Boswell the most unscottified of, ii. 226. Scotch, Johnson admires every- thing Scotch, "but Scotch oat- cakes and Scotch prejudices," ii. 343; Johnson's attacks on the, iv. 113; the cause of his anti- pathy to the, 114. Scotland, Johnson's prejudice against, ii. 66, 284; only a worse England, iii. 262; Church of, two parties in, ii. 147; MS. account of parishes in, with full statistics by Dr. Webster, ii. 255; Johnson asserts that Scotchmen love, better than truth, ii. 289; Johnson's extra- vagant raillery against, iv. 55, 56; a very vile country, to be sure," iv. 127.
Scott, John, of Amwell, his elegies, ii. 321; answered Johnson's po- litical pamphlets, ii. 310.
George Lewis, a friend of Thomson, iii. 151.
Dr. William, afterwards Sir William, travels with John- son in a post-chaise, i. 366; reports to Boswell a saying of Johnson, ii. 107; Johnson dines with, iii. 273; one of Johnson's executors, iv. 309. Scoundrel, Johnson declares that Mrs. Thrale by her spoiling will make him one, iii. 57. Scrimshaw, Charles, a relation whom Johnson inquires for be- fore his death, iv. 307. Scripture phrases, Johnson disliked the use of, ii. 201.
Scrofula, Johnson afflicted with, i. 16; Johnson "touched" for,
tinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury," i. 259.
Secker, Archbishop, quoted on conversation, i. 8.
Second sight, ii. 27; discussed, ii. 148; Johnson is willing to be- lieve in, Boswell does believe, ii. 294.
Senilia, by Maittaire, iii. 428. Sentimentality and pathos com- pared, iv. 10.
Seraglio, Johnson's, iii. 363. Serious Call, Law's, Jolinson thinks very fine, ii. 122. Sermons, Johnson wrote about forty for different persons, i. 250; many for Dr. Taylor, iii. 206 n., 207; those of several writers compared, 262. Servants, why do women have lower wages than men? ii. 204; Johnson's kindness to, iv. 134. Settle, Elkanah, the last city poet, iii. 115.
"Severity may be the way to govern, I know not whether it be the way to mend," ii. 180. Sevres, the manufactory of china at, visited, ii. 360. Seward, Miss, her letters quoted, i. 15, 54; her verses on Lich- field please Johnson, iv. 243; he compliments her on her de- scription of the Arctic Ocean,
Rev. Mr., entertains Johnson and B swell at Lichfield, iii. 49; his observations on vol- canoes, 50.
William, account of, iii. 155 n.; Johnson gives him an introduction to Boswell, iii. 156. Shakespeare, Johnson's edition of, published, ii. 18; admirable Pre- face to, 18; attacked by Ken- rick, 19; occupied all Johnson's time in 1764, 1765; Johnson's proposals for a new edition of, i. 129; Jubilee in honour of, ii. 78, 79; jestingly compared with
Congreve, ii. 91; mistaken by Voltaire, 92; many of his plays the worse for being acted, 95; collection of translations acces- sible to him made by Steevens, ii. 114; Johnson requests Gar- rick to look over his edition of, ii. 376; two of Johnson's notes on, discussed, iii. 98; modern characters from, iii. 268; John- son quotes in his illness, iv. 306. Sharp, Dr. John, on Johnson's visit to Cambridge, ii. 9.
Mr. William, applied to by Johnson for particulars of Dr. Watts' Life, iii. 159.
Sharpe, Dr. Gregory, account of him and his ranting prayer, ii.
Shaw, Cuthbert, publishes his poem The Race, ii. 47; his portrait of Johnson in verse, 48.
Samuel, his Letters on Italy, iii. 98.
Rev. William, his Erse Gram- mar, iii. 140, iii. 233; travels to obtain materials for a Gaelic Dictionary, iv. 180; denies the authenticity of Ossian's Poems, 180, 181; account of, and his Memoirs of Johnson, i. viii-ix. Shawe, Col. Meyrick, ii. 154. Shebbeare, Dr., in the pillory, iii.
