Chapter D: O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3 (15)

Wade, General,
calls _the_ M'Farlane _Mr._ M'Farlane, v. 156, n. 3;
his Hut, v. 134.
Wager, Charles, ii. 164, n. 5.
Wages, raising those of day-labourers wrong, iv. 176; v. 263;
women-servants' less than men-servants', ii. 217.
Wake, Archbishop, ii. 342, n. 1.
Waldegrave, Lady, ii. 224, n. 1.
Wales, Abergeley, v. 446;
Angle-sea, ii. 284; v. 447;
Bâch y Graig (Bachycraigh), iii. 134, n. 1, 454; v. 436, 438;
Bangor, ii. 284; v. 447, 448, 452;
Beaumaris, v. 447-8;
Bible in Welsh, v. 450, 454;
Bodryddan, v. 442, n. 3;
Bodville, v. 449-51;
Boswell proposes a tour, iii. 134, 454;
Brecon, iii. 139;
Bryn o dol, v. 449;
Caernarvon, v. 448, 451;
castles, compared with Scotch, ii. 285; v. 374, n. 1;
vast size, v. 437, 442, 448-9, 452;
charitable establishment, iii. 255;
Chirk Castle, v. 453;
churches at Bodville neglected, v. 450;
Clwyd, River, v. 438;
Conway, v. 446, 452;
Danes, settlement of, v. 130;
Denbigh, ii. 282; v. 437-8, 453;
Dymerchion, v. 438, 440;
Elwy, River, v. 438;
great families kept a kind of court, v. 276;
Gwaynynog, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 440, n. 1, 443, 452-3;
hiring of harvest-men, v. 453;
Holywell, v. 440-2;
inhospitality, v. 452;
inns, v. 446-7;
Johnson's tour to Wales, ii. 279, 281, 282, 284; v. 427:
see _Journey into North Wales_;
Kefnamwyellh, v. 452;
literature, indifference to, v. 443;
Llanerk, v. 450;
Llangwinodyl, v. 449, 451;
Llannerch, v. 439;
Llanrhaiadr, v. 453;
Lleweney Hall, Johnson visits it, ii. 282; v. 435-46;
description of it, v. 436;
pales and gates brought from it, v. 433;
Llyn Badarn, v. 451;
Llyn Beris, v. 451;
Maesmynnan, v. 445;
manuscripts, ii. 383;
Methodists, v. 451;
Mold, v. 435;
mutinous in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
offers nothing for speculation, ii. 284;
Oswestry, v. 454;
parson's awe of Johnson, v. 450, n. 2;
Penmaen Mawr, ii. 284; v. 447, 452;
Penmaen Rhôs, v. 446, 452;
Pwlheli, v. 451;
_rivers_, v. 442, n. 4;
Ruabon, v. 450, n, 2;
Ruthin Castle, v. 442;
second sight, ii. 150;
Tydweilliog, v. 449, 451;
Ustrad, River, v. 442, n. 4;
Welsh language, how far related to Irish, i. 322;
scheme for preserving it, v. 443;
used in the Church services, v. 438, 440, 441, 446, 449, 450;
Welshmen, generally have the spirit of gentlemen, iii. 275;
Wrexham, ii. 240, w. 4; v. 453.
WALES, Prince of. See PRINCE OF WALES.
WALKER, John,
'celebrated master of elocution,' iv. 206;
dedication to Johnson, iv. 421, n. 2.
WALKER, Joseph Cooper, i. 321; iii. 111, n. 4.
WALKER, Thomas, the actor, ii. 368.
WALKING, habit of, i. 64, n. 4.
WALL, Dr., iv. 292.
WALL, cost of a garden wall, iv. 205.
WALL, _taking_ the, i. 110; v. 230.
WALLACE, ----, a Scotch author of the first distinction, ii. 53, n. 1.
WALLER, Edmund,
Amoret and Sacharissa, ii. 360;
_Divine Poesie_, the communion of saints, iv. 290, n. 1;
Dryden, studied by, iv. 38, n. 1;
_Epistle to a Lady_, v. 221, n. 1;
grandson, a plain country gentleman, v. 86;
great-grandson, at Aberdeen, v. 85;
_Life_ by Johnson, iv. 36, n. 4, 38, n. 2, 39;
_Loving at first sight_, iv. 36;
_Reflections on the Lord's Prayer_, iv. 290, n. 4;
water-drinker, iii. 327, n. 2;
women, praises of, ii. 57.
WALMSLEY, Gilbert,
character by Johnson, i. 81; iii. 439;
Colson, letter to, i. 102;
debtor to Mrs. Johnson, i. 79, n. 2;
Garrick, letter to, i. 176, n. 2;
scholarship, ii. 377, n. 2;
Greek, knowledge of, iv. 33, n. 3;
house, ii. 467;
Johnson and Garrick, recommends, i. 102;
Johnson threatens to put _Irene_ into the _Spiritual Court_, i. 101;
Whig, a, i. 81, 430; iii. 439, n. 3; v. 386.
WALMSLEY, Mrs., i. 82-3.
WALPOLE, Horatio (afterwards first Baron Walpole), iii. 71, n. 4.
WALPOLE, Horace (afterwards fourth Earl of Orford),
Adams the architects, ii. 325, n. 3;
addresses to the King in 1784, iv. 265, n. 5;
arbitrary power, courtiers in favour of, iii. 84, n. 1;
arithmetician, a woeful, iii. 226, n. 4;
Professor Sanderson and the multiplication table, ii. 190, n. 3;
Astle, Thomas, i. 155, n. 2;
atheism and bigotry first cousins, iv. 194, n. 1;
Atterbury on Burnet's _History_, ii. 213, n. 3;
balloons, iv. 356, n. 1;
Barrington, Daines, iv. 437;
Barry's _Analysis_, iv. 224, n. 1;
Bate and the _Morning Post_, iv. 296, n. 3;
Beauclerk's library, iv. 105, n. 2;
Beckford's Bribery Bill, ii. 339, n. 2;
speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3;
tyrannic character, iii. 76, n. 2;
_Biographia Britannica_, iii. 174, n. 3;
Blagden on Boswell's _Life_, iv. 30, n. 2;
Boccage, Mme. du, iv. 331, n. 1;
_bonmots_, collection of, iii. 191, n. 2;
Boswell calls on him, iv. 110, n. 3;
_Corsica_, ii. 46, n. 1, 71, n. 2;
_Life of Johnson_, iv. 314, n. 5;
presence, silent in, ib.;
Burke's wit, iv. 276, n. 2;
Bute's, Lord, familiar friends, i. 386, n. 3;
and the tenure of the judges, ii. 353, n. 3;
Cameron's execution, i. 146, n. 2;
Chambers's _Treatise on Architecture_, iv. 187, n. 4;
Chatham's funeral, iv. 208, n. 1;
Chatterton and Goldsmith, iii. 51, n. 2;
Chesterfield as a patron, iv. 331, n. 1;
wit, ii. 211, n. 3;
Cibber, Colley, i. 401, n. 1; iii. 72, n. 4;
City Address to the King in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4;
City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1;
Clarke, Dr., and Queen Caroline, iii. 248, n. 2;
Clive, Mrs., iii. 239, n. 1; iv. 243, n. 2;
Cock Lane Ghost, i. 407, n. 1;
_Codrington, Life of Colonel_, iii. 204, n. 1;
Cornwallis's capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3;
_Critical Review_, iii. 32, n. 4;
_Cross Readings_, iv. 322, n. 2;
Cumberland, William, Duke of, cruelty of, ii. 375, n. 1;
Cumberland's _Odes_, iii. 43, n. 3;
Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 210, n. 2;
Dashwood, Sir F., ii. 135, n. 2;
Devonshire, third Duke of, iii. 186, n. 4;
Dodd's execution, iii. 120, n. 3;
attempt to bribe the Chancellor, iii. 139, n. 3;
sermon at the Magdalen House, iii. 139, n. 4;
Dodsley, Robert, ii. 447, n. 2;
Drummond's _Travels_, v. 323, n. 3;
Dublin theatre riot, i. 386, n. 1;
duelling, ii. 226, n. 5;
Dundas, 'Starvation,' ii. 160, n. 1;
Dunning's motion on the influence of the Crown, iv. 220, n. 5;
Eton, revisits, iv. 127, n. 1;
Fitzherbert's suicide, ii. 228, n. 3;
Fitzpatrick, Richard, iii. 388, n. 3;
freethinking, iii. 388, n. 3;
French, affect philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3;
gentleman's visit to London in 1764, iv. 92, n. 5;
ladies, indelicacy of the talk of, ii. 403, n, 1; iii. 352, n. 2;
meals, ii. 402, n. 2;
middling and common people, ii. 402, n. 1;
philosophy, iii. 305, n. 2;
_savans_, iii. 254, n. 1;
'talk gruel and anatomy,' iv. 15, n. 4;
gaming-clubs, iii. 23, n. 1;
Garrick's acting, iv. 243, n. 6;
funeral, iv. 208, n. 1;
George I and Miss Brett, i. 174, n. 2;
burnt two wills, ii. 342, n. 1;
his will burnt, ib.; iv. 107, n. 1;
George II and _Alexander's Feast_, i. 209, n. 2;
character, i. 147, n. 1;
and the fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1;
and his father's will, ii. 342, n. 1; iv. 107, n. 1;
George III aims at despotism, i. 116, n. 1;
as commander-in-chief, iii. 365, n. 4;
coronation, iii. 9, n. 2; v. 103, n. 1;
and Sir John Dalrymple, ii. 210, n. 2;
and the fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1;
and Johnson's _Journey_, ii. 290, n. 2;
ministers his tools, iii. 408, n. 4;
his own minister, i. 424, n. 1;
mother and Lord Bute, iv. 127, n. 3;
and the sea, i. 340, n. 1;
George IV in his youth, ii. 33, n. 3;
_Leonidas_ Glover, v. 116, n. 4;
Goldsmith's envy, i. 413, n. 3;
an 'inspired idiot,' i. 412, n. 6;
'silly,' i. 388, n. 3;
and Malagrida, iv. 175, n. 1;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, ii. 208, n. 5;
