Addison and Goldsmith, compares, ii. 256;
Addison's conversation, iii. 339;
Aristophanes, reads, iv. 177, n. 3, 362;
Barnes's Maccaronic verses, quotes, iii. 284;
Beauclerk, his early friend, i. 248:
makes him second guardian to his children, iii. 420;
leaves him a portrait of Garrick, iv. 96;
birth and matriculation at Oxford, i. 247, n. 1, 337;
Blue stocking assembly, at a, v. 32, n. 3;
Boswell, letter to, iii. 424;
Boswell's obligations to him, ii. 456, n. 3;
Burke and Johnson, comparing Homer and Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3;
v. 79, n. 2;
Burke's wit, i. 453, n. 2;
carpenter and a clergyman's wife, anecdote of a, ii. 456, n. 3;
children, his, too much about him, iii. 128;
mentioned, ii. 146; iii. 89, 93, 104, 130;
Clarendon's style, praises, iii. 257;
coach, on the top of a, i. 477;
collection of Johnson's sayings, iv. 1-34;
daughters to be taught Greek, iv. 20, n. 2;
dinners and suppers at his house, ii. 259; iii. 279, 280, 338;
economy, no turn to, iii. 363, n. 2;
expenditure and foibles criticised, iii. 48, n. 4, 93, 104, 128, 222,
300, 315, 317, 348, 362, 379; iv. 362;
_frisk_, joins in a, i. 250;
Greek, knowledge of, iv. 8, n. 3;
Clenardus's _Greek Grammar_, iv. 20;
recitation, ib., n. 2;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
Hale, Sir Matthew, anecdote of, iv. 310;
_Idler_, anecdote of the, i. 33l;
introduces subjects on which people differ, iii. 186;
Johnson, afraid of, iv. 295;
at fairest advantage with him, i. 248, n. 3;
bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
and Burke, an evening with, iv. 26;
conversation before dinner, repeats, iii. 279;
_confessor_, iv. 280-1;
death, unfinished letter on, iv. 418, n. 1;
deference to, iv. 8, n. 3;
devotion to, when ill, iv. 266, n. 3;
when dying, iv. 406-7, 414, n. 2, 439;
dress as a dramatic author, describes, i. 200;
estimate of Spence, v. 317, n. 1.
first acquaintance with him, i. 247; iv. 145;
friendship with him, iv. 132, 145, 352;
rupture in it, ii. 256, n. 2, 261, n. 2, 265, 282; v. 89;
reconciliation, ii. 292;
funeral, at, iv. 419;
gives him a copy of his letter to Chesterfield, i. 260;
imitates, iv. 1, n. 2;
Jacobitism, i. 430;
letters to him: see under JOHNSON, letters;
levee, attends, ii. 118;
loan to him, ii. 136, n. 2; iv. 402, n. 2;
repaid in an annuity to Barber, ib.;