alluded to by Churchill, i. 419, n. 1;
astonish a young girl, iv. 183, n. 2;
lose him an assistant-mastership, iv. 407, n. 4;
described by Boswell, v. 18;
by Reynolds, ib., n. 4;
entering a room, i. 484;
gesticulation, mimicked by Garrick, ii. 326;
half-whistling, iii. 357;
inarticulate sounds, i. 485; iii. 68;
march, iv. 71, 425;
pronunciation: see under JOHNSON, pronunciation;
puffing hard with passion, iii. 273;
riding, iv. 425;
rolling, iii. 294, 357; iv. 109; v. 40;
shaking his head and body, i. 485;
striding across a floor, i. 145;
talking to himself, i. 483; iv. 236, 399, n. 6; v. 306-7;
touching posts, i. 485, n. 1;
Boswell tells him of some of them, iv. 183, n. 2;
he reads Boswell's account, v. 307, n. 2;
Pembroke College: see under OXFORD, Pembroke College;
penance in Uttoxeter market, iv. 373;
penitents, a great lover of, iv. 406, n. 1;
pension: see PENSION;
personal appearance,
described by Boswell, iv. 425; v. 18;
by Miss Burney, i. 144, n. 1; ii. 141, n. 2; v. 23, n. 4;
by Mrs. Piozzi and Reynolds, i. 94, n. 4;
in _The Race_ ii. 31;
'A labouring working mind, an indolent reposing body,' iv. 444;
fingers and nails, iv. 190;
'ghastly smiles,' ii. 69, n. 1; v. 48, n. 1;
'majestic frame,' i. 472;
robust frame, i. 462;
youth, in his, i. 94;
philology, love of, iv. 34;
philosophy, study of, i. 302;
physicians, pleasure in the company of, iv. 293;
physick, knowledge of, i. 159; iii. 22;
'great dabbler in it,' iii. 152;
physics himself violently, iv. 135, n. 1; 229, n. 1;
writes a prescription, v. 74;
picture of himself in [Greek: Gnothi seauton] i. 298, n. 4;
piety, maintained the obligations of, v. 17;
plagiarism, i. 334;
players, prejudice against: see PLAYERS;
please, seeking to, iii. 54, n. 1;
poems of his youth, i. 50;
poetical mind, iii. 151; iv. 428; v. 17;
poetry, pleasure in writing, iv. 219; v. 418;
Politian, proposal to publish the poems of, i. 90;
politeness, his, acknowledged, i. 286; ii. 36; iii. 81, 331; iv. 126;
v. 23, 82, 98-9, 363;
thinks himself very polite, iii. 337; v. 363;
political economy, ignorance of, ii. 430, n. 1;
political principles, his, described by Dr. Maxwell, ii. 117-8;
politician, intention of becoming a, i. 489; 518-520;
'Pomposo,' i. 406;
poor, loved the, ii. 119, n. 4;
Pope's _Messiah_ turned into Latin, i. 61;
porter's knot, advised to buy a, i. 102, n. 2;
portraits, list of his, iv. 421, n. 2;
Burney, Miss, finds him examining one, ii. 141, n. 2;
Reynolds, portraits by,--one with Beauclerk's inscription, iv.
