177, n. 1. SHELLEY, Lady, iv. 159, n. 3. SHENSTONE, William, Dodsley's Cleone, the sale of, i. 325, n. 3; hair, wore his own, i. 94, n. 5; 'I prized every hour,' &c., iv. 145, n. 6; inn, lines in praise of an, ii. 452; Johnson, admiration of, ii. 452; account of him, v. 267, 457, nn. 2 and 4; estimate of his poems, ii. 452; writes to him, v. 268, n. 1; layer-out of land, v. 267; Leasowes, v. 457; letters, his, v. 268; London streets in 1743, i. 163, n. 2; Love Pastorals, v. 267; Pembroke College, member of, i. 75; iv. 151, n. 2; pension, v. 457; Pope's condensation of thought, v. 345; 'She gazed as I slowly withdrew,' v. 267; witty remark on divines and the tree falling, iv. 226. SHERIDAN, Charles, iii. 284. SHERIDAN, Mrs. Frances, wife of Thomas Sheridan the son, i. 358, 386, n. 1, 389. SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (grandson of Dr. Thomas Sheridan and son of Thomas Sheridan), birth, i. 358, n. 2; Comedies, dates of his, iii. 116, n, 1; Duenna, run of the, iii. 116, n. 1; father, estranged from his, i. 388, n. 1; despises his oratory, i. 394, n. 2; funeral, i. 227, n. 4; Johnson, compliments, in a Prologue, iii. 115; praises his comedies, iii. 116; projects an attack on, ii. 315, n. 3; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; election, iii. 116; present, iii. 230, n. 5; marriage, ii. 369; Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83; Sydney Biddulph and The School for Scandal, i. 390, n. 1. SHERIDAN, Dr. Thomas (the father), anecdote of Swift and a country-squire, iv. 295, n. 5; 'Sherry,' ii. 258, n. 1. SHERIDAN, Thomas (the son, father of R. B. Sheridan), Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 91; America, threatens to go to, iv. 2l5; Boswell's instructor in pronunciation, ii. 159; puns with, iv. 316; conversation, ii. 122; Dictionary, ii. 161; Dublin Theatre, i. 386; dull naturally, i. 453; Earl of Essex, iv. 312, n. 5; formal endings of letters, criticises, v. 239; good, but a liar, iv. 167; Home's gold medal, ii. 320; v. 360; house in Bedford Street, i. 485, n. 1; insolvent debtor, iii. 377; Irish Parliament compliments him, iii. 377; Johnson, account of, i. 385; antipathy to the Scotch, iv. 169; attack on Swift, iv. 61; v. 44, n. 3; describes his acting, i. 358; ii. 88; his reading, iv. 207; pension, i. 374; quarrels with, i. 385; iii. 115; attacks him, i. 388; ii. 88; irreconcileable, i. 387; iv. 222, 330; Lectures on the English Language, i. 385 (See below, Oratory); lies of vanity, iv. 167; Life of Swift, i. 388; ii. 88, 319, n. 1; miser, maintains the happiness of a, iii. 322; 'Old Mr. Sheridan,' iv. 207, n. 1; oratory, at Bath, i. 394; at Dublin, ib., n. 2; described by Dr. Parr, ib.; despised by his son, ib.; laughed at by Johnson, i. 453; ii. 87; iv. 222; 'enthusiastic about it as ever,' iv. 207; pension, i. 385-6; 'Sherry derry,' ii. 258; son's marriage, his, ii. 369; quarrels with him, i. 388, n. 1; Wedderburne, taught, i. 386; found him ungrateful, iii. 2; vanity and Quixotism, ii. 128. SHERLOCK, Dr., On Providence, iv. 300, n. 2; style elegant, iii. 248; mentioned, iv. 311. SHERLOCK, Rev. Martin, iv. 320, n. 4. SHERWIN, J. K., iii. 111. SHIELS, R., Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187, 241; share in Cibber's Lives of the Poets, i. 187; iii. 29-31, 37, 117. SHIP, worse than a gaol, i. 348; ii. 438; v. 137, 249; misery of the sailors' quarters, iii. 266; hospital, ib,, n. 2; worse than a Highland inn, v. 147. See SAILORS. Ship of Fools, i. 277. SHIPLEY, Bishop of St. Asaph, army chaplain, an, iii. 251; v. 445; assemblies, his, iv. 75, n. 3; Franklin, Dr., a friend of, iv. 246, n. 4; Johnson dines with him in Passion-week, iv. 88, n. 1; visits his palace, v. 437; knowing and conversible, iii. 250, n. 2; iv. 246; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; election, iv. 75, n. 3; present, iv. 326; Reynolds's dinner, at, iii. 250-5; rout, at a, iv. 75; mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1, 48, n. 1. SHIRT, changes of, v. 60; clean-shirt days, i. 105. SHOE-BUCKLES, iii. 325; v. 19. SHOP-KEEPERS, of London, v. 81, 83. SHOPS, a stately one, iv. 319; turn the balance of existence, v. 27, n. 4. SHORE, Jane, v. 49, n. 2. SHORT-HAND, i. 136; ii. 224; iii. 270. SHREWSBURY, Circuit, ii. 194; Johnson visits it, v. 454-5; mentioned, ii. 441. SHROPSHIRE, i. 39, n. 1. SHRUBBERY, a, iv. 128. Shuckford's Connection, iv. 311. SIAM, King of, iii. 336. Sibbald, Life of Sir Robert, iii. 227. Sicilian Gossips, iv. 2. SICK MAN, consolation in finding himself not neglected, iv. 234; duty of telling him the truth, iv. 306; impossible to please, iv. 311; his thoughts, iv. 362. SICK WOMAN, church service for a, v. 444. SICKNESS, at a friend's house, iv. 181. SIDDONS, Mrs., described by Mrs. Piozzi, v. 103, n. 1; Johnson, visits, iv. 242; Reynolds compliments her, ib., n.

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