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 dri