Drumgould, Col., of the Ecole
Militaire, ii. 354.
Dryden and Pope distinguished by
Voltaire, ii. 23.
Dryden characterized by Gray,
ii. 23; his profundity praised
by Johnson, 90; quoted, 124
characterized under the name of
Bayes in the Rehearsal, 164;
Lord Hailes collects notices of,
iv. 387; quoted, in his preface
to All for Love, 65; his ex-
cellent Dedication of his Juvenal,
4; Johnson's Life of, referred
to, 4; various readings in, 10.
Dubas, Jean Baptiste, his Re-
flexions Critiques, ii. 94; Vol-
taire on, 94 n.
Duchess of Portland, the, my
noble, lovely, little Peggy," iii.
Duck, epitaph on a, i. 15.
Duel, fatal, between Boswell's eldest
son, Sir Alexander, and Mr.
Stuart of Duncarn, ii. 174;
between Mr. Cunningham and
Mr. Riddell, iv. 147.
Duelling, is it consistent with moral
duty? ii. 173, 174; Johnson de-
fends, 213; discussed, iv. 147,
148 n.
Duglas, James de, said to have
taken the heart of Robert Bruce
to the Holy Land, iii. 203.
Du Halde's China, i. 97. n; John-
son's lively account of the trans-
lation of, by Green and Guthrie,
iii. 449.
Dunbar, Dr., of Aberdeen, his
essays on the history of mankind,
iii. 420.
Dunciad, the, written for fame, i.
307; Johnson repeats the last
lines of, ii. 90; Pope's emotion
on repeating these lines, 90 n.
Duncombe, Mr., a very pleasing
man, iii. 317.
Dundas, Henry, Lord Melville,
i. 207; his Irish accent, ii. 157;
his fine speech in favour of the
negro, iii. 232.
Dunning, John, Lord Ashburton.
known to be a Devonshire man
by his accent, ii. 156.
Mr., a member of the Club,
iii. 162; his tribute to the power
and charm of Johnson's conver-
sation, 256.
Dunton's Life and Errors, John-
son mentions, iv. 137; reprinted
by Nichols, 137 n.
Durandi Sententiarum, 1458, seen
by Johnson in Paris, ii. 359.
Dury, Major-General Alexander,
his death, 262; account of, 262 n.
Dutch, Low, Johnson sets himself
to learn, ii. 244.
Dyer, Samuel, a learned member
of the Club, ii. 32.
John, his poem the Fleece, iii.
Early habits, force of, ii. 332.
life, particulars of Johnson's,
"You shall have them all for
two pence," ii. 205.
rising, difficulty of, iii. 195.
Earthquake, a shock of, in Staf-
fordshire, iii. 168.
East Indies, the practice of going
there in quest of wealth dis-
cussed, iii. 389.
Easter day, 1775, ii. 327 n.; 1777,
impressions and resolutions, iii.
134; 1778, Johnson and Bos-
well go to St. Paul's, 319; 1779,
Service at St. Paul's, Boswell
Idines with Johnson and Mr.
Allen, the printer, 373; 1781,
"Solemn worship at St. Paul's,"
after which Johnson's friends
dine with him, and he produces
the silver salvers, iv. 48, 49;
1783, Service at St. Paul's;
Boswell dines with Johnson, but
he is not well, and talks little,
146; 1784, Johnson deplores to
Boswell that the doctors would
not allow him to go to Church,
196.
Easton Maudit, Johnson's visit to
Dr. Percy at, ii. 8.
Eating, Johnson enjoys good eat-
ing, and defends it, i. 371.
Eccles, Isaac Ambrose, one of the
guests at Boswell's supper party,
i. 337 n.
Ecclesiastical History of England,
scheme for, proposed by John-
son, i. 394.
Eclogues, the earliest English con-
tained in Barclay's Ship of
Fools, i. 215.
Ecole Militaire, in Paris, ii. 352.
Economy and waste cannot be de-
fined, iii. 276.
Edial, near Lichfield, Johnson's
school at, i. 61.
Edinburgh, Johnson arrives at, ii.
Editions, different, of books ought
to be collected, iv. 203.
Education, Johnson on, ii. 25; "I
hate byroads in," 369; influence
of, iii. 24; Milton and Locke on,
355;
"I am always for get-
ting a boy forward in his learn-
ing," 377.
Edwards, Edward, Johnson writes
to, introducing Dr. Burney, iii.
Rev. J., on free will, iii.
298 n.
Mr., curious meeting of
Johnson with, iii. 307; praises
country life, 308; gives an ac-
count of his life, 308, 309;
Johnson's old fellow-collegian,
iv. 47.
Eglintoune, Alexander, Earl of,
his admiration of Johnson, ii.
76; shot by Mungo Campbell,
iii. 212.
the Countess of, her regard
for Johnson, iii. 361.
Egmont, John, Earl of, his History
of the House of Yvery, iv. 136.
Egotists, four classes of, iii. 198.
Electrical experiments, Miss Wil-
liams assists Gray, the electri-
cian, in his, ii. 42.
