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Jack the Giant Killer, ii. 58, n. 1; iv. 8, n. 3. JACKSON, Henry, of Lichfield, ii. 463; iii. 131. JACKSON, Rev. Mr., i. 239, n. 1. JACKSON, Richard, all-knowing, iii. 19; commends Johnson’s Journey, iii. 137. JACKSON, Thomas, Michael Johnson’s servant, i. 38. JACOB, Giles, v. 419, n. 2. JACOBITES, identified with Tories, i. 429, n. 4. JACOBITISM. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON. JAMAICA, constitutions of, iii. 202; den of tyrants, ii. 478; story of a young man going there, iv. 332; mentioned, i. 239, n. 1, 242, n. 1; iii. 76, n. 2, 416, n. 2. JAMES I (of England), Daemonology, iii. 382; Johnson, resemblance to, v. 12; Nairne, witticism about, v. 117, n. 3; Raleigh’s trial, i. 180, n. 2; Sanquhar’s trial, v. 103, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 175. JAMES II, deposition needful, i. 430; ii. 341; George III, compared with, iv. 139, n. 4; king, very good, ii. 341; Sedley, Catherine, v. 49, n. 5; mentioned, ii. 437, n. 2; v. 297, n. 1, 357, n. 3. JAMES I of Scotland, ii. 7. JAMES IV, patron of Boswell’s family, ii. 413; v. 91. JAMES V, v. 181. JAMES, King (the Pretender), i. 429. JAMES, Dr. Robert, death, i. 81; iii. 4; Dissertation on Fevers, iii. 389, n. 2; Greek, knowledge of, iv. 33, n. 3; Johnson describes his character, i. 81, 159; learnt physic from him, iii. 22; opinion of his medicines, iv. 355; dedication to his Medicinal Dictionary, i. 159; assisted him in writing the Medicinal Dictionary, iii. 22; powder, his, its sale, iii. 4; traduced, iii. 389, n. 2; suspected of being not sober for twenty years, iii. 389, n. 2; wrote first line of the epigram Ad Lauram, i. 157, n. 5; mentioned, iii. 318, n. 1. JANES, —— , a naturalist, v. 149, 163, 408, n. 1. JANSENISTS, iii. 341, n. 1. JANUARY 30, fast of, ii. 152; old port and solemn talk on it, iii. 371. Janus Vitalis, iii. 251. JAPAN, five persecutions, v. 392. JAPIX, Gisbert, Rymelerie, i. 476. JARVIS, —— , a Birmingham person, i. 86, n. 1. JARVIS, or Jervis, the maiden name of Johnson’s wife, i. 86, n. 1, 241, n. 2. Jealous Wife, The, i. 364. JEALOUSY, little people given to it, iii. 55. JEFFERIES, Judge, v. 113, n. 1. JEFFREY, Francis (Lord Jeffrey), birth, v. 24, n. 4; helps Boswell to bed, ib.; Edinburgh Review, payment to writers, iv. 214, n. 2; Scotch accent, loses his, ii. 159, n. 6; title, his, v. 77, n, 4; trees in Scotland, ii. 301, n. 1. JENKINSON, Right Hon. Charles (first Earl of Liverpool), account of him, iii. 146, n. 1; Johnson’s letter to him, iii. 145-7. JENNINGS, Mr., iii. 231. JENYNS, Soame, benevolence as a motive to action, iii. 48; character, his, iii. 289, n. 1; conversion, i. 316, n. 2; iii. 280; ‘Epitaph,’ i. 316, n. 2; Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, i. 309, 315; Johnson’s Review of it, i. 315-316; ii. 188, n. 6; iii. 48, n. 3; Johnson, attacks, i. 316; View of the Internal Evidence, &c., iii. 48, n. 3, 288; World, contributor to the, i. 257, n. 3. JEPHSON, Robert, i. 262, n. 1. JERSEY, v. 142, n. 2. JERSEY, Earl of, i. 31, n. 4. JERUSALEM, ii. 275-6. Jests of Hierocles, i. 150. JESUITS, attacked by Psalmanazar, iii. 444; persecuted in Japan, v. 392, n. 5. JEWISH KINGS, v. 340. JEWITT, Mr. L., ii. 324, n. 1. JOCULARITY, low, i. 449. JODDREL (Jodrell), R. P., iv. 254, 272, 437. JODRELL, Sir R. P., M.D., iv. 437. JOHN, King, i. 248. John Bull, v. 20, n. 2. Johnny Armstrong, quoted by Johnson for its abruptness, i. 403; in Holyrood, v. 43. JOHNSON, B., the actor, iv. 243, n. 6. JOHNSON, Andrew (Johnson’s uncle), great at boxing and wrestling, iv. 111, n. 3; v. 229, n. 2. JOHNSON, Charles, author of The Adventures of a Guinea, v. 275, n. 2. JOHNSON, D., i. 79, n. 2. JOHNSON, Elizabeth (Dr. Johnson’s wife, H. Porter’s widow, maiden name Jarvis or Jervis), i. 86, n. 1; account of her, i. 95; her age, i. 95, n. 2; character, i. 241, n. 4; death, i. 203, n. 1, 234; epitaph, i. 241, n. 2; Ford’s ghost, iii. 349; Garrick’s mimicry of her, i. 99; Hampstead lodgings, i. 192; indulgencies, i. 238; Johnson’s conversation, admires, i. 95; lodgings in her last illness, iv. 377, n. 1; marriage, i. 95; ii. 77; marriage-settlement, i. 95, n. 3; personal appearance, i. 95, 99; 238; Rambler, admiration of the, i. 210; Tetty or Tetsey, i. 98; ii. 77; wedding-ring, i. 237; mentioned, i. 488, 500; iii. 46. See JOHNSON, wife. JOHNSON, Fisher, and his sons (Johnson’s cousins), iv. 402, n. 2. JOHNSON, ‘the gigantick,’ i. 388, n. 3. JOHNSON, Hester (Stella), iv. 177, n. 2; v. 243. JOHNSON, the horse-rider, i. 399; iii. 231. JOHNSON, Michael (Johnson’s father), account of him, i. 34-7; accompanies his son to Oxford, i. 59; bankrupt, i. 78-9; iv. 402, n. 2; book-trade, i. 36; Chester fair, at, v. 435; death, i. 80; disapproved of tea, i. 313, n. 2; epitaph, i. 79, n. 2; iv. 393; excise prosecution, i. 36, n. 5; fire in the parlour on Sunday, v. 60; ‘foolish old man,’ i. 40; house, his, iv. 372, n. 2; Jacobite, a, i. 37; marriage register, i. 35, n. 1; melancholy, i. 35; oath of abjuration, signs the, ii. 322; observer, no careless, i. 34, n. 5; sheriff of Lichfield, i. 36, n. 4; Uttoxeter market, at, iv. 373. JOHNSON, Mr., in Blackmore’s Lay Monastery, v. 384, n. 2. JOHNSON, Nathanael (Johnson’s younger brother), complains of his brother, i. 90, n. 3; death, i. 35, 90, n. 3; epitaph, ib.; iv. 393; letter from him, i. 90, n. 3; succeeds his father, i. 90. JOHNSON, Samuel, Rev., i. 135. JOHNSON, SAMUEL, CHIEF EVENTS OF His LIFE. (For his publications see also i. 16-24; for a complete list of his travels and visits, iii. 450-3; and for his residences, iii. 405, n. 6.) 1709 Birth, i. 34. 1712 ‘Touched by Queen Anne, i. 43. 1716 (about) Enters Lichfield School, i. 43. 1725 Enters Stourbridge School, i. 49. 1726 Returns home, i. 50. 1728 Enters Pembroke College, i. 58. Translates Pope’s Messiah, i. 61. 1729 Returns home, i. 78, n. 2. 1731 Death of his father, i. 80. 1732 Usher at Market Bosworth, i. 84. 1733 At Birmingham, i. 85, 86, n. 1. 1734 Returns to Lichfield, i. 89. Publishes proposals for printing Politian, i. 90. Returns to Birmingham, i. 90. Offers to write for the Gent. Mag. i. 91. 1735 Publishes Lobo’s Abyssinia, i. 87. Marries Mrs. Porter and opens a school at Edial, i. 95, n. 2, 96. 1737 Visits London with Garrick, i. 101. Returns to Lichfield and finishes Irene, i. 107. Removes to London, i. 110. 1738 Becomes a writer in the Gent. Mag. i. 113. London, i. 118. Begins to translate Father Paul Sarpi’s History, i. 135. Life of Father Paul Sarpi, i. 139. 1739 Seeks the Mastership of Appleby School and the degree of Master of Arts, i. 132-3. Life of Boorhaave, i. 140. Marmor Norfolciense, i. 141. 1740 Lives of Blake, Drake, and Barretier, i. 147. Begins to write the Debates, i. 150. 1741 Debates, i. 150. 1742 Debates, i. 150. Lives of Barman and Sydenham, i. 153. Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153. 1743 Finishes the Debates, i. 150. 1744 Life of Savage, i. 161. 1745 Miscellaneous Observations on Macbeth, i. 175. Sketching outlines of his Dictionary, i. 176, 182, n. 3. 1746 Gets to know Levett, i. 243. 1747 Prologue on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, i. 181. Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language, i. 182. 1748 Writing the Dictionary. Life of Roscommon, i. 192. The Vision of Theodore the Hermit, i. 192. 1749 Writing the Dictionary. Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 192. Irene acted, i. 196. Forms the Ivy Lane Club, i. 190, n. 5. Living in Gough Square, iii. 405, n. 6. 1750 Writing the Dictionary. Begins the Rambler, i. 201. Prologue for the benefit of Milton’s Grand-daughter, i. 227. 1751 Writing the Dictionary. The Rambler. Lauder’s fraud exposed, i. 228. Life of Cheynel, i. 228. 1752 Writing the Dictionary. Ends The Rambler, i. 203. Death of his wife, i. 234. Miss Williams begins to reside with him, i. 232. Gets to know Reynolds, i. 245, n. 1. 1753 Writing the Dictionary. Writes for The Adventurer, i. 252. 1754 Writing the Dictionary. Life of Cave, i. 256. Visits Oxford, i. 270. Gets to know Murphy, i. 356, n. 2. 1755 Letter to Lord Chesterfield, i. 261. Becomes an M.A. of Oxford, i. 281. Publishes the Dictionary, i. 291. Projects a Biblithèque, i. 284. Gets to know Langton (about this year), i. 247, n. 1. 1756 Publishes an abridgement of the Dictionary, i. 305. Writes for The Universal Visitor, i. 306. Superintends and writes for The Literary Magazine, i. 307. Life of Sir Thomas Browne, i. 308. Proposals for an edition of Shakespeare, i. 318. 1757 Writes for the Literary Magazine, i. 320. Editing Shakespeare, i. 496, n. 3. 1758 Editing Shakespeare, i. 496, n. 3. Begins The Idler, i. 330. Gets to know Dr. Burney, i. 328. 1759 The Idler, i. 330. Death of his mother, i. 339. Rasselas, i. 340. Leaves Gough Square and goes into chambers, i. 350, n. 3; iii. 405, n. 6. Visits Oxford, i. 347. Gets to know Beauclerk, i. 248, n. 4. 1760 Ends The Idler, i. 330. Perhaps editing Shakespeare, i. 353. In Inner Temple Lane, iii. 405, n. 6. 1761 Visits Lichfie
