‘is this your tragedy or comedy?’ iv. 246, n. 5;
  refuses a play in false English, iii. 259. 
RICHARD II, iv. 268, n. 2. 
RICHARDS, John, R.A., iii. 464. 
RICHARDS, Thomas, i. 186, n. 3. 
RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the elder, Treatise on Painting, i. 128, n. 2. 
RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the younger, i. 128, 142. 
RICHARDSON, Samuel,
  Chesterfield’s estimate of him, ii. 174, n. 2;
  Cibber, respects, ii. 93; iii. 184;
  Clarissa, German translation of, iv. 28;
    Lovelace’s character, ii. 341;
  Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2;
  death, i. 370, 382;
  Familiar Letters—­description of a visit to Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1;
    and the procession to Tyburn, iv. 189, n. 1;
  Fielding, compared with, ii. 49, 174, ib., n. 2;
    disparages, ii. 49, 174, 175, n. 2;
  Fielding, Miss, letter to, ii. 49, n. 2, 174, n. 1;
  flattery, love of, v. 396, n. 1, 440, n. 2;
  foreigners, read by, ii. 49, n. 2;
  Hanoverian, a, i. 146, n. 1;
  Johnson asks for an index for Clarissa, ii. 175, n. 1;
    Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4;
    draws his character, v. 395;
    gives him a pheasant, i. 326;
    letters to him; i. 303, n. 1; ii. 175, n. 1;
    meets Hogarth at his house, i. 145;
      and Young, v. 269;
    sought after him, iii. 314;
    under arrest, helps, i. 303, n. 1;
  King, Dr. W., a Jacobite speech by, i. 146, n. 1;
  literary ladies, his, iv. 246, n. 6; v. 396;
  Macaulay’s high praise of him, ii. 174, n. 2;
  Nelson, Robert, the original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3;
  novels, his, compared with the French, ii. 125;
  Oxford University, the Jacobitism of, i. 281, n. 1;
  portrait, i. 434, n. 3;
  Rambler, praised in the, i. 203;
    praises it, i. 209, n. 1;
    contributes to it, i. 203;
  read for the sentiment, not story, ii. 175;
  rear, Johnson can make him, iv. 28;
  talks of his own works, iv. 28;
  Tunbridge Wells, at, i. 190, n. 1;
  vanity, iv. 28, n. 7; v. 396;
  Walpole’s, Horace, contempt of him, ii. 174, n. 2;
  Williams, Mrs., visits him, i. 232, n. 1. 
RICHARDSON, William, i. 303, n. 1. 
RICHELIEU, Cardinal, ii. 134, n. 4. 
RICHES.  See MONEY. 
RICHMOND, third Duke of,
  attacks Lord Sandwich and Miss Ray, iii. 383, n. 3;
  discusses history and poetry, ii. 366, n. 1;
  libelled by Henry Bate, iv. 296, n. 3. 
RIDDELL, Mr., of the Horse Grenadiers, iv. 211, n. 1. 
RIDDOCH, Rev. Mr., v. 87, 91, 95-96. 
RIDICULE,
  abuse of it, iv. 17;
  Johnson defends its use, iii. 379.
Riding, the, i. 36, n. 4. 
RIDLEY, the bookseller, iii. 325. 
RIGBY, Richard, iii. 76, n. 2.
Rio verde, Rio verde, ii. 212, n. 4. 
RIOT ACT, iii. 46, n. 5. 
RIOTS,
  Franklin’s description of the street riots in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5;
  Gordon riots in 1780, iii. 46, n. 5, 428;