97, n. 1, 98; Bickerstaff, I., letter from, ii. 82, n. 3; Bonduca, epilogue to, ii. 325, n. 2; Bon Ton, ii. 325, n. 1; book of praise and abuse, kept a, v. 273; Boswell, correspondence with: see BOSWELL, correspondence; Boswell's Corsica, praises, ii. 46, n. 1; Boswell slyly introduces his name, iii. 263; British Coffee-house Club, iv. 179, n. 1; Brown, Dr. John, said to have assisted, ii. 131; brought out his tragedies, ib., n. 2; Budgell's Epilogue, anecdote of, iii. 46, n. 3; Burke's epitaph on him, ii. 234, n. 6; Camden, Lord, intimacy with, iii. 3; Chances, The, ii. 233; characters, acted a great variety of, iii. 35; iv. 243; was not 'transformed' into them, iv. 244; Chatham, Lord, correspondence with, ii. 227; cheerfullest man of his age, iii. 387; Chesterfield, in wit compared with, iii. 69; Christmas dinner at his house, ii. 155, n. 2; Clive, Mrs., compared with, iv. 243; clutching the dagger, v. 46; Colson's academy, at, i. 103; concoction of a play, iii. 259; Congreve and Shakespeare, compares, ii. 85; conversation, sprightly, i. 398; no solid meat in it, ii. 464; Court, at, i. 333, n. 3; Cumberland's dishclout face, iv. 384, n. 2; Cumberland's Odes, iii. 43, n. 3; iv 432; Dane, letter from a, v. 46, n. 2; Davies, letter from, iii. 223, n. 2; Davy, called, v. 348; death, his, iii. 371; 'eclipsed the gaiety of nations,' i. 82; iii. 387; decayed actor, will soon be a, ii. 439; decent liver, a, iii. 387; declaimer, no, iv. 243; Dodsley, quarrels with, i. 325; Douglas, rejects, v. 362, n. 1; Drury-lane theatre, manager of, i. 181, 196; Elphinston's Martial, his opinion of, iii. 258; emphasis, wrong, i. 168; v. 127; epigrammatist, an, iii. 258; excellence shown by his getting L100,000, iii. 184; face, wear and tear of his, ii. 410; False Delicacy, ii. 48, n. 2; father and family, his, iii. 387; fine-bred gentleman, fails as a, v. 126; first appearance in London, i. 168, n. 3; Fitzherbert, affection for, iii. 148, n. l; Florizel and Perdita, ii. 78; Foote, compared with, iii. 69, 183; v. 391; 'ghost of a halfpenny,' iii. 264; witticism about his bust, iv. 224; fortunam reverenter habet, iii. 263; French, sameness of the, iv. 15, n. 3; friends, but no friend, had, iii. 386; funeral, iv. 208; account of its pomp, iv. 208; Bishop Horne's lines, ib. n. 1; the Club called the Literary Club at it, i. 477; Johnson at his grave, iii. 371, n. 1; generous treatment of authors, ii. 349, n. 6; Gentleman, F., letter from, i. 384, n. 2; Gibbon, letter from, iii. 128, n. 4; Goldsmith's dress, ii. 83; Good Natured Man, refuses the, ii. 48, n. 2; iii. 320; Gray's Odes, i. 403, n. 1; great, courted by the, ii. 227; iii. 263; Hamlet rescued from rubbish, ii. 85, n. 7, 204, n. 3; Hamlet's soliloquy, iii. 184; Hawkesworth and Lord Sandwich, ii. 247, n. 5; Hawkins's Siege of Aleppo, iii. 259; High Life Below Stairs, iv. 7; Hill, Sir John, epigrams on, ii. 38, n. 2; Hogarth's account of his acting, iii. 35, n. 1; humour, varying, iii. 264; illness, sufferings from, iii. 387, n. 1; inaccurate in delineating absurdities, iv. 17; Ireland, visits, iii. 388, n. 1; Johnson affected by his success, i. 167, 216, n. 2; ii. 69; attacked by Garrick's correspondents, ii. 69, n. 1; attacks on him, accounts for, iii. 184, n. 5; awe of, i. 99, n. 1; and Chesterfield, i. 260, n. 1; designs to write his epitaph, iv. 394, n. 2; Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4; epigram on it, i. 300; as a dramatist, i. 198, I99, n. 2; epigram on George II and Cibber, i. 149; v. 350; epitaph on Philips, i. 148; in the Green Room, i. 201; hard on him, v. 244; Imitations of Juvenal, i. 194; intercourse with him, iv. 7; Irene, acts, i. 196-8; suggests the strangling scene in it, 197, n. 2; travels with him to London, i. 101; looked upon him as his property, iii. 312; let nobody attack him, i. 27, n. 2, 393, n. 1; iii. 70, 312, n. 1; in the Lichfield play-house, ii. 299; low opinion of his acting, ii. 92, n. 4; iii. 184; iv. 7; v. 38; and of his mimicry, ii. 326, n. 3; mimicks, ii. 326, 464; mow of hay, ii. 79; offers to write his Life, iii. 371, n. 1; iv. 99, n. 2; 'played round,' ii. 82; praises his prologues, ii. 325; parody of Percy's Hermit, ii. 136, n. 4; writes him a Prologue, i. 181; iv. 25; pupil; i. 97: into good spirits, puts, iii. 260, n. 5; Rambler, i. 209, n. 1; reflection on him in his Shakespeare, ii. 192; iv. 371, n. 2; and the Roundhouse, i. 249, 251; sends his love to, v. 350; Shakespeare, not mentioned in, ii. 92; v. 244; sorrow for his death, iii. 371; iv. 99; taste in theatrical merit, ii. 465; thinking which side he should take, iii. 24; tribute to him, i. 81; iv. 96, n. 6; use of orange-peel, ii. 330; want of taste for the highest poetry, iii.

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