Heroick Epistle, the authorship of the, iv. 315;
  Huggins, quarrels with, iv. 6;
  Idler, contributed to the, i. 330;
  Johnson, estrangement with, i. 270, n. 1;
    letters to him:  See under JOHNSON, letters;
    Oxford visit in 1754, i. 270;
    parodies his poetry, iii. 158, n. 3;
    preface to his Dictionary, i. 297, n. 3;
  Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
  Observations on Spenser’s Fairy Queen, i. 270, n. 2, 276, 289; iv. 6;
  Ode on the First of April, iii. 159, n. 1;
  poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
  Professor of Poetry, i. 323, n. 3;
  Progress of Discontent, i. 283, n. 2; iii. 323, n. 4;
  pupils and lectures, i. 279, n. 2;
  Savage’s Bastard, i. 166;
  Shakespeare, notes on, i. 335-6; ii. 114;
  mentioned, i. 78, n. 2, 79, n. 1, 325. 
WARTON, Rev. Thomas (the father of the two Wartons), i. 449, n. 1. 
WASHINGTON, George, ii. 478. 
WASSE, Christopher, v. 445. 
WASTE, iii. 265, 317. 
WATER, Johnson’s advice to drink it, iii. 169. 
WATERS, Ambrose, iv. 402, n. 2. 
WATERS, Mr., Paris banker, ii. 3. 
WATFORD, ii. 204, n. 1, 301, n. 1. 
WATSON, Richard, Bishop of Llandaff,
  bishops’ revenues, iv. 118, n. 2;
  Chemical Essays, iv. 118, 232, n. 3;
  how to rise in the world, ii. 323, n. 1. 
WATSON, Professor Robert., of St. Andrews,
  History of Philip II, iii. 104;
  Johnson, entertains, v. 58-60, 64, 68;
    manners, wonders at, v. 70;
  talks on composition, v. 66. 
WATSON, Mr., ’out in the ‘45,’ v. 158, n. 3. 
WATTS, Dr. Isaac,
  Abney, Sir Thomas, lived with, i. 493, n. 3;
  descends from the dignity of science, ii. 408, n. 3;
  Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 126, 370; iv. 35, n. 3;
    recommends his Works, iv. 311;
  poetry, his, better in its design than in itself, iii. 358;
  taught Dissenters elegance of style, i. 312. 
WEALTH.  See MONEY.
Wealth of Nations.  See/ SMITH, Adam. 
WEATHER and Seasons,
  their influence acknowledged, i. 332, n. 2; ii. 263;
iv. 259, n. 3, 353, 360;
  ridiculed by Johnson in The Idler, i. 332; ii. 263, n. 2;
    at the Mitre, i. 426;
    ‘all imagination,’ i. 452;
    weather does not affect the frame, ii. 358; iii. 305;
  ridiculed by Reynolds, i. 332, n. 2;
    Gray’s ‘fantastic foppery,’ i. 203, n. 3;
  talking of the weather, i. 426, n. 1; iv. 360, n. 2. 
WEBSTER, Rev. Dr. Alexander,
  account of him, ii. 269, n. 4; v. 50;
  his manuscript account of Scotch parishes, ii. 274, n. 2;
  mentioned, ii. 270-2, 275; v. 387, n. 2, 391, 394, 397. 
WEDDERBURNE, Alexander.  See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord. 
WEDDERBURNE, Mr., of Ballandean, iii. 214, n, 1. 
WELCH, Father, ii. 401. 
WELCH, Miss, iii. 217. 
WELCH, Saunders,
  account of him, iii. 216; death, iii.