deigned to look at his sermons,
if he had been "at large," 209 n.
Stewart, Mr. Francis, one of John-
son's amanuenses, iii. 405-8.
Mrs., Johnson offers her a
guinea for a letter in her posses-
sion, iv. 189, 192.
Stick, Johnson provides himself
with an enormous one, in con-
sequence of Macpherson's threats,
ii. 277.
Still, Bishop, Sir John Harring-
ton's fine character of, applied
by Boswell to Johnson, iv. 323.
Stillingfleet, Mr. Benjamin, ac-
count of, iv. 61.
Stinton, Dr., Chaplain to Arch-
bishop Secker, iii. 288.
Stockdale, Rev. Percival, his pane-
gyric on Johnson, ii. 113.
Stone seats at Johnson's garden
door, on which Johnson and Bos-
well sit and talk after church
on Good Friday, iv. 140.
Stourbridge, the school at, i. 22.
Stories, untrue, circulated regard-
ing Johnson, iv. 113.
Story, "the value of every story
depends on its being true," iii.
22; Foote's and Reynolds' com-
pared, 22 n.
Strahan, William, the printer,
endeavours to get Johnson into
the House of Commons, ii. 124,
296, 297; says, "small certain-
ties are the bane of men of
talents," 297; at school, i.
399-404; and Cadell purchase
Blair's Sermons, iii. 132; a diffe-
rence between him and Johnson,
359; a good judge of what is
not an epigram, 271; his
death, iv. 55; Johnson's letter
to Mrs. Strahan, 55.
Rev. George, Johnson's letters
to, at school, i. 399-404; at Ox-
ford, advising him as to his read-
ing, ii. 376; Johnson leaves him
some books, iv. 309; attends
Johnson carefully in his last ill-
ness, iv. 319; justified in the
matter of the publication of
Prayers and Meditations, iv. 378;
Johnson visits at Islington, iv.
Stratford-upon-Avon, visited, iii.
Streatham, Johnson has an apart
ment in Mr. Thrale's house at,
ii. 16; Johnson takes leave of,
iv. 107.
Stuart, the family of, discussed, ii.
207.
Mr. Andrew, his letters to
Lord Mansfield, ii. 216.
Rev. Mr. James, of Killin,
translator of the Bible into
Gaelic, ii. 45-7.
Rev. William, vicar of Luton,
introduced to Johnson, iv. 136.
Studies, notes of Johnson's, ii. 244.
Style, Johnson's, i. 164-6; John-
son's opinion on the style of
various writers, i. 166; several
writers compared by Boswell, i.
170; Addison's, 170, 171; imi-
tators of Johnson's, iv. 294-9;
must be defined, before deter-
mining what is good and bad,
ii. 183; different writers may be
distinguished by their, iii. 288;
Johnson's, in the Lives of the
Poets, iv. 5; "I admire him, but
I cannot bear his style," War-
burton and Johnson say of each
other, 12; Burke's witty sayings
on imitations of Johnson's, 21.
St. Clement Danes, Church of,
Johnson, having his seat there,
attends with Boswell, ii. 202,
324, 325, iv. 140, 145.
St. Denis, visited, ii. 362.
St. Eustatia, visited, ii. 361.
St. Germain, the library of, ii. 361.
St. Gluvias, Cornwall, Boswell's
friend Temple, vicar of, i. 347 n.
St. John's Gate, regarded with
reverence by Johnson, i. 76.
St. Paul's, it is proposed to erect
monuments to eminent persons
in, ii. 223; Milton's should be
the first, 224.
St. Roque's Church, ii. 352.
Succession, the rules of, purely
legal, iii. 7.
Sugar-cane, The, Grainger's pcem,
Suicide, in scorpions, maintained,
but denied by Johnson, ii. 67;
discussed, ii. 216; Johnson ac-
cused of recommending, iv. 98.
Summer house, the, at Streatham,
the scene of Johnson's most
solemn resolutions, iv. 85.
Supper-party invited by Boswell
to meet Johnson at the Crown
and Anchor, ii. 73.
Sutherland, the Duke of, the pre-
sent owner of Lucy Porter's
portrait of Johnson, iv. 405.
Swearing, the strange custom dis-
cussed, ii. 163.
Sweden, Daline's history of, ii.
