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Boswell says Homer plays the
bassoon, Pope the flageolet, iii.
270; his characters of men better
than those of women, ii. 90; his
early appreciation of Johnson,
90; his emotion in repeating the
last lines of the Dunciad, 90 n.;
and Dryden, distinguished by
Voltaire, ii. 23.
Population, discussion on, ii. 103.
Porridge, Athol, a mixture of
whisky and honey, iv. 39.
Porter, Johnson desires to send a
cask of, to his friends in the
Hebrides, ii. 256.
Porter, Mrs., afterwards Mrs.
Johnson, i. 59, 60.

Miss Lucy, i. 14, 15, 54;
Johnson's letters to, after his
mother's death, i. 395-7; John-
son's new year's gift to, ii. 376;
Johnson's letter of condolence
with, 379; described, iii. 44;
Boswell visits, at Lichfield, iii.
400; inquires concerning the
family of Miss Doxy's lover,
Johnson's letters to, giving
a sad account of his own health,
and the state of his household, iv.
91; desiring her prayers, 301.

414;

Captain George, Lucy
Porter's brother, death of, i. 400.
Johnson and the, iv. 32.
Porteus, Dr. Beilby, Bishop of
Chester, iii. 400.

Portmore, Lord, writes to inquire
after Johnson, iv. 194.
Portrait, the first one of Johnson
painted by Reynolds, soon after
the Dictionary was published,
and given by Reynolds to Bos-
well, i. 311; the second by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, ii. 139; Beau-
clerk inscribes on his portrait of
Johnson a motto from Horace,
iv. 123; and on that of Garrick,
lines from Shakespeare, iv. 51.

painting, Johnson thinks im-
proper for a woman, ii, 329.
Post-chaise, Johnson's delight in
travelling in, iii. 37, 190.

"Post-day, a, has now been long
a day of recreation," iv. 270.
Potentiality of growing rich,
Johnson describes Thrale's
brewery at the sale as the, iv.
44.

Pott, Archdeacon, his sermons re-
commended by Johnson, iii. 42;
attends Johnson in his last ill-
ness, iv. 169.

"Potted stories," a certain author,
"who lived upon," iii. 87.
Poverty, Johnson's, i. 44-7, 119,
238; and wealth discussed, i.
350; "The first approach to
riches is security from poverty,"
iv. 260; the misery of, to be
avoided by all virtuous means,
iv. 100; makes some virtues
impracticable, and others ex-
tremely difficult, a great enemy
to human happiness, 105.
Praise, exaggerated, most preju-
dicial, iv. 41, 42; Johnson's dis-
like of, iii. 243.
Prayer, Johnson's, on his wife's
death, i. 179; before the study
of law, ii. 12; on engaging in
politics, 13; forms of, discussed,
iv. 216; Johnson is asked to
compose some for family use, iv.

216.

Prayers for the dead, ii. 160.
Preaching, not generally plain
enough, ii. 122; cause of success
in, i. 363, 364; a woman preach-
ing, like a dog walking on its
hind legs, 367.

Prefaces by Johnson, to Lobo's
Abyssinia, i. 52; to the Life of
Father Paul, 99; to the Gent's
Magazine, 106, 107; to the Har-
leian Miscellany, 129; to a sys-
tem of Ancient Geography, 139;
to Mr. Dodsley's Preceptor, 141;
to the Dictionary, 229, 230; to
Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies, ii.
41; to Rolt's Dictionary of
Trade and Commerce, i. 284;
to Baretti's Lessons on Italian
and English, ii. 269.

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Prendergast, Colonel, strange oc-
currence at his death, ii. 176.
Present, Johnson does not believe
anyone is happy in the, ii. 320.
Press, The Clarendon, Oxford,
origin of, iii. 14.

Presumption, Boswell's, at his first
meeting with Johnson, i. 311.
Priestley, Dr., his pernicious doc-
trines, iv. 168 n.

Prince of Wales, enjoys the hap-
piest position in the kingdom, iv.

124.

Pringle, Sir John, President of the
Royal Society, iii. 62; Boswell
vainly desires to bring him and
Johnson together, 107.
Printer's devil, an author marries
a, iv. 53.

Printing in Scotland, the history
of, ii. 395; and the diffusion of
knowledge, iii. 84.

Prints, Johnson fits up a room
with, iii. 467.
Prior, instances of his borrowing,
furnished by Lord Hailes, iii.
386; abused by Johnson and
defended by Mrs. Thrale, ii. 86.

Sir James, his Life of Ma-
lone quoted, iii. 82.
Prison," Every island is a prison,"

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line of a song, iii. 278.

Profession de Foi du Vicaire
Savoyard," by Rousseau, Bos-
well's admiration for, ii. 28.
Professor in Antient Literature,
Johnson appointed, ii. 77.
Professorship, Anglo-Saxon. found-
ed at Oxford, by Dr. Richard
Rawlinson, iv. 108.
Profit, uncertainty of, in literary
undertakings, iv. 71.
Project, The, a poem by Richard
Tickell, iii. 320.

