city, a 661
city-poet 559
civil law 78
‘civility’ 343, 560
‘civilization’ 343
civilized life, see savages; society
Clarendon Press 491–3, 500
claret 704–5, 729, 808
clergy/clergymen 172, 228, 251, 340, 352, 536, 596, 760, 769, 806, 877; see also curates; preaching
clergyman 71, 228, 329, 759, 848–9, 928
clients 287; see also law
climate 363
clothes, see dress Club, the 251–3, 251–2, 269, 271 n. a, 332, 385, 387–8, 397–8, 407, 408, 416, 433–4, 439, 446–8, 498, 562, 576, 583, 591, 637, 648–52, 667, 675, 686, 721, 723, 730–31, 753, 768, 769, 806, 811, 861, 865, 890 n. a, 903, 942–3, 999, 1002 n. a
‘clubable’ 903 n. a
clubs 121, 811, 904
coaches and coaching 245, 592, 920; see also post-chaise
Coalition Ministry 861
Cock-Lane Ghost 15 n. 13, 216, 667
‘coddle, to’ 311
coffee, S.J. drinks, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: coffee
coffee-house critics 157
coin, exportation of 820–21
colds 289, 341
collections 821–2
College of Physicians, London 422
college tutor, an old 386
colleges, see Index of Places: Oxford
colloquial barbarisms 629
colours 361
comedy 308, 384
Commandments 97
commentaries, biblical 547
commerce 354, 452, 619; see also trade
commissaries 623
Committee for Cloathing French Prisoners of War 189
Common Council 348
common people, see people, the
Commons, Doctors’, see Doctors’ Commons
Commons, House of, see debates in Parliament; House of Commons
communion of saints 924
community of goods 395; see also Index of Places: Trevecca
commutation of sins and virtues 987
company 236, 623, 781, 813–14; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
complaints 452, 723
compliments 609, 654, 948
composition 113, 178, 386, 446, 498, 768, 769, 884; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson IV
conceit of parts 694
concoction, of a play 664
condescension 765
conduct 805, 963
confession 313, 549
conge d’elire 942
‘conglobulate’ 291
Congress 430, 481, 920
conjecture 399
conjugal infidelity 291, 531, 712, 742
conscience 389, 394
consolation 267
Constitution, the 500
Constitutional Society, the 693
constructive treason 812
‘consultus’ 675
content 654
‘continuity’ 750
contradiction 731, 918
controversies 501, 524
convents, see monasteries conversation 383, 385, 453, 454, 501–2, 504, 539, 547, 689, 772, 790, 810, 813–14, 857, 863, 867, 870, 883; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
conversions 44, 314, 647
convicts 148, 414 n. a, 430, 668, 833 n. a, 945
convocation 244, 917
cookery, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I; Others: Glasse,
Hannah
‘copy’ 540
copy-money 610
copyright 184 n. b, 231, 399, 446, 579, 724
corn 329, 646, 649, 938
Cornish fishermen 808
‘corps’ 388 n. b corpulency 881
cottage, happiness in a, see rustic happiness and virtue
Council of Trent 314
countess 915
counting 777, 875
country gentlemen 362, 619, 620, 649, 650, 658, 765, 856, 875, 885
country life 172, 619, 661, 714, 949
courage 444, 667, 680, 928
court 178, 266, 943
Court of Session, the supreme judicial tribunal of Scotland 145, 359, 364, 367, 370, 402, 418 n. a, 460, 461, 548, 565, 632, 638, 834
courting the great 76
courts-martial 719, 769
Covent Garden Theatre 371, 582, 582 n. a
‘covin’, defined 366
cow 359–60, 564 n. a
cowardice 699
‘coxcomb’ 328, 656 n. a
‘cross-readings’ 941
Crown, the 321, 351, 450, 451, 521, 607, 748 n. b, 884
cucumbers 769
‘cui bono’ man 825
Culloden, battle of 227, 405
curates 352, 596
curiosity 53, 873
