Pennant's Account of London,' iii. 276.

Pennington, Mr. iv. 230.

Pension, Johnson's, i. 328.

See Johnson.

Pepys, William Weller, Esq. iv. 83.

Percy, Dr. (Lord Bishop of Dromore,) i. 23, 24, 4†, 110, 155, 428,
431; ii. 58, 126, 438, n. 440; iii. 272, 273, 274, 275, 279,
280, 366, 416, 420.

....

letters on a difference between

Johnson and him, iii. 279, 280, 281.

proved to be the heir male of the ancient Earls of Northum-
berland, iii. 273.

Perkins, Mr. successor to Mr. Thrale, iv. 81, 84.

letters from Johnson to, ii. 276; iv. 115, 154, 369.

Peters, Mr. Dr. Taylor's upper servant, ii. 276.

Peterborough, Charles, Earl of, iv. 387.

Petitions, popular, to distress Government, easily obtained, ii. 80.
Peyton, Mr. i. 153; ii. 146.

Phæax, contrasted with Mr. Fox, iii. 268, n.

Philips, the Musician, Johnson's epitaph on, i. 114.

......

the Poet, Johnson's Life of, iv. 54.

Miss, the Singer, afterwards Mrs. Crouch. See Crouch.
Οι φιλοί, ο φίλος, i. 170; iii. 292, 385.

Philosophers, ancient, their good humour with each other in dis-
putation, accounted for, iii. 9.

Philosophy, iii. 307.

Pig, the learned, iv. 382.

Pindar, West's translation of, iv. 25.

Piozzi, Mrs. i. 440, n.; ii. 418; iii. 127, 316; iv. 81, 82, 159, 284.
anecdotes of Johnson related by her, corrected, or ex-
plained, i. 16, 40, n. 61, n. 366, 427; ii. 177, n. 182, n.
336; iv. 323, 343, 344, 351.

letter from her to Johnson, iii. 422.

from Johnson to her, iii. 423; iv. 230.

burlesque ode to her, iv. 399.

Pitt, Right Hon. William, Earl of, Chatham, ii. 184; iii. 357;

iv. 322.

.... Right Hon. William, his letter to the Authour, on his [ex-
ertions for Government, iv. 266, n.

Pity, not natural to man, i. 385.

Planta, Mr. ii. 385, n.

Planting trees, iii. 100, 209.

Plaxton, Rev. George, i. 12.

Players,-Porter, Clive, Pritchard, iv. 246.

Plymouth, Johnson's visit to, i. 331, 332.

Pococke, Edward, the Orientalist, iii. 270; iv. 27.
anecdote of, iv. 188.

Poetry, reflections on, ii. 338; iii. 35, 162, 259.

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not definable, iii. 35.

the cause of languages being preserved, iii. 33.-The
beauties not translatable, ibid.

of Johnson, while young, i. 16, 25, et seq. 61.

Poets, friendly to monarchs, ii. 212.

Johnson's Lives of. See Lives.

Politian's Poems, Johnson's projected edition of, i. 58.
Poor, in England, better provided for than in any other country,
ii. 120.

Pope, i. 95, 98, n. 99, 110; ii. 4, 337; iii. 239, n. 348, 390;
iv. 312.

....

compared with Dryden, ii. 4.

.... Lady Bolingbroke's description of, iii. 325.

....

his Life, by Ruffhead, ii. 156.

Johnson's translation of his Messiah,' i. 34.
his Homer,' iii. 259.

hisUniversal Prayer,' iii. 348.

his Dunciad,' written for fame, ii. 323.

that poem, ii. 75.

Johnson's eulogy on the concluding lines of

his Essay on Man,' iii. 400, 401.

his Epitaphs, i. 264.

Johnson's Life of, iv. 43.

Dr. Walter, his Old Man's Wish,' iv. 16.

Porter, Mrs. (afterwards Johnson's wife,) i. 63, 64.

Esq., an officer in the Indian Company's service, and
son of Mrs. Johnson, by her first husband, i. 64, 65, n.; iv.
247.

....

Lucy, i. 61, n.; ii. 447; iii. 411.

Johnson's letters to, ii. 371, 372; iii. 392; iv. 88, 142,
143, 234, 247, 260, 405.

Mrs., the Actress, iv. 246.

Porteus, Dr. Beilby, Lord Bishop of London, iii. 281, 282, 411;
iv. 77.

Portmore, Earl of, iv. 273.

Praise from those we love, delightful, i. 173.

Prayer, ii. 93, 163; iv. 300, 301, 385.

.... for the dead, ii. 93, 153.

Prayers and Meditations,' Johnson's, iv. 386.-His extraordmary
prayer for his departed wife, i. 196.

Praxis Rerum Criminalium of Damhouderius, i. 88, n.
Preaching of the established Clergy, i. 404, 405; ii. 113.
Female Quakers, i. 408.

Preceptor,' Dodsley's, i. 115. See Vision of Theodore."
Predestination, ii. 92. See Liberty and Necessity.

Prendergast, Mr. remarkable anecdote of, ii. 172.
Presentiment, a remarkable story concerning, ii. 172.

Presbyterians, ii. 91, 92.

Price, Dr. iv. 241, n.

Priestley, Dr. Johnson's opinion of, ii. 113; iv. 240, 241.
Prince of Wales, his happiness, iv. 185.
Pringle, Sir John, iii. 61, 180, n. 249.
Printing, iii. 33.

ancient, ii. 385.

Prior's poetry, ii. 71; iii. 195.

Pritchard, Mrs. ii. 335; iv. 246.

Probationer, ii. 161.

