fair copies, never wrote, i. 71, n. 3; iii. 62, n. 1; iv. 36, 309;
    Johnsonese, v. 145, n. 2;
    reviewing, iv. 214;
    time for it, ii. 119;
    verses, counting his, iv. 219;
    wrote by fits and starts, iv. 369;
      only for money, i. 318, n. 5; iii. 19, n. 3;
      not for pleasure, iv. 219;
      rapidity, described by Courtenay, iv. 381, n. 1;
      shown in his college exercises, i. 71;
    Debates, i. 504;
    Hermit of Teneriffe, i. 192, n. 1;
    Idler, i. 331;
    Life of Savage, forty-eight pages at a sitting, i. 166; v. 67;
    Ramblers, i. 203;
    Rasselas, i. 341;
    sermons, v. 67;
    translation from the French, iv. 127; v. 67;
    Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 192; ii. 15;
  confidence in his own abilities, i. 186;
  conjecture, kept things floating in, iii. 324;
  conscience, tenderness of his, i. 152;
  consecrated ground, reverence for, v. 62, 170;
  constant to those he employed, iv. 319;
  Constantinople, wish to go to, iv. 28;
  constitution, strength of his, iv. 256, n. 3;
  Construction of Fireworks, v. 246, n. 1;
  contraction of his friends’ names, ii. 258; v. 308;
  contradiction, actuated by its spirit, iii. 66; v. 387;
    exasperated by it, ii. 122;
    pleasure in it, in. 24;
  conversation, antique statue, like an, iii. 317;
    Bacon’s precept, in conformity with, iv. 236;
    colloquial pleasantry, iv. 428;
    contest, a, ii. 450; iv. 111;
    described by Hogarth, i. 147, n. 2;
    Dr. King, ii. 95, n. 1;
    E. Dilly, iii. 110;
    Reynolds, iv. 184;
    Malone, ib. n. 2;
    Miss Burney and Mrs. Thrale, iv. 237, n. 1;
    Macaulay, ib.;
    Mrs. Piozzi, iv. 346;
    Boswell, ib.;
    elegant as his writing, ii. 95, n. 2; iv. 236, 428;
    essential requisite for it, in want of an, iv. 166;
    exact precision, ii. 434;
    happiest kind, his view of the, iv. 50;
    imaginary victories gained over him, iv. 168, n. 1;
    labours when he says a good thing, v. 77;
    ‘literature in it, very little,’ v. 307;
    ‘music to hear him speak,’ v. 246;
    old man in it, nothing of the, iii. 336;
    originality, iv. 421, n. 1;
    point and imagery, teemed with, iii. 260;
    rule to talk his best, i. 204;
    ‘runts, would learn to talk of,’ iii. 337;
    seldom started a subject, iii. 307, n. 2; iv. 304, n. 4;
    stunned people, v. 288;
    too strong for the great, iv. 117;
    witnesses, without, iii. 81, n. 1;
  conviviality in the Hebrides, v. 261;
  convulsions in his breast, iii. 397, n. 1;
  convulsive starts:  see Peculiarities;
  cookery, judge of, i. 469; iii. 285;
    projected book on it, iii. 285;
  copper coins bearing his head, iv. 421, n. 2;
  cottage in Boswell’s park, would