Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
  part to be left in commerce, ii. 428. 
LAND-TAX in Scotland, ii. 431. 
LANDLORDS,
  leases, not giving, v. 304;
  rents, raising, ii. 102;
  right to control tenants at elections, ii. 167, 340;
  Scotch landlords, high situation of, i. 409;
  tenants, their dependancy, ii. 102;
    difficulty of getting, iv. 164;
    to be treated liberally, i. 462;
    under no obligation, ii. 102. 
LANDOR, W. S., Johnson’s geographical knowledge, i. 368, n. 1. 
LANG, Dr., ii. 312, n. 3. 
LANGBAINE, Gerard, iii. 30, n. 1. 
LANGDON, Mr., iii. 207, n. 3. 
LANGLEY, Rev. W., ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138; v. 430. 
LANGTON, Bennet,
  account of him, i. 247;
  acceptum et expensum, iv. 362;
  Addison and Goldsmith, compares, ii. 256;
  Addison’s conversation, iii. 339;
  Aristophanes, reads, iv. 177, n. 3, 362;
  Barnes’s Maccaronic verses, quotes, iii. 284;
  Beauclerk, his early friend, i. 248: 
    makes him second guardian to his children, iii. 420;
    leaves him a portrait of Garrick, iv. 96;
  birth and matriculation at Oxford, i. 247, n. 1, 337;
  Blue stocking assembly, at a, v. 32, n. 3;
  Boswell, letter to, iii. 424;
  Boswell’s obligations to him, ii. 456, n. 3;
  Burke and Johnson, comparing Homer and Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3;
v. 79, n. 2;
  Burke’s wit, i. 453, n. 2;
  carpenter and a clergyman’s wife, anecdote of a, ii. 456, n. 3;
  children, his, too much about him, iii. 128;
    mentioned, ii. 146; iii. 89, 93, 104, 130;
  Clarendon’s style, praises, iii. 257;
  coach, on the top of a, i. 477;
  collection of Johnson’s sayings, iv. 1-34;
  daughters to be taught Greek, iv. 20, n. 2;
  dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 259; iii. 279, 280, 338;
  economy, no turn to, iii. 363, n. 2;
  expenditure and foibles criticised, iii. 48, n. 4, 93, 104, 128, 222,
300, 315, 317, 348, 362, 379; iv. 362;
  frisk, joins in a, i. 250;
  Greek, knowledge of, iv. 8, n. 3;
    Clenardus’s Greek Grammar, iv. 20;
    recitation, ib., n. 2;
    professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
  Hale, Sir Matthew, anecdote of, iv. 310;
  Idler, anecdote of the, i. 33l;
  introduces subjects on which people differ, iii. 186;
  Johnson, afraid of, iv. 295;
    at fairest advantage with him, i. 248, n. 3;
    bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
      and Burke, an evening with, iv. 26;
    conversation before dinner, repeats, iii. 279;
    confessor, iv. 280-1;
    death, unfinished letter on, iv. 418, n. 1;
    deference to, iv. 8, n. 3;
    devotion to, when ill, iv. 266, n. 3;
      when dying, iv. 406-7, 414, n. 2, 439;
    dress as a dramatic author, describes, i. 200;
    estimate of Spence, v. 317, n. 1.
    first acquaintance with him, i. 247; iv. 145;
    friendship with him, iv. 132, 145, 352;
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