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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, some 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 representation of Dr. Johnfon I could not conceal. Nor will I fupprefs my fatisfaction in the confcioufness, 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

TABLE OF CONTENT S,

TO BOTH VOLUMES.

The Letters refer to the Volume, the Figures to the Page.

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Antiquities, the study of, ii. 308,
Arbuthnot, i. 231.

Architecture, ii. 22.

Argyle, Archibald, Duke of, ii. 85.
Armorial bearings, i. 372.

Afcham, Roger, Johnfon's life of, i. 253.
Afh, John, M. D. founder of the Eumelian
club, ii. 567.

Afhbourne, fingular anecdote of the mistress of
an inn there, ii. 176.
Aftle, Thomas, Efq. ii. 410.

Reverend Mr. ii. 512.
Afton, Mrs. ii. 37, 258, 306, 360.
Avarice, ii. 245.

Auchinleck, Lord, (the Authour's father,) ii. 4, 426.

Place of, ii. 100.

Authours, of deciding on their MSS. ii. 381; ii. 207, 244, 282.

of their writing for profit, ii. 149. the respect due to them, ii. 239, 397.

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Berwick, Duke, his Memoirs,' ii. 224.

Bewley, Mr. his enthufiaftick veneration for

Johnfon, ii. 411.

Bibliotheca Harkiana,' i. 81.

Biddulph, Sidney,' the novel, i. 210.

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Biographia Britannica, ii. 157, 489.

Biography, remarks on, i. 1-7; ii. 26, 85, 144,

357, 387, 553, 570.

Birch, Dr. i. 85.

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Johnson's letters to him, i. 258, 273,
303, 9, 331, 348, 352, 387, 9, 424, 5, 6,
8, 430, 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 440, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7,
495, 6, 7, 8, 9, 515; ii. 1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11,
12, 66, 94, 8, 9, 106, 107, 120, 1, 7, 131,
177, 180, 2, 218, 274, 8, 281, 295, 6,
307, 312, 322, 8, 370, 412, 422, 4, 5, 6,
7, 431, 461, 471, 480, 2, 3, 536, 555, 6.

Letters to Johnfon from him, i. 348,
351, 388,428, 436, 8, 443, 5, 6, 455, 496,
514; ii. 10, 94, 106, 116, 120, 4, 7, 130,
177, 8, 181, 3, 4, 5, 218, 272, 280, 295,
305, 8, 310, 321, 5.

Bofwell, Mrs. i. 428, 430; ii. 181, 3, 309, 428.
Letters of Johnfon to, ii. 93, 126, 427.
Dr. his character of Johnfon, ii. 47.
Mr. Thomas David, ii. 321, 579.

Boucher, Governour, ii. 381.

his letter to Johnfon on his Dictionary, Boufflers, Mad. de, i. 513.

i. 158.

Birds, their migration, i. 414.

Bithops, ii. 492, 518.

Blackfriar's Bridge, i. 191.

Blackmore, i. 330.

Blacklock's poetry, i. 254.

Johnfon's life of, ii. 358.
Blagden, Dr. i. 510; ii. 344.
Blair, Reverend Dr. Hugh, his
ii. 100, 6, 152, 178, 256, 387.
Letter to the Authour on Pope's

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Effay on Man,' ii. 299.
Reverend Robert, authour of The Grave,'

ii. 68.

Blake, Admiral, his life by Johnfon, i. 77.
Blaney, Elizabeth, i. 9; ii. 552.

Braithwa te, Mr. ii. 493.

Bribery, i. 477.

Brocklefby, Dr. his kind attention to Johnfon,
ii. 439, 460, 481, 527, 570.

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Letters of Johníon to, ii. 462, 537>

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his tragedy, ii. 470.

Carter, Mrs. i. 71; ii. 491.

Charles I. i: 490, Johnson's opinion of.
II. i. 4994,

Chastity, ii. 31, 569, and fee Marriage.
Chatterton's poems, ii. 69.

Chesterfield, Lord, i. 99, 138, 391, 467; ii. 265,
289, 438, 524-

141.

his Letters,' i. 144; ii. 71.

Johnfon's fevere letter to him, i.

Cheyne's English Malady,' ii. 94.
Children, i. 14, 245, 514; ii. 58, 126.
Christian religion, evidence of, i. 246; ii. 166,

242.

ii.

578.

Clarke, Richard, Efq. ii. 478.
• Cleone,' Dodfley's, ii. 339.
* Cleonice,' Hoole's, i. 442.

Clarke, Dr. his works,

Clergy The, i. 368, 9, 409, 410, & feq. ii. 1-33,

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 Johnfon, ii.

475, 6, 8.

Coachmakers'-hall debating fociety, ii. 384, 5.

Cobb, Mrs. ii. 37, 306.

Cock-lane ghoft, i. 220; ii. 212.

Collections in writing, their use, i. 320.

Collins, the poet, i. 207.

Colman, George, Efq. i. 461; ii. 100, 334.
his Letter from Lexiphanes,' ii. 562.

Cator, John, Efq. Johnfon's character of him- O'Conor, Charles, Efq. Johnfon's letters to, cni

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Cruikshank, Mr. letter of Johnson to, ii. 547.
Cullen, Dr. confulted on Johnfon's illness, ii. 482.
Cumberland, Richard, Efq. ii. 365, 560.

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DALRYMPLE, Sir John, his Memoirs,'

i. 391.

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.
his Memoirs of Garrick, ii. 322.

Deane's Future Life of Brutes,' i. 301.

Death, reflections on, i. 320, 9; ii. 229, 239,

456, and fee Johnfon.

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Eliot, Mr. of Port-Eliot, (now Lord,) ii. 376.
Ellis, Mr. John, anecdotes of, ii. 54.
his politenefs to Johnson, ii. 524.
Elphinstone, his edition of The Rambler,'
i. 113.

115.

Letters from Johnson to him, i, 114,

Emigration, ii. 191.

Elwal, the enthufiaft, i. 363.

Entails, ii. 3, & feq. 9, 16, 18.

Johnfon's letters on, ii. 4, 7.

Epilogue to The Diftreft 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.

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