Marriage, 88, 89-90, 100-4, 133, 164, 309-10; meeting with Johnson, 16, 17, 40-4; melancholy, 30, 124, 132, 138, 140-1, 157, 187, 224-6; memorandising, 21-2, 246, 266-74; modesty, 57; morality, interest in, 9, 46, 159, 188, 206, 233-7; mother, 6; Notebook, _see_ memorandising; Observation, powers of, 183, 217, 242-7, 257-62; ode to Tragedy, 25, 29, 30; opinions about himself, 28, 29, 30; optimism, 142-3, 229-30; Patron of the drama, 22-3; patrons, 175-6, 178-84, 200; philosophy: affectation of, 13, 17, 32, 75, 94, 173; views of life, 88, 147-50, 187-8, 285; pleasure an object of life, 88, 147; poetry, Boswell's, 25-7, 200-2; politics, 133, 137, 174-82, 209, 219, 310-11; popularity, 304-5; prejudices, 136-7, 153; pride, 30, 116, 164, 179, 204, 253; profession chosen, 34-5; profligacy, 14-15; prologue, Boswell writes one for Ross, 24; proof-sheets, 250-1; property, 136-7, 166, 218; publications, 25-7, 29-32, 59-66, 81, 82, 133, 176, 209, 310; Recording: conversations, 227, 242, 266; observations, 217; religion, 9, 22, 36-7, 147-50, 188-9, 206; reputation, 1, 39, 58, 61, 66, 172, 199, 209, 213-4, 300-4, 314, 317; respectability, 37-9, 62, 105, 150-61, 166, 209, 236-7; rivals, 237-8; romantic, 31, 186; rudeness, 38, 252-5, 266; satisfaction with literary work, 229-33, 313-8; scholar, 189; school, 10; scientific spirit, 241, 256-66; selfish, 15; self-revelation, 14, 139; sentimentality, 39, 184-6, _see also_ affectation; seriousness, 140-2; shorthand, 270; simplicity, 182, 204, 206; sings: to Corsican peasants, 52-3: at mayoralty dinner, 197-9; songs of his own composition, 204; snobbishness, 71-7, _see also_ under Boswell, 'great men'; social qualities, 16, 24, 30-1, 46, 52-4, 86, 108, 126, 206, 304-5, 308; solemnity, 192; Tablets, _see_ memorandising; talks very freely, 43, 44, 64, 204-8; taste, 22; tenants, 79, 318-9; Tory, a, 8, 137, 153, 176, 181; travels on the Continent, 50-8, 93, 125; truth, Boswell's attitude towards, 38-9, 118, 210, 216, 228, 233, 236-7, 241, 249, 255, 284-5, 294, 324-6; Vanity, 38, 73, 77, 103, 194-7, 205, 206, 316, 322, 326; verse, _see_ poetry; vows, 99, 223; Wife, _see_ Mrs. Boswell; will, 216, 318-9; wit, 200-3, 308 Boswell, Mrs., 84, 100-4, 219-22, 309 Boswell, Robert, 300^1 'Boswelliana,' 79^7, 190, 200, 203, 214^2, 274-82, 301^1 Boydell, Alderman, 197 British Essays to the Brave Corsicans, 78 Browning, 1 Burke, Edmund, 106, 107, 108, 150, 179-182 Burney, Miss, 21, 108, 128, 130, 191-2, 237, 246-7, 253-4, 255, 263-5, 268^1, 290, 294-5, 298 ----, Dr., 130 Burns, 20 Bute, Lord, 248 Byron, 1 C Cadogan, Lord, 315