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T’, fitted to a, iv. 288. TAAF, Mr., ii. 398. TACITUS, Agricola, quoted, iii. 324, n. 5; iv. 204; Germania, quoted, v. 381; his writings are notes for an historical work, ii. 189. TAILOR, the metaphysical. See METAPHYSICAL. TAIT, Rev. Mr., v. 128. TAIT, Mr., an organist, v. 84. TALBOT, Lord Chancellor, i. 232, n. 1. TALBOT, second Lord, i. 507, 508. TALBOT, Miss Catharine, correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 232, n. 1; Greenwich Park, describes, i. 106, n. 2; Rambler, contributes to the, i. 203; criticises it, i. 208, nn. 2 and 3; Williams, Mrs., account of, i. 232, n. 1. Tale of a Tub. See SWIFT. TALES, telling tales of oneself, ii. 472. TALK, above the capacity of the audience, iv. 185; distinguished from conversation, iv. 186; Johnson loved to have it out, iii. 230; talking for fame, iii. 247; from books, v. 378; of oneself, iii. 57; on one topic, ib. TALKERS, exuberant public, ii. 247. TALLEYRAND, v. 397, n. 1. TALLOW-CHANDLER, in retirement, ii. 337. TAMEOS, v. 242, n. 1. TANNING, v. 246. TAR, v. 216. TARTARY, ii. 156. Tartuffe, ii. 321, n. 1; iii. 449. TASKER, Rev. Mr., iii. 373-5. TASSO, borrows a simile from Lucretius, iii. 330. TASTE, changes in it, iii. 192, n. 2; defined, ii. 191; refinement of it, iv. 338; Reynolds’s rule for judging it, iv. 316. Tatler, end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3; esquire, title of, i. 34, n. 3; rural esquires, v. 60, n. 4; great perfections without good breeding, ii. 256, n. 3. Tatler Revived, i. 202. TAUNTON, iv. 32. TAVERNS, admitting women, iv. 75; felicity of England in its tavern life, ii. 451; tavern chair the throne of human felicity, ii. 452, n. 1. Taxation no Tyranny, account of it planned, ii. 292; published, ii. 312; written at the desire of ministers, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 313; corrected by them, ii. 313-5; not attacked enough, ii. 335; pelted with answers, ii. 336, n. 1; sale, ii. 335, n. 4; Birmingham traders praised, ii. 464, n. 3; drivers of negroes, iii. 201; Macaulay, Mrs., attacked, ii. 336, n. 2; mentioned, iii. 221. TAXES, effect of their increase, ii. 357. TAYLOR, Chevalier, a quack, iii. 389-39. TAYLOR, Jeremy, ‘chief of sinners,’ iv. 294; Golden Grove, iv. 295; Holy Dying, iii. 34, n. 3. TAYLOR, Rev. Dr. John, account of him and his establishment, ii. 473; his person, ii. 474; his character by Johnson, ii. 474; iii. 139, 181; all his geese swans, iii. 189; Ashbourne, his daily life, iii. 132; iv. 378; the water-fall, iii. 190; garden, iii. 199; bleeding, habit of, iii. 152; Boswell, gives, particulars of Johnson, iv. 375; laughed at by, iii. 135, n. 2; and Johnson visit him in 1776, ii. 473; in 1777, iii. 135; bull-dog, his, iii. 189; bullocks, his talk is of,’ iii. 181; cattle, iii. 150, 181, n. 3; chandelier of crystal, iii. 157; Christ Church, Oxford, enters, i. 76; dinners at his London house, iii. 52, 238; eagerness for preferments, ii. 473, n. 1; ‘elegant phraseology,’ his, ii. 474, n. 1; Garrick’s emphasis, anecdote of, i. 168; mediates between Garrick and Johnson, i. 196; house in Westminster, i. 238; iii. 222; Johnson’s character, iii. 150 company, not very fond of, iii. 181; correspondence with, iii. 180, n. 3: See under JOHNSON, letters; dread of annihilation, iii. 296, n. 2; funeral, iv. 420; heart, knowledge of, i. 26, n. 1; invites, to dine on a hare, iii. 207; Reynolds’s explanation of his intimacy with, iii. 180; roars him down, iii. 150; himself roused to a pitch of bellowing, iii. 156; serious talk with him, iii. 296, n. 2; wearies of Ashbourne life, iii. 154, 211; iv. 356, 357, n. 3, 362, 365, 378; will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2; writes sermons for him, i. 241; iii. 181; youth, friend of, iv. 270; Johnson’s, Mrs., death, i. 238; iii. 180, n. 3; Langley, quarrels with, iii. 138, n. 1; lawsuit, ii. 474, n. 1; iii. 44, n. 3, 51, n. 3; Lichfield School, at, i. 44; living in ruins and rubbish, iv. 378; matriculation, i. 76; neighbours, iii. 138; sermons, iii. 181-2; sleep, observation on, iii. 169; Whig, a, ii. 474; iii. 156; widower, anecdote of a, iii. 136; wife, separation