113; reproaches, with not going to the theatre, ii. 14; tetrastick on him, ii. 282; tribute to him in the Life of Parnell, ii. 166, n. 2; wishes to write his Life, iii. 100, n. 1; witty contests with, ii. 231; Kenrick, libelled by, i. 498, n. 1; knowledge, 'pity he is not knowing,' ii. 196; 'knows nothing,' ii. 215; 'amazing how little he knows,' ii. 235; 'at no pains to fill his mind,' iii. 253; Langton, letter to, ii. 141, n. 1; Lennox's, Mrs., play, iv. 10; Life not included in the Lives of the Poets, iii. 100, n. 1; Literary Club, member of the, i. 477; ii. 17; absurd verses recited to it, ii. 240; iv. 13; wishes for more members, iv. 183; Lloyd's supper party, i. 395, n. 2; lodgings, miserable, i. 350, n. 3; in the Edgeware Road, ii. 182; 'loose in his principles,' i. 408; luxury, effects of, ii. 217, ib. n. 5; Madeira, bottle of, i. 416; Mallet's reputation, ii. 233; Martinelli's History, ii. 221; mathematics, made no great figure in, i. 411; contempt for them, ii. 437, n. 1; medical studies, i. 411; merit late to be acknowledged, iii. 252; mind, never exchanged, iii. 37; modern imitators of the early poets, despises, iii. 159, n. 2; Montaigne, love of, iii. 72, n. 2; mortified by a German, ii. 257; musical performers' pay, ii. 225; 'mutual acquaintance,' iii. 103, n. 1; martyrdom, ii. 250-1; Natural History: see Animated Nature; nidification, ii. 249; 'Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit,' i. 412; iii. 82; 'Nil te quaesiveris extra,' iv. 27; Northcote's account of him, i. 413, n. 2; Northumberland, Duke of, would have helped him, iv. 22, n. 3; the Duchess prints Edwin and Angelina, ii. 337, n. 1; novelty, i. 441, n. 1; Padua, at, i. 73, n. 2; Paoli's, dines at, ii. 220; paradox, affectation of, i. 4l7; 'three paradoxes,' iii. 376, n. 1; Parnell, Life of, ii. 166; partiality of his friends against him, iii. 252; pen in and out of his hand, iv. 29; pensions to French authors, i. 372, n. 1; Percy's account of him, i. 413, n. 2; quarrel with him, iii. 276, n. 2; 'pleasure of being liked,' i. 412, n. 6; Pope's lines on Addison, ii. 85; 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3; powers, did not know his own, i. 213, n. 4; public make a point to know nothing of his writings, iii. 252; religion, takes his from the priest, ii. 214; Retaliation, passages quoted: Attorneys, ii. 126, n. 4; Burke, i. 472; iii. 233, n. 1; iv. 318; Burke, William, v. 76, n. 3; Douglas, Dr., i. 229, n. 1; Garrick, i. 202, n. 4; his lines on Goldsmith, i. 412, n. 6; Lauder, i. 229, n. 1; 'pepper the highest,' iv. 341, n. 6; Townshend, Tommy, iv. 318-9; shown to Burke and Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3; reviewers, ii. 39, n. 4; Reynolds's explanation of his absurdities, i. 412, n. 6; his envy, i. 4l3, n. 3; Robinhood Society, iv. 92, n. 5; round of pleasures, ii. 274, n. 3; Royal Academy Professor, ii, 67, n. 1; Royal Academy dinner, iii. 51, n. 2; iv. 314, n. 3; Sappho in Ovid, ii. 181; Savage, compared with, ii. 281, n. 1; Scotch inns, v. 146, n. 1; scrupulous, not, i. 213, n. 4; servitorships, v. 122, n. 1; settled system, no, i. 414; or notions, iii. 252; She Stoops to Conquer, copyright of it, iii. 100, n. 1; dedicated to Johnson, ii. 1, n. 2, 216; Dedication, ib. n. 3; dinner on the day of its first performance, iv. 325; Duke of Gloucester's marriage, ii. 224; Farquhar copied, v. 133, n. 1; finding out the longitude, i. 301, n. 3; ill success predicted, ii. 208; Johnson's opinion, ii. 205, 208, 233; naming it, ii. 205, n. 4, 258; Northcote's account of it to Goldsmith, ii. 233, n. 3; performed during a Court mourning, iv. 325; Rambler, borrowed from, i. 213, n. 5; song for Miss Hardcastle, ii. 219; success on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5; Tony Lumpkin's song, ii. 219; Walpole's criticism, ii. 233, n. 3; Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174; shine, eager to, i. 423; ii. 231, 253, 256; social, not, iii. 37; society, his, courted, ii. 257; Sterne, attacks, ii. 173, n. 2; calls him a very dull fellow, ii. 222; straw, on a balancer of a, iii. 231, n. 2; suicide, on, ii. 229; Swift's 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3; tailor, taken for a, ii. 83, n. 2; tailor's bill, ii. 83, n. 3; talk; see conversation; 'tell truth and shame the devil,' ii. 222; Temple, chambers in the, ii. 97, n. 1; iv. 27; v. 37, n. 1; Temple of Fame, ii. 358; terror, object of, to a nobleman, i. 450, n. 1; Townsend, praises Lord Mayor, iv. 175, n. 1; Traveller, brings him into high reputation, iii. 252; Chamier's doubts as to the author, iii. 252; dedicated to his brother, ii. 1, n. 2; editions, i. 415, n. 2; Fox praises it, iii. 252, 261; Johnson's lines in it, i. 381, n. 2; ii. 6; iii. 418; praises it, ii. 5, 236; reviews it, i.

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