
Barber, Francis, Johnson's negro
servant, i. 157, 158, 160, 161,
232-3, 348-9, 375, 434, 591; ii.
170, 281, 543, 544, 610, 615, 634
seq., 646.
Barber, Mrs. Francis, i. 158.
Barclay, Alexander, i. 184.
Barclay, James, an Oxford student,
i. 332.
Barclay, Robert, of Ury, ii. 419 n.
1; Apology for the Quakers, i. 666.
Barclay, Robert, the brewer, ii.
419 n. 1, 603.
Baretti, Joseph, i. 202, 223, 235,
240, 373, 479, 542, 609, 660; ii.
4, 69, 124, 282, 356, 588; his
trial for murder, i. 394-6; ii. 572;
Dialogues, i. 660; Easy Lessons
in Italian and English, i. 542;
Frusta Letteraria, ii. 132; Ita-
lian and English Dictionary, i.
235.
Barnard, Rev. Dr., Dean of Derry,
afterwards Bishop of Killaloe,
i. 69 n. 1, 556; ii. 60, 405, 412
n. 1, 417, 476.
Barnard, Dr. (Provost of Eton),
ii. 321.
Barnard, Francis, King's librarian,
i. 358, 362.
Barnes, Joshua, ii. 215, 346.
Barnet, ii. 3.
Barnewall, Nicholas, ii. 173 n.
Barnston, Miss Letitia, ii. 311.
Barret, William, the Bristol sur-
geon, ii. 34.
Barretier, Philip, Life by John-
son, i. 101; Additions to the Life,
i. 104, 110.
Barrington, Hon. Daines, i. 510;
ii. 415, 521; Observations on
the Statutes, ii. 237.
Barrowby, Dr., ii. 550.
Barry, Sir Edward, M.D., System
of Physic, ii. 23.
Barry, James, the painter, ii. 482,
497, 520.
Barter, -, a miller, i. 448.
Bartolozzi, Francis, ii. 82, 649 n.
Baskerville, John, Barclay's Apo-
logy, edition of, i. 666; Virgil, i.
379.
Bate, Rev. Henry (Sir H. Dudley),
ii. 553.
Bateman, Edmund, tutor of Christ
Church, i. 51.
Bath, ii. 4; Johnson visits it in
1776, ii. 30-3.
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of,
i. 103; ii. 182.
Bathurst, Dr., i. 129, 156, 160 n.,
161 n., 167, 168, 353, 356.
Bathurst, first Earl, i. 102; ii.
262, 301 n., 302, 369.
Bathurst, second Earl, Lord Chan-
cellor, ii. 108.
Baxter, Rev. Richard, i. 137, 514;
ii. 471, 498, 499; Call to the Un-
converted, ii. 523; Reasons of
the Christian Religion, ii. 507.
Baxter, William, Anacreon, ii. 510,
511, 529; Horace, edition of, ii.
Bayle, i. 190; ii. 655 n.; his Dic-
tionary, i. 284.
Beattie, Dr. James, i. 430-1, 434,
436, 476-7, 519; ii. 326, 407,
408, 576, 578; his Hermit, ii.
472.
Beattie, Mrs., i. 434, 436.
Beauclerk, Hon. Topham, i. 164–6,
495, 582, 626; ii. 267, 314, 339,
352, 390, 404, 409, 478; death,
ii. 317, 320; dinners and suppers
at his house, i. 499, 568; ii. 268,
290-3; his first acquaintance
with Johnson, i. 164; John-
son's affection for him, ii. 340,
406, 468; Johnson's alterca-
tions with, ii. 213, 288-9.
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, wife of
Topham Beauclerk, i. 502, 571.
Beaufort, Duchess of (in 1780), ii.
321.
Beauties of Johnson, ii. 444–6, 649 n.
Beauties of the Rambler, i. 144.
Beauty, independent of utility, i.
449; ii. 459; of women, ii. 430.
