# Six Essays on Johnson/Index

INDEX
INDEX
* Academy in England, Johnson on proposed, 163–6.
* Actors and acting, 22, 93–4.
* Addison, 29, 33, 44–5, 137, 139, 149.
* Akenside, 155.
* All’s Well that Ends Well, 89.
* Anecdote, Johnson on, 38.
* Antiquary, qualifications of, 112–13.
* Athenae Oxonienses, 106, 113.
* Aubrey, John, 106–13, 116. 118.
* Authorship, Johnson on, 79, 137–42.
* Authorship, mediaeval, 99.
* Autobiography in Lives of the Poets, 134–7.
* Bad characters, Johnson’s liking for, 168.
* Bale, J., 100.
* Baretti, Joseph, 50.
* Bashfulness, Johnson on, 16.
* Beggars, Johnson and, 171.
* Beggar’s Opera, Gay’s, 144.
* Bentley, Richard, 142.
* Beyle, Henri (De Stendthal), 90.
* Biography, Early, 98; Evangelical, 106; Servile, 118, 143.
* Birmingham, History of, 72.
* Blackerby, Richard, 106.
* Blank verse, Johnson on, 153–6.
* Blount, Sir Thos. Pope, 105.
* Boccaccio, 156.
* Boileau, 159.
* Bolton, Edmund, 164.
* Books, the use of, 28, 31.
* Books quoted by Johnson, 94.
* Boots, Johnson’s, 94–5.
* Boswell, 9–12, 14, 18, 27, 35, 36–7, 38, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46–9, 51, 52–6, 60–3, 68, 72–4, 78, 80, 81, 88, 93, 94, 95–7, 128, 129, 131, 141, 174, 175.
* Boyse, Samuel, 121–6.
* Bunbury, Sir Charles, 59.
* Burke, 55, 63.
* Burney, Charles, 86.
* Burney, Frances, 44, 46–7, 68, 72, 168–71.
* Bustle, Johnson on, 69.
* Bute, Lord, 61.
* Cambridge University, 7, 152.
* Camden, Wm., 102.
* Campbell, Dr. Thomas, 60.
* Carew, quoted, 18.
* Carlyle, 66, 140.
* Cartwright, Edmund, 121 n.
* Cat, Johnson’s, 94.
* Cat, physiology of the, 58.
* Chandler, Mrs. Mary, 126.
* Chatham, Lord, 10.
* Chaucer, 126, 128; quoted, 99.
* Chesterfield, Lord, 76.
* Children, Johnson and, 66, 71, 171.
* Churchill on Johnson, 77.
* Cibber, Theophilus, 119–26.
* Clarke, Sam., 106.
* Classical doctrine of poetry, 147.
* Coleridge, 154.
* Commonplace, 13, 37.
* Congreve, 27, 87–8, 118.
* Conversation, Johnson’s, 45, 48, 51–2, 71, 96–7.
* Cook, Wm., Life of Johnson, 41; memory of Goldsmith, 65.
* Cooper, Mrs. Eliz., 118–19.
* Corneille, 88.
* Cowley, 105, 126, 128, 133, 137, 152, 153.
* Cowper, William, 145–7.
* Coxeter, Thos., 119.
* Criticism, breadth of Johnson’s, 157.
* Cumberland, Richard, 53, 61.
* Curll, Edmund, 117, 118.
* Cymbeline, 94.
* Dante, 176.
* Death, Johnson on, 48–9, 71.
* Denham, 157.
* Devotional poetry, Johnson on, 159–61; Dr. Watts on, 161–3.
* Dictionary, Johnson’s, 12, 31, 33, 34, 75–6, 82, 126.
* Dictionary of National Biography, 8.
* Dies Irae, 162.
* Dilly, Edward, 128.
* Donne, 103, 104, 176.
* Drayton, 102.
* Dryden, 8, 126, 131, 136–7, 138, 140–1, 149–50, 157, 164, 166–8.
* Eating, Johnson’s manner of, 52–53.
* Education, Johnson on, 69.
* Egotism, Johnson’s freedom from, 59–60.
* Emendation of Shakespeare, Johnson’s views on, 90–2.
* English character, 32, 35, 163.
* Essay on Man, Pope’s, 148.
* Essex Head Club, 41, 44.
* Exit Pistol, Johnson’s note on, 86.
* Farmer, Dr., 80.
* Faults of Shakespeare, 86–9.
* Fitzherbert, 58.
* Flint, Elizabeth, 169–71.
* Foote, 41, 92–3.
* Fox, Charles James, 20.
* Freedom, poetic, 157.
* Fuller, Thos., 100, 102, 105, 107.
