company, and of the party almost throughout. It has given very general fatisfaction; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there, have agreed that they could not help going through, and being entertained through the whole. I wish, indeed, some few gross expreffions had been softened, and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded; but it is useful to fee the weaknesses incident to great minds; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told." Such a fančtion to my faculty of giving a just representation of Dr. Johnfon I could not conceal. Nor will I fuppress my fatisfaction in the consciousness, that by recording so confiderable a portion of the wisdom and wit of " the brightest ornament of the eighteenth century *," I have largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind. London, April 20, 1791, * See Mr. Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare. ALPHABETICAL
Adey, Mifs, ii. 37, 306. Antiquities, the study of, ii. 308, Argyle, Archibald, Duke of, ii. 85. Afcham, Roger, Johnson's life of, i. 253. club, ii. 567. Ashbourne, fingular anecdote of the mistress of Astle, Thomas, Esq. ii. 410. • Adventurer,' Hawkesworth's, i. 127, 135, 6, 7,8. Adultery, i. 302, 413; ii. 262. Akenfide's poetry, i. 363; ii. 59. Akerman, Mr. character and anecdotes of, ii. 319, 320. Alfred, Johnson's defire to write his life, i. 95. his will, ii. 410. Allen, Mr. the printer, ii. 214, 384. America and The Americans, i. 444, 5, 458; ii. 175, 227, 241, 340, 377. • Anthologia, Johnson's tranflations from, ii. 560. Johnson'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 System of Physick,' ii. 60. Barry, Mr. his paintings, ii. 426. Bath, Johnson'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 verses by, ii. 341. Beresford, Mrs. and Mifs, ii. 495. Biographia Britannica, ii. 157, 489. Biography, remarks on, i. 1-7; ii. 26, 85, 144, 357,387,553,570.. Boerhaave, his life by Johnfon, i. 77. Bolingbroke, Lord, his works, i. 145. Bolton, Mr. of Birmingham, ii. 32. Books and Booksellers, ii. 12, 162, 493. Boothby, Miss, letter of Johnson to, ii. 360. Bosvile, Godfrey, Efq. ii. 326. Bofwell (the authour of this work) introduced to Johnfon, i. 211. his Account of Corfica,' i. 298, 303, --- his Letter to the People of Scotland, on Mr. Fox's India Bill, ii. 478, 480. - For other matters fee i. 257, 274, 283, 298, 329, 393; ii. 3, 276, 425, 556. - 443, 5, 6, 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. Birds, their migration, i. 414. Bishops, ii. 492, 518. Blackfriar's Bridge, i. 191. Blacklock's poetry, i. 254. Blackmore, i. 330. 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. Letter to the Authour on Pope's • Effay on Man,' ii. 299. Reverend Robert, authour of The Grave, Blake, Admiral, his life by Johnson, i. 77. Braithwa te, Mr. ii. 493. Brocklesby, Dr. his kind attention to Johnson, ii. 439, 460, 481, 527, 570. & feq. Letters of Johnson to, ii. 462, 537, Browne, Sir Thomas, his life by Johnfon, i. 169. Buchan, Earl of, anecdote of, i. 370. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,' i. 408. Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, anecdotes of and remarks on, ii. 27, 90, 246, 339, 343, - the authour introduced to him, i. 408. Burke, her imitations of Johnson's style, ii. 564. Burrowes, Reverend Robert, his remarks on and imitations of Johnson's style, ii. 564. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' ii. 23. • Cleonice, Hoole's, i. 442. Clergy The, i. 368, 9, 409, 410, & feq. ii. 133, 235, 240, 373, 4, 381. -Advice to a young clergyman, ii. 323. Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, ii. 377. Clive, Lord, ii. 298. Clive, Mrs. the actress, ii. 332, 468. Club, Effex-Head, established by Johnson, ii. Carleton, Captain, his Memoirs,' ii. 524. Carlifle, Earl of, his poems, ii. 397. his tragedy, ii. 470. Cator, John, Efq. Johnson's character of him- O'Conor, Charles, Esq. Johnson's letters to, on Cattle extraordinary, ii. 141. Cave, Mr. Edward, his life by Johnson, i. 138, and his fine feat, ii. 513. his Account of Ireland,' i. 177; ii. 113. Cook, Capt. ii. 47. - Johnson's letters to him, i. 41, 50, 61, 2, Courtenay, John, Esq. extracts from his poem Cowley, Johnson's life of, ii. 346. Dodsley, Robert, ii. 26, 62, 339. Douglas, Dr. (Bishop of Carlisle,) i. 125; ii. 492. Douglas cause, i. 300, 400, 3; ii. 183. Cruikshank, Mr. letter of Johnson to, ii. 547. DALRYMPLE, Sir John, his Memoirs,' Davies, Mr. Thomas, character and anecdotes of, i. 210, 211, 305, 7, 321, 429,476, 9; ii. 63, 186, 201, 460. Johnson's kind letters to, ii. 460, 548. 456, and fee Johnfon. Dedications and Prefaces by Johnson, and remarks on, i. 85, 94, 9, 138, 174, 194, 8, 9, 208, 272, 3, 285,297,389,399; Delaney's Observations on Swift,' ii. 202. Dempster, George, Efq. i. 236, 451. Derby, some particulars as to, ii. 150. Devonshire, Duke of, ii. 165; and Duchess, Dick, Sir Alexander, his letters to and concern- ing Johnson, ii. 104, 125, 480. • Dictionary of the English Language,' Johnson's, i. 98, 9, 101, &c.. 358, 389; ii. 301, 330. Dilly, Messieurs, ii. 80, 111, 400, 9. Dryden, Johnson's life of, ii. 85,350. Duelling, i. 372, 400; ii. 450 Du Halde's Account of China,' i. 302. Duncembe, Mr. ii. 240. Dundas, Right Hon. Henry, ii. 180. Dunning, Mr. his high compliment to Johnfon ii. 197. 201, 214, 221. - Johnson's assistance to him, ii. 119, 124, 115. Elwal, the enthusiast, i. 363. Emigration, ii. 191. Johnson's letters on, ii. 4, 7. Epilogue to The Distrest Mother,' i. 22.. Epifcopacy, ii. 280, 492, 518. Epitaphs, i. 514; ii. 450, 566. Erskine, Hon. Thomas, i. 369, 370. Eumelian club, ii. 567. Exhibition of paintings, i. 197. FABLE, |