202, n. 1; house in Hedge Lane, iii. 324, n. 2; Johnson's bequest to his children, iv. 402, n. 2; picture refused by the Academy, iv. 201-3; subscription for his daughters, iv. 202, n. 1; sups with Johnson, iii. 380; visits him, iv. 209-10. LOWNDES, W. T., Bibl. Man. error about The World newspaper, iii. 16, n. 1. LOWTH, Robert, Bishop of London, English Grammar, iv. 311; Prelections, v. 57, n. 3; rose by his learning, v. 81; Warburton, controversy with, ii. 37; v. 125, 423. LOWTH, William, iii. 58. LOWTHER FAMILY, v. 113. LOWTHER, Sir James, a rich miser, v. 112. LOYALTY OF THE NATION, ii. 370; blasted for a time, iv. 171, n. 1. LOYOLA, Ignatius, i. 77. LUARD, Rev. Dr., iii. 83, n. 3. Lucan, quoted, i. 320, n. 4. LUCAN, first Earl of, Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; Johnson intimate with him and Lady Lucan, iii. 425; iv. i, n. 1, 326; anecdote of Johnson as Thrale's executor, iv. 86. LUCAS, Dr. Charles, Johnson writes in his defence, i. 311; reviews his Essay on Waters, i. 91, n. 1, 309, 311. LUCAS, Richard, Enquiry after Happiness, v. 294. LUCAS DE LINDA, ii. 82. Lucian, iii. 238, n. 2; Combabus, story of, iii. 238, n. 2; Epicurean and the Stoick, pleadings of the, iii. 10; Francklin's translation, iv. 34. Lucius Florus, ii. 237. Lucretius, quoted, i. 283; iv. 390, n. 3, 425, n. 4; Tasso borrows a simile from him, iii. 330. Luctus, ii. 371. LUKE, in The Traveller, ii. 6. LUMISDEN, Andrew, ii. 401, n. 2; v. 194. LUMM, Sir Francis, ii. 34, n. 1. LUNARDI, 'the flying man in the balloon,' iv. 357, n. 3, 358, n. 1. Lusiad, The, Johnson's projected translation, iv. 251. See under MICKLE. LUTHER, Martin, v. 217. LUTON, iv. 128. LUTON HOE, iv. 118, 127. LUTTEREL, Colonel, ii. 111. LUXURY, dread of it visionary, ii. 169-170; money better spent on it than in almsgiving, iii. 56, 291; no nation ever hurt by it, ii. 217-9; produces much good, iii. 55; querulous declamations against it, iii. 226; every society as luxurious as it can be, iii. 282; man not diminished in size by it, v. 358; reaches very few, ii. 218; Wesley attacks its apologists, iii. 56, n. 2. Lyce, To, i. 178. LYDIA, v. 220. LYDIAT, Thomas, i. 194, n. 2; ii. 7. LYE, Edward, ii. 17. LYNNE REGIS, i. 141, 285. LYONS, iii. 446. LYSONS ----, of Clifford's Inn, iv. 402, n. 2. LYTTELTON, George, first Lord, Boothby, Miss, admired, iv. 57, n. 2; Boswell's Corsica, praises, ii. 46, n. 1; caricature, lines on him in a, v. 285, n. 1; character by Chesterfield and Walpole, i. 267, n. 2; Chesterfield, Cibber, and Johnson, anecdote of, i. 256; Critical Reviewers, thanks the, iv. 57, 58, n. 1; Debates, speech in the, ii. 61, n. 4; epitaph on Sir J. Macdonald, v. 151; Dialogues of the Dead, ii. 126, 447; iv. 57; Goldsmith's History of England, supposed to have written, i. 412, n. 2; History of Henry II, Johnson criticises it to the King, ii. 38; thirty years spent on it, iii. 32; punctuation, ib.; kept back for fear of Smollett, iii. 33; its whiggism, ii. 221; Hume's Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2; Johnson, Life by, iv. 57-8; attacks on it, iv. 64; Johnson's unfriendliness, iv. 57; Montague, Mrs., friendship with, iv. 64; Persian Letters, i-74, n. 2; 'respectable Hottentot,' i. 267, n. 2; Smollett, attacked by, iii. 33, n. 1; Thomson's 'loathing to write,' iii. 360; mentioned, ii. 64, n. 2, 124, n. 1. LYTTELTON, Thomas, second Lord, character, his, iv. 298, n. 3; timidity, v. 454; vision, iv. 298; mentioned, iv. 296, n. 3. LYTTELTON, Sir Edward, v. 457.

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MACALLAN, Eupham (Euphan M'Cullan), v. 39. MACARTNEY, Earl of, Boswell's Life of Johnson, praises, i. 13; Campbell, Dr. John, account of, i. 418, n. 1 iii. 343, n. 4; embassy to China, i. 13, n. 2, 367, n. 2; Hindoos, describes a peculiarity of the, iv. 12, n. 2; Johnson and Lady Craven, anecdote, iii. 22, n. 2; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; mentioned, i. 380; iii. 238, n. 2, 425. MACAULAY, Dr., a physician, husband of Mrs. Macaulay the historian, i. 242, n. 4; iii. 402. MACAULAY, Mrs. Catherine, the historian, Boswell wishes to pit her against Johnson, iii. 185; Johnson and her footman, i. 447; iii. 77; had not read her History, iii. 46, n. 2; 'match' with her, ii. 336; political and moral principles, wonders at, ii. 219; toast, i. 487; maiden name and marriage, i. 242, n. 4; 'reddening her cheeks,' iii. 46; ridiculous, making her, ii. 336; Shakespeare's plays and her daughter, i. 447, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 46, n. 1. MACAULAY, Dr. James, Bibliography of Rasselas, ii. 208, n. 3. MACAULAY, Rev. John, Lord Macaulay's grandfather, v. 355, n. 1, 360, n. 1; a man of good sense, v. 360; on principles and practice, v. 359. MACAULAY, Rev. Kenneth (Lord Macaulay's great-uncle), colds caught at St. Kilda, on, ii. 51, 150; v. 278; History of St. Kilda, ii. 150; Johnson visits him, v. 118; disbelieves his having written the History, v.

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