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Henderson, Mr John, and Johnson, talk on Nonjuror

reasoners, 469

Henley, Red Lion at, and Shenstone's lines, 251
Henry's "History of Britain," 355

"Hermit hoar and evening grey," instead of grey
evening, 305

the, brought tears to Johnson's eyes, 440
Hermits and monks, Johnson on: "I could kiss the
feet of a hermit," 550

"Heroic Epistle," written by Walpole, buckramed by
Mason, 477

Hervey, Henry, friend of Johnson, 21

Hervey's Mr Thomas, separation from his wife, 233
"Meditations," Johnson's poor opinion of,
637

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High Life below Stairs " praised, 389

High people the best, tradespeople the worst," etc.,
361

Highland chief, like an attorney-landlord, 645
should raise his rents by promoting in-
dustry, 601

"Highlands, who can like the?" Johnson's answer,
645

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

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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
Holyrood, visit to, 545

House, disrepair of, and the Douglas Cause, 641
Homage, and memorials to Johnson after his death,
list of pictures, etc., 509

Home, and Sheridan's medal, 214

Home, "Johnny," and Sheridan's medal, 640

Home life of Johnson described by Dr Maxwell,

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praised, 158

Homerick, that's," of Johnson's stick, 555
"Honest man," the Scotch of, Johnson, 611

pleased with everything. "Little do they know,"
etc., Boswell, 625

Hooke's Apology for the Duchess of Marlborough:
received a large sum for, 582

Hoole brought up in Grub Street, "regularly
educated," Johnson, 440
recommended by Johnson, 407

reads Church Service to Johnson on his death-
bed, "louder, my dear Sir," 506
Hoole's uncle, "the metaphysical tailor," 440
Hopetoun, Lord, his story of the child and Milton,
399 n

Horace, lyrical parts cannot be well translated, 362
Horace's "Difficile. . . communia dicere," discussion
on, 278 and n
Horne, Dr, 249

Horne Tooke's, "English Particle" praised by John-
son, 361

Horrebow, "The Natural History of Ireland," "there
are no snakes," etc., 340

Horses, old, what should be done with, Boswell's
question to Johnson, 457

Hospitality in London, 184

in the country, warning against, 449
lavish old, not needed now, 392

Hospitals, in, "all the good is done by one man," 271
"Hottentot respectable," not applied to Johnson, 62

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ICOMKILL, fine passage on, by Johnson, 309 "

sailing to, Johnson and Boswell, the visit and
ruins described, 632 and n

"Idea," wrong use of the word, 316

one, and that wrong," 157

Idleness, no settled indulgence in tolerated, 390
"Idler, The," begun, 79

Ignorance in high places, 147

Illness, last, Johnson's (March 1782), 428

progress of, described in letters to friends,
488

Imitations of Johnson's style; specimens of, 499
Imlac in "Rasselas " spelt with a c at the end, 395
Imports should be more than your exports," John-
son of the mind, 450

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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
in "The Spectator," 267

Inchkeith described, 548

Inchkenneth, Johnson's Latin lines on, 630
Income of £5000 a year equal to all wants, according
to Lord Shelburne, 336

Independence, Johnson's, with Lord Errol, 25
Index, Milton set down as Mr Milton, 479
India, making money in, 374

Inequality in society, 183

Infidel, as to respectful treatment of, in controversy,

249

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Instances of subservience, 25 n

Interest, why lower when money is plentiful, etc.,
Lord Kames's problem, 357

Intromission, vicious, Johnson's argument on, 546
Intuition and sagacity distinguished, 482

INVERARY CASTLE, and the Duke of Argyle, visit to,
described, 638

"Inverted understanding," 368

Invitations, Johnson "harassed by," at Edinburgh,
650

rash, to foreign countries, from relations, John-
son on, 481

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,
159

and English mix better than Scotch do with
them, 189

Johnson, a kindness for, 377

language, Teutonic, 328

clergy, Swift and Berkeley, 159

gentlemen, full of pride of family: Johnson's
instance, 610

Isa Island, offered to Johnson: his playing with the
notion, 606

Island, every, a prison, 608

Italy, Johnson preparing to go to, with the Thrales,
263

Johnson preferred going to, because few literati
in France, 600 and n

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KAMES, Lord, Johnson on, 146

