The Life of Samuel Johnson

Index of Subjects

abbreviating names, S.J.’s habit of 54, 59, 190, 191, 398, 914

abjuration, oath of 434, n. a

abridgements, defended by S.J. 11, 82, 976

abroad, advice to people going 946

abruptness, in poetry 214

absolute princes 459 abstemious, S.J., not ‘temperate’ 246, 804

absurdities, delineating 771

abuse, coarse and refined 928

‘Acade´mie Franc¸ais’ 106, 162

Academy, the Royal, see Royal Academy

‘Accademia della Crusca’ 162, 234

‘accommodate’ 783

account-keeping 862

accuracy 375, 441, 771, 964; see also under Index of Persons, Boswell II

achievement and non-achievement 328

Achilles, shield of 780

‘acid’ 455

acquaintance 520, 862, 972

acting 896–7

action in speaking 178–9, 372

actors, see players

Adamites 395

addresses to the throne in 1784 167, 909

admiration 454

adoption, ancient mode of 138

‘adscititious’ 116–17

adultery 291, 714, 742

Advent-Sunday 416

Adventure, the 339

adversaries, see antagonists advisers, the common deficiency of 720

advocates, see lawyers

‘Ægri Ephemeris’ 976

affairs, managing one’s 812

affectation 247, 603, 664–5, 777, 803; see also singularity

affection 311, 733, 879

afforestation 574, 634–5

age: old, see old age; present 444, 521, 646, 665, 923

air, new kinds of 893

air-bath, Monboddo’s 613

alchymy 462–3

‘alias’ 883

Almack’s Club 531

almanac 457

‘almost nothing’ 503 n. a

alms-giving, see charity

ambassador, Russian 745

ambition 539

America, American Colonies and Americans, see Index of Places

amusements 350, 938

ancestry 342, 400

ancient and modern writers compared 704

ancient times worse than modern 883

anecdotes 266

‘anfractuosity’, ‘anfractuousness’ 765

animals 290, 393, 545; see also dogs; Index of Persons, Johnson I: cats

animus irritandi 835

annihilation 605, 683

anonymous writings 727

antagonists 501

‘Antigallican’, popular epithet 172

antimosaical remark 514

antiquarian 674, 703–4

Apelles’ Venus 820

Apollo Press 584

apologies, ‘seldom of any use’ 262

apostolical ordination 313

apparitions, see ghosts

applause 780

apple dumplings 329

application 812

apprehensions, see Index of Persons, Boswell II: imagination

April fool 578

Arabic 777

archbishop 872

arches, semicircular and elliptical 187

architecture 13, 148, 499; see also Index of Persons, Others: Chambers, Sir William

Argonauts 241

arguing 524–5

argument 283, 518, 519, 919

Argyll, Synod of 594; see also 411

Arian heresy 780

arithmetic 45, 635

armorial bearings 355

arms 716

army, see soldiers

art, see painting and statuary

Artemisia 300

arthritick tyranny

102 articles, see Thirty-nine Articles

‘artificially’ 544

Artists, Society of, see Society of Artists

‘ascertain’ 740

assent 940

Assyrians 354, 537

atheism 265

Athenians 45, 351

‘Athol porridge’ 808

attacks on authors 294, 442, 726, 753, 1001; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: attacks

Attorney-General 560

attorneys 327, 834, 937

Augustan Age 384

austerities, religious, see monasteries

author, an 316, 818, 940, 942

authority 501, 665

authors 66, 68, 112, 209, 289, 297 n. c, 326, 363, 386, 446, 495, 533–4, 571, 610, 621, 675, 696, 704, 725–6, 817–18, 826, 830, 860, 932–3, 938

avarice 556, 697

baby 311

ballads 251, 332, 358, 373, 607–9

balloons 960, 962, 963, 969

baptism 54 n. a, 509, 924

bar, see law; lawyers

barbarous society 209

Barclay, Perkins and Co., see Index of Persons, Others: Perkins, John

baron 67 n. b

baronet 713

barristers, see lawyers

bat 709

baths 54 n. a, 310

bear, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I

beauty, independent of utility 348, 857

Bedfordshire militia 166 n. 131, 738

Bedlam 463, 878

beer 474; see also Index of Persons, Others: Thrale, Henry

beggars 532, 739–40, 780; see also charity

Belgrade, siege of 356

belief 524

benevolence 539, 543, 680

Benevolists, the 603 n. a

‘Betty or Betsey’ 58

‘bibliopole’ 446

‘Bibliothèque’ 154, 154–5

‘big’ 712

‘Big man’, an Irishism 267

‘bill’ 200

biographical catechism 973

biography 6, 19–24, 139, 225, 284, 302, 349, 502–3, 556, 606, 671 n. b, 781, 792, 985

birds 393

birth, respect for, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I; Boswell II

‘bis dat qui cito daf 417

Biscay, language of 173

‘bishop’ 136

bishops 351, 450, 769, 805, 812, 828 n. b, 922, 927; see also hierarchy, English

bleeding 604–5

blind, the 361; see also Index of Persons, Others: Hetherington, William

‘blockhead’ 222, 352, 508

‘blood’ 400

Blue-stockings, the 823

boars 649

Bohemian language 343

bones 875–6

‘bon-mots’ 449, 626 n. a, 697

books 43, 61, 239, 323, 346, 382, 456, 464, 476, 627, 692, 703, 731; see also copyright; editions; reading

