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John, R.A., his statue of Johnson in St. Paul's the first monument placed in that building, 411.

Badcock, Rev. Samuel, boasts of

his visit to Johnson, iv. 315. Badness, three gradations ofthinking, preaching, and acting -exemplified, ii. 236.

Bagshaw, Rev. Thomas, account of, ii. 240 n.; letter to, requesting him to put a stone over Mrs. Johnson's grave, iv. 261. Baker, Sir George, prescribes for Johnson, iv. 265.

Ballads, modern imitations of the old, Johnson's contempt for, ii.

201.

Balloon, unsuccessful experiment with a, iv. 265; Lunardi's ascent the first in England, 267 n., 268, 269; Johnson has three letters about, and wishes for no more, 278; excitement about the, 287. Ballow, Mr. Thomas, from whom Johnson learned what he knew of law, iii. 74.

Baltic, a voyage to, projected by Johnson and Boswell, ii. 268, iii. 167. Banks, Sir Joseph, Johnson sends motto for his goat, ii. 141 n. ; his expedition round the world, ii. 145; his admiration of Johnson's Journey, iii. 200; desires to be admitted to the club, 361. Baptism, register of Johnson's, i. 9 n.; discussion on infant, iii. 41, 42; iv. 213.

Bar, Boswell proposes to try his fortune at the English, iv. 227; Johnson's advice on the occasion, 227, 228 n. Barbarous society and polished times compared, i. 312. Barber, Francis, Johnson's black servant, i. 182 n.; pressed into the Navy, 276; discharged through the interest of Mr. Wilkes, 277; preserves some of Johnson's papers, 382; "faithful," ii. 23; placed at school, 72; Johnson's letter to, at school, 115; Johnson makes provision for, iv. 307, 308; residuary legatee, 310 n.; Johnson writes to, ordering a little party of poor friends to be invited for his birthday, 355. Barclay, the young student who

wrote an answer to Kenrick's attack on Johnson's Shakespeare, ii. 19.

Mr., a partner with Mr. Perkins in Thrale's brewery, iv. 69.

Alexander, his Ship of Fooles,

i. 215.

Robert, his Apology for the Quakers, the Baskerville edition of, iii. 41; discussed by Johnson and Loyd, 41, 42. Baretti, Signor Joseph, translates a pamphlet of Johnson's, i. 237; Johnson's three fine letters to, 286, 294, 302; Johnson's high opinion of, ii. 69; quarrels with Davies, 195; his arrest, 98, 99;

his lessons in Italian and English, 269; Johnson runs a race with, and wins, 348; his fantastic dialogues, iii. 34; his review, Frusta Letteraria, 199; the first to receive copy-money in Italy, 190.

Bark and steel for the mind, the

Rambler full of, i. 162. Barnard, Dr., Bishop of Killaloe, tells Johnson he fears he will treat Ireland worse than Scotland, ii. 284; presents a hogs. head of claret to the club, iii. 254; and receives a request to send another, 255; his altercation with Johnson, whether improvement is possible after forty-five, and pleasant verses thereon, iv. 66; Johnson's charade on, 133; his colloquial powers, iii. 412.

Mr., King's Librarian, ii. 50, 51; Johnson's letter to, ii. 390; Johnson's advice to on the formation of a library, 391. Barnewall, Nicholas, Lord Trimlestown, iii. 244.

Barnstone, Miss Letitia, iii. 401. Barretier, Philip, Johnson writes the life of, i. 106.

Barrett, Dr., Trinity College, Dublin, ii, 224. Barrington, the Honourable Daines, iii. 317; his Essay on the migration of birds, ii. 232. Barrow, Dr. Isaac, extract from his sermon against foolish talking and jesting, iv. 58, 59. Barrowby, Dr., anecdote of, iv.

215.

Barry, Sir Edward, his System of Physic, iii. 82.

James, R.A., his pictures exhibited, iv. 156.

