Johnson, Samuel. scribed, ib., i. 166, n. 2; astonish Hogarth, i. 169; alluded to by Churchill, i. 485, n. I; astonish a young girl, iv. 211, n. 2; lose him an assistant-mastership, iv. 470, n. 2; described by Boswell, v. 19; by Reynolds, ib., n. 3; entering a room, i. 561; gesticulation, mimicked by Garrick, ii. 373; half-whistling, iii. 406; inarticulate sounds, i. 562; iii. 78; march, iv. 82, 491; pronunciation: see under JOHNSON, pronunciation; puffing hard with passion, iii. 310; riding, iv. 491; rolling, iii. 334, 406; iv. 126; v. 44; shaking his head and body, i. 562; striding across a floor, i. 168; talking to himself, i. 559; iv. 272, 460, n. 5; v. 349; touching posts, i. 561, n. 1; Boswell tells him of some of them, iv. 211, n. 2; he reads Boswell's account, v. 349, n. 2; Pembroke College: see under OXFORD, Pembroke College; penance in Uttoxeter market, iv. 430; penitents, a great lover of, iv. 468, n. 2; pension: see PENSION; personal appearance, described by Boswell, iv. 490-1; v. 19; by Miss Burney, i. 166, n. 2; ii. 162, n. 4; v. 25, n. 3; by Mrs. Piozzi and Reynolds, i. 110, n. 1; in The Race, ii. 35; ‘A labouring working mind, an indolent reposing body,' iv. 511; fingers and nails, iv. 220; 'ghastly smiles,' ii. 78, n. 2; v. 53, n. 2; 'majestic frame,' i. 546; robust frame, i. 534; youth, in his, i. 109; philology, love of, iv. 40; philosophy, study of, i. 350; physicians, pleasure in the company of, iv. 338; physick, knowledge of, i. 183; iii. 26; 'great dabbler in it,' iii. 172; physics himself violently, iv. 156, n. i, 269, 12. I; writes a prescription, v. 83; picture of himself in гvôli oɛautóv, i. 346, n. 2; piety, maintained the obligations of, v. 17; plagiarism, i. 387; players, prejudice against see PLAYERS; please, seeking to, iii. 62, n. 2; poems of his youth, i. 59; poetical mind, iii. 171; iv. 493; v. 18; poetry, pleasure in writing, iv. 253; v. 478; Politian, proposal to publish the poems of, i. 104; politeness, his, acknowledged, i. 331; ii. 40; iii. 93, 377; iv. 146; v. 25, 93, 112, 413; thinks himself very polite, iii. 384; v. 413; political economy, ignorance of, ii. 492, n. 1; political principles, his, described by Dr. Maxwell, ii. 134-5; politician, intention of becoming a, i. 566, 6012; 'Pomposo,' i. 470; poor, loved the, ii. 137, n. 2; Pope's Messiah turned into Latin, i. 71; porter's knot, advised to buy a, i. 118, n. 4; portraits, list of his, iv. 485, n. 3; Burney, Miss, finds him examining one, ii. 162, n. 4; Reynolds, portraits by, one with Beauclerk's inscription, iv. 208, 511; 'blinking Sam,' iii. 310, n. 1; Doughty's mezzotinto, ii. 327, n. 1; one engraved for Boswell's Life, presented by Reynolds to Boswell, i. 454; v. 438, n. 3; one admired at Lichfield, ii. 162; one at Streatham, iv. 181, n. 3; other portraits, iv. 485, n. 3; Reynolds, Miss, by, ii. 415, n. 1; iv. 265, n. 2; postchaise, delight in a: see POST-CHAISE; praise and abuse, wishes he had kept a book of, v. 310; praise, loved, but did not seek it, iv. 493; v. 18; disliked extravagant praise, iii. 256; iv. 95; prayers: see PRAYERS, and Prayers and Meditations; prefaces, skill in, i. 161; preference to himself, refused, iii. 62, n. 2; Presbyterian service, would not attend a, iii. 382; Johnson, Samuel. v. 138, 438; attends