to go with Captain Cook, iii. 7;
to go to the wall of China, iii. 269;
feudal, iii. 178; v. 223;
genealogical, v. 379;
envy of Dundas's success, ii. 160, n. 1;
_Epistle from Menalcas to Lycidas_, i. 383, n. 3;
_Essays_, his, iv. 179;
_Essence of the Douglas Cause_, ii. 230, n. 1;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, n. 2;
estate, income of his, iv. 154, n. i; 155, n. 4;
Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4;
exact likeness, draws an, i. 486;
executions, love of seeing, ii. 93, n. 3; iii. 384, n. 1; iv. 328;
executors, his, iii. 301, n. 1;
'facility of manners,' v. 19, n. 1;
fame, ardour for literary, ii. 69, n. 3; iv. 50, n. 2;
fancies that he is neglected, ii. 384; iii. 44, 135;
that Johnson is ill or offended, ii. 410;
that his wife or children are ill, iii. 4;
at Stains Castle, v. 105;
in a Highland inn, v. 139;
farm, purchases a, iii. 207;
father, his (Lord Auchinleck), death, iv. 154;
disagreement with, i. 346, n. 2; ii. 311, n. 1; iii. 95;
about heirs general and male, ii. 414-5; iii. 86;
uneasy with him, i. 426;
a timid boy in his presence, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 93, n. 1;
on better terms with him, iii. 93, 95, 108, 212, 368, 442;
dulls his faculties by strong beer before him, ii. 382, n. 1;
Johnson, reproached by him as regards, ii. 381,72. i; v. 384, n. 1;
Johnson's advice about him, iii. 417;
likeness to him in face, v. 84;
feelings, avows his ardent, ii. 69;
'fervour of Loyalty,' iii. 113;
fees made before the House of Lords, ii. 377, n. 1;
feudal system, love of the, ii. 177; iii. 178;
feudal enthusiasm, his, v. 223: see SUCCESSION, male;
forwardness, ii. 449;
Franklin, Dr., dines with him, ii. 59, n. 3;
Free-will, love of discussing: see FREE-WILL;
'gab like Boswell,' v. 52, n. 4;
Garrick, friendship with, iii. 371:
see above, under Correspondence;
genealogist, a, iii. 271, n. 5;
George III, relation to, v. 379;
ghosts, talks of, iv. 94, n. 2;
disturbed by the cry of one, v. 237, n. 2;
fearful of them, v. 327, n. 1;
Gibbon, dislike of: see GIBBON, Edward;
Glasgow University, a student of, i. 465;
god, makes another man his, v. 129, n. 1;
Goldsmith's lodgings, visits, ii. 182;
takes leave of him, ii. 260;
affected by his death, ii. 279, n. 2;
good-nature, described by Burke, iii. 362, n. 2;
great men, hopes from, iii. 80, n. 2;
Burke, iv. 223, 249, n. 1, 258, n. 2;
Lonsdale, Lord, ii. 10, n. 1; iv. 220, n. 4;
Pembroke, Lord, ii. 371, n. 3, iii. 80, n. 2;
Pitt, iv. 261, n. 3;
Rockingham ministry, iv. 148;
seeking great men's acquaintance, iii. 189; v. 215-6;
_Great man_, really the, ii. 59, n. 3, 83, n. 1;
quite the _great man_, iii. 396, n. 2, 413, n. 4;
Greek, ignorance of, iii. 407;
'Griffith, an honest chronicler as,' i. 24;
guardians to his children, iii. 400;
Hague, at the, v. 25, n. 2;
Handel musical meeting, at the, iv. 283, 285-6;
happiest days, one of his, iv. 96-7;
Hebrides, first talk of visiting the, i. 450; ii. 291;
_homme grave_, ii. 3, n. 1;
Horne Tooke, altercation with, iii. 354, n. 2;
house in Edinburgh, his, iii. 155; v. 22, n. 2;
Hume, intimacy with, ii. 59, n. 3, 437, n. 2;
has memoirs of him, v. 30;
humorous vein, v. 409;
_Hypochondriack, The_, iv. 179, n. 5;
hypochrondria, suffers from, i. 65, n. 1, 343; ii. 381, n. 1, 423;
