Chapter D: O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3 (1)

DACIER, Madame, in. 333, n. 2.
_Dacier's Horace_, in. 74, n. 1.
_Demonology_, King James's, iii. 382.
DAGGE, ----, keeper of the Bristol Newgate, iii. 433, n. 1.
DAILLÉ, _on the Fathers_, v. 294.
_Daily Advertiser_, i. 256, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2.
_Daily Gazetteer_, ii. 33, n. 1.
_Daily Post_, i. 503.
DALE, Mrs., v. 431.
D'ALEMBERT, ii. 54, n. 3.
DALIN, Olaf von, ii. 156.
DALLAS, Miss, v. 87.
DALLAS, Stuart, v. 87.
DALRYMPLE, Colonel, v. 399.
DALRYMPLE, Sir David. See HAILES, Lord.
DALRYMPLE, Sir John,
attacks the London booksellers, v. 402, n. 1;
Burnet, criticises, ii. 213, n. 3;
complains of attacks on his _Memoirs_, v. 400;
foppery, his, ii. 237;
Johnson, invites to his house, v. 401;
rails at, v. 402;
arrives late, v. 404;
_Memoirs of Great Britain
and Ireland_, ii. 210-1;
parodied by Johnson, v. 403;
style, 'mere bouncing,' ii. 210;
praised by Boswell, ii. 211;
mentioned, ii. 291.
DALZEL, Professor, iv. 385.
DANCALA, i. 88.
DANCING, iv. 79.
DANES, colony at Leuchars, v. 70;
in Wales, v. 130.
DANTE, Boswell's ignorance of him, iii. 229, n. 4;
_Purgatory_, quoted, iv. 373, n. 1;
resemblance between _Pilgrim's Progress_ and Dante, ii. 238.
DANUBE, ii. 133, n. 1.
D'ARBLAY, General, iv. 223, n. 4.
D'ARBLAY, Mme. See BURNEY, Miss.
DARBY, Rev. Mr., v. 453, n. 2.
DARIPPE, Captain, v. 135.
DARIUS'S shade, iv. 16.
DARLINGTON, i. 35, n. 1.
DARTINEUF, Charles, ii. 447.
DARTMOUTH, Lord, i. 407, n. 1.
DARWIN, Charles, v. 428, n. 3.
DARWIN, Dr. Erasmus, v. 428, n. 3.
DASHWOOD, Sir Francis, ii. 135, n. 2.
DASHWOOD, Sir Henry, iii. 407, n. 5.
DATES to letters, i. 122, n. 2; iii. 421, n. 3, 428, n. 4.
D'AUTEROCHE, Count, iii. 8, n. 3.
DAVENANT, Sir William, ii. 168, n. 2.
DAVENPORT, William, Strahan's apprentice, ii. 324, n. 1.
DAVIES, Thomas, account of him, i. 390;
author, success as an, iii. 434;
bankruptcy, iii. 223, 434;
Baretti's trial, exaggerated feelings about, ii. 94;
quarrels with him, ii. 205;
benefit at Drury Lane, iii. 249;
bookseller, his taste as a, iii. 223, n. 1;
Boswell to Johnson, introduces, i. 390; iv. 231;
Churchill's lines on him, i. 391, n. 2, 483; iii. 223;
sees in the pit, iii. 223, n. 2:
Cibber's genteel ladies, ii. 340;
'clapped on the back by Tom Davies,' ii. 344;
_Conduct of the Allies_, ii. 65;
dinners at his house, ii. 340; iii. 38;
_Garrick, Memoirs of_. iii. 434, n. 5;
Garrick, letter to, iii. 223, n. 2;
complains of his unkindness, ib.;
Goldsmith's dislike of Baretti, ii. 205, n. 3;
'Goldy's' play, talks of, ii. 258; v. 308;
Hunter, Johnson's schoolmaster, anecdote of, i. 45, n. 4;
Johnson, accurate observer of, ii. 258;
candour, iii. 271, n. 2;
and Foote, ii. 299;
forgives him, ii. 271;
laugh, ii. 378;
letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters;
liberality to him, i. 488; iii. 223;
love for him, iv. 231, 365;
one of a deputation to, iii. III;
sends pork to, iv. 413, n. 2;
talking to himself, i. 483;
learning enough for a clergyman, had, iv. 13;
Maddocks, the straw-man, iii. 231, n. 2;
_Miscellanies and Fugitive Pieces_, ii. 270;
Mounsey and Percy, ii. 64;
portrait by Hicky, ii. 340, n. 2;
'potted stories' of a dramatic author, iii. 40;
Quin's saying about January 30, v. 382, n. 2;
Shakespeare, representations of, v. 244, n. 2;
stage, his earnings on the, iii. 223;
driven from it, ib., iii. 249;
'statesman all over,' ii. 65;
Thane of Ross, iv. 8; Walker's
'distinguished glare,' ii. 368, n. 3;
zealous for the _trade_, ii. 345;
mentioned, i. 175, n. 3, 310, 423; ii. 63, 82, 343-4, 349;
iii--38; iv. 366.
DAVIES, Mrs., Tom Davies's wife,
Churchill's lines on her, i. 391, n. 2, 484.
DAVIES,--, of Llanerch, v. 439.
DAVIS, Mrs., iv. 239, n. 2, 439.
DAVY, Sir Humphry, iv. 119, n. 1.
DAVY, Serjeant, iii. 87, n. 3.
DAWKINS, 'Jamaica,' iv. 126.
_Dawling_, iii. 422;
_dawdle_, iv. 126.
DAWSON, George, ii. 456, n. 2.
DAWSON's _Lexicon_, iii. 407.
DAY-LABOURERS, wages of, iv. 176; v. 263.
DEAD, form of prayer for the, ii. 163;
libels on them, iii. 13;
recommending and praying for them, i. 190, n. 2, 236, 240; ii. 163;
iv. 137, 158, n. 3;
their spirits perhaps present, i. 212;
why we wish for their return, i. 240, n. 1.
DEAF AND DUMB, Academy for the, v. 399.
DEAN, Rev. Richard, ii. 53.
DEATH, act of dying not of importance, ii. 107;
affectation in dying, v. 397;
best men most afraid of it, iii. 154;
Browne, Sir T., on it, iii. 153, n. 1;
business preparation for it, v. 316;
change beyond man's understanding, ii. 163, n. 3;
dispositions on one's death-bed, v. 239;
'dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1;
fear of it cannot be got over, ii. 106, 298; iii. 295;
natural to man, ii. 93; iii. 153, 158, 294; v. 179;
resolution, met with, iii. 295;
sight, kept out of, iii. 154;
some die well, few willingly, i. 365;
sudden death in sin, iv. 225;
Swift dreads it, ii. 93, n. 4;
describes what reconciles man to it, iii. 295, n. 2;
thinking constantly of it, v. 316;
violent, i. 338;
'a whole system of hopes swept away,' i. 236, n. 3.
See under JOHNSON, death, dread of.
DEATH WARRANTS, iii. 121, n. 1; v. 239-40.
_Debate on the Proposal of Parliament to Cromwell_, i. 150.
DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT,
account of them, i. 115-118, 150-152, 501-512;
written at first by Guthrie and corrected by Johnson, i. 115-6,
136, 503, 509;
written solely by Johnson, i. 118, 150-2, 157, 503;
wrongly assigned to Johnson, i. 509;
authenticity generally accepted, i. 152, 505;
Chesterfield, speeches attributed to, iii. 351;
Croker's inaccuracy about them, i. 509!
'debating,' absence of, i. 506;
discontinued, i. 176, n. 2, 512;
Gent. Mag., increased sale of, i. 152, n. 1;
House of Commons passes resolutions against publication, i. 115, 502, 510;
House of Lords 'a Court of Record,' i. 502;
'Hurgoes,' 'Clinabs,' 'Walelop,' 'Hon. Marcus Cato,' i. 502;
'Pretor of Mildendo,' i. 503;
Johnson's conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408;
_Debates_ not authentic, i. 118, 503-9;
rapid composition, i. 504; iv. 409;
successor, i. 512;
_London Magazine_, reports of the, i. 502, 508-510;
monument to Walpole's greatness, i. 512;
Murphy's account of them, i. 504;
prosecution of Cave, i. 501;
of Cooley and the printer of the _Daily Post_, i. 503;
of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1;
reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510;
reporters, 'fellows who thrust themselves into the gallery,' i. 502;
reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504;
Seeker's reports, i. 507, 509;
'Senate of Lilliput,' i. 115, 502;
speakers' names disguised, i. 501;
speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504;
many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7;
sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508;
table of the order of publication, i. 510;
translated, i. 505;
unreality, i. 506;
volumes, collected in, i. 152;
Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314.
_Debrett's Royal Kalendar_, iv. 350, n. 1.
DEBTOR. 'The pillow of a debtor,' iv. 152, n. 1.
DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127;
for Johnson's warnings, see BOSWELL, debts;
law of arrest, iii. 77;
small and great, i. 347.
_Decay of Christian Piety_, v. 227.
_De Claris Oratoribus_, iv. 316.
DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4;
flattery allowed, v. 285;
Johnson's to all the Royal Family, ii. 2;
skill in them, ii. 1;
_Works_ without any, i. 257, n. 2;
means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2;
one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1;
studied conclusions, v. 239.
_Defence of Pluralities_, ii. 242.
DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1.
DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245.
DEFINITIONS. See under DICTIONARY, and separate words.
DE FOE, Daniel, _Captain Carleton's Memoirs,_ iv. 334, n. 4;
_Drelincourt on Death,_ ii. 163, n. 4;
his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1;
Johnson's praise of him, iii. 267;
the opposite of him, i. 506;
_Robinson Crusoe_, iii. 268.
_Deformities of Johnson_, iv. 148-9.
DEGENERACY OF MANKIND, ii. 217, v. 77.
DE GROOT, Isaac, iii. 125.
DEIST, no honest man one, ii. 8.
DELANY, Dr., _Observations on Swift_, iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238.
DELAP, Rev. Dr., i. 521.
DELAY, danger of, i. 324.
_Dementat_, iv. 181, n. 3.
DEMOCRITUS, iv. 105, n. 4.
DEMONAX, iv. 34.
DE MORGAN, Professor, i. 284, n. 3.
DEMOSTHENES, Johnson compared with him, i. 504;
spoke to barbarians, ii. 171;
to brutes, ii. 211;
mentioned, iii. 351; v. 214.
DEMPSTER, George, account of him, i. 408, n. 4;
argues for merit, i. 440-2;
Boswell, letter to, v. 407;
Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 409, n. 3;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 409;
Johnson's conversation, struck with, i. 434;
dines with, ii. 195;
_Journey_, praises, ii. 303; iii. 301;
sister, his, iii. 242; iv. 284;
unfixed in his principles, i. 443;
virtuous and candid, ii. 305.
DENBIGH, Earls of, ii. 175, n. 2.
DENHALL IN WIRHALL, v. 445, n. 3.
DENHAM, Sir John, iv. 38, n. 1.
DENMAN, first Lord, ii. 408, n. 3.
DENMARK, King of, v. 100.
DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2.
DENNIS, John,
criticisms on _Blackmore_ and _Cato_, iv. 36, n. 4;
on _Cato_, iii. 40, n. 2;
on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. _4_;
_Critical Works_ worth collecting, iii. 40;
his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2.
DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5.
_Depeditation_, v. 130.
DEPOPULATION, ii. 217, n. 5.
DE QUINCEY, account of Bishop Watson, iv. 119, n. 1;
criticises Johnson's _Vanity_, &c., i. 193, n. 3;
praises his Latin, i. 272, n. 3.
_Derange_, iii. 319, n. 1.
DERBY, account of it in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
Highlanders there in 1745, iii. 162; v. 196, n. 3;
Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. 160;
see the china-manufactory, iii. 163;
silk-mill, iii. 164; v. 432;
Johnson married there, i. 95, n. 2, 96;
mentioned, iii. 1, 135, n. 1; iv. 359.
DERBY, fifteenth Earl of, v. 354, n. 1.
DERBY, Rev. Mr., iii. 113.
DERBYSHIRE, ii. 474.
DERRICK, Samuel,
Boswell's 'first tutor,' i. 456;
his 'governor,' iii. 371;
introduced him to Davies, iv. 231, n. 1;
Dryden's _Miscellaneous Works_, edits, i. 456, n. 3;
Home's parody on him, i. 456;
_Humphry Clinker_, described in, i. 124, n. 2;
Johnson's kindness for him, i. 385; v. 117, 240;
projected _Life of Dryden_, gathers materials for, i. 456; v. 240;
lines on, i. 124;
'King of Bath,' i. 394, n. 2, 455;
_Letters from Leverpoole_, i. 456, n. 1; v. 117;
outrunning his character, i. 394;
presence of mind, i. 457;
pun about the Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5;
Smart, compared with, iv. 192.
DESCRIPTION, falls short of reality, iv. 199.
_Deserted Village_. See GOLDSMITH.
DES MAIZEAUX, i. 29.
DESMOULINS, John,
Johnson's will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2;
bequest to him, ib.;
mentioned, iv. 415, n. 1, 440.
DESMOULINS, Mrs., account of her, iii. 222, n. 3;
hates Levett and Williams, iii. 368, 461;
Johnson allows her half a guinea a week, iii. 222;
death, present at, iv. 418;
kitchen under her care, ii. 215, n. 4;
house, lodged in, iii. 222, 380, n. 3;
leaves it, iv. 233, 255, n. 1;
not complaining of the world, iv. 171;
mentioned, i. 64, 83, 237; ii. 148; iii. 313, 363,373;
iv. 92, 1422, 170, 210, 239, n. 2, 322, n. 1.
DESPONDENCY, speculative, iv. 112.
DESPOTIC GOVERNMENTS, iii. 283.
DE THOU. See THUANUS.
DETTINGEN, Battle of, iv. 12.
DEVAYNES, Mr., iv. 273.
_De veritate Religionis_, i. 68, n. 3.
DEVILS do not lie to each other, iii. 293;
their influence upon our minds, iv. 290.
DEVONPORT, i. 379, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE, Johnson's trip to, i. 37l, n. 3, 377; iii. 457;
militia, its, i. 36, n. 4, 307, n. 4.
DEVONSHIRE, third Duke of,
faithful to his word, iii. 186;
dogged veracity, iii. 378.
