A

ABYSSINIA. See Lobo, Rasselas.
Academy, Royal, 182. 315. 316.
Adams, Rev. Dr, 21. 23. 33. 127.
214.

Addison, Life of, 507. remarks on,

511. his style compared with
Johnson's, 523. 558. 602.
Adventurer, The,' Johnson's con-
tributions to, 190. remarks on,
191. 528. See Hawkesworth.
Agri Ephemeris, 441.

Agutter, Rev. Mr, his sermon on
Johnson's death, 457. remarks
on, 458.

Akenside, 516, 519.

Allen, Mr, the printer, 350. 420.
Althorpe, Lord, (Earl Spencer,) 390.
529.

Alfred, Life of, projected, 622.
American colonies, the claims of,
Johnson's opposition to, 342.
343.

Amhurst, Mr, editor of "The

Craftsman," 103. notice of, 104.
Annals, &c. of Johnson's early life,
14. 16. 464.

Annals of literature, foreign as well
as domestic, projected, 237.
Anthologia, 443. 579.

Appleby, free-school of, Johnson
offers for the mastership, 77. re-
commended by Pope, 78.
Arbuthnot, r, 25.

Aristotle, 504. 507.

Arran, Earl of, 219. his letter to
the University of Oxford recom-
mending Johnson to the degree
of A. M. 220.

Ascham, Roger, Life of, 311.
Ashbourne, Johnson's visits to, 203
324. 354. 435.

Aston, Miss Molly, 38 epigram on,
39. 68. 203. her letters to John
son, destroyed, 451.

B

Bacon, Mr, the sculptor, 456.
Banks, Sir Joseph, 454.
Barbauld, Mrs, 51. 152. 560.
Barber, Francis, Johnson's negro-
servant, 179. Smollett procures
his discharge from a man-of-war,
273. amount of Johnson's bequest
to, 613. preserves a part of John-
son's Annals, 464.

Barclay, Mr David, Johnson's letter
to, 487.
Baretti, Mr, his intimacy with
Johnson, 236. his trial, 316. his

Italian and English Diction-
ary,'345. 346. notice of, 317.351.
Barretier, Life of, 92. 101.
Barret, Mr, 359.

Barrington, Hon. Daines, 14. 426,
459.

Bathurst, Dr, his intimacy with
Johnson, 119. 121. 179. his con-
tributions to "the Adventurer,"
188. his death and character, 189.
Baxter, Rev. Mr, 482.
Beauclerk, M. Topham, his intima-

cy with Johnson, 200. Johnson's
midnight ramble with, 201. his
death and character, 389, 390.
Beattie, Dr, 186. 323. 400. 560.
Beauties of Johnson,' the, expla-
nation of a passage in, 415.
Bell, Mr, the bookseller, 373.
Benson, Mr. 130. 131.

Beville, Rev. Mr, his defence of
Hammond, 401.

Bibliotheca Harleiana,' preface to
the, 93.

Biography, English, writers

compared with Johnson, 497.
Birch, Rev. Dr, 61. 85. 497.
Bishop, Lady, 625.

of,

Blackfriar's Bridge, the controversy
concerning, Johnson's share in,
271.

Blackburne, Archdeacon, his "Re-
marks on Johnson's life of Mil-
ton,' extracted from his Me-
moirs of T. Hollis,' &c. 396. cen-
sure of discussed, 397. 398. 399.
Blackmore, 378. 519.

Blair, Rev. Dr, 324. his sermons,
Johnson's early praise of, 363.

Dissertation on Ossian,' 342.
edition of the Poets, 372. 560.
Blake, Admiral, Life of, 92.
Blue Stocking Club, origin of, 380.
Boerhaave, Life of, 85. 498.
Boileau, 73. 275.
Bolingbroke, Lord, 103. 558.
Boothby, Miss, her intimacy and
correspondence with Johnson,
30. 204. her character, 205. 206.
238. her death, 237. Johnson's
prayer on the occasion, 240. her
verses to a painter, 625.

Bowle, Rev. Mr, 135. notice of his-
writings, 135.

Boyse, a writer in the Gentleman's
Magazine,' 61. notice of, 104.
Brocklesby, Dr, 425. his kind at-
tention to Johnson, 428. 432.
438. 448. 614.

Brocke's tragedy of Gustavus Va-

sa,' Johnson's ironical vindica-.
tion of the prohibition of 88.
89.

