The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [722]
after nobody 693; speaking, mode of 437; see also public speaking; spirit, lofty 972; spirit, wishes for more evidence for 340, 928; see also supernatural agency; splendour on £600 a year 949; sportiveness 400; stately shop, deals at 940; statues, see monuments; stick 423; a straggler 688; strangers no restraint on his talk 499, 920; Streatham: his farewell to it 853; his ‘home’ 301, 950; his late hours there 480; studied behaviour, disapproves of 247; study: advice about 227, 936; time for it 767; style, see IV; subordination, see Index of Subjects: subordination; Sunday, observation of, see Index of Subjects: Sunday; superiority over his fellows 30; supernatural agency, willingness to examine relations of 216; see also spirit; superstition, prone to 1003; see also Index of Subjects: ghosts; supper not eaten 688; ‘surly virtue’ 555; swearing: disapproves of 295, 625; Murphy asks his pardon 539; rebukes J.B. for 317; ‘swore enough’ 882; swimming 186, 423; talk: ‘his little fishes would talk like whales’ 383; loved to have his talk out 648; made it a rule to talk his best 114, 865; not restrained by strangers 499, 920; talked alike to all 435; talked calmly in private 702; talked for victory 386, 824; ‘tossed and gored’ several people 296; tossed J.B. 706; see also conversation; talking to himself, see peculiarities; tanti men, dislike of 825; taste in theatrical merit not refined 513; tea: drank at all hours 169; drank very plentifully 322; effects of it on him 169; takes it every night with Miss Williams 223; his teachers: Dame Oliver 29; Tom Brown 29; Hawkins 29; Hunter 29; Wentworth 31; teaching men, pleasure in 311; temper: easily offended 710, 1004; violent 562, 680, 685, 706, 730; violent passion 860; tenderness of conscience 87; tenderness of heart 237, 296; about Dr Brocklesby’s offer 949; about friendship with Hoole 963; about his friends’ efforts for an increased pension 949; at deathbed of Catherine Chambers 285–6; by kissing Streatham Church 854; in reciting Beattie’s Hermit 867; terror, an object of 237; tests his faculties 774; theatres, attends more than formerly 194; attends Mrs Abington’s benefit 436; left off going to 267; thinking: excelled in the art of 1004–5; loses command over his thoughts 361; thought more than he read 283; intimacy with Thrales: gross supposition about it 522; happiness from it 950; not without restraint 522; on toleration 394–7; a Tory: might have written A Tory History of England 784; ‘not in the party sense’ 321; ‘touched’ for the king’s evil 28; the town his element 962; see also Index of Places: London I; ‘a tragedy-writer’ 60; loves rapid movement 610; reason for his failure as 111; ‘a tremendous companion’ 597; ‘a true-born Englishman’ 75, 423, 869; truthfulness: exact precision in conversation 497, 647; held sacred by him 189, 985; his ‘school’ distinguished for it 648; regard for a servant’s 230; scrupulously inquisitive to discover it 392; unchastity hinted at by J.B. 985; his uncles, see Others: Ford, Dr Joseph; Johnson, Andrew; unsocial shyness, free from 904; utterance, slow deliberate 436, 1006; valetudinarianism, dislike of 518; his vine 738; Virgil: often quoted Optima quæque dies 328; reads 416, 883; vocation to public life 962; voice: deep and sonorous 284, 994; loud 396, 603, 1006; vows, disapproves of 272, 716; Wales, tour to, see Index of Places: Wales; his walk in the Temple 244; warrants said to be issued against him 83; watch, dial-plate of 292; watchman, mistaken for a 497; water-drinking, advocates 689; waterfall, at Dr Taylor’s 626; weather, influence of, see Index of Subjects: weather and seasons; Westminster Police Court, attendance at the 640; wife (chronological): affection for 56, 58, 129–32, 301; disagreements with 132; death 129, 130, 131, 150, 162; death alluded to in his letter to Chesterfield 142; anniversary of the day of her death 130; funeral sermon 132; grave and epitaph 132, 957, 985; his grief 129–32; her loss almost broke his heart 688, 750; ‘recommended’ 261; wishes for her in Paris 472; wig: Paris-made 699; unpowdered and too small 210;