palsy, iv. 227, 401, n. 2;
          threatened with an operation, iv. 239;
          gout, 241;
    1783-4, asthma and dropsy, iv. 255, 256, n. 1, 259;
          sudden relief, 261, 271-2;
          confined 129 days, iv. 270, n. 1;
          projected wintering in Italy, iv. 326;
          his letters about his last illness, iv. 353-69;
    Aegri Ephemeris, iv. 381:  see JOHNSON, melancholy;
  heard, pronunciation of, iii. 197;
  hearth-broom, his, iv. 134;
  Hebrides, first talk of visiting the, i. 450; ii. 291; v. 286;
    proposed tour, ii. 51, 201, 232, 264; v. 13-4;
    leaves London, ii. 265; v. 21;
    returns, ii. 268;
    account of the tour, ii. 266-7; v. 1-425;
    described in a letter to Taylor, v. 405, n. 1;
    acquisition of ideas, iv. 199;
    and of images, v. 405;
    hardships and dangers, v. 127, 283, n. 1, 313, n. 1, 392;
    uncommon spirit shown, v. 368;
    pleasantest journey he ever made, iii. 93; v. 405;
    pleasure in talking it over, iii. 131, 196;
    a ‘frolic,’ iv. 136;
    no wish to go again, iv. 199;
    received like princes, v. 317;
    ‘roving among the Hebrides at sixty,’ v. 278;
    box of curiosities from them, ii. 269-70: 
    see Journey to the Hebrides, and SCOTLAND;
  Hercules, compared by Boswell to, ii. 260;
  Hervey, story of his ingratitude to, iii. 195, 209-11;
  high, his use of, iii. 118, n. 3;
  Highlander, shows the spirit of a, v. 324;
  hilarity, i. 73, 191, n. 5, 255, n. 1; ii. 261-2, 378;
  history, little regard for:  see HISTORY;
  holds up his head as high as he can, iv. 256;
  home uncomfortable by jarrings, iii. 368: 
    see JOHNSON, household;
  honest man, v. 264, 309;
  house at Lichfield:  see LICHFIELD;
  for his habitations, see JOHNSON, habitations;
  household, account of it, i. 232, n. 1; iii. 461-2; iv. 169, n. 3;
    ‘much malignity’ in it, iii. 417, 461;
    losses by death, iv. 140;
    melancholy, iv. 142;
    more peace, iv. 233, n. 1;
    solitude, i. 232, n. 1; iv. 235, n. 1, 239, 241, 249, 253, n. 4,
255, 270;
    housekeeping, left off, i. 326, 350, n. 3;
    resumed it, ii. 4;
  hug, gives one a forcible, ii. 231;
  humility, iii. 380, n. 3; iv. 410, 427;
  humour, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 244, n. 2; iv. 428; v. 17, 20;
  hungry only once in his life, i. 469;
  hypochondria:  see JOHNSON, health;
  hypocrisy, not suspicious of, i. 418, n. 3; iii. 444;
  Iceland, projected voyage to, i. 242; iv. 358, n. 2;
  idleness in boyhood, i. 48;
    at College, i. 70;
    ‘Desidiae valedixi,’ i. 74;
    in writing the Plan, i. 183;
    ’Idle Apprentice i. 250;
    in Inner Temple lane, i. 350, n. 3;
    ‘idle fellow all my life,’ i. 465;
    idleness in 1760, i. 353;
      in 1761, i. 358;