Chapter 15

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;