especially 182, 184, 194, 206, 208; 216, 322; frankness, _see_ candour; friends: as a young man, 10-16, 19-25: the Johnsonian circle, 106-12: at the close of life, 305-8; frolic, 28, 66; Gaiety, 16, 30-1, 52-4, 78, 138, 224, 304; generosity, 54, 79-80, 119, 320; genius, 5-6, 156-7, 210, 217, 224, 241, 247, 320; good-humour, 16, 47, 78, 86, 108, 119, 126, 138, 142, 304; good-nature, 22, 24, 79-80, 174, 214-6, 305; goodness, 144-5; 'great man,' Boswell the, 74, 166, 204, 314; great men, admiration for and relations with, 50, 54, 55, 57, 67-77; Happiness, 147; hermit, taste for being a, 189; honesty, 157, 200, 321; human nature, Boswell's interest in, 24, 46, 69-73, 208, 211, 241, 321, 326; humour, 3, 16, 30, 42, 131, 200-1, 203, 287-91, 308; hypochondria, _see_ melancholy; Ignorance of what others thought of him, 182-4, 216; images, 120, 144, 203; imagination, 26; inconstancy, 38, 92; indiscretion, _see_ candour; indulgence, 222-6; industry, 36, 82, 227-9, 247-52; insanity, 92, 225; interest in, 3-4; intolerance, 68, 71; Johnson, Dr. Samuel: admiration for, _see_ veneration; affection for, 48-9, 119, 131, 132, 153, 218-9, 306-8; conception of, as awful, 293-9; enjoyment of, 285-7, 291, 324; experiments with, 110-2, 257-66, 321-3; friendship with, 40-9, 112-34, 306-8; humiliated by, _see_ roughness; imitation of, 109, 144, 191-3; influenced by, 68, 150-61, 191; jealousy with regard to, 128; letters to, 48, 77-8, 79, 114, 115, 124, 188; letters from, 48, 58, 114, 124, 132, 155-7, 160, 166; loss by his death, 132-4, 218-9; quarrels with, 116-23; questions, 130, 258, 261; roughness to Boswell, 47, 116, 117, 118, 210-4, 259-66; talks freely to, 43, 44, 45, 47; tour in Hebrides with, 125-131, 260; veneration for, 36, 49, 109, 130, 238-9, 307; visit to Boswell's home, 7, 260; jokes, _see_ wit; journal, 21, 36, 227-8, 261, 268-76; Landlord, 318-9; law, 34-6, 76, 79, 80-5, 87, 105, 125, 133, 162, 164, 166-72, 203, 219, 310; lawyers, relations with, 162, 164, 169-72, 203, 205; letters: to Burke, 179-87; to Chatham, 75-6, 179-82; to Erskine, 30-3; to Johnson, _see_ Johnson under Boswell; Temple, quoted, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 34, 35, 70, 78^6, 82^10, 100-1, 104^15-16, 113, 153, 155, 163, 164, 165, 167^1, 168, 169^2-3, 170, 172, 173, 175, 177^10-12, 178^14-17, 183-4, 185-6, 204, 207, 218, 219^3, 220, 221, 222, 223^6, 226, 230, 231^5-6, 300, 310-12, 320, 325; literary executors, 300^1; literature, interest in, 11, 18, 20, 25, 35, 46, 53, 193-4, 230, 312-5; London: B. visits, 17, 25, 124, 218; love of, 34, 69, 105, 167, 168, 218;