Elibank, Patrick, Lord, Johnson's
high opinion of him, iii. 75; "no-
thing_conclusive in his talk,"
99; Beauclerk gives Johnson
his Epitaph on a Lady to turn
into Latin, 433 n.
Eliot, Mr., afterwards Lord, travels
with Mr. Stanhope, iv. 38, 244;
sends Johnson Carleton's Me-
moirs, 245.
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, his good pro-
nunciation, ii. 157; his beautiful
ballad, 157 n.
Ellis, Jack, the literary scrivener,
iii. 73 n.
Mrs., on Fanny Burney's
novels, iv. 369.
Elphinston, Mr. James, publishes
the Rambler in Edinburgh, i.
157; Johnson's letters to, 158,
159, ii. 167; entertains Johnson
and Boswell at dinner, 213;
his Martial, a most extraordi-
nary translation, iii. 271.
Elrington, Bishop,doubts Johnson's
assertion respecting Newton, i.
360.
Elizabeth, Historical Memoirs of
Queen, ii. 184.
Ellis, John, the literary money-
scrivener, iii. 73.
Elvira, Mallet's tragedy of, at-
tacked by Boswell and two
friends, i. 324.
Elwal, Mr., the heretic, the trial
of, ii. 161, 235.
Emigration, discussed at the Club,
iii. 249.
Emmett, Mrs., the actress, iii. 47.
Emphasis, Johnson, Garrick, and
Giffard on, i. 123.
Emulation, good effects of, ii. 369.
Enfans trouvés, visited, ii. 361.
Engagements, Johnson's journal
of, iii. 336 n.
English poets, Johnson's lives of,
iii. 151 n.
Engravings, Johnson asks Boswell
to procure him portraits of
Scotch men of learning, iv. 192;
from portraits of Johnson, 108;
on Mr. W. Smith's list, 412.
Entails are encroachments on the
dominion of Providence, iii. 10;
Scotch law of, 9, 10 n.; reasons
why entails are good, iii. 18.
Epigram, Johnson's Latin, i. 43;
Greek and Latin, to Eliza, 84,
100; on George II. and Colley
Cibber, 107; ad Lauram, 114;
ad Ricardum Savage, 118; to
Molly Aston, iii. 340 n.; to
the Temple of the Winds in
Moor Park, 369; Garrick's, on
the Dictionary, i. 236; on the
Duke of Marlborough's grand
bridge over a small rivulet, 35;
on the miracle at Cana, 309; on
a quack doctor, by Garrick, ii.
54; occasioned by a religious
dispute at Bath, iv. 212; Greek
Epigrams translated by Johnson
during his sleepless nights, 292.
Epilogue, spoken by the lady who
personated the ghost of Hermi-
one, by Johnson, i. 28; to the
Distressed Mother, by Addison,
134; to Irene, by Sir Wm.
Yonge, 146.
Epitaph, Johnson's, on Philips, i.
106; on Hogarth, ii. 383; on
Goldsmith, iii. 120; on Parnell,
iv. 17; on his Father, Mother,
and Brother, 300 n.
on Johnson, by Dr. Parr, in
Latin, iv. 326; from Camden's
Remains, on a Very Wicked
Man, 148; the famous one
quoted by Addison, translated,
ii. 316 n.
Epitaphs, Johnson's Essay on, i.
106; some exaggeration of praise
allowable in, ii. 369.
Equality is obtained in civilized
life by the number of different
kinds of superiority, i. 312.
Erse books, given to Johnson, ii.
grammar by Shaw, Johnson
writes the proposals for, iii. 141.
poetry, Boswell thinks there
are some ancient manuscripts of,
ii. 286; Johnson denies this,
287, 288.
Erskine, Hon. Andrew, i. 324.
the Hon. Thomas, his elo-
quence and vivacity, ii. 168;
account of, 169 n.
Essay on Truth, by Dr. Beattie,
approved by Johnson, ii. 193.
on Man, Pope's, statement
that the scheme was drawn up by
Bolingbroke, iii. 391; partly
true and partly false, 392.
on Taste, by Miss Reynolds,
iv. 83.
Essays, original, by Johnson, in
the Literary Magazine, i. 240;
Boswell says the best is that on
Soame Jenyns's "Inquiry into
the Origin of Evil," 246.
on the history of mankind,
by Dr. Dunbar, iii. 420.
Boswell's,TheHypochondriac,
published in the London Maga-
zine, iv. 122.
Essex, Lord, his advice to his
kinsman, "Rather to go one
hundred miles te speak with one
wise man, than five miles to see
a fair town," i. 343; supposed to
have been written by Bacon,
Etou, Boswell sends his eldest son
to, iii. 66.
Etymologies, Johnson is asked
"How he should get these," for
his Dictionary? i. 138, 140, 230,
231.
Eugenio, misquoted by Johnson,
ii. 225; author of, 225.
Eumelian Club, The, founded by
Dr. Ash, iv. 302.
Eupheues, a character in one of the
Ramblers, supposed to be from
George Bubb Doddington, i. 163.
Euripides, quoted on armorial
bearings, ii. 173; Johnson reads,
on the journey to London,
Evans, Dr., his epigram on the
Duke of Marlborough's fine
bridge, iii. 35.
the bookseller, beaten by
Goldsmith, ii. 199.
