over that of other countries, ii.
82.

Habits, Johnson's superstitious or
strange, ii. 6-8, iv. 125; the
force of early, 332.
Hackman, Mr., his frantic jealousy,

iii. 375.

Hackney coaches, numbers 1 and
1,000 seen by Dr. Beattie in
the same day, iv. 242.
Haddington, Lord, a connection of
Bennet Langton, ii. 180 n.
Hague, Mr., one of the masters at
Lichfield school, i. 18.
Hailes, Lord, his fine character, i.
344, 358; his letter about John-
son, quoted,344; compares John-
son and Swift, 344; discovers
Johnson's hand in the argument

resented by Boswell, ii. 192;
sends Johnson a copy of his
Annals of Scotland, 258; desir-
ing that he will criticize it, 259;
his Annals revised by Johnson,
344; and commended for accu-
racy, 100; sends Johnson his
Lactantius, 166.

Hale, Lord Chief Justice, ii. 155;
his long and painful course of
study, iv. 228.

Hales, John, of Eton, the " ever
memorable," iv. 231.
Half-moon Street, Boswell's lodg-
ing in, ii. 71.

Halket, Elizabeth, the real author
of the ballad of Hardyknute, ii.

95.

Hall, Bishop, on degrees of happi-
ness, ii. 26 n.

Mrs., Wesley's sister who
much resembles him, iv. 49.
Hamilton, Dr., introduces an ap-
plicant for Johnson's bounty, iv.
355, 358, 361.

Gavin, his picture of Mary
Queen of Scots, ii. 251 n.

Lady, Sir William's first
wife, iii. 125.

William Gerard (Single
Speech Hamilton), Johnson en-
gages in politics with, ii. 12; ad-

vises Johnson in the matter of
his pension, 293; his anxiety to
assist Johnson during his ill-
ness, iv. 174, 175; Johnson
longs to see him "in a happier
hour," 274; Johnson in his will
desires he will choose a book as
a remembrance, 309; on the
chasm made by the death of
Johnson, 323.

Mr., of Bangour, his beautiful
poems not appreciated by John-
son, iii. 180, 181 n., 182.
Hammond, defence of, by Mr.
Bevil, iv. 26.

Dr., on the New Testament
recommended, iii. 101.
Hamlet's description of his father,
discussed, iv. 33.

Handwriting, Mrs. Thrale's beauti-
ful, iv. 3.

Hanmer, Sir Thomas, i. 129 n.;
epitaph on, 131.

Hanway, Mr. Jonas, his Essay on
Tea, i. 245; acquired some re-
putation by travelling abroad,
but lost it all by travelling at
home, ii. 122.

Happiness, ours depends as much
on our bodies as our minds, i.
272; Johnson on Hume's notion
that all are equally happy, ii.
26; Johnson did not believe in
present, ii. 320.

Harris, James, of Salisbury, is he,
or is he not, an eminent Gre-
cian? ii. 212; compliments
Johnson on his Journey, 332;
Boswell calls the "amiable phi-
losopher of Salisbury;" John-
son, "a prig, and a bad prig,"
iii. 259, 269, 272.
Hardyknute, the ballad of, Scott's
delight in, ii. 94, 95 n.
Harington, Dr. Henry, author of
"the very pretty book" Nuge
Antique, iv. 123.

Harriots, Mrs., a relation of John-
son's mother, i. 384.
Harrison,
388.

Johnson's uncle, i.

Harry, Miss Jane, Miss Seward's
romance about her, iii. 303.
Harte, Mr., his History of Gusta-
vus Adolphus commended, ii.
120; account of, ibid. n.
Harwich, Johnson accompanies
Boswell to, in the stage coach, i.

369.

