Fasting, its effect on one of the fathers, 275 Favours, unreasonable, 101 Felixmarte of Hircania, 8 Females, succession of. See Entail; Feudal System the Astronomer, 167 Feudal system, 193, 201, 220, 268, 273. See Entail the world, 505 Fielding compared with Richardson, 154 his works, 192, 300 Fingal. See Ossian Fitzherbert, Mr. 335, 410, 438 Fitzosborne's Letters, 518, n. Flatman's poems, 296 Fleet-street, 127, 244, 273, 384. See London Fleming, Sir Michael Le, 127 Flexman, Mr., index-maker, 531 Flint, Bet, 463 Flood, Right Hon. Henry, his bequest to Dublin Uni- versity, 89, n. Flood, his epitaph on Johnson, 565 Floyer, Sir John, 6, 516. author of an excellent book on the asthma, 516 Fludyer, Rev. Mr. 278 Foote, Samuel, anecdotes and character of, 166, 167, Fop, a clerical one, only half a beau, 453 Foppery, never cured, 177 Forbes, Sir William, 313, 354 Ford, the Rev. Cornelius, 8, 399 Fordyce, Dr. James, 108, 561 Forrester, Colonel, 294 Forster's Voyage to the South Sea, 245 Forster, Mrs. Elizabeth, (Milton's grand-daughter) 59 his journal there, 259, & seq. the reason assigned why he did not print an ac- his opinions of that country, 400 Francis's Horace, 401 Franklin, Rev. Dr., his translation of Lucian's Demo- Benjamin, his definition of man, 366 French writers superficial, and why, 125 language, Johnson's knowledge of, 163 in general know no more than women, 39 a gross ill-bred people, 400, 503 Friends and friendship, 63, 79, 188, 334, 410, 421, 47, 431 whether there are any probable grounds for Friendship, departed, 54, 331, 387 one of its greatest pleasures, 202 Fullarton, Colonel, 401 Future state of man, 188, 351, 390, 495 different degrees of happiness in heaven, 141, 380 Gaming, 192, 394 Ganganelli's letters, 379 Gardiner, Mrs. 63, 506, 559, n. Garrick, David, Esq. Anecdotes of, 21, 46, 49, 52, n. his Shakspeare Jubilee, 159 Johnson's opinion of him, 56, 110, 134, 165, Garrick, David, Esq. his death, 406 Peter, Esq. 25, 237, 283, 284, 418 Gastrell, Mrs. 285, 418 Gaubius, Professor at Leyden, his criterion of madness, 12 III. his accession and character, 96, 99, 102, Johnson's interview with, &c. 149 Johnson's praise of his opinion, 514 Goldsmith, Johnson's epitaphs on him, 312 517 Johnson's opinions of him and his works, Good-breeding, perfect,-in what it consists, 163 Gordon, Lord George, 424, 456 Gower, Earl, his letter to Swift, in favour of Johnson, 31 Miss, (now Lady Dashwood,) 417 Grainger, Dr. his Sugar Cane,' 280 his Ode on Solitude.' 351 Grammar school, Johnson's plan of a, 22 Granger, Rev. Mr., his Biographical History,' 316 Dr. 263, n. Hammond, James, author of the Elegies, 435 Happiness, 141, 303, 380. See Life may be obtained, if we apply our hearts to the reasonable hope of a happy futurity, the Harris, James, Esq. of Salisbury, 208, 323, 366, 370 Harte's History of Gustavus Adolphus,' 175, 454 Hastie. See Schoolmaster Hastings, Warren, Esq. character of, 449 Johnson's letters to, 450, 451 Hawkesbury, Lord, Johnson's letter to, 334 Hume, David, Esq. his style French, 121 his Scepticism, 123, 129, 141, 277, 336, 337 his disbelief of a future state, 16 Humphrey, Ozias, Esq. 514 Hunter, Mr. Johnson's schoolmaster, 7 Miss, 488, n. Hurd, Dr. (Bishop of Worcester,) 17, 296, 310, n. 360. Hussey, Rev. Mr. John, 483 Rev. Dr. Thomas, 561 Hutton, Mr. 561 Hutton's History of Derby,' 340, n. Jackson, Henry (one of Johnson's early friends,) 229 ter, 119 Jackson, Mr., Johnson's schoolfellow, 283 JOHNSON, not prone to inveigh against his own times, never courted the great, 465 never got entirely rid of his provincial pro- -by what means he attained his extraordi- his visit to his native town, where he finds his library, 120 his love for the acquaintance of young per- his observance of certain days, 134 his amusement in his solitary hours, 414 men do not, like others, become narrow in a 118 Nathanael (Dr. Johnson's brother,) 5 touched by Queen Anne for the evil, 6 goes to school at Lichfield, 7-at Stour- bridge, 8 enters at Pembroke College, Oxon. 11.