D. O., Sir, iv. 181, n. 3.
DACIER, Madame, in. 333, n. 2.
_Dacier's Horace_, in. 74, n. 1.
_Demonology_, King James's, iii. 382.
DAGGE, ----, keeper of the Bristol Newgate, iii. 433, n. 1.
DAILLÉ, _on the Fathers_, v. 294.
_Daily Advertiser_, i. 256, n. 1; ii. 209, n. 2.
_Daily Gazetteer_, ii. 33, n. 1.
_Daily Post_, i. 503.
DALE, Mrs., v. 431.
D'ALEMBERT, ii. 54, n. 3.
DALIN, Olaf von, ii. 156.
DALLAS, Miss, v. 87.
DALLAS, Stuart, v. 87.
DALRYMPLE, Colonel, v. 399.
DALRYMPLE, Sir David. See HAILES, Lord.
DALRYMPLE, Sir John,
attacks the London booksellers, v. 402, n. 1;
Burnet, criticises, ii. 213, n. 3;
complains of attacks on his _Memoirs_, v. 400;
foppery, his, ii. 237;
Johnson, invites to his house, v. 401;
rails at, v. 402;
arrives late, v. 404;
_Memoirs of Great Britain
and Ireland_, ii. 210-1;
parodied by Johnson, v. 403;
style, 'mere bouncing,' ii. 210;
praised by Boswell, ii. 211;
mentioned, ii. 291.
DALZEL, Professor, iv. 385.
DANCALA, i. 88.
DANCING, iv. 79.
DANES, colony at Leuchars, v. 70;
in Wales, v. 130.
DANTE, Boswell's ignorance of him, iii. 229, n. 4;
_Purgatory_, quoted, iv. 373, n. 1;
resemblance between _Pilgrim's Progress_ and Dante, ii. 238.
DANUBE, ii. 133, n. 1.
D'ARBLAY, General, iv. 223, n. 4.
D'ARBLAY, Mme. See BURNEY, Miss.
DARBY, Rev. Mr., v. 453, n. 2.
DARIPPE, Captain, v. 135.
DARIUS'S shade, iv. 16.
DARLINGTON, i. 35, n. 1.
DARTINEUF, Charles, ii. 447.
DARTMOUTH, Lord, i. 407, n. 1.
DARWIN, Charles, v. 428, n. 3.
DARWIN, Dr. Erasmus, v. 428, n. 3.
DASHWOOD, Sir Francis, ii. 135, n. 2.
DASHWOOD, Sir Henry, iii. 407, n. 5.
DATES to letters, i. 122, n. 2; iii. 421, n. 3, 428, n. 4.
D'AUTEROCHE, Count, iii. 8, n. 3.
DAVENANT, Sir William, ii. 168, n. 2.
DAVENPORT, William, Strahan's apprentice, ii. 324, n. 1.
DAVIES, Thomas, account of him, i. 390;
author, success as an, iii. 434;
bankruptcy, iii. 223, 434;
Baretti's trial, exaggerated feelings about, ii. 94;
quarrels with him, ii. 205;
benefit at Drury Lane, iii. 249;
bookseller, his taste as a, iii. 223, n. 1;
Boswell to Johnson, introduces, i. 390; iv. 231;
Churchill's lines on him, i. 391, n. 2, 483; iii. 223;
sees in the pit, iii. 223, n. 2:
Cibber's genteel ladies, ii. 340;
'clapped on the back by Tom Davies,' ii. 344;
_Conduct of the Allies_, ii. 65;
dinners at his house, ii. 340; iii. 38;
_Garrick, Memoirs of_. iii. 434, n. 5;
Garrick, letter to, iii. 223, n. 2;
complains of his unkindness, ib.;
Goldsmith's dislike of Baretti, ii. 205, n. 3;
'Goldy's' play, talks of, ii. 258; v. 308;
Hunter, Johnson's schoolmaster, anecdote of, i. 45, n. 4;
Johnson, accurate observer of, ii. 258;
candour, iii. 271, n. 2;
and Foote, ii. 299;
forgives him, ii. 271;
laugh, ii. 378;
letters to him: See JOHNSON, letters;
liberality to him, i. 488; iii. 223;
love for him, iv. 231, 365;
one of a deputation to, iii. III;
sends pork to, iv. 413, n. 2;
talking to himself, i. 483;
learning enough for a clergyman, had, iv. 13;
Maddocks, the straw-man, iii. 231, n. 2;
_Miscellanies and Fugitive Pieces_, ii. 270;
Mounsey and Percy, ii. 64;
portrait by Hicky, ii. 340, n. 2;
'potted stories' of a dramatic author, iii. 40;
Quin's saying about January 30, v. 382, n. 2;
Shakespeare, representations of, v. 244, n. 2;
stage, his earnings on the, iii. 223;
driven from it, ib., iii. 249;
'statesman all over,' ii. 65;
Thane of Ross, iv. 8; Walker's
'distinguished glare,' ii. 368, n. 3;
zealous for the _trade_, ii. 345;
mentioned, i. 175, n. 3, 310, 423; ii. 63, 82, 343-4, 349;
iii--38; iv. 366.
