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Fox, Lady Caroline, 211.

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his "Connections between Sacred
Writ and Classic Literature,"
367.

death of his mother, 402.

Greenlanders, 442.

Fox, Charles James, his verses, "The Gunnings, the Miss, 218.

Planets," 224.

his character, 235.

his talents, 238.

France, Johnson's tour in, 53.

verses on, in 1792, 323.
"Frankenstein," 404, 441.

Franklin, Benjamin, Wedderburne's re-
mark on, 239.

Mrs. Piozzi's account of, 239.
Mr. Dale's lines on, 240.
French, Mrs. Piozzi's sketch of the,

124.

Gwaynyog, Dr. Johnson at, 51.

Hagley, Johnson's visit to, 52.

Hales, Dr., and his prophecy, 410, 412.
Halifax, Lord, 168, 172.

Halsey, Edmund, uncle of the elder
Thrale, Mrs. Thrale's note respecting
his rise, 5.

Hamilton, Archdeacon, 234.
Hamilton, Lady Archibald, 234.
Hamilton, Single-speech, supposed au-
thor of "Letters of Junius," 235.
Hampton Court Palace, 354.

Gainsborough, the painter, anecdote of, Harrington, Dr., 342, 344, 350.

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anecdote of, 222.

his lines on Pelham, 244.
lines on his portrait, 255.

Garrick, David, his lines written at
Streatham, 324.
Garrick, George, 103.
Garrick, Mrs., 106.

Gas lights introduced into London, 313,
394.

Genoa, siege of, 311.

George III., caricature on, 225.

anecdote of, 232.

insults offered to him, 294.

Gibbes, Dr., 403, 437, 444.

Gibbon, Edmund, remarks on his style,

312.

Gifford, W., origin of his "Bæviad and
Mæviad," 90.

his scurrilous lines on Mrs. Piozzi,

121.

his death, 347.
Harris, James,

Esq., author of

"Hermes," 32, 178.

Hart, Polly, 448.
Hawkins, Miss, 77.
Hawkins, Sir John, 42.

his account of the correspondence
between Dr. Johnson and Mrs.
Piozzi on her marriage, 73.

Head, Mr., 217.

Hell-fire Club, incident at the, 238,

note.

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his extremities of poverty and
want, 8.

his eating and drinking, 8.

his favorite dishes, described by
Peter Pindar, 9.

his affectation of great nicety of
palate, 9.

his fondness for late hours, 10.
his sterling virtues, 10.

his household, as described by
Lord Macaulay, 11.
society in which he moved, 12, 13.
his reverence for bishops, 13.

his behavior in the society of
women, 14.

his fondness for female society,

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Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his conversations
at Streatham Park, 25, 27.

his interview with Lord March-
mont, 26.

his epigram on Mary Aston, 28.
his remarks on Demosthenes and
the Athenians, 29.

his opinion of, and respect for, Mrs.
Thrale, 30, 32.

his translations from Boethius,
31.

and tale of the "Fountains," 31.
his introduction to Miss Burney,
36.

his account of the children of Mr.
Langton, 37.

his story of Bet Flint, 38.
his gallantry, 39.

his remarks on his own politeness,
39, note.

the moralist and the hatter of
Southwark, 41.

Mr. Thrale's intention of bringing
Johnson into Parliament, 42.
assistance afforded by Johnson to
Mr. Thrale in his difficulties. 42.
portrait of Johnson by Doughty,
43.

his attention to domestic economy,
44.

and to propriety in dress, 44, 45.
his answer to Sir John Lade, 46.
his fondness for town life, 46.
his opinion of hunting, 47.
his delight in carriage travelling,

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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,

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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,

84.

Luttrell, Simon, the "King of Hell,"
174.

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-

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

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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, 114, 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
Dr. Johnson," 101.
Walpole's opinion of it, 101.
her return to, and reception in,
London, 105.

her domestic thoughts, 106.
her return to Streatham, 108.
her correspondence with Dr. Parr,

108.

names of the friends visiting or
corresponding with her, 108,

109.

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her ball and supper on her eigh-
tieth birthday, 146.

her death, 146.

her will, 148.

her character, 152, 155.

her autobiographical memoirs,
161.

her domestic trials, 185.

her account of her second mar-
riage, 188.

her residence in Italy, 192.
her biographical anecdotes, 195.
Mr. Thrale's will, and account of
the sale of the brewery, 201.
account of Mr. Thrale's death,
207.

and of Dr. Collier, 209.

her marginal notes on the two vol-
umes of printed letters, 211.
her notes on Wraxall's "Memoirs
of my own Time," 224.
her original compositions in prose
and verse, 247.

her letters, 289.

extracts from "Thraliana," 477.
Piozzi, Mr., 61.

account of the commencement of

his acquaintance with Mrs.
Thrale, 69, 183.

his singing, 69, 70.

his marriage with Mrs. Thrale, 71,

188.

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