ld in the winter of 1761-2, i. 370. 1762 Pensioned, i. 372. Trip to Devonshire, i. 377. Cock Lane Ghost imposture exposed, i. 406. 1763 Gets to know Boswell, i. 391. Trip to Harwich, i. 464. Visits Oxford, iii. 451. Character of Collins, i. 382. Life of Ascham, i. 464. 1764 Visits Langton in Lincolnshire, i. 476. Literary Club founded, i. 477. Visits Dr. Percy at Easton Maudit, i. 486. 1765 Visits Cambridge, i. 487. Becomes an LL.D. of Dublin, i. 488. Suffers from a severe illness, i. 483, 520. Gets to know the Thrales (either this year or in 1764), i. 490, 520. Engages in politics with W. G. Hamilton, i. 489. Publishes his Shakespeare, i. 496. Takes a house in Johnson’s Court, ii. 5; iii. 405, n. 6. 1766 Contributes to Mrs. Williams’s Miscellanies, ii. 25. Spends more than three months at Streatham, ii. 25. Visits Oxford, ii. 25. 1767 Interview with the King, ii. 33. Spends near six months in Lichfield, ii. 30. 1768 Prologue to the Good-Natured Man. ii. 45. Visits Oxford, iii. 452. 1769 Appointed Professor in Ancient Literature to the Royal Academy, ii. 67. Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 67; iii. 452. Visits Brighton, ii. 68. Appears as a witness at Baretti’s trial, ii. 96. 1770 The False Alarm, ii. 111. Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 452. 1771 Falkland’s Islands, ii. 134. Revises the Dictionary, ii. 143, n. 3. Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 141. 1772 Revises the Dictionary, ii. 143, n. 3. Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 452. 1773 Publishes the fourth edition of the Dictionary, ii. 203. Attempts to learn the Low Dutch language, ii. 263. Tour of Scotland, ii. 266; v. 1. Visits Oxford, ii. 268. Begins his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 268. 1774 Death of Goldsmith, ii. 279, n. 2. Tour to North Wales, ii. 285; v. 427. Visits Burke at Beaconsfield, ii. 285, n. 3; v. 460. The Patriot, ii. 286. Finishes his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 288. 1775 Publishes his Journey to the Western Islands, ii. 300. Taxation no Tyranny, ii. 312. Becomes an LL.D. of Oxford, ii. 331. Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Ashbourne, ii. 381; iii. 452. Tour to France, ii. 384. 1776 Visits Oxford, Lichfield, and Ashbourne with Boswell, ii. 438. Projected tour to Italy abandoned, iii. 6. Visits Bath, iii. 44. First dinner with Wilkes, iii. 64. Visits Brighton, iii. 92. 1777 Engages to write The Lives of the Poets, iii. 109. Exerts himself in behalf of Dr. Dodd, iii. 139. Meets Boswell at Ashbourne, iii. 135. 1778 Writing The Lives of the Poets, iii. 360. Visits Warley Camp, iii. 360. 1779 Publishes the first four volumes of the Lives, iii. 370. Writing the last six volumes, ib. Death of Garrick, iii. 371. Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne, iii. 395. 1780 Writing the last six volumes of the Lives, iii. 418. Death of Beauclerk, iii. 420. Visits Brighton, iii. 453. 1781 Publishes the last six volumes of the Lives, iv. 34. Death of Thrale. iv. 84. Second dinner with Wilkes, iv. 101. Visits Southill, iv. 118. Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and Ashbourne, iv. 135. 1782 Death of Levett, iv. 137. Visits Oxford, iv. 151. Takes leave of Streatham, iv. 158. Visits Brighton, iv. 159. 1783 Has a stroke of the palsy, iv. 227. Visits Rochester, iv. 233. Visits Heale, iv. 234. Death of Mrs. Williams, iv. 235. Threatened with a surgical operation, iv. 239. Founds the Essex Head Club, iv. 253. Attacked by spasmodic asthma, iv. 255. 1784 Confined by illness for 129 days, iv. 270, n. 1. Visits Oxford with Boswell, iv. 283. Projected tour to Italy, iv. 326. Mrs. Thrale’s second marriage, iv. 339. Visits Lichfield, Ashbourne, Birmingham, and Oxford, iv. 353-377. Death of Allen, iv. 354. Death, iv. 417. JOHNSON, Samuel, abbreviations of his friends’ names, ii. 258; iv. 273, n. 1; Aberdeen, freeman of, v. 90; abodes, list of his: see JOHNSON, habitations; absence of mind: see JOHNSON, peculiarities; abstinence easy to him, i. 103, n. 3, 468; iv. 72, 149, n. 3; absurd stories told of him, i. 464; abused in a newspaper, iv. 29; accounts, resolves to keep, iv. 177, n. 3; acquaintance, making new, iv. 374; ib., n. 4; widely-varied, iii. 21 (see JOHNSON, society); actors: see PLAYERS; Adversaria, i. 205; ‘agreeable, extremely,’ ii. 141, n. 3; alchymy, not a positive unbeliever in, ii. 376; alertness, no, v. 308; Alfred, Life of, projects a, i. 177; alms-giving, i. 302, n. 1; ii. 119; ambition, iii. 309; Americans, feelings towards the: see AMERICA; amused, easily, ii. 261; v. 249; amusements, his, iii. 398; ancestors, asked in the Highlands about his, v. 237, n. 2; [Greek: Anax andron], i. 47; anecdotes, love of: see ANECDOTES; Annales: see JOHNSON, diary; annihilation, horror of, iii. 295, 298, n. 1; anniversaries, observed, i. 483; anxiety about his writings, felt no, iii. 33; apology, ready to make an, iv. 321,409, n. 1, 431; Apophthegms, i. 190, n. 4; Appius, compared by Burke to, iv. 374, n. 2; Appleby School, applies for mastership of, i. 132; apprentice, talking to an, ii. 323; approbation, pleasure of, iv. 255, n. 2; Arabic, wishes to study, iv. 28; architecture and statuary, opinion of, ii. 439; arguing before an audience, iii. 331; iv. 111, 324, 429; Burke refers to it, iii. 24, n. 2; butt end of the pistol, ii. 100; iv. 274; v. 292; delight in it, ii. 452, n. 1; described by Burke, iv. 316, n. 1; Hamilton, iv. iii; Reynolds, ii. 100, n. 1; iii. 81, n. 1; Seaford, Lord, iv. 176, n. 1; either side indifferently, ii. 105; iii. 24; kick of the Tartar horse, ii. 100, n. 1; promptitude for it, ii. 365; iii. 24, n. 1; reasoned close or wide, iv. 429; v. 17; rudeness, iii. 81, n. 1; spirit of contradiction, v. 83, 222; thinking which side he should take, iii. 24; wrong side, on the, iii. 23; iv. iii, 429; see JOHNSON, talk; Argyll Street, room in, iv. 158, n. 4; Armiger, i. 489; ii. 332, n. i; art: see PAINTING; art of making people talk of what they know best, v. 130; assertions, love of contradicting, i. 410, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2; attacked in the streets, ii. 299; attacks, never but once replied to, i. 314; enjoyed them, ii. 308, 363; iv. 55; looked on them as part of his consequence, iv. 422; v. 400, n. 4: see ATTACKS; attendance, required the least, ii. 474, n. 3; iv. 181, n. 1, 340, n. 3; v. 309, n. 2; Auchinleck, hopes again to see, iv. 156, 264; auction of his effects, i. 363, n. 3; austere, but not morose, ii. 122; author, an, without pen, ink, or paper, i. 350, n. 3; authors asking his opinion: see AUTHORS; autobiography, projects his, i. 26, n. 1; awe, admiration, love, regarded with, v. 272; awe of him, felt by Aberdeen professors, v. 92; Lord B —— , iv. 116, n. 1; Englishmen of great eminence, iii. 85; Fox, iii. 267; at Mrs. Garrick’s, iv. 99; by Glasgow professors, v. 371; at Allan Ramsay’s, iii. 332; by Dr. Robertson, v. 371; by Scotch literati, ii. 63; by a Welsh parson, v. 450, n. 2; described, by Mdme. D’Arblay, v. 371, n. 2: see below, JOHNSON, feared; Bacon, Life of, projects a, iii. 194; ball, goes to a, iv. 159, n. 3; Baltic, wishes to go up the, ii. 288, n. 3; iii. 134, 454; bargainer, bad, Rasselas, i. 341; Lives of the Poets, iii. 111, n. 1; Barry’s picture, introduced in, iv. 224, n. 1; beadle within him, the, iii. 81; bear, a, Boswell’s bear, ii. 269, n. i; v. 39, n. 4; dancing bear, ii. 66; Gibbon’s sarcasm, ii. 348: He-bear, iv. 113, n. 2; ‘like a word in a catch,’ ii. 347; ‘nothing of the bear but his skin,’ ii. 66; Ursa Major, v. 384; beats Osborne, the bookseller, i. 154; ‘beat many a fellow,’ i. 154, n. 2; belabours his confessor, iv. 281: belief, angry at attacks on his, iii. 111; ‘believes nothing but the Bible,’ i. 147, n. 2; benevolence, iii. 124, 222, 306, 368; iv. 278, 283; to an outcast woman, iv. 321; concealed, iv. 325; Bible, reads the whole, ii. 189, n. 3; reads the Greek Testament at 160 verses every Sunday, ii. 288; bigotry, freedom from it, i. 405; ii. 150; iii. 188; iv. 410-1; instance of it, v. 114, n. 2; Biographia Britannica, asked to edit the, iii. 174; biography, excellence in, i. 25, 256; love of it: see BIOGRAPHY; Birmingham Journal, writes for the, i. 85; birth and rank, respect for, ii. l30, l53, 26l, 328; v. 103, 353; birth and parentage, i. 34; birth-day, disliked mention of his, at Ashbourne, iii. 157; at Dunvegan, v. 222; escaped from Streatham on it, iii. 398, n. 1; cheerful entry in 1780, iii. 440; gave a dinner on it in 1781, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. l35. n. 1; in 1783, iv. 239, n. 2; reflected on it, v. 457; kept at Streatham, iii. 157, n. 3; bishop, looks like a, v. 363; bleeding, undergoes, iii. 104, 152, n. 3; blood, irritability of his, iv. 190; blushing, iii. 329; Bolt-court, house — ii. 427; drawing-room, iii. 316; kitchen, iii. 461; prints in his dining-room, iv. 202, n. 1; silver salvers, iv. 92; garden, ii. 427, n. 1; iii. 398; stone-seats, iv. 203; Boswell in it for the last time, iv. 337: see JOHNSON, household; bones, horror at, v. 169, 327; books, bidding them farewell, iv. 359; judgment as to their success, iv. 121; loan of th