DAVIES, Mrs., Tom Davies's wife,
Churchill's lines on her, i. 391, n. 2, 484.
DAVIES,--, of Llanerch, v. 439.
DAVIS, Mrs., iv. 239, n. 2, 439.
DAVY, Sir Humphry, iv. 119, n. 1.
DAVY, Serjeant, iii. 87, n. 3.
DAWKINS, 'Jamaica,' iv. 126.
_Dawling_, iii. 422;
_dawdle_, iv. 126.
DAWSON, George, ii. 456, n. 2.
DAWSON's _Lexicon_, iii. 407.
DAY-LABOURERS, wages of, iv. 176; v. 263.
DEAD, form of prayer for the, ii. 163;
libels on them, iii. 13;
recommending and praying for them, i. 190, n. 2, 236, 240; ii. 163;
iv. 137, 158, n. 3;
their spirits perhaps present, i. 212;
why we wish for their return, i. 240, n. 1.
DEAF AND DUMB, Academy for the, v. 399.
DEAN, Rev. Richard, ii. 53.
DEATH, act of dying not of importance, ii. 107;
affectation in dying, v. 397;
best men most afraid of it, iii. 154;
Browne, Sir T., on it, iii. 153, n. 1;
business preparation for it, v. 316;
change beyond man's understanding, ii. 163, n. 3;
dispositions on one's death-bed, v. 239;
'dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1;
fear of it cannot be got over, ii. 106, 298; iii. 295;
natural to man, ii. 93; iii. 153, 158, 294; v. 179;
resolution, met with, iii. 295;
sight, kept out of, iii. 154;
some die well, few willingly, i. 365;
sudden death in sin, iv. 225;
Swift dreads it, ii. 93, n. 4;
describes what reconciles man to it, iii. 295, n. 2;
thinking constantly of it, v. 316;
violent, i. 338;
'a whole system of hopes swept away,' i. 236, n. 3.
See under JOHNSON, death, dread of.
DEATH WARRANTS, iii. 121, n. 1; v. 239-40.
_Debate on the Proposal of Parliament to Cromwell_, i. 150.
DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT,
account of them, i. 115-118, 150-152, 501-512;
written at first by Guthrie and corrected by Johnson, i. 115-6,
136, 503, 509;
written solely by Johnson, i. 118, 150-2, 157, 503;
wrongly assigned to Johnson, i. 509;
authenticity generally accepted, i. 152, 505;
Chesterfield, speeches attributed to, iii. 351;
Croker's inaccuracy about them, i. 509!
'debating,' absence of, i. 506;
discontinued, i. 176, n. 2, 512;
Gent. Mag., increased sale of, i. 152, n. 1;
House of Commons passes resolutions against publication, i. 115, 502, 510;
House of Lords 'a Court of Record,' i. 502;
'Hurgoes,' 'Clinabs,' 'Walelop,' 'Hon. Marcus Cato,' i. 502;
'Pretor of Mildendo,' i. 503;
Johnson's conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408;
_Debates_ not authentic, i. 118, 503-9;
rapid composition, i. 504; iv. 409;
successor, i. 512;
_London Magazine_, reports of the, i. 502, 508-510;
monument to Walpole's greatness, i. 512;
Murphy's account of them, i. 504;
prosecution of Cave, i. 501;
of Cooley and the printer of the _Daily Post_, i. 503;
of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1;
reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510;
reporters, 'fellows who thrust themselves into the gallery,' i. 502;
reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504;
Seeker's reports, i. 507, 509;
'Senate of Lilliput,' i. 115, 502;
speakers' names disguised, i. 501;
speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504;
many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7;
sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508;
table of the order of publication, i. 510;
translated, i. 505;
unreality, i. 506;
volumes, collected in, i. 152;
Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314.
_Debrett's Royal Kalendar_, iv. 350, n. 1.
DEBTOR. 'The pillow of a debtor,' iv. 152, n. 1.
DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127;
for Johnson's warnings, see BOSWELL, debts;
law of arrest, iii. 77;
small and great, i. 347.
_Decay of Christian Piety_, v. 227.
_De Claris Oratoribus_, iv. 316.
DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4;
flattery allowed, v. 285;
Johnson's to all the Royal Family, ii. 2;
skill in them, ii. 1;
_Works_ without any, i. 257, n. 2;
means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2;
one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1;
studied conclusions, v. 239.
_Defence of Pluralities_, ii. 242.
DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1.
DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245.
DEFINITIONS. See under DICTIONARY, and separate words.
DE FOE, Daniel, _Captain Carleton's Memoirs,_ iv. 334, n. 4;
_Drelincourt on Death,_ ii. 163, n. 4;
his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1;
Johnson's praise of him, iii. 267;
the opposite of him, i. 506;
_Robinson Crusoe_, iii. 268.
_Deformities of Johnson_, iv. 148-9.
DEGENERACY OF MANKIND, ii. 217, v. 77.
DE GROOT, Isaac, iii. 125.
DEIST, no honest man one, ii. 8.
DELANY, Dr., _Observations on Swift_, iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238.
DELAP, Rev. Dr., i. 521.
DELAY, danger of, i. 324.
_Dementat_, iv. 181, n. 3.
