Oddity, Johnson described as an,
Ode, Ad Urbanum, i. 77; to the Warlike Genius of Britain, by Tasker, iii. 368. Odes, Colman's, satirizing "cool Mason, and warm Gray," ii. 307; Mr. Cumberland's, one of which celebrates the effect of James's Powders, iii. 90 n.; Gray's, iii. 435.
Ofella, Johnson's, in the art of living in London, i. 68. Offely, Mr., a pupil of Johnson's, i. 62.
Ogden, his sermons on Prayer com-
mended, iii. 262; his sermon on the Articles of the Christian Faith, quoted, iv. 73. Ogilvie, Dr. John, Johnson finds
no thinking in his writings," i. 335; at Boswell's supper party, 337 n. 338, 339. Ogle, Mrs., Johnson writes to Mrs.
Montagu in her behalf, i. 397. Oglethorpe, General, one of the earliest admirers of Johnson's London, i. 88, 89; account of, ii. 173 n.; his presence of mind in a dilemma, 174, 175; gives an account of the siege of Bel- grade, 175; entertains Johnson, Boswell, and Goldsmith, 205; entertains the " Irish Dr. Camp- bell," &c., 319, 320; Johnson desires his Life should be written, 321; his conversation too desul- tory, iii. 99; Johnson dines with, 290; visits Johnson, and they discuss political matters, iv.
Old age, old men should take heed of putting themselves out to nurse, iii. 56.; "it is a man's own fault if his mind grows torpid in," iii. 267, 268; discus- sion on, 336; a stout healthy old man like a tower under- mined, iv. 202.
Oldfield, Dr., and the Duke of Marlborough, iii. 100.
Oldham, John, his satires against the Jesuits, i. 80.
Old man, Johnson hopes there is nothing of the, in his conversa- tion, iii. 336.
Oldys, William, the learned col- lector of the Bibliotheca Har- leiana, i. 111; admirably de- scribed by Boswell, 129. Oliver, Dame, taught Johnson to read, i. 17.
Omai, a South Sea Islander, visits London, iii. 63.
O'Moore, Col., tells an amusing story of Goldsmith's vanity and simplicity, i. 330 n.
Opera, The Beggars', was it per- nicious? ii. 333; Boswell delights in, ii. 334.
Opium, Johnson relieved by, but objects to the use of, iv. 115. Opportunities, uncommon parts require uncommon opportuni- ties for their exertion," i. 312. Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in cor- pore sano, quoted to Johnson by Dr. Brocklesby, iv. 307. Orange-butter, a substance which Johnson describes the manufacture, iv. 141. Orange-peel, Johnson's mysterious use of, ii. 303 n.
Oratory, Johnson and Wilkes dis- course on, iv. 57; mistakes in,
Orford, Horace, Earl of, his collec- tion of bon-mots of persons who never said but one, iii. 215. Origin of Evil, Inquiry into, by Soame Jenyns, Johnson's re- view of, i. 247.
Original sin, Johnson on, iv. 73. Orme, Robert, the historian, his
high commendation of Johnson's Journey, ii. 279; and of John- son, iii. 292.
Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, letter from, to Dr. Birch, about the Dictionary, i. 137 n. Orthoepy, Elements of, by Nares, praised by Boswell, iv. 279.
Osborne, Mr. Thomas, bookseller, impertinent to Johnson," and I beat him," i. 111.
Mr. Francis, a conceited fellow, ii. 185.
Ossian, Johnson finds no merit in the poems published as transla- tions of, iv. 124. Ostentation, Johnson's dislike of, iv. 125.
Othello, Johnson on, iii. 87. Overbury, Sir Thomas, Tragedy of, by Richard Savage, iii.
Ovid, referred to by Johnson, ii. 175; Art. Amator., l. iii. v. 339, quoted by Johnson to Goldsmith at Poets Corner, ii. 223; quoted again by Goldsmith at Temple Bar, 223.
Oxford, Johnson's residence at the University of i. 30-45, and ap- pendix, 405; Johnson visits, 189, 209, 275; the advantages of, expatiated on by Johnson, ii. 65; Johnson detained there by illness, 70 n.; Johnson visits, in 1768, 61; Boswell follows him there, 61; Johnson visits, for the last time, iv. 207; ex- pulsion of six students from, for Methodism, ii. 180; Oxford and Cambridge compared by John- son, ii. 52.
Panting, Dr. Matthew, master of Pembroke, i. 41.
Paoli, General Pascal, Boswell's letter from his palace to John- son, giving an account of his tour in Corsica, ii. 22; account of, ii. 81 n.; presented to John- son, ii. 87; their conversation, 87, 88; Johnson says he "has the loftiest port" of any man he had ever seen, 88; entertains Johnson and Boswell at dinner, ii. 161; talks with Johnson on sight and sound, ii. 183; his neatly-turned compliment to Goldsmith, ii. 212; Johnson Idines with, iii. 325; Johnson dines with, and looks so ill that the General thinks he can live but a very short time, iv. 243. Papers, Johnson's, burned a few
days before his death, i. 382; the burning of Boswell's, related by Malone, iii. 359. Papists or Protestants, all Chris- tians agree in essential articles, says Johnson, i. 321. Pappadendrion, Sir A. Dick's name for Johnson, iii. 137. Paradise, John, i. 35; Johnson writes to, from Lichfield, iv. 274. Parenthesis, Johnson's dislike of a, iv. 130.
