be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge,' i. 458.
DECLAIM. 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when
you are calculating, calculate,' iii. 49.
DECLAMATION. 'Declamation roars and passion sleeps' (Garrick),
i. 199, n. 2.
DEFENSIVE. 'Mine was defensive pride,' i. 265.
DESCRIPTION. 'Description only excites curiosity; seeing satisfies
it,' iv. 199.
_Desidiae_. '_Desidiae valedixi_,' i. 74.
DESPERATE. 'The desperate remedy of desperate distress,' i. 308, n. 1.
DEVIL. 'Let him go to some place where he is not known; don't let
him go to the devil where he is known,' v. 54.
DIE. 'I am not to lie down and die between them,' v. 47; 'It is a sad
thing for a man to lie down and die,' iii. 317;
'To die with lingering anguish is generally man's folly,' iv. 150, n. 2.
DIES. 'It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives,' ii. 106.
_Dieu_. '_Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer_'
(Voltaire), v. 47, n. 4.
DIFFERING. 'Differing from a man in doctrine was no reason why you
should pull his house about his ears,' v. 62.
DIGNITY. 'He that encroaches on another's dignity puts himself in his
power,' iv. 62;
'The dignity of danger,' iii. 266.
DINNER. 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything
than he does of his dinner,' i. 467, n. 2;
'Amidst all these sorrowful scenes I have no objection to dinner,'
v. 63;
'Dinner here is a thing to be first planned and then executed,'
v. 305;
'This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a
dinner to _ask_ a man to,' i. 470.
DIP. 'He had not far to dip,' iii. 35.
DIRT. 'By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen,'
ii. 82, n. 3.
DISAPPOINTED. 'He had never been disappointed by anybody but himself,'
i. 337, n. 1.
DISCOURAGE. Don't let us discourage one another,' iii. 303.
DISLIKE. 'Nothing is more common than mutual dislike where mutual
approbation is particularly expected,' iii. 423.
DISPUTE. 'I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another
man's son being hanged,' iii. 11.
DISSENTER. 'Sir, my neighbour is a Dissenter' (Sir R. Chambers), ii.
268, n. 2.
DISTANCE. 'Sir, it is surprising how people will go to a distance for
what they may have at home,' v. 286.
DISTANT. 'All distant power is bad,' iv. 213.
DISTINCTIONS. 'All distinctions are trifles,' iii. 355.
DISTRESS. 'People in distress never think that you feel enough,'
ii. 469.
DOCKER. 'I hate a Docker,' i. 379, n. 2.
DOCTOR. 'There goes the Doctor,' ii. 372.
DOCTRINE. 'His doctrine is the best limited,' iii. 338.
DOG. 'Ah, ah! Sam Johnson! I see thee!--and an ugly dog thou art,'
ii. 141, n. 2;
'Does the dog talk of me?' ii. 53;
'_He_, the little black dog,' i. 284;
'He's a Whig, Sir; a sad dog,' iii. 274;
'What he did for me he would have done for a dog,' iii. 195;
'I have hurt the dog too much already,' i. 260, n. 3;
'I hope they did not put the dog in the pillory,' iii. 354;
'I love the young dogs of this age,' i. 445;
'I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it,'
i. 504;
'I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head,' iv. 221;
'If you were not an idle dog, you might write it,' iii. 162;
'It is the old dog in a new doublet,' iii. 329;
'Presto, you are, if possible, a more lazy dog than I am,'
iv. 347, n. 1;
'Some dogs dance better than others,' ii. 404;
'The dogs don't know how to write trifles with dignity,' iv. 34, n. 5;
'The dogs are not so good scholars,' i. 445;
'The dog is a Scotchman,' iv. 98;
'The dog is a Whig,' v. 255;
'The dog was so very comical,' iii. 69;
'What, is it you, you dogs?' i. 250.
DOGGED. 'Dogged veracity,' iii. 378.
DOGGEDLY. 'A man may write at any time if he will set himself
doggedly to it,' i. 203; v. 40, 110.
DOGMATISE. 'I dogmatise and am contradicted,' ii. 452, n. 1.
DONE. 'What a man has done compared with what he might have
done,' ii. 129;
'What _must_ be done, Sir, _will_ be done,' i. 202.
DOUBLE. 'It is not every name that can carry double,' v. 295;
'Let us live double,' iv. 108.
DOUBTS. 'His doubts are better than most people's certainties' (Lord
Chancellor Hardwicke), iii. 205.
DRAW. 'Madam, I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can
draw for a thousand pounds' (Addison), ii. 256.
DRIFT. 'What is your drift, Sir?' iv. 281.