DEVONSHIRE, fourth Duke of, ii. 78, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE, fifth Duke and Duchess of,
hospitality to Johnson, iv. 357, 367;
mentioned, iv. 126.
DEVONSHIRE, seventh Duke of,
'public dinners at Chatsworth,' iv. 367, n. 3.
DEVONSHIRE, Georgiana, Duchess of,
Genius made feminine to compliment her, iii. 374;
Johnson, eager to hear, iii. 425, n. 4;
painted in the same picture with him, iv. 224, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE FAMILY, ii. 474.
DEVOTION, abstracted, ii. 10;
particular places for, iv. 226.
_Devotional Exercises_. See PRAYERS.
DEVOTIONAL POETRY. See POETRY.
DE WITT, i. 32.
DEXTERITY, deserves applause, iii. 231.
_Diabolus Regis_, iii. 78.
DIAL, i. 205.
_Dialogues of the Dead_, ii. 447.
DIAMOND, ----, an apothecary, i. 242; iii. 454.
_Diary, The_, iv. 381, n. 1.
_Diary of a Visit to England in 1775_, ii. 338, n. 2.
DIBDEN, Charles, ii. 110.
DICEY, Professor,
_Law of the Constitution_, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 317, n. 1.
DICK, Sir Alexander, gold medal for rhubarb, iv. 263, n. 1;
hospitality, his, iv. 204;
Johnson consults him about his health, iv. 261-3;
letter to, iii. 102, 128;
meets, v. 48, 394, 401.
DICK, ----, a messenger, v. 201.
'DICK WORMWOOD,' ii. 407, n. 5.
DICKENS, Charles, iv. 202, n. 1.
DICTIONARY,
might be compiled from Bacon, iii. 194;
from Elizabethan authors, iii. 194, n. 2;
'perfection' of one, i. 292, n. 2;
pronunciation, of, ii. 161;
Scotland, of words peculiar to, ii. 91;
watches, like, i. 293, n. 3.
_Dictionary, Johnson's_,
account of it, i. 182-9, 256-266, 291-301;
_Abridgement_, i. 264, n. 4, 300, n. 1, 303, n. 1. 305;
in Lord Scarsdale's dressing-room, iii. 161;
accents of words, ii. 161;
authors quoted, i. 189; iv. 4, 416, n. 2;
Bacon often quoted, iii. 194;
Birch, Dr., on it, i. 285;
bound and lettered, i. 283;
commencement, date of its, i. 182, n. 3;
composition, its, i. 186-9;
deficiency of previous, i. 187, n. 1;
definitions, erroneous, i. 293;
definitions, Johnson's genius shown in them, i. 293;
instances of erroneous, i. 293;
political and capricious, i. 294-6; iii. 343; iv. 87, n. 2, 217:
See under separate words;
dictionary-makers described, i. 189, n. 2;
dictionary-making not very unpleasant, i. 189, n. 2; ii. 202, n. 2,
203, n. 3;
'muddling work,' ib.;
Dodsley's suggestion, i. 182, 286; iii. 405;
drudgery, v. 418;
etymologies, i. 186, 292;
explanation, difficulty of, i. 294, n. 2;
edition, fourth, preparing, ii. 142,143, n. 3, 155;
sent to press, ii. 202, n. 2, 209;
published, ii. 203, 205;
mentioned, i. 293, n. 2, 294, n. 7, 295, n. 1, 375, n. 2;
iv. 4, n. 3, 87, n. 2;
Garrick's _Epigram_, i. 300;
Gifford's _Contemplation_ quoted, v. 117, n. 4;
Gough Square, compiled in, i. 188;
Harris,_Hermes_, praised by, iii. 115;
honours and praises, i. 298, 323;
Johnson's portrait, iv. 421, n. 2;
Johnson's praise of its execution, iii. 405;
Manning, the compositor, iv. 321;
outlines sketched, its, i. 176;
particles, changes of the, ii. 45, n. 3;
patrons and opponents, i. 288;
payments, i. 183, 287, 304;
_Plan_, dedicated to Lord Chesterfield, i. 183;
draft of it, i. 185, n. 2;
not noticed in _Gent. Mag._ i. 176, n. 2;
published, i. 182;
poetry, harder to write than, v. 47;
Preface, i. 291-9;
pronunciation, ii. 161, n. 1;
published, i. 288, 291;
publishers, i. 183;
Sheridan's, R. B., compliment to it, iii. 115;
Smith, Adam, reviewed by, i. 298, n. 2;
time taken in writing, i. 186, 287, 291, 443;
volume ii. begun, i. 255;
Wilkes and the letter _H_, i. 300;
words, big, i. 2l8;
written in sickness and sorrow, i. 263, n. 1; iv. 427.
_Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_ projected by Goldsmith, ii. 204, n. 2.
DIDEROT, Denys, anecdote of Hume, ii. 8, n. 4;
on acting, iv. 244, n. 1.
DIDO, iv. 196.
_Dies Irae_, iii. 358, n. 3.
DIFFICULTIES, raising, iii. 11, n. 1.
DIGGS, the actor, i. 386, n. 1.
DILLY FAMILY, account of it, iii. 396, n. 2.
DILLY, Messrs. Edward and Charles, booksellers,
Boswell's _Corsica_, publish, ii. 46, n. 1;
_Conversation between George III, &c_., ii. 34, n. 1;
_Life of Johnson, ib._;
Chesterfield's _Miscellaneous Works_, publish, iii. 351;
dinners at their house, ii. 247, 338; iii. 65-79, 284-300, 357-8,
392, n. 2; iv. 101-7, _ib., n 2, 278, 330; v. 57, n. 3;
always gave a good dinner, iii. 285;
hospitality to literary men, iii. 65;
house, their, No. 22 in the Poultry, iii. 5, 65, n. 2;
'patriotic friends,' their, iii. 66.
DILLY, Charles, comparative happiness, on, iii. 288;
Johnson, letters from, iii. 394; iv. 257;
Milton's _Tractate on Education_, on, iii. 358;
quotations for sale, account of, iv. 102, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 396, n. 2; iv. 118, 126.
DILLY, Edward, Boswell, letter to, iii. 110;
Boswell parts with him, iii. 396;
_Lives of the Poets_, account of the, iii. 110;
Johnson, letter from, iii. 126.
DILLY, Squire, Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 118-32;
mentioned, i. 260; ii. 247; iii. 396, n. 2.
DINGLEY, Mrs., iv. 177, n. 2.
DINNER, cost in London in 1737, i. 103,105;
in 1746, i. 103, n. 2;
in Edinburgh, in 1742, ib.;
a measure of emotion, i. 355; ii. 94; iv. 220;
waiting for it, ii. 83;
better where there is no solid conversation, iii. 57.
See JOHNSON, dinners and eating.
DIOCLETIAN, ii. 255, n. 4.
DIOGENES LAERTIUS, iii. 386, n. 3; iv. 13.
DIOMED, ii. 129.
DIONYSIUS'S _Periegesis_, iv. 444.
Diot, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430.
_Dirleton's Doubts_, iii. 205.
_Disarrange_, iii. 319, n. 1.
_Discourses on Painting by Reynolds. See_ REYNOLDS, _Discourses_.
DISCOVERIES, Johnson dislikes them, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479;
iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 1;
Walpole describes the harm done by them, v. 276, n. 2, 328, n. 2.