180, 444;
'blinking Sam,' iii. 273, n. 1;
Doughty's mezzotinto, ii. 286, n. 1;
one engraved for Boswell's _Life_, presented by Reynolds to
Boswell, i. 392; v. 385, n. 1;
one admired at Lichfield, ii. 141;
one at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
other portraits, iv. 421, n. 2;
Reynolds, Miss, by, ii. 362, n. 1; iv. 229. n. 4;
post-chaise, delight in a: See POST-CHAISE;
praise and abuse, wishes he had kept a book of, v. 273;
praise, loved, but did not seek it, iv. 427; v. 17;
disliked extravagant praise, iii. 225; iv. 82;
prayers: See PRAYERS, and _Prayers and Meditations_;
prefaces, skill in, i. 139;
preference to himself, refused, iii. 54, n. 1;
Presbyterian service, would not attend a, iii. 336; v. 121, 384;
attends family prayer, v. 121;
pride, described by Reynolds, iii. 345, n. 1;
defensive, i. 265;
no meanness in it, iv. 429, n. 3;
princes, attacks, i. l49, n. 3;
principles and practice: See PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE;
prize-fighting, regrets extinction of, v. 229;
profession, regrets that he had not a, iii. 309, n. 1;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 109;
promptitude of mind: See JOHNSON, mind;
pronunciation--excellent, v. 85;
provincial accent, ii. 159, 464;
property, iv. 284, 402, n. 2;
public affairs, refuses to talk of, iv. 173;
public singer, on preparing himself for a, ii. 369;
public speaking, ii. 139;
punctuality, not used to, i. 211;
Punic war, would not hear of the, iii. 206, n. 1;
punish, quick to, ii. 363;
puns, despises, ii. 241; iv. 316;
puns himself, iii. 325; iv. 73, 81;
questioning, disliked, ii. 472, n. 1; iii. 57, 268; iv. 439
(See, however, iii. 24, n. 2);
quiet hours, seen in his, iii. 81, n. 1;
quoting his writings against him, iv. 274;
races with Baretti, ii. 386;
Ranelagh, feelings on entering, iii. 199;
rank, respect for: See Birth; rationality, obstinate, iv. 289;
read to, impatient to be, iv. 20;
reading,
amount of his, i. 70; ii. 36;
before college, i. 56, 445;
at college, i. 70; ii. 36;
read rapidly, i. 71; iv. 334, n. 3;
ravenously, iii. 284;
like a Turk, iv. 409;
did not read books through, i. 71; ii. 226;
reads more than he did, ii. 35, n. 3; iv. 218, n. 2;
slight books, v. 313;
when travelling, _Pomponius Mela de situ Orbis_, i. 465;
_Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra_, iii. 2;
_Euripides_, iv. 311;
Tully's _Epistles_, v. 428;
_Martial_, v. 429;
recitation, described by Boswell, ii. 212; iii. 29; v. 115;
Murphy, ii. 92, n. 4; v. 115, n. 5;
Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 212, n. 3; v. 115, n. 5;
Reynolds, v. 115; a great reciter, v. 43;
'recommending' the dead: See under DEAD;
reconciliation,
ready to seek a, ii. 100, n. 1; 109, 256; ib., n. 1; iii. 271;
rectory, offer of a, i. 320, 476; ii. 120;
refinement, high estimation of, iii. 54;
relations on the father's side, i. 35, n. 1; iv. 401;
religion, 'conversion,' his, iv. 272, n. 1;
early indifference to it, i. 67;
totally regardless of it, iv. 215;
early training, i. 38, 67;
'ignorant of it,' ii. 476;
a lax talker against it, i. 68;
predominant object of his thoughts, i. 69; ii. 124;
brought back by sickness, iv. 215;
'never denied Christ,' iv. 414, n. 2;
remorse, i. 164; 398, n. 5;