DRIVE. 'I do not now drive the world about; the world drives or
draws me,' iv. 273, n. 1;
'If your company does not drive a man out of his house, nothing
will,' iii. 315;
'Ten thousand Londoners would drive all the people of Pekin,'
v. 305.
DRIVING. 'You are driving rapidly _from_ something, or _to_ something,'
iii. 5.
DROPPED. 'There are people whom one should like very well to drop,
but would not wish to be dropped by,' iv. 73.
DROVES. 'Droves of them would come up, and attest anything for
the honour of Scotland,' ii. 311.
DROWNED. 'Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being
drowned,' v. 137.
DRUNK. 'Never but when he is drunk,' ii. 351;
'Equably drunk,' iii. 389;
'People who died of dropsies, which they contracted in trying to
get drunk,' v. 249;
'A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of
getting drunk,' iii. 389.
DUCKING-STOOL. 'A ducking-stool for women,' iii. 287.
DULL. 'He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others'
(Foote), iv. 178;
'He was dull in a new way,' ii. 327.
DUNCE. 'It was worth while being a dunce then,' ii. 84;
'Why that is because, dearest, you're a dunce,' iv. 109.
E.
EARNEST. 'At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest,' v. 288, n. 3.
EASIER. 'It is easier to write that book than to read it' (Goldsmith),
ii. 90;
'It is much easier to say what it is not,' iii. 38.
EAST. 'The man who has vigour may walk to the east just as well
as to the west, if he happens to turn his head that way,' v. 35.
ECONOMY. 'The blundering economy of a narrow understanding,' iii. 300.
_Emptoris sit eligere_, i. 155.
EMPTY-HEADED. 'She does not gain upon me, Sir; I think her emptyheaded,'
iii. 48.
END. 'I am sure I am right, and there's an end on't' (Boswell in
imitation of Johnson), iii. 301;
'We know our will is free, and there's an end on't,' ii. 82;
'What the boys get at one end they lose at the other,' ii. 407.
ENDLESS. 'Endless labour to be wrong,' iii. 158, n. 3.
ENGLAND. 'It is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost,
as that the Scotch have found it,' iii. 78.
ENGLISHMAN. 'An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has
nothing to say,' iv. 15;
'We value an Englishman highly in this country, and yet Englishmen
are not rare in it,' iii. 10.
ENTHUSIAST. 'Sir, he is an enthusiast by rule,' iv. 33.
EPIGRAM. 'Why, Sir, he may not be a judge of an epigram; but you
see he is a judge of what is _not_ an epigram,' iii. 259.
_Esprit_. 'Il n'a de l'esprit que contre Dieu,' iii. 388.
_Etudiez_. 'Ah, Monsieur, vous etudiez trop,' iv. 15.
EVERYTHING. 'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing
of anything,' iv. 176.
EXCELLENCE. 'Compared with excellence, nothing,' iii. 320;
'Is getting L100,000 a proof of excellence?' iii. 184.
EXCESS. 'Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in nature,' i. 453.
EXERCISE. 'He used for exercise to walk to the ale-house, but he was
carried back again,' i. 397;
'I take the true definition of exercise to be labour without
weariness,' iv. 151, n. 1.
EXISTENCE. 'Every man is to take existence on the terms on which it
is given to him,' iii. 58.
F.
FACT. 'Housebreaking is a strong fact,' ii. 65.
FACTION. 'Dipped his pen in faction,' i. 375, n. 1.
FAGGOT. 'He takes its faggot of principles,' v. 36.
FALLIBLE. 'A fallible being will fail somewhere,' ii. 132.
FAME. 'Fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 400;
'He had no fame but from boys who drank with him,' v. 268.
FARTHING CANDLE. 'Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover
to show light at Calais,' i. 454.
FAT. 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat,' iv. 313.
FEELING. 'They pay you by feeling,' ii. 95.
FEET. 'We grow to five feet pretty readily, but it is not so easy to
grow to seven,' iii. 316.
FELLOW. 'I look upon myself as a good-humoured fellow,' ii. 362;
'When we see a very foolish _fellow_ we don't know what to think
of _him_,' ii. 54.
FELLOWS. 'They are always telling lies of us old fellows,' iii. 303.
FIFTH. 'I heartily wish, Sir, that I were a fifth,' iv. 312.
_Filosofo. 'Tu sei santo, ma tu non sei filosofo_' (Giannone), iv. 3.
FINE. 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a
passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out' (a
college tutor), ii. 237;
'Were I to have anything fine, it should be very fine,'
iv. 179; v. 364.