Barter, Mr., his controversy with
Elwal, the heretic, ii. 161.
Bas bleu, Hannah More's poem,
the, iv. 61.

Bastard, the, a poem by Savage, i. 122.

Bate, Rev. Henry, his extraordinary character, iv. 218. Bateman, Mr., of Christ's Church, his excellent lectures, i. 44. Bath, Johnson visits, iii. 90; where Boswell joins him, 91.

Easton, Lady Miller's vase at, ii. 308.

Baths, medicated, Johnson thinks useless, ii. 101.

Bathurst, Dr. Richard, i. 135, 141; Johnson's much loved friend,

i. 185 n.; writes in the Adventurer, 192.

Bayes, the name under which Dryden was characterized in the Rehearsal, ii. 164. Bayle's Dictionary, i. 222 n.; very useful, 338; the account of Menage in it quoted and applied to Johnson, iv. 332.

Baxter, made a rule in preaching

always to say something above the capacity of his audience, iv. 126.

Richard, his works all good, iv. 158.

Beaconsfield, Edmund house near, iii. 313.

Burke's

Bear, Goldsmith says Johnson has nothing of the bear but his skin, 76.

Bears, ludicrous effect of a misunderstanding about, ii. 317. Beatniffe, Mr., Johnson's letter to, inquiring after some relations of Levett, iv. 352. Beattie, Dr., Professor of Moral Philosophy at Aberdeen, ii. 139; Johnson's regard for, 143, 146; his wife, 143, 146, iii. 418; his Essay on Truth, ii. 193; his delight at Johnson's approval, 194; his popularity, 246; his Memoirs of David Garrick, 418; his Hermit moves Johnson to tears, iv. 128. Beauclerk, Topham, i. 189; and Langton wake up Johnson at three in the morning for a frisk, 191; his advice to John

son when he got his pension, | 191; his story of Johnson and Madame do Boufflers, ii. 367; one of the original members of the club, 2; visits Cambridge with Johnson, 9; marries the divorced Lady Bolingbroke, 231 n.; his illness, 272; shares Boswell's veneration for Johnson's Court, 216; his equable spirits, iii. 61; his illness, 138; an altercation takes place between him and Johnson, 376, 377; Johnson, Reynolds, Boswell, &c., dine with, 378; is " very entertaining,"

380; Johnson's affection for,
433; his death, 407 n.; John-
son on, 407; his library sold,
407, iv. 58; Mr. Langton on the
death of, 411; anecdote show-
ing Johnson's regard for, 123;
his clever remark to Langton on
his too hasty praise of a new
acquaintance, 135; his portrait
of Johnson, 407; his portrait of
Garrick with inscription from
Shakespeare given to Bennet
Langton, iv. 51.

Beauties of Johnson, i. 161; iv. 97.
Beauty, can there be any without
utility? ii. 162; discussion on,
iv. 80.
Beckenham, Mr. Cator's seat, where
Johnson and Boswell were hos-
pitably entertained, iv. 230.
Beckford, Alderman, spoke reso-
lutely even to the King, iii.

222.

Bedlam, Boswell visits, ii. 340 n. Bedside, Johnson and Reynolds at

Boswell's, iii. 382.

Bee, The, essays by Goldsmith,

i. 327.

Beggar's Opera, the, different

opinions concerning, iii. 323. Belgrade, the siege of, described

by General Oglethorpe, ii. 175. Bell, Mrs, wife of Dr. Bell, Prebendary of Westminster, epitaph on, ii. 194 n.

Bell, John, of Antermony the traveller, ii. 68. Bellamy, Mrs., the actress, begs for Johnson's patronage at her benefit, iv. 174 n.

Belsham, Mr., quotation from his Essay, to show that virtue and happiness are not invariably concomitant, i. 309.

Benedictines, note on the, in Paris, ii. 353; Johnson parts very tenderly from the, 362, 364. Benevolence, instances of, Johnson's, ii. 298, iii. 241, iv. 207; Johnson does not believe that finite beings ever act from pure benevolence, iii. 93.