Pronunciation, Sheridan teaches
Wedderburn to correct his, i.
307; Johnson's, iii. 219; good,
to be attained, ii. 156; discus-
sion about, 158.
Property, literary, discussion on,

.241.

Propitiation, the peculiar doctrine
of Christianity, iv. 75.
Proposals, Johnson's, for an edition
of Shakespeare with notes, i.
250.
Protestants or Papists, all Chris-
tians agree in essential articles,
i. 321.
Proverb, a Spanish, about travel-
ling, iii, 306.

Prussia, Frederick II., King of,
valued himself on three things,
i. 345; his Memoirs of the House
of Brandenburgh, and his poetry,

346.
Psalmanazar, George, account of,
iii. 317 n., iv. 128.

Psalms, the Scotch version of, the
best, iii. 61.

Public amusements, Johnson ap-
proves of, ii. 165.

schools, the excellence of our
English, iii. 66; Mr. Canning
on, 65 n.

speaking discussed, ii. 310.
Virtue, a poem, by Dodsley,
Johnson called it "fine Blank,"
iii. 441.

Puffendorf maintained the right of
a schoolmaster to beat his
scholars, ii. 155.

Punch, conversation likened to a
bowl of, i. 260; Blacklock's
poem on, 260.
Punctuation, Lord Lyttelton's dif-
fidence about, iii. 81; Byron "a
sad hand at," 81 n.

Puns, Johnson's aversion to, iv.

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Rambler, The, commenced, i. 149;

how the name was chosen, 149;
many papers in it very hastily
written, 151; collections for,
151-4; Hawkins's misstatement
concerning, 152; reception of,
155; Mrs. Johnson's praise of,
157; Edinburgh edition of, 157;
date of the last, i. 178 n.; a
paper in the, translated into
French, retranslated into Eng-
lish, and inserted by Murphy
in the Gray's Inn Journal, i.
281, 282; Johnson's mode of
writing for, iii. 89; Johnson

hears that the Empress of Russia
will have it translated into Rus-
sian, iv. 201.
Ramsay, Allan, his Gentle Shep-
herd, ii. 208; account of, iii.
264 n.; Johnson dines with,
iii. 382 n.; his death, iv. 277.
Ranelagh, promenade at, ii. 165 n.
Rank, Johnson's reverence for, i.
352-5.

Rann, John (Sixteen-String Jack),
highwayman, iii. 85.

Rapidity in writing, Johnson's, ii.

314.

Rasay, Johnson's pleasant remem-
brance of, iii. 161.

Rasselas, written by Johnson in a
week, to pay his mother's funeral
expenses, i. 269; Johnson finds,
twenty years afterwards, in a
chaise, and reads eagerly, 269 n.,
iv. 69; compared with Voltaire's
Candide, i. 270 n., iii. 353; suc-
cess of, i. 270; quotation from,
271; Johnson calls it "a little
story book," i. 397; American
edition of, ii. 198.
Rawlinson, Dr. Richard, account
of, iv. 108 n.

Ray, his collection of North
Country words, ii. 95 n.
Reading, Johnson's, at Oxford, i.
40; should be from inclination,
not as a task, i. 341, iii. 216-89;
"What is read without pleasure
is not often recollected or in-
fixed by conversation, and there-
fore drops from the memory,"
387; the foundation of know-
ledge must be gained by, ii.
328; snatches of, will not make
a Bentley or a Clarke, iii. 441;
"A man is a poor beast who can
read no more than he can utter,"
iii. 450; "Strange there should
be so little, in the world, and so
much writing," iv. 153.
Reasons of the Christian Religion,

Baxter's, Johnson thought the
best collection of evidences, iv.
168.

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Reciprocate, Madam, let us,"
says Johnson, iii. 396.
Recommendation, "it is such a re-
commendation, as if I should
throw you out of a two pair of
stairs window and recommend
you to fall soft," iv. 237.
Reconciliation after a quarrel,
Johnson always eager to seek,

ii. 110.

Recovery, Johnson's quick, after
the paralytic stroke, iv. 164.
Reed, Mr. Isaac, supplies Johnson
with anecdotes and quotations,
iv. 3; his wonderful knowledge
of literary history, iv. 4.
"Refinement, life will not bear;
you must do as other people
do," iii. 196.

Registers, curious passage in one
of Johnson's, iv. 96.

Rehearsal, the comedy of the,
"has not wit enough to keep it
sweet," iv. 235.

Reindeer introduced into North-
umberland, ii. 164 n.
Religion, Goldsmith said, he takes
from the priests, as he takes
shoes from the shoemaker, or
coats from a tailor, ii. 202; few
people can tell anything about
their own, iii. 94.
Religious feeling, Johnson's early,
i. 37-9.

Remember, to, and to recollect, are

different things, iv. 76.
Remonstrance, The, a poem by
Mr. Stockdale, ii. 113.
Reserve, English, "Sir, we do not
enough understand the common
rights of humanity," iv. 131.
Residence, Johnson's places of, iii.

394.

Respublicæ, or Accounts of the

Principal States of Europe, iii. 96.
Resurrection of the dead, discussed
by Johnson with Mrs. Hall, iv.
49; on the sure and certain hope
of a blessed, iv. 148.
Retaliation, Goldsmith's, quoted, i.

