indecision of mind 685
index 993 n. a
indictment, prosecution by 526 n. b
‘indifferently’ 103
indolence 958
inferiority 350
infidelity 303, 453, 546, 605, 923; see also conjugal infidelity
infidels 394–5, 453, 501, 546, 744, 923
influence 322, 451, 521, 634, 884
influenza 481
ingratitude 349, 520
ink, red, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I
innocent, punishment of the 901
innovation 868
inns 504, 505, 920
inoculation 926
Inquisition, the 245
insanity, see madness
inscriptions, see epitaphs; Index of Persons, Johnson I: inscriptions
insects 393
‘inspissated gloom’ 306
Insurrection of 1745–6, see Rebellion
intellectual improvement 376
intellectual labour 211
intellectual resources 328
intentions 266, 454
interest of money 707
intoxication, see drunkenness
intuition 947
invasion 699, 704
invitation 455
invocation of saints, see saints
‘inward light’ 326
Ivy Lane Club 107, 902
Jacobitism 25; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I; Boswell II
January, the 30th of, 341 and n. 317, 724
jealousy 520, 546
Jews 409, 925
jocularity, low 236
‘Johnsonised’ 8
‘Johnston’ 576 and n. a
jokes, a game of 383
‘jour’ 343
journal 90, 180, 195, 229, 250, 375, 453, 641, 647, 862; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson IV; Boswell IV
judgement 329, 454
judges 287, 445, 450–51
juries 526 n b, 542
justice 941
Justice of the Peace, see magistrate
Juvenal 45, 47, 69, 108, 175, 188, 331, 381, 662, 717, 747, 826 n. a, 864, 959, 961, 988–9
kindness 622, 827
kings 178, 224–5, 233, 283, 321, 350–51, 384–5, 606–7
king’s evil 28, 1003
king’s library 63
knitting 654
knotting 654, 920
knowledge 188, 211, 221, 241, 377, 453, 456, 537, 703; see also education; learning
$$ 412
‘labefactation’ 457 n. 488
labour 310, 668
lace 450, 774; see also Greek
‘lacerate, to’/‘laceration’ 750, 822
ladies of quality 715
laetus aliis, sapiens sibi 741, 746
Lancaster, House of 607
land 485–6, 494, 856
land tax in Scotland 496
landlords 217, 243, 312, 349, 444, 856; see also lodging-house landlords
languages 277, 303, 346, 351, 459, 479, 774, 877, 883
languor, following gaiety 631
lapidary inscriptions 480
Lapland and Laplanders 225, 350 n. a
Latin 29, 58–9, 240, 242, 309, 330, 375, 479, 764, 768; see also epitaphs; Index of Persons, Johnson I: Latin
‘Latiner’ 866 n. a
laughers 865
laughter 463, 706; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
laurel 106
law 287–8, 377, 485, 488, 495, 526 n. b, 531; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: law; IV: law arguments
law-lord, a dull 863
lawyers 188, 265, 344, 345, 374, 385, 418, 446, 462, 495, 620, 689, 805, 935
laxity of talk, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: talk
lay-patrons, see Church of Scotland; patrons
learning 235, 241, 526, 769, 773, 883
lectures 264, 814
‘leeward’ 160
legitimation 508
legs 545
leisure 377, 958
letters 154, 819, 996
levee 451; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
levellers 236
lexicographer 162
libels 526 and n. b, 552
liberty 209, 293, 328, 350, 394, 395, 548, 645, 730, 882; see also Index of Persons, Others: Wilkes, John
libraries 281 and n. b, 282, 297 n. a, 523, 568; see also British Museum
lies 189, 230, 378, 789, 857, 933; see also falsehood; truth life 162, 203, 273, 309, 312, 317, 319, 325–6, 363, 464, 545, 570, 590, 661, 683, 685, 720, 732, 851, 929, 931, 932, 945, 972, 986 n. a
Lilliput, Senate of, see debates in Parliament
Lincoln’s Inn, Society of 924 n. b
‘line’ 629
liquors 729, 808
Literary Club, the, see Club, the
