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Johnson's speech to an, iii. 23. Abbreviations, Johnson's, of his friends' names, ii. 240. Abercrombie, Mr. James, sends Boswell copies of Johnson's letters to Americans, ii. 197, 226. Abernethy, Life of Dr., in Biog. Brit. quoted on special providence, iv. 198.

Abington, Lord, his joke with Miss Hervey on Johnson's devotion, iii. 419.

Mrs., asks Johnson to coine to her benefit, ii. 296, 298. Abolition of the Slave trade, Doubts on by John Ranby recommended by Boswell, iii. 225. Absenteeism discussed by Johnson, iii. 263.

Absolute government, and popular

factions discussed, ii. 336. Abstinence, Johnson could practise, but not temperance, i. 372, ii. 25, iii. 24, iv. 33. Abyssinia, Voyage to, by Lobo, Johnson's translation of, i. 51-54; shown to him as a curiosity, iii. 62. Abyssinia, Rasselas, Prince of, Johnson writes to defray his mother's funeral expenses, i. 269. "Academia della Crusca send Johnson their Vocabulario, i. 234; could hardly believe the Dictionary was the work of one man, i. 352.

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Accuracy and veracity, Johnson insists on, iii. 246, 392. Acquaintance, Johnson's numerous and varied, iii. 73; the more a man extends and varies his, the better, iv. 120.

Action, a ludicrous, in the Court of Sessions, in which Boswell was counsel, iv. 78. Johnson's argument for, 78.

Action, rhetorical, Johnson ridi cules, i. 260.

Adams, Rev. Dr., Master of Pembroke College, i. 30, 31, 42, 45, 94; accuses Johnson of great pride, 206; his conversation with Johnson about the Dictionary, 138; gives Boswell many particulars of Johnson's academical life, iii. 28; answers Hume's Essay on Miracles, 28 n.; entertains Johnson twice in the last year of his life, at Oxford, iv. 209, 286; his kind attention to Johnson, 228; gives Boswell an account of Johnson's last visit to him, 286; on Johnson's prejudices, 319; Johnson's letter to, on some literary work, 362.

Adams, Miss, her fine character and attention to Johnson, ii. 215. George, his Dedication to the King of his Treatise on the Globes written by Johnson, ii.

58.

Addison, his morality, humour,

and elegance of writing, i. 338; his Notanda for the Spectator compared with Johnson's Sketches for the Rambler, 152; "whoever wishes to attain a good style must give days and nights to the study of," 170; his travels and his learning, ii. 316; his preparation for travelling, 316 n.; wrote, or very much improved, Budgel's papers in the Spectator, iii. 92; his illustration of the difference between his powers in conversation and in writing, 339; Johnson's Life of, iv. 16; Malone's note on his harsh conduct to Steele, 16; various readings in the Life of, 17; said to have written some of his best papers in the Spectator warm with wine," 48. Address of the Painters

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George III. written by Johnson, i. 279. Admiration, judgment better than, ii. 327.

Adultery, Johnson on the heinousness of, ii. 68.

Adventurer, The, commenced, i. 154, 192, 193, 197. Advertisement, of Johnson's school,

i. 61; about the Idler in the Universal Chronicle, i. 273; in the Edinburgh papers, correcting a mistake in the Journey, ii.

280.

Adye, Miss Mary, her accounts of Johnson's early days, i. 13, 14; Johnson visits at Lichfield, iii.

49.

Egri Ephemeris, a journal of his

illness, kept by Johnson, from July 6th to Nov. 8th, iv. 290. Affectation, of silence, iii. 273.

Affection, the errect of habit, or instinct? ii. 102; descends, iii.

381.

Agar, Wellbore Ellis, his exquisite collection of pictures, iii. 152. Age, old age, iii. 215; a man's own fault if the mind grows torpid in, 267, 336; iv. 124. Agriculture, Marshall's absurd and offensive book on, iii. 316. Agutter, Rev. Mr., gives Boswell some notes of Johnson's conversation, iv. 210; his sermon on Johnson's death, 325. Aikin, Anna Letitia, marries Mr. Barbauld, ii. 369 n.; her essay on Imitation, iii. 199.

Air bath, Lord Monboddo's, iii. 195. Akenside, his Pleasures

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Imagination, ii. 161; Johnson prefers, to Gray and Mason, iii. 80; various readings in Johnson's Life of, iv. 19. Akerman, Mr., the keeper of Newgate, his house burned in the Gordon riots, iii. 415.

Alarm, The False, Johnson's first and favourite political pamphlet, ii. 112, 144.

Alberti, Leandro, Addison bor-
rowed much from, ii. 316.
Alcibiades, his dog, Mr. Jennings'
marble statue of, iii. 248 n.
Aldrich, Rev. Mr., and the Cock
Lane Ghost story, i. 323.
Aleppo, the Siege of, a play by
Hawkins, iii. 271.

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Alias," exemplified by Mallet or Malloch in Johnson's Dictionary, octavo ed. 1756, iv. 152. Allen, Mr., the printer, his famous dinner "worthy of a synod of cooks," i. 373; imitates Johnson, iii. 279; brings Marshall's Agriculture to Johnson, 316; Johnson sends for, when seized with a paralytic stroke, iv. 160; one of Johnson's" best and tenderest friends," 263; Johnson's letter to, 351.