bookseller, a drunken 156, 388

booksellers 51, 165, 231, 446, 492, 579, 679 n. a, 724, 904; see also copyright

Boswell family 243, 872

Boswelliana 685 n. a

botanical garden 834

botanist 201 n. a

bottom 594 n. a, 594 n. 688, 818

bounty on corn, see corn

‘bouts-rimes’ 443

Boyle, family of, see Index of Places: Orrery Brahmins 769 n. a, 812

brandy 729, 808

bravery 985

bread tree 393

breeches 868

breeding, see good breeding

brewers 257

brewing 474; see also Index of Persons, Others: Thrale, Henry

bribery 444

Britain 75 n. b, 704

British Coffee-House, London 363

British Museum Library 20, 88, 143 n. a, 422 n. a, 427, 476 n. a, 770

Briton 75 n. b, 188

brooks 659

‘Brownism’ 166

Brunswick, House of, see Hanover, House of

brutes, see animals

buckles, for shoes, made of silver 699

‘bulk’ (see OED s.v. bulk sb.) 240

bull-dog, on the excellence of a 625–6

‘Bulse’ 715

burgess-ticket, see Aberdeen

burrow, a man near his 728

business 443

‘Busy, curious, thirsty fly’ 412

cabbages 507

Cabiri, the 148

calculation, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I

‘Caliban of literature’ 328

‘called’ 815

Calypso 151

camp 718; see also Index of Places: Coxheath Camp; Warley Common

‘can, to leave one’s’ 512

cant: 209, 629, 884

capital punishments, see executions; Index of Places: Tyburn

cards 171, 531

carelessness 773

carpenter, anecdote of a 827

‘Cartaret’, a dactyl 764

castes of the Hindoos 769 n. a, 812

Catalogue raisonne 89

catalogues 456

catechism: Larger & Shorter Catechism 411

cathedrals, English 577

cats 872; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

celibacy 328

censure 548, 692–3, 698

certainties, small, the bane of men of talents 435

chair of veracity or verity 548

‘Cham of literature’ 186 n. e

Chancellors, Lord, how chosen 344

chances 945

change, silver 869

chaplains 309

character 288, 478, 501, 528, 529, 652, 675–6, 709, 713, 780

charade, a 871

charitable establishment in Wales 611

charity 322, 373, 394–5, 546, 764

Charterhouse 107, 588, 644, 762

chastity 292, 508

cheerfulness 688

chemistry 82, 230, 265, 343, 738, 893

children 138, 231, 311, 480–81, 533, 591, 614, 771, 773; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

China 52, 186 n. c, 291, 668, 707, 797; see also Index of Persons, Others: Du Halde, J. B.

Christianity 211, 215, 227, 234, 239, 265, 267, 276, 625, 692, 694

Christ’s Hospital 415

Christ’s satisfaction 832

chuck-farthing 445–6

Church, the 548–51, 568

‘Church and King’ 778, 927

Church of England 244, 351–2, 389–92, 444, 509, 596–7, 759, 760, 917; see also clergy; curates

Church of Rome, see Roman Catholics

Church of Scotland 15, 244, 340, 351–2, 389–92, 509

circulating libraries, see libraries

city, a 661

city-poet 559

civil law 78

‘civility’ 343, 560

‘civilization’ 343

civilized life, see savages; society

Clarendon Press 491–3, 500

claret 704–5, 729, 808

clergy/clergymen 172, 228, 251, 340, 352, 536, 596, 760, 769, 806, 877; see also curates; preaching

clergyman 71, 228, 329, 759, 848–9, 928

clients 287; see also law

climate 363

clothes, see dress Club, the 251–3, 251–2, 269, 271 n. a, 332, 385, 387–8, 397–8, 407, 408, 416, 433–4, 439, 446–8, 498, 562, 576, 583, 591, 637, 648–52, 667, 675, 686, 721, 723, 730–31, 753, 768, 769, 806, 811, 861, 865, 890 n. a, 903, 942–3, 999, 1002 n. a

‘clubable’ 903 n. a

clubs 121, 811, 904

coaches and coaching 245, 592, 920; see also post-chaise

Coalition Ministry 861

Cock-Lane Ghost 15 n. 13, 216, 667

‘coddle, to’ 311

coffee, S.J. drinks, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: coffee

coffee-house critics 157

coin, exportation of 820–21

colds 289, 341

collections 821–2

College of Physicians, London 422

college tutor, an old 386

colleges, see Index of Places: Oxford

colloquial barbarisms 629

colours 361

comedy 308, 384

Commandments 97

commentaries, biblical 547

commerce 354, 452, 619; see also trade

commissaries 623

Committee for Cloathing French Prisoners of War 189

Common Council 348

common people, see people, the

Commons, Doctors’, see Doctors’ Commons

Commons, House of, see debates in Parliament; House of Commons

communion of saints 924

community of goods 395; see also Index of Places: Trevecca

commutation of sins and virtues 987

company 236, 623, 781, 813–14; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

complaints 452, 723

compliments 609, 654, 948

composition 113, 178, 386, 446, 498, 768, 769, 884; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson IV

conceit of parts 694

concoction, of a play 664

condescension 765

conduct 805, 963

confession 313, 549

conge d’elire 942

‘conglobulate’ 291

Congress 430, 481, 920

conjecture 399

conjugal infidelity 291, 531, 712, 742

conscience 389, 394

consolation 267

Constitution, the 500

Constitutional Society, the 693

constructive treason 812

‘consultus’ 675

content 654

‘continuity’ 750

contradiction 731, 918

controversies 501, 524

convents, see monasteries conversation 383, 385, 453, 454, 501–2, 504, 539, 547, 689, 772, 790, 810, 813–14, 857, 863, 867, 870, 883; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

conversions 44, 314, 647

convicts 148, 414 n. a, 430, 668, 833 n. a, 945

convocation 244, 917

cookery, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I; Others: Glasse,

Hannah

‘copy’ 540

copy-money 610

copyright 184 n. b, 231, 399, 446, 579, 724

corn 329, 646, 649, 938

Cornish fishermen 808

‘corps’ 388 n. b corpulency 881

cottage, happiness in a, see rustic happiness and virtue

Council of Trent 314

countess 915

counting 777, 875

country gentlemen 362, 619, 620, 649, 650, 658, 765, 856, 875, 885

country life 172, 619, 661, 714, 949

courage 444, 667, 680, 928

court 178, 266, 943

Court of Session, the supreme judicial tribunal of Scotland 145, 359, 364, 367, 370, 402, 418 n. a, 460, 461, 548, 565, 632, 638, 834

