company, and of the party almost throughout. It has given very general fatisfaction; and those who have found most fault with a paffage here and there, have agreed that they could not help going through, and being entertained through the whole. I wish, indeed, fome few grofs expreffions had been softened, and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more fhaded; but it is useful to fee the weakneffes incident to great minds; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told." Such a fanction to my faculty of giving a just reprefentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal. Nor will I fupprefs my fatisfaction in the consciousness, that by recording fo confiderable a portion of the wisdom and wit of "the brightest ornament of the eighteenth century," I have largely provided for the inftruction and entertainment of mankind. London, April 20, 1791. * See Mr. Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare. ALPHABETICAL ALPHABETICAL Abjuration, oath of, i. 463. Addifon, Johnson's opinion of, i. 123, 231, his ftyle compared with Johnfon's, i. 122. Johnfon's life of, ii. 356, 383. Adventurer,' Hawkefworth's, i. 127, 135, 6, Adultery, i. 302, 413; ii. 262. Johnfon's Letters to him, i. 196, 201, 3. Barnard, Dr. (Bishop of Killaloe) i. 454; ii. 92, Barretier, J. P. his life by Johnfon, i. 77, 81. Barrington, Hon. Daines, ii. 241. Barrow, Dr. his Sermons, ii. 391. Barry, Dr. his Syftem of Phyfick,' ii. 60. Barry, Mr. his paintings, ii. 426. Bath, Johnfon's vifit to, ii. 66. Beattie, Dr. i. 349, 354, 388. Letter from Johnson to, ii. 321. Beggar's Opera,' i. 488, 9; ii. 245. Bentley, Dr. English verfes by, ii. 341. Bewley, Mr. his enthufiaftick veneration for Bibliotheca Harleiana,' i. 81. Biddulph, Sidney,' the novel, i. 210. Biographia Britannica,' ii. 157, 489. Biography, remarks on, i. 1-7; ii. 26, 85, 144, 357, 387, 553, 570. Bolingbroke, Lord, his works, i. 145. Bolton, Mr. of Birmingham, ii. 32. Books and Bookfellers, ii. 12, 162, 493. Boothby, Mifs, letter of Johnfon to, ii. 360. Bofvile, Godfrey, Esq. ii. 326. Bofwell (the authour of this work) introduced to Johnson, i. 211. his Account of Corfica,' i. 298, 303, elected of the Literary Club, i. 408. his Letter to the People of Scotland," Johnfon's arguments in favour of his try- Johnson's letters to him, i. 258, 273, Letters to Johnfon from him, i. 348, Bofwell, Mrs. i. 428, 430; ii. 181, 3, 309, 428. Boucher, Governour, ii. 381. his letter to Johnfon on his Dictionary, Boufflers, Mad. de, i. 513. i. 158. Birds, their migration, i. 414. Bifhops, ii. 492, 518. Blackfriar's Bridge, i. 191. Blacklock's poetry, i. Blackmore, i. 330. 254. Johnfon's life of, ii. 358. Blagden, Dr. i. 510; ii. 344. Blair, Reverend Dr. Hugh, his Sermons,' ii. 100, 6, 152, 178, 256, 387. Effay on Man,' ii. 299. Braithwa'te, Mr. ii. 493. Bribery, i. 477. Brocklesby, Dr. his kind attention to Johnson, Letters of Johnfon to, ii. 462, 537,- Burke, his Effay on the Sublime,' &c. i. 319. Burman, his life by Johnson, i. 77. Johnfon's letters to him, i. 159, 178, 9, 272; ii. 465, 543—5, 554. Anecdotes of Johnfon related by him, her imitations of Johnfon's ftyle, ii. 564. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' ii. 23. Bute, Lord, i. 481, 2; ii. 40, 89, 406. Byng, Admiral, his epitaph, i. 173. Byng, Hon. John, his Letter to Mr. Malone, Clarke, Dr. his works, ii. 578. Clarke, Richard, Efq. ii. 478. Clergy The, i. 368, 9, 409, 410, & feq. ii. 133, Advice to a young clergyman, ii. 323. Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, ii. 377. Clive, Mrs. the actress, ii. 332, 468. Club, Effex-Head, eftablished by Johnson, ii. Congreve, his works, i. 317, 322. Congreve, Reverend Mr. i. 13; ii. 33. • Connoiffeur,' The, i. 228. Cator, John, Efq. Johnfon's character of him- O'Conor, Charles, Efq. Johnfon's letters to, ca and his fine feat, ii. 513. Johnson's letters to him, i. 41, 50, 61, 2, 3, 70, 1, 82, 3. Chamberlayne, Reverend Mr. ii. 498. Letter from Johnson to him, i. 149. i. 391. Davies, Mr. Thomas, character and anecdotes of, i. 210, 211, 305, 7, 321, 429, 476, 9 ; ii. 63, 186, 201, 460. Johnfon's kind letters to, ii. 460, 548. Dedications and Prefaces by Johnson, and remarks on, i. 85, 94, 9, 138, 174, 194, 8, 9, 208, 272, 3, 285, 297, 389, 399; Derby, fome particulars as to, ii. 150.. Derrick, i. 213, 247, 8; ii. 460. Devaynes, Mr. ii. 489. Dodfley, Robert, ii. 26, 62, 339. Douglas, Dr. (Bishop of Carlisle,) i. 125; ii. 492.- Douglas caufe, i. 300, 400, 3; ii. 183. Drummond, Mr. William, Johnson's letters to, Dryden, Johnfon's life of, ii. 85, 350. Duelling, i. 372, 400; ii. 450. Du Halde's Account of China,' i. 302. Duncombe, Mr. ii. 240. Dundas, Right Hon. Henry, ii. 180. 115. Letters from Johnson to him, i. 114, Elwal, the enthusiast, i. 363. Emigration, ii. 191. Epilogue to The Distreft Mother,' i. 22. Epifcopacy, ii. 280, 492, 518. Epitaphs, i. 514; ii. 450, 566. Erskine, Hon. Thomas, i. 369, 370. Eumelian club, ii. 567. |