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.
  Royal Academy, seat reserved for him at the, iii. 369, n. 2;
  romances, loves old, i. 49, n. 2;
  Round-Robin, draws up the, iii. 83;
  should have had more sense, iii. 84, n. 2;
  same one day as another, iii. 192; v. 33;
  Shelburne speaks of him with malignity, iv. 191, n. 4;
  soldiers, on the quartering of, iii. 9, n. 4;
  son, extravagant estimate of his, iv. 219, n. 3;
  Speech on Conciliation, ii. 314, n. 3, 317, n. 2; iv. 317, n. 3;
  speeches too frequent and familiar, ii. 131;
    effect of them, iii. 233;
    not like Demosthenes or Cicero, v. 213-4;
  statues, on the worth of, iii. 231;
  Stonehenge, sees, iv. 234, n. 2;
  stream of mind, ii. 450;
  style censured by Johnson, iii. 186;
    and Francis, iii. 187, n. 1;
  Sublime and Beautiful, i. 310, 472, n. 2; ii. 90;
  subscription to the Articles, on the, ii. 150, n. 7;
  talk, his:  see CONVERSATION;
  Thurlow, Lord, iv. 349, n. 3;
  Townshend, Charles, ii. 222, n. 3;
  translations of Cicero, could not bear, iii. 36, n. 4;
  understands everything but gaming and music, iv. 27, n. 1;
  Vesey’s gentle manners, praises, iv. 28;
  Vindication of Natural Society, i. 463, n. 1;
  Virgil, his ragged Delphin, iii. 193, n. 3;
    prefers him to Homer, v. 79, n. 2;
  Whigs, quietness of the nation under the, iv. 100;
  ‘wild Irishmen,’ v. 329;
  Wilkes on his want of taste, iv. 104;
  winds into a subject like a serpent, ii. 260;
  wit, fails at, i. 453; iii. 323; iv. 276, n. 2; v. 32, 213;
    Langton’s description of it, i. 453, n. 2;
    Boswell’s defence, v. 32, n. 3;
    Reynolds’s, ib.;
  mentioned, i. 432, n. 3; ii. 255; iii. 305; iv. 78, 344. 
BURKE, Richard, senior, Barnard’s verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3. 
BURKE, Richard, junior, (Edmund Burke’s son),
  account of him, iv. 219, n. 3;
  at Chatsworth, iv. 367;
  Johnson, calls on, iv. 218-9;
    rebuked by, 335, n. 3;
  member of the Literary Club, i. 479. 
BURKE, William, ii. 16, n. 1; v. 76, n. 3. 
BURKE, William, the murderer, v. 227, n. 4. 
BURLAMAQUI, ii. 430. 
BURLINGTON, Lord, iii. 347; iv. 50, n. 4.
Burman, Peter, Life of, i. 153. 
BURNET, Arthur, v. 81. 
BURNET, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury,
  dedication to Lauderdale, v. 285;
  Hickes, George, v. 357, n. 4;
  History of his own Time, very entertaining, ii. 213; v. 285;
  Kincardine, Earl of, v. 25, n. 2;
  Life of Hale, iv. 311;
  Life of Rochester, iii. 191-2;
  Lilliburlero, effect of, ii. 347, n. 2;
  Lloyd’s learning in ready cash, ii. 256, n. 3;
  Popery, controversial war on, v. 276, n. 4;
  style mere chit-chat, ii. 213;
  truthfulness, ii. 213, ib. n. 3;
  Whitby, Daniel, v. 276, n. 4. 
BURNET, James.  See MONBODDO, Lord. 
BURNET, Thomas, v. 352, n. 2. 
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