Harwood, Dr., translated the New
Testament with a "Socinian
twist," iii. 86.
Hastie, the schoolmaster whom
Boswell defended, ii. 177; John-
son's argument for him, 177 n.
Hastings, Warren, Johnson's cor-

respondence with, iv. 28-31; his
letter to Boswell, 27, 28.
Hawkesworth, Dr., the author of
some pieces attributed to John-
son, i. 131; imitates John-
son's style, 178, 193, ii. 203;
his Voyages to the South Sea, ii.
232; Johnson thinks no one
can read them through, iv. 226.
Hawkins, Sir John, his Memoirs

of Johnson characterized by Bos-
well, i. 2, 3; his absurd and
bitter description of the oratory
of Pulteney and Pitt, 109; his
list of English Dictionaries be-
fore Johnson's, 138; Boswell's
contemptuous account of, 141;
his blunders in deciphering
Johnson's handwriting, 155; one
of the original members of the
Club, ii. 2; calls himself, Bos.
well says incorrectly, a seceder,
3; an unclubable man, 3 n.;
his inaccuracy blamed by Bos.
well, iii. 246; an instance of his
prejudice and inaccuracy, iv.
281, 241; Johnson bequeaths
some of his books to him, 309.

Mr., his play wrong in the
concoction, iii. 271.
Hay, Lord Charles, Johnson's con-
versation with, iii. 443.
Heath, Dr. Benjamin, iv. 34.
Hebrides, Tour to the, planned, ii.
219; decided on, ii. 245; carried
out, 247; Boswell's account de-

scribed by Mr. Courtenay, 248,
249; Johnson said, he "got an
acquisition of more ideas by it,
than by any thing I remember,"
iv. 136.

Heberden, Dr., Johnson sends for,
iv. 160; Johnson's letter to,
giving an account of his health,
iv. 363; leaves him a book as a
remembrance, iv. 309.

Hector, Edmund, Johnson's school-
fellow and friend, i 12, 49,
51, 58; furnishes particulars of
Johnson's early life, 20, 21, iii.
43, 283; Johnson visits at Bir-
mingham, 39; "The friend of
my youth," 197; visited for the
last time by Johnson, 285;
thanks Boswell for the great
pleasure his Life of Johnson has
given him, 286 n.; Johnson's
letters to, 95, 96.

Heely, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 47; John-

son's kindness to, iv. 280, 281.
Heirs-general, Boswell and his

father disagree on this point, iii.
4; the matter referred to John-
sou, 5, 8.

Hell, is paved with good intentions,
ii. 327.

Henderson, Mr., the actor, visits
Johnson, iv. 174; account of,
220 n.

John, student of Pembroke
College, iv. 219, 220 n.
Henry, Dr. Robert, his History of
Great Britain, Hume employed
to write an answer, 334, iii.
333.

Hermippus Redivivus, by Co-

hausen, translated by Dr. John
Campbell, i. 331 n.; Boswell
feels himself intellectually, iii. 17.
Hermit, Parnell's, passage in sub-
mitted to Johnson, iii. 383; Ma-
lone's note on, 383 n.

Dr. Beattie's, Johnson reads
with tears in his eyes, iv. 128.

hoar in solemn cell, Johnson's
parody on Warton's poems, iii.
187.

Heroic Epistle, satirizing Johnson,
ascribed to Horace Walpole, but
written by Mason, iv. 231 n.
Hertford, Lord, Johnson's letter
to, applying for rooins at Hamp-
ton Court, iii. 82 n. ; his reply,

82.

Ilervey, Miss Elizabeth, story of
her and Johnson, iii. 419.

Hon. Henry, Johnson's love
for, i. 69, 70.

Hon. Thomas, ii. 312; John-
son's correspondence with, on his
separation from his wife, ii. 48;
Beauclerk's account of, 49; Lady
Hanmer's elopement with him,
49;

Johnson receives fifty
pounds from him for writing a
pamphlet, which, however, was
not printed, 50.

Hickey, Thomas, his excellent por-
trait of Tom Davies, ii. 311.
Hickman, Gregory, i. 56; letter
to, 390.

Miss, account of, i. 56; on
Johnson's verses to, 56.
Hierocles, a free translation of the
Jove of, by Johnson, i. 107.
High English, not good English,
ii. 157.

Highlanders or Hebrideans, like

Johnson's Journey much better
than the Lowlanders, ii. 286.
Hill, Aaron, his account of Irene,
i. 147.

Dr. Birkbeck, his article on
Johnson's marriage, i. 60; his
work on Johnson, his friends
and Critics, i. 409.

Dr. John, a quack doctor on
whom Garrick made a famous
Epigram, ii. 54.