iii. 86-9, 215, 366, 418; iv. 379;
pride in it, i. 65, n. 1; iii. 87, 421;
'hypocrisy of misery,' his, iv. 71;
idleness, i. 465;
imaginary ills: See FANCIES;
imagination, should correct his, iii. 363;
independency of spirit, v. 305;
infidelity, his, in his youth, i. 404;
says that 'it causes _ennui_,' ii. 442, n. 1;
infidels, keeping company with, iii. 409;
intellectual excesses, iii. 416;
'intoxicated not drunk,' ii. 436, n. 1:
See below, WINE;
Ireland, visits, ii. 156, n. 3;
isthmus, compares himself to an, ii. 80;
Italy, visits, ii. 11, 54;
Jacobitism when a boy, i. 431, n. 1;
associations connected with it, v. 140;
January 30, old port and solemn talk on, iii. 371;
Jeffrey, helped to bed by, v. 24, n. 4;
Jockey Club, member of the, i. 383, n. 3;
Johnson's acquaintance, makes, i. 391; ii. 349;
and calls on him, i. 395;
under his roof for the last time, iv. 337;
last talk, ib.;
last farewell, iv. 339;
advice on his coming into his property, iv. 155;
advises him to stay at home in 1782, iv. 155;
affection, tries an experiment on, iii. 394-7;
assigns him a room in his house, ii. 376; iii. 104, 222;
company, time spent in, i. 11, n. 1;
complains of the length of his letters, iii. 86, n. 4;
constant respectful attention to, ii. 357;
consulted about America by, ii. 292, 312;
conversation reported at first with difficulty, i. 421;
copartnership in the tour to the Hebrides with, v. 264, 278;
_Custos Rotulorum_, offers himself as, v. 364;
describes him as 'worthy and religious,' iii. 394;
_Diary_, reads, iv. 405-6;
regrets that Mrs. Boswell did not copy it, v. 53;
differed in politics on two points only from, iii. 221; iv. 259;
dines for the first time at the house of, ii, 215;
drawn by him as too 'awful,' ii. 262, n. 2;
regrets losing some of his awe, iii. 225;
easier with him than with almost any body, iv. 194;
encourages him to turn author, i. 410;
not encouraged to share reputation with, ii. 300, n. 2;
exhorts him to plant, v. 380;
faults, does not hide, i. 30; iii. 275, n. 2;
firmness, supported by, v. 154;
gaps in correspondence with, ii. 1, 43, 116, 140; iii. 394-5;
gives him _Les Pensees de Paschal_, iii. 380;
gives him a thousand pounds in praise, iii. 382;
his guest for the first time, i. 422;
his 'Guide, Philosopher, and Friend,' iii. 6; iv. 122, 420;
imitates, ii. 326, n. 2; iv. 1, n. 2;
invited to visit Scotland, ii. 51, 201, 232,264;
joins in his bond at the Temple, ii. 375, n. 4;
_Journey_, reads in one night, ii. 290;
projects a Supplement to it, ii. 300, n. 2;
keeps him up late drinking port, i. 434; iii. 381;
leads, to talk, i. 6, n. 2, 398, n. 2; ii. 187; iii. 39; v. 159,
264, 278;
letters to, ii. 2, 20, 22, 58, 107, 139, 141, 144, 203, 269, 270,
278, 279, 283-4, 290, 293, 295, 308, 380, 386, 406, 410, 422; iii. 86,
89, 91, 101, 105, 106, 107, 116, 122, n. 2, 126, 129, 132, 209, 211,
215, 219-222, 277, 359, 371, 391, 395, 411, 415, 433, 438; iv. 259, 379,
380;
three letters kept back, ii. 3, n. 1; iii. 118, 122;
keeps his letters, ii. 2;
life, would add ten of his years to, iii. 438;
love for, iii. 105; iv. 226, 259, n. 2, 337; v. 19;
love for him, i. 405, 434, n. 1, 450, 462; ii. 3, 70,
iii. 145, 205, 266, 359, 375, n. 4, 377, n. i, 383-4, 411;
