Chapter D: O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3 (9)

N.

NABOBS, ii. 339, n. 2; v. 106.
NAIL, growth of the, iii. 398, n. 3.
NAIRNE, Colonel, v. 69-70.
NAIRNE, William (Lord Dunsinan),
accompanies Johnson to St. Andrews, v. 54, 56, 58, 62;
to Edinburgh Castle, v. 386;
praised by him, v. 53;
and by Sir Walter Scott, ib., n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 41, 126; v. 38, 394-5.
NAIRNE, Mr., the optician, iii. 21, n. 2.
_Namby-Pamby_, i. 179.
NAMES, queer-sounding, iii. 76.
NAMPTWICH, v. 432.
NAP after dinner, ii. 407.
NAPIER, Rev. Alexander, edition of Boswell, ii. 391, n. 4.
NAPLES, iii. 19; v. 54.
_Naples, History of the Kingdom of_, iv. 3, n. 3.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ii. 393, n. 7.
NARES, Rev. Mr., iv. 389.
NARROW place, how far the mind grows narrow in a, ii. 246
NARROWNESS in expenses, v. 345-6;
a fit of narrowness, iv. 191.
NASH, Alderman, iii. 460.
NASH, Richard ('Beau'),
engages in a religious dispute at Bath, iv. 289, n. 1;
'here comes a fool,' i. 3, nn. 2, 3;
a pen his torpedo, i. 159, n. 4;
put down smoking at Bath, v. 60, n. 2.
NASH, Rev. Dr.,
_History of _Worcestershire_, i. 75, n. 3; iii. 271, n. 5.
NATION, state of common life, v. 109, n. 6.
NATIONAL CHARACTER, no permanence in, ii. 194.
NATIONAL DEBT, ii. 127; iii. 408, n. 4.
NATIONAL FAITH, iv, 21.
NATIVE PLACE, love of one's, iv. 147.
NATIVES. See under INDIANS and SAVAGES.
NATURAL HISTORY, iii. 273.
_Natural History_. See GOLDSMITH, Oliver, _Animated Nature_.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, ii. 55.
NATURE, Boswell's want of relish for its beauties, i. 461;
all men envious and thieves by nature, iii. 271;
state of nature, iii. 49; v. 88.
See under SAVAGES.
_Nature Displayed_, iv. 311.
_Navigation_, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362.
_Navvy_, iii. 362, n. 5.
NEANDER, ii. 274.
NECESSITY, an eternal, v. 47.
See under FREE WILL.
NECKER, Mme., Garrick's _Hamlet_, v. 38, n. 2.
NEGROES. See SLAVES.
NEGROES,--law-cases. See KNIGHT, Joseph, and SOMERSET, James.
NELSON, Robert, Festivals and Fasts, ii. 458; iv. 311;
friend of Archibald Campbell, v. 357; the
original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3.
NENI, Count, iii. 35.
NERO, ii. 255, n. 4.
NERVES, weak, iv. 280.
NETHERLANDS, Johnson's projected tour, i. 470; iii. 454;
Temple's account of the drinking, iii. 330.
_Network_, defined, i. 294.
NEUFCHATEL, ii. 215.
_New Bath Guide_, i. 388, n. 3.
NEW FLOODGATE IRON, iv. 193.
NEW PLACE, effects of a, iii. 128.
_New Protestant Litany_, i. 176, n. 2.
NEW SOUTH WALES, iv. 125, n. 1.
_New Testament_, most difficult book in the world, iii. 298.
NEW ZEALAND, iii. 49.
NEWBERY, Francis,
bookseller, and dealer in quack medicines, v. 30, n. 3;
Johnson's advice to him about a fiddle, iii. 242, n. 1.
NEWBERY, John, the bookseller,
children's books, iv. 8, n. 3;
Goldsmith's publisher, iii. 100, n. 1; v. 30, n. 3;
James's powder, vendor of, iii. 4, n. 1
'Jack Whirler' of The Idler, v. 30, n. 3;
Johnson's debts to him, i. 350, n. 3;
publishes his Idler, i. 330, 335, n. 1;
The World Displayed, i. 345.
NEWCASTLE, famous townsmen, v. 16, n. 4;
Johnson passes through it, ii. 264, 266; v. 16;
story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394.
NEWCASTLE, first Duke of, i. 151.
NEWCASTLE, second Duke of, iv. 63.
NEWCASTLE FLY, ii. 377, n. 1.
NEWCASTLE ship-master, a, v. 312.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LINE, iii. 135, n. 1.
NEWCOME, Colonel (in The Newcomes), ii. 300, n. 3.
NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY, iii. 203, n. 1.
NEWHALL, Lord, iii. 151.
NEWHAVEN, Lord, iii. 407-8.
NEWMAN, Cardinal,
Johnson's truthfulness, iv. 305, n. 3;
Oxford about the year 1770, ii. 445, n. 1.
NEWMARKET, i. 383, n. 3.
NEWMARSH, Captain, v. 134.
NEWPORT School in Shropshire, i. 50, 132, n. 1.
