INDEX

TO THE

WORKS OF DR. JOHNSON.

N. B. The Roman numerals refer to the volume, and the figures to the page.

ABERBROTHICK, account of the town of, ix. 7. of the ruins of the monas-
tery there, 8.

Aberdeen, account of, i. 328. ix. 10. account of the king's college, ix. 11. ac-
count of the marischal college, 12. the course of education there, 13. account
of the English chapel, 14.

Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and not sought for in an-
other place, exemplified in the story of Gelaleddin of Bassora, iv. 384.
Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, iii. 190.
Abridgments of books, remarks on, v. 461.

Absence, a destroyer of friendship, iv. 216.

Abyssinia, preface to the translation of father Lobo's voyage to, v. 255.
Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it, vii. 69.

Acastus, an instance of the commanding influence of curiosity, iii. 212.

Achilles, his address to a Grecian prince supplicating life, improper for a pic-

ture, iv. 283.

Action, (dramatick,) the laws of it stated and remarked, iii. 240.

(exercise,) necessary to the health of the body, and the vigour of the
mind, ii. 398. the source of cheerfulness and vivacity, 399.

Action, (in oratory,) the want of, considered, iv. 414. tends to no good in any
part of oratory, 415.

Actions, every man the best relater of his own, iv. 341. the injustice of judging
of them by the event, iv. 84.

Adam unparadised, a manuscript, supposed to be the embryo of Paradise Lost,

v. 269.

Adams, parson, of Fielding, not Edward, but William Young, viii. 456.
Addison, Joseph, supposed to have taken the plan of his dialogues on nedals
from Dryden's essay on dramatick poetry, vii. 251. his life, vii. 418. the va-
rious schools at which he received instruction, ibid. cultivates an early friend-
ship with Steele, 419. lends a hundred pounds to Steele, and reclaims it by an
execution, 420. entered at Oxford, 1687, 420. account of his Latin poems, 421.
account of his English poems, ibid. on being introduced by Congreve to Mr.
Montague, becomes a courtier, 422. obtains a pension of three hundred a year,
that he might be enabled to travel, 423. publishes his travels, 424. succeeds
Mr. Locke as commissioner of appeals, as a reward for his poem, the Battle
of Blenheim, 425. went to Hanover with lord Halifax, ibid. made under-
secretary of state, ibid. writes the opera of Rosamond, ibid. assists Steele in
writing the Tender Husband, ibid. goes to Ireland with lord Wharton as se-
cretary, 426. made keeper of the records in Birmingham's tower, ibid. the
opposite characters of him and Wharton, ibid. his reason for resolving not to
remit any fees to his friends, ibid. wrote in the Tatler, 427. wrote in the

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Spectators, ibid. his tragedy of Cato brought on the stage, and supported both
by the whigs and tories, 432, 434. Cato warmly attacked by Dennis, 434. ob-
servations on his tragedy of Cato, 435. other honours and enmities showed to
Cato, ibid. Cato translated both into Italian and Latin, 436. writes in the
Guardian, ibid. his signature in the Spectator and Guardian, 437. declared
by Steele to have been the author of the Drummer, ibid. wrote several poli-
tical pamphlets, ibid. appointed secretary to the regency, 439. in 1715 pub-
lishes the Freeholder, ibid. marries the countess of Warwick, 440. secretary
of state, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore resigns it, 441. purposes
writing a tragedy on the Death of Socrates, ibid. engages in his defence of
the christian religion, ibid. had a design of writing an English dictionary,
442. his controversy with Steele on the peerage bill, ibid. during his last
illness sends for Gay, informs him that he had injured him, and promises, if
he recovered, to recompense him, 445. sends for the young earl of Warwick,
that he might see how a christian ought to die, ibid. died June 17, 1719,
446. his character, ibid. the course of his familiar day, 449. his literary cha-
racter, 450. account of his works, 451. extracts from Dennis's Observations
on Cato, 457. considered as a critick, 469. commended as a teacher of wis-
dom, 470. character of his prose works, 472. a conversation with Pope on
Tickell's translation of Homer, viii. 87. becomes a rival of Pope, viii. 265.
supposed to have been the translator of the Iliad, published under the name
of Tickell, 268. his critical capacity remarked, ii. 404, 440, 442.
Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal operation, ii. 353.
Adventurers, iv. 1-148.

Adversaries, the advantage of contending with illustrious ones, vi. 413.
Adversity, a season fitted to convey the most salutary and useful instruction to
the mind, iii. 212. the appointed instrument of promoting our virtue and hap-
piness, 213.

Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, iv. 267.

Advice, good, too often disregarded, ii. 408. the causes of this assigned,
409. vanity often the apparent motive of giving it, ibid. when most offensive
and ineffectual, iii. 235.

Affability, the extensive influence of this amiable quality, iii. 173.

