441, n. 3; Sentiments of a Church of England man, ii. 319, n. 1; Sermon on the Trinity, ii. 319, n. 1; shallow fellow, a, v. 44, n. 3; singularities, given to, ii. 74, n. 3; 'spectacles and pills,' iv. 285; Steele, lines on, i. 125, n. 4; Stella's 'artifice of mischief,' v. 243; Stella's birthday, iv. 181, n. 3, 285, n. 2; strong sense his excellence, i. 452; study, hours of, ii. 119, n. 2; style, a good neat, ii. 191; according to Hume not correct, ib., n. 3; praised by him, iii. 257, n. 3; Tale of a Tub, doubts as to the authorship, i. 452; ii. 318, 319, n. 1; he gives a copy to Mrs. Whiteway, i. 452, n. 2; lost him a bishopric, i. 452, n. 2; much superior to his other writings, ii. 318; v. 44; quotations from it Boswell like Jack, ii. 235; dirtiness of the Scotch churches, v. 41, n. 3; Temple's style, iii. 257, n. 3; 'washed himself with oriental scrupulosity,' iv. 5, n. 2; 'Whiggism and Atheism,' i. 431, n. 1. SWIMMING. See JOHNSON, swimming. SWINFEN, Dr. Samuel, Johnson's godfather, i. 34, n. 2; consults him about his health, i. 64; intimate with him, i. 80, 83; kind to his daughter, iii. 222, n. 3; leaves a legacy to his grandson, iv. 440; Pembroke College, a member of, i. 58, n. 1. SWINNEY. See MAC SWINNY, Owen. SWINTON, Rev. Mr., i. 273. SWISS, Johnson praises their wonderful policy, i. 155; suffer from the maladie du pays, iii. 198. SWISS GUARDS, iv. 282, n. 2. SYDENHAM, Dr. Thomas, Life by Johnson, quoted, i. 38; published, i. 153; Locke's Latin verses, v. 93; St. Vitus's dance, i. 143. SYDNEY, Algernon, ii. 210. SYLVANUS'S First Book of the Iliad, iii. 407. Sylvanus Urban, i. 111. SYMPATHY, ii. 94-5, 469-471; iii. 149. SYNOD, 'A Synod of Cooks,' i. 470. SYNONYMES, iv. 207. System of Ancient Geography, i. 187. Systeme de la Nature, v. 47. SZEKLERS, ii. 7, n. 3.

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T', fitted to a, iv. 288. TAAF, Mr., ii. 398. TACITUS, Agricola, quoted, iii. 324, n. 5; iv. 204; Germania, quoted, v. 381; his writings are notes for an historical work, ii. 189. TAILOR, the metaphysical. See METAPHYSICAL. TAIT, Rev. Mr., v. 128. TAIT, Mr., an organist, v. 84. TALBOT, Lord Chancellor, i. 232, n. 1. TALBOT, second Lord, i. 507, 508. TALBOT, Miss Catharine, correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 232, n. 1; Greenwich Park, describes, i. 106, n. 2; Rambler, contributes to the, i. 203; criticises it, i. 208, nn. 2 and 3; Williams, Mrs., account of, i. 232, n. 1. Tale of a Tub. See SWIFT. TALES, telling tales of oneself, ii. 472. TALK, above the capacity of the audience, iv. 185; distinguished from conversation, iv. 186; Johnson loved to have it out, iii. 230; talking for fame, iii. 247; from books, v. 378; of oneself, iii. 57; on one topic, ib. TALKERS, exuberant public, ii. 247. TALLEYRAND, v. 397, n. 1. TALLOW-CHANDLER, in retirement, ii. 337. TAMEOS, v. 242, n. 1. TANNING, v. 246. TAR, v. 216. TARTARY, ii. 156. Tartuffe, ii. 321, n. 1; iii. 449. TASKER, Rev. Mr., iii. 373-5. TASSO, borrows a simile from Lucretius, iii. 330. TASTE, changes in it, iii. 192, n. 2; defined, ii. 191; refinement of it, iv. 338; Reynolds's rule for judging it, iv. 316. Tatler, end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3; esquire, title of, i. 34, n. 3; rural esquires, v. 60, n. 4; great perfections without good breeding, ii. 256, n. 3. Tatler Revived, i. 202. TAUNTON, iv. 32. TAVERNS, admitting women, iv. 75; felicity of England in its tavern life, ii. 451; tavern chair the throne of human felicity, ii. 452, n. 1. Taxation no Tyranny, account of it planned, ii. 292; published, ii. 312; written at the desire of ministers, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 313; corrected by them, ii. 313-5; not attacked enough, ii. 335; pelted with answers, ii. 336, n. 1; sale, ii. 335, n. 4; Birmingham traders praised, ii. 464, n. 3; drivers of negroes, iii. 201; Macaulay, Mrs., attacked, ii. 336, n. 2; mentioned, iii. 221. TAXES, effect of their increase, ii. 357. TAYLOR, Chevalier, a quack, iii. 389-39. TAYLOR, Jeremy, 'chief of sinners,' iv. 294; Golden Grove, iv. 295; Holy Dying, iii. 34, n. 3. TAYLOR, Rev. Dr. John, account of him and his establishment, ii. 473; his person, ii. 474; his character by Johnson, ii. 474; iii. 139, 181; all his geese swans, iii. 189; Ashbourne, his daily life, iii. 132; iv. 378; the water-fall, iii. 190; garden, iii. 199; bleeding, habit of, iii. 152; Boswell, gives, particulars of Johnson, iv. 375; laughed at by, iii. 135, n. 2; and Johnson visit him in 1776, ii. 473; in 1777, iii. 135; bull-dog, his, iii. 189; bullocks, his talk is of,' iii. 181; cattle, iii. 150, 181, n. 3; chandelier of crystal, iii. 157; Christ Church, Oxford, enters, i. 76; dinners at his London house, iii. 52, 238; eagerness for preferments, ii. 473, n. 1; 'elegant phraseology,' his, ii.

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