NEWSPAPERS,
booksellers, governed by the, v. 402, n. l;
everything put into them, iii. 79, 330;
knowledge diffused, ii. 170;
Macpherson's 'supervision,' ii. 307, n. 4;
in the time of the Usurpation, v. 366;
whole world informed, ii. 208.
NEWSWRITERS, ii. 170, n. 3; iii. 267, n. 1.
NEWTON, Sir Isaac,
_Arguments in Proof of a Deity_, i. 309;
a worthy carman will get to heaven as well as he, iii. 288;
Bentley's verses, mentioned in, iv. 23, n. 3;
free from singularities, ii. 74, n, 3;
house in St. Martin's Street, iv. 134;
infidelity, reported early, i. 455;
Johnson's admiration of him, ii. 125;
Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287;
mathematical knowledge unequalled, iv. 217;
poet, as a, v. 35;
'stone dolls,' ii. 439, n. 1.
NEWTON, John, Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul's,
_Account of his own Life_, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1;
censures Johnson, iv. 285, n. 3;
Johnson's retaliation, iv. 285-6;
_Dissertation on the Prophecies_, iv. 286;
mentioned, i. 79, n. 2.
NEWTON, John, of Lichfield, father of the Bishop, i. 79, n. 2.
NEWTON, Rev. John,
engaged in the slave trade, iii. 203, n. 1;
Johnson's 'conversion,' iv. 272, n. 1.
NEWTON, Dr., i. 227, n. 3.
NEWTON, Mr., of Lichfield, v. 428.
NICCOLSON, of Scorbreck, v. 195.
NICHOLS, Dr. Frank,
_De Anima Medica_, iii. 163;
physician to the King, turned out by Lord Bute, ii. 354;
rule of attendance as a physician, iii. 164.
NICHOLS, John,
account of him, iv. 437;
_Anecdotes of William Bowyer, iv. 161, 369, 437;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 437, 438;
_Gent. Mag_., edits, i. 90, n. 4; iv. 437;
Johnson, anecdotes of, iv. 407, n. 4;
funeral, invitation card to, iv. 419, n. 1;
and Henderson the actor, iv. 244, n. 2;
last days, iv. 407-10; v. 69, n. 1;
letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters;
spells his name wrongly, iv. 36, n. 4;
_Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_, iv. 369, n. 1, 437;
Thirlby, memoir of, iv. 161, n. 4;
Tyers and _The Idler_, iii. 308, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 84, n. 3, 99, 102, n. 2, 135, 231, n. 2; iv. 359.
NICHOLSON ----, an advocate, v. 213.
NICKNAMES, i. 385, n. 1.
NICOL, George, the bookseller, iv. 251;
letter from Johnson, iv. 365.
NICOLAIDA, ii. 379.
NIDIFICATION, ii. 249.
NIGHT-CAPS, v. 268-9, 306.
_Night Thoughts_. See YOUNG.
NILE, a waterfall on it, i. 88, n. 2.
NISBET, Rev. Mr., v. 73.
NISBET, ----, an advocate, v. 213.
NISBETT, Sir John, iii. 205, n. 1.
NITROGEN, discovery of, iv. 237, n. 6.
_No Sir_,
as used by Johnson, ii. 452; iii. 70, 178, 185, 304;
explained by Boswell, iv. 315.
NOBILITY,
fortune-seeking, ii. 126;
respect due to them, i. 447; iv. 114;
in virtue above the average, iii. 353;
unconstitutional influence in elections, iv. 248, 250.
NOBLE, Mark, _Memoirs of Cromwell_, iv. 236, n. 1.
NOBLE AUTHORS, iv. 113-5.
NOBLEMAN, an indolent Scotch, iv. 87.
NODOT, Abbe, iii. 286, n. 2.
NOLLEKENS, Joseph, iii. 219, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2.
NOLLEKENS, Mrs., iii. 217.
NONJURORS, Archibald Campbell, v. 357;
Cibber's _Nonjuror_, applicable to them, ii. 321;
comparative criminality in taking and refusing the oaths, ii. 321-2;
could not reason, iv. 286-8;
Falconer, Bishop, iii. 371-2;
Johnson never in one of their meeting-houses, iv. 288.
_Nonpareil_, v. 414, n. 2.
NORBURY PARK, iv. 43.
NORES, Jason de, ii. 444.
NORFOLK, militia, i. 307, n. 4;
sale of the _Rambler_ in the county, i. 208, n. 3;
mentioned, iv. 134.
_Norfolk Prophecy_, i. 143.
NORRIS,--, a staymaker, i. 103.
NORTH, Dudley. See LONG.
NORTH, Frederick, Lord (second Earl of Guilford),
Coalition Ministry, iv. 223, n. I;
Conciliatory Propositions, iii. 221;
_Falkland's Islands_, stops the sale of, ii. 136;
Fox's dismissal from the Treasury, ii. 274, n. 7;
Gibbon, admired by, v. 269, n. 1;
humour, v. 409;
Johnson, fear of, as an M.P., ii. 137, n. 3;
no friend to, ii. 147;
goes to his house, v. 248;
proposes the degree of LL.D. for, ii. 318, n. 1;
writes to the Vice-Chancellor, ii. 331;
King's agent, merely the, ii. 355, n. i;
Macdonald, Mr., abused by, v. 153, n. 1;
ministry: See under MINISTRIES;
subscription to the Articles, upholds, ii. 150, n. 7;
Thurlow's hatred of him, iv. 349, n. 3.