em, iv. 371, n. 2; runs to them, ii. 365; tears out their heart, iii. 284; uses them slovenly, ii. 192: see BOOKS, and JOHNSON, library; book-binding, i. 56, n. 2; booksellers, in a company of, iii. 311; borrowed small sums, iv. 191; BOSWELL: see BOSWELL and JOHNSON, letters; bow to an Archbishop, iv. 198; bow-wow way, ii. 326, n. 5; v. 18, n. 1; boxing, conversant in the art of, v. 229, n. 2; breakfast, i. 243, n. 3; ii. 214, 376; iv. 171; in splendour, iii. 400; breeding, good, iii. 54, n. 1; brother, his pretended, v. 295; ‘buck, a young English,’ v. 184, 261; buffoonery, incomparable at, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2; bull, made a, iv. 322; Burke content to have rung the bell to him, iv. 26-7; respect for him, iv. 318; attacked by him, v. 15, n. 1: see BURKE; burlesque, turns a dispute into, iv. 80, n. 4; business, love of, Clarendon Press, ii. 441; Dr. Taylor’s law suit, iii. 44, n. 3; 51, n. 3; Thrale’s brewery, iv. 85, n. 2; calculation, fondness for, i. 72; ii. 288-9, 344; iii. 207; error in, ib. n. 3; forgets to use it, iii. 226, n. 4; ‘Caliban of literature,’ ii. 129, 155, n. 2; called, iv. 94; candour, iv. 192, 239; cards, wished he had learnt, iii. 23; v. 404; careless of documents, v. 364; caricatured, glad to be, v. 400, n. 4; cat, Hodge, his, iv. 197; catalogue of his works: see JOHNSON, works; cathedrals, had seen most of the, iii. 107, 118, 456; ceremonies of life, attentive to the, iii. 54, n. 1; chambers: see JOHNSON, habitations; Chancellor, Lord, might have been, iii. 310; character, his, drawn by himself, iii. 398, n. 3; iv. 45, 168, n. 2, 239; by Baretti, iii. 429, n. 2; Boswell, iv. 420, n. 3, 424-30; v. 17-19; Burney, Miss, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 440, n. 1; iv. 245, n. 2, 426, n. 2; Dodd, iii. 140, n. 2; Hamilton, iv. 420; Mickle, iv. 250; Parr, iv. 47, n. 2; at Ramsay’s, iii. 331; Reynolds: see REYNOLDS, Johnson; Robertson, iii 331-2; Taylor, iii. 150; Towers, iv. 41, n. 1; like Baker’s character of James I, v. 12; Bayle’s of Menage, iv. 428, n. 2; Boerhaave’s, iv. 430, n. 1; Clarendon’s character of Falkland, iv. 428, n. 2; Dryden’s, i. 264, n. 1; iv. 45; Harington’s of Bishop Still, iv. 420, n. 3; Milton’s, i. 97, n. 2, 131, n. 2, 199, n. 3; Savage’s, i. 166, n. 4; character, said by Baretti to be ignorant of, v. 17, n. 2; characters, saw a great variety, iii. 20; drew strong yet nice portraits, ib.; too much in light and shade, ii. 306; overcharged, iii. 332; charity to the poor, iv. 132, 191: see JOHNSON, Almsgiving; Charles of Sweden, i. 153, n. 4; chastity in his youth, i. 94; Savage’s example, i. 164; iv. 395-7; chemistry, love of, i. 140, 436; iii. 398; iv. 237; chief, would have made a good, v. 136, 143; child, never wished to have a, iii. 29; childhood, companions of his, iii. 131; children, books for, iv. 8, n. 3; children, love of little, iv. 196; Christianity, projected work on, v. 89; church, attendances due at, i. 67, n. 2; iii. 401; behaviour in it, ii. 214; lateness in arriving at it, ii. 476; iii. 302, n. 1, 313, n, 1; perturbation, without, at it, ii. 476; some radiations of comfort at it, iii. 17, n. 2, 25, n. l; reluctance to go to it, i. 67; ii. 142, n. 2, 214, n. 2; resolutions at it, i. 500; Church of England, devotion to the, iii. 331; iv. 426; v. 17; church preferment, offer of, i. 320, 476; ii. 120; civilized life in the Hebrides, longs for, v. 183; clergymen should not be taught elocution, iv. 206; Clerkenwell ale-house, i. 113, n. 1; climb over a wall at Oxford, proposes to, i. 348; Club, Literary, attendance, i. 480, n. 2; ii. 136; iii. 106, n. 4; dislike of some of the members, iii. 106; One of the founders, i. 477; coach, on the top of a, i. 477; cold, indifferent to, v. 306, 345; colloquial barbarisms, repressed, iii. 196; comfort, wants every, iv. 270; common things, well-informed in, iv. 206; ‘companion, a tremendous,’ iii. 139; companions of his youth, regrets the, iii. 180, n. 3; company, loves, i. 144; obliged to any man who visits him, i. 397; proud to have his company desired, ii. 375, n. 4; tries to persuade people to return, i. 490; complaints, not given to, ii. 67, 357; iii. 3; iv. 116,172, n. 4; complaisance, i. 82; compliment, pleased with a, iv. 275; v. 401; composition, dictionary-making and poetry compared, v. 47, 418; fair copies, never wrote, i. 71, n. 3; iii. 62, n. 1; iv. 36, 309; Johnsonese, v. 145, n. 2; reviewing, iv. 214; time for it, ii. 119; verses, counting his, iv. 219; wrote by fits and starts, iv. 369; only for money, i. 318, n. 5; iii. 19, n. 3; not for pleasure, iv. 219; rapidity, described by Courtenay, iv. 381, n. 1; shown in his college exercises, i. 71; Debates, i. 504; Hermit of Teneriffe, i. 192, n. 1; Idler, i. 331; Life of Savage, forty-eight pages at a sitting, i. 166; v. 67; Ramblers, i. 203; Rasselas, i. 341; sermons, v. 67; translation from the French, iv. 127; v. 67; Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 192; ii. 15; confidence in his own abilities, i. 186; conjecture, kept things floating in, iii. 324; conscience, tenderness of his, i. 152; consecrated ground, reverence for, v. 62, 170; constant to those he employed, iv. 319; Constantinople, wish to go to, iv. 28; constitution, strength of his, iv. 256, n. 3; Construction of Fireworks, v. 246, n. 1; contraction of his friends’ names, ii. 258; v. 308; contradiction, actuated by its spirit, iii. 66; v. 387; exasperated by it, ii. 122; pleasure in it, in. 24; conversation, antique statue, like an, iii. 317; Bacon’s precept, in conformity with, iv. 236; colloquial pleasantry, iv. 428; contest, a, ii. 450; iv. 111; described by Hogarth, i. 147, n. 2; Dr. King, ii. 95, n. 1; E. Dilly, iii. 110; Reynolds, iv. 184; Malone, ib. n. 2; Miss Burney and Mrs. Thrale, iv. 237, n. 1; Macaulay, ib.; Mrs. Piozzi, iv. 346; Boswell, ib.; elegant as his writing, ii. 95, n. 2; iv. 236, 428; essential requisite for it, in want of an, iv. 166; exact precision, ii. 434; happiest kind, his view of the, iv. 50; imaginary victories gained over him, iv. 168, n. 1; labours when he says a good thing, v. 77; ‘literature in it, very little,’ v. 307; ‘music to hear him speak,’ v. 246; old man in it, nothing of the, iii. 336; originality, iv. 421, n. 1; point and imagery, teemed with, iii. 260; rule to talk his best, i. 204; ‘runts, would learn to talk of,’ iii. 337; seldom started a subject, iii. 307, n. 2; iv. 304, n. 4; stunned people, v. 288; too strong for the great, iv. 117; witnesses, without, iii. 81, n. 1; conviviality in the Hebrides, v. 261; convulsions in his breast, iii. 397, n. 1; convulsive starts: see Peculiarities; cookery, judge of, i. 469; iii. 285; projected book on it, iii. 285; copper coins bearing his head, iv. 421, n. 2; cottage in Boswell’s park, would like a, iv. 226; country life, knowledge of, iii. 450; mental imprisonment, iv. 338; pleasure in it, v. 439, n. 2; courage, anecdotes of his, ii. 298-9; Court of Justice, in a, ii. 96, 97, n. 1, 98; Cowley, projected edition of, iii. 29; credulity, iii. 331; iv. 426; v. 17; critic upon characters and manners, iii. 48; croaker, no, iv. 381, n. 1; Cromwell, projected Life of, iv. 235; curiosity, his, i. 89; iii. 450, 453-8; about the middle ages, iv. 133; dance, at a Highland, v. 166; dancing, iv. 79, 80, n. 2; dating letters, i. 122, n. 2; day, mode of spending his, i. 398; ii. 118; death, dread of, ii. 106; iii. 153, 295; iv. 253, n. 4, 259, 278, 280, 289, 299-300, 366, 394-5. 399-400; v. 380; no dread of what might occasion, ii. 298; dying with a grace,’ iv. 300, n. 1; horror of the last, i. 331, n. 7; iii. 153, n. 2; keeping away the thoughts of, ii. 93; iii. 157; news of deaths fills him with melancholy, iv. 154; resigned at the end, iv. 414, n. 2, 416-9; death, his, Dec. 13, 1784, iv. 417-9; agitated the public mind, i. 26, n. 2; produced a chasm, iv. 420; a kind of era, iv. 421, n. 1; described by Boswell, iv. 399-419; David Boswell, iv. 417; Dr. Burney, iv. 410, n. 1; Miss Burney, iv. 377, n. 1, 438-9; Hoole, iv. 399, n. 1, 406, 410, n. 2; Langton, iv. 407, 418, n. 1; Nichols, iv. 407-10; Reynolds, iv. 414, n. 2; Windham’s servant, iv. 418; spirit of the grammarian, iv. 401; characteristical manner shows itself, iv. 411; lines on a spendthrift, iv. 413; three requests of Reynolds, ib.; refuses opiates and sustenance, iv. 415; operates on himself, iv. 399, 415. n. 1, 418, n. 1; debate, chose the wrong side in a, i. 441; debts in 1751, i. 238, n. 2, 350, n. 3; in 1759 and 1760, i. 350, n. 3; under arrest, i. 303, n. 1; dedications, skill in, ii. 1; 224-5; never used them himself, i. 257, n. 2; ii. i, n. 2; to him, iv. 421, n. 2; defending a man, mode of, ii. 87; deference, required, iii. 24, n. 2; delicacy about his letter to Chesterfield, i. 260, n. 3; about Beauclerk, iv. 180; towards a dependent, ii. 155; depression of mind, i. 297, 358, n. 5; deserted, very much, iv. 140; ‘déterré,’ i. 129; dexterity in retort, iv. 185; Diaries, Annales, i. 74, 89, n. 3; Diary, burnt, i. 25, 35, n.
