Page:The Works of Samuel Johnson ... A journey to the Hebrides. The vision of Theodore, the hermit of Teneriffe. The fountains. Prayers and meditations. Sermons.v. 10-11. Parliamentary debates.pdf/610

 Slanes Castle, account of, ix. 15.

Sleep, considered, iv. 242. equally a leveller with death, ibid. Alexander perceived himself to be human only by the necessity of sleep, 243.

Sloane, sir Hans, satirized by Dr. King in the Transactioner, vii. 385.

Smith, Dr. instance of Wilkes's generosity to him, viii. 107.

Smith, or Neale, Edmund, his life, by Dr. Oldisworth, vii. 361. son of a merchant of the name of Neale, by a daughter of baron Lechmere, ibid. took the name of Smith from being brought up by an uncle of that name, ibid. educated at Westminster, under Busby, and removed to Oxford, ibid. his character, 362. character of his works, 163. his life by Dr. Johnson, 372. born at Handley, in Worcestershire, ibid. educated at Westminster, and took his master's degree at Oxford, 1696, ibid. narrowly escaped expulsion for irregularities in 1700, 373. expelled 1705, 374. resides in London, ibid. account of his works, 375. dedicates Phædra, a tragedy, to the marquis of Halifax, who had prepared to reward him with a place of three hundred a year, which he loses through not soliciting it, ibid. purposes writing a tragedy of lady Jane Grey; retires into the country for that purpose, where he died in July, 1710, 377. the story of his being employed to alter Clarendon's History false, ibid. copy of his Analysis of Pecockius, 381.

Smollett, Dr. an obelisk raised to his memory near the place of his birth, ix. 156.

Smuggle, Ned, his history, iv. 421.

Sneaker, Jack, a hearty friend to the present establishment, his history, iv. 181.

Snug, Dick, his story, iv. 381.

Snug, Timothy, his history, iv. 27.

Sober, Mr. his history, iv. 240.

Sobriety, considered, iv.

Society, mutual benevolence the great end of it, ii. 270.

Softly, Sam, his story, iv. 422.

Soldiers, on the bravery of the English, vi. 149. their contemptible state in time of peace, iv. 210 their wish for war not always sincere, 211.

Solid, Jack, his story, iv. 381.

Solitude, inquiry into the state of happiness in, i. 244. a relish for those pleasures an argument of a good disposition, ii. 22. the disgustful tediousness of it to many, ibid. the peculiar pleasures of it, iii. 140.

Somervile, Mr. his life, viii. 93. born at Edston in Warwickshire, 1692, ibid. educated at Winchester, and fellow of New College, ibid. died July 19, 1742, and an account of his death by Shenstone, ibid. account of his works, 94.

Sophron, his letter on frugality, ii. 273. his history, iv. 318.

Sorrow, the indulgence of it incapacitates to enjoy the pleasures of contemplation, ii. 23. the experience of it a preservative against the vanities of the world, 29. cautions against it, 227. instructions for preventing it, 231.

Soul, Dr. Boerhaave's opinion of the, vi. 287.

Southern, the first who had two nights of a new play, vii. 271.

Spectator, notes respecting the writers, etc. in that publication, vii. 428. the first English publication that taught minuter decencies and inferiour duties, ibid. advantages of such publications, 429. designed to divert the attention of the people from publick discontent, 430. observations on the character of sir Roger de Coverley, ibid. observations on sir Andrew Freeport, 431. nearly seventeen hundred of them sold daily, 432.

Spence, Mr. published a criticism on Pope's translation of the Odyssey, viii. 274. Forms a friendship with Pope, by which he obtains preferment in the church, ibid.

Spenser, Edmund, some imitations of his diction censured, iii. 79. one of his stanzas compared with the same, as altered by Prior, viii. 21.

Spirituous liquors, the bad effects from the use of, vi. 26. eight millions of gallons consumed every year in England, ibid.

Spleen, extracts from sir R. Blackmore's essay on, viii. 45.

Sprat, Dr. Thomas, his life of Cowley rather a funeral oration than a history,*