iii. 175, n. 3. 
ARRAN, Earl of, i. 281. 
ARRIGHI, A., Histoire de Pascal Paoli, ii. 3, n.  I; v. 51, n. 3.
Art of Living in London, i. 105, n. 1. 
‘ART’S CORRECTIVE,’ v. 299. 
ARTEMISIA, ii. 76. 
ARTHRITICK TYRANNY, i. 179. 
ARTICLES.  See THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES. 
ARTIFICIALLY, iii. 50, n. 4. 
ARTISTS, Society of.  See SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.
Ascertain, iii. 402, n. 2. 
ASCHAM, Roger, bachelor’s degree, takes his, i. 58, n. 3;
  Life by Johnson, i. 464;
  quoted, i. 307, n. 2. 
ASH, Dr., iv. 394, n. 4. 
ASHBOURNE, church, iii. 180;
  earthquake, iii. 136;
  Green Man Inn, iii. 208;
  Johnson’s visits, iii. 451-3;
    and the Thrales visit it in 1774, v. 430;
    and Boswell in 1776, ii. 473-6;
      in 1777, iii. 135-208;
  school, ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138;
  two convicts of the town hang themselves, iv. 359;
  water-fall, iii. 190. 
ASHBY, i. 36, n. 3, 79, n. 2. 
ASHMOLE, Elias, iii. 172; iv. 97, n. 3. 
ASIATIC SOCIETY, ii. 125, n. 4. 
ASSENT, a debt or a favour, iv. 320. 
ASSYRIANS, ii. 176; iii. 36. 
ASTLE, Rev. Mr., iv. 311. 
ASTLE, Thomas, letter from Johnson, iv. 133;
  mentioned, i. 155; iv. 311. 
ASTLEY, the equestrian, iii. 409. 
ASTOCKE, i. 79, n. 1. 
ASTON, Catherine (Hon. Mrs. Henry Hervey), i. 83, n. 4. 
ASTON, Margaret (Mrs. Walmsley), i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466. 
ASTON, Miss (Mrs.), ii. 466, 469; iii. 132, 211, 412, 414; iv. 145, n. 2. 
ASTON, ‘Molly’ (Mrs. Brodie), account of her, i. 83; ii. 466;
  interest of money, on the, iii. 340-1;
  Johnson’s epigram on her, i. 83, n. 3; 140, n. 4; iii. 341, n. 1;
    her letters to, iii. 341, n. 1;
    quoted by, iii. 341, n. 1;
  Lyttelton, Lord, preference for, iv. 57. 
ASTON, Sir Thomas, i. 83, 106, n. 1. 
ASTON HALL, ii. 456, n. 2. 
ATHEISM, v. 47.
Athelstan, ii. 131, n. 2.
Athenoeum, The, Boswell’s letters of acceptance as Secretary of the
    Royal Academy, iii. 370, n. 1;
  mistake in Forster’s Goldsmith, ii. 208, n. 5.
Athenian Letters, i. 45, n. 2. 
ATHENIANS, barbarians, ii. 171;
  brutes, 211. 
ATHOL, Earl of, ii. 7;
  family of, v. 234.
Athol porridge, iv. 78. 
ATLANTIC, Johnson on the, v. 163. 
ATONEMENT, The, v. 88. 
ATTACKS ON AUTHORS;
  attack is the reaction, ii. 335
  better to be attacked than unnoticed, iii. 375 v. 273
  part of a man’s consequence, iv. 422
  ‘fame is a shuttlecock,’ v. 400
  very rarely hurt an author, iii. 423
  useful, in subjects of taste, v. 275
  felt by authors, ib. n. 1
  Addison, Hume, Swift, Young on them, ii. 61, n. 4
  Bentley, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 274, n. 4;
  Boerhaave, ii. 61, n. 4
  Fielding, v. 275, n. 1
  Rambler, Vicar of Wakefield, Hume, and Boileau, iii. 375, n. 1
  Johnson’s solitary reply to one,