Henderson, Mr John, and Johnson, talk on Nonjuror reasoners, 469 Henley, Red Lion at, and Shenstone's lines, 251 "Hermit hoar and evening grey," instead of grey the, brought tears to Johnson's eyes, 440 "Heroic Epistle," written by Walpole, buckramed by Hervey, Henry, friend of Johnson, 21 Hervey's Mr Thomas, separation from his wife, 233 High Life below Stairs " praised, 389 High people the best, tradespeople the worst," etc., Highland chief, like an attorney-landlord, 645 "Highlands, who can like the?" Johnson's answer, Hill, Dr (Sir John), Johnson on, 134 author of Mrs Glasse's Cookery-Book, 342 Historical facts, Johnson on, 144, Hoadly, Dr, "The Suspicious Husband," Johnson on, 137 "Hob-nob," Johnson asked to, by Miss Graham, "let us reciprocate," 376 Hodge, Johnson's cat, 442 Hollis, Thomas, the strenuous Whig, discussed, 414 House, disrepair of, and the Douglas Cause, 641 Home, and Sheridan's medal, 214 Home, "Johnny," and Sheridan's medal, 640 Home life of Johnson described by Dr Maxwell, praised, 158 Homerick, that's," of Johnson's stick, 555 pleased with everything. "Little do they know," Hooke's Apology for the Duchess of Marlborough: Hoole brought up in Grub Street, "regularly reads Church Service to Johnson on his death- Horace, lyrical parts cannot be well translated, 362 Horne Tooke's, "English Particle" praised by John- Horrebow, "The Natural History of Ireland," "there Horses, old, what should be done with, Boswell's Hospitality in London, 184 in the country, warning against, 449 Hospitals, in, "all the good is done by one man," 271 ICOMKILL, fine passage on, by Johnson, 309 " sailing to, Johnson and Boswell, the visit and "Idea," wrong use of the word, 316 one, and that wrong," 157 Idleness, no settled indulgence in tolerated, 390 Ignorance in high places, 147 Illness, last, Johnson's (March 1782), 428 progress of, described in letters to friends, Imitations of Johnson's style; specimens of, 499 Impressions, do not trust to, 421 Improving writings by revision or rewriting, Johnson on, 475 Ince and others pointed out at coffee-houses as writers Inchkeith described, 548 Inchkenneth, Johnson's Latin lines on, 630 Independence, Johnson's, with Lord Errol, 25 Inequality in society, 183 Infidel, as to respectful treatment of, in controversy, 249 Instances of subservience, 25 n Interest, why lower when money is plentiful, etc., Intromission, vicious, Johnson's argument on, 546 INVERARY CASTLE, and the Duke of Argyle, visit to, "Inverted understanding," 368 Invitations, Johnson "harassed by," at Edinburgh, rash, to foreign countries, from relations, John- Invocation of saints, 194 Inward light, the, 157 Ireland, Johnson's aversion to, 377 north of, and Scotland, connection between, 628 "Irene," Johnson's tragedy, 22 Irish Historical writers, Johnson on, 156 scholars among, gentlemen deficient in quality, and English mix better than Scotch do with Johnson, a kindness for, 377 language, Teutonic, 328 clergy, Swift and Berkeley, 159 gentlemen, full of pride of family: Johnson's Isa Island, offered to Johnson: his playing with the Island, every, a prison, 608 Italy, Johnson preparing to go to, with the Thrales, Johnson preferred going to, because few literati KAMES, Lord, Johnson on, 146 Keddlestone, Lord Scarsdale's seat, visit to, 305 "the world has opened its arms to it"— Kenrick, Dr, attacks Johnson, 140 Kilda, St, fanciful scheme of buying it, 164 natives catching cold on arrival of a poetry, "poor because few images," John- history of, "a pretty piece of topography," Killaloe, the Bishop of, his lines on Johnson, 419 n King George III., Johnson's interview with, 133 King, the, Johnson for, against Fox, but for Fox against "King's right" usurped by House of Commons Kingsburgh, arrival at, Flora Macdonald's house, 585 Knowledge, diffusion of, injurious to the vulgar? universality of Johnson's-tanning-nature of Knowles, Mrs, the Quakeress, at dinner with John- LANGTON BENNET, "will go to Heaven.” Langton's collection of Johnson's remarks, 388 will and Johnson's merriment, 196 Langton, Mr Peregrine, account of, 128 n "Sit Lichfield, Johnson's life at, 15 "Lanky" and "Goldy," Johnson's nicknames, 624 n Latin spoken by Johnson in France, 237 Lauder's imposture, Johnson's defence of, 53 Laughers, the, we should live with, for a time, 439 Law reports, poor, 184 Law, getting on at, in town, 311 "Law injures morality," Johnson, 136 Law's "Serious Call," Johnson's praise of, 156 Learned and unlearned, differ as the living and the Learning, decrease of, in England and Scotland, 554 the, of a certain person, "it never lies straight; Leaving London, recipe for. "We'll send you to Lectures, college, discussed, 413 Legitimation of offspring by subsequent marriage, 252 Leland, Dr, his "History of Ireland," 194 Lemonade, Johnson's, and the waiter's fingers, 553 Leonard's, St, College, visit to, 549 