iii. 80, 86, 105, 123, 135, 198, 210, 215, 216, 312, 362, 391, 413-4,
435, 439, 442; iv. 71, 81, n. 3, 166, 226, 337, 379, 380; v. 398;
loved by him and Mrs. Thrale, ii. 427;
monument, circular-letter about, iv. 423, n. 1;
projected monument at Auchinleck, v. 380;
mysterious veneration for, i. 384;
necessity of a yearly interview with, iii. 118, 127;
neglects to write to, iii. 394-7; iv. 380;
offended and reconciled, ii. 107, 109;
heated in a talk about America, iii. 205-7, 221;
a second time, iii. 315;
a week's separation, iii. 337;
reconciliation, iii. 338;
dispute about effects of vice on character, ii. 350;
in a violent passion on Rattakin, v. 145;
reconciliation, v. 147;
offers to write a history of his family, iv. 198;
pension, tries for an addition to, iv. 326-8, 336-9, 348;
poems, projects an edition of, i. 16, n. 1; iv. 381, n. 1;
praises him for vivacity, iii. 135, n. 2;
good-humour, iii. 208, n. 1;
as a travelling companion, iii. 294; v. 52;
as one sure of a reception, v. 134, n. 2;
proposes a meeting in 1780 with, iii. 424, 439, 441;
proposes that they should meet one day every week, ii. 359;
iii. 122, n. 2;
proposes weekly correspondence with, iii. 399;
publishes without leave a letter from, ii. 3, n. 2, 46, 58;
may publish all after--death, 60;
recommended to a lady client by, ii. 277;
sadness in parting with, ii. 263; iii. 196;
says that to lose him would be a limb amputated, iv. 81, n. 3;
tries, by not writing, iii. 394-7;
visits Harwich with, i. 464;
the Hebrides, v. 1-416;
Oxford, ii. 46;
Oxford and the Midland Counties, ii. 438;
Bath, iii. 45-51;
Ashbourne, iii. 135-208;
Southill, iv. 118-132;
Oxford, 283-311;
visits him ill in bed, iii. 391;
and Wilkes together, brings, iii. 64-79;
a successful negotiation, iii. 79;
will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
witty at his expense, i. 3; ii. 187; v. 216;
yearly meeting with, need of a, iii. 439;
Johnson's Court, veneration for, ii. 229;
Journal, in his youth keeps a, i. 433;
by the advice of Mr. Lowe, ii. 159, n, 4;
accuracy, its, asserted, ii. 65, n. 2;
'exact transcript of conversations,' v. 414;
justification for keeping it, ib.;
entries in it made in company, i. 6, n. 2; iv. 318, n. 1, 343;
method of keeping it, v. 272;
kept with industry, i. 5-6;
four nights in one week given to it, i. 461-2;
neglected, i. 6, n. 2; ii. 47, n. 2, 71, 352, n. 1, 372;
iii. 354, 375, 376; iv. 88, n. 1, l00, 110, 274, n. 5, 311;
v. 360, 374, 394, 398;
advised by Johnson to keep one, i. 433;
Johnson pleased with it, iii. 260;
helps to record a conversation, ib.; v. 307;
reminded that it is kept, iii. 439;
kept in quarto and octavo volumes, iv. 83;
Journal of his visit to Ashbourne, iii. 208;
Johnson's remark on it, iii. 209, n. 3;
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, extensive circulation, ii. 267;
in spite of ridicule, iii. 190;
editions and translation, ii. 267, n. 3; v. 3, n. 1;
corrections made in part of first edition, v. 245, n. 2;
passages omitted in the later editions, v. 148, n. 1, 381, n. 4,
387, n. 4, 388, n. 2, 415, n. 4;
'an honest chronicler as Griffith,' i. 24, n. 1;
attacks on it, v. 3;
Johnson's life, exact picture of a portion of, v. 279;
praised by him, i. 24, n. 1;
motto, iii. 190, n. 1;
