GOLDSMITH, quarrel with Johnson, "I was not inter- "take my religion from the priest as I take Good, no man naturally: no more than a wolf, Johnson. humour increases as we grow older, 594 can be acquired, Johnson, 594 of ancient philosophers explained, 261 Good Friday, shops open on, 223 "Good things," Johnson on the advantage of Johnson not to "pick them," 438 Gordon, Sir A., at Aberdeen, 557 Gordon Castle: "the Duke not at home," 564 n Governing by one person preferable for a great Government, by a despot: "an inverted cone," 341 has too little power, 222 lack of power to meet "a storm of vulgar Grace at dinner, Johnson on, 157 at St Andrews; absurd story about Johnson seasons for saying, 567 Graddened meal, cakes of, at Rasay, 580 66 3 'Ode to Solitude," "very le," Johnson, 316 Grange, Lady, confined in St Kilda, "true story" of, "Granger's Biographical History" entertains Johnson, History full of curious anecdotes, 608 Grate and fire shovel; superstitious practice, 375 Graves, Rev. Mr, writing for Lady Miller's "Vase," Gray, Mason's Life of, "dull," 266 and Mason, Johnson's low opinion of, 218 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 "Greek like lace, everyone gets as much as he can," 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 Henley, Red Lion at, and Shenstone's lines, 251 "Hermit hoar and evening grey," instead of grey the, brought tears to Johnson's eyes, 440 "Heroic Epistle," written by Walpole, buckramed by Hervey, Henry, friend of Johnson, 21 Hervey's Mr Thomas, separation from his wife, 233 High Life below Stairs " praised, 389 High people the best, tradespeople the worst," etc., Highland chief, like an attorney-landlord, 645 dustry, 601 "Highlands, who can like the?" Johnson's answer, Hill, Dr (Sir John), Johnson on, 134 author of Mrs Glasse's Cookery-Book, 342 Hoadly, Dr, "The Suspicious Husband," Johnson on, 137 Hob-nob," Johnson asked to, by Miss Graham, Hodge, Johnson's cat, 442 Hollis, Thomas, the strenuous Whig, discussed, 414 House, disrepair of, and the Douglas Cause, 641 Home, and Sheridan's medal, 214 Home, "Johnny," and Sheridan's medal, 640 Home life of Johnson described by Dr Maxwell, Homer, Johnson and Lord Monboddo discuss him, praised, 158 "Homerick, that's," of Johnson's stick, 555 pleased with everything. "Little do they know," Hooke's Apology for the Duchess of Marlborough: Hoole brought up in Grub Street, "regularly reads Church Service to Johnson on his death- Horace, lyrical parts cannot be well translated, 362 Horne Tooke's, "English Particle" praised by John- 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 Hospitals, in, "all the good is done by one man," 271 16 Hottentot respectable," not applied to Johnson, 62 ICOMKILL, fine passage on, by Johnson, 309 " sailing to, Johnson and Boswell, the visit and "Idea," wrong use of the word, 316 66 'one, and that wrong," 157 Idleness, no settled indulgence in tolerated, 390 Ignorance in high places, 147 Illness, last, Johnson's (March 1782), 428 progress of, described in letters to friends, 488 Improving writings by revision or rewriting, Johnson on, 475 Ince and others pointed out at coffee-houses as writers Inchkeith described, 548 Inchkenneth, Johnson's Latin lines on, 630 Independence, Johnson's, with Lord Errol, 25 Inequality in society, 183 Infidel, as to respectful treatment of, in controversy, Inscriptions, mortuary, should be in Latin, as intended an English one a disgrace to Smollett, Johnson, Insects on, 192 Instances of subservience, 25 n Interest, why lower when money is plentiful, etc., Intromission, vicious, Johnson's argument on, 546 INVERARY CASTLE, and the Duke of Argyle, visit to, "Inverted understanding," 368 Invitations, Johnson "harassed by," at Edinburgh, rash, to foreign countries, from relations, John. 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, and English mix better than Scotch do with Johnson, a kindness for, 377 language, Teutonic, 328 clergy, Swift and Berkeley, 159 gentlemen, full of pride of family: Johnson's Isa Island, offered to Johnson: his playing with the Island, every, a prison, 608 Italy, Johnson preparing to go to, with the Thrales, Johnson preferred going to, because few literati 703 KAMES, Lord, Johnson on, 146 Keddlestone, Lord Scarsdale's seat, visit to, 305 "the world has opened its arms to it"- Kenrick, Dr, attacks Johnson, 140 Kilda, St, fanciful scheme of buying it, 164 natives catching cold on arrival of a poetry, "poor because few