1;
melancholy, i. 35;
oath of abjuration, signs the, ii. 322;
observer, no careless, i. 34, n. 5;
sheriff of Lichfield, i. 36, n. 4;
Uttoxeter market, at, iv. 373.
JOHNSON, Mr., in Blackmore's _Lay Monastery_, v. 384, n. 2.
JOHNSON, Nathanael (Johnson's younger brother),
complains of his brother, i. 90, n. 3;
death, i. 35, 90, n. 3;
epitaph, ib.; iv. 393;
letter from him, i. 90, n. 3;
succeeds his father, i. 90.
JOHNSON, Samuel, Rev., i. 135.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL, CHIEF EVENTS OF His LIFE.
(For his publications see also i. 16-24; for a complete list of his
travels and visits, iii. 450-3; and for his residences, iii. 405, n. 6.)
1709 Birth, i. 34.
1712 'Touched by Queen Anne, i. 43.
1716 (about) Enters Lichfield School, i. 43.
1725 Enters Stourbridge School, i. 49.
1726 Returns home, i. 50.
1728 Enters Pembroke College, i. 58.
Translates Pope's _Messiah_, i. 61.
1729 Returns home, i. 78, n. 2.
1731 Death of his father, i. 80.
1732 Usher at Market Bosworth, i. 84.
1733 At Birmingham, i. 85, 86, n. 1.
1734 Returns to Lichfield, i. 89.
Publishes proposals for printing _Politian_, i. 90.
Returns to Birmingham, i. 90.
Offers to write for the _Gent. Mag_. i. 91.
1735 Publishes _Lobo's Abyssinia_, i. 87.
Marries Mrs. Porter and opens a school at Edial, i. 95, n. 2, 96.
1737 Visits London with Garrick, i. 101.
Returns to Lichfield and finishes _Irene_, i. 107.
Removes to London, i. 110.
1738 Becomes a writer in the _Gent. Mag_. i. 113.
_London_, i. 118.
Begins to translate Father Paul Sarpi's _History_, i. 135.
_Life of Father Paul Sarpi_, i. 139.
1739 Seeks the Mastership of Appleby School and the degree of
Master of Arts, i. 132-3.
_Life of Boorhaave_, i. 140.
_Marmor Norfolciense_, i. 141.
1740 _Lives of Blake, Drake, and Barretier_, i. 147.
Begins to write the _Debates_, i. 150.
1741 _Debates_, i. 150.
1742 _Debates_, i. 150.
_Lives of Barman and Sydenham_, i. 153.
_Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana_, i. 153.
1743 Finishes the Debates, i. 150.
1744 Life of Savage, i. 161.
1745 _Miscellaneous Observations on Macbeth_, i. 175.
Sketching outlines of his Dictionary, i. 176, 182, n. 3.
1746 Gets to know Levett, i. 243.
1747 _Prologue on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre_, i. 181.