Dies irae, reciting the, iii. 358, n. 3;
  diffidence, i. 153;
  Dignity, ‘a blunt dignity about him,’ i. 461, n. 4;
    of character, i. 131, 264, n. 1; ii. 118; v. 103;
    of literature, iii. 310;
  dinners, ‘dinner to ask a man to,’ i. 470;
    house, at his own, ii. 215, 360, 375, 427, n. 1; iii. 241;
iv. 92, 210;
    to members of the Ivy Lane Club, iv. 436;
    ‘huffed his wife’ about, i. 239, n. 2;
    on the way to Oxford, iv. 284;
    one in Devonshire, i. 379, n. 2;
    at the Pine Apple, i. 103;
    talked about them more than he thought, i. 469, n. 2;
    thought on them with earnestness, i. 467, n. 2; v. 342, n. 2: 
    see under DINNERS, and JOHNSON, eating;
  discrimination, fond of, ii. 306; iii. 282;
  disorderly habits, i. 482, n. 2; iv. 110;
  dissenters and snails, ii. 268, n, 2;
  distilling, iv. 9;
  distressed by poverty, i. 73, 77, 121, 123, n. 2, 133, 137, 163,
238, n. 2, 303, 350, 488;
  Doctor of Laws of Dublin, i. 488;
    Oxford, ii. 318, n. 1, 331-3;
    did not use the title, i. 488, n. 3; ii. 332, n. 1; iv. 79, n. 3,
268; v. 37, n. 2;
  dogs, separated two:  see JOHNSON, fear;
  Domine, title of, i. 488, n. 3;
    ‘an auld dominie,’ v. 382, n. 2;
  dramatic power, i. 506:  see JOHNSON, tragedy-writer;
  draughts, played at, i. 317; ii. 444;
  dress, described by Beauclerk, ii. 406;
    Boswell, i. 396; v. 18;
    Colman, iii. 54, n. 2;
    Cumberland, iii. 325, n. 3;
    Foote, ii. 403;
    Langton, i. 247;
    Miss Reynolds, i. 246, n. 2, 328, n. 1;
    improved, iii. 325;
    on his tour in Scotland, v. 19;
    Boswell suggests for him velvet and embroidery, ii. 475;
    Court mourning, at a, iv. 325;
    dramatic author, as a, i. 200; v. 364;
    when visiting Goldsmith, i. 366, n. 1;
    in Paris, ii. 403, n. 5;
  dropsy, sudden relief from, iv. 271-2;
    operated on himself for it:  see above, under death;
  Easter meetings with Boswell, iv. 148, n. 2;
  Easter-day, his placidity on it, iii. 25;
    resolutions on it, i. 483, 487; ii. 189, n. 3; iii. 99;
  East-Indian affairs, had never considered, ii. 294;
  eating, dislikes being asked twice to eat anything, v. 264;
    love of good eating, i. 467; iii. 69;
    at Monboddo’s table, v. 81;
    mode, i. 267, 468, 470, n. 2; v. 206;
    unaffected by kinds of food, iii. 305;
    voracious, iv. 72, 330; v. 20;
  enemies, wonders why he has, iv. 168;
  envy, candid avowal of, iii 271, n. 2;
    possible envy of Burke, iii. 310, n. 4;
  epitaphs, his, iv. 424, ib., n. 2, 443-5;
    on his wife, i. 241, n. 2; iv. 351-2;
    on his parents and brothers, iv. 393;
  Essex Head Club, founds the, iv. 253-5, 275, 436-8;
  etymologist, a bad, i. 186, n. 5;
  evidence, a sifter of, i. 406; v. 388;