Parents, Johnson enforces our duties to, ii. 23.
Paris, visited, ii. 349; Johnson brings Lucy Porter a box from,
Parker, Mr. Sackville, Johnson's pathetic account of, iv. 226.
Parkhurst, Rev. Mr., Dr. Dodd's letter to, describing Johnson,
Parliamentary debates, Johnson's, i. 78-80, and appendix, 409-13. Parnassus, England's, the readings in, not to be trusted, iii. 165. a young sapling of, blown about by every wind of criti- cism," iv. 234. Parliament, speaking in, Edmund Burke on, iii. 250, 251. Parnell, Johnson's Life of, iv. 17; Epitaph on, 17; various readings in the Life of, 17; a passage in, quoted, iii. 239; passage in, submitted to Johnson, iii. 383; Malone's note on the passage, 383 n.; his Life by Goldsmith, poor, ii. 162.
Parody, Johnson's, of a passage in Burke's speech, iv. 233. Parr, Dr., recommended by John- son to the Norwich Grammar School, iii. 437.
Parsons, merriment of, mighty offensive, iv. 37.
Party, must not be followed at the expense of truth, ii. 210. Passable," Aprés tout, c'est un monde passable," Voltaire, quoted by Boswell, i. 272.
Patence, Mr., of Bolt Court, con- structed a phaeton to go without horses, ii. 101.
Pater-noster, a, written in linguam Corsica rusticam, ii. 88. Paterson, Mr. Samuel, his imita-
tion of Sterne, ii. 170; Johnson recommends his son to the notice of Sir Joshua Reynolds, iii. 127, iv. 160. Pathos or sentimentality? Scott versus Boswell, iv. 10 n. Patrick, Dr. Simon, on the Articles, ii. 105.
Patriot, The, a political pamphlet by Johnson, ii. 265.
The, a tragedy by J. Simp- son, advertised as Johnson's, iii.
Patriotism, "the last refuge of a scoundrel," ii. 317.
Patron, the, inserted in Johnson's Imitations of Juvenal as one of the "ills of life" besetting the scholar, i. 205. Patronage, Church, in Scotland, ii. 147; and practice in law dis- cussed, iv. 116; in the Church, Johnson thinks, does not rest fairly on merit, ii. 322. Peace, Ode on the, by Miss Helen Maria Williams, repeated to he? by Johnson, iv. 206. Pearce, Bishop Zachary, iii. 32; his posthumous works, 146. Pearson, Mr., like Johnson in his habit of contradicting, iii. 53; Lucy Porter bequeaths to him her pictures and relics of John- son, iv. 164-400. Peasantry, Irish, Johnson asked to advocate their cause, iii. 478. Peculiarities, Johnson's, i. 314. Peers of Scotland, Boswell asks
Johnson's opinion on the influ- ence exercised by the, iv. 177. Peiresc, his death lamented in forty languages, ii. 337 n.
Pelisson, the man who abused the
privilege of being ugly, i. 54. Pembroke College, Oxford, John- son enters at, i. 31; love for, 43; presents his works to, 43; eminent men educated at, 43; a nest of singing birds," 43. Pembroke, Lord, his pleasantry about Johnson's "bow way," ii. 300 n.
Penance, Johnson's act of, at Ut- toxeter, iv. 283.
Penn, Governor Richard, iii. 419; his story of Johnson, 419. Pennant, his Tour in Scotland,
quoted, iii. 281; discussed, 282. Pensées de Pascal, Johnson gives to Boswell that he may not in- terrupt his meditations, iii.
373. Pension, Johnson's granted, by
George III., i. 296-8; the re-
flections made against Johnson on account of his, i. 341 n.; Johnson's defended by Burke,
Penurious, a certain, gentleman, who is narrow, not so much from avarice as from impotence to spend his money," iii. 87. Pepper Alley, Johnson says people live as long in, as on Salisbury Plain, i. 339.
Pepys, Sir Lucas, attends John- and wishes he would be
son, tractable, iv. 114.
William Weller, Mrs. Thrale's exaggerated praise of, iv. 41; expatiates on the happiness of savage life, ii. 215. Perce-Forest, quoted, iii. 283. Percy, Dr., Bishop of Dromore,
account of, i. 21 n.; Johnson visits, ii. 8, 9; dines with Bos- well to meet Johnson, 73; his ballad of the Hermit of Wark- worth, ii. 134; Johnson's fun about his poetry, iii. 38, 39; letter of, quoted, 42; his alter- cation with Johnson, 281, 282; account of his family, 281 n.; Johnson's letter of apology and explanation, 286, 287. Perkins, Mr., manager of Mr. Thrale's brewery, ii. 266, iv. 40; hangs up an engraving of John- son's portrait in the counting- house, 266 n.; Johnson writes to, from Lichfield, iv. 273. Persian Grammar, Jones's, John- son sends to Warren Hastings, iv. 30.
