N.

NARES, Reverend Mr. John, his "Elements of Orthoepy," and imitations of

Johnson's style, iii. 153.

National debt, i. 397.

Natural affection, i. 378.

Negroes, ii. 156, 7, 167, 187, 237, 244, 247.

Newhaven, Lord, ii. 379.

Newton, Sir Isaac, eloquent praise of him by Johnson, i. 396.

Dr. Thomas, (late Bishop of Bristol,) iii. 73.

Nichols, Dr. ii. 212.

Mr. John, ii. 517; iii. 136.

Nicoll, Mr. George, letter of Johnson to, iii. 133.

Nollekens, Mr. ii. 345.

Nonjurors, i. 530; iii. 75.

Nowell, Reverend Dr. iii. 80, I.

Nu yap eрxeтa, the motto on Johnson's watch, i. 348;-and see
tions, &c."

"Correc-

O.

ODE to Friendship, by Johnson, i. 97.

Oglethorpe, General, anecdotes of, i. 75, 429, 430; ü. 13, 14, 134, 291, 523.
Oldfield, Dr. anecdote of, ii. 134.

Oldham's imitation of Juvenal, i. 69.

Oldys's part in Harleian miscellany, i. 107.

Omai, ii. 105.

Oratory, i. 453; ii. 4, 472; iii. 94.

Orford, Lord, his gallery of pictures, iii. 106.

Orme, Mr. i. 517; ii. 292.

Captain, ii. 462.

Orrery, Lord, i. 113, 398; ü. 313, 526.

his life of Swift, ii. 270.

Osborn, Francis, his works, i. 438.

Osborne, the bookseller, anecdote of, i. 94.

Ossian's Poems, their claims to authenticity and merit discussed, l. 243, 396,

510, 512, 518, 522, 3, 4, 529; ii. 10, 34, 130; iii. 47.

Ostentation, i. 287, 348; ü. 129, 408.

"Othello," ii. 124.

P.

PALMERSTON, Lord, iii. 33, 101.

Pamphlets, ii. 316.

Paoli, General, i. 358, 364, 461; ii. 121, 206, 319; iii. 104.
Paradise, John, Esq. letter of Johnson to, iii. 133.

Parish Clerks, iii. 488.

Parker, Sackville, iii. 88.

Parnell, Dr.-Goldsmith's life of, i. 421.

Johnson's life of, ii. 437;-his epitaph on, & ib.
a disputed passage in his poems, ii. 250, 368.

Parr, Reverend Dr. ii. 413; iii. 177.

Paterson, Mr. Samuel and his Son, iii. 62, 3; and see iii. 29.

Patriotism, ii. II.

Pearce, Dr. Zachary, i. 180; ii. 113.

Peers, House of, ii. 334.

Peers of Scotland, their undue influence, iii. 44, 5.

Pembroke College, Oxford, eminent men educated there, i. 36.
Pembroke, Lord, i. 533.

Pendergrast, strange anecdote of, i. 431.

Pennant's "Tour," ii. 215.

Pension, Johnson's, i. 229, & seq. 265.

Percy, Dr. (Bishop of Dromore,) i. 299; ii. 283.

his "Reliques of Ancient Poetry," i.

Letters on the difference between Johnson and him, ü. 287.

Perkins, Mr. ii. 457, 9.

Peterborough, Lord, iii. 106.

Petitions, popular, i. 371.

Philips, the musician, Johnson's epitaph on, i. 89.

Miss, (the singer,) iii. 29.

Philosophy, ii. 307.

Pig, the learned, iii. 139.

Piozzi, Mrs. i. 305; ii. 69, 458, 516; iii. 68, 151.

anecdotes related by her of Johnson refuted or explained, i. 13, 33,

50, 255, 296, 435, 439; ii. 12; iii. 95, 110, 11, 117.

Letter from her to Johnson, ii. 390.

from Johnson to her, ii. 391; iii. 31.

Burlesque Ode to her, iii. 151.

Pitt, Right Hon. William, his letter to the Authour on his exertions for Govern-

ment, iii. 55.

Pity, i. 269.

