Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
      Lexiphanes, ii. 44;
      Maclaurin, ii. 363;
      in a magazine, v. 273;
      man Ode to Mrs. Thrale, iv. 387;
    changes in it, iii. 172, n. 2;
    criticises it himself, iii. 257, n. 3;
      easier in his poems than his prose, v. 17;
      female writing, ill-suited for, i. 223;
      formed on Temple and Chambers, i. 218;
      on writers of the seventeenth century, i. 219;
    Gallicisms, dislikes, iii. 343, n. 3;
    imitations of it, by Barbauld, Mrs., iii. 172;
      Burney, Miss, iv. 389;
      Burrowes, Rev. R., iv. 386;
      Gibbon, iv. 389;
      Knox, Rev. Dr., iv. 390;
      Mackenzie, Henry, iv. 390, n. 1;
      Nares, Rev. Mr., iv. 389;
      newspapers, iv. 381, n. 1;
      Robertson, iii. 173; iv. 388;
      Young, Professor, iv. 392;
    Lives of the Poets, iii. 172, n. 2;
    Lobo’s Abyssinia, translation of, i. 87;
    Monboddo, criticised by, iii. 173;
    parentheses, dislikes, iv. 190;
    Plan of the Dictionary, i. 184;
    Rambler, i. 217; iii. 172, n. 2;
    talk, like his, iv. 237, n. 1;
    ‘the former, the latter,’ dislikes, iv. 190;
    Thrale, Mrs., described by, iii. 19, n. 2;
    translates a saying into his own style, iv. 320;
    Warburton attacks it, iv. 48;
  subordination:  see SUBORDINATION;
  Sunday:  see SUNDAY;
  superiority over his fellows, i. 47;
  supernatural agency, willingness to examine it, i. 406; v. 18;
  superstition, prone to, iv. 426; v. 17: 
    see GHOSTS, and JOHNSON, spirit;
  ‘surly virtue,’ iii. 69;
  swearing, profane, dislikes, ii. 338, n. 2; iii. 189;
    falsely represented as swearing, ii. 338, n. 2;
    ‘swore enough,’ iv. 216;
    uses a profane expression, v. 306;
  swimming, i. 348; ii. 299; iii. 92, n. 1;
    Latin verses on it, ib.;
  talk—­,
    alike to all, talked, ii. 323;
    best, rule to talk his, iv. 183, 185, n. 1;
    books, did not talk from, v. 378;
    calmly in private, iii. 331;
    ‘his little fishes would talk like whales,’ ii. 231;
    loved to have his talk out, iii. 230;
    not restrained by a stranger, ii. 438; iv. 284;
    ostentatiously, talks, v. l24;
    ‘talked their best,’ his phrase, iii. 193, n. 3;
    victory, talks for, ii. 238; iv. 111; v. 17, 324;
    writing, like his, iv. 237, n. 1: 
    see JOHNSON, conversation;
  talking to himself:  see JOHNSON, peculiarities;
  tanti men, dislike of, iv. 112;
  taste in theatrical merits, ii. 465;
  tea,
    Careless, Mrs., told him when he had enough, ii. 460, n. 1;
    cups, a dozen, i. 313, n. 3;
      fifteen, ii. 268, n. 2;
      sixteen, v. 207, n. 1;
    claudile jam rivos pueri, v. 279;
    effects of it on him, i. 313;
    misses drinking it once, v. 443;
    ‘shameless tea-drinker,’
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