written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192;Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2;Byron's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3;death, 'kind nature's signal of retreat,' ii. 106;De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3;Garrick's sarcasm on it, i. 194;Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3;misery, 'the doom of man,' iii. 198; v. 179;'Patron and the jail,' i. 264;_Rasselas_, resemblance to, i. 342;Scott's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3;_spreads_ changed into _burns_, iii. 357-8;Vane and Sedley, v. 49;Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4.VANSITTART, Dr.,account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1;story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2;mentioned, ii. 192.VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144.VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163.VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3.VENICE,Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1;Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19;mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3.VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104._Veracious_, iv. 39, n. 3.VERACITY. See TRUTH._Verbiage_ ii. 236; iii. 256._Verecundulus_, i. 68, n. 1.VERNON'S Parish Clerk, v. 268, n. 1.VERSAILLES, ii. 385, 395;theatre, ii. 395, n. 2.VERSES, in a dead language, ii. 371;making them, ii. 15._Verses on Ireland_, iii. 319._Verses on a Sprig of Myrtle_, i. 92._Verses to Mr. Richardson on his Sir Charles Grandison_, ii. 26.VERTOT, ii. 237; iv. 311.VESEY, Right Hon. Agmondesham,gentle manners, his, iv. 28;Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; ii. 318;professor in the imaginary college, v. 108.VESEY, Mrs.,evenings at her house described by Langton, iii. 424; iv. 1, n. 1;by Hannah More, iii. 424, n. 3;by Horace Walpole, iii. 425, n. 3;by Miss Burney, iii. 426, n. 3;by Johnson, ib., n. 4;wishes to introduce Johnson to Raynal, iv. 435.VESTRIS, the dancer, iv. 79._Vexing Thoughts_, iii. 5._Vicar of Wakefield_. See GOLDSMITH.VICE,character not hurt by it, iii. 349;compared with virtue, iii. 342;Mandeville's doctrine: See MANDEVILLE._Vicious Intromission_,Johnson's argument, ii. 196-201, 206; iii. 102; v. 48.VICTOR, Benjamin, iv. 53.VICTORIA, Queen, death-warrants, iii. 121, n. 1.VIDA, i. 230, n. 1._Vidit et erubuit_, iii. 304.VILETTE, Rev. Mr.,Dodd's dedication to him, iii. 167, n. 1;his virtues, iv. 329._Village, The_, a poem, iv. 121, n. 4, 175.VILLIERS, Sir George, his ghost, iii. 351.VINCENT, William, Dean of Westminster, i. 302, n. 1._Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage_, i. 140; ii, 60, n. 3.VIRGIL,_Aeneid_,its story, iv. 218;Aeneas's treatment of Dido, iv. 196;Burke's ragged copy, iii. 193, n. 3;farming, love of, v. 78;Homer, compared with, iii. 193;Johnson reads him, ii. 288; iv. 218;juvenile translations, i. 51;_machinery_, his, iv. 16;Pope, less talked of than, iii. 332;printing-house, describes a, v. 311-12;Theocritus, compared with, iv. 2;quotations:_Eclogues_ i. 5--i. 460;_Eclogues_ i. 11--iii. 310, n. 4;_Eclogues_ ii. 16--iii. 87, n. 3; 212, n. 2;_Eclogues_ iii. 64--v. 291, n, 1;_Eclogues_ iii. 111--v. 279, n. 3;_Eclogues_ viii. 43--i. 261, n. 3;_Georgics_ ii. 173--iv. 372, n. 1;_Georgics_ iii. 9--ii. 329, n. 3;_Georgics_ iii. 66--ii. 129;_Georgics_ iv. l32--iv. 173, n. 2;_Aeneid_ i. 3--v. 392, n. 4;_Aeneid_ i. l99--iv. 258, n. 1;_Aeneid_ i. 2O2--v. 333, n. 3;_Aeneid_ i. 204--v. 392, n. 3;_Aeneid_ i. 378--iv. 193, n. 2;_Aeneid_ i. 460-iii. 162, n. 1;_Aeneid_ ii. 5--iii. 64, n. 1;_Aeneid_ ii. 6--ii. 262, n. 1;_Aeneid_ ii. 49--iii. 108, n. 3;_Aeneid_ ii. l98--iii. 212, n. 1;_Aeneid_ ii. 368--v. 50, n. 1;_Aeneid_ ii. 544--i. 142;_Aeneid_ iii. 461--ii. 22;_Aeneid_ vi. 273--v. 311;_Aeneid_ vi. 4l7--v. 311, n. 4;_Aeneid_ vi. 660--iv. 193, n. 2;_Aeneid_ vi. 730--1. 