a bear only in the skin, ii. 66;
    the ‘big man,’ ii. 14;
    biographer, i. 26, n. 1: 
    buys his Life of Nash, i. 335, n. 1;
      and a print of him, i. 363, n. 3;
    claim upon—­for more writings, ii. 15;
    compared with Burke, ii. 260;
    competition with, i. 417; ii. 216, 257;
    compliment a cordial, iii. 82, n. 3;
    could take liberties with, iv. 113;
    estimation of him as an author, i. 408; ii. 196, 216;
      places him in the first class, ii. 236;
      defends him against Mr. Eliot’s attack, ii. 265, n. 4;
      calls him a very great man, ii. 281;
      defends him against attack at Reynolds’s table, ib., n. 1;
      shows the difference when he had not a pen in his hand, iv. 29;
      got him sooner into estimation, ii. 216;
    first visit to him, i. 366, n. 1;
    goodness of heart, i. 417;
    influence on his style, i. 222;
    interview with George III, ii. 42;
    jealous of, ii. 257;
    letter to him, ii. 235, n. 2;
    levee, attends, ii. 118;
    literary reputation, ii. 233;
    manner, copies, i. 412;
    not his style, ii. 216;
    pension, iv. 113;
    Prologue to The Good Natured Man, ii. 42, 45;
    proposes to—­that they each review the other’s work, v. 274;
    quarrels with, ii. 253-4;
      reconciliation, 256;
    reads the Heroic Epistle to, iv. 113;
    reproaches, with not going to the theatre, ii. 14;
    tetrastick on him, ii. 282;
    tribute to him in the Life of Parnell, ii. 166, n. 2;
    wishes to write his Life, iii. 100, n. 1;
    witty contests with, ii. 231;
  Kenrick, libelled by, i. 498, n. 1;
  knowledge, ‘pity he is not knowing,’ ii. 196;
    ‘knows nothing,’ ii. 215;
    ‘amazing how little he knows,’ ii. 235;
    ‘at no pains to fill his mind,’ iii. 253;
  Langton, letter to, ii. 141, n. 1;
  Lennox’s, Mrs., play, iv. 10;
  Life not included in the Lives of the Poets, iii. 100, n. 1;
  Literary Club, member of the, i. 477; ii. 17;
    absurd verses recited to it, ii. 240; iv. 13;
    wishes for more members, iv. 183;
  Lloyd’s supper party, i. 395, n. 2;
  lodgings, miserable, i. 350, n. 3;
    in the Edgeware Road, ii. 182;
  ‘loose in his principles,’ i. 408;
  luxury, effects of, ii. 217, ib. n. 5;
  Madeira, bottle of, i. 416;
  Mallet’s reputation, ii. 233;
  Martinelli’s History, ii. 221;
  mathematics, made no great figure in, i. 411;
    contempt for them, ii. 437, n. 1;
  medical studies, i. 411;
  merit late to be acknowledged, iii. 252;
  mind, never exchanged, iii. 37;
  modern imitators of the early poets, despises, iii. 159, n. 2;
  Montaigne, love of, iii. 72, n. 2;
  mortified by a German, ii. 257;
  musical performers’ pay, ii. 225;
  ‘mutual acquaintance,’