ct shown him by the corporation, iv. 372, n. 2;
defines it in his _Dictionary_, iv. 372;
hopes to set a good example, iv. 135;
house, i. 75; ii. 461; iv. 372, n. 2; 402, n. 2;
Latin verses to a stream, iii. 92, n, 1;
as Lord Lichfield, iii. 310;
loses three old friends, iv. 366;
monument in the Cathedral, iv. 423;
portrait admired there, ii. 141;
saucer in the Museum, iii. 220, n. 1;
theatre, tosses a man into the pit of the, ii. 299;
in love with an actress, ii. 464;
praises an actor, ii. 465;
attends it with Boswell, ii. 464-5, 471;
visits the town for the first time after living in London, i. 370;
last visit, iv. 372;
(for his other visits see iii. 450-3);
weary of it, ii. 52;
willow tree, iv. 372, n. 1;
lecture on experimental philosophy, v. 108;
manufactures, ii. 464;
oat ale and cakes, ii. 463;
people sober and genteel, ii. 463;
population in 1781, iii. 450;
Prerogative Court, i. 81, 101;
Sacheverell preaches there, i. 39, n. 1;
_Salve, magna parens_, iv. 372;
school, account of it in Johnson's time, i. 43-9;
compared with Stourbridge School, i. 50;
buildings dilapidated, i. 45, n. 4;
endowment, v. 445, n. 3;
famous scholars, i. 45;
service for a sick woman, v. 444;
Seward's, Miss, verses on it, iv. 331;
St. Mary's Church repaired, i. 67;
Johnson attends it in 1776, ii. 466;
St. Michael's Church, graves of Johnson's parents and brother, iv. 393;
Stowhill, ii. 470; iii. 412;
Swan Inn, v. 428;
Thrales, the, visit it in 1774 with Johnson, v. 428, 440, n. 2;
Three Crowns Inn, ii. 461; iii. 411;
_Warner's Tour_, iv. 373, n. 1.
LICHFIELD, fourth Earl of, iii. 309.
LICHFIELD, Leonard, an Oxford bookseller, i. 61, n. 3.
LIDDELL, Sir Henry, ii. 168, n. 1.
LIES,
'Consecrated lies,' i. 355;
disarm their own force, ii. 221;
Johnson's _Adventurer_ on lying, ii. 221, n. 2;
use of the word _lie_, iv. 49;
lying to the public, ii. 223;
servants 'not at home,' i. 436;
to the sick, iv. 306;
of vanity, iv. 167:
See FALSEHOOD and TRUTH.
LIFE,
changes in its form desirable at times, iii. 128;
changes in its modes, ii. 96: See under MANNERS;
choice, few have any, iii. 363;
just choice impossible, ii. 22, 114;
climate, not affected by, ii. 195;
composed of small incidents, i. 433, n. 4; ii. 359, n. 2;
domestick life little touched by public af