1762 Pensioned, i. 372.
Trip to Devonshire, i. 377.
Cock Lane Ghost imposture exposed, i. 406.
1763 Gets to know Boswell, i. 391.
Trip to Harwich, i. 464.
Visits Oxford, iii. 451.
_Character of Collins_, i. 382.
_Life of Ascham_, i. 464.
1764 Visits Langton in Lincolnshire, i. 476.
Literary Club founded, i. 477.
Visits Dr. Percy at Easton Maudit, i. 486.
1765 Visits Cambridge, i. 487.
Becomes an LL.D. of Dublin, i. 488.
Suffers from a severe illness, i. 483, 520.
Gets to know the Thrales (either this year or in 1764),
i. 490, 520.
Engages in politics with W. G. Hamilton, i. 489.
Publishes his _Shakespeare_, i. 496.
Takes a house in Johnson's Court, ii. 5; iii. 405, n. 6.
1766 Contributes to Mrs. Williams's _Miscellanies_, ii. 25.
Spends more than three months at Streatham, ii. 25.
Visits Oxford, ii. 25.
1767 Interview with the King, ii. 33.
Spends near six months in Lichfield, ii. 30.
1768 _Prologue to the Good-Natured Man_. ii. 45.
Visits Oxford, iii. 452.
1769 Appointed Professor in Ancient Literature to the Royal Academy,
ii. 67.
Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 67; iii. 452.
Visits Brighton, ii. 68.
Appears as a witness at Baretti's trial, ii. 96.
1770 _The False Alarm_, ii. 111.
Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 452.
1771 _Falkland's Islands_, ii. 134.
Revises the _Dictionary_, ii. 143, n. 3.
Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 141.
1772 Revises the _Dictionary_, ii. 143, n. 3.
Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 452.
1773 Publishes the fourth edition of the _Dictionary_, ii. 203.
Attempts to learn the Low Dutch language, ii. 263.
Tour of Scotland, ii. 266; v. 1.
Visits Oxford, ii. 268.
Begins his _Journey to the Western Islands_, ii. 268.
1774 Death of Goldsmith, ii. 279, n. 2.
Tour to North Wales, ii. 285; v. 427.
Visits Burke at Beaconsfield, ii. 285, n. 3; v. 460.
_The Patriot_, ii. 286.
Finishes his _Journey to the Western Islands_, ii. 288.
1775 Publishes his _Journey to the Western Islands_, ii. 300.
_Taxation no Tyranny_, ii. 312.
Becomes an LL.D. of Oxford, ii. 331.
Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 381; iii. 452.
Tour to France, ii. 384.
1776 Visits Oxford, Lichfield, and Ashbourne with Boswell, ii. 438.
Projected tour to Italy abandoned, iii. 6.
Visits Bath, iii. 44.
First dinner with Wilkes, iii. 64.
Visits Brighton, iii. 92.
1777 Engages to write _The Lives of the Poets_, iii. 109.
Exerts himself in behalf of Dr. Dodd, iii. 139.
Meets Boswell at Ashbourne, iii. 135.
1778 Writing _The Lives of the Poets_, iii. 360.
Visits Warley Camp, iii. 360.
1779 Publishes the first four volumes of the _Lives_, iii. 370.
Writing the last six volumes, ib.
Death of Garrick, iii. 371.
Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 395.
1780 Writing the last six volumes of the _Lives_, iii. 418.
Death of Beauclerk, iii. 420.
Visits Brighton, iii. 453.
1781 Publishes the last six volumes of the _Lives_, iv. 34.
Death of Thrale. iv. 84.
Second dinner with Wilkes, iv. 101.
Visits Southill, iv. 118.
Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and Ashbourne, iv. 135.
1782 Death of Levett, iv. 137.
Visits Oxford, iv. 151.
Takes leave of Streatham, iv. 158.
Visits Brighton, iv. 159.