* Garrick, David, 22, 80, 88, 93.
* Gay, 144, 148.
* Gesticulation, Johnson on, 21–2.
* Ghost, The, Churchill’s, 77.
* Ghosts, Johnson on, 70.
* Gibbon, 138.
* Goldsmith, 61–6, 72, 73.
* ‘Good kissing carrion,’ 91.
* Grainger, Dr., 77.
* Gray, 30, 139–40.
* Great, the, and Johnson, 59.
* Greville, Sir Fulke, 101.
* Griffiths, Ralph, 119, 120–5 n.
* Gunpowder, Johnson on, 48.
* Hamlet, 80, 85, 91, 117.
* Hammond, James, 122 n., 151.
* Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 75.
* Hawkesworth, Life of Swift, 29.
* Hawkins, Sir John, 43, 53, 54, 63–5, 68, 78, 168.
* Hearne, Thos., 45, 114.
* Hector, Edmund, 79.
* Henry V., 86.
* Henry VIII., 90.
* Herbert, George, 103, 104.
* Hervey, Hon. Henry, 135–6.
* Heywood, Thomas, projected Lives of the Poets, 101–2.
* Hill, Dr. Birkbeck, 5, 59, 80.
* Hobbes, 107.
* Hooker, Richard, 103, 104.
* Hoole, John, 49.
* Horneck, The Misses, 62.
* Humour, Johnson’s, 68–70.
* Hunting, Johnson on, 67.
* Idler, The, 33, 40, 93.
* Indolence, Johnson on, 15.
* Inspiration, Johnson’s view of poetic, 158.
* Irene, Johnson’s, 140.
* Irish bulls, 65.
* Jacob, Giles, 117–18.
* Jenyns, Soame, 23–6.
* Jonson, Ben, 84, 109, 123.
* Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell’s, 48, 53.
* Journey to the Western Islands, Johnson’s, 33, 61; quoted, 18.
* Kearsley, 41.
* Keats, 157.
* Kettell, Dr. Ralph, 110–11.
* Lamb, Charles, 66, 93.
* Langbaine, Gerard, 105, 118.
* Language of Shakespeare, Johnson and Coleridge on, 83–4.
* Leland, J., 100.
* Levett, Dr. Robert, Johnson’s elegy on, 152–3.
* Lichfield, 32, 39.
* Lives of Johnson, 40–4.
* Lives of the Poets, Johnson’s, 18, 26–31, 33. 119, 121 n., 126–7, 128–76.
* London, Johnson’s early life in, 30–1, 34, 135.
* Love, Johnson on, 67–8.
* Lycidas, 28–9, 151–3.
* Lyttelton, Lord, 140–1.
* Macaulay, 52, 53, 81, 164, 174.
* Macbeth, 75, 86, 90, 93.
* Malone, Edmund, 71–2, 82, 129, 143.
* Merton College, 114–15.
* Midsummer Night’s Dream, 22, 90.
* Milbourne, Rev. Mr., 157.
* Milton, 28–9, 105, 134–5, 140, 143–4, 154, 155, 158.
* Minor Poems of Milton, 143.
* Montagu, Mrs., 141, 169.
* Monthly Review, 120–5 n.
* More, Hannah, 44, 72.
* More, Sir Thomas, 94.
* Mourning Bride, Congreve’s, 87–8.
* Murphy, Arthur, Essay on Johnson, 43–4, 68.
* Mythology, Johnson on, 148–50.
* Nature, Return to, 156.
* Night Thoughts, Young’s, 155.
* Nut-brown Maid, The, 145–7.
* Oldys, Wm., 118–19.
* Oxford University, 113, 116.
* Pack-thread, 57.
* Paradise Lost, 143, 158.
* Pastoral poetry, 28, 150–3.
* Pepys, Samuel, 108.
* Pepys, William Weller, 141.
* Percy, Bishop, 44, 53, 60, 70.
* Petty, Sir William, 108.
* Phillips, Edward, 105, 143–4.
* Pinkethman, Mrs., 170.
* Pits, J., 100.
* Poetic temperament, Johnson’s apology for the, 172.
* Poetry, Johnson’s estimate of, 156–7.
* Politeness, Johnson’s claim to, 54–60.
* Pope, 23, 27, 75, 78, 91, 92, 118, 136, 138–9, 148, 149, 150, 156, 158.
* Poverty, Johnson on, 15, 51.
* Prayers, Milton’s omission of, 134–5.
* Prior, Matthew, 133, 145–7, 147–8.
* Proposals for an edition of Shakespeare, 76.
* Prose style, Johnson’s, 16–18, 147, 175–6.
* Prose and verse, 153–4.