Benson, Mr. Auditor, erects a

monument to Milton on which he inscribes his own name, i. 173.

Bentham, Dr., Canon of Christ

Church, visited by Johnson and
Boswell, iii. 31.

Bentley, Dr., verses by, iii. 443. Berenger, Richard, author of the Art of Horsemanship, iv. 47; Hannah More on, 47 n. Beresford, Mrs., and her daughter, accompany Johnson in the coach to Oxford, iv. 207.

Berkeley, Bishop, his doctrines discussed, i. 374.

Berwick, Duke of, his Memoirs by the Abbé de Margon, and by Abbé Hooke, account of, iii. 294; translated, 295. Betterton, the actor, compared with Foote, iii. 209.

Bevil, Rev. Mr., his defence of James Hammond the poet, iv.

26.

Bewley, Mr., the Philosopher of Massingham, and the hearthbrush, iv. 84.

Bible, the, should be read with a commentary, iii. 100; proposal to translate into the Gaelic language, ii. 43; opposed by a religious society, and encouraged by Johnson, 43-47;

old, 1462, seen by Johnson in
Paris, ii. 359; first edition of,
ii. 393.
Bibliotheca Harleiana, Johnson's
proposals for printing, showing
the importance of a catalogue
raisonné, i. 111.
Bibliothèque, Johnson's scheme
for one, i. 222.

des Savans, reviews John-
son's Dictionary, i. 254.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, author of Love
in a Village, ii. 89.
Bicknell, Mr., attempts to ridicule
Johnson, i. 246.

Biddulph, Miss Sydney, a novel by

Mrs. Sheridan, i. 308.
Biographer, the duty of a, as to
relating the faults of a character,
iv. 16.
Biographia Britannica, some of its
defects, iii. 200, 201 n.
Biography, every man's life best
written by himself, i. 1; the
advantages possessed by Bos-
well for undertaking Johnson's,
2; literary, George III. desires
Johnson to undertake, ii. 56;
Bishop Warburton's letter on,
quoted, iii. 4; Johnson's ideas
on, 184; Boswell's method of
writing, 4; Johnson on the
writing of, 5-7; Plutarch on,
quoted, 6; one of Johnson's fa-
vourite pursuits, iv. 1.
Birch, Dr. Tom, Johnson's descrip-

tion of, i. 116; letter to, 116;
letters to, and from, about the,
Dictionary, 223; Johnson's
letter to, about some papers of
Raleigh's, 172.

Edward, R.A., his fine en-
graving on a seal of Johnson's
head, iv. 323.

Birds, migration of, discussed, ii.
232.

Birmingham, Johnson arrives at,

iii. 39.

Biron, Rosaline's character of, writ-
ten by Beauclerk beneath Gar-
rick's picture, iv. 52.

Birth, honours of, maintained by
Johnson, ii. 243.
Birthday, Johnson does not wish
his to be observed, iii. 186; John-
son's note on one of his, 424;
invites a few poor friends to
celebrate his, iv. 355.

Bishop, a beverage much liked by
Johnson, i. 191.

Bishop, Johnson shocks Boswell by
dining with a bishop twice in
Passion week, iv. 46.

Bishops and the peerage, ii. 166.
Black, why were part of mankind

made black? disputed between
Johnson and an Irishman, i.
318.

Blackburne, Archdeacon, presents
a petition for removing subscrip-
tion to the Articles, ii. 148.
Black-cattle, the old system of in
the Highlands, i. 325.
"Black dog," the, that worries
Boswell, iii. 401, 403.

the little, Johnson calls Maty,
i. 222.
Blackfriars Bridge rebuilt, i. 277;
new, 278 n.
Blacklock, Dr. Thomas, his poems,
i. 370; his Life by Joseph
Spence, 370-1.
Blackmore, Richard, his poem the
Creation, ii. 109; the absurd
lines attributed to him, 109;
Johnson's Life of. iv. 18; various
readings in the Life of, 18.
Blackstone, composed his Commen-
taries with a bottle of port before
him, iv. 48.
Blagden, Doctor, a delightful
fellow," iii. 449 n.
Blair, Rev. Dr., says he "found

