178, n. 1; outlaw, leads the life of an, ii. 375; deserves to be hanged or kicked, iii. 281; anonymous attacks, iv. 274; Rochester's Poems, castrates, iii. 191; Shakespeare, edits, ii. 114, 204; Shakespearian editors, i. 497, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 58, 107; iii. 354, 386; iv. 438. STELLA (Mrs. Johnson), ii. 389, n. 1. Stella in Mourning, i. 178. STEPHANI, the, Henry Stephens' Greek Dictionary, ii. 74, n. 1; Maittaire's Stephanorum Historia, iv. 2; what they did for literature, iii. 254. STEPHENS, Alexander, Beckford's speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3. STEPNEY, George, iv. 36, n. 4. STERNE, Rev. Laurence, beggars, iv. 32, n. 4; death, ii. 222, n. 1; dinner engagements, ii. 222; Goldsmith calls him a blockhead, ii. 173, n. 2; and 'a very dull fellow,' ii. 222; indecency, ii. 222, n. 2; Johnson's opinion of him, ii. 222; Monckton, Miss, finds him pathetic, iv. 109; Sentimental Journey, imitation of it, ii. 175; Sermons read by Johnson in a coach, iv. 109, n. 1; seen by him at Dunvegan, v. 227; Tristram Shandy, Burns's bosom favourite, i. 360, n. 2; 'did not last,' ii. 449; Farmer, Dr., foretells that it will be speedily forgotten, ii. 449, n. 3; Gray mentions it, ii. 222, n. 1; Harris's Hermes, anecdote of, ii. 225, n. 2; Walpole describes it as 'the dregs of nonsense,' ii. 449, n. 3; references to it, 'daily regularity of a clean shirt,' v. 60, n. 4; Lilliburlero, ii. 347, n. 2. STEVENAGE, iii. 303. STEVENS, R., a bookseller, i. 330, n. 3. STEVENSON, Dr., v. 369. STEWART, Sir Annesly, iv. 78. STEWART, Commodore, v. 445. STEWART, Dugald, authorship in Scotland, ii. 53, n. 1; existence of matter, i. 471, n. 2; Glasgow University, at, v. 369, n. 3; Hume's Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2; Select Society, The, v. 393, n. 4; Smith's, Adam, conversation, iii. 307, n. 2; peculiarities, iv. 24, n. 2. STEWART, Francis, Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187; Johnson buys his old pocket-book, iii. 418, 421; and a letter, iv. 262, 265. STEWART, George, bookseller of Edinburgh, i. 187. STEWART, Sir James, iii. 205, n. 1. STEWART, Mr., sent on a secret mission to Paoli, ii. 81. STEWART, Mrs., iii. 418, 421; iv. 262, 265. STILL, John, Bishop of Bath and Wells, iv. 420, n. 3. STILLINGFLEET, Benjamin, iv. 108. STINTON, Dr., iii. 279; iv. 29. STOCKDALE, Rev. Percival, account of him, ii. 113, n. 2; Johnson's defence of drunkenness, ii. 435, n. 7; on dictionary-making, ii. 203, n. 3; on expectations, i. 337, n. 1; Works, edits two volumes of, i. 190, n. 4; 335, n. 3; Remonstrance, The, ii. 113; Russia, offered a post in, iv. 277, n. 1; St. Andrews, lodgings at, v. 65, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 148. STOICK, the, in Lucian, iii. 10. STONE, Mr., iii. 143, n. 1. STONEHENGE, iv. 234, n. 2. STOPFORD, General, ii. 376. STORMONT, seventh Viscount (afterwards second Earl of Mansfield), v. 362, n, 1. STORY, Thomas, the Quaker, i,68, n. 1. STORY, its value depends on its being true, ii. 433. STOURBRIDGE, Johnson at the school, i. 49; v. 456, n. 1; the town formerly in the parish of Old Swinford, v. 432. STOW, Richard, i. 163, n. 1. STOWE, iii. 400, n. 2. STOWELL, Lord. See SCOTT, William. STRAHAN, Andrew, iv. 371. STRAHAN, Rev. George, Vicar of Islington (son of William Strahan), attends Johnson when dying, iv. 415-6; Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; Prayers and Meditations, edits, i. 235, n. 1; ii. 476; iv. 376-7; omits some passages, iv. 84, n. 4; visits him, iv. 271, 415; will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 37, n. 1; iv. 49. STRAHAN, William, the King's Printer, purchaser in whole or in part of Blair's Sermons, iii. 97; Cook's Voyages, ii. 247, n. 5; Duke of Berwick's Life, iii. 286; Gibbon's Decline and Fall, ii. 136, n. 6; iii. 97, n. 3; Johnson's Dictionary, i. 287; iv. 32l; Journey to the Western Isles, ii. 94; Patriot, ii. 288; Rasselas, i. 341; Mackenzie's Man of Feeling, i. 360; Boswell's praise of him, i. 288; breakfast and dinner at his house, ii. 321; iii. 400; coach, keeps his, ii. 226; Elphinston's Martial, iii. 258; epigram, how far a judge of an, iii. 258; Franklin's letter to him on their rise in the world, ii. 226, n. 2; on the American war, iii. 364, n. 1; Gordon Riots, iii. 428-9, 435; Hume left him his manuscripts, ii. 136, n, 6; corrected Hume's style, v. 92, n. 3; Johnson's altercation with Adam Smith, iii. 331; attempts to bring, into Parliament, ii. 137-9; difference with, iii. 364; friendly agent, ii. 136; interested in one of his apprentices, ii. 323; letter to him, iii. 364; letters to Scotland, franked, iii. 364; one of a deputation to, iii. 111; London Chronicle, printer of the, iii. 221; member of parliament, ii. 137; obtuse, iii. 258; Robertson's style, corrected, v. 92, n. 3; small certainties, on, ii. 322; Smith's, Adam, letter to him, v. 30; Spottiswoode, Dr., his greatgrandson, ii.