Keddlestone, Lord Scarsdale's seat, visit to, 305
Keith, visit from, to Johnson, in Scotland, 568
Kelly, Hugh, Prologue by Johnson to his Play, 291
Kempis Thomas à, many editions of "The Imita-
tion," 467

"the world has opened its arms to it"—
a passage that so struck Johnson, 325
Kennicott's Collations praised, 157

Kenrick, Dr, attacks Johnson, 140
-Johnson, defended against, by "a boy at Oxford,"
(Barclay), 613

Kilda, St, fanciful scheme of buying it, 164
and "taking cold," 137

natives catching cold on arrival of a
stranger, 79

poetry, "poor because few images," John-
son, 600

history of, "a pretty piece of topography,"
Johnson, 565

Killaloe, the Bishop of, his lines on Johnson, 419 n
Kindness, spontaneous, "always set a high value on,"
Johnson, 419

King George III., Johnson's interview with, 133
King of Sweden, "he would not speak to us,"
Johnson; "I am sure Mr Boswell would
speak to him" (M'Leod), 595

King, the, Johnson for, against Fox, but for Fox against
Pitt, 471

"King's right" usurped by House of Commons
(1783), 436

Kingsburgh, arrival at, Flora Macdonald's house, 585
Kippis, Dr, praise of, 310
Kissing Johnson, the "
young married lady," 610.
"Knotting next to mere idleness; "Johnson once tried
to learn it, 468

Knowledge, diffusion of, injurious to the vulgar?
267

universality of Johnson's-tanning-nature of
milk, etc., 605

Knowles, Mrs, the Quakeress, at dinner with John-

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LANGTON BENNET, "will go to Heaven.”
anima mea cum Langtono," 467

Langton's collection of Johnson's remarks, 388

will and Johnson's merriment, 196

Langton, Mr Peregrine, account of, 128 n
Language, origin of, due to inspiration, 445

"Sit

Lichfield, Johnson's life at, 15

"Lanky" and "Goldy," Johnson's nicknames, 624 n
"Last link of a chain, its clanking absurd," etc.,
Grattan, Johnson's objection, 477
moments of Johnson described, 507

Latin spoken by Johnson in France, 237
"Latiner no," but a good preacher, 440 n
Laud and Prince Charles, 182

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
Lawyer, and the justness of his cause discussed, 541
Laziness" worse than toothache," etc., 600
Lead mine in Col, visit to, 622

Learned and unlearned, differ as the living and the
dead, 391

Learning, decrease of, in England and Scotland, 554

the, of a certain person, "it never lies straight;
never one idea by the side of another," etc., 450

Leaving London, recipe for. "We'll send you to
him," addressed to Boswell, 350

Lectures, college, discussed, 413
Leeds, Duke of, doggerel on, 391 and n
Legacies, Boswell's excuse for Johnson's not leaving
him one, 505 n

Legitimation of offspring by subsequent marriage, 252
Leith and "Lethe," 548

Leland, Dr, his "History of Ireland," 194

Lemonade, Johnson's, and the waiter's fingers, 553
"Lend me sixpence, not to be repaid," Johnson, 441
Lenox, Mrs, and Goldsmith, on hissing her play, 390
Leod, the first of the Clan, came from Isle of Man ;
inscription on him, 601

Leonard's, St, College, visit to, 549
"Leonidas" criticised, 565

Letter, when lost "of immense value;" when found
"it did not signify anything," 453

"Letter to the People of Scotland," Boswell's pam-
phlet, 460

Levee, priority of admission at, 222

Lever's Museum should be bought for the nation,
Johnson, 482

Levett, Robert, 56

Percy's account of his breakfast, 323 n
death of, and Johnson's verses on, 426
Lewis, an under master, author of verses in notes to
"The Dunciad," 475

Liberality, Johnson's, to Mrs Desmoulins, Miss Car-
michael, and Mrs Williams, 324