318; his admirable Letters on the English Nation, under the name of Battista Angeloni, a Jesuit, iv. 64.
Sheep farming, in the Highlands, substituted for the old black cattle system, i. 325. Shefford, Johnson and Boswell at, iv. 81.
Shelburne, Lord, a man of coarse manners but of abilities and in- formation, iv. 118; Goldsmith's blundering speech to, 118. Shenstone, quoted on deathbed re- pentance, iv. 158. Sheridan, Thomas, i. 283 n.; his wife, 283 n., 308; her novels, 284 n., ii. 92; lectures at Edin
burgh, i. 305; promises Boswell to introduce him to Johnson, i. 306; pensioned, ibid.; teaches Mr. Alexander Wedderburne pronunciation, i. 307; his breach with Johnson, 308; Foote's story, "Sherry is dull," i. 359; his at- tack on Johnson, quoted, 92 n.; gives a medal to Home for his tragedy of Douglas, ii. 295; ex- planation of this, 295 n.; invited in hopes of effecting a reconcilia- tion with Johnson, iv. 242; Johnson wishes to renew their acquaintance, iv. 155; charac- terized by Johnson, iv. 113; his story of a victory over Johnson in conversation denied by John- son, 113.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, his prologue to Savage's play, com. plimenting Johnson, iii. 149; Byron's saying that whatever he did was the best of its kind, ii. 149; marries Miss Linley, ii. 334; she gives up her engage- ments, 335; his popularity in Ireland, iii. 370; threatens to go to America, iv. 150. Sherlock, Bishop, his style elegant, iii. 262.
She Stoops to Conquer, performed
for the first time, ii. 196 n.; thought not likely to succeed, 198 n.; dedicated to Johnson, 204.
Shiels, Robert, one of Johnson's amanuenses, the compiler of Cibber's Lives of the Poets, i. 139, iii. 80, 85, 470; his character by Mr. Griffiths, 472, 473. Ship of Fools, Barclay's, contains the earliest English Eclogues, i.
Shipley, Dr., Bishop of St. Asaph, iv. 175; chaplain to the Duke of Cumberland, iii. 265. Shop, Johnson advises dealing with a 66 stately shop," in which it is not worth their while to take a petty advantage, iv. 234.
Short hand, Johnson cannot believe in the taking down of speeches in parliament, ii. 212; writes a preface or dedication of a book on, 212; Boswell's method of, iii. 279; experiments on, by Jolinson, 279.
Sibbald, Sir Robert, the Scottish Antiquary, Life of, iii. 245. Sibyl, "It has all the contortions of the, without the inspiration," said by Burke of an imitation of Johnson's style, iv. 21. Siddons, Mrs., visits Johnson, and tells him the characters she is to play in the winter, iv. 172; Johnson jokes her about the want of seats; and she promises to play Queen Catharine, 172; talks of different actresses and of Garrick, 173.
Simpleton, a memorable, ii. 185 n. Simpson, Mr. Charles, town clerk of Lichfield, iv. 282.
Joseph, Johnson's letter to, i. 274, 275; his tragedy The Patriot, iii. 72.
Sinclair, Sir John, a writer on agriculture and statistics, iv. 86. Sister, Johnson deplores his want of a, i. 263; Gibbon on the re- lation of brother and sister, 263 n.; Johnson says, "Good brothers make good sisters," 264. Sister, The, a comedy, by Mrs. Lennox, iii. 433. "Sixpence, Boswell lend me, not to be repaid," iv. 131. Skene, Sir John, a learned anti- quary and ancestor of Boswell's, iii. 402.
Sketches of the History of Man, by Lord Kames, Johnson reads and criticizes, iii. 339. Sleep. How much is necessary?
Smalbroke, Dr., i. 94 n. Smalridge, his sermons com- mended, iii. 262.