courting the great 76

courts-martial 719, 769

Covent Garden Theatre 371, 582, 582 n. a

‘covin’, defined 366

cow 359–60, 564 n. a

cowardice 699

‘coxcomb’ 328, 656 n. a

‘cross-readings’ 941

Crown, the 321, 351, 450, 451, 521, 607, 748 n. b, 884

cucumbers 769

‘cui bono’ man 825

Culloden, battle of 227, 405

curates 352, 596

curiosity 53, 873

currants 877

dancing 809

Darius’s shade 771

‘dawdle’ 752 n. d, 833

‘dawling’ 752

day-labourers 862

dead, the 118–19, 130, 132, 347, 526, 840

deafness, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: hearing

death 130, 181, 195, 307, 314–15, 422, 605–6, 607, 682–3, 886, 917; see also Index of Persons: Johnson I

debates in Parliament 11, 68–9, 79, 86–8, 91, 101, 333–4, 714, 937–8, 994

debtor 165, 850

debts 185, 560, 590; for S.J.’s warnings to J.B., see Index of Persons, Boswell II: debts

dedications 262, 821 n. a.; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson IV; Boswell IV

definition 656

degeneracy of mankind 376

deist 265, 453

delay, danger of 175

‘dementat ‘ 865

description 873

despondency 825

despotic governments 676

Dettingen, battle of 769

devils 682, 924

devotion 266, 887

dexterity 649

dial 115

Dictionary 160, 307, 346, 628; for dictionary-making, see Index of Works and Literary Characters: Dictionary of the English Language

dinner 61, 189, 304, 308, 547, 884; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: dinners; eating

discipline 29–30

diseases 849

dislike 752

disputes 623

Dissenters 168, 371, 617 n. a.; see also Methodists; Presbyterians; Unitarians

dissimulation 287

distance 516

distinctions 249, 716

distresses of others 308

distrust 595

divorces 712

‘dockers’ 201

doctor, title of 256, 325, 460–61; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: doctor; Others: Memis, Dr John

Doctors’ Commons 78, 243

‘dog’ 28 n. b, 290

dogs 309, 384; for dog of Alcibiades, see Alcibiades

double letters, see post

Douglas Cause, see under Index of Persons, Boswell IV

‘down, to’ 704

Drake, the 339

drama, the English 896–9

draughts, game of 171, 502; see also Index of Persons, Others: Payne, William

dreams 130, 357, 765

dress 28, 112, 303, 519, 864; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

drinking 655, 733 n. a; see also drunkenness; wine

drunkenness 449, 498, 614, 729, 733; see also intoxication

Drury Lane Theatre 66, 88, 103, 110–111, 112, 126–7, 436, 658, 664, 766, 861, 937

duck, epitaph on a 27

ducking-stool 679

duelling and duels 355, 380, 879

duke 217, 233

dull fellow 327, 937

dunces 304

Dutch: the language (usually Low Dutch) 371, 401, 651, 774; the people, see Holland

early rising, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: rising; Boswell II: early rising

earthquake 595

East Indians 707

Easter 401; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

eating, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I

ecclesiastical censure 548, 568

economy 329, 666, 685, 720

editions 917

education 29, 30, 58–9, 238, 264–5, 338, 480–81, 498, 537, 614, 717, 814; see also learning; schools eel 729

egotists 615

Egyptians, ancient 833

election addresses, see under Index of Persons, Johnson IV

elections 342, 349, 414, 415, 444, 713, 762; see also Middlesex Election

Eliza, epigram to, see Index of Persons, Others: Carter, Elizabeth

elocution, see Index of Persons, Others: Sheridan, Thomas; Walker, John

Elwallians 348

‘embellishment’ 636

emigration 312–13, 649

‘emit, to’ 784

emphasis, see Commandments

employment 310; see also occupation

emulation 542

enemy 578

England and the English (for particular localities, consult the Index of Places) 106, 232, 326, 375, 459, 504, 561, 750, 861, 869, 900, 920; see also historian; literature; poor; slaves and slavery; style

entails 483–90, 494

enthusiasm 523, 668

enthusiast 780

‘enucleate, to’ 711

envy 669

Epicurean, the 524

epigram, judge of 663–4

episcopacy, see bishops; hierarchy

epitaphs 480, 516, 564 n. a, 880

equality of mankind 532, 632, 642; see subordination

error 875

Erse 173 n. a, 276–9, 344, 410–11, 414, 421, 428, 447, 464, 577; see also Index of Persons, Others: Shaw, Revd William

Esau’s birthright 139

Esquimaux 392

esquire, title of 24, 440 n. b

Essex Head Club 902–3, 905, 906, 915, 959 n. a, 963

estate 400, 496, 619, 658; see also property

eternal punishment 631, 929

etiquette 304, 455, 517, 691, 833, 920, 943 Eton College 525, 603, 687–8, 693, 809 n. c; see also Index of Persons, Others: Graham, George

Eumelian Club 985 n. a

everlasting punishment 928–9

‘Every island is a prison’, a song 668

exaggeration 595, 732, 859, 878,

excise 161 n. a

executions 148, 868, 945 n. a, 962–3; see also under Index of Persons, Boswell II

exercise 41, 235, 849 n. a

exhibition, see Royal Academy existence 545, 547

expenditure, see economy experience 239

extraordinary characters 504

fable 383

faction 873

facts 867

fairies 771

faith 831

false cries 546

falsehood 647

fame 237, 453, 621, 665; see also under Index of Persons, Boswell II

families, great 309, 341–2, 489, 493, 494, 515, 619, 658, 694; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: birth and rank; Boswell II: birth

family 354, 872–3

fancies, see Index of Persons, Boswell II: imagination.