from his, i. 472, n. 4; wit, single instance of his, iii. 191; mentioned, ii. 464, 468; iii. 185, 187. TAYLOR, Mrs., Rev. Dr. John Taylor’s wife, separated from her husband, i. 472, n. 4; mentioned, i. 239. TAYLOR, John, a Birmingham trader, i. 86. TAYLOR, John, of Christ Church, Oxford, confounded with Dr. John Taylor, i. 76, n. 1. TAYLOR, John (Demosthenes Taylor), iii. 318. TAYLOR, William, of Norwich, ii. 408, n. 3. TAYLOR, Mr., an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2. TAYLOR, Mr., a gentleman-artist, of Bath, iii. 422. TEA, Garrick charges Peg Woffington with making it too strong, iii. 264; his finest sort, i. 216, n. 3; Hanway’s attack on its use, and Johnson’s defence, i. 313; Johnson a hardened tea-drinker, i. 103, n. 3: see under JOHNSON; price of it in 1734, i. 313, n. 2; run tea, v. 449, n. 1; tea-making à l’Anglaise, ii. 403; weak, generally made, iii. 264, n. 4; Wesley attacks its use, i. 313, n. 2. TEACHING, wretchedness of, i. 85. Tears of Old May-day, i. 101. Telemachus, a Mask, i. 411; ii. 380. TEMPÉ, iii. 302. TEMPLE, second Earl, iv. 249, n. 3. TEMPLE, Right Rev. Frederick, Bishop of London, i. 436, n. 3. TEMPLE, Rev. William Johnson, account of him, i. 436; iii. 416, n. 3; Boswell, correspondence with, i. 436, n. 3; and he read Gray all night, ii. 335, n. 2; executor, iii. 301, n. 1; last letter written to him, i. 14, n. 1; occupies his chambers in the Temple, i. 437; visits him at Mamhead, ii. 371; Gray’s character, writes, i. 436, n. 3; ii. 316; iv. 153, n. 1; Johnson, compares, with the ‘infidel pensioner Hume,’ ii. 316; introduced to, ii. 11; political speculations, unfit for, ii. 312, n. 4; mentioned, i. 433, n. 3; ii. 3, n. 2, 247. TEMPLE, Sir William, drinking by deputy, iii. 330; Dutch free from spleen, iv. 379; English prose, gave cadence to, iii. 257; great generals, ii. 234; Heroic Virtue, ii. 234, n. 4; Ireland, ancient state of, i. 321; peerages and property, ii. 421; style condemned by Hume, iii. 257, n. 3; praised by Mackintosh, ib.; a model to Johnson, i. 218. TEMPLE OF FAME, ii. 358. TEMPTATION, exposing people to it, iii. 237. TENANTS, their independence, v. 304: See LANDLORDS, and under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, landlords and tenants. TENDERNESS OF HEART, v. 240. Tenders, v. 196, n. 1. TENERIFFE, iv. 358. TENISON, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, Psalmanazar introduced to him, iii. 447. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord, poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1; Ulysses quoted, v. 278, n. 2. TENURES, ancient, ii. 202; iii. 414. TERENCE, quoted, i. 129, n. 1; ii. 358, n. 3, 465, n. 3. TESTIMONY, compared with argument, iv. 281. Tetty or Tetsey, i. 98. THACKERAY, W. M., Addison’s Cato, quotations from, i. 199, n. 2; one failing, iv. 53, n. 4; History of the Newcomes quoted, ii. 300, n. 3; subscribed to the annuity for Johnson’s goddaughter, iv. 202, n. 1. THALES, i. 125, n. 4. THAMES, Budgell drowns himself in it, ii. 229; v. 54; convicts working on it, iii. 268, n. 4; Johnson and Boswell row to Greenwich, i. 458; to Blackfriars, ii. 432; returns on it from Rochester, iv. 233, n. 2; London, mentioned in, i. 460; New-England men at its mouth, v. 317; ribaldry of passers-by, iv. 26. THATCHING, v. 263. The one, iv. 211, n. 2. THEATRES, French and English compared in point of decency, ii. 50, n. 3; orange-girls, v. 185, n. 1; proposal for a third one, iv. 113: See under LONDON, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and Haymarket. THEBES, ii. 179. THEFT, allowed in Sparta, ii. 176; iii. 293. THELWALL, John, iv. 278, n. 3. THEOBALD, Lewis, Double Falsehood, iii. 395, n. 1; Pope, attacked by, ii. 334, n. 1; Shakespeare, edits, v. 244, n. 2; Warburton, compared with, i. 329; helped by him, v. 80. THEOCRITUS, iv. 2. Theodosius, ii. 471. Theophilus Insulanus, v. 225. THEOPHRASTUS, v. 378. THICKNESSE, Philip, criticises Smollett, iii. 235-6. THIEVES, all men naturally thieves, iii. 271. Thing, not the, iv. 89. THINKING, liberty of, ii. 249, 252. THIRLBY, Dr. Styan, iv. 161, n. 4. THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES, articles of