216.
State used for statement, iii. 394. 
STATE OF NATURE, v. 365.
State Trials, i. 157. 
STATIONERS’ COMPANY, ii. 345. 
STATIUS, i. 252. 
STATUARY, ii. 439. 
STATUES, reason of their value, iii. 231. 
STAUNTON, Dr. (afterwards Sir George),
  Johnson’s letter to him, i. 367;
    Debates, iv. 314.
‘Stavo bene, &c.,’ ii. 346. 
STEELE, Joshua, Prosodia Rationalis, ii. 327. 
STEELE, Mr., of the Treasury, i. 141. 
STEELE, Sir Richard,
  Addison’s loan, iv. 52, 91;
  Apology, ii. 448, n. 3;
  British Princes, ridicules the, ii. 108, n. 2;
  Christian Hero, ii. 448;
  Conscious Lovers, i. 491, n. 3;
  grammar-schools, account of, i. 44, n. 2;
  Ince, praise of, iii. 33;
  Marlborough’s, Duke of, papers, v. 175, n. 1;
  old age, ii. 474, n. 3;
  ‘practised the lighter vices,’ ii. 449. 
STEEVENS, George,
  Boswell complains of his unkindness, iii. 281, n. 3;
    praises his principles, iii. 282;
  character by Garrick and Parr, iii. 281, n. 3;
  Chatterton’s poems, iii. 50, n. 5;
  Courtenay’s Poetical Review, mentioned in, i. 223;
  Davies, Tom, sneers at, i. 390, n. 3;
  Fox’s election to the Club, ii. 274, n. 7;
  generosity, iii. 100;
    assists Mrs. Goldsmith, ib.;
  Hamlet, proposed emendation of, ii. 204, n. 3;
  Hawkins, attacked by, iv. 406, n. 1;
  Johnson,
    anecdotes of, iv. 324;
      not trustworthy, ib., n. 1;
    epitaph, iv. 444;
    aids, in the Lives, iv. 37;
    interpretation of two passages in Hamlet, iii. 55, n. 2;
    letters to him, ii. 273; iii. 100;
    levee, attends, ii. 118;
    ‘the old lion,’ ii. 284, n. 2;
    reflection on Garrick, ii. 192, n. 2;
    and the spunging-house, i. 303, n. 1;
    and Torre’s fireworks, iv. 324;
  Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
    election, ii. 273;
    present, ii. 318;
  literary impostures, his, iv. 178, n. 1;
  outlaw, leads the life of an, ii. 375;
    deserves to be hanged or kicked, iii. 281;
    anonymous attacks, iv. 274;
  Rochester’s Poems, castrates, iii. 191;
  Shakespeare, edits, ii. 114, 204;
  Shakespearian editors, i. 497, n. 3;
  mentioned, ii. 58, 107; iii. 354, 386; iv. 438. 
STELLA (Mrs. Johnson), ii. 389, n. 1.
Stella in Mourning, i. 178. 
STEPHANI, the,
  Henry Stephens’ Greek Dictionary, ii. 74, n. 1;
  Maittaire’s Stephanorum Historia, iv. 2;
  what they did for literature, iii. 254. 
STEPHENS, Alexander, Beckford’s speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3. 
STEPNEY, George, iv. 36, n. 4. 
STERNE, Rev. Laurence,
  beggars, iv. 32, n. 4;
  death, ii. 222, n. 1;
  dinner engagements, ii. 222;
  Goldsmith calls him a blockhead, ii. 173, n. 2;
    and ‘a very dull fellow,’