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a hurry, to cry NOW, NOW, as the quickest expression, I suppose, for urging another to immediate haste. "AT PRESENT we cannot come to you" is a common phrase - He was here THIS INSTANT, means, 't is not an instant scarcely since he was here: but it does certainly mean time past; for one says to a person who, looking round, misses the individual sought for, "Why, she is here, Now, cannot you see her?"

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"I thought we were to begin upon the subject NOW," says a man impatient of decision. "We will begin THIS INSTANT,” replies his cooler friend (meaning a future time, though near); "AT PRESENT it would not be so proper." These things are difficult to foreigners; nor can I guess why both time past, and time to come, should be hourly and commonly exprest by THIS INSTANT, which at first view appears improper enough.

TO NULLIFY, TO ANNULL, TO DISANNULL, TO MAKE NULL AND

VOID.

These verbs stand in conversation chiefly in the place of the verb to annihilate, or rather between that and the softer phrase of, to render ineffectual. Horatio's arguments, say we, were rendered NULL and VOID, at least in my opinion, by what our friend Cleomenes urged against them: but no man better knows than he how to NULLIFY the discourse of his competitor without annihilating the speaker either in his own eyes, or those of the auditors; as a good legislator will see the way to ANNULL a statute no longer useful or necessary, without taking away by direct annihilation all trace or remembrance of its former utility. The third verb is a favorite among the vulgar here in England, who misapply it comically enough. I asked the late Lord Halifax's gardener for a walk and summer-house I used to see at Horton: "There was such a walk once," replies the man," but my Lord DISANNULLED it."

In 1815, Mrs. Piozzi sent a copy of "British Synonymy" to Sir James Fellowes with the following note and verses, which will appropriately conclude this compilation:

5 Nov., 1815.

Accept, dear Sir, this second-hand copy of your poor little friend's favorite work, now completely out of print. That it should bear the name of Samuel Johnson on the title page, is so curious, that I would not erase it.

Ten years at fewest must have elapsed since the author of the "Rambler" had breathed his last, when this book saw the light: and he to whom I have now the honor of presenting it, was struggling between the perils of fire and water in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean. Awful Retrospect! Yet a lightly volant pen traces the following lines, only to say that

In this Synonymy you'll find

Portraits from poor Floretta's mind;
With many a tale and many a jest,
By which her fancy was imprest.
Oh! had that fancy been acquainted
With characters too late displayed,
Far happier pictures had been painted,
Far stronger light and softer shade.
Beneath the life-preserving hand,
How had we seen the soldier stand!
Or kneel, instructed to adore
Him who bestow'd the healing power.
But merit, dazzling men to blindness,
Was still reserved for Piozzi's Finis.

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Johnson's epigram on her, 28.
"Atlas" man-of-war, the, 242.

Atmospheric stones, 311.

Baretti, passages in Dr. Johnson's letters
relating to, 114.

his papers in the "European Mag-
azine," 115.

his death, 115.

his rupture with Dr. Johnson, 116.
his character, sketched by Mrs.
Thrale, 116, 481, 488, 489.

the comedy of the "Sentimental
Mother," 117.

lines on his portrait, 256.
Barnard, Dr., Provost of Eton, John-
son's remarks on, quoted, 39, note.
Barrow, his description of Wit, quoted,

155.

Bassi's verses, 266

translation of, 266.
Bath, riots in, 458.

Bayntun, Admiral Sir H., 474, note.
Beadon, Dr., 468.

Bearcroft, Mr., anecdotes of, 137.
Beauclerc, Lady Diana, 103.
Beauclerc, Topham, 238, 276.
Bells, names of, 373.

Autobiographical Memoirs of Mrs. Pi- Beloe, his "Sexagenarian," 399.

ozzi, 161 et seq.

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Bagot, Mrs., 298.
Baillie, Joanna, 436.
Balbus, story of, 355.
Banks, Sir Joseph, 410, 412.

Barclay, Mr., the Quaker, purchases
Mr. Thrale's brewery, 64, 108, 202.
Baretti, Signor Giuseppe, his verses,
quoted, 18.

accompanies Dr. Johnson and the
Thrales on a tour to France, 53.
history of, 54.

his trial for murder, 55.

his introduction to the Thrales, 56.
Dr. Warton's opinion of him, 56.
account of him by Dr. Campbell,

57.

his dislike of Boswell, 58.

Bentley, Dr. Richard, his verses on
Learning, 223.
Bertola's verses, 276.

his fables, 277.
Betty, the actor, 317.

Blue-Stocking Clubs, origin of the, 14.
Bodryddan, visited by Johnson, 50.
Bodville, Mrs. Thrale's birthplace, 51.
Boethius, Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale's
translations from, 31, 222.

Bolingbroke, Lord, anecdote of Johnson
and, 102.

Bolingbroke, Lady, 276.
Bolton, Duke of, Lord Harry Powlett,
anecdote of, 252.

Bonaparte, intelligence of his meditated
escape from Elba, 231.
military tactics, 243.

his expedition to Egypt, 296.
pasquinade on, 316.

the Apocalyptic beast, 319.
Boothby, Miss Hill, Johnson's admira-
tion for, 16.

Boswell, James, his character as a bi-
ographer, 2.

his "Letters to Temple," and
"Boswelliana," 2.

his account of Johnson's introduc-
tion into Mr. Thrale's family
quoted, 6.

his jealousy of Mrs. Thrale, 6.
his first visit to Streatham Park, 25.
arranges an interview between
Johnson and Lord Marchmont,

26.

his conversations at Streatham, 27.
his version of Johnson's epigram
on Mary Aston, 28.

his proposed poetical epistle to
Johnson, 30.

his dislike of Baretti, 58.
Walpole's remarks on his "Anec-
dotes of Dr. Johnson, 90.
reasons for his depreciating Mrs.
Piozzi, 90.