_North Briton_, essay by Chatterton, iii. 201, n. 3;
Johnson's definitions, i. 295, n. 1.
See under WILKES.
NORTH POLE, voyage to the, v. 236.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, v. 295.
NORTHCOTE, James, Boswell's self-reproach, v. 129, _i_ 1;
Goldsmith and _Cross-Readings_, iv. 322, n. 2;
Goldsmith on entering a room, i. 413, n. 2;
Johnson's character of Mudge, iv. 77, n. 1;
Johnson's interview with George III, ii. 42, n. 2;
Lowe the painter, iv. 202, n. 1;
Pulteney's oratory, i. 152, n. 3;
Reynolds appointed painter to the King, iv. 366, n. 2;
dinner-parties, iv. 312, n. 3;
influence in the Academy, iv. 219, n. 4;
and Mrs. Siddons, iv. 242, n. 2;
use of 'Sir,' i. 245, n. 3;
visit to Devonshire, i. 377, n. 1;
Reynolds's, Miss, pictures, iv. 229, n. 4;
sees _She Stoops to Conquer_, ii. 233, n. 3.
NORTHEND, iv. 28, n. 7.
NORTHINGTON, Lord Chancellor, i. 45, n. 4.
NORTHINGTON, second Earl of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1783, iv. 200.
NORTHUMBERLAND, a breed of reindeer, ii. 168, n. 1;
plantations of trees, iii. 272;
price of corn in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.
NORTHUMBERLAND, first Duke of,
_Capability_ Brown his guest, iii. 400, n. 2;
Dr. Mounsey at his table, ii. 64;
Goldsmith's visionary project, iv. 22, n. 3;
Irish vice-roy, ii. 132; iv. 22, n. 3;
Johnson, civility to, iii. 272, n. 3; iv. 117, n. 1.
NORTHUMBERLAND, Elizabeth Duchess of,
Batheaston Vase, writes for the, ii. 337;
Boswell boasts of her acquaintance, iii. 271, n. 5;
Cock Lane Ghost, goes to hear the, i. 407, n, 1.
NORTHUMBERLAND, eighth Earl of, v. 403, n. 2.
NORTHUMBERLAND, Earls of, Dr. Percy's descent from them, iii. 271, n. 5.
NORTON, Sir Fletcher, first Lord Grantley,
account of him, ii. 472, n. 1;
his ignorance, ii. 91.
NORWAY, i. 425; ii. 103; v. 100, n. 1.
_Nose_ of the mind, iv. 335.
_Notes and Queries_,
Athenian blockhead, i. 73, n. 3;
Bowles, William, of Heale, iv. 235, n. 5;
Brooke's _Earl of Essex_, iv. 312, n. 5;
Ford family, will and pedigree, i. 49, n. 3;
Johnson's calculations about walling a garden, iv. 205, n. 1;
house in Bolt Court, ii. 427, n. 1;
letter on having a stroke of palsy, reprint of, iv. 229, n. 2;
(for his other letters to Hector, Taylor, &c., See under JOHNSON,
letters);
marriage register, i. 95, n. 2;
and Maty, i. 284, n. 3;
tutor to Mr. Whitby, i. 84, n. 2;
Johnson, Michael,
publishes Floyer's [Greek: Pharmako-basanos] i. 36, n. 3;
his marriage, i. 35, n. 1;
Johnson, Nathanael, i. 90, n. 3;
Langton's _navigation_, ii. 136, n. 2;
Pembroke College _Gaudy_, i. 273, n. 2;
_solution of continuity_, iii. 419, n. 1;
Swift 'a shallow fellow,' v. 44, n. 3;
Taylor's, Dr., separation from his wife, i. 472, n. 4.
NOTTINGHAM,
described by Hutton in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
fair, iii. 207, n. 3;
a learned pig, iv. 373.
NOURSE, the bookseller, iii. 15, n. 2.
_Nouveau Tableau de Paris_, ii. 366, n. 2.
NOVA ZEMBLA, v. 392.
NOVALIS, iii. 11, n. 1.
NOVELTY,
boys' restless desire for it, iii. 385;
paper on it in _The Spectator_, iii. 33;
Rousseau's love of it, i. 441;
Goldsmith, ib., n. 1; iii. 376.
NOVEMBER THE FIFTH, Johnson's verses on it, i. 60.
NOWELL, Dr.,
Boswell and Johnson dine with him, iv. 295;
fast sermon on Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1; iv. 296.
NOYON, ii. 400.
_Nugae Antiquae_, iv. 180.
NUGENT, Colonel, ii. 136, n. 5.
NUGENT, Dr., account of him, i. 477, n. 4;
member of the Literary Club, i. 477; ii. 17, 240;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108.
_Nullum numen adest_, &c., iv. 180.
NUMBERS, science of. See ARITHMETIC and MATHEMATICS.
NUNCOMAR, iv. 70, n. 2.
_Nuremberg Chronicle_, v. 456.
NURSE, putting oneself to, ii. 474.