Johnson's, accompanied by "paltry saving," 441
his, but dependent on humour, 335
Liberty, popular, Johnson's contempt of, 140

of conscience and liberty of teaching, distin-
guished, 448

all boys love liberty, till they find out they are
fit to govern themselves, 369

Library abroad, where "the key could never be
found," 551

Licentiousness and imagination, 348
Lichfield, actor, of "courtly vivacity," Johnson; a

"most vulgar ruffian," according to Garrick, 255
Johnson's last visit to, in 1784, 495
Boswell's account of his stay at, and at Chester,
377, 378, 379

theatre at, and manager Stanton, 254
Johnson's school-days at, under Hunter, 6
people, praise of their pronunciation.
for Poonsh?" 254

Johnson returns to, from Oxford, 14
people got drunk every night, 550

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Life given to each one on particular conditions, 272
more to be endured than enjoyed, 157
every man would lead it over again, 474
balance of happiness and misery in, 473
Lilliburlero, 220

Lincoln, Boswell at, 362

Literary Club, the, founded; members, etc., 118
property, 195

work, not property, is taxable, 547

property, judges not gone deep into, 553
journals, Johnson on, 134

Literature in France and England compared, 333
French, "they have a book upon every subject,"
Johnson on, 453

respect from a carpenter, 419
"Lives of the Poets," 290

Johnson's, completed in 1781, 397

- various readings in Life of Cowley, Waller,
Milton, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Parnell,
Blackmore, Philips, Congreve, Tickell, Aken-
side, Lyttelton, Young, Swift, 397-404
Lloyd, one of the people called Quakers," 253.
Lobo, Johnson's translation of, "take no notice of
it," 260

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MACALLAN, EUPHAM, a fantastic Scotchwoman,
Lord Hailes' sketch of, 544

M'Aulay, Kenneth, author of "St Kilda," visit to, 565
his angry discussion with Johnson, 566

Mr John, grotesque dispute with Johnson, 640
Macbean, Johnson's application for his admission to
the Charterhouse, 387

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Macbeth's "blasted heath," Johnson and Boswell
at : All hail, Dalblair hail to thee, Laird of
Auchinleck," 565

Castle, at Inverness, Johnson's visit to, 568
"Maccaroni, a," Boswell, so styled by Johnson, 555
Maccaronic verses, origin of, 341

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,
580, 583

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,
his virtues, 575 n

Macdonald, Flora, and old Kingsburgh, 609
Macdonald, Sir J., his bond to Kingsburgh, 609
"M'Gregor, Dr," Johnson to change his name to,
568

Macheath, Capt., Johnson likened to, 414
Mackenzie, Sir, G., his book criticised, 594
Macklin's (?) conversation a "continual renovation of
hope," etc., 156

Maclaurin's (Lord Dreghorn), imitation of Johnson's
style, 225

his father's habit of yawning, 262 and n
his epitaph on his father, 547 n

M'Leans, the, Johnson and Boswell near Tobermorie,
626

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,
618

M'Leod, Mr John, Laird of Rasay, his corrections of
Johnson's "Journey," and Boswell's letter to,
655

his struggle with his debts, 583

M'Leod, Donald, Mr, describes Johnson: "First,
struck with awful reverence; second, you admire
him; third, you love him," 613

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

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never wrote a line of his Life of Marlborough, 370
ready for any "dirty job," 158

Man, a, lessened by another acquiring, equal know-
ledge, 184

of the world, " you may be so much a man of
the world as to be nothing in the world," 367
a, whether best drawn by Milton or Shakspeare,
408

Man, Isle of, Tour to, proposed, 280
Managing one's affairs-where a consciousness of in-
capacity, 412

Mankind, experience makes us think better of, 328
Manner, roughness of Johnson's, an advantage or
the reverse, 471

Manners, account of, the most valuable form of History,
554

Mansfield, Lord, on Johnson's "Journey," 213
Johnson "the greatest man in England except-
ing," 559

had no literary fame, 312

caught young," 176

must have been "a great English lawyer,"
Johnson, 650

Johnson's low opinion of, 438

Johnson "the greatest man in England next
to," 218

Manucci, Count, 283 n

Maps of the East Indies better than those of Scotland,
223

Marchmont, Lord, Johnson's interview with, 372

Boswell's visit to, concerning Pope, and Johnson's
refusal to go to him, 358

Market-Bosworth, school, Johnson usher at, 15
Marital infidelity, in case of, is retaliation justified?
264