Gordon Riots, iii. 429, n. 3; v. 328, n. 2;
Gower, Lord, i. 296, n. 1;
Granger's patron, iii. 91;
Gray, Sir James, ii. 177, n. 1;
Grenville, George, ii. 135, n. 2;
Gunning, the Misses, v. 359, n. 2;
Hagley Park, v. 78, n. 3, 456, n. 1;
Hamilton, W. G., i. 520;
_Heroic Epistle_ ascribed to him, iv. 315;
Highland regiment in Jersey, v. 142, n. 2;
highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1;
Hill, Sir John, ii. 38, n. 2;
_History of the House of Yvery_, iv. 198, n. 3;
Hollis, Thomas, iv. 97, n. 3;
Hooke, Nathaniel, v. 175, n. 3;
'Horry' Walpole, iv. 314;
Hôtel du Chatelet, ii. 389, n. 2;
Houghton Collection, sale of the, iv. 334, n. 6;
House of Commons' contest with the City in 1771, ii. 300, n. 5;
Hume, David, atheist and bigot, iv. 194, n. 1;
conversation, ii. 236, n. 1;
French, i. 439, n. 2;
Hurd, Bishop, iv. 190, n. 1;
Irish peers, creation of, iii. 407, n. 4;
Italy, tour to, iii. 31, n. 1;
_Jealous Wife, The_, i. 364, n. 1;
Jenkinson, Charles (first Earl of Liverpool), iii. 146, n. 1;
Johnson and Barnard's verses, iv. 433;
'Billingsgate on Milton,' iv. 40, n. 1;
bombast, i. 388, n. 3;
character, ignorant of, iv. 433;
_Debates_, i. 505;
described by, iv. 314;
history reduced to four lines, i. 5, n. 1;
at Lady Lucan's, iii. 425, n. 3;
monument, iv. 423, n. 1;
'not a true admirer' of, iv. 314;
attacks on him, ib., nn. 3 and 5;
at the Royal Academy, iv. 314, n. 3;
on sacrilege, v. 114, n. 2;
writing for money, iii. 19, n. 3;
Johnson the horse-rider, i. 399;
_Junius_, authorship of, iii. 376, n. 4;
Keppel's Court-martial, iv. 12, n. 6;
Kinnoul, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4;
libels in 1770, i. 116, n. 1;
Lort, Rev. Dr., iv. 290, n. 4;
Lovat's execution, i. 181, n. 1;
_Love and Madness_, iv. 187, n. 1;
Lucan's, Lady, bluestocking meeting, iii. 425, n. 3;
Lyttelton, first Lord, i. 267, n. 2;
Lyttelton, second Lord, iv. 298, n. 3;
Maccaroni Club, v. 84, n, 1;
Macclesfield, Earl of, i. 267, n. 1;
Macdonald, Sir J., i. 449, n. 2;
Mackintosh's criticism of his style, iii. 31, n. 1;
Macpherson and the newspapers, ii. 307, n. 4;
Mac Swinny (old Swinney), iii. 71, n. 4;
Mansfield's, Lord, attacks on the press, i. 116, n. 1;
severity, iii. 120, n. 3;
Mason's _Memoirs of Gray_, i. 29, n. 3;
Mead, Dr., iii. 355, n. 2;
Methodists expelled from Oxford, ii. 187, n. 1;
militia in 1778, iii. 360, n, 3, 365, n. 4;
Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3;
Miller, Lady, ii. 336, n. 5;
Miller, Philip, v. 78, n. 3;
_Miss_, a, v. 185, n. 1;
Montagu, Mrs., at the Academy, ii. 88, n. 3;
at Lady Lucan's, iii. 425, n. 3;
Morell, Dr., v. 350, n. 1;
_Motion, The_, a caricature, v. 285, n. 1;
'mystery, the wisdom of blockheads,' iii. 324, n. 4;
Nichols's _Life of Bowyer_, iv. 437;
North, Lord, and Mr. Macdonald, v. 153, n. 1;
Northumberland, Duchess of, ii. 337, n. 1;
Northumberland, Earl of, ii. 132, n. 1;
Norton, Sir Fletcher, ii. 472, n. 2;
Oglethorpe, General, i. 128, n. 1;
Orford, Earl of, becomes, iii. 191, n. 2;
Otaheitans, The, v. 328, n. 1;
Pantheon in Oxford Street, ii. 169, n. 1;
pantomimes, i. 111, n. 2;
Paoli, ii. 71, n. 2, 82, n. 1; v. 1, n. 3;
Paris, ii. 403, n. 1; iii. 352, n. 2;
Patagonia, Giants of, v. 387, n. 6;
peerages, new, iv. 249, n. 4;
Pelham's death, i. 269, n. 1;
Pembroke, tenth Earl of, ii. 371, n. 3;
petitions to the king against the House of Commons, ii. 90, n. 5;
Philipps, Sir John and Lady, v. 276, n. 2;
press prosecutions, ii. 60, n. 3;
prize-fighting, v. 229, n. 2;
public affairs in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
Richardson's novels, ii. 174, n. 2;
Royal Academy dinner, iii. 51, n. 2;
Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2;
Savage, Richard, i. 170, n. 5;
Scotch and the Gordon Riots, ii. 300, n. 5;
and the House of Commons, ii. 300, n. 5;
officers of militia, iii. 399, n. 2;
recruiting in London, iii. 399, n. 3;
Scotland engendering traitors, iii. 430, n. 6;
Seeker, Archbishop, iv. 29, n. 1;
Shebbeare, Dr., broken Jacobite physician, iv. 113, n. 1;
pension, ii. 112, n. 3;
trial for libelling dead kings, iii. 15, n, 3;
sinecure office, iii. 19, n. 3;
slavery, iii. 200, n. 4, 204, n. 1;
Smollett's abuse of Lord Lyttelton, iii. 33, n. 1;
_Humphry Clinker_, i. 351, n. 1;
Southwark election of 1774, ii. 287, n. 2;
speeches in parliament, effect of, iii. 233, n. 1;
Strawberry, v. 456, n. 2;
tea, universal use of, i. 313, n. 2;
Thurot's descent on Ireland, iv. 101, n. 4;
title, succeeds to the, iv. 314, n. 1;
Townshend, Charles, ii. 222, n. 3;
_transpire_, iii. 343, n. 2;
Trecothick, Alderman, iii. 76, n. 2;
_Tristram Shandy_, ii. 449, n. 3;
Tyrawley, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4;
Usher of the Exchequer, iii. 19, n. 3;
vails, ii. 78, n. 1;
Vesey's, Mrs., _Babels_, iii. 425, n. 3;
Voltaire, letter from, ii. 88, n. 2;
Walpole's, Sir R., great plan of honesty, i. 131, n. 1;
low opinion of history, ii. 79, n. 3;
Warburton and Helvetius, iv. 261, n. 3;
Westmoreland, Earl of, at Oxford, i. 281, n. 1;
Whigs and Tories, iv. 117, n. 5;
Whitaker's _Manchester_, iii 333, n. 3;
Whitehead, Paul, i. 125, n. 1;
Whitehead, William, i. 401, n. 1;
Willes, Chief Justice, iv. 103, n. 3;
_World, The_, contributor to, i. 257, n. 3;
Yonge, Sir William, i. 197, n. 4;
Young, Dr., v. 269, n. 2;
Young, Professor, parody of Johnson, iv. 392, n. 1;
_Zobeide_, iii. 38, n. 5.
WALPOLE, Sir Robert,
banished to the House of Lords, i. 510;
Bath, Lord, sarcastic speech to, v. 339, n. 1;
Clarke's refusal of a bishopric, iii. 248, n. 2;
debates, reports of, unfair, i. 502; iv. 314;
Elwall's challenge, ii. 164, n. 5;
ferment against him, i. 129, 131; ii. 348, n. 2;
fixed star, a, i. 131; v. 339;
'happier hour, his,' iii. 57, n. 2; iv. 364, n. 1;
_Hosier's Ghost_, v. 116, n. 4;
indecent pamphlet against him, iii. 239;
Johnson attacks him in _London_, i. 129;
in _Marmor Norfolciense_, i. 141;
inveighs against him, i. 164;
learned, neglected the, v. 59, n. 1;
levee, his bow at a, iii. 90;
ministry stable and grateful, ii. 348;
patriots, iv. 87, n. 2;
peace-minister, i. 131; v. 339, n. 3;
Pitt, distinguished from, ii. 195;
Pope's pride in him, iii. 347, n. 2;
prime-minister, a real, ii. 355; iv. 81;
'read, I cannot,' ii. 337, n. 4;
read Sydenham, v. 93, n. 4;
talked bawdy at his table, iii. 57;
Tories and Jacobites, confounded, i. 429, n. 4;
'Walelop' and 'Right Hon. M. Tullius Cicero,' i. 502;
Whiggism under him, ii. 117;
Yonge, Sir W., character of, i. 197, n. 4;
mentioned, v. 285, n. 1.
WALSALL, i. 86, n. 2.
WALSH, William,
'knowing,' i. 251, n. 2;
_Retirement_, ii. 133, n. 1.
WALSINGHAM, Admiral, iii. 21, n. 2.
WALTON, Isaac, _Complete Angler_, iv. 311;
Donne's vision, ii. 445;
_Lives_, his, one of Johnson's favourite books, ii. 363;
projected edition, ii. 279, 283-5, 445; iii. 107;
low situation in life, ii. 364;
a great panegyrist, ib.;
quotes Topsell, i. 138, n. 5.
WANTS, fewness of, ii. 474, n. 3, 475.
WAR,
encourages falsehoods, iii. 267, n. 1;
Kames's opinion ridiculed, i. 393, n. 2;
lawfulness, ii. 226;
miseries of it, ii. 134;
one side or other must prevail, iv. 200;
talk of it, iii. 265.
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester,
abuse, extended his, v. 93;
Allen's niece, married, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80;
Birch, Dr., letter to, i. 28;
'blazes,' v. 81;
Boswell imitates his manner, iii. 310, n. 4;
Churchill attacks him, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2;
_Divine Legation_, i. 235, n. 3; iv. 48;
quotations from it, v. 423;
_Doctrine of Grace_, v. 93;
'flounders well,' v. 93, n. 1;
general knowledge, ii. 36;
Helvetius, would have _worked_, iv. 261, n. 3;
infidelity, prevalence of, ii. 359, n. 1;
Johnson's account of him, v. 80;
