SON, great; lost five guineas by hiding them, iv. 25; love, in love with Olivia Lloyd, i. 107; Hector's sister, ii. 526; Mrs. Emmet, ii. 532; love, Garrick sends him his, v. 399; low life, cannot bear, v. 349; Lusiad, projected translation of the, iv. 290; machinery, knowledge of, ii. 525, n. 3; madness, dreaded, i. 77; melancholy, confounded it with, iii. 199; — 'mad, at least not sober,' i. 41, 75; v. 244; - often near it, i. 320, n. 4; iii. 113; majestic, v. 154; mankind, describes the general hostility of, iii. 268, n. 1; mankind less just and more beneficent, iii. 268;

less expected of them, iv. 276; manners, disgusted with coarse, v. 349; total inattention to estab

lished manners, v. 79; his roughness, ii. 15, 75, 432; in contradicting, iv. 323; only external, ii. 415; iii. 92; partly due to his truthfulness, iv. 255, n. 2; rough as winter and mild as summer, iv. 456, n. 5; had been an advantage, iv. 341; Mickle never had a rough word, iv. 289; Malone never heard a severe thing from him, iv. 393; Miss Burney's account, iv. 492, n. 1; Macleods of Dunvegan Castle delighted with him, v. 236, n. 3; softened, iv. 75, n. 2, 254, n. 4; marriage, i. 110; Master of Arts degree, i. 154, 319, 323, n. 1, 324-8; medicine, knowledge of: see JOHNSON, physic; melancholy, confounds it with madness, iii. 199; constitutional, v. 18; exaggerated by Boswell, ii. 301, n. 2; inherited 'a vile melancholy,' i. 41; - ' morbid melancholy,' i. 72, 397; poses to write the history of it, ii. 51, n. I; remedies against it, i. 517: see JOHNSON, health; memory, ex

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traordinary, early instances, i. 46, 56;

shown in remembering, Ariosto, v. 419, n. 1; Bet Flint's verses, iv. 119, n. 3; Greek hymns, iii. 361, n. 1; Hay's Martial, v. 419; letter to Chesterfield, i. 305, n. 2; Rowe's plays, iv. 42, n. 3; verses on the Duke of Leed's marriage, iv. 16; complains of its failure, iii. 217, n. 3; men as they are, took, iii. 320; men and women, his subjects of inquiry, v. 501, n. 1; mental faculties, tests his, iv. 25; metaphysics, fond of, i. 82; withheld from their study, v. 123, n. II; method, want of, iii. 107; 'Methodist in a dignified manner,' i. 530, n. 3; military matters, interest in, iii. 410; militia, drawn for the, iv. 368; mill, compared to a, v. 301; mimicry, hatred of gesticular, ii. 373, n. 3; mind, his-means of quieting it, i. 367; ready for use, i. 236; ii. 419, n. 1; iv. 493, 512; strained by work, i. 312, n. 2, 430, n. 3: moderation in his character, absence of, iv. 84; in wine, difficult, ii. 498: see JOHNSON, abstinence; modesty, iii. 93; monument in St. Paul's, i. 262, n. 1; iv. 487; subscription for it, ib., ns. I and 3; epitaph, iv. 490, 512-14; mother, his death, i. 383, n. 5, 392, 594-7; ii. 142; debt, takes upon himself her, i. 185; dreads to lose her, i. 245, n. 2; letters, burns her, iv. 467, n. 1; wishes to see her, i. 334; music, account of his feelings towards it, ii. 469, n. 1; affected by it, iii. 224; iv. 26; bagpipe, listens to the, v. 358; flageolet, bought a, iii. 274; had he learnt it would have done nothing else, iii. 274; v. 358; insensible to its power, iii. 224; talks slightingly of it, ii. 469; wishes to learn the scale, ii. 302, n. 4; would

be glad to have a new sense given him, ii. 469; musing, habit of, v. 82, n. 1; name, his, fraudulently used, v. 336; nature, affected by, iii. 516; description of a Highland valley, v. 161, n. 1; of various country scenes, v. 501, n. 1; neglect, dread of, iv. 159, n. 2; would not brook it, ii. 136; neglected at Brighton in 1782, iv. 184, n. 3; negligence in correcting errors, iii. 409, n. 1; iv. 60, n. 2; newspapers, accustomed to think little of them, iv. 173; constantly mentioned in them, iv. 147; 'maintained' them,' ii. 19; reads the London Chronicle, ii. 118; nice observer of behaviour, iii. 62; night-cap, did not wear a, v. 305, 348; nights, restless, i. 164, 232, n. 2, 247, n. 1; iii. 105, 114, n. I, 124, n. 1, 248, 413, 419; when sleepless translated Greek into Latin verse, iv. 442; nil admirari, much of the, v. 126; notions, his, enlarged, v. 504; Novum Museum, ii. 19, n. 4; 'O brave we!' v. 410; oaksticks for Foote and Macpherson, ii. 342, n. 1; for his Scotch tour, v. 19, 93; lost, v. 362; oath, his pardon asked by Murphy for repeating an, iii. 47; obligation, drawn into a state of, iii. 392, n. 1; impatient of them, i. 285, n. 1; obstinacy in supporting opinions, i. 336, n. 2; 'Oddity,' iii. 237; offend, attentive not to, iii. 62, n. 2; oil of vitriol,' his, v. 15, n. 1; old, never liked to think of being, iii. 344, 348-9; old man in his talk, nothing of the, iii. 383; oracle, a kind of public, ii. 136; orange-peel, use of, ii. 378; oratorio, at an, ii. 371, n. 2; original writer, ii. 40; Oxford undergraduate, an, i. 67; pain, courage in bearing, iv. 277; easily supports it, i. 181, n. 3, 249; never