Marmalade, Mrs Boswell's, 289
"Marmor Norfolciense," 31

Marriage: "a lady will take Jonathan Wild as readily
as St Austin if he have threepence more," 470
is it "natural to man?" 168

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in, no account of the moral character of a man, 470
a second, the triumph of hope over experience;
and good sense necessary in a wife, 158
with an inferior, on, 216

daughter's, a father no right to constrain his,
368

Bill, the Royal, disapproved by Johnson, 165
late, inadvisable, but preferable to "cheerless
celibacy," 158

"Marriages" happier if made by the Lord Chancellor,

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father, 595

constitutional, discussed, 248
Johnson's early state of, 11
allied to madness, 310

Memis, Dr, case decided, 286

Boswell's cause, argument on, by Johnson, 227
Memory, failing at seventy, proof of a diseased mind,
315

plays strange tricks, an instance of, Johnson, 552
Men allowed more liberty than women, 342
"Menagiana," the, pun in, 189

Mercheta Mulierum of the old Charters and "Borough
English," 628

Merit not neglected by the world; Johnson well
treated by, 436

"Messiah," Pope's, Johnson's version of, at college,
"he will soon be deterre," 10

Metcalfe's, Mr P., attention to Johnson at Brighton,433
Mickle, Julius, acquaintance with Johnson; his
" Lusiad," 458

Militia in Scotland, 246

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his "talk" with Johnson, 554

system of early rising, 308

his belief that all in posse might be in esse, 546
learning and colour of the Egyptians, 422
his praise of Johnson's "Journey," 309

his dislike of Johnson, 465 n

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as jealous of his tail as a squirrel," 564

Monckton, Miss (later Lady Cork), "a dunce," 417
Money-getting the most innocent form of employ-
ment, 214

or specie, scarce in Sky, 607

"will it purchase occupation?" the savage's
question, 311

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
fewer objections," etc., 158

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Sermons, good but not practical, 414

Mull, "a most dolorous country," Johnson, 627
Murphy, Arthur, high praise of, 157

erroneous account of Boswell's introduction to
Johnson, 95 n

his poetic letter to Johnson, 86

Murray, late Lord Henderland, "didn't venture to
say anything," 547

"Muses' Welcome, The," to King James, proved
learning in Scotland, 549

Music, two books on, would "sell each other," 553
ludicrous effect of, on Boswell; 'such a fool,"

316

Mutton, roast, "ill-fed, ill-killed," etc., Johnson,
468

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NABOB, a, carries it before a man of family, 562
'Nail, since you will drive the," Johnson, 607
Nairne, Mr, Johnson's compliment to, 548
National Debt no burden, 157

"Negotiations, the pious," as to Johnson's increase of

pension; failure of, 486

Negro, the argument for, and judgment, 318
Nelson's "Festivals," the greatest sale after the Bible,

253

Neni, Count, and Garrick on Abel Drugger, 267
New-born child, how Johnson would treat it, 149
Newhaven, Lord, and Johnson's discussion, 736
Newton superior to French Philosophers, 157

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Bishop of Bristol, criticised; 'Prophecies,"
"Tom's great work," 469 and n
Nichols, Dr, displaced by Lord Bute for a Scot, 222
recollections of Johnson, 505 and n
"Night-cap," Boswell and Johnson on a, 612
"Nil admirari," and Waller on, 224 and n
"No, Sir!" true meaning of Johnson's, 477
Nobility saved by their wealth and by entails from
falling into contempt, 561

"Non equidem invideo," etc., 348 and n

Nonjurors, Johnson never knew one that could reason.
Discussion on the point between Johnson and
Mr J. Henderson, 469 "

the, Johnson on, 214 and #

Nonsense, distinction between talking, and knowing
that you are talking nonsense, Johnson on, 143
North Pole, the, navigating towards, 602
Northumberland, Duke of, "fit to succeed himself,"

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