sulted on, 91; Johnson has
no sympathy with puritanical,

92.

Second marriage, the triumph of

hope over experience, 125.
Sentimental distress, Johnson had
no sympathy for, 38; the poor
and the busy have no leisure for

sentimental sorrow, 64.
Sermons, two volumes of, sup-
posed to be Johnson's, 438.
Settle, Elkanah, the city poet,

453.

Shakespeare compared with Cor-
neille, 27; Tyers's account of
Johnson's edition of, 195; Mur.
phy's account of it, 402.
Shakespeare's tomb visited by Dr.
Campbell, 238.

Shenstone, his foolish idea that
little quarrels are useful, 61;
his fine garden said to have
been envied by Lord Lyttelton,
126; compared to an Italian
greyhound, 127.

Sheridan, Thomas, his writings on
elocution, 125.

Sherlock, his French and English
letters criticised, 198.

Shoes, Johnson says there are
more gentlemen than shoes in
Scotland, 200.

Siddons, Mrs., one of the few
persons unspoiled by money and
reputation, 132.

Skating, verses on, 60.

Skelton, Mr., sold his library for
the poor, 267.

Sketch, biographical, by T. Tyers,

183-207.

Sliding, Johnson's story of his, 15.
Smart, Christopher, introduces
Tyers to Johnson, 198.
Sober, this character in the Idler
Johnson intended for his own
portrait, 23.

Society, Johnson thinks good for
young people, 46.

Solander, his conversation, 80.
Solomon, King, Prior's description
of, 205.

Sorrow, Johnson's excessive, on
the loss of his wife, 67.
Stanley, the blind leader of the
band in Drury Lane, Dr. Camp-
bell describes, 243.

Steele's Essays, "too thin," 27.
St. George and the Dragon told
to Johnson by Catharine Cham-
bers, 10.

St. John's Gate, Johnson's trans-
lation of the history of the
Council of Trent said to be left
there, 189.

St. Martin's in the Strand (?)
crowded to hear a ranting
preacher, 249.

Stories, telling, is not conversa-
tion, 72; Johnson's admirable
power of, 49, 50.

Story, a, is only valuable as it is
true, 49.

Stourbridge School, Johnson at,

Taxation no Tyranny, appearance

of, 247; answers to, 255, 256.
Taylor, Dr., knows all Johnson's
Oxford exploits, 16, 366; had
the largest bull in England, and
some of the best sermons, 439.
Te veniente die, Te decedente, 199.
Tea, Johnson's love for, 199; Mrs.
Cumberland's genial tea-table,
213; Mrs. Thrale kept by John-
son at tea till four in the
morning, 52; Johnson's tea-table
always spread, 199; Hannah
More's, 285, 286.

Temple Church, the, service at,

241.

Teneriffe, Hermit of, composed in

one night, 187.
Theatre, Latin verses composed by
Johnson in the, 33; Mrs. Thrale's
translation, 33, 34; Johnson &
bad companion at the, 33.
Thirty-five, Johnson's verses to
Mrs. Thrale with this refrain,
68.
Thrale, Mr., his influence over
Johnson, 58, 115; described by
Bishop Percy, 229; Johnson on
his conversation, 204.

Mr. and Mrs., visited by Dr.
Campbell, 245; dinners at their
house, 246, 251, 256, 261, 266;
Murphy's account of, 406.

Mrs., her account of the
rupture of the tie between her
and Johnson, 115, 116; John-
son's praises of, 342; her verses
on Johnson's portrait, 117; her
luxurious dinner-table, 193.
Tissington, near Ashbourne, 143,
150, 151, 169.
Tories and Whigs, 19.

Torré, a foreign firework maker,

136.

Toryism, Johnson's, 19; Tyers on
Johnson's, 189.

Tour, Johnson's to the Western
Islands, Murphy's account of,
409.

Towers, Dr., his Essay on Johnson
quoted, 389.

Translations, Johnson's impromp-
tu, 69; at college, 186.
Travelling companion, Johnson's
excellencies and defects as a, 70.
Trent, History of the Council of,
Johnson's translation of, sup-
posed to be left in a box under
St. John's Gate, 189.
Truth, the sole value of a story is

its, 49; Johnson's unequalled
regard for, 90.

Turk's Head, The Club meets at
the, members of, 405.
Twickenham meadows, Johnson's
walk in, with Miss Reynolds,
one Sunday morning, 343.
Twining, Rev. Thomas, on John-
son's writings, "There is in
him no echo," 323; his delight
with Boswell's Life of Johnson,
325.

Tyers, Thomas, his sketch of
Johnson from the Gentleman's
Magazine, 183, 209.

Versailles, Johnson at the theatre
at, 44.

Verses, Johnson was fond of re-
peating, 330, 331.

Visitors always welcome to John-
son, 199.

Voltaire, his Charles XII., 130;
occupied with the vanity of
human pursuits at the same
time as Johnson, 436.
Vows, Johnson's horror of, 91.

Wakefield, The Vicar of, Johnson

sells for Goldsmith, 50.
Walmsley, Mr., gives Johnson in-
troductions, 186, 373; Johnson's
tribute to his excellence, 374.
Warburton, Johnson's gratitude
to, 128; and high opinion of,

132.

Warner, Mr., the finest preacher
Dr. Campbell had ever heard,

252.

Watts, Dr., his Improvement of
the Mind a favourite book with
Johnson, 126.

Welsted, Leonard, a poet satirised
in the Dunciad, 453.
Wetherall, Dean, tries to get up a
riding house at Oxford, 266.
Whigs and Tories, 19.
Wilkes, John, meets Johnson at
dinner, 204; Johnson's dislike
of, 336; Boswell's story of, and
No. 45, 457; a most agreeable
companion, 459; offers to write
all the home news to Boswell
when abroad, 459.

Wilkes, Israel, Johnson's rudeness
to, 336.
Williams, Miss, described by
Bishop Percy, 228.

- Dr. Zachary, 393.

Winds, Temple of the, at Lord
Anson's, at Moor Park, John-
son's epigram on, 32.

Wine, Johnson's use of, 136.
Wives. "Honeysuckle wives are
but creepers at best, and com-
monly destroy the tree they so
tenderly cling about," 71.
Women, Johnson characterises
different-one has some softness,
but so has a pillow, 71; one is
like sour small-beer, 71; ano-
ther like a dead nettle, if she
were alive she would sting, 71;
and another a proper person to
apply to if you want a little
run tea, 89.

Woodhouse, the shoemaker poet,

52.

Woolwich, Dr. Campbell visits the
dockyard at, 261.

Xenophon commends like a pedant,
and Rollin applauds like a slave,

14.

Yonge, Sir William, wrote the
epilogue to Irene, 431.
Young, his description of night
quoted, 27; he froths and
bubbles sometimes very vigo-
rously, 27.