and Chesterfield, i. 263;
gratitude to him, i. 176;
and he cannot bear each other's style, iv. 48;
_Macbeth_, praises, i. 175;
meets him, iv. 47, n. 2, 48;
praises him, i. 263, n. 3; iv. 46-9;
treats him with great respect, iv. 288;
_lie_, use of the word, iv. 49;
Lincoln's Inn preacher, ii. 37, n. 1;
Lowth, controversy with, ii. 37; v. 125, 423;
Mallet attacks him, i. 329;
_Life of Bacon_, iii. 194;
projected _Life of Marlborough_, iii. 194;
metaphysics, ignorance of, v. 81, n. 1;
Parr's _Tracts by Warburton, &c._, iv. 47, n. 2;
Pope's _Essay on Man_, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1; v. 80;
made him a Bishop, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80;
want of genius, v. 92, n. 4
reading, great and wide, ii. 36; iv. 48-9; v. 57, n. 3, 81;
_Shakespeare_, edition of, i. 175, 176, 329; iv. 46; v. 244, n. 2;
lines applicable to it, iv. 288;
Strahan, intimate with, v. 92; ii. 34, n. 1;
Theobald, compared with, i. 329;
helped, v. 80;
_To the most impudent Man alive_, i. 329;
'vast sea of words,' i. 260, n. 1, 278;
_View of Bolingbroke's Philosophy_, i. 330, n. 1;
writes and speaks at random, v. 92;
Wycherly's definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3.
WARBURTON, Mrs., ii. 36, n. 2, 37, n. 1.
WARD, the quack doctor, iii. 389.
WARDLAW, Sir Henry, ii. 91, n. 2.
WARLEY CAMP, iii. 360-2, 365;
visited by the King, ib., n. 3;
by Paoli, iii. 368.
WARNER, Rebecca, _Original Letters_, iv. 34, n. 5.
WARNER, Rev. R., _Tour through the Northern Counties_, iv. 373, n. 1.
WARRANTS, general, ii. 72.
WARREN, Sir Charles, iv. 399, n. 5.
WARREN, Dr.,
attends Johnson, iv. 399, 411;
member of the Literary Club, i. 479;
mentioned, iii. 425.
WARREN, John, of Pembrokeshire, i. 89.
WARREN, Mr., the Birmingham bookseller, i. 85-9.
WARRINGTON, iii. 416; v. 441.
WARTON, Rev. Dr. Joseph, Headmaster of Winchester College,
_Adventurer_, wrote for the, i. 252, n. 2, 253;
Bolingbroke's share in Pope's _Essay on Man_, iii. 402, n. 1;
Burke and Chambers, recommends, to W. G. Hamilton, i. 519;
Clarke's, Dr., agility, i. 3, n. 2;
Donatus on a passage in Terence, ii. 358, n. 3;
enthusiast by rule, iv. 33, n. 1;
_Essay on Pope_, Johnson reviews it, i. 309; iii. 229;
second volume delayed, i. 448; ii. 167;
Garrick's offence at Johnson, ii. 192, n. 2;
Goldsmith's conversation, i. 412, n. 1;
Hamilton, W. G., letter from, i. 519;
Hooke's payment from the Duchess of Marlborough, v. 175, nn. 3 and 5;
inoculates his children, iv. 293, n. 2;
Johnson and Dr. Burney's son, in. 367;
estrangement with, i. 270, n. i; ii. 41, n. 1;
letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters;
_Lear_, note on, ii. 115;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
manner, lively, ii. 41;
taken off by Johnson, ib., n. 1; iv. 27, n. 3;
Pope's cousin, meets, iii. 71, n. 5;
rapturist, ii. 41, n. 1;
Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83;
a scholar, yet a fool, iii. 84, n. 2;
Thompson, praises, iii. 117;
_World, The_, origin of the name, i. 202, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 325, 418, n. 1, 449, n. 1; ii. 34, n. 1; iii. 125.
WARTON, Mrs. Joseph, i. 496, n. 2.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas,
account of him, i. 270, n. 1;
appearance, ii. 41, n. 1;
described by Miss Burney, iv. 7, n. 1;
Boswell and Johnson call on him, ii. 446;
Chatterton's forgery, exposes, iii. 50, n, 5; iv. 141, n. 1;
contributions to the _Life of Johnson_, i. 8;
_Eagle and Robin Redbreast_, i. 117, n. 1;
_Heroick Epistle_, the authorship of the, iv. 315;
Huggins, quarrels with, iv. 6;
_Idler_, contributed to the, i. 330;
Johnson, estrangement with, i. 270, n. 1;
letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters;
Oxford visit in 1754, i. 270;
parodies his poetry, iii. 158, n. 3;
preface to his _Dictionary_, i. 297, n. 3;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
_Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen_, i. 270, n. 2, 276, 289; iv. 6;
_Ode on the First of April_, iii. 159, n. 1;
poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
Professor of Poetry, i. 323, n. 3;
_Progress of Discontent_, i. 283, n. 2; iii. 323, n. 4;
pupils and lectures, i. 279, n. 2;
Savage's _Bastard_, i. 166;
_Shakespeare_, notes on, i. 335-6; ii. 114;
mentioned, i. 78, n. 2, 79, n. 1, 325.
WARTON, Rev. Thomas (the father of the two Wartons), i. 449, n. 1.
WASHINGTON, George, ii. 478.
WASSE, Christopher, v. 445.
WASTE, iii. 265, 317.
WATER, Johnson's advice to drink it, iii. 169.
WATERS, Ambrose, iv. 402, n. 2.
WATERS, Mr., Paris banker, ii. 3.
WATFORD, ii. 204, n. 1, 301, n. 1.
WATSON, Richard, Bishop of Llandaff,
bishops' revenues, iv. 118, n. 2;
_Chemical Essays_, iv. 118, 232, n. 3;
how to rise in the world, ii. 323, n. 1.
WATSON, Professor Robert., of St. Andrews,
_History of Philip II_, iii. 104;
Johnson, entertains, v. 58-60, 64, 68;
manners, wonders at, v. 70;
talks on composition, v. 66.
WATSON, Mr., 'out in the '45,' v. 158, n. 3.
WATTS, Dr. Isaac,
Abney, Sir Thomas, lived with, i. 493, n. 3;
descends from the dignity of science, ii. 408, n. 3;
Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 126, 370; iv. 35, n. 3;
recommends his _Works_, iv. 311;
poetry, his, better in its design than in itself, iii. 358;
taught Dissenters elegance of style, i. 312.
WEALTH. See MONEY.
_Wealth of Nations_. See/ SMITH, Adam.
WEATHER and Seasons,
their influence acknowledged, i. 332, n. 2; ii. 263;
iv. 259, n. 3, 353, 360;
ridiculed by Johnson in _The Idler_, i. 332; ii. 263, n. 2;
at the Mitre, i. 426;
'all imagination,' i. 452;
weather does not affect the frame, ii. 358; iii. 305;
ridiculed by Reynolds, i. 332, n. 2;
Gray's 'fantastic foppery,' i. 203, n. 3;
talking of the weather, i. 426, n. 1; iv. 360, n. 2.
WEBSTER, Rev. Dr. Alexander,
account of him, ii. 269, n. 4; v. 50;
his manuscript account of Scotch parishes, ii. 274, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 270-2, 275; v. 387, n. 2, 391, 394, 397.
WEDDERBURNE, Alexander. See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord.
WEDDERBURNE, Mr., of Ballandean, iii. 214, n, 1.
WELCH, Father, ii. 401.
WELCH, Miss, iii. 217.
WELCH, Saunders,
account of him, iii. 216; death, iii. 219, n. 1;
examination of a boy, iv. 184;
Johnson, letter from, iii. 217;
London poor, state of the, iii. 401.
WELL-BRED MAN, distinguished from an ill-bred, iv. 319.
WELSH. See under WALES.
WELWYN, iv. 119; v. 270.
WENDOVER, ii. 16, n. 1.
WENTWORTH, Mr., master of Stourbridge School, i. 49.
WENTWORTH HOUSE, 'public dinners,' iv. 367, n. 3.
WESLEY, Rev. Charles,
ill-used by Oglethorpe, i. 127, n. 4;
'more stationary man than his brother,' iii. 297.
WESLEY, Rev. John,
Behmen's _Mysterium Magnum_, ii. 122, n. 6;
bleeding, opposed to, iii. 152, n. 3;
Boswell introduced to him by Johnson, iii. 394;
_Calm Address to our American Colonies_, v. 35, n. 3;
Cheyne's rules of diet, iii. 27, n. 1;
conversation, iii. 230, 297;
Dodd, Dr., visits, iii. 121, n. 3;
Edinburgh, filthy state of, v. 23, n. 1;
farmers dull and discontented, iii. 353, n. 5;
French prisoners, i. 353, n. 2;
ghost, believed in a Newcastle, iii. 297, 394;
Hall, Rev. Mr., his brother-in-law, iv. 92, n. 3;
highwayman, never met a, iii. 239, n. 1;
Johnson complains that he is never at leisure, iii. 230;
letters to him, iii. 394; v. 35, n. 3;
spends two hours with, iii. 230, n. 3;
journeys on foot, i. 64, n. 4;
Law's _Serious Call_, i. 68, n. 2;
leisure, never at, iii. 230;
luxury, attacks the apologists of, iii. 56, n. 2;
manners and cheerfulness, iii. 230, nn. 3 and 4;
Marshalsea prison, i. 303, n. 1;
Meier, Rev. Mr., ii. 253, n. 2;
Methodists and a Justice of the Peace, i. 397, n. 1;
name of, i. 458, n. 3;
Moravians, quarrels with the, iii. 122, n. 1;
