influence extended everywhere, ii. 124;
intellectual pleasure, affords, iii. 5, 378; iv. 164; v. 14;
Irish chairmen, ii. 101;
Johnson loves it, i. 320; ii. 75, 120; iii. 5; iv. 358;
returns to it to die, iv. 374-5;
life on L30 a year, i. 105;
London, described in Johnson’s, i. 118;
London-bred men strong, ii. 101; iv. 210;
magnitude and variety, i. 421; ii. 75, 473; iii. 21; iv. 201;
Minorca, compared with life in, iii. 246;
mobs and illuminations, iii. 383: see below, riots;
mortality of children, iv. 209;
parish, a London, ii. 128;
pavement, the new, v. 84, n. 3;
Pekin, compared with, v. 305;
population not increased, iv. 209;
preferable to all other places, iii. 363, 378;
press-gangs not suffered to enter the city in Sawbridge’s Mayoralty,
iii. 460;
Recorder’s report to the King of sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1;
relations in London, ii. 177;
Reynolds’s love of it, iii. 178, n. 1;
riots in 1768. ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5;
shoe-blacks, ii. 326; iii. 262;
shopkeeper compared with a savage, v. 81, 83;
slaughter-houses, v. 247;
society, compared with Paris, iii. 253;
strikes, iii. 46, n. 5;
theatre, proposal for a third, iv. 113;
tires of it, no man, iii. 178;
Boswell will tire of it, iii. 353;
too large, ii. 356;
Trained Bands, iv. 319;
universality, ii. 133;
wall, taking the, i. 110; v. 230;
wits, ii. 466;
wheat, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.
II. Localities.
LONDON,
Aldersgate Street, Milton’s School,
ii. 407, n. 5;
Anchor Brewhouse, i. 491, n. 1;
Argyll Street, Johnson’s room in
Mrs. Thrale’s house, iii. 405, n. 6;
iv. 157, 164;
Bank of England, Jack Wilkes defends it
against the rioters, iii. 430;
Barking Creek, iii. 268, n. 4;
Barnard’s Inn, No. 6, Oliver Edward’s
chambers, iii. 303;
Batson’s coffee-house, frequented
by physicians, iii. 355, n. 2;
Baxter’s (afterwards Thomas’s),
Dover Street, Literary Club met there,
i. 479, n. 2; v. 109, n. 5;
Bedford Coffee-house, Garrick attacks
Dodsley’s Cleone, i. 325, n. 3;
Bedford Street, ‘old’ Mr.
Sheridan’s house, i. 485, n. 1;
Billingsgate, Johnson, Beauclerk and Langton
row to it, i. 251;
Johnson and Boswell take oars
for Greenwich, i. 458;
Johnson lands there, iv. 233,
n. 2;
Black Boy, Strand, Johnson dates a letter
from it, iii. 405, n. 6;
Blackfriars, Boswell and Johnson cross
in a boat to it, ii. 432;
Blackfriars bridge, Johnson’s letter
about the design for it, i. 351;
Blenheim Tavern, Bond Street, meeting
place of the Eumelian Club,
iv. 394, n. 4;
Boar’s Head, Eastcheap, a Shakesperian
Club, v. 247;
Bolt Court,
Boswell takes his last leave
of Johnson at the entry, iv. 338;