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.
  Pope, enmity against, i. 329;
    Essay on Man, share in, iii. 402-3;
    executor, iv. 51;
    friendship with, iv. 50, n. 4;
  Rome, references to, iii. 206, n. 1;
  schools, v. 85, n. 3;
  Shelburne’s (Lord) character of him, i. 268, n. 3;
  Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4;
  transpire, iii. 343. 
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, iii. 324. 
BOLINGBROKE, second Viscount, ii. 246, n. 1; iii. 349, n. 3. 
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, divorced from the second Viscount. 
  See BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana. 
BOLOGNA, ii. 195; v. 115. 
BOMBAY, v. 55, n. 1.
Bon Chretien, v. 414, n. 2.
Bon-mots, instances of, iii. 322;
  ‘carrying’ one, ii. 350.
Bon Ton, ii. 325. 
BONAVENTURA, i. 500. 
BOND, Mrs. iv. 402, n. 2. 
BONES, uses of old, iv. 204;
  Johnson’s horror at the sight of them, v. 169, 327. 
BONIFACE in The Beaux Stratagem, ii. 461; iii. 89, n. 2. 
BONNER, Bishop, i. 75, n. 3. 
BONNETTA of Londonderry, v. 319-20. 
BONSTETTEN, ——­, v. 384, n. 1.
Book of Discipline, ii. 172. 
BOOK-BINDING, i. 56, n. 2. 
BOOK-TRADE, ii. 425. 
BOOKS, abundance of modern, iii. 332;
  death, leaving one’s books at, iii. 312;
  early printed ones, ii. 399; v. 459;
  every house supplied with them, iv. 217, n. 4;
  getting boys to have entertainment from them, iii. 385;
  high price, complaints of their, i. 438, n. 2;
  Johnson’s letter on the book-trade, ii. 425;
  knowledge of the world through books, i. 105;
  talking from them, v. 378;
  looking over their backs in a library, ii. 364;
  poorest book, if the first, a prodigious effort, i. 454;
  prices at which they were sold: 
    Boswell’s edition of Johnson’s Letter to Chesterfield, 105. 6d.,
i. 261, n. 1;
    Churchill’s Rosciad, 1s., i. 419, n. 5;
    Dodsley’s Cleone, 1s. 6d., i. 325, n. 3;
    Goldsmith’s Traveller, 1s. 6d., i. 415;
    Johnson’s London, 1s., i. 127, n. 3;
    Marmor Norfolciense, 1s., i. 143, n. 3;
    Observations on Macbeth, 1s., i. 175, n. 3;
    Vanity of Human Wishes, 1s., i. 193, n. 1;
    Irene, 1s. 6d., i. 198, n. 2;
    Rambler, 2d. a number, i. 209, n. 1;
    Rambler, 4 vols. in 12mo., 12s., i. 212, n. 3;
    Dictionary, 2 vols., 4l 10s., i. 290, n. 1;
    Idler, 2 vols., 5s., i. 335, n. 1;
    Rasselas, 2 vols. 12mo., 5s., i. 340, n. 3;
    Journey to the Western Islands, 5s., ii. 310, n. 2;
    Macpherson’s Iliad, two guineas, ii. 298, n. 1;
    Percy’s Hermit of Warkworth, 2s. 6d., ii. 136, n. 4;
    Pope’s ‘1738,’ 1s., i. 127, n. 3;
    Robertson’s Scotland, two guineas, iii. 334, n. 2;
  ‘quarterly-book,’ the, ii. 426;
  seldom read when given away, ii. 229;
  uncertainty of profits, iv. 121;
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