ii. 120;
    a Highland beauty, v. 261;
  knotting, tried, iii. 242; iv. 284;
  knowledge, at the age of eighteen, i. 445;
    exact, iii. 319;
    varied, iii. 22; iv. 427; v. 215, 246, 263;
  ‘laboured,’ iii. 260, n. 3; v. 77;
  ladies, could be very agreeable to, iv. 73;
  Langton’s devotion to him in his illness, iv. 266, n. 3;
    will, ridicules, ii. 261;
  language, delicate in it, iii. 303; iv. 442;
    suits his to a ‘blackguard boy,’ iv. 184;
    zeal for it, ii. 28;
  large, love of the, v. 442, n. 4;
  late hours, love of, ii. 407; iii. 1, n. 2, 205;
  Latin,
    knowledge of, i. 45, 61, 62;
      testified to by De Quincey, i. 272, n. 3;
      by Dr. Parr, iv. 385, n. 3;
      colloquial, ii. 125, 404, 406;
    misquotes Horace, iv. 356, n. 2;
    modern Latin poetry, loves, i. 90, n. 2;
    verse, translates Greek epigrams into Latin, iv. 384;
  laugh, his, described, ii. 262, n. 2;
    hearty, ii. 378; like a rhinoceros, ib.;
    over small matters, ii. 261; v. 249;
    resounds from Temple Bar to Fleet Ditch, ii. 262;
  ‘laughter, shakes, out of you,’ ii. 231;
  law, knowledge of, iii. 22;
  lawyer, seeks to become a, i. 134;
    would have excelled, ib.;
    had not money, v. 35;
  laxity of talk, i. 476; ii. 735 iv. 211, n. 4; v. 352;
  laziness, trying to cure his, v. 231;
  lectured by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 65, n. 1;
  lemonade, his, v. 22, 72;
  letterwriting an effort, i. 473;
  letters may be published after his death, ii. 60; iii. 276;
    puts as little as possible into them, iv. 102;
    returns not answers, ii. 2, n. 3, 279; iii. 209;
    studied endings, v. 238, n. 6;
    publication by Mrs. Piozzi: 
    See under Mrs. Thrale, Johnson,
  letters;—­to
    Allen, Edmund, iv. 228;
    Argyle, Duke of, v. 363;
    Astle, Thomas, iv. 133;
    Bagshaw,
    Rev. T., ii. 258; iv. 351;
    Banks, Joseph, ii. 144;
    Barber, Francis, ii. 62, 115, 116; iv. 239, n. 2;
    Baretti, i. 361, 369, 380;
    Barry, James, iv. 202;
    B—­d, Mr., ii. 207;
    Beattie, Dr., iii. 434;
    Birch, Dr., i. 160, 226;
    Boothby, Miss, i. 83, n. 2, 305, n. 2; iv. 57, n. 3;
    Boswell, James, i. 473; ii. 3, 20, 58, 70, 110, 140, 145, 201, 204,
264-6, 268, 271-3, 274, 276-7, 278, 279, 284, 287, 288, 290,292, 294,
296, 307, 309, 379, 381-4, 387, 411, 412, 415-424; iii. 44, 86, 88, 93,
94, 104, 105, 108, 120, 124, 127, 130-2, 135, 210, 214, 215, 277, 362,
368, 372, 391, 395, 396, 413, 416, 420, 435, 441; iv. 71, 136, 145, n. 2,
148, 151, 153, 154-6, 163, 231, 241, 248, 259, 261, 262,
264-5, 348, 351, 378-9, 380: 
      for Boswell’s letters to Johnson, See BOSWELL;
    Boswell, Mrs., iii. 85, 129; iv. 156;
    Boufflers, Mme, de, ii. 405;
    Brocklesby, Dr., iv. 234, 353-9;
    Burney, Dr., i. 286, 323,