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GOLDSMITH, quarrel with Johnson, "I was not inter-
rupting, Sir," etc., and reconciliation, 194
"referred everything to vanity," 267
stopped by the German: "Toctor Shonson
is going to say something," 195

"take my religion from the priest as I take
my coat from the tailor," 182

Good, no man naturally: no more than a wolf, Johnson.
"This is worse than Swift," Lady Macleod,
594

humour increases as we grow older, 594

can be acquired, Johnson, 594

of ancient philosophers explained, 261
a rare thing, 224

Good Friday, shops open on, 223

"Good things," Johnson on the advantage of
recording, 438

Johnson not to "pick them," 438

Gordon, Sir A., at Aberdeen, 557

Gordon Castle: "the Duke not at home," 564 n
Gory and Ritter riding together in Scotland, 555
Gout, Dr Cadogan's book on, 594

Governing by one person preferable for a great
nation, 270

Government, by a despot: "an inverted cone," 341
carried on by the disagreements of those governed,
150

has too little power, 222

lack of power to meet "a storm of vulgar
force," 549

Grace at dinner, Johnson on, 157

at St Andrews; absurd story about Johnson
contradicted, 55г

seasons for saying, 567

Graddened meal, cakes of, at Rasay, 580
Graham and Goldsmith, "Doctor Minor," 560
Grainger's sugar-cane ridiculed, 25

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'Ode to Solitude," "very le," Johnson, 316
Grammar, knowing, a man the better for, etc.,
Johnson, 571

Grange, Lady, confined in St Kilda, "true story" of,
599 et seq.

"Granger's Biographical History" entertains Johnson,
284

History full of curious anecdotes, 608
Granville, Lord, letter on Battle of Dettingen, "a
tallow-chandler's letter," 390

Grate and fire shovel; superstitious practice, 375
Gratitude not found among gross people, 601
Grave, no letters received in, 507

Graves, Rev. Mr, writing for Lady Miller's "Vase,"
218

Gray, Mason's Life of, "dull," 266

and Mason, Johnson's low opinion of, 218
Johnson on, 98

Gray's Odes condemned, 391

Odes criticised, 215

Odes, Johnson on, 168

Great, and persons of fashion; Johnson at "the

elegant tables of," 480

Great First Cause, the, 395 and n

GREAT PERSONAGE, A, George III. referred to, 50
learning, books recommended for, 376

"Greek like lace, everyone gets as much as he can,"
Johnson, 393

Johnson's knowledge of, 499

Greeks and Romans, the mass barbarians, 169

Green Man Inn at Ashbourne, and M. Killingley's

note, 318

Green's, R., museum at Lichfield, 255

Grief for relations transient, 299

Grierson, the Dublin printer, 155

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Henley, Red Lion at, and Shenstone's lines, 251
Henry's "History of Britain," 355

"Hermit hoar and evening grey," instead of grey
evening, 305

the, brought tears to Johnson's eyes, 440
Hermits and monks, Johnson on: "I could kiss the
feet of a hermit," 550

"Heroic Epistle," written by Walpole, buckramed by
Mason, 477

Hervey, Henry, friend of Johnson, 21

Hervey's Mr Thomas, separation from his wife, 233
"Meditations," Johnson's poor opinion of,
637

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High Life below Stairs " praised, 389

High people the best, tradespeople the worst," etc.,
361

Highland chief, like an attorney-landlord, 645
should raise his rents by promoting in-

dustry, 601

"Highlands, who can like the?" Johnson's answer,
645

Hill, Dr (Sir John), Johnson on, 134

author of Mrs Glasse's Cookery-Book, 342
Historical facts, Johnson on, 144

Hoadly, Dr, "The Suspicious Husband," Johnson

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on, 137

Hob-nob," Johnson asked to, by Miss Graham,
"let us reciprocate," 376

Hodge, Johnson's cat, 442

Hollis, Thomas, the strenuous Whig, discussed, 414
Holyrood, visit to, 545

House, disrepair of, and the Douglas Cause, 641
Homage, and memorials to Johnson after his death,
list of pictures, etc., 509

Home, and Sheridan's medal, 214

Home, "Johnny," and Sheridan's medal, 640

Home life of Johnson described by Dr Maxwell,
155

Homer, Johnson and Lord Monboddo discuss him,
554

praised, 158

"Homerick, that's," of Johnson's stick, 555
"Honest man," the Scotch of, Johnson, 611

pleased with everything. "Little do they know,"
etc., Boswell, 625

Hooke's Apology for the Duchess of Marlborough:
received a large sum for, 582

Hoole brought up in Grub Street, "regularly
educated," Johnson, 440
recommended by Johnson, 407

reads Church Service to Johnson on his death-
bed, "louder, my dear Sir," 506
Hoole's uncle, "the metaphysical tailor," 440
Hopetoun, Lord, his story of the child and Milton,
399 n

