Boswell's Life of Johnson

Beauclerk.

397; adultery, his, with Lady Bolingbroke, whom he afterwards married, ii. 282, 283; iii. 397; v. 345; Baretti and Johnson's projected Italian tour, iii. 22; Baretti's trial, ii. III, n. 3; 'Beau,' name of, ii. 296; 'bear, like a word in a catch,' ii. 398; Boswell an unnatural Scotchman, calls, iii. 441; zealous for his election to the Literary Club, ii. 270; v. 86; Charles II, descended from, i. 288; iii. 443, n. 3; chemistry, love of, i. 290; children, his, iii. 477; conversation, i. 288; iii. 443,482; iv. 499; v. 86; — little affected by his travels, iii. 401 510, 520; Cumberland's Odes, iii. 50, n. 1; Davies, Tom, clapping a man on the back, ii. 394; death, iii. 477, 482; dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 270, 372, 433, n. 3; iii. 403, 439; facility, wonderful, iii. 482; frisk,' his, i. 290; gambling at Venice, i. 440, n. 1; gaming-club, account of a, iii. 26; Garrick's portrait, inscription on, iv. 112; Goldsmith and Malagrida, iv. 201, n. 2; health, his, ii. 334, 355; iii. .118, 474; Italy, tour to, i. 427, 440; Johnson, first acquaintance with, i. 288; accompanies to Cambridge, i. 563; fection for him, iv. 12, 115, 208; altercations with, iii. 319, 437; reconciliation, iii. 438; — and Mme. de Boufflers, ii. 465; - ' coalition with, i. 289; dress as a dramatic author, i. 232, n. 3; Hervey, ii. 36; and a Mr. Hervey, iii. 221, 222, 238, 240; — Jacobitism, i. 498; levee, attends, ii. 136; marriage, i. III; pension, saying about, i. 290; portrait, inscrip

iv. 208;

tion on, dogs, ii. 341; v. 375; ange peel, ii. 378;

and Thomas

and the two

use of or

visits him at

Beaumont.

Windsor, i. 290; Johnson's Court, veneration for, ii. 263; laboratory, his, ii. 433, n. 3; library, his, ii. 433, n. 3; sold, iii. 477, n. 4; iv. 122; sermons in it, ib.; Lilliburlero, effect of, ii. 397; Literary Club, original member of the, i. 552, 553, n. 2; describes it, ii. 221, n. 2, 314, n. 2; manner, his, acid, ii. 415, n. 2; lively, ii. 464; iii. 443; Montagu's, Mrs., Essay, could not read, v. 279; mother, his, iii. 477; v. 336; Muswell Hill, house at, ii. 433, n. 3; Pope's lines on Foster, mentioned, iv. II; predominance over his company, iii. 444; professor in the imaginary college, v. 123; same one day as another, iii. 219; satire, love of, i. 289; I see him again,' iv. 228; Smith's, Adam, talk, iv. 29, n. 2; Spence's Anecdotes of Pope, iv. 10; story, mode of telling a, iii. 443; Thrale, Mrs., hated by, i. 288, n. 3; truthfulness, his, v. 375, n. 1; wife, treatment of his, ii. 282, n. 1; mentioned, i. 414; ii. 363, 435; iii. 238, n. 1; iv. 32, 39, n. 3, 88, 132; v. 116, 245. BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana, wife of Topham Beauclerk, account of her, ii. 282, n. 1; Boswell's 'apology' for her, ii. 282; bet with her, ii. 378; charming conversation, ii. 275; Langton's height, joke about, i. 390, n. 1; gives him Johnson's portrait, iv. 112; nurses her husband with assiduity, ii. 334; left guardian of his children, iii.

477.

BEAUCLERK, Lord Sidney, Topham Beauclerk's father, i. 287, n. 3.

BEAUCLERK, Lady Sydney, v. 336. BEAUFORT, Duchess of (in 1780), iii. 482.

BEAUMONT, Francis, i. 87, n. 4.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, co-opera

BEAUTY, independent of utility, ii. 190; | BELL, Rev. Mr., of Strathaven, iii. 409.

iv. 193.

BEAUX STRATAGEM, Archer quoted, v.
151, n. 1; acted by Garrick, iii. 60; |
Boniface praises his ale, ii. 528; is
done good to by Latin, iii. 102, n. 2;
Scrub, iii. 80.
BECKENHAM, iv. 361.
BECKET, T., the bookseller, ii. 336.
BECKFORD, Alderman, account of him,
iii. 87, n. 2; Chatterton's gain by his
death, iii. 228, n. 6; his English, iii.
87, 228; Lord Mayor, iii. 522; mon-
ument in Guildhall, iii. 228.
BEDFORD, iv. 153.