_muddy_, uses the term, ii. 362, n. 3;
Nash, silences, iv. 289, n. 1;
Newgate prisons in London and Bristol, iii. 431, n. 1;
'old woman, an,' iii. 172;
Oxford, devotional meetings at, i. 58, n. 3;
Paoli's arrival in England, ii. 71, n. 2;
plain preaching, i. 459, n. 1;
polite audiences, iii. 353, n. 5;
politician, a, v. 35, n. 3;
prisoners under sentence of death, iii. 121, n. 3; iv. 329, n, 2;
almost regrets a reprieve to one, v. 201, n. 2;
readings and writings, range of his, iii. 297, n. 1;
Robertson's _Charles V_, ii. 236, n. 4;
rod, taught to fear the, i. 46, n. 4;
Roman Catholics, attacks the, v. 35, n. 3;
Rousseau and Voltaire, v. 378, n. 1;
Rutty, Dr., iii. 170, n. 4;
St. Andrews, students of, v. 63, n. 2;
sister, his, Mrs. Hall, iv. 92;
slaves, religious education of, ii. 27, n. 1;
solitary religion, v. 62, n. 5;
tea, against the use of, i. 313, n. 2;
travels and sufferings, ii. 123, n. 3; iii. 297, n. 1;
University life in England and Scotland, i. 63, n. 1;
Warburton, answers, v. 93;
witchcraft, believes in, ii. 178, n. 3.
WESLEY, Mrs. (mother of Charles and John Wesley), i. 46, n. 4.
WEST, Gilbert, in the army, iii. 267, n. 1;
translation of Pindar, iv. 28.
WEST, Richard, describes Christ Church, Oxford, i. 76, n. 1;
lines on his own death, iii. 165, n. 3.
WEST, Rev. W., edition of _Rasselas_, i. 340, n. 3.
WEST INDIAN ISLANDS in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
mentioned, ii. 455:
see JAMAICA and SLAVES.
WESTCOTE, Lord, Johnson and the Thrales visit him, v. 456, n. 1;
Lord Lyttelton's vision, iv. 298;
portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
mentioned, iv. 57, n. 1, 58, n. 3.
WESTERN ISLANDS. See under BOSWELL, _Journal of a Tour to the
Hebrides, Journey to the Western
Islands_, MARTIN, M., and SCOTLAND, Hebrides.
WESTMINSTER. See under LONDON.
WESTMINSTER, Deanery of, resignation of the, iii. 113, n. 2.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Chambers's epitaph, i. 219, n. 1;
Cibber's, Mrs., grave, v. 126, n, 5;
Goldsmith's epitaph, iii. 82;
and Johnson at the Poets' Corner, ii. 238;
Handel musical meeting, iv. 283;
Johnson's grave, iv. 419, 423;
Jonson's, Ben, grave, v. 402, n. 5;
Macpherson's grave, ii. 298, n. 2;
Milton's monument, i. 227, n. 4;
Reynolds describes its monuments, iv. 423, n. 2;
'walls disgraced with an English inscription,' iii. 85.
WESTMORELAND, seventh Earl of,
Chancellor of the University of Oxford, i. 348, n. 2;
meets the Pretender in London, i. 279, n. 5.
WETHERELL, Rev. Dr., Boswell and Johnson visit him, ii. 440;
Johnson's letter to him, ii. 424;
mentioned, ii. 356; iv. 308.
WEY, River, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362, n. 5.
WHARNCLIFFE, Lord, iii. 399, n. 1.
WHARTON, Marquis of, iv. 317, n. 3.
WHARTON, Rev. Henry, ii. 242, n. 3.
WHEAT, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.
See CORN.
WHEATLEY, near Oxford, iv. 308.
WHEATLEY, Mr. H. B., Wraxall's _Memoirs_, ii. 40, n. 4.
_Wheatly and Bennet on the Common Prayer_, iv. 212, n. 4.
WHEELER, Rev. Dr., death, iii. 366, n. 4; iv. 233, n. 3;
experience as a country parson, iii. 437;
Johnson's liking for his talk, iii. 366, n. 4; 307;
letter to him, iii. 366;
mentioned, v. 458, n. 1.
WHEELER, Mr., of Birmingham, v. 458.
WHIGGISM, corrupted since the Revolution, ii. 117;
hounds, its, iv. 40, 63;
Lyttelton's vulgar Whiggism, ii. 221;
no room for it in heaven, v. 385.
WHIGS, almsgiving, against, ii. 212;
_bottomless_, iv. 223;
defined, i. 294, 431, n. 1;
devil, the first Whig the, iii. 326; iv. 317, n. 3;
every bad man a Whig, v. 271;
Fergusson 'a vile Whig,' ii. 170;
governed, not willing to be, ii. 314;
hall fireplace, moved the, i. 273;
humane one, a, v. 357;
'is any King a Whig?' iii. 372, n. 3;
nation quiet when they governed, iv. 100;
parson's gown, in a, v. 255;
pretence to honesty ridiculous, v. 339;
scoundrel and Whig, ii. 444;
Staffordshire Whig, iii. 326;
Tories, enmity with, iv. 291;
Tories when in place, i. 129;
'Whig dogs,' i. 504.
WHISTON, John, bookseller, iv. 111.
WHISTON, William,
Bentley's verses iv. 23, n. 3;
'Wicked Will Whiston,' ii. 67, n. 1.
WHITAKER, Rev. John, _History of Manchester_, iii. 333.
WHITAKER, Rev. Mr., ii. 108, n. 2.
WHITBREAD, Samuel, the brewer, iii. 363, n. 5.
WHITBREAD, Samuel, M.P., the son, bill for parochial schools,
iv. 200, n. 4.
WHITBREAD, Miss, iii. 96, n. 1.
WHITBY, Daniel, _Commentary_, v. 276.
WHITBY, Mr., of Heywood, i. 84, n. 2.
WHITE, Rev. Gilbert,
hibernation of swallows, ii. 55, n. 2, 248, n. 1;
Oriel College common-room, ii. 443, n. 4.
WHITE, Rev. Dr., _Bampton Lectures_ of 1784, iv. 443.
WHITE, Rev. Dr., of Pennsylvania, ii. 207.
WHITE, Rev. Henry, of Lichfield, iv. 372-3.
WHITE, Mr., Librarian of the Royal Society, ii. 40, n. 2.
WHITE, Mr., a factor, v. 122.
WHITE, Mr., tried to be a philosopher, iii. 305, n. 2.
WHITE, Mr., v. 427, n. 1.
WHITE, Mrs., Johnson's servant, iv. 402, n. 2.
WHITEFIELD, Rev. George,
Boswell, personally known to, ii. 79, n. 4;
Bristol Newgate, forbidden to preach in the, iii. 433, n. 1;
Johnson knew him at Oxford, i. 78, n. 2; iii. 409; v. 35;
Law's _Serious Call_, reads, i. 68, n. 2;
lower classes, of use to the, iii. 409;
mixture of politics and ostentation, v. 35;
'old woman, an,' iii. 172;
oratory for the mob, v. 36;
Oxford, persecuted at, i. 68, n. 1;
Pembroke College, servitor of, i. 73, n. 4, 75; v. 122, n. 1;
popularity owing to peculiarity, ii. 79; iii. 409;
preaching described by Southey and Franklin, ii. 79, n. 4; v. 36, n. 1;
_sconced_, i. 59, n. 3;
_Spiritual Quixote_, ridiculed in the, i. 75, n. 3;
Trapp's _Sermons_, attacked in, i. 140, n. 5.
WHITEFOORD, Caleb, _Cross-readings_, iv. 322.
WHITEHEAD, Paul,
Churchill's lines on him, i. 125;
Johnson undervalues him, i. 124-5;
_Manners_, i. 125; v. 116.
WHITEHEAD, William,
_Birth-day Odes_, i. 402, n. 1;
_Elegy to Lord Villiers_, iv. 115;
Garrick's 'reader' of new plays, i. 402, n. 3;
proposes him to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 320, n. 2;
grand nonsense, i. 402;
_Memoirs_ by Mason, i. 31;
poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1.
WHITEWAY, Mrs., i. 452, n. 2.
WHITING, Mrs., iv. 402, n. 2.
'WHO rules o'er freemen,' iv. 312.
_Whole Duty of Man_,
its authorship, ii. 239;
Johnson made to read it, i. 67;
recommends it, iv. 311.
_Wholesome_ severities, v. 423.
WHOREMONGER, ii. 172.
WHYTE, S.,
Home's gold medal, ii. 320, n. 2;
Johnson's walk, i. 485, n. 1;
Sheridan and the Irish Parliament, iii. 377, n. 2;
Sheridan's pension, i. 386, n. 1.
WICKEDNESS, no abilities required for it, v. 217.
WICKHAM, iv. 192.
WIDOWS, ii. 77.
WIFE,
'Artemisias,' ii. 76;
buying lace for one, ii. 352;
choosing fools for wives, v. 226;
death of one, iii. 419;
disputes with them, v. 226, n. 1;
learned, none the worse for being, ii. 76, 128;
negligent of pleasing, ii. 56;
Overbury's lines, ii. 76;
praise from one, i. 210;
religious, should be, ii. 76;
singing publicly for hire, ii. 369;
story of an unfaithful wife, v. 389;
of one who made a secret purse, iv. 319;
studious or argumentative, iv. 32;
superiority of talents, ii. 56.
WIGAN, iii. 135, n. 1.
WIGHT, Mr., a Scotch advocate, iii. 212, n. 2.
WIGHTMAN, General, v. 140, n. 3.
WIGS,
bag-wigs now worn by physicians, iii. 288;
tye-wigs, ib., n. 4;
flowing bob-wig, iii. 325, n. 3;
powdered, iii. 254:
See under JOHNSON, wigs.
WILCOX, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2.
_Wildair, Sir Harry_, ii. 465.
WILKES, Dr., i. 148.
WILKES, Friar, ii. 399.
WILKES, John,
Alderman, elected, iii. 460;
Aylesbury, member for, iii. 73;
Beauclerk's library, iv. 105;
Boswell
apologises for his intimacy with him, iii. 64, n. 3;
defends him, v. 339, n. 5;
relishes his excellence, in. 64;