read in MS. by Johnson, ii. 383, n. 2; v. 58, n. 2, 226, 245, n. 2,
262, 277, 307, 360, n. 4;
by Mrs. Thrale, ii. 383; v. 245, n. 2;
and Malone, v. 1;
task of much labour, v. 227;
juxtaposition of stories and names, iii. 40, n. 3;
Knight-errant, feels like a, v. 355;
knowledge at the age of twenty-five, ii. 9;
Laird, seen as a, iv. 164;
Lancaster Assizes, at, iii. 261, n. 2;
Latin corrected by Johnson, ii. 20;
defended, ii. 23;
talked Latin in Highland houses, v. 321;
law, ignorance of, ii. 21, n. 4; v. 108, n. 2;
study of it, i. 400, 427;
professor of it in the imaginary college, v. 108;
lawyer, unwilling to become a, i. 400, 427;
lay-patron, a, ii. 246;
learning, praises his own, v. 52, n. 3;
_Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation_
(1783), iv. 258, 260-1;
sent to Pitt, ib., n. 3;
_Letter to the People of Scotland against diminishing the number of
the Lords of Session_ (1785),
Burke, Edmund, mentioned, iv. 173, n. 1;
George III, i. 219, n. 3;
Goldsmith and Reynolds, i. 417, n. 1;
juries judges of the law, iii. 16, n. 1;
Lee, 'Jack,' iii. 224, n. 1;
'Montgomerie, a true,' his wife, ii. 140, n. 1;
Thurlow, Lord, iv. 179, n. 2;
universal man, Boswell a very, iii. 375, n. 2;
vanity, owns his, i. 12, n. 2;
Whitefield, ii. 79, n. 4;
Wilkes, iii. 64, n. 3; v. 339, n. 5;
letters: see CORRESPONDENCE;
letters, reasons for inserting his own, v. 16;
Liberty and Necessity, troubled by, iv. 71;
Lichfield, visits in 1776, ii. 461;
shown real 'civility' there, iii. 77;
visits it in 1779, iii. 411;
life, reflections on, iii. 164-6;
Life of Johnson, _additions_ to it, i. 10;
Advertisement of it in the _Tour to the Hebrides_, v. 421;
cancels, i. 520; ii. 2, n. 1;
delayed by dissipation, i. 5, n. 2;
Johnson approves of him as his biographer, i. 26; ii. 166, 217;
iii. 196; v. 312;
'claws,' would not cut off his, i. 30, n. 4;
death and character, how to describe his, iv. 399, n. 1;
mode in which it is written, i. 30, n. 1;
'new kind of libel,' iv. 30, n. 2;
printed by H. Baldwin: see BALDWIN;
Odyssey, like the, i. 12;
progress and sale, i. 9, n. 3 and 10; iv. 399, n. 1;
translated, never, v. 3, n. 1;
likes, a man whom everybody, iii. 362;
Literary Club, a member of the, i. 478, n. 3, 481, n. 3;
proposed by Johnson, ii. 235; v. 76;
elected, ii. 240;
Johnson's charge, ib.;
how he got in, v. 76;
for meetings: see CLUBS, Literary;
lodgings, his London, Downing Street, i. 422;
Farrar's Buildings, i. 437, 463. n. 3;
Half-Moon Street, ii. 46, n. 2; 59;
Old Bond Street, ii. 82;
Conduit Street, ii. 166;
Piccadilly, 219;
Gerrard Street, iii. 51, n. 3;
General Paoli's in South Audley Street, iii. 35, 324;
Inner Temple Lane, chambers in, iii. 179, n. 1;
London, expedition to it highly improving, ii. 311, n. 1;
increased spirits there, iii. 246;
Johnson consulted about a visit to it, ii. 275-7;
agrees to his removing to it, iv. 351;
love of it, i. 463; ii. 275; iii. 5, 176, 363;
London, visits, in 1760, i. 385;
1762-3, i. 385-464;
1766, ii. 4-15;
1768, ii. 46-66;
1769, ii. 68-111;
1772, ii. 146-200;
1773, ii. 209-263;
1775, ii. 311-377;
1776, ii. 427-475, iii. 1-80;
(in 1777 Boswell met Johnson in Ashbourne, iii. 135-208);
1778, iii. 222-359;
1779, spring, iii. 373-394;
autumn, iii. 400-411;
1781, iv. 71-118;
