The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [718]
‘almost well again’ 90; (1755) sickness 165; (1756) recovered from sickness 165; (1765-6) severe attack of hypochondria 254, 256; (1767) hypochondria, relieved by abstinence 286; (1768) hypochondria 286–7; severe illness at Oxford 287; (1769) ‘suffered in body and mind’ 296; ‘I hope I grow better’ 297; very ill 412; (1771) slowly recovering 335, 412; (1772) not so well 368; (1773) general improvement, but ‘vexatious catarrh’ 370; fever 401; ‘very well’ 402; good in Scotland 406; (1774) cold and cough 406; mentions ‘a dreadful illness’ 412; (1775) good in France 467; (1776) gout 563, 566; (1777) hypochondria 572; ‘difficulty of breathing’ 575; very bad 578; very ill in Lichfield 636; ‘very difficult and laborious respiration’ 637; (1778) convulsions and flatulences 641; better 643; better than when in Scotland 738; (1780) better 759, 763; (1781) pretty well 813; better 819; (1781-2) difficulty of breathing and violent cold in the winter 843; (1782) ‘battered by one disorder after another’ 840, 843, 844, 846, 848, 849–50, 854–5; (1783) very ill 855, 884, 904; palsy 888–91, 904; speech returns 989; gout 894–5; threatened with an operation 894–5; (1783-4) sudden relief from dropsy 906, 913–14; asthma 910; cough 911; consults the Scottish physicians 907–8; projected wintering in Italy 944; ALgri Epbemeris 976; see also melancholy; nights; health, general: indifferent to cold 243; no headache as a young man 243; seldom a single day of ease from his twentieth year 847; hearing, dull or defective 261, 447, 466, 473, 994; his hearth-broom 839; the Hebrides (chronological): first talk of visiting 237, 401; proposed tour 289, 367, 384, 400, 401; leaves London 402; returns 404; account of the tour 403; box of curiosities from them 404–5; pleasantest journey he ever made 569–70; pleasure in talking it over 593, 629; a ‘frolic’ 840; acquisition of ideas and images 873; no wish to go again 873; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; Hercules, compared by J.B. to 400; hilarity 45, 400–401, 463; history, see Index of Subjects: history; holds up his head as high as he can 904; ‘home’, see Index of Places: Streatham; home uncomfortable 722; see also household; horsemanship, see riding; house at Lichfield, see Index of Places: Lichfield; houses in which he lived, see habitations; household: account of it 722; losses in, by death 842; melancholy 843; solitude 894, 895, 900, 904, 913; housekeeping: left off 175; resumed it 263; hug, his wit gives one a forcible 383; humanity, ever awake to the calls of 51, 189; see also benevolence; humility 572, 994, 1004; humour 1005; see also good humour; hungry once in his life 246; hypochondria, see health; Iceland, projected voyage to 133; idleness (chronological): in boyhood 31, 32, 38; Desidice valedixi 46; in writing the Plan 104; like Hogarth’s ‘Idle Apprentice’ 136; ‘an idle fellow all my life’ 245; (in 1760) 189; (in 1761) 191; (in 1763) 211; (in 1764) 253; (in 1767) 286; claim upon him for more writings 211, 268, 282, 500; exaggerated by himself 235, 401, 406, 572; allows no excuse for it 767; see also indolence; illness, see health; ‘Imlac’ 522; impatient 313, 315; impransus 80; incredulity as to particular extraordinary facts 392, 504, 523, 624; Hncredulus odi’ 468; independence, always asserted his 26, 31, 234, 322; indolence: ‘always felt an inclination to do nothing’ 244; constitutional 51, 113, 253; ‘little done’ 336; ingratitude, false story of his 628, 636–7; inheritance from his father 47-8; insult, would not brook 322; intemperate in eating and drinking 246; intoxicated 56; used to slinking home when 733; Hnvictum animum Catonis’ 972; irritability 710; goes to Islington for change of air 913; Italian: knowledge and study of 62, 68, 567, 839; reads or cites Ariosto 151; – Dante 387; –Il Palmerino d’Inghilterra 519; – Tasso 702; Italy (chronological), thoughts on 195; projected tour to (in 1776) 490, 491, 493; tour given up 522, 528, 533; eagerness to visit 45, 528, 533, 537; projected wintering there (in 1785) 944, 948, 949, 950, 955