Planta, Mr. ii. 47.

Planting trees, ii. 168, 240.

Poetry, reflections on, ii. 15, 124, 209, 275, 427.

of Dr. Johnson, while young, i. 13, 21, & seq.

Poets, Johnson's Lives of-See Lives.

Politian's poems, Johnson's projected translation of, i. 47.
Hope, i. 86, 367; ii. 2, 13, 335, 367, 434; iii. 87.

his "Messiah" translated into Latin by Johnson, i. 29.

his "Homer," ii. 275, 375.

his "Universal Prayer," ii. 334.

his "Essay on Man," ii. 375.

his life by Johnson, ii. 431.

Porter, Mrs. (afterwards Johnson's wife) i. 50, 54.

Mrs. Lucy, ii. 90, 382 ;-Johnson's lines to, i. 49.

54, 156.

Johnson's letters to, i. 37, 8; ii. 369, 463, 502, 3: üii. 33, 51

Mrs. (the actress,) iii. 41.

Portmore, Lord, iii. 61.

Prayer, iii. 79.

Predestination, i. 380; ii. 103.

Presentiment, a remarkable story concerning, i. 431.

Priestley, Dr.-Johnson's opinion of, i. 394; iii. 37, 8.
Pringle, Sir John, ii. 141.

RACKSTROW, Johnson's Colonel in the Train-bands, iii. 96.
Rambler," Johnson's, published, i. 123—8.

remarks on, i. 137; ii. 126, 508.

Ramsay, Allan, Esq. ii. 270, 324, 361, 379.

Rank, its importance in society, i. 272, 412, 534, 5.

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia," Johnson's, i. 47, 205–8, 267; ii. 314, 483.
Reading, the manner and effect of, i. 26, 463; ii. 20, 126, 232, 293, 325, 416,
417; iii. 24, 88, 91.

Rein-deer, of introducing into England, i. 422.

Relationship, i. 428.

Religion, and religious establishments, Johnson's opinion concerning, i. 33, 4,
186, 244, 249, 279, 379, 380, 1, 395, 6, 400, 418, 426, 7, 435, 480, 500;

ii. 73, 87, 8, 93, 98, 301-3, 466, 485-8; iii. 22, 3, 28, 9, 171.

the Roman Catholick and Presbyterian, i. 379–81, 485; ii. 378;
iii. 76.

Respublica," (the work so entitled) ii. 132.

Review, Johnson's plan of an intended one, i. 173, 4.

Reviews, Monthly and Critical, and Reviewers, i. 237; ii. 120, 127, 440; iii. 22.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, i. 148, 511; ii. 125, 408; iii. 108, 171.

his "Discourses,” ii. 353; iii. 97.

Letters from Johnson to him, i. 299, 405, 6; ii. 153, 159, 494, 517;

iii. 12, 24, 29, 48, 134.

Rhyme, its excellency, i. 264.

Richardson, Samuel, anecdotes of, i. 88; ii. 226, 313.

his works praised, i. 342, 395, 426.

Riches, i. 422; ii. 279, 314, 488, 510, 525.

Ridicule, ii. 456.

Riots in 1780, account of, ii. 394-7, 399.
Rising early, ii. 215.

Robertson, Reverend Dr. William, ii. 324.

his works, i. 329, 346, 469, 470; ii. 326.
his imitation of Johnson's style, iii. 152.

Rochester's poems, ii. 232.

Rolt, his "Dictionary of Trade and Commerce," i. 218

anecdotes of, i. 218.

Romances, i. 19; ii. 414.

Round Robin, (literary,) ii. 154.

Rosseau, i. 315.

Rowe, Mrs. her works, i. 271.

Royal Academy instituted, i. 355.

Rudd, Mrs. Margaret Caroline, ii. 151, 323.

Ruff head's life of Pope, i. 422.

Russia, Empress of, ii. 193, 353.

Rutty, Dr. his "Spiritual Diary,” ii. 217.

S.

SAILORS, their life, ii. 75, 280; iii. 46.

Salamanca University, i. 279.

Sarpi, Paolo, his "Council of Trent," i. 80.
his life by Johnson, i. 84.