repetitions in his writings, i. 334, n. 2;
reproved by a lady, v. 39;
reputation, did not trouble himself to defend his, ii. 433;
residences: See Habitations;
resistance to bad government lawful, ii. 61, 170;
respect due to him, maintained the, iii. 310;
shows respect to a Doctor in Divinity, ii. l24;
'respectable Hottentot' not Johnson, i. 267, n. 2;
respected by others: by Boswell and Mrs. Thrale loved, ii. 427;
resolutions, 'fifty-five years spent in resolving,' i. 483;
rarely efficacious, ii. 113;
neglected, iv. 134; reveries, i. 144, n. 1, 145;
Reynolds's pictures, 'never looked at,' ii. 317, n. 2;
riding, v. 131, 285, 302: See JOHNSON, foxhunting;
ringleader of a riot, said to have been the, iv. 324;
rising late, i. 495, n. 3; ii. 17, 143, 410, 477; v. 210;
'roarings of the old lion,' ii. 284, n. 2;
roaring people down, iii. 150, 290;
roasts apples, iv. 218, n. 1;
robbed, never, ii. 119;
romances, love of, i. 49; iii. 2;
roughness: See JOHNSON, manners;
Round-Robin, receives the, iii. 83-5;
Royal Academy, Professor of the, ii. 67; iv. 423, n. 2;
rumour that he was dying, iii. 221;
rural beauties, little taste for, i. 461; v. 112;
sacrament, not received with tranquillity, ii. 115, n. 2;
instances of his receiving it at other times but Easter, ii. 43, n. 3;
iv. 270, 416;
same one day as another, not the, iii. 192;
sarcastic in the defence of good principles, ii. 13;
_Sassenach More_, ii. 267, n. 2;
satire, explosions of, iii. 80;
ignorant of the effect produced, iv. 168, n. 2;
Savage, effects of intimacy with, i. 161-4; v. 365;
saying, tendency to paltry, iv. 191;
sayings not accurately reported, ii. 333;
scenery, descriptions of moonlight sail, v. 333, n. 1;
of a ride in a storm, v. 346, n. 1;
schemes of a better life, i. 483; iv. 230;
scholar, preferred the society of intelligent men of the world to
that of a, iii. 21, n. 3;
'school,' his, described by Courtenay, i. 222;
by Reynolds, i. 245, n. 3; iii. 230;
distinguished for truthfulness, i. 7, n. 1; iii. 230;
Goldsmith, one of its brightest ornaments, i. 417;
taught men to think rightly, i. 245, n. 3;
schoolmaster, life as a, i. 97, n. 2, 98, n. 2, 488, n. 3;
Scotch, feelings towards the: See under SCOTLAND;
Scotland, tour in, ii. 266-8; v. 1-416;
_scottified_, v. 55;
screen, dines behind a, i. 163, n. 1;
scruple, troubled with Baxter's, ii. 477;
not weakly scrupulous, iv. 397:
See SCRUPLES;
seal, cut with his head, iv. 421, n. 2;
seasons, effect of: See WEATHER;
second sight: See under SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS, second sight;
'seducing man, a very,' iv. 57, n. 3;
_Seraglio_, his, iii. 368;
an imaginary one, v. 216;
sermons composed by him, i. 241; iii. 19, n. 3, 181; iv. 381, n. 1;
v. 67;
severe things, how mainly extorted from him, iv. 341;
Shakespeare, read in his childhood, i. 70;
See under SHAKESPEARE;
shoes worn out, i. 76;
sight,
account of it by Boswell, iv. 425; v. 18;
by Miss Burney, iv. 160, n. 1, 304, n. 4;
actors' faces, could not see, ii. 92, n. 4;
acuteness shown in criticising dress, v. 428, n. 1;
in his French diary, ii. 401;
in observing scenes, i. 41; iii. 187; iv. 311; v. 141;
Baretti's trial, at, ii. 97, n. 1;
_Blinking Sam,_ iii. 273, n. 1;
difficulty in crossing the kennel when a child, i. 39;