- becomes usher of Market-Bosworth School, removes to Birmingham, 17 a writer in The Gentleman's Magazine,' 26, endeavours to obtain the degree of A.M. to his distressed circumstances, and filial piety, 40 composes her funeral sermon, 63 visits Oxford, 70; and again, 94, 276, 265 sity, 72 his letters on that occurrence, 74-The di- ploma, 74 declines taking holy orders, 85 his extreme grief for her loss, 61, 73, 80, 261, obtains a pension of 3001. per Ann. 102 & seq. visits Cambridge, 135 endeavours to get into Parliament, 180 & seq. Wales, 227 France, 257 his account of it, 259 his various places of residence, 416 his long and gradual decline, 509 his various disorders, 504, 510, 541, 547 medical opinions on his case, 512, 515 his proposed tour to Italy for his health, 532, 535 his will and codicil, 589-Remarks on them, 559 his MS. account of his own life, 560 his death, 563 his funeral, 564 his monuments and epitaphs, 564, 565. His his peculiarities of person and manners, 6, his candour, 111, 489; increased as he ad- -not a complainer; 465, 483; seldom courted - his course of study desultory and irregular, - his instructions for study, 349 his early acquisition of general knowledge, 123 -his manner of composing his other works, never looked at his Rasselas' since it was wrote six sheets of translation from the wrote a hundred lines of the Vanity of Hu- wrote seventy lines of the Vanity of Human wrote three columns of the Gentleman's Ma- wrote forty-eight of the printed octavo pages his style formed on Sir William Temple's, a his own remarks on, and masterly vindication 461, n. his superlative power of wit, 210 his dexterity in retort, 107, 488 his conversation eminently distinguished by his early, long, habitual, and systematic his independence, 122 his awful fear of death, 165, 170, 175, 233, his general tenderness of nature, humanity, his placability, 170, 375 his charity, 174 his occasional jocularity, 51, 71, 109, 118, 215, 274, 361, 365, 381, 444, 526 his love of little children, 490 his kindness to his servants, 315, 490 his fondness for animals whch he had taken under his protection, 490* his bow to an archbishop, 491 his laugh, 256 his engaging to write the history of the Au- his respect to birth and faunily, 35, 123, 185, Laughter, the various modes of, indicate what kind of Rev. Vicessimus, 533 his imitation of Johnson's style, 555 Landlords and tenants, 168, 367, 481 -Johnson's letters to, 77, 87, 90, 97, 143, 153, Miss Jane, Johnson's letter to, 515 genteel economy, 144 Languages, i. 132. 148, 162, 186, 197, 363, 529 Latin, Johnson's accurate knowledge of, 265 poetry, modern, 254 La Trobe. Rev. Mr. 561 Lauder, William, his forgery against Milton, 59 Laughers, the, use of sometimes living with them, 487 -his instructor, Mr. Ballow, author of the 'Trea- his opinion as to the study and practice of, 141, 1-5, Law-arguments on several cases, viz. on School-masters and their duty, 195 rights of law-patrons, 213 Stirling Corporation case, 255 liberty of the Pulpit, 304, 315 case of the Procurators of Edinburgh, 469 Lawrence, Dr. 16, 472 letters to, 232, 474 Lea, Rev. Samuel, 8 Learning, 126, 196 Lectures, their inutility, 141, 457 John, Esq. (the late barrister,) 36C Leeds, Duke of, 433 Leland, Rev. Dr. Thomas, 136 Lenox, Mrs. Charlotte, 94, 100, 229, 432, 516 