(For his publications see also i. 19-28; for a complete list of his travels and visits, iii. 512-15; and for his residences, iii. 461, 1. 1. 1709 Birth, i. 40.

1712 'Touched' by Queen Anne, i. 50.
1716 (about) Enters Lichfield School, i. 50.
1725 Enters Stourbridge School, i. 57.
1726 Returns home, i. 59.

1728 Enters Pembroke College, i. 67.
Translates Pope's Messiah, i. 71.

1729 Returns home, i. 91, n. 1.
1731 Death of his father, i. 93.
1732 Usher at Market Bosworth, i. 97.
1733 At Birmingham, i. 99, 100, n. 1.
1734 Returns to Lichfield, i. 104.

Publishes proposals for printing Politian,

i. 104.

Returns to Birmingham, i. 105.

Offers to write for the Gent. Mag. i. 106. 1735 Publishes Lobo's Abyssinia, i. 101.

Marries Mrs. Porter and opens a school at Edial, i. 110, N. 4, 112.

1737 Visits London with Garrick, i. 117.

Returns to Lichfield and finishes Irene, i. 125.

Removes to London, i. 128.

1738 Becomes a writer in the Gent. Mag. i. 130. London, i. 137.

Begins to translate Father Paul Sarpi's
History, i. 156.

Life of Father Paul Sarpi, i. 160.

1739 Seeks the Mastership of Appleby School and the degree of Master of Arts, i. 154. Life of Boerhaave, i. 161.

Marmor Norfolciense, i. 163.

Johnson, Samuel.

Sketching outlines of his Dictionary, i.

203, 211, 12. 2.

1746 Gets to know Levett, i. 282.

1747 Prologue on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, i 209.

Plan for a Dictionary of the English
Language, i. 210.

1748 Writing the Dictionary.

Life of Roscommon, i. 222.

The Vision of Theodore the Hermit, i.

222.

1749 Writing the Dictionary.

Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 222.
Irene acted, i. 227.

Forms the Ivy Lane Club, i. 221, 1. 2.
Living in Gough Square, iii. 461, 2. 1.

1750 Writing the Dictionary.

Begins the Rambler, i. 233.

Prologue for the benefit of Milton's
Grand-daughter, i. 263.

1751 Writing the Dictionary.

The Rambler.

170.

Begins to write the Debates, i. 174.

1741 Debates, i. 174.

1742 Debates, i. 174.

Lives of Burman and Sydenham, i. 177. Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 177.

1743 Finishes the Debates, i. 174.

1744 Life of Savage, i. 186.

i. 202.

Begins The Idler, i. 382.

1763 Gets to know Boswell, i. 453

Trip to Harwich, i. 538.

Visits Oxford, iii. 512.

Character of Collins, i. 443.

Life of Ascham, i. 537.

1764 Visits Langton in Lincolnshire, i. 550. Literary Club founded, i. 552.

Visits Dr. Percy at Easton Maudit, i. 562.

1765 Visits Cambridge, i. 563.

Becomes an LL.D. of Dublin, i. 564-5.
Suffers from a severe illness, i. 559, 603.
Gets to know the Thrales (either this
year or in 1764), i. 567, 603.

Engages in politics with W. G. Hamilton,

i. 566.

Publishes his Shakespeare, i. 574.

1771 Falkland's Islands, ii. 154. Revises the Dictionary, ii. 165, 12. 1. Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 162. 1772 Revises the Dictionary, ii. 165, n. 1. Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 513. 1773 Publishes the fourth edition of the Dictionary, ii. 233.

Attempts to learn the Low Dutch language, ii. 301.

Tour to Scotland, ii. 305; v. I.

Visits Oxford, ii. 308.

Begins his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 307.

1774 Death of Goldsmith, ii. 319, 12. 2.

Tour to North Wales, ii. 326; v. 487. Visits Burke at Beaconsfield, ii. 326, 12. 3; v. 524.

The Patriot, ii. 327.

Finishes his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 329.

1775 Publishes his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 343.

Taxation no Tyranny, ii. 356.

Becomes an LL.D. of Oxford, ii. 379. Visits Oxford, Lichfield, and Ashbourne, ii. 437; iii. 514.