66;_Aeneid_ xii. 424--ii. 272, n. 1.VIRTUE,how far followed by happiness, i. 389, n. 2;men naturally virtuous compared with those who overcomeinclinations, iv. 224;not natural to man, iii. 352;practised for the sake of character, iii. 342, 349;scholastic, ii. 223;why preferable to vice, iii. 342._Virtue, an Ethick Epistle_, iii. 199, n. 2._Vision of Theodore the Hermit_, i. 192, 483, n. 2.VIVACITY, an art, ii. 462.VOLCANOES, strata of earth in them, ii. 467.VOLGA, iv. 277.VOLTAIRE,'Apres tout, c'est un monde passable,' i. 344;attacks, on answers to, v. 274, n. 4;Boswell visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5; iii. 301, n. 1; v. 14;Bouhours, ii. 90, n. 3;Byng, Admiral, i. 314;_Candide_, i. 342; iii. 356;'Cerberes de la litterature,' v. 311, n. 4;Charles XII's dress, ii. 475, n. 3;Derham, William, v. 323, n. 4;Des Maizeaux's _Life of Bayle_, i. 29, n, 1;Dubos, ii. 90, n. 2;_Essai sur les Moeurs_, ii. 53, n. 2;fame, his, iii. 263, 332;forgotten ideas, the situation of, i. 435, n. 2;Frederick the Great, contest with, i. 434; v. 103, n. 2;_Ganganelli's Letters_, iii. 286;Hay, Lord Charles, iii. 8, n. 3;Henault, ii. 383, n. 1;_History of the War in 1741_, v. 272;_Histoire de Louis XIV_, v. 393;Holbach's _Systeme de la Nature_, v. 47, n. 4;Hume, his echo, ii. 53;insurrection of 1745-6, account of the, iii. 414;Johnson attacks him, i. 498, 499, n. 1;praises his knowledge, but attacks his honesty, i. 435, n. 2;his reply, i. 499;and Frederick the Great, i. 434;_Julia Mandeville_, reviews, ii. 402, n. 1;Kames, Lord, ii. 90, n. 1;_Le desastre de Lisbonne_, iv. 302, n. 1;_Le Monde comme il va_, i. 344, n. 2;Leroi, the watch-maker, ii. 391, n. 5;Lewis XIV, celebrated in many languages, i. 123;and Mlle. de la Valliere, v. 49, n. 3;loved a striking story, iii. 414;Macdonald, Sir James, v. 152, n. 1;Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;master of English oaths, i. 435, n. 1;Maupertuis's death, ii. 54, n. 3;middle class in England and France, ii. 402, n. 1;Montagu's, Mrs., _Essay_, ii. 88;Moreri, v. 311, n. 1;narrator, good, ii. 125;Newton, Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287, n. 2;Pope and Dryden, distinguishes, ii. 5;Pope, visits, i. 499, n. 1;Pretender, reflections on the, v. 199-200;read less than formerly, iv. 288;Reynolds's allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4;Rousseau, compared with, ii. 12;Shakespeare, attacks, i. 498; ii. 88, n. 3;made him known to the French, ii. 88, n. 2;Stuart, House of, v. 200;torture in France, i. 467, n. 1;trial, has not yet stood his, v. 311;_Universal History_, v. 311;_Vir est acerrimi ingenii et paucarum literarum_, ii. 406;Wesley calls him coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1;witchcraft, v. 46, n. 1;wonders, caught greedily at, i. 498, n. 4; iii. 229, n. 3.Vossius, Isaac, i. 186, n. 2.Voting, privilege of, ii. 340.Vows, Cowley's lines on them, iii. 357, n. 1;Johnson's warning against them, ii. 21;a snare for sin, iii. 357;if unnecessary a folly and a crime, iii. 357, n. 1._Vox Viva_, v. 324._Voyage to Lisbon_, i. 269, n. 1._Voyages to the South Sea_. See SOUTH SEA.Vranyken, University of, i. 475.Vulgar, The, children of the State, ii. 14; iv. 216.Vyse, Rev. Dr., Boswell, letter