DEMOCRITUS, iv. 105, n. 4.
DEMONAX, iv. 34.
DE MORGAN, Professor, i. 284, n. 3.
DEMOSTHENES, Johnson compared with him, i. 504;
spoke to barbarians, ii. 171;
to brutes, ii. 211;
mentioned, iii. 351; v. 214.
DEMPSTER, George, account of him, i. 408, n. 4;
argues for merit, i. 440-2;
Boswell, letter to, v. 407;
Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 409, n. 3;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 409;
Johnson's conversation, struck with, i. 434;
dines with, ii. 195;
_Journey_, praises, ii. 303; iii. 301;
sister, his, iii. 242; iv. 284;
unfixed in his principles, i. 443;
virtuous and candid, ii. 305.
DENBIGH, Earls of, ii. 175, n. 2.
DENHALL IN WIRHALL, v. 445, n. 3.
DENHAM, Sir John, iv. 38, n. 1.
DENMAN, first Lord, ii. 408, n. 3.
DENMARK, King of, v. 100.
DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2.
DENNIS, John,
criticisms on _Blackmore_ and _Cato_, iv. 36, n. 4;
on _Cato_, iii. 40, n. 2;
on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. _4_;
_Critical Works_ worth collecting, iii. 40;
his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2.
DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5.
_Depeditation_, v. 130.
DEPOPULATION, ii. 217, n. 5.
DE QUINCEY, account of Bishop Watson, iv. 119, n. 1;
criticises Johnson's _Vanity_, &c., i. 193, n. 3;
praises his Latin, i. 272, n. 3.
_Derange_, iii. 319, n. 1.
DERBY, account of it in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
Highlanders there in 1745, iii. 162; v. 196, n. 3;
Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. 160;
see the china-manufactory, iii. 163;
silk-mill, iii. 164; v. 432;
Johnson married there, i. 95, n. 2, 96;
mentioned, iii. 1, 135, n. 1; iv. 359.
DERBY, fifteenth Earl of, v. 354, n. 1.
DERBY, Rev. Mr., iii. 113.
DERBYSHIRE, ii. 474.
DERRICK, Samuel,
Boswell's 'first tutor,' i. 456;
his 'governor,' iii. 371;
introduced him to Davies, iv. 231, n. 1;
Dryden's _Miscellaneous Works_, edits, i. 456, n. 3;
Home's parody on him, i. 456;
_Humphry Clinker_, described in, i. 124, n. 2;
Johnson's kindness for him, i. 385; v. 117, 240;
projected _Life of Dryden_, gathers materials for, i. 456; v. 240;
lines on, i. 124;
'King of Bath,' i. 394, n. 2, 455;
_Letters from Leverpoole_, i. 456, n. 1; v. 117;
outrunning his character, i. 394;
presence of mind, i. 457;
pun about the Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5;
Smart, compared with, iv. 192.
DESCRIPTION, falls short of reality, iv. 199.
_Deserted Village_. See GOLDSMITH.
DES MAIZEAUX, i. 29.
DESMOULINS, John,
Johnson's will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2;
bequest to him, ib.;
mentioned, iv. 415, n. 1, 440.
DESMOULINS, Mrs., account of her, iii. 222, n. 3;
hates Levett and Williams, iii. 368, 461;
Johnson allows her half a guinea a week, iii. 222;
death, present at, iv. 418;
kitchen under her care, ii. 215, n. 4;
house, lodged in, iii. 222, 380, n. 3;
leaves it, iv. 233, 255, n. 1;
not complaining of the world, iv. 171;
mentioned, i. 64, 83, 237; ii. 148; iii. 313, 363,373;
iv. 92, 1422, 170, 210, 239, n. 2, 322, n. 1.
DESPONDENCY, speculative, iv. 112.
DESPOTIC GOVERNMENTS, iii. 283.
DE THOU. See THUANUS.
DETTINGEN, Battle of, iv. 12.
DEVAYNES, Mr., iv. 273.
_De veritate Religionis_, i. 68, n. 3.
DEVILS do not lie to each other, iii. 293;
their influence upon our minds, iv. 290.
DEVONPORT, i. 379, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE, Johnson's trip to, i. 37l, n. 3, 377; iii. 457;
militia, its, i. 36, n. 4, 307, n. 4.
DEVONSHIRE, third Duke of,
faithful to his word, iii. 186;
dogged veracity, iii. 378.
DEVONSHIRE, fourth Duke of, ii. 78, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE, fifth Duke and Duchess of,
hospitality to Johnson, iv. 357, 367;
mentioned, iv. 126.
DEVONSHIRE, seventh Duke of,
'public dinners at Chatsworth,' iv. 367, n. 3.
DEVONSHIRE, Georgiana, Duchess of,
Genius made feminine to compliment her, iii. 374;
Johnson, eager to hear, iii. 425, n. 4;
painted in the same picture with him, iv. 224, n. 1.
DEVONSHIRE FAMILY, ii. 474.
DEVOTION, abstracted, ii. 10;
particular places for, iv. 226.
_Devotional Exercises_. See PRAYERS.
DEVOTIONAL POETRY. See POETRY.
DE WITT, i. 32.
