250; Reynolds's reflection on gaining freedom from them, i. 246. OBLIVION, iv. 27, n. 5; morbid, v. 68. O'BRIEN, William, the actor, described by Walpole, iv. 243, n. 6; his marriage, ii. 328, n. 3. OBSCENITY, repressed in Johnson's company, iv. 295. OBSERVANCE OF DAYS, ii. 458. Observations on Diseases of the Army, iv. 176, n. 1. Observations on his Britanick Majesty's Treaties, &c., i. 308. Observations on the Present State of Affairs, i. 308, 310. Observer, The, iv. 64. OBSTINACY, must be overcome, ii. 184. OCCUPATION, iii. 180; hereditary, v. 120. O'CONNOR, Charles, Johnson's letters to him, i. 321; iii. 111. OCTAVIA, iv. 446. ODD, nothing odd will do long, ii. 449. ODE, Goldsmith's account of one, iv. 13. Ode, Ad Urbanum, i. 113. Ode, An, i. 178. Ode, In Theatre, ii. 324, n. 3. Ode on Solitude, iii. 197. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, i. 420. Ode on the British Nation, iv. 442. Ode on the Peace, iv. 282. Ode on Winter, i. 182. Ode to Friendship, i. 158. Ode to Melancholy, i. 122, n. 4. Ode to Mrs. Thrale, a caricature, iv. 387. Ode to Mrs. Thrale, written in Sky, v. 158. Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain, iii. 374. Ode upon the Isle of Sky, v. 155. Odes. See CIBBER, COLLEY, and GRAY, Thomas. Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion, ii. 334. ODIN, iii. 274. ODYSSEY. See HOMER. Oedipus Tyrannus, Johnson's preface to Maurice's translation, iii. 370, n. 2. Ofellus, i. 104. OFFELY, Mr., i. 97. OFFICER. See SOLDIER. OGDEN, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Sermons, Boswell edified by them, v. 29; caricatured by Rowlandson, ib., n. 1; Johnson wishes to read them, iii. 248; tries to, v. 29, 88; prevailed on to read one aloud, v. 350; on original sin, iv. 123, n. 3; on prayer, v. 38, 58, 68, 282, 325; quotation from one, v. 351. OGILBY, John, i. 55. OGILVIE, Dr. John, Poems, i. 421, 423, n. 1; praises Scotland, i. 425. OGILVY, Sir James, v. 227, n. 4. OGLETHORPE, General, account of him, i. 127, n. 4, 128, n. 1; Belgrade, siege of, ii. 181; birth, ii. 180, n. 2; Boswell and the Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1; to Shebbeare, introduces, iv. 112; communicates particulars of his life to, ii. 351 n. 3; Caligula and the Senate, iii. 283; dinners at his house, ii. 179, 217, 232, 350; iii. 52, 282; v. 138, n. 1; duelling, defends, ii. 179; father, his, iv. 171; Georgia, colonises, i. 127, n. 4; Johnson's London, patronises, i. 127; visits, iv. 170; willing to write his Life, ii. 351; luxury, declaims against, iii. 282; 'never completes what he has to say,' iii. 57; Pope's lines on him, i. 127, n. 4; Prendergast and Sir J. Friend, ii. 182; Prince of Wirtemberg and the glass of wine, ii. 180; vivacity and knowledge, iii. 56; Wesley, Charles, ill-uses, i. 127, n. 4. OGLETHORPE, Mr., ii. 272. 'O'HARA, you are welcome,' v. 263. OIL OF VITRIOL, ii. 155; Johnson's, v. 15, n. 1. O'KANE, the harper, v. 315. OKERTON, i. 194, n. 2. OLD AGE, desirable, how far, iv. 156; evils, its, iii. 337; memory, failure of, iii. 191; men less tender in old age, v. 240, n. 2; mind growing torpid, iii. 254; senectus, iii. 344. OLD BAILEY, Sessional Reports, Baretti's trial, ii. 97, n. 1; Bet Flint's, iv. 103, n. 3; contain 'strong facts,' ii. 65. Old Man's Wish, The, iv. 19. OLD MEN, loss of the companions of their youth, iii. 217; putting themselves to nurse, ii. 474; supposed to be decayed in intellect, iv. 181. OLD STREET CLUB, iii. 443-4; iv. 187. OLD SWINFORD, v. 432. OLDFIELD, Dr., iii. 57. OLDHAM, John, Imitation of Juvenal, i. 118. OLDMIXON, John, i. 294, n. 9. OLDYS, William, account of him, i. 175; author of Busy, curious, thirsty fly, ii. 281, n. 5; Harleian Catalogue, compiles part of the, i. 28; Harleian Library, on the price paid for the, i. 154; notes on Langbaine, iii. 30, n. 1. O'LEARY, Father Arthur, Remarks on Wesley's Letter, ii. 121, n. 1; v. 35 n. 3. OLIVER, Alderman, iv. 140, n. 1. OLIVER, Dame, i. 43. Olla Podrida, iv. 426, n. 3. OMAI, iii. 8. OMBERSLEY, v. 455. ONSLOW, Arthur, the Speaker, challenged by Elwall the Quaker, ii. 164, n. 5; Richardson gave vails to his servants, v. 396. OPERA GIRLS, in France, iv. 171. OPIE, John, iv. 421, n. 2, 443. OPINION, hurt by differences in it, iii. 380. OPIUM, use of it, iv. 171. OPPONENTS, good-humour with them, iii. 10; how they should be treated, ii. 442. OPPOSITION, the, Johnson and Sir P.J. Clerk argue on it, iv. 81; describes it as meaning rebellion, iv. 139, n. 3; in 1783, describes it as 'factious,' iv. 164. OPPOSITION increases political differences, v. 386. ORANGE PEEL, Johnson's use of it, ii. 330, 331, n. 1; iv. 204; manufacture, iv. 204. ORATORS cannot be translated, iii. 36. ORATORY, action in speaking, i. 334; ii. 211; Johnson and Wilkes discuss it, iv. 104; a man's powers not to be estimated by it, ii. 339; old Sheridan's oratory, iv. 207, 222. ORCHARDS, Johnson's advice, ii. 132; Madden's saying, iv. 205; unknown in many parts, iv. 206. ORD, Mrs., iv.