to, iii. 125;Johnson's letter to him, iii. 125;mentioned, iv. 372, n. 2.W.Wade, General,calls _the_ M'Farlane _Mr._ M'Farlane, v. 156, n. 3;his Hut, v. 134.Wager, Charles, ii. 164, n. 5.Wages, raising those of day-labourers wrong, iv. 176; v. 263;women-servants' less than men-servants', ii. 217.Wake, Archbishop, ii. 342, n. 1.Waldegrave, Lady, ii. 224, n. 1.Wales, Abergeley, v. 446;Angle-sea, ii. 284; v. 447;Bach y Graig (Bachycraigh), iii. 134, n. 1, 454; v. 436, 438;Bangor, ii. 284; v. 447, 448, 452;Beaumaris, v. 447-8;Bible in Welsh, v. 450, 454;Bodryddan, v. 442, n. 3;Bodville, v. 449-51;Boswell proposes a tour, iii. 134, 454;Brecon, iii. 139;Bryn o dol, v. 449;Caernarvon, v. 448, 451;castles, compared with Scotch, ii. 285; v. 374, n. 1;vast size, v. 437, 442, 448-9, 452;charitable establishment, iii. 255;Chirk Castle, v. 453;churches at Bodville neglected, v. 450;Clwyd, River, v. 438;Conway, v. 446, 452;Danes, settlement of, v. 130;Denbigh, ii. 282; v. 437-8, 453;Dymerchion, v. 438, 440;Elwy, River, v. 438;great families kept a kind of court, v. 276;Gwaynynog, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 440, n. 1, 443, 452-3;hiring of harvest-men, v. 453;Holywell, v. 440-2;inhospitality, v. 452;inns, v. 446-7;Johnson's tour to Wales, ii. 279, 281, 282, 284; v. 427:see _Journey into North Wales_;Kefnamwyellh, v. 452;literature, indifference to, v. 443;Llanerk, v. 450;Llangwinodyl, v. 449, 451;Llannerch, v. 439;Llanrhaiadr, v. 453;Lleweney Hall, Johnson visits it, ii. 282; v. 435-46;description of it, v. 436;pales and gates brought from it, v. 433;Llyn Badarn, v. 451;Llyn Beris, v. 451;Maesmynnan, v. 445;manuscripts, ii. 383;Methodists, v. 451;Mold, v. 435;mutinous in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;offers nothing for speculation, ii. 284;Oswestry, v. 454;parson's awe of Johnson, v. 450, n. 2;Penmaen Mawr, ii. 284; v. 447, 452;Penmaen Rhos, v. 446, 452;Pwlheli, v. 451;_rivers_, v. 442, n. 4;Ruabon, v. 450, n, 2;Ruthin Castle, v. 442;second sight, ii. 150;Tydweilliog, v. 449, 451;Ustrad, River, v. 442, n. 4;Welsh language, how far related to Irish, i. 322;scheme for preserving it, v. 443;used in the Church services, v. 438, 440, 441, 446, 449, 450;Welshmen, generally have the spirit of gentlemen, iii. 275;Wrexham, ii. 240, w. 4; v. 453.WALES, Prince of. See PRINCE OF WALES.WALKER, John,'celebrated master of elocution,' iv. 206;dedication to Johnson, iv. 421, n. 2.WALKER, Joseph Cooper, i. 321; iii. 111, n. 4.WALKER, Thomas, the actor, ii. 368.WALKING, habit of, i. 64, n. 4.WALL, Dr., iv. 292.WALL, cost of a garden wall, iv. 205.WALL, _taking_ the, i. 110; v. 230.WALLACE, ----, a Scotch author of the first distinction, ii. 53, n. 1.WALLER, Edmund,Amoret and Sacharissa, ii. 360;_Divine Poesie_, the communion of saints, iv. 290, n. 1;Dryden, studied by, iv. 38, n. 1;_Epistle to a Lady_, v. 221, n. 1;grandson, a plain country gentleman, v. 86;great-grandson, at Aberdeen, v. 85;_Life_ by Johnson, iv. 36, n. 4, 38, n. 2, 39;_Loving at first sight_, iv. 36;_Reflections on the Lord's Prayer_, iv. 290, n. 4;water-drinker, iii. 327, n. 2;women, praises of, ii. 57.WALMSLEY, Gilbert,character by Johnson, i. 81; iii. 439;Colson, letter to, i. 102;debtor to Mrs. Johnson, i. 79, n. 2;Garrick, letter to, i. 176, n. 2;scholarship, ii. 377, n. 2;Greek, knowledge of, iv. 33, n. 3;house, ii. 467;Johnson and Garrick, recommends, i. 102;Johnson threatens to put _Irene_ into the _Spiritual Court_, i. 101;Whig, a, i. 81, 430; iii. 439, n. 3; v. 386.WALMSLEY, Mrs., i. 82-3.WALPOLE, Horatio (afterwards