Chapter 19

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;