Critical Strictures, i. 383, n. 3, 409;
  critics ‘cannot or will not understand him,’ v. 259, n. 1;
  Cub at Newmarket, i. 383, n. 3;
  curiosity, his wise and noble, ii. 4, 59;
  Dalblair and Young Auchinleck, known as, v. 116;
  daughters, on the treatment of, ii. 420, n. 1;
  ‘dazzled’ by Johnson and Paoli, i. 460;
  death, at times not afraid of, iii. 153;
  debts, i. 2, n. 2; ii. 275;
    paid by his father, iii. 93;
    Johnson’s warnings, against incurring any, iv. 148-9, 152, 154, 163;
  dedications, his, i. 1; ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1;
  delights to talk of the state of his mind, iv. 249;
  describes visible objects with difficulty, v. 173, 219;
  desert, has wished to retire to a, ii. 75;
  Devonshire, visits, ii. 371;
  dignity, hardly possible uniformly to preserve, ii. 69, n. 3;
    acquires ‘dignity in London,’ 375, n. 4;
  dinners, gives admirable, ii. 59, n. 3;
    gives one to some Hebrideans and Highlanders, ii. 308, 380;
    goes without one, ii. 178;
  displays his classical learning, v. 15, n. 5;
  dissatisfaction, too much given to, iii. 225;
  Dorando, A Spanish Tale, ii. 50, n. 4;
  ‘Drawing-room’ dress, his, ii. 83, n. 1;
  Dresden, visits, i. 266, n. 2;
  drudges in an obscure corner, ii. 381, n. 1;
  duel, risk of having to fight a, ii. 179, n. 3;
  early rising, difficulty of, iii. 168;
  Easter meetings with Johnson, iv. 148. n. 2;
  elated at getting Johnson to the Hebrides, v. 215;
  Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady, i. 383, n. 3;
  elevated by pious exercises, iv. 122;
  English Bar, enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 178;
    eats his dinners, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 45, n. 1;
    called, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5;
    discouraging prospects, iii. 179, n. 1;
    takes chambers, ib.;
    attends the Northern Circuit, iii. 261, n. 2;
    discussion with Johnson on the way to success at the bar, iv. 309;
  enthusiasm of mind, solemn, iii. 122, n. 2;
    to go with Captain Cook, iii. 7;
    to go to the wall of China, iii. 269;
    feudal, iii. 178; v. 223;
    genealogical, v. 379;
  envy of Dundas’s success, ii. 160, n. 1;
  Epistle from Menalcas to Lycidas, i. 383, n. 3;
  Essays, his, iv. 179;
  Essence of the Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1;
  Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, n. 2;
  estate, income of his, iv. 154, n. i; 155, n. 4;
  Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4;
  exact likeness, draws an, i. 486;
  executions, love of seeing, ii. 93, n. 3; iii. 384, n. 1; iv. 328;
  executors, his, iii. 301, n. 1;
  ‘facility of manners,’ v. 19, n. 1;
  fame, ardour for literary, ii. 69, n. 3; iv. 50, n. 2;
  fancies that he is neglected, ii. 384; iii. 44, 135;
    that Johnson is ill or offended, ii. 410;
    that his wife or children