1783, iv. 164-226;
1784 (sets out in March but turns back at York, iv. 265), 271-339;
Lonsdale, pays court to Lord, ii. 10, n. 1;
brutality, suffers from, ii. 179, n. 3;
looks forward to his future worth, ii. 58, n. 3;
loose life, his, ii. 46, n. 1, 47, n. 2, 58, n. 3, 170, 352, n. 1;
manners, want of, ii. 475;
manuscripts, his, destroyed by his executors, iii. 301, n. 1; 344, n. 1;
v. 30, n. 2;
marriage, approaching, ii. 68, 70, 76, 110;
takes place, ii. 140;
thinks of a second one, iii. 199, n. 1;
masquerade, at a, ii. 205;
_Matrimonial Thought_, ii. 110;
melancholy: see above, Hypochondria;
military life, love of, i. 400; iii. 413, n. 4;
mind 'somewhat dark,' ii. 381;
'mingles vice and virtue,' ii. 246;
mob, reported to have headed a, ii. 50, n. 4;
Montagu, Mrs., quarrel with, iv. 64;
mother-in-law, his, ii. 377, n. 1;
Mountstuart, Lord, friendship with, iv. 128;
music, made a fool of by, iii. 197-8;
mystery, love of, iii. 225;
and the mysterious, iv. 94, n. 2;
Naples, at, v. 54;
narrowness, troubled with a fit of, iv. 191;
nature, no relish for the beauties of, i. 461;
'never left a house without leaving a wish for his return,' iii. 412;
newspapers, inserted notices of himself in the, ii. 46, n. 2, 71, n. 2;
noble friend, puzzled by a, iv. 209;
objects on the road, not observant of, iv. 311;
_Ode to Tragedy_, i. 383, n. 3; v. 51, n. 3;
Oglethorpe, flattered by, ii. 59, n. 1 and 3;
old-fashioned principles, v. 131;
'old-hock humour,' i. 383, n. 3; ii. 436, n. i;
ostentatious, i. 465;
Oxford, visits, in 1768, ii. 46;
in 1776, ii. 438;
in 1784, iv. 283-311;
'_Paoli_ Boswell,' known as, v. l23;
'the friend of Paoli,' i. 426, n. 3; ii. 58, n. 3; 59, n. 3;
attention to him, beautiful, iii. 51, n. 3;
guest in London, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 35, 51, n. 3;
present of books to, ii. 61;
parliament, wishes to be in, iv. 220, 267;
perfection, periods fixed for arriving at his, ii. 46, n. 1; v. 337;
piety, exalted in, ii. 360, n. 2;
Pitt's neglect, complains of, iii. 213, n. 1;
dislikes him, iii. 464;
writes to him, iv. 261, n. 3;
place, longing for a, i. 5, n. 2; ii. 381, n. 1;
players, intimacy with, iii. 413, n. 4;
plays his part admirably, iii. 413;
'all mind, iii. 415;
pleasing distraction, in a, iii. 256;
political speculation, owns himself unfit for, ii. 312, n. 4;
portrait by Reynolds, i. 2, n. 2;
_Praeses_, elected, iv. 248;
preached at in Inverness chapel, v. 128;
_Quare adhaesit pavimento_, iii. 261, n. 2;
quotations sometimes inaccurate, i. 7, n. 1;
quotes himself, v. 204, n. 1, 348, n. 4;
changes words, ii. 45, n. 3;
_Rasselas_, yearly reading of, i. 342;
read, promises Johnson to, ii. 377, n. 1, 378, n. 1;
sat up all night reading Gray, ii. 335, n. 2;
reads Ovid's _Epistles_, v. 295;
reserve, practises some, i. 4; ii. 84, n. 3;
retaliates for attacks on Johnson made by Lord Monboddo, ii. 74, n. 2;
by Foote, ii. 95, n. 2;
Reynolds, introduced to, i. 417, n. 1: See REYNOLDS, Boswell;
ridicule, defies, i. 33; iii. 190;
right-headed, said by Baretti to be not, iii. 135, n. 2;
Rousseau, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2;
visits him, ii. 11-12, 215;
sympathy with him, ii. II, n. 3;
Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1;