Hints for Civil Conversation,
Bacon's quoted, iv. 167.

Historia Studiorum an imperfect
list of Johnson's works, iii.
323.

Historian, the qualities necessary
for one, i. 338.

Historical Memoirs of Queen Eliza-

beth by Francis Osborne, ii. 184.

of the Earth and Animated
Nature, Goldsm.th's, ii. 176 n.
Universal, list of authors of,
iv. 291.
Hoadly, Dr. Benjamin, author of
the comedy, The Suspicious
Husband, ii. 63.

Hobbes, his opinion on old age
quoted, iii. 267 n.

Hodge, Johnson's cat, treated with

the greatest indulgence, iv. 135.
Hogarth, his account of first seeing
Johnson, i. 105-7; Epitaph on,
by Garrick, sent to Johnson to
correct, ii. 383; in his Modern
Midnight Conversation, John-
son's cousin Ford is the Parson,
iii. 347.

Holbrook, Edward, one of John-
son's teachers, i. 18 n.

Holder, Mr., Johnson, in his will,
desires him to choose a book as
a remembrance, iv. 309.
Hollis, Mr. Thomas, a "strenuous
Whig," iv. 52.

Home, John, author of Douglas,

his parody on Derrick's verses,
i. 362; and Lord Bute, ii. 323;
quoted by Boswell, iii. 118; his
History of the Civil War, 190.
Homer, venerated by Johnson, and
quoted, ii. 127; his head on
Johnson's seal, 127; his Iliad,
translated by James Macpher-
son, 277; Boswell says Homer
plays the bassoon, Pope the
flageolet, iii. 270; Johnson and
Burke dispute over the compara-
tive excellence of Homer and
Virgil, iii. 216.

Hoole, John, his play unsuccessful,
though praised by Johnson, ii.
268, 269 n.; supper with, and Sir
Joshua Reynolds, iii. 341; his
narrative of Johnson's last ill-
ness, iv. 312,394-404; translator
of Tasso and Ariosto, introduced
to Warren Hastings, iv. 31;
born in Moorfields, educated in
Grub Street, 128; Johnson
asks, to collect a city club, not

patriots," 45; Johnson's grati-
tude for his affection, 269; John-
son leaves him and his son each
a book, 309; reads aloud to
Johnson, 314.

Hope, Dr., consulted by Boswell
for Johnson, iv. 191.
Horace, quotations from, applied
to Johnson's style, i. 167;
Johnson and Wilkes discuss a
passage in the Art of Poetry, iii.
114; his villa, and his journey
to Brundusium discussed, 264;
his character, 265; Burke said
he gave in one line the descrip-
tion of a desirable manor, 324;
the lyrical part never can be
perfectly translated, 353; every-
thing in his works but religion,
iv. 151; Johnson translates an
ode of, during his illness, 280.
Horne, Dr., Bishop of Norwich,
talks of editing Walton's Lives,

iii. 31.

Horneck, Miss, and her sister,
friends of Goldsmith, i. 328 n.,
ii. 199.

Horrebow's History of Iceland,
and the Chapter on Snakes, iii.
288.

Horses, Boswell tells Johnson he
has been to see a man ride upon
three, i. 317; Boswell inquires
of Johnson what ought to be
done with old, iv. 177; John.
son's answer, 178.
Hospitality, how far should wealth
be employed in, ii. 163; not now
necessary, iii. 439.
"Hottentot, the respectable," said,

without foundation, to be meant
for Johnson, i. 207.
House of Commons, the, Burke
and Johnson on, iii. 251; Boling-
broke describes, 251 n.; like a
private company, 252; originally
a check for the Crown on the
House of Lords, 396.

Household, Johnson's, iii. 363.
Howard, Mr., an early friend of
Johnson's, i. 46; of Lichfield,
iii. 241.

Huddesford, Dr., vice-chancellor
of Oxford, i. 219.

Hudibras, Johnson's copy of,
marked for the Dictionary, i.
140; a great deal of bullion in
it, ii. 335.

Huggins, the translator of Ariosto,
Johnson says he has ball with-
out powder, iii. 431.
Hugh, Earl of Marchmont, Pope's
friend, supposed from his pro-
nunciation to be American, ii.
158.