Fast, Johnson's strict, ii. 322.
Father's Revenge, The, a tragedy
by the Earl of Carlisle, sub-
mitted to Johnson, iv. 175;
Johnson's letter on, 176, 177.
Faulkner, George, ii. 151 n.
Feeling, Johnson says,
feeling people pay you by feel-
ing," ii. 97; The Man of, a novel
by Henry Mackenzie, published
by a Mr. Eccles as his own, i.
285.
Felixmarte of Hircania, the old
Spanish romance, i. 22.
Ferguson, Sir Adam, M.P. for
Ayrshire, ii. 165.
James, the self-taught philo-
sopher, ii. 100; his works re-
edited, 101 n.
Ferney, Boswell at, i. 346.
Ferns, Deanery of, Burke calls it
a barren title, iv. 34.
Festivals and Fasts, Nelson's, its
great sale, iii. 42.
Feudal system, Boswell argues in
favour of, ii. 172.
Fiction, not to be mingled with
facts, iv. 128.
Fielding, Henry, i. 123, 193;
writes in praise of Johnson's
Life of Savage, 128; and
Richardson compared, ii. 62,
63, 169; his Amelia, iii. 89.
Sir John, brother of Henry
Fielding, i. 336 n.
Filby, John, at the Harrow, in
Water Lane, Goldsmith's tailor,
ii. 89.
Fingal, poem of, a mere uncon-
nected rhapsody, ii. 125, iv. 180.
Fire, tricks to make the fire burn,
are they vulgar tricks or philo-
sophical expedients? iii. 393.
Fireworks, Johnson at a display
of, iv. 238.
Fitzherbert, Mr. William, John-
son's portrait of, iii. 179, 378;
his suicide, ii. 215.
Flageolet, Johnson buys one, but
never made out a tune, iii. 257.
Flatman, Thomas, his poems dis.
cussed, iii. 79 n.; Rochester's
verses on, 80.
Flattery, stage, of royalty a mere
formula, ii. 220; pleases very
generally, 331.
Fleet Street, preferred by Johnson
to Greenwich Park, i. 366;
cheerfulness of, ii. 310.
Flint, Bet, Johnson's account of
her, iv. 56, 57; a verse of her
Life quoted, ibid. n.
Flogging, not so common as it was,
ii. 369.
Flood, Mr., the orator, his endow-
ment of a professorship of the
Irish language, i. 252; sepul-
chral verses by, on Johnson, iv.
328.
Floyd, the poor author, who found
Derrick asleep upon a bulk, i.
Floyer, Sir John, i. 55; his asthma
and long life, iv. 193, 263; his
book on asthma borrowed by
Johnson when at Lichfield for
the last time, 263.
Fludyer, a fellow student, with
whom Johnson played draughts,
iii. 30.
Fontainebleau, visited, ii. 356.
Fool of Quality, novel by Henry
Brooke, i. 101.
Fool, The, a pamphlet attacking
Thomas Hervey, to which John-
son wrote a reply, ii. 50.
Fools, Ship of, Barclay's, contains
the earliest Eclogues in the lan-
guage, i. 215.
Foote, Samuel, called the modern
Aristophanes,i. 324 n.; threatens
to caricature Johnson on the
stage, 324; Johnson on, ii. 96,
97 n., 99; not a good mimic, 151,
278; Johnson's description of him,
iii. 111, 112 n. ; quite impartial,
for he tells lies of every body,
iii. 22, 23 n.; his death, 132;
compared with Garrick, 208,
209; story of, and Garrick's
bust, iv. 156; a comical fellow,
Foundling Hospital for Wit, quoted,
iv. 212.
Foppery, incurable, ii. 126.
Forbes, Sir William, of Pitsligo,
his account of the Round Robin,
iii. 121, 122; his delight with
Boswell's Journal, 228; his
amusing simile of the bottle of
beer, 89.
Ford, Sarah, Johnson's mother, i.
9;" Parson," 10, 22, iii. 347; ac-
count of the family of, 9, 10;
Johnson's uncle, i. 388.
Gifford's Life of the Drama-
tist, quoted, on Johnson's know-
ledge of Greek, iv. 292.
Fordyce, Dr. James, author of
Sermons to Young Women, i.
314;
a Presbyterian, but a
warm friend of Johnson's, iv.
Dr. George, elected member
of the Club, ii. 255; present at
the famous conversation reported
by Boswell, iii. 247.
Foreigners, their difficulty in
writing of a people they are
merely visiting, ii. 209; John-
son's absurd contempt for, iii.
Foreboding, Johnson's, nervous, in
Paris, ii. 354.
Forster, John, his Life of Gold-
smith referred to, ii. 90.
Foster, Dr. James, an eminent
preacher, iii. 432.
Mrs. Elizabeth, Milton's
grand daughter, i. 173 n.
Fountains, The, a fairy tale, by
Johnson, ii. 43.
Former and latter, expressions
much disliked by Johnson, iv.
Forster, his Voyage to the South
Seas, iii. 205.
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