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.
    his pretended reason for translating it into blank verse,
ii. 124, n. 1;
    written on the covers of letters, i. 143, n. 1;
  Iliad, written slowly, i. 319, n. 3;
  Odyssey, translated by the help of associates, iv. 49;
  imitations, fondness for, i. 118, n. 5;
  intimidated by prosecution of P. Whitehead, i. 125, n. 3;
  Johnson criticises his Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, iv. 16, n. 4;
    defends him as a poet, iv. 46;
    Dictionary, apparently interested in, i. 182;
    estimate of the Dunciad, ii. 84, n. 4;
    recommends, to Lord Gower, i. 132, n. 1, 133, 143;
      to J. Richardson, ib.;
    translates his Messiah, i. 61, 272;
    ‘will soon be deterre,’ i. 129; ii. 85;
    writes his Life, iv. 46-7;
  labour his pleasure, ii. 99, n. 1;
  laugh, did not, ii. 378, n. 2;
  Lewis’s verses to him, iv. 307;
  Lintot, quarrels with, i. 435, n. 4;
  Lords, gave all his friendship to, iii. 347;
  ‘low-born Allen,’ v. 80, n. 5;
  Mallet paid to attack his memory, i. 329;
  ‘Man never is but always to be blest’ ii. 350;
  Marchmont’s, Earl of, anecdotes of him, iii. 342-5, 392, 418;
    Pope’s executor, iv. 51;
  Memoirs of Scriblerus, v. 44, n. 4;
  mill, his mind a, v. 265;
  Miscellanies, transplants an indecent piece into his, iv. 36, n. 4;
    lines applicable to Gibbon, ii. 133, n. 1;
  ‘modest Foster,’ iv. 9;
  monument proposed in St. Paul’s, ii. 239;
  ‘narrow man, a,’ ii. 271, n. 2;
  ‘nodded in company,’ iii. 392, n. 1;
  pamphlets against him, kept the, iv. 127;
  ‘paper-sparing,’ i. 142;
  papers left at his death, iv. 51, n. 1;
  parents, behaviour to his, i. 339, n. 3;
  parodied by I.H.  Browne, ii. 339, n. 1;
  parsimony, i. 143, n. 1;
  Pastorals, ii. 84;
  Patriot King, clandestinely printed copies of the, i. 329, n. 3;
  pensioners, satirises, i. 375;
  Philips, Ambrose, attacks, i. 179, n. 4;
  pleasure in writing, iv. 219, n. 1;
  Prendergast and Sir John Friend, ii. 183;
  priests where a monkey is the god, ii. 135, n. 1;
  Prince of Wales, repartee to the, iv. 50;
  Radcliffe’s doctors, iv. 293, n. 1;
  Rape of the Lock, ii. 392, n. 8;
    reading, his, i. 57, n. 1; ii. 36, n. 1;
    of the modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 2;
  Rich, anecdote of, iv. 246, n. 5;
  Ruffhead’s Life of Pope, ii. 166;
  Settle, the City Poet, iii. 76, n. 1;
  Seventeen hundred and thirty-eight, i. 125, n. 3, 126, 127, n. 3;
  Shakespeare, edition of, v. 244, n. 2;
  Spence at Oxford, visits, iv. 9;
  Steele, letter to, iii. 165, n. 3;
  Swift, his prudent management for, iii. 20, n. 1;
  Swift’s letter on parting with him, iii. 312;
  Theobald, revenge on, ii. 334, n. 1;
    introduces him in the Dunciad,
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