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 toBoswell, 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 tothat 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, L600 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;