family prayer, v. 138; pride, described by Reynolds, iii. 392, n. 1; defensive, i. 308; no meanness in it, iv. 495, n. 3; princes, attacks, i. 172, n. 2; principles and practice: see PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE; prize-fighting, regrets extinction of, v. 260; profession, regrets that he had not a, iii. 351, n. 1; professor in the imaginary college, v. 123; promptitude of mind: see JOHNSON, mind; pronunciation-excellent, v. 96; provincial accent, ii. 182, 531; property, iv. 327, 463, n. 3; public affairs, refuses to talk of, iv. 200; public singer, on preparing himself for a, ii. 423; public speaking, ii. 160; punctuality, not used to, i. 244; Punic war, would not hear of the, iii. 234, n. 1; punish, quick to, ii. 416; puns, despises, iï. 277; iv. 365; puns himself, iii. 370; iv. 85, 94; questioning, disliked, ii. 540, n. 1; iii. 66, 304; iv. 506 (see, however, iii. 27, n. 4); quiet hours, seen in his, iii. 93, n. 1; quoting his writings against him, iv. 318; races with Baretti, ii. 442; Ranelagh, feelings on entering, iii. 226; rank, respect for: see Birth; rationality, obstinate; iv. 334; read to, impatient to be, iv. 24; reading, amount of his, i. 82; ii. 41; before college, i. 65, 516; at college, i. 81-2; ii. 41; read rapidly, i. 82; iv. 385, n. 5; ravenously, iii. 323; like a Turk, iv. 472; did not read books through, i. 82; ii. 260; reads more than he did, ii. 40, n. 1; iv. 252, 12. 2; slight books, v. 357; when travelling, Pomponius Mela de situ Orbis, i. 538; - Il Palmerino scribed by Boswell, ii. 244; iii. 34: v. 131; Murphy, ii. 106, n. 2; v. 131, n. 4; Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 244, n. I; V. 131, n. 4; – Reynolds, v. 131; a great reciter, v. 48; 'recommending' the dead: see under DEAD; reconciliation, ready to seek a, ii. 115, n. I, 125, 293, and n. 3; iii. 308; rectory, offer of a, i. 370, 551; ii. 138; refinement, high estimation of, iii. 62; relations on the father's side, i. 40, n. 5; iv. 462; religion, 'conversion,' his, iv. 313, n. 2; early indifference to it, i. 78; totally regardless of it, iv. 249; early training, i. 45, 77; 'ignorant of it,' ii. 547; a lax talker against it, i. 78; predominant object of his thoughts, i. 80; ii. 142; brought back by sickness, iv. 249; never denied Christ,' iv. 478, n. 3; remorse, i. 189, 461, n. 2; repetitions in his writings, i. 387, n. 2; reproved by a lady, v. 43; reputation, did not trouble himself to defend his, ii. 495; residences: see Habitations; resistance to bad government lawful, ii. 69, 195; respect due to him, maintained the, iii. 353; shows respect to a Doctor in Divinity, ii. 143; 'respectable Hottentot' not Johnson, i. 310, n. 2; respected by others: by Boswell and Mrs. Thrale loved, ii. 490; resolutions, 'fifty-five years spent in resolving,' i. 558; rarely efficacious, ii. 130; neglected, iv. 156; reveries, i. 166, n. 2, 167; Reynolds's pictures, 'never looked at,' ii. 362, n. 3: riding, v. 150, 324, 344: see JOHNSON, fox-hunting; ringleader of a riot, said to have been the, iv. 375; rising late, i. 573, 11. 2; ii. 19, 164, 470, 548; v. 239; 'roarings of the old lion,' ii. 325, n. 2; roaring people down, iii. 170, 329; Johnson, Samuel. roasts apples, iv. 252, ». 