BEDFORD, fourth Duke of, attack on

the ministry in 1766, iv. 366; vails, tries to abolish, ii. 89, n. 1; vice-roy in Ireland, ii. 150, n. 1.

BEDFORD, fifth Duke of, iii. 323; iv. | BENEVOLENCE, motive to action, iii. 56;

146.

BEDFORD, Hilkiah, iv. 331, n. I.

mingled with vanity, ib. BENEVOLISTS, The, iii. 169, n. I.

BEDFORDSHIRE, militia, i. 356, n. 2; BENGAL, iii. 152, n. 1, 264, 517.

iii. 453.

BEDLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 429; curiosities of London, one of the, ii. 429, n. 1; houses built near it,

iv. 240.

BENNET, James, editor of Ascham's
Works, i. 537.

BENSLEY, Robert, the actor, ii. 51.
BENSON, William, his monument to
Milton, i. 264, n. 1; v. 108, n. I.

BEER, allowance of, to servants and BENTHAM, Dr. E., ii. 509.

soldiers, iii. II, n. 2. Beggar's Opera. See GAY, John. BEGGARS, beg more readily from men

than women, iv. 38; English compared with Scotch, v. 84, n. 1; many in want of work, iii. 456; their trade overstocked, iii. 456; mentioned, iii. See ALMSGIVING.

30.

BENTHAM, Jeremy, on convict-labour, iii. 305, n. 1; Shelburne's, Lord, wretched education, iii. 41, n. 2; fearlessness as a minister, iv. 200, n. 6. BENTLEY, Dr., attacks, never answered, ii. 70, n. 1; v. 198; Barnes's Greek, iv. 23, n. 1; Boyle, attacked by, v. 270, n. 3; Cunninghame, criticised

Bentley.

by, v. 424; Epistles of Phalaris, iv. 512; Horace, Comments on, ii. 508; iii. 84, n. 3; Johnson, celebrated by, i. 177, n. 4; v. 198; no man

Birch.

scribing it instead of the Articles,

ii. 174. Bibliopole, ii. 395.

Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 177. written down but by himself,' i. 441, | Bibliotheca Literaria, v. 508.

328-330.

n. 2; v. 312; Pope and Homer, iii. Bibliothèque, Johnson's scheme of a, i. 291, n. 2; Preface to his edition of Paradise Lost, iv. 29, n. 1; scholarship perhaps unequalled, iv. 251; Scotchman, not a, ii. 416, n. 4; studied hard, i. 82; iv. 24; v. 360; verses, his, iv. 27; Wasse's Greek Trochaics, v. 508.

BENTLEY, Richard, Junior, iv. 333, n. 2. BERESFORD, Mrs. and Miss, iv. 327. BERESFORD, Rev. Mr., iii. 323. BERKELEY, Bishop, Burke's projected answer to his theory, i. 545; nonexistence of matter, on the, i. 545; iv. 32; profound scholar, ii. 152; ' reverie,' his, iii. 187; Warburton's ignorant criticism on him, v. 91, n. 3. BERRENGER, Richard, iv. 102, 105. BERWICK, ii. 306.

Bibl. des Fées, ii. 448-9.
Bibliothèque des Savans, i. 374.
BICKERSTAFF, Isaat, account of him,
ii. 94, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 97.
BICKNELL, J. L., i. 365.
Big, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 396;
v. 485

Big man, ii. 16.
BIGAMY, V. 246.
Bills, i. 435.

BINDLEY, James, i. 18.
BINNING, Lord, ii. 214; iii. 376.
Biographia Britannica, first edition,
iv. 314, n. 3; Dr. John Campbell a
contributor, ii. 512; Johnson asked
to edit a new edition, iii. 198; edited
by Kippis, ib.; account of it, ib. n. 2.

BERWICK, Duke of, Memoirs, iii. 324. | BIOGRAPHICAL CATECHISM, iv. 433.
BESBOROUGH, Earl of, v. 299.
BEST, H. D., Gibbon and the Duke of
Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2; George Lang-
ton, and his pedigree, 287, n. 2;
Johnson's visit to Langton, i. 552,

" n. I.