fancy 409

farmers 715

fasting 498; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

fat men 881, 937

fate, see free will

father 226, 528, 727

favour 349

fear 303, 357, 382; see also courage

feeling for others, see sympathy

fellow 326, 455

ferns 804

feudal antiquities 368, 747

feudal system 354, 486, 487, 619, 747

fiction 892

fiddlers 361

fiddling 380, 654

fighting-cock 441

figurative expressions 926–7

fine and recovery 494 n. a

fine clothes, see dress

fines 698 fire 741

First Cause 694, 779 n. a

fishmonger 729

flagelot 654

flattery 380–81, 384–5, 456, 697

flea 362–63, 870

Flodden Field, battle of 483

flogging 480; see also rod fondness 851

Fontenoy, battle of 189

food 61, 312; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: eating

fools 4, 578

foppery 328

foreigners 378, 770, 869; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

forgetfulness 833–4

‘form’ 941 n. a

‘former, the latter, the’ 868

forms 820

fornication 240, 352, 517, 527–28, 742–43

forwardness 504

France and the French (for particular localities, consult the Index of Places) 7, 15, 106, 162, 163 and n. b, 189, 239, 247–48, 326, 350–51, 466–79, 467, 478, 504–5, 524, 661, 699, 709, 714, 732–33, 770, 773, 859, 893

free agent 831

free will 303, 313, 680–81, 803, 945

Freemasonry 774

French cook, a nobleman’s 247

French horn 774

friends 116, 346–7, 593, 603, 640, 680, 692, 732, 847, 864, 878

friendship 163, 346, 356, 553, 612, 652, 680, 732, 737, 827, 845, 918

Frisian 250

frugality 855

fruit, S.J.’s love of, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I

funds, the 856

‘funny’ 568 n. a

‘futile’ mistaken for ‘sutile’ 677 n. a

future state 119, 346, 605, 631, 679, 720, 761, 985

gabble 713, 765

Gaelic, see Erse

games 31

gaming 353, 531

gaming-club 531

garden 876–7

gardeners 301

garret, the scholar’s 143

‘Gaudium’ 459

General Assembly, see Church of Scotland

general censure, opinion, warrants, see censure; opinion; warrants generals,

great 385

genius 233, 498, 726

gentility 258, 444, 545; see also under Index of Persons, Boswell II

gentleman, English merchant a new species of 258 n. a

gentlewoman, the born 329

German, a 398

German baron 511

German flute 262

gesticulation 178–9, 372–3, 941–2

ghosts 129, 183, 215–16, 347, 355, 357, 648, 683, 684, 713, 714, 736, 771, 815 n. a, 816; see also Cock-Lane Ghost; Index of Persons, Others: Lyttelton, Thomas; Veal, Mrs

giants 122

gin, see spirituous liquors

gloom 533, 843

glow-worm 291, 383 and n. a

goat 336–7

gobelins 470

God 706, 928

good breeding 303

Good Friday 452, 685, 692, 875

good humour 455, 704

‘good man’ 894

good manners, see etiquette

Gordon Riots 754–6, 759, 761

Gothic buildings 148

gout 102; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

government 312, 322, 344, 350–51, 521, 542, 676, 881; see also ministries

grace 325

graces, the 545

grammar school 58–9; see also schools

Grand Signor 394

Grant, the clan 427–8

gratitude 134

‘great’ 346

‘Great He’ 372

great, the 76, 265–6, 625, 715, 827

Greek 59, 72, 240–41, 743, 773, 774, 979; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I; Boswell II

greenhouses 350, 876–7

grief 118, 516, 533, 595–6, 819, 830, 843; see also sorrow

Grub Street 162, 867

guardians 739

guards 212, 542

guessing 716

guilty 901

gulosity 246

gunpowder 719

Gunpowder Plot 39

H, the letter 163

habeas corpus 299

Haberdashers’ Company 76 n. a

habitations 312

habits, early 457

Hackney coaches 945

hair 738 n. b

hall, of a house 148

Ham, posterity of 213

hanging 612

Hanover, House of 82, 227, 377, 606, 856, 859 n. b

Hanover rat 507

happiness 183, 206 n. b, 229, 232, 237, 265, 293, 350, 449, 505, 521, 545, 586 n. a, 595, 611, 630, 651, 656, 679, 720, 727, 933

Harleian Library 89; see also Index of Persons, Others: Osborne, Thomas

harvest 693

hate 201, 603

Havannah expedition 203

health 850 ‘heard’ 629 ‘Heath, Dr’ 804

heaven 679; see also future state He-bear and She-bear 825 n. a

Hebrew 343

‘heinous’ 352

heirs 483, 496

Hell 454 andn. a, 682 and n. 810, 929

helmet 671

Helot, the drunken 728

‘hemisphere’ 303

hens 879

heraldry 258

Heralds’ Office 139

hereditary tenures 489

Hermetic philosophy 221, 493 n. c

Hervey, family of 109

hierarchy, English 596, 805, 872, 915; see also bishops

‘high’ 584 n. d

High Dutch 651

highwaymen 457 n. b, 653 and n. b

Hindoos 769 n. a

historian 225, 385, 741

history 69, 90, 302, 363, 385, 457, 547, 704

Hodge 872

holidays of the Church 509 homo caudatus 465 n. 503

honesty 652

hope 197, 324, 449, 865, 931

horses 899, 900

hospitality 349, 378, 772, 885

hospitals 545

hostility 910

hot-houses 876

‘Hottentot, a respectable’ 145

House of Commons 318, 341, 414, 634, 645, 650 and n. a,651, 743, 779, 820, 842, 859, 884, 919, 927, 928; see also debates in Parliament; Middlesex Election