Ally Croker, the Irish song in her honour, iii. 265.

Almack's, a new gaming club, iíi.

75.

Alnwick Castle, the cause of high words between Johnson and Dr. Percy, iii. 281.

Amanuenses, six, employed on the Dictionary, i. 139. Amanuensis, Johnson begs help for his old, ii. 342. "Ambassador, the, says well," ludicrous anecdote of Johnson repeating, iii. 398.

Amelia, Fielding's, Johnson read through without stopping, iii.

87. Amendments," seldom made without some token of a rent," says Johnson of poetry, iv. 4; in Johnson's prose, 4. America, Johnson's rabid feeling about, ii. 289; the affairs of inquired into by Johnson, 271, 273, 276, 277; discussed rather too warmly by Johnson and Boswell, iii. 226; Johnson on the war with, iv. 41.

Americans, Johnson's horror of,

iii. 297; Johnson's outburst against, iii. 318. Amusements, a man's real charac

ter discovered by his, iv. 232. Amoret, Waller's verses to, ii. 328. Amyat, Dr., his story of Johnson saying that if he wished to become a botanist he must first turn himself into a reptile, i. 300. Anacreon, Baxter's, the copy at Auchinleck very rare, iv. 171. Anatomy of Melancholy, Burton's, published, iii. 27, n. praised, 28. Anderdon, Mr., buys many of the Boswell MSS., i. 136. Anderson, his Historical Sketches of the Native Irish, ii. 153. Anderson, Professor, of Glasgow, iii. 152.

Anfractuosities, one of the, of the human mind, instance of, iii. 428.

Angel, Mr., the stenographer, ii.

212.

the, Inn, Oxford, Johnson and Boswell at, iii. 27. Anglo-Saxon, professorship founded at Oxford by Dr. Richard Rawlinson, iv. 108.

Animals, Johnson's fondness for those under his protection, iv. 134, 135.

Annals, Johnson's, i. 381-390; account of 381.

Anne, Queen, ' touches' Johnson, i. 384.

Annotator, Johnson's opinion of Warburton as an, 66 he has a rage for saying something when there is nothing to be said," i.

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against Dr. Memis' action, ii. 337-9.

about the Corporation of Stirling, 339.

on liberty of censure in the pulpit, iii. 101 n.

in favour of the negro claiming his liberty, iii. 222. Argyle, Duchess of, i. 187. Aristotle, his doctrine of purging

the passions discussed, iii. 86. Armorial bearings, as old as the Siege of Thebes, ii. 173. Arnold, Thomas, M. D., his Observations on Insanity, iii. 202. Artemisias, a character in Pope's Imitation of English Poets, quoted by Boswell, ii. 83. Articles, the, discussed, ii. 105; subscription to, 148.

Arts, Royal Academy of, founded, ii. 77.

Asceticism, Johnson's dislike of,

iii. 23.

Ascham, Johnson's Life of, i. 369. Ash, Dr., the founder of the Eu

melian Club, iv. 302. Ashbourne, Dr. Taylor's residence,

i. 48; Johnson visits, and Boswell meets him there, iii. 168; the Green Man at, 227; Johnson's gratitude to Boswell for meeting him there, 230; Johnson's last visit at, iv. 271.

Asthma, Johnson attacked by, iv. 187, 188.

Astle, Mr. Thomas, Johnson's letter to, iv. 83; his notes on Alfred, 83.

Rev. Mr., brother of the above, communicates a list of books given him by Johnson when young, iv. 229. Astley, Philip, a celebrated horserider, iii. 397 n.

Aston, Sir Thomas, account of, i. 48; iii. 340.

Molly, a beauty, a wit, and a whig, i. 50; iii. 340; said to be the lady for whose favour Johnson was the rival of Lord Lyttelton, iv. 19.

Mrs., Johnson writes to, describing a walnut tree, ii. 378; sends her a mill for grinding flour, ii. 380; sister of Molly Aston and of Mrs. Walmesley, iii. 48,51; struck with palsy, 166. Atterbury, his funeral sermon on

Lady Cutts, quoted, iii. 245; Johnson admires his sermons, 262.

"Attitudinize, don't," to a gentleman gesticulating in company, iv. 237.

Attorney-General, absurd title of, mentioned by Wilkes, iii. 116. Atwood, Dr., an occulist, i. 384. Auchinleck, Lord, loved labour for its own sake, ii. 100; married secondly Eliz. Boswell, his cousin, iii. 118; death of, iv. 102; Johnson's letter to Boswell on the occasion, 102, 103. Auchinleck, Boswell describes to Johnson, who promises to visit him there, i. 367; the entail of, iii. 3-5; Johnson dissuades Boswell from leaving, 202; the archives at, 359; a mass of papers in, burned, 359 n. ; Mrs. Boswell invites Johnson to erpeat his visit to, iv. 104; in his last illness Johnson still hopes to revisit, 191.

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