peace, ii. 104; meaning of subscription, ii. 151; petition for removing the subscription, ii. 150; motion to consider it, ii. 208, n. 4. THOMAS, Colonel, iv. 211, n. 4. THOMAS, Nathaniel, iii. 92, n. 2. THOMSON, James, blank verse of the Seasons, iv. 42, n. 7; Boswell’s assistance to Johnson in his Life, ii. 63; iii. 116, 133, 359; character, his, not to be gathered from his works, iii. 117, n. 7; cloud of words, iii. 37; Edward and Eleonora not licensed, i. 141, n. 1; family, account of his, iii. 359; Johnson inserts him among the Lives, iii. 109; letters to his sisters, ii. 64; iii. 117, 360; licentiousness, ii. 63; iii. 117; Lives of Thomson, iii. 116-7; ‘loathed much to write,’ iii. 360; poetical eye, i. 453; ii. 63; iii. 37; ‘Queensberry, worthy,’ ii. 368, n. 1; Quin’s generosity to him, iii. 117; Scotland, never returned to, iii. 117; Seasons, quoted, i. 98, n. 1; iii. 151, n. 4; by Voltaire, i. 435, n. 2; sisters, generosity to his, ii. 64; iii. 360; wine, love of, i. 359. THOMSON, Rev. James, case of ecclesiastical censure, iii. 58-64, 91. THOMSON, Mr., a schoolmaster (the poet’s brother-in-law), ii. 64; iii. 116, 360. THORNTON, Bonnell, Adventurer, writes for the, i. 252, n. 2; Boswell enlivened by his witty sallies, i. 395; Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, i. 420; Rambler, parodies the, i. 218, n. 1; Student, writes for the, i. 209. THORP, Mr. Robert, of Macclesfield, iv. 393. n. 3. THORPE, iii. 359. THOUGHTS, command of one’s, ii. 190, 202, n. 2; inquisitive and perplexing, iv. 370, n. 3; troublesome at night, ii. 440; vexing, iii. 5. Thoughts on Executive Justice, iv. 328, n. 1. Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland’s Islands. See Falkland’s Islands. THRALE FAMILY, account of the, i. 491, n. 1. THRALE, John, a London merchant, i. 491, n. 1. THRALE, ‘Old,’ the brewer, Henry Thrale’s father, i. 490-1. THRALE, Henry, account of him, i. 490, 494; ambition of out-brewing Whitbread, iii. 363, n. 5; Baretti, present to, iii. 97; Bath, visits, in 1776, iii. 44; in 1780, iii. 421; Boswell’s familiarity in speaking of him, i. 492, n. 1; hospitality to, iii. 45; writes to him, iii. 372; brewery, — profits, i. 491; iii. 210, 363, n. 5; iv. 87, n. 1; beer brewed, ii. 396; iii. 210, n. 5; £20,000 a year paid in excise, v. 130; first sale of it, i. 490; second sale, i. 491; iv. 86, n. 2, 132; Cator, John, one of his executors, iv. 313; champagne, his, iii. 119; churches, intends to beautify two Welsh, v. 450; death, iv. 84; false report of it, iii. 107; dinners and breakfasts at his house, ii. 77, 227, 246, 327, 338, n. 2, 349, 378, n. 1, 427; iii. 27, 248, 344; iv. 80; dislikes the times, iii. 363; eating, immoderate in, iii. 422-3; iv. 84, n. 4; expenses, iii. 210; France, tour to, ii. 384-401; Goldsmith’s Haunch of Venison, mentioned in, iii. 225, n. 2; questions a statement of his about horses, ii. 232; Gordon Riots, property in danger, iii. 435; flees from Bath, ib., n. 2; Grosvenor Square, house in, iv. 72; heir, desires a male, ii. 469; iii. 95, 363, n. 4; highwayman, robbed by a, iii. 239, n. 2; illness, dangerous, i. 322, n. 1; iii. 397, 423, n. 1; better, iii. 417, 420; withdrawn from business, iii. 434; very ill, iv. 72; Baretti’s account of it, iv. 84, n. 4; Italy, projected tour to, ii. 423; given up, iii. 6, 18, 27; Johnson’s affection for him, iii. 397, n. 2; iv. 84-5, 89, 100; wishes to hear ‘The History of the Thrales v. 313; his feelings towards Johnson, ii. 77; iv. 84, 85, n. 1, 145, 340; ‘will go nowhere without him,’ iii. 27, n. 3; and the Earl of Marchmont, iii. 345; epitaph on him, iv. 85, n. 1; his executor, iv. 85; receives a bequest of £200, iv. 86; guardian of his children, iv. 198, n. 4; illness in 1766, i. 521; intimacy not without restraint, iii. 7; introduction to his family, i. 490, 520; iii. 451; kitchen, inquires into, ii. 215, n. 4; loss by his death, iv. 85, 145, 157-9; prayer on it, i. 240, n. 5; suggests, as a member of parliament, ii. 137, n. 3; writes The Patriot for him, ii. 286; Lade, Sir John, his nephew, iv. 412, n. 1; melancholy, suffers from, iii. 363, n. 5; ‘worried by the dog,’ iii. 414, n, 1; money difficulties, iv. 