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Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his disagreement | Lamoignon, President, his lines, 420.
with Mrs. Thrale, 67.

his correspondence with her on
her marriage with Mr. Piozzi,
73.

was Johnson a suitor for the hand
of Mrs. Thrale? 81.
Miss Seward's account of his loves,

85.

his last days, 87.
his death, 87.

his affection for Mrs. Piozzi, 87.
proximate cause of his death, 88.
his strict attention to truth, 91.
his retort to Pottinger, 96.
his habitual disregard for the rules
of good breeding, 97.
controversy kindled by the publi-
cation of the "Tour to the He-
brides," and "Anecdotes of Dr.
Johnson," 97-101.
"Letters from and to the late Sam-
uel Johnson, LL.D.," 110.
his letters on Death, 111.
Saver's print of "Johnson's
Ghost," 118.

his verses on a young heir coming
of age, 134.

his apology to Dr. Burney, 214.
his unconscious plagiarism, 222.
lines on his portrait, 257.

Mrs. Thrale's character of him,
488.

Jones, the Hutchinsonian, 294.
Jonson, Ben, his "Alchemist," 426.
Jordan, Mrs., 361.

"Junius, Letters of," authorship of,
235, 467.

his denunciation of the Duke of
Grafton's devotion to Nancy Par-
sons quoted, 34.

Kaleidoscope, Mrs. Piozzi like a, 411.
Kean, Edmund, 374, 375.

Keep, Mr., 211.

Keith, Admiral Lord, his marriage with

Miss Thrale, 109.

Keith, Lady. See Thrale, Miss.

Kemble, Charles, 356, 378.

Kemble, John, 442.

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Lade, Lady, 174, 177.

Johnson's remarks on, 45.

her conversation with Johnson
about her son, 46.

Lade, Sir John, account of, 46.

Johnson's answer to, 46.

Langton, Bennet, Esq., Johnson's re-
mark on, 27.

and on his children, 37.
story of, 388.
Leicester, Earl of, 293.
Leighton, Sir Baldwin, 432.
Lennox, Lady Sarah, 240.
Leopold, King of the Belgians, 349.
"Letters to and from the late Samuel
Johnson, LL.D.," publication of,
110, 118.

Levet, Mr. Robert, in Dr. Johnson's
house, 11.

Johnson's lines on the death of,
11.

Lisbon, earthquake at, 171.
Liver cases, 437.

Liverpool, Lord, charms of his conver-
sation, 235.

Llewenny Hall, 315, 389.

London, verses for and against, 364,
365.

Lort, Rev. Dr., 26, 108, 336.
Loughborough, Lord, his remark on
Benjamin Franklin, 239.
Louis XIV., his politeness, 40.
Lucan, Lord, 63.
Lucas, Mr., 336.

Lust, Spenser's description of, quoted,

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Lutwyche, Mrs., 314.

Lysons, Rev. Daniel, 3.

Lysons, Rev. Samuel, of Hempstead
Court, his collection of books
and MSS., 3, 289.

letters from Mrs. Piozzi to, 80.
his collection of scraps, 118; his
death, 448.

Lysons family, notice of the, 289.
Lyttelton, George Lord, cause of Dr.
Johnson's dislike for, 16, 52.

verses on his portrait, 252.
the Lyttelton Ghost Story, 227.
Lyttelton, Lady, 231.

Macaulay, Lord, his opinion of Boswell
as a biographer, 2.

and of the value of the Piozzi pa-
pers, 2.

his description of the inmates of
Johnson's house quoted, 11.

his remarks on Croker's Boswell's
"Johnson," 21.

his account of Mrs. Piozzi's second
marriage, and of Dr. Johnson's
banishment from Streatham, 86.

Dr. Johnson's verses addressed to, Malone, Mr., and the Ireland forgeries,

135.

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298.

Malone, Mr., his remarks on Dr. John-
son's rudeness, 95.

Maltzan, Count, 231.

Mann, Sir Horace, at Florence, 129.
Manucci, Count, 114, 195.
Mant, his verses, 455.

Marie Antoinette, Queen, note on her
first confinement, 224.
Marriage, Selden's remarks on, 301.
McEvoy, Miss, 378, 403.