1, 251; iv. 405; fragments preserved, i. 27, 35. n. 1, 74; iv. 405, n. 2; v. 53, 427, n. 1; Boswell, seen by, i. 251, n. 3; iv. 405; left in his house, v. 53; ‘Dictionary Johnson,’ i. 385; Dictionary, cites himself in his, iv. 4, n. 3: see also under Dictionary; Dies irae, reciting the, iii. 358, n. 3; diffidence, i. 153; Dignity, ‘a blunt dignity about him,’ i. 461, n. 4; of character, i. 131, 264, n. 1; ii. 118; v. 103; of literature, iii. 310; dinners, ‘dinner to ask a man to,’ i. 470; house, at his own, ii. 215, 360, 375, 427, n. 1; iii. 241; iv. 92, 210; to members of the Ivy Lane Club, iv. 436; ‘huffed his wife’ about, i. 239, n. 2; on the way to Oxford, iv. 284; one in Devonshire, i. 379, n. 2; at the Pine Apple, i. 103; talked about them more than he thought, i. 469, n. 2; thought on them with earnestness, i. 467, n. 2; v. 342, n. 2: see under DINNERS, and JOHNSON, eating; discrimination, fond of, ii. 306; iii. 282; disorderly habits, i. 482, n. 2; iv. 110; dissenters and snails, ii. 268, n, 2; distilling, iv. 9; distressed by poverty, i. 73, 77, 121, 123, n. 2, 133, 137, 163, 238, n. 2, 303, 350, 488; Doctor of Laws of Dublin, i. 488; Oxford, ii. 318, n. 1, 331-3; did not use the title, i. 488, n. 3; ii. 332, n. 1; iv. 79, n. 3, 268; v. 37, n. 2; dogs, separated two: see JOHNSON, fear; Domine, title of, i. 488, n. 3; ‘an auld dominie,’ v. 382, n. 2; dramatic power, i. 506: see JOHNSON, tragedy-writer; draughts, played at, i. 317; ii. 444; dress, described by Beauclerk, ii. 406; Boswell, i. 396; v. 18; Colman, iii. 54, n. 2; Cumberland, iii. 325, n. 3; Foote, ii. 403; Langton, i. 247; Miss Reynolds, i. 246, n. 2, 328, n. 1; improved, iii. 325; on his tour in Scotland, v. 19; Boswell suggests for him velvet and embroidery, ii. 475; Court mourning, at a, iv. 325; dramatic author, as a, i. 200; v. 364; when visiting Goldsmith, i. 366, n. 1; in Paris, ii. 403, n. 5; dropsy, sudden relief from, iv. 271-2; operated on himself for it: see above, under death; Easter meetings with Boswell, iv. 148, n. 2; Easter-day, his placidity on it, iii. 25; resolutions on it, i. 483, 487; ii. 189, n. 3; iii. 99; East-Indian affairs, had never considered, ii. 294; eating, dislikes being asked twice to eat anything, v. 264; love of good eating, i. 467; iii. 69; at Monboddo’s table, v. 81; mode, i. 267, 468, 470, n. 2; v. 206; unaffected by kinds of food, iii. 305; voracious, iv. 72, 330; v. 20; enemies, wonders why he has, iv. 168; envy, candid avowal of, iii 271, n. 2; possible envy of Burke, iii. 310, n. 4; epitaphs, his, iv. 424, ib., n. 2, 443-5; on his wife, i. 241, n. 2; iv. 351-2; on his parents and brothers, iv. 393; Essex Head Club, founds the, iv. 253-5, 275, 436-8; etymologist, a bad, i. 186, n. 5; evidence, a sifter of, i. 406; v. 388; evil spirit, the, affects Johnson politically, v. 36, n. 3; exaggeration, hatred of: see EXAGGERATION; excellence described by Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 263, n. 6; executor, Porter’s, i. 95, n. 3; Thrale’s, iv. 86; exhibited, refused to be, ii. 120; expedition, eager for an, iii. 131, 134; experiments, minute, iii. 398, n. 3; eyes: see Sight; fable, sketch of a, ii. 232; ‘Faith in some proportion to fear,’ iv. 299, n. 3; fancy, fecundity of, iii. 317; Fasting, ii. 214, n. 1, 352, 435, 476; iii. 24, 300; iv. 203, 397; fasted two days, i. 469; iii. 306; v. 284; fear, a stranger to, ii. 298, n. 4; separated two dogs, ii. 299; v. 329; never afraid of any man, iv. 327, n. 4; afraid to walk on the roof of the Observatory, ii. 389; feared at College, iii. 303; at Brighton, iv. 159, n. 3; by Langton, iv. 295: see above, JOHNSON, awe; Fearing in Pilgrim’s Progress, like, ii. 298, n. 4; iv. 417, n. 2; female charms, sensible to, i. 92; female dress, critical of, i. 41; feudal notions, iii. 177; fictions, projected work on, iv. 236; fields, wishes to see the, iii. 435, n. 3, 441-2; flattery, somewhat susceptible of, iv. 427; v. 17, 440, n. 2; foenum habet in cornu, ii. 79; Foote describes him in Paris, ii. 403; foreigners, prejudice against, i. 129; iv. 15; described by Baretti and Reynolds, ib. n. 3, 169, n. 1; Boswell, v. 20: forgiving disposition, ii. 270; iv. 349, n. 2; shown to one who exceeded in wine, ii. 436; iv. 110; v. 259, n. 1; fortitude, iv. 240, 3 4; fox-hunting, i. 446, n. 1; v. 253; France, tour to, ii. 384-404; diary, ii. 389-401; would not publish it, iii. 301; French, knowledge of, i. 115; ii. 81-2, 208, n. 2, 385, 404; writes a French letter, ii. 404; fretful, iv. 170, 173, 283; friends, list of, in 1752, i. 241; friend, a most active, iv. 344; frisk, his, i. 250; frolic, his bitterness mistaken for, i. 73; iv. 304; fruit, love of, iv. 353; v. 455, n. 3; funeral, iv. 419, 439; Garagantua, iii. 255; garret in Gough Square, i. 328; Garrick’s success, moved by, i. 167, 216, n. 2; ii. 69; gay and good-humoured, iii. 440, n. 1; iv. 101, n. 1; ‘infinitely agreeable,’ iv. 305, n. 1; bland and gay, v. 398; gay circles of life, pleased at mixing in the, ii. 321, 349; Gelaleddin, describes himself in, iv. 195, n. 1; general censure, dislikes, iv. 313; genius, always in extremes, i. 468, n. 4; iii. 307, n. 2; Gentleman’s Magazine: see Gentleman’s Magazine; gentleness, iv. 101, n. 1, 183, n. 2; want of it, v. 288; gentlewoman in liquor, helps a, ii. 434; gesticulating, averse to, iv. 322; gestures, see JOHNSON, peculiarities; ghost, like a, i. 6, n. 2; iii. 307; v. 73; ghosts: see GHOSTS; ‘Giant in his den,’ i. 396; gloomy cast of thought, i. 180; God, love predominated over by fear of, iii. 339; ‘saw God in clouds,’ iii. 98; Goldsmith, contests with, ii. 231; envy, i. 414, n. 4; Haunch of Venison, mentioned in, iii. 225, n. 2; proposal to review a work by, v. 274: see GOLDSMITH; Good Friday, would not look at a proof on, iii. 313: see JOHNSON, fasting; good-humour, iv. 245, n. 2; v. 132, 139; ‘good-humoured fellow,’ ii. 362; iii. 78; goodnatured, but not good-humoured, ii. 362; good in others seen by him, i. 161, n. 2; good things of this life, loved the, iii. 310, n. 4; good sayings, forgets his, iv. 179; Gordon Riots, iii. 428-30; gout due to abstinence, i. 103, n. 3: see JOHNSON, health; gown, Master of Arts, i. 347; graces, valued the, iii. 54; grandfather, could hardly tell who was his, ii. 261; gratitude, i. 487; grave, request about it, iv. 393, n. 3; in Westminster Abbey, iv. 419; close to Macpherson’s, ii. 298, n. 2; great, never courted the, iii. 189; iv. 116; not courted by them, iv. 117, 326; ‘greatest man in England next to Lord Mansfield,’ ii. 336; v. 96; Greek, knowledge of, i. 57, 70; iii. 90; iv. 8, n. 3, 384-5; v. 458, n. 5; Greek Testament, his large folio, ii. 189; Green Room, in the, i. 201; iv. 7; grief, bearing, iii. 136, n. 2, 137, n. 1; Grosvenor Square, apartment in, iv. 72, n. 1; gun, rashness in firing a, ii. 299; habitations, list of his, i. 111; iii. 405-6; Hampton Court, applies for a residence in, iii. 34, n. 4; happier in his later years, i. 299; iv. 1, n. 1; happiness not found in this world, iv. 162, n. 2: see HAPPINESS; hasty, iii. 80-1; health, consults Scotch physicians, iv. 261-4; seldom a single day of ease, iv. 147; 1729, hypochondria, i. 63; 1755, sickness, i. 305; 1765-6, severe attack of hypochondria, i. 483, 487, 520-2; which left a weakness in his knee, v. 318, 446; 1767, hypochondria, relieved by abstinence, ii. 44, n. 2; 1768, hypochondria, ii. 45; severe illness at Oxford, ii. 46, n. 3; 1770, rheumatism and spasms, ii. 115, n. 2; 1771, better, ii. 142, n. 2; 1773, fever, ii. 263; mention of a dreadful illness, ii. 281; better in Scotland, v. 45, n. 3, 405, n. 1; 1774, illness, ii. 272; 