Smart, Christopher, Johnson's ac- count of, i. 315; his madness,
315; not included among the British poets, 315 n. Smith, Dr. Adam, an upholder of rhyme as against blank verse, i. 340; elected to the Club, 340 n.; his Wealth of Nations, iii. 19; on the wealth of the Universi- ties, iii. 66; his letter subjoined to Hume's Life, iii. 152; John- son's rudeness to, iv. 127.
Edmund, Life of, by John- son, quoted, iii. 379.
Lord Chief Baron, account of, iv. 101 n.
Rev. Mr., vicar of Southill, iv. 76. Smithson, Sir Hugh, afterwards Earl of Northumberland, ii. 129.
Smollett, Tobias, for many years editor of the Critical Review, iii. 81.
Snakes, concerning, in the Natural history of Iceland, iii. 288. Sociality, Johnson's, iv. 208. Society, civilized and savage, com- pared, i. 349, 350; Johnson en- joys, as much as the youngest man, at intervals even during his illness, iv. 199, 200. Solander, Dr., ii. 145 n.
Soldiers and sailors, their lives compared, iii. 277.
Solicitude, Johnson's, at not hear- ing from Boswell, iii. 385. Solitude, Grainger's Ode on, iii.
Somerville, Lord, says he had dined with Pope, and found him “ gay and entertaining,” iv. 14; his encouragement of Boswell as a young man, and Boswell's tri- bute to his memory, 14 n. Songs, Beswell sings his own, in society, ii. 111 n.
Sorbonne library visited, ii. 360. Sorrow, different effects of, iv. 44; "Excessive sorrow is exceed. ing dry," Mr. Wilkes's senti- mental anecdote, iv. 256 n. South, his sermons on Prayer re
commended by Johnson, ii. 106, 262.
Southill, Johnson's visit to Squire Dilly there, iv. 72. Southwark, Johnson has an apart- ment in Mr. Thrale's house at, ii. 16.
Southwell, Lord (second), his good breeding and fine manners, iv. '118, 385; his son, "that right dishonourable and ignoble peer,"
Lady, Johnson's letters to, about Mauritius Lowe, iv. 385, 386.
Spain, Twiss's Travels in, as good as Addison's, if you ex- cept the learning," ii. 315; John- son advises Boswell to travel in, i. 360.
Spark, the electric, from the human body, Anna Williams claims to have been the first to observe and notify, ii. 43. Speaking, public, Johnson's power of, ii. 136, 137.
Johnson's mode of, very im- pressive, ii. 300. Spectator, The, an edition with notes proposed, ii. 201; praised by Johnson, ii. 336; the part not written by Addison full of bad papers, iii. 81; No. 626, On Novelty, by Grove, one of the finest pieces in the English lan- guage, 81. Speculum Humane Salvationis, noticed by Johnson in Paris, ii.
Speech, a good one has its effect, though not one vote be gained, iii. 250.
Spence, Rev. Joseph, his account of Blacklock, i. 370; his anec- dotes, iv. 25.
Spencer, John George, second Earl, iii. 410.
Spenser, it is proposed to Johnson to write a life of, iv. 315. Spleen, The, a poem by Matthew Green, iii. 393.
Spottiswoode, of that ilk, his con- versation with Johnson, iii. 327. Andrew and William, iv. 408. Spurs, Johnson's, lost from the boat in Sky, iv, 315.
Staffa, the island of, sold, iii. 166. Stage coach travelling, inconve- niences of, i. 385.
Stanhope, Mr., Lord Chesterfield's son, iv. 244.
Stanton, Mr., manager of the Lich- field theatre, iii. 46.
Stanyan, Temple, author of an Account of Switzerland and Greece, iii. 353.
Statue of Johnson at Lichfield, i. 14; of Johnson by Bacon, the first monument placed in St. Paul's, iv. 411.
Staunton, Dr., Johnson's letter to, i. 291.
Steele, Joshua, his Prosodia Ratio- nalis, ii. 300 n.
