182, 286; iii. 405; one of the publishers, i. 183, 264; asks to have the Plan inscribed to Chesterfield, i. 183; London published by him, i. 121-4; Rasselas, i. 341; Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 193, n. 1. 'patron,' i. 326; Life should be written, his, ii. 446; Muse in Livery, ii. 446; Pope, assisted by, ii. 446, n. 4; Pope's executors, application to, iv. 51, n. 1; Preceptor, i. 192; Public Virtue, iv. 20; wife's death, his, i. 277; World, The, i. 202, n. 4; mentioned, i. 135, n. 1, 243, 290, 317; ii. 453, n. 2; iv. 333, n. 1. DODWELL, Henry, v. 437. Doggedly, v. 40. DOGGET, Thomas, ii. 465, n. 1. DOGS attack butchers, ii. 232; eaten in China and Otaheite, ib.; have not power of comparing, ii. 96. DOING NOTHING, v. 39. Dolus latet in universalibus, v. 105. Domesticated, i. 268, n. 1. Domina de North et Gray, iv. 10. DOMINICETTI, ii. 99. DONALDSON, Alexander, Boswell's first publisher, i. 383, n. 3; intimacy with him, i. 439. n. 1; Copyright case, i. 437-9; ii 345. n. 2. DONATUS, ii. 204, n. 4, 358, n. 3. Don Belianis, i. 49, n. 2. DONCASTER, ii. 300, n. 5. DONNE, Dr., saw a vision, ii. 445; uses the term quotidian, v. 346. Don Quixote, wished longer, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5; Don Quixote's death, ii. 370. DOOR, 'author concealed behind the door,' i. 396. Dorando, A Spanish Tale, ii. 50, n. 4. DORSET, third Duke of, iv. 421, n. 2. DOSA, ii. 7, n. 3. DOSSIE, Robert, iv. 11. DOUBLE LETTERS. See POST. DOUGHTY, the engraver, ii. 286, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2. DOUGLAS, Archibald, (at first Archibald Stewart, at last Baron Douglas, of Douglas Castle), ii. 50, n. 4, 230. DOUGLAS, last Duke of, v. 43, n. 4. DOUGLAS, Duchess of, v. 43, n. 4. DOUGLAS, Sir James, journey to the Holy Land, iii. 177. DOUGLAS, James, M.D., editions of Horace, iv. 279. DOUGLAS, Lady Jane, ii. 50, n. 4, 230. DOUGLAS, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Salisbury, British Coffee-house Club, a member of the, iv. 179, n. 1; Church of England, on the discipline of the, iv. 277; Cock Lane Ghost exposes the, i. 407; Goldsmith's lines on him, i. 229, n. 1, 407, n. 2; iii. 139, n. 4; Conduct of the Allies, praises the, ii. 65; Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson's London, anecdote of, i. 127; Lauder's imposition, i. 228; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; mentioned, i. 140, 260, n. 3, 430; ii. 63, 125, n. 5. DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN, iii. 163. DOUGLAS, Lady Lucy, v. 359. DOUGLAS CAUSE, account of it, ii. 50, 230; Boswell one of the counsel before House of Lords, iii. 8, 219; v. 378, n. 2; and the Duchess of Argyle, v. 353, 359; Essence of the Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1; Judges' windows broken, v. 353, n. 1; Letters to Lord Mansfield, ii. 229; 'shook the security of birth-right,' v. 28. Douglas, a tragedy. SEE HOME, John. DOVEDALE, v. 430. DOVER, iv. 260, n. 1. DOVER CLIFF, Shakespeare's description of, ii. 87. Downed, iii. 335, n. 2. DOXY, Miss, iii. 417-8. Drake, Life of, i. 147, n. 5. DRAMA, the English, characteristics of its dialogue, iv. 247. DRAPER, the bookseller, iii. 46. DRAUGHTS, game of, i. 317; ii. 444, DRAYTON'S Polyolbion, v. 225, n. 3. DREAMS, communication by them, i. 235; contest of wit in one, iv. 5; Prendergast's dream, ii. 183. Drelincourt on Death, ii. 163. DRESDEN, i. 266, n. 2. DRESS, effects on the mind, i. 200; ii. 475; if fine, should be very fine, iv. 179; v. 364. DRESSING, time spent in, v. 67. DREWRY, SIR R., ii. 445, n. 4. DRINKING, time it can go on, iii. 243, n. 4; in Johnson's youth, v. 59-60; rule about drinking to another, v. 356: SEE DRUNKENNESS and WINE. Drinking Song to Sleep, i. 251. DROGHEDA, fifth Earl of, iii. 30, n, 1. DROMORE, Bishop of. SEE PERCY. DROWNING, suicide by, v. 54. DRUID'S TEMPLE, a, v. 107, 132. DRUMGOLD, Colonel, ii. 397, 399, 401. DRUMMOND, ALEXANDER, Travels, v. 323. DRUMMOND, DR., iii. 88, 383. DRUMMOND, GEORGE, v. 43. DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, of Hawthornden, Cypress Grove, v. 180; Polemomiddinia, iii. 284; Jonson, Ben, visited by, v. 402, 414. DRUMMOND, WILLIAM, bookseller of Edinburgh, account of him, ii. 26; Johnson's letters to him, ii. 27-31; Johnson, meets, v. 385, 394, 400; his son, iii. 88, n. 1. DRUNKENNESS, as an art, iii, 389; 'elevated,' v. 156, n. 2; its felicity, ii, 351; 435. n. 7; iii. 381, n. 3; on a little, iii. 170. Drury Lane Journal, i. 218, n. 1. DRURY LANE THEATRE, Prologue on the opening of, i. 181; iv. 25. SEE LONDON, Drury Lane. DRYDEN, JOHN, Absalom and Achitophel, sale, i. 34, n. 5; quoted, ii. 348, n. 2; iv. 73, n. 3; All for Love, preface quoted, iv. 114, n 1; Annus Mirabilis, quoted, ii. 241, n. 1; Aurengsebe, quoted, ii. 125; iv. 303, n. 3; Bayes in The Rehearsal, ii. 168: booksellers' mercantile ruggedness, suffered from the, i. 305, n. 1; borrows for want of leisure, v. 92, n. 4; Collier, censured by, i. 167, n. 2; iv. 286, n. 3; colleges and kings, lines on, ii. 223; Conquest of Granada, quoted, iv. 259, n. 3; dedication, its, v.

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