1776, gout, iii. 82, 89; 1777, hypochondria, iii. 98; illness, iii. 210; 1779, better, iii. 397; 1780, better, iii. 435, 442; iv. 1, n. 1; 1781, better, iv. 101, n. 1; 1782, illness, iv. 141, 142, 144, 149; 1783, illness, iv. 163; palsy, iv. 227, 401, n. 2; threatened with an operation, iv. 239; gout, 241; 1783-4, asthma and dropsy, iv. 255, 256, n. 1, 259; sudden relief, 261, 271-2; confined 129 days, iv. 270, n. 1; projected wintering in Italy, iv. 326; his letters about his last illness, iv. 353-69; Aegri Ephemeris, iv. 381: see JOHNSON, melancholy; heard, pronunciation of, iii. 197; hearth-broom, his, iv. 134; Hebrides, first talk of visiting the, i. 450; ii. 291; v. 286; proposed tour, ii. 51, 201, 232, 264; v. 13-4; leaves London, ii. 265; v. 21; returns, ii. 268; account of the tour, ii. 266-7; v. 1-425; described in a letter to Taylor, v. 405, n. 1; acquisition of ideas, iv. 199; and of images, v. 405; hardships and dangers, v. 127, 283, n. 1, 313, n. 1, 392; uncommon spirit shown, v. 368; pleasantest journey he ever made, iii. 93; v. 405; pleasure in talking it over, iii. 131, 196; a ‘frolic,’ iv. 136; no wish to go again, iv. 199; received like princes, v. 317; ‘roving among the Hebrides at sixty,’ v. 278; box of curiosities from them, ii. 269-70: see Journey to the Hebrides, and SCOTLAND; Hercules, compa
red by Boswell to, ii. 260; Hervey, story of his ingratitude to, iii. 195, 209-11; high, his use of, iii. 118, n. 3; Highlander, shows the spirit of a, v. 324; hilarity, i. 73, 191, n. 5, 255, n. 1; ii. 261-2, 378; history, little regard for: see HISTORY; holds up his head as high as he can, iv. 256; home uncomfortable by jarrings, iii. 368: see JOHNSON, household; honest man, v. 264, 309; house at Lichfield: see LICHFIELD; for his habitations, see JOHNSON, habitations; household, account of it, i. 232, n. 1; iii. 461-2; iv. 169, n. 3; ‘much malignity’ in it, iii. 417, 461; losses by death, iv. 140; melancholy, iv. 142; more peace, iv. 233, n. 1; solitude, i. 232, n. 1; iv. 235, n. 1, 239, 241, 249, 253, n. 4, 255, 270; housekeeping, left off, i. 326, 350, n. 3; resumed it, ii. 4; hug, gives one a forcible, ii. 231; humility, iii. 380, n. 3; iv. 410, 427; humour, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 244, n. 2; iv. 428; v. 17, 20; hungry only once in his life, i. 469; hypochondria: see JOHNSON, health; hypocrisy, not suspicious of, i. 418, n. 3; iii. 444; Iceland, projected voyage to, i. 242; iv. 358, n. 2; idleness in boyhood, i. 48; at College, i. 70; ‘Desidiae valedixi,’ i. 74; in writing the Plan, i. 183; ‘Idle Apprentice i. 250; in Inner Temple lane, i. 350, n. 3; ‘idle fellow all my life,’ i. 465; idleness in 1760, i. 353; in 1761, i. 358; in 1763, i. 398; in 1764, i. 482; in 1767, ii. 44; in his latter years, i. 372, n. 1; claim upon him for more writings, i. 398; ii. 15, 35, 441; idleness exaggerated by himself, i. 446; ii. 263, 271: see JOHNSON, indolence; ignorance, covered his, v. 124, n. 4; illness: see JOHNSON, health; imitations of him often caricatures, ii. 326, n. 5; ‘Imlac,’ iii. 6; Impransus, i. 137; incredulity as to particular extraordinary facts, ii. 247; iii. 188; v. 331; ‘incredulus odi,’ iii. 229; independence, always asserted his, i. 443; indolence, his, described by Hawkins, iii. 98, n. 1; by Murphy, i. 307, n. 2; ‘inclination to do nothing,’ i. 463; justification of it, ii. 15, n. 2; time of danger, i. 268, n. 4; influence, loves, v. 136; inheritance from his father, i. 80; intoxicated, i. 94, 103, n. 3, 379, n. 2; used to slink home, iii. 389; ‘invictum animum Catonis,’ iv. 374; Irene: see Irene; Island Isa, v. 250; Islington, for change of air, goes to, iv. 271; Italian, knowledge of, i. 115, 156; mentions Ariosto, i. 278; v. 368, n. 1; Dante, ii. 238; purposes vigorous study, iii. 90; iv. 135; reads Casa and Castiglione, v. 276; Il Palmerino d’Inghilterra, iii. 2; Petrarch, iv. 374, n. 5; Tasso, iii. 330; Italy, projected book on, iii. 19; projected tour to, ii. 423, 424, 428; tour given up, iii. 6, 18, 27; eagerness to go, iii. 19, 28, 36, 456-8; v. 229; projected wintering there, iv. 326-8, 336, 338, 348-50; Jacobite tendencies, i. 43, 176; ii. 27, 220; iii. 162; iv. 314; never ardent in the cause, i. 176, n. 2, 429; never in a nonjuring meeting-house, iv. 288; James’s Medicinal Dictionary, i. 159; Jean Bull philosophe, i. 467; John Bull, a, v. 20; ‘Johnson’s grimly ghost,’ iv. 229, n. 4; Johnson’s Court, house in, ii. 5; furniture, ib. n. 1, 376; Johnston, often called in Scotland, iii. 106, n. 1; v. 341; journal, attempt to keep a, i. 433, n. 2; ii. 217; Journey to the Western Islands, see Journey to the Western Islands; killing sometimes no murder in a state of nature, v. 87-8; kindness, Boswell, to, i. 410; Burney’s testimony, i. 410, n. 2; iii. 24, n, 2; Goldsmith’s testimony, i. 417; features, shown in his, ii. 141, n. 2; poor schoolfellow, to his, ii. 463; servants, to, iv. 197; small matters, in, iv. 201, 344; unthankful, to the, i. 84; iii. 368, 462; King’s evil, touched for the, i. 42; kings, ridicules, i. 333; kitchen, his, ii. 215, n. 4; iii. 461; knee, takes a young Methodist on his, ii. 120; a Highland beauty, v. 261; knotting, tried, iii. 242; iv. 284; knowledge, at the age of eighteen, i. 445; exact, iii. 319; varied, iii. 22; iv. 427; v. 215, 246, 263; ‘laboured,’ iii. 260, n. 3; v. 77; ladies, could be very agreeable to, iv. 73; Langton’s devotion to him in his illness, iv. 266, n. 3; will, ridicules, ii. 261; language, delicate in it, iii. 303; iv. 442; suits his to a ‘blackguard boy,’ iv. 184; zeal for it, ii. 28; large, love of the, v. 442, n. 4; late hours, love of, ii. 407; iii. 1, n. 2, 205; Latin, knowledge of, i. 45, 61, 62; testified to by De Quincey, i. 272, n. 3; by Dr. Parr, iv. 385, n. 3; colloquial, ii. 125, 404, 406; misquotes Horace, iv. 356, n. 2; modern Latin poetry, loves, i. 90, n. 2; verse, translates Greek epigrams into Latin, iv. 384; laugh, his, described, ii. 262, n. 2; hearty, ii. 378; like a rhinoceros, ib.; over small matters, ii. 261; v. 249; resounds from Temple Bar to Fleet Ditch, ii. 262; ‘laughter, shakes, out of you,’ ii. 231; law, knowledge of, iii. 22; lawyer, seeks to become a, i. 134; would have excelled, ib.; had not money, v. 35; laxity of talk, i. 476; ii. 735 iv. 211, n. 4; v. 352; laziness, trying to cure his, v. 231; lectured by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 65, n. 1; lemonade, his, v. 22, 72; letterwriting an effort, i. 473; letters may be published after his death, ii. 60; iii. 276; puts as little as possible into them, iv. 102; returns not answers, ii. 2, n. 3, 279; iii. 209; studied endings, v. 238, n. 6; publication by Mrs. Piozzi: See under Mrs. Thrale, Johnson, letters; — to Allen, Edmund, iv. 228; Argyle, Duke of, v. 363; Astle, Thomas, iv. 133; Bagshaw, Rev. T., ii. 258; iv. 351; Banks, Joseph, ii. 144; Barber, Francis, ii. 62, 115, 116; iv. 239, n. 2; Baretti, i. 361, 369, 380; Barry, James, iv. 202; B — d, Mr., ii. 207; Beattie, Dr., iii. 434; Birch, Dr., i. 160, 226; Boothby, Miss, i. 83, n. 2, 305, n. 2; iv. 57, n. 3; Boswell, James, i. 473; ii. 3, 20, 58, 70, 110, 140, 145, 201, 204, 264-6, 268, 271-3, 274, 276-7, 278, 279, 284, 287, 288, 290,292, 294, 296, 307, 309, 379, 381-4, 387, 411, 412, 415-424; iii. 44, 86, 88, 93, 94, 104, 105, 108, 120, 124, 127, 130-2, 135, 210, 214, 215, 277, 362, 368, 372, 391, 395, 396, 413, 416, 420, 435, 441; iv. 71, 136, 145, n. 2, 148, 151, 153, 154-6, 163, 231, 241, 248, 259, 261, 262, 264-5, 348, 351, 378-9, 380: for Boswell’s letters to Johnson, See BOSWELL; Boswell, Mrs., iii. 85, 129; iv. 156; Boufflers, Mme, de, ii. 