n his being a Papist, i. 476;
offers a living to, i. 320;
picture, would not sit for his, iv. 4;
stores of literature, his, iv. 27;
mentioned, i. 357; ii. 16.
LANGTON, Mrs. (Bennet Langton's mother), i. 325, 357, 476; ii. 146;
iv. 4, 268.
LANGTON, George (Bennet Langton's eldest son), i. 248, n. 1; ii. 282;
iv. 146.
LANGTON, Miss Jane (Bennet Langton's daughter),
Johnson's goddaughter, iii. 210, 11. 3; iv. 146, 268;
his letter to her, iv. 271.
LANGTON, Miss Mary (Bennet Langton's daughter), iv. 268.
LANGTON, Peregrine (Bennet Langton's uncle), ii. 17-19.
LANGTON, in Lincolnshire,
Johnson invited there, i. 288; ii. 142;
visits it, i. 476, 477, n. 1; ii. 17;
describes the house, v. 217.
LANGUAGES,
formed on manners, ii. 80;
origin, iv. 207;
pedigree of nations, ii. 28; v. 225;
scanty and inadequate, iv. 218;
speaking one imperfectly lets a man down, ii. 404;
writing verses in dead languages, ii. 371.
LANGUOR, following gaiety, iii. 199.
LANSDOWNE, Viscount (George Granville), _Drinking Song to Sleep_, i. 251.
LAPIDARY INSCRIPTIONS, ii. 407.
LAPLAND, i. 425; ii. 168, n, 1.
LAPLANDERS, v. 328.
LAPOUCHIN, Madame, iii. 340.
LASCARIS' _Grammar_, v. 459.
LAST, horror of the, i. 331, n. 7.
LATIN,
beauty of Latin verse, i. 460;
difficulty of mentioning in it modern names and titles, iv. 3, 10;
essential to a good education, i. 457;
few read it with pleasure, v. 80, n. 2;
modern Latin poetry, i. 90, n. 2;
pronunciation, ii. 404, n. 1.
See EPITAPHS.
_Latiner_, a, iv. 185, n. 1.
LA TROBE, Mr., iv. 410.
LAUD, Archbishop,
assists Lydiat, i. 194, n. 2;
_Diary_ quoted, ii. 214;
his Scotch Liturgy, ii. 163.
LAUDER, William,
account of his fraud about Milton, i. 228-231;
deceives Johnson, i. 229, 231, n. 2.
LAUDERDALE, Duke of, Burnet's dedication to him, v. 285.
LAUGHERS, time to be spent with them, iv. 183.
LAUGHTER,
a faculty which puzzles philosophers, ii. 378;
Chesterfield, Johnson, Pope and Swift on it, ib., n. 2;
laughing at a man to his face, iii. 338.
See JOHNSON, laugh.
LAUREL, the, i. 185.
LAUSANNE, iv. 167, n. 1.
LA VALLIERE, Mlle, de, v. 49, n. 3.
LAVATER'S _Essay on Physiognomy_, iv. 421, n. 2.
LAW, Archdeacon, iii. 416.
LAW, Edmund, Bishop of Carlisle,
Cambridge examinations, iii. 13, n. 3;
parentheses, loved, iii. 402, n. 1;
remarks on Pope's _Essay on Man_, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1.
LAW, Robert, Fellow of Trinity Colle