SERENITY. The serenity that is not felt it can be no virtue to feign,' iv. 456. SEVERITY. 'Severity is not the way

to govern either boys or men' (Lord Mansfield), ii. 214.

SHADOWY. 'Why, Sir, something of a shadowy being,' ii. 205. SHALLOWS. 'All shallows are clear,' v. 49, n. 2.

SHERRY. 'Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature,' i. 525.

SHOE.

'Had the girl in The Mourning Bride said she could not cast her shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it,' ii.

100. SHOEMAKER. 'As I take my shoes from the shoemaker and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest' (Goldsmith), ii. 246. SHOES. 'Mankind could do better without your books than without my shoes,' i. 519.

SHOOT. 'You do not see one man

shoot a great deal higher than another,' ii. 515; 'You have set him that I might shoot him, but I have not shot him,' iv. 96. SHOOTERS. 'Where there are many shooters, some will hit,' iii. 288. SHORT - HAND. 'A long head is as

good as short-hand' (Mrs. Thrale),

iv. 192.

SHOT. He is afraid of being shot getting into a house, or hanged when he has got out of it,' iv. 147.

Spoons.

Suspicion.

spoons,' i. 500.

STAMP.

'I was resolved not to give you the advantage even of a stamp in the argument' (Parr), iv. 18, n. 2. STAND. They resolved they would stand by their country,' i. 189. STATELY. 'That will not be the case [i. e. you will not be imposed on] if you go to a stately shop, as I always do,' iv. 368.

STOCKS. 'A man who preaches in the stocks will always have hearers enough,' ii. 288; 'Stocks for the men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound for beasts,' iii. 326. STONE. Chinese is only more difficult from its rudeness; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe,' iii. 386. STONES. 'I don't care how often or how high he tosses me when only friends are present, for 'then I fall upon soft ground; but I do not like falling on stones, which is the case when enemies are present' (Boswell), iii. 385; 'The boys would throw stones at him,' ii. 222.

STORY. 'If you were to read Rich

ardson for the story your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself,' ii. 200-1. STORY-TEller. 'I told the circumstance first for my own amusement, but I will not be dragged in as storyteller to a company,' iv. 222, ". I. STRAIGHT. 'He has a great deal of learning; but it never lies straight,' iv. 260.

STRANGE. 'I'm never strange in a strange place' (Journey to London), iv. 328.

'This comes of strata

gem,' iii. 313. STRAW. 'The first man who balanced a straw upon his nose. . . deserved the applause of mankind,' iii. 262. STRETCH. 'Babies like to be told of giants and castles, and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds,' iv. 9, n. 5. STRIKE. 'A man cannot strike till he has his weapons,' iii. 359.

STUFF.

'It is sad stuff; it is brutish,' ii. 262; This now is such stuff as I used to talk to my mother, when I first began to think myself a clever fellow, and she ought to have whipped me for it,' ii. 16.

STUNNED. 'We are not to be stunned and astonished by him,' iv. 96. STYE. 'Sir, he brings himself to the state of a hog in a stye,' iii. 172. STYLE. 'Nothing is more easy than to write enough in that style if once you begin,' v. 442.

SUCCEED. 'He is only fit to succeed himself,' ii. 151.

SUCCESSFUL. 'Man commonly cannot be successful in different ways,' iv. 96. SUICIDE. 'Sir, it would be a civil suicide,' iv. 258.

SULLEN. 'Harris is a sound sullen scholar,' iii. 277. SUNSHINE. 'Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man,' iii. 404. SUPERIORITY. 'You shall retain your superiority by my not knowing it,' ii. 253.

SURLY. 'Surly virtue,' i. 151. SUSPICION. 'Suspicion is very often an useless pain,' iii. 154.

SWEET.

Sweet.

'It has not wit enough to keep it sweet,' iv. 369. SWORD. 'It is like a man who has a sword that will not draw,' ii. 185. SYBIL. 'It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration,' iv. 69.

SYSTEM. 'No, Sir, let fanciful men do as they will, depend upon it, it is difficult to disturb the system of life,' ii. 117.

SYSTEMATICALLY. 'Hurd, Sir, is one of a set of men who account for everything systematically,' iv. 219.

T.

TABLE. 'Sir, if Lord Mansfield were in a company of General Officers and Admirals who have been in service, he would shrink; he'd wish to creep under the table,' iii. 301; 'As to the style, it is fit for the second table,' iii. 36.

TAIL. If any man has a tail, it is Col,' v. 376; 'I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?' iii. 304.

Think.

never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you,' iii. 280. TASKS. 'Never impose tasks upon mortals,' iii. 477.

TAVERN. 'A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity,' ii. 517,

n. 2.

TEACH. 'It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 523. TEA-KETTLE. 'We must not compare the noise made by your tea-kettle here with the roaring of the ocean,' ii. 99, n. I.

TELL. 'It is not so; do not tell this again,' iii. 260; 'Why, Sir, so am I. But I do not tell it,' iv. 220. TENDERNESS. 'Want of tenderness is want of parts,' ii. 140. TERROR. 'Looking back with sorrow and forward with terror,' iv. 292, n. 4.

TESTIMONY. 'Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow' (Boyle), iv. 325. Tête-à-tête.

'You must not indulge your delicacy too much; or you will be a tête-à-tête man all your life,' iii. 427.