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.

FUNDAMENTALLY.  ‘I say the woman was fundamentally sensible,’ iv. 99.

FUTILE.  ‘Tis a futile fellow’ (Garrick), ii. 326.

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GABBLE.  ‘Nay, if you are to bring in gabble I’ll talk no more,’ iii. 350.

GAIETY.  ‘Gaiety is a duty when health requires it,’ iii. 136, n. 2.

GAOL.  See SAILOR.

GAOLER.  ’No man, now, has the same authority which his father had, except a gaoler,’ iii. 262.

GARRETS.  ‘Garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie,’ iii. 267, n. 1.

GENERAL.  ’A man is to guard himself against taking a thing in general,’ iii. 8.

GENEROUS.  ’I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze,’ v. 400.

GENIUS.  ‘A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself,’ i. 381.

GENTEEL.  ‘No man can say “I’ll be genteel,"’ iii. 53.

Gentilhomme.  ‘Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme’ (Boswell), i. 492.

GENTLE.  ’When you have said a man of gentle manners you have said enough,’ iv. 28.

GENTLEMAN.  ’Don’t you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman?’ iii. 268.

GEORGE.  ‘Tell the rest of that to George’ (R.  O. Cambridge), iv. 196, n. 3.

GHOST.  ‘If I did, I should frighten the ghost,’ v. 38.

GLARE.  ‘Gave a distinguished glare to tyrannic rage’ (Tom Davies), ii. 368, n. 3.

GLASSY.  ‘Glassy water, glassy water,’ ii. 212, n. 4.

GLOOMY.  ‘Gloomy calm of idle vacancy,’ i. 473.

GOD.  ‘I am glad that he thanks God for anything,’ i. 287.

GOES ON.  ‘He goes on without knowing how he is to get off,’ ii. 196.

GOOD.  ‘Sir, my being so good is no reason why you should be so ill,’
iii. 268; ’Everybody loves to have good things furnished to them,
without any trouble,’ iv. 90;
  ’I am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was
formerly,’ iv. 239;
  ‘A look that expressed that a good thing was coming,’ iii. 425.

GRACES.  ’Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal than accused of deficiency in the graces,’ iii. 54.

GRAND.  ‘Grand nonsense is insupportable,’ i. 402.

GRATIFIED.  ’Not highly gratified, yet I do not recollect to have passed many evenings with fewer objections,’ ii, 130.

GRAVE.  ‘We shall receive no letters in the grave,’ iv. 413.

GRAZED.  ’He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature,’ i. 418, n. 1.

GREAT.  ’A man would never undertake great things could he be amused
with small,’ iii. 242;
  ‘I am the great Twalmley,’ iv. 193.

GREYHOUND.  ’He sprang up to look at his watch like a greyhound bounding at a hare,’ ii. 460.

GRIEF.  ‘All unnecessary grief is unwise,’ iii. 136;
  ‘Grief has its time,’ iv. 121;
  ‘Grief is a species of idleness,’ iii. 136, n. 2.

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