85, n. 2; ‘My Master,’ i. 494, n. 3; iii. 119; portrait, iv. 158, n. 1; prospects, loves, v. 439, n. 2; receives £14,000, iii. 134, n. 1, 455; Rome, will not die in peace without seeing, iii. 27, n. 3; silent at Oglethorpe’s, v. 277; society in his house, i. 496; son, loses his only surviving, ii. 468, 470; grief, his, iii. 18, n. 1; orbus et exspes, iii. 24, n. 5; at the Assembly Rooms, Bath, iii. 45, n. 2; son, loses his younger, iii. 4, n. 3; Southwark, Member for, i. 490; receives ‘instructions’ from the electors, ii. 73, n. 2; election of 1774, ii. 286, 287; of 1780, Johnson writes his Addresses, iii. 422, n. 1, 439-440; defeated, iii. 442; house in the Borough, ii. 286, n. 1; iii. 6; iv. 72, n. 1; Wales, tour to, ii. 285; v. 427-460; wife’s, his, jealousy, iii. 96, n. 1; will, afraid of making his, iv. 402, n. 1; account of it, iv. 86, n. 1; mentioned, i. 83, n. 3; ii. 136, 311, 411; iii. 22-4, 54, n. 1, 126, 132, 158, n. 1, 190, n. 3, 222, 225, 240, 398, n. 3; v. 84, 102, n. 3. THRALE, Henry (son of Mr. and Mrs. Thrale), death, ii. 468, 471; iii. 4; Johnson’s letter on it, i. 236, n. 3; his love of him, ii. 469; iii. 4. THRALE, Hester Lynch (Miss Salusbury, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi), account of her, i. 492-6; birth, i. 149, n. 5, 520; character by Johnson, i. 494; by Miss Burney, iv. 82, n. 4; dress and person, i. 494-5; accident to her eye, iii. 214; Argyll Street, house in, iv. 157, 164; Baretti, character of, ii. 57, n. 3; flatters her, iii. 49, n. 1; ignorance of the scriptures, v. 121, n. 4; knowledge of languages, i. 362, n. 1; quarrel with, ii. 205, n. 3; iii. 49, n. 1, 96; her account, ib., n. 1; Bath, visits, in 1776, iii. 6, 44; in 1780, iii. 421; an evening at Mrs. Montagu’s, iii. 422; in 1783, iv. 166, 198, n. 4; Beattie, Dr., loves, ii. 148; Beauclerk’s anecdote of the dogs, v. 329, n. 1; Beauclerk, hatred of, i. 249, n. 1; v. 329, n. 1; his truthfulness, ib.; birthplace, v. 449-51; Boswell, accuses, of spite, iv. 72, n. 1; of treachery, iv. 318, n. 1, 343; advises, not to publish the Life of Sibbald, iii. 228; alludes to her second marriage, iii. 49; argues with, on Shakespeare and Milton, iv. 72; brother David, iii. 434, n. 1; compliments, on his long head, iv. 166; controversy with, about Mrs. Montagu, v. 245; dines with her, iv. 166; hospitality to, iii. 45; introduced to her, ii. 77; ‘loves,’ ii. 145, 206; MS. Journal, reads, ii. 383; proposes an epistle in her name, v. 139; British Synonymy, iv. 412; Burke’s son, can make nothing of, iv. 219, n. 3; Burney, Miss, letters to, iv. 340, n. 3; calculating and declaiming, iii. 49; canvasses for Mr. Thrale, iii. 442, n. 1; character, influence of vice on, iii. 350; children, her, births, ii. 46, n. 3, 280; iii. 210, n. 4, 363, 393; deaths, ii. 281, n. 2; iii. 109; three living out of twelve, iv. 157, n. 3; unfriendly with her married daughter, v. 427, n. 1; Johnson’s kindness to them, iv. 345; clerk, gives a crown to an old, v. 440; clippers, warned of, iii. 49; common-place book, iv. 343; conceit of parts, iii. 316; Congreve, quotes from, ii. 227; dates, neglects, i. 122, n. 2; iv. 88, n. 1; Demosthenes’s ‘action,’ ii. 211; ‘despicable dread of living in the Borough,’ iv. 72, n. 1; divorces, iii. 347-8; ‘dying with a grace,’ iv. 300, n. 1; Errol, Lord, at the coronation, v. 103, n. 1; estate, prefers the owner to the, ii. 428; fall from her horse, ii. 287; Fermor’s, Mrs., account of Pope, ii. 392, n. 8; flattery, coarse mode of, ii. 349; Johnson talks with her about it, v. 440; Foster’s Sermons, quotes, iv. 9, n. 5; France, tour to, ii. 384-401; French, contentment of the, v. 106, n. 4; Convent, visits a, ii. 385; maxims, attacks, iii. 204, n. 1; Garrick’s poetry, praises, ii. 78; good breeding, want of, iv. 83; Gordon Riots, alarmed at the, iii. 428, n. 4; Gray’s Odes, admires, ii. 327; Grosvenor Square, removes to, iv. 72, n. 1; Hogarth’s account of Johnson, i. 147, n. 2; illness, in 1779, iii. 397; inaccuracy, her extreme, in general, i. 416, n. 2; iii. 226, 229; no anxiety about truth, iii. 243, 404; her defence of it, iii. 228; instances of it — Anecdotes, iv. 340-7; anecdote about in vino