, iii. 90; ministry stable and grateful, ii. 348; patriots, iv. 87, n. 2; peace-minister, i. 131; v. 339, n. 3; Pitt, distinguished from, ii. 195; Pope's pride in him, iii. 347, n. 2; prime-minister, a real, ii. 355; iv. 81; 'read, I cannot,' ii. 337, n. 4; read Sydenham, v. 93, n. 4; talked bawdy at his table, iii. 57; Tories and Jacobites, confounded, i. 429, n. 4; 'Walelop' and 'Right Hon. M. Tullius Cicero,' i. 502; Whiggism under him, ii. 117; Yonge, Sir W., character of, i. 197, n. 4; mentioned, v. 285, n. 1. WALSALL, i. 86, n. 2. WALSH, William, 'knowing,' i. 251, n. 2; Retirement, ii. 133, n. 1. WALSINGHAM, Admiral, iii. 21, n. 2. WALTON, Isaac, Complete Angler, iv. 311; Donne's vision, ii. 445; Lives, his, one of Johnson's favourite books, ii. 363; projected edition, ii. 279, 283-5, 445; iii. 107; low situation in life, ii. 364; a great panegyrist, ib.; quotes Topsell, i. 138, n. 5. WANTS, fewness of, ii. 474, n. 3, 475. WAR, encourages falsehoods, iii. 267, n. 1; Kames's opinion ridiculed, i. 393, n. 2; lawfulness, ii. 226; miseries of it, ii. 134; one side or other must prevail, iv. 200; talk of it, iii. 265. WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester, abuse, extended his, v. 93; Allen's niece, married, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80; Birch, Dr., letter to, i. 28; 'blazes,' v. 81; Boswell imitates his manner, iii. 310, n. 4; Churchill attacks him, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2; Divine Legation, i. 235, n. 3; iv. 48; quotations from it, v. 423; Doctrine of Grace, v. 93; 'flounders well,' v. 93, n. 1; general knowledge, ii. 36; Helvetius, would have worked, iv. 261, n. 3; infidelity, prevalence of, ii. 359, n. 1; Johnson's account of him, v. 80; and Chesterfield, i. 263; gratitude to him, i. 176; and he cannot bear each other's style, iv. 48; Macbeth, praises, i. 175; meets him, iv. 47, n. 2, 48; praises him, i. 263, n. 3; iv. 46-9; treats him with great respect, iv. 288; lie, use of the word, iv. 49; Lincoln's Inn preacher, ii. 37, n. 1; Lowth, controversy with, ii. 37; v. 125, 423; Mallet attacks him, i. 329; Life of Bacon, iii. 194; projected Life of Marlborough, iii. 194; metaphysics, ignorance of, v. 81, n. 1; Parr's Tracts by Warburton, &c., iv. 47, n. 2; Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1; v. 80; made him a Bishop, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80; want of genius, v. 92, n. 4 reading, great and wide, ii. 36; iv. 48-9; v. 57, n. 3, 81; Shakespeare, edition of, i. 175, 176, 329; iv. 46; v. 244, n. 2; lines applicable to it, iv. 288; Strahan, intimate with, v. 92; ii. 34, n. 1; Theobald, compared with, i. 329; helped, v. 80; To the most impudent Man alive, i. 329; 'vast sea of words,' i. 260, n. 1, 278; View of Bolingbroke's Philosophy, i. 330, n. 1; writes and speaks at random, v. 92; Wycherly's definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3. WARBURTON, Mrs., ii. 36, n. 2, 37, n. 1. WARD, the quack doctor, iii. 389. WARDLAW, Sir Henry, ii. 91, n. 2. WARLEY CAMP, iii. 360-2, 365; visited by the King, ib., n. 3; by Paoli, iii. 368. WARNER, Rebecca, Original Letters, iv. 34, n. 5. WARNER, Rev. R., Tour through the Northern Counties, iv. 373, n. 1. WARRANTS, general, ii. 72. WARREN, Sir Charles, iv. 399, n. 5. WARREN, Dr., attends Johnson, iv. 399, 411; member of the Literary Club, i. 479; mentioned, iii. 425. WARREN, John, of Pembrokeshire, i. 89. WARREN, Mr., the Birmingham bookseller, i. 85-9. WARRINGTON, iii. 416; v. 441. WARTON, Rev. Dr. Joseph, Headmaster of Winchester College, Adventurer, wrote for the, i. 252, n. 2, 253; Bolingbroke's share in Pope's Essay on Man, iii. 402, n. 1; Burke and Chambers, recommends, to W. G. Hamilton, i. 519; Clarke's, Dr., agility, i. 3, n. 2; Donatus on a passage in Terence, ii. 358, n. 3; enthusiast by rule, iv. 33, n. 1; Essay on Pope, Johnson reviews it, i. 309; iii. 229; second volume delayed, i. 448; ii. 167; Garrick's offence at Johnson, ii. 192, n. 2; Goldsmith's conversation, i. 412, n. 1; Hamilton, W. G., letter from, i. 519; Hooke's payment from the Duchess of Marlborough, v. 175, nn. 3 and 5; inoculates his children, iv. 293, n. 2; Johnson and Dr. Burney's son, in. 367; estrangement with, i. 270, n. i; ii. 41, n. 1; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; Lear, note on, ii. 115; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; manner, lively, ii. 41; taken off by Johnson, ib., n. 1; iv. 27, n. 3; Pope's cousin, meets, iii. 71, n. 5; rapturist, ii. 41, n. 1; Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83; a scholar, yet a fool, iii. 84, n. 2; Thompson, praises, iii. 117; World, The, origin of the name, i. 202, n. 4; mentioned, i. 325, 418, n. 1, 449, n. 1; ii. 34, n. 1; iii. 125. WARTON, Mrs. Joseph, i. 496, n. 2. WARTON, Rev. Thomas, account of him, i. 270, n. 1; appearance, ii. 41, n. 1; described by Miss Burney, iv. 7, n. 1; Boswell and Johnson call on him, ii.

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