House of Lords 337, 359, 382 n. a, 407, 461, 633, 710

housebreakers 834

humanity 869, 920

‘humiliating’ 343

humour 835; see also good humour; Index of Persons, Johnson I:

humour hypochondria, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: hypochrondria; melancholy; Boswell II: hypochondria

hypocrisy 221, 831, 938, 986

‘idea’ 629

idleness 31, 177, 227, 310, 767, 862

ignorance 211, 277, 307, 491,

‘ilk’ 493 n. b, 699 n. b,

illegitimate children 508

images 527, 625

imagination 708

imitation 59

immorality 290, 453

impiety 927

importance 700

impostors, literary 127, 192, 193

improvement after forty-five 826 n. b

In bello non licet bis errare 635

incivility 778

indecision of mind 685

index 993 n. a

indictment, prosecution by 526 n. b

‘indifferently’ 103

indolence 958

inferiority 350

infidelity 303, 453, 546, 605, 923; see also conjugal infidelity

infidels 394–5, 453, 501, 546, 744, 923

influence 322, 451, 521, 634, 884

influenza 481

ingratitude 349, 520

ink, red, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I

innocent, punishment of the 901

innovation 868

inns 504, 505, 920

inoculation 926

Inquisition, the 245

insanity, see madness

inscriptions, see epitaphs; Index of Persons, Johnson I: inscriptions

insects 393

‘inspissated gloom’ 306

Insurrection of 1745–6, see Rebellion

intellectual improvement 376

intellectual labour 211

intellectual resources 328

intentions 266, 454

interest of money 707

intoxication, see drunkenness

intuition 947

invasion 699, 704

invitation 455

invocation of saints, see saints

‘inward light’ 326

Ivy Lane Club 107, 902

Jacobitism 25; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I; Boswell II

January, the 30th of, 341 and n. 317, 724

jealousy 520, 546

Jews 409, 925

jocularity, low 236

‘Johnsonised’ 8

‘Johnston’ 576 and n. a

jokes, a game of 383

‘jour’ 343

journal 90, 180, 195, 229, 250, 375, 453, 641, 647, 862; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson IV; Boswell IV

judgement 329, 454

judges 287, 445, 450–51

juries 526 n b, 542

justice 941

Justice of the Peace, see magistrate

Juvenal 45, 47, 69, 108, 175, 188, 331, 381, 662, 717, 747, 826 n. a, 864, 959, 961, 988–9

kindness 622, 827

kings 178, 224–5, 233, 283, 321, 350–51, 384–5, 606–7

king’s evil 28, 1003

king’s library 63

knitting 654

knotting 654, 920

knowledge 188, 211, 221, 241, 377, 453, 456, 537, 703; see also education; learning

$$ 412

‘labefactation’ 457 n. 488

labour 310, 668

lace 450, 774; see also Greek

‘lacerate, to’/‘laceration’ 750, 822

ladies of quality 715

laetus aliis, sapiens sibi 741, 746

Lancaster, House of 607

land 485–6, 494, 856

land tax in Scotland 496

landlords 217, 243, 312, 349, 444, 856; see also lodging-house landlords

languages 277, 303, 346, 351, 459, 479, 774, 877, 883

languor, following gaiety 631

lapidary inscriptions 480

Lapland and Laplanders 225, 350 n. a

Latin 29, 58–9, 240, 242, 309, 330, 375, 479, 764, 768; see also epitaphs; Index of Persons, Johnson I: Latin

‘Latiner’ 866 n. a

laughers 865

laughter 463, 706; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

laurel 106

law 287–8, 377, 485, 488, 495, 526 n. b, 531; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: law; IV: law arguments

law-lord, a dull 863

lawyers 188, 265, 344, 345, 374, 385, 418, 446, 462, 495, 620, 689, 805, 935

laxity of talk, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: talk

lay-patrons, see Church of Scotland; patrons

learning 235, 241, 526, 769, 773, 883

lectures 264, 814

‘leeward’ 160

legitimation 508

legs 545

leisure 377, 958

letters 154, 819, 996

levee 451; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

levellers 236

lexicographer 162

libels 526 and n. b, 552

liberty 209, 293, 328, 350, 394, 395, 548, 645, 730, 882; see also Index of Persons, Others: Wilkes, John

libraries 281 and n. b, 282, 297 n. a, 523, 568; see also British Museum

lies 189, 230, 378, 789, 857, 933; see also falsehood; truth life 162, 203, 273, 309, 312, 317, 319, 325–6, 363, 464, 545, 570, 590, 661, 683, 685, 720, 732, 851, 929, 931, 932, 945, 972, 986 n. a

Lilliput, Senate of, see debates in Parliament

Lincoln’s Inn, Society of 924 n. b

‘line’ 629

liquors 729, 808

Literary Club, the, see Club, the

literary fame or reputation 8, 297 n. c, 384, 453

literary history 20

literary impostors, see impostors, literary

literary journals 284

literary man, life of a 817

literary property, see copyright

literature 661, 687 n. a, 691, 703, 827, 898

little things 654

liveliness 511

living, cost of, in London 61

Llandaff, Bishopric of 828 n. b

local, attachment 312–13, 330, 409

lodging-house landlords and the law 223–4

longitude 12, 149, 164, 471

Lord 711, 715, 827, 865; see also peers

‘Lord’ 418 n. a

Lords, House of, see debates in Parliament; House of Lords

lovage 454

love 129, 203, 324, 510

low company/-life 936–7

Low Dutch, see Dutch

loyalty of the nation 459, 859 n. b

‘Luctus’ 459 and n. 495

luxury 350, 376, 546, 646, 676, 681; see also Index of Persons, Others: Mandeville, Bernard

