1, n. 1, 325, n. 2. ORDE, Lord Chief Baron, ii. 354, n. 4; v. 28. ORDE, Miss, v. 28, n. 2. ORDINARY OF NEWGATE, and the Cock Lane Ghost, i. 407, n. 1. See Rev. Mr. MOORE and Rev. Mr. VILLETTE. ORFORD, third Earl of, iv. 334, n. 6. ORFORD, fourth Earl of. See WALPOLE, Horace. Oriental Gardening. See CHAMBERS, Sir William. ORIGIN OF EVIL, v. 117, 366. Original Letters. See WARNER, Rebecca. ORIGINAL SIN, Johnson's paper on it, iv. 123; Ogden's sermon, ib., n. 3. Orlando Furioso, i. 278, n. 1. ORME, Captain, iv. 88. ORME, Robert, the historian, admires Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 300; v. 408, n. 4; and his talk, iii. 284; mapping of the East Indies and Highlands of Scotland compared, ii. 356. ORMOND, House of, gives three Chancellors in succession to Oxford, i. 281, n. 1. ORMOND, first Duke of, Life by Carte, v. 296, n. 1. ORMOND, second Duke of, impeached, i. 281, n. 1; leads a Spanish expedition to Scotland, v. 140, n. 3. Orphan of China. See MURPHY. ORPHEUS, i. 458. ORRERY, Earls of, a family of writers, v. 237. ORRERY, first Earl of, a play-writer, v. 237. ORRERY, fourth Earl of, Bentley's antagonist, v. 238, n. 1; his will, ib., n. 5. ORRERY, fifth Earl of, anecdote of the Duchess of Buckingham, iii. 239; caught at literary eminence, ii. 129; iii. 183; dignified, not, iv. 174; feeble writer, i. 185, n. 3; feeble-minded, v. 238; Johnson describes his character, v. 238; Dictionary, presents, to the Academia della Crusca, i. 298; praises the Plan of it, i. 185; friendship with, i. 243; never sought after him, iii. 314; writes a dedication to him for Mrs. Lennox, i. 255; Remarks on Swift, i. 9, n. 1; iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238; mentioned, iv. 17, n. 3, 29, n. 2. ORTON, Job, Memoirs of Doddridge, v. 271. OSBORN, a Birmingham printer, i. 86. OSBORNE, Sir D'Anvers, iv. 181, n. 3. OSBORNE, Francis, ii. 193. OSBORNE, Thomas, Coxeter's collection of poets, buys, iii. 158; Harleian Catalogue, publishes the, i. 28, 154, 158; Harleian Library, buys the, i. 154; Johnson dates a letter from his shop, i. 161; beats him, i. 154, 375, n. 1; iii. 344; describes his 'impassive dulness,' i. 154, n. 2. OSSIAN. See MACPHERSON, James. OSSORY, Lord, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; mentioned, iii. 399, n. 2. OSTENTATION, Boswell's rebuked, i. 465; shown in quoting Lords, iv. 183. OTAHEITE, bread-tree, ii. 248; custom of eating dogs, ii. 232; mode of slaughtering animals, v. 246; rights of children, v. 330; savages from whom nothing can be learnt, iii. 49; Boswell's defence of them, iv. 308. Othello, its moral, iii. 39. OTWAY, Thomas, Johnson's opinion of him, iv. 21; neglected, ii. 341, n. 3; Romeo and Juliet, alters, v. 244, n. 2; tenderness, iv. 21, n. 1; tolling a bell, ii. 131, n. 2. OUGHTON, Sir Adolphus, v. 43; his learning, v. 45, 124; quiets a military revolt, v. 142, n. 2; mentioned, v. 272, 394. OURAN-OUTANG, v. 46, 248. OVERALL, Bishop, v. 356, n. 2. OVERBURY, Sir Thomas, ii. 76. Overbury, Sir Thomas, a Tragedy, iii. 115. OVERTON, Rev. J. H., Life of William Law, ii. 122, n. 6. OVID, Sappho, ii. 181; quotations, Ars Am. 3. 121, v. 204, n. 4; Ars Am. 3. 339, ii. 238, n. 2; Ep. ex. Ponto I. 3, 35, iii. 178, n. 2; v. 265 n. 3; Heroides I. 2, v. 15, n. 5; Heroides I. 4, i. 242, n. 1; Met. I. 1, i. 387; Met. 1. 85, ii. 326, n. 1; Met. 2. 13, iii. 280; Met. iii. 724. i. 108; Met. xiii. 19, i. 314; .Tristia, iv. 10, 51, iv. 443. OXFORD, Harley, first Earl of, Bolingbroke's character of him, iii. 236, n. 3. OXFORD, second Earl of, Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153, 154. OXFORD, advantages for learning, ii. 52; All Souls College, Shenstone's 'enemies in the gate,' i. 94, n. 5; its library the largest in Oxford except the Bodleian, ii. 35; a place for study for a man who has a mind to prance, ii. 67, n. 2; Angel Inn, Boswell and Johnson spend two evenings there, ii. 440, 449; Pitt (Earl of Chatham) hears treasonable songs, i. 271, n. 1; 'Bacon's mansion,' iii. 357; v. 42; Balliol College, ii. 338, n. 2; v. 117, n. 4; balloon ascent, iv. 378; Beattie and Reynolds made Doctors of Law, v. 90, n. 1; Bocardo, Lydiat imprisoned in it, i. 194, n. 2; Bodleian, Annals of the Bodleian, iv. 161, n. 1; Blackstone's portrait, iv. 91, n. 2; Boswell presents MSS. to it, iii. 358, n. 1; closed one week in the year, iii. 367, n. 3; Evelina, iv. 223, n. 4; Johnson presents books to it, i. 274, n. 2, 302; ii. 279, n. 5; a fragment of his Diary among the MSS., ii. 476; largest library in Oxford, ii. 35; Recuyell of the historyes of Troye, v. 459, n. 2; Welsh MS. on music, iii. 367; Bodley's Dome, iii. 357; Boswell's visits to Oxford: See BOSWELL, Oxford; Brasenose College, James Boswell, junior, a member of it, i. 15; Rev. Mr. Churton, a Fellow, iv. 212, n. 4; Johnson seen near its gate, iv.

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