eyes wild and piercing, i. 94, n. 4, 464, n. 1;
only one eye, i. 41;
restored to its use, i. 305;
inflamed, ii. 263-4;
short-sighted, called by Dr. Percy, iii. 273;
silence, fits of, ii. 213; iii. 307; v. 73;
silver buckles, iii. 325;
cup, i. 163, n. 2;
plate, ii. 5, n. i; iv. 92;
singularity, dislike of, ii. 74, n. 3; iv. 325;
sins, never balanced against virtues, iv. 398;
slavery, hatred of: See SLAVES;
sleep: See Nights;
smallpox, has the, v. 435;
Smith, Adam, compared with, iv. 24, n. 2;
_Sober,_ Mr., of _The Idler,_ iii. 398, n. 3;
social, truly, iv. 284;
society, mixing with polite, i. 80, 82, 496, n. 1; ii. 467;
iii. 272, n. 3 424; iv. 1, n. 1, 89, 108, n. 4, 109, 116-17, 147, 326,
357; v. 43, 98, 207, 358. 371, 374, 394, 455,457;
solitude, hatred of, i. 144, n. 2, 297, 339, n. 3, 515; iii; 405;
iv. 427;
suffers from it, iv. 163, n. 1:
See under JOHNSON, household;
'soothed,' ii. 113;
sophistry, love of, ii. 61; recourse to it, iv. iii;
sought after nobody, iii. 314;
Southwark election, ii. 287, n. 2;
speaking, impressive mode of, ii. 326;
spelling incorrect, i. 260, n. 2; iv. 36, n. 4; v. 124, n. 1;
spirit, lofty, iv. 374;
spirit, wishes for evidence for, ii. 150; iii. 298, n. 1; iv. 298:
See JOHNSON, super-natural;
splendour on, L600 a year, iv. 337;
spurs, loses his, iv. 407, n. 4; v. 163;
St. Clement Danes, his seat in, ii. 214;
St. James's Square, walks with Savage round, i. 163, n. 2, 164;
St. John's Gate, reverences, i. III;
St. Vitus's dance, v. 18;
stately shop, deals at a, iv. 319;
straggler, a, iii; 306;
Streatham, 'absorbed from his old friends,' i. 495, n. 2; ii. 427, n. 1;
iii. 225;
Miss Burney describes his life there, iv. 340, n. 3;
his 'home,' i. 493, n. 3; ii. 77, 141, n. 1; iii. 451; iv. 340;
his late hours there, ii. 407;
his farewell to it, iv. 158;
studied behaviour, disapproves of, i. 470;
study, advice about, i. 428; iv. 311;
style,
account of it, i. 217-25;
Addison's, compared with, i. 224, 225, n. 1;
affected by his _Dictionary,_ i. 221, n. 4;
'Brownism,' i. 221, 308;
caricatures of it, by Blair, iii. 172;
Colman, iv. 387, 388, n. 1;
_Lexiphanes,_ ii. 44;
Maclaurin, ii. 363;
in a magazine, v. 273;
man _Ode to Mrs. Thrale,_ iv. 387;
changes in it, iii. 172, n. 2;
criticises it himself, iii. 257, n. 3;
easier in his poems than his prose, v. 17;
female writing, ill-suited for, i. 223;
formed on Temple and Chambers, i. 218;
on writers of the seventeenth century, i. 219;
Gallicisms, dislikes, iii. 343, n. 3;
imitations of it, by Barbauld, Mrs., iii. 172;
Burney, Miss, iv. 389;
Burrowes, Rev. R., iv. 386;
Gibbon, iv. 389;
Knox, Rev. Dr., iv. 390;
Mackenzie, Henry, iv. 390, n. 1;
Nares, Rev. Mr., iv. 389;
newspapers, iv. 381, n. 1;
Robertson, iii. 173; iv. 388;
Young, Professor, iv. 392;
_Lives of the Poets,_ iii. 172, n. 2;
_Lobo's Abyssinia,_ translation of, i. 87;
Monboddo, criticised by, iii. 173;
parentheses, dislikes, iv. 190;
_Plan of the Dictionary,_ i. 184;
Rambler, i. 217; iii. 172, n. 2;
talk, like his, iv. 237, n. 1;
'the former, the latter,' dislikes, iv. 190;
Thrale, Mrs., described by, iii. 19, n. 2;
translates a saying into his own style, iv. 320;
Warburton attacks it, iv. 48;
subordination: see SUBORDINATION;
Sunday: see SUNDAY;
superiority over his fellows, i. 47;