'Nux gar erchetai,'[Greek] ii. 57.
NUYS, iii. 235, n. 1.

O.

OAKES, Mrs., i. 407, n. 3.
OAKOVER, v. 429-30.
OATHS,
abjuration, oath of, ii. 220, 321, n. 4;
examination under oath, v. 390;
imposition of oaths, ii. 321, n. 4.
See SWEARING.
OATS,
defined, i. 294; iv. 168;
oat-ale, ii. 463;
oat-cakes eaten in Lichfield, ii. 463;
oatmeal eaten dry, v. 308;
'they who feed on it are barbarians,' v. 406.
OBEDIENCE, iii. 294.
OBJECTIONS may be made to everything, ii. 128; iii. 26.
OBLIGATIONS,
moral and ritual, ii. 376;
perfect and imperfect, ii. 250;
Reynolds's reflection on gaining freedom from them, i. 246.
OBLIVION, iv. 27, n. 5;
morbid, v. 68.
O'BRIEN, William, the actor,
described by Walpole, iv. 243, n. 6;
his marriage, ii. 328, n. 3.
OBSCENITY, repressed in Johnson's company, iv. 295.
OBSERVANCE OF DAYS, ii. 458.
_Observations on Diseases of the Army_, iv. 176, n. 1.
_Observations on his Britanick Majesty's Treaties, &c_., i. 308.
_Observations on the Present State of Affairs_, i. 308, 310.
_Observer, The_, iv. 64.
OBSTINACY, must be overcome, ii. 184.
OCCUPATION, iii. 180;
hereditary, v. 120.
O'CONNOR, Charles, Johnson's letters to him, i. 321; iii. 111.
OCTAVIA, iv. 446.
ODD, nothing odd will do long, ii. 449.
ODE, Goldsmith's account of one, iv. 13.
_Ode, Ad Urbanum_, i. 113.
_Ode, An_, i. 178.
_Ode, In Theatre_, ii. 324, n. 3.
_Ode on Solitude_, iii. 197.
_Ode on St. Cecilia's Day,_ i. 420.
_Ode on the British Nation_, iv. 442.
_Ode on the Peace_, iv. 282.
_Ode on Winter_, i. 182.
_Ode to Friendship_, i. 158.
_Ode to Melancholy_, i. 122, n. 4.
_Ode to Mrs. Thrale_, a caricature, iv. 387.
_Ode to Mrs. Thrale_, written in Sky, v. 158.
_Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain_, iii. 374.
_Ode upon the Isle of Sky_, v. 155.
_Odes. See_ CIBBER, COLLEY, and GRAY, Thomas.
_Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion_, ii. 334.
ODIN, iii. 274.
ODYSSEY. See HOMER.
_Oedipus Tyrannus_,
Johnson's preface to Maurice's translation, iii. 370, n. 2.
_Ofellus_, i. 104.
OFFELY, Mr., i. 97.
OFFICER. See SOLDIER.
OGDEN, Rev. Dr. Samuel, _Sermons_,
Boswell edified by them, v. 29;
caricatured by Rowlandson, ib., n. 1;
Johnson wishes to read them, iii. 248;
tries to, v. 29, 88;
prevailed on to read one aloud, v. 350;
on original sin, iv. 123, n. 3;
on prayer, v. 38, 58, 68, 282, 325;
quotation from one, v. 351.
OGILBY, John, i. 55.
OGILVIE, Dr. John,
_Poems_, i. 421, 423, n. 1;
praises Scotland, i. 425.
OGILVY, Sir James, v. 227, n. 4.
OGLETHORPE, General,
account of him, i. 127, n. 4, 128, n. 1;
Belgrade, siege of, ii. 181;
birth, ii. 180, n. 2;
Boswell and the Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1;
to Shebbeare, introduces, iv. 112;
communicates particulars of his life to, ii. 351 n. 3;
Caligula and the Senate, iii. 283;
dinners at his house, ii. 179, 217, 232, 350; iii. 52, 282;
v. 138, n. 1;
duelling, defends, ii. 179;
father, his, iv. 171;
Georgia, colonises, i. 127, n. 4;
Johnson's _London_, patronises, i. 127;
visits, iv. 170;
willing to write his _Life_, ii. 351;
luxury, declaims against, iii. 282;
'never completes what he has to say,' iii. 57;
Pope's lines on him, i. 127, n. 4;
Prendergast and Sir J. Friend, ii. 182;
Prince of Wirtemberg and the glass of wine, ii. 180;
vivacity and knowledge, iii. 56;
Wesley, Charles, ill-uses, i. 127, n. 4.
OGLETHORPE, Mr., ii. 272.
'O'HARA, you are welcome,' v. 263.
OIL OF VITRIOL, ii. 155;
Johnson's, v. 15, n. 1.
O'KANE, the harper, v. 315.
OKERTON, i. 194, n. 2.
OLD AGE, desirable, how far, iv. 156;
evils, its, iii. 337;
memory, failure of, iii. 191;
men less tender in old age, v. 240, n. 2;
mind growing torpid, iii. 254;
_senectus_, iii. 344.