BETHUNE, Rev. Mr., v. 237.
BETTERTON, Thomas, iii. 210.
BETTESWORTH, Rev. E., i. 537, n. 2.
BETTESWORTH, Sergeant, iii. 428, n. 4.
Betty Broom, iv. 284.

BEWLEY, William, the Philosopher of
Massingham, iv. 155.
BEZA, ii. 330.

BIAS the philosopher, iii. 355, n. 4.
BIBLE, The, calculation for reading it
in a year, i. 84, n. 2; Johnson reads
it through, ii. 218, n. 1; should be
read with a commentary, iii. 67; sub-

BIOGRAPHY, authentic material difficult
to get, iii. 81; best when autobiogra-
phy, i. 29; can be written only by a
man's intimates, ii. 191, 510; iii. 176,
n. 2; Goldsmith's praise of it, v. 89,
n. 3; Johnson's excellence in it, i.296;
iv. 40, n. 4; - fondness for it, i. 492;
iii. 234, n. 1; iv. 40; v. 89; literary,
ii. 46; v. 273; method of writing it,
i. 37; men should be drawn as they
are, i. 36; iv. 62, 456; v. 271; com-
mon cant' against it, iii. 312, n. 2;
minute particulars to be given, i. 38;
and peculiarities, iii. 175; rarely well
executed, ii. 510; vices, how far to
be mentioned, iii. 175; writing trifles
with dignity, iv. 40, n. 4.
BIRCH, Rev. Thomas, D.D., account
of him by H. Walpole, i. 34, n. I;

by I. D'Israeli, i. 184, n. 1; anec- BISCAY, language of, i. 373.
dotes, full of, v. 290; conversation
and writings, i. 184; correspondence
with Mrs. Carter, i. 159; — Cave, i.
161, 174-6; Johnson, i. 184, 262,
330; Earl of Orrery, i. 214; His-
tory of the Royal Society, i. 357; ii.
45, n. 4; Johnson's epigram to him,
i. 162; Raleigh's smaller pieces, edits,
i. 262; Rambler, anecdote of the, i.
236, n. 1; Society for the Encourage-
ment of Learning, member of the,
i. 176, n. 4.

BISHOP, contradicting one, iv. 316;
House of Lords, in the, ii. 196; how
made, ii. 404; v. 90; Johnson dines
with two Bishops in Passion Week,
iv. 102-3; learning, their, iv. 16;
dulness, ib., n. 1; liberties taken in
their presence, iv. 341; losses and
gain by preferment, iv. 330, n. 1;
necessity of holding preferments in
commendam,' iv. 137, n. 2; Seven
Bishops,' iv. 331; tippling-house, at a,
iv. 87; a rout, ib. See HIERARCHY.

BIRDS, migration of, ii. 284; nidifica- Bishop, a bowl of, i. 291.

tion, ii. 285.

BIRKENHEAD, Sir John, v. 64, n. 2.
BIRMINGHAM, Birmingham Jour-
nal, i. 99, n. 2; boobies of Birming-
ham,' ii. 531; book-shops, i. 42, 99,
n. I; buttons, v. 522; Castle Inn, i.
107, n. 1; cost of living in 1750, i.
120, n. 1; Birmingham Daily Post,
i. 99, n. 2; Directory for 1770, v.
522, n. 1; Edinburgh, likeness to, v.
25, n. 1; Hector's house, ii. 522, n.
2; in 1741, i. 100, n. 2;. Johnson's
head on copper coins, iv. 485, n. 3;
reads The History of Birming-
ham, iv. 252, n. 1;
resides there,
i. 99-101, 105–11; visits it in
1761-2, i. 428, n. 6; in 1774, v. 522;
in 1776 with Boswell, ii. 522-3; in
1781, iv. 156; in 1784, iv. 432; jeal-
ousy of the manufacturers, ii. 525, n.
3; Old Square, ii. 522, n. 2; rapid
growth of population, iii. 511-12;
riots of 1791, i. 100, n. 3; iv. 274, n.
6; Soho, ii. 525; St. Martin's Church,
i. 105, n. 1; Stork Hotel, ii. 522, n.
2; Swan Tavern, i. 99, n. 2.
BIRNAM-WOOD, iii. 83.
BIRTH, respect for. See under Bos-

WELL and JOHNSON.

Bis dat qui cito dat, ii. 332, n. 3.

BISHOP STORTFORD, ii. 71.
BISHOPRIC, resignation of a, iii. 128,
n. 4.