1783 Has a stroke of the palsy, iv. 227.
Visits Rochester, iv. 233.
Visits Heale, iv. 234.
Death of Mrs. Williams, iv. 235.
Threatened with a surgical operation, iv. 239.
Founds the Essex Head Club, iv. 253.
Attacked by spasmodic asthma, iv. 255.
1784 Confined by illness for 129 days, iv. 270, n. 1.
Visits Oxford with Boswell, iv. 283.
Projected tour to Italy, iv. 326.
Mrs. Thrale's second marriage, iv. 339.
Visits Lichfield, Ashbourne, Birmingham, and Oxford, iv. 353-377.
Death of Allen, iv. 354.
Death, iv. 417.
JOHNSON, Samuel,
abbreviations of his friends' names, ii. 258; iv. 273, n. 1;
Aberdeen, freeman of, v. 90;
abodes, list of his: see JOHNSON, habitations;
absence of mind: see JOHNSON, peculiarities;
abstinence easy to him, i. 103, n. 3, 468; iv. 72, 149, n. 3;
absurd stories told of him, i. 464;
abused in a newspaper, iv. 29;
accounts, resolves to keep, iv. 177, n. 3;
acquaintance, making new, iv. 374; ib., n. 4;
widely-varied, iii. 21 (see JOHNSON, society);
actors: see PLAYERS;
_Adversaria_, i. 205;
'agreeable, extremely,' ii. 141, n. 3;
alchymy, not a positive unbeliever in, ii. 376;
alertness, no, v. 308;
_Alfred, Life of_, projects a, i. 177;
alms-giving, i. 302, n. 1; ii. 119;
ambition, iii. 309;
Americans, feelings towards the: see AMERICA;
amused, easily, ii. 261; v. 249;
amusements, his, iii. 398;
ancestors, asked in the Highlands about his, v. 237, n. 2;
[Greek: Anax andron], i. 47;
anecdotes, love of: see ANECDOTES;
_Annales_: see JOHNSON, diary;
annihilation, horror of, iii. 295, 298, n. 1;
anniversaries, observed, i. 483;
anxiety about his writings, felt no, iii. 33;
apology, ready to make an, iv. 321,409, n. 1, 431;
_Apophthegms_, i. 190, n. 4;
Appius, compared by Burke to, iv. 374, n. 2;
Appleby School, applies for mastership of, i. 132;
apprentice, talking to an, ii. 323;
approbation, pleasure of, iv. 255, n. 2;
Arabic, wishes to study, iv. 28;
architecture and statuary, opinion of, ii. 439;
arguing before an audience, iii. 331; iv. 111, 324, 429;
Burke refers to it, iii. 24, n. 2;
butt end of the pistol, ii. 100; iv. 274; v. 292;
delight in it, ii. 452, n. 1;
described by Burke, iv. 316, n. 1;
Hamilton, iv. iii;
Reynolds, ii. 100, n. 1; iii. 81, n. 1;
Seaford, Lord, iv. 176, n. 1;
either side indifferently, ii. 105; iii. 24;
kick of the Tartar horse, ii. 100, n. 1;
promptitude for it, ii. 365; iii. 24, n. 1;
reasoned close or wide, iv. 429; v. 17;
rudeness, iii. 81, n. 1;
spirit of contradiction, v. 83, 222;
thinking which side he should take, iii. 24;
wrong side, on the, iii. 23; iv. iii, 429;
see JOHNSON, talk;
Argyll Street, room in, iv. 158, n. 4;
_Armiger_, i. 489; ii. 332, n. i;
art: see PAINTING;
art of making people talk of what they know best, v. 130;
assertions, love of contradicting, i. 410, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2;
attacked in the streets, ii. 299;
attacks, never but once replied to, i. 314;
enjoyed them, ii. 308, 363; iv. 55;
looked on them as part of his consequence, iv. 422; v. 400, n. 4:
see ATTACKS;
attendance, required the least, ii. 474, n. 3;
iv. 181, n. 1, 340, n. 3; v. 309, n. 2;
Auchinleck, hopes again to see, iv. 156, 264;
auction of his effects, i. 363, n. 3;
austere, but not morose, ii. 122;
author, an, without pen, ink, or paper, i. 350, n. 3;
authors asking his opinion: see AUTHORS;
autobiography, projects his, i. 26, n. 1;
awe, admiration, love, regarded with, v. 272;
awe of him, felt by Aberdeen professors, v. 92;
Lord B----, iv. 116, n. 1;
Englishmen of great eminence, iii. 85;
Fox, iii. 267;
at Mrs. Garrick's, iv. 99;
by Glasgow professors, v. 371;
at Allan Ramsay's, iii. 332;
by Dr. Robertson, v. 371;
by Scotch _literati_, ii. 63;
by a Welsh parson, v. 450, n. 2;
described, by Mdme. D'Arblay, v. 371, n. 2:
see below, JOHNSON, feared;
_Bacon, Life of_, projects a, iii. 194;
ball, goes to a, iv. 159, n. 3;
Baltic, wishes to go up the, ii. 288, n. 3; iii. 134, 454;
bargainer, bad,
_Rasselas_, i. 341;
_Lives of the Poets_, iii. 111, n. 1;
Barry's picture, introduced in, iv. 224, n. 1;
beadle within him, the, iii. 81;
bear, a,
Boswell's bear, ii. 269, n. i; v. 39, n. 4;
dancing bear, ii. 66;
Gibbon's sarcasm, ii. 348:
_He-bear_, iv. 113, n. 2;
'like a word in a catch,' ii. 347;
'nothing of the bear but his skin,' ii. 66;
_Ursa Major_, v. 384;
beats Osborne, the bookseller, i. 154;
'beat many a fellow,' i. 154, n. 2;
belabours his confessor, iv. 281:
belief, angry at attacks on his, iii. 111;
'believes nothing _but_ the Bible,' i. 147, n. 2;
benevolence, iii. 124, 222, 306, 368; iv. 278, 283;
to an outcast woman, iv. 321;
concealed, iv. 325;
Bible, reads the whole, ii. 189, n. 3;
reads the Greek Testament at 160 verses every Sunday, ii. 288;
bigotry, freedom from it, i. 405; ii. 150; iii. 188; iv. 410-1;
instance of it, v. 114, n. 2;
_Biographia Britannica_, asked to edit the, iii. 174;
biography, excellence in, i. 25, 256;
love of it: see BIOGRAPHY;
_Birmingham Journal_, writes for the, i. 85;
birth and rank, respect for, ii. l30, l53, 26l, 328; v. 103, 353;
birth and parentage, i. 34;
birth-day, disliked mention of his, at Ashbourne, iii. 157;
at Dunvegan, v. 222;
escaped from Streatham on it, iii. 398, n. 1;
cheerful entry in 1780, iii. 440;
gave a dinner on it in 1781, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. l35. n. 1;
in 1783, iv. 239, n. 2;
reflected on it, v. 457;
kept at Streatham, iii. 157, n. 3;
bishop, looks like a, v. 363;
bleeding, undergoes, iii. 104, 152, n. 3;
blood, irritability of his, iv. 190;
blushing, iii. 329;
Bolt-court, house--ii. 427;
drawing-room, iii. 316;
kitchen, iii. 461;
prints in his dining-room, iv. 202, n. 1;
silver salvers, iv. 92;
garden, ii. 427, n. 1; iii. 398;
stone-seats, iv. 203;
Boswell in it for the last time, iv. 337:
see JOHNSON, household;
bones, horror at, v. 169, 327;
books, bidding them farewell, iv. 359;
judgment as to their success, iv. 121;
loan of them, iv. 371, n. 2;
runs to them, ii. 365;
tears out their heart, iii. 284;
uses them slovenly, ii. 192:
see BOOKS, and JOHNSON, library;
book-binding, i. 56, n. 2;
booksellers, in a company of, iii. 311;
borrowed small sums, iv. 191;
BOSWELL: see BOSWELL and JOHNSON, letters;
bow to an Archbishop, iv. 198;
_bow-wow_ way, ii. 326, n. 5; v. 18, n. 1;
boxing, conversant in the art of, v. 229, n. 2;
breakfast, i. 243, n. 3; ii. 214, 376; iv. 171;
_in splendour_, iii. 400;
breeding, good, iii. 54, n. 1;
brother, his pretended, v. 295;
'buck, a young English,' v. 184, 261;
buffoonery, incomparable at, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2;
bull, made a, iv. 322;
Burke content to have rung the bell to him, iv. 26-7;
respect for him, iv. 318;
attacked by him, v. 15, n. 1:
see BURKE;
burlesque, turns a dispute into, iv. 80, n. 4;
business, love of,
Clarendon Press, ii. 441;
Dr. Taylor's law suit, iii. 44, n. 3; 51, n. 3;
Thrale's brewery, iv. 85, n. 2;
calculation, fondness for, i. 72; ii. 288-9, 344; iii. 207;
error in, ib. n. 3;
forgets to use it, iii. 226, n. 4;
'Caliban of literature,' ii. 129, 155, n. 2;
_called_, iv. 94;
candour, iv. 192, 239;
cards, wished he had learnt, iii. 23; v. 404;
careless of documents, v. 364;
caricatured, glad to be, v. 400, n. 4;
cat, Hodge, his, iv. 197;
catalogue of his works: see JOHNSON, works;
cathedrals, had seen most of the, iii. 107, 118, 456;
ceremonies of life, attentive to the, iii. 54, n. 1;
chambers: see JOHNSON, habitations;
Chancellor, Lord, might have been, iii. 310;
character, his,
drawn by himself, iii. 398, n. 3; iv. 45, 168, n. 2, 239;
by Baretti, iii. 429, n. 2;
Boswell, iv. 420, n. 3, 424-30; v. 17-19;
Burney, Miss, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 440, n. 1; iv. 245, n. 2, 426, n. 2;
Dodd, iii. 140, n. 2;
Hamilton, iv. 420;
Mickle, iv. 250;
Parr, iv. 47, n. 2;
at Ramsay's, iii. 331;
Reynolds: see REYNOLDS, Johnson;
Robertson, iii 331-2;
Taylor, iii. 150;
Towers, iv. 41, n. 1;
like Baker's character of James I, v. 12;
Bayle's of Menage, iv. 428, n. 2;
Boerhaave's, iv. 430, n. 1;
Clarendon's character of Falkland, iv. 428, n. 2;
Dryden's, i. 264, n. 1; iv. 45;
Harington's of Bishop Still, iv. 420, n. 3;
Milton's, i. 97, n. 2, 131, n. 2, 199, n. 3;
Savage's, i. 166, n. 4;
character, said by Baretti to be ignorant of, v. 17, n. 2;
characters, saw a great variety, iii. 20;
drew strong yet nice portraits, ib.;
too much in light and shade, ii. 306;
overcharged, iii. 332;
charity to the poor, iv. 132, 191:
see JOHNSON, Almsgiving;
_Charles of Sweden_, i. 153, n. 4;
chastity in his youth, i. 94;
Savage's example, i. 164; iv. 395-7;
chemistry, love of, i. 140, 436; iii. 398; iv. 237;
chief, would have made a good, v. 136, 143;
child, never wished to have a, iii. 29;
childhood, companions of his, iii. 131;
children, books for, iv. 8, n. 3;
children, love of little, iv. 196;
Christianity, projected work on, v. 89;
church,
attendances due at, i. 67, n. 2; iii. 401;
behaviour in it, ii. 214;
lateness in arriving at it, ii. 476; iii. 302, n. 1, 313, n, 1;
