The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [720]
her 157; see also III; Others: Johnson, Sarah; music: affected by it 630, 774; bought a flageolet 654; had he learned to play would have done nothing else 654; insensible to its power 630; listens to the fiddle 630; talks slightingly of it 361, 481; would have been glad to have a new sense given him 481; narrowness, occasionally troubled with a fit of 869; nature: affected by 157; would not brook it 322; newspapers: accustomed to think little of them 848; constantly mentioned in them 561, 702, 834; false reports of him in them 415, 643, 686; ‘maintained’ them 269; reads the London Chronicle regularly 313; nights: restless 336, 569, 641, 720, 723; when sleepless translated Greek into Latin verse 979; ‘No, Sir’, use of, see Index of Subjects: ‘No, Sir’; oak stick for Foote and Macpherson 423; oaths, see swearing; obscenity, disapproves of or represses 295, 927; observant of dress or behaviour 545; Oddity, as they call him’ 635; old, never liked to think of being 686, 689; old man in his talk, nothing of the 705; opium, takes 859, 910, 960; oracle, a kind of public 322; orange peel, use of 439; Oxford undergraduate 38; pain: courage in bearing 894; never totally free from it 847; operates on himself 988; painting, account of his feelings towards it 874–5, 941; buyer of prints 909; despises the Exhibition 194; disapproves of women painting portraits 455;praises Barry’s pictures 886; palsy, struck with, see health, chronological (1783); pamphlets written against him 834; papers: burns his own 19, 63, 733, 992; not to be burnt 488; would be a Papist if he could 923; Parliament: attempts made to bring him into it, 332–3; eulogized in it by Burke 992–3; Passion-week: defends dining out in it 812; dines with two bishops 812; writes a paper on it in Rambler 120, 812; pathos, want of 787; patience 532; payment for his writings, see IV: payments; peculiarities: absence of mind 803; astonish Hogarth 85; avoiding an alley 254; blowing out his breath 255, 605; convulsive starts 56; entering a room 254; gesticulation 58; half-whistling 255, 716; in riding 1003; inarticulate sounds or mutterings 255, 555; mentioned by Pope 84; mimicked by Garrick 437; puffing hard with passion 670; rolling 682, 716, 803, 823, 1003; shaking his head and body 255; striding across a floor 84; talking to himself 31, 254, 892; penance in Uttoxeter market 971; pension, see Index of Subjects: pension; personal appearance: described by J.B. 1003; fingers and nails 869; in his youth 56; in The Race 280; majestic or robust frame 243, 248; philology, a favourite pursuit 781; philosophy, study of 13; physic: ‘great dabbler in it’ 604; knowledge of, or interest in 92, 191, 530, 592, 611, 959–60; prescribes for Langton 454; physicians, esteem for 926; piety, constant and fervent 248; plagiarism 178; prejudice against players, see Index of Subjects: players; poetical mind 604, 1005; poetry, loved 44; see also IV: poetry; his politeness 156, 283, 325, 562, 702, 833; political character, opinions and principles 167, 199, 321–2; see also Tory; politician, intention of becoming a 257; ‘un politique aux choux et aux raves’ 698; ‘Pom-poso’ 216; portraits: Reynolds’s portraits: –painted in 1756, presented by R. to J.B. and engraved for the Life 208; – painted in 1769, the ‘Knole’ portrait 335; – version of this owned by Beauclerk and Langton 864; post-chaise, delight in a, see Index of Subjects: post-chaise; poverty 45, 46–7, 61, 71, 73, 75, 77, 93, 94, 164, 256, 777; praise: disliked extravagant 646, 809; loved, but did not seek 1004; pleasing to him 140; prayer, the act of 261; prayers, see Index of Subjects: prayers; Index of Works and Literary Characters: Prayers and Meditations; prejudices 75, 858; Presbyterian service, would not attend a 705; pride, defensive 144; principles and practice, see Index of Subjects: principles; prints, see painting; Professor of the Royal Academy 296; provincial accents 345, 512, 629; property 920; provoked by J.B.’s quoting his writings against him 915; public affairs, refused to talk of 861; public amusements, a great friend of 350; public