Chapter D: O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3 (14)
T.
T', fitted to a, iv. 288.
TAAF, Mr., ii. 398.
TACITUS,
_Agricola_, quoted, iii. 324, n. 5; iv. 204;
_Germania_, quoted, v. 381;
his writings are notes for an historical work, ii. 189.
TAILOR, the metaphysical. See METAPHYSICAL.
TAIT, Rev. Mr., v. 128.
TAIT, Mr., an organist, v. 84.
TALBOT, Lord Chancellor, i. 232, n. 1.
TALBOT, second Lord, i. 507, 508.
TALBOT, Miss Catharine,
correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 232, n. 1;
Greenwich Park, describes, i. 106, n. 2;
_Rambler_, contributes to the, i. 203;
criticises it, i. 208, nn. 2 and 3;
Williams, Mrs., account of, i. 232, n. 1.
_Tale of a Tub_. See SWIFT.
TALES, telling tales of oneself, ii. 472.
TALK,
above the capacity of the audience, iv. 185;
distinguished from conversation, iv. 186;
Johnson loved to have it out, iii. 230;
talking for fame, iii. 247;
from books, v. 378;
of oneself, iii. 57;
on one topic, ib.
TALKERS, exuberant public, ii. 247.
TALLEYRAND, v. 397, n. 1.
TALLOW-CHANDLER, in retirement, ii. 337.
TAMEOS, v. 242, n. 1.
TANNING, v. 246.
TAR, v. 216.
TARTARY, ii. 156.
_Tartuffe_, ii. 321, n. 1; iii. 449.
TASKER, Rev. Mr., iii. 373-5.
TASSO, borrows a simile from Lucretius, iii. 330.
TASTE,
changes in it, iii. 192, n. 2;
defined, ii. 191;
refinement of it, iv. 338;
Reynolds's rule for judging it, iv. 316.
_Tatler_,
end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3;
esquire, title of, i. 34, n. 3;
rural esquires, v. 60, n. 4;
great perfections without good breeding, ii. 256, n. 3.
_Tatler Revived_, i. 202.
TAUNTON, iv. 32.
TAVERNS,
admitting women, iv. 75;
felicity of England in its tavern life, ii. 451;
tavern chair the throne of human felicity, ii. 452, n. 1.
_Taxation no Tyranny_,
account of it
planned, ii. 292;
published, ii. 312;
written at the desire of ministers, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 313;
corrected by them, ii. 313-5;
not attacked enough, ii. 335;
pelted with answers, ii. 336, n. 1;
sale, ii. 335, n. 4;
Birmingham traders praised, ii. 464, n. 3;
drivers of negroes, iii. 201;
Macaulay, Mrs., attacked, ii. 336, n. 2;
mentioned, iii. 221.
TAXES, effect of their increase, ii. 357.
TAYLOR, Chevalier, a quack, iii. 389-39.
TAYLOR, Jeremy,
'chief of sinners,' iv. 294;
_Golden Grove_, iv. 295;
_Holy Dying_, iii. 34, n. 3.
TAYLOR, Rev. Dr. John,
account of him and his establishment, ii. 473;
his person, ii. 474;
his character by Johnson, ii. 474; iii. 139, 181;
all his geese swans, iii. 189;
Ashbourne, his daily life, iii. 132; iv. 378;
the water-fall, iii. 190;
garden, iii. 199;
bleeding, habit of, iii. 152;
Boswell, gives, particulars of Johnson, iv. 375;
laughed at by, iii. 135, n. 2;
and Johnson visit him in 1776, ii. 473;
in 1777, iii. 135;
bull-dog, his, iii. 189;
bullocks, his talk is of,' iii. 181;
cattle, iii. 150, 181, n. 3;
chandelier of crystal, iii. 157;
Christ Church, Oxford, enters, i. 76;
dinners at his London house, iii. 52, 238;
eagerness for preferments, ii. 473, n. 1;
'elegant phraseology,' his, ii. 474, n. 1;
Garrick's emphasis, anecdote of, i. 168;
mediates between Garrick and Johnson, i. 196;
house in Westminster, i. 238; iii. 222;
Johnson's character, iii. 150
company, not very fond of, iii. 181;
correspondence with, iii. 180, n. 3:
See under JOHNSON, letters;
dread of annihilation, iii. 296, n. 2;
funeral, iv. 420;
heart, knowledge of, i. 26, n. 1;
invites, to dine on a hare, iii. 207;
Reynolds's explanation of his intimacy with, iii. 180;
roars him down, iii. 150;
himself roused to a pitch of bellowing, iii. 156;
serious talk with him, iii. 296, n. 2;
wearies of Ashbourne life, iii. 154, 211; iv. 356, 357, n. 3,
362, 365, 378;
will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
writes sermons for him, i. 241; iii. 181;
youth, friend of, iv. 270;
Johnson's, Mrs., death, i. 238; iii. 180, n. 3;
Langley, quarrels with, iii. 138, n. 1;
lawsuit, ii. 474, n. 1; iii. 44, n. 3, 51, n. 3;
Lichfield School, at, i. 44;
living in ruins and rubbish, iv. 378;
matriculation, i. 76;
neighbours, iii. 138;
sermons, iii. 181-2;
sleep, observation on, iii. 169;
Whig, a, ii. 474; iii. 156;
widower, anecdote of a, iii. 136;
wife, separation from his, i. 472, n. 4;
wit, single instance of his, iii. 191;
mentioned, ii. 464, 468; iii. 185, 187.
TAYLOR, Mrs., Rev. Dr. John Taylor's wife,
separated from her husband, i. 472, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 239.
TAYLOR, John, a Birmingham trader, i. 86.
TAYLOR, John, of Christ Church, Oxford,
confounded with Dr. John Taylor, i. 76, n. 1.
TAYLOR, John (_Demosthenes_ Taylor), iii. 318.
TAYLOR, William, of Norwich, ii. 408, n. 3.
TAYLOR, Mr., an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2.
TAYLOR, Mr., a gentleman-artist, of Bath, iii. 422.
TEA,
Garrick charges Peg Woffington with making it too strong, iii. 264;
his finest sort, i. 216, n. 3;
Hanway's attack on its use, and
Johnson's defence, i. 313;
Johnson a hardened tea-drinker, i. 103, n. 3:
see under JOHNSON;
price of it in 1734, i. 313, n. 2;
run tea, v. 449, n. 1;
tea-making _à l'Anglaise_, ii. 403;
weak, generally made, iii. 264, n. 4;
Wesley attacks its use, i. 313, n. 2.
TEACHING, wretchedness of, i. 85.
_Tears of Old May-day,_ i. 101.
_Telemachus, a Mask_, i. 411; ii. 380.
TEMPÉ, iii. 302.
TEMPLE, second Earl, iv. 249, n. 3.
TEMPLE, Right Rev. Frederick, Bishop of London, i. 436, n. 3.