DEXTERITY, deserves applause, iii. 231.
_Diabolus Regis_, iii. 78.
DIAL, i. 205.
_Dialogues of the Dead_, ii. 447.
DIAMOND, ----, an apothecary, i. 242; iii. 454.
_Diary, The_, iv. 381, n. 1.
_Diary of a Visit to England in 1775_, ii. 338, n. 2.
DIBDEN, Charles, ii. 110.
DICEY, Professor,
_Law of the Constitution_, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 317, n. 1.
DICK, Sir Alexander, gold medal for rhubarb, iv. 263, n. 1;
hospitality, his, iv. 204;
Johnson consults him about his health, iv. 261-3;
letter to, iii. 102, 128;
meets, v. 48, 394, 401.
DICK, ----, a messenger, v. 201.
'DICK WORMWOOD,' ii. 407, n. 5.
DICKENS, Charles, iv. 202, n. 1.
DICTIONARY,
might be compiled from Bacon, iii. 194;
from Elizabethan authors, iii. 194, n. 2;
'perfection' of one, i. 292, n. 2;
pronunciation, of, ii. 161;
Scotland, of words peculiar to, ii. 91;
watches, like, i. 293, n. 3.
_Dictionary, Johnson's_,
account of it, i. 182-9, 256-266, 291-301;
_Abridgement_, i. 264, n. 4, 300, n. 1, 303, n. 1. 305;
in Lord Scarsdale's dressing-room, iii. 161;
accents of words, ii. 161;
authors quoted, i. 189; iv. 4, 416, n. 2;
Bacon often quoted, iii. 194;
Birch, Dr., on it, i. 285;
bound and lettered, i. 283;
commencement, date of its, i. 182, n. 3;
composition, its, i. 186-9;
deficiency of previous, i. 187, n. 1;
definitions, erroneous, i. 293;
definitions, Johnson's genius shown in them, i. 293;
instances of erroneous, i. 293;
political and capricious, i. 294-6; iii. 343; iv. 87, n. 2, 217:
See under separate words;
dictionary-makers described, i. 189, n. 2;
dictionary-making not very unpleasant, i. 189, n. 2; ii. 202, n. 2,
203, n. 3;
'muddling work,' ib.;
Dodsley's suggestion, i. 182, 286; iii. 405;
drudgery, v. 418;
etymologies, i. 186, 292;
explanation, difficulty of, i. 294, n. 2;
edition, fourth, preparing, ii. 142,143, n. 3, 155;
sent to press, ii. 202, n. 2, 209;
published, ii. 203, 205;
mentioned, i. 293, n. 2, 294, n. 7, 295, n. 1, 375, n. 2;
iv. 4, n. 3, 87, n. 2;
Garrick's _Epigram_, i. 300;
Gifford's _Contemplation_ quoted, v. 117, n. 4;
Gough Square, compiled in, i. 188;
Harris,_Hermes_, praised by, iii. 115;
honours and praises, i. 298, 323;
Johnson's portrait, iv. 421, n. 2;
Johnson's praise of its execution, iii. 405;
Manning, the compositor, iv. 321;
outlines sketched, its, i. 176;
particles, changes of the, ii. 45, n. 3;
patrons and opponents, i. 288;
payments, i. 183, 287, 304;
_Plan_, dedicated to Lord Chesterfield, i. 183;
draft of it, i. 185, n. 2;
not noticed in _Gent. Mag._ i. 176, n. 2;
published, i. 182;
poetry, harder to write than, v. 47;
Preface, i. 291-9;
pronunciation, ii. 161, n. 1;
published, i. 288, 291;
publishers, i. 183;
Sheridan's, R. B., compliment to it, iii. 115;
Smith, Adam, reviewed by, i. 298, n. 2;
time taken in writing, i. 186, 287, 291, 443;
volume ii. begun, i. 255;
Wilkes and the letter _H_, i. 300;
words, big, i. 2l8;
written in sickness and sorrow, i. 263, n. 1; iv. 427.
_Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_ projected by Goldsmith, ii. 204, n. 2.
DIDEROT, Denys, anecdote of Hume, ii. 8, n. 4;
on acting, iv. 244, n. 1.
DIDO, iv. 196.
_Dies Irae_, iii. 358, n. 3.
DIFFICULTIES, raising, iii. 11, n. 1.
DIGGS, the actor, i. 386, n. 1.
DILLY FAMILY, account of it, iii. 396, n. 2.
DILLY, Messrs. Edward and Charles, booksellers,
Boswell's _Corsica_, publish, ii. 46, n. 1;
_Conversation between George III, &c_., ii. 34, n. 1;
_Life of Johnson, ib._;
Chesterfield's _Miscellaneous Works_, publish, iii. 351;
dinners at their house, ii. 247, 338; iii. 65-79, 284-300, 357-8,
392, n. 2; iv. 101-7, _ib., n 2, 278, 330; v. 57, n. 3;
always gave a good dinner, iii. 285;
hospitality to literary men, iii. 65;
house, their, No. 22 in the Poultry, iii. 5, 65, n. 2;
'patriotic friends,' their, iii. 66.