OLD BAILEY, _Sessional Reports_,
Baretti's trial, ii. 97, n. 1;
Bet Flint's, iv. 103, n. 3;
contain 'strong facts,' ii. 65.
_Old Man's Wish, The_, iv. 19.
OLD MEN, loss of the companions of their youth, iii. 217;
putting themselves to nurse, ii. 474;
supposed to be decayed in intellect, iv. 181.
OLD STREET CLUB, iii. 443-4; iv. 187.
OLD SWINFORD, v. 432.
OLDFIELD, Dr., iii. 57.
OLDHAM, John, _Imitation of Juvenal_, i. 118.
OLDMIXON, John, i. 294, n. 9.
OLDYS, William, account of him, i. 175;
author of _Busy, curious, thirsty fly_, ii. 281, n. 5;
_Harleian Catalogue_, compiles part of the, i. 28;
Harleian Library, on the price paid for the, i. 154;
notes on _Langbaine_, iii. 30, n. 1.
O'LEARY, Father Arthur,
_Remarks on Wesley's Letter_, ii. 121, n. 1; v. 35 n. 3.
OLIVER, Alderman, iv. 140, n. 1.
OLIVER, Dame, i. 43.
_Olla Podrida_, iv. 426, n. 3.
OMAI, iii. 8.
OMBERSLEY, v. 455.
ONSLOW, Arthur, the Speaker,
challenged by Elwall the Quaker, ii. 164, n. 5;
Richardson gave vails to his servants, v. 396.
OPERA GIRLS, in France, iv. 171.
OPIE, John, iv. 421, n. 2, 443.
OPINION, hurt by differences in it, iii. 380.
OPIUM, use of it, iv. 171.
OPPONENTS, good-humour with them, iii. 10;
how they should be treated, ii. 442.
OPPOSITION, the, Johnson and Sir P.J. Clerk argue on it, iv. 81;
describes it as meaning rebellion, iv. 139, n. 3;
in 1783, describes it as 'factious,' iv. 164.
OPPOSITION increases political differences, v. 386.
ORANGE PEEL, Johnson's use of it, ii. 330, 331, n. 1; iv. 204;
manufacture, iv. 204.
ORATORS cannot be translated, iii. 36.
ORATORY, action in speaking, i. 334; ii. 211;
Johnson and Wilkes discuss it, iv. 104;
a man's powers not to be estimated by it, ii. 339;
old Sheridan's oratory, iv. 207, 222.
ORCHARDS, Johnson's advice, ii. 132;
Madden's saying, iv. 205;
unknown in many parts, iv. 206.
ORD, Mrs., iv. 1, n. 1, 325, n. 2.
ORDE, Lord Chief Baron, ii. 354, n. 4; v. 28.
ORDE, Miss, v. 28, n. 2.
ORDINARY OF NEWGATE, and the Cock Lane Ghost, i. 407, n. 1.
See Rev. Mr. MOORE and Rev. Mr. VILLETTE.
ORFORD, third Earl of, iv. 334, n. 6.
ORFORD, fourth Earl of. See WALPOLE, Horace.
_Oriental Gardening_. See CHAMBERS, Sir William.
ORIGIN OF EVIL, v. 117, 366.
_Original Letters_. See WARNER, Rebecca.
ORIGINAL SIN, Johnson's paper on it, iv. 123;
Ogden's sermon, ib., n. 3.
_Orlando Furioso_, i. 278, n. 1.
ORME, Captain, iv. 88.
ORME, Robert, the historian,
admires Johnson's _Journey to the Western Islands_, ii. 300;
v. 408, n. 4;
and his talk, iii. 284;
mapping of the East Indies and Highlands of Scotland compared, ii. 356.
ORMOND, House of,
gives three Chancellors in succession to Oxford, i. 281, n. 1.
ORMOND, first Duke of, _Life_ by Carte, v. 296, n. 1.
ORMOND, second Duke of,
impeached, i. 281, n. 1;
leads a Spanish expedition to Scotland, v. 140, n. 3.
_Orphan of China_. See MURPHY.
ORPHEUS, i. 458.
ORRERY, Earls of, a family of writers, v. 237.
ORRERY, first Earl of, a play-writer, v. 237.
ORRERY, fourth Earl of,
Bentley's antagonist, v. 238, n. 1;
his will, ib., n. 5.
ORRERY, fifth Earl of,
anecdote of the Duchess of Buckingham, iii. 239;
caught at literary eminence, ii. 129; iii. 183;
dignified, not, iv. 174;
feeble writer, i. 185, n. 3;
feeble-minded, v. 238;
Johnson describes his character, v. 238;
_Dictionary_, presents, to the _Academia della Crusca_, i. 298;
praises the _Plan_ of it, i. 185;
friendship with, i. 243;
never sought after him, iii. 314;
writes a dedication to him for Mrs. Lennox, i. 255;
_Remarks on Swift_, i. 9, n. 1; iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238;
mentioned, iv. 17, n. 3, 29, n. 2.
ORTON, Job, _Memoirs of Doddridge_, v. 271.
OSBORN, a Birmingham printer, i. 86.
OSBORNE, Sir D'Anvers, iv. 181, n. 3.
OSBORNE, Francis, ii. 193.
