iv. 98, n. 4;
flatter the age, v. 59;
hunted with a cannister at their tail, iii. 320;
Johnson consulted by them
'a man who wrote verses,' ii. 51;
Colley Cibber, ii. 92;
'a lank and reverend bard,' iii. 373'
Crabbe, iv. 121, n. 4;
a tragedy-writer, iv. 244, n. 2;
young Mr. Tytler, v. 402;
advises to print boldly, ii. 195;
advice very difficult to give, iii. 320;
willing to assist them, iii. 373, n. 1; iv. 121; v. 402;
put to the torture, ib.
_Project for the employment of Authors_, i. 306, n. 3;
wonders at their number, v. 59;
judgment of their own works, i. 192, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 2;
language characteristical, iv. 315;
lie, whether ever allowed to, iv. 305-6;
modern, the moons of literature, iii. 333;
obscure ones, i. 307, n. 2;
patrons, iv. 172;
patronage done with, v. 59;
payments received:
_Adventurer_, two guineas a paper, i. 253;
Baretti, translation of some of Reynolds's _Discourses_ into Italian,
twenty-five guineas, iii. 96;
Blair, _Sermons_, vol. i, L200, vol. ii. L300, vol. iii. L600, iii. 98;
Boswell, _Corsica_, 100 guineas, ii. 46, n. 1;
_Critical Review_, two guineas a sheet, iv. 214, n. 2;
_Monthly_, sometimes four guineas, ib.;
Fielding, _Tom Jones_, L700, i. 287, n. 3;
Goldsmith, _Vicar of Wakefield_, L60, i. 415;
_Traveller_, L21, ib., n. 2;
Hawkesworth, L6000 for editing _Cook's Voyages_, i. 341, n. 4;
Hill, Sir John, fifteen guineas a week, ii. 38, n. 2;
Hooke, L5000 for the Duchess of Marlborough's _Apology_, v. 175, n. 3;
Johnson: See JOHNSON, payments for his writings;
payment by line, i. 193, n. 1;
Piozzi, Mrs., for Johnson's Letters, L500, ii. 43, n. 1;
Robertson offered L500 for one edition of his _History of Scotland_,
iii. 334, n. 2;
L6000 made by the publishers; offered 3000 guineas for _Charles V_,
ii. 63, n. 2;
Sacheverell, L100 for a sermon, i. 39, n. 1;
Shebbeare six guineas for a sheet for reviews, iv. 214;
Savage, _Wanderer_, ten guineas, i. 124, n. 4;
Whitehead, Paul, ten guineas for a poem, i. 124;
pleasure in writing for the journals, v. 59, n. 2;
privateers, like, iv. 191, n. 1;
private life, in, i. 393;
public, the, their judges, i. 200;
putting into a book as much as a book will hold, ii. 237;
regard for their first magazine, i. 112;
reluctance to write their own lives, i. 25
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