n. 1;
    rapidly composed, i. 192; ii. 15;
    written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192;
  Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2;
  Byron’s admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3;
  death, ‘kind nature’s signal of retreat,’ ii. 106;
  De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3;
  Garrick’s sarcasm on it, i. 194;
  Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3;
  misery, ‘the doom of man,’ iii. 198; v. 179;
  ‘Patron and the jail,’ i. 264;
  Rasselas, resemblance to, i. 342;
  Scott’s admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3;
  spreads changed into burns, iii. 357-8;
  Vane and Sedley, v. 49;
  Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4. 
VANSITTART, Dr.,
  account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1;
  story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2;
  mentioned, ii. 192. 
VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144. 
VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163. 
VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3. 
VENICE,
  Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1;
  Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19;
  mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3. 
VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104.
Veracious, iv. 39, n. 3. 
VERACITY.  See TRUTH.
Verbiage ii. 236; iii. 256.
Verecundulus, i. 68, n. 1. 
VERNON’S Parish Clerk, v. 268, n. 1. 
VERSAILLES, ii. 385, 395;
  theatre, ii. 395, n. 2. 
VERSES, in a dead language, ii. 371;
  making them, ii. 15.
Verses on Ireland, iii. 319.
Verses on a Sprig of Myrtle, i. 92.
Verses to Mr. Richardson on his Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 26. 
VERTOT, ii. 237; iv. 311. 
VESEY, Right Hon. Agmondesham,
  gentle manners, his, iv. 28;
  Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; ii. 318;
  professor in the imaginary college, v. 108. 
VESEY, Mrs.,
  evenings at her house described by Langton, iii. 424; iv. 1, n. 1;
    by Hannah More, iii. 424, n. 3;
    by Horace Walpole, iii. 425, n. 3;
    by Miss Burney, iii. 426, n. 3;
    by Johnson, ib., n. 4;
  wishes to introduce Johnson to Raynal, iv. 435. 
VESTRIS, the dancer, iv. 79.
Vexing Thoughts, iii. 5.
Vicar of Wakefield.  See GOLDSMITH. 
VICE,
  character not hurt by it, iii. 349;
  compared with virtue, iii. 342;
  Mandeville’s doctrine:  See MANDEVILLE.
Vicious Intromission,
  Johnson’s argument, ii. 196-201, 206; iii. 102; v. 48. 
VICTOR, Benjamin, iv. 53. 
VICTORIA, Queen, death-warrants, iii. 121, n. 1. 
VIDA, i. 230, n. 1.
Vidit et erubuit, iii. 304. 
VILETTE, Rev. Mr.,
  Dodd’s dedication to him, iii. 167, n. 1;
  his virtues, iv. 329.
Village, The, a poem, iv. 121, n. 4, 175. 
VILLIERS, Sir George, his ghost, iii. 351. 
VINCENT, William, Dean of Westminster, i. 302, n. 1.
Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, i. 140; ii, 60, n. 3. 
VIRGIL,
  Aeneid,