brings Johnson and him together, iii. 64;
proposes a third meeting, iv. 224, n. 2;
companion in Italy, ii. 11;
dines with him, ii. 378, n. 1, 436, n. 1;
enlivened by his sallies, i. 395;
receives a letter from 'Lord Mayor Wilkes,' ii. 381, n. 1;
writes to him, iv. 224, n. 2;
Burke's pun on him, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3;
want of taste, iv. 104;
City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1;
City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2;
Courts of Justice afraid of him, iii. 46, n. 5;
_Dedication of Mortimer,_ i. 353, n. 1;
dress, iii. 68; iv. 101, n. 2;
English tenacious of forms, iv. 104;
_Fall of Mortimer_, iii. 78, n, 4;
_False Alarm_, answer to the, iv. 30;
Garrick's want of a friend, iii. 386;
wit, like Chesterfield's, iii. 69;
general warrants, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3, 73;
George III praises his good breeding, iii. 68, n. 4;
goat, the, not the kid, iv. 107, n. 2;
Gordon Riots, iii. 430;
'grave, sober, decent,' iii. 77;
_Heroic Epistle_, attacked in the, v. 186;
Hogarth, caricatured by, v. 186;
Horace, a contested passage in, iii. 73;
House of Commons afraid of him, iv. 140, n. 1;
expunges the resolution for his expulsion, ii. 112:
See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION;
how to speak at its bar, iii. 224;
Inverary, visits, iii. 73;
'Jack Ketch,' iii. 66;
Johnson's account of 'Jack's' conversation, iii. 183;
'animosity' against him, i. 349;
attacks him, ii. 135, n. 1; iii. 64; v. 339;
attacks, i. 429, n. 1; iii. 64, n. 2;
after their reconciliation, in. 79, n. 1;
calls on, iv. 107;
compared with, iii. 64, 78;
_Dictionary_, letter _H_, i. 300, 349, n. 1;
meets, at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 64-79, 201; v. 339, n. 5;
second meeting, iv. 101-7;
invites, to dinner, iv. 224, n. 2;
letter to him, iv. 224, n. 2;
and Mrs. Macaulay's footman, iii. 78;
political definitions, i. 295, n. 1;
repartee about a resolution of the House, iv. 104;
says that he 'should be well ducked,' i. 394;
sends him the Lives, iv. 107;
talking of liberty, iii. 224;
tête-à-tête with, iv. 107;
_Junius_, suspected to be, iii. 376, n. 4;
_Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL.D._, iv. 30, n. 3;
libel, prosecution for, iii. 78;
library, sells his, iv. 105, n. 2;
Lord Mayor, iii. 68, n. 4, 459-460;
kept from being, v. 339;
_Memoirs_ by Almon, i. 349, n. 1;
Middlesex election: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION;
Monks of Medmenham Abbey, i. 125, n. 1;
_North Briton_, No. 45, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3;
Earl of Bute attacked, ii. 300, n. 5;
oratory, on, iv. 104;
'phoenix of convivial felicity,' iii. 183;
physiognomy, ii. 154, n. 1;
Pope's repartee, iv. 50;
prison, in, ii. 111, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5, 460;
profanity, his, iv. 216;
quotation, censures, iv. 102;
riots in London in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5;
Scotland, raillery at, iii. 73, 77; iv. 101;
sentimental anecdote, iv. 347, n. 2;
Settle, the City Poet, iii. 75;
Shelburne, opposed by, iv. 175, n. 1;
Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;
Sheriff, v. 186, n. 4;
Smollett's letter to him, i. 348;
'Wilkes and Liberty,' ii. 60, n. 2; v. 312;
'Wilkite, no,' iii. 430, n. 4.
WILKES, Miss, iv. 224, n. 2.
WILKIE, William, D.D., Hume's Scotch Homer, ii. 53, n. 1; iv. 186, n. 2.
WILKIN, Simon, editor of Sir Thomas Brown's _Works_, iii. 293, n. 2.
WILKINS, Bishop, ii. 256, n. 3.
WILKINS, landlord of the Three Crowns, Lichfield, ii. 461, 462; iii. 411.
WILKS, the actor,
acted Juba in _Cato_, v. 126, n. 2;
Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 53;
Johnson celebrates his virtues, i. 167, n, 1;
manager of Drury Lane Theatre, v. 244, n. 2.
WILL, free. See FREE WILL.
WILL-MAKING, ii. 261; iv. 402, n. 1.
WILLES, Chief Justice,
'attached to the Prince of Wales,' i. 147, n. 1;
Bet Flint's trial, iv. 103, n. 3;
Johnson's schoolfellow, i. 45, n. 4.
WILLIAM III,
Dodwell, Henry, will not persecute, v. 437, n. 3;
Irish, not the lawful sovereign of the, ii. 255;
Johnson's_ Dictionary_, in, i. 295, n. 1;
resplendent qualities, his, ii. 341, n. 4;
Revolution Society, commemorated by the, iv. 40, n. 4;
Shebbeare, satirised by, ii. 112, n. 3; iii. 15, n. 3;
torture in Scotland, legal in his reign, i. 467, n. 1;
'worthless scoundrel,' ii. 341-2;
'that scoundrel,' v. 255;
mentioned, iv. 342; v. 234.
WILLIAMS, Anna,
account of her, i. 232; ii. 99; iv. 235, n. i, 239, n. 4;
allowance from Mrs. Montagu, iii. 48, n. 1; iv. 65, n. 1;
from Lady Philipps, v. 276, n. 2;
_Adventurer_, Bathurst's Essays in the, i. 254;
benefit at Drury Lane, i. 159 n. 1, 393, n. 1;
Bet Flint, did not love, iv. 103, n. 1;
Bolt Court, room in, ii. 427, n. 1;
Boswells envy of Goldsmith's taking tea with her, i. 421;
'a privileged man,' i. 463; ii. 99;
and the Jack Wilkes dinner, iii. 67;
'loves,' ii. 145;
carving, ii. 99, n. 2;
conversation, i. 463;
death, iv. 65, n. 1, 235;
drunkenness, on, ii. 435, n. 7;
eating, mode of, iii. 26;
electrical experiments, ii. 26, n. 2;
Garrick refuses her an order, i. 392;
Gordon Riots, left London at the, iii. 435;
'hates everybody,' iii. 368;
Hetherington's Charity, ii. 286;
illness, ii. 412; iii. 93, 95; 123, 128, 132, 211, 215, 363;
iv. 142, 170, 233-4;
jealousy, iii. 55;
Johnson's attention to her, iii. 341;
pleasure in her society, i. 232, n. 1; iii. 462;
iv. 235, 239, 241, 249, n. 2;
takes the sacrament in her room, iv. 235, n. 1, 270;
tea with her, i. 421; ii. 99;
turns Captain Macheath, iv. 95;
Johnson's Court, room in, ii. 5;
_Miscellanies_, i. 148, 177, n. 2; ii. 25-6; iii. 104;
peevishness, iii. 26, 128, 220;
quarrels with the rest of the household, iii. 368, 461;
second sight, instance of, ii. 150;
tea, mode of making, ii. 99;
will, her, iv. 241;
mentioned, i. 227, n. 2, 241, 242, 274, 326, 328, 350, n. 3,
369, 382; ii. 45, 77, 164, 209, 214, 215, 226, 242, 269, 310, 333,
357, 360, 386, 434; iii. 6, 44, 79, 92, 222, 269, 271, 313, 380;
iv. 92, 210; v. 98.
WILLIAMS, Sir Charles Hanbury,
Johnson's pamphlet against him, ii. 33;
speaks contemptuously of him, v. 268;
lines on Pulteney, v. 268, n. 3.
WILLIAMS, Helen Maria, iv. 282.
WILLIAMS, Zachariah, i. 274, n. 2, 301.
WILLIS, Dr. Thomas, _De Anima Brutorum_, v. 314, n. 1.
WILMOT, Chief Justice, i. 45, n. 4.
_Wilson against Smith and Armour_, ii. 196, n. 1.
WILSON, Father, ii. 390.
WILSON, Florence, _De tranquillitate animi_, iii. 215.
WILSON, Rev. Mr.,
dedicates his _Archaeological Dictionary_ to Johnson, iv. 162.
WILSON, Thomas, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489.
WILTON,
Boswell visits it, ii. 326, n. 5, 371;
writes to Johnson from it, iii. 118, 122.
WILTON, Miss, ii. 274.
WILTSHIRE,
militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4;
mentioned, iv. 237.
WINCHESTER,
capital convictions in 1784, iv. 328, n. 1;
cathedral, iii. 457;
Franklin visits it, ii. 60, n. 2;
Johnson visits it in 1762, i. 496, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 115.
WINCHESTER COLLEGE,
Johnson places Burney's son there, iii. 367;
Morell visits it, v. 350, n. 1;
Peregrine Pickle's governor, v. 185, n. 2.
WINDHAM, Right Hon. William,
account of him in 1784, iv. 407, n. 2;
balloons, love of, iv. 356, n. 1;
Burke's merriment, iv. 276;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 438;
Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4;
Glasgow University, at, iii. 119;
Horsley's character, iv. 437;
Johnson's advice to him, iv. 200, n. 4;
at Ashbourn, visits, iv. 356, 362, n. 2;
attends, when dying, iv. 407, 411, 415, n. 1;
his servant nurses him, iv. 418, n. 2;
bequest to him, iv. 402, n, 2;
gift, iv. 440;
college days, i. 70, n. 3;
