n. 3;
  peace of 1782-3, iv. 158, n. 4, 282, n. 1;
  petition for his impeachment, ii. 90, n. 5;
  portrait by Reynolds, iv. 174, n. 5;
  Price, Dr., iv. 434;
  Priestley’s account of the company at his house, iv. 191, n. 4;
  Scotch—­their superficial knowledge, ii. 363, n. 4;
    untruthfulness, ii. 296, n. 2, 301, n. 5;
    painstaking habits, ib.;
  Secretary of State at the age of twenty-nine, iii. 36, n. 1;
  Streatham, rents Mrs. Thrale’s house at, iv. 158, n. 4;
  Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4;
  Townsend, Alderman, iii. 460; iv. 175, n. 1;
  mentioned, ii. 177, n. 1. 
SHELLEY, Lady, iv. 159, n. 3. 
SHENSTONE, William,
  Dodsley’s Cleone, the sale of, i. 325, n. 3;
  hair, wore his own, i. 94, n. 5;
  ‘I prized every hour,’ &c., iv. 145, n. 6;
  inn, lines in praise of an, ii. 452;
  Johnson, admiration of, ii. 452;
    account of him, v. 267, 457, nn. 2 and 4;
    estimate of his poems, ii. 452;
    writes to him, v. 268, n. 1;
  layer-out of land, v. 267;
  Leasowes, v. 457;
  letters, his, v. 268;
  London streets in 1743, i. 163, n. 2;
  Love Pastorals, v. 267;
  Pembroke College, member of, i. 75; iv. 151, n. 2;
  pension, v. 457;
  Pope’s condensation of thought, v. 345;
  ‘She gazed as I slowly withdrew,’ v. 267;
  witty remark on divines and the tree falling, iv. 226. 
SHERIDAN, Charles, iii. 284. 
SHERIDAN, Mrs. Frances,
  wife of Thomas Sheridan the son, i. 358, 386, n. 1, 389. 
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley
  (grandson of Dr. Thomas Sheridan and son of Thomas Sheridan),
  birth, i. 358, n. 2;
  Comedies, dates of his, iii. 116, n, 1;
  Duenna, run of the, iii. 116, n. 1;
  father, estranged from his, i. 388, n. 1;
    despises his oratory, i. 394, n. 2;
  funeral, i. 227, n. 4;
  Johnson, compliments, in a Prologue, iii. 115;
    praises his comedies, iii. 116;
    projects an attack on, ii. 315, n. 3;
  Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
    election, iii. 116;
    present, iii. 230, n. 5;
  marriage, ii. 369;
  Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83;
  Sydney Biddulph and The School for Scandal, i. 390, n. 1. 
SHERIDAN, Dr. Thomas (the father),
  anecdote of Swift and a country-squire, iv. 295, n. 5;
  ‘Sherry,’ ii. 258, n. 1. 
SHERIDAN, Thomas (the son, father of R. B. Sheridan),
  Addison’s loan to Steele, iv. 91;
  America, threatens to go to, iv. 2l5;
  Boswell’s instructor in pronunciation, ii. 159;
    puns with, iv. 316;
  conversation, ii. 122;
  Dictionary, ii. 161;
  Dublin Theatre, i. 386;
  dull naturally, i. 453;
  Earl of Essex, iv. 312, n. 5;
  formal endings of letters, criticises, v. 239;
  good, but a liar, iv. 167;
  Home’s gold medal, ii. 320; v. 360;
  house in Bedford Street, i. 485, n. 1;