Affectation, the vanity and folly of indulging it, ii. 99, 100. wherein it properly
differs from hypocrisy, 101. the great absurdity of it exposed in the character
of Gelasimus, iii. 339.

Afflictions, proper methods of obtaining consolation under them, ii. 85, 250.
Africa, progress of the discoveries made on that coast by the Portuguese, v.

217.

Age, the present an age of authors, iv. 109.

Agriculture, its extensive usefulness considered, iii. 188. thoughts on, both an-
cient and modern, v. 310. productions of, alone sufficient for the support of
an industrious people, 311. in high consideration in Egypt, ibid. the many
ancient writers on that subject, 313. the enrichment of England, 314. a pro-
per subject for honorary rewards, 315. superior to trade and manufactures,
316. danger to be apprehended from the neglect of, ibid. an art which go-
vernment ought to protect, every proprietor of lands to practise, and every in-
quirer into nature to improve, 320. account of, at Raasay, one of the He-
brides, ix. 58. bad state of, at Ostig, in Sky, 74. the raising of the rents of
estates in Scotland considered, 91.

Ajut, his history, iii. 368–375.

Akenside, Dr. Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, viii. 407. his life, 469. son
of a butcher at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, born 1721. designed for a dissenting
minister, but turns his mind to physick, ibid. Pleasures of Imagination pub-
lished, 1744, ibid. studies at Leyden, and becomes, M. D. 1744, 470. an en-
thusiastick friend to liberty; and a lover of contradiction, ibid. practises phy-
sick at Northampton and Hampstead, 471. settles at London, ibid. allowed
three hundred pounds a year by Mr. Dyson, ibid. by his writings obtains the
name both of a wit and scholar, 472. died 1770, ibid. character of his works,
ibid.

Alabaster's Roxana, commended, vii. 68.

Alacrity, the cultivation of it the source of personal and social pleasure, ii. 347.
Albion in lat. 3o, account of the friendly inhabitants found there by Drake, vi.

367.

Alexandrian library, its loss lamented, iv. 343.

Aliger, his character, iii. 434.

Allen, Mr. of Bath, praised by Pope in his satires, viii. 297.

All's Well that Ends Well, observations on Shakespeare's, v. 160.

Almamoulin, the dying speech of Nouradin, his father, to him, iii. 71. his
thoughtless extravagance, 72. the excellent advice which the sage gave him,
74.

Altilia, her coquetry described, iii. 352.

Amazons, observations on the history of the, iv. 407. old maids in England most
like Amazons, 408.

Amazons, of the pen, iv. 110.

Ambition, generally proportioned to capacity, vi. 275. a quality natural to
youth, ii. 174. the peculiar vanity of it in the lower stations of life, 315, 316.
a destroyer of friendship, iv. 217. characterized, i. 73.

America; Taxation no Tyranny, or, an answer to the resolutions and address of
the American congress, 1775, vi. 224. considerations on the Indians grant-
ing their lands to foreign nations, vi. 114. difficulty of ascertaining bounda-
ries, 115. the power of the French there, 1756, 125. colonies first settled
there in the time of Elizabeth, 127. colony first sent to Canada by the
French, 129. the first discovery of Newfoundland by Cabot, and the settle-
ment from thence to Georgia considered, 138. the encroachment of the French
on our back settlements examined, 140.

Amicus, his reflections on the deplorable case of prostitutes, iii. 8.

Amoret, lady Sophia Murray celebrated by Waller under that name, vii. 181.
Amusements, by what regulations they may be rendered useful, ii. 420.
Anacreon, ode ix. translated, i. 138.

Anatomy, cruelty in anatomical researches reprobated, iv. 200.

Andrew's, St. account of the city of, ix. 3. the ruins of the cathedral, ibid. ac-
count of the university, 4. expense of education there, 5.

Angelo, Michael, observations on his style of painting, iv. 385.

Anger, the necessity of checking and regulating it, ii. 50. a tumultuous and
dangerous passion, derived from pride, 52. exposed to contempt and derision,
ibid. the pernicious effects of it, 53, 54.

Animal food, on the choice and rejection of various sorts of, ix. 57.

Anningate and Ajut, the Greenland lovers, their history, iii. 368-375.

Anoch, account of, ix. 31. consists only of three huts, ibid. account of the land-
lord and his house, 32.

Anson, lord, little advantage to have been expected, had his voyage succeeded
to the extent of his wishes, vi. 183.

Anthea, her disagreeable character, ii. 166.

Antony and Cleopatra, observations on Shakespeare's play of, v. 170.

Application, desultory, injurious to our improvements in knowledge and virtue,

iii. 125. active and diligent, strongly enforced by a view of the shortness and
uncertainty of human life, 134.