Tour to France, ii. 441.

1776 Visits Oxford, Lichfield, and Ashbourne with Boswell, ii. 502.

Projected tour to Italy abandoned, iii. 7.
Visits Bath, iii. 51.

First dinner with Wilkes, iii. 74.

Visits Brighton, iii. 107.

Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and
Ashbourne, iv. 156.

1782 Death of Levett, iv. 158.

Visits Oxford, iv. 174.

Takes leave of Streatham, iv. 182.
Visits Brighton, iv. 184.

1783 Has a stroke of the palsy, iv. 263.
Visits Rochester, iv. 269.
Visits Heale, iv. 270.

Death of Mrs. Williams, iv. 271.
Threatened with a surgical operation, iv.

277.

Founds the Essex Head Club, iv. 292. Attacked by spasmodic asthma, iv. 295. 1784 Confined by illness for 129 days, iv. 311,

22. I.

Visits Oxford with Boswell, iv. 327. Projected tour to Italy, iv. 377. Mrs. Thrale's second marriage, iv. 391. Visits Lichfield, Ashbourne, Birmingham, and Oxford, iv. 407-35. Death of Allen, iv. 408. Death, iv. 481. JOHNSON, Samuel, abbreviations of his friends' names, ii. 296; iv. 314, n. 4; Aberdeen, freeman of, v. 102; abodes, list of his: see JOHNSON, habitations; absence of mind: see JOHNSON, peculiarities; abstinence easy to him, i. 120, n. 2, 542; iv. 84, 172, n. 2; absurd stories told of him, i. 537; abused in a newspaper, iv. 34; accounts, resolves to keep, iv. 204, 12. 2; acquaintance, making new, iv. 432; ib., n. I; - widely-varied, iii. 24 (see JOHNSON, society); actors: see PLAYERS; Adversaria, i. 237; 'agreeable, extremely,' ii. 163, n. 1; alchymy, not a positive unbeliever in, ii. 432; alertness, no, v. 350; Alfred, Life of, projects a, i. 204; alms-giving, i. 349, n. 2; ii. 137; ambition, iii. 351; Americans, feelings towards the see AMERICA; amused, easily, ii. 300; v. 284; amusements, his, iii. 452; ancestors, asked in the Highlands about his, v. 269, n. 2; "Avač ávopŵr, i. 55; anecdotes, love of: see

de

ANECDOTES; Annales: see JOHNSON, diary; annihilation, horror of, iii. 336, 338, n. 2; anniversaries, observed, i. 558; anxiety about his writings, felt no, iii. 38; apology, ready to make an, iv. 371, 472, n. 2, 497; Apophthegms, i. 221, n. 1; Appius, compared by Burke to, iv. 431, n. 3; Appleby School, applies for mastership of, i. 153; apprentice, talking to an, ii. 370; approbation, pleasure of, iv. 295, n. 2; Arabic, wishes to study, iv. 33; architecture and statuary, opinion of, ii. 503; arguing before an audience, iii. 377; iv. 129, 374, 495; - Burke refers to it, iii. 27, n. 4; butt end of the pistol, ii. 115; iv. 316; v. 332; delight in it, ii. 517, n. 2; scribed by Burke, iv. 364, n. 3; Hamilton, iv. 129; Reynolds, ii. 115, n. 1; iii. 93, n. 1; Seaford, Lord, iv. 203, n. I; either side indifferently, ii. 121; iii. 27; kick of the Tartar horse, ii. 115, 1. 1; promptitude for it, ii. 418; iii. 27, n. 3; close or wide, iv. 495; rudeness, iii. 93, n. I; contradiction, v. 94, 252; thinking which side he should take, iii. 27; wrong side, on the, iii. 27; iv. 129, 495; see JOHNSON, talk; Argyll Street, room in, iv. 182, n. 3; Armiger, i. 565; ii. 380, n. 1; art: see PAINTING; art of making people talk of what they know best, v. 148; assertions, love of contradicting, i. 475, n. 1; iii. 27, n. 1; attacked in the streets, ii. 342; attacks, never but once replied to, i. 363-4; enjoyed them, ii. 352, 416; iv. 64; looked on them as part of his consequence, iv. 486; v. 456, n. 4; see ATTACKS; attendance, required the least, ii. 543,

