The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [716]
conveniences, must have all 311; conversation: assists his friends by 129; in conformity with Bacon’s precept 892; the business of the Life 389; colloquial pleasantry 1005; a contest 504, 562, 824; Dempster struck by it 230; described by Boswell 22, 242, 954; – by Bowles 892; – by Miss Burney 689, 893; – by E. Dilly 579; – by Hawkins 396; – by Hogarth 85; – by Dr King 308; – by Langton 134;– by Macaulay 893;– by Malone 689, 866;– by Maxwell 321; – by Percy 695; – by Reynolds 562, 866; – by Mrs Thrale-Piozzi 893, 954; eagerness in 294; elegant as his writing 308, 892, 1005–6; its exact precision 497; good done by it 268; imaginary victories gained over him 857; labours when he says a good thing 664; nothing of the old man in it 705; originality 1000; teemed with point and imagery 664; requisites for 856–7; rule to talk his best 114, 865, 866; seizes upon Burke’s topics 777; seldom started a subject 689, 932; too strong for the great 827–8; views of the happiest kind 453, 790; vigour and vivacity 19, 209; without witness 562; ‘would learn to talk of runts’ 705; see also talk; Boswell III: Johnson; convulsions in his breast 737; convulsive starts, see peculiarities; cookery, judge of 246, 677; cottage, would like in Boswell’s park 887; country: enjoyment of 759, 763; mental imprisonment 950; spends much time in the 172; courage 422–3; Court of Justice, in a 309; courteous, see politeness; cousin, see Others: Ford, Revd Cornelius; coward, would not appear a 730; coxcomb, reply to a 530; credulity 702, 1003; critical of characters and manners 543; no croaker 976; curiosities in Scotland, collects 404–5; curiosity: about the Middle Ages, 838; his 31, 52; daily life 211, 822; dancing 808–9; dating letters 72; deafness, see hearing; death: dread of 314, 605, 607, 683, 902, 906, 913, 917–18, 923, 928, 929, 968, 985; horror of the last 178, 605; keeping away the thoughts of 307, 605–6; news of deaths fills him with melancholy 851; no dread of 422; death, his own 998–9; agitated the public mind 19; characteristical manner shows itself, 995; a kind of era 1001; described by J.B. 988–9; – by David Boswell 998; – by Hoole 988, 992, 996; – by Langton 992–3, 998–9; – by Nichols, 993–5; – by Windham’s servant 999; full of the spirit of the grammarian 989; lines on a spend-thrift 996; operates on himself 988, 997; produced a chasm 1000; refuses opiates and sustenance 997; resigned at the end 996–7, 997–9; three requests of Reynolds 996; debate, chose the wrong side in 232; debts (in 1751) 131; (in 1759 and 1760) 187; under arrest for 164; deception, above tricks of 621; decorum, condemns lack of 805–6, 812; dedications: addressed to him 375, 781, 854, 1000–1001; never used in his own books 140, 262; see also IV: dedications; defending a man, mode of 305; deference, required 531; degrees: DCL, Oxford 433, 439–41; LLD, Dublin 256; MA, Oxford 152, 256; no degree conferred by Scottish universities 403; delicacy: about Beauclerk 864; about letter to Chesterfield 141; towards a dependant 343; Demonax of the age 781; depression of mind 162; in 1761 191; deserted 842; deterre 75; dexterity in retort 866; ‘Dictionary Johnson’ 204; diffidence 88; dignity: ‘a blunt dignity about him’ 243; high notion of dignity of literature 691; lacks 970; of character 76, 144, 322; dinners: at his own house 374, 454, 462, 493, 814, 879; at the Pine Apple 61; ‘dinner to ask a man to’ 247; on his birthday, see birthday; on the way to Oxford 920; talked about them more than he thought 247; thought on them with earnestness 246; to members of the Ivy Lane Club; see also eating; discrimination, fond of 426, 675–6; disorderly habits 253, 570, 824; Dissenters and snails 404; dissipation hinted at by J.B. 95; distilling 767; distressed by poverty, see poverty; Doctor of Laws: did not use the title 256, 440; uses the title 808, 911; of Dublin 256; of Oxford 433, 439–41; dogs, separated two, see fear; Domine, displeased at being called 256; no dramatic power, see ‘tragedy writer’; draughts, played at 171, 502; drawing-room, see Bolt-court; dress: as a dramatic author 112; at