Procurators of Edinburgh, their case, iv. 126.
Professions, some objections to all, ii. 117.
Project, the,' a poem, iii. 319.
Pronunciation, ii. 149, 150; iii. 200.

Prostitution, i. 402; iii. 16.

Providence, a particular, iv. 279.

Prussia, Frederick, King of, his writings, i. 383.

Psalmanazar, George, iii. 315; iv. 190, 281.

Psalms, best metrical translation of, iii. 5, n.

Publick amusements keep people from vice, ii. 159.

speaking, no true test of a man's powers, ii. 326; iv. 181.

Puns, ii. 228; iii. 323; iv. 81, 322.

Q.

Quakers, ii. 443; iii. 299; iv. 214, 215.

of their women preaching, i. 408.

Queensbury, Charles, third Duke of, ii. 352.

Quin, James, (the actor,) ii. 353.

Quintilian, iv. 32.

Quotation, classical, the parole of literary men, iv. 100.

Quos DEUS vult perdere, &c. traced to its source, iv. 184, n.

R.

Rackstrow, of Flect-street, Johnson's Colonel in the Train-Bands,

iv. 324.

Radcliffe, Rev. Dr. Master of Pembroke College, i. 229.
John, M. D., his travelling fellowship, iv. 300.

Ralph, Mr. James, iv. 59, n.

Rambler,' Johnson's, published, i. 164, 165, 167, 188.
the manner in which it was written, iii. 39.

remarks on, i. 179, 180; iv. 151.

Shenstone's criticism on, ii. 437.

Ramsay, Allan, Esq. (painter to his Majesty,) iii. 252, 331, 335;
iv. 374.

Ranby, John, Esq. iii. 207.

Rank, its importance in Society, i. 390, 394; ii. 143.

Rasselas,' Prince of Abyssinia, Johnson's, i. 58, 297, 298, 382;
iii. 318; iv. 116.

translated into four languages, ii. 197.

American edition of, ibid.

Reading, the manner and effect of, i. 32; ii. 214, 346; iii. 39, 196,
287, 333; iv. 18, 221.

in a low tone more easy than in a high one, iv. 207.
Rebels, never friends to the arts, ii. 212.

Reed, Isaac, Esq. iv. 34.

Rehearsal, the,' Johnson's opinion of that Farce, iv. 325.
criticisms on, ii, 158.

Rein-deer, project for introducing them into England, ii. 158.
Relationship, attachment grounded on, diminished by commerce,
ii. 166.

Religion and religious establishments, i. 40, 400; ii. 91, 92, 93,
94, 141, 142, 229, &c. 423, 443, 459; iii. 15, 300, 314,
317; iv. 92, 119-123, 218.

...

Roman Catholick and Presbyterian, ii. 91, 93, 94, 244;
iii. 405; iv. 295, 296.

that he who does not feel joy in it is far from the king-
dom of heaven, a rash doctrine, iii. 340.

Religious orders, ii. 423.

Republicans wish to level down as far as themselves, but cannot

bear to level up to themselves, i. 395.

Respublica,' the work so entitled, iii. 47.

Review, Johnson's plan of one, i. 264.

Reviews, and Reviewers, ii. 39; iii. 29; 40; iv. 56, 217.

Revolution, the, celebration of, iv. 173.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, i. Advert. xii. 202, 253, 285; ii. 131, n.

283, 297; iii. 37; iv. 5, 322, 426.

his Discourses,' iii. 370; iv. 326.

his even and placid temper, iii. 5.

Reynolds, Johnson's letters to, i. 432; ii. 131, 134; iii. 77, 78,
86; iv. 132, 162, 228, 373.

anecdotes of Johnson by him, i. 332; ii. 98; iv. 186.
Mrs. Frances, Johnson's letter to her on her unpublished
Essay on Taste,' iv. 132, n.

her death, iv. 133, n.

Rheumatism, receipt for, ii. 346.

Rhyme, i. 377; iii. 259.

Richardson, Samuel, anecdotes of, i. 95, 112, 166; ii. 81; iii. 187,

315; iv. 26.

compared with Fielding, ii. 46.

with French Novelists, ii. 115.

his works, ii. 163, 164.

Jonathan, jun. Esq., desired by Pope to find out the
author of London, a Poem,' i. 95.

Pope's note to him concerning Johnson, i. 110, 111.

Riches, i. 358; ii. 157; iii. 266, 317; iv. 124, 153, 176.
Ridicule, iv. 15.

Riots in 1780, account of, iii. 426, 438.

Rising early, iii. 171

Roberts, Miss, i. 380.

Robertson, Rev. Dr. William, ii. 30; iii. 331, 334, 335.
his first introduction to Johnson, iii. 332.

his works, ii. 50, 223.

his imitation of Johnson's style, iii. 176; iv. 400.

Robinson, Sir Thomas, i. 383; ii. 120.

Rochester's Poems, iii. 195.

Rolt, Richard, his Dictionary of Trade and Commerce,' i. 315.

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anecdotes of, i. 315.

Roman Catholicks. See Religion.

Romances, i. 23.-Reasons for reading them, iv. 14.

Romney, Mr. iii. 40, n.

Roscommon, Johnson's Life of, i. 155.

Round-Robin, literary, iii. 79.

Rousseau, i. 387; ii. 10.

Rowe, Mrs. i. 268

Royal Academy, instituted, ii. 62.

Rudd, Mrs. Margaret Caroline, iii. 75, 331.

Ruddiman, Mr. Thomas, i. 174.

Ruffhead's Life of Pope, ii. 156.

Russia, Catherine, Empress of, iii. 138, n. 370.
Rutty, Dr. his Spiritual Diary,' iii. 174.
Ryland, Mr. i. 202.