currants 877
dancing 809
Darius’s shade 771
‘dawdle’ 752 n. d, 833
‘dawling’ 752
day-labourers 862
dead, the 118–19, 130, 132, 347, 526, 840
deafness, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: hearing
death 130, 181, 195, 307, 314–15, 422, 605–6, 607, 682–3, 886, 917; see also Index of Persons: Johnson I
debates in Parliament 11, 68–9, 79, 86–8, 91, 101, 333–4, 714, 937–8, 994
debtor 165, 850
debts 185, 560, 590; for S.J.’s warnings to J.B., see Index of Persons, Boswell II: debts
dedications 262, 821 n. a.; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson IV; Boswell IV
definition 656
degeneracy of mankind 376
deist 265, 453
delay, danger of 175
‘dementat ‘ 865
description 873
despondency 825
despotic governments 676
Dettingen, battle of 769
devils 682, 924
devotion 266, 887
dexterity 649
dial 115
Dictionary 160, 307, 346, 628; for dictionary-making, see Index of Works and Literary Characters: Dictionary of the English Language
dinner 61, 189, 304, 308, 547, 884; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: dinners; eating
discipline 29–30
diseases 849
dislike 752
disputes 623
Dissenters 168, 371, 617 n. a.; see also Methodists; Presbyterians; Unitarians
dissimulation 287
distance 516
distinctions 249, 716
distresses of others 308
distrust 595
divorces 712
‘dockers’ 201
doctor, title of 256, 325, 460–61; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: doctor; Others: Memis, Dr John
Doctors’ Commons 78, 243
‘dog’ 28 n. b, 290
dogs 309, 384; for dog of Alcibiades, see Alcibiades
double letters, see post
Douglas Cause, see under Index of Persons, Boswell IV
‘down, to’ 704
Drake, the 339
drama, the English 896–9
draughts, game of 171, 502; see also Index of Persons, Others: Payne, William
dreams 130, 357, 765
dress 28, 112, 303, 519, 864; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
drinking 655, 733 n. a; see also drunkenness; wine
drunkenness 449, 498, 614, 729, 733; see also intoxication
Drury Lane Theatre 66, 88, 103, 110–111, 112, 126–7, 436, 658, 664, 766, 861, 937
duck, epitaph on a 27
ducking-stool 679
duelling and duels 355, 380, 879
duke 217, 233
dull fellow 327, 937
dunces 304
Dutch: the language (usually Low Dutch) 371, 401, 651, 774; the people, see Holland
early rising, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: rising; Boswell II: early rising
earthquake 595
East Indians 707
Easter 401; see also under Index of
Persons, Johnson I
eating, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I
ecclesiastical censure 548, 568
economy 329, 666, 685, 720
editions 917
education 29, 30, 58–9, 238, 264–5, 338, 480–81, 498, 537, 614, 717, 814; see also learning; schools eel 729
egotists 615
Egyptians, ancient 833
election addresses, see under Index of Persons, Johnson IV
elections 342, 349, 414, 415, 444, 713, 762; see also Middlesex Election
Eliza, epigram to, see Index of Persons, Others: Carter, Elizabeth
elocution, see Index of Persons, Others: Sheridan, Thomas; Walker, John
Elwallians 348
‘embellishment’ 636
emigration 312–13, 649
‘emit, to’ 784
emphasis, see Commandments
employment 310; see also occupation
emulation 542
enemy 578
England and the English (for particular localities, consult the Index of Places) 106, 232, 326, 375, 459, 504, 561, 750, 861, 869, 900, 920; see also historian; literature; poor; slaves and slavery; style
entails 483–90, 494
enthusiasm 523, 668
enthusiast 780