Personalities always offensive, iii.
Peterborough, Lord, the best ac-
count of, is in Capt. Carleton's Memoirs, iv. 245. Petrarch, read by Johnson when a boy, i. 30.
Petty, Sir William, his allowance
of £3 a year to support nature, i. 350.
Peyton, Mr., one of Johnson's
amanuenses, ii. 152; his death,
Philidor, Andrew, a great chess player, iii. 368.
Philips, Miss, a singer, introduced by Johnson to the notice of Mr. Windham in Dublin, iv. 159.
John, the poet, Johnson works on the Life of, iv. 3; various readings in Johnson's Life of, iv. 18.
a musician, epitaph on, i.
106. Philology, one of Johnson's fa- vourite pursuits, iv. i. Philosophical Survey of Ireland, Campbell's, ii. 310.
Phipps, the Rev. James, left his estates to buy livings, iii. 310. Captain Constantine, his ex- pedition to explore the northern ocean, ii. 384.
Physic, Johnson learned from Dr. James, iii. 74.
Physician, or Doctor, of Medicine? ii. 271, 275.
Physicians, liberality of those at- tending Johnson in his last ill- ness, iv. 306.
Pickle-shop, the, next to Northum- berland House, instanced by Goldsmith as a mark of luxury, ii. 206.
Picture, Johnson sits for his, the day before his paralytic stroke,
Pictures, Lord Orford's, at Hough- ton, iv. 245.
Pig, a learned, at Nottingham, iv. 284.
Pillow, "That will do--all that a
pillow can do." iv. 316.
Piozzi, Mrs., Boswell's criticisms on, i. 38, 39; mistakes John- son's meaning, ii. 181 n., 186 n.; her anecdotes of Johnson cha- racterized by Boswell, iv. 250-7; her inaccuracy blamed by Bos- well, iii. 247; referred to by Johnson, 258.
Pitt, the first William Pitt "a me-
Pity, not natural to man, but acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason, i. 348. Place-hunters, Boswell and John- son on, iii. 252.
Plan or Prospectus of the Dic- tionary, addressed to the Earl of Chesterfield, i. 135-6. Players, Johnson's prejudice against, i. 123, iii. 208; John- son's contempt for, ii. 220, 366. Pleasantry, different notions of, iii. 128 n.
Pleasures, no man is a hypocrite in his, iv. 232. Plutarch, quoted, i. 6, Plymouth, Johnson at, i. 301. Pococke, Edward, Smith's Latin
verses on, iii. 278 n.; the story of his being called "no Latiner,"
Poetry. "What is poetry?" iii. 85; amendments seldom made
in without some token of a rent," iv. 4; unsuited for religious sub- jects, 5; superiority of rhyme to blank verse, 8.
Poets, Johnson's Lives of, com- pleted, iv. 1; the first idea of, ex- panded and enriched, 2; honora- rium for, 2 n.; the manuscript of, presented to Boswell, 33; John- son writes to Nichols, the printer, on various matters connected with his work on, 3; curious anecdote respecting, 25; outcry against, 26; Johnson, on a hint that the present would be accep- table, makes Wilkes a present of a set of, 60; Johnson says he is engaged to write little Lives, and little Prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets, iii. 143; price bargained for, 145; metaphysical, disserta- tion on the, iv. 4.
Polemomiddinia, The, of Drum- mond, iii. 292.
Polite, Johnson thinks himselfvery,
Politian, Johnson proposes to pub- lish the Latin poems of, i. 54. Political principles, Johnson's, ii. 119, iv. 5.
tracts, collected, ii. 292. improvement, schemes for, mostly laughable, ii. 104. Politics, Johnson on, iv. 40; mo-
dern, devoid of principle, ii. 335. Pomposo, the, name under which Johnson was caricatured in the poem of The Ghost, i. 322. Poor, The, Johnson's curiosity to know how the poor are main- tained in the Seven Provinces, i. 378; Johnson's genial kindness to the poor, i. 299; state of the, in London, iii. 390.
Pope, Alexander, his Messiah translated into Latin by John- son, i. 33; his appreciation of Johnson's London, i. 89; he re- commends Johnson to Earl Gower, 93; his letter about London and Marmor Norfol- ciense, 103; 'paper-sparing Pope," 103; conversation on, ii. 89; compared with Dryden, 90; his Dying Christian to his Soul, partly borrowed, iii. 79; verses to, by Lewis, quoted, iv. 224; his great popularity during life, iii. 332; Ruffhead's Life of, ii. 163; War- ton's Essay on, 163; Johnson calls on Lord Marchmont for in- formation concerning, iii. 382; Johnson's Life of, iv. 10; hints for, in D'Israeli's Literary Curio- sities, 10 n.; his extraordinary power of versification, 11; did not excel in conversation, 13; his friends, 14; Lord Somer- ville's account of, 14; various readings in the Life of, 15; said to have had a sketch by Bolingbroke as the foundation of his Essay on Man, iii. 391;
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