TEMPLE, Rev. William Johnson,
account of him, i. 436; iii. 416, n. 3;
Boswell, correspondence with, i. 436, n. 3;
and he read Gray all night, ii. 335, n. 2;
executor, iii. 301, n. 1;
last letter written to him, i. 14, n. 1;
occupies his chambers in the Temple, i. 437;
visits him at Mamhead, ii. 371;
Gray's character, writes, i. 436, n. 3; ii. 316; iv. 153, n. 1;
Johnson, compares, with the 'infidel pensioner Hume,' ii. 316;
introduced to, ii. 11;
political speculations, unfit for, ii. 312, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 433, n. 3; ii. 3, n. 2, 247.
TEMPLE, Sir William,
drinking by deputy, iii. 330;
Dutch free from spleen, iv. 379;
English prose, gave cadence to, iii. 257;
great generals, ii. 234;
_Heroic Virtue_, ii. 234, n. 4;
Ireland, ancient state of, i. 321;
peerages and property, ii. 421;
style condemned by Hume, iii. 257, n. 3;
praised by Mackintosh, ib.;
a model to Johnson, i. 218.
TEMPLE OF FAME, ii. 358.
TEMPTATION, exposing people to it, iii. 237.
TENANTS, their independence, v. 304:
See LANDLORDS, and under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, landlords and tenants.
TENDERNESS OF HEART, v. 240.
_Tenders_, v. 196, n. 1.
TENERIFFE, iv. 358.
TENISON, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury,
Psalmanazar introduced to him, iii. 447.
TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord, poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
_Ulysses_ quoted, v. 278, n. 2.
TENURES, ancient, ii. 202; iii. 414.
TERENCE, quoted, i. 129, n. 1; ii. 358, n. 3, 465, n. 3.
TESTIMONY, compared with argument, iv. 281.
_Tetty_ or _Tetsey_, i. 98.
THACKERAY, W. M.,
Addison's _Cato_, quotations from, i. 199, n. 2;
one failing, iv. 53, n. 4;
_History of the Newcomes_ quoted, ii. 300, n. 3;
subscribed to the annuity for Johnson's goddaughter, iv. 202, n. 1.
THALES, i. 125, n. 4.
THAMES,
Budgell drowns himself in it, ii. 229; v. 54;
convicts working on it, iii. 268, n. 4;
Johnson and Boswell row to Greenwich, i. 458;
to Blackfriars, ii. 432;
returns on it from Rochester, iv. 233, n. 2;
_London_, mentioned in, i. 460;
New-England men at its mouth, v. 317;
ribaldry of passers-by, iv. 26.
THATCHING, v. 263.
_The one_, iv. 211, n. 2.
THEATRES,
French and English compared in point of decency, ii. 50, n. 3;
orange-girls, v. 185, n. 1;
proposal for a third one, iv. 113:
See under LONDON, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and Haymarket.
THEBES, ii. 179.
THEFT, allowed in Sparta, ii. 176; iii. 293.
THELWALL, John, iv. 278, n. 3.
THEOBALD, Lewis,
_Double Falsehood_, iii. 395, n. 1;
Pope, attacked by, ii. 334, n. 1;
Shakespeare, edits, v. 244, n. 2;
Warburton, compared with, i. 329;
helped by him, v. 80.
THEOCRITUS, iv. 2.
_Theodosius_, ii. 471.
_Theophilus Insulanus_, v. 225.
THEOPHRASTUS, v. 378.
THICKNESSE, Philip, criticises Smollett, iii. 235-6.
THIEVES, all men naturally thieves, iii. 271.
_Thing_, not _the_, iv. 89.
THINKING, liberty of, ii. 249, 252.
THIRLBY, Dr. Styan, iv. 161, n. 4.
THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES,
articles of peace, ii. 104;
meaning of subscription, ii. 151;
petition for removing the subscription, ii. 150;
motion to consider it, ii. 208, n. 4.
THOMAS, Colonel, iv. 211, n. 4.
THOMAS, Nathaniel, iii. 92, n. 2.
THOMSON, James,
blank verse of the _Seasons_, iv. 42, n. 7;
Boswell's assistance to Johnson in his _Life_, ii. 63;
iii. 116, 133, 359;
character, his, not to be gathered from his works, iii. 117, n. 7;
cloud of words, iii. 37;
_Edward and Eleonora_ not licensed, i. 141, n. 1;
family, account of his, iii. 359;
Johnson inserts him among the _Lives_, iii. 109;
letters to his sisters, ii. 64; iii. 117, 360;
licentiousness, ii. 63; iii. 117;
_Lives of Thomson_, iii. 116-7;
'loathed much to write,' iii. 360;
poetical eye, i. 453; ii. 63; iii. 37;
'Queensberry, worthy,' ii. 368, n. 1;
Quin's generosity to him, iii. 117;
Scotland, never returned to, iii. 117;
_Seasons_, quoted, i. 98, n. 1; iii. 151, n. 4;
by Voltaire, i. 435, n. 2;
sisters, generosity to his, ii. 64; iii. 360;
wine, love of, i. 359.
THOMSON, Rev. James,
case of ecclesiastical censure, iii. 58-64, 91.
THOMSON, Mr.,
a schoolmaster (the poet's brother-in-law), ii. 64; iii. 116, 360.
THORNTON, Bonnell,
_Adventurer_, writes for the, i. 252, n. 2;
Boswell enlivened by his witty sallies, i. 395;
_Ode on St. Cecilia's Day_, i. 420;
_Rambler_, parodies the, i. 218, n. 1;
_Student_, writes for the, i. 209.
THORP, Mr. Robert, of Macclesfield, iv. 393. n. 3.
THORPE, iii. 359.
THOUGHTS,
command of one's, ii. 190, 202, n. 2;
inquisitive and perplexing, iv. 370, n. 3;
troublesome at night, ii. 440;
vexing, iii. 5.
_Thoughts on Executive Justice_, iv. 328, n. 1.
_Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands_.
See _Falkland's Islands_.
THRALE FAMILY, account of the, i. 491, n. 1.
THRALE, John, a London merchant, i. 491, n. 1.
THRALE, 'Old,' the brewer, Henry Thrale's father, i. 490-1.