‘enucleate, to’ 711
envy 669
Epicurean, the 524
epigram, judge of 663–4
episcopacy, see bishops; hierarchy
epitaphs 480, 516, 564 n. a, 880
equality of mankind 532, 632, 642; see subordination
error 875
Erse 173 n. a, 276–9, 344, 410–11, 414, 421, 428, 447, 464, 577; see also Index of Persons, Others: Shaw, Revd William
Esau’s birthright 139
Esquimaux 392
esquire, title of 24, 440 n. b
Essex Head Club 902–3, 905, 906, 915, 959 n. a, 963
estate 400, 496, 619, 658; see also property
eternal punishment 631, 929
etiquette 304, 455, 517, 691, 833, 920, 943 Eton College 525, 603, 687–8, 693, 809 n. c; see also Index of Persons, Others: Graham, George
Eumelian Club 985 n. a
everlasting punishment 928–9
‘Every island is a prison’, a song 668
exaggeration 595, 732, 859, 878,
excise 161 n. a
executions 148, 868, 945 n. a, 962–3; see also under Index of Persons, Boswell II
exercise 41, 235, 849 n. a
exhibition, see Royal Academy existence 545, 547
expenditure, see economy experience 239
extraordinary characters 504
fable 383
faction 873
facts 867
fairies 771
faith 831
false cries 546
falsehood 647
fame 237, 453, 621, 665; see also under Index of Persons, Boswell II
families, great 309, 341–2, 489, 493, 494, 515, 619, 658, 694; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: birth and rank; Boswell II: birth
family 354, 872–3
fancies, see Index of Persons, Boswell II: imagination.
fancy 409
farmers 715
fasting 498; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
fat men 881, 937
fate, see free will
father 226, 528, 727
favour 349
fear 303, 357, 382; see also courage
feeling for others, see sympathy
fellow 326, 455
ferns 804
feudal antiquities 368, 747
feudal system 354, 486, 487, 619, 747
fiction 892
fiddlers 361
fiddling 380, 654
fighting-cock 441
figurative expressions 926–7
fine and recovery 494 n. a
fine clothes, see dress
fines 698 fire 741
First Cause 694, 779 n. a
fishmonger 729
flagelot 654
flattery 380–81, 384–5, 456, 697
flea 362–63, 870
Flodden Field, battle of 483
flogging 480; see also rod fondness 851
Fontenoy, battle of 189
food 61, 312; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: eating
fools 4, 578
foppery 328
foreigners 378, 770, 869; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
forgetfulness 833–4
‘form’ 941 n. a
‘former, the latter, the’ 868
forms 820
fornication 240, 352, 517, 527–28, 742–43
forwardness 504
France and the French (for particular localities, consult the Index of Places) 7, 15, 106, 162, 163 and n. b, 189, 239, 247–48, 326, 350–51, 466–79, 467, 478, 504–5, 524, 661, 699, 709, 714, 732–33, 770, 773, 859, 893
free agent 831
free will 303, 313, 680–81, 803, 945
Freemasonry 774
French cook, a nobleman’s 247
French horn 774
friends 116, 346–7, 593, 603, 640, 680, 692, 732, 847, 864, 878
friendship 163, 346, 356, 553, 612, 652, 680, 732, 737, 827, 845, 918
Frisian 250
frugality 855
fruit, S.J.’s love of, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I
funds, the 856
‘funny’ 568 n. a
‘futile’ mistaken for ‘sutile’ 677 n. a
future state 119, 346, 605, 631, 679, 720, 761, 985
gabble 713, 765
Gaelic, see Erse
games 31
gaming 353, 531
gaming-club 531
garden 876–7
gardeners 301
garret, the scholar’s 143
‘Gaudium’ 459
General Assembly, see Church of Scotland
general censure, opinion, warrants, see censure; opinion; warrants generals,
great 385
genius 233, 498, 726
gentility 258, 444, 545; see also under Index of Persons, Boswell II
