VACANCIES, eagerness for, iii. 251.
VACHELL, William, iii. 83, n. 3.
VACUUM, i. 444, n. 2.
'VAGABOND, Mr.,' iii. 411, n. 1.
_Vagabondo, Il_, i. 202; iii. 411.
VAILS, ii. 78.
VALENCIA, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 434.
VALETUDINARIANS, ii. 460;
Johnson's disgust at them, iii. 1, 152.
VALLANCY, Colonel, iv. 272, 278.
VANBRUGH, Sir John,
attempted to answer Jeremy Collier, iv. 286, n. 3;
_Provoked Husband_, ii. 48, n. 3; iv. 284, n. 2;
Reynolds's tribute to him, iv. 55.
VANE, Anne, v. 49, n. 4.
VANE, Lady, v. 49, n. 4.
_Vanessa_, ii. 389, n. 1.
_Vanity of Human Wishes_,
account of it, i. 192-5;
price paid for it, i. 193, n. 1;
rapidly composed, i. 192; ii. 15;
written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192;
Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2;
Byron's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3;
death, 'kind nature's signal of retreat,' ii. 106;
De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3;
Garrick's sarcasm on it, i. 194;
Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3;
misery, 'the doom of man,' iii. 198; v. 179;
'Patron and the jail,' i. 264;
_Rasselas_, resemblance to, i. 342;
Scott's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3;
_spreads_ changed into _burns_, iii. 357-8;
Vane and Sedley, v. 49;
Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4.
VANSITTART, Dr.,
account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1;
story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 192.
VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144.
VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163.
VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3.
VENICE,
Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1;
Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19;
mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3.
VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104.
_Veracious_, iv. 39, n. 3.
VERACITY. See TRUTH.
_Verbiage_ ii. 236; iii. 256.
_Verecundulus_, i. 68, n. 1.
VERNON'S Parish Clerk, v. 268, n. 1.
VERSAILLES, ii. 385, 395;
theatre, ii. 395, n. 2.
VERSES, in a dead language, ii. 371;
making them, ii. 15.
_Verses on Ireland_, iii. 319.
_Verses on a Sprig of Myrtle_, i. 92.
_Verses to Mr. Richardson on his Sir Charles Grandison_, ii. 26.
VERTOT, ii. 237; iv. 311.
VESEY, Right Hon. Agmondesham,
gentle manners, his, iv. 28;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; ii. 318;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108.
VESEY, Mrs.,
evenings at her house described by Langton, iii. 424; iv. 1, n. 1;
by Hannah More, iii. 424, n. 3;
by Horace Walpole, iii. 425, n. 3;
by Miss Burney, iii. 426, n. 3;
by Johnson, ib., n. 4;
wishes to introduce Johnson to Raynal, iv. 435.
VESTRIS, the dancer, iv. 79.
_Vexing Thoughts_, iii. 5.
_Vicar of Wakefield_. See GOLDSMITH.
VICE,
character not hurt by it, iii. 349;
compared with virtue, iii. 342;
Mandeville's doctrine: See MANDEVILLE.
_Vicious Intromission_,
Johnson's argument, ii. 196-201, 206; iii. 102; v. 48.
VICTOR, Benjamin, iv. 53.
VICTORIA, Queen, death-warrants, iii. 121, n. 1.
VIDA, i. 230, n. 1.
_Vidit et erubuit_, iii. 304.
VILETTE, Rev. Mr.,
Dodd's dedication to him, iii. 167, n. 1;
his virtues, iv. 329.
_Village, The_, a poem, iv. 121, n. 4, 175.
VILLIERS, Sir George, his ghost, iii. 351.
VINCENT, William, Dean of Westminster, i. 302, n. 1.
_Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage_, i. 140; ii, 60, n. 3.
VIRGIL,
_Aeneid_,
its story, iv. 218;
Aeneas's treatment of Dido, iv. 196;
Burke's ragged copy, iii. 193, n. 3;
farming, love of, v. 78;
Homer, compared with, iii. 193;
Johnson reads him, ii. 288; iv. 218;
juvenile translations, i. 51;
_machinery_, his, iv. 16;
Pope, less talked of than, iii. 332;
printing-house, describes a, v. 311-12;
Theocritus, compared with, iv. 2;
quotations:
_Eclogues_ i. 5--i. 460;
_Eclogues_ i. 11--iii. 310, n. 4;
_Eclogues_ ii. 16--iii. 87, n. 3; 212, n. 2;
_Eclogues_ iii. 64--v. 291, n, 1;
_Eclogues_ iii. 111--v. 279, n. 3;
_Eclogues_ viii. 43--i. 261, n. 3;
_Georgics_ ii. 173--iv. 372, n. 1;
_Georgics_ iii. 9--ii. 329, n. 3;
_Georgics_ iii. 66--ii. 129;
_Georgics_ iv. l32--iv. 173, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ i. 3--v. 392, n. 4;
_Aeneid_ i. l99--iv. 258, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ i. 2O2--v. 333, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ i. 204--v. 392, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ i. 378--iv. 193, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ i. 460-iii. 162, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 5--iii. 64, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 6--ii. 262, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 49--iii. 108, n. 3;
_Aeneid_ ii. l98--iii. 212, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 368--v. 50, n. 1;
_Aeneid_ ii. 544--i. 142;
_Aeneid_ iii. 461--ii. 22;
_Aeneid_ vi. 273--v. 311;
_Aeneid_ vi. 4l7--v. 311, n. 4;
_Aeneid_ vi. 660--iv. 193, n. 2;
_Aeneid_ vi. 730--1. 66;
_Aeneid_ xii. 424--ii. 272, n. 1.
