ORME, Captain, iv. 88. 
ORME, Robert, the historian,
  admires Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 300;
v. 408, n. 4;
    and his talk, iii. 284;
  mapping of the East Indies and Highlands of Scotland compared, ii. 356. 
ORMOND, House of,
  gives three Chancellors in succession to Oxford, i. 281, n. 1. 
ORMOND, first Duke of, Life by Carte, v. 296, n. 1. 
ORMOND, second Duke of,
  impeached, i. 281, n. 1;
  leads a Spanish expedition to Scotland, v. 140, n. 3.
Orphan of China.  See MURPHY. 
ORPHEUS, i. 458. 
ORRERY, Earls of, a family of writers, v. 237. 
ORRERY, first Earl of, a play-writer, v. 237. 
ORRERY, fourth Earl of,
  Bentley’s antagonist, v. 238, n. 1;
  his will, ib., n. 5. 
ORRERY, fifth Earl of,
  anecdote of the Duchess of Buckingham, iii. 239;
  caught at literary eminence, ii. 129; iii. 183;
  dignified, not, iv. 174;
  feeble writer, i. 185, n. 3;
  feeble-minded, v. 238;
  Johnson describes his character, v. 238;
    Dictionary, presents, to the Academia della Crusca, i. 298;
      praises the Plan of it, i. 185;
    friendship with, i. 243;
    never sought after him, iii. 314;
    writes a dedication to him for Mrs. Lennox, i. 255;
  Remarks on Swift, i. 9, n. 1; iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238;
  mentioned, iv. 17, n. 3, 29, n. 2. 
ORTON, Job, Memoirs of Doddridge, v. 271. 
OSBORN, a Birmingham printer, i. 86. 
OSBORNE, Sir D’Anvers, iv. 181, n. 3. 
OSBORNE, Francis, ii. 193. 
OSBORNE, Thomas,
  Coxeter’s collection of poets, buys, iii. 158;
  Harleian Catalogue, publishes the, i. 28, 154, 158;
  Harleian Library, buys the, i. 154;
  Johnson dates a letter from his shop, i. 161;
    beats him, i. 154, 375, n. 1; iii. 344;
    describes his ‘impassive dulness,’ i. 154, n. 2. 
OSSIAN.  See MACPHERSON, James. 
OSSORY, Lord,
  member of the Literary Club, i. 479;
  mentioned, iii. 399, n. 2. 
OSTENTATION,
  Boswell’s rebuked, i. 465;
  shown in quoting Lords, iv. 183. 
OTAHEITE,
  bread-tree, ii. 248;
  custom of eating dogs, ii. 232;
  mode of slaughtering animals, v. 246;
  rights of children, v. 330;
  savages from whom nothing can be learnt, iii. 49;
    Boswell’s defence of them, iv. 308.
Othello, its moral, iii. 39. 
OTWAY, Thomas,
  Johnson’s opinion of him, iv. 21;
  neglected, ii. 341, n. 3;
  Romeo and Juliet, alters, v. 244, n. 2;
  tenderness, iv. 21, n. 1;
  tolling a bell, ii. 131, n. 2. 
OUGHTON, Sir Adolphus, v. 43;
  his learning, v. 45, 124;
  quiets a military revolt, v. 142, n. 2;
  mentioned, v. 272, 394. 
OURAN-OUTANG, v. 46, 248. 
OVERALL, Bishop, v. 356, n. 2. 
OVERBURY, Sir Thomas, ii. 76.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, a Tragedy, iii. 115.