DILLY, Charles, comparative happiness, on, iii. 288;
Johnson, letters from, iii. 394; iv. 257;
Milton's _Tractate on Education_, on, iii. 358;
quotations for sale, account of, iv. 102, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 396, n. 2; iv. 118, 126.
DILLY, Edward, Boswell, letter to, iii. 110;
Boswell parts with him, iii. 396;
_Lives of the Poets_, account of the, iii. 110;
Johnson, letter from, iii. 126.
DILLY, Squire, Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 118-32;
mentioned, i. 260; ii. 247; iii. 396, n. 2.
DINGLEY, Mrs., iv. 177, n. 2.
DINNER, cost in London in 1737, i. 103,105;
in 1746, i. 103, n. 2;
in Edinburgh, in 1742, ib.;
a measure of emotion, i. 355; ii. 94; iv. 220;
waiting for it, ii. 83;
better where there is no solid conversation, iii. 57.
See JOHNSON, dinners and eating.
DIOCLETIAN, ii. 255, n. 4.
DIOGENES LAERTIUS, iii. 386, n. 3; iv. 13.
DIOMED, ii. 129.
DIONYSIUS'S _Periegesis_, iv. 444.
Diot, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430.
_Dirleton's Doubts_, iii. 205.
_Disarrange_, iii. 319, n. 1.
_Discourses on Painting by Reynolds. See_ REYNOLDS, _Discourses_.
DISCOVERIES, Johnson dislikes them, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479;
iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 1;
Walpole describes the harm done by them, v. 276, n. 2, 328, n. 2.
DISEASES, acute and chronical, iv. 150.
DISLIKE, mutual, iii. 423.
DISPUTES, encouraging, iii. 185.
D'ISRAELI, Isaac, Barnes's _Homer_, iv. 19, n. 2;
Birch, Dr., i. 159, n. 4;
Campbell's _Hermippus Redivivus_, ii. 427, n. 4;
Chatterton and Lord Mayor Beckford, iii. 201, n. 3;
Churchill's abhorrence of blotting, i. 419, n. 5;
Davies's taste as a bookseller, iii. 223, n. 1;
Dedications, ii. 1, n. 2;
Dennis's thunder, iii. 40, n. 2;
Du Halde's _China_, ii. 55, n. 4;
Flexney and Stockdale, ii. 113, n. 2;
Guthrie's letter, i. 117, n. 2;
Hill, Sir John, ii. 39, n. 2;
Johnson's hints for the _Life of Pope_, iv. 46, n. 1;
Oldys the author of _Busy, curious, thirsty fly_, ii. 281, n. 5;
his notes on Langbaine, iii. 30, n. 1;
Pieresc, ii. 371, n. 2;
Steevens's literary impostures, iv. 178, n. 1;
Tasker, Rev. Mr., iii. 374, n. 1.
DISSENTERS, bill for their relief rejected, ii. 208, n. 4;
_Country_-party, of the, v. 255, n. 5;
taught the graces of language, i. 312;
tossing snails into their gardens, ii. 268, n. 2.
_Dissertation on the Epitaphs written by Pope_, i. 306.
_Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authours_, i. 306.
_Dissertations on the History of Ireland_, i. 321.
_Dissertations on the Prophecies_, iv. 286.
DISSIMULATION, ii. 47.
DISTANCE, of time and of place, ii. 471.
DISTINCTIONS, all are trifles, iii. 355; love of them, i. 474.
_Distressed Mother_, Budgell's Epilogue_, i. 181;
really written by Addison, iii. 46;
Johnson's _Epilogue_, i. 55, n. 3.
DISTRESSES OF OTHERS, ii. 94-5.
DISTRUST, iii. 135.
_Diversions of Purley_, iii. 354, n. 2.
DIVES, ii. 162.
_Divine Legation_. See WARBURTON, W.
DIVINES, English, iv. 105, n. 3.
DIVORCES, iii. 347-8.
DIXEY, Sir Wolstan, i, 84.
DOBLE, Mr. C. E.,
on the authorship of the _Whole Duty of Man_, ii. 239, n. 4;
Psalmanazar at Christ Church, iii. 449.
_Dockers_, i. 379.
DOCKING, ii. 52.
DOCTOR, title of, i. 488, n. 3; ii. 373.
See JOHNSON, doctor, and DR. MEMIS.
DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, respect shown to a, ii. 124.
DOCTORS' COMMONS, i. 134, 462, n. 1.
_Doctrine of Grace_, Warburton's, v. 93.
DODD, Rev. Dr. William, account of him, iii. 139;
Allen's kindness to him, iii. 141;
Boswell's anxiety for his pardon, iii. 119;
canted all his life, iii. 270;
character, iii. 122, 166;
_currat lex_, iv. 207;
dedication to Rev. Mr. Villette, iii. 167, n. 1;
execution, iii. 120-1, 148;
forgery, guilty of, iii. 140;
Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 144-5, 147;
describes, iii. 140, n. 2;
writes for him _Convict's Address_, iii. 121, 141-2, 167, 295, n. 1;
_Last Solemn Declaration_, iii. 143;
_Observations_, iii. 120, n. 4, 142;
_Occasional Papers_ (conclusion), iii. 148;
petitions and letters, iii. 121, 142, 144;
and his speech to the Recorder, iii. 126, 141;
_Last Prayer_, iii. 270;
life, longing for, iii. 154;
Literary Club, tried to join the, iii. 280;
Magdalen House, chaplain at, iii. 139, n. 4;
mind concentrated, his, iii. 167;
Newgate, closely watched in, iii. 166;
petitions in his favour, ii. 90, n. 5; iii. 120, 143;
saint, not to be made a, iv. 208;
Sermons, his, iii. 248;
_Thoughts in Prison_, iii. 270;
'unfortunate,' iii. 120, n. 2;
Wesley visits him in prison, iii. 121, n. 3;
'wretched world, not a,' iii. 166;
mentioned, iii. 132.