Peter Pindar's satire on, quoted, 99.
Boulogne, Mrs. Piozzi's account of, 122.
Bouverie, Mrs., 233.
Bowdler, Rev. Dr., 61.

Bowles, Mr., shooting his nephew, 421.
Bowles, Rev. W., and his fountain, 50,

note.

Boyce, Johnson's description of, 221.

his verses to Cave, 221.

Bramah and his air-balloon, 327.
Brighton, Dr. Johnson at, 65.

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Caroline of Naples, story of, 84.
Carter, Mrs., her "Letters," 389.
Catamaran, 218.

Cathcart, Lady, in "Castle Rackrent,"
78.

Catherine, Empress of Russia, verses
on, 226.

Catholic question, 417, 429.

Bristow, Caroline (afterwards Mrs. Lyt- Cator, Mr., 196, 197, 201.

telton), 52.

British Museum, 422.

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Dr. Johnson's remark on, 104.
Cave, Boyce's verses to, 221.

Cervantes, 329.

Chalmers "Modern Astronomy," 356.
Chamberlayne, Mr., his verses, "The
Pleiades," 225.

Chambers, Sir Robert, 211.

lines on his portrait, 255.
Chantilly, Mrs. Piozzi's account of, 122.
Chappelow, Mr., 384, 385.

Charles Edward, the young Pretender,
at Florence, 226.

Charlotte, the Princess, her marriage,

349.

her death, 401.
Charlotte, Queen, 112.
Chester, walls of, 49.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer, Earl of, 120.
Christmas, old customs at, 311.
Churchill, the poet, quoted, 237.
Cicisbeism in Italy, 126.
Clinton, Lord John, 61.

Club, the Literary, formation of the, 13.
Club, Hell-fire, incident at the, 238, note.
Clubs, the Blue-Stocking, origin of the,

14.

Clwyd, the river, 49.

Cobbett, William, 327, 372, 467.

Coligny, Henrietta de, verses on, 225.

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Condé, Prince of, anecdote of the, 123,
124.

Congreve, W., his "Way of the World"
quoted, 29.

Conway, Mr. Shipley, 50, note.
Conway, W. A., and Mrs Piozzi, 143,
436, 441, 446, 452, 456, 471, 472.
notice of him, 143.

his letter to Mrs. Piozzi's execu-
tors, 150.

Conway, 446, 447, 471, 472.

"Corinne" quoted, 78, note.
Corsini, Prince, 81.

Corsini, Cardinal, 81.

Cotton, Mrs., her cascade, 50.

Cotton, George (afterwards Dean of
Chester, 418.

Cotton, Sir Lynch, Johnson's visit and
rudeness to, 52.

Cotton, Sir Robert Salusbury, 166.
Cowper, Countess, 226.

Cowper, William, quoted, 361.

Coxe's "Life of the Duke of Marlbor-
ough," 420.

Crewe, Mrs., 233, 236, 428.
Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, Lord
Macaulay's remarks on his edi-
tions of Boswell's "Johnson"
quoted, 21.

his translation of Johnson's epi-
gram on Mary Croker, 28.
his account of the correspondence
between Dr. Johnson and Mrs.
Piozzi on her marriage, 73.
Cumberland, Duke and Duchess of, 80.
Curran, J. P., Byron's description of
him, 155.

Custom House, fire at the, 308.
Cuzzona, the actress, story of, 133.

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D'Arblay, Madame, her description of
the Streatham portraits, 251.
her" Camilla," 298.

her "Wanderer," 308.

Mrs. Piozzi's account of her, 484.
Davenant, Mrs., 61, 220.
Davis, Eliza, story of, 387.
Davison's verses on Dido, 276.
Death, Dr. Johnson's letter upon, 111.
Delamira of the "Tatler," 234.
Delap, Dr., 65, 103.

Della Crusca verses, 270.
Demosthenes, Johnson's remark on, 29.
Dent, "Dog," and his bill on dogs, 303.
Desmoulins, Mrs., 11.

Dido, verses on, 276.

epigrams, 275.

Divorces, conversation at Streatham
on, 27.

Dixie, Sir Woolston, and Queen Caro-
line, 233.

Dobson, Dr., 189.

Doddridge's epigram on his own motto
quoted, 237.

Dodington, Bub (Lord Melcombe), his
Diary," 371.

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Doukin, General, 349, 354.
Dress, female, 408.

Dr. Johnson's observations on fe-
male dress and demeanor, 44, 45.
Dunning, Lord Ashburton, his personal
vanity, 105.

his ugliness, 239.

Duppa, R., Esq., edits Johnson's "Jour-
ney into Wales," 49, 369.
"Duty and Pleasure," 250.

Edward, Prince, brother of George III.,

232.

Eglintoun, Lady, 294.
Elton, Mr., 453.

English, John, his epitaph, 304.
Enigma, an, 446.
Epaminondas, 243.
Esher in Surrey, 295.
Etruscan pottery, 352.

Exmouth, liberation of slaves, 399.
Exmouth, Lord, Christian slaves liber-
ated by, in Rome, 314.

Faber's prophecy for 1866, 404.
"Fable for April, 1815, a,' 319.
Fables of Bertola, 277.
Falmouth, Lord, 241.
"Fancy, Imagination," 181.
Farinelli, the singer, 416.
Farmer, Dr., 439.

Ferrier, Miss, the novelist, 426.
Fidele, Casa, Mrs. Piozzi's account of
the, 193.

Fielding, Henry, his disregard of the
value of money, 141.

Sally, sister of the novelist, 178.

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