III, &c., ii. 34, n. 1;
    Life of Johnson, ib.;
  Chesterfield’s Miscellaneous Works, publish, iii. 351;
  dinners at their house, ii. 247, 338; iii. 65-79, 284-300, 357-8,
392, n. 2; iv. 101-7, ib., n 2, 278, 330; v. 57, n. 3;
    always gave a good dinner, iii. 285;
  hospitality to literary men, iii. 65;
  house, their, No. 22 in the Poultry, iii. 5, 65, n. 2;
  ‘patriotic friends,’ their, iii. 66. 
DILLY, Charles, comparative happiness, on, iii. 288;
  Johnson, letters from, iii. 394; iv. 257;
  Milton’s Tractate on Education_, on, iii. 358;
  quotations for sale, account of, iv. 102, n. 1;
  mentioned, iii. 396, n. 2; iv. 118, 126. 
DILLY, Edward, Boswell, letter to, iii. 110;
  Boswell parts with him, iii. 396;
  Lives of the Poets, account of the, iii. 110;
  Johnson, letter from, iii. 126. 
DILLY, Squire, Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 118-32;
  mentioned, i. 260; ii. 247; iii. 396, n. 2. 
DINGLEY, Mrs., iv. 177, n. 2. 
DINNER, cost in London in 1737, i. 103,105;
    in 1746, i. 103, n. 2;
    in Edinburgh, in 1742, ib.;
  a measure of emotion, i. 355; ii. 94; iv. 220;
  waiting for it, ii. 83;
  better where there is no solid conversation, iii. 57. 
  See JOHNSON, dinners and eating. 
DIOCLETIAN, ii. 255, n. 4. 
DIOGENES LAERTIUS, iii. 386, n. 3; iv. 13. 
DIOMED, ii. 129. 
DIONYSIUS’S Periegesis, iv. 444. 
Diot, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430.
Dirleton’s Doubts, iii. 205.
Disarrange, iii. 319, n. 1.
Discourses on Painting by Reynolds.  See REYNOLDS, Discourses. 
DISCOVERIES, Johnson dislikes them, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479;
iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 1;
  Walpole describes the harm done by them, v. 276, n. 2, 328, n. 2. 
DISEASES, acute and chronical, iv. 150. 
DISLIKE, mutual, iii. 423. 
DISPUTES, encouraging, iii. 185. 
D’ISRAELI, Isaac, Barnes’s Homer, iv. 19, n. 2;
  Birch, Dr., i. 159, n. 4;
  Campbell’s Hermippus Redivivus, ii. 427, n. 4;
  Chatterton and Lord Mayor Beckford, iii. 201, n. 3;
  Churchill’s abhorrence of blotting, i. 419, n. 5;
  Davies’s taste as a bookseller, iii. 223, n. 1;
  Dedications, ii. 1, n. 2;
  Dennis’s thunder, iii. 40, n. 2;
  Du Halde’s China, ii. 55, n. 4;
  Flexney and Stockdale, ii. 113, n. 2;
  Guthrie’s letter, i. 117, n. 2;
  Hill, Sir John, ii. 39, n. 2;
  Johnson’s hints for the Life of Pope, iv. 46, n. 1;
  Oldys the author of Busy, curious, thirsty fly, ii. 281, n. 5;
    his notes on Langbaine, iii. 30, n. 1;
  Pieresc, ii. 371, n. 2;
  Steevens’s literary impostures, iv. 178, n. 1;
  Tasker, Rev. Mr., iii. 374, n. 1. 
DISSENTERS, bill for their relief rejected, ii. 208, n. 4;
  Country-party, of the, v. 255, n. 5;
  taught the graces of language, i. 312;