Universal History,' the Authours of, iv. 414.

Universities, English, not rich enough, ii. 53, 382; iii. 12.

Urban, Sylvanus, Johnson's Latin Ode on, i. 88, 89.

Walker, J. Cooper, Esq. of the Treasury, Dublin, i. 297; iii. 118
James, iv. 218.

Wall, Dr. Physician at Oxford, iv. 315.

Wall of China, iii. 291.

Waller, the poet, ii. 372; iii. 338.

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extract from his

Divine Poesy,' iv. 312.

Johnson's Life of, iv. 38.

Walmsley, Gilbert, Esq., i. 54, 56, 175.

his letter, recommending Johnson and Garrick, i. 78.
his Table-talk, iii. 51.

Walpole, Hon. Horace, iv. 338.

Sir Robert, his Administration defended, i. 106.

Walton, Isaac, his Lives,' ii. 290, 294, 375, 465; iii. 112.
Wapping, worth being explored, iv. 212.

War, iii. 287.

Warburton, i. 155, 239, 306.

made a Bishop by Pope, ii. 40, n.

his contest with Lowth, ii. 40.

Johnson's character of, iv. 46, 48, 309.

his judgment concerning biographers, i. 4.

Ward, the noted Dr., iii. 418.

Warley Camp, iii. 388.

Warren, the first bookseller in Birmingham, i. 59.

Dr. his generous attendance on Johnson, during his last

illness, iv. 435.

Warton, Rev. Dr. Joseph, his Essay on Pope's Life and Genius,'

i. 426; ii. 170.

Johnson's letters to, i. 227 ; ii. 112.

Warton, Rev. Thomas, i. Advertisement, x. 299, 307, 210, 311;
ii. 465; iv. 6.

his entertaining account of Johnson's

conversation when at Oxford in 1752, i. 245.

Johnson's letters to, i. 244, 251, 253,

255, 261, 268, 269, 299, 310, 311; ii. 68, 111.

Waste, household, hardly definable, iii. 286.

Watson, Rev. Dr. (Bishop of Landaff,) iv. 124,

Watts, Dr. his works, i. 289.

..... his life, iii. 135, 386.

Wealth, the right employment of it, iv. 186.

Weather, its influence, i. 406, 428; ii. 369; iv. 387, n.

Webster, Rev. Dr. Alexander, ii. 278, 283.

Wedderburne. See Loughborough.

Welch, Saunders, Esq., iii. 235, 238, 431; iv. 198.

Johnson's letter to, iii. 235.

Wentworth, Mr., Johnson's schoolmaster at Stourbridge, i. 26.
Wesley, Rev. John, iii. 251, 321.

Johnson's letter to, iii. 423.

West's Pindar,' iv, 27.

Westcote, Lord, confirms to Johnson the truth of his nephew's
vision, iv. 320.

Westminster Abbey, first Musical Festival at, iv. 304.
Wetherell, Rev. Dr., ii. 461; iv. 331.

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313.

no great private enmity between them and Tories, iv.

White, Rev. Mr. Henry, iv. 403, 404.

Rev. Dr. Joseph, ii. 213.

Whitefield, Rev. George, now Bishop in Pennsylvania, his cha-

racter, i. 50; ii. 78; iii. 349.

Whitefoord, Caleb, Esq. iv. 345.

Whitehead, Paul, Esq., i. 102.

William, Esq. i. 7; iv. 120.

"Whole Duty of Man,' conjectures on its authour, ii. 24.
Wife, praise from one, delightful, i. 187.

qualities of, Sir Thomas Overbury's verses on, ii. 75.
a studious, argumentative one, very troublesome, iv. 31.

Wilcox, Mr., the Bookseller, i. 79.

Wilkes, John, Esq. his jeu d'esprit on Johnson's Dictionary, i.

278.

106.

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meetings between him and Johnson, iii. 69, & seq.; iv.

Johnson's opinion of, iii. 200.

anecdotes of gallantry related by him, iv. 370.

his advice how to speak at the Bar of the House of
Commons, iii. 245.

his pleasantry on Johnson and himself as to their politicks
and religion, iii. 245.

William III. King, ii. 349.

Williams, Mr. Zachary, i. 210, 250, 279, 280.

Mrs. Anna, i. 210, 400, 441; ii. 93, 153; iii. 68, 96,
98, 139, 144, 392.

her general peevishness, iii. 26, 240; iv. 100.
Johnson's tenderness for her, iii. 26, 368.
her death, iv. 248, 256.

Miss Helen Maria, iv. 303.

Sir Charles Hanbury, ii. 36.

Wilson, Rev. Mr.,-Johnson's letter to, iv. 174.

Windham, Right Hon. William, iii. 127; iv. 212, 450, 453.
Johnson's high eulogium on, iv. 382.

Johnson's letters to, iv. 238, 390.

Wine, the use of, ii. 192, 196, 456; iii. 40, 185, 264, 266, 271,
330, 353, 361, 417; iv. 77, 85, 96.

Wirtemberg, Prince of, anecdote of, ii. 184.

Wit, iv. 109.

Witches, ii. 182, 411. See Shakspeare.

Woodhouse, the poetical Shoemaker, ii. 126.

Words, big ones, not to be used for little matters, i. 448; iii.

328.

Wraxall, N. W. Esq., iii. 459.

<World, the,' Periodical Essays, i. 399.

X.

Xenophon's Treatise on Economy, iii. 96.

'Retreat of the Ten Thousand,' (Book i.) affords

the earliest specimen of a delineation of characters, iv. 31.
Xerxes, Juvenal's fine verses on, ii. 233.

1

Y.

Young, Sir William, i. 174; ii. 161.

Young, Rev. Dr., his 'Night Thoughts,' i. 193; ii. 91; iv. 63.
Johnson's Life of, iv. 61.

anecdotes of, iv. 62, 63, 125, 126, 127.

iv. 320.

pined for preferment, yet affected to despise it, iii. 271.
Rev. Dr., his fine image of delicate satire,
Mr. (Professor of Greek at Glasgow,) his
Gray's Elegy,' in imitation of Johnson, iv. 428.

Criticisms on