BISMARCK, Prince, iv. 31, n. 3..
BLACK, why part of mankind is, i.
463-4.

Black dog, the, iii. 470.
BLACK-GUARDS, and red-guards, ii.
189, 288.

BLACK-LETTER BOOKS, ii. 138.
BLACKET, Sir Thomas, v. 168, n. 3.
BLACKIE'S Etymological Geography, v.

270, n. I.

BLACKLOCK, Dr., blindness and poetry,
i. 539; Hume, extolled by, iv. 215, n.
I; tutor to his nephew, v. 52, n. 4;
Johnson, meets, v. 52; talks of scep-
ticism, ib.; letter in explanation, v.
477; Poems, quotation from his, i.
388; mentioned, . 394.
BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, attorney,
son of an, ii. 145, n. 3; teaches a
school, i. 113, n. 1; Creation, his, ii.
124; honoured too much by attacks,
ii. 124; Johnson adds him to the
Lives, iii. 421; iv. 41, n. 3, 64, 65;
describes himself in the Life, iv.

64;
- saves him from the critics, ib.,
n. 2; Literary Club of Lay Monks.
i. 449, n. 3; v. 438, n. 1; supposed

Blackmore.

lines on Prince Voltiger, ii. 124; Swift, ridiculed by, iv. 92, n. 2. BLACKSTONE, Sir William, Borough English, v. 365, n. 1; Commentaries written when he had little practice, ii. 492; composed with the help of port wine, iv. 105; crown revenues, ii. 405, n. 3; Hackman's trial, iii. 436; Hawkins's Siege of Aleppo, approves of, iii. 294; House of Hanover, right of the, v. 230; legal succession, ii. 475, n. 1; Pembroke College, member of, i. 87; portrait in the Bodleian, iv. 105, n. 3; stultifying oneself, v. 389, n. 3. BLACKWALL, Anthony, i. 98; iv. 360, 470, n. 2.

BLACKWELL, Thomas, Memoirs of the

Court of Augustus, i. 357, 361. BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 540, n.2. BLAGDEN, Dr., iv. 35. BLAINVILLE, H., ii. 396.

BLAIR, Rev. Dr. Hugh, Boswell, letter to, iii. 457; Boswell's lowing like a cow, v. 452; composed slowly, v. 75; conversation, his, iii. 385, n. 5; v. 453, n. 2; Dissertation on Ossian, i. 458; ii. 339, 345, n. 3; iii. 58; Johnson, in awe of, ii. 72; den,' i. 458; misunderstanding with, ii.

---

315, 318; record of a talk with, v. 454; Johnsonian style, remarks on the, iii. 195, 196; Lectures on Rhet

Bodens.

BLAIR, Rev. Dr. John, iii. 457.
BLAIR, Rev. Robert, iii. 55, n. 3.
BLAIR, Robert, Solicitor-General of
Scotland, iii. 55, n. 3.
Blake, Life of, 170, n. 4.
BLAKESLEY, Dean, iv. 145, n. 2.
BLAKEWAY, Rev. J., i. 18.
BLANCHARD, iv. 413, n. I.
BLANCHETTI, Marquis, ii. 447.
BLAND, J., i. 142, n. 4.
BLANEY, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 44; iv. 429.
BLANK VERSE, Goldsmith and Gray's
estimate of it, i. 495, n. 1; Johnson's
estimate of it, i. 495; ii. 142; iv. 24,
50, 51, 70; verse only to the eye,'
iv. 51; described by a shepherd, ib.,

oric, iii. 195; Pope, anecdotes of, iii. BLOXAM, Rev. Matthew, iii. 345.

457-8; preached in a shamefully | BLUEBEARD, ii. 208.

dirty church, v. 46; Scotchman, BLUE-STOCKING MEETINGS, iii. 483, n. though the dog is a,' &c., iv. 113; I; iv. 125; v. 36, n.

BOCCAGE,

ii. 447.

Sermons, publication, iii. III; price BOARS, statues of, iii. 262.
paid, iii. 112; popularity, iii. 190, n. |
1, 239; Johnson praises them, iii.
III, 118, 124, 190, 239; iv. 113; but
criticises the Sermon on Devotion,
iii. 385; whist, learns, v. 461, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 60, n. 1; v. 441, 449.

BOCCAGE, Mme. du, makes tea à l'An-
gloise, ii. 462; her Columbiade, iv.
382; mentioned by Walpole and
Grimm, ib., n. I.

BODENS, George, iii. 486, n. 4.

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