n. 1.
Observations on his Britanick Majesty’s Treaties, &c., i. 308.
Observations on the Present State of Affairs, i. 308, 310.
Observer, The, iv. 64. 
OBSTINACY, must be overcome, ii. 184. 
OCCUPATION, iii. 180;
  hereditary, v. 120. 
O’CONNOR, Charles, Johnson’s letters to him, i. 321; iii. 111. 
OCTAVIA, iv. 446. 
ODD, nothing odd will do long, ii. 449. 
ODE, Goldsmith’s account of one, iv. 13.
Ode, Ad Urbanum, i. 113.
Ode, An, i. 178.
Ode, In Theatre, ii. 324, n. 3.
Ode on Solitude, iii. 197.
Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, i. 420.
Ode on the British Nation, iv. 442.
Ode on the Peace, iv. 282.
Ode on Winter, i. 182.
Ode to Friendship, i. 158.
Ode to Melancholy, i. 122, n. 4.
Ode to Mrs. Thrale, a caricature, iv. 387.
Ode to Mrs. Thrale, written in Sky, v. 158.
Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain, iii. 374.
Ode upon the Isle of Sky, v. 155.
Odes.  See CIBBER, COLLEY, and GRAY, Thomas.
Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion, ii. 334. 
ODIN, iii. 274. 
ODYSSEY.  See HOMER.
Oedipus Tyrannus,
  Johnson’s preface to Maurice’s translation, iii. 370, n. 2.
Ofellus, i. 104. 
OFFELY, Mr., i. 97. 
OFFICER.  See SOLDIER. 
OGDEN, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Sermons,
  Boswell edified by them, v. 29;
  caricatured by Rowlandson, ib., n. 1;
  Johnson wishes to read them, iii. 248;
    tries to, v. 29, 88;
  prevailed on to read one aloud, v. 350;
  on original sin, iv. 123, n. 3;
  on prayer, v. 38, 58, 68, 282, 325;
  quotation from one, v. 351. 
OGILBY, John, i. 55. 
OGILVIE, Dr. John,
  Poems, i. 421, 423, n. 1;
  praises Scotland, i. 425. 
OGILVY, Sir James, v. 227, n. 4. 
OGLETHORPE, General,
  account of him, i. 127, n. 4, 128, n. 1;
  Belgrade, siege of, ii. 181;
  birth, ii. 180, n. 2;
  Boswell and the Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1;
    to Shebbeare, introduces, iv. 112;
    communicates particulars of his life to, ii. 351 n. 3;
  Caligula and the Senate, iii. 283;
  dinners at his house, ii. 179, 217, 232, 350; iii. 52, 282;
v. 138, n. 1;
  duelling, defends, ii. 179;
  father, his, iv. 171;
  Georgia, colonises, i. 127, n. 4;
  Johnson’s London, patronises, i. 127;
    visits, iv. 170;
    willing to write his Life, ii. 351;
  luxury, declaims against, iii. 282;
  ‘never completes what he has to say,’ iii. 57;
  Pope’s lines on him, i. 127, n. 4;
  Prendergast and Sir J. Friend, ii. 182;
  Prince of Wirtemberg and the glass of wine, ii. 180;
  vivacity and knowledge, iii. 56;
  Wesley, Charles, ill-uses, i. 127, n. 4. 
OGLETHORPE, Mr., ii. 272. 
‘O’HARA, you are welcome,’ v. 263. 
OIL OF VITRIOL, ii. 155;
  Johnson’s, v. 15, n. 1.