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 AMERICA;
  amused, easily, ii. 261; v. 249;
  amusements, his, iii. 398;
  ancestors, asked in the Highlands about his, v. 237, n. 2;
  [Greek:  Anax andron], i. 47;
  anecdotes, love of:  see ANECDOTES;
  Annales:  see JOHNSON, diary;
  annihilation, horror of, iii. 295, 298, n. 1;
  anniversaries, observed, i. 483;
  anxiety about his writings, felt no, iii. 33;
  apology, ready to make an, iv. 321,409, n. 1, 431;
  Apophthegms, i. 190, n. 4;
  Appius, compared by Burke to, iv. 374, n. 2;
  Appleby School, applies for mastership of, i. 132;
  apprentice, talking to an, ii. 323;
  approbation, pleasure of, iv. 255, n. 2;
  Arabic, wishes to study, iv. 28;
  architecture and statuary, opinion of, ii. 439;
  arguing before an audience, iii. 331; iv. 111, 324, 429;
    Burke refers to it, iii. 24, n. 2;
    butt end of the pistol, ii. 100; iv. 274; v. 292;
    delight in it, ii. 452, n. 1;
    described by Burke, iv. 316, n. 1;
      Hamilton, iv. iii;
      Reynolds, ii. 100, n. 1; iii. 81, n. 1;
      Seaford, Lord, iv. 176, n. 1;
    either side indifferently, ii. 105; iii. 24;
    kick of the Tartar horse, ii. 100, n. 1;
    promptitude for it, ii. 365; iii. 24, n. 1;
    reasoned close or wide, iv. 429; v. 17;
    rudeness, iii. 81, n. 1;
    spirit of contradiction, v. 83, 222;
    thinking which side he should take, iii. 24;
    wrong side, on the, iii. 23; iv. iii, 429;