4.
VANE, Lady, v. 49, n. 4.
_Vanessa_, ii. 389, n. 1.
_Vanity of Human Wishes_,
account of it, i. 192-5;
price paid for it, i. 193, n. 1;
rapidly composed, i. 192; ii. 15;
written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192;
Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2;
Byron's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3;
death, 'kind nature's signal of retreat,' ii. 106;
De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3;
Garrick's sarcasm on it, i. 194;
Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3;
misery, 'the doom of man,' iii. 198; v. 179;
'Patron and the jail,' i. 264;
_Rasselas_, resemblance to, i. 342;
Scott's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3;
_spreads_ changed into _burns_, iii. 357-8;
Vane and Sedley, v. 49;
Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4.
VANSITTART, Dr.,
account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1;
story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2;
mentioned, ii. 192.
VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144.
VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163.
VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3.
VENICE,
Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1;
Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19;
mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3.
VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104.
_Veracious_, iv. 39, n. 3.
VERACITY. See TRUTH.
_Verbiage_ ii. 236; iii. 256.
_Verecundulus_, i. 68, n. 1.
VERNON'S Parish Clerk, v. 268, n. 1.
VERSAILLES, ii. 385, 395;
theatre, ii. 395, n. 2.
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