Human experience, the great test
of truth, i. 360.

Hume, David, refuses the appella-
tion of a deist, i. 208; his style,
319; Johnson argues against,
353; his idea of equal happi-
ness confuted, ii. 26; an echo
of Voltaire, 66; makes a collec-
tion of Scotticisms, 81; his essay
on miracles, iii. 28; his life,
152; his suppressed article on
Henry's History of England,

334 n.

Humphry, Ozias, the painter,
Johnson's letters to, about his
godson, iv. 195 n., 196.
IIunter, Mr., Johnson's master at
Lichfield school, i. 18, 19.

Dr. William, elder brother
of John, iv. 154.
Hurd, Bishop, his writings dragged
to light by Warburton, iv. 12 n;
accounts for everything syste
matically, 129, 130; Boswell
reads aloud one of his sermons,
213.

Husbands' Miscellany, containing
Johnson's translation of the
Messiah, i. 33.
Hussey, Rev. John, iii. 365.

Thomas, Catholic chaplain,

iv. 316.

Hutchinson, John, his Moral Philo-
sophy, iii. 96.

Hutton, Mr., a Moravian friend
of Johnson's, iv. 315.
Hyacinthe de Themiseul, account
of, ii. 405.
Hypochondria,

Johnson, suffers
from, i. 34-7; Boswell's, 37;
severe attack of, ii. 6; not very
common, iii. 216.
Hypochondriack, The, seventy
essays in the London Magazine,
by Boswell, i. 37 n.
Hypocrisy of misery, Johnson's
impatience with Boswell's, iv.

32.

Hypocrite, the character of the,

in Cibber's play, not so appli-
cable to the Methodists as to the
Nonjurors, ii. 296,297; an adap-
tation of Molière's Tartuffe,
297 n; no man is a, in his
pleasures, iv. 232.

Iceland, Horrebow's history of,
and the chapter concerning
snakes, iii. 288.

Idea, Johnson's indignation against

the misuse of the word, iii. 219.
Idle, "If you are idle be not soli-
tary, if you are solitary be not
idle," iii. 402.

Idleness, a disease to be combated,
i. 341.

Idler, The, commenced, i. 257,258

n.; success of, 273 n; state-
ment of payments for the, i.

176.

Ignorance in men of eminence,
ii. 94.

Ilam, visited and described, iii.
211, 212.

Iliad, The, Cowper's translation of,

iii. 333.

Ill health, Johnson's, confines him

to his rooms, ii. 41; Johnson's
increasing, iv. 169, ii. 261; John-
son in his illness says, "I will be
conquered, I will not capitulate,"
iv. 285.

Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra, a r-
mance praised by Cervantes, iii.

57.
Imagination, the power of, i. 321.
Imitation of Johnson's style, iii.
199; serious, iv. 296-300; ludi-
crous, 294, 295 n.; essay on, by
Miss Aikin, in which she success-
fully imitates Johnson, iv. 199.
Imlac, a character in Rasselas,
in which Johnson describes his
own feelings, i. 269 n.
Immortality, the belief in, univer-
sal, ii. 326.

Impransus, Johnson signs himself,
i. 98.
Impressions, Johnson warns Bos-
well not to trust to, iv. 72.
Improvisation, Johnson's power of,
iii. 2 n.

Impudence, the difference between
Irish and Scotch, ii. 285.
Inaccuracy of Mrs. Piozzi and Sir
John Hawkins, iii. 246.
Ince, Mr. Richard, a writer in the
Spectator, iii. 81.

Incredulity, Johnson's ii. 231.
Independence, Johnson's main-
tained, i. 352.

Index, Johnson advises Richard-
son to add one to Clarissa, i.
392.

maker, the, who enraged
Johnson, iv. 239.

India, ten thousand pounds in
England, better than twenty
thousand in, iii. 389.

Indies," He who would bring home
the wealth of the Indies, must
carry the wealth of the Indies
with him," iii. 306.

Indolence, resolution to struggle
against, i. 43; "voluntary de-
bility," iv. 262.

Inebriation, some men are without
skill in, iii. 380.