The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [721]
singer, on preparing himself for a 458; public speaking 333; punctuality, not used to 118; punish, quick to 455; puns, despises 388; puns himself 698, 804, 809; querulous, never 520; questioning, disliked 450, 547, 667; races, runs 467; Ranelagh, feelings on entering 630; rank, respect for, see birth and rank; rationality, obstinate 923; read to: dislikes being 343, 773; permits J.B. and Goldsmith to 692, 825; reading: aloud, 373; Amelia without stopping 541; amount of his 44–5, 282–3; at college 44; before college 38, 44, 235; does not read books through 44, 380; in the early part of his life 283; ‘like a Turk’ 994; rapidly 44; ravenously 677; Virgil 416, 883–4; when travelling 245, 519, 936; recitation, described by J.B. 304, 534; ‘recommending’ the dead, see Index of Subjects: the dead; reconciliation, ready to seek a 316, 398, 669, 671; rectory, offer of a 172, 251, 323; red ink or pencil, uses 416, 441, 796; refinement, high estimation of 545; relatives, no near ones 989; religion: brought back by sickness 882; did not trouble to defend 496; early impressions of, derived from his mother 26, 42; early indifference to 42, 882; estimated by Goldsmith 384; for some years totally regardless of 882; a lax talker against 43; predominant object of his thoughts 43, 165, 325; suffers remorse 95; residences, see habitations; resistance to bad government lawful 293, 350; resolutions: ‘fifty-five years spent in resolving’ 253; neglected 839; rarely efficacious 319; respect: maintains that due to him 691; shows to a Doctor in Divinity 325; respected by others, but loved by J.B. and Mrs Thrale 493; reveries, fell into 84; riding 1003; seealso fox-hunting; ringleader of a riot 942-3; rising, time of 269, 336, 481, 804; roars people down 603, 680; never robbed 322; romances, love of 31, 520; roughness, see manners; roundhouse, put in 423; Round Robin, receives 563; rural beauties, little taste for 243 (but see also nature); sacrament, received at deathbed 913, 998; St Clement Danes, his seat in 374; St James’s Square, walks with Savage round 94; St John’s Gate reverences 66; St Vitus’s dance, suffers from 84; same one day as another, not the 627; sarcastic in the defence of good principles 267; satires, explosions of 562; saving, propensity to paltry 869; sayings, not accurately reported 441; scenery, see nature; schemes: for a better life 253, 888; for classes 58; school: at Edial, see Index of Places: Edial; his ‘school’ described by Courtenay 123; – by Reynolds 648; – distinguished for truthfulness and accuracy 648; – Goldsmith one of its brightest ornaments 221; – Reynolds belongs to it 723; school life 30; see also Index of Places: Lichfield; Scotland, tour in: concise account of 403–4; did not wish to make the same journey again 873; proposed and talked of 334, 337, 367, 368, 384, 402; talked over with J.B. 629; Scots, feelings towards, see Index of Places: Scotland and the Scots; scrupulous, not weakly 986; see also Index of Subjects: scruples; seasons, effect of, see Index of Subjects: weather and seasons; second sight, see Index of Subjects: second sight; his Seraglio 722; Shakespeare in his childhood, read 44; shoes worn out 46; shorthand, denies ability of Cavendish to report speeches accurately in 379; short-sighted, see sight; not shy 904; sight: account of it by J.B. 1003; account of it in his French diary 477; defective as a child and boy 26, 31, 42–43, 879; in observing scenes 28, 624, 936; inflamed eye 401–2; only one good eye 27; restored to its use 165; short-sighted 339, 670; silence: at meals 246; fits of 373, 689; silver buckles 699; silver plate 814; sincerity unquestionable 987; singularity, dislike of 261, 943; sins never balanced against virtues 987; slavery, hatred of, see Index of Subjects: slaves and slavery; sleep, see nights; small things, attention to 869; smoke, did not 171; truly social 92; society, mixes with polite 48, 49, 434, 448, 514, 753, 812, 823, 827–8, 847, 943, 944, 961; solitude: hatred of 162, 742, 1004; suffers from 900; see also household; ‘soothed’ 319; sophistry 293, 414, 755; sought