Horace, lyrical parts cannot be well translated, 362
Horace's "Difficile. . . communia dicere," discussion
on, 278 and n
Horne, Dr, 249

Horne Tooke's, "English Particle" praised by John-
son, 361

Horrebow, "The Natural History of Ireland," "there

are no snakes," etc., 340

Horses, old, what should be done with, Boswell's

question to Johnson, 457

Hospitality in London, 184

in the country, warning against, 449
lavish old, not needed now, 392

Hospitals, in, "all the good is done by one man," 271

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Hottentot respectable," not applied to Johnson, 62

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ICOMKILL, fine passage on, by Johnson, 309 "

sailing to, Johnson and Boswell, the visit and
ruins described, 632 and #

"Idea," wrong use of the word, 316

66 'one, and that wrong," 157

Idleness, no settled indulgence in tolerated, 390
"Idler, The," begun, 79

Ignorance in high places, 147

Illness, last, Johnson's (March 1782), 428

progress of, described in letters to friends,

488
Imitations of Johnson's style; specimens of, 499
Imlac in "Rasselas " spelt with a c at the end, 395
Imports should be more than your exports," Johr-
son of the mind, 450
Impressions, do not trust to, 421

Improving writings by revision or rewriting, Johnson

on, 475

Ince and others pointed out at coffee-houses as writers
in "The Spectator," 267

Inchkeith described, 548

Inchkenneth, Johnson's Latin lines on, 630
Income of £5000 a year equal to all wants, according
to Lord Shelburne, 336

Independence, Johnson's, with Lord Errol, 25
Index, Milton set down as Mr Milton, 479
India, making money in, 374

Inequality in society, 183

Infidel, as to respectful treatment of, in controversy,

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Inscriptions, mortuary, should be in Latin, as intended
to be permanent, 576

an English one a disgrace to Smollett, Johnson,
642

Insects on, 192

Instances of subservience, 25 n

Interest, why lower when money is plentiful, etc.,
Lord Kames's problem, 357

Intromission, vicious, Johnson's argument on, 546
Intuition and sagacity distinguished, 482

INVERARY CASTLE, and the Duke of Argyle, visit to,
described, 638

"Inverted understanding," 368

Invitations, Johnson "harassed by," at Edinburgh,
650

rash, to foreign countries, from relations, John.
son on, 481

Invocation of saints, 194

Inward light, the, 157

Ireland, Johnson's aversion to, 377

north of, and Scotland, connection between, 628

"Irene," Johnson's tragedy, 22

Irish Historical writers, Johnson on, 156

scholars among, gentlemen deficient in quality,
159

and English mix better than Scotch do with
them, 189

Johnson, a kindness for, 377

language, Teutonic, 328

clergy, Swift and Berkeley, 159

gentlemen, full of pride of family: Johnson's
instance, 610

Isa Island, offered to Johnson: his playing with the
notion, 606

Island, every, a prison, 608

Italy, Johnson preparing to go to, with the Thrales,
263

Johnson preferred going to, because few literati
in France, 600 and n

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KAMES, Lord, Johnson on, 146

Keddlestone, Lord Scarsdale's seat, visit to, 305
Keith, visit from, to Johnson, in Scotland, 568
Kelly, Hugh, Prologue by Johnson to his Play, 291
Kempis Thomas à, many editions of "The Imita-
tion," 467

"the world has opened its arms to it"-
a passage that so struck Johnson, 325
Kennicott's Collations praised, 157

Kenrick, Dr, attacks Johnson, 140
-Johnson, defended against, by "a boy at Oxford,"
(Barclay), 613

Kilda, St, fanciful scheme of buying it, 164
and "taking cold," 137

natives catching cold on arrival of a
stranger, 79

poetry, "poor because few images," John-
son, 600

history of, "a pretty piece of topography,"
Johnson, 565

Killaloe, the Bishop of, his lines on Johnson, 419 n
Kindness, spontaneous, "always set a high value on,"

Johnson, 419

King George III., Johnson's interview with, 133
King of Sweden, "he would not speak to us,"
Johnson; "I am sure Mr Boswell would
speak to him" (M'Leod), 595

King, the, Johnson for, against Fox, but for Fox against
Pitt, 471

"King's right" usurped by House of Commons
(1783), 436

Kingsburgh, arrival at, Flora Macdonald's house, 585
Kippis, Dr, praise of, 310
Kissing Johnson, the " young married lady," 610.
'Knotting next to mere idleness; " Johnson once tried
to learn it, 468