405; Brocklesby, Dr., iv. 234, 353-9; Burney, Dr., i. 286, 323, 327, 500; iv. 239, 360-1, 377; Bute, Earl of, i. 376, 380; Cave, Edward, i. 91, 107, 120-3, 136-8, I55-7; Chamberlain, the Lord, iii. 34, n. 4; Chambers, R., i. 274; Chapone, Mrs., iv. 247; Chesterfield, Earl of, i. 261; fictitious one, a, i. 238, n. 3; Clark, Alderman, iv. 258; clergyman at Bath, iv. 150; clergyman, young, iii. 436; Cruikshank, —— , iv. 365; Davies, Thomas, iv. 231, 365; Dilly, Charles, iii. 394; iv. 257; Dilly, Edward, iii. 126 (really written to W. Sharp, ib., n. 1); Dodd, Dr., iii. 145, 147; Drummond, William, ii. 27-31; Edwards, Dr., iii. 367; Elibank, Lord, v. 182; Elphinstone, James, i. 210-2, 236, n. 3; iii. 364, n. 2; Farmer, Dr., to, ii. 114; iii. 427; General Advertiser, i. 227; Gentl. Mag. about Savage, i. 164; Goldsmith, ii. 235, n. 2; Green, the Lichfield apothecary, iv. 393; Grenville, George, i. 376, n. 2; about Gwynn the architect, v. 454, n. 2; Hamilton, W. G., iv. 245, 363; Hawkins, Sir John, iv. 435; Hastings, Warren, iv. 66, 68-70; Hector, Edmund, i. 64, n. 1; 87, n. 1, 189, n. 2, 340, n. 1, 370, n. 5; ii. 460, n. 3; iv. 145, n. 2, 146-7, 378; Heely, —— , iv. 371; Hickman, —— , i. 78, n. 2; Hoole, John, ii. 289; iv. 359-60; Humphry, Ozias, iv. 268-9; Hussey, Rev. John, iii. 369; Jenkinson, Charles (first Earl of Liverpool), iii. 145; Johnson, Mrs., his mother, i. 512, 513,514; Kearsley, —— , i. 214, n. 1; Lady, a, asking for a recommendation, i. 368; Langton, Bennet, i. 288, 324, 337, 338, 357; ii. 16, 17, 45, 135, 142, 146, 280, 361, 379; iii. 124, 365; iv. 132, 145, 240, 276-8, 352, 361; Langton, Miss Jane, iv. 271; Lawrence, Dr., ii. 296; iii. 419; iv. 137; Latin letter, iv. 143; Lawrence, Miss, iv. 144, n. 3; Leland, Dr., i. 489, 518; ii. 2, n. 1; Levett, —— , of Lichfield, i. 160; Levett, Robert, ii. 282, 385; iii. 92; Macleod, Laird of, v. 266, n. 2; Macpherson, James, ii. 298; Malone, E., iv. 141; Montague, Mrs., i. 232, n. 1; iii. 223, n. 1; iv. 239, n. 4; Mudge, Dr., iv. 240; Nichols, John, iv. 36, n. 4, 58, 160, 161, 163, n. 1, 369; Nicol, George, iv. 365; O’Connor, Charles, i. 321; iii. 111; Paradise, John, iv. 364; Parr, Dr., iv. 15, n. 5; Perkins, —— , ii. 286; iv. 118, 153, 257, 363; Porter, Miss, i. 212, n. 1, 346, n. 1, 513-6; ii. 387-8; iii. 393; iv. 89, 142-3, 145, n. 2, 203, 232, 256, 261, 394; Portmore, Lord, iv. 268, n. 1; Rasay, Laird of, v. 412; Reynolds, Sir Joshua, i. 486; ii. 141, 144; iii. 81, 82, 90; iv. 133, 161, 201, 219, 227, 253, 283, 348-9; 366-8; Richardson, Samuel, i. 303, n. 1; ii. 175, n. 1; Ryland, —— , iv. 352, n. 3, 357, n. 3, 369, n. 3; Sastres, iv. 368, n. 1, 374,
n. 5; Sharp, V., iii. 126, n. 1; Simpson, Joseph, i. 346; Smart, Mrs., iii. 454; iv. 358, n. 2; Staunton, Dr., i. 367; Steevens, George, ii. 273; iii. 100; Strahan, W., iii. 364; Strahan, Mrs., iv. 100, 140; Taylor, Dr., i. 80, n. 1, 83, n. 2, 103, n. 3. 153. n. 4, 238, 472, n. 4; ii. 74, n. 3, 202, n. 2, 256, n. 1, 264, n. 1, 324, n. 1, 336, n. 1, 387, n. 2, 468, n. 2; iii. 120, n. 2, 136, n. 2, 180, n. 3, 326, n. 5, 397, n. 2; iv. 139. n. 4, 151, n. 1, 155, n. 4, 162, n. 2, 165, n. 1, 191, n. 4, 213, n. 1, 228, 249, n. 2, 260, n. 2, 270, 409, n. 1, 443; v. 52, n. 6, 217, n. 1, 226, n. 2, 405, n. 1; Thrale, Mrs., iii. 134, n. 1, 423, 428; iv. 229, 242, 245; See THRALE, Mrs.; Thrale, Miss, iv. 245; Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, iv. 349; v. 364, n. 1; Vice-Chancellors of Oxford, i. 282; ii. 333; Vyse, Rev. Dr., iii. 125; Warton, Dr. Joseph, i. 253, 276, n. 2, 496, n. 2; ii. 115; Warton, Rev. Thomas, i. 270, 275-280, 282-284, 289-291, 322, 335, 336; ii. 67, 114; Welch, Saunders, iii. 217; Wesley, John, iii. 394; v. 35, n. 3; Westcote, Lord, iv. 57, n. 1; Wetherell, Rev. Dr., ii. 424; Wheeler, Dr., iii. 366; White, Rev. Mr., ii. 207; Wilkes, John, iv. 224, n. 2; Wilson, Rev. Mr., iv. 162; Windham, Right Hon. William, iv. 227, 362; letters to Johnson from Argyle, Duke of, v. 363; Bellamy, Mrs., iv. 244, n. 2; Birch, Dr., i. 285; Boswell, Mrs., iv. 157; Croft, Rev., H., iv. 59, n. 1; Dodd, Dr., iii. 147; Elibank, Lord, v. 182; Thrale, Mrs., iii. 421; Thurlow, Lord, iii. 441; levee, i. 247, 307, n. 2; ii. 5, n. 1, 118; in Edinburgh, v. 395; liberality, i. 488; iii. 222; liberty, love of, i. 310, 311, 321, n. 1, 424; ii. 60, n. 3, 61, 118, 170; contempt of popular liberty, ii. 60, 170; of liberty of election, ii. 167, 340; library, described by Hawkins, i. 188, n. 3; by Boswell, i. 435; Johnson puts his books in order, iii. 7, 67; sale by auction, iv. 402, n. 2; Lichfield play-house, in the, ii. 299; lie, use of the word, iv. 49; life, balance of misery in it, iv. 300-304; dark views of it, iv. 300, n. 2, 427; more to be endured than enjoyed, ii. 124; struggles hard for it, iv. 360; would give one of his legs for a year of it, iv. 409; operates on himself, iv. 418, n. 1; light and airy, growing, iii. 415, n. 2; literary career in 1745-6, almost suspended, i. 176; Literary Club: see CLUBS and JOHNSON, club; literary reputation, estimated by Goldsmith, ii. 233; Lives of the Poets, proof of his vigour, iii. 98, n. 1; effect on his mind, iv. n. 1: see Lives of the Poets; London life, knowledge of, iii. 450; ‘permanent London object,’ v. 347: see LONDON; Lords, did not quote the authority of, iv. 183: see JOHNSON, great; lost five guineas by hiding them, iv. 21; love, in love with Olivia Lloyd, i. 92; Hector’s sister, ii. 460; Mrs. Emmet, ii. 464; love, Garrick sends him his, v. 350; low life, cannot bear, v. 307; Lusiad, projected translation of the, iv. 251; machinery, knowledge of, ii. 459, n. 1; madness, dreaded, i. 66; melancholy, confounded it with, iii. 175; ‘mad, at least not sober,’ i. 35, 65; v. 215; often near it, i. 276, n. 2; iii. 99; majestic, v. 135; mankind, describes the general hostility of, iii. 236, n. 4; mankind less just and more beneficent, iii. 236; less expected of them, iv. 239; manners, disgusted with coarse, v. 307; total inattention to established manners, v. 70; his roughness, ii. 13. 66, 376; in contradicting, iv. 280; only external, ii. 362; iii. 80-81; partly due to his truthfulness, iv. 221, n. 2; rough as winter and mild as summer, iv. 396, n. 3; had been an advantage, iv. 295; Mickle never had a rough word, iv. 250; Malone never heard a severe thing from him, iv. 341; Miss Burney’s account, iv. 426, n. 2; Macleods of Dunvegan Castle delighted with him, v. 208, n. 1; softened, iv. 65, n. 1, 220, n. 3; marriage, i. 95; Master of Arts degree, i. 132, 275, 278, n. 2, 279-283; medicine, knowledge of: see JOHNSON, physic; melancholy, confounds it with madness, iii. 175; constitutional, v. 17; exaggerated by Boswell, ii. 262, n. 2; inherited ‘a vile melancholy,’ i. 35; ‘morbid melancholy,’ i. 63, 343; proposes to write the history of it, ii. 45, n. 1; remedies against it, i. 446: see JOHNSON, health; memory, extraordinary, early instances, i. 39, 48; shown in remembering, Ariosto, v. 368, n. 1; Bet Flint’s verses, iv. 103, n. 2; Greek hymns, iii. 318, n. 1; Hay’s Martial, v. 368; letter to Chesterfield, i. 263, n. 2; Rowe’s plays, iv. 36, n. 3; verses on the Duke of Leed’s marriage, iv. 14; complains of its failure, iii. 191, n. 1; men as they are, took, iii. 282; men and women, his subjects of inquiry, v. 439, n. 2; mental faculties, tests his, iv. 21; metaphysics, fond of, i. 70; withheld from their study, v. 109, n. 3; method, want of, iii. 94; ‘Methodist in a dignified manner,’ i. 458, n. 3; military matters, interest in, iii. 361; militia, drawn for the, iv. 319; mill, compared to a, v. 265; mimicry, hatred of gesticular, ii. 326, n. 