INDEX
TO THE
WORKS OF DR. JOHNSON.
N.B. The Roman numerals refer to the volume, and the figures to the page.
Aberbrothick, account of the town of, ix. 7.
of the ruins of the monastery there, 8.
Aberdeen, account of, i. 328, ix. 10.
account of the king's college, ix. 11.
account of the marischal college, 12.
the course of education there, 13.
account of the English chapel, 14.
Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and not sought for in another place, exemplified in the story of Gelaleddin of Bassora, iv. 384.
Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, iii. 190.
Abridgments of books, remarks on, v. 461.
Absence, a destroyer of friendship, iv. 216.
Abyssinia, preface to the translation of father Lobo's voyage to, v. 255.
Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it, vii. 69.
Acastus, an instance of the commanding influence of curiosity, iii. 212.
Achilles, his address to a Grecian prince supplicating life, improper for a picture, iv. 283.
Action, (dramatick,) the laws of it stated and remarked, iii. 240.
, (exercise,) necessary to the health of the body, and the vigour of the mind, ii. 398.
the source of cheerfulness and vivacity, 399.
Action, (in oratory,) the want of, considered, iv. 414.
tends to no good in any part of oratory, 415.
Actions, every man the best relater of his own, iv. 341.
the injustice of judging of them by the event. iv. 84.
Adam unparadised, a manuscript, supposed to be the embryo of Paradise Lost, v. 269.
Adams, parson, of Fielding, not Edward, but William Young, viii. 456.
Addison, Joseph, supposed to have taken the plan of his dialogues on medals from Dryden's essay on dramatick poetry, vii. 251.
his life, vii. 418.
the various schools at which he received instruction, ibid.
cultivates an early friendship with Steele, 419.
lends a hundred pounds to Steele, and reclaims it by an execution, 420.
entered at Oxford, 1687, 420.
account of his Latin poems, 421.
account of his English poems, ibid.
on being introduced by Congreve to Mr. Montague, becomes a courtier, 422.
obtains a pension of three hundred a year, that he might be enabled to travel, 423.
publishes his travels, 424.
succeeds Mr. Locke as commissioner of appeals, as a reward for his poem, the Battle of Blenheim, 425.
went to Hanover with lord Halifax, ibid.
made under-secretary of state, ibid.
writes the opera of Rosamond, ibid.
assists Steele in writing the Tender Husband, ibid.
goes to Ireland with lord Wharton as secretary, 426.
made keeper of the records in Birmingham's tower, ibid.
the opposite characters of him and Wharton, ibid.
his reason for resolving not to remit any fees to his friends, ibid.
wrote in the Tatler, 427.
wrote in the