Knowledge, diffusion of, injurious to the vulgar?
267

universality of Johnson's-tanning-nature of
milk, etc., 605

Knowles, Mrs, the Quakeress, at dinner with John-

son, 341

Mrs, and her "sutile pictures," 345 n

Knox buried, "I hope in a highway," Johnson,

550

Knox, Dr, attack on Oxford, 501
Kristrom, a Swede, 165

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LANGTON BENNET, "will go to Heaven."
anima mea cum Langtono," 467

Langton's collection of Johnson's remarks, 388

will and Johnson's merriment, 196

Langton, Mr Peregrine, account of, 128 n
Language, origin of, due to inspiration, 445

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"Lanky" and "Goldy," Johnson's nicknames, 624 n
"Last link of a chain, its clanking absurd,” etc.,
Grattan, Johnson's objection, 477
moments of Johnson described, 507

Latin spoken by Johnson in France, 237
"Latiner no," but a good preacher, 440 #
Laud and Prince Charles, 182

Lauder's imposture, Johnson's defence of, 53

Laughers, the, we should live with, for a time, 439
Law reports, poor, 184

Law, getting on at, in town, 311

"Law injures morality," Johnson, 136

Law's "Serious Call," Johnson's praise of, 156
Lawyer, and the justness of his cause discussed, 541
Laziness" worse than toothache," etc., 600
Lead mine in Col, visit to, 622

Learned and unlearned, differ as the living and the
dead, 391

Learning, decrease of, in England and Scotland, 554

the, of a certain person, "it never lies straight;
never one idea by the side of another," etc., 450

Leaving London, recipe for. "We'll send you to
him," addressed to Boswell, 350

Lectures, college, discussed, 413
Leeds, Duke of, doggerel on, 391 and n
Legacies, Boswell's excuse for Johnson's not leaving
him one, 505 n

Legitimation of offspring by subsequent marriage, 252
Leith and "Lethe," 548

Leland, Dr, his "History of Ireland," 194

Lemonade, Johnson's, and the waiter's fingers, 553
"Lend me sixpence, not to be repaid," Johnson, 441
Lenox, Mrs, and Goldsmith, on hissing her play, 390
Leod, the first of the Clan, came from Isle of Man ;
inscription on him, 601

Leonard's, St, College, visit to, 549
"Leonidas" criticised, 565

Letter, when lost "of immense value;" when found
"it did not signify anything," 453

"Letter to the People of Scotland," Boswell's pam-
phlet, 460

Levee, priority of admission at, 222

Lever's Museum should be bought for the nation,
Johnson, 482

Levett, Robert, 56

Percy's account of his breakfast, 323 n
death of, and Johnson's verses on, 426
Lewis, an under master, author of verses in notes to
"The Dunciad," 475

Liberality, Johnson's, to Mrs Desmoulins, Miss Car-
michael, and Mrs Williams, 324

Johnson's, accompanied by "paltry saving," 441
his, but dependent on humour, 335
Liberty, popular, Johnson's contempt of, 140

of conscience and liberty of teaching, distin-
guished, 448

all boys love liberty, till they find out they are
fit to govern themselves, 369

Library abroad, where "the key could never be
found," 551

Licentiousness and imagination, 348
Lichfield, actor, of "courtly vivacity," Johnson; a

"most vulgar ruffian," according to Garrick, 255
Johnson's last visit to, in 1784, 495
Boswell's account of his stay at, and at Chester,
377, 378, 379

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Life given to each one on particular conditions, 272
more to be endured than enjoyed, 157

every man would lead it over again, 474
balance of happiness and misery in, 473
Lilliburlero, 220

Lincoln, Boswell at, 362

Literary Club, the, founded; members, etc., 118
property, 195

work, not property, is taxable, 547

property, judges not gone deep into, 553
journals, Johnson on, 134

Literature in France and England compared, 333
French, "they have a book upon every subject,”
Johnson on, 453

respect from a carpenter, 419
"Lives of the Poets," 290

-Johnson's, completed in 1781, 397

various readings in Life of Cowley, Waller,
Milton, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Parnell,
Blackmore, Philips, Congreve, Tickell, Aken-
side, Lyttelton, Young, Swift, 397-404
Lloyd, "one of the people called Quakers,” 253.
Lobo, Johnson's translation of, "take no notice of
it," 260

Lobo's "Abyssinia," Johnson's first work, 16
Lochbuy, visit to, at Moy, and sketch of Johnson,
634

scene at, 635

Lochness hut, scene with old woman at, 569
Locke and his Latin verses, 559 n
Lombe's silk mill at Derby, 307
"London," a poem, 25

London, Johnson prefers to come to, for his last sick-
ness, 495

Johnson's love of, 490 n

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MACALLAN, EUPHAM, a fantastic Scotchwoman,
Lord Hailes' sketch of, 544

