paid to it, iv. 116;
wearers of swords and powdered wigs ashamed to be illiterate, iii. 254.
LITTLE THINGS,
contentment with them, iii. 241;
danger of it, iii. 242.
LITTLETON, Adam, i. 294, n. 6.
LIVELINESS, study of, ii. 463.
LIVERPOOL, iii. 416.
LIVERPOOL, first Earl of. See JENKINSON, Charles.
LIVERPOOL, third Earl of, iii. 146, n. 1.
LIVES OF THE POETS,
account of its publication
advertised, iii. 108;
_Advertisement_, iv. 35, n. 1;
Johnson's engagement with the booksellers, iii. 109;
design greatly enlarged, iv. 35;
payment agreed on, iii. 111;
extraordinarily moderate, ib., n. 1;
L100 added, iv. 35;
payment for a separate edition, ib., n. 3;
progress of their composition, iii. 313, 317, n. 1;
first four volumes published, iii. 370, 380, n. 3;
Johnson's indolence in finishing the last six, iii. 418, 435;
iv. 34, 58, n. 3;
published, iv. 34;
printed separately, iv. 35, n. 3, 63;
additions, ib., n. 1.
reprinting, iv. 153;
new edition, iv. 157;
attacks expected, iii. 375;
attacked, iv. 63-5;
booksellers, impudence of the, iv. 35, n. 3;
Boswell has the proof sheets, iii. 371;
and most of the manuscript, iv. 36, 71, 72;
his observations on some of the _Lives_, iv. 38-63;
commended generally, iv. 146;
contemporaries, difficulty in writing the _Lives_ of, iii. 155, n. 3;
copies presented to Mrs. Boswell, iii. 372;
to the King, ib., n. 3;
to Wilkes, iv. 107;
to Langton, iv. 132;
to Bewley, iv. 134;
to Rev. Mr. Wilson, iv. 162;
to Cruikshank, iv. 240;
to Miss Langton, iv. 267;
to Johnson's physicians, iv. 399, n. 5;
Dilly's account of the undertaking, iii. 110;
Johnson's anger at an indecent poem being inserted, iv. 36, n. 4;
collects materials, iii. 427;
not the _editor_ of this Collection of Poets, iii. 117, n. 8, 137,
370; iv. 35, n. 3;
inattention to minute accuracy, iii. 359, n. 2;
letters to Nichols the printer, iv. 36, n. 4;
portraits in different editions, iv. 421, n. 2;
recommends the insertion of four poets, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3;
trusted much to his memory, iv. 36, n. 3;
Nichols, printed by, iv. 36, 63, n. 1, 321;
piety, written so as to promote, iv. 34;
Rochester's _Poems_ castrated by Steevens, iii. 191;
rough copy sent to the press, iv. 36;
Savage, many of the anecdotes from, i. 164;
titles suggested, iv. 36, n. 4;