Letter, when lost "of immense value;" when found "Letter to the People of Scotland," Boswell's pam- Levee, priority of admission at, 222 Lever's Museum should be bought for the nation, Levett, Robert, 56 Percy's account of his breakfast, 323 n Liberality, Johnson's, to Mrs Desmoulins, Miss Car- Johnson's, accompanied by "paltry saving," 441 of conscience and liberty of teaching, distin- all boys love liberty, till they find out they are Library abroad, where "the key could never be Licentiousness and imagination, 348 "most vulgar ruffian," according to Garrick, 255 theatre at, and manager Stanton, 254 Johnson returns to, from Oxford, 14 "Whose Life given to each one on particular conditions, 272 Lincoln, Boswell at, 362 Literary Club, the, founded; members, etc., 118 work, not property, is taxable, 547 property, judges not gone deep into, 553 Literature in France and England compared, 333 respect from a carpenter, 419 Johnson's, completed in 1781, 397 - various readings in Life of Cowley, Waller, 66 MACALLAN, EUPHAM, a fantastic Scotchwoman, M'Aulay, Kenneth, author of "St Kilda," visit to, 565 Mr John, grotesque dispute with Johnson, 640 " Macbeth's "blasted heath," Johnson and Boswell Castle, at Inverness, Johnson's visit to, 568 Macaulay, Mrs, rouging, 270 Johnson "pitted against," 313 M'Craas at Glensheal, 573 and n M'Cruslick, or Sandie M'Leod, his dancing at Rasay, Macdonald, Sir A., evening with, 166 Boswell's attacks on, 574, 575 Macdonald, Lady M., adored in Sky, 609 Macdonald, Sir James, his monument and inscription, Macdonald, Flora, and old Kingsburgh, 609 Macheath, Capt., Johnson likened to, 414 Maclaurin's (Lord Dreghorn), imitation of Johnson's his father's habit of yawning, 262 and n M'Leans, the, Johnson and Boswell near Tobermorie, M'Lean, Sir Allen, Boswell with, at Inchkenneth, 629 M'Lean, Sir A., and his clansman, 633 M'Lean, Rev. Hector, Johnson's grotesque scene with, M'Leod, Mr John, Laird of Rasay, his corrections of his struggle with his debts, 583 M'Leod, Donald, Mr, describes Johnson: "First, M'Leod, Malcolm of Rasay, sketch of, 578 M'Leod, Lady of Dunvegan, 593 Macpherson, 205 Johnson's famous letter to, 207 M'Pherson at Ostig, and his Latin Ode, 611 never wrote a line of his Life of Marlborough, 370 Man, a, lessened by another acquiring, equal know- of the world, " you may be so much a man of Man, Isle of, Tour to, proposed, 280 Mankind, experience makes us think better of, 328 Manners, account of, the most valuable form of History, Mansfield, Lord, on Johnson's "Journey," 213 had no literary fame, 312 caught young," 176 must have been "a great English lawyer," Johnson's low opinion of, 438 Johnson "the greatest man in England next Manucci, Count, 283 n Maps of the East Indies better than those of Scotland, Marchmont, Lord, Johnson's interview with, 372 Boswell's visit to, concerning Pope, and Johnson's Market-Bosworth, school, Johnson usher at, 15 Marmalade, Mrs Boswell's, 289 Marriage: "a lady will take Jonathan Wild as readily in, no account of the moral character of a man, 470 daughter's, a father no right to constrain his, Bill, the Royal, disapproved by Johnson, 165 "Marriages" happier if made by the Lord Chancellor, father, 595 constitutional, discussed, 248 Memis, Dr, case decided, 286 Boswell's cause, argument on, by Johnson, 227 plays strange tricks, an instance of, Johnson, 552 Mercheta Mulierum of the old Charters and "Borough Merit not neglected by the world; Johnson well "Messiah," Pope's, Johnson's version of, at college, Metcalfe's, Mr P., attention to Johnson at Brighton,433 Militia in Scotland, 246 his "talk" with Johnson, 554 system of early rising, 308 his belief that all in posse might be in esse, 546 his dislike of Johnson, 465 n as jealous of his tail as a squirrel," 564 Monckton, Miss (later Lady Cork), "a dunce," 417 or specie, scarce in Sky, 607 "will it purchase occupation?" the savage's if not hoarded, usually well laid out, 437 Montagu, Mrs, "did good by stealth," 270 her Essay on Shakspeare, 146 Johnson not pleased with, "but never found 409 Sermons, good but not practical, 414 Mull, "a most dolorous country," Johnson, 627 erroneous account of Boswell's introduction to his poetic letter to Johnson, 86 Murray, late Lord Henderland, "didn't venture to "Muses' Welcome, The," to King James, proved Music, two books on, would "sell each other," 553 316 Mutton, roast, "ill-fed, ill-killed," etc., Johnson, 66 NABOB, a, carries it before a man of family, 562 "Negotiations, the pious," as to Johnson's increase of pension; failure of, 486 Negro, the argument for, and judgment, 318 253 Neni, Count, and Garrick on Abel Drugger, 267 Bishop of Bristol, criticised; 'Prophecies," "Non equidem invideo," etc., 348 and n Nonjurors, Johnson never knew one that could reason. the, Johnson on, 214 and # Nonsense, distinction between talking, and knowing |