Becket, T., the bookseller, i. 546.
Beckford, Alderman, ii. 55, 154.
Bedford, ii. 431.
Bedford, fourth Duke of, ii. 567.
Bedford, fifth Duke of, ii. 215, 426.
Bedfordshire Militia, ii. 299.
Bedlam, Johnson visits it, i. 602.
Behmen, Jacob, i. 417.
Belchier, John, the surgeon, ii. 38.
Bell, Rev. Mr., of Strathaven, ii.
271.
Bell, John, Travels, i. 372.
Bell, John, the bookseller, Lives of
the Poets, ii. 82.
Bellamy, Mrs., the actress, i. 217;
ii. 512 n.
Belsham, William, Essay on Dra-
matic Poetry, i. 259.
Bennet, James, editor of Ascham's
Works, i. 310.
Bensley, Robert, the actor, i. 366.
Bentham, Dr. E., i. 657.
Bentley, Dr., i. 48, 657; ii. 347,
349, 494.
Beresford, Mrs. and Miss, ii. 543.
Beresford, Rev. Mr., ii. 215.
Berkeley, Bishop, i. 315, 424; ii:
126, 352.
Berrenger, Richard, ii. 398, 400.
Berwick, Duke of, Memoirs, ii. 216.
Betty Broom, ii. 514.
Bewley, William, the Philosopher
of Massingham, ii. 433.
Bible, the, should be read with a
commentary, ii. 39; subscrib-
ing it instead of the Articles, i.
439.
Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 104.
Bibliothèque, Johnson's scheme of a,
i. 189-90.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, i. 389.
Bicknell, J. L., i. 210.
Bindley, James, i. 9.
Binning, Lord, i. 464; ii. 249.
Biographia Britannica, i. 659; ii.
133, 134 n., 370, 535 n.
Biography, i. 17, 21-3, 170, 284,
362, 449, 658; ii, 51, 118, 208 n.,
357, 614,
Birch, Rev. Thomas, D.D., i. 19,
94, 95, 102, 104 n. 2, 109, 126,
152.
Birds, migration of, i. 510; nidifi-
cation, i. 511.
Birmingham, i. 25, 57, 61; Johnson
visits it in 1776, i. 456-61; in
1781, ii. 135; in 1784, ii. 613.
Bishops, in the House of Lords, i.
453; how made, i. 587; their
learning, ii. 342. See Hierarchy.
Black-letter books, i. 415.
Blacklock, Dr., i. 311.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, Creation,
his, i. 405; Johnson adds him
to the Lives, ii. 280, 372-3.
Blackstone, Sir William, i. 51, 632
n. 2, 647; ii. 288, 400.
Blackwall, Anthony, i. 56; ii. 564,
640 n.
Blackwell, Thomas, Memoirs of
the Court of Augustus, i. 205–7.
Blagden, Dr., ii. 354.
Blainville, H., i. 582.
Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, i. 240, 264,
530, 533; ii. 301-3; Lectures
on Rhetoric, ii. 132; Sermons, ii.
70, 75, 80, 128, 160, 255, 405.
Blair, Rev. Dr. John, ii. 302.
Blair, Rev. Robert, ii. 32 n.
Blair, Robert, Solicitor-General of
Scotland, ii. 32 n.
Blakeway, Rev. J., i. 9.
Blanchetti, Marquis, i. 613.
Blaney, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 26; ii.
612.
Blank verse, i. 286, 418; ii. 347,
363, 377.
Blenheim Park, Johnson visits it,
i. 660.
Bloxam, Rev. Matthew, ii. 229.
Blue-stocking Clubs, ii. 412.
Boccage, Mme. du, i. 624-5; her
Columbiade, ii. 577.
Boerhaave, Herman, Life by John-
son, i. 96, 600.
Boethius (Hector Boece), i. 95,
420;
ii. 529.
Boileau, i. 80; ii. 262.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first
Viscount, ii. 179 n., 259, 260,
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