veritas, ii. 188, n. 3; Barber’s visit to Langton, i. 476, n. 1; Garrick’s election to the Club, i. 481; Goldsmith and the Vicar of Wakefield, i. 415, 416, n. 2; Johnson’s answer to Robertson, iii. 336, n. 2; and G. J. Cholmondeley, iv. 345; harshness, i. 410; lines on Lade, iv. 412, n. 1; mother calling Sam, iv. 94, n. 4; and small kindnesses, iv. 201, 343-4; Verses to a Lady, i. 92, n. 2; ‘natural history of the mouse,’ ii. 194, n. 2; sutile mistaken for futile, iii. 284, n. 4; indelicacy, iv. 84, n. 4; insolence of wealth, shows the, iii. 316; interpolation in one of Johnson’s letters, suspected, ii. 383, n. 2; Italian, an, on clean shirts, v. 60, n. 4; jelly, her, compared with Mrs. Abington’s, ii. 349; Johnson’s account of French sentiments and meat, ii. 385, n. 5; advice about the brewery, iii. 382, n. 1; about sweet-meats, iii. 186; iv. 90; on Mr. Thrale’s death, iii. 136, n. 2; anxiety not to offend, iii. 54, n. 1; appeals to her love and pity, iv. 229, n. 3; appearances of friendship kept up with, iv. 164, 166; apprehensive of evil, v. 232, n. 5; asperses, i. 28; wishes to depreciate him, i. 66, n. 2; belief, fantastical account of, i. 68, n. 3; biographers, i. 26, n. 1; blames her conduct, iv. 277; his friendly animadversions, iii. 48; change in her feeling towards, iv. 340, n. 3; on children’s books, iv. 8, n. 3; conversation too strong for the great, iv. 117; copyist, iv — 37; dislike of extravagant praise, iii. 225; of singularity, ii. 74, n. 3; doubts her friendship, iv. 145, n. 2; dress, iii. 325; drives her from his mind, iv. 339, n. 3; and the Earl of Marchmont, iii. 344; her ‘enchantment over,’ v. 14; epigram, translates, i. 83, n. 3; flatters, ii. 332, n. 1, 349; flatters her, iii. 34; household, asks about, iii. 461-2; illness in 1766, i. 521; introduction to her, i. 520; Journey into North Wales, v. 427, n. 1; her kindness to, i. 520; laugh, ii. 262, n. 2; lectures, iv. 65, n. 1; Letters, publishes them for £500, i. 124, n. 4; ii. 43, n. 1; arranged inaccurately, i. 122, n. 2; error in date, iii. 453; possible alterations and interpolations, ii. 383, n. 2; iii. 49, n. 1, 96, n. 1; read by Walpole, iv. 314; her own ‘studied epistles,’ iii. 421; his letters to her from Scotland, ii. 303, 305; about the Gordon Riots, iii. 428-30; her letters to him in Scotland, v. 84, n. 2 (for other letters, See under JOHNSON, letters); love of her children, iv. 198, n. 4; ‘loved’ by her and Boswell, ii. 427; mode of eating, i. 470, n. 2; and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1, 65, n. l; neglects, iv. 158-9; leaves him in sickness and solitude, iv. 249, n. 2; ‘one pleasant day since she left him,’ iv. 436; nursed in her house, iv. 141, 181; Ode to her, v. 157-8; parody on Burke, iv. 317; pleasure in her society, i. 493-6; severe to her, iv. 159, n. 3; stuns her, v. 288; style, iii. 19, n. 2; supposed wish to marry her, iv. 387, n. 1; takes leave of her in April, 1783, iv. 198, n. 4; talk, iv. 237, n. 1; tenderness to her mother, ii. 263, n. 6; urges economy, iv. 85, n. 2; wishes for her and Mr. Thrale in the Hebrides, iii. 455; would not toast her in whisky, v. 347; ‘yoke’ put upon her, iv. 340; Lennox, Mrs., liked by nobody, iv. 275, n. 2; Lichfield, visits, v. 428, nn. 1 and 3; Long, Dudley, praises, iv. 81; Lyttelton’s vision, iv. 298, n. 3; Malone’s criticism on her Anecdotes, iv. 341; marriage, second, alluded to by Boswell, ii. 328; signs that it was coming on, iv. 158, n. 4; takes place, iv. 339; marrying inferiors in rank, ii. 328; middle class abroad, absence of a happy, ii. 402, n. 1; Montagu, Mrs., praises, iv. 275, n. 3; mother, death of her, ii. 263; Musgrave, Mr., ii. 343, n. 2; iv. 323, n. 1; ‘My Mistress,’ or ‘Madam,’ i. 494; officious, iv. 137, n. 2; Paris, contradictions in, iii. 352, n. 2; Piozzi Letters: See above under MRS. THRALE, Johnson’s Letters; Pope’s Universal Prayer, iii. 346-7; portrait, iv. 158, n. 1; praise, blasts by, iv. 82; Presto, the dog, iv. 347; Prior’s love verses, praises, ii. 78; purse, uneasiness at losing her, v. 442; regale, v. 347, n. 1; Richardson’s love of praise, v. 396, n. 1; ‘severe and knowing,’ iii. 318, n. 3; Siddons, Mrs., as