The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [727]
Lord; feelings, ardent 297; ‘fervour of loyalty’ 581; free will, love of discussing, see Index of Subjects: free will; a genealogist 670 n. a; gentility, love of 257–9, 438; ghosts, talks of 815 n. a; at Glasgow University 226, 245; Greek: has little 743; S.J. advises him to study 244; ‘an honest chronicler as Griffith’ 17; habitations, see houses; lodgings; at the Handel festival 919, 921; happiest days, one of his 816–17; the Hebrides, first talk of visiting 237, 417; houses: in James’s Court, Edinburgh 606; rents Dr Boswell’s house in the Meadows 583, 586, 590; see also lodgings; hypochondria: pride in it 566, 751; persuaded to throw it off 734; suffers from 490, 565–7, 639, 721, 734, 748, 749, 929 n. a,974-5; his ‘hypocrisy of misery’ 803; idleness 245; imaginary ills: fancies that he is neglected 466, 541, 595; – that his wife and children are ill 521; imagination 720; infidelity in his youth 215; intellectual excesses 748; intemperance, see drinking; Ireland, visits 343; isthmus, compares himself to an 302; Italy, visits 266, 290; Jacobitism when a boy 228 n. b; associations connected with it 724; Johnson’s Court, veneration for 382; kindness to tenants 855; knowledge: at the age of twenty-three 218; at twenty-five 265; lack of 238; see also Greek; Latin; learning; as a Laird 855; his Latin 40, 272, 273; law, study of 212, 226; lawyer: unwilling to become 212, 226; see also advocate; English bar; laxly, lives 744; a lay-patron 392; Liberty and Necessity, troubled by 803; Lichfield, visits 511, 560, 745; and the Literary Club, see Club, the; lodgings in London: (1763) Downing Street, Westminster 223, 231; Farrar’s Buildings, Inner Temple Lane 231; (1768) Half Moon Street, Piccadilly 293; (1769) Old Bond Street 304; (1772) Conduit Street 348; (1773) Piccadilly 376; General Paoli’s in South Audley Street 536, 698; see also houses; London: exalted spirits there 656–7; love of it 244, 408, 521, 619, 720; S.J. consulted about a visit to it 408–9; – advises him to take his wife to it 620; – gives advice about his removing to it 957; visits: (1760) 204; (1762-3) 205–45; (1766) 263–8; (1768) 287–96; (1769) 297–318; (1772) 338–67; (1773) 372–401; (1775) 429-63; (1776) 493–8, 519, 521–61; (1778) 644–717; (1779) 725–36, 739–45; (1781) 803–28; (1783) 855–87; (1784) (sets out in March, but turns back at York 909) 913–50; his loose life 350, 533, 744; manners, want of 519; marriage: approaching 297, 298, 300, 317; takes place 334; masquerade, at a 369; mechanics, ignorance of 611; melancholia, see hypochondria; military ambitions and love of military life 212; ‘all mind’ 748; mind: ‘somewhat dark’ 464; talks of the state of his 900; ‘mingles virtue and vice’ 392; music, affected by 630; mystery and the mysterious, love of 645, 815 n. a; narrowness, occasionally troubled with 869; nature, no relish for 243; ‘old-hock humour’ 498 n. 546; Ossian, opinions on, see Others: Macpherson, James; ostentatious 245; Oxford, visits in: (1768) 287; (1776) 498–504; (1784) 921–36; Parliament, wishes to be in 884, 911; piety: Easter worship in St Paul’s 351, 374, 408–9, 454, 531, 694, 729, 814, 879; elevated by pious exercises 831; fondness for going to church 221 n. a, 621; love of consecrated ground 748, 749; on communicating 830–31; place or office, longs for a 848, 885; plays his part admirably 746; political character and opinions 167–8; Praeses, elected 899; pronunciation 345; quotations, his felicitous 17; reading: neglects 454; yearly reading of Rasselas 183; reserve, practises some 4; retirement to a desert, talks of 300; ridicule, defies 23, 626; Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence 296 n. b; rural beauties, little taste for 243; St Paul’s, Easter worship at, see piety; Scotland: finds it too narrow a sphere 619; forty years’ absence from it suggested to him 532; his native country 290; Scots and Scottishness: ‘a Scotchman without the faults of a Scotchman’ 712; his Scotch accents 345, 576; his Scotch shoe-black 436; ‘one Scotchman who is cheerful’ 732; ‘scarce esteemed a Scot’ 124; unscottified 389; self-tormentor 247; Shakespeare,