literary fame or reputation 8, 297 n. c, 384, 453
literary history 20
literary impostors, see impostors, literary
literary journals 284
literary man, life of a 817
literary property, see copyright
literature 661, 687 n. a, 691, 703, 827, 898
little things 654
liveliness 511
living, cost of, in London 61
Llandaff, Bishopric of 828 n. b
local, attachment 312–13, 330, 409
lodging-house landlords and the law 223–4
longitude 12, 149, 164, 471
Lord 711, 715, 827, 865; see also peers
‘Lord’ 418 n. a
Lords, House of, see debates in Parliament; House of Lords
lovage 454
love 129, 203, 324, 510
low company/-life 936–7
Low Dutch, see Dutch
loyalty of the nation 459, 859 n. b
‘Luctus’ 459 and n. 495
luxury 350, 376, 546, 646, 676, 681; see also Index of Persons, Others: Mandeville, Bernard
Maccaronic verses 676 and n. 805
Maclean, the clan 404–5
madness 25, 41–2, 210–11, 533, 618 and n. b, 779–80, 878; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
magicians 729
magistrate 394–6, 542, 937 and n.1188
mahogany 808
Mahomet and Mahometans 267, 341, 873
majority 461 ‘make money, to’ 629
male succession, see succession
man 656, 660, 804, 814; see also mankind
Manege for Oxford 491
Manilla ransom 331 and n. 310
mankind 651; see also man; world
manners 309, 373, 545, 715
manor, a 390
manufacturers 360
marbles 445
‘marc de l’eau forte’ 474
marriage 203, 292, 300–301, 311, 317, 328, 341, 348, 438, 509, 511, 517, 520, 531, 727, 836, 934
martyrdom 394, 769
masquerades, in Scotland 369
Mass 314, 755
materialism 340
mathematics 218, 498; see also arithmetic
matter, non-existence of 248
meals 688
medicated baths 310
medicine 196; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: physic
melancholy 41, 235–6, 490, 500, 522, 566, 595, 618, 620, 723, 747, 751; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: melancholy; Boswell II: hypochondria
melting-days 443
memory 626, 833; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
men 545, 833; see also mankind; women
mental diseases, see melancholy
merchants 217, 258 n. a, 765
merit 232–3, 860
metaphors 617, 980 n. a
‘metaphysical’ 399, 783, 867
metaphysics 44, 248
method 570
Methodists 241 and n. a, 323, 325, 326, 359, 434, 586, 945
microscopes 283–4
Middle Ages 655, 838, 859
middle classes 472, 478
middle state 132, 314, 3
47; see also Index of Persons, Others: Campbell, Archibald
Middlesex Election 78, 313 and n. 289, 318, 414, 643, 743, 905
migration of birds 291, 393
military character and life, see soldiers
military spirit 327, 376
militia 13 and n. 7, 717, 738
‘milking the bull’ 234
mimicry 342
mind 500, 517, 611, 704; see also weather and seasons
ministers of the Church 390–92, 548–52
ministries 208, 448, 450, 452, 519, 521, 542, 716, 744, 755–6, 801, 809, 818, 842, 873; see also Coalition Ministry
minuteness 767
‘mira cano’ 688
miracles 234–5, 625
misdemeanour 639
misers 697
misery 532, 630, 779, 803, 929
misfortunes 779
mistresses 202
mob rule 730; see also riots
modern times 883
modernizing an author 938
modesty 714
‘modus’, 154 and n. c, 698
monarchy 224, 542
monasteries 195, 266, 275, 470, 497, 681
money 232–3, 309–10, 342, 349, 380, 435, 450, 494–5, 529, 546, 609, 619, 620, 622, 629, 658, 665, 666, 682, 694, 697, 707, 729, 770, 777, 833, 850, 856, 861, 885; see also debts
monks, see monasteries
Montrose, family of 730
monuments 387, 1001; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
moon, the 779
Moors of Barbary 470
morality 328
Moravians 586 and n. 679, 995; see also Index of Persons, Others: La Trobe, Revd B.