totally free from it, i. 74, n. 2; operates on himself, iv. 460; painting, account of his feelings towards it, i. 421, n. 1; allegorical, historical, and portrait painting, compares, i. 421, n. I; v. 249, n. 3; Barry's pictures, praises, iv. 259; Exhibition, despises the, i. 421; laughs at talk about it, ii. 459, n. 2; prints, a buyer of, i. 421, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 1, 306; sale of his, i. 421, n. 1; Thrale's copper, asks Reynolds to paint, i. 421, n. 1; Treatise on Painting, reads a, i. 149, n. I; palsy, struck with, iv. 194, n. 1, 263-9; pamphlets written against him, iv. 147; papers, burns his, i. 125; iii. 34, n. 3; iv. 467–8, n. 1; papers, not to be burnt, ii. 481; Papist, if he could would be a, iv. 334; pardon, once begs, iv. 58, n. 1; Parliament, attacked and defended in it, iv. 368, n. 2; eulogised in it by Burke, iv. 470, n. 1; attempts made to bring him into it, ii. 158-60; projects an historical account of it, i. 179; parodies on Percy, ii. 157, #. I, 244, n. 2; Warton, iii. 179, n. 3; party-opposition, averse to, ii. 399, n. I; passions, his, iv. 457, n. 5; Passion-week, Johnson has an awe on him, ii. 547; dines out every day, iii. 341, n. 1; dines with two Bishops, iv. 102; paper on it in The Rambler, i. 248; iv. 103; pastoral life, desires to study, iii. 516; pathos, want of, iv. 53; patience, iii. 30; v. 167; payment for his writings: see JOHNSON, works; peats, brings in a supply of, v. 345; peculiarities—absence of mind, ii. 308, n. 1; iv. 83, avoiding an alley, i. 561; beating with his feet, v. 67, n. 4; blowing out his breath, i. 562; iii. 173; convulsive starts, i. 110; mentioned by Pope, i. 166; - de

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. 1, 269, n. 1; writes a prescription, v. 83; picture of himself in

Γνώθι σεαυτόν, 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;

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 PRAC-
TICE; prize-fighting, regrets extinc-
tion of, v. 260; profession, regrets
that he had not a, iii. 351, n. 1; pro-
fessor in the imaginary college, v.
123; promptitude of mind: see JOHN-
SON, mind; pronunciation-excel-
lent, 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 him-
self 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, ii. 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, n. 2; slight books, v. 357;
when travelling, Pomponius Mela de
situ Orbis, i. 538; - Il Palmerino
d'Inghilterra, iii. 2; Euripides,

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Reynolds, v. 131;

a great reciter, v. 48; 'recommend-
ing' the dead: see under DEAD; rec-
onciliation, 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, 'con-
version,' his, iv. 313, n. 2; early in-
difference to it, i. 78; totally regard-
less 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, #. 3;
remorse, i. 189, 461, #. 2; repeti-
tions in his writings, i. 387, n. 2; re-
proved 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, main-
tained the, iii. 353; shows respect to
a Doctor in Divinity, ii. 143; 're-
spectable 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,
n. 2; ii. 19, 164, 470, 548; v. 239;
roarings of the old lion,' ii. 325, n.
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roasts apples, iv. 252, n. 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, Profess-
or 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 pro-
duced, 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. I; 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: school-
master, life as a, i. 113, n. 1, 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
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ond 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 SHAKE-
SPEARE; shoes worn out, i. 89; sight,
account of it by Boswell, iv. 490; v.
19; by Miss Burney, iv. 185, n. 1,
351, n. 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; diffi-
culty 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; sin-
gularity, dislike of, ii. 85, n. 2; iv.
375; sins, never balanced against
virtues, iv. 459; slavery, hatred of:
see SLAVES; sleep: see Nights; small-
pox, 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, n. I, 597; iii.
460; iv. 493; suffers from it, iv. 187,
n. 2: see under JOHNSON, household;

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