Euphrasia, v. 103, n. 1; son, loses her only surviving, ii. 468, 470; iii. 6, 45, n. 2; Johnson’s advice to her, iii, 136, n. 2; son, loses her younger, iii. 4, n. 3; Thrale family, describes the rise of the, i. 491, n. 1; Thrale’s death, iv. 84; effect on her and Johnson, v. 157; describes his manners, i. 494, n. 1; jealous of him, iii. 96, n. 1; Three Warnings, ii. 26; tongue, could not restrain her, iv. 82; truth, indifference to: See above under inaccuracy; Wales, estate in it, ii. 281; tour there, ii. 285; v. 427-60; wit, iv. 103, n. 1; Young’s, Dr., ignorance of rhopalick verses, v. 269, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 142, 364, n. 3, 379; i11. 29, 33, 95, 126, 132, 248, 372; iv. 5, n. 1, 75, 80, 169, 242; v. 110. THRALE, Miss, Baretti’s Dialogues written for her, ii. 449, n. 2; Bath, at, in 1780, iii. 422; birth-day party, iii. 157, n. 3; harpsichord, playing on the, ii. 409; Johnson teaches her Latin, iv. 345, n. 2; v. 451, n. 2; is visited by her in his last illness, iv. 339, n. 3; Marie Antoinette, seen by, ii. 385; marries Admiral Lord Keith, v. 427, n. 1; mother, unfriendly with her, v. 427, n. 1; portrait, iv. 158, n. 1; Queeny, iii. 422, n. 4; v. 451, n. 2; mentioned, iii. 6; iv. 86, n. 2. THRALE, Miss Sophia, Johnson advises her to study arithmetic, iv. 171, n. 3. Three Warnings, The, ii. 26. THRESHING, v. 263. THROCKMORTON, Mr., of Weston Underwood, v. 439, n. 1. THRONE, The, something behind it greater than it, iii. 416, n. 2. THUANUS (De Thou), Johnson thinks of translating his History, iv. 410; mentioned, i. 32, 208, n. 1. THUCYDIDES, his quotations from Homer, iii. 331. THURLOW, first Lord, Boswell bows the intellectual knee to him, iv. 179, n. 2; Journal of a Tour, praises, i. 3, n. 1; writes to him, iv. 327; his answer, iv. 336; character by Sir W. Jones, iv. 349, n. 3; copyright, speech on, ii. 247, n. 5, 345; Cowper, treatment of, iv. 349, n. 3; duel with Andrew Stuart, ii. 230, n. 1; Horne Tooke, encounter with, iv. 327, n. 4; prosecutes him, iii. 354, n. 3; Horsley, rewards, iv. 438; Johnson’s companion, iii. 22; generous offer to, iv. 348; letter to, iii. 441; v. 364, n. 1; letter from him, iv. 349; pension, proposed addition to, iv. 327-8, 348-350, 367-8; would prepare himself to meet him, iv. 327; legal opinion on Rev. J. Thomson’s case, iii. 63; Macbean and the Charterhouse, i. 187; Prince of Wales and Sir John Ladd, iv. 412, n. 1; ‘puts his mind to yours,’ iv. 179; Reynolds, letter to, iv. 350, n. 1; Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2; small certainties, ii. 323, n. 1; Taylor’s, Dr., lawsuit, iii. 44; mentioned, iv. 310. THUROT, M., iv. 101. TIBER, iii. 251. TIBULLUS, Grainger’s translation, ii. 454; quoted, iv. 407, n. 1. TICHBORNE TRIAL, v. 247, n. 2. TICKELL, Richard, Epistle from the Hon. Charles Fox, ii. 292, n. 4; iii. 388, n. 3; The Project, iii. 318, n. 2. TICKELL, Thomas, aided Blackmore in his Creation, ii. 108; Life by Johnson, iv. 56. TIGER, River, v. 242, n. 1. TILLEMONT, Gibbon praises his accuracy, i. 7, n. 1. TILLOTSON, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, Sermons, iii. 247; on transubstantiation, v. 71. TIME AND SPACE, iv. 25. Times, The, quoted, v. 400, n. 4. TIMIDITY, iv. 200, n. 4. TIMMINS, Mr. Samuel, Dr. Johnson in Birmingham quoted, i. 85, n. 3, 95, n. 3. TINDAL, Dr., ii. 229, n. 1. TIPPOO, iii. 356, n. 2. Titi, Prince, ii. 391. TOASTS, iv. 29. TOLAND, John, i. 29. TOLCHER, Old Mr., i. 152, n. 3. TOLERATION, ii. 249-254; iv. 12, 216; universal, iii. 380. TOMASI, Signora, ii. 451, n. 3. To Miss — , i. 178. To Miss — on her giving the Authour a Purse, ii. 25. Tommy Prudent, iv. 8, n. 3. TONSON, Jacob, Budgell’s Epilogue, iii. 46; Dryden’s engagement with him, i. 193, n. 1. TONSON, Jacob, the younger, Johnson praises him, i. 227, n. 3; mentioned, i. 263, n. 3. TOOKE, Horne (at first Rev. John Horne), Beckford’s speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3; Boswell, altercation with, iii. 354, n. 2; Diversions of Purley, iii. 354, n. 2; imprisonment, iii. 314, n. 6; writ of error, iii. 345, n. 3; Johnson’s etymologies, criticises, iii. 354; reads the preface to his Dictionary with