Swift, Dean, Johnson's abuse of,
ii. 75; an instrument of much
good to his country, 130; John-
son attacks him, but praises the
Tale of a Tub, i. 359, ii. 294,295;
puts his name to only two things,
295; Johnson's Life of, his pre-
judice against, iv. 23; various
readings in the Life of, 24;
Delany's observation on, praised,
iii. 263.
Swinfen, Dr, i. 30 n., 49; said he
never saw any child reared with
so much difficulty as Johnson, i.
383; Johnson's godfather, i. 9,
16, 30, 35, 46, 49, iii. 241.
Swinton, Mr., his list of authors
of the Universal History, iv. 291.
Sydenham, the Life of, by John-
son, i. 111.
Sydney, Sir Philip, his sonnet
quoted by Johnson, iii. 164, 165.
Sympathetic feeling, Johnson does
not believe in the effect of, ii.
96, 97.
Synonymes, are there any perfect,
in any language? iv. 144.
Table, Johnson's, on which he
wrote the Dictionary, iv. 390;
preserved in Pembroke College,
Oxford, 393.
Tacitus, rather made notes for an
historical work, than wrote a
history, ii. 182.
Tailor, Hoole's uncle, the meta-
physical, iv. 128; Goldsmith's,
ii. 89.
Tale of a Tub, much superior to
Swift's other writings, ii. 294.
Talk. Johnson loves to fold his
legs, and have his talk out, iii.
247; and conversation distin-
guished, iv. 127.
Talking to himself, one of John-
son's singularities, ii. 6.
Tasker, Mr., his Ode to Warlike
Genius of Britain, iii. 368.
Tasso, stanzas from his Jerusalem,
repeated by Gen. Paoli, iii.
331.
Taste, difference of, is really dif
ference of skill, ii. 183; theatri-
cal, Johnson's was by no means
refined, iii. 47.
Tavern- chair, the throne of human
felicity, iii. 36.
Taxation no Tyranny, political
pamphlet by Johnson, revised
and corrected for the govern-
ment, ii. 282-91; quoted, iii.
Taylor, Demosthenes, iii. 320; the
most silent man, 321.
Chevalier, a celebrated ocu-
list, iii. 380.
Dr., by Johnson's advice
enters at Christ Church, Ox.
ford, i. 44; Johnson's school-
fellow and friend, i. 122, i. 48;
summoned by Johnson on the
death of his wife, 181; letter to,
182; sends his coach and four
to take Johnson and Boswell
from Lichfield to Ashbourne, iii.
55; Boswell's description of him
and his household, 55; Johnson's
description of, ii. 171; his fine
cattle, 180; dissimilarity of cha-
racter of Johnson and Taylor,
206; at Ashbourne, 169; his
manner of life monotonous to
Johnson, 184; Johnson's dispute
with, 184, 185; his hospitality,
227; Johnson writes to, when a
paralytic stroke deprives him of
speech, iv. 160; Boswell writes
down all he can tell about John-
son, 286; Johnson's letter to, in
his last illness, 196.
Taylor, Jeremy, remarks on his
prayer, iv. 216.
"Te teneam moriens deficiente
manu," says Johnson to Bennet
Langton, iv. 313.
Tea, Johnson's father considered
very expensive and discouraged,
i. 385; Johnson a hardened
and shameless tea-drinker, 244;
Hanway's essay on, 245;
"Te
veniente die, te decedente," 244;
Mrs. Williams's tea-parties, ii.
Tea-pot, Johnson's, held over two
quarts, i. 244.
Telemachus, a Mask, by Rev. G.
Graham, reviewed and com-
mended by Johnson, i. 326.
Temperate, Johnson could be ab-
stemious but not temperate, i.
372, iv. 33.
Temperature, Johnson denies the
influence of, on the human frame,
i. 339.
Temple, Sir William, thinks an
inalienable estate should be con-
nected with a peerage, iii. 11 n.;
the first writer who gave ca-
dence to English prose, 270;
Johnson said he had formed his
style on Temple's, 270 n.; makes
his companions drink his bumpers
for him, 330; his saying,
well when you are not ill, and
pleased when you are not angry,”
iv. 289.
Rev. W. J., a friend of Bos-
well's whose correspondence was
found in a singular manner, i.
347 n.; account of, 347; his
character of Gray, 347; pre-
sented to Johnson, ii. 27; his
condemnation of Johnson's po-
litical pamphlets, 293.
