197, n. 5; never brought on the stage again, i. 198, n. 1; begun at Edial, i. l00; continued at Greenwich, i. 106; finished at Lichfield, i. 107; refused by Fleetwood, i. 153; offered to a bookseller, ib.; blank verse, iv. 42, n. 7; Cave, shown to, i. 123; dedication, no, ii. 1, n. 2; Demetrius's speech quoted, i. 237; dramatic power wanting, i. 198, 199, n. 2, 506; Epilogue, i. 197; Hill, Aaron, present at the benefit, i. 198, n. 4; Johnson hears it read aloud, iv. 5; reads it himself, ib., n. 1; his receipts from the acting and copyright, i. 198; original sketch of it, i. 108; Pot admires it, iv. 5, n. 1; Prologue, i. 196; quotable lines, i. 199, n. 2. IRISH GENTLEMAN, an, on the blackness of negroes, i. 401. IRISH PAINTER, an, Johnson's Ofellus, i. 104. IRON-WORKS at Holywell, v. 441. IRVINE, Mr., of Drum, v. 98. IRVING, Rev. Edward, iv. 9, n. 5. IRWIN, Captain, ii. 391. ISIS, THE, iv. 295. ISLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, i. 183, n. 4; iii. 187; Johnson and the Thrales, v. 429, 434, 457. ISLAND, retiring to one, v. 154. ISLE OF MAN, Boswell's projected tour, iii. 80; Burke's motto, ib.; Sacheverell's Account. See under Sacheverell, W.; mentioned, v. 233. ITALY, condemned prisoners, treatment of, iv. 331; copy-money, iii. 162; Guide-Books, v. 61; inferiority in not having seen it, iii. 36, 456; Johnson's wish to visit it: see JOHNSON, Italy; revival of letters, iii. 254; silk-throwing, iii. 164, n. 1. IVY LANE CLUB. See under CLUBS.
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Jack the Giant Killer, ii. 58, n. 1; iv. 8, n. 3. JACKSON, Henry, of Lichfield, ii. 463; iii. 131. JACKSON, Rev. Mr., i. 239, n. 1. JACKSON, Richard, all-knowing, iii. 19; commends Johnson's Journey, iii. 137. JACKSON, Thomas, Michael Johnson's servant, i. 38. JACOB, Giles, v. 419, n. 2. JACOBITES, identified with Tories, i. 429, n. 4. JACOBITISM. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON. JAMAICA, constitutions of, iii. 202; den of tyrants, ii. 478; story of a young man going there, iv. 332; mentioned, i. 239, n. 1, 242, n. 1; iii. 76, n. 2, 416, n. 2. JAMES I (of England), Daemonology, iii. 382; Johnson, resemblance to, v. 12; Nairne, witticism about, v. 117, n. 3; Raleigh's trial, i. 180, n. 2; Sanquhar's trial, v. 103, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 175. JAMES II, deposition needful, i. 430; ii. 341; George III, compared with, iv. 139, n. 4; king, very good, ii. 341; Sedley, Catherine, v. 49, n. 5; mentioned, ii. 437, n. 2; v. 297, n. 1, 357, n. 3. JAMES I of Scotland, ii. 7. JAMES IV, patron of Boswell's family, ii. 413; v. 91. JAMES V, v. 181. JAMES, King (the Pretender), i. 429. JAMES, Dr. Robert, death, i. 81; iii. 4; Dissertation on Fevers, iii. 389, n. 2; Greek, knowledge of, iv. 33, n. 3; Johnson describes his character, i. 81, 159; learnt physic from him, iii. 22; opinion of his medicines, iv. 355; dedication to his Medicinal Dictionary, i. 159; assisted him in writing the Medicinal Dictionary, iii. 22; powder, his, its sale, iii. 4; traduced, iii. 389, n. 2; suspected of being not sober for twenty years, iii. 389, n. 2; wrote first line of the epigram Ad Lauram, i. 157, n. 5; mentioned, iii. 318, n. 1. JANES, ----, a naturalist, v. 149, 163, 408, n. 1. JANSENISTS, iii. 341, n. 1. JANUARY 30, fast of, ii. 152; old port and solemn talk on it, iii. 371. Janus Vitalis, iii. 251. JAPAN, five persecutions, v. 392. JAPIX, Gisbert, Rymelerie, i. 476. JARVIS, ----, a Birmingham person, i. 86, n. 1. JARVIS, or Jervis, the maiden name of Johnson's wife, i. 86, n. 1, 241, n. 2. Jealous Wife, The, i. 364. JEALOUSY, little people given to it, iii. 55. JEFFERIES, Judge, v. 113, n. 1. JEFFREY, Francis (Lord Jeffrey), birth, v. 24, n. 4; helps Boswell to bed, ib.; Edinburgh Review, payment to writers, iv. 214, n. 2; Scotch accent, loses his, ii. 159, n. 6; title, his, v. 77, n, 4; trees in Scotland, ii. 301, n. 1. JENKINSON, Right Hon. Charles (first Earl of Liverpool), account of him, iii. 146, n. 1; Johnson's letter to him, iii. 145-7. JENNINGS, Mr., iii. 231. JENYNS, Soame, benevolence as a motive to action, iii. 48; character, his, iii. 289, n. 1; conversion, i. 316, n. 2; iii. 280; 'Epitaph,' i. 316, n. 2; Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, i. 309, 315; Johnson's Review of it, i. 315-316; ii. 188, n. 6; iii. 48, n. 3; Johnson, attacks, i. 316; View of the Internal Evidence, &c., iii. 48, n. 3, 288; World, contributor to the, i. 257, n. 3. JEPHSON, Robert, i. 262, n. 1. JERSEY, v. 142, n. 2. JERSEY, Earl of, i. 31, n. 4. JERUSALEM, ii. 275-6. Jests of Hierocles, i. 150. JESUITS, attacked by Psalmanazar, iii. 444; persecuted in Japan, v. 392, n. 5. JEWISH KINGS, v. 340. JEWITT, Mr. L., ii. 324, n. 1. JOCULARITY, low, i. 449. JODDREL (Jodrell), R. P., iv. 254, 272, 437. JODRELL, Sir R. P., M.D., iv. 437. JOHN, King, i. 248. John Bull, v. 20, n. 2. Johnny Armstrong, quoted by Johnson for its abruptness, i.