343 loves labour, ii. 99; planter of trees, iii. 103; v. 380 respected, v. 91, 131, 135 second wife, ii. 140, n. 1; v. 375, n. 4; Boswell on ill terms with her, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 80, n. 2 tenderness, want of, iii. 182 windows broken by a mob, v. 353, n. 1 mentioned, ii. 4, 206, 290, 291; iii. 129. AUCHINLECK PLACE. See SCOTLAND, Auchinleck. AUCTIONEERS, long pole at their door, ii. 349. AUGUSTAN AGE, flattery, ii. 234. AUGUSTUS, ii. 234, 470. AULUS GELLIUS, v. 232. AUSONIUS, i. 184; ii. 35, n. 5; iii. 263, n. 3. AUSTEN, Miss, Pride and Prejudice, iii. 299, n. 2. AUSTERITIES, religious. See MONASTERY. AUSTRIA, House of, epigram on it, v. 233. AUTEROCHE, Chappe d', iii. 340. AUTHOR, an, of considerable eminence, iv. 323 one of restless vanity, iv. 319 who married a printer's devil, iv. 99 who was a voluminous rascal, ii. 109. AUTHORITY, from personal respect, ii. 443 lessened, iii. 262. AUTHORS, attacks on them; See ATTACKS; best part of them in their books, i. 450, n. 1; chief glory of a people from them, i. 297, n. 3; ii. 125; complaints of, iv. 172; contrast between their life and writings, ii. 257, n. 1; consolation in their hours of gloom, ii. 69, n. 3; dread of them, i. 450, n. 1; eminent men need not turn authors, iii. 182; fit subjects for biography, iv. 98, n. 4; flatter the age, v. 59; hunted with a cannister at their tail, iii. 320; Johnson consulted by them 'a man who wrote verses,' ii. 51; Colley Cibber, ii. 92; 'a lank and reverend bard,' iii. 373' Crabbe, iv. 121, n. 4; a tragedy-writer, iv. 244, n. 2; young Mr. Tytler, v. 402; advises to print boldly, ii. 195; advice very difficult to give, iii. 320; willing to assist them, iii. 373, n. 1; iv. 121; v. 402; put to the torture, ib. Project for the employment of Authors, i. 306, n. 3; wonders at their number, v. 59; judgment of their own works, i. 192, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 2; language characteristical, iv. 315; lie, whether ever allowed to, iv. 305-6; modern, the moons of literature, iii. 333; obscure ones, i. 307, n. 2; patrons, iv. 172; patronage done with, v. 59; payments received: Adventurer, two guineas a paper, i. 253; Baretti, translation of some of Reynolds's Discourses into Italian, twenty-five guineas, iii. 96; Blair, Sermons, vol. i, L200, vol. ii. L300, vol. iii. L600, iii. 98; Boswell, Corsica, 100 guineas, ii. 46, n. 1; Critical Review, two guineas a sheet, iv. 214, n. 2; Monthly, sometimes four guineas, ib.; Fielding, Tom Jones, L700, i. 287, n. 3; Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, L60, i. 415; Traveller, L21, ib., n. 2; Hawkesworth, L6000 for editing Cook's Voyages, i. 341, n. 4; Hill, Sir John, fifteen guineas a week, ii. 38, n. 2; Hooke, L5000 for the Duchess of Marlborough's Apology, v. 175, n. 3; Johnson: See JOHNSON, payments for his writings; payment by line, i. 193, n. 1; Piozzi, Mrs., for Johnson's Letters, L500, ii. 43, n. 1; Robertson offered L500 for one edition of his History of Scotland, iii. 334, n. 2; L6000 made by the publishers; offered 3000 guineas for Charles V, ii. 63, n. 2; Sacheverell, L100 for a sermon, i. 39, n. 1; Shebbeare six guineas for a sheet for reviews, iv. 214; Savage, Wanderer, ten guineas, i. 124, n. 4; Whitehead, Paul, ten guineas for a poem, i. 124; pleasure in writing for the journals, v. 59, n. 2; privateers, like, iv. 191, n. 1; private life, in, i. 393; public, the, their judges, i. 200; putting into a book as much as a book will hold, ii. 237; regard for their first magazine, i. 112; reluctance to write their own lives, i. 25, n. 1; respect due to them, iii. 310; iv. 114; sale of their works to the booksellers, iii. 333-4; styles, distinguished by their, iii. 280; treatment by managers of theatres, i. 196, n. 2; writing for profit, iii. 162; on subjects in which they have not practised, ii. 430. Authors by Profession, i. 116. AVARICE, despised not hated, iii. 71 not inherent, iii. 322. AVENUES, v. 439. AVERROES, i. 188, n. 4. AVIGNON, iii. 446. AYLESBURY, Lady, iii. 429, n. 3.

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B--D, Mr., Johnson's letter to, ii, 207. BABY, Johnson as nurse to one newborn, ii. 100. BABYLON, i. 250. BACH, ii. 364, n. 3. BACON, Francis, Advancement of Learning, i. 34, n. 1; argument and testimony, on, iv. 281; conversation, precept for, iv. 236; death, the stroke of, ii. 107, n. 1; delight in superiority natural, iv. 164, n. 1; Essays estimated by Burke and Johnson, iii. 194, n. 1; Essay of Truth quoted, iv. 221, n. 3; Essay on Vicissitude, v. 117, n. 4; healthy old man like a tower undermined, iv. 277; History of Henry VII., v. 220; introduction of new doctrines, on the, iii. 11, n. 1; Johnson intends to edit his works, iii. 194; 'Kings desire the end, but not the means,' v. 232, n. 4; Life by Mallet, iii. 194; 'roughness breedeth hate,' iv.

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