DISEASES, acute and chronical, iv. 150.
DISLIKE, mutual, iii. 423.
DISPUTES, encouraging, iii. 185.
D'ISRAELI, Isaac, Barnes's _Homer_, iv. 19, n. 2;
Birch, Dr., i. 159, n. 4;
Campbell's _Hermippus Redivivus_, ii. 427, n. 4;
Chatterton and Lord Mayor Beckford, iii. 201, n. 3;
Churchill's abhorrence of blotting, i. 419, n. 5;
Davies's taste as a bookseller, iii. 223, n. 1;
Dedications, ii. 1, n. 2;
Dennis's thunder, iii. 40, n. 2;
Du Halde's _China_, ii. 55, n. 4;
Flexney and Stockdale, ii. 113, n. 2;
Guthrie's letter, i. 117, n. 2;
Hill, Sir John, ii. 39, n. 2;
Johnson's hints for the _Life of Pope_, iv. 46, n. 1;
Oldys the author of _Busy, curious, thirsty fly_, ii. 281, n. 5;
his notes on Langbaine, iii. 30, n. 1;
Pieresc, ii. 371, n. 2;
Steevens's literary impostures, iv. 178, n. 1;
Tasker, Rev. Mr., iii. 374, n. 1.
DISSENTERS, bill for their relief rejected, ii. 208, n. 4;
_Country_-party, of the, v. 255, n. 5;
taught the graces of language, i. 312;
tossing snails into their gardens, ii. 268, n. 2.
_Dissertation on the Epitaphs written by Pope_, i. 306.
_Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authours_, i. 306.
_Dissertations on the History of Ireland_, i. 321.
_Dissertations on the Prophecies_, iv. 286.
DISSIMULATION, ii. 47.
DISTANCE, of time and of place, ii. 471.
DISTINCTIONS, all are trifles, iii. 355; love of them, i. 474.
_Distressed Mother_, Budgell's Epilogue_, i. 181;
really written by Addison, iii. 46;
Johnson's _Epilogue_, i. 55, n. 3.
DISTRESSES OF OTHERS, ii. 94-5.
DISTRUST, iii. 135.
_Diversions of Purley_, iii. 354, n. 2.
DIVES, ii. 162.
_Divine Legation_. See WARBURTON, W.
DIVINES, English, iv. 105, n. 3.
DIVORCES, iii. 347-8.
DIXEY, Sir Wolstan, i, 84.
DOBLE, Mr. C. E.,
on the authorship of the _Whole Duty of Man_, ii. 239, n. 4;
Psalmanazar at Christ Church, iii. 449.
_Dockers_, i. 379.
DOCKING, ii. 52.
DOCTOR, title of, i. 488, n. 3; ii. 373.
See JOHNSON, doctor, and DR. MEMIS.
DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, respect shown to a, ii. 124.
DOCTORS' COMMONS, i. 134, 462, n. 1.
_Doctrine of Grace_, Warburton's, v. 93.
DODD, Rev. Dr. William, account of him, iii. 139;
Allen's kindness to him, iii. 141;
Boswell's anxiety for his pardon, iii. 119;
canted all his life, iii. 270;
character, iii. 122, 166;
_currat lex_, iv. 207;
dedication to Rev. Mr. Villette, iii. 167, n. 1;
execution, iii. 120-1, 148;
forgery, guilty of, iii. 140;
Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 144-5, 147;
describes, iii. 140, n. 2;
writes for him _Convict's Address_, iii. 121, 141-2, 167, 295, n. 1;
_Last Solemn Declaration_, iii. 143;
_Observations_, iii. 120, n. 4, 142;
_Occasional Papers_ (conclusion), iii. 148;
petitions and letters, iii. 121, 142, 144;
and his speech to the Recorder, iii. 126, 141;
_Last Prayer_, iii. 270;
life, longing for, iii. 154;
Literary Club, tried to join the, iii. 280;
Magdalen House, chaplain at, iii. 139, n. 4;
mind concentrated, his, iii. 167;
Newgate, closely watched in, iii. 166;
petitions in his favour, ii. 90, n. 5; iii. 120, 143;
saint, not to be made a, iv. 208;
Sermons, his, iii. 248;
_Thoughts in Prison_, iii. 270;
'unfortunate,' iii. 120, n. 2;
Wesley visits him in prison, iii. 121, n. 3;
'wretched world, not a,' iii. 166;
mentioned, iii. 132.
DODD, Mrs., iii. 142.
DODDRIDGE, Dr., epigram by him, v. 271.
DODSLEY, James, i. 182; ii. 447.
DODSLEY, Robert, Cleans, acted, i. 324, n. 1, 325-6;
compared by Johnson with Otway, iv. 21;
'more blood than brains,' iv. 20;
_Collection of Poems_, ii. 467; iii. 21, n. 1, 38, 149, n. 2, 269, 280;
iv. 24;
'Dartineuf's' footman, ii. 447;
'Doddy,' ii. 258, n. 1;
Garrick, quarrel with, i. 325;
Goldsmith, dispute on poetry with, iii. 38;
imprisoned by the House of Lords, i. 125, n. 3;
_Irene_, publishes, i. 198;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, suggests, i. 182, 286; iii. 405;
one of the publishers, i. 183, 264;
asks to have the _Plan_ inscribed to Chesterfield, i. 183;
_London_ published by him, i. 121-4;
_Rasselas_, i. 341;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 193, n. 1.
'patron,' i. 326;
_Life_ should be written, his, ii. 446;
_Muse in Livery_, ii. 446;
Pope, assisted by, ii. 446, n. 4;
Pope's executors, application to, iv. 51, n. 1;
_Preceptor_, i. 192;
_Public Virtue_, iv. 20;
wife's death, his, i. 277;
_World, The_, i. 202, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 135, n. 1, 243, 290, 317; ii. 453, n. 2; iv. 333, n. 1.
DODWELL, Henry, v. 437.
_Doggedly_, v. 40.
DOGGET, Thomas, ii. 465, n. 1.
DOGS attack butchers, ii. 232;
eaten in China and Otaheite, ib.;
have not power of comparing, ii. 96.
DOING NOTHING, v. 39.
_Dolus latet in universalibus_, v. 105.
_Domesticated_, i. 268, n. 1.
_Domina de North et Gray_, iv. 10.
DOMINICETTI, ii. 99.
DONALDSON, Alexander, Boswell's first publisher, i. 383, n. 3;
intimacy with him, i. 439. n. 1;
Copyright case, i. 437-9; ii 345. n. 2.
DONATUS, ii. 204, n. 4, 358, n. 3.
_Don Belianis_, i. 49, n. 2.
DONCASTER, ii. 300, n. 5.
DONNE, Dr., saw a vision, ii. 445;
uses the term _quotidian_, v. 346.
_Don Quixote_, wished longer, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5;
Don Quixote's death, ii. 370.
DOOR, 'author concealed behind the door,' i. 396.
_Dorando, A Spanish Tale_, ii. 50, n. 4.
DORSET, third Duke of, iv. 421, n. 2.
DOSA, ii. 7, n. 3.
DOSSIE, Robert, iv. 11.
DOUBLE LETTERS. See POST.
DOUGHTY, the engraver, ii. 286, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2.
