261, n. 2. LANCASTER, Dr., Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, i. 61, n. 1. LANCASTER, House of, iii. 157. LAND, advantage produced by selling it all at once, ii. 429; entails and natural right, ii. 416; investments in it, iv. 164; v. 232; part to be left in commerce, ii. 428. LAND-TAX in Scotland, ii. 431. LANDLORDS, leases, not giving, v. 304; rents, raising, ii. 102; right to control tenants at elections, ii. 167, 340; Scotch landlords, high situation of, i. 409; tenants, their dependancy, ii. 102; difficulty of getting, iv. 164; to be treated liberally, i. 462; under no obligation, ii. 102. LANDOR, W. S., Johnson's geographical knowledge, i. 368, n. 1. LANG, Dr., ii. 312, n. 3. LANGBAINE, Gerard, iii. 30, n. 1. LANGDON, Mr., iii. 207, n. 3. LANGLEY, Rev. W., ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138; v. 430. LANGTON, Bennet, account of him, i. 247; acceptum et expensum, iv. 362; Addison and Goldsmith, compares, ii. 256; Addison's conversation, iii. 339; Aristophanes, reads, iv. 177, n. 3, 362; Barnes's Maccaronic verses, quotes, iii. 284; Beauclerk, his early friend, i. 248: makes him second guardian to his children, iii. 420; leaves him a portrait of Garrick, iv. 96; birth and matriculation at Oxford, i. 247, n. 1, 337; Blue stocking assembly, at a, v. 32, n. 3; Boswell, letter to, iii. 424; Boswell's obligations to him, ii. 456, n. 3; Burke and Johnson, comparing Homer and Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3; v. 79, n. 2; Burke's wit, i. 453, n. 2; carpenter and a clergyman's wife, anecdote of a, ii. 456, n. 3; children, his, too much about him, iii. 128; mentioned, ii. 146; iii. 89, 93, 104, 130; Clarendon's style, praises, iii. 257; coach, on the top of a, i. 477; collection of Johnson's sayings, iv. 1-34; daughters to be taught Greek, iv. 20, n. 2; dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 259; iii. 279, 280, 338; economy, no turn to, iii. 363, n. 2; expenditure and foibles criticised, iii. 48, n. 4, 93, 104, 128, 222, 300, 315, 317, 348, 362, 379; iv. 362; frisk, joins in a, i. 250; Greek, knowledge of, iv. 8, n. 3; Clenardus's Greek Grammar, iv. 20; recitation, ib., n. 2; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; Hale, Sir Matthew, anecdote of, iv. 310; Idler, anecdote of the, i. 33l; introduces subjects on which people differ, iii. 186; Johnson, afraid of, iv. 295; at fairest advantage with him, i. 248, n. 3; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; and Burke, an evening with, iv. 26; conversation before dinner, repeats, iii. 279; confessor, iv. 280-1; death, unfinished letter on, iv. 418, n. 1; deference to, iv. 8, n. 3; devotion to, when ill, iv. 266, n. 3; when dying, iv. 406-7, 414, n. 2, 439; dress as a dramatic author, describes, i. 200; estimate of Spence, v. 317, n. 1. first acquaintance with him, i. 247; iv. 145; friendship with him, iv. 132, 145, 352; rupture in it, ii. 256, n. 2, 261, n. 2, 265, 282; v. 89; reconciliation, ii. 292; funeral, at, iv. 419; gives him a copy of his letter to Chesterfield, i. 260; imitates, iv. 1, n. 2; Jacobitism, i. 430; letters to him: see under JOHNSON, letters; levee, attends, ii. 118; loan to him, ii. 136, n. 2; iv. 402, n. 2; repaid in an annuity to Barber, ib.; Ode on Inchkenneth, alters, ii. 295, n. 2; and Parr, an evening with, iv. 15; poemata, edits, ii. 295, n. 2; iv. 384; v. 155, n. 2, 326, n. 2; portrait, removes the inscription on, iv. 181; praises his worth, iii. 161; exclaims, 'Sit anima mea cum Langtono,' iv. 280; Prologue, criticises, iv. 25; rebuked by, ii. 254; urges him to keep accounts, iv. 177, n. 3; visits him at Langton, i. 476, 477, n. 1; at Rochester, iv. 8, n. 3, 22, 232-3; at Warley Camp, iii. 360-2; King, gives the sketch of Irene to the, i. 108; and the catalogue of Johnson's projected works, iv. 381, n. 1; 'Lanky,' ii. 258; v. 308; laughed at, iii. 338, n. 3; Lincoln, highly esteemed in, iii. 359; literary character, his, i. 248, n. 3; Literary Club, original member of the, i. 477; marries Lady Rothes, ii. 77, n. 1; militia, in the, iii. 123, 130, 360, 362, 368, 397; appointed Major, iii. 365, n. 1; navigation, his, ii. 136; Nicolaida visits him, ii. 379; orchard, has no, iv. 206; Paoli visits him at Rochester, iv. 8, n. 3; Paris, visits, i. 381; pedigree, his, i. 248, n. 1; personal appearance, i. 248, n. 3, 336; Pitt's neglect of Boswell, blames, iii. 213, n. 1; Pope reciting the last lines of the Dunciad, ii. 84, n. 2; religious discourse, introduces, ii. 254; iv. 216; v. 89; Richardson, introduced to, iv. 28; Round-Robin, refuses to sign the, iii. 84, n. 2; Royal Academy, professor of the, ii. 67, n. 1; iii. 464; ruining himself without pleasure, iii. 317, 348; Rusticks, writes, i. 358; school on his estate, establishes a, ii. 188; silent, too, iii.

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