supernatural agency, willingness to examine it, i. 406; v. 18;
superstition, prone to, iv. 426; v. 17:
see GHOSTS, and JOHNSON, spirit;
'surly virtue,' iii. 69;
swearing, profane, dislikes, ii. 338, n. 2; iii. 189;
falsely represented as swearing, ii. 338, n. 2;
'swore enough,' iv. 216;
uses a profane expression, v. 306;
swimming, i. 348; ii. 299; iii. 92, n. 1;
Latin verses on it, ib.;
talk--,
alike to all, talked, ii. 323;
best, rule to talk his, iv. 183, 185, n. 1;
books, did not talk from, v. 378;
calmly in private, iii. 331;
'his little fishes would talk like whales,' ii. 231;
loved to have his talk out, iii. 230;
not restrained by a stranger, ii. 438; iv. 284;
ostentatiously, talks, v. l24;
'talked their best,' his phrase, iii. 193, n. 3;
victory, talks for, ii. 238; iv. 111; v. 17, 324;
writing, like his, iv. 237, n. 1:
see JOHNSON, conversation;
talking to himself: see JOHNSON, peculiarities;
_tanti_ men, dislike of, iv. 112;
taste in theatrical merits, ii. 465;
tea,
Careless, Mrs., told him when he had enough, ii. 460, n. 1;
cups, a dozen, i. 313, n. 3;
fifteen, ii. 268, n. 2;
sixteen, v. 207, n. 1;
_claudile jam rivos pueri_, v. 279;
effects of it on him, i. 313;
misses drinking it once, v. 443;
'shameless tea-drinker,' i. 103, n. 3;
drank it at all hours, i. 313; v. 23;
takes it always with Miss Williams, i. 42l;
teachers, his, Dame Oliver, i. 43;
Tom Brown, ib.;
Hawkins, ib.;
Hunter, i. 44;
Wentworth, i. 49;
teaching men, pleasure in, ii. 101;
temper, easily offended, iii. 345; iv. 426; v. 17;
violent, iii. 81, 290, 300, 337, 384; iv. 65, n. 1;
'terrible severe humour,' iv. 159, n. 3;
violent passion, iv. 171;
on Rattakin, v. 145-7;
tenderness of heart, shown about Dr. Brocklesby's offer, iv. 338;
friendship with Hoole, iv. 360;
his friends' efforts for an increase in his pension, iv. 337;
pious books, iv. 88, n. 1;
on hearing Dr. Hodges's story, ii. 341, n. 3;
kissing Streatham church, iv. 159;
and the old willow-tree at Lichfield, iv. 372, n. 1;
in reciting Beattie's _Hermit_, iv. 186;
_Dies Irae_, iii. 358, n. 3;
Goldsmith's _Traveller_, v. 344;
lines on Levett, iv. 165, n. 4;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, iv. 45, n. 3;
terror, an object of, i. 450, n. 1;
theatres, left off going to the, ii. 14;
thinking, excelled in the art of, iv. 428;
thought more than he read, ii. 36;
thoughts, loses command over his, ii. 190; 202, n. 2;
Thrales,
his 'coalition' with the, i. 493, n. 3;
his intimacy not without restraint, iii. 7;
gross supposition about it, iii. 7;
supposed wish to marry Mrs. Thrale, iv. 387, n. 1:
see THRALES, and under JOHNSON, Streatham;
toleration, views on, ii. 249-254;
Tory, a, 'not in the party sense,' ii. 117;
his Toryism abates, v. 386;
might have written a _Tory History of England_, iv. 39;
'tossed and gored,' ii. 66;
tossed Boswell, iii. 338;
town, the, his element, iv. 358: see. LONDON;
'tragedy-writer, a,' i. 102;
reason of his failure, i. 198, 199, n. 2;
translates for booksellers, i. 133;
travelling, love of, Appendix B., iii. 449-459;
'tremendous companion,' i. 496, n. 1;
'true-born Englishman,' i. 129; ii. 300; iv. 15, n. 3, 191;
v. 1, n. 1, 20;
truthfulness, exact precision in conversation, ii. 434; iii. 228;
Rousseau, compared with, ii. 434, n. 2;