Savage, Richard, anecdotes of, i. 100, 1.

his life by Johnson, i. 96, 99, 102.

enquiry as to his birth, i. 104-7.

his tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury presented, iL 178.

Savages, ii. 130, 267; iii. 18, 88.

Scarsdale, Lord, his seat at Keddlestone, ii. 210.

Schoolmasters, reflections on, i. 54, 408.

law cases as to, i. 432—4; ii. 244, 246.

Scorpion, curious enquiry concerning, i. 346.

Scotch, remarks on their pronunciation, i. 416.

Lairds, i. 252.

Scotland, and the Scotch, Johnson's opinion of and bon mots on, i. 263, 345,
360, 363, 393, 458, 473, 506, 517, 520, 524; ü. 22, 32, 71, 98, 101, 131, 150,
217, 258, 411, 474, 493, 522.

Scott, Sir William, i. 403; ü. 277, 465.

Scriptures, The Holy, ii. 135.

326-8.

Johnson's letters on the proposal to translate them into Erse, i.

with Corneille, ii. 414.

with Milton, ii. 452.

Johnson's opinion of, ii. 415, 419.

Johnson's edition of his plays, i. 107, 193, 4, 196, 7, 202, 3, 226,
296;-published, i. 306, 388, 447 ;-remarks on, i. 306, 437; ii. 133, 477.

Sharpe's "Letters on Italy," ii. 133.

Shaw, Cuthbert, his poem of "The Race," i. 330.

Reverend Mr. his Erse Grammar, ii. 170, 1; iii. 47.

Shebbeare, Dr. ii. 478.

Shenstone, his verses on an inn, ii. 83.

Sheridan, Thomas, Esq. i. 236, 238, 278, 368, 398, 417, 530; ii. 101, 357; iii.

22, 26, 104.

Mrs. i. 238.

R. B. Esq. his compliment to Johnson, in a prologue, ii. 178.
Shipley, Dr. (late Bishop of St. Asaph,) ii. 270, 273; iii. 43.
Short-hand, i. 462; ii. 282.

Siddons, Mrs. her visit to Johnson, iii. 40, & seq.

Sibbald, Sir Robert, M. D. curious account of, ii. 255.
Simpson, Joseph, Esq. anecdotes of, i. 300; ii. 117.

Letter from Johnson to, i. 210.

Sin, original, ii. 487.

Skene, Sir John, ii. 384.

Slavery, and the Slave-trade, ii. 238, 9, 244;—and see Negroes.

Sleep, ii. 215, 16.

Smart, Christopher, i. 186, 244; ii. 9.

Smith, Dr. Adam, ii. 324.

his "Wealth of Nations," ii. 70.

Captain, his attention to Johnson at Warley-camp, ii. 347.

Society, civilized, its customs, &c. i. 270, 272, 275, 316, 378, 464; ii. 278, 462.

Soldiers, ii. 105, 279, 346, 7.

Somerville, Lord, ii. 434.

Southwell, Lord, ii. 526.

"Spectator, The,” i. 454; ii. 26, 120, 128.

Spence's "Anecdotes," ii. 444.

Spirits, evil, iii. 77.

Stanhope, Mr. (Lord Chesterfield's son,) his character, i. 161.

Steevens, George, Esq. re-publishes Johnson's Shakspeare, i. 387, 447.
Johnson's letters to, i. 497; ii. 165.

George, Esq. communications from as to Johnson, iii. 99, & seq.

Sterne, i. 460.

Stirling Corporation, ii. 28.

Strahan, William, Esq. i. 530; ii. 348;~his letter as to obtaining Johnson a
seat in parliament, i. 401.

jun. his death, and Johnson's letter on, ii. 470.

Mrs. Johnson's letters to, ii. 470, 500.

Reverend Mr. iii. 172.

Stratford-Jubilee.-See Garrick.

Stuart, Hon. Colonel James, ii. 373.

Stuart, Andrew, Esq. his "Letters to Lord Mansfield," i. 465.

Study, method of, i. 264, 291.

Style, ii. 290.