Arbuthnot, Dr. with Pope, supposed to have assisted Gay in writing Three
Hours after Marriage, viii. 64. sketch of his character, viii. 295. the first
volume of the Memoirs of Scriblerus published by him, in conjunction with
Pope and Swift, 298.

Arcades, written by Milton about 1637, vii. 72.

Archery, the importance of, in former times, vi. 508.

Arches, considerations on elliptical and semicircular, which is to be preferred,
v. 303.

Architecture, the degenerate state of, at Rome, v. 307.

Argutio, his character, ii. 135.

Aristophanes, licentiousness of his writings exorbitant, v. 367. the only author
from whom a just idea of the comedy of his age may be drawn, 369. history
of, 370. Plutarch's sentiments upon, ibid. justification of, 379.

Aristotle, his sentiments of what is requisite to the perfection of a tragedy, iii.
157. account of a manuscript translation of his polítics in the library at Aber-
deen, ix. 13.

Armidel, in the isle of Sky, account of, ix. 45.

Army, causes of the superiority of the officers of France to those of England, vi.
141. made formidable by regularity and discipline, 149.

Art, terms of, the necessity of, iv. 356.

Artists' catalogue, preface to, v. 459.

Ascham, Roger, his life, vi. 503. born at Kirby Wiske, near North Allerton,
1515, 504. educated with the sons of Mr. Wingfield, and entered at Cam-
bridge, 1530, ibid. applied to the study of Greek, 505. a favourer of the pro-
testant opinion, 506. chosen fellow of St. John's, 1534, ibid. M. A. and tutor,
1537, 507. not less eminent as a writer of Latin than as a teacher of Greek,
508. fond of archery, ibid. published his Toxophilus, 1544, ibid. receives a
pension of ten pounds from Henry the eighth, 511. the equivalent value of
his pension, at this time, considered, ibid. orator of the university, 512.
taught prince Edward, princess Elizabeth, and many of the nobility, writing,
ibid. receives a pension from Edward the sixth, ibid. tutor to the princess
Elizabeth, which he quits without consent, ibid. secretary to sir Richard Mori-
sine, ambassador to Germany, 513. On the death of Edward the sixth, loses
his pension and places, 514. Latin secretary to Philip and Mary, ibid. in-
quiry how he could as a protestant hold the place under Philip and Mary,
ibid. favoured by cardinal Pole, 516. continued in the same employment un-
der Elizabeth, ibid. prebendary of Westwang, in the church of York, ibid.
Died 1574, 518. his character, 519.

Assurance, not always connected with abilities, iii. 253.

Astrology, the credit given to it in the seventeenth century, vii. 154.
Astronomer, the cause of uneasiness in an, i. 289. supposes himself to have the
power of the winds, rain, and seasons, ibid. leaves his directions to Imlac, 291.
Pekuah wishes to become his scholar, 298. his opinion of the choice of life,
300. his superstition removed, by entering into the amusements of life, 309.
As you like it, observations on Shakspeare's, v. 160.

Athanatus, his just reflections on the near prospect of death, ii. 258.

Atterbury, bp. Pope examined before the lords on the trial of the bishop, viii.
273. presents Pope with a bible at their last interview, ibid.

Avarice, the vanity of, i. 20. fatal effects of insatiable, ii. 188.

Aubigney, lady, carries a commission from Charles the first to sir Nicholas
Crispe, vii. 189.

Auchinleck, lord, his seat at Auchinleck described, ix. 158.

Augustus, Fort, account of, ix. 30.

'Auknasheals, account of the village of, ix. 37.

Aurantius, his unjust and abusive treatment of Liberalis, iii. 274.

Aureng Zebe, a tragedy, remarks upon some improprieties in it, iii. 96.
Austerities, and mortifications, their use in religion, iii. 24.

Authors, have a desire of appearing to have done every thing by chance, viii.
24. the complaint of surreptitious editions inquired into, vi. 477. the diffi-
culty of his first address, ii. 1. by what methods he may be introduced with
advantage to the publick, 2, 3. often deluded by the visionary and vain antici-
pations of happiness, 8. the neglect of him the most dreadful mortification, 9.
the folly of endeavouring to acquire fame merely by writing, ibid. some pecu-
liar discouragements to which he is exposed, 10. his proper task is to instruct
and entertain, 11. the difficulty of executing it with advantage, ibid. in-
creased by the caprice and ill-nature of his readers, ibid. his acquisition of
fame difficult, and his possession of it precarious, 105. the great difference
between the productions of the same author accounted for, 106. naturally
fond of their own productions, 271. many deluded by the vain hope of acquir
ing immortal reputation, iii. 1. their literary fame destined to various measures
of duration, 2. their being esteemed, principally owing to the influence of
curiosity or pride, 3. their proper rank and usefulness in society, 143. cha-
racters of the manufacturers of literature, 191. as they grow more elegant