OSBORNE, Thomas,
Coxeter's collection of poets, buys, iii. 158;
_Harleian Catalogue_, publishes the, i. 28, 154, 158;
Harleian Library, buys the, i. 154;
Johnson dates a letter from his shop, i. 161;
beats him, i. 154, 375, n. 1; iii. 344;
describes his 'impassive dulness,' i. 154, n. 2.
OSSIAN. See MACPHERSON, James.
OSSORY, Lord,
member of the Literary Club, i. 479;
mentioned, iii. 399, n. 2.
OSTENTATION,
Boswell's rebuked, i. 465;
shown in quoting Lords, iv. 183.
OTAHEITE,
bread-tree, ii. 248;
custom of eating dogs, ii. 232;
mode of slaughtering animals, v. 246;
rights of children, v. 330;
savages from whom nothing can be learnt, iii. 49;
Boswell's defence of them, iv. 308.
_Othello_, its moral, iii. 39.
OTWAY, Thomas,
Johnson's opinion of him, iv. 21;
neglected, ii. 341, n. 3;
_Romeo and Juliet_, alters, v. 244, n. 2;
tenderness, iv. 21, n. 1;
tolling a bell, ii. 131, n. 2.
OUGHTON, Sir Adolphus, v. 43;
his learning, v. 45, 124;
quiets a military revolt, v. 142, n. 2;
mentioned, v. 272, 394.
OURAN-OUTANG, v. 46, 248.
OVERALL, Bishop, v. 356, n. 2.
OVERBURY, Sir Thomas, ii. 76.
_Overbury, Sir Thomas_, a Tragedy, iii. 115.
OVERTON, Rev. J. H., _Life of William Law_, ii. 122, n. 6.
OVID,
Sappho, ii. 181;
quotations,
_Ars Am_. 3. 121, v. 204, n. 4;
_Ars Am_. 3. 339, ii. 238, n. 2;
_Ep. ex. Ponto_ I. 3, 35, iii. 178, n. 2; v. 265 n. 3;
_Heroides_ I. 2, v. 15, n. 5;
_Heroides_ I. 4, i. 242, n. 1;
_Met_. I. 1, i. 387;
_Met_. 1. 85, ii. 326, n. 1;
_Met_. 2. 13, iii. 280;
_Met_. iii. 724. i. 108;
_Met_. xiii. 19, i. 314;
_.Tristia_, iv. 10, 51, iv. 443.
OXFORD, Harley, first Earl of,
Bolingbroke's character of him, iii. 236, n. 3.
OXFORD, second Earl of,
_Bibliotheca Harleiana_, i. 153, 154.
OXFORD, advantages for learning, ii. 52;
All Souls College, Shenstone's 'enemies in the gate,' i. 94, n. 5;
its library the largest in Oxford except the Bodleian, ii. 35;
a place for study for a man who has a mind to _prance_, ii. 67, n. 2;
Angel Inn,
Boswell and Johnson spend two evenings there, ii. 440, 449;
Pitt (Earl of Chatham) hears treasonable songs, i. 271, n. 1;
'Bacon's mansion,' iii. 357; v. 42;
Balliol College, ii. 338, n. 2; v. 117, n. 4;
balloon ascent, iv. 378;
Beattie and Reynolds made Doctors of Law, v. 90, n. 1;
Bocardo, Lydiat imprisoned in it, i. 194, n. 2;
Bodleian, _Annals of the Bodleian_, iv. 161, n. 1;
Blackstone's portrait, iv. 91, n. 2;
Boswell presents MSS. to it, iii. 358, n. 1;
closed one week in the year, iii. 367, n. 3;
_Evelina_, iv. 223, n. 4;
Johnson presents books to it, i. 274, n. 2, 302; ii. 279, n. 5;
a fragment of his Diary among the MSS., ii. 476;
largest library in Oxford, ii. 35;
_Recuyell of the historyes of Troye_, v. 459, n. 2;
Welsh MS. on music, iii. 367;
Bodley's Dome, iii. 357;
Boswell's visits to Oxford: See BOSWELL, Oxford;
Brasenose College, James Boswell, junior, a member of it, i. 15;
Rev. Mr. Churton, a Fellow, iv. 212, n. 4;
Johnson seen near its gate, iv. 300, n. 2;
The Principal's advice,
_Cave de resignationibus_, ii. 337, n. 4;
Broadgates Hall,
the ancient foundation of Pembroke College, i. 75, n. 3;
Castle (prison),
Wesley preaches to the prisoners, i. 459, n. 1;
'caution' money, i. 58, n. 2;
Chancellors, three of the House of Ormond, i. 281, n. 1;
Earl of Westmoreland, i. 281, n. 1, 348, n. 2;
Lord North, ii. 318, n. 1;
Christ Church, Bateman, Rev. Mr., a Tutor, i. 76;
bequest from Lord Orrery, v. 238, n. 5;
Burton, Robert, elected student, i. 59;
'Canons
Sir, it is a great thing to dine with the Canons,' ii. 445;
dinners lasted six hours, ib., n. 1;
devotion of a studious man, i. 296, n. 3;
Johnson mocked by the men, i. 77;
Library, not so large as All Souls, ii. 35;
a place for study for a man who has a mind to _prance_, ii. 67, n. 2;
MSS. on music, iii. 366;
Psalmanazar lodged there, iii. 445, 449;
Smith, Edmund, a member, i. 75, n. 5;
expelled, ii. 187, n. 3;
Taylor enters by Johnson's advice, i. 76;
confounded with another John Taylor, ib., n. 1;
West describes it in 1736, i. 76, n. 1;
Christ Church meadow, Johnson slides on the ice, i. 59, 272;
walking on it without a band, iii. 13, n. 3;
Clarendon Press,
Johnson's advice about its management, ii. 424-6, 441;
put under better regulations, ii. 35;
printing _Polybius_, ib.;
and King Alfred's will, iv. 133, n. 2;
Coffee-house,
Johnson is wanton and insolent to Sheridan, ii. 320; v. 360;
advises Warton to snatch time from the coffee-house, i. 279;
Colleges, their authority lessened, iii. 262;
bequests to them, iii. 306;
College joker, iv. 288;
College servants, i. 271, n. 2;
Commemoration of 1754, i. 146, n. 1;
Common rooms, the students excluded from them, ii. 443;
mentioned in Warton's _Progress of Discontent_, iii. 323, n, 4;
condemnation-sermon, i. 273;
degree conferred without examination, iii. 13, n. 3;
an honorary degree, i. 278, n. 2;
_Demy_, a scholar of Magdalen College, i. 61, n. 1.