1; robbed, never, ii. 137; romances, love of, i. 57; iii. 2; roughness: see JOHNSON, manners; Round-Robin, receives the, iii. 95-8; Royal Academy, Professor of the, ii. 76; iv. 488, n. 2; rumour that he was dying, iii. 251; rural beauties, little taste for, i. 533; v. 127; sacrament, not received with tranquillity, ii. 132, n. 2; - - instances of his receiving it at other times but Easter, ii. 49, n. 3; iv. 311, 480; same one day as another, not the, iii. 219; sarcastic in the defence of good principles, ii. 15; Sassenach More, ii. 306, n. 3; satire, explosions of, iii. 92; ignorant of the effect produced, iv. 194, n. 1; Savage, effects of intimacy with, i. 186-9, saving, tendency to paltry, iv. 220; sayings not accurately reported, ii. 381; scenery, descriptions of moonlight sail, v. 379, n. 1; of a ride in a storm, v. 394, n. 1; schemes of a better life, i. 558; iv. 265; scholar, preferred the society of intelligent men of the world to that of a, iii. 25, n. 1; 'school,' his, described by Courtenay, i. 258; by Reynolds, i. 284, n. 3; iii. 260; —, distinguished for truthfulness, i. 7, n. 1; iii. 260; Goldsmith one of its brightest ornaments, i. 482-3; taught men to think rightly, i. 284, n. 3: schoolmaster, life as a, i. 113, n. I, 114, n. 2, 565, n. 1; Scotch, feelings towards the: see under SCOTLAND; Scotland, tour in, ii. 306-7; v. 1-474; scottified, v. 61; screen, dines behind a, i. 188, n. I; scruple, troubled with Baxter's, ii. 548; not weakly scrupulous, iv. 458 see SCRUPLES; seal, cut with his head, iv. 463, n. 3; seasons, effect of: see WEATHER; second sight: see under SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS, second sight; 'seducing man, a very,' iv. 66, n. 3; Seraglio, his, iii. 418; an imaginary one, v. 246; sermons composed by him, i. 279; iii. 22, n. 3, 206; iv. 439, n. I; v. 75; severe things, how mainly extorted from him, iv. 394; Shakespeare, read in his childhood, i. 81: see under SHAKESPEARE; shoes worn out, i. 89; sight, account of it by Boswell, iv. 490; v. 19; by Miss Burney, iv. 185, n. 1, 351, . 4; actors' faces, could not see, ii. 106, n. 2; acuteness shown in criticising dress, v. 488, n. 1; in his French diary, ii. 460; in observing scenes, i. 48; iii. 213; iv. 359; v. 160; Baretti's trial, at, ii. III, N. 3; Blinking Sam, iii. 310, n. 1; difficulty in crossing the kennel when a child, i. 46; eyes wild and piercing, i. 110, n. 1, 537, n. 1; only one eye, i. 48; restored to its use, i. 353; inflamed, ii. 302-3; short-sighted, called by Dr. Percy, iii. 310; silence, fits of, ii. 245; iii. 349; v. 82; silver buckles, iii. 370; cup, i. 188, n. 2; - plate, ii. 5, n. 1; iv. 107; singularity, dislike of, ii. 85, n. 2; iv. 375; sins, never balanced against virtues, iv. 459; slavery, hatred of: see SLAVES; sleep: see Nights; smallpox, has the, v. 496; Smith, Adam, compared with, iv. 29, n. 2; Sober, Mr., of The Idler, iii. 452, n. 3; social, truly, iv. 328; society, mixing with polite, i. 94-5, 573, n. 3; ii. 535; iii. 309, n. 3, 482; iv. 1, N. I, 103, 126, n. 1, 127, 135–6, 170, 376, 411; v. 48, III, 236, 408, 423, 426, 449, 519, 521; solitude, hatred of, i. 167, n. 1, 344, 393, ". I, 597; iii. 460; iv. 493; suffers from it, iv. 187, n. 2: see under JOHNSON, household; Johnson, Samuel. 