- reasoned

v. 17;

- spirit of

n. 3; iv. 208, n. 3, 392, n. 4; v. 352, 12. I; Auchinleck, hopes again to see, iv. 179, 305; auction of his effects, i. 421, n. I; austere, but not morose, ii. 140; author, an, without pen, ink, or paper, i. 405, n. 3; authors asking his opinion: see AUTHORS; autobiography, projects his, i. 30, n. 1; awe, admiration, love, regarded with, v. 310; awe of him, felt by Aberdeen professors, v. 104; Lord B—, iv. 135, n. 2; Englishmen of great eminence, iii. 97; Fox, iii. 303; at Mrs. Garrick's, iv. 114-15; by Glasgow professors, v. 422; at Allan Ramsay's, iii. 378; by Dr. Robertson, v. 423; by Scotch literati, ii. 72; by a Welsh parson, v. 513, n. 2; described, by Mdme. D'Arblay, v. 422, n. 3; see below, JOHNSON, feared; Bacon, Life of, projects a, iii. 221; ball, goes to a, iv. 184, n. 1; Baltic, wishes to go up the, ii. 330, n. 1; iii. 152, 516; bargainer, bad,-Rasselas, i. 394; Lives of the Poets, iii. 126, 1. I; Barry's picture, introduced in, iv. 259, n. 1; beadle within him, the, iii. 92; bear, a,-Boswell's bear, ii. 308, n. 2; v. 44, ". I; dancing bear, ii. 75; Gibbon's sarcasm, ii. 398; Hebear, iv. 131, n. 2; 'like a word in a catch,' ii. 398; 'nothing of the bear but his skin,' ii. 76; Ursa Major, v. 437; beats Osborne, the bookseller, i. 178; 'beat many a fellow,' i. 178, 11. 2; belabours his confessor, iv. 324; belief, angry at attacks on his, iii. 12; 'believes nothing but the Bible,' i. 170, n. 1; benevolence, iii. 141, 252, 348, 418; iv. 321, 327; an outcast woman, iv. 371; concealed, iv. 376; Bible, reads the whole, ii. 218, n. 1; reads the Greek Testament at 160 verses every Sun

to

day, ii. 330; bigotry, freedom from it, i. 469; ii. 173; iii. 214; iv. 473-4; instance of it, v. 129, n. 2; Biographia Britannica, asked to edit the, iii. 198; biography, excellence in, i. 29, 296–7; love of it: see BIOGRAPHY; Birmingham Journal, writes for the, i. 99; birth and rank, respect for, ii. 149, 175, 299, 376; v. 117, 402; birth and parentage, i. 40; birth-day, disliked mention of his, at Ashbourne, iii. 178; at Dunvegan, v. 253; escaped from Streatham on it, iii. 452, n. I; cheerful entry in 1780, iii. 499; gave a dinner on it in 1781, iii. 178, n. 3; iv. 156, n. 1; in 1783, iv. 276, n. 2; reflected on it, v. 521; - kept at Streatham, iii. 178, n. 3; bishop, looks like a, v. 413; bleeding, undergoes, iii. 119, 172, n. 4; blood, irritability of his, iv. 220; blushing, iii. 374; Boltcourt, house-ii. 489; drawing-room, iii. 359; kitchen, iii. 523-4; prints in his dining-room, iv. 234, n. 1; silver salvers, iv. 107; garden, ii. 489, n. I; iii. 452; stone-seats, iv. 235; Boswell in it for the last time, iv. 389: see JOHNSON, household; bones, horror at, v. 193, 373; books, bidding them farewell, iv. 414; judgment as to their success, iv. 140; loan of them, iv. 428, 12. I; runs to them, ii. 418; tears out their heart, iii. 323; uses them slovenly, ii. 221: see BOOKS, and JOHNSON, library; book-binding, i. 65, n. 2; book-sellers, in a company of, iii. 353; borrowed small sums, iv. 220; BOSWELL: see BosWELL and JOHNSON, letters; bow to an Archbishop, iv. 228-9; bow-Wow way, ii. 374, 12. I; v. 18, n. 3; boxing, conversant in the art of, v. 260, 1. 2; breakfast, i. 282, 12. 1; ii. 245,

