The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [715]
love of, see Index of Subjects: biography; birth and parentage 24, 329; birth and rank, respect for 329, 341, 400, 438, 625; birthday: cheerful note on it (1780) 762; dinner on it (1783), 894; disliked mention of it, at Ashbourne 607; escaped from Streatham on it 738; keeps on 18 Sept. (N.S.) 130; kept at Streatham 607; usually unnoticed 607; bleeding, undergoes: 575, 604, 842, 843, 844, 846; ‘fifty ounces’ 847; repeated 849, 888; blood, hot and irritable 869; blushing 701; Bolt-court, house 493, 948; drawing-room 694; garden 493, 738; prints in the dining-room 874; stone seats at the garden door 875; see also household; books: annotates them 509; bidding them farewell 962; black-letter, loves 323; borrows them 970; judgement as to their success 830; lends them 970; promises to take care of borrowed books 407; runs to them 456; tears out their heart 677; treats them roughly 362; see also library; Index of Subjects: books; book-binding 37; borrowed small sums 869; bow: to an archbishop 872; to a nobleman 743; bow-wowway 437; breakfast 133, 373, 462, 654, 859; ‘let us breakfast in splendour’ 739; buffoonery 400–401, 531; bull, made a 941; burlesque, turns a dispute into 808–9; business: Clarendon Press 491, 500; Taylor’s lawsuit 541, 544; Thrale’s brewery 811; bust by Nollekens 1000; calculation: error in 635; fondness for 45, 61, 416, 635; forgets to use it 646; ‘Caliban of literature’ 328, 343; called, being 815; Cambridge, visit to 256; candour 869, 894; cards, wished he had learnt to play 531; carelessness 773; cats: Hodge 872; others 872; cathedrals, had seen most of the English 577, 584; ceremonies of life 545; chambers, see habitations; character: Bayle’s of Menage 1005; Boerhaave’s 1006; Clarendon’s of Falkland 1005; Dryden’s 143, 787; character, S.J.’s: drawn by himself 738, 787, 858, 894; by Boswell 1000, 1002–3; by Dr Burney 531; by Miss Burney 401, 762, 897, 1004; by Dodd 597; by Hamilton 1000; by Dr Maxwell 321; by Mickle 900; by Parr 788; by Pennant 671; at Ramsay’s 702; by Reynolds, see Others: Reynolds, Sir Joshua; by Robertson 702; by Taylor 603; by Towers 785; like Harington’s of Bishop Still 1000; like Milton’s 57, 76, 112; like Savage’s 96; ‘character’ from Horace given in the Morning Post 674; characters: saw a great variety 529; drew strong, yet nice, portraits 529; overcharged 703; too much in light and shade 426; charity to the poor 837, 869; see also alms-giving; chastity in his youth 56, 985–6; influence of Savage 95, 986; chemistry, love of 82, 136, 230, 738, 893; children: on books for them 767; love of them 674, 871; never wished for one 533; treatment of a newborn 311; see also young people; church: attendance due at 43, 740; attends more frequently when there were prayers only 352; behaviour in it 374; devotion to Church of England 245, 702, 1004; lateness in arriving at it 686, 693; offer of preferment 172, 251, 323; radiations of comfort and resolutions at it 261, 527, 531; reluctance to go to it 42–3, 335, 374; civilities, not forgetful of 408; clergymen and elocution 877; Clerkenwell ale-house, invited to 66; climb over a wall at Oxford, proposes to 186; the Club: attendance or non-attendance 252, 322, 576, 768; dislike of some of the members 576; one of the founders 25; coffee, drinks 348, 531, 739, 878, 925; cold and wet, indifferent to 243; comfort, lacks every 913; ‘a tremendous companion’ 597; companions of his childhood and youth regretted 593, 620–2; company: accompanies downstairs in hopes that they may return 257; loves 84, 210; proud to have desired 462; complaints, not given to 296, 452, 520, 827, 860, 959; complaisance 49; compliment, pleased with 915; composition, see IV, below; conduct exemplary 744; confidence in his own abilities 76, 106; conjecture, kept things floating in 698; conscience, tender 87; constant to those he employed 940; Constantinople, wishes to go to 777; constitution, strong 904; contraction of friends’ names, see abbreviations of his friends’ names; contradiction: actuated by its spirit 302, 553; exasperated by it 324; given to it 918; pleasure in it 531;