Chapter 14

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;