mosaical chronology 195
motives 211
‘muddy’ 455, 510
muffins 730
mummies 833
music 347, 380, 630, 752, 774; see also fiddling; French horn; German flute; Index of Persons, Johnson I: music; Others: Burney, Dr Charles; Hawkins, Sir John
mustard 828
‘mutual’ friend 574
‘Mysargyrus’ (Boswell’s misspelling of ‘Misargyrus’, the name with which Johnson signed four letters of The Adventurer) 137
mystery 698, 708, 815 n. a
mythology 543, 771
nail, growth of the 738 n. b
‘namby-pamby’ 102
names 204 n. b, 559
nap, after dinner 480
narrow place 657
narrowness 869
national character, no permanence 362
national debt 327
national faith 773
native country or place, attachment to/love of 312, 335, 846
natural history 670
natural philosophy 136, 291
nature 243, 360, 543, 669; see also savages; Index of Persons, Johnson I: nature
‘navigation’ 332, 720
Negroes, see slaves; for law cases, see Index of Persons, Others: Knight, Joseph; Somerset, James
neologisms, see Index of Persons, Johnson IV: words
nerves, weak 918
‘network’ 161 and n. 127
never 302, 517, 813, 876
New Flood-gate Iron 870
new place 590–91
newspapers 171, 351, 371, 427, 561, 662, 674, 702
nicknames 204 n. b
nidification 393 and n. 391
night, Shakespeare’s description of 306
‘No, Sir’ 505, 556, 619, 623, 687, 938
nobility 236, 327, 715, 826, 899, 900
noble authors 812
nobleman 825
non-jurors 434, 922; see also Index of Persons, Others: Campbell, Archibald; Falconer, Revd William
nonsense 302
‘nose’ of the mind 947
‘not at home’ 231
notes 373, 399
novelty 232, 536, 726
November the Fifth 39
‘nullum numen adest ‘ 864
numbers, science of, see arithmetic; mathematics
nurse 518 ‘$$’ 292
oaths 377, 434 n. a, 435; see also swearing
oats 161 and n.128, 512, 858
obedience 683
objections 327, 532
obligations 134, 462
obscenity 927
observance of days 509
obstinacy of children 358
occupation 310, 620
odd 504
ode 769
Odin 671 and n. 795
Ofellus 61
officers, see soldiers
oil of vitriol 343
old age 626, 661, 705, 709, 852; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Old Man’s Wish
‘one… the other’ 923
opera girls 859
opinion 112, 728
opium 859; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
opponents in controversy 501, 524
opposition, the 809, 856
orange butter 876
orange peel 439, 876
oratory 178–9, 372, 443, 537, 820, 877, 885
orchards 329, 876–7
original sin 831 and n. a
Orpheus 241
Ossian, see Index of Persons, Others: Macpherson, James
ostentation 245, 766, 865
oysters, S.J. buys for Hodge 872
pain 243, 515
painters 541 n. b
painting 499, 675, 941; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
palaces 472
‘pamphlet’ 433
‘panting Time’, phrase in a poem by S.J. 776
parish 390, 679, 760, 833
Parliament 68, 89, 299, 321–2, 332–4, 443–4, 451–2, 634, 649–51, 884, 885; see also debates in Parliament; House of Commons; House of Lords
Parliament man, an MP 721
parodies, see Index of Persons, Johnson IV: style
parsimony 694–5, 7I2, 851
parsons 806; see also clergy/clergymen
party 378–9
Passion-week, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I
passions 538
‘pastern’ 161, 201
paternity 665
patriotism 448
patriots 553, 555, 560, 811
patrons 142, 143, 202–3, 340, 389–92, 860
peers 489, 710–11, 883, 899; see also House of Lords; nobility
penitence 533
penny post, see post pension 83, 136, 161, 199–200, 227 and n. a, 256, 318, 332, 338, 433, 777, 825, 827, 939, 944–5, 948–50, 968–69
