like a, iv. 226;
  country life, knowledge of, iii. 450;
    mental imprisonment, iv. 338;
    pleasure in it, v. 439, n. 2;
  courage, anecdotes of his, ii. 298-9;
  Court of Justice, in a, ii. 96, 97, n. 1, 98;
  Cowley, projected edition of, iii. 29;
  credulity, iii. 331; iv. 426; v. 17;
  critic upon characters and manners, iii. 48;
  croaker, no, iv. 381, n. 1;
  Cromwell, projected Life of, iv. 235;
  curiosity, his, i. 89; iii. 450, 453-8;
    about the middle ages, iv. 133;
  dance, at a Highland, v. 166;
  dancing, iv. 79, 80, n. 2;
  dating letters, i. 122, n. 2;
  day, mode of spending his, i. 398; ii. 118;
  death, dread of, ii. 106; iii. 153, 295; iv. 253, n. 4, 259, 278, 280,
289, 299-300, 366, 394-5. 399-400; v. 380;
    no dread of what might occasion, ii. 298;
    dying with a grace,’ iv. 300, n. 1;
    horror of the last, i. 331, n. 7; iii. 153, n. 2;
    keeping away the thoughts of, ii. 93; iii. 157;
    news of deaths fills him with melancholy, iv. 154;
    resigned at the end, iv. 414, n. 2, 416-9;
  death, his, Dec. 13, 1784, iv. 417-9;
    agitated the public mind, i. 26, n. 2;
    produced a chasm, iv. 420;
    a kind of era, iv. 421, n. 1;
    described by Boswell, iv. 399-419;
    David Boswell, iv. 417;
    Dr. Burney, iv. 410, n. 1;
    Miss Burney, iv. 377, n. 1, 438-9;
    Hoole, iv. 399, n. 1, 406, 410, n. 2;
    Langton, iv. 407, 418, n. 1;
    Nichols, iv. 407-10;
    Reynolds, iv. 414, n. 2;
    Windham’s servant, iv. 418;
    spirit of the grammarian, iv. 401;
    characteristical manner shows itself, iv. 411;
    lines on a spendthrift, iv. 413;
    three requests of Reynolds, ib.;
    refuses opiates and sustenance, iv. 415;
      operates on himself, iv. 399, 415. n. 1, 418, n. 1;
  debate, chose the wrong side in a, i. 441;
  debts in 1751, i. 238, n. 2, 350, n. 3;
    in 1759 and 1760, i. 350, n. 3;
    under arrest, i. 303, n. 1;
  dedications, skill in, ii. 1; 224-5;
    never used them himself, i. 257, n. 2; ii. i, n. 2;
    to him, iv. 421, n. 2;
  defending a man, mode of, ii. 87;
  deference, required, iii. 24, n. 2;
  delicacy about his letter to Chesterfield, i. 260, n. 3;
    about Beauclerk, iv. 180;
    towards a dependent, ii. 155;
  depression of mind, i. 297, 358, n. 5;
  deserted, very much, iv. 140;
  ‘deterre,’ i. 129;
  dexterity in retort, iv. 185;
  Diaries, Annales, i. 74, 89, n. 3;
  Diary, burnt, i. 25, 35, n. 1, 251; iv. 405;
    fragments preserved, i. 27, 35. n. 1, 74; iv. 405, n. 2;
v. 53, 427, n. 1;
    Boswell, seen by, i. 251, n. 3; iv. 405;
    left in his house, v. 53;
  ‘Dictionary Johnson,’ i. 385;
  Dictionary, cites himself in his, iv. 4, n. 3: 
    see also under Dictionary;