pun about the Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5;
  Smart, compared with, iv. 192. 
DESCRIPTION, falls short of reality, iv. 199.
Deserted Village.  See GOLDSMITH. 
DES MAIZEAUX, i. 29. 
DESMOULINS, John,
  Johnson’s will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2;
    bequest to him, ib.;
  mentioned, iv. 415, n. 1, 440. 
DESMOULINS, Mrs., account of her, iii. 222, n. 3;
  hates Levett and Williams, iii. 368, 461;
  Johnson allows her half a guinea a week, iii. 222;
    death, present at, iv. 418;
    kitchen under her care, ii. 215, n. 4;
    house, lodged in, iii. 222, 380, n. 3;
      leaves it, iv. 233, 255, n. 1;
  not complaining of the world, iv. 171;
  mentioned, i. 64, 83, 237; ii. 148; iii. 313, 363,373;
iv. 92, 1422, 170, 210, 239, n. 2, 322, n. 1. 
DESPONDENCY, speculative, iv. 112. 
DESPOTIC GOVERNMENTS, iii. 283. 
DE THOU.  See THUANUS. 
DETTINGEN, Battle of, iv. 12. 
DEVAYNES, Mr., iv. 273.
De veritate Religionis, i. 68, n. 3. 
DEVILS do not lie to each other, iii. 293;
  their influence upon our minds, iv. 290. 
DEVONPORT, i. 379, n. 1. 
DEVONSHIRE, Johnson’s trip to, i. 37l, n. 3, 377; iii. 457;
  militia, its, i. 36, n. 4, 307, n. 4. 
DEVONSHIRE, third Duke of,
  faithful to his word, iii. 186;
    dogged veracity, iii. 378. 
DEVONSHIRE, fourth Duke of, ii. 78, n. 1. 
DEVONSHIRE, fifth Duke and Duchess of,
  hospitality to Johnson, iv. 357, 367;
  mentioned, iv. 126. 
DEVONSHIRE, seventh Duke of,
  ‘public dinners at Chatsworth,’ iv. 367, n. 3. 
DEVONSHIRE, Georgiana, Duchess of,
  Genius made feminine to compliment her, iii. 374;
  Johnson, eager to hear, iii. 425, n. 4;
  painted in the same picture with him, iv. 224, n. 1. 
DEVONSHIRE FAMILY, ii. 474. 
DEVOTION, abstracted, ii. 10;
  particular places for, iv. 226.
Devotional Exercises.  See PRAYERS. 
DEVOTIONAL POETRY.  See POETRY. 
DE WITT, i. 32. 
DEXTERITY, deserves applause, iii. 231.
Diabolus Regis, iii. 78. 
DIAL, i. 205.
Dialogues of the Dead, ii. 447. 
DIAMOND, ——­, an apothecary, i. 242; iii. 454.
Diary, The, iv. 381, n. 1.
Diary of a Visit to England in 1775, ii. 338, n. 2. 
DIBDEN, Charles, ii. 110. 
DICEY, Professor,
  Law of the Constitution, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 317, n. 1. 
DICK, Sir Alexander, gold medal for rhubarb, iv. 263, n. 1;
  hospitality, his, iv. 204;
  Johnson consults him about his health, iv. 261-3;
    letter to, iii. 102, 128;
    meets, v. 48, 394, 401. 
DICK, ——­, a messenger, v. 201. 
‘DICK WORMWOOD,’ ii. 407, n. 5. 
DICKENS, Charles, iv. 202, n. 1. 
DICTIONARY,
  might be compiled from Bacon, iii. 194;
    from Elizabethan authors, iii. 194, n. 2;
  ‘perfection’ of one, i. 292, n. 2;
  pronunciation, of, ii. 161;
  Scotland, of words peculiar to, ii. 91;