THRALE, Henry,
account of him, i. 490, 494;
ambition of out-brewing Whitbread, iii. 363, n. 5;
Baretti, present to, iii. 97;
Bath, visits, in 1776, iii. 44;
in 1780, iii. 421;
Boswell's familiarity in speaking of him, i. 492, n. 1;
hospitality to, iii. 45;
writes to him, iii. 372;
brewery,--profits, i. 491; iii. 210, 363, n. 5; iv. 87, n. 1;
beer brewed, ii. 396; iii. 210, n. 5;
£20,000 a year paid in excise, v. 130;
first sale of it, i. 490;
second sale, i. 491; iv. 86, n. 2, 132;
Cator, John, one of his executors, iv. 313;
champagne, his, iii. 119;
churches, intends to beautify two Welsh, v. 450;
death, iv. 84;
false report of it, iii. 107;
dinners and breakfasts at his house, ii. 77, 227, 246, 327,
338, n. 2, 349, 378, n. 1, 427; iii. 27, 248, 344; iv. 80;
dislikes the times, iii. 363;
eating, immoderate in, iii. 422-3; iv. 84, n. 4;
expenses, iii. 210;
France, tour to, ii. 384-401;
Goldsmith's _Haunch of Venison_, mentioned in, iii. 225, n. 2;
questions a statement of his about horses, ii. 232;
Gordon Riots, property in danger, iii. 435;
flees from Bath, ib., n. 2;
Grosvenor Square, house in, iv. 72;
heir, desires a male, ii. 469; iii. 95, 363, n. 4;
highwayman, robbed by a, iii. 239, n. 2;
illness, dangerous, i. 322, n. 1; iii. 397, 423, n. 1;
better, iii. 417, 420;
withdrawn from business, iii. 434;
very ill, iv. 72;
Baretti's account of it, iv. 84, n. 4;
Italy, projected tour to, ii. 423;
given up, iii. 6, 18, 27;
Johnson's affection for him, iii. 397, n. 2; iv. 84-5, 89, 100;
wishes to hear '_The History of the Thrales_ v. 313;
his feelings towards Johnson, ii. 77; iv. 84, 85, n. 1, 145, 340;
'will go nowhere without him,' iii. 27, n. 3;
and the Earl of Marchmont, iii. 345;
epitaph on him, iv. 85, n. 1;
his executor, iv. 85; receives a bequest of £200, iv. 86;
guardian of his children, iv. 198, n. 4;
illness in 1766, i. 521;
intimacy not without restraint, iii. 7;
introduction to his family, i. 490, 520; iii. 451;
kitchen, inquires into, ii. 215, n. 4;
loss by his death, iv. 85, 145, 157-9;
prayer on it, i. 240, n. 5;
suggests, as a member of parliament, ii. 137, n. 3;
writes _The Patriot_ for him, ii. 286;
Lade, Sir John, his nephew, iv. 412, n. 1;
melancholy, suffers from, iii. 363, n. 5;
'worried by the _dog_,' iii. 414, n, 1;
money difficulties, iv. 85, n. 2;
'My Master,' i. 494, n. 3; iii. 119;
portrait, iv. 158, n. 1;
prospects, loves, v. 439, n. 2;
receives £14,000, iii. 134, n. 1, 455;
Rome, will not die in peace without seeing, iii. 27, n. 3;
silent at Oglethorpe's, v. 277;
society in his house, i. 496;
son, loses his only surviving, ii. 468, 470;
grief, his, iii. 18, n. 1;
_orbus et exspes_, iii. 24, n. 5;
at the Assembly Rooms, Bath, iii. 45, n. 2;
son, loses his younger, iii. 4, n. 3;
Southwark,
Member for, i. 490;
receives 'instructions' from the electors, ii. 73, n. 2;
election of 1774, ii. 286, 287;
of 1780, Johnson writes his _Addresses_, iii. 422, n. 1, 439-440;
defeated, iii. 442;
house in the Borough, ii. 286, n. 1; iii. 6; iv. 72, n. 1;
Wales, tour to, ii. 285; v. 427-460;
wife's, his, jealousy, iii. 96, n. 1;
will, afraid of making his, iv. 402, n. 1;
account of it, iv. 86, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 83, n. 3; ii. 136, 311, 411; iii. 22-4, 54, n. 1, 126,
132, 158, n. 1, 190, n. 3, 222, 225, 240, 398, n. 3; v. 84, 102, n. 3.
THRALE, Henry (son of Mr. and Mrs. Thrale),
death, ii. 468, 471; iii. 4;
Johnson's letter on it, i. 236, n. 3;
his love of him, ii. 469; iii. 4.
THRALE, Hester Lynch (Miss Salusbury, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi),
account of her, i. 492-6;
birth, i. 149, n. 5, 520;
character by Johnson, i. 494;
by Miss Burney, iv. 82, n. 4;
dress and person, i. 494-5;
accident to her eye, iii. 214;
Argyll Street, house in, iv. 157, 164;
Baretti, character of, ii. 57, n. 3;
flatters her, iii. 49, n. 1;
ignorance of the scriptures, v. 121, n. 4;
knowledge of languages, i. 362, n. 1;
quarrel with, ii. 205, n. 3; iii. 49, n. 1, 96;
her account, ib., n. 1;
Bath, visits, in 1776, iii. 6, 44;
in 1780, iii. 421;
an evening at Mrs. Montagu's, iii. 422;
in 1783, iv. 166, 198, n. 4;
Beattie, Dr., loves, ii. 148;
Beauclerk's anecdote of the dogs, v. 329, n. 1;
Beauclerk, hatred of, i. 249, n. 1; v. 329, n. 1;
his truthfulness, ib.;
birthplace, v. 449-51;
Boswell,
accuses, of spite, iv. 72, n. 1;
of treachery, iv. 318, n. 1, 343;
advises, not to publish the _Life of Sibbald_, iii. 228;
alludes to her second marriage, iii. 49;
argues with, on Shakespeare and Milton, iv. 72;
brother David, iii. 434, n. 1;
compliments, on his long head, iv. 166;
controversy with, about Mrs. Montagu, v. 245;
dines with her, iv. 166;
hospitality to, iii. 45;
introduced to her, ii. 77;
'loves,' ii. 145, 206;
MS. _Journal_, reads, ii. 383;
proposes an epistle in her name, v. 139;
_British Synonymy_, iv. 412;
Burke's son, can make nothing of, iv. 219, n. 3;
Burney, Miss, letters to, iv. 340, n. 3;
calculating and declaiming, iii. 49;
canvasses for Mr. Thrale, iii. 442, n. 1;
character, influence of vice on, iii. 350;
children, her,
births, ii. 46, n. 3, 280; iii. 210, n. 4, 363, 393;
deaths, ii. 281, n. 2; iii. 109;
three living out of twelve, iv. 157, n. 3;
unfriendly with her married daughter, v. 427, n. 1;
Johnson's kindness to them, iv. 345;
clerk, gives a crown to an old, v. 440;
_clippers_, warned of, iii. 49;
common-place book, iv. 343;
conceit of parts, iii. 316;
Congreve, quotes from, ii. 227;
dates, neglects, i. 122, n. 2; iv. 88, n. 1;
Demosthenes's 'action,' ii. 211;
'despicable dread of living in the Borough,' iv. 72, n. 1;
divorces, iii. 347-8;
'dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1;
Errol, Lord, at the coronation, v. 103, n. 1;
estate, prefers the owner to the, ii. 428;
