446; Chatterton's forgery, exposes, iii. 50, n, 5; iv. 141, n. 1; contributions to the Life of Johnson, i. 8; Eagle and Robin Redbreast, i. 117, n. 1; Heroick Epistle, the authorship of the, iv. 315; Huggins, quarrels with, iv. 6; Idler, contributed to the, i. 330; Johnson, estrangement with, i. 270, n. 1; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; Oxford visit in 1754, i. 270; parodies his poetry, iii. 158, n. 3; preface to his Dictionary, i. 297, n. 3; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen, i. 270, n. 2, 276, 289; iv. 6; Ode on the First of April, iii. 159, n. 1; poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1; Professor of Poetry, i. 323, n. 3; Progress of Discontent, i. 283, n. 2; iii. 323, n. 4; pupils and lectures, i. 279, n. 2; Savage's Bastard, i. 166; Shakespeare, notes on, i. 335-6; ii. 114; mentioned, i. 78, n. 2, 79, n. 1, 325. WARTON, Rev. Thomas (the father of the two Wartons), i. 449, n. 1. WASHINGTON, George, ii. 478. WASSE, Christopher, v. 445. WASTE, iii. 265, 317. WATER, Johnson's advice to drink it, iii. 169. WATERS, Ambrose, iv. 402, n. 2. WATERS, Mr., Paris banker, ii. 3. WATFORD, ii. 204, n. 1, 301, n. 1. WATSON, Richard, Bishop of Llandaff, bishops' revenues, iv. 118, n. 2; Chemical Essays, iv. 118, 232, n. 3; how to rise in the world, ii. 323, n. 1. WATSON, Professor Robert., of St. Andrews, History of Philip II, iii. 104; Johnson, entertains, v. 58-60, 64, 68; manners, wonders at, v. 70; talks on composition, v. 66. WATSON, Mr., 'out in the '45,' v. 158, n. 3. WATTS, Dr. Isaac, Abney, Sir Thomas, lived with, i. 493, n. 3; descends from the dignity of science, ii. 408, n. 3; Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 126, 370; iv. 35, n. 3; recommends his Works, iv. 311; poetry, his, better in its design than in itself, iii. 358; taught Dissenters elegance of style, i. 312. WEALTH. See MONEY. Wealth of Nations. See/ SMITH, Adam. WEATHER and Seasons, their influence acknowledged, i. 332, n. 2; ii. 263; iv. 259, n. 3, 353, 360; ridiculed by Johnson in The Idler, i. 332; ii. 263, n. 2; at the Mitre, i. 426; 'all imagination,' i. 452; weather does not affect the frame, ii. 358; iii. 305; ridiculed by Reynolds, i. 332, n. 2; Gray's 'fantastic foppery,' i. 203, n. 3; talking of the weather, i. 426, n. 1; iv. 360, n. 2. WEBSTER, Rev. Dr. Alexander, account of him, ii. 269, n. 4; v. 50; his manuscript account of Scotch parishes, ii. 274, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 270-2, 275; v. 387, n. 2, 391, 394, 397. WEDDERBURNE, Alexander. See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord. WEDDERBURNE, Mr., of Ballandean, iii. 214, n, 1. WELCH, Father, ii. 401. WELCH, Miss, iii. 217. WELCH, Saunders, account of him, iii. 216; death, iii. 219, n. 1; examination of a boy, iv. 184; Johnson, letter from, iii. 217; London poor, state of the, iii. 401. WELL-BRED MAN, distinguished from an ill-bred, iv. 319. WELSH. See under WALES. WELWYN, iv. 119; v. 270. WENDOVER, ii. 16, n. 1. WENTWORTH, Mr., master of Stourbridge School, i. 49. WENTWORTH HOUSE, 'public dinners,' iv. 367, n. 3. WESLEY, Rev. Charles, ill-used by Oglethorpe, i. 127, n. 4; 'more stationary man than his brother,' iii. 297. WESLEY, Rev. John, Behmen's Mysterium Magnum, ii. 122, n. 6; bleeding, opposed to, iii. 152, n. 3; Boswell introduced to him by Johnson, iii. 394; Calm Address to our American Colonies, v. 35, n. 3; Cheyne's rules of diet, iii. 27, n. 1; conversation, iii. 230, 297; Dodd, Dr., visits, iii. 121, n. 3; Edinburgh, filthy state of, v. 23, n. 1; farmers dull and discontented, iii. 353, n. 5; French prisoners, i. 353, n. 2; ghost, believed in a Newcastle, iii. 297, 394; Hall, Rev. Mr., his brother-in-law, iv. 92, n. 3; highwayman, never met a, iii. 239, n. 1; Johnson complains that he is never at leisure, iii. 230; letters to him, iii. 394; v. 35, n. 3; spends two hours with, iii. 230, n. 3; journeys on foot, i. 64, n. 4; Law's Serious Call, i. 68, n. 2; leisure, never at, iii. 230; luxury, attacks the apologists of, iii. 56, n. 2; manners and cheerfulness, iii. 230, nn. 3 and 4; Marshalsea prison, i. 303, n. 1; Meier, Rev. Mr., ii. 253, n. 2; Methodists and a Justice of the Peace, i. 397, n. 1; name of, i. 458, n. 3; Moravians, quarrels with the, iii. 122, n. 1; muddy, uses the term, ii. 362, n. 3; Nash, silences, iv. 289, n. 1; Newgate prisons in London and Bristol, iii. 431, n. 1; 'old woman, an,' iii. 172; Oxford, devotional meetings at, i. 58, n. 3; Paoli's arrival in England, ii. 71, n. 2; plain preaching, i. 459, n. 1; polite audiences, iii. 353, n. 5; politician, a, v. 35, n. 3; prisoners under sentence of death, iii. 121, n. 3; iv. 329, n, 2; almost regrets a reprieve to one, v. 201, n. 2; readings and writings, range of his, iii. 297, n. 1; Robertson's Charles V, ii. 236, n. 4; rod, taught to fear the, i. 46, n. 4; Roman Catholics