482; recites a passage, v. 344; 'Luke's iron crown,' ii. 6; payment for it, i. 193, n. 1; ii. 6, n. 3; published with author's name, i. 412, n. 2; reiterated correction, ii. 15, n. 3; slow, iii. 253; written after the Vicar but published before, i. 415; iii. 321; travelling in youth, on, iii. 458; unnoticed, afraid of being, ii. 186; Van Egmont's Travels, reviews, iv. 22, n. 3; vanity, i. 413; shown in his talk, i. 413; his clothes, ii. 83; his virtues and vices were from it, iii. 37; Vicar of Wakefield, history of its publication, i. 415; iii. 321; Johnson's opinion of it, i. 415, n. 3; iii. 321; passages expunged, iii. 375-6; visionary project, his, iv. 22; Walpole despises him, i. 388, n. 3; introduced to him, iv. 314, n. 3; Warburton a weak writer, v. 93, n. 1; Westminster Abbey and Temple Bar, ii. 238; deserved a place in the Abbey, iii. 253; spot for his monument chosen by Reynolds, iii. 83, n. 2; 'Williams, I go to Miss, i. 421; Zobeide, wrote a prologue for, iii. 38, n. 5. GOMBAULD, iii. 396. GONDAR, v. 123, n. 3. GOOD-BREEDING, ii. 82; v. 82, 276. GOOD FRIDAY, ii. 356; iii. 300, 313; iv. 203. GOOD-HUMOUR, acquired, not natural, v. 211; dependent upon the will, iii. 335; increases with age, ib.; rare, ii. 362; Johnson a good-humoured fellow, ib. 'GOOD MAN, a,' iv. 239. Good Natured Man. See GOLDSMITH. GOODNESS, not natural, v. 211, 214. Goody Two Shoes, iv. 8, n. 3. GORDON, Duke of, iii. 430, n. 6. GORDON, Hon. Alexander, (Lord Rockville), i. 469; v. 394, 397. GORDON, Sir Alexander, ii. 269, n. 2; iii. 104; v. 86, 90-2, 95. GORDON, Captain, of Park, v. 103. GORDON, General C. G., i. 340, n. 3. GORDON, Lord George, Mansfield's charge on his trial, iii. 427, n. 1; St. George's Field meeting, iii. 428; sent to the Tower, iii. 430; trial, iv. 87. GORDON, Professor Thomas, v. 84-5,90-2. GORDON, Rev. Dr., of Lincoln, iii. 359. GORDON, Mr. W., Town-clerk of Aberdeen, v. 90, n. 2. GORDON RIOTS, iii. 427-431, 435, 438. GORLITZ, ii. 122, n. 6. GORY, Monboddo's black servant, v. 82-3. GOSSE, Mr. Edmund, Gray's Works, i. 403, n. 4. GOTHICK BUILDINGS, i. 273. GOUGH,--, ii. 397. GOUT, an attack of, a poetical fiction, i. 179; books on it, v. 210; due to abstinence, i. 103, n. 3. GOVERNMENT, by one, best for a great nation, iii. 46; contracted-more easily destroyed, iii. 283; distance, from a, iv. 213; English--on a broad basis, iii. 283; fittest men not appointed, ii. 157; forms of it indifferent, ii. 170; imperfection inseparable from all, ii. 118; possible through want of agreement in the governed, ii. 102; power cannot be long abused, ii. 170; real power everywhere lost (in 1784), iv. 260, n. 2; reverence for it impaired, iii. 3: See MINISTRY. Government of the Tongue, Boswell quotes it, iii. 379; Johnson perhaps borrows from it, i. 447, n. 2; 'men oppressive by their parts,' iv. 168, n. 2. Governor, v. 185, n. 2. Gower, first Earl, recommends Johnson, i. 133; Plaxton's letter to him, i. 36, n. 2; Renegado, i. 296. GOWER, Dr., Provost of Worcester College, ii. 95, n. 2. GOWER, John, iii. 254. GRACE, in Latin, v. 65: at meals, i. 239, n. 2; ii. 124; v. 123. GRAFTON, third Duke of, ii. 467. GRAHAM, Colonel, ii. 156. GRAHAM, Rev. George, Telemachus, i. 411; iii. 104; insults Goldsmith, v. 97. GRAHAM, Lady Lucy, v. 359, n. 1. GRAHAM, Marquis of (third Duke of Montrose), iii. 382; laughed at in The Rolliad, ib., n. 1; loves liberty, iii. 383; mentioned, iv. 109. GRAHAM, Miss, iii. 407. GRAINGER, Dr. James, character, his, ii. 454; Johnson's Shakespeare, anecdote of, i. 319, n. 3; Ode on Solitude, iii. 197; Sugar Cane, Johnson reviews it, i. 481; does not like it, ii. 454; mice altered to rats, ii. 453; Tibullus, translates, ii. 454. GRAMMAR, advantage of learning it, v. 136. GRAMMAR School, Johnson's scheme for the classes of a, i. 99. GRAND CHARTREUX, iii. 456. GRAND SIGNOR, ii. 250. GRANDEES OF SPAIN, v. 358. GRANGE, Lady, v. 227. GRANGER, Rev. James, Biographical History, iii. 91; v. 255; denies that he is a Whig, iii. 91; 'the dog is a Whig,' v. 255. GRANT, Abbe, v. 153, n. GRANT, Sir Archibald, iii. 103. GRANT, Rev. Mr., v. 120-1, 123,131. GRANT,--, ii. 308, 310. GRANTHAM, ii. 312, n. 4. GRANTHAM, first Baron, i. 434, n. 3. GRANTLEY, first Baron, ii. 472, n. 2. GRANVILLE, G. See under Lansdowne, Lord. GRANVILLE, John Carteret, Earl, described by Lord Chesterfield, iv. 12, n. 5; despatch after the battle of Dettingen, iv. 12; mentioned, ii. 116, n. 1; iv. 78. GRATITUDE, burthen, a, i. 246; fruit of great cultivation, v. 232. GRATTAN, Henry, 'one link of the English chain,' iv. 317; mentioned, iv. 73, n. 1. Grave, The, iii. 47. GRAVES, Morgan, i. 92, n. 2. GRAVES, Rev. Richard, author of The Spiritual Quixote, i. 75, n. 3; Shenstone at Oxford, i. 94, n. 5; property, v. 4S7, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 452. GRAVINA, iv. 199. GRAY, Sir James, ii.

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