The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [729]
905, 974, 975; keeps away from, for a week, 706; love for, 244, 403, 576, 692, 761–2, 887, 949, 950; offends 290, 315, 634, 667, 693, 713; opens his mind to 215; at Oxford with 287; parting with, feelings on 401, 629; pension, advocates an addition to his 944–5, 948–50, 955–6; publishes without leave a letter from 287, 292; puts to the question 547, 667–8; teases 267; tries an experiment on his affection 736–8; veneration for 204, 267; visits (chronological) – Harwich with 244–5; – (invites to visit) Scotland, 289, 367, 383-4, 401; – Scotland and Hebrides with 403–4; – Oxford and the Midlands 493, 498; – Bath and Bristol 541–4; – Ashbourne 595–635; – Southill 828–37; – Oxford 920–36; Wilkes, brings him together with 552–61; wonders he has not more pleasure in writing 268; worships 702; not in will 989 n. a; Johnson (opinions on Boswell): advises him (chronological) – on his studies and conduct 242, 249–50; – on choosing guardians for his children 739; – on management of his household 851; – to stay at home and look after his wife 852; – on trying his fortune at the English bar 935; angry with him 693, 737; assigns him a room in his house 462, 575, 644; complains of the length of his letters 565 n. c; describes him as ‘worthy and religious’ 736; easier with him than with almost anybody 870; encourages him to turn author 217; gives him particulars of his early life 30–31; gives him Les Pensees de Pascal 728; keeps him up late drinking port 230, 729; ‘let us live double’ 822; letters – keeps his and directs them to be returned to him 262; – none from, for two years (1764-5) 262; – permits him to publish them after his death 293; – to him, see Johnson II; likens to a moth 247; love for him 215, 237, 244, 262, 298, 337, 369, 403, 453, 465, 481, 561, 565, 575, 587, 595, 630, 639, 640, 692, 719, 734, 747, 759, 761, 763, 803, 809 n. b, 856, 887, 949, 975; offended with him, and reconciled 315, 316; offers to write the history of his family 872; praises him as a travelling companion 237, 682; – gives him a thousand pounds in praise 729; recommends a lady client to him 410; reproves him 517; visits him when ill 734; witty at his expense 4, 360; Langton, correspondence with 753; Mickle: correspondence with 900; visits him at Wheatley 934; Monboddo, visits with S.J. 914 n. b; Mrs Montagu, quarrel with 799; mother-in-law, see stepmother; Lord Mountstuart: dedicates thesis to him, 272 n. b, 274; friendship with 834; puzzled by his indifference 878; Oglethorpe: gives him particulars of his life 449 n. b; introduces him to Shebbeare 825; Paoli, see Others: Paoli, Pasquale; Percy, correspondence with 45, 674; Pitt, correspondence with 907 n. a; Reynolds, correspondence with, see Others: Reynolds, Sir Joshua; Rousseau, visits 266, 374; Mrs Rudd, acquaintance with 561; Miss Seward: controversy with her 27 n. b, 55 n. a; meets 514, 677, 746; Adam Smith’s lectures, attends 226; his stepmother, on ill terms with 570; Colonel Stuart, see Others: Stuart, Lieutenant Colonel James; Temple, see Others: Temple, Revd William Johnson; Mrs Thrale, see Others: Thrale, Hester Lynch; Thurlow, correspondence with 944, 948; Voltaire, visits 230, 263; Vyse, correspondence with 589; welcome everywhere 747; John Wesley, introduced to, by S.J. 736; wife, in search of a 292 n. 254; see also Others: Boswell, Margaret; Wilkes, see Others: Wilkes, John; Miss Williams: his negotiation with her over the Wilkes dinner 554; her ‘love’ for him, 337; takes tea with 223, 244, 310; Zelide, see Others: Zuylen, Isabella de.
IV Works, Published and Projected, and Journals
Account of Corsica, with the Journal of a Tour to that Island: preface quoted by J.B., 297 n. c; publication 287; S.J.’s advice about it 266, 273; S.J. praises the Journal 298; prepares and intends to publish ‘Collections of Scotch antiquities’ 307, 747 n. a; Critical Strictures on Elvira 217; ‘Dictionary of words peculiar to Scotland’, prepares a 307; The Douglas Cause, a ballad 288 n. 250; ‘Epitaph’ on Soame Jenyns, probably by him 170 n. a; essays 864; see also The Hypochondriack; Essence of the Douglas