dexterity in retort, iv. 185;
funeral, iv. 419;
and Heberden, iv. 399, n. 6;
Latin read with pleasure by few, v. 80, n. 2;
letters to him, iv. 227, 362;
never read the _Odyssey_ through, i. 70, 72, n. 3;
pension, proposed increase of, iv. 338, n. 2;
recommends Frank to him, iv. 401, n. 4;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4;
portrait, ii. 25, n. 2;
rascal, will make a very pretty, iv. 200;
Secretary for Ireland, iv. 200, 227, n. 2;
wants and acquisitions, iii. 354;
Wapping, explores, iv. 201, n. 1;
Warton's, Dr., amazement, ii. 41, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 306; iv. 344.
WINDOW-TAX, v. 301, n. 1.
WINDSOR,
Beauclerk's house, i. 250;
Johnson and the Mayor, iv. 312, n. 4;
mentioned, iii. 400, n. 2.
WINDUS, John, _Journey to Mequinez_, v. 445.
_Windward_, defined, i. 293.
WINE,
abstinence a great deduction from life, iii. 169, 245, 327;
not a diminution of happiness, iii. 245;
does not admit of doubting, iii. 250;
reasons for it, ii. 435; iii. 245;
advice to one who has drunk freely, ii. 436; iii. 389;
benevolence, drunk from, iii. 327;
bottles drunk at a sitting, iii. 243, n. 4;
claret and ignorance, iii. 335;
claret, port, and brandy distinguished, iii. 381; iv. 79;
conversation and benevolence, effect on, iii. 41, 327;
daily consumption of wine, iii. 27, n. 1;
different, makes a man, v. 325;
'drives away care,' ii. 193;
drunk, the art of getting, iii. 389;
drunk for want of intellectual resources, ii. 130;
freezing, iv. 151, n. 2;
_in vino veritas_, ii. 188;
Johnson's abstinence, i. 103, n. 3;
advice to drink wine, ib.;
not to drink it, iii. 169;
'drink water and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306;
life not shortened by a free use of it, iii. 170
(See under JOHNSON, wine);
melancholy increased by it, i. 446;
patron, drinking to please a, iii. 329:
See under BOSWELL, wine, DRINKING and SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.
WINGS OF IRON, iv. 356, n. 1.
WINIFRED'S WELL, v. 442.
WINNINGTON, Thomas, i. 502.
WIRGMAN, keeper of a toy-shop, iii. 325.
WIRTEMBERG, Prince of, ii. 180.
WISE, Francis, Radclivian Librarian,
account of him, i. 275, n. 4;
Johnson visits him at Elsfield, i. 273;
mentioned, i. 278-9, 282, 289, 322.
WISEDOME, Robert, v. 444.
WISHART, George, THE REFORMER, v. 63, n. 3.
WISHART, Dr. William, v. 252.
WIT,
basis of all wit is truth, ii. 90, n. 3;
Chesterfield on the property in it, iii. 351, n. 1;
defined in Barrow's _Sermon_, iv. 105, n. 4;
generally false reasoning, iii. 23, n. 3.
WITCHES,
evidence of their having existed, ii. 178;
Johnson's disbelief in them, ii. 179, n. 1;
'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17;
Shakespeare's, iii. 382; v. 76, 115, 347;
Wesley's belief in them, ii. 178, n. 3;
witchcraft, punished by death, v. 45;
abolished by act of parliament, ib.;
last executions, v. 46, n. 1.
WITNESSES, examination of, v. 243.
WITS,
a celebrated one, iii. 388;
the female wits, iv. 103, n. 1.
WITTEMBERG, iii. 122, n, 2.
WOFFINGTON, Margaret (Peg),
Garrick's tea, iii. 264;
sister of Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3.
WOLCOT, John (Peter Pindar), v. 415, n. 4.
WOLFE, General,' choice of difficulties,' v. 146.
WOLVERHAMPTON,
Elwall the quaker ironmonger, ii. 164;
epitaph in the church, i. 149, n. 2.
WOMEN,
Addison's time, in, iv. 217, n. 4;
carefulness with money, iv. 33;
cookery, cannot make a book of, iii. 285;
employment of them, ii. 362, n. 1;
envy of men's vices, iv. 291;
few opportunities of improving their condition, iv. 33;
fortune, of, iii. 3;
genteel, more, than men, iii. 53;
gluttony, i. 468, n. 1;
Greek and pudding-making, i. 122, n. 4;
indifferent to characters of men, iv. 291;
knowledge, none the worse for, ii. 76; v. 226;
little things, can take up with, iii. 242;
marrying a pretty woman, iv. 131;
men have more liberty allowed them, iii. 286;
natural claims, ii. 419;
over-match for men, v. 226;
Papists, surprising that they are not, iv. 289;
pious, not more, than men, iv. 289;
portrait-painting improper for them, ii. 362;
power given them by nature and law, v. 226, n. 2;
preaching, i. 463;
quality, of, iii. 353;
reading, iii. 333; iv. 217, n. 4;
soldiers, as, v. 229;
temptations, have fewer, iii. 287;
understandings better cultivated, iii. 3;
virtuous, more, than of old, iii. 3.
Women Servants, wages, ii. 217.
Women of the Town, how far admitted to taverns, iv. 75;
narrate their histories to Johnson, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396;
one rescued by him, iv. 321;
wretched life, i. 457.
Wonders, catching greedily at them, i. 498, n. 4;
propagating them, iii. 229, n. 3.
Wood, Anthony à, _Assembly Man_, v. 57, n. 2;
on Burton's tutor at Christ Church, i. 59;
Rawlinson's collections for a continuation of the _Athenae_,
iv. 161, n. 1;
styles Blackmore gentleman, ii. 126, n. 4.
Woodcocks, ii. 55, 248.
Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, i. 225, n. 1, 520; ii. 127.
Woodstock. See BLENHEIM.
Woodward, Henry, the actor, ii. 208, n. 5.
Woodward, John, iv. 23, n. 3.
Woollen Act, ii. 453, n. 2.
Woolston, Rev. Thomas, v. 419, n. 2,
Woolwich, iii. 268.
Worchester, Gwynn's bridge over the Severn, v. 454, n. 2;
Johnson visits it, v. 456;
mentioned, iii. 176, n. 1.
Worcester, Battle of, iv. 234, n. 1; v. 319.
_Word to the Wise_, iii. 113.
Words, big words for little matters, i. 471;
words describing manners soon require notes, ii. 212.
Wordsworth, William,
_Edinburgh Review_ and Lord Byron, iv. 115, n. 2;
_Excursion_, quoted, v. 424;
lines to Lady Fleming, i, 461, n. 5;
Lonsdale's, first Lord, cruelty to him, v. 113, n. 1;
poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
_Solitary Reaper_, v. 117, n. 3;
'We live by admiration,' ii. 360, n. 3.
Work. See LABOUR.
_Work_ him, iv. 261, n. 3; v. 243.
Workhouse, parish, iii. 187.
World, complaints of it unjust, iv. 172;
counterfeiting happiness, ii. 169, n. 3;
despised, not to be, i. 144, n. 2;
Johnson's knowledge of it, i. 215;
likes the society of a man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3;
judgment must be accepted, i. 200;
knowledge not strained through books, i. 105;
peevishly represented as very unjust, iii. 237, n. 1;
running about it, i. 215;
running from it, iv. 161, n. 3.
World, The, a club, iv. 102, n. 4.
_World, The_, Bedlam, visitors to, ii. 374, n. 1;
Chesterfield's papers on the _Dictionary_, i. 257-9;
confounded with _The World_ of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1;
contributors, i. 257, n. 3; v. 48, 238;
Johnson thinks little of it, i. 420;
name chosen by Dodsley, i. 202, n. 4.
_World, The_, newspaper of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1.
_World Displayed, Introduction to the_, i. 345.
WORRALL, T., i. 166, n. 4.
WORSHIP OF IMAGES, iii. 17, 188.
WORTHINGTON, Dr., V. 443, 449, 453.
WOTTON, Sir Henry, ii. 170, n. 3.
WOTY, Mr., i. 382.
WRAXALL, Sir Nathaniel W.,
George III's manners, ii. 40, n. 4;
Johnson, describes, iii. 426, n. 4;
and the Duchess of Devonshire, iii. 425, n. 4;
and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1;
meets, at Mrs. Vesey's, iii. 425;
driven away by him, iii. 426, n. 4;
Malagrida's name, iv. 174, n. 5;
_Tour to the Northern Parts of Europe_, iii. 425.
WREN, Sir Christopher, v. 249.
WRIGHT, Thomas, of Shrewsbury, v. 455, n. 1.
WRITERS. See AUTHORS.
WRITING,
Johnson's calculation about amount produced, ii. 344;
money, for, iii. 19, 162;
pleasure in it, iv. 219;
writing from one's own mind, ii. 344.
_Wronghead, Sir Francis_, ii. 50.
WURTZBURG, Bishopric of, v. 46, n. 1.
WYCHERLY, William, definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3.
WYNNE, Colonel, v. 449.
WYNNE, Sir Thomas and Lady, v. 448, 449.
WYNNE, Mrs., v. 451.