DODD, Mrs., iii. 142.
DODDRIDGE, Dr., epigram by him, v. 271.
DODSLEY, James, i. 182; ii. 447.
DODSLEY, Robert, Cleans, acted, i. 324, n. 1, 325-6;
compared by Johnson with Otway, iv. 21;
'more blood than brains,' iv. 20;
_Collection of Poems_, ii. 467; iii. 21, n. 1, 38, 149, n. 2, 269, 280;
iv. 24;
'Dartineuf's' footman, ii. 447;
'Doddy,' ii. 258, n. 1;
Garrick, quarrel with, i. 325;
Goldsmith, dispute on poetry with, iii. 38;
imprisoned by the House of Lords, i. 125, n. 3;
_Irene_, publishes, i. 198;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, suggests, i. 182, 286; iii. 405;
one of the publishers, i. 183, 264;
asks to have the _Plan_ inscribed to Chesterfield, i. 183;
_London_ published by him, i. 121-4;
_Rasselas_, i. 341;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 193, n. 1.
'patron,' i. 326;
_Life_ should be written, his, ii. 446;
_Muse in Livery_, ii. 446;
Pope, assisted by, ii. 446, n. 4;
Pope's executors, application to, iv. 51, n. 1;
_Preceptor_, i. 192;
_Public Virtue_, iv. 20;
wife's death, his, i. 277;
_World, The_, i. 202, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 135, n. 1, 243, 290, 317; ii. 453, n. 2; iv. 333, n. 1.
DODWELL, Henry, v. 437.
_Doggedly_, v. 40.
DOGGET, Thomas, ii. 465, n. 1.
DOGS attack butchers, ii. 232;
eaten in China and Otaheite, ib.;
have not power of comparing, ii. 96.
DOING NOTHING, v. 39.
_Dolus latet in universalibus_, v. 105.
_Domesticated_, i. 268, n. 1.
_Domina de North et Gray_, iv. 10.
DOMINICETTI, ii. 99.
DONALDSON, Alexander, Boswell's first publisher, i. 383, n. 3;
intimacy with him, i. 439. n. 1;
Copyright case, i. 437-9; ii 345. n. 2.
DONATUS, ii. 204, n. 4, 358, n. 3.
_Don Belianis_, i. 49, n. 2.
DONCASTER, ii. 300, n. 5.
DONNE, Dr., saw a vision, ii. 445;
uses the term _quotidian_, v. 346.
_Don Quixote_, wished longer, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5;
Don Quixote's death, ii. 370.
DOOR, 'author concealed behind the door,' i. 396.
_Dorando, A Spanish Tale_, ii. 50, n. 4.
DORSET, third Duke of, iv. 421, n. 2.
DOSA, ii. 7, n. 3.
DOSSIE, Robert, iv. 11.
DOUBLE LETTERS. See POST.
DOUGHTY, the engraver, ii. 286, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2.
DOUGLAS, Archibald,
(at first Archibald Stewart, at last Baron Douglas, of Douglas Castle),
ii. 50, n. 4, 230.
DOUGLAS, last Duke of, v. 43, n. 4.
DOUGLAS, Duchess of, v. 43, n. 4.
DOUGLAS, Sir James, journey to the Holy Land, iii. 177.
DOUGLAS, James, M.D., editions of Horace, iv. 279.
DOUGLAS, Lady Jane, ii. 50, n. 4, 230.
DOUGLAS, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Salisbury,
British Coffee-house Club, a member of the, iv. 179, n. 1;
Church of England, on the discipline of the, iv. 277;
Cock Lane Ghost exposes the, i. 407;
Goldsmith's lines on him, i. 229, n. 1, 407, n. 2; iii. 139, n. 4;
_Conduct of the Allies_, praises the, ii. 65;
Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5;
Johnson's _London_, anecdote of, i. 127;
Lauder's imposition, i. 228;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
mentioned, i. 140, 260, n. 3, 430; ii. 63, 125, n. 5.
DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN, iii. 163.
DOUGLAS, Lady Lucy, v. 359.
DOUGLAS CAUSE, account of it, ii. 50, 230;
Boswell one of the counsel before House of Lords, iii. 8, 219;
v. 378, n. 2;
and the Duchess of Argyle, v. 353, 359;
_Essence of the Douglas Cause_, ii. 230, n. 1;
Judges' windows broken, v. 353, n. 1;
_Letters to Lord Mansfield_, ii. 229;
'shook the security of birth-right,' v. 28.