Tenderness, the want of, a proof
of stupidity, ii. 122.
Testator, Johnson's joke about the,
ii. 243; when his peals of
laughter resound from Temple
Bar to Fleet Ditch, 244.
Testimony, common, the weight of,
i. 341; compared with argu-
ment, i. 205.
"Tête à tête, a, man," iii. 370.
Tetrastick, on Goldsmith by John-
son, ii. 262.
Thames, the silver, Johnson and
Boswell admire, i. 363.
Theatre at Lichfield, Johnson visits
the, and receives the homage
of his friends, iii. 53.
Themiseul, Hyacinthe de, author
of the History of Prince Titi,
account of, ii. 405, 407.
Theocritus, Johnson on, iii. 427.
Theodore, The Vision of, an alle-
gory by Johnson, i. 141.
Thicknesse, Philip, His Journey
through France and Spain, "en-
tertaining," iii. 252.
Thinking, preaching, and acting,
the three gradations exemplified,
ii. 236.
Thirty-five, Johnson's verses to
Mrs. Thrale with this refrain,
iii. 1.
Thomas à Kempis, must be a good
book, the world has opened its
arms to receive it, iii. 244.
Thomas, Mr. Nathaniel, his collec-
tion of medals, iii. 129 n.
Thomson, sees every thing with a
poetical eye, i. 359; Johnson's
praise of, ii. 73; had true genius,
his fault a cloud of words, iii.
85; Johnson reads a passage
from, omitting every other line,
85;
his sister gives information
about Thomson to Boswell for
Johnson, 150; materials for his
Life, where to be found, 150;
Boswell communicates some facts
about, to Johnson, 356; his
sister, 356.
Thomson, Rev. James, arraignod
for defamation, Boswell defends,
on the ground of liberty of the
pulpit, iii. 101, 106.
Thornton, Mr. Bonnell, i. 155;
publishes a mock Rambler, 164;
his burlesque Ode on St. Ce-
cilia's Day, 333.
Thrale, Mr. and Mrs., in France,
described by Johnson, ii. 347.
lose their only son, iii. 50;
Johnson's great sorrow, 50, 51;
and letter of condolence on, 52,
468; their rather cool reception
of Johnson, 61.
Mr., successful in a contested
election, ii. 265, 267; a good
friend to Johnson for sixteen or
seventeen years, iv. 250; con-
tests the election for Southwark,
iii. 423; Mrs. Piozzi's account
of Johnson at his election, iii.
423; his death pathetically re-
lated by Johnson, iv. 43; John-
son one of his executors, ibid.
Mrs., Boswell meets her at
Johnson's house, ii. 83; she in-
vites him to Streatham, ibid. ;
Johnson's verses to, iii. 1; some-
times made Johnson angry, iii.
92; her second marriage, ibid.
n.; has something of the inso-
lence of wealth, iii. 319; at Bath,
writes to Johnson, iii. 408, 409;
copies select passages for John-
son, iv. 3; her beautiful hand-
writing, 3; her saying about
Johnson's conversation,
Johnson writes to tell her of
his having had a paralytic
stroke, 161; "has done every-
thing wrong since Thrale's bridle
was off her neck," 202; informs
Johnson of her marriage with
Signor Piozzi, 250;
from a letter of Johnson's on
the occasion, 250; her change
of tone regarding Johnson de-
plored, 251-6; instances of her
inaccuracy, 251, 252, 253; cen-
sured for relating Johnson's
rudeness to Mr. Cholmondeley,
254; for which he had expressed
his regret, and apologized, 255;
the report spread that Johnson
wished to marry, 294.
Through. "Sir, do you read books
through?" ii. 213.
Thuanus, Johnson contemplated a
translation of, iv. 315.
Thurlow, Lord, his opinion on the
matter of Mr. Thomson, iii. 106,
107; "is a fine fellow; he fairly
puts his mind to yours," iv. 122;
the only man Johnson would
wish to prepare for meeting, iv.
240; Boswell's letter to, app. iv.
361, 362; his reply to Boswell,
247; calls on Sir J. Reynolds, to
acquaint him of the failure of
the "pious negotiation," 257;
Johnson's letter to, 258, 259;
his letter to Sir J. Reynolds,
proposing to accept a mortgage
on Johnson's pension, 259.