X.

XAVIER, Francis, v. 392, n. 5.
XENOPHON,
delineation of characters in the _Anabasis_, iv. 31;
_Memorabilia_, iii. 367, w. 2; v. 414;
_Treatise of Oeconomy_, iii. 94.
XERXES,
described in Juvenal, ii. 228;
weeping at seeing his army, iii. 199.
XYLANDER, i. 208, n. 1.

Y.

YALDEN, Rev. Thomas,
Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 370;
his _Hymn to Darkness_, ib., n. 8.
YATES, Mr. Justice, i. 437, n. 2.
YAWNING, anecdote of, iii. 15.
YONGE, Sir William,
character, i. 197, n. 4;
_Epilogue to Irene_, i. 197;
pronunciation of _great_, ii. 161.
_Yorick's Sermons_, iv. 109, n. 1.
YORK, Address to the King, iv. 265; mentioned, iii. 439.
YORK, Archbishops of, their public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3.
See MARKHAM, Archbishop.
YORK, Duke of (James II), v. 239, n. 1.
YORK, Duke of,
goes to hear the Cock Lane ghost, i. 407, n. 1;
Johnson dedicates music to him, ii. 2;
kindness to Foote, iii. 97, n. 2.
YORK, House of, iii. 157.
YORKSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 362.
_You was_, iv. 196, n. 1.
YOUNG, Arthur,
Birmingham manufacturers in 1768, ii. 459, n. 1;
roads in the north of England, iii. 135, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 161, n. 2.
YOUNG, Dr. Edward,
blank verse of _Night Thoughts_, iv. 42, n. 7, 60;
Britannia's daughters and Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1;
_Brunetta and Stella_, v. 270;
_Card, The_, ridiculed in, v. 270, n. 4;
Cheyne, Dr., iii. 27, n. 1;
compared with Shakespeare and Dryden, ii. 86, n. 1;
_Conjectures on Original Composition_, v. 269;
critics, defies, ii. 61, n. 4;
'death-bed a detector of the heart,' v. 397, n. 1;
epigram on Lord Stanhope, iv. 102, n. 4;
'For bankrupts write,' &c., iii. 434, n. 6;
gloomy, how far, iv. 59, 120;
'Good breeding sends the satire,' &c., iv. 298;
housekeeper, his, v. 270;
Johnson and Boswell visit his house, iv. 119-21;
Johnson calls him 'a great man,' iv. 120;
describes meeting him, v. 269;
_Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3;
estimate of his poetry, ii. 96; iv. 60; v. 269--70;
knotting, on, iii. 242, n. 3;
knowledge not great, v. 269, n. 3;
Langton's account of him, iv. 59;
_Life_ by Croft, iv. 58; v. 270, n. 4;
_Love of Fame_, v. 270;
Mead, Dr., compliments, iii. 355, n. 2;
_Night Thoughts_, ii. 96; iv. 60-1; v. 270;
'Nor takes her tea,' &c., iii. 324, n. 3;
'O my coevals,' in. 307;
preferment, pined for, iii. 251; iv. 121;
quotations, iv. 102, n. 1;
'quotidian prey,' v. 346;
_Rambler_, his copy of the, i. 215;
'Small sands the mountain,' &c., iii. 164;
sundial, iv. 60;
_Universal Passion_,
money received for it lost in the _South Sea_, iv. 121;
'Words all in vain pant,' &c., iv. 25, n. 3.
YOUNG, Mr. (Dr. Young's son),
Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 119-21;
quarrel with his father, v. 270.
YOUNG, Professor, of Glasgow, imitates Johnson's style, iv. 392.
YOUNG PEOPLE,
generous sentiments, i. 445;
Johnson loves their acquaintance, i. 445.
YOUTH,
companions of our, iv. 147;
scenes, i. 370; ii. 461, n. 1; v. 450.
_Yvery, History of the House of_, iv. 198.