tears, i. 297, n. 2; iii. 354, n. 1; Letter to Mr. Dunning, iii. 354; living, resigns his, iii. 201, n. 3; Norton, Sir Fletcher, attacks, ii. 472, n. 2; pillory, should have been set in the, iii. 314; too much literature for it, iii. 354; Lord Mansfield durst not venture it, ib., n. 3; Thurlow, encounter with, iv. 327, n. 4. TOPHAM, Edward, proprietor of The World, iii. 16, n. 1. TOPLADY, Rev. Mr., attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3; meets Johnson at Dilly’s, ii. 247, 253, 255. TOPOGRAPHICAL WORKS, iii. 164, n. 1. TOPPING, Mr., of Christ Church, iii. 449. TOPSELL, Edward, i. 138, n. 5. TORIES, defined, i. 294; iii. 174, n. 3; generated, how, iii. 326; hostile to Spain, i. 147, n. 5; identified with Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4; Of Tory and Whig, iv. 117; opposition to the Court, ii. 112; reverence for government, iv. l00; Whigs, enmity with, iv. 291; Whigs when out of place, i. 129. TORRÉ, M., fire-work maker, iv. 324. TORTURE, i. 466, 467, n. 1. TOTTENHAM, iii. 45, n. 1. TOUCH, sense of, ii. 190. TOUR OF EUROPE, iii. 458. TOWERS, Dr. J., Essay on the Life of Johnson, iv. 41, n. 1; Johnson’s Life of Milton, praises, iv. 40; Letter to Dr. Johnson, &c., ii. 316. TOWNLEY, C., an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2. TOWNLEY, Charles, iii. 118, n. 3. TOWNMALLING, iii. 452. TOWNSEND, Alderman, Johnson attacks him, ii. 135, n. 1; Lord Mayor, iii. 459; iv. 175, n. 1; refuses to pay the land-tax, iii. 460; mentioned, iii. 201, n. 3. TOWNSHEND, second Viscount, ii. 342, n. 1; v. 357, n. 1. TOWNSHEND, fourth Viscount (afterwards first Marquis), i. 437, n. 2. TOWNSHEND, Right Hon. Charles, Akenside, friendship with, iii. 3; ‘Champagne Speech,’ ii. 222, n. 3; jokes and wit, ii. 222; ib., n. 3; Kames, Lord, criticises, ii. 90, n. 1. TOWNSHEND, Hon. John, Tickell’s Epistle, ii. 292, n. 4. TOWNSHEND, Right Hon. Thomas (afterwards first Viscount Sydney), Goldsmith’s ‘Tommy Townshend,’ iii. 233, n. 1; attacks Johnson, iv. 318; moves that Nowell’s sermon be burnt, iv. 296, n. 1. TOWNSON, Rev. Dr., ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 300, n. 2. TRADE, difficulty, has not much, iii. 382, n. 2; gaming, like, v. 232; injury done to the body, ii. 218; leisure of those engaged, v. 59; military spirit injured by it, ii. 218; opportunity of rising in the world, ii. 98; produces no capital accession of wealth, ii. 98; but intermediate good, ii. 176; profit in pleasure, ii. 98; rapid rise of traders, i. 490; writers on it, ii. 430. Trade, The (the booksellers of London), i. 438; ii. 345; iii. 285. TRADESMEN, Chatham’s description of the honest tradesman, v. 327, n. 4; excite anger by their opulence, v. 327; fires in the parlour, v. 6; funeral-sermon for a tradesman’s daughter, ii. 122; retired from business, ii. 120; one attacked by the stone, iii. 176, n. 1; wives, their, iii. 353. TRADITION, untrustworthy, v. 224; of the Church, v. 71. TRAGEDIANS, ridiculed in The Idler, v. 38, n. 1. TRAGEDY, a ludicrous one, iii. 238; passions purged by it, iii. 39; worse for being acted, ii. 92, n. 4; v. 38: See PLAYERS. TRANSLATIONS, how to judge of their merit, iii. 256; Sir John Hill’s contract for one, ii. 39; n. 2; what books can and what cannot be translated, iii. 36, 257. Transpire, iii. 343. TRANSPORT, Rational, iii. 338. TRANSUBSTANTIATION, v. 71, 88. TRANSYLVANIA, ii. 7, n. 3. TRAPAUD, General Cyrus, v. 135. TRAPAUD, Governor, v. 134, 142. TRAPP, Dr. i. 140, n. 5; iv. 381, n. 1. TRAVELLERS, ancient, guessed; modern travellers measure, iii. 356; mean to tell the truth, iii. 235; modern mostly laughed at, iii. 300; strange turn to be displeased, iii. 236; unsatisfactory unless trustworthy, ii. 333. TRAVELLING, advice about it, i. 431; Cowper, Gibbon, Goldsmith and Locke on the age for travelling, iii. 458-9; human life great object of remark, iii. 301, n. 2; idle habits broken off, i. 409; Johnson’s love of it, iii. 449-459; Rasselas, described in, i. 340, n. 1; rates of travelling London to St. Andrews, i. 359, n. 3; to Edinburgh, v. 21, n. 1; to Harwich, i. 466, n. 2; to Lichfield, i. 340, n. 1; ii. 45; iii. 411; to Milan, i. 370, n. 4; to Salisbury, iv. 