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the Giant in his den," i. 314;
he questions Johnson concern-
ing Macpherson's imitation of
Ossian, 314; his poem The
Grave, iii. 92; the great suc-
cess of his sermons, 133 n.,
230; his sermon on devotion
much praised by Johnson, 338;
his statement that Bolingbroke

wrote a prose sketch of the Essay
on Man, 391; his letter to Bos-
well concerning Pope, 391;
Johnson loves his sermons,

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though the dog is a Scotch-
man, a Presbyterian, and every-
thing he should not be," iv. 53.
Blake, Admiral, Johnson writes
the Life of, i. 106.

Bland, Mr. Richard, of Virginia,
ii. 197.

Blaney, Elizabeth, her romantic
attachment to Johnson's father,
i. 12.

Blank verse, inferior to rhyme in
Johnson's opinion seems verse
only to the eye iv. 8.
Bleeding, Johnson disapproves the
habit of, iii. 182.

Blenheim Park, Johnson and Bos-
well drive through, iii. 35.
Blind, the, can they distinguish
colours by touch? ii. 183.
Blockhead, an Athenian, the worst
of all, i. 41; Johnson calls Mr.
Hector's stupid maid a, iii. 40.
Bloxam, Matthew, one of John-

son's contemporaries at Pem-
broke, has a good living, iii. 308.
Blue Stocking Clubs, origin of
the name, iv. 61.
Boasting, Johnson rebukes Bos-
well's, iv. 132.

Bocage, M. du, Johnson dines with,
ii. 352; Madame du, her diffi-
culty with her teapot, 365 n.;
her poem The Columbiade, iv.

243.

Boerhaave, Life of, Johnson writes

in Gentleman's Magazine, i.
100.

Boethius, magis philosophus quam

Christianus, ii. 125.
Boileau, his imitation of the third
satire of Juvenal applied to
Paris, i. 80.

"Bolder words and more timorous
meaning were never brought to-
gether," iii. 435.
Bolingbroke, Lord, his works pub-
lished, i. 208; his description of

the House of Commons, iii. 251;
wrote the scheme of the Essay
on Man, in prose, 391; Pope's
papers bequeathed to his sole
care, iv. 14.

Bolingbroke, Lady, her description
of Pope, iii. 325.

Bolt Court, Johnson moves to, iii.
17; Boswell visits for the last
time, iv. 248; and takes his last
farewell of Johnson at the entry
to, 249; described in Pennant's
London, iii. 284.

Bonaventura, the Seraphic Doctor,
ii. 21.

Bon mots, Mrs. Thrale tells one of
Johnson's, ii. 319; Tom Davies'
mistake in repeating one, 319;
not every man can carry one,
319.

Bond, Mrs., Johnson's tenant at
Lichfield, iv. 309.

Bones, poor people in London col-
lect, iv. 141.

Book collecting, Johnson's rule
for, iv. 203.

trade, Johnson's letter on, to
Dr. Wetherell, iii. 14, 16.
Books, that are wanted to be read

should be sold, not given away,
ii. 217; Johnson pores over
the backs of, 331; Mr. Cam-
bridge's, 331; Dr. Burney's,
331 n. ; carelessly used by John-
son, 184; Johnson dusts his,
iii. 62; borrowed by Johnson,
iv. 3; Johnson tells what, he has
been reading in the past year,
153; many of Johnson's con-
tained remarks by him in Latin
or English, 211, 212; list of,
given to Mr. Astle, by John-
son, 229; charge of carelessness
with, made by Sir John Haw-
kins, denied, 281; prices and
profits on, iii. 15, 16; circula
tion of, Johnson explains, 16;
few printed in Scotland before
the Union, ii. 204; collection of
those printed in Scotland before
the Union, 395.

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