thinks of a second one, iii. 199, n. 1;
  masquerade, at a, ii. 205;
  Matrimonial Thought, ii. 110;
  melancholy:  see above, Hypochondria;
  military life, love of, i. 400; iii. 413, n. 4;
  mind ‘somewhat dark,’ ii. 381;
  ‘mingles vice and virtue,’ ii. 246;
  mob, reported to have headed a, ii. 50, n. 4;
  Montagu, Mrs., quarrel with, iv. 64;
  mother-in-law, his, ii. 377, n. 1;
  Mountstuart, Lord, friendship with, iv. 128;
  music, made a fool of by, iii. 197-8;
  mystery, love of, iii. 225;
  and the mysterious, iv. 94, n. 2;
  Naples, at, v. 54;
  narrowness, troubled with a fit of, iv. 191;
  nature, no relish for the beauties of, i. 461;
  ‘never left a house without leaving a wish for his return,’ iii. 412;
  newspapers, inserted notices of himself in the, ii. 46, n. 2, 71, n. 2;
  noble friend, puzzled by a, iv. 209;
  objects on the road, not observant of, iv. 311;
  Ode to Tragedy, i. 383, n. 3; v. 51, n. 3;
  Oglethorpe, flattered by, ii. 59, n. 1 and 3;
  old-fashioned principles, v. 131;
  ‘old-hock humour,’ i. 383, n. 3; ii. 436, n. i;
  ostentatious, i. 465;
  Oxford, visits, in 1768, ii. 46;
    in 1776, ii. 438;
    in 1784, iv. 283-311;
  ‘Paoli Boswell,’ known as, v. l23;
    ‘the friend of Paoli,’ i. 426, n. 3; ii. 58, n. 3; 59, n. 3;
    attention to him, beautiful, iii. 51, n. 3;
    guest in London, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 35, 51, n. 3;
    present of books to, ii. 61;
  parliament, wishes to be in, iv. 220, 267;
  perfection, periods fixed for arriving at his, ii. 46, n. 1; v. 337;
  piety, exalted in, ii. 360, n. 2;
  Pitt’s neglect, complains of, iii. 213, n. 1;
    dislikes him, iii. 464;
    writes to him, iv. 261, n. 3;
  place, longing for a, i. 5, n. 2; ii. 381, n. 1;
  players, intimacy with, iii. 413, n. 4;
  plays his part admirably, iii. 413;
  ’all mind, iii. 415;
  pleasing distraction, in a, iii. 256;
  political speculation, owns himself unfit for, ii. 312, n. 4;
  portrait by Reynolds, i. 2, n. 2;
  Praeses, elected, iv. 248;
  preached at in Inverness chapel, v. 128;
  Quare adhaesit pavimento, iii. 261, n. 2;
  quotations sometimes inaccurate, i. 7, n. 1;
  quotes himself, v. 204, n. 1, 348, n. 4;
    changes words, ii. 45, n. 3;
  Rasselas, yearly reading of, i. 342;
  read, promises Johnson to, ii. 377, n. 1, 378, n. 1;
  sat up all night reading Gray, ii. 335, n. 2;
  reads Ovid’s Epistles, v. 295;
  reserve, practises some, i. 4; ii. 84, n. 3;
  retaliates for attacks on Johnson made by Lord Monboddo, ii. 74, n. 2;
    by Foote, ii. 95, n. 2;
  Reynolds, introduced to, i. 417, n. 1:  See REYNOLDS, Boswell;
  ridicule, defies, i. 33; iii. 190;
  right-headed, said by Baretti to be not, iii. 135, n. 2;
  Rousseau, wishes to see, iii. 463, n.