Maxwell's" Collectanea," quoted, 16.
"Menagiana," quoted, 29.
Merrick, quoted, 181.
Merry, Mr., 330.

his verses, to Mrs. Piozzi, 270.
Milan, life at, 194.

Milnes, Richard Monckton, Esq., M. P.,
his translation of Johnson's Latin Ode
to Mrs. Thrale, 19.

Milton's "Paradise Lost," quoted, 401,
435, 452.

Mitre Tavern, 31.

Mongolfier and his balloon, 328.
Monkton, Mrs. (afterwards Lady Cork)
and Dr. Johnson, 14.

Montagu, Mrs., one of the founders of
the Blue-Stocking Club, 14, 14, 213,
218.

her "Essay on Shakespeare," "90.
Johnson's story of, 104.

Mrs. Piozzi's remarks on her con-
duct, 107.
Montcalm, his dying words, 242.
Moore, Archbishop, and the Duke of
Marlborough, 244.

Moore, Thomas, his "Journal," quoted,
137, 145, 273, note.
More, Miss Hannah, 15.

her remarks on the "Tour to the
Hebrides," and "Anecdotes of Dr.
Johnson," 97, 101.

her opinion of Dr. Johnson's Let-
ters to Mrs. Thrale, 113.
Mostyn, Mrs., 79, 83, 303, 306, 398, 458.
Mountedgecombe, Lord and Lady, 374.
Mount's Bay, 472.

Mulgrave, Lord, and Burke, 241.
Murphy, Mr., introduces Johnson into
the family of Mr. Thrale, 6.

lines on his portrait, 254.

his

song, "Attend all ye fair," 325.
his fidelity, 361.

his portrait by Reynolds, 434, 439,

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Ombersley, Johnson's visit to, 51.
"On a Weeping Willow," &c., 285.
O'Neill, Miss, 414, 415, 447.

compared with Mrs. Siddons, 414.
Oratory, Johnson's declamation against
action in, 29.

Ord, Mrs., 61, 70, 107.
Ossian, originality of, 417.

Paap, Simon, the dwarf, 398, 409.
Parini, the Abbate, his impromptu on
Mongolfier's balloon, 328.

Parish, Mr., and the Princess Talley-
rand, 340.

Parker, Dr., his complimentary verses
to Mrs. Thrale, 223.

Parr, Dr., his correspondence with Mrs.
Piozzi, 108.

Parry, Dr. C., 427, 429.
Parry, Sir E., 446.
Parsees, the, 207.

Parsons, Mr., his verses to Venus, 190.
and to Mrs. Piozzi, 191.
Pasquin and Cardinal Zanelli, 241.
Pasquinade on Bonaparte, 316.
Pelham, Mr., 244.

Garrick's lines on, 244.
Pennington, Mrs., 462, 473.

her letter to Miss Willoughby,
quoted, 146.
Penrice, Sir Henry, 170.
Penzance, Mrs. Piozzi at, 463.
life at, 464.
climate of, 467.
Pepys, Mr. 61, 108.

Johnson's character of, 91.
Johnson's rudeness to, 65.
Pepys, Sir Lucas, 185, 207.
Pepys, Sir William, 213.
Perkins, Mr., 28, 108, 177, 202.

Mrs. Thrale's letters to, referred
to, 40.

and the print of Dr. Johnson, 43.
purchases the brewery, 64.
Persians, the, in London, in 1818, 425.
Pindar, Peter, his enumeration of Dr.
Johnson's favorite dishes, quoted, 9.

his verses on Dr. Johnson and the
whiskey at Inverary, 31.

his satire on Boswell and Mrs. Pi-
ozzi, quoted, 99.

Piozzi, Mrs., her moral character, 2.

value and attraction of her writ-
ings, 2.

Piozzi, Mrs., list of the papers contained
in the present work, 2.
her "Thraliana," 3.

her marriage to Mr. Thrale, 6.

her first introduction to Dr. John-
son, 6.

her conversation, 26, 85, 109.
Johnson's verses and ode to her,
19, 20. 22.

year of her birth, 21.

her personal appearance, 22.
her portrait by Roche, 24.

and by Sir Joshua Reynolds and
Hogarth, 24.

