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INDEX
- Nature, Return to, 156.
- Night Thoughts, Young’s, 155.
- Nut-brown Maid, The, 145–7.
- Oldys, Wm., 118–19.
- Oxford University, 113, 116.
- Pack-thread, 57.
- Paradise Lost, 143, 158.
- Pastoral poetry, 28, 150–3.
- Pepys, Samuel, 108.
- Pepys, William Weller, 141.
- Percy, Bishop, 44, 53, 60, 70.
- Petty, Sir William, 108.
- Phillips, Edward, 105, 143–4.
- Pinkethman, Mrs., 170.
- Pits, J., 100.
- Poetic temperament, Johnson’s apology for the, 172.
- Poetry, Johnson’s estimate of, 156–7.
- Politeness, Johnson’s claim to, 54–60.
- Pope, 23, 27, 75, 78, 91, 92, 118, 136, 138–9, 148, 149, 150, 156, 158.
- Poverty, Johnson on, 15, 51.
- Prayers, Milton’s omission of, 134–5.
- Prior, Matthew, 133, 145–7, 147–8.
- Proposals for an edition of Shakespeare, 76.
- Prose style, Johnson’s, 16–18, 147, 175–6.
- Prose and verse, 153–4.
- Prose and youth, 131–2.
- Prynne, Wm., 107.
- Public opinion, 34–5, 137–40, 166.
- Publishers, rise of, 116–17.
- Pun, Johnson’s, 70.
- Puppets and Goldsmith, 63.
- Raleigh, Sir Walter, 94, 101.
- Raleigh, Walter, the younger, 108.
- Rambler, The, 12–17, 21, 33, 56, 175.
- Rasselas, 33, 67, 79, 129.
- Reading, Johnson’s manner of, 23.
- Reputation, Johnson on, 142.
- Revenge, Johnson on, 16.
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 44, 46, 52, 55, 60–1, 72, 73, 81.
- Richard II., 96.
- Richardson, Samuel, 13.
- Rogers, Samuel, 65.
- Roman History, Johnson on, 20.
- Romantic School, The, 21, 28, 84–5, 138.
- Ronsard, 176.
- Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, 164.
- Rossetti, D. G., quoted, 116, 147.
- Rousseau, 21, 34.
- Rowe, N., 75, 127, 150.
- Rudd, Mrs., 170.
- Samson Agonistes, 135.
- Sanderson, Dr. Robert, 103, 104.
- Satire, example of Johnson’s, 24–6.
- Savage, Life of, 18–20, 30, 72–3, 123, 138, 166, 171–3.
- Savile, Sir Henry, 107, 108, 153.
- Sayings, Johnson’s, quoted, 10, 20, 21, 23, 26, 29, 31, 36, 37, 38, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55–6, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 67, 69, 70, 71, 77, 79, 81, 82, 88, 92, 129, 133, 135–6, 140, 142.
