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.
  not increased after his Pamphlets, ii. 147, 317;
  proposed addition, iv. 326-8, 336-9, 348-50; 367-8;
    attacked, i. 142, 373, 429; ii. 112; iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 116;
      in parliament, iv. 318;
    Beauclerk’s quotation in reference to it, i. 250;
    effect of it on Johnson’s work, i. 372, n. 1;
      on his travelling, iii. 450;
    effect had it been granted earlier, iv. 27;
    entry in the Exchequer Order Book, i. 376, n. 2;
      ‘out of the usual course,’ iv. 116;
    Johnson unchanged by it, i. 429;
  Strahan his agent in receiving it, ii. 137. 
PENURIOUS GENTLEMAN, a, iii. 40. 
PEOPLE, the judges afraid of the, v. 57. 
PEPYS, Sir Lucas, iv. 63, 169, 228. 
PEPYS, Samuel, Lord Orrery’s plays, v. 237, n. 4;
  Spring Garden, iv. 26, n. 1;
  tea, i. 313, n. 2. 
PEPYS, William Weller, account of him, iv. 82, n. 1;
  Johnson, attacked by, iv. 65, n. 1;
  over-praised by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 82;
  attacked again, iv. 159, n. 3;
  mentioned, ii. 228, n. 1; iii. 425.
Perce-forest, iii. 274, n. 1. 
PERCEVAL, Lord (second Earl of Egmont), i. 508; iv. 198, n. 3. 
PERCEVAL, Lady Catharine, v. 449, n. 1. 
PERCY, Earl, iii. 142, 276-7. 
PERCY, Dr. Thomas, Dean of Carlisle,
  afterwards Bishop of Dromore, Alnwick, at, ii. 142;
  anecdotes, full of, v. 255;
  Boswell, letter to, i. 74;
  Dean of Carlisle, made, iii. 365;
    ‘very populous’ there, iii. 416, 417;
  death, on parting with his books in, iii. 312;
  dinner at his house, iii. 271;
  Dyer, Samuel, describes, iv. 11, n. 1;
  Easton Maudit, rector of, i. 486; iii. 437;
  Goldsmith and the Duchess of Northumberland, ii. 337, n. 1;
    epitaph, settles the dates in, iii. 81;
    lodgings, i. 350, n. 3;
    quarrels with, iii. 276, n. 2;
    visionary project, iv. 22, n. 3;
  Grainger’s character,
    draws, ii. 454, n. 1;
    reviews his Sugar-cane, i. 481;
      admires it, ii. 454, n. 2;
  ‘Grey Rat, the History of the’ ii. 455;
  Hawkins, draws the character of, i. 28, n. 1;
  heir male of the ancient Percies, iii. 271;
  Hermit of Warkworth, ii. 136;
  Johnson attacks him
    about Dr. Mounsey, ii. 64;
    about Percy’s calling him short-sighted, iii. 271-3;
      Percy’s uneasiness, iii. 275;
    Boswell’s friendly scheme, iii. 276-8;
      at variance for the third time iii. 276 n. 2;
    conversation, iii. 317;
    first visit to Goldsmith, i. 366, n. 1;
    Garrick’s awe and ridicule of, i. 99, n. 1;
    method in writing his Dictionary, i. 188, n. 2;
    parodies his poems, ii. 136, n. 4; 212, n. 4;
    praises him in a letter to Boswell, iii. 276, 278;
    projected Life of Goldsmith, iii. 100, n. 1;
    questions his daughter about Pilgrim’s Progress, ii. 238, n. 5;
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