- her familiarity with the learned
and modern languages, 27, 31.
Johnson's opinion of her, 30.
her translations from Boethius, 31.
and her "Three Warnings," 31.
her fugitive pieces, 31.
popular estimate of her, 33.

her reception of Miss Burney at
Streatham, 34.

her trials and bereavements, 40.
her attention to business, 40.
her tour in Wales, 49.

her visit to her birthplace, 51.
Dr. Campbell's description of her,

57.

her feelings outraged by her hus-
band, 60.

her account of a conversazione at
her house, 61.

death of Mr. Thrale, 62.
sale of the brewery, 64.

leaves her home at Streatham,
64.

her disagreement with Johnson,
67.

commencement of her acquaint-
ance with Piozzi, 69, 183.
her marriage to Piozzi, 71, et seq.
visits Italy, 80.

was Johnson a suitor for her hand?
81.

Miss Seward's account, 85.
Mrs. Piozzi's "Anecdotes of Dr.
Johnson," 90.

her alleged inaccuracy, 90.
Peter Pindar's satire on her and
on Boswell, 99.

success of her

"Anecdotes of

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Piozzi, Mrs., marriage of her eldest
daughter, 110.

her "Letters to and from the late
Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 110.
Baretti's treatment of her, 114.
her remarks on Baretti's death,

115.

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and on his character, 116.
the comedy of The Sentimental
Mother," 117.

her alarm at Mr. S. Lysons's col-
lection of scraps, 118.
her "Observations and Re-
flections," 119.

criticisms on the work, 119.
her style, 119, 120.

Gifford's lines on her, 121.
quotations from her Travels, 122
et seq.

her"British Synonymy," 132.
her" Retrospection," 135.

leaves Streatham for North Wales,
138.

description of her and her hus-
band, in 1808, 142.

death of Mr. Piozzi, 143.
their portraits, 143.

her way of life after his death,
143.

her fancy for W. A. Conway,

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Piozzi, Mr., 61.

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Salusbury, Dr. Thomas, 170.
Salusbury, Lady, 170.
her death, 171.

Sandwich, Lord and Lady, 236.
his baboon, 237.

Queeny (Miss Thrale). See Thrale, Sandys, Lord, Johnson's visit to, 51.

Miss.

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Johnson's remark on, 104.
verses on his portrait, 252.

Savage, Richard, his poverty and want,

8.

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Stratton, Mrs., 432.

Stratton, Miss, the actress, 415.
Streatfield, Miss Sophia, and Mr. Thrale,
60, 61, 477.

Mrs. Piozzi's account of her, 203,
209, 477.

Streatham Park, Johnson at, 6, 18, 26,
27, 36, 57.

Miss Burney's account of her first
visit to, 34.

life at, 37, 57, 175.

Streatham Portraits, the, 251.
- verses on the, 252.

Succession powder, 243.

Swift, Dean, his epistle of Mary Gulli-

66

ver quoted, 30.

his fondness for fruit, 51, 52.
Synonymy, British," Mrs. Piozzi's,
published, 132.

extracts from, 494.

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her conduct on her mother's mar-
riage, 78.

her filial affection, 79.

her marriage to Admiral Lord
Keith, 110.

Talleyrand, Prince, his remark on Mad-"Thraliana," Johnson's letter to Mrs.

ame de Staël, 154.

"Tatler," the, 234.

Taylor, Dr., 114.

Taylor, Mr. Watson, 434, 438, 439, 442.
"Temple, Letters to," of Boswell, 2.
Thackeray, Dr., 344.

Thistlewood conspirators, 390.
Thomas, Archdeacon, at Bath, 403.
Thrale, Mrs. See Piozzi, Mrs.
Thrale, Mr., introduction of Dr. John-
son into his family, 4, 6.

Thrale respecting, quoted, 3.
its present possessor, 3, 162.

quoted, 46, 110, 115, 132, 139, 162,
178, 263, 420, 477.

Thornton, Mr. H., and Mrs. Thrale, 41.
Thurlow, Lord, anecdote of, 235
Thynne, epitaph on, 275, note.

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Time, Death, and H. L. P.," 286.
"Tristram Shandy," plagiarisms in, 223.
Trotti, the Marquis, 197.

Truth, Johnson's regard for, 91.

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