father, 595 constitutional, discussed, 248 Johnson's early state of, 11 Memis, Dr, case decided, 286 Boswell's cause, argument on, by Johnson, 227 plays strange tricks, an instance of, Johnson, 552 Mercheta Mulierum of the old Charters and "Borough Merit not neglected by the world; Johnson well "Messiah," Pope's, Johnson's version of, at college, Metcalfe's, Mr P., attention to Johnson at Brighton,433 Militia in Scotland, 246 Moody, the actor, and his "Poor George II.!" 219 More, Hannah, "empty-headed" (?), 270 rebuked for her flatteries of Johnson, 344 Morgann, M., author of "Falstaff's Letters," remini- Mounsey, Dr, Johnson on, "a fellow who swore and "Mr" v. "Dr," Johnson, 544′′ Mudge, described by Johnson, a model clergyman, NABOB, a, carries it before a man of family, 562 "Negotiations, the pious," as to Johnson's increase of Negro, the argument for, and judgment, 318 253 Neni, Count, and Garrick on Abel Drugger, 267 Bishop of Bristol, criticised; Prophecies," "Non equidem invideo," etc., 348 and n Nonjurors, Johnson never knew one that could reason. the, Johnson on, 214 and # Nonsense, distinction between talking, and knowing 159 "Nose of the mind," altercation between Johnson, bleeding, Dr Taylor's, and "breaking vessels," Notes on Works of Manners, required after sixty or - in the mind, torpid by one's own fault, 333 Opera girls, French, “in keeping,” 436 Orange, butter made from orange peels, 444 Oranges, squeezed, and Johnson, 216 Orde, Chief Baron, praise of, 541 Original sin and the Atonement, Johnson's exposition Orme's praise of Johnson, 341 Orrery, Lord, dignified, 437 so generally civil that no one thanked him for Ossian, "a man might write such stuff for ever," 439 discussed at Edinburgh, and “one gentleman in test of its genuineness, 559 "Ostentatiously," Johnson "talks" at Fort George, Oughton, Sir A., praise of, 567 Commander of Forces in Scotland, his discussion "Outlaw" (Sir Geo. Steevens), "he leads the life of Oxford, Johnson at, and his course there, 10 Johnson's life at, recounted to Boswell, 168 "jaunt to," by Johnson and Boswell (1784), 468 -Johnson's last visit to, 468 PAGAN mythology, uses of, 391 If mind like pain of body must be severely felt, 456 Passion Week, dining with a Bishop in, 412 Paterson, Johnson's interest for, 284 Johnson's application for, to Reynolds, 451 Paul's, St, monument in, by Bacon, with inscrip- tion by Dr Parr, 509 Peace preserved by cowardice on both sides, 353 Peers of Scotland, representative, unconstitutional in the, opposed to the opinion of the twelve Pekin," 10,000 Londoners would drive all," 623 Pennant censured and praised, 338 praised by Boswell, 338 "the dog is a Whig," Johnson, 339 Pension, a, to Johnson, account of, 91 application to increase Johnson's, to enable Goldsmith to Johnson, "you who shelter your. Johnson expected to write for his, 213 People who disagree on a capital point, can they Pepys, Sir Weller, described, 410 n Percy, Dr W., and Johnson reconciled by Boswell, 339 his altercation with Johnson on Pennant's Tour, his descent from the House of Northumberland, Johnson's altercation with, on Dr Mounsey, 141 made Dean of Carlisle (1778), 364 on Grainger's sugar-cane, 251 n writing "History of the Wolf in Great Britain," "Peregrinity" and depeditation," Johnson's Perth, man executed at, I see the hand of Provi- Perversion of religion, all, a substitute for violated Peter the great, no practical use in his serving in the Petition to Parliament, Johnson on, 147 Philips, epitaph on, amended by Johnson, 33 614 Philips, Miss, recommended to Windham, 451 how cheerfulness was always breaking in," 347 effect of changing his religion on a, 255 Piling arms at Burgoyne's surrender insisted on, Pillory not always a disgrace, 350 Pious, a wicked fellow the most, when he takes to Pistols, Johnson's, 548 Pit, to, two people against each other, uncivil, 313 Play at Lichfield, marriage more necessary to a man Player, position of, and of Garrick, 188 Players, no respect for, 312 Plutarch, "The Rambler" on, 3 Plymouth, Johnson's visit to, with Sir Joshua, 92 should mediocre be tolerated? 