Illustris hospes! mox spatiabere Buccina qua cecinit triumphos; Audin? resurgens spirat anhelitu Vi solitâ redivivus horror. Ahæna quassans tela gravi manu 'Phersonius vigil ad favillam." Attainments, literary and religious, not to be described as too hard, 327. Auchinleck, an account of, 395. Lord (the Authour's father) character of, 391. his idea of Dr. Johnson, 392. and Dr. Johnson in collision, 398. his styling Dr. Johnson the Ursa Major, 400. Authours, attacks úpon, serviceable to them, 279, 417. observations upon their not practising what they teach, 208. B Bacon's History of Henry the Seventh,' 219. Banks, Mr. 249. Beattie, Dr. 2, 4, 17, 280. his letter to the author, 4. his pension, 375. Beauclerk, Topham, Esq. 247. ....... Lady Sydney, 304. Beauty, insipid, of little worth, 232. Bentley, 166, 280. Biography, 242. esteemed by Dr. Johnson, and why, 67. defects as well as virtues, the proper subject of, 240. Birch, Dr. 258. Bishops, promotion of, 68. Blacklock, Dr. 34, 439. his letter to the authour, 437. Blackstone, Sir William, 199. Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, 29. his letter to the authour, 414. Bond, honourable preamble of one, 262. Bonnetta, a merchant ship, why called so, 332. Book, a present by Dr. Johnson to the landlord's daughter at Anoch, 127. the best solace in confinement, 302. Borough English, 332. Boswell, (the Authour of this Journal) some account of, 39. his comparison, on having prevailed with Dr. Johnson to his defence of the ardour of his pursuits, 214. his Journal praised by Johnson, 227, 267, 282, 317. his assiduous attention to Johnson, 271. his apprehensions during a storm at sea, 288. his employment on ship-board, 289. to be bribed by flattery, 315. his declared intention of writing Johnson's Life, 322: his regret at discontinuing his Journal, 391. his imitating the lowing of a cow, 413. his letter to Dr. Robertson, 3. Mrs. her particular attention to Dr. Johnson, 11, 13. Braidwood, Mr., his academy for the deaf and dumb, 416. Brewse, Major, 111. Brodie, Laird of, 206. Browne, Isaac Hawkins, 145. Buchannan, 46. Buck, ludicrously applied to Dr. Johnson, 177. Buildings, religious, neglect of, 377. Burke, Mr. his various and extraordinary talents, 3, 20, 211, 275,340. Burnet's History of his own Times,' 292. Butler's Hudibras,' 225. C Cadogan, Dr. his treatise on the gout criticised, 207. Caledonian Mercury, 335. Caldermanse, 107. Campbell, General, 264. Hon. Archibald, 370. Mr. 388. Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond,' 304. Castiglione's Il Corteggiano,' 281. Catechism, Church of England, 59. Caves, 164, 171, 195, 239, 343. Chambers, Mr. 5, 10. Character, nice trait of, 373. Charity, rules for the distribution of, 389. Charles, the First, 358. Chastity of women, 208. Chatham, Lord, 139. Cheyne, Dr. his rule for living, 144. Cheynell's life in the Student,' by Johnson, 36. Chieftain, what should be his sentiment, 253. Cholmondeley, Mrs. 250. Cibber, Mrs. 114. Clamours, popular, 45. Clarke, 294. Clergy, Scottish compared with the English, 254, Composition, instruction relative to, 54. Conveniences often unaccountably neglected, 164. Conversations, the power of exhibiting, observations upon, 434. Cooke, Mr. his singular presentation of Foote, 25. Coote, Sir Eyre, 111. Corneille, 321. Crosbie, Mr. his comparison of the English and Scots, 10- Death, observations on, 171, 197, 327. ...... warrants signed by Sixtus Quintus on his death-bed, 241. Dempster, Mr. 424. Derrick, Samuel, Esq. 104, 242. Dick, Sir Alexander, 36. Dirk, use of the, 203. Dispatch, bustling not necessary to, 317. Doddridge, Dr. 277. Dog-fighting, 340. Donne, Dr. 358. Douglas, Duchess of, 31. Lady Lucy, 374. Dressing, different modes of, 55. Drinking, thoughts on, 337. |