DOUGLAS, Archibald,
(at first Archibald Stewart, at last Baron Douglas, of Douglas Castle),
ii. 50, n. 4, 230.
DOUGLAS, last Duke of, v. 43, n. 4.
DOUGLAS, Duchess of, v. 43, n. 4.
DOUGLAS, Sir James, journey to the Holy Land, iii. 177.
DOUGLAS, James, M.D., editions of Horace, iv. 279.
DOUGLAS, Lady Jane, ii. 50, n. 4, 230.
DOUGLAS, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Salisbury,
British Coffee-house Club, a member of the, iv. 179, n. 1;
Church of England, on the discipline of the, iv. 277;
Cock Lane Ghost exposes the, i. 407;
Goldsmith's lines on him, i. 229, n. 1, 407, n. 2; iii. 139, n. 4;
_Conduct of the Allies_, praises the, ii. 65;
Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5;
Johnson's _London_, anecdote of, i. 127;
Lauder's imposition, i. 228;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
mentioned, i. 140, 260, n. 3, 430; ii. 63, 125, n. 5.
DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN, iii. 163.
DOUGLAS, Lady Lucy, v. 359.
DOUGLAS CAUSE, account of it, ii. 50, 230;
Boswell one of the counsel before House of Lords, iii. 8, 219;
v. 378, n. 2;
and the Duchess of Argyle, v. 353, 359;
_Essence of the Douglas Cause_, ii. 230, n. 1;
Judges' windows broken, v. 353, n. 1;
_Letters to Lord Mansfield_, ii. 229;
'shook the security of birth-right,' v. 28.
_Douglas_, a tragedy. SEE HOME, John.
DOVEDALE, v. 430.
DOVER, iv. 260, n. 1.
DOVER CLIFF, Shakespeare's description of, ii. 87.
_Downed_, iii. 335, n. 2.
DOXY, Miss, iii. 417-8.
_Drake, Life of_, i. 147, n. 5.
DRAMA, the English, characteristics of its dialogue, iv. 247.
DRAPER, the bookseller, iii. 46.
DRAUGHTS, game of, i. 317; ii. 444,
DRAYTON'S _Polyolbion_, v. 225, n. 3.
DREAMS, communication by them, i. 235;
contest of wit in one, iv. 5;
Prendergast's dream, ii. 183.
_Drelincourt on Death_, ii. 163.
DRESDEN, i. 266, n. 2.
DRESS, effects on the mind, i. 200; ii. 475;
if fine, should be very fine, iv. 179; v. 364.
DRESSING, time spent in, v. 67.
DREWRY, SIR R., ii. 445, n. 4.
DRINKING, time it can go on, iii. 243, n. 4;
in Johnson's youth, v. 59-60;
rule about drinking to another, v. 356:
SEE DRUNKENNESS and WINE.
_Drinking Song to Sleep_, i. 251.
DROGHEDA, fifth Earl of, iii. 30, n, 1.
DROMORE, Bishop of. SEE PERCY.
DROWNING, suicide by, v. 54.
DRUID'S TEMPLE, a, v. 107, 132.
DRUMGOLD, Colonel, ii. 397, 399, 401.
DRUMMOND, ALEXANDER, _Travels_, v. 323.
DRUMMOND, DR., iii. 88, 383.
DRUMMOND, GEORGE, v. 43.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, of Hawthornden, _Cypress Grove_, v. 180;
_Polemomiddinia_, iii. 284;
Jonson, Ben, visited by, v. 402, 414.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, bookseller of Edinburgh,
account of him, ii. 26;
Johnson's letters to him, ii. 27-31;
Johnson, meets, v. 385, 394, 400;
his son, iii. 88, n. 1.
DRUNKENNESS, as an art, iii, 389;
'elevated,' v. 156, n. 2;
its felicity, ii, 351; 435. n. 7; iii. 381, n. 3;
on a little, iii. 170.
_Drury Lane Journal_, i. 218, n. 1.
DRURY LANE THEATRE, _Prologue on the opening of_, i. 181; iv. 25.
SEE LONDON, Drury Lane.
DRYDEN, JOHN,
_Absalom and Achitophel_, sale, i. 34, n. 5;
quoted, ii. 348, n. 2; iv. 73, n. 3;
_All for Love_, preface quoted, iv. 114, n 1;
_Annus Mirabilis_, quoted, ii. 241, n. 1;
_Aurengsebe_, quoted, ii. 125; iv. 303, n. 3;
Bayes in _The Rehearsal_, ii. 168:
booksellers' mercantile ruggedness, suffered from the, i. 305, n. 1;
borrows for want of leisure, v. 92, n. 4;
Collier, censured by, i. 167, n. 2; iv. 286, n. 3;
colleges and kings, lines on, ii. 223;
_Conquest of Granada_, quoted, iv. 259, n. 3;
dedication, its, v. 239;
converted to Roman Catholicism, iv. 44;
dedications, studied conclusions to his, v. 239;
'delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,' ii. 241, n. l;
_Life of_, Derrick's 'materials'; SEE DERRICK;
dignity of his character, known to himself, i. 264, n. 1;
_Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, i. 197, n. 2; ii. 86, n. 1;
'Fate after him,' &c., iv. 25, n. 3;
'familiar day,' his, iv. 91, n. 1;
foreign words, on, i. 218, n. 1;
genius, his conscious, iii. 405, n. 3;
Hailes, Lord, anecdotes of him by, iii. 397, n. 3;
_Hind and Panther_, quoted, iv. 44;
_Indian Emperour_, quoted, iii. 346, n. 3;
Johnson gathered materials for his _Life_, i. 456; iii. 71; iv. 44; v.
240; writes it, iv. 44-6;
Johnson, resemblance in his character to, iv. 45;
judgment of the public, on the, i. 200, n. 2;
Juvenal, dedication to his, iv. 38;
Latin line wrongly attributed to him, iii. 304, n. 3;
_Life_ not written by contemporaries, v. 415, n. 2;
lines on life: SEE just above, _Aurengzebe_;
love, fine lines on, ii. 85;
Malone, _Life_ by, iii. 397, n. 3;
'mechanical defects,' on, iv. 247;
_Metaphysical Poets_, mentions the, iv. 38;
Milton, lines on, ii. 336; v. 86;
Johnson's translation, _ib., n_. 1;
_Ode on St. Cecilia's Day_, iii. 38;
paid about sixpence a verse for 10,000 verses, i. 193, n. 1;
pleasing a man against his will, on, iii. 69, n. 4;
poets and monarchs, lines on, ii. 223;
Pope, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85;
predestination, puzzled about, iii. 347;
prefaces, his, ii. 444, n. 1; iv. 114, n. 1;
_Prologue to the Tempest_, quoted, i. 361;
prologues, his, ii. 325;
rhyming tragedies, iv. 42, n. 7;
_Rival Ladies_, quoted, iii. 296, n. 1;
Royal Society, lines on the, ii. 241;
Settle, Elkanah, rivalry with, iii. 76;
Shakespeare, admiration of, ii. 86, n. 1;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, its title taken from him, ii. 205. n. 4;
'shorn of his beams,' iii. 363, n. 1;
style, distinguished by his, iii. 280;
traded in corruption, i. 189, n. 1;
Virgil, translation of, iii. 193;
Will's Coffee-house, at, iii. 71;
Zimri, character of, ii. 85.