222 Politeness to an inferior, Johnson's, 165 Political principles, Johnson's, 155 Politics and Pulteney, 633 honesty in, discussed, 270 modern, and principles of Government, 226 sooner have my bones broken, than talk of," Poor woman lying in street, Johnson taking her home, Poor, the employment of, a mistake? 388 on the, in London, 374 Pope, Cowley preferred to, by Johnson, 635 foolish to give all his friendship to lords, 359 Pope, in his "Essay on Man," borrowing from Arch- Pope's letter on Johnson's "Convulsions," 32 "Essay on Man," originally written by Boling- - letter to Dublin College, 28 Porter, Lucy, Johnson's stepdaughter, 139, 254 Mr, death of, Lucy Porter's brother, 456 Postage, heavy, and Johnson, 264 "Potted stories," living on (Murphy or Steevens), Powerscourt, Lord, his wager, and the French Practising, not, what one teaches does not affect a Praise from Johnson life," 466 "would make one a fool for Provisions, the carrying to a friend's house is Publishing, advice as to, 351 Puns, Johnson's aversion to, and "pun sauce," 477 fortune, Johnson's story, 478 "QUANTUM cedat virtutibus aurum," application of reproof to Boswell on, 336 "Quos Deus vult perdere," where found, 439 Quotations from Johnson's own books, his anger at, Quotidean expenses," Johnson, 635 Religion, "I never make it appear too hard," John- reflection on the value of, 448 Religious conversation uncommon, 156 acquaintances, Hussey, Latrobe, the Benedictines, "Remember, and to recollect different things," 422 Reparation is due to the reputation of the dead, 262 Reserve, Johnson's absence of, in a stage-coach, 468 Resolutions, pious failure of, in Johnson, 224 Respectful treatment of an infidel in controversy dis- Resurrection of bodies after our Saviour's death, "Retiring" from society "civil suicide," 450 from active life not proper, 550 Retort, vigorous, to the Scot on Buchanan, "only Reviewing payment, six guineas to Dr Shebbeare, Ritter, J., a Bohemian, Boswell's servant, 548 Robertson, "History of Scotland," price paid for, 355 talk censured, 357 a shallow historian, 176 Robertson's style formed on Johnson, 309 Robin Hood Society, debates at, 412, 414 Rolt, account of, 87 contract with Gardiner, the bookseller, 220 Rome, Church of, Johnson defending some of its Rorie More of Dunvegan, 593, 594 Rose, Dr, of Chiswick, his excellent retort to Johnson, 435 n public, 161 Sconser, Johnson and Boswell at, 608 Scorpion, the, in circle of fire, 138 Scotch, the, jests on, Johnson's and Wilkes', 279 and Irish understand each other's Gaelic, 166 Johnson had no real prejudice against, 156 success of, in London, reason for, 440 physicians (Drs Cullen, Munro, Hope, and Wilkes' jests on, 278 Johnson railing at, we taught you everything gardeners, Johnson on, 144 accent, the, 166 Scotchman never daunted by a refusal, instance of Dossie, 390 'more water in," owing to "your vile bogs," Johnson's prejudice against, shown early, 539 "Scots made necessarily, the English by choice, ha ? a, judgment of Johnson, 308 known to each other though born in very distant Scott of Amwell, his Elegies, 222 Sir W., dinner, 335 Scotticisms, Hume's collection of, Johnson, "I wonder "Scoundrel," Johnson's use of the word, 9 Secker, Archbishop, Johnson prejudiced against, 395 Boswell's own opinions on : case of, 648 "Seducing man, a very," Johnson, 403 n Semel insanivimus omnes, where found, 439 Seneca exiled to Corsica, not farther from his home Sermon, Mr Tait's, at Inverness, on inferior people Sermons written for Taylor by Johnson, 312 forty, Johnson had written, 552 Servant accused of stealing coins: Sir G. Kneller's Servants, women and men, problem as to, 183 Sexual intercourse, 357 Shakspeare, Johnson publishes his, 123 Johnson's "Proposals," 40 confidence in 66 one reading" of, 272 and Steevens' published (1773), 179 Sharpe, Gregory, "ranting on liberty," 158 Sharpe's letters on Italy, 272 Shaving, different fashions of, 306 Shaw, Rev. Mr, supports Johnson's view of "Ossian," Cuthbert, verses on Johnson, 133 and his Erse Grammar, 288 "She Stoops to Conquer," Johnson's praise of, 187 |