shoes worn out, i. 76;
  sight,
    account of it by Boswell, iv. 425; v. 18;
      by Miss Burney, iv. 160, n. 1, 304, n. 4;
    actors’ faces, could not see, ii. 92, n. 4;
    acuteness shown in criticising dress, v. 428, n. 1;
      in his French diary, ii. 401;
      in observing scenes, i. 41; iii. 187; iv. 311; v. 141;
    Baretti’s trial, at, ii. 97, n. 1;
    Blinking Sam, iii. 273, n. 1;
    difficulty in crossing the kennel when a child, i. 39;
    eyes wild and piercing, i. 94, n. 4, 464, n. 1;
      only one eye, i. 41;
      restored to its use, i. 305;
      inflamed, ii. 263-4;
  short-sighted, called by Dr. Percy, iii. 273;
  silence, fits of, ii. 213; iii. 307; v. 73;
  silver buckles, iii. 325;
    cup, i. 163, n. 2;
    plate, ii. 5, n. i; iv. 92;
  singularity, dislike of, ii. 74, n. 3; iv. 325;
  sins, never balanced against virtues, iv. 398;
  slavery, hatred of:  See SLAVES;
  sleep:  See Nights;
  smallpox, has the, v. 435;
  Smith, Adam, compared with, iv. 24, n. 2;
  Sober, Mr., of The Idler, iii. 398, n. 3;
  social, truly, iv. 284;
  society, mixing with polite, i. 80, 82, 496, n. 1; ii. 467;
iii. 272, n. 3 424; iv. 1, n. 1, 89, 108, n. 4, 109, 116-17, 147, 326,
357; v. 43, 98, 207, 358. 371, 374, 394, 455,457;
  solitude, hatred of, i. 144, n. 2, 297, 339, n. 3, 515; iii; 405;
iv. 427;
    suffers from it, iv. 163, n. 1: 
    See under JOHNSON, household;
  ‘soothed,’ ii. 113;
  sophistry, love of, ii. 61; recourse to it, iv. iii;
  sought after nobody, iii. 314;
  Southwark election, ii. 287, n. 2;
  speaking, impressive mode of, ii. 326;
  spelling incorrect, i. 260, n. 2; iv. 36, n. 4; v. 124, n. 1;
  spirit, lofty, iv. 374;
  spirit, wishes for evidence for, ii. 150; iii. 298, n. 1; iv. 298: 
    See JOHNSON, super-natural;
  splendour on, L600 a year, iv. 337;
  spurs, loses his, iv. 407, n. 4; v. 163;
  St. Clement Danes, his seat in, ii. 214;
  St. James’s Square, walks with Savage round, i. 163, n. 2, 164;
  St. John’s Gate, reverences, i.  III;
  St. Vitus’s dance, v. 18;
  stately shop, deals at a, iv. 319;
  straggler, a, iii; 306;
  Streatham, ‘absorbed from his old friends,’ i. 495, n. 2; ii. 427, n. 1;
iii. 225;
    Miss Burney describes his life there, iv. 340, n. 3;
    his ‘home,’ i. 493, n. 3; ii. 77, 141, n. 1; iii. 451; iv. 340;
    his late hours there, ii. 407;
    his farewell to it, iv. 158;
  studied behaviour, disapproves of, i. 470;
  study, advice about, i. 428; iv. 311;
  style,
    account of it, i. 217-25;
    Addison’s, compared with, i. 224, 225, n. 1;
    affected by his Dictionary, i. 221, n. 4;
    ‘Brownism,’ i. 221, 308;
    caricatures of it, by Blair, iii. 172;
      Colman, iv. 387, 388, n. 1;