ing a pretty woman, iv. 131;
men have more liberty allowed them, iii. 286;
natural claims, ii. 419;
over-match for men, v. 226;
Papists, surprising that they are not, iv. 289;
pious, not more, than men, iv. 289;
portrait-painting improper for them, ii. 362;
power given them by nature and law, v. 226, n. 2;
preaching, i. 463;
quality, of, iii. 353;
reading, iii. 333; iv. 217, n. 4;
soldiers, as, v. 229;
temptations, have fewer, iii. 287;
understandings better cultivated, iii. 3;
virtuous, more, than of old, iii. 3.
Women Servants, wages, ii. 217.
Women of the Town, how far admitted to taverns, iv. 75;
narrate their histories to Johnson, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396;
one rescued by him, iv. 321;
wretched life, i. 457.
Wonders, catching greedily at them, i. 498, n. 4;
propagating them, iii. 229, n. 3.
Wood, Anthony a, _Assembly Man_, v. 57, n. 2;
on Burton's tutor at Christ Church, i. 59;
Rawlinson's collections for a continuation of the _Athenae_,
iv. 161, n. 1;
styles Blackmore gentleman, ii. 126, n. 4.
Woodcocks, ii. 55, 248.
Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, i. 225, n. 1, 520; ii. 127.
Woodstock. See BLENHEIM.
Woodward, Henry, the actor, ii. 208, n. 5.
Woodward, John, iv. 23, n. 3.
Woollen Act, ii. 453, n. 2.
Woolston, Rev. Thomas, v. 419, n. 2,
Woolwich, iii. 268.
Worchester, Gwynn's bridge over the Severn, v. 454, n. 2;
Johnson visits it, v. 456;
mentioned, iii. 176, n. 1.
Worcester, Battle of, iv. 234, n. 1; v. 319.
_Word to the Wise_, iii. 113.
Words, big words for little matters, i. 471;
words describing manners soon require notes, ii. 212.
Wordsworth, William,
_Edinburgh Review_ and Lord Byron, iv. 115, n. 2;
_Excursion_, quoted, v. 424;
lines to Lady Fleming, i, 461, n. 5;
Lonsdale's, first Lord, cruelty to him, v. 113, n. 1;
poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
_Solitary Reaper_, v. 117, n. 3;
'We live by admiration,' ii. 360, n. 3.
Work. See LABOUR.
_Work_ him, iv. 261, n. 3; v. 243.
Workhouse, parish, iii. 187.
World, complaints of it unjust, iv. 172;
counterfeiting happiness, ii. 169, n. 3;
despised, not to be, i. 144, n. 2;
Johnson's knowledge of it, i. 215;
likes the society of a man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3;
judgment must be accepted, i. 200;
knowledge not strained through books, i. 105;
peevishly represented as very unjust, iii. 237, n. 1;
running about it, i. 215;
running from it, iv. 161, n. 3.
World, The,