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.