images," John- history of, "a pretty piece of topography," Killaloe, the Bishop of, his lines on Johnson, 419 n Johnson, 419 King George III., Johnson's interview with, 133 King, the, Johnson for, against Fox, but for Fox against "King's right" usurped by House of Commons Kingsburgh, arrival at, Flora Macdonald's house, 585 Knowledge, diffusion of, injurious to the vulgar? universality of Johnson's-tanning-nature of 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 LANGTON BENNET, "will go to Heaven." Langton's collection of Johnson's remarks, 388 will and Johnson's merriment, 196 Langton, Mr Peregrine, account of, 128 n "Lanky" and "Goldy," Johnson's nicknames, 624 n Latin spoken by Johnson in France, 237 Lauder's imposture, Johnson's defence of, 53 Laughers, the, we should live with, for a time, 439 Law, getting on at, in town, 311 "Law injures morality," Johnson, 136 Law's "Serious Call," Johnson's praise of, 156 Learned and unlearned, differ as the living and the Learning, decrease of, in England and Scotland, 554 the, of a certain person, "it never lies straight; Leaving London, recipe for. "We'll send you to Lectures, college, discussed, 413 Legitimation of offspring by subsequent marriage, 252 Leland, Dr, his "History of Ireland," 194 Lemonade, Johnson's, and the waiter's fingers, 553 Leonard's, St, College, visit to, 549 Letter, when lost "of immense value;" when found "Letter to the People of Scotland," Boswell's pam- Levee, priority of admission at, 222 Lever's Museum should be bought for the nation, Levett, Robert, 56 Percy's account of his breakfast, 323 n Liberality, Johnson's, to Mrs Desmoulins, Miss Car- Johnson's, accompanied by "paltry saving," 441 of conscience and liberty of teaching, distin- all boys love liberty, till they find out they are Library abroad, where "the key could never be Licentiousness and imagination, 348 "most vulgar ruffian," according to Garrick, 255 Life given to each one on particular conditions, 272 every man would lead it over again, 474 Lincoln, Boswell at, 362 Literary Club, the, founded; members, etc., 118 work, not property, is taxable, 547 property, judges not gone deep into, 553 Literature in France and England compared, 333 respect from a carpenter, 419 -Johnson's, completed in 1781, 397 various readings in Life of Cowley, Waller, Lobo's "Abyssinia," Johnson's first work, 16 scene at, 635 Lochness hut, scene with old woman at, 569 London, Johnson prefers to come to, for his last sick- Johnson's love of, 490 n MACALLAN, EUPHAM, a fantastic Scotchwoman, M'Aulay, Kenneth, author of "St Kilda," visit to, 565 Mr John, grotesque dispute with Johnson, 640 Macbeth's "blasted heath," Johnson and Boswell Castle, at Inverness, Johnson's visit to, 568 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, 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 Macheath, Capt., Johnson likened to, 414 Macklin's (?) conversation a "continual renovation of Maclaurin's (Lord Dreghorn), imitation of Johnson's his father's habit of yawning, 262 and 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, M'Leod, Mr John, Laird of Rasay, his corrections of his struggle with his debts, 583 M'Leod, Malcolm of Rasay, sketch of, 578 -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'Sweyn at Grisspol, 618 Madmen, are often, all through their life, without its Madness and melancholy distinct, 310 Magdalen, the, "Thy faith hath," etc., the manner Magistrate, the dull country, "boring" Johnson, 476 Mallet, Goldsmith's complaint to, 187 "the prettiest dressed puppet about town:" and never wrote a line of his Life of Marlborough, 370 Man, a, lessened by another acquiring, equal know- of the world, "you may be so much a man of Man, Isle of, Tour to, proposed, 280 Mankind, experience makes us think better of, 328 Manners, account of, the most valuable form of History, Mansfield, Lord, on Johnson's "Journey," 213 Johnson "the greatest man in England except- had no literary fame, 312 Manucci, Count, 283 n Maps of the East Indies better than those of Scotland, Marchmont, Lord, Johnson's interview with, 372 Boswell's visit to, concerning Pope, and Johnson's Market-Bosworth, school, Johnson usher at, 15 Marmalade, Mrs Boswell's, 289 in, no account of the moral character of a man, 470 daughter's, a father no right to constrain his, Bill, the Royal, disapproved by Johnson, 165 "Marriages" happier if made by the Lord Chancellor, Married life and second marriage, Johnson on, 143 |