Browne, Sir Thomas, Life of, 248.
498.

Brown, Mr Thomas, Johnson's-
English Teacher, 15.
Buchanan, 131. 443.
Budworth, Rev. Mr, master of Bre-

Butter, Dr, 448. 614.
Byron, Lord his Giaour,' 488.

C

Cadell, Mr Thomas, the bookseller,
373.

Cambridge University,

Johnson's

visit to, 300. his prejudices a-
gainst the members of, 400. 401.
Campbell, Dr John, 497.

Rev. Dr Thomas, 108. notice
of, 108.

Capel, Mr, his Shakespeare, 306.
Careless, Mrs, 439.
Carlyle, Rev. Dr, 349.
Carmichael, Miss, 352.
Carter, Miss, 61. 67. Johnson's
Enigma on, 68. her translation
of Crousaz, 84. 180.
Cave, Mr Edward, the original edi-
tor of the Gentleman's Maga-
zine,' 45. 61. 69. 74. Life of,

197.

Cibber, Mr, 210. 472.

Mr Theophilus, his Lives
of the Poets,' 115. 377.
Clark's answer to Shaw, 419. Reply
to, ibid.
Cleveland, 508.

Cock-lane Ghost, 286.

Collins, character of, 208. 287.
Colman, Mr, 230. 295. 455.
Colson, Rev. Mr, 55. 167.
Commercial Dictionary commenced
and relinquished, 257.
'Connoisseur, the,' 190.
Constable, Mr Archibald, the book-
seller, 48.

Corbet, Mr, undertakes to support
Johnson at Oxford, 22.

Cork and Orrery, Earl of, 180. 190.
223.

Corn laws, Considerations on the, 466.
Cotterell, Misses, 379.

Courtenay, Mr, his Poetical Re-
view of the character of Johnson,"
460. 559. 560. 607.

Cowley, Life of, 500. remarks on,

Criticism, English, notice of the
writers of, before Johnson, 563.
Croft, Rev. Sir Herbert, his Letter
to the Princess Royal,' 233. plan
of his supplement to Johnson's
Dictionary, 232. his Life of
Young, 392. remarks on, 393.
Cromwell, Life of, projected, 622.
Crousaz, 84. Johnson's defence of
against Warburton, 85. 98.
Cruikshank, Mr, the surgeon, 443.
453. 615.

217.

Dacier, 504.

D

Darwin, Dr, 355. charge of plagia-
rism brought against, 356. at-
testations concerning, 356.

- y

Davenport, Mr, 418.

Davies, Mr Thomas, the bookseller,
228. publishes Johnson's Mis-
cellaneous and Fugitive pieces,'
330. 351. his Life of Garrick,'
388. of Massinger, 623.
Debates in the senate of Magna Lil-
liputia, 74.

Deformities, the, of Johnson,' re-

marks on, 231. notice of the
-author, ibid.

Desmoulins, Mrs, 175. 352. 408.
Devonshire, Duke of, 485.
Dictionary of the English Language
projected, 109. plan of, 110. the
booksellers who contracted for
the execution, 110. the assist-
ants, 114. method of compiling,
115, the models followed, 117.
published, 221. Lexicons and
Grammars founded upon as au-
thorities, 224. 225. 226. 231. re-
marks on, 491-97. Supplements
to, 232-4. Abridgment of, 248.
Diamond, Mr, 180.

Dilly, Mr Edward, the bookseller,
372.

Dixie, Sir Wolston, 40.

Dodd, the Rev. Dr. his trial, 363.
Johnson's assistance to, 365. his
correspondence with, 366. inter-
cessions in behalf of, 366. his
character and writings, 368. 369.
Dodington, Mr, (Lord Melcombe),
151. notice of, 152.

Dodsley, Mr Robert, the bookseller,
69. 82. 110. 111. 209. 214. 248.
Douce, Mr, his Illustrations of
Shakespeare,' 306.

Douglas, Dr, (Bishop of Salisbury),

his detection of the forgeries of
Lauder, 135. his services to truth,
136.

Drake, Sir Francis, Life of, 92. 498.
Dr, Nathan, his Essays, &c.
466.560.
Dryden, Life of, 5II. remarks on,

512 compared with Pope, 512.
his prologues, 574.
Duckling, epitaph on a, 12. remarks
on, 13.