fall from her horse, ii. 287;
Fermor's, Mrs., account of Pope, ii. 392, n. 8;
flattery, coarse mode of, ii. 349;
Johnson talks with her about it, v. 440;
Foster's _Sermons_, quotes, iv. 9, n. 5;
France, tour to, ii. 384-401;
French, contentment of the, v. 106, n. 4;
Convent, visits a, ii. 385;
maxims, attacks, iii. 204, n. 1;
Garrick's poetry, praises, ii. 78;
good breeding, want of, iv. 83;
Gordon Riots, alarmed at the, iii. 428, n. 4;
Gray's _Odes_, admires, ii. 327;
Grosvenor Square, removes to, iv. 72, n. 1;
Hogarth's account of Johnson, i. 147, n. 2;
illness, in 1779, iii. 397;
inaccuracy,
her extreme,
in general, i. 416, n. 2; iii. 226, 229;
no anxiety about truth, iii. 243, 404;
her defence of it, iii. 228;
instances of it--_Anecdotes_, iv. 340-7;
anecdote about in _vino veritas_, ii. 188, n. 3;
Barber's visit to Langton, i. 476, n. 1;
Garrick's election to the Club, i. 481;
Goldsmith and the _Vicar of Wakefield_, i. 415, 416, n. 2;
Johnson's answer to Robertson, iii. 336, n. 2;
and G. J. Cholmondeley, iv. 345;
harshness, i. 410;
lines on Lade, iv. 412, n. 1;
mother calling _Sam_, iv. 94, n. 4;
and small kindnesses, iv. 201, 343-4;
_Verses to a Lady_, i. 92, n. 2;
'natural history of the mouse,' ii. 194, n. 2;
_sutile_ mistaken for _futile_, iii. 284, n. 4;
indelicacy, iv. 84, n. 4;
insolence of wealth, shows the, iii. 316;
interpolation in one of Johnson's letters, suspected, ii. 383, n. 2;
Italian, an, on clean shirts, v. 60, n. 4;
jelly, her, compared with Mrs. Abington's, ii. 349;
Johnson's account of French sentiments and meat, ii. 385, n. 5;
advice about the brewery, iii. 382, n. 1;
about sweet-meats, iii. 186; iv. 90;
on Mr. Thrale's death, iii. 136, n. 2;
anxiety not to offend, iii. 54, n. 1;
appeals to her love and pity, iv. 229, n. 3;
appearances of friendship kept up with, iv. 164, 166;
apprehensive of evil, v. 232, n. 5;
asperses, i. 28;
wishes to depreciate him, i. 66, n. 2;
belief, fantastical account of, i. 68, n. 3;
biographers, i. 26, n. 1;
blames her conduct, iv. 277;
his friendly animadversions, iii. 48;
change in her feeling towards, iv. 340, n. 3;
on children's books, iv. 8, n. 3;
conversation too strong for the great, iv. 117;
copyist, iv--37;
dislike of extravagant praise, iii. 225;
of singularity, ii. 74, n. 3;
doubts her friendship, iv. 145, n. 2;
dress, iii. 325;
drives her from his mind, iv. 339, n. 3;
and the Earl of Marchmont, iii. 344;
her 'enchantment over,' v. 14;
epigram, translates, i. 83, n. 3;
flatters, ii. 332, n. 1, 349;
flatters her, iii. 34;
household, asks about, iii. 461-2;
illness in 1766, i. 521;
introduction to her, i. 520;
_Journey into North Wales_, v. 427, n. 1;
her kindness to, i. 520;
laugh, ii. 262, n. 2;
lectures, iv. 65, n. 1;
Letters,
publishes them for £500, i. 124, n. 4; ii. 43, n. 1;
arranged inaccurately, i. 122, n. 2;
error in date, iii. 453;
possible alterations and interpolations, ii. 383, n. 2;
iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1;
read by Walpole, iv. 314;
her own 'studied epistles,' iii. 421;
his letters to her from Scotland, ii. 303, 305;
about the Gordon Riots, iii. 428-30;
her letters to him in Scotland, v. 84, n. 2
(for other letters, See under JOHNSON, letters);
love of her children, iv. 198, n. 4;
'loved' by her and Boswell, ii. 427;
mode of eating, i. 470, n. 2;
and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1, 65, n. l;
neglects, iv. 158-9;
leaves him in sickness and solitude, iv. 249, n. 2;
'one pleasant day since she left him,' iv. 436;
nursed in her house, iv. 141, 181;
_Ode_ to her, v. 157-8;
parody on Burke, iv. 317;
pleasure in her society, i. 493-6;
severe to her, iv. 159, n. 3;
stuns her, v. 288;
style, iii. 19, n. 2;
supposed wish to marry her, iv. 387, n. 1;
takes leave of her in April, 1783, iv. 198, n. 4;
talk, iv. 237, n. 1;
tenderness to her mother, ii. 263, n. 6;
urges economy, iv. 85, n. 2;
wishes for her and Mr. Thrale in the Hebrides, iii. 455;
would not toast her in whisky, v. 347;
'yoke' put upon her, iv. 340;
Lennox, Mrs., liked by nobody, iv. 275, n. 2;
Lichfield, visits, v. 428, nn. 1 and 3;
Long, Dudley, praises, iv. 81;
Lyttelton's vision, iv. 298, n. 3;
Malone's criticism on her _Anecdotes_, iv. 341;
marriage, second, alluded to by Boswell, ii. 328;
signs that it was coming on, iv. 158, n. 4;
takes place, iv. 339;
marrying inferiors in rank, ii. 328;
middle class abroad, absence of a happy, ii. 402, n. 1;
Montagu, Mrs., praises, iv. 275, n. 3;
mother, death of her, ii. 263;
Musgrave, Mr., ii. 343, n. 2; iv. 323, n. 1;
'My Mistress,' or 'Madam,' i. 494;
_officious_, iv. 137, n. 2;
Paris, contradictions in, iii. 352, n. 2;
_Piozzi Letters_:
See above under MRS. THRALE, _Johnson's Letters_;
Pope's _Universal Prayer_, iii. 346-7;
portrait, iv. 158, n. 1;
praise, blasts by, iv. 82;
Presto, the dog, iv. 347;
Prior's love verses, praises, ii. 78;
purse, uneasiness at losing her, v. 442;
_regale_, v. 347, n. 1;
Richardson's love of praise, v. 396, n. 1;
'severe and knowing,' iii. 318, n. 3;
Siddons, Mrs., as Euphrasia, v. 103, n. 1;
son, loses her only surviving, ii. 468, 470; iii. 6, 45, n. 2;
Johnson's advice to her, iii, 136, n. 2;
son, loses her younger, iii. 4, n. 3;
Thrale family, describes the rise of the, i. 491, n. 1;
Thrale's death, iv. 84;
effect on her and Johnson, v. 157;
describes his manners, i. 494, n. 1;
jealous of him, iii. 96, n. 1;
_Three Warnings_, ii. 26;
tongue, could not restrain her, iv. 82;
truth, indifference to: See above under inaccuracy;
Wales, estate in it, ii. 281;
tour there, ii. 285; v. 427-60;
wit, iv. 103, n. 1;
Young's, Dr., ignorance of rhopalick verses, v. 269, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 142, 364, n. 3, 379; i11. 29, 33, 95, 126, 132,
248, 372; iv. 5, n. 1, 75, 80, 169, 242; v. 110.
