239. Founds the Essex Head Club, iv. 253. Attacked by spasmodic asthma, iv. 255. 1784 Confined by illness for 129 days, iv. 270, n. 1. Visits Oxford with Boswell, iv. 283. Projected tour to Italy, iv. 326. Mrs. Thrale's second marriage, iv. 339. Visits Lichfield, Ashbourne, Birmingham, and Oxford, iv. 353-377. Death of Allen, iv. 354. Death, iv. 417. JOHNSON, Samuel, abbreviations of his friends' names, ii. 258; iv. 273, n. 1; Aberdeen, freeman of, v. 90; abodes, list of his: see JOHNSON, habitations; absence of mind: see JOHNSON, peculiarities; abstinence easy to him, i. 103, n. 3, 468; iv. 72, 149, n. 3; absurd stories told of him, i. 464; abused in a newspaper, iv. 29; accounts, resolves to keep, iv. 177, n. 3; acquaintance, making new, iv. 374; ib., n. 4; widely-varied, iii. 21 (see JOHNSON, society); actors: see PLAYERS; Adversaria, i. 205; 'agreeable, extremely,' ii. 141, n. 3; alchymy, not a positive unbeliever in, ii. 376; alertness, no, v. 308; Alfred, Life of, projects a, i. 177; alms-giving, i. 302, n. 1; ii. 119; ambition, iii. 309; Americans, feelings towards the: see AMERICA; amused, easily, ii. 261; v. 249; amusements, his, iii. 398; ancestors, asked in the Highlands about his, v. 237, n. 2; [Greek: Anax andron], i. 47; anecdotes, love of: see ANECDOTES; Annales: see JOHNSON, diary; annihilation, horror of, iii. 295, 298, n. 1; anniversaries, observed, i. 483; anxiety about his writings, felt no, iii. 33; apology, ready to make an, iv. 321,409, n. 1, 431; Apophthegms, i. 190, n. 4; Appius, compared by Burke to, iv. 374, n. 2; Appleby School, applies for mastership of, i. 132; apprentice, talking to an, ii. 323; approbation, pleasure of, iv. 255, n. 2; Arabic, wishes to study, iv. 28; architecture and statuary, opinion of, ii. 439; arguing before an audience, iii. 331; iv. 111, 324, 429; Burke refers to it, iii. 24, n. 2; butt end of the pistol, ii. 100; iv. 274; v. 292; delight in it, ii. 452, n. 1; described by Burke, iv. 316, n. 1; Hamilton, iv. iii; Reynolds, ii. 100, n. 1; iii. 81, n. 1; Seaford, Lord, iv. 176, n. 1; either side indifferently, ii. 105; iii. 24; kick of the Tartar horse, ii. 100, n. 1; promptitude for it, ii. 365; iii. 24, n. 1; reasoned close or wide, iv. 429; v. 17; rudeness, iii. 81, n. 1; spirit of contradiction, v. 83, 222; thinking which side he should take, iii. 24; wrong side, on the, iii. 23; iv. iii, 429; see JOHNSON, talk; Argyll Street, room in, iv. 158, n. 4; Armiger, i. 489; ii. 332, n. i; art: see PAINTING; art of making people talk of what they know best, v. 130; assertions, love of contradicting, i. 410, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2; attacked in the streets, ii. 299; attacks, never but once replied to, i. 314; enjoyed them, ii. 308, 363; iv. 55; looked on them as part of his consequence, iv. 422; v. 400, n. 4: see ATTACKS; attendance, required the least, ii. 474, n. 3; iv. 181, n. 1, 340, n. 3; v. 309, n. 2; Auchinleck, hopes again to see, iv. 156, 264; auction of his effects, i. 363, n. 3; austere, but not morose, ii. 122; author, an, without pen, ink, or paper, i. 350, n. 3; authors asking his opinion: see AUTHORS; autobiography, projects his, i. 26, n. 1; awe, admiration, love, regarded with, v. 272; awe of him, felt by Aberdeen professors, v. 92; Lord B----, iv. 116, n. 1; Englishmen of great eminence, iii. 85; Fox, iii. 267; at Mrs. Garrick's, iv. 99; by Glasgow professors, v. 371; at Allan Ramsay's, iii. 332; by Dr. Robertson, v. 371; by Scotch literati, ii. 63; by a Welsh parson, v. 450, n. 2; described, by Mdme. D'Arblay, v. 371, n. 2: see below, JOHNSON, feared; Bacon, Life of, projects a, iii. 194; ball, goes to a, iv. 159, n. 3; Baltic, wishes to go up the, ii. 288, n. 3; iii. 134, 454; bargainer, bad, Rasselas, i. 341; Lives of the Poets, iii. 111, n. 1; Barry's picture, introduced in, iv. 224, n. 1; beadle within him, the, iii. 81; bear, a, Boswell's bear, ii. 269, n. i; v. 39, n. 4; dancing bear, ii. 66; Gibbon's sarcasm, ii. 348: He-bear, iv. 113, n. 2; 'like a word in a catch,' ii. 347; 'nothing of the bear but his skin,' ii. 66; Ursa Major, v. 384; beats Osborne, the bookseller, i. 154; 'beat many a fellow,' i. 154, n. 2; belabours his confessor, iv. 281: belief, angry at attacks on his, iii. 111; 'believes nothing but the Bible,' i. 147, n. 2; benevolence, iii. 124, 222, 306, 368; iv. 278, 283; to an outcast woman, iv. 321; concealed, iv. 325; Bible, reads the whole, ii. 189, n. 3; reads the Greek Testament at 160 verses every Sunday, ii. 288; bigotry, freedom from it, i. 405; ii. 150; iii. 188; iv. 410-1; instance of it, v. 114, n. 2; Biographia Britannica, asked to edit the, iii.