Tickell, Richard, his poem, The
Project, iii. 320; various read-
ings in Johnson's Life of, iv. 19.
Tillotson, much applauded, but not
to be imitated, iii. 262.
Titi, Prince, and the Bibl. des
Fées, ii. 354; Macaulay's note
on, 403; Croker's note on, 404;
editor's remarks on both, 404-
10; Histoire de, par Hyacinthe
de Themiseul, 405; extracts
from, 407, 408; translation of,
Tolcher, Mr., "a brisk young
fellow of seventy-four," i. 398.
Toleration discussed, ii. 233.
Tongue, Government of the, Bos-
well quotes, iii. 372.
Tonson, Jacob, his edition of Ro-
chester's Poems, iii. 215.
Tooke, Horne, his copy of the Dic-
tionary, with notes by him, now
in Lord Overstone's library,
229; account of, iii. 317 n.; his
Diversions of Purley, iii. 351.
Toplady, Rev., A. M., vicar of
Broad Hembury, ii. 232 n.
Torture practised in Holland, i.
Tory, Boswell tells Johnson he is
a zealous Tory, iv. 68; and
Whig defined by Johnson, 68;
feeling, Johnson's high, about
family, ii. 311.
Tour to the Hebrides, decided on,
ii. 245; carried out, 247.
Tower, the, a room at Streatham,
where Johnson slept, ii. 305.
Towers, Dr. Joseph, his Letter to
Johnson, against his political
publications, ii. 292; extract
from his Essay on Johnson's
Life, iv. 6.
Town and country life compared,
iii. 266.
Townley, Charles, his splendid col-
lection of statues and pictures,
iii. 152.
Townshend, Right Hon. Charles,
his talents celebrated by Horace
Walpole, and immortalized by
Burke, ii. 209, 210 n.
Charles, the early friend of
Akenside, iii. 59.
Townson, Rev. Dr., his Discourse
on Evangelical History, ii. 241;
rector of Malpas, iv. 375.
Trade, profits of, first calculated by
Johnson for his father, i. 384.
does not bring so much money
into a nation as is supposed, ii.
99; Johnson's Journey com-
mended for its excellent sense
on the subject of trade, iii.
Translation, Boswell on style in,
i. 52; of Lobo's Voyage to
Abyssinia, i. 51; of Father Paul
Sarpi's History, 95; of Crousaz's
Examen of Pope's Essay on
Man, 98; of Abbé Guyon's Dis-
sertation on the Amazons, 108;
of Fontenelle's Panegyric on Dr.
Morin, ibid.; of the Scriptures
into the Gaelic language, pro-
posed, ii. 43; Johnson's letters
in favour of the latter, 43-47;
Johnson once wrote six sheets
of, in a day, iv. 77; Johnson on,
iii. 84; in poetry, impossible to
be perfect, iii. 269, 270.
Trapp, Dr., considerations on the
case of his sermons, iv. 383.
Travelling and travellers, dis-
cussed, ii. 215.
Johnson's love of, iii. 37;
Johnson's enthusiasm about, iii.
279; Boswell the best travelling
companion in the world, 301.
Travels, Books of, "good in propor-
tion to what a man previously
has in his mind," iii. 306.
Traveller, Goldsmith's, reviewed
by Johnson, ii. 5; "not so fine
a poem since Pope's time," 24;
Langton says there is not a bad
line in it, iii. 266; Charles Fox
called it one of the finest poems in
the language, 266; Goldsmith's
reputation after the publication
of, iii. 322.
Travellers, their liability to mis-
take, iii. 253.
Trecothick, Mr. Alderman, iii. 115,
222.
"Tremendous companion," John-
son called a, iii. 171.
Trevelyan, Mr., quoted on Bos-
well's Corsica, ii. 60; on Bos-
well's admirable and rare talent,
61 n.
Trianon, visited, ii. 357.
Trimlestown, Lord, iii. 244, 245.
Trinity, Johnson's belief in the
doctrine of, ii. 238.
Trinity College, Dublin, presents
Johnson with the degree of doc-
tor of laws, ii. 11.
Truth, to be ascertained only by
persecution on the one hand,
and enduring it on the other, ii.
234; "That truth which bears
the semblance of a lie," Dante's
lines on, quoted, iii. 247; phy-
sical and moral defined, 430;
may it ever be violated? iv.
223.
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