FINGERS. 'I e'en tasted Tom's fingers,' ii. 403.
FIRE. 'A man cannot make fire but in proportion as he has fuel,' &c.,
v. 229;
'If it were not for depriving the ladies of the fire I should like
to stand upon the hearth myself,' iv. 304, n. 4;
'Would cry, Fire! Fire! in Noah's flood' (Butler), v. 57, n. 2.
FISHES. 'If a man comes to look for fishes you cannot blame him
if he does not attend to fowls,' v. 221.
FLATTERERS. 'The fellow died merely from want of change among his
flatterers,' v. 396, n. 1.
FLATTERY. 'Dearest lady, consider with yourself what your flattery is
worth, before you bestow it so freely,' iv. 341.
FLEA. 'A flea has taken you such a time that a lion must have served
you a twelvemonth,' ii. 194;
'There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a
flea,' iv. 193.
FLING. 'If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break
his head,' &c., i. 398.
FLOUNDERS. 'He flounders well,' v. 93, n. 1; 'Till he is at the
bottom he flounders,' v. 243.
FLY. 'A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince, but
one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still,' i. 263, n. 3.
FOLLY. 'There are in these verses too much folly for madness, and
too much madness for folly,' iii. 258, n. 2.
FOOL. 'I should never hear music, if it made me such a fool,' iii.
197;
'There's danger in a fool' (Churchill), v. 217, n. 1.
FOOLISH. 'I would almost be content to be as foolish,' iii. 21, n, 2;
'It is a foolish thing well done,' ii. 210.
FOOLS. 'I never desire to meet fools anywhere,' iii. 299, n. 2.
FOOTMAN. 'A well-behaved fellow citizen, your footman,' i. 447.
FOREIGNERS. 'For anything I see foreigners are fools'
('Old' Meynell), iv. 15.
FORTUNE. 'It is gone into the city to look for a fortune,' ii. 126.
FORWARD. 'He carries you round and round without carrying you
forward to the point; but then you have no wish to be carried
forward,' iv. 48.
FOUR-PENCE. 'Garrick was bred in a family whose study was to make
four-pence do as much as others made fourpence halfpenny do,' iii.
387.
FRANCE. 'Will reduce us to babble a dialect of France,'
iii. 343, n. 3.
FRENCH. 'I think my French is as good as his English,' ii. 404.
FRENCHMAN. 'A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he
knows anything of the matter or not,' iv. 15.
FRIEND. 'A friend with whom they might compare minds, and cherish
private virtues,' iii. 387.
FRIENDSHIP. 'A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant
repair,' i. 300.
FRIENDSHIPS. 'Most friendships are formed by caprice or by
chance, mere confederacies in vice or leagues in folly,' iv. 280.
FRISK. 'I'll have a frisk with you,' i. 250.
FROTH. 'Longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar,'
v. 440, n. 2.
FROWN. 'On which side soever I turn, mortality presents its formidable
frown,' iv. 366.
FRUGAL. 'He was frugal by inclination, but liberal by principle,' iv.
62, n. 1.
FULL MEAL. 'Every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal,'
ii. 363.
FUNDAMENTALLY. 'I say the woman was fundamentally sensible,' iv. 99.
FUTILE. 'Tis a futile fellow' (Garrick), ii. 326.
G.
GABBLE. 'Nay, if you are to bring in gabble I'll talk no more,' iii.
350.
GAIETY. 'Gaiety is a duty when health requires it,' iii. 136, n. 2.
GAOL. See SAILOR.
GAOLER. 'No man, now, has the same authority which his father had,
except a gaoler,' iii. 262.
GARRETS. 'Garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie,'
iii. 267, n. 1.
GENERAL. 'A man is to guard himself against taking a thing in
general,' iii. 8.
GENEROUS. 'I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at
every breeze,' v. 400.
GENIUS. 'A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself,'
i. 381.
GENTEEL. 'No man can say "I'll be genteel,"' iii. 53.
_Gentilhomme. 'Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme_' (Boswell),
i. 492.
GENTLE. 'When you have said a man of gentle manners you have said
enough,' iv. 28.
GENTLEMAN. 'Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners
of a gentleman?' iii. 268.
GEORGE. 'Tell the rest of that to George' (R. O. Cambridge), iv.
196, n. 3.
GHOST. 'If I did, I should frighten the ghost,' v. 38.
GLARE. 'Gave a distinguished glare to tyrannic rage' (Tom Davies), ii.
368, n. 3.
GLASSY. 'Glassy water, glassy water,' ii. 212, n. 4.
GLOOMY. 'Gloomy calm of idle vacancy,' i. 473.