East Gate, i. 61, n. 3;
education not by lectures, iv. 92;
execution for forgery, i. 147, n. 1;
Gaudies, i. 60, n. 4; ii. 445, n. 1;
George I's troop of horse, i. 281, n. 1;
Hastings's, Warren, projected institution, iv. 68, n. 2;
High-street, Johnson standing astride the kennel, ii. 268, n. 2;
walking along it without a band, iii. 13, n. 3;
Iffley, iv. 295;
ignorance of things necessary to life, ii. 52, n. 2;
scholastic ignorance of mankind, ii. 425;
indifference to literature, i. 275, n. 2;
Jacobitism, i. 72, n. 3, 146, n. 1, 279, n. 5, 281, n. 1, 282, n. 3,
296, n. 1; ii. 443, n. 4;
Jeffrey, Lord, an undergraduate, ii. 159, n. 6;
Johnson elevated by approaching it, iv. 284;
gives a toast among some grave men, ii. 478; iii. 200;
neglected in his youth, i. 77, n. 4;
receives the degree of M.A., i. 275, 278, n. 2, 280-283;
of D.C.L., i. 488, n. 3; ii. 331-3;
says he wished he had learnt to play at cards, iii. 23;
(for his visits to Oxford, See iii. 450-3,
and under many headings of this title);
Kettel Hall, account of it, i. 289, n. 2;
Johnson lodges in it, i. 270, n. 5;
Lincoln College, Chambers, Robert, a member of it, i. 274, 336;
Mortimer, Dr., the Rector, great at denying, ii. 268, n. 2;
Wesley, John, a Tutor, i. 63, n. 1;
_London_, effect produced by, i. 127;
Magdalen Bridge, built by Gwynn, ii. 438, n. 3; v. 454, n. 2;
Magdalen College,
Addison elected a Demy, i. 61, n, 1;
Gibbon, described by, ii. 443, n. 4; iii. 13, n. 3;
Home, Dr., the President, mentioned, ii. 279;
Boswell and Johnson drink tea with him, ii. 445;
Warton, Thomas, senior, a fellow, i. 449, n. 1;
Magdalen Hall, i. 336;
_Manège_ projected, ii. 424;
Market built by Gwynn, v. 454, n. 2;
Merton College,
Boswell saunters in the walks, iv. 299;
mentioned, ii. 438;
Methodists,
rise of the, i. 58, n. 3, 68, n. 1;
expulsion of six, ii. 187;
Murray, William (Earl of Mansfield), matriculates, ii. 194, n. 3;
New Inn Hall,
Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 46;
Johnson walks in the Principal's garden, ii. 268, n. 2;
_Olla Podrida_, iv. 426, n. 3;
Oriel College,
common-room filled on Gilbert White's visits, ii. 443, n. 4;
Provost assisted to bed by his butler, ii. 445, n. 1;
Oseney Abbey,
Johnson views its ruins with indignation, i. 273;
Paoli visits it, v. i, n. 3;
Parker, Sackville, the bookseller, iv. 308;
Parks, i. 279;
Pembroke College,
ale-house near the gate, iii. 304;
Barton, Mr. A. T., Fellow and Tutor, v. 117, n. 4;
blue-stocking party, iv. 151, n. 2;
butler, i. 271;
buttery-books, ii. 444, n. 3;
Camden's Latin grace, v. 65, n. 2;
caution-book, i. 58, n. 2;
chapel, i. 59, n. 1;
Common-room, Johnson's games at draughts, ii. 444;
his portrait, iv. 151, n. 2;
declamations, i. 71, n. 2;
Edwards, Oliver, iii. 302-4, 306;
eminent members, i. 75;
gateway, i. 74; gaudy, i. 60, n. 4, 273, n. 2;
Johnson enters, i. 58;
leaves, i. 78;
length of his residence, ib., n. 2;
eulogium on it, i. 75, nn. 3 and 5;
first exercise, i. 71; iv. 309;
first visit in 1754, i. 271;
and Boswell visit it in 1776, ii. 441;
Johnson in 1782, iv. 151, n. 2;
and Boswell in June, 1784, iv. 285; v. 357;
last visit (Nov. 1784), iv. 376;
'nowhere so happy,' ib., n. 2;
'a frolicksome fellow,' i. 73;
meets Dr. Price, iv. 238, n. 1, 434;
neglected by the Master, i. 272;
rooms, i. 72, 73, n. 1;
shows it to Hannah More, i. 75, n. 5; iv. 151, n. 2;
