Humility illustrated by the rain-drop, 344.
Hunt, Leigh, tribute to Händel, 228; on pseudo-Christianity, 364; remark on Lamb, 383.
Hyacinthe, the church of the future, 366.
Ideas, the few great, remain about the same, 157.
Ignorance, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 240, 352.
Incledon, stories of Garrick and Foote, 77.
Irving, on the habit of criticising government, 25; small returns from his writings, 133; an observation on Goldsmith, 187; modesty and diffidence of, 239; called a vagabond by a neighbor, 239; stealing his own apples, 239; of elaborating humor, 316; circumstances under which he composed the History of New York, 319.
Java, flowers, fruits, and trees of, 301.
Jeffreys, portrait and conduct of, 189; influence over Sir Matthew Hale, 247.
Jerome, St., legend of St. John recorded by, 359.
Jerrold, Douglas, his dislike of the theatre behind the scenes, 1; of the practical benevolence of a London tradesman, 81; ambitious to write a treatise on philosophy, 261; the Caudle Lectures, 316.
Joan of Arc, Shakespeare's and Schiller's, 174.
Johnson, reply to Boswell as to the indecency of a statue, 1; his opinion of remarks by Orrery and Delany on Swift, 2; his hatred of baby-talk, 50; a remark on marriage, 62; opinion of feeling people, 98; opinion of levelers, 105; Life of, at first slow of sale, 133; Cumberland on, 142; how he was once made happy, 143; opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146; criticises Swift, Gray, and Sterne, 146; opinion of Lycidas, 147; a neglect of the great, 151; of Shakespeare, 152; Dr. Campbell's estimate of, 153; remark to Mrs. Macaulay, 168; version of Pope's Messiah, 176; reviewer's remark on, 190; painter's confession to, 199; of Demosthenes Taylor, 212; tribute to Savage, 236; poverty and companionships of, 243; belief in ghosts, 243; a peculiarity of, 244; a famous speech of Pitt, 248; speeches of Chesterfield, 248; collected sermons, 248; a number of the Rambler, 248; Ramblers written rapidly, 248; confidence in Psalmanazar, 250; bigotry of, 257; learned Dutch after he was seventy, 267; first acting of Goldsmith's comedy, 270; melancholy of, 316; of Pope and his writings, 317; of Young and his writings, 317; of the Christian religion, 370.