canal, his, iii. 47;
  exuberant talker, an, ii. 247;
  freedom from affectation, iv. 27;
  Johnson’s Jacobitism, believes in, i. 430;
    in his being a Papist, i. 476;
    offers a living to, i. 320;
  picture, would not sit for his, iv. 4;
  stores of literature, his, iv. 27;
  mentioned, i. 357; ii. 16. 
LANGTON, Mrs. (Bennet Langton’s mother), i. 325, 357, 476; ii. 146;
iv. 4, 268. 
LANGTON, George (Bennet Langton’s eldest son), i. 248, n. 1; ii. 282;
iv. 146. 
LANGTON, Miss Jane (Bennet Langton’s daughter),
  Johnson’s goddaughter, iii. 210, 11. 3; iv. 146, 268;
  his letter to her, iv. 271. 
LANGTON, Miss Mary (Bennet Langton’s daughter), iv. 268. 
LANGTON, Peregrine (Bennet Langton’s uncle), ii. 17-19. 
LANGTON, in Lincolnshire,
  Johnson invited there, i. 288; ii. 142;
  visits it, i. 476, 477, n. 1; ii. 17;
    describes the house, v. 217. 
LANGUAGES,
  formed on manners, ii. 80;
  origin, iv. 207;
  pedigree of nations, ii. 28; v. 225;
  scanty and inadequate, iv. 218;
  speaking one imperfectly lets a man down, ii. 404;
  writing verses in dead languages, ii. 371. 
LANGUOR, following gaiety, iii. 199. 
LANSDOWNE, Viscount (George Granville), Drinking Song to Sleep, i. 251. 
LAPIDARY INSCRIPTIONS, ii. 407. 
LAPLAND, i. 425; ii. 168, n, 1. 
LAPLANDERS, v. 328. 
LAPOUCHIN, Madame, iii. 340. 
LASCARIS’ Grammar, v. 459. 
LAST, horror of the, i. 331, n. 7. 
LATIN,
  beauty of Latin verse, i. 460;
  difficulty of mentioning in it modern names and titles, iv. 3, 10;
  essential to a good education, i. 457;
  few read it with pleasure, v. 80, n. 2;
  modern Latin poetry, i. 90, n. 2;
  pronunciation, ii. 404, n. 1. 
  See EPITAPHS.
Latiner, a, iv. 185, n. 1. 
LA TROBE, Mr., iv. 410. 
LAUD, Archbishop,
  assists Lydiat, i. 194, n. 2;
  Diary quoted, ii. 214;
  his Scotch Liturgy, ii. 163. 
LAUDER, William,
  account of his fraud about Milton, i. 228-231;
  deceives Johnson, i. 229, 231, n. 2. 
LAUDERDALE, Duke of, Burnet’s dedication to him, v. 285. 
LAUGHERS, time to be spent with them, iv. 183. 
LAUGHTER,
  a faculty which puzzles philosophers, ii. 378;
  Chesterfield, Johnson, Pope and Swift on it, ib., n. 2;
  laughing at a man to his face, iii. 338. 
  See JOHNSON, laugh. 
LAUREL, the, i. 185. 
LAUSANNE, iv. 167, n. 1. 
LA VALLIERE, Mlle, de, v. 49, n. 3. 
LAVATER’S Essay on Physiognomy, iv. 421, n. 2. 
LAW, Archdeacon, iii. 416. 
LAW, Edmund, Bishop of Carlisle,
  Cambridge examinations, iii. 13, n. 3;
  parentheses, loved, iii. 402, n. 1;
  remarks on Pope’s Essay on Man, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1. 
LAW, Robert, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489. 
LAW, William,
  Behmen, a follower of, ii. 122;
  each man’s knowledge of his own