FULL INDEX OF NAMES, TOPICS, AND OPINIONS THIS Index, which has been made by the Editor himself, after considerable thought and labour, will, it is hoped, be found clear of the common defects which attend most indexes. No proper or sufficient index can be made vicariously: it requires a thorough acquaintance with the book treated, so as to anticipate by a sort of instinct what topics the reader would desire to search for. Indexes are generally too minutely elaborate, too meagre, or too indefinite. Dr Birkbeck Hill's Index fills a volume of four hundred pages in double columns, and is so bewilderingly profuse in its entries, that it is difficult to find one's way through it. It almost seems necessary to have an index to the Index. The common meagre index, that fills three or four pages, leaves out everything that the reader wishes to look for, and is too general. In those of Mr Croker's pattern we have references to every person that is even named, so that wishing, say, to search for something about Dr Mead, we shall find that his name is simply mentioned, as thus: "A great physician, like Dr Mead, might say so-and-so." This sort of thing leads to what Johnson might describe as a constant renovation of hope, to be followed by disappointment. I have tried to combine sufficient fulness, without including matter that is altogether unimportant, and I have attempted to give the salient points and topics that are familiar to every Boswellian, so that he shall know, by a sort of catch-word, before he searches for the matter, what it is that he will find. I have also avoided the always confusing system of ranging under the word JOHNSON long successive columns of all the incidents and topics in his life; where to find anything we have to travel laboriously through the whole. With the exception of such headings as Goldsmith, Garrick, Reynolds, which usually offer crowds of facts and references, I have preferred to indicate the character of the topics under their proper heads. I think this is a far more logical distribution. Under any conditions, however, the "labor" of the arrangement is certainly "improbus." The analysis of the letters, which is conscientiously done, is a novelty, and will, I think, be found useful. 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 66 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 everything, except narrative, Johnson, 544 Apparitions, possible, 413 Applause of a single being of the greatest consequence, 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, "a narrow man" from letters between him and Johnson, 641 church, "largest and most luminous in any 459 Astle, Dr, and Johnson, 425 Aston, Mrs, of Lichfield, 256 Aston, Molly, Johnson's Latin verses to, 357n Atlantic, Johnson crossing, in an open boat, when Attack, Johnson's rude, on Boswell, 356 by a newspaper, "are we alive after this?" 395 critical advantage of being, 218 Attacks on authors did them service, instances, 613 - Johnson's apology for so calling a person, 157 "Beadle, the," in Johnson's mind, 280 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 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 "Beggars' Opera" discussed, 225 Bellamy, Mrs, the actress, her appeal to Johnson, Benefit, free, a, Garrick's definition of, 604 Bentley, attacks on, owing to envy and because he Bentley's verses praised, "Who strives to mount," Beresford, Mrs, in the Oxford coach with Johnson, Berkeley, Bishop, his philosophy, "I refute it thus," his theory of nothing existing, save in the mind, Berwick, Duke of: Memoirs by, translation of, 342 Bible to be read with a commentary, 273 Biographer should mention all peculiarities, but not 66 vices, 304 Biographia Britannica," Johnson asked to edit, Biography, in, blemishes not to be hidden, 603 Birds, on, 192 - Johnson on, 138 Birmingham, Johnson at, 252 Johnson staying with Hector at, 16 Birthday, Johnson's (1780), seventy-one years old, 'Bishop, I should as soon think of contradicting a," never minded at a rout," 408 Bishops in the House of Lords, 170 behaviour, Johnson's rigour as to, 408 Blackfriars Bridge, and Mylne, the architect, 85 his poetry, 115 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 "Blest, man never is," etc., Johnson on, 221 "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 Johnson at, 651 and n Breeding, good and bad, difference between, 478 Brentford, on seeing, Johnson's retort to Adam Smith, 440 Brewing, Johnson expounds the art of, and of coining, 595 Brewse, Major, same name as Bruce, 567 Bribery statutes directed against monied upstarts, 219 Brighton, Johnson at, with Mr Thrale, 433 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 Browne, Isaac H., drank freely for thirty years, Dr, not assisted by Garrick in his “Estimate,” Bruce, the traveller, 217 Brutes' sufferings recompensed by existence, 272 Buchan, Earl of, dispute as to precedence, 171 Buck, a, Johnson being, etc., 585 Bull, Irish, "a thing to talk of a century hence," Dr Johnson once uttered a, 479 Bunyan, John, l'ope's monument, and St Paul's, 189 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 Butchering, Johnson on, 605 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 Caligula and the Senate, 341 Calimachus criticised, 388 66 Called, being," by the dead, 413 Cambridge, Owen, dinner with, 224 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. Carleton, Captain, and his Memoirs, 481. Carlisle, Lord, his poems praised by Johnson, 419 read by Johnson, 457 Carre, Mr, his sermon in Edinburgh, 541 "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 Tillotson's argument, "an awful subject," 552 "I would be a Papist if I could, but an obstinate 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 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 dignified but insolent," 437 his complaint of "arguing with men of all Chesterfield's letters might be made "a pretty book," 271 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 Churton, Rev. R., on the balance of happiness and 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 |