191, n. 1; men as they are, took, iii. 282; men and women, his subjects of inquiry, v. 439, n. 2; mental faculties, tests his, iv. 21; metaphysics, fond of, i. 70; withheld from their study, v. 109, n. 3; method, want of, iii. 94; 'Methodist in a dignified manner,' i. 458, n. 3; military matters, interest in, iii. 361; militia, drawn for the, iv. 319; mill, compared to a, v. 265; mimicry, hatred of gesticular, ii. 326, n. 3; mind, his means of quieting it, i. 317; ready for use, i. 204; ii. 365, n. 1; iv. 428, 445; strained by work, i. 268, n. 4; 372, n. 1; moderation in his character, absence of, iv. 72; in wine, difficult, ii. 435: see JOHNSON, abstinence; modesty, iii. 81; monument in St. Paul's, i. 226, n. 1; iv. 423; subscription for it, ib., n. 1 and 3; epitaph, iv. 424, 444-6; mother, his death, i. 331, n. 4, 339, 512-15; ii. 124; debt, takes upon himself her, i. 160; dreads to lose her, i. 212, n. 1; letters, burns her, iv. 405, n. 1; wishes to see her, i. 288; music, account of his feelings towards it, ii. 409, n. 1; affected by it, iii. 197; iv. 22; bagpipe, listens to the, v. 315; flageolet, bought a, iii. 242; had he learnt it would have done nothing else, iii. 242; v. 315; insensible to its power, iii. 197; talks slightingly of it, ii. 409; wishes to learn the scale, ii. 263, n. 4; would be glad to have a new sense given him, ii. 409; musing, habit of, v. 73, n. 1; name, his, fraudulently used, v. 295; nature, affected by, iii. 455; description of a Highland valley, v. 141, n. 2; of various country scenes, v. 439, n. 2; neglect, dread of, iv. 137, n. 2; would not brook it, ii. 118; neglected at Brighton in 1782, iv. 159, n. 3; negligence in correcting errors, iii. 359, n. 2; iv. 51, n. 2; newspapers, accustomed to think little of them, iv. 150; constantly mentioned in them, iv. l27; 'maintained' them, ii. 17; reads the London Chronicle, ii. 103; nice observer of behaviour, iii. 54; night-cap, did not wear a, v. 268, 306; nights, restless, ii. 143, 202, n. 2, 215, n. 2; iii. 92, 99, n. 4, 109, n. 1, 218, 363, 369; when sleepless translated Greek into Latin verse, iv. 384; nil admirari, much of the, v. 111; notions, his, enlarged, v. 442; Novum Museum, ii. 17, n. 3; 'O brave we!' v. 360; oak-sticks for Foote and Macpherson, ii. 299