_Douglas_, a tragedy. SEE HOME, John.
DOVEDALE, v. 430.
DOVER, iv. 260, n. 1.
DOVER CLIFF, Shakespeare's description of, ii. 87.
_Downed_, iii. 335, n. 2.
DOXY, Miss, iii. 417-8.
_Drake, Life of_, i. 147, n. 5.
DRAMA, the English, characteristics of its dialogue, iv. 247.
DRAPER, the bookseller, iii. 46.
DRAUGHTS, game of, i. 317; ii. 444,
DRAYTON'S _Polyolbion_, v. 225, n. 3.
DREAMS, communication by them, i. 235;
contest of wit in one, iv. 5;
Prendergast's dream, ii. 183.
_Drelincourt on Death_, ii. 163.
DRESDEN, i. 266, n. 2.
DRESS, effects on the mind, i. 200; ii. 475;
if fine, should be very fine, iv. 179; v. 364.
DRESSING, time spent in, v. 67.
DREWRY, SIR R., ii. 445, n. 4.
DRINKING, time it can go on, iii. 243, n. 4;
in Johnson's youth, v. 59-60;
rule about drinking to another, v. 356:
SEE DRUNKENNESS and WINE.
_Drinking Song to Sleep_, i. 251.
DROGHEDA, fifth Earl of, iii. 30, n, 1.
DROMORE, Bishop of. SEE PERCY.
DROWNING, suicide by, v. 54.
DRUID'S TEMPLE, a, v. 107, 132.
DRUMGOLD, Colonel, ii. 397, 399, 401.
DRUMMOND, ALEXANDER, _Travels_, v. 323.
DRUMMOND, DR., iii. 88, 383.
DRUMMOND, GEORGE, v. 43.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, of Hawthornden, _Cypress Grove_, v. 180;
_Polemomiddinia_, iii. 284;
Jonson, Ben, visited by, v. 402, 414.
DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, bookseller of Edinburgh,
account of him, ii. 26;
Johnson's letters to him, ii. 27-31;
Johnson, meets, v. 385, 394, 400;
his son, iii. 88, n. 1.
DRUNKENNESS, as an art, iii, 389;
'elevated,' v. 156, n. 2;
its felicity, ii, 351; 435. n. 7; iii. 381, n. 3;
on a little, iii. 170.
_Drury Lane Journal_, i. 218, n. 1.
DRURY LANE THEATRE, _Prologue on the opening of_, i. 181; iv. 25.
SEE LONDON, Drury Lane.
DRYDEN, JOHN,
_Absalom and Achitophel_, sale, i. 34, n. 5;
quoted, ii. 348, n. 2; iv. 73, n. 3;
_All for Love_, preface quoted, iv. 114, n 1;
_Annus Mirabilis_, quoted, ii. 241, n. 1;
_Aurengsebe_, quoted, ii. 125; iv. 303, n. 3;
Bayes in _The Rehearsal_, ii. 168:
booksellers' mercantile ruggedness, suffered from the, i. 305, n. 1;
borrows for want of leisure, v. 92, n. 4;
Collier, censured by, i. 167, n. 2; iv. 286, n. 3;
colleges and kings, lines on, ii. 223;
_Conquest of Granada_, quoted, iv. 259, n. 3;
dedication, its, v. 239;
converted to Roman Catholicism, iv. 44;
dedications, studied conclusions to his, v. 239;
'delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,' ii. 241, n. l;
_Life of_, Derrick's 'materials'; SEE DERRICK;
dignity of his character, known to himself, i. 264, n. 1;
_Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, i. 197, n. 2; ii. 86, n. 1;
'Fate after him,' &c., iv. 25, n. 3;
'familiar day,' his, iv. 91, n. 1;
foreign words, on, i. 218, n. 1;
genius, his conscious, iii. 405, n. 3;
Hailes, Lord, anecdotes of him by, iii. 397, n. 3;
_Hind and Panther_, quoted, iv. 44;
_Indian Emperour_, quoted, iii. 346, n. 3;
Johnson gathered materials for his _Life_, i. 456; iii. 71; iv. 44; v.
240; writes it, iv. 44-6;
Johnson, resemblance in his character to, iv. 45;
judgment of the public, on the, i. 200, n. 2;
Juvenal, dedication to his, iv. 38;
Latin line wrongly attributed to him, iii. 304, n. 3;
_Life_ not written by contemporaries, v. 415, n. 2;
lines on life: SEE just above, _Aurengzebe_;
love, fine lines on, ii. 85;
Malone, _Life_ by, iii. 397, n. 3;
'mechanical defects,' on, iv. 247;
_Metaphysical Poets_, mentions the, iv. 38;
Milton, lines on, ii. 336; v. 86;
Johnson's translation, _ib., n_. 1;
_Ode on St. Cecilia's Day_, iii. 38;
paid about sixpence a verse for 10,000 verses, i. 193, n. 1;
pleasing a man against his will, on, iii. 69, n. 4;
poets and monarchs, lines on, ii. 223;
Pope, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85;
predestination, puzzled about, iii. 347;
prefaces, his, ii. 444, n. 1; iv. 114, n. 1;
_Prologue to the Tempest_, quoted, i. 361;
prologues, his, ii. 325;
rhyming tragedies, iv. 42, n. 7;
_Rival Ladies_, quoted, iii. 296, n. 1;
Royal Society, lines on the, ii. 241;
Settle, Elkanah, rivalry with, iii. 76;
Shakespeare, admiration of, ii. 86, n. 1;
_She Stoops to Conquer_, its title taken from him, ii. 205. n. 4;
'shorn of his beams,' iii. 363, n. 1;
style, distinguished by his, iii. 280;
traded in corruption, i. 189, n. 1;
Virgil, translation of, iii. 193;
Will's Coffee-house, at, iii. 71;
Zimri, character of, ii. 85.
