352, 449, 458; Cumberland's Odes, iii. 43, n. 3; Davies, Tom, clapping a man on the back, ii. 344; death, iii. 420, 424; dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 235. 325, 378, n. 1; iii. 354, 387; facility, wonderful, iii. 425; 'frisk,' his, i. 250; gambling at Venice, i. 381, n. 1; gaming-club, account of a, iii. 23; Garrick's portrait, inscription on, iv. 96; Goldsmith and Malagrida, iv. 175, n. 1; health, his, ii. 292, 311; iii. 104, 417; Italy, tour to, i. 369, 381; Johnson, first acquaintance with, i. 248; accompanies to Cambridge, i. 487; affection for him, iv. 10, 99, 180; altercations with, iii. 281, 384; reconciliation, iii. 385; and Mme. de Boufflers, ii. 405; 'coalition' with, i. 249; dress as a dramatic author, i. 200, n. 4: and Thomas Hervey, ii. 32; and a Mr. Hervey, iii. 194-6, 209-211; Jacobitism, i. 430; levee, attends, ii. 118; marriage, i. 96; pension, saying about, i. 250; portrait, inscription on, iv. 180; and the two dogs, ii. 299; v. 329; use of orange peel, ii. 330; visits him at Windsor, i. 250; Johnson's Court, veneration for, ii. 229; laboratory, his, ii. 378, n. 1; library, his, ii. 378, n. 1; sold, iii. 420, n. 4; iv. 105; sermons in it, ib.; Lilliburlero, effect of, ii. 347; Literary Club, original member of the, i. 477, 478, n. 2; describes it, ii. 192, n. 2, 274, n. 3; manner, his, acid, ii. 362, n. 2; lively, ii. 405; iii. 390; Montagu's, Mrs., Essay, could not read, v. 245; mother, his, iii. 420; v. 295; Muswell Hill, house at, ii. 378, n. 1; Pope's lines on Foster, mentioned, iv. 9; predominance over his company, iii. 390; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; same one day as another, iii. 192; satire, love of, i. 249; 'see him again,' iv. 197; Smith's, Adam, talk, iv. 24, n. 2; Spence's Anecdotes of Pope, iv. 9; story, mode of telling a, iii. 390; Thrale, Mrs., hated by, i. 249, n. 1; truthfulness, his, v. 329, n. 1; wife, treatment of his, ii. 246, n. 1; mentioned, i. 357; ii. 318, 379; iii. 209, n. 3; iv. 27, 33, n. 3, 76, 113; v. 103, 215. BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana, wife of Topham Beauclerk, account of her, ii. 246, n. 1; Boswell's 'apology' for her, ii. 246; bet with her, ii. 330; charming conversation, ii. 240; Langton's height, joke about, i. 336, n. 5; gives him Johnson's portrait, iv. 96; nurses her husband with assiduity; ii. 292; left guardian of his children, iii. 420. BEAUCLERK, Lord Sidney, Topham Beauclerk's father, i. 248, n. 2. BEAUCLERK, Lady Sydney, v. 295. BEAUFORT, Duchess of (in 1780), iii. 425. BEAUMONT, Francis, i. 75, n. 3. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, co-operation, their literary, ii. 334; Garrick's adaptation of The Chances, ii. 233, n. 4; Seward's edition of their plays, ii. 467. Beauties of Johnson, iv. 148-151, 421, n. 2. Beauties of the Rambler, i. 214. BEAUTY, independent of utility, ii. 166; iv. 167. BEAUX STRATAGEM, Archer quoted, v. 133, n. 1; acted by Garrick, iii. 52; Boniface praises his ale, ii. 461; is done good to by Latin, iii. 89, n. 2; Scrub, iii. 70. BECKENHAM, iv. 313. BECKET, T., the bookseller, ii. 294. BECKFORD, Alderman, account of him, iii. 76, n. 2; Chatterton's gain by his death, iii. 201, n. 3; his English, iii. 76, 201; Lord Mayor, iii. 459; monument in Guildhall, iii. 201. BEDFORD, iv. 132. BEDFORD, fourth Duke of, attack on the ministry in 1766, iv. 316; vails, tries to abolish, ii. 78, n. 1; vice-roy in Ireland, ii. 130, n. 3. BEDFORD, fifth Duke of, iii. 284; iv. 126. BEDFORD, Hilkiah, iv. 286, n. 3. BEDFORDSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 399. BEDLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 374; curiosities of London, one of the, ii. 374, n. 1; houses built near it, iv. 208. BEER, allowance of, to servants and soldiers, iii. 9, n. 4. Beggar's Opera. See GAY, John. BEGGARS, beg more readily from men than women, iv. 32; English compared with Scotch, v. 75, n. 1; many in want of work, iii. 401; their trade overstocked, iii. 401; mentioned, iii. 26. See ALMSGIVING. BEHMEN, Jacob, ii. 122. BELCHIER, John, the surgeon, iii. 57. BELGRADE, Siege of, ii. 181. BELIEF, attacks on it, iii. it; v. 288, n. 3. BELL, Dr., iv. 1, n. 1. BELL, Rev. Dr., ii. 204, n. 1. BELL, Rev. Mr., of Strathaven, iii. 360. BELL, Mrs., Johnson's epitaph on her, ii. 204, n. 1. BELL, John, Travels, ii. 55. BELL, John, the bookseller, Lives of the Poets, ii. 453, n. 2; iii. 110. BELLAMY, Mrs., acts in Dodsley's Cleone, i. 325, n. 3, 326; Johnson, letter to, iv. 244, n. 2. BELLEISLE, iii. 343, n. 2. BELLEISLE, The, a man-of-war, i. 378, n. 1. Bellerophon, i. 277, n. 4. BELSHAM, William, Essay on Dramatic Poetry, i. 389, n. 2. BEMBRIDGE,--, iv. 223, n. 3. BENEDICTINES. See PARIS, BENEDICTINES. Benefit, free, v. 243. BENEVOLENCE, motive to action, iii. 48: mingled with vanity, ib. BENEVOLISTS, The, iii. 149, n. 2. BENGAL, iii. 134, n. 1, 233, 455. BENNET, James, editor of Ascham's Works, i.