375.

Retirement, The, a small poem by
Walsh in the London Magazine,
quoted many years afterwards
by Johnson, ii. 131.

Retort, Johnson's dexterity in, iv.
126, 127.

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Reviews, by Johnson, in the
Literary Magazine, i. 241; and
reviewers of the day discussed,
iii. 80, iv. 149, 150.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, meets John-
son at the Misses Cotterell's, i.
187; his reported income in 1762,
292; visits Devonshire, accom-
panied by Johnson, 299; raises
his price to twenty guineas a head,
265; account of his prices, 265;
"without a rival," 288; the first
proposer of the club, ii. 2; the
party at his house when John-
son described his conversation
with the King, 56; dines with
Boswell, to meet Johnson, 89;
explains Johnson's free speaking
of his friends, 284; lends his
coach to Johnson and Boswell
to go to Twickenham, 329
"When R. tells me something, I
consider myself possessed of an
idea the more," iii. 22; "the
same all the year round," 61;
Johnson and Boswell dine with,
when Allan Ramsay related his
observations on Horace's villa,
264; Johnson and Boswell dine
with, and quarrel, 337; his
discourses to the Royal Aca-
demy, iii. 365; for which the
Empress of Russia presents him
with a gold snuff-box, 365;
Johnson dines with, 373; John-
son says he knows no one who
has passed through life with
more observation than, 430;
communicates certain particulars
to Boswell, iv. 124, et seq.;
Johnson invites him to join a
new club at the Essex Head,
182; his Discourses much ad-
mired by Johnson, 235; enter-
tains Johnson, Boswell, Lord

Eliot, Dr. Beattie, &c., 244;
Boswell dines with Johnson at
R.'s for the last time, 248;
Johnson's letters to, from Ash-
bourne, 276-8; Johnson makes
three requests to him on his
death-bed, 318; Boswell's letter
to, inquiring about Johnson's
health, 358.
Reynolds, Mrs. Frances, Johnson
in his will requests her to choose
a book to keep as a remembrance,
309; Johnson's letters to, on
some literary work of hers, 349,
354, 360; accepting her pro-
posal to dine with him, 357.
Rhetorical gesture, or action, John-
son ridicules, i. 260.
Rheumatism, receipt for, ii. 328.
Rhubarb, cultivated by Sir Alex-
ander Dick, iv. 189.

Rhyme, Johnson's opinion of its
superiority to blank verse, i. 340,
ii. 123, iv. 8.
Richardson, Jonathan, the painter,
i. 89.

89.

Jonathan, the younger, i.

Samuel, the author, i. 89,
105; Johnson's letters to, 391-4;
assists Johnson out of a pecu-
niary difficulty, 394; described
by Johnson in the Rambler,
150; his delight with the Ram-
bler, 156; and Fielding com-
pared, ii. 62-3, 169; an anecdote
of, iii. 447.

Riches, the proper use of, ii. 163;
and poverty, "The first ap-
proach to riches is security from
poverty," iv. 260.
Riding-school, to be established at
Oxford from the profits of the
Clarendon Press, iii. 14.
Rights of humanity, the common,
are not understood, iv. 131, 208.
Ring, diamond, a new year's gift
from Johnson to Lucy Porter,
ii. 376.

Riots, the Gordon, described by
Johnson, iii. 413-15.

Ritter, Joseph, Boswell's Bohe-
mian servant, ii. 371.
Robertson, Dr. William, his imita-
tion of Johnson's style, iv. 296;
Johnson's respect for, ii. 46, 66;
his history like gold packed in
wool, ii. 222; on Johnson's cha-
racter, iii. 331; his first meeting
with Johnson, 332.

Thomas, author of an essay
on the character of Hamlet, iii.
445.

Robin Hood Society, debates at
the Coachmakers' Hall, iv. 49;
Boswell attends, 50.
Robinson, Dr. Richard, Arch-
bishop of Armagh, ii. 130.

tall Sir Thomas, i. 345.
Rogers, Rev. Mr., Johnson leaves
him £100 in trust for Eliz.
Herne, iv. 309.

Rolt, his Dictionary of Trade and
Commerce, ii. 315; to which
Johnson writes an admirable pre-
face, i. 284; publishes an edition
of Akenside's Pleasures of the
Imagination, putting his own
name to it, 284.

Rome, church of, Johnson supports

her doctrines, but distinguishes
them from her practice, ii. 106;
Johnson rather prefers to Pres-
byterianism. 105; has a respect
for the "old religion," 107;
differs little in essentials, 148;
Johnson on, iv. 213.
Romney, the painter, Cumber-

land's odes dedicated to, iii. 90.
Rooper, Rev. W. H., in 1882

owner of Mrs. Thrale's un-
finished portrait of Johnson, iv.

405.

Roscommon, Life of, by Johnson,
i. 141.

Rothes, Lady, Bennet Langton's
wife, ii. 140, 143.
Round Robin, the famous, about
Goldsmith's epitaph, iii. 121,

122.

Rousseau, J. J., his treatise on the

inequality of mankind, i. 349;

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