n's bridge over the Severn, v. 454, n. 2; Johnson visits it, v. 456; mentioned, iii. 176, n. 1. Worcester, Battle of, iv. 234, n. 1; v. 319. Word to the Wise, iii. 113. Words, big words for little matters, i. 471; words describing manners soon require notes, ii. 212. Wordsworth, William, Edinburgh Review and Lord Byron, iv. 115, n. 2; Excursion, quoted, v. 424; lines to Lady Fleming, i, 461, n. 5; Lonsdale's, first Lord, cruelty to him, v. 113, n. 1; poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1; Solitary Reaper, v. 117, n. 3; 'We live by admiration,' ii. 360, n. 3. Work. See LABOUR. Work him, iv. 261, n. 3; v. 243. Workhouse, parish, iii. 187. World, complaints of it unjust, iv. 172; counterfeiting happiness, ii. 169, n. 3; despised, not to be, i. 144, n. 2; Johnson's knowledge of it, i. 215; likes the society of a man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3; judgment must be accepted, i. 200; knowledge not strained through books, i. 105; peevishly represented as very unjust, iii. 237, n. 1; running about it, i. 215; running from it, iv. 161, n. 3. World, The, a club, iv. 102, n. 4. World, The, Bedlam, visitors to, ii. 374, n. 1; Chesterfield's papers on the Dictionary, i. 257-9; confounded with The World of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1; contributors, i. 257, n. 3; v. 48, 238; Johnson thinks little of it, i. 420; name chosen by Dodsley, i. 202, n. 4. World, The, newspaper of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1. World Displayed, Introduction to the, i. 345. WORRALL, T., i. 166, n. 4. WORSHIP OF IMAGES, iii. 17, 188. WORTHINGTON, Dr., V. 443, 449, 453. WOTTON, Sir Henry, ii. 170, n. 3. WOTY, Mr., i. 382. WRAXALL, Sir Nathaniel W., George III's manners, ii. 40, n. 4; Johnson, describes, iii. 426, n. 4; and the Duchess of Devonshire, iii. 425, n. 4; and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1; meets, at Mrs. Vesey's, iii. 425; driven away by him, iii. 426, n. 4; Malagrida's name, iv. 174, n. 5; Tour to the Northern Parts of Europe, iii. 425. WREN, Sir Christopher, v. 249. WRIGHT, Thomas, of Shrewsbury, v. 455, n. 1. WRITERS. See AUTHORS. WRITING, Johnson's calculation about amount produced, ii. 344; money, for, iii. 19, 162; pleasure in it, iv. 219; writing from one's own mind, ii. 344. Wronghead, Sir Francis, ii. 50. WURTZBURG, Bishopric of, v. 46, n. 1. WYCHERLY, William, definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3. WYNNE, Colonel, v. 449. WYNNE, Sir Thomas and Lady, v. 448, 449. WYNNE, Mrs., v. 451.

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XAVIER, Francis, v. 392, n. 5. XENOPHON, delineation of characters in the Anabasis, iv. 31; Memorabilia, iii. 367, w. 2; v. 414; Treatise of Oeconomy, iii. 94. XERXES, described in Juvenal, ii. 228; weeping at seeing his army, iii. 199. XYLANDER, i. 208, n. 1.

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YALDEN, Rev. Thomas, Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 370; his Hymn to Darkness, ib., n. 8. YATES, Mr. Justice, i. 437, n. 2. YAWNING, anecdote of, iii. 15. YONGE, Sir William, character, i. 197, n. 4; Epilogue to Irene, i. 197; pronunciation of great, ii. 161. Yorick's Sermons, iv. 109, n. 1. YORK, Address to the King, iv. 265; mentioned, iii. 439. YORK, Archbishops of, their public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3. See MARKHAM, Archbishop. YORK, Duke of (James II), v. 239, n. 1. YORK, Duke of, goes to hear the Cock Lane ghost, i. 407, n. 1; Johnson dedicates music to him, ii. 2; kindness to Foote, iii. 97, n. 2. YORK, House of, iii. 157. YORKSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 362. You was, iv. 196, n. 1. YOUNG, Arthur, Birmingham manufacturers in 1768, ii. 459, n. 1; roads in the north of England, iii. 135, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 161, n. 2. YOUNG, Dr. Edward, blank verse of Night Thoughts, iv. 42, n. 7, 60; Britannia's daughters and Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1; Brunetta and Stella, v. 270; Card, The, ridiculed in, v. 270, n. 4; Cheyne, Dr., iii. 27, n. 1; compared with Shakespeare and Dryden, ii. 86, n. 1; Conjectures on Original Composition, v. 269; critics, defies, ii. 61, n. 4; 'death-bed a detector of the heart,' v. 397, n. 1; epigram on Lord Stanhope, iv. 102, n. 4; 'For bankrupts write,' &c., iii. 434, n. 6; gloomy, how far, iv. 59, 120; 'Good breeding sends the satire,' &c., iv. 298; housekeeper, his, v. 270; Johnson and Boswell visit his house, iv. 119-21; Johnson calls him 'a great man,' iv. 120; describes meeting him, v. 269; Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3; estimate of his poetry, ii. 96; iv. 60; v. 269--70; knotting, on, iii. 242, n. 3; knowledge not great, v. 269, n. 3; Langton's account of him, iv. 59; Life by Croft, iv. 58; v. 270, n. 4; Love of Fame, v. 270; Mead, Dr., compliments, iii. 355, n. 2; Night Thoughts, ii. 96; iv. 60-1; v. 270; 'Nor takes her tea,' &c., iii. 324, n. 3; 'O my coevals,' in. 307; preferment, pined for, iii. 251; iv. 121; quotations, iv. 102, n. 1; 'quotidian prey,' v. 346; Rambler, his copy of the, i. 215; 'Small sands the mountain,' &c., iii. 164; sundial, iv. 60; Universal Passion, money received for it lost in the South Sea, iv.

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