106; One of the founders, i. 477; coach, on the top of a, i. 477; cold, indifferent to, v. 306, 345; colloquial barbarisms, repressed, iii. 196; comfort, wants every, iv. 270; common things, well-informed in, iv. 206; 'companion, a tremendous,' iii. 139; companions of his youth, regrets the, iii. 180, n. 3; company, loves, i. 144; obliged to any man who visits him, i. 397; proud to have his company desired, ii. 375, n. 4; tries to persuade people to return, i. 490; complaints, not given to, ii. 67, 357; iii. 3; iv. 116,172, n. 4; complaisance, i. 82; compliment, pleased with a, iv. 275; v. 401; composition, dictionary-making and poetry compared, v. 47, 418; fair copies, never wrote, i. 71, n. 3; iii. 62, n. 1; iv. 36, 309; Johnsonese, v. 145, n. 2; reviewing, iv. 214; time for it, ii. 119; verses, counting his, iv. 219; wrote by fits and starts, iv. 369; only for money, i. 318, n. 5; iii. 19, n. 3; not for pleasure, iv. 219; rapidity, described by Courtenay, iv. 381, n. 1; shown in his college exercises, i. 71; Debates, i. 504; Hermit of Teneriffe, i. 192, n. 1; Idler, i. 331; Life of Savage, forty-eight pages at a sitting, i. 166; v. 67; Ramblers, i. 203; Rasselas, i. 341; sermons, v. 67; translation from the French, iv. 127; v. 67; Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 192; ii. 15; confidence in his own abilities, i. 186; conjecture, kept things floating in, iii. 324; conscience, tenderness of his, i. 152; consecrated ground, reverence for, v. 62, 170; constant to those he employed, iv. 319; Constantinople, wish to go to, iv. 28; constitution, strength of his, iv. 256, n. 3; Construction of Fireworks, v. 246, n. 1; contraction of his friends' names, ii. 258; v. 308; contradiction, actuated by its spirit, iii. 66; v. 387; exasperated by it, ii. 122; pleasure in it, in. 24; conversation, antique statue, like an, iii. 317; Bacon's precept, in conformity with, iv. 236; colloquial pleasantry, iv. 428; contest, a, ii. 450; iv. 111; described by Hogarth, i. 147, n. 2; Dr. King, ii. 95, n. 1; E. Dilly, iii. 110; Reynolds, iv. 184; Malone, ib. n. 2; Miss Burney and Mrs. Thrale, iv. 237, n. 1; Macaulay, ib.; Mrs. Piozzi, iv. 346; Boswell, ib.; elegant as his writing, ii. 95, n. 2; iv. 236, 428; essential requisite for it, in want of an, iv. 166; exact precision, ii. 434; happiest kind, his view of the, iv. 50; imaginary victories gained over him, iv. 168, n. 1; labours when he says a good thing, v. 77; 'literature in it, very little,' v. 307; 'music to hear him speak,' v. 246; old man in it, nothing of the, iii. 336; originality, iv. 421, n. 1; point and imagery, teemed with, iii. 260; rule to talk his best, i. 204; 'runts, would learn to talk of,' iii. 337; seldom started a subject, iii. 307, n. 2; iv. 304, n. 4; stunned people, v. 288; too strong for the great, iv. 117; witnesses, without, iii. 81, n. 1; conviviality in the Hebrides, v. 261; convulsions in his breast, iii. 397, n. 1; convulsive starts: see Peculiarities; cookery, judge of, i. 469; iii. 285; projected book on it, iii. 285; copper coins bearing his head, iv. 421, n. 2; cottage in Boswell's park, would like a, iv. 226; country life, knowledge of, iii. 450; mental imprisonment, iv. 338; pleasure in it, v. 439, n. 2; courage, anecdotes of his, ii. 298-9; Court of Justice, in a, ii. 96, 97, n. 1, 98; Cowley, projected edition of, iii. 29; credulity, iii. 331; iv. 426; v. 17; critic upon characters and manners, iii. 48; croaker, no, iv. 381, n. 1; Cromwell, projected Life of, iv. 235; curiosity, his, i. 89; iii. 450, 453-8; about the middle ages, iv. 133; dance, at a Highland, v. 166; dancing, iv. 79, 80, n. 2; dating letters, i. 122, n. 2; day, mode of spending his, i. 398; ii. 118; death, dread of, ii. 106; iii. 153, 295; iv. 253, n. 4, 259, 278, 280, 289, 299-300, 366, 394-5. 399-400; v. 380; no dread of what might occasion, ii. 298; dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1; horror of the last, i. 331, n. 7; iii. 153, n. 2; keeping away the thoughts of, ii. 93; iii. 157; news of deaths fills him with melancholy, iv. 154; resigned at the end, iv. 414, n. 2, 416-9; death, his, Dec. 13, 1784, iv. 417-9; agitated the public mind, i. 26, n. 2; produced a chasm, iv. 420; a kind of era, iv. 421, n. 1; described by Boswell, iv. 399-419; David Boswell, iv. 417; Dr. Burney, iv. 410, n. 1; Miss Burney, iv. 377, n. 1, 438-9; Hoole, iv. 399, n. 1, 406, 410, n. 2; Langton, iv. 407, 418, n. 1; Nichols, iv. 407-10; Reynolds, iv. 414, n. 2; Windham's servant, iv. 418; spirit of the grammarian, iv. 401; characteristical manner shows itself, iv. 411; lines on a spendthrift, iv.