234, n. 3; supplies little to the conversation, iii. 352; time ill spent on it in early manhood, iii. 352, 458. TRAVELS, books of, writers very defective, ii. 377; should start with full minds, iii. 301; writing under a feigned character, iv. 320. TREASON, constructive, iv. 87. Treatise on Painting, i. 128, n. 2. TRECOTHICK, Alderman, account of him, iii. 76, n. 2; his English, iii. 76, 201; Lord Mayor, iii. 459. TREE, given a jerk by Divines, iv. 226. TREES, their propagation, ii. 168. See under SCOTLAND, trees. TRENTHAM, i. 36, n. 2. TREVELYAN, Sir G. O., Johnson and the Rev. John Macaulay, v. 360. n. 1; Rev. Kenneth Macaulay’s History of St. Kilda, v. 119, n. 3. TRIAL BY DUEL, v. 24. TRICKS, either knavish or childish, iii. 396. TRIFLES, life composed of them, i. 433, n. 4; ii. 359, n. 2; contentment with them, iii. 241-2; their importance, i. 317; iii. 355. TRIMLESTOWN, Lord, iii. 227-8. TRINITY, doctrine of the, ii. 254-5; v. 88. Tristram Shandy. See STERNE. TRONCHIN, M., iii. 301, n. 1. TROTTER, Beatrix, iii. 359. TROTTER, —— , an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2. TROTZ, Professor, i. 475. TROUGHTON, Lieutenant, a loquacious wanderer, v. 448. TRUTH, children to be strictly trained in it, iii. 228; comfort of life, essential to the, iv. 305; consolation drawn from it, i. 339; contests concerning moral truth, iii. 17; deviations from it very frequent, iii. 403-4; human experience its test, i. 454; ‘I’d tell truth and shame the devil,’ ii. 222; moral and physical, iv. 6; ‘not at home,’ i. 436; obligatory, how far, iii. 320, 377; iv. 305-6; painful to be forced to defend it, iii. 11; perpetual vigilance needed, iii. 230; iv. 361; publishing it against oneself, iv. 396; v. 211; religious truth established by martyrdom, ii. 250; rights to utter it and knock down for uttering it, iv. 12; sick, should be told to the, iv. 306; society held together by it, iii. 293; story, essential to a, ii. 433: See under JOHNSON, truthfulness. TUAM, Archbishop of, ii. 265, n. 4; iv. 198, n. 2. TULL, Jethro, v. 324. TUNBRIDGE SCHOOL, iv. 330. TUNBRIDGE WELLS, Mrs. Montagu writes from it in 1760, ii. 64. n. 2; print of the company there in 1748, i. 190, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 45, n. 1. TURGOT, existence of matter, i. 471, n. 2. TURKEY and the Turks, Boswell wishes to visit it, iv. 199; opium in common use, iv. 171; sweep Greece, ii. 194; want of Stirpes, ii. 421; mentioned, v. 74. TURKISH LADY, a, i. 343. Turkish Spy, iv. 199; v. 341. TURNER, John, a fencing-master, v. 103, n, 2. TURNPIKES, v. 56, n. 2. TURSELLINUS, i. 77. TURTON, Dr., iii. 164. TWALMLEY THE GREAT, iv. 193. TWELLS, Leonard, Life of Dr. E. Pocock, iv. 185. TWICKENHAM, Boswell and Johnson’s drive to it, ii. 361-4; Cambridge’s, Mr., villa, ii. 361; highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1; society, ii. 120. TWINING, Rev. Thomas, Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman, Johnson’s dislike of ‘the former, the latter,’ iv. 190, n. 2; funeral, iv. 420, n. 1; the old willow-tree at Lichfield, iv. 372, n. 1. TWISS, Richard, Travels, ii. 345. TYBURN, executions there abolished, iv. 188; procession to it, iv. 189, n. 1; ‘Tyburn’s elegiac lines,’ ib.: See EXECUTIONS. TYERS, Jonathan, iii. 308. TYERS, Thomas, account of him, iii. 308-9; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Johnson, iii. 308; v. 73, n. 2; Johnson like a ghost: See JOHNSON, Ghost; rapid composition, i. 192, n. 1; talked as if on oath, ii. 434, n. 2; wish to visit India and Poland, iii. 456; Tom Restless of The Idler, iii. 308, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 107. TYRANNY, remedy against it, ii. 170. TYRAWLEY, Lord, account of him, ii. 211, n. 4; Chesterfield’s saying, ii. 211. TYRCONNEL, Lord, Savage’s letter to him, i. 161, n. 3; patronised by him, i. 173, 372, n. 1. TYRWHITT, Thomas, Chatterton’s poems, iii. 50, n. 5; iv. 141, n. 1. TYTLER, A. F. (son of W. Tytler, afterwards Lord Woodhouselee), meets Johnson, v. 387, n. 4, 388, n. 2, 402. TYTLER, William, History of Mary Queen of Scots, i. 354; v. 274, n. 2, 387; Johnson’s Journey, praises, ii. 305-6; meets him, v. 394, 396.
