Animated Nature, engaged in writing it, ii. 181-2, 232, 237;
     copy in Lord Scarsdale’s library, iii. 162;
     cow shedding its horns, iii. 84, n. 2;
     Maclaurin’s yawns, iii. 15;
  anonymous publications, i. 412;
  Apology to the public, ii. 209;
  supposed to be written by Johnson, ib.;
  architecture, contempt of, ii. 439, n. 1;
  attacks, better for, v. 274;
  authors, the neglect of, iii. 375, n. 1, 424, n. 1;
  authors, patrons and booksellers, v. 59, n. 1: 
  Baretti, dislikes, ii. 205, n. 3;
  at his trial, ii. 97, n. 1;
  Bath, describes, ii. 7,_ n_. 4; iii. 45, n. 1;
  beat, first time he has, ii. 210;
  Beattie’s Essay on Truth, despises, ii. 201,_ n_.
    3; v. 273, n. 4;
  Beauclerk describes him, ii. 192, n. 2;
  Beauties of English Poetry Selected, iii. 192, n. 2;
  Bee, The, iii. 83, n. 1;
  biography, the uses of, v. 79, n. 3;
  birth, date of his, i. 58, n. 2; iii. 83, n. 1;
  blank verse, on, i. 427, n. 2;
  bloom-coloured coat, ii. 83;
  boastfulness, i. 414: 
  bon ton breaking out in his waistcoats, ii. 274, n. 7;
  books, could not tell what was in his own, iii. 253;
  Boswell’s account of him, i. 411-17;
    accused of making a monarchy of what should be a republic, ii. 257: 
    ‘honest Goldsmith,’ ii. 186;
    preserves a relic of him, ii. 219, n. 2;
    takes leave of him, ii. 260;
  Burke’s contemporary at Trinity College, i. 411;
    recollection of him, iii. 168;
  Camden, Lord, complains of, iii. 311;
  Chamier’s estimate of him, iii. 252;
  Chatterton’s poems, believes in, iii. 51, n. 2, 276, n. 2;
  Cibber, Colley, praises, iii. 72, n. 2;
  Citizen of the World, i. 412;
  Clare, Lord, ii. 136;
  Clarke, Dr., anecdote of, i. 3, n. 2;
  companion, not an agreeable, iii. 247;
  company, his, liked, ii. 235;
  compilations and magazines, the causes of, v. 59, n. 1;
  consequential at times, ii. 258;
  conversation, does not know how to get off, ii. 196;
    not temper for it, ii. 231;
    reported a mere fool in it, i. 412;
    talks at random, 413; ii. 236; iii. 252; v. 277;
    talks not to be unnoticed, ii. 186, 257;
  corrections in his prose composition rare, iv. 36, n. 1;
  Cow shedding its horns:  See above, Animated Nature;
  Croaker, Johnson’s Suspirius, i. 213; ii. 48;
  Cross Readings, admires, iv. 322, n. 2;
  Cumberland, disliked, iv. 384, n. 2;
  death, ii. 274, n. 7, 279, n. 2, 280; iii. 164; iv. 84, n. 2;
  debts, ii. 280, 281;
  depopulation, on, ii. 217, n. 5;
  Deserted Village, dedicated to Reynolds, ii.  I, n. 2, 217, n. 5;
     Johnson’s lines in, ii. 7; iii. 418;
     reiterated corrections, ii. 15, n. 3;
     Traveller, sometimes an echo of the, ii. 236;
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