352; despised modern Latin poets, i. 90, n. 1; Imitation of Juvenal, i. 118; imitated by Murphy, i. 356, n. 1; 'Le vainqueur des vanqueurs,' &c., i. 261, n. 2; Life by Desmaiseaux, i. 29; on the neglect of a book, iii. 375, w.i. BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, first Viscount, Burnet's History of his Own Time, ii. 213, n. 3; Booth's Cato, v. 126, n. 2; crown revenues, ii. 353, n. 4; dictionary-makers, i. 296, n. 3; English historians, ii. 236, n. 2; Garrick's Ode, i. 269; history to be read with suspicion, ii. 213, n. 3; authorised romance, ii. 366, n. 1; House of Commons, describes the, iii. 234, n. 2; Johnson's attack on his fame, i. 268, 330; Leslie and Bedford, iv. 286, n. 3; Mallet's edition of his Works, i. 268, 329, n. 3; Oxford, Lord, character of, iii. 236, n. 3; Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3; Pope, enmity against, i. 329; Essay on Man, share in, iii. 402-3; executor, iv. 51; friendship with, iv. 50, n. 4; Rome, references to, iii. 206, n. 1; schools, v. 85, n. 3; Shelburne's (Lord) character of him, i. 268, n. 3; Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4; transpire, iii. 343. BOLINGBROKE, Lady, iii. 324. BOLINGBROKE, second Viscount, ii. 246, n. 1; iii. 349, n. 3. BOLINGBROKE, Lady, divorced from the second Viscount. See BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana. BOLOGNA, ii. 195; v. 115. BOMBAY, v. 55, n. 1. Bon Chretien, v. 414, n. 2. Bon-mots, instances of, iii. 322; 'carrying' one, ii. 350. Bon Ton, ii. 325. BONAVENTURA, i. 500. BOND, Mrs. iv. 402, n. 2. BONES, uses of old, iv. 204; Johnson's horror at the sight of them, v. 169, 327. BONIFACE in The Beaux Stratagem, ii. 461; iii. 89, n. 2. BONNER, Bishop, i. 75, n. 3. BONNETTA of Londonderry, v. 319-20. BONSTETTEN, ----, v. 384, n. 1. Book of Discipline, ii. 172. BOOK-BINDING, i. 56, n. 2. BOOK-TRADE, ii. 425. BOOKS, abundance of modern, iii. 332; death, leaving one's books at, iii. 312; early printed ones, ii. 399; v. 459; every house supplied with them, iv. 217, n. 4; getting boys to have entertainment from them, iii. 385; high price, complaints of their, i. 438, n. 2; Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 425; knowledge of the world through books, i. 105; talking from them, v. 378; looking over their backs in a library, ii. 364; poorest book, if the first, a prodigious effort, i. 454; prices at which they were sold: Boswell's edition of Johnson's Letter to Chesterfield, 105. 6d., i. 261, n. 1; Churchill's Rosciad, 1s., i. 419, n. 5; Dodsley's Cleone, 1s. 6d., i. 325, n. 3; Goldsmith's Traveller, 1s. 6d., i. 415; Johnson's London, 1s., i. 127, n. 3; Marmor Norfolciense, 1s., i. 143, n. 3; Observations on Macbeth, 1s., i. 175, n. 3; Vanity of Human Wishes, 1s., i. 193, n. 1; Irene, 1s. 6d., i. 198, n. 2; Rambler, 2d. a number, i. 209, n. 1; Rambler, 4 vols. in 12mo., 12s., i. 212, n. 3; Dictionary, 2 vols., 4l 10s., i. 290, n. 1; Idler, 2 vols., 5s., i. 335, n. 1; Rasselas, 2 vols. 12mo., 5s., i. 340, n. 3; Journey to the Western Islands, 5s., ii. 310, n. 2; Macpherson's Iliad, two guineas, ii. 298, n. 1; Percy's Hermit of Warkworth, 2s. 6d., ii. 136, n. 4; Pope's '1738,' 1s., i. 127, n. 3; Robertson's Scotland, two guineas, iii. 334, n. 2; 'quarterly-book,' the, ii. 426; seldom read when given away, ii. 229; uncertainty of profits, iv. 121; variety of them to be kept about a man, iii. 193; Voltaire on the rapid sale of books in London, ii. 402, n. 1; willingly, not read, iv. 218. See READING. BOOKSELLER, a drunken, iii. 389. Bookseller of the Last Century, sale of The Rambler and Rasselas, ii. 208, n. 3; Newbery, v. 30, n. 3. BOOKSELLERS, Boswell's vindication of them, ii. 426, n. 1; 'Bridge, on the,' iv. 257; copyright case, ii. 272, n. 2; copyright, their honorary, iii. 370; improvement in their manners, i. 305, n. 1; Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 425; uniform regard for them, i. 438; calls them liberal-minded men, i. 304; iv. 35, n. 3; literary property, their, iii. 110; London booksellers, denominated the Trade, iii. 285, n. 2; publish Johnson's Lives, iii. 110; oppressors of genius, i. 305, n. 1; ii. 345, n. 2; patrons of literature, i. 287, n. 3, 305. BOOTH, Barton, the actor, account of him, v. 126, n. 2; manager of Drurylane, v. 244, n. 2. BOOTH, Captain, in Amelia, i. 249, n. 2. BOOTHBY, Sir Brook, i. 83. BOOTHBY, Miss Hill, Johnson's friendship for her, i. 83; prescription of orange-peel, ii. 331. n. 1; supposed jealousy of Lord Lyttelton, iv. 57, n. 2; letters to her. See JOHNSON, Letters. BORLASE, William, History of the Isles of Scilly, i. 309. BORNEO, v. 392, n. 6. BOROUGH, corruption in a, ii. 373. Borough English, v. 320. BOSCAWEN, Hon. Mrs., iii. 331, 425; iv. 96. BOSCOVICH, Pere, ii. 125, 406. BOSSUET, ii. 448, n. 2; v. 311. BOSVILLE, Squire Godfrey, invites Johnson to meet Boswell at his house, iii. 439; belonge