Du Bos, ii. 90.
DUCK, epitaph on a, i. 40.
DUCKET, George, i. 294, n. 9.
DUCKING-STOOL, iii. 287.
DUDLEY, Lord, v. 457.
DUDLEY, Sir Henry, (_alias_ Rev. Henry Bate), iv. 296, n. 3.
DUEL, trial by, v. 24.
DUELLING,
defended by Johnson and Oglethorpe, ii. 179;
by Johnson as being as lawful as war, ii. 226;
as self-defence, iv. 211;
his serious opinion not given, ib., n. 4;
could not explain its rationality, v. 230;
Thomas, Colonel, killed in one, iv. 211, n. 4;
_Tom Jones_, the lieutenant in, ii. 180.
DUFFERIN, fifth Earl of, i. 358, n. 2.
DUGDALE, William, Sunday work in harvest, iii. 313, n. 3.
DU HALDE, _Description of China_, i. 136, 157; ii. 55; iv. 30.
DUKE, Richard, iv. 36, n. 4.
DUKE, an English one nothing, i. 409;
weighed against a genius, i. 442.
DULL, fellow, a, ii. 126;
magistrate, iv. 312.
_Dum vivimus, vivamus_, v. 271.
DUN, Rev. Mr., v. 381.
DUNBAR, Dr., Johnson introduces him to Boswell, iii. 436;
described by Mackintosh and Colman, ib., n. 1; v. 92.
DUNCAN, Dr., ii. 354, n. 2.
DUNCES, ii. 84.
DUNCOMBE, William, iii. 314.
DUNDAS, Lord President, ii. 50, n. 4, 302, n. 2; iii. 213.
DUNDAS, Henry (Viscount Melville),
account of him, ii. 160, n. 1;
Boswell's malice against him, iii. 213, n. 1;
George III, and a baronetcy for an apothecary, ii. 354, n. 2;
government of India bill, iv. 213, n. 1;
Knight, the negro, case of, iii. 213;
Literary Property Case, i. 266;
Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2;
Robertson, a jaunt with, iii. 335, n. 1;
Scotch accent, his, ii. 160; iii. 213;
serfdom in Scotland, on, iii. 202, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 191, n. 2.
DUNDEE, John, Viscount of, v. 58, n. 1.
'DUNGEON OF WIT,' v. 342.
DUNKIRK, iii. 326.
DUNMORE, fourth Earl of, v. 142, n. 2.
DUNNING, John (first Lord Ashburton),
business, his way of getting through, iii. 128, n. 5;
Devonshire accent, ii. 159;
'great lawyer, the,' iii. 128;
influence of the Crown, motion on the, iv. 220, n. 5;
Johnson, willing to listen to, iii. 240;
_Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle_, iii. 254;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
elected, iii. 128;
Loughborough, Lord, afraid of him, iii. 240, n. 3;
Reynolds's dinner parties, describes, iii. 375, n. 2;
Somerset's case, in, iii. 87, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 437, n. 2.
DUNSINNAN, Lord. See NAIRNE, William.
DUNSTABLE, v. 428.
_Dunton's Life and Errors_, iv. 200.
_Dupin's History of the Church_, iv. 311.
DUPPA, Bishop, _Holy Rules_, iv. 402, n. 2.
DUPPA, R.,
edits Johnson's _Journey into North Wales_, ii. 285, n. 2; v. 427, n. 1.
_Durandi Rationale Officiorum Divinorum_, ii. 397, n. 2; v. 459.
_Durandi Sanctuarium_, ii. 397.
_Durham on the Galatians_. v. 383.
DURHAM (City), iii. 297, n. 2, 457; v. 56, n. 2.
DURHAM (County), Militia Bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4.
DURY, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 338, n. 2.
DURY, Major-General, i. 338, n. 2.
DUTCH. See HOLLAND.
DYER, Sir James, i. 75.
DYER, John, _Fleece, The,_ ii. 453;
S. Dyer's portrait passed off as his, ib., n. 2.
DYER, Samuel, account of him, iv. 11, n. 1;
Hawkins's character, draws, i. 28, n. 1;
Hawkins slanders him, i. 480, n. 1;
Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 436;
Johnson buys his portrait, iv. 11, n. 1;
_Junius,_ suspected to be, iv. 11;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2,479, 480, n. 2; ii. 17;
held in high estimation, iv. 10-11;
mathematician, a, v. 109;
Reynolds's portrait of him, i. 363, n. 3; ii. 453, n. 2.
DYING. See DEATH.

E.

_Eagle and Robin Redbreast,_ i. 117, n. 1. EARLY HABITS, ii. 366. EARLY RISING. See under BOSWELL, early rising, and JOHNSON, rising. EARTHQUAKE, at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3; in Staffordshire, iii. 136. EAST INDIANS, barbarians, iii. 339. EAST INDIES, Johnson receives a letter thence, iii. 20, 23; once thought of going there, iii. 20; quest of wealth, iii. 400; Scotch soldiers refuse to go there, v. 142, n. 2. See INDIA. EASTER. See under JOHNSON. EASTER to Whitsuntide, propitious to study, ii. 263. EASTON MAUDIT, i. 486; iii. 437, 451. EATING. See under JOHNSON. ECCLES, Mr., an Irish gentleman, i. 423. _Ecclesiastes,_ iv. 300, n. 2. ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURE, iii. 59, 91. ECONOMY, anxious saving, ii. 131; art of--, iii. 265, 362; blundering--, iii. 300. EDDYSTONE, i. 377. EDENSOR INN, iii. 208. EDIAL, i. 97; ii. 143. _Edinburgh Magazine and Review,_ iii. 334, n. 1. _Edinburgh Review, _Campbell's _Diary of a Visit to England,_ ii. 338, n. 2, 343, n. 2; payment to writers in it, iv. 214, n. 2. _Edinburgh Review_ of 1755, i. 298, n. 2. _Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions,_ iv. 25, n. 4. EDITIONS OF A BOOK, iv. 279. EDUCATION, by-roads, ii. 407; 'Dick Wormwood' in _The Idler,_ ii. 407, n. 5; fear, use of, i. 46; v. 99; influence of it compared with nature, ii. 436; Johnson attacks and defends the 'common way,' ii. 407, n. 5; defends popular--, ii. 188; iii. 37; his plan, iii. 358, n. 2; Locke's plan, iii. 358; Mill, J. S., on the new system, ii. 146, n. 4; Milton's plan, iii. 358; 'wonders' performed by him, ii. 407, n. 5; perfection attained in it, ii. 407; _refine,_ not to, in it, iii. 169; Socrates's plan, iii. 358, n. 2; iv. 444; what should be taught first? i. 452. See BOOKS, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, SCHOOLS, and SCOTLAND, Education, Learning, and Schools. EDWARD, Prince, brother of George III, iii. 139, n. 4. EDWARDS, Rev. Dr., Johnson's letter to him, iii. 367; editing Xenophon, ib.; death, ib., n. 1. EDWARDS, Jonathan, _On Grace_, iii. 290. EDWARDS, Oliver, Johnson, meets, iii. 302-7; iv. 90; sends him _The Rambler_, ib; tried philosophy, iii. 305. EDWARDS, Thomas, _Canons of Criticism_, i. 263, n. 3. EDWIN, the comedian, iv. 381, n. 1. EEL, iii. 381. EGLINTOUNE, Alexander, tenth