M'Aulay, Kenneth, author of "St Kilda," visit to, 565
his angry discussion with Johnson, 566

Mr John, grotesque dispute with Johnson, 640
Macbean, Johnson's application for his admission to
the Charterhouse, 387

Macbeth's "blasted heath," Johnson and Boswell
at: "All hail, Dalblair : hail to thee, Laird of
Auchinleck," 565

Castle, at Inverness, Johnson's visit to, 568
"Maccaroni, a," Boswell, so styled by Johnson, 555
Maccaronic verses, origin of, 341

Macaulay, Mrs, rouging, 270

Johnson"pitted against," 313

M'Craas at Glensheal, 573 and n

M'Cruslick, or Sandie M'Leod, his dancing at Rasay,
580, 583

Macdonald, Sir A., evening with, 166

Boswell's attacks on, 574, 575

Macdonald, Lady M., adored in Sky, 609

Macdonald, Sir James, his monument and inscription,

his virtues, 575 n

Macdonald, Flora, and old Kingsburgh, 609
Macdonald, Sir J., his bond to Kingsburgh, 609
"M'Gregor, Dr," Johnson to change his name to,
568

Macheath, Capt., Johnson likened to, 414
Mackenzie, Sir, G., his book criticised, 594

Macklin's (?) conversation a "continual renovation of
hope," etc., 156

Maclaurin's (Lord Dreghorn), imitation of Johnson's
style, 225

his father's habit of yawning, 262 and n
his epitaph on his father, 547 n

M'Leans, the, Johnson and Boswell near Tobermorie,

626

M'Lean, Sir Allen, Boswell with, at Inchkenneth,

629

M'Lean, Sir A., and his clansman, 633

M'Lean, Rev. Hector, Johnson's grotesque scene with,
618

M'Leod, Mr John, Laird of Rasay, his corrections of
Johnson's "Journey," and Boswell's letter to,
655

his struggle with his debts, 583
M'Leod, Donald, Mr, describes Johnson: "First,
struck with awful reverence; second, you admire
him; third, you love him," 613

M'Leod, Malcolm of Rasay, sketch of, 578
M'Leod, Lady of Dunvegan, 593
Macpherson, 205

-Johnson's famous letter to, 207

M'Pherson at Ostig, and his Latin Ode, 611

MacQuarry's sale, 298

the travellers at, 628

M'Queen, "A," Highland expression, 570 n
M'Queen of Rasay praised by Johnson, 580
civilities to Johnson, 579, 580

M'Sweyn at Grisspol, 618

Madmen, are often, all through their life, without its
being known, 395

Madness and melancholy distinct, 310

Magdalen, the, "Thy faith hath," etc., the manner
most affecting, 389

Magistrate, the dull country, "boring" Johnson, 476
"Main honest," Johnson (Scotch opinion of), 623
"Malagrida," Goldsmith's " blundering speech 20
Lord Shelburne, 437

Mallet, Goldsmith's complaint to, 187

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"the prettiest dressed puppet about town:" and
his life of Marlborough, 582

never wrote a line of his Life of Marlborough, 370
ready for any "dirty job," 158

Man, a, lessened by another acquiring, equal know-
ledge, 184

of the world, "you may be so much a man of
the world as to be nothing in the world," 367
a, whether best drawn by Milton or Shakspeare,
408

Man, Isle of, Tour to, proposed, 280
Managing one's affairs-where a consciousness of in-
capacity, 412

Mankind, experience makes us think better of, 328
Manner, roughness of Johnson's, an advantage or
the reverse, 471

Manners, account of, the most valuable form of History,
554

Mansfield, Lord, on Johnson's "Journey," 213

Johnson "the greatest man in England except-
ing," 559

had no literary fame, 312

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Manucci, Count, 283 n

Maps of the East Indies better than those of Scotland,
223

Marchmont, Lord, Johnson's interview with, 372

Boswell's visit to, concerning Pope, and Johnson's
refusal to go to him, 358

Market-Bosworth, school, Johnson usher at, 15
Marital infidelity, in case of, is retaliation justified?
264

Marmalade, Mrs Boswell's, 289
"Marmor Norfolciense," 31
Marriage: "a lady will take Jonathan Wild as readily
as St Austin if he have threepence more," 470
is it "natural to man?" 168

in, no account of the moral character of a man, 470
a second, the triumph of hope over experience;
and good sense necessary in a wife, 158
with an inferior, on, 216

daughter's, a father no right to constrain his,
368

Bill, the Royal, disapproved by Johnson, 165
late, inadvisable, but preferable to "cheerless
celibacy," 158

"Marriages" happier if made by the Lord Chancellor,
254

Married life and second marriage, Johnson on, 143
Martinelli, on, and foreigners writing history, 184

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