The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [717]
a Court mourning 943; described by Beauclerk 479; – by Boswell 210, 478, 1003; – by Dr Campbell 84; – by Colman 545; – by Cumberland 699; – by Foote 478; – by Langton 134–5; – by Miss Reynolds 134; improved by association with the Thrales 699; improvements suggested by J.B. 519; in Paris 478; on his visit to Lord Marchmont 734; drinking 61; see also wine; dropsy: sudden relief from 913; operated on himself for it, see under death; Dutch, studies 401, 774; Easter meetings with J.B. 847; Easter Day: his placidity on it 531; resolutions on it 253, 256, 360, 572; East-Indian affairs, never considered 420; eating: love of good eating 246, 555; mode of 145, 246, 247; voracious 246, 804, 945–6; unaffected by kinds of food 688; see also fruit; enemies, wonders why he has 858; envy: avowed 669; possible envy of Burke 691; ‘esquire’ 440; Essex Head Club, founds the 902–3, 915; etymologist, a bad 106; evidence, a sifter of 215–16; exaggeration, dislike of, see Index of Subjects: exaggeration; excellence described by Mrs Thrale 401; executor: of Harry Porter 56; of Thrale 811; exhibited, refused to be 323; expedition, eager for an 593, 594; experiments, minute 738; eyes: colour 56; inflamed 401–2, 412; only one sound eye 28; restored to its use 165; wild and piercing 56, 245; see also sight; failing, afraid of 625; fame extended by the Life 7; fasting 374, 450, 531, 685, 875, 986; for two days 246, 688; fear: a stranger to 422; never afraid of any man 944; of great heights 469; separated fighting dogs 423; feared: at Brighton 854; at College 687; by Langton 927; ‘Fearing’ in Pilgrim’s Progress, like 422–3, 998; female charms, sensible to 54, 561; female dress, critical of 28; feudal notions 619; finger-nails to the quick, pares his 869; flattery, susceptible to 1004; fcenum habet in cornu 302; food, favourite 247; foreigners, prejudice against 75, 770; forgiving disposition 405, 956; shown to one who exceeded in wine 498, 823; fortitude 895; fox-hunting 235; France, tour to 466–79; see also IV: diaries; French: knowledge of 68, 303, 371, 466, 479, 834; writes a French letter 479; fretful 859, 861, 919; friend, a most active 952; friends (in 1752), list of 133; his frisk 136; frolic, his bitterness mistaken for 45, 932; fruit, love of 959; fun, love of 400–401; funeral 999; games: little interest in 31; played cricket 46; Gargantua 662; garret in Gough Square 176; Garrick’s success, moved by 96, 121, 297; gay and good-humoured 762, 819; general censure, disliked 937; genius, always in extremes 246, 689; gentleness 819, 865, 872; gentlewoman in liquor, helps a 497; gesticulating, averse to 777, 941; gestures, see peculiarities; ghost, like a 5, 689; see also Index of Subjects: ghosts; ‘Giant in his den’ 210; gloom of mind 102, 286; ‘saw God in clouds’ 571; godchildren, see Others: Langton, Jane; Lowe, Ann Elizabeth; Lowe Jr, Mauritius?; Mudge, William; Paterson Jr, Samuel; Goldsmith, contests with 383; good breeding 545; Good Friday observed 531; good humour 819, 825, 897; ‘a good-humoured fellow’ 455, 560; without it 316, 455; good-natured, but not good-humoured 316, 455; good sayings, forgets his 863–4; good things of life, loved the 691; gout 102, 566; due to abstinence 61; seealso health; gown, wears his MA 185; graces, valued the 545; grandfather 400; gratitude 256, 408; grave: close to Macpherson’s 422; in Westminster Abbey 999; request about it 984; great: never courted the 265, 625, 827; not courted by them 827, 943; ‘the greatest man in England next to Lord Mansfield’ 442; Greek, knowledge or study of 38, 44, 355, 567, 695, 767, 773, 979; Greek Testament 361; Green Room, in the 112, 766; grief, on bearing 595–6; Grosvenor Square, apartment in 804; gun, rashness in firing a 423; habitations, list of his 65, 742; happier in his later years 162; happiness not found in this world, 854–5; seealso Index of Subjects: happiness; hasty 861–2; hat snatched off at an election 415; head of the table, at the 691; health, chronological state of his: (1712) smallpox; scrofula, 28; (1729) hypochondria 40–41; (1730–31) severe illness 882; (1743)