Z.

ZECK, George and Luke, ii. 7. ZECKLERS, ii. 7 n. 3. ZEILA, i. 88. ZELIDE, ii. 56, n. 2. ZENOBIA, ii. 127, n. 3. _Zobeide_, iii. 38. ZOFFANI, J., iv. 421, n. 2. ZON, Mr., i. 274. ZOZIMA, i. 223.

DICTA PHILOSOPHI.

A CONCORDANCE OF JOHNSON'S SAYINGS.

ABANDON. 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it,' iv. 183.

ABSTRACT. 'Why, Sir, he fancies so, because he is not accustomed to abstract,' ii. 99.

ABSURD. 'When people see a man absurd in what they understand, they may conclude the same of him in what they do not understand,' ii. 466.

ABUSE. 'Warburton, by extending his abuse, rendered it ineffectual,'
v. 93;
'They may be invited on purpose to abuse him,' ii. 362;
'You _may_ abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one,' i. 409.

ACCELERATION. 'You cannot conceive with what acceleration I advance towards death,' iv. 411.

_Accommodé_. 'J'ai accommodé un dîner qui faisait trembler toute la France' (recorded by Boswell), v. 310, n. 3.

ACTION. 'Action may augment noise, but it never can enforce argument,' ii. 211.

ADMIRATION. 'Very near to admiration is the wish to admire,' iii. 411, n. 2.

AGAIN. 'See him again' (Beauclerk), iv. 197.

ALIVE. 'Are we alive after all this satire?' iv. 29.

ALMANAC. 'Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanac' (Boswell), ii. 366.

AMAZEMENT. 'His taste is amazement,' ii. 41, n. 1.

AMBASSADOR. 'The ambassador says well,' iii. 411.

AMBITION. 'Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag,' iv. 1, n. 2.

AMERICAN. 'I am willing to love all mankind, except an American,' iii. 290.

AMUSEMENTS. 'I am a great friend to public amusements,' ii. 169.

ANCIENTS. 'The ancients endeavoured to make physic a science and failed; and the moderns to make it a trade and have succeeded' (Ballow), iii. 22, n. 4.

ANGRY. 'A man is loath to be angry at himself,' ii. 377.

ANTIQUARIAN. 'A mere antiquarian is a rugged being,' iii. 278.

APPLAUSE. 'The applause of a single human being is of great consequence,' iv. 32.