library, Johnson presents it with his _Works_, i. 74;
Johnson's _Tracts_, ii. 315, n. 2;
_Politian_, iv. 371, n. 2;
Masters,
Dr. Panting, i. 72;
Dr. Radcliffe, i. 271;
Dr. Adams: See under DR. ADAMS;
life in the Master's house, iv. 305;
_Manuscripts_, i. 79, n. 2, 90, n. 3; ii. 215, n. 2; iv. 84, n. 4,
94, n. 3, 376, n. 4;
members in residence, i. 63, n. 1;
'nest of singing birds,' i. 75; iv. 151, n. 2;
November 5 kept with solemnity, i. 60;
'_Pembrochienses voco ad certamen poeticum_, i. 75, n. 5;
property bequeathed to it, iii. 306;
residence, length of, i. 78, n. 2;
Saturday weekly themes, i. 59, n. 3;
sconces, i. 59, n. 3;
servitors, i. 73, n. 4;
weekly bills, i. 78, n. 1;
Whitefield a servitor, i. 59, n. 3, 73, n. 4;
population in 1789, iii. 450;
post coach, Boswell, Johnson and Gwynn ride in it, ii. 438; iii. 129;
Boswell and Johnson, iv. 283;
'Prologue spoken before the Duke of York at Oxford,' ii. 465;
Queen's College, Jacobite singing, i. 271, n. 1;
Lancaster, Dr., the Provost, i. 61, n. 1;
Radcliffe Library, opening, i. 279, n. 5;
Wise, Francis, the librarian, i. 275, n. 4;
Radcliffe's travelling-fellowships, iv. 293;
residence required in 1781, iii. 13, n. 3;
Rewley Abbey, Johnson views its ruins with indignation, i. 273;
riding school projected, ii. 424;
Secker's variation of 'Church and King,' iv. 29;
Servitors, hunted, i. 73, n. 4;
employed in transcription, i. 276;
advantages of servitorships, v. 122;
Sheldonian Theatre,
Johnson present at the instalment of the Chancellor, i. 348, n. 2;
St. Edmund's Hall, expulsion of Methodists, ii. 187, n. 1;
St. John's College, Vicesimus Knox, iii. 13, n. 3;
St. Mary's Church,
Johnson joins there a grand procession, i. 348, n. 2;
sermon on his death, iv. 422;
Panting's, Dr., sermon, i. 72, n. 3;
Whitefield receives the sacrament, i. 68, n. 1;
St. Mary's Hall,
Principals--Dr. King, i. 279, n. 5;
Dr. Nowell, iv. 295;
Story, the Quaker, describes the Undergraduates in 1731, i. 68, n. 1.
Trinity College,
Beauclerk, Topham, i. 248;
Boswell and Johnson call on T. Warton, ii. 446;
Johnson speaks of taking up his abode there, i. 272;
gives Baskerville's _Virgil_ to the library, ii. 67;
Langton enters, i. 247, n. 1, 248;
Presidents--Dr. Huddesford, i. 280, n. 2;
Dr. Kettel, i. 289, n. 2;
Walmsley, Gilbert, enters, i. 81, n. 2;
Warton, Thomas, a Fellow, i. 270, n. 1;
Wise, Francis, a Fellow, i. 275, n. 4;
University College,
Boswell and Johnson call there in 1776, ii. 440-1;
dine on St. Cuthbert's Day, ii. 445;
dine with the Master, iv. 308;
chapel at six in the morning, ii. 381, n. 2;
Common Room,
Johnson's dispute in it with Dr. Mortimer, ii. 268, n. 2;
his three bottles of port, iii. 245;
his portrait, ii. 25, n. 2;
inscription on it, iii. 245, n. 3;
Coulson, Rev. Mr., v. 459, n. 4;
Johnson seen there by a Welsh schoolmaster, v. 447;
portraits of distinguished members, ii. 25, n. 2;
Scott, William, tutor, iv. 92, n. 2;
Wetherell, Dr., the Master: See under WETHERELL, Dr.;
University, described by R. West in 1735, i. 76, n. 1;
by Dr. Knox in 1781, iii. 13, n. 3; iv. 391, n. l;
worst time about 1770, ii. 445, n. 1;
University verses, ii. 371;
Vacation, Long, i. 63, n. 1;
Worcester College, Foote and Dr. Gower, ii. 95, n. 2.
OXFORDSHIRE, contested election of 1754, i. 282, n. 3.

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