Maccaronic verses 676 and n. 805

Maclean, the clan 404–5

madness 25, 41–2, 210–11, 533, 618 and n. b, 779–80, 878; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

magicians 729

magistrate 394–6, 542, 937 and n.1188

mahogany 808

Mahomet and Mahometans 267, 341, 873

majority 461 ‘make money, to’ 629

male succession, see succession

man 656, 660, 804, 814; see also mankind

Manege for Oxford 491

Manilla ransom 331 and n. 310

mankind 651; see also man; world

manners 309, 373, 545, 715

manor, a 390

manufacturers 360

marbles 445

‘marc de l’eau forte’ 474

marriage 203, 292, 300–301, 311, 317, 328, 341, 348, 438, 509, 511, 517, 520, 531, 727, 836, 934

martyrdom 394, 769

masquerades, in Scotland 369

Mass 314, 755

materialism 340

mathematics 218, 498; see also arithmetic

matter, non-existence of 248

meals 688

medicated baths 310

medicine 196; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: physic

melancholy 41, 235–6, 490, 500, 522, 566, 595, 618, 620, 723, 747, 751; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: melancholy; Boswell II: hypochondria

melting-days 443

memory 626, 833; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

men 545, 833; see also mankind; women

mental diseases, see melancholy

merchants 217, 258 n. a, 765

merit 232–3, 860

metaphors 617, 980 n. a

‘metaphysical’ 399, 783, 867

metaphysics 44, 248

method 570

Methodists 241 and n. a, 323, 325, 326, 359, 434, 586, 945

microscopes 283–4

Middle Ages 655, 838, 859

middle classes 472, 478

middle state 132, 314, 347; see also Index of Persons, Others: Campbell, Archibald

Middlesex Election 78, 313 and n. 289, 318, 414, 643, 743, 905

migration of birds 291, 393

military character and life, see soldiers

military spirit 327, 376

militia 13 and n. 7, 717, 738

‘milking the bull’ 234

mimicry 342

mind 500, 517, 611, 704; see also weather and seasons

ministers of the Church 390–92, 548–52

ministries 208, 448, 450, 452, 519, 521, 542, 716, 744, 755–6, 801, 809, 818, 842, 873; see also Coalition Ministry

minuteness 767

‘mira cano’ 688

miracles 234–5, 625

misdemeanour 639

misers 697

misery 532, 630, 779, 803, 929

misfortunes 779

mistresses 202

mob rule 730; see also riots

modern times 883

modernizing an author 938

modesty 714

‘modus’, 154 and n. c, 698

monarchy 224, 542

monasteries 195, 266, 275, 470, 497, 681

money 232–3, 309–10, 342, 349, 380, 435, 450, 494–5, 529, 546, 609, 619, 620, 622, 629, 658, 665, 666, 682, 694, 697, 707, 729, 770, 777, 833, 850, 856, 861, 885; see also debts

monks, see monasteries

Montrose, family of 730

monuments 387, 1001; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

moon, the 779

Moors of Barbary 470

morality 328

Moravians 586 and n. 679, 995; see also Index of Persons, Others: La Trobe, Revd B.

mosaical chronology 195

motives 211

‘muddy’ 455, 510

muffins 730

mummies 833

music 347, 380, 630, 752, 774; see also fiddling; French horn; German flute; Index of Persons, Johnson I: music; Others: Burney, Dr Charles; Hawkins, Sir John

mustard 828

‘mutual’ friend 574

‘Mysargyrus’ (Boswell’s misspelling of ‘Misargyrus’, the name with which Johnson signed four letters of The Adventurer) 137

mystery 698, 708, 815 n. a

mythology 543, 771

nail, growth of the 738 n. b

‘namby-pamby’ 102

names 204 n. b, 559

nap, after dinner 480

narrow place 657

narrowness 869

national character, no permanence 362

national debt 327

national faith 773

native country or place, attachment to/love of 312, 335, 846

natural history 670

natural philosophy 136, 291

nature 243, 360, 543, 669; see also savages; Index of Persons, Johnson I: nature

‘navigation’ 332, 720

Negroes, see slaves; for law cases, see Index of Persons, Others: Knight, Joseph; Somerset, James

neologisms, see Index of Persons, Johnson IV: words

nerves, weak 918

‘network’ 161 and n. 127

never 302, 517, 813, 876

New Flood-gate Iron 870

new place 590–91

newspapers 171, 351, 371, 427, 561, 662, 674, 702

nicknames 204 n. b

nidification 393 and n. 391

night, Shakespeare’s description of 306

‘No, Sir’ 505, 556, 619, 623, 687, 938

nobility 236, 327, 715, 826, 899, 900

noble authors 812

nobleman 825

non-jurors 434, 922; see also Index of Persons, Others: Campbell, Archibald; Falconer, Revd William

nonsense 302

‘nose’ of the mind 947

‘not at home’ 231

notes 373, 399

novelty 232, 536, 726

November the Fifth 39

‘nullum numen adest ‘ 864

numbers, science of, see arithmetic; mathematics

nurse 518 ‘$$’ 292

oaths 377, 434 n. a, 435; see also swearing

oats 161 and n.128, 512, 858

obedience 683

objections 327, 532

obligations 134, 462

obscenity 927

observance of days 509

obstinacy of children 358

occupation 310, 620

odd 504

ode 769

Odin 671 and n. 795

Ofellus 61

officers, see soldiers

oil of vitriol 343

old age 626, 661, 705, 709, 852; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Old Man’s Wish

‘one… the other’ 923

opera girls 859

opinion 112, 728

opium 859; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

opponents in controversy 501, 524

opposition, the 809, 856

orange butter 876

orange peel 439, 876

oratory 178–9, 372, 443, 537, 820, 877, 885

orchards 329, 876–7

original sin 831 and n. a

Orpheus 241

Ossian, see Index of Persons, Others: Macpherson, James

ostentation 245, 766, 865

oysters, S.J. buys for Hodge 872

pain 243, 515

painters 541 n. b

painting 499, 675, 941; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

palaces 472

‘pamphlet’ 433

‘panting Time’, phrase in a poem by S.J. 776

parish 390, 679, 760, 833

Parliament 68, 89, 299, 321–2, 332–4, 443–4, 451–2, 634, 649–51, 884, 885; see also debates in Parliament; House of Commons; House of Lords

Parliament man, an MP 721

parodies, see Index of Persons, Johnson IV: style

parsimony 694–5, 7I2, 851

parsons 806; see also clergy/clergymen

party 378–9

Passion-week, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I

passions 538

‘pastern’ 161, 201

paternity 665

patriotism 448

patriots 553, 555, 560, 811

patrons 142, 143, 202–3, 340, 389–92, 860

peers 489, 710–11, 883, 899; see also House of Lords; nobility

penitence 533

penny post, see post pension 83, 136, 161, 199–200, 227 and n. a, 256, 318, 332, 338, 433, 777, 825, 827, 939, 944–5, 948–50, 968–69

