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.
LUKE, in The Traveller, ii. 6. 
LUMISDEN, Andrew, ii. 401, n. 2; v. 194. 
LUMM, Sir Francis, ii. 34, n. 1. 
LUNARDI, ‘the flying man in the balloon,’ iv. 357, n. 3, 358, n. 1.
Lusiad, The, Johnson’s projected translation, iv. 251. 
  See under MICKLE. 
LUTHER, Martin, v. 217. 
LUTON, iv. 128. 
LUTON HOE, iv. 118, 127. 
LUTTEREL, Colonel, ii. 111. 
LUXURY,
  dread of it visionary, ii. 169-170;
  money better spent on it than in almsgiving, iii. 56, 291;
  no nation ever hurt by it, ii. 217-9;
  produces much good, iii. 55;
  querulous declamations against it, iii. 226;
  every society as luxurious as it can be, iii. 282;
  man not diminished in size by it, v. 358;
  reaches very few, ii. 218;
  Wesley attacks its apologists, iii. 56, n. 2.
Lyce, To, i. 178. 
LYDIA, v. 220. 
LYDIAT, Thomas, i. 194, n. 2; ii. 7. 
LYE, Edward, ii. 17. 
LYNNE REGIS, i. 141, 285. 
LYONS, iii. 446. 
LYSONS ——­, of Clifford’s Inn, iv. 402, n. 2. 
LYTTELTON, George, first Lord,
  Boothby, Miss, admired, iv. 57, n. 2;
  Boswell’s Corsica, praises, ii. 46, n. 1;
  caricature, lines on him in a, v. 285, n. 1;
  character by Chesterfield and Walpole, i. 267, n. 2;
  Chesterfield, Cibber, and Johnson, anecdote of, i. 256;
  Critical Reviewers, thanks the, iv. 57, 58, n. 1;
  Debates, speech in the, ii. 61, n. 4;
  epitaph on Sir J. Macdonald, v. 151;
  Dialogues of the Dead, ii. 126, 447; iv. 57;
  Goldsmith’s History of England,
    supposed to have written, i. 412, n. 2;
  History of Henry II, Johnson criticises it to the King, ii. 38;
    thirty years spent on it, iii. 32;
    punctuation, ib.;
    kept back for fear of Smollett, iii. 33;
    its whiggism, ii. 221;
  Hume’s Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2;
  Johnson, Life by, iv. 57-8;
    attacks on it, iv. 64;
  Johnson’s unfriendliness, iv. 57;
  Montague, Mrs., friendship with, iv. 64;
  Persian Letters, i-74, n. 2;
  ‘respectable Hottentot,’ i. 267, n. 2;
  Smollett, attacked by, iii. 33, n. 1;
  Thomson’s ‘loathing to write,’ iii. 360;
  mentioned, ii. 64, n. 2, 124, n. 1. 
LYTTELTON, Thomas, second Lord,
  character, his, iv. 298, n. 3;
  timidity, v. 454;
  vision, iv. 298;
  mentioned, iv. 296, n. 3. 
LYTTELTON, Sir Edward, v. 457.

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MACALLAN, Eupham (Euphan M’Cullan), v. 39. 
MACARTNEY, Earl of,
  Boswell’s Life of Johnson, praises, i. 13;
  Campbell, Dr. John, account of, i. 418, n. 1 iii. 343, n. 4;
  embassy to China, i. 13, n. 2, 367, n. 2;
  Hindoos, describes a peculiarity of the, iv. 12, n. 2;
  Johnson and Lady Craven, anecdote, iii. 22, n. 2;
  Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
  mentioned, i. 380; iii. 238, n. 2, 425. 

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