3; mind, his means of quieting it, i. 317; ready for use, i. 204; ii. 365, n. 1; iv. 428, 445; strained by work, i. 268, n. 4; 372, n. 1; moderation in his character, absence of, iv. 72; in wine, difficult, ii. 435: see JOHNSON, abstinence; modesty, iii. 81; monument in St. Paul’s, i. 226, n. 1; iv. 423; subscription for it, ib., n. 1 and 3; epitaph, iv. 424, 444-6; mother, his death, i. 331, n. 4, 339, 512-15; ii. 124; debt, takes upon himself her, i. 160; dreads to lose her, i. 212, n. 1; letters, burns her, iv. 405, n. 1; wishes to see her, i. 288; music, account of his feelings towards it, ii. 409, n. 1; affected by it, iii. 197; iv. 22; bagpipe, listens to the, v. 315; flageolet, bought a, iii. 242; had he learnt it would have done nothing else, iii. 242; v. 315; insensible to its power, iii. 197; talks slightingly of it, ii. 409; wishes to learn the scale, ii. 263, n. 4; would be glad to have a new sense given him, ii. 409; musing, habit of, v. 73, n. 1; name, his, fraudulently used, v. 295; nature, affected by, iii. 455; description of a Highland valley, v. 141, n. 2; of various country scenes, v. 439, n. 2; neglect, dread of, iv. 137, n. 2; would not brook it, ii. 118; neglected at Brighton in 1782, iv. 159, n. 3; negligence in correcting errors, iii. 359, n. 2; iv. 51, n. 2; newspapers, accustomed to think little of them, iv. 150; constantly mentioned in them, iv. l27; ‘maintained’ them, ii. 17; reads the London Chronicle, ii. 103; nice observer of behaviour, iii. 54; night-cap, did not wear a, v. 268, 306; nights, restless, ii. 143, 202, n. 2, 215, n. 2; iii. 92, 99, n. 4, 109, n. 1, 218, 363, 369; when sleepless translated Greek into Latin verse, iv. 384; nil admirari, much of the, v. 111; notions, his, enlarged, v. 442; Novum Museum, ii. 17, n. 3; ‘O brave we!’ v. 360; oak-sticks for Foote and Macpherson, ii. 299, 300, n. 1; for his Scotch tour, v. 19, 82; lost, v. 318; oath, his pardon asked by Murphy for repeating an, iii. 41; obligation, drawn into a state of, iii. 345, n. 1; impatient of them, i. 246, n. 1; obstinacy in supporting opinions, i. 293, n. 2; ‘Oddity,’ iii. 209; offend, attentive not to, iii. 54, n. 1; ‘oil of vitriol,’ his, v. 15, n. 1; old, never liked to think of being, iii. 302, 307; old man in his talk, nothing of the, iii. 336; oracle, a kind of public, ii. 118; orange-peel, use of, ii. 330; oratorio, at an, ii. 324, 72. 3; original writer, ii. 35; Oxford undergraduate, an, i. 58; pain, courage in bearing, iv. 240; easily supports it, i. 157, n. 1, 215; never totally free from it, i. 64, n. 1; operates on himself, iv. 399; painting, account of his feelings towards it, i. 363, n. 3; allegorical, historical, and portrait painting, compares, i. 363, 72; v. 219, n. 3; Barry’s pictures, praises, iv. 224; Exhibition, despises the, i. 363; laughs at talk about it, ii. 400, n. 3; prints, a buyer of, i. 363, n. 3; iv. 202, n. 1, 265; sale of his, i. 363, n. 3; Thrale’s copper, asks Reynolds to paint, i. 363, n. 3; Treatise on Painting, reads a, i. 128, n. 2; palsy, struck with, iv. 168, n. 2, 227-33; pamphlets written against him, iv. 127; papers, burns his, i. 108; iii. 30, n. 1 iv. 405, 406, n. 1; papers, not to be burnt, ii. 420; Papist, if he could would be a, iv. 289; pardon, once begs, iv. 49, n. 3; Parliament, attacked and defended in it, iv. 318, n. 3; eulogised in it by Burke, iv. 407, n. 3; attempts made to bring him into it, ii. 137-139; projects an historical account of it, i. 155; parodies on Percy, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4; Warton, iii. 158, n. 3; party-opposition, averse to, ii. 348, n. 2; passions, his, iv. 396, n. 3; Passion-week, Johnson has an awe on him, ii-476; dines out every day, iii. 300, n. 1; dines with two Bishops, iv. 88; paper on it in The Rambler, i. 214; iv. 88; pastoral life, desires to study, iii. 455; pathos, want of, iv. 45; patience, iii. 26; v. 146-7; payment for his writings: see JOHNSON, works; peats, brings in a supply of, v. 303; peculiarities absence of mind, ii
. 268, n. 2; iv. 71; avoiding an alley, i. 485; beating with his feet, v. 60, n. 3; blowing out his breath, i. 485; iii. 153; convulsive starts, i. 95; mentioned by Pope, i. 143; described, ib., i. 144, n. 1; astonish Hogarth, i. 146; 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, £600 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; truth held sacred by him, ii. 433, n. 2; iv. 305, n. 3; all of his ‘school’ distinguished for it, i. 7, n. 1; iii. 230; scrupulously inquisitive to discover it, ii. 247; talked as if on oath, ii. 434, n. 2; tutor to Mr. Whitby, i. 84, n. 2; ‘un politique aux choux et aux raves,’ iii. 324; uncle, account of an, v. 316; unobservant, iii. 423, n. 1; unsocial shyness, free from, iv. 255; Ursa Major, v. 384; utterance, slow deliberate, ii. 326; iv. 429; v. 18; verse-making, ii. 15; made verses and forgot them, ib.; youthful verses, i. 92; Vesey’s, Mr., surrounded by great people at, iii. 425; Virgil, quoted ‘Optima quceque dies,’ ii. 129; reads him, ii. 288; iv. 218; Vision of Theodore, thought by him the best thing he ever wrote, i. 192; vocation to public life, iv. 359; to active life, v. 63; Wales, tour to: see WALES; walk, his, in a court in the Temple, i. 463; wants, fewness of his, ii. 474, n. 3; warrants said to be issued against him, i. 141; watch, dial-plate of his, ii. 57; watched, his door, v. 248; water, lectures on, v. 64; water-fall, at Dr. Taylor’s, iii. 190-1; weather, influence of: see WEATHER; Westminster Police Court, attendance at the, iii. 216; whisky, tastes, v. 346; ‘Why, no Sir!’ iv. 316, n. 1; wife, affection for his, i. 96, 234-241; ii. 77; disagreements, i. 239; reported estrangement, i. 163, n. 2; death, her, i. 234, 238, 277; alluded to in his letter to Chesterfield, i. 262; anniversary of the day, i. 236; iii. 98, n. 1; 317, n. 1; funeral sermon, i. 241; iii. 181, n. 3; grave and epitaph, i. 241; iv. 351, 369, n. 3, 394; ‘resolves on Tetty’s coffin,’ i. 354, n. 2; grief, his, i. 235-241; almost broke his heart, iii. 305, 419; ‘recommended,’ i. 190, n. 2, 240, n. 5; ii. 476-7; saucer, her, iii. 220, n. 1; wishes for her in Paris, ii. 393; at Brighton, ib., n. 8; wig, his, a bushy one, i. 113, n. 1; Paris-made, ii. 403, n. 5; iii. 325; fore-top burnt, ib., n. 3; Wilkes, compared with, iii. 64, 78; will, averse to execute his, iv. 402; makes it, ib., n. 2; wine, use of, i. 103, n. 3; wisdom, his trade was, iii. 137, n. 1; wit, extraordinary readiness, iii. 80; Garrick’s account of it, ii. 231; woman, rescues an outcast, iv. 321; talks with others of the class, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396; wonders, distrust of,
