501; of Cooley and the printer of the Daily Post, i. 503; of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1; reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510; reporters, 'fellows who thrust themselves into the gallery,' i. 502; reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504; Seeker's reports, i. 507, 509; 'Senate of Lilliput,' i. 115, 502; speakers' names disguised, i. 501; speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504; many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7; sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508; table of the order of publication, i. 510; translated, i. 505; unreality, i. 506; volumes, collected in, i. 152; Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314. Debrett's Royal Kalendar, iv. 350, n. 1. DEBTOR. 'The pillow of a debtor,' iv. 152, n. 1. DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127; for Johnson's warnings, see BOSWELL, debts; law of arrest, iii. 77; small and great, i. 347. Decay of Christian Piety, v. 227. De Claris Oratoribus, iv. 316. DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4; flattery allowed, v. 285; Johnson's to all the Royal Family, ii. 2; skill in them, ii. 1; Works without any, i. 257, n. 2; means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2; one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1; studied conclusions, v. 239. Defence of Pluralities, ii. 242. DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1. DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245. DEFINITIONS. See under DICTIONARY, and separate words. DE FOE, Daniel, Captain Carleton's Memoirs, iv. 334, n. 4; Drelincourt on Death, ii. 163, n. 4; his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1; Johnson's praise of him, iii. 267; the opposite of him, i. 506; Robinson Crusoe, iii. 268. Deformities of Johnson, iv. 148-9. DEGENERACY OF MANKIND, ii. 217, v. 77. DE GROOT, Isaac, iii. 125. DEIST, no honest man one, ii. 8. DELANY, Dr., Observations on Swift, iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238. DELAP, Rev. Dr., i. 521. DELAY, danger of, i. 324. Dementat, iv. 181, n. 3. DEMOCRITUS, iv. 105, n. 4. DEMONAX, iv. 34. DE MORGAN, Professor, i. 284, n. 3. DEMOSTHENES, Johnson compared with him, i. 504; spoke to barbarians, ii. 171; to brutes, ii. 211; mentioned, iii. 351; v. 214. DEMPSTER, George, account of him, i. 408, n. 4; argues for merit, i. 440-2; Boswell, letter to, v. 407; Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 409, n. 3; Critical Strictures, i. 409; Johnson's conversation, struck with, i. 434; dines with, ii. 195; Journey, praises, ii. 303; iii. 301; sister, his, iii. 242; iv. 284; unfixed in his principles, i. 443; virtuous and candid, ii. 305. DENBIGH, Earls of, ii. 175, n. 2. DENHALL IN WIRHALL, v. 445, n. 3. DENHAM, Sir John, iv. 38, n. 1. DENMAN, first Lord, ii. 408, n. 3. DENMARK, King of, v. 100. DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2. DENNIS, John, criticisms on Blackmore and Cato, iv. 36, n. 4; on Cato, iii. 40, n. 2; on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. 4; Critical Works worth collecting, iii. 40; his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2. DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5. Depeditation, v. 130. DEPOPULATION, ii. 217, n. 5. DE QUINCEY, account of Bishop Watson, iv. 119, n. 1; criticises Johnson's Vanity, &c., i. 193, n. 3; praises his Latin, i. 272, n. 3. Derange, iii. 319, n. 1. DERBY, account of it in 1741, i. 86, n. 2; Highlanders there in 1745, iii. 162; v. 196, n. 3; Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. 160; see the china-manufactory, iii. 163; silk-mill, iii. 164; v. 432; Johnson married there, i. 95, n. 2, 96; mentioned, iii. 1, 135, n. 1; iv. 359. DERBY, fifteenth Earl of, v. 354, n. 1. DERBY, Rev. Mr., iii. 113. DERBYSHIRE, ii. 474. DERRICK, Samuel, Boswell's 'first tutor,' i. 456; his 'governor,' iii. 371; introduced him to Davies, iv. 231, n. 1; Dryden's Miscellaneous Works, edits, i. 456, n. 3; Home's parody on him, i. 456; Humphry Clinker, described in, i. 124, n. 2; Johnson's kindness for him, i. 385; v. 117, 240; projected Life of Dryden, gathers materials for, i. 456; v. 240; lines on, i. 124; 'King of Bath,' i. 394, n. 2, 455; Letters from Leverpoole, i. 456, n. 1; v. 117; outrunning his character, i. 394; presence of mind, i. 457; pun about the Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5; Smart, compared with, iv. 192. DESCRIPTION, falls short of reality, iv. 199. Deserted Village. See GOLDSMITH. DES MAIZEAUX, i. 29. DESMOULINS, John, Johnson's will, witnesses, iv. 402, n. 2; bequest to him, ib.; mentioned, iv. 415, n. 1, 440. DESMOULINS, Mrs., account of her, iii. 222, n. 3; hates Levett and Williams, iii. 368, 461; Johnson allows her half a guinea a week, iii. 222; death, present at, iv. 418; kitchen under her care, ii. 215, n. 4; house, lodged in, iii. 222, 380, n. 3; leaves it, iv. 233, 255, n. 1; not complaining of the world, iv. 171; mentioned, i. 64, 83, 237; ii. 148; iii. 313, 363,373; iv. 92, 1422, 170, 210, 239, n. 2, 322, n. 1. DESPONDENCY, speculative, iv. 112. DESPOTIC GOVERNMENTS, iii.