128; changes in its modes, ii. 96: See under MANNERS; choice, few have any, iii. 363; just choice impossible, ii. 22, 114; climate, not affected by, ii. 195; composed of small incidents, i. 433, n. 4; ii. 359, n. 2; domestick life little touched by public affairs, i. 381; Dryden's lines, ii. 124; iv. 303; every season has its proper duties, v. 63; expecting more from it than life will afford, ii. 110; happiest part lying awake in the morning, v. 352; imbecility in its common occurrences, iii. 300; method, to be thrown into a, iii. 94; miseries, i. 299, n. 1, 331, n. 6; 'balance of misery,' iv. 300; 'nauseous draught,' iii. 386; none would live it again, ii. 125, iv. 301-3; pain better than death, iii. 296; iv. 374; progress from want to want, iii. 53; progression, must be in, iv. 396, n. 4; state of weariness, ii. 382; studied in a great city, iii. 253; system of life not easily disturbed, ii. 102; a well-ordered poem, iv. 154. Life of Alfred, Johnson projects a, i. 177. LILLIBURLERO, ii. 347. LILLIPUT, Senate of, i. 115. LILLY, William, iii. 172. LINCOLN, a City and County, i. 36, n. 4; visited by Boswell, iii. 359. LINCOLN'S INN, Society of, iv. 290, n. 4. LINCOLNSHIRE, militia, i. 36, n. 4; iii. 361; orchards very rare, iv. 206; reeds, v. 263; mentioned, v. 286. Line, the civil, iii. 196. LINEN, v. 216. Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius, i. 294, n. 6. LINLEY, Miss, ii. 369, n. 2. LINLITHGOW, Earl of, v. 103, n. 1. LINTOT, Bernard, the bookseller, quarrels with Pope, i. 435, n. 4; mentioned, ii, 133, n. 1; iv. 80, n. 1. LINTOT the younger, Johnson said to have written for him, i. 103; his warehouse, i. 435. LIQUORS, scale of, iii. 381; iv. 79. LISBON, earthquake, i. 309, n. 3; parliamentary vote of L100,000 for relief, i. 353, n. 2; packet boat to England, iv. 104, n. 3; persecution of Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5; postage to London, iii. 22; mentioned, ii. 211, n. 4. Literary Anecdotes, Nichols's, iv. 369, n. 1. LITERARY CLUB. See CLUBS. LITERARY FAME, ii. 69, n. 3, 233, 353. LITERARY friend, a pompous, iv. 236. LITERARY IMPOSTORS. See IMPOSTORS. LITERARY JOURNALS, ii. 39. Literary Magazine or Universal Review, i. 307, 320, 328, 505. LITERARY man, life of a, iv. 98. LITERARY PROPERTY. See COPYRIGHT. LITERARY REPUTATION, ii. 233. LITERARY REVIEWS. See Critical and Monthly. LITERATURE, amazing how little there is, iii. 303, n. 4; dignity, its, iii. 310; England, neglected in, ii. 447, n. 5; before France in it, iii. 254; general courtesy of literature, iv. 246; generally diffused, iv. 217, n. 4; how far injured by abundance of books, iii. 332; respect paid to it, iv. 116; wearers of swords and powdered wigs ashamed to be illiterate, iii. 254. LITTLE THINGS, contentment with them, iii. 241; danger of it, iii. 242. LITTLETON, Adam, i. 294, n. 6. LIVELINESS, study of, ii. 463. LIVERPOOL, iii. 416. LIVERPOOL, first Earl of. See JENKINSON, Charles. LIVERPOOL, third Earl of, iii. 146, n. 1. LIVES OF THE POETS, account of its publication advertised, iii. 108; Advertisement, iv. 35, n. 1; Johnson's engagement with the booksellers, iii. 109; design greatly enlarged, iv. 35; payment agreed on, iii. 111; extraordinarily moderate, ib., n. 1; L100 added, iv. 35; payment for a separate edition, ib., n. 3; progress of their composition, iii. 313, 317, n. 1; first four volumes published, iii. 370, 380, n. 3; Johnson's indolence in finishing the last six, iii. 418, 435; iv. 34, 58, n. 3; published, iv. 34; printed separately, iv. 35, n. 3, 63; additions, ib., n. 1. reprinting, iv. 153; new edition, iv. 157; attacks expected, iii. 375; attacked, iv. 63-5; booksellers, impudence of the, iv. 35, n. 3; Boswell has the proof sheets, iii. 371; and most of the manuscript, iv. 36, 71, 72; his observations on some of the Lives, iv. 38-63; commended generally, iv. 146; contemporaries, difficulty in writing the Lives of, iii. 155, n. 3; copies presented to Mrs. Boswell, iii. 372; to the King, ib., n. 3; to Wilkes, iv. 107; to Langton, iv. 132; to Bewley, iv. 134; to Rev. Mr. Wilson, iv. 162; to Cruikshank, iv. 240; to Miss Langton, iv. 267; to Johnson's physicians, iv. 399, n. 5; Dilly's account of the undertaking, iii. 110; Johnson's anger at an indecent poem being inserted, iv. 36, n. 4; collects materials, iii. 427; not the editor of this Collection of Poets, iii. 117, n. 8, 137, 370; iv. 35, n. 3; inattention to minute accuracy, iii. 359, n. 2; letters to Nichols the printer, iv. 36, n. 4; portraits in different editions, iv. 421, n. 2; recommends the insertion of four poets, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3; trusted much to his memory, iv. 36, n. 3; Nichols, printed by, iv. 36, 63, n. 1, 321; piety, written so as to promote, iv. 34; Rochester's Poems castrated by Steevens, iii.

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