THRALE, Miss,
Baretti's _Dialogues_ written for her, ii. 449, n. 2;
Bath, at, in 1780, iii. 422;
birth-day party, iii. 157, n. 3;
harpsichord, playing on the, ii. 409;
Johnson teaches her Latin, iv. 345, n. 2; v. 451, n. 2;
is visited by her in his last illness, iv. 339, n. 3;
Marie Antoinette, seen by, ii. 385;
marries Admiral Lord Keith, v. 427, n. 1;
mother, unfriendly with her, v. 427, n. 1;
portrait, iv. 158, n. 1;
Queeny, iii. 422, n. 4; v. 451, n. 2;
mentioned, iii. 6; iv. 86, n. 2.
THRALE, Miss Sophia,
Johnson advises her to study arithmetic, iv. 171, n. 3.
_Three Warnings, The_, ii. 26.
THRESHING, v. 263.
THROCKMORTON, Mr., of Weston Underwood, v. 439, n. 1.
THRONE, The, something behind it greater than it, iii. 416, n. 2.
THUANUS (De Thou),
Johnson thinks of translating his History, iv. 410;
mentioned, i. 32, 208, n. 1.
THUCYDIDES, his quotations from Homer, iii. 331.
THURLOW, first Lord,
Boswell bows the intellectual knee to him, iv. 179, n. 2;
_Journal of a Tour_, praises, i. 3, n. 1;
writes to him, iv. 327;
his answer, iv. 336;
character by Sir W. Jones, iv. 349, n. 3;
copyright, speech on, ii. 247, n. 5, 345;
Cowper, treatment of, iv. 349, n. 3;
duel with Andrew Stuart, ii. 230, n. 1;
Horne Tooke, encounter with, iv. 327, n. 4;
prosecutes him, iii. 354, n. 3;
Horsley, rewards, iv. 438;
Johnson's companion, iii. 22;
generous offer to, iv. 348;
letter to, iii. 441; v. 364, n. 1;
letter from him, iv. 349;
pension, proposed addition to, iv. 327-8, 348-350, 367-8;
would prepare himself to meet him, iv. 327;
legal opinion on Rev. J. Thomson's case, iii. 63;
Macbean and the Charterhouse, i. 187;
Prince of Wales and Sir John Ladd, iv. 412, n. 1;
'puts his mind to yours,' iv. 179;
Reynolds, letter to, iv. 350, n. 1;
Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2;
small certainties, ii. 323, n. 1;
Taylor's, Dr., lawsuit, iii. 44;
mentioned, iv. 310.
THUROT, M., iv. 101.
TIBER, iii. 251.
TIBULLUS,
Grainger's translation, ii. 454;
quoted, iv. 407, n. 1.
TICHBORNE TRIAL, v. 247, n. 2.
TICKELL, Richard,
_Epistle from the Hon. Charles Fox_, ii. 292, n. 4; iii. 388, n. 3;
_The Project_, iii. 318, n. 2.
TICKELL, Thomas,
aided Blackmore in his _Creation_, ii. 108;
_Life_ by Johnson, iv. 56.
TIGER, River, v. 242, n. 1.
TILLEMONT, Gibbon praises his accuracy, i. 7, n. 1.
TILLOTSON, John, Archbishop of Canterbury,
_Sermons_, iii. 247;
on transubstantiation, v. 71.
TIME AND SPACE, iv. 25.
_Times, The_, quoted, v. 400, n. 4.
TIMIDITY, iv. 200, n. 4.
TIMMINS, Mr. Samuel,
_Dr. Johnson in Birmingham_ quoted, i. 85, n. 3, 95, n. 3.
TINDAL, Dr., ii. 229, n. 1.
TIPPOO, iii. 356, n. 2.
_Titi, Prince_, ii. 391.
TOASTS, iv. 29.
TOLAND, John, i. 29.
TOLCHER, Old Mr., i. 152, n. 3.
TOLERATION, ii. 249-254; iv. 12, 216;
universal, iii. 380.
TOMASI, Signora, ii. 451, n. 3.
_To Miss--_, i. 178.
_To Miss--on her giving the Authour a Purse_, ii. 25.
_Tommy Prudent_, iv. 8, n. 3.
TONSON, Jacob,
Budgell's _Epilogue_, iii. 46;
Dryden's engagement with him, i. 193, n. 1.
TONSON, Jacob, the younger,
Johnson praises him, i. 227, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 263, n. 3.
TOOKE, Horne (at first Rev. John Horne),
Beckford's speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3;
Boswell, altercation with, iii. 354, n. 2;
_Diversions of Purley_, iii. 354, n. 2;
imprisonment, iii. 314, n. 6;
writ of error, iii. 345, n. 3;
Johnson's etymologies, criticises, iii. 354;
reads the preface to his _Dictionary_ with tears, i. 297, n. 2;
iii. 354, n. 1;
_Letter to Mr. Dunning_, iii. 354;
living, resigns his, iii. 201, n. 3;
Norton, Sir Fletcher, attacks, ii. 472, n. 2;
pillory, should have been set in the, iii. 314;
too much literature for it, iii. 354;
Lord Mansfield durst not venture it, ib., n. 3;
Thurlow, encounter with, iv. 327, n. 4.
TOPHAM, Edward, proprietor of _The World_, iii. 16, n. 1.
TOPLADY, Rev. Mr.,
attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3;
meets Johnson at Dilly's, ii. 247, 253, 255.
TOPOGRAPHICAL WORKS, iii. 164, n. 1.
TOPPING, Mr., of Christ Church, iii. 449.
TOPSELL, Edward, i. 138, n. 5.
TORIES,
defined, i. 294; iii. 174, n. 3;
generated, how, iii. 326;
hostile to Spain, i. 147, n. 5;
identified with Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4;
_Of Tory and Whig_, iv. 117;
opposition to the Court, ii. 112;
reverence for government, iv. l00;
Whigs, enmity with, iv. 291;
Whigs when out of place, i. 129.
TORRÉ, M., fire-work maker, iv. 324.
TORTURE, i. 466, 467, n. 1.
TOTTENHAM, iii. 45, n. 1.
TOUCH, sense of, ii. 190.
TOUR OF EUROPE, iii. 458.
TOWERS, Dr. J.,
_Essay on the Life of Johnson_, iv. 41, n. 1;
Johnson's _Life of Milton_, praises, iv. 40;
_Letter to Dr. Johnson, &c_., ii. 316.
TOWNLEY, C., an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2.
TOWNLEY, Charles, iii. 118, n. 3.
TOWNMALLING, iii. 452.
TOWNSEND, Alderman,
Johnson attacks him, ii. 135, n. 1;
Lord Mayor, iii. 459; iv. 175, n. 1;
refuses to pay the land-tax, iii. 460;
mentioned, iii. 201, n. 3.
TOWNSHEND, second Viscount, ii. 342, n. 1; v. 357, n. 1.
