SOLICITORS, iv. 128-31.  See ATTORNEYS. 
SOLITUDE, Burton’s warning against it, iii. 415. 
  See under JOHNSON, solitude. 
SOMERS, Lord,
  patron of learning, v. 59, n. 1;
  mentioned, ii. 157, n. 3. 
SOMERSET, James, a negro,
  account of his case, iii. 87, n. 3, 212; v. 401, n. 3;
  Hargrave’s Argument quoted, v. 401, n. 3;
  Knight the negro reads his case, iii. 214, n. 1. 
SOMERSET, Duchess of, i. 452, n. 2. 
SOMERSETSHIRE, iii. 226, n. 2. 
SOMERVILLE, Lord, iv. 50. 
SOMMELSDYCK, family of, v. 25, n. 2.
Somnium, i. 60. 
SORROW,
  inherent in humanity, v. 64;
  remedies for it, ib., n. 2;
  useless, iii. 137, n. 1. 
  See GRIEF. 
SOUND, beauty in a simple sound, ii. 191. 
SOUTH, Dr. Robert,
  Johnson criticises his Sermons, iii. 248;
    recommends his Sermons on Prayer, ii. 104.
South Briton, a libel, iv. 318, n. 3. 
SOUTH SEA, voyages to the, ii. 247; iii. 8; iv. 308.
South Sea Report, i. 157. 
SOUTH SEA SCHEME,
  Dr. Young loses by it, iv. 121;
  Fenton’s advice to Gay, v. 60, n. 4. 
SOUTHAMPTON, Lord, ii. 323, n. 1. 
SOUTHEY, Robert,
  Adventurer, i. 252, n. 2;
  Colman and Lloyd, ii. 334, n. 3;
  correcting doggedly, v. 40, n. 3;
  dreams, i. 235, n. 2;
  English historians, ignorance of, v. 220, n. 1;
  Gentleman’s Magazine, despises the, iv. 437;
  Georgia, settlement of, i. 127, n. 4;
  Methodists, origin of the term, i. 458, n. 3;
  poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1;
  Robertson’s, Dr., omissions, ii. 238, n. 1; v. 220, n. 1;
  Robinson, Sir T., i. 434, n. 3;
  supernatural appearances, iii. 298, n. 1;
  walks, the habit of taking long, i. 64, n. 4;
  want of readiness, ii. 256, n. 3;
  Wesley’s manners, iii. 230, nn. 3 and 4;
  Wesley warned by ‘a serious man,’ v. 62, n. 5;
  Westminster School, account of, iii. 12, n. 3;
  Whitefield’s oratory, ii. 79, n. 4; v. 36, n. 1;
  Whole Duty of Man, ii. 239, n. 4. 
SOUTHILL, the residence of Squire Dilly,
  Boswell visits it in 1779, iii. 396;
  Boswell and Johnson in 1781, i. 260; iv. 118;
  the church, i. 315; iv. 122. 
SOUTHWELL, Thomas, second Lord, i. 243; iii. 380;
  ‘most qualified man,’ iv. 174. 
SOUTHWELL, Mr., i. 362. 
SOUTHWELL, Robert, the Jesuit, v. 444. 
SPACE, quasi sensorium numinis, v. 287. 
SPAIN, Boswell, David, lives there, n. 195, n. 3;
  embassy to it in 1766, ii. 177;
  expedition to Scotland in 1719, v. 140, n. 3;
  exportation of coin, iv. 105, n. 1;
  Johnson attacks it in London, i. 130, 455;
    in Lives of Blake and Drake, i. 147, n. 5;
    wishes that it should be travelled over, i. 365, 410, 455; iii. 454;
  Spanish invasion, fears of a, iii. 360, n. 3;
  treaty of peace of 1782-83, iv. 282, n. 1. 
SPANISH PLAYS, iv. 16.