Earl of, calls Johnson a dancing-bear, ii. 66; his character, v. 374; death, iii. 188. EGLINTOUNE, Archibald, eleventh Earl of, iii. 107, 214, 316; v. 149. EGLINTOUNE, Countess of, Johnson visits her, v. 373-5; is adopted by her, iii. 366; v, 375, 401. _Epilogues_, i. 277. EGMONT, second Earl of, iv. 198, n. 3; v. 449, n. 1. EGOTISM, iv. 323. EGOTISTS, iii. 171. EGYPT, iii. 233. EGYPTIANS, ancient, iv. 125. _Eighteen Hundred and Eleven_, ii. 408, n. 3. ELD, Mr., iii. 326. ELDON, Earl of. See SCOTT, John. ELECTION, General, of 1768, ii. 60, n. 2; of 1774, ii. 285; of 1780, iii. 440; of 1784, iv. 165, n. 3. ELECTION-COMMITTEES, iv. 74. ELECTIONS, boroughs bought, ii. 153; by Nabobs, v. 106; lost by vice, iii. 350; rascals to be driven out of the county, ii. 167, 340. _Elegy in a Country Churchyard_. See GRAY. _Elements of Criticism_. See KAMES. _Elements of Orthoepy_, iv. 389, n. 6. _Elfrida_, ii. 335. ELGIN, Earls of, v. 25, n. 2. ELIBANK, Patrick, fifth Lord, account of him, v. 386; Boswell, correspondence with, v. 14, 16, 181, 316; death, v. 181, n. 2; epitaph on his wife, iv. 10; Home, patronises, v. 386; Johnson's definition of oats, i. 294, n. 8; and the great, iv. 117; letter to him, v. 182 meets him in Edinburgh, v. 385-8, 393-4; visits him, v. 394; power of arguing, iii. 24; praises him, iii. 24; v. 182, 385; society, loves, v. 181-2; Robertson, patronises, v. 386; admires the moderation of, v. 393; talk, nothing conclusive in his, iii. 57; mentioned, ii. 140, 147, 187, 192, 275; v. 307. ELIOT, Edward, of Port Eliot, first Lord Eliot, Chesterfield, Lord, praised by, iv. 334, n. 5; dines at Sir Joshua's, iv. 78, 332; Goldsmith, sarcasm on, ii. 265, n. 4; Harte, Dr., his tutor, iv. 78, 333; Johnson and the graces, iii. 54; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; iv. 326; _latiner_, story of a, iv. 185, n. 1; _young_ Lord, a, iv. 334. ELIZA, epigram to. See MRS. CARTER. ELIZABETH, Madame, ii. 394. ELIZABETH, Queen, authors of her age, iii. 194, n. 2; fashion to exalt her reign, i. 354; had learning enough for a bishop, iv. 13. ELLENBOROUGH, first Lord, iv. 414, n. 1. ELLIOCK, Lord, iii. 213. ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, third Baronet, ii. 160. ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, fourth Baronet (afterwards first Earl of Minto), ii. 71, n. 1. ELLIOT, Mr., i. 349. ELLIOT,--, iii. 352, n. 2. ELLIS, Sir Henry, i. 260, n. 2; v. 444, n. 2. ELLIS, 'Jack,' a scrivener, iii. 21. ELLIS, Welbore, ii. 337; n. 4. ELLIS, Mr., ii. 116. ELLSFIELD, i. 273, 289. ELOCUTION, iv. 206. ELPHINSTON, James, _Forty Years Correspondence_, ii. 305; Johnson, letters from: See JOHNSON, letters; _Martial_, translation of, iii. 258; manner, his, ii. 171; iii. 379; mother, loses his, i. 211; _Rambler_, brings out a Scotch edition of the, i. 210; translates the mottoes, i. 225; reading books through, on, ii. 226; school, his, ii. 171, 226; mentioned, ii. 30. ELPHINSTONE, Bishop, v. 91. ELRINGTON, Bishop, ii. 39, n. 1. _Elvira_, i. 408. ELWALL, E., ii. 164, 251. ELWALLIANS, ii. 164. ELWIN, Rev. W., Pope's _Universal Prayer_, iii. 346, n. 3. _Embellishment_, iii. 209. EMIGRATION, complaints of it, iii. 231; effects of it on population, iii. 232; on happiness, v. 27; caused by oppressive landlords, ib. n. 3; immersion in barbarism, v. 78. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, emigration. EMINENT PUBLIC CHARACTER, an, ii. 222. EMMET, Mrs., ii. 464. EMPHASIS. See COMMANDMENT. EMPLOYMENTS, their end is to produce amusement, ii, 234. EMULATION, i. 46; v. 99. ENGHIEN, Duke of, ii. 393, n. 7. ENGLAND, air too pure for slaves to breathe in, iii. 87, n. 3; Condition (1780), 'difficulty very general,' iii. 420; (1782) seems to be sinking, iv. 139, n. 4; (1783) all things as bad as they can be, iv. 173; dreadful confusion, iv. 249: times dismal and gloomy, iv. 260, n. 2; Corsica, treatment of, ii. 71, n. 1; common people, courage of the, iii. 262, n. 1; cruelty to black men, ii. 479; Englishman to a Frenchman, proportion of an, i. 186; felicity in its inns, ii. 451; genius and learning little respected, iv. 117, n. 1; government loan raised at 8 per cent. in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; history of it scarcely credible, v. 340; knowledge of the common people, ii. 170, n. 3; language injured by foreign words, iii. 343, n. 3; literature: See LITERATURE; lost, found by the Scotch, iii. 78; loyal in general, ii. 370; poor, provision for the, ii. 130; reason and soil best cultivated, ii. 125; Reign of Terror, a kind of, iv. 328, n. 1; reserve, English, iv. 191, 284; roads, iii. 135, n. 1; v. 56, n. 2; slave trade, upholds the, ii. 480; stature of the people not lessened, ii. 217. _England's Gazetteer_, iv. 311. _English Humourists_, i. 199, n, 2. _English Malady, The_, i. 65; iii. 27, n. 1. _English Poets, Bell's_, ii. 453, n. 2. ENGLISH PROSE. See STYLE _Englishman in Paris_, ii. 395, n. 2. ENTAILS, advantage of them, ii. 428; Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-423; Johnson's letters on it, ii. 415-423; limits should be set, ii. 428-9; nobles must be kept from poverty, ii. 421, n. 1; v. 101. ENTHUSIASM, of curiosity, iii. 7; in farming, v. 111. ENTHUSIAST, by rule, iv. 33. _Enucleated_, iii. 346. ENVY, all men naturally envious, iii. 271. EPICHARMUS, ii. 107, n. 1. EPICTETUS, v. 279. EPICUREAN in _Lucian_, iii. 10. EPIGRAM, judge of an, iii. 259. EPISCOPACY, iii. 371; iv. 277. See BISHOPS and HIERARCHY. _Epistle of St. Basil_, iv. 20. EPITAPHS addressed to the passersby, iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1; Latin for learned men, iii. 84, n. 2; v. 154, 366; man killed by a fall, on a, iv. 212; mixed languages or styles, iv. 444; the writer not upon oath, ii. 407; iii. 387, n. 5; iv. 443. _Epitaphs, Essay on_, i. 148, 335; iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1. _Epocha_, iii. 