* Prose and youth, 131–2.
* Prynne, Wm., 107.
* Public opinion, 34–5, 137–40, 166.
* Publishers, rise of, 116–17.
* Pun, Johnson’s, 70.
* Puppets and Goldsmith, 63.
* Raleigh, Sir Walter, 94, 101.
* Raleigh, Walter, the younger, 108.
* Rambler, The, 12–17, 21, 33, 56, 175.
* Rasselas, 33, 67, 79, 129.
* Reading, Johnson’s manner of, 23.
* Reputation, Johnson on, 142.
* Revenge, Johnson on, 16.
* Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 44, 46, 52, 55, 60–1, 72, 73, 81.
* Richard II., 96.
* Richardson, Samuel, 13.
* Rogers, Samuel, 65.
* Roman History, Johnson on, 20.
* Romantic School, The, 21, 28, 84–5, 138.
* Ronsard, 176.
* Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, 164.
* Rossetti, D. G., quoted, 116, 147.
* Rousseau, 21, 34.
* Rowe, N., 75, 127, 150.
* Rudd, Mrs., 170.
* Samson Agonistes, 135.
* Sanderson, Dr. Robert, 103, 104.
* Satire, example of Johnson’s, 24–6.
* Savage, Life of, 18–20, 30, 72–3, 123, 138, 166, 171–3.
* Savile, Sir Henry, 107, 108, 153.
* Sayings, Johnson’s, quoted, 10, 20, 21, 23, 26, 29, 31, 36, 37, 38, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55–6, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 67, 69, 70, 71, 77, 79, 81, 82, 88, 92, 129, 133, 135–6, 140, 142.
* Scotland and the Scotch, 9, 10, 35, 60–1, 121–3.
* Scudery, 94.
* Seasons, The, Thomson’s, 155.
* Second-sight, Johnson on, 18.
* Selden, 109.
* Settle, Elkanah, 140–1.
* Seward, Miss Anna, 70.
* Shakespeare, 11, 31, 32, 67, 75–97, 98, 101, 102, 144, 163.
* Shaw, Rev. Wm., Life of Johnson, 41.
* Sheffield, John, D. of Buckinghamshire, 134.
* Shenstone, 151.
* Shiels, Robert, 120–3, 120 n.
* Ship and jail, Johnson on, 21.
* Sidney, Sir Philip, Life of, 101.
* Smith, Adam, 78.
* Smith, Edmund, 137.
* Somervile, Wm., 154.
* Spectator, Addison’s, 15, 33, 132–3.
* Spenser, 101.
* Sprat, Bp., 105.
* Stanley, Dame Venetia, 106.
* Steele, 172–3.
* Steevens, George, 80.
* Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, 8.
* Stephen, Sir Leslie, 7–9.
* Suckling, 107.
* Surprises of Johnson’s talk, 21.
* Swift, 29–30, 44, 164.
* Taine on Johnson, 12–13.
* Tanner, Bp., 100.
* Tavern, Johnson’s delight in, 55–6.
* Tediousness, Johnson on, 133.
* Tempest, The, 90.
* Theobald, 75, 82, 92.
* Thomson, James, 155.
* Thrale, Mrs., 20, 27, 41–2, 43, 47, 49–51, 54, 56–8, 66–8, 69, 72, 73, 130, 131, 162, 170.
* Tombstones, described by Aubrey, 109–10.
* Tonson, Jacob, 117.
* Towers, Joseph, Life of Johnson, 42–3.
* Truth, Johnson’s regard for, 38, 52, 70, 82.
* Tyers, Life of Johnson, 40–1, 48.
* Unities, The dramatic, 90 n., 163.
* Vanity of Human Wishes, The, 67.
* Verbosity, Johnson’s, 147–8.
* Violence, Johnson’s, 54.
* Virgil, Dryden’s translation of, 157.
* Vivisection, Johnson on, 94.
* Waller, Edmund, 132, 148–9, 159.
* Walpole, Horace, 141.
* Walsh, Wm., 136.
* Walton, Izaak, 102–4.
* Warburton, 75, 76, 91, 92–3.
* Warton, Thomas, 77, 80.
* Watts, Dr. Isaac, 21–3, 161–3.
* Welsh character, 35.
* Wesley, John, 70.
* Whims, Johnson’s, 36–7.
* Widows, 134.
* Winstanley, Wm., 105.
* Wood, Anthony à, 106, 113–16, 118.
* Wordsworth, 147, 156.
* Worthies of England, Fuller’s, 102.
* Wotton, Sir Henry, 103.
* Writing, Johnson’s method of, 130.
* Young, Edward, 155.
* Young, Sir John, 109–10.