Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
177-8; v. 106;
  Johnson has the old feudal notions, iii. 177;
  male succession, origin of, ii. 417, 419;
  ridiculed by Smollett, v. 106, n. 3. 
FICTION, small amount of real, iv. 236. 
FIDDLERS, ii. 191. 
FIDDLING, dangerous fascination, iii. 242;
  little thing, but not disgraceful, iii. 242;
  power of art shown in it, ii. 226. 
FIELDING, Henry, alms-giving, on, ii. 119, n. 4, 212, n. 2;
  Amelia, dedicated to Ralph Allen, v. 80, n. 5;
    Johnson reads it at a sitting, iii. 43: 
      complains of the heroine’s broken nose, ib., n. 2;
    Richardson could not read it, ii. 174, n. 1;
    ‘sad stuff,’ iii. 43, n. 2;
    sale rapid, ib.;
    description of a buck, v. 184, n. 3;
    Westminster Round-house, i. 249, n. 2;
  attacks on authors, on, v. 275, n. 1;
  blockhead, a, ii. 173;
  barren rascal, a, ii. 174;
  Burney, Miss, admired by, ii. 174, n. 2;
  Champion, The, i. 169, n. 2;
  died at Lisbon, iv. 260;
  foreigners, not understood by, ii. 49, n. 2;
  Gibbon’s tribute to him, ii. 175, n. 2;
  hospitals, on, iii. 53, n. 5;
  Johnson praises him, ii. 173, n. 2: 
  See above, Amelia, blockhead, and below, Tom Jones;
  
Jonathan Wild_, compared with St. Austin, iv. 291;
    Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1;
  Joseph Andrews, never read by Johnson, ii. 174;
    Parson Adams, the original of, iii. 426, n. 1;
    Cato and The Conscious Lovers, praised by Adams, i. 491, n. 3;
  Richardson, compared with, ii. 48, 174, ib., n. 2;
  Richardson’s description of his heroes, ii. 49;
    of Fielding, ii. 174;
    of Tom Jones, ii. 175, n. 2;
  Robinhood Society described, iv. 92, n. 5;
  Tom Jones, Boswell praises it, ii. 175;
    Johnson despises it, ii. 174;
    More, Hannah, read by, ii. 174, n. 2;
    price paid for it, i. 287, n. 3;
    Allen the original of Allworthy, v. 80, n. 5;
    charity to the poor, ii. 212, n. 2;
    duelling, ii. 180, n. 1;
    Garrick and Partridge, v. 38;
    ghosts never speak first, v. 73, n. 3;
    soldiers, quartering of, iii. 9, n. 4;
    Squire Western on marriage, ii. 329, n. 2;
    transpire, iii. 343, n. 2;
  Voyage to Lisbon, i. 269, n. 1;
  Ward, the quack-doctor, praises, iii. 389, n. 5;
  Welch, Saunders, succeeded by, iii. 216;
  Westminster Justice, salary as a, iii. 217, n. 2. 
FIELDING, Sir John, Boswell applies to him, i. 422;
  his house pulled down in the Gordon Riots, iii. 428. 
FIELDING, Miss, compared with her brother, ii. 49, n. 2. 
FIELDING, ——­, a bookseller, iv. 421, n. 2. 
FIFE, Earl, v. 109. 
FIGHTING-COCK, ii. 334. 
FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS, in prayers, iv. 294. 
FILBY, John, ii. 83. 
FINE AND RECOVERY, ii. 429, n. 1. 
FINE CLOTHES, iv. 179; v. 364. 
FINES, iii. 323.
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