‘pensioner’ 199

penurious gentleman 539 and n. 603

people, the 586, 595

perfection 950

persecution 394, 397, 769

perseverance 212

Persian Empire 537, 801

Persius 777 and n. 972

Personage, a Great 122 and n. 90

Peruvian bar 196 and n. 164, 926

petitions 306, 313, 586, 598–9, 599 n. a, 601

Phaedrus 626

Phallick obscenity 653

pharaoh 340

pharmacy 677

philosophers 524, 688

philosophical necessity, see Index of Persons, Others: Priestley, Joseph

Philosophical Society 782 n. a

philosophical wise man 519

phlebotomy, see bleeding

Phoenician language, treatise on 871

physic 733; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

physician 457 n. b, 513, 518, 728, 733, 940

physicians 133 n. a, 268, 680, 908, 926; see also Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Index of Persons, Others: Memis, Dr John

pickles 376

piety 517, 923–4

pig 972

piling arms 716 and n. 877

pillory 693

‘pit, to’ 623

pity 231

place-hunters 650

plagiarism 179

plantations (settlements in America) 266

planting trees, see afforestation

players 96–7, 112, 213, 385, 622, 692, 896–7, 897 n. a; see also Index of Persons, Others: Garrick, David

plays 111, 195

pleasantry 568 n. a

pleasing 603, 700

pleasure 656, 676, 681, 700, 732, 938

‘pledging oneself 629

plenum 234

poems 447, 695

poetry 450, 537, 538, 663, 784, 788; see also ballads; rhyme

poets 537, 579, 711, 781

police 640

politeness 609

political improvement, schemes of 312

politics 458; see also Index of Persons, Others: Hamilton, William Gerard

‘polluted’ 989 n. a

polypheme 151

‘Pomposo’ 216

poor, the 250, 312, 322, 329, 470, 625, 739, 764, 772, 875

popery, see Roman Catholics/Catholicism

popular elections, of the clergy 340

population 311–12, 431, 649

port 729, 808

Port of Ilam, family of 624

porter 406, 408

porter, street 60 n. b and n. 49, 803

portraits 455, 765; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

Portuguese 769 n. a

post 72, 87, 530, 575 n. b, 595, 891

post-chaise 505, 521, 610

posterity 485

poverty 233, 609, 848, 849, 851, 853, 855, 957

power 453, 510, 676

practice, see principles praise 140, 289, 646, 654, 780, 809

prayer 347, 354, 926, 927, 973, 994; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Common Prayer, Book of; Index of Persons, Others: Cumming, Thomas

prayers, by S.J. as quoted by J.B. 113, 129, 132, 137, 139, 164, 187, 253, 257, 285–6, 567, 572, 970, 987, 998

preaching 241–2, 244, 325, 866; see also sermons

preciseness 812

precocity 480

predestination 313

predominance/‘predomination’ 883

prefaces 81, 160; for prefaces by S.J., see Index of Persons, Johnson IV: prefaces

premium scheme 171

Presbyterianism and Presbyterians 313, 341

prescience, of the Deity 681

prescriptions, medical 677

present time 449, 520, 521

press 68, 293, 526 n. b, 703

Prime Minister 451

Prince of Wales, the happiest of men 865

principle, goodness founded upon it 234

principles 221, 375, 444,454, 675,986

printer’s devil 818

printers 380, 436

printing 351, 474–5, 476, 537

prints 712

prisoners of war 15, 189

private theatricals 36 n. b

prize verses 54 n. b, 80

probationer in the Church of Scotland 351 and n. 332

‘Probus Britannicus’, pseudonym of S.J. 10, 82

‘procerity’ 166

procurators, see Society of Procurators

‘prodigious’ 687

profession 78, 92, 212, 265, 303, 327, 362, 374, 385, 446, 524, 678, n. a, 690, 772, 806, 937

professional man 649, 687

profusion 628

pronunciation 205, 345–6; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

property 395, 444, 508

propitiation, doctrine of the 16, 832

proposals: for numerous proposals by S.J., see under Index of Persons, Johnson IV

prose, English, see style

prosperity 745

Prospero, character in The Rambler 121

prostitutes, see women of the town

prostitution 528

Protestantism 314

proverbs and proverbial sayings: ‘all is not gold that glitters’ 969; amica fures temporis 878 and n. 1120; ‘as obstinate as a pig’ 771; ‘as sleepy as a dormouse’ 995; ‘beware of a reconciled enemy’ 578; bis dat qui cito dat 417 and n. 418; ‘to cast pearls before swine’ 367; Delenda est Carthago 749; deus vult perdere, prius dementat 865 and n. 1100; (a man whose) ‘geese were all swans’ 625; honores mutant mores 173 and n. 139, 835; in bello non licet bis errare 635; in vino veritas 360; ‘a jest breaks no bones’ 835; ‘nothing venture, nothing have’ 625; nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia 864 and n. 1096; ‘old dog in a new doublet’ 701; omne ignotum pro magnifico est 698 and n. 843, 875 and n. 1114; ‘one man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink’ 226; pour encourager les autres 169; ‘to read like a Turk’ 994; semel insanivimus omnes 865 and n. 1101; simile non est idem 409 and n. 408; ‘set a thief to catch a thief 707; Spartam quam nactus es orna 975 and n. 1247; ‘tell truth and shame the devil’ 378; Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes 578 and n. 674

Providence 488, 489, 914 n. a

Psalms 521 n. a; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Bible

public, the, see world

public affairs 744, 884

public amusements, entertainment, see amusements

public dinner 968

public institutions 545

public life 863

public ovens 374

public schools, see schools

public speaking 333, 372, 443

public worship 221 n. a

publication, by subscription 78 n. a

publications, spurious 496

publishers, see authors; booksellers

pulpit 16, 548–51, 568

pulsation 536

punch (the liquor) 179

punctuation 535–6

punishment 631, 929

puns 373, 388, 938; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: puns; Others: Burke, Edmund