TOWNSHEND, fourth Viscount (afterwards first Marquis), i. 437, n. 2.
TOWNSHEND, Right Hon. Charles,
Akenside, friendship with, iii. 3;
'Champagne Speech,' ii. 222, n. 3;
jokes and wit, ii. 222; ib., n. 3;
Kames, Lord, criticises, ii. 90, n. 1.
TOWNSHEND, Hon. John, Tickell's _Epistle_, ii. 292, n. 4.
TOWNSHEND, Right Hon. Thomas (afterwards first Viscount Sydney),
Goldsmith's 'Tommy Townshend,' iii. 233, n. 1;
attacks Johnson, iv. 318;
moves that Nowell's sermon be burnt, iv. 296, n. 1.
TOWNSON, Rev. Dr., ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 300, n. 2.
TRADE,
difficulty, has not much, iii. 382, n. 2;
gaming, like, v. 232;
injury done to the body, ii. 218;
leisure of those engaged, v. 59;
military spirit injured by it, ii. 218;
opportunity of rising in the world, ii. 98;
produces no capital accession of wealth, ii. 98;
but intermediate good, ii. 176;
profit in pleasure, ii. 98;
rapid rise of traders, i. 490;
writers on it, ii. 430.
_Trade, The_ (the booksellers of London), i. 438; ii. 345; iii. 285.
TRADESMEN,
Chatham's description of the honest tradesman, v. 327, n. 4;
excite anger by their opulence, v. 327;
fires in the parlour, v. 6;
funeral-sermon for a tradesman's daughter, ii. 122;
retired from business, ii. 120;
one attacked by the stone, iii. 176, n. 1;
wives, their, iii. 353.
TRADITION, untrustworthy, v. 224; of the Church, v. 71.
TRAGEDIANS, ridiculed in _The Idler_, v. 38, n. 1.
TRAGEDY,
a ludicrous one, iii. 238;
passions purged by it, iii. 39;
worse for being acted, ii. 92, n. 4; v. 38:
See PLAYERS.
TRANSLATIONS,
how to judge of their merit, iii. 256;
Sir John Hill's contract for one, ii. 39; n. 2;
what books can and what cannot be translated, iii. 36, 257.
_Transpire_, iii. 343.
TRANSPORT, Rational, iii. 338.
TRANSUBSTANTIATION, v. 71, 88.
TRANSYLVANIA, ii. 7, n. 3.
TRAPAUD, General Cyrus, v. 135.
TRAPAUD, Governor, v. 134, 142.
TRAPP, Dr. i. 140, n. 5; iv. 381, n. 1.
TRAVELLERS,
ancient, guessed; modern travellers measure, iii. 356;
mean to tell the truth, iii. 235;
modern mostly laughed at, iii. 300;
strange turn to be displeased, iii. 236;
unsatisfactory unless trustworthy, ii. 333.
TRAVELLING,
advice about it, i. 431;
Cowper, Gibbon, Goldsmith and Locke on the age for travelling,
iii. 458-9;
human life great object of remark, iii. 301, n. 2;
idle habits broken off, i. 409;
Johnson's love of it, iii. 449-459;
_Rasselas_, described in, i. 340, n. 1;
rates of travelling
London to St. Andrews, i. 359, n. 3;
to Edinburgh, v. 21, n. 1;
to Harwich, i. 466, n. 2;
to Lichfield, i. 340, n. 1; ii. 45; iii. 411;
to Milan, i. 370, n. 4;
to Salisbury, iv. 234, n. 3;
supplies little to the conversation, iii. 352;
time ill spent on it in early manhood, iii. 352, 458.
TRAVELS, books of,
writers very defective, ii. 377;
should start with full minds, iii. 301;
writing under a feigned character, iv. 320.
TREASON, constructive, iv. 87.
_Treatise on Painting_, i. 128, n. 2.
TRECOTHICK, Alderman,
account of him, iii. 76, n. 2;
his English, iii. 76, 201;
Lord Mayor, iii. 459.
TREE, given a jerk by Divines, iv. 226.
TREES, their propagation, ii. 168. See under SCOTLAND, trees.
TRENTHAM, i. 36, n. 2.
TREVELYAN, Sir G. O.,
Johnson and the Rev. John Macaulay, v. 360. n. 1;
Rev. Kenneth Macaulay's _History of St. Kilda_, v. 119, n. 3.
TRIAL BY DUEL, v. 24.
TRICKS, either knavish or childish, iii. 396.
TRIFLES,
life composed of them, i. 433, n. 4; ii. 359, n. 2;
contentment with them, iii. 241-2;
their importance, i. 317; iii. 355.
TRIMLESTOWN, Lord, iii. 227-8.
TRINITY, doctrine of the, ii. 254-5; v. 88.
_Tristram Shandy_. See STERNE.
TRONCHIN, M., iii. 301, n. 1.
TROTTER, Beatrix, iii. 359.
TROTTER, ----, an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2.
TROTZ, Professor, i. 475.
TROUGHTON, Lieutenant, a loquacious wanderer, v. 448.
TRUTH,
children to be strictly trained in it, iii. 228;
comfort of life, essential to the, iv. 305;
consolation drawn from it, i. 339;
contests concerning moral truth, iii. 17;
deviations from it very frequent, iii. 403-4;
human experience its test, i. 454;
'I'd tell truth and shame the devil,' ii. 222;
moral and physical, iv. 6;
'not at home,' i. 436;
obligatory, how far, iii. 320, 377; iv. 305-6;
painful to be forced to defend it, iii. 11;
perpetual vigilance needed, iii. 230; iv. 361;
publishing it against oneself, iv. 396; v. 211;
religious truth established by martyrdom, ii. 250;
rights to utter it and knock down for uttering it, iv. 12;
sick, should be told to the, iv. 306;
society held together by it, iii. 293;
story, essential to a, ii. 433:
See under JOHNSON, truthfulness.
TUAM, Archbishop of, ii. 265, n. 4; iv. 198, n. 2.
TULL, Jethro, v. 324.
TUNBRIDGE SCHOOL, iv. 330.
TUNBRIDGE WELLS,
Mrs. Montagu writes from it in 1760, ii. 64. n. 2;
print of the company there in 1748, i. 190, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 45, n. 1.
TURGOT, existence of matter, i. 471, n. 2.
TURKEY and the Turks,
Boswell wishes to visit it, iv. 199;
opium in common use, iv. 171;
sweep Greece, ii. 194;
want of _Stirpes_, ii. 421;
mentioned, v. 74.
TURKISH LADY, a, i. 343.
_Turkish Spy_, iv. 199; v. 341.
TURNER, John, a fencing-master, v. 103, n, 2.
TURNPIKES, v. 56, n. 2.
TURSELLINUS, i. 77.
TURTON, Dr., iii. 164.
TWALMLEY THE GREAT, iv. 193.
TWELLS, Leonard, _Life of Dr. E. Pocock_, iv. 185.