perturbation, without, at it, ii. 476;
some radiations of comfort at it, iii. 17, n. 2, 25, n. l;
reluctance to go to it, i. 67; ii. 142, n. 2, 214, n. 2;
resolutions at it, i. 500;
Church of England, devotion to the, iii. 331; iv. 426; v. 17;
church preferment, offer of, i. 320, 476; ii. 120;
civilized life in the Hebrides, longs for, v. 183;
clergymen should not be taught elocution, iv. 206;
Clerkenwell ale-house, i. 113, n. 1;
climb over a wall at Oxford, proposes to, i. 348;
Club, Literary, attendance, i. 480, n. 2; ii. 136; iii. 106, n. 4;
dislike of some of the members, iii. 106;
One of the founders, i. 477;
coach, on the top of a, i. 477;
cold, indifferent to, v. 306, 345;
colloquial barbarisms, repressed, iii. 196;
comfort, wants every, iv. 270;
common things, well-informed in, iv. 206;
'companion, a tremendous,' iii. 139;
companions of his youth, regrets the, iii. 180, n. 3;
company, loves, i. 144;
obliged to any man who visits him, i. 397;
proud to have his company desired, ii. 375, n. 4;
tries to persuade people to return, i. 490;
complaints, not given to, ii. 67, 357; iii. 3; iv. 116,172, n. 4;
complaisance, i. 82;
compliment, pleased with a, iv. 275; v. 401;
composition,
dictionary-making and poetry compared, v. 47, 418;
fair copies, never wrote, i. 71, n. 3; iii. 62, n. 1; iv. 36, 309;
_Johnsonese_, v. 145, n. 2;
reviewing, iv. 214;
time for it, ii. 119;
verses, counting his, iv. 219;
wrote by fits and starts, iv. 369;
only for money, i. 318, n. 5; iii. 19, n. 3;
not for pleasure, iv. 219;
rapidity, described by Courtenay, iv. 381, n. 1;
shown in his college exercises, i. 71;
_Debates_, i. 504;
_Hermit of Teneriffe_, i. 192, n. 1;
_Idler_, i. 331;
_Life of Savage_, forty-eight pages at a sitting, i. 166; v. 67;
_Ramblers_, i. 203;
_Rasselas_, i. 341;
sermons, v. 67;
translation from the French, iv. 127; v. 67;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 192; ii. 15;
confidence in his own abilities, i. 186;
conjecture, kept things floating in, iii. 324;
conscience, tenderness of his, i. 152;
consecrated ground, reverence for, v. 62, 170;
constant to those he employed, iv. 319;
Constantinople, wish to go to, iv. 28;
constitution, strength of his, iv. 256, n. 3;
_Construction of Fireworks_, v. 246, n. 1;
contraction of his friends' names, ii. 258; v. 308;
contradiction, actuated by its spirit, iii. 66; v. 387;
exasperated by it, ii. 122;
pleasure in it, in. 24;
conversation, antique statue, like an, iii. 317;
Bacon's precept, in conformity with, iv. 236;
colloquial pleasantry, iv. 428;
contest, a, ii. 450; iv. 111;
described by Hogarth, i. 147, n. 2;
Dr. King, ii. 95, n. 1;
E. Dilly, iii. 110;
Reynolds, iv. 184;
Malone, ib. n. 2;
Miss Burney and Mrs. Thrale, iv. 237, n. 1;
Macaulay, ib.;
Mrs. Piozzi, iv. 346;
Boswell, ib.;
elegant as his writing, ii. 95, n. 2; iv. 236, 428;
essential requisite for it, in want of an, iv. 166;
exact precision, ii. 434;
happiest kind, his view of the, iv. 50;
imaginary victories gained over him, iv. 168, n. 1;