Lesley, Charles, 521, n. Leverian Museum, 534 Levett, Mr. Robert, 63, 64, 120, 227, 257, 315, 502 Johnson's letters to, 227, 258, 315 Mr. Robert, his death, 472 Johnson's elegiac verses on him, 473 Lewis, the Rev. Francis, 58 David, his lines to Pope, 559 Lexiphanes, 153 letter from, 554 Libels on the dead, and the general doctrine of, 292; Libel Bill, the late, superfluous, 292, n. Liberty, political and private, 157 subordination and order necessary to the enjoy- ment of true liberty, 409 and necessity of the will, 163, 168, 381, 451 Lichfield, remarks on, 381 Johnson's last visit to, 543 Liddel, Sir Henry, his spirited expedition to Lapland, 190 Life, reflections on, 176, 177, 209, 302, 304, 340, 524,533 Line, the improper use of that word, 350 Johnson's high opinion of it, 484 Literary frauds, 66, 98-instances of, 559 property, 121, 219, 224, 246, 553 men, the written accounts of their lives may be 'Lives of the English Poets,' Johnson's, 321, 322, 323 published, 406, 439, 478 Lock, William, Esq. (of Norbury Park,) 441 Loft, Capel, Esq. 517 Lombe's silk mill, at Derby, 340 London, its immensity, 116, 249, 492 its superiority over the country, 161, 174, 176, Johnson's and the Author's love of, 85, 127, London, art of living in, 23 Johnson's poem of, 27-30, 49 Long, Dudley, Esq. See North Loudoun, Countess of, 404 Lovat, Lord, anecdotes of, and epigram on, 46 Loughborough, Lord, 106 Lowe, (Johnson's Schoolfellow,) 7 Mr. Mauritius, the Painter, 468, 495, 559 Macqueen, Rev. Dr., the first proposer of premiums in his Boulter's Monument,' 85 his rule for planting an orchard, 493 Madness, 109, 344 Mahogany, a liquor so called, 454 his Life of Bacon, 350 his Tragedy of 'Elvira,' 112 Malone, Edmond, Esq. iv. 57, 59, 111, n., 113, 286, 302, Man, in all states, must govern women, from superiority 'Man of Feeling,' (a Novel,) 98 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees' criticised, 381 Manly beauty, described by Shakspeare and Milton, Manners, works describing them require notes in sixty Methodists, 127, 175, 176, 239, 533 Meynell, Hugo, Esq., his happy expressions concerning Mickle, William Julius, 194, 527 his Lusiad,' 508 Middle state of souls, 169, 188 Millar, Andrew, 77 Miller, Lady, 244 Milner, Rev. Mr., his defence of the Methodists, 127, n. and 526 See 59 & seq. more thinking in him and Butler, than in any his plan of education impracticable, 422 Mimickry, 186 Miracles, in proof of the Christian religion, supported 'Mirror, the,' a periodical paper, 535 'Modern characters from Shakspeare,' 369 Monasteries, 100, 275 Monboddo, Lord, and his works, 161, 183, 206, 220, 257, Monckton, Hon. Miss, (now Countess of Cork,) 463 Monro, Dr. 512 Montagu, Mrs., her Essay on Shakspeare,' 164 Montrose, the late Duke of, 364, n. Monuments in St Paul's church, 463 Moody, Mr., the Actor, 212 Moor, Dr. (Greek Professor at Glasgow,) 299 More, Dr. Henry, 188 More, Miss Hannah, 369, 459, 460, 463, 516, 526 Mountstuart, Lord (now Marquis of Bute,) 145, 274, 315, 418, 469 Mourning Bride,' description of the temple in that Mudge, Rev. Mr. Zachariah, 103, 453 Dr. 103 Myddleton, Colonel, his urn and inscription in honour Mylne, Mr., the Architect, defended, 95 Nares, Rev. John, his Elements of Orthoëpy,' and Nash, Beau, Dedication, iv. Rev. Dr., his History of Worcestershire,' 374, n. Natural affection from parents to children instinctive; the reason assigned, 411 Negroes, 314, 317, 318, 352 Johnson's arguments in favour of one, 352, 355 Newhaven, Lord, 417 Newton, Sir Isaac, Johnson's praise of, 125, 176 Dr. Thomas, (late Bishop of Bristol,) 520 Nichols, Dr., Johnson's review of his Discourse de Ani- Mr. John, 441, 480, 547 |