Pope, iv. 307;
_Miscellany_, ib., n. 3.
LEWIS, Dean, i. 370, n. 1, 382.
LEWIS, F., translates mottoes for the _Rambler_, i. 225.
LEWSON, Mrs., iii. 425.
LEXICOGRAPHER,
defined, i. 296;
Bolingbroke's anecdote of one, ib., n. 3;
referred to in the _Rambler_, i. 189, n. 1.
LEXIPHANES, ii. 44.
LEYDEN, iv. 241; v. 376.
LIBELS,
actions for them, iii. 64;
dead, on the, iii. 15;
England and America, in, i. 116, n. 1;
Fox's Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1;
juries, judges of the law, iii. 16, n. 1;
refuse to convict, i. 116, n. 1;
pulpit, from the, iii. 58;
severe law against libels, i. 124, n. 1.
LIBERTY,
all _boys_ love it, iii. 383;
clamours for it, i. 131, n. 1; iii. 201, n, 1;
conscience, of, ii. 249; iv. 216;
destroying a portion of it without necessity, iii. 224;
liberty and licentiousness, ii. 130;
luxury, effects of, ii. 170;
political and private, ii. 60, 170;
press, of the: See PRESS;
pulpit, of the, iii. 59;
_taedium vitae_, kept off by the notion of it, i. 394;
teaching, of, ii. 249; iv. 216;
thinking, preaching, and acting, of, ii. 252.
LIBERTY and Necessity. See FREE WILL.
LIBRARIES,
Johnson helps in forming the King's library, ii. 33, n. 4;
describes the Oxford libraries, ii. 35, 67, n. 2;
key of one always lost, v. 65;
_Stall Library_, iii. 91.
LICENSING ACT for plays, i. 141, n. 1.
LICHFIELD,
ale, ii. 461; iv. 97;
antiquities, iv. 369;
_Beaux Stratagem_, scene of the, ii. 461, n. 3;
Bishop's palace, ii. 467;
Boswell and Johnson visit it in 1776, ii. 461;
Boswell shown real 'civility,' iii. 77;
Boswell visits it in 1779, iii. 411-2;
boys dipped in the font, i. 91, n. 1;
Cathedral, i. 81, n. 2; ii. 466; v. 456;
Johnson in the porch, ii. 466, n. 3;
city of philosophers, ii. 464;
city and county in itself, i. 36, n. 4;
coach-journey from London, i. 340, n. 1;
postchaise, iii. 411;
Darwin's house, v. 428, n. 3;
drunk, all the _decent_ people got, v. 59;
English spoken there, purity of the, ii. 463-4;
_Evelina_ not heard of there, ii. 463, n. 4;
Friary, The, ii. 466; iii. 412;
George Inn, iii. 411;
Green's museum, ii. 465; iii. 412; v. 428;
Hospital, v. 445;
Hutton describes the town in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
Jacobite fox-hunt, iii. 326, n. 1;
Johnson, Michael, a magistrate, i, 36; ii. 322, n. 1;
Johnson, his barber, ii. 52, n. 2;
beloved in his native city, ii. 469;
respe