TWICKENHAM,
Boswell and Johnson's drive to it, ii. 361-4;
Cambridge's, Mr., villa, ii. 361;
highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1;
society, ii. 120.
TWINING, Rev. Thomas, _Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman_,
Johnson's dislike of 'the former, the latter,' iv. 190, n. 2;
funeral, iv. 420, n. 1;
the old willow-tree at Lichfield, iv. 372, n. 1.
TWISS, Richard, _Travels_, ii. 345.
TYBURN,
executions there abolished, iv. 188;
procession to it, iv. 189, n. 1;
'Tyburn's elegiac lines,' ib.:
See EXECUTIONS.
TYERS, Jonathan, iii. 308.
TYERS, Thomas,
account of him, iii. 308-9;
_Biographical Sketch of Dr. Johnson_, iii. 308; v. 73, n. 2;
Johnson like a ghost: See JOHNSON, Ghost;
rapid composition, i. 192, n. 1;
talked as if on oath, ii. 434, n. 2;
wish to visit India and Poland, iii. 456;
Tom Restless of _The Idler_, iii. 308, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 107.
TYRANNY, remedy against it, ii. 170.
TYRAWLEY, Lord,
account of him, ii. 211, n. 4;
Chesterfield's saying, ii. 211.
TYRCONNEL, Lord,
Savage's letter to him, i. 161, n. 3;
patronised by him, i. 173, 372, n. 1.
TYRWHITT, Thomas, Chatterton's poems, iii. 50, n. 5; iv. 141, n. 1.
TYTLER, A. F. (son of W. Tytler, afterwards Lord Woodhouselee),
meets Johnson, v. 387, n. 4, 388, n. 2, 402.
TYTLER, William,
_History of Mary Queen of Scots_, i. 354; v. 274, n. 2, 387;
Johnson's _Journey_, praises, ii. 305-6;
meets him, v. 394, 396.
U.
UDSON, Mr., ii. 398. ULYSSES, i. 12. UNCLUBABLE, i. 27, n. 2, 480, n. 1; iv. 254, n. 2. UNDERSTANDING, _inverted_, iii. 379; man's superiority over woman, iii. 52; propagating it, ii. 109, n. 2; Reynolds's rule for judging it, iv. 316. UNEASINESS, iv. 273. UN-IDEA'D, 'A set of wretched unidea'd girls,' i. 251. _Union, The_, i. 117, n. 1. UNITARIANS, ii. 408, n. i; iv. 125, n. 2. _Unius lacertae_, iii. 255. _Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette_, i. 330, 345, n. 1. _Universal History_, iii. 443; iv. 311. _Universal Visiter_, i. 178, n. 2, 306; ii. 345. UNIVERSITY, conversation of a man taught at an English one, v. 370; English and Scotch compared, i. 63, n. 1; v. 85, n. 2; fellowships, value of, iii. 13; foreign professorships, iii. 14; Gibbon, attacked by, iii. 13, n. 3; rich, not too, as Adam Smith asserts, iii. 13; school where everything may be learnt, should be a, ii. 371; subscription to the Articles, ii. 151; v. 64; theory and practice, ii. 52; iii. 138: See under CAMBRIDGE and OXFORD, and under SCOTLAND, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews. _Unscottified_, ii. 242; v. 55, n. 1. UNWINS, the, Cowper's friends, i. 522. UPPER-OSSORY, Lord, iii. 230, n. 5. UPSTARTS, getting into parliament, ii. 153, 339. URBINO, v. 276. URIE, Captain, v. 135. URNS, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 453, n. 1. _Ursa Major_. See JOHNSON, bear. USHER, Archbishop, assists Lydiat, i. 194, n. 2; luminary of the Irish Church, ii. 132. USHER, at a school, i. 84. USURY, law against, iii. 26. UTILITY, beauty not dependent on it, ii. 166; iv. 167. _Utopia_, iii. 202, n. 3. UTRECHT, Boswell a student there, i. 400, 473; ii. 9; William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), a student, ii. 177, n. 1. UTTOXETER MARKET, Johnson does penance there, i. 56, n. 2; iv. 373; Michael Johnson's shop, i. 36, n. 3. UZàS, Duke of, iii. 322, n. 3.
V.
VACANCIES, eagerness for, iii. 251.
VACHELL, William, iii. 83, n. 3.
VACUUM, i. 444, n. 2.
'VAGABOND, Mr.,' iii. 411, n. 1.
_Vagabondo, Il_, i. 202; iii. 411.
VAILS, ii. 78.
VALENCIA, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 434.
VALETUDINARIANS, ii. 460;
Johnson's disgust at them, iii. 1, 152.
VALLANCY, Colonel, iv. 272, 278.
VANBRUGH, Sir John,
attempted to answer Jeremy Collier, iv. 286, n. 3;
_Provoked Husband_, ii. 48, n. 3; iv. 284, n. 2;
Reynolds's tribute to him, iv. 55.
VANE, Anne, v. 49, n. 4.
VANE, Lady, v. 49, n. 4.
_Vanessa_, ii. 389, n. 1.
_Vanity of Human Wishes_,
account of it, i. 192-5;
price paid for it, i. 193, n. 1;
rapidly composed, i. 192; ii. 15;
written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192;
Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2;
Byron's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3;
death, 'kind nature's signal of retreat,' ii. 106;
De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3;
Garrick's sarcasm on it, i. 194;
Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3;
misery, 'the doom of man,' iii. 198; v. 179;
'Patron and the jail,' i. 264;
_Rasselas_, resemblance to, i. 342;
Scott's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3;
_spreads_ changed into _burns_, iii. 357-8;
Vane and Sedley, v. 49;
Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4.
VANSITTART, Dr.,
account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1;
story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 192.
VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144.
VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163.
VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3.
VENICE,
Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1;
Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19;
mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3.
VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104.
_Veracious_, iv. 39, n. 3.
VERACITY. See TRUTH.
_Verbiage_ ii. 236; iii. 256.
_Verecundulus_, i. 68, n. 1.
VERNON'S Parish Clerk, v. 268, n. 1.
VERSAILLES, ii. 385, 395;
theatre, ii. 395, n. 2.
VERSES, in a dead language, ii. 371;
making them, ii. 15.
_Verses on Ireland_, iii. 319.
_Verses on a Sprig of Myrtle_, i. 92.
_Verses to Mr. Richardson on his Sir Charles Grandison_, ii. 26.
VERTOT, ii. 237; iv. 311.
VESEY, Right Hon. Agmondesham,
gentle manners, his, iv. 28;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; ii. 318;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108.
VESEY, Mrs.,
evenings at her house described by Langton, iii. 424; iv. 1, n. 1;
by Hannah More, iii. 424, n. 3;
by Horace Walpole, iii. 425, n. 3;
by Miss Burney, iii. 426, n. 3;
by Johnson, ib., n. 4;
wishes to introduce Johnson to Raynal, iv. 435.
VESTRIS, the dancer, iv. 79.
_Vexing Thoughts_, iii. 5.