128. EPSOM, iii. 453. EQUALITY OF MANKIND, would turn men into brutes, ii. 219; none happy in it, iii. 26; mercy abolished by it, iii. 204, n. 1; natural, ii. 13; n. 1, 479; iii. 202. See SUBORDINATION. _Equitation_, v. 131. ERASMUS, _Adagiorum Chiliades_, iv. 379, n. 2; _battologia_, v. 444; _Ciceronianus_, iv. 353; Dutch epitaph on him would be offensive, iii. 84, n. 2; epigram on him, v. 430; _Letter to the Nuns_, v. 446; _Militis Christiani Enchiridion, iii. 190, n. 3; _Manita Paedagogica_, quoted, i. 418, n. 2. ERROL, Earls of, their property, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1. ERROL, thirteenth Earl of, account of him, v. 103; says grace with decency and sees the hand of Providence, v. 104; his drinking, iii. 170, n. 2, 329; v. 104; educates a surgeon, v. 101; portrait by Reynolds, v. 102. ERROL, Lady, v. 98-9, 105, 130. ERROR, taking delight in, iv. 204. ERSE. See IRELAND and SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse. ERSKINE, Hon. Andrew, _Correspondence with James Boswell, Esq., i. 383, n. 3; iii. 150, n. 4; _Critical Strictures_, i. 408; poet and critick, iii. 150. ERSKINE, Lady Anne, v. 387. ERSKINE, Hon. Archibald, v. 387. ERSKINE, Sir Harry, i. 386. ERSKINE, Hon. Henry, v. 39, n. 4. ERSKINE, Hon. Thomas (afterwards Lord Erskine), account of him, ii. 173, n. 1; Johnson, meets, ii. 173-177; Richardson tedious, finds, ii. 174; sermons, preached two, ii. 176. ERSKINE, Rev. Dr., v. 391. ESAU'S BIRTHRIGHT, i. 255. _Esdras_, ii. 189, n. 3. ESQUIMAUX, ii. 247. ESQUIRE, title of, i. 34; ii. 332, n. 1. _Essay on Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough_, i. 153. _Essay on Architecture_, i. 306. _Essay on Death_, ii. 107, n. 1. _Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, i. 197, n. 2. _Essay on Epitaphs. See_ EPITAPHS. _Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost_, i, 230. _Essay on the Future Life of Brutes_, ii. 54, n. 1. _Essay on the Origin of Evil. See_ KING, Archbishop. _Essay on Truth. See_ BEATTIE, Dr. _Essay on Wit, Humour, and Ridicule_, iv. 105, n. 4. _Essays on the History of Mankind_, iii. 436, n. 1. _Essays on Husbandry_, iv. 78, n. 3. ESSEX, Club in one of the towns, i. 215; militia, i. 307, n. 4. ESSEX, Arthur Capel, first Earl of, v. 403, n. 2. ESSEX, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, advice about travelling, i. 431; _Queen Elizabeth's Champion_, written in his honour, v. 241. ESTATE, residence on it a duty, iii. 177, 249; settling, supposed obligation in, ii. 432; succession in ancient estates, ii. 261; in those got by trade, ib. ESTE, House of, i. 383. ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, iii. 200. ETERNITY, v. 154. ETHICS, ii. 408, n. 3. ETNA, strata of lava, ii. 468, n. 1. ETON COLLEGE, Boswell places his son there, iii. 12; dines with the Fellows, v. 15, n. 5; boys cowed there, iii. 12, n. 1; line attributed to a boy, iii. 304; Macdonald, Sir James, a pupil, i. 449, n. 2; iv. 82, n. 1; Porson on Eton boys, i. 224, n. 1; Walpole, Horace, revisits it, iv. 127, n. 1; mentioned, i. 411; iv. 315; v. 97. _Etymologicon Lingua; Anglicanae_, i. 186, n. 2. _Etymologicum Anglicanum_, i. 186, n. 2. ETYMOLOGIES. _See Dictionary_. EUGENE, Prince, ii. 180. _Eugenio,_ i. 122; ii. 240. EUMELIAN CLUB, iv. 394. EUPHRANOR, iv. 104, n. 2. EUPOLIS, iii. 267, n. 4. EURIPIDES, Agamemnon in _Hecuba_, v. 79; armorial bearings, ii. 179; 'every verse a precept, ii. 86, n. 1; fragments, iv. 181, n. 3; Barnes's edition, ib.; Johnson reads him, i. 70, 72; iv. 311; Markland's edition, iv. 161, n. 3; quoted, i. 277; mentioned, iv. 2. _European Magazine,_ i. 361, n. 2. EUTROPIUS, ii. 237. _Evangelical History Harmonized,_ iv. 381, n. 1. EVANS, Dr., epigram on Marlborough, ii. 451. EVANS, Evan, addicted to strong drink, v. 443. EVANS, John, i. 36, n. 2. EVANS, Lewis, _Map, &c., of the Middle Colonies_, i. 309. EVANS, Thomas, bookseller, ii. 209. EVANS, Mr., iii. 422. _Evelina. See_ Miss BURNEY. _Evening Post,_ iv. 140, n. 1. EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, iv. 299. _Every island is a prison_, iii. 269; v. 256. EVIL, origin of, v. 117, 366. EVIL SPIRIT, personality of the, v. 36, n. 3. EVIL SPIRITS, their agency, v. 45. EXAGGERATION, causes of it, iii. 136; checked by arithmetic, iv. 171, n. 3; instances of it--depths of places filled up, v. 292; earthquake at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3; editions of _Thomas à Kempis_, iii. 226, n. 4; opera girls in France, iv. 171. _Examen of Pope's Essay on Man_, i. 137. _Examiner, The_ (1873), iv. 202, n. 1. EXCELLENCE, how acquired, iv. 184, n. 1. EXCISE, Commissioners of, i. 294, n. 9. EXCISE, defined, i. 294; origin of Johnson's violence against it, i. 36, n. 5. _Excursion, The,_ ii. 26. EXECUTIONS, account of the capital convictions in 1783-5, iv. 328, n. 1, 329, n. 2, 359, n. 2; Boswell's love of seeing them: See under BOSWELL; condemnation sermon at Oxford, i. 273; capital punishment, cruel instance of, i. 147, n. 1; Newgate, removed to, iv. 188; _Rambler_, mentioned in the, iv. 188, n. 3; Tyburn, procession to, iv. 188-9. EXECUTORS, v. 106. EXERCISE, defined, iv. 151, n. 1; relief for melancholy, i. 64, 446; renders death easy, iv. 150, n. 2. EXETER, City and County, i. 36, n. 4; freedom given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2; George III visits it, iv. 165, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 457; iv. 77. EXETER, Dr. Ross, Bishop of, iv. 273. EXHIBITION. See ROYAL ACADEMY. EXISTENCE, complaints of existence being imposed on man, iii. 53; terms on which it is offered, iii. 58. See LIFE. EXPECTATIONS, i. 337, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 2. EXPENDITURE. See ECONOMY. EXPERIENCE, great test of truth, i. 454. _Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost_, i. 128, n. 2. 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