see JOHNSON, talk;
  Argyll Street, room in, iv. 158, n. 4;
  Armiger, i. 489; ii. 332, n. i;
  art:  see PAINTING;
  art of making people talk of what they know best, v. 130;
  assertions, love of contradicting, i. 410, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2;
  attacked in the streets, ii. 299;
  attacks, never but once replied to, i. 314;
    enjoyed them, ii. 308, 363; iv. 55;
    looked on them as part of his consequence, iv. 422; v. 400, n. 4: 
    see ATTACKS;
  attendance, required the least, ii. 474, n. 3;
iv. 181, n. 1, 340, n. 3; v. 309, n. 2;
  Auchinleck, hopes again to see, iv. 156, 264;
  auction of his effects, i. 363, n. 3;
  austere, but not morose, ii. 122;
  author, an, without pen, ink, or paper, i. 350, n. 3;
  authors asking his opinion:  see AUTHORS;
  autobiography, projects his, i. 26, n. 1;
  awe, admiration, love, regarded with, v. 272;
  awe of him, felt by Aberdeen professors, v. 92;
    Lord B——­, iv. 116, n. 1;
    Englishmen of great eminence, iii. 85;
    Fox, iii. 267;
    at Mrs. Garrick’s, iv. 99;
    by Glasgow professors, v. 371;
    at Allan Ramsay’s, iii. 332;
    by Dr. Robertson, v. 371;
    by Scotch literati, ii. 63;
    by a Welsh parson, v. 450, n. 2;
    described, by Mdme. D’Arblay, v. 371, n. 2: 
    see below, JOHNSON, feared;
  Bacon, Life of, projects a, iii. 194;
  ball, goes to a, iv. 159, n. 3;
  Baltic, wishes to go up the, ii. 288, n. 3; iii. 134, 454;
  bargainer, bad,
    Rasselas, i. 341;
    Lives of the Poets, iii. 111, n. 1;
  Barry’s picture, introduced in, iv. 224, n. 1;
  beadle within him, the, iii. 81;
  bear, a,
    Boswell’s bear, ii. 269, n. i; v. 39, n. 4;
    dancing bear, ii. 66;
    Gibbon’s sarcasm, ii. 348: 
    He-bear, iv. 113, n. 2;
    ‘like a word in a catch,’ ii. 347;
    ‘nothing of the bear but his skin,’ ii. 66;
    Ursa Major, v. 384;
  beats Osborne, the bookseller, i. 154;
  ‘beat many a fellow,’ i. 154, n. 2;
  belabours his confessor, iv. 281: 
  belief, angry at attacks on his, iii. 111;
  ‘believes nothing but the Bible,’ i. 147, n. 2;
  benevolence, iii. 124, 222, 306, 368; iv. 278, 283;
    to an outcast woman, iv. 321;
    concealed, iv. 325;
  Bible, reads the whole, ii. 189, n. 3;
    reads the Greek Testament at 160 verses every Sunday, ii. 288;
  bigotry, freedom from it, i. 405; ii. 150; iii. 188; iv. 410-1;
   instance of it, v. 114, n. 2;
  Biographia Britannica, asked to edit the, iii. 174;
  biography, excellence in, i. 25, 256;
    love of it:  see BIOGRAPHY;
  Birmingham Journal, writes for the, i. 85;
  birth and rank, respect for, ii. l30, l53, 26l, 328; v. 103, 353;
  birth and parentage, i. 34;
  birth-day, disliked mention of his, at