Sir Richard, his Christian Hero, iii. 34; Johnson's saying that he "practised the lighter vices," 34. Steevens, George, the possessor of the dial plate of Johnson's watch in Boswell's time, ii. 70; makes a collection of the translations Shakespeare might have seen, 114; republishes Johnson's Shakespeare, with valuable ad- ditions, 194; Johnson proposes him for the Literary Club, 254, 255; his generous uid to a rela- tive of Goldsmith, iii. 134; ac- cused of underhand practices, iii. 290; supplies Johnson with anec- dotes and quotations, iv. 3; con- tributed greatly to the Apoph- thegms, iv. 238; gives Boswell some particulars, 238, 239. Stenography, Johnson writes a dedication for a book on, ii. 212.
Stephanorum Historia, by Mait- taire, iii. 427.
Sterne, his popularity, ii. 209; Johnson says he would not have
deigned to look at his sermons, if he had been "at large," 209 n. Stewart, Mr. Francis, one of John- son's amanuenses, iii. 405-8.
Mrs., Johnson offers her a guinea for a letter in her posses- sion, iv. 189, 192. Stick, Johnson provides himself with an enormous one, in con- sequence of Macpherson's threats, ii. 277.
Still, Bishop, Sir John Harring- ton's fine character of, applied by Boswell to Johnson, iv. 323. Stillingfleet, Mr. Benjamin, ac- count of, iv. 61.
Stinton, Dr., Chaplain to Arch- bishop Secker, iii. 288. Stockdale, Rev. Percival, his pane- gyric on Johnson, ii. 113. Stone seats at Johnson's garden door, on which Johnson and Bos- well sit and talk after church on Good Friday, iv. 140. Stourbridge, the school at, i. 22. Stories, untrue, circulated regard- ing Johnson, iv. 113.
Story, "the value of every story depends on its being true," iii. 22; Foote's and Reynolds' com- pared, 22 n.
Strahan, William, the printer, endeavours to get Johnson into the House of Commons, ii. 124, 296, 297; says, "small certain-
ties are the bane of men of talents," 297; at school, i. 399-404; and Cadell purchase Blair's Sermons, iii. 132; a diffe- rence between him and Johnson, 359; a good judge of what is not an epigram, 271; his death, iv. 55; Johnson's letter to Mrs. Strahan, 55.
Rev. George, Johnson's letters to, at school, i. 399-404; at Ox- ford, advising him as to his read- ing, ii. 376; Johnson leaves him some books, iv. 309; attends Johnson carefully in his last ill- ness, iv. 319; justified in the
Streatham, Johnson has an apart ment in Mr. Thrale's house at, ii. 16; Johnson takes leave of, iv. 107.
Stuart, the family of, discussed, ii. 207.
Mr. Andrew, his letters to Lord Mansfield, ii. 216.
Rev. Mr. James, of Killin, translator of the Bible into Gaelic, ii. 45-7.
Rev. William, vicar of Luton, introduced to Johnson, iv. 136. Studies, notes of Johnson's, ii. 244. Style, Johnson's, i. 164-6; John-
son's opinion on the style of various writers, i. 166; several writers compared by Boswell, i. 170; Addison's, 170, 171; imi- tators of Johnson's, iv. 294-9; must be defined, before deter- mining what is good and bad, ii. 183; different writers may be distinguished by their, iii. 288; Johnson's, in the Lives of the Poets, iv. 5; "I admire him, but I cannot bear his style," War- burton and Johnson say of each other, 12; Burke's witty sayings on imitations of Johnson's, 21. St. Clement Danes, Church of, Johnson, having his seat there, attends with Boswell, ii. 202, 324, 325, iv. 140, 145. St. Denis, visited, ii. 362. St. Eustatia, visited, ii. 361. St. Germain, the library of, ii. 361. St. Gluvias, Cornwall, Boswell's
friend Temple, vicar of, i. 347 n. St. John's Gate, regarded with
reverence by Johnson, i. 76. St. Paul's, it is proposed to erect monuments to eminent persons in, ii. 223; Milton's should be the first, 224.
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