first Baron Walpole), iii. 71, n. 4.WALPOLE, Horace (afterwards fourth Earl of Orford),Adams the architects, ii. 325, n. 3;addresses to the King in 1784, iv. 265, n. 5;arbitrary power, courtiers in favour of, iii. 84, n. 1;arithmetician, a woeful, iii. 226, n. 4;Professor Sanderson and the multiplication table, ii. 190, n. 3;Astle, Thomas, i. 155, n. 2;atheism and bigotry first cousins, iv. 194, n. 1;Atterbury on Burnet's _History_, ii. 213, n. 3;balloons, iv. 356, n. 1;Barrington, Daines, iv. 437;Barry's _Analysis_, iv. 224, n. 1;Bate and the _Morning Post_, iv. 296, n. 3;Beauclerk's library, iv. 105, n. 2;Beckford's Bribery Bill, ii. 339, n. 2;speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3;tyrannic character, iii. 76, n. 2;_Biographia Britannica_, iii. 174, n. 3;Blagden on Boswell's _Life_, iv. 30, n. 2;Boccage, Mme. du, iv. 331, n. 1;_bonmots_, collection of, iii. 191, n. 2;Boswell calls on him, iv. 110, n. 3;_Corsica_, ii. 46, n. 1, 71, n. 2;_Life of Johnson_, iv. 314, n. 5;presence, silent in, ib.;Burke's wit, iv. 276, n. 2;Bute's, Lord, familiar friends, i. 386, n. 3;and the tenure of the judges, ii. 353, n. 3;Cameron's execution, i. 146, n. 2;Chambers's _Treatise on Architecture_, iv. 187, n. 4;Chatham's funeral, iv. 208, n. 1;Chatterton and Goldsmith, iii. 51, n. 2;Chesterfield as a patron, iv. 331, n. 1;wit, ii. 211, n. 3;Cibber, Colley, i. 401, n. 1; iii. 72, n. 4;City Address to the King in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4;City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1;Clarke, Dr., and Queen Caroline, iii. 248, n. 2;Clive, Mrs., iii. 239, n. 1; iv. 243, n. 2;Cock Lane Ghost, i. 407, n. 1;_Codrington, Life of Colonel_, iii. 204, n. 1;Cornwallis's capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3;_Critical Review_, iii. 32, n. 4;_Cross Readings_, iv. 322, n. 2;Cumberland, William, Duke of, cruelty of, ii. 375, n. 1;Cumberland's _Odes_, iii. 43, n. 3;Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 210, n. 2;Dashwood, Sir F., ii. 135, n. 2;Devonshire, third Duke of, iii. 186, n. 4;Dodd's execution, iii. 120, n. 3;attempt to bribe the Chancellor, iii. 139, n. 3;sermon at the Magdalen House, iii. 139, n. 4;Dodsley, Robert, ii. 447, n. 2;Drummond's _Travels_, v. 323, n. 3;Dublin theatre riot, i. 386, n. 1;duelling, ii. 226, n. 5;Dundas, 'Starvation,' ii. 160, n. 1;Dunning's motion on the influence of the Crown, iv. 220, n. 5;Eton, revisits, iv. 127, n. 1;Fitzherbert's suicide, ii. 228, n. 3;Fitzpatrick, Richard, iii. 388, n. 3;freethinking, iii. 388, n. 3;French, affect philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3;gentleman's visit to London in 1764, iv. 92, n. 5;ladies, indelicacy of the talk of, ii. 403, n, 1; iii. 352, n. 2;meals, ii. 402, n. 2;middling and common people, ii. 402, n. 1;philosophy, iii. 305, n. 2;_savans_, iii. 254, n. 1;'talk gruel and anatomy,' iv. 15, n. 4;gaming-clubs, iii. 23, n. 1;Garrick's acting, iv. 243, n. 6;funeral, iv. 208, n. 1;George I and Miss Brett, i. 174, n. 2;burnt two wills, ii. 342, n. 1;his will burnt, ib.; iv. 107, n. 1;George II and _Alexander's Feast_, i. 209, n. 2;character, i. 147, n. 1;and the fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1;and his father's will, ii. 342, n. 1; iv. 107, n. 1;George III aims at despotism, i. 116, n. 1;as commander-in-chief, iii. 365, n. 4;coronation, iii. 9, n. 2; v. 103, n. 1;and Sir John Dalrymple, ii. 210, n. 2;and the fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1;and Johnson's _Journey_, ii. 290, n. 2;ministers his tools, iii. 408, n. 4;