See SCOTLAND, serfs. Serious Call. See LAW, William. SERJEANTSON, Rev. James, iv. 393, n. 3. SERMONS, attended to better than prayers, ii. 173; considerable branch of literature, iv. 105; Johnson's advice about their composition, iii. 437; v. 68; his opinion of the best, iii. 247 (See under JOHNSON, sermons); passions, addressed to the, iii. 248; style, improvement in, iii. 248. SERVANTS, male and female, ii. 217. SERVITORS. See OXFORD. SESSIONAL REPORTS. See OLD BAILEY. SETTLE, Elkanah, City-Poet, iii. 76; Dryden's rival, ib.; mentioned, i. 55. SETTLEMENT OF ESTATES, ii. 432. Seven Champions of Christendom, iv. 8, n. 3. SEVEN PROVINCES, i. 475. SEVERITY, government by, ii. 186. SEVIGNE, Mme. de, existence, the task of, iii. 53; misprints of her name, iii. 53, n. 2; Pelisson, her friend, i. 90, n. 1; style copied by Gray and Walpole, iii. 31, n. 1; truthfulness on a death-bed, v. 397, n. 1. SEWARD, Miss Anna, Acis and Galatea, quotation from, iii. 242, n. 2; Boswell introduced to her, ii. 467; calls on her, iii. 412; controversy with her, i. 92, n. 2; ii. 467, n. 4; iv. 331, n. 2; dines at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 284-300; fanciful reflection, i. 40, n. 3; ghosts, iii. 297; Hayley, correspondence with, iv. 331, n. 2; Johnson and the learned pig, iv. 373; praises her poetry, iv. 331; Ode on the death of Captain Cook, iv. 331; mentioned, iv. 307, 372, n. 4. SEWARD, Rev. Mr., of Lichfield, account of him, ii. 467; iii. 151; valetudinarian, iii. 152, 412; mentioned, i. 81, n. 2; ii. 471. SEWARD, William, F.R.S., account of him, iii. 123; Batheaston Vase, perhaps wrote for the, ii. 337, n. 2; Harington's Nugae Antiquae, suggests a motto for, iv. 180; Johnson and Bacon, iii. 194; bow to an Archbishop, iv. 198; epitaph, iv. 423, n, 3, 445; on the Ministry and Opposition, iv. 139; recommends him to Boswell, iii. 124; tetrastrick on Goldsmith, translates, ii. 282, n. 1; Langton's ancestor and Sir M. Hale, iv. 310, n. 2; Parr, Dr., letter from, iv. 423, n. 3; people without religion, iv. 215; retired tradesman, anecdote of a, iii. 176, n. 1; Scotland, visits, iii. 123-4, 126; mentioned, i. 367; ii. 76, 308; iii. 167, 354; iv. 43, 83, n. 1, 444. SEXES, equality in another world, iii. 287; intercourse between the two, ii. 473; iii. 341; irregular, should be punished, iii. 17. SHAFTESBURY, fourth Earl of, i. 464. SHAKESPEARE, William, Boar's Head Club, v. 247; 'Boswell,' needed a, v. 415; 'brought into notice,' ii. 92; Capel's edition, iv. 5; Catharine of Aragon, character of, iv. 242; Congreve, compared with, ii. 85-7, Corneille and the Greek dramatists, compared with, iv. 16 diction of common life, iii. 194 Dogberry boasting of his losses, i. 65, n. 1; editions published between 1725-1751, v. 244, n. 2; fame, his, iii. 263; fault, never six lines without a, ii. 96; Hamlet's description of his father, iv. 72, n. 3; the ghost, iv. 16, n. 2; v. 38, (see below under Johnson's edition); Hanmer's edition, i. 178, n. 1; imitations, ii. 225, n. 2; Johnson's admiration of him, ii. 86, n. 1; Johnson's edition, account of it, Proposals, i. 175, n. 3, 318, 327; delayed, i. 176, 319, 322, 327, 329, 496, n. 3; ii. 1, n. 1; subscribers, i. 319, n. 3, 323, 327, 336, 499; list lost and money spent, iv. 111; published, i. 496; went through several editions, ii. 204; re-published by Steevens, ii. 114, 204; attacked by Churchill, i. 319-320; confesses his ignorance where ignorant, i. 327; edited it from necessity, iii. 19, n. 3; Garrick not mentioned, ii. 92; reflection on him, ii. 192; Kenrick's attack, i. 497; newspaper criticisms, ii. notes on two passages in Hamlet, iii. 55; preface, i. 496, 497, n. 3; Warburton criticised, i. 329; Warton, J. and T., notes by, i. 335; ii. 114-5; Johnson's Prologue, iv. 25; Jubilee, ii. 68; Ladies' Shakespeare Club, v. 244, n. 2; Latin, knowledge of, iv. 18; Macbeth, description of night, ii. 90; never read through by Mrs. Pritchard, ii. 349; speech to the witches, v. 76, 115; castle, v. 129, 348; worse for being acted, ii. 92; Malone's edition, i. 8; iv. 142, 181, n. 3; mulberry tree, i. 83, n. 4; Mulberry Tree, a poem i. 101; name omitted in an Essay on the English Poets, i. 140; night, descriptions of, ii. 87, 90; Othello, dialogue between Iago and Cassio, iii. 41; moral, iii. 39; plays worse for being acted, ii. 92; representations of his plays, v. 244, n. 2; Reynolds's note on Macbeth's castle, v. 129; Romeo and Juliet neglected, v. 244, n. 2; altered by Otway and Garrick, ib. Shakspeare, Mr. William, iv. 325, n. 3; Shakespearian ribbands, ii. 69; spelling of his name, v. 124; style ungrammatical, iv. 18, n. 2; terrifies the lonely reader, i. 70; Timon's scolding, iv. 26; tragedies inferior to Home's Douglas, ii.