Purgatorians 347

Purgatory 314, 347; see also middle state

Pyramids, the 714

Pythagorean discipline 665

quack doctors 733

Quakers 244, 509, 684, 880; see also Index of Persons, Others: Brocklesby, Richard; Cumming, Tom; Knowles, Mrs; Lloyd, Sampson

‘qualifying’ a wrong 552 and n. a

‘qualitied’ 861

quality, women of 715

Queen’s Arms Club 811

Queensberry, family of 611

‘quern (quosj Deus (Juppiterj vult perdere, prius dementaf 865 and n. 1100

questioning 517, 547, 667

quotation 819, 865

Raleigh, the 339

Ranger, character in Hoadly’s Suspicious Husband 288

rank 234, 236, 546, 715

Ranz des Vaches 630 ‘rascal’ 247, 519, 545, 768, 874

rat 506–7

reading 38, 44, 227, 235, 380, 454, 540, 627, 695, 703, 704, 731, 733, 769, 779, 877, 883, 934; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I

rebellion 379

Rebellion of 1745–6 85, 101, 326, 610; see also Index of Persons, Others: Charles Edward

rebels 379

‘recollecting’ 833–4

recruiting 738

refinement 614

Reformation, the 277, 395, 549, 596

refreshments 813 ‘regale’ 690

regicides 459

registration of deeds 16, 805

reindeer 350 and n. a

relations 354; see also friends

religion 267, 309, 325, 328, 513, 524, 543, 684, 706, 768, 784, 882, 886, 923, 925

religious orders, see monasteries remedies 400

‘remembering’, distinguished from ‘recollecting’ 833

‘renegade’, ‘renegado’ 161

rents 619, 772; see also landlords

repentance in dying 880

reports, law, see law

Republic of Letters 398

republics 342

‘Republics’, see Index of Works and Literary Characters: Respublicce Elzeviriance

reputation 497

resentment 539, 968

Resolution, the 339

resolutions 319, 454

respect 501

rest 660

Restoration, the 459

restraint, need of 293, 522

Resurrection of the Body 815, 816

retirement 325, 443, 618 n. b, 885

‘Retreat of the Ten Thousand’ 780 and n. 977

Revelation 277, 347, 524; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Bible

reverence 521, 818

reviews and reviewers 535, 541, 795, 881

Revolution of 1688 444, 447, 521, 856, 859 and n. b

Revolution Society 785 and n. 986

revolutions 379

rheumatism 454

Rhodoclia, a female character in The Rambler 125

rhyme 663

ridicule 728, 771

Riots, Gordon, see Gordon Riots risen in the world 520

rising early 613; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: rising

Robin Hood Society 814–15

rod, use of the 30, 480

Roman Catholics/Catholicism 245, 251, 277, 313, 314, 323, 341, 444, 527, 743, 754–6, 923–4, 945

romances 31, 519, 771

Rome and the Romans, ancient 168, 342, 351, 537, 634, 703, 871; see also Index of Places: Tiber

Rome, modern 70, 527, 528

rope dancing 472

Round Robin, the 563

Rowley’s poetry, see Index of Persons, Others: Chatterton, Thomas

Royal Academy 296 and n. b, 479, 674, 874–5, 884, 887, 959

Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh 646

Royal Family 262, 379, 385

Royal Marriage Act or Bill 341

Royal Society 388; see also Index of Persons, Others: Birch, Dr Thomas; Index of Works and Literary Characters: Philosophical Transactions

ruffles 809

‘runts’, cows 705

rustic happiness and virtue 861

sacrament 314, 830, 924; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I

sagacity 948

sailors 186, 498, 667, 900

St Vitus’s dance 84

saints 314, 397, 816, 924

Salamanca, University of 239

salvation 683, 917, 929

‘sartum tectum ‘485 and n. 532

Satisfaction of Christ 832

savages 231, 266–7, 299–300, 348, 381, 393, 519, 543, 620, 656, 879, 934

savings, see economy

Saxons 838

scepticism, see infidels

schoolmasters 29, 57–8, 337, 338, 344, 357–9, 548, 637, 639

schools 237, 351, 358, 360, 464, 480, 525, 665, 936

‘schools, the’ 805

‘score, in’ 437 n. c

scorpions 290–91

Scotland and the Scots (for particular localities, consult the Index of Places) 75, 106, 205, 206, 208, 217, 225, 242, 271, 276, 290, 300, 301, 307, 324, 330, 338, 345–6, 347, 351, 352, 360, 363, 368, 375, 377, 385, 389, 403, 410, 414, 418, 421, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 430, 436, 452, 456, 478, 483, 486, 494, 495, 507, 508, 519, 544, 557, 560, 561, 574, 578, 590, 619, 649, 655, 658, 665, 724, 732, 743, 744, 747, 768, 776 n. a, 819, 833 n. a, 834, 835–6, 843, 858, 866, 884 n. a, 899, 900, 906–8, 909, 922

Scotsman, a violent 614

Scotticisms 307; see also Index of Persons, Others: Blair, Hugh; Guthrie, William; Hume, David; Robertson, Dr William

‘scoundrel’ 502, 519

screen 94 n. b

Scripture phrases 373

Scriptures, the, see Christianity; in Erse, see Erse

scrofula, see king’s evil

scruples 369, 489, 490

‘scrupulosity’ 765

sea-life, see sailors; ship

seasons 401, 846; see also weather and seasons

second sight 266, 340, 433

seduction, imaginary case of 528

selections from authors 20–21, 126

self-importance 615

‘semel insanivimus (omnes)’ 865 and n. 1101

‘Senectus’ 709

sensation 184

sermons 352, 657–8, 760, 821; see also preaching; Index of Persons, Johnson IV

servants 309, 375

‘settle, to’ 389

Seven Provinces 250