'soothed,' ii. 129; sophistry, love of, ii. 69; recourse to it, iv. 129; sought after nobody, iii. 357; Southwark election, ii. 328, n. 2; speaking, impressive mode of, ii. 374; spelling incorrect, i. 302, n. 1; iv. 43, n. I; v. 141, n. 2; spirit, lofty, iv. 431; spirit, wishes for evidence for, ii. 172; iii. 338, n. 2; iv. 345: see JOHNSON, Supernatural; splendour on £600 a year, iv. 390; spurs, loses his, iv. 470, n. 2; v. 186; St. Clement Danes, his seat in, ii. 245, St. James's Square, walks with Savage round, i. 188, n. 2, 189; St. John's Gate, reverences, i. 129; St. Vitus's dance, v. 19; stately shop, deals at a, iv. 368; straggler, a, iii. 347; Streatham, 'absorbed from his old friends,' i. 573, n. 1; ii. 489, n. 1; iii. 255; Miss Burney describes his life there, iv. 392, n. 4; his 'home,' i. 570, n. 4; ii. 88, 162, n. 3; iii. 513; iv. 392; his late hours there, ii. 466; his farewell to it, iv. 181; studied behaviour, disapproves of, i. 544; study, advice about, i. 496; iv. 359-60; style, account of it, i. 252-61; Addison's, compared with, i. 259, 260, n. 2; affected by his Dictionary, i. 256, n. 4; Brownism,' i. 256-7, 357; caricatures of it, by Blair, iii. 195-6; Colman, iv. 447, and n. 2; Lexiphanes, ii. 50; Maclaurin, ii. 416; in a magazine, v. 310; in an Ode to Mrs. Thrale, iv. 447; changes in it, iii. 196, n. 1; criticises it himself, iii. 292, n. 1; easier in his poems than his prose, v. 18; female writing, illsuited for, i. 259; formed on Temple and Chambers, i. 253; on writers of the seventeenth century, i. 254; Gallicisms, dislikes, iii. 390, n. 3; imitations of it, by Barbauld, Mrs., iii. 196; Burney, Miss, iv. 449; Burrowes, Rev. R., iv. 445-6; Gibbon, iv. 448; Knox, Rev. Dr., iv. 450-1; Mackenzie, Henry, iv. 450, n. 1; Nares, Rev. Mr., iv. 449; newspapers, iv. 439, n. 1; Robertson, iii. 196; iv. 448; Young, Professor, iv. 452; Lives of the Poets, iii. 196, n. I; Lobo's Abyssinia, translation of, i. 101; Monboddo, criticised by, iii. 196-7; parentheses, dislikes, iv. 219; Plan of the Dictionary, i. 213; Rambler, i. 252; iii. 196, n. 1; talk, like his, iv. 273, n. 2; the former, the latter,' dislikes, iv. 220; Thrale, Mrs., described by, iii. 22, n. 2; translates a saying into his own style, iv. 370; Warburton attacks it, iv. 57; subordination: see SUBORDINATION; Sunday: see SUNDAY; superiority over his fellows, i. 55; supernatural agency, willingness to examine it, i. 470; v. 18; superstition, prone to, iv. 491; v. 18: see GHOSTS and JOHNSON, spirit; 'surly virtue,' iii. 79; swearing, profane, dislikes, ii. 387, n. 1; iii. 215; falsely represented as swearing, ii. 387, n. 1; swore enough,' iv. 249; uses a profane expression, v. 348; swimming, i. 402; ii. 342; iii. 105, n. 2; Latin verses on it, ib.; talkalike to all, talked, ii. 370; best, rule to talk his, iv. 212, and n. 1; books, did not talk from, v. 431; calmly in private, iii. 377; 'his little fishes would talk like whales,' ii. 266; loved to have his talk out, iii. 261; not restrained by a stranger, ii. 502; iv. 328; ostentatiously, talks, v. 141; 'talked their best,' his phrase, iii. 220, n. 2; victory, talks for, ii. 273; iv. 129; v. 17, 18, 369; writing, like his, iv. 273, n. 2: see JOHNSON, conversation; talk Johnson, Samuel. - on ing to himself: see JOHNSON, peculi- marry Mrs. Thrale, iv. 446, 2. 1: - |