iii. 229, n. 3; words, charged with using hard and big words, i. 184, 218, n. 2; iii. 190; sesquipedalia verba, v. 399; in the Rambler, i. 208, n. 3; in Lives of the Poets, iv. 39; needs words of larger meaning, i. 218; iii. 173; ‘terms of philosophy familiarised,’ i. 218; words added to the language, i. 221; iv-39, n. 3; v. 130; work, did his, in a workmanlike manner, iii. 62; Works, those ascertained marked *, conjectured +, i. 112, n. 4; Booksellers’ edition, edited by Hawkins and Stockdale, i. 190, n. 4; iii. 141 5 iv. 324; right reserved by him to print an edition, i. 193; iv. 409; catalogue of his Works, i. 16-24; asked for by his friends, i. 112; iii. 321; Historia Studiorum, ib.; one made by Boswell, iii. 322; iv. 383, n. 1; projected works, ib.; payments received, Translation of Lobo’s Abyssinia, five guineas, i. 87; London, ten guineas, i. 124; translation of part of Sarpi’s History, £49, i. 135; Historical Account of Parliament, part payment, two guineas for a sheet of copy, i. 156; Life of Savage, fifteen guineas, i. 165, n. 1; Dictionary £1575 (heavy out-payments to amanuenses), i. 183; Rambler, two guineas a number, i. 208, n. 3; Vanity of Human Wishes, fifteen guineas, i. 193, n. 1; Irene, theatre receipts, £195, copyright, £100, i. 198, n. 2; Introduction to London Chronicle, one guinea, i. 317; Idler, first collected edition, £84 2s. 4d., i. 335, n. 1; Rasselas, £100, + £25, i. 341; Lives of the Poets, 200 guineas (? pounds) agreed on, iii. 111; iv. 35; £100 added, ib.; £100 more for a new edition, ib., n. 3; world, knowledge of the, iii. 20; ‘a man of the world,’ i. 427; had been long ‘running about it,’ i. 215; never complained of it, iv. 116, 171; never sought it, iv. 172; respected its judgment, i. 200, n. 2; worshipped, iii. 331; writings, criticised his own, iv. 5; never wrote error, iv. 429; v. 17: see JOHNSON, composition; youth, pleasure in talking of the days of, iv. 375. JOHNSON, Sarah (Johnson’s mother), account of her, i. 34, 35, n. 1, 38; counted the days to the publication of the Dictionary, i. 288; debt, in, i. 160; death, i. 331, n. 4, 339, 512-5; epitaph, iv. 393; funeral expenses and Rasselas, i. 341; Harlcian Miscellany, subscribes to the, i. 175, n. 1; Johnson, teaches, i. 38; encourages him in his lessons, i. 43, n. 4; hears her call Sam, iv. 94; letters to her, i. 5I2, 5I3, 514; marriage, i. 95; London, visits, i. 42, 110; receipts for bills, i. 90, n. 3. JOHNSON, Thomas (Johnson’s cousin), iv. 402, n. 2, 440. Johnson in Birmingham, i. 85, n. 3; 95, n. 3. JOHNSON BUILDINGS, iii. 405, n. 6. JOHNSON’S COURT, Johnson removes to it, ii. 5; Boswell and Beauclerk’s veneration for it, ii. 229, 427; ‘Johnson of that Ilk,’ ib., n. 2; iii. 405, n. 6. Johnsoniana, or Bon-Mots of Dr. Johnson, ii. 432; iii. 325. Johnsoniana (by Taylor), iv. 421, n. 2. Johnsonianissimus, i. 7, n. 2. Johnsonised, ‘I have Johnsonised the land,’ i. 13. Johnston, the Scotch form of Johnson, iii. 106, n. 1. JOHNSTON, Arthur, Johnson desires his portrait, iv. 265; Poemata, i. 460; i 104; v. 95. JOHNSTON, Sir James, iv. 281. JOHNSTON, W., the bookseller, i. 341. JOHNSTONE, Governor, i. 304, n. 1. JOKES, a game of, ii. 231. JONES, Miss (The Chantress), i. 322. JONES, Phil., ii. 444. JONES, Rev. River, i. 323, n. 4. JONES, Sir William, Garrick’s funeral, iii. 371, n. 1; ‘Harmonious Jones,’ i. 223; Johnson’s admiration of Newton, anecdote of, ii. 125, n. 4; Journey, commends, iii. 137; use of scrupulosity; ‘Jones teach me modesty and Greek,’ iv. 433; languages, knowledge of, v. 108, n. 9; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479 ii. 240; v. 109, n. 5; account of the black-balling, iii. 311, n. 2; Persian Grammar, iv. 69, n. 2; portrait, ii. 25, n. 2; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108; Shipley, Miss, marries, iv. 75, n. 3; study of the law, iv. 309, n. 6; Thurlow’s character, iv. 349, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 386. JONSON, Ben, Alchemist, iii. 35, n. 1; Fall of Mortimer, iii. 78, n. 4; at Hawthornden, v. 402, 414; Kitely acted by Garrick, ii. 92, n. 3; Leges Convivales, iv. 254, n. 4. JOPP, Provost, ii. 291; v. 90. JORDEN, Rev. William (Johnson’s tutor), i. 59, 61, 79, 272. JORTIN, Rev. Dr. John, attacked by Hurd, iv. 47, n. 2; Johnson desires information about him, iv. 161; Sermons, iii. 248. JOSEPH EMANUEL, King of Portugal, iv. 174, n. 5. Jour, derivation of, ii. 156. JOURNAL, how it should be kept, ii. 217; kept for a man’s own use, iv. 177; record to be made at once, i. 337; iii. 218; v. 393; state of mind to be recorded, ii. 217; iii. 228; v. 272; trifles not to be recorded, ii. 358; Johnson advises Baretti to keep one, i. 365; and Boswell, i. 433, 475; ii. 358; mirror, like a, iii. 228; regularity inconsistent with spirit, i. 155: See JOHNSON, Journal, and BOSWELL, Journal. Journal des Savans, ii. 39. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. See under BOSWELL. Journey to London. See The Provoked Husband. Journey into North Wales, ii. 285; v. 427-460; Mrs. Piozzi’s account of its publication, v. 427, n. 1; suppressions and corrections, ib.; inscription on blank leaf, iv. 299, n. 3. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, first thought of in a valley, v. 141, n. 2; composition of it, ii. 268-9, 271; in the press, ii. 278-9, 281, 284, 287-8; v. 443; published, ii. 290, 292; sale, ii. 310; iii. 325; second edition, ii. 291, n. 4; iii. 325, n. 5; note added to it, v. 412, n. 2; translation, ii. 310, n. 2; errors, ii. 291, 301, 303; v. 412; attacked by ‘shallow North Britons,’ ii. 305, 307; in McNicol’s Remarks, ii. 308; supposed attack by Macpherson, ib., n. 1; in Scotch newspapers, ii. 363; misapprehended to rancour, v. 20; Boswell projects a Supplement, ii. 300, n. 2; Burke, Jones and Jackson commend it, iii. 137; Burney’s Travels in Johnson’s view as he wrote, iv. 186; composed from very meagre materials, v. 405; copy sent to the King, ii, 290; to Warren Hastings, iv. 69; to various other people, ii. 278, 285, 288, 290, 309, 310; iii. 94, 102; criticised by Dempster, ii. 303; iii. 301; v. 405, 407-9; Dick, iii. 103; Hailes, v. 405-7; Hermes Harris, ii. 265; Knox, ii. 304; Tytler, ii. 305; Highlanders like it more than Lowlanders, ii. 308; Iona, description of, iii. 173; v. 334; Johnson anxious to know how it was received, ii. 290, 292, 294; goes where nobody goes, v. 157, n. 3; had much of it in his mind before starting, iii. 301. letters to Mrs. Thrale, ii. 303, 305; v. 145, n. 2; saw a different system of life, iv. 199; v. 112, 405; shows gratitude and delicacy, ii. 303; Macaulay, quoted by, iii. 449; new, contains much that is, iii. 326; Orme, described by, ii. 300; v. 408, n. 4; route, choice of a, v. 120; talked of in the Literary Club and London generally, ii. 318. JOWETT, Rev. Professor Benjamin, Master of Balliol College, ii. 338, n. 2. JUBILEE. See SHAKESPEARE. JUDGE, an eminent noble, iv. 178. JUDGES, afraid of the people, v. 57; engaging in trade, ii. 343; farming, ii. 344; in private life, v. 396; partial to the populace, ii. 353; places held for life, ii. 353. JUDGMENT, compared with admiration, ii. 360; source of erroneous judgments, ii. 131. Julia or the Italian Lover, i. 262, n. 1. Julia Mandeville, ii. 402, n. 1. JULIEN, the Treasurer of the Clergy, ii. 391. JULIEN, of the Gobelins, v. 107. JULIUS CAESAR, iii. 171. JUNIUS, Francis, i. 186. Junius, Burke, not, iii. 376; Burke, Hamilton and Wilkes most suspected, ib., n. 4; Samuel Dyer, iv. 11, n. 1; concealment of the author, iii. 376; duty of authors who are questioned about the authorship, iv. 305-6; impudence, his, ii. 164; Johnson attacks him, ii. 135; Norton, Sir Fletcher, attacks, ii. 472, n. 2. JURIES, guards afraid of them, iii. 46; judges of law, iii. 16, n. 1. JUSTICE, a picture of, iv. 321. JUSTICE HALL, ii. 98. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. See MAGISTRATES. JUSTITIA HULK, iii. 268. JUVENAL, Third Satire, Johnson’s imitation, i. 118 (see London); Boileau’s, ib.; Oldham’s, ib.; Tenth Satire, Johnson’s imitation, i. 192 (see Vanity of Human Wishes); intention to translate other Satires, i. 193; quotations, Sat. i. 29, iv. 179, n. 4; Sat. i. 79, v. 277, n. 4; Sat. iii. 1, i. 325, n. 1; Sat. iii. 2, ii. 133; Sat. iii. 149, i. 77, n. 1; Sat. iii. 164, i. 77, n. 3; Sat. iii. 230 (unius lacertae), iii. 255; Sat. viii. 73, iv. 114, n. 1; Sat. x. 8, iv. 354, n. 2; Sat. x. 180, ii. 227; Sat. x. 217, iv. 357, n. 2; Sat. x. 356, iv. 401, n. 1; Sat. x. 365, iv. 180, n. 1; Sat. xiv. 139, iii. 415, n. 3.
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