‘pensioner’ 199
penurious gentleman 539 and n. 603
people, the 586, 595
perfection 950
persecution 394, 397, 769
perseverance 212
Persian Empire 537, 801
Persius 777 and n. 972
Personage, a Great 122 and n. 90
Peruvian bar 196 and n. 164, 926
petitions 306, 313, 586, 598–9, 599 n. a, 601
Phaedrus 626
Phallick obscenity 653
pharaoh 340
pharmacy 677
philosophers 524, 688
philosophical necessity, see Index of Persons, Others: Priestley, Joseph
Philosophical Society 782 n. a
philosophical wise man 519
phlebotomy, see bleeding
Phoenician language, treatise on 871
physic 733; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
physician 457 n. b, 513, 518, 728, 733, 940
physicians 133 n. a, 268, 680, 908, 926; see also Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Index of Persons, Others: Memis, Dr John
pickles 376
piety 517, 923–4
pig 972
piling arms 716 and n. 877
pillory 693
‘pit, to’ 623
pity 231
place-hunters 650
plagiarism 179
plantations (settlements in America) 266
planting trees, see afforestation
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players 96–7, 112, 213, 385, 622, 692, 896–7, 897 n. a; see also Index of Persons, Others: Garrick, David
plays 111, 195
pleasantry 568 n. a
pleasing 603, 700
pleasure 656, 676, 681, 700, 732, 938
‘pledging oneself 629
plenum 234
poems 447, 695
poetry 450, 537, 538, 663, 784, 788; see also ballads; rhyme
poets 537, 579, 711, 781
police 640
politeness 609
political improvement, schemes of 312
politics 458; see also Index of Persons, Others: Hamilton, William Gerard
‘polluted’ 989 n. a
polypheme 151
‘Pomposo’ 216
poor, the 250, 312, 322, 329, 470, 625, 739, 764, 772, 875
popery, see Roman Catholics/Catholicism
popular elections, of the clergy 340
population 311–12, 431, 649
port 729, 808
Port of Ilam, family of 624
porter 406, 408
porter, street 60 n. b and n. 49, 803
portraits 455, 765; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
Portuguese 769 n. a
post 72, 87, 530, 575 n. b, 595, 891
post-chaise 505, 521, 610
posterity 485
poverty 233, 609, 848, 849, 851, 853, 855, 957
power 453, 510, 676
practice, see principles praise 140, 289, 646, 654, 780, 809
prayer 347, 354, 926, 927, 973, 994; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Common Prayer, Book of; Index of Persons, Others: Cumming, Thomas
prayers, by S.J. as quoted by J.B. 113, 129, 132, 137, 139, 164, 187, 253, 257, 285–6, 567, 572, 970, 987, 998
preaching 241–2, 244, 325, 866; see also sermons
preciseness 812
precocity 480
predestination 313
predominance/‘predomination’ 883
prefaces 81, 160; for prefaces by S.J., see Index of Persons, Johnson IV: prefaces
premium scheme 171
Presbyterianism and Presbyterians 313, 341
prescience, of the Deity 681
prescriptions, medical 677
present time 449, 520, 521
press 68, 293, 526 n. b, 703
Prime Minister 451
Prince of Wales, the happiest of men 865
principle, goodness founded upon it 234
principles 221, 375, 444,454, 675,986
printer’s devil 818
printers 380, 436
printing 351, 474–5, 476, 537
prints 712
prisoners of war 15, 189
private theatricals 36 n. b
prize verses 54 n. b, 80
probationer in the Church of Scotland 351 and n. 332
‘Probus Britannicus’, pseudonym of S.J. 10, 82
‘procerity’ 166
procurators, see Society of Procurators
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