431; iv. 197, in splendour, iii. 454; breeding, good, iii. 62, n. 2; brother, his pretended, v. 336; 'buck, a young English,' v. 210, 298; buffoonery, incomparable at, ii. 301, π. 2; iii. 27, 12. 4; bull, made a, iv. 372; Burke content to have rung the bell to him, iv. 31; respect for him, iv. 367; attacked by him, v. 15, 2. I: see BURKE; burlesque, turns a dispute into, iv. 93, n. 3; business, love of, -Clarendon Press, ii. 504; Dr. Taylor's law suit, iii. 51, 2. 3, 59, n. 3; Thrale's brewery, iv. 99, n. 1; calculation, fondness for, i. 83; ii. 330, 394; iii. 235; error in, ib., n. 3; forgets to use it, iii. 256, n. 5; 'Caliban of literature,' ii. 148, 178, n. 1; called, iv. 109; candour, iv. 222, 276; cards, wished he had learnt, iii. 27; v. 460; careless of documents, v. 414; caricatured, glad to be, v. 456, n. 4; cat, Hodge, his, iv. 228; catalogue of his works see JOHNSON, works; cathedrals, had seen most of the, iii. 121, 134, 518; ceremonies of life, attentive to the, iii. 62, n. 2; chambers: see JOHNSON, habitations; Chancellor, Lord, might have been, iii. 352; character, his, drawn by himself, iii. 452, n. 3; iv. 53, 194, 22. I, 276; by Baretti, iii. 487, n. 2; Boswell, iv. 484, n. 4, 490-6; v. 1720; Burney, Miss, ii. 301, 12. 2; iii. 500, 22. 1; iv. 283, n. 2, 492, 12. I; Dodd, iii. 159, n. 1; HamilMickle, iv. 289;

ton, iv. 485; Parr, iv. 55, n. 3;

at Ramsay's, Reynolds see REYRobertson, iii.

iii. 376; NOLDS, Johnson;

- Taylor, iii. 170; Towers, iv. 48, n. 3; like Baker's character of James I, v. facing 13; Bayle's of Menage, iv. 494, π. 2;

Milton's, i.

113, n. 1, 152, n. 2, 231, n. 1; Savage's, i. 192, n. 2; character, said by Baretti to be ignorant of, v. 18, n. 2; characters, saw a great variety, iii. 24; drew strong yet nice portraits, ib., shade, ii. 350; overcharged, iii. 378; charity to the poor, iv. 153, 221: see JOHNSON, Almsgiving; Charles of Sweden, i. 177, n. 1; chastity in his youth, i. 109; Savage's example, i. 189; iv. 456-9; chemistry, love of, i. 161, 505; iii. 452; iv. 274; chief, would have made a good, v. 155, 163; child, never wished to have a, iii. 33; childhood, companions of his, iii. 149; children, books for, iv. 9, n. 5; children, love of little, iv. 227; Christianity, projected work on, V. IOI; church, attendances due at, i. 78, n. 2; iii. 456; behaviour in it, ii. 245; lateness in arriving at it, ii. 547; iii. 343, n. 1, 355, n. 5; perturbation, without, at it, ii. 547; some radiations of comfort at it, iii. 20, ". 2, 29, n. 1; reluctance to go to it, i. 78; ii. 164, n. 1, 246, n. 1; resolutions at it, i. 579; Church of England, devotion to the, iii. 377; iv. 492; v. 17; church preferment, offer of, i. 370, 551; ii. 138; civilized life in the Hebrides, longs for, v. 208; clergymen should not be taught elocution, iv. 238; Clerkenwell alehouse, i. 131, n. 1; climb over a wall at Oxford, proposes to, i. 402; Club, Literary, attendance, i. 555, n. 3; ii. 157; iii. 120, n. 1; dislike of some of the members, iii. 121;