_Vicar of Wakefield_. See GOLDSMITH.
VICE,
character not hurt by it, iii. 349;
compared with virtue, iii. 342;
Mandeville's doctrine: See MANDEVILLE.
_Vicious Intromission_,
Johnson's argument, ii. 196-201, 206; iii. 102; v. 48.
VICTOR, Benjamin, iv. 53.
VICTORIA, Queen, death-warrants, iii. 121, n. 1.
VIDA, i. 230, n. 1.
_Vidit et erubuit_, iii. 304.
VILETTE, Rev. Mr.,
Dodd's dedication to him, iii. 167, n. 1;
his virtues, iv. 329.
_Village, The_, a poem, iv. 121, n. 4, 175.
VILLIERS, Sir George, his ghost, iii. 351.
VINCENT, William, Dean of Westminster, i. 302, n. 1.
_Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage_, i. 140; ii, 60, n. 3.
VIRGIL,
_Aeneid_,
its story, iv. 218;
Aeneas's treatment of Dido, iv. 196;
Burke's ragged copy, iii. 193, n. 3;
farming, love of, v. 78;
Homer, compared with, iii. 193;
Johnson reads him, ii. 288; iv. 218;
juvenile translations, i. 51;
_machinery_, his, iv. 16;
Pope, less talked of than, iii. 332;
printing-house, describes a, v. 311-12;
Theocritus, compared with, iv. 2;
quotations:
_Eclogues_ i. 5--i. 460;
_Eclogues_ i. 11--iii. 310, n. 4;
_Eclogues_ ii. 16--iii. 87, n. 3; 212, n. 2;
_Eclogues_ iii. 64--v. 291, n, 1;
_Eclogues_ iii. 111--v. 279, n. 3;
_Eclogues_ viii. 43--i. 261, n. 3;
_Georgics_ ii. 173--iv. 372, n. 1;
_Georgics_ iii. 9--ii. 329, n. 3;
_Georgics_ iii. 66--ii. 129;
_Georgics_ iv. l32--iv. 173, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ i. 3--v. 392, n. 4;
_Aeneid_ i. l99--iv. 258, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ i. 2O2--v. 333, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ i. 204--v. 392, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ i. 378--iv. 193, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ i. 460-iii. 162, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 5--iii. 64, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 6--ii. 262, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 49--iii. 108, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ ii. l98--iii. 212, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 368--v. 50, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 544--i. 142;
_Aeneid_ iii. 461--ii. 22;
_Aeneid_ vi. 273--v. 311;
_Aeneid_ vi. 4l7--v. 311, n. 4;
_Aeneid_ vi. 660--iv. 193, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ vi. 730--1. 66;
_Aeneid_ xii. 424--ii. 272, n. 1.
VIRTUE,
how far followed by happiness, i. 389, n. 2;
men naturally virtuous compared with those who overcome
inclinations, iv. 224;
not natural to man, iii. 352;
practised for the sake of character, iii. 342, 349;
scholastic, ii. 223;
why preferable to vice, iii. 342.
_Virtue, an Ethick Epistle_, iii. 199, n. 2.
_Vision of Theodore the Hermit_, i. 192, 483, n. 2.
VIVACITY, an art, ii. 462.
VOLCANOES, strata of earth in them, ii. 467.
VOLGA, iv. 277.
VOLTAIRE,
'Après tout, c'est un monde passable,' i. 344;
attacks, on answers to, v. 274, n. 4;
Boswell visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5; iii. 301, n. 1; v. 14;
Bouhours, ii. 90, n. 3;
Byng, Admiral, i. 314;
_Candide_, i. 342; iii. 356;
'Cerbères de la littérature,' v. 311, n. 4;
Charles XII's dress, ii. 475, n. 3;
Derham, William, v. 323, n. 4;
Des Maizeaux's _Life of Bayle_, i. 29, n, 1;
Dubos, ii. 90, n. 2;
_Essai sur les Moeurs_, ii. 53, n. 2;
fame, his, iii. 263, 332;
forgotten ideas, the situation of, i. 435, n. 2;
Frederick the Great, contest with, i. 434; v. 103, n. 2;
_Ganganelli's Letters_, iii. 286;
Hay, Lord Charles, iii. 8, n. 3;
Hénault, ii. 383, n. 1;
_History of the War in 1741_, v. 272;
_Histoire de Louis XIV_, v. 393;
Holbach's _Système de la Nature_, v. 47, n. 4;
Hume, his echo, ii. 53;
insurrection of 1745-6, account of the, iii. 414;
Johnson attacks him, i. 498, 499, n. 1;
praises his knowledge, but attacks his honesty, i. 435, n. 2;
his reply, i. 499;
and Frederick the Great, i. 434;
_Julia Mandeville_, reviews, ii. 402, n. 1;
Kames, Lord, ii. 90, n. 1;
_Le désastre de Lisbonne_, iv. 302, n. 1;
_Le Monde comme il va_, i. 344, n. 2;
Leroi, the watch-maker, ii. 391, n. 5;
Lewis XIV, celebrated in many languages, i. 123;
and Mlle. de la Vallière, v. 49, n. 3;
loved a striking story, iii. 414;
Macdonald, Sir James, v. 152, n. 1;
Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;
master of English oaths, i. 435, n. 1;
Maupertuis's death, ii. 54, n. 3;
middle class in England and France, ii. 402, n. 1;
Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, ii. 88;
Moréri, v. 311, n. 1;
narrator, good, ii. 125;
Newton, Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287, n. 2;
Pope and Dryden, distinguishes, ii. 5;
Pope, visits, i. 499, n. 1;
Pretender, reflections on the, v. 199-200;
read less than formerly, iv. 288;
Reynolds's allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4;
Rousseau, compared with, ii. 12;
Shakespeare, attacks, i. 498; ii. 88, n. 3;
made him known to the French, ii. 88, n. 2;
Stuart, House of, v. 200;
torture in France, i. 467, n. 1;
trial, has not yet stood his, v. 311;
_Universal History_, v. 311;
_Vir est acerrimi ingenii et paucarum literarum_, ii. 406;
Wesley calls him coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1;
witchcraft, v. 46, n. 1;
wonders, caught greedily at, i. 498, n. 4; iii. 229, n. 3.
Vossius, Isaac, i. 186, n. 2.
Voting, privilege of, ii. 340.
Vows, Cowley's lines on them, iii. 357, n. 1;
Johnson's warning against them, ii. 21;
a snare for sin, iii. 357;
if unnecessary a folly and a crime, iii. 357, n. 1.
_Vox Viva_, v. 324.
_Voyage to Lisbon_, i. 269, n. 1.
_Voyages to the South Sea_. See SOUTH SEA.
Vranyken, University of, i. 475.
Vulgar, The, children of the State, ii. 14; iv. 216.
Vyse, Rev. Dr., Boswell, letter to, iii. 125;
Johnson's letter to him, iii. 125;
mentioned, iv. 372, n. 2.
W.
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