The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [714]
Spends a week at Oxford 849
Takes leave of Streatham 853
Spends more than six weeks at Brighton 852, 854
Mrs Thrale begins to lose her regard for him 853
1783 Publishes revised edition of The Lives 781–2
Revises Crabbe’s Village 861
Has a stroke of the palsy 888
Spends about a fortnight with Langton at Rochester 891
Spends three weeks with Bowels at Heale 891
Death of Miss Williams 891
Threatened with a surgical operation 894
Founds the Essex Head Club 902
Attacked by spasmodic asthma 904
1784 Confined by illness for 129 days 913
Visits Oxford with Boswell 920
Attends The Club for the last time 943
Unsuccessful application for an increased pension to enable him to go to Italy 944
Mrs Thrale’s second marriage 950
Visits Lichfield, Ashbourne, Birmingham and Oxford 958–74
Death of Allen 959
Death 998
Buried in Westminster Abbey 999
I General
abbreviations of his friends’ names 54, 59, 190, 191, 398, 914; abhorrence of affectation 247, 777; abodes, see habitations; absence of mind, see peculiarities; abstinence easy to him 60, 61, 246, 804, 848; absurd stories told of him 244–5; abused in a newspaper 778; accounts of expenditure 862; acquaintance, widely varied 530; making new 972; see also society; on acting 513, 896–7; on actors, see players; agreeable, extremely or infinitely 335, 932; to ladies 804–5; and alcoholic drink, see wine; and alchemy 462; alms-giving 13, 322; his amanuenses, see Others: Macbean, Alexander; William, Maitland; Peyton, Mr; Shiels, Robert; Stewart, Francis; ambition 690; and Americans, see Index of Places: America; amorous propensities, see Green Room; amused, easily 400; amusements 738; “$$ 30; anecdotes, love of, see Index of Subjects: anecdotes; anger, see temper; animals, fondness for 872; annihilation, horror of 683, 684; anniversaries, kept 253–4; anonymous, desires to remain 117; apology, ready to make 941, 994; see also conversation; Appius, compared to 972; Appleby School, applies for mastership of 49; and an apprentice 435; approbation, pleasure of 904; Arabic, wishes to study 777; arguing: before an audience 531, 702, 824, 942, 1006; Burke refers to it 531; butt end of the pistol 311; delight in it 233, 505; described by Burke 938; – by Goldsmith 311; – by Hamilton 824–5; ~~ by Reynolds 311; – by Lord Seaford 862; on either side indifferently 314, 531; kick of the Tartar horse 311; promptitude for it 456, 531; reasoned close or wide 1006; rudeness 562; spirit of contradiction 531, 854; thinking which side he should take 531; on the wrong side 531, 824–5, 869–70, 1006; see also talk; assertions, contradicts or questions 218, 53; asthma 958–9; attacks: enjoyed them 427, 455–6, 793; in the streets 423; looked on them as part of his consequence 1001; never but once replied to them 169, 779; see also Index of Subjects: attacks on authors; attendance, required the least 518, 864; Auchinleck, hopes again to see 852, 909; auction of his books 194; austere, but not morose 324; author without pen, ink or paper 187; authors, assists, see Index of Subjects: authors; awe, regarded with: by Englishmen of great eminence 564; by Fox 667; by Lord B– 827; at Allan Ramsay’s 703; by Scottish literati in London 294; awkward at counting money 777; ball, goes to a 854; Baltic, talks of going up the 416, 594; barbarisms, repressed and colloquial 629; bargainer, a bad 182, 579; and the barometer, see ignorance; bathing 569; beadle within him 562; bear: a dancing bear 296; Gibbon’s sarcasm 448; He-bear 825; J.B.’s a bear 404; ‘like a word in a catch’ 447; ‘nothing of the bear but his skin’ 296; upon stilts 447; ‘beat many a fellow’ 89; beats Osborne the bookseller 89; belabours his confessor 918; his belief 43; angry at attacks on it 524–5; ‘believes nothing but the Bible’ 85; benevolence 133, 491, 572, 587–8, 597, 607, 644, 669, 687, 722, 874, 917, 920, 942, 953, 987, 1004; concealed 943; to an outcast woman 941; Bible: reads the Greek Testament 160; reads verses every Sunday 416; resolves to read the whole 360–61; bigotry, freedom from 215, 340–41, 625, 994–5; biography,