gentleman, English merchant a new species of 258 n. a
gentlewoman, the born 329
German, a 398
German baron 511
German flute 262
gesticulation 178–9, 372–3, 941–2
ghosts 129, 183, 215–16, 347, 355, 357, 648, 683, 684, 713, 714, 736, 771, 815 n. a, 816; see also Cock-Lane Ghost; Index of Persons, Others: Lyttelton, Thomas; Veal, Mrs
giants 122
gin, see spirituous liquors
gloom 533, 843
glow-worm 291, 383 and n. a
goat 336–7
gobelins 470
God 706, 928
good breeding 303
Good Friday 452, 685, 692, 875
good humour 455, 704
‘good man’ 894
good manners, see etiquette
Gordon Riots 754–6, 759, 761
Gothic buildings 148
gout 102; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
government 312, 322, 344, 350–51, 521, 542, 676, 881; see also ministries
grace 325
graces, the 545
grammar school 58–9; see also schools
Grand Signor 394
Grant, the clan 427–8
gratitude 134
‘great’ 346
‘Great He’ 372
great, the 76, 265–6, 625, 715, 827
Greek 59, 72, 240–41, 743, 773, 774, 979; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I; Boswell II
greenhouses 350, 876–7
grief 118, 516, 533, 595–6, 819, 830, 843; see also sorrow
Grub Street 162, 867
guardians 739
guards 212, 542
guessing 716
guilty 901
gulosity 246
gunpowder 719
Gunpowder Plot 39
H, the letter 163
habeas corpus 299
Haberdashers’ Company 76 n. a
habitations 312
habits, early 457
Hackney coaches 945
hair 738 n. b
hall, of a house 148
Ham, posterity of 213
hanging 612
Hanover, House of 82, 227, 377, 606, 856, 859 n. b
Hanover rat 507
happiness 183, 206 n. b, 229, 232, 237, 265, 293, 350, 449, 505, 521, 545, 586 n. a, 595, 611, 630, 651, 656, 679, 720, 727, 933
Harleian Library 89; see also Index of Persons, Others: Osborne, Thomas
harvest 693
hate 201, 603
Havannah expedition 203
health 850 ‘heard’ 629 ‘Heath, Dr’ 804
heaven 679; see also future state He-bear and She-bear 825 n. a
Hebrew 343
‘heinous’ 352
heirs 483, 496
Hell 454 andn. a, 682 and n. 810, 929
helmet 671
Helot, the drunken 728
‘hemisphere’ 303
hens 879
heraldry 258
Heralds’ Office 139
hereditary tenures 489
Hermetic philosophy 221, 493 n. c
Hervey, family of 109
hierarchy, English 596, 805, 872, 915; see also bishops
‘high’ 584 n. d
High Dutch 651
highwaymen 457 n. b, 653 and n. b
Hindoos 769 n. a
historian 225, 385, 741
history 69, 90, 302, 363, 385, 457, 547, 704
Hodge 872
holidays of the Church 509 homo caudatus 465 n. 503
honesty 652
hope 197, 324, 449, 865, 931
horses 899, 900
hospitality 349, 378, 772, 885
hospitals 545
hostility 910
hot-houses 876
‘Hottentot, a respectable’ 145
House of Commons 318, 341, 414, 634, 645, 650 and n. a,651, 743, 779, 820, 842, 859, 884, 919, 927, 928; see also debates in Parliament; Middlesex Election
House of Lords 337, 359, 382 n. a, 407, 461, 633, 710
housebreakers 834
humanity 869, 920
‘humiliating’ 343
humour 835; see also good humour; Index of Persons, Johnson I:
humour hypochondria, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: hypochrondria; melancholy; Boswell II: hypochondria
hypocrisy 221, 831, 938, 986
‘idea’ 629
idleness 31, 177, 227, 310, 767, 862
ignorance 211, 277, 307, 491,
‘ilk’ 493 n. b, 699 n. b,
illegitimate children 508
images 527, 625
imagination 708
imitation 59
immorality 290, 453
impiety 927
importance 700
impostors, literary 127, 192, 193
improvement after forty-five 826 n. b
In bello non licet bis errare 635
incivility 778
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