with Wilkes, iii. 64.
Visits Brighton, iii. 92.
1777 Engages to write _The Lives of the Poets_, iii. 109.
Exerts himself in behalf of Dr. Dodd, iii. 139.
Meets Boswell at Ashbourne, iii. 135.
1778 Writing _The Lives of the Poets_, iii. 360.
Visits Warley Camp, iii. 360.
1779 Publishes the first four volumes of the _Lives_, iii. 370.
Writing the last six volumes, ib.
Death of Garrick, iii. 371.
Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 395.
1780 Writing the last six volumes of the _Lives_, iii. 418.
Death of Beauclerk, iii. 420.
Visits Brighton, iii. 453.
1781 Publishes the last six volumes of the _Lives_, iv. 34.
Death of Thrale. iv. 84.
Second dinner with Wilkes, iv. 101.
Visits Southill, iv. 118.
Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and Ashbourne, iv. 135.
1782 Death of Levett, iv. 137.
Visits Oxford, iv. 151.
Takes leave of Streatham, iv. 158.
Visits Brighton, iv. 159.
1783 Has a stroke of the palsy, iv. 227.
Visits Rochester, iv. 233.
Visits Heale, iv. 234.
Death of Mrs. Williams, iv. 235.
Threatened with a surgical operation, iv. 239.
Founds the Essex Head Club, iv. 253.
Attacked by spasmodic asthma, iv. 255.
1784 Confined by illness for 129 days, iv. 270, n. 1.
Visits Oxford with Boswell, iv. 283.
Projected tour to Italy, iv. 326.
Mrs. Thrale's second marriage, iv. 339.
Visits Lichfield, Ashbourne, Birmingham, and Oxford, iv. 353-377.
Death of Allen, iv. 354.
Death, iv. 417.
JOHNSON, Samuel,
abbreviations of his friends' names, ii. 258; iv. 273, n. 1;
Aberdeen, freeman of, v. 90;
abodes, list of his: see JOHNSON, habitations;
absence of mind: see JOHNSON, peculiarities;
abstinence easy to him, i. 103, n. 3, 468; iv. 72, 149, n. 3;
absurd stories told of him, i. 464;
abused in a newspaper, iv. 29;
accounts, resolves to keep, iv. 177, n. 3;
acquaintance, making new, iv. 374; ib., n. 4;
widely-varied, iii. 21 (see JOHNSON, society);
actors: see PLAYERS;
_Adversaria_, i. 205;
'agreeable, extremely,' ii. 141, n. 3;
alchymy, not a positive unbeliever in, ii. 376;
alertness, no, v. 308;
_Alfred, Life of_, projects a, i. 177;
alms-giving, i. 302, n. 1; ii. 119;
ambition, iii. 309;
Americans, feelings towards the: see AMERIC