Du Bos, ii. 90.
DUCK, epitaph on a, i. 40.
DUCKET, George, i. 294, n. 9.
DUCKING-STOOL, iii. 287.
DUDLEY, Lord, v. 457.
DUDLEY, Sir Henry, (_alias_ Rev. Henry Bate), iv. 296, n. 3.
DUEL, trial by, v. 24.
DUELLING,
defended by Johnson and Oglethorpe, ii. 179;
by Johnson as being as lawful as war, ii. 226;
as self-defence, iv. 211;
his serious opinion not given, ib., n. 4;
could not explain its rationality, v. 230;
Thomas, Colonel, killed in one, iv. 211, n. 4;
_Tom Jones_, the lieutenant in, ii. 180.
DUFFERIN, fifth Earl of, i. 358, n. 2.
DUGDALE, William, Sunday work in harvest, iii. 313, n. 3.
DU HALDE, _Description of China_, i. 136, 157; ii. 55; iv. 30.
DUKE, Richard, iv. 36, n. 4.
DUKE, an English one nothing, i. 409;
weighed against a genius, i. 442.
DULL, fellow, a, ii. 126;
magistrate, iv. 312.
_Dum vivimus, vivamus_, v. 271.
DUN, Rev. Mr., v. 381.
DUNBAR, Dr., Johnson introduces him to Boswell, iii. 436;
described by Mackintosh and Colman, ib., n. 1; v. 92.
DUNCAN, Dr., ii. 354, n. 2.
DUNCES, ii. 84.
DUNCOMBE, William, iii. 314.
DUNDAS, Lord President, ii. 50, n. 4, 302, n. 2; iii. 213.
DUNDAS, Henry (Viscount Melville),
account of him, ii. 160, n. 1;
Boswell's malice against him, iii. 213, n. 1;
George III, and a baronetcy for an apothecary, ii. 354, n. 2;
government of India bill, iv. 213, n. 1;
Knight, the negro, case of, iii. 213;
Literary Property Case, i. 266;
Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2;
Robertson, a jaunt with, iii. 335, n. 1;
Scotch accent, his, ii. 160; iii. 213;
serfdom in Scotland, on, iii. 202, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 191, n. 2.
DUNDEE, John, Viscount of, v. 58, n. 1.
'DUNGEON OF WIT,' v. 342.
DUNKIRK, iii. 326.
DUNMORE, fourth Earl of, v. 142, n. 2.
DUNNING, John (first Lord Ashburton),
business, his way of getting through, iii. 128, n. 5;
Devonshire accent, ii. 159;
'great lawyer, the,' iii. 128;
influence of the Crown, motion on the, iv. 220, n. 5;
Johnson, willing to listen to, iii. 240;
_Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle_, iii. 254;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
elected, iii. 128;
Loughborough, Lord, afraid of him, iii. 240, n. 3;
Reynolds's dinner parties, describes, iii. 375, n. 2;
Somerset's case, in, iii. 87, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 437, n. 2.
DUNSINNAN, Lord. See NAIRNE, William.
DUNSTABLE, v. 428.
_Dunton's Life and Errors_, iv. 200.
_Dupin's History of the Church_, iv. 311.
DUPPA, Bishop, _Holy Rules_, iv. 402, n. 2.
DUPPA, R.,
edits Johnson's _Journey into North Wales_, ii. 285, n. 2; v. 427, n. 1.
_Durandi Rationale Officiorum Divinorum_, ii. 397, n. 2; v. 459.
_Durandi Sanctuarium_, ii. 397.
_Durham on the Galatians_. v. 383.
DURHAM (City), iii. 297, n. 2, 457; v. 56, n. 2.
DURHAM (County), Militia Bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4.
DURY, Lieutenant-Colonel, i. 338, n. 2.
DURY, Major-General, i. 338, n. 2.
DUTCH. See HOLLAND.
DYER, Sir James, i. 75.
DYER, John, _Fleece, The,_ ii. 453;
S. Dyer's portrait passed off as his, ib., n. 2.
DYER, Samuel, account of him, iv. 11, n. 1;
Hawkins's character, draws, i. 28, n. 1;
Hawkins slanders him, i. 480, n. 1;
Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 436;
Johnson buys his portrait, iv. 11, n. 1;
_Junius,_ suspected to be, iv. 11;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2,479, 480, n. 2; ii. 17;
held in high estimation, iv. 10-11;
mathematician, a, v. 109;
Reynolds's portrait of him, i. 363, n. 3; ii. 453, n. 2.
DYING. See DEATH.