VIRTUE,
how far followed by happiness, i. 389, n. 2;
men naturally virtuous compared with those who overcome
inclinations, iv. 224;
not natural to man, iii. 352;
practised for the sake of character, iii. 342, 349;
scholastic, ii. 223;
why preferable to vice, iii. 342.
_Virtue, an Ethick Epistle_, iii. 199, n. 2.
_Vision of Theodore the Hermit_, i. 192, 483, n. 2.
VIVACITY, an art, ii. 462.
VOLCANOES, strata of earth in them, ii. 467.
VOLGA, iv. 277.
VOLTAIRE,
'Après tout, c'est un monde passable,' i. 344;
attacks, on answers to, v. 274, n. 4;
Boswell visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5; iii. 301, n. 1; v. 14;
Bouhours, ii. 90, n. 3;
Byng, Admiral, i. 314;
_Candide_, i. 342; iii. 356;
'Cerbères de la littérature,' v. 311, n. 4;
Charles XII's dress, ii. 475, n. 3;
Derham, William, v. 323, n. 4;
Des Maizeaux's _Life of Bayle_, i. 29, n, 1;
Dubos, ii. 90, n. 2;
_Essai sur les Moeurs_, ii. 53, n. 2;
fame, his, iii. 263, 332;
forgotten ideas, the situation of, i. 435, n. 2;
Frederick the Great, contest with, i. 434; v. 103, n. 2;
_Ganganelli's Letters_, iii. 286;
Hay, Lord Charles, iii. 8, n. 3;
Hénault, ii. 383, n. 1;
_History of the War in 1741_, v. 272;
_Histoire de Louis XIV_, v. 393;
Holbach's _Système de la Nature_, v. 47, n. 4;
Hume, his echo, ii. 53;
insurrection of 1745-6, account of the, iii. 414;
Johnson attacks him, i. 498, 499, n. 1;
praises his knowledge, but attacks his honesty, i. 435, n. 2;
his reply, i. 499;
and Frederick the Great, i. 434;
_Julia Mandeville_, reviews, ii. 402, n. 1;
Kames, Lord, ii. 90, n. 1;
_Le désastre de Lisbonne_, iv. 302, n. 1;
_Le Monde comme il va_, i. 344, n. 2;
Leroi, the watch-maker, ii. 391, n. 5;
Lewis XIV, celebrated in many languages, i. 123;
and Mlle. de la Vallière, v. 49, n. 3;
loved a striking story, iii. 414;
Macdonald, Sir James, v. 152, n. 1;
Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;
master of English oaths, i. 435, n. 1;
Maupertuis's death, ii. 54, n. 3;
middle class in England and France, ii. 402, n. 1;
Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, ii. 88;
Moréri, v. 311, n. 1;
narrator, good, ii. 125;
Newton, Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287, n. 2;
Pope and Dryden, distinguishes, ii. 5;
Pope, visits, i. 499, n. 1;
Pretender, reflections on the, v. 199-200;
read less than formerly, iv. 288;
Reynolds's allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4;
Rousseau, compared with, ii. 12;
Shakespeare, attacks, i. 498; ii. 88, n. 3;
made him known to the French, ii. 88, n. 2;
Stuart, House of, v. 200;
torture in France, i. 467, n. 1;
trial, has not yet stood his, v. 311;
_Universal History_, v. 311;
_Vir est acerrimi ingenii et paucarum literarum_, ii. 406;
Wesley calls him coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1;
witchcraft, v. 46, n. 1;
wonders, caught greedily at, i. 498, n. 4; iii. 229, n. 3.
Vossius, Isaac, i. 186, n. 2.
Voting, privilege of, ii. 340.
Vows, Cowley's lines on them, iii. 357, n. 1;
Johnson's warning against them, ii. 21;
a snare for sin, iii. 357;
if unnecessary a folly and a crime, iii. 357, n. 1.
_Vox Viva_, v. 324.
_Voyage to Lisbon_, i. 269, n. 1.
_Voyages to the South Sea_. See SOUTH SEA.
Vranyken, University of, i. 475.
Vulgar, The, children of the State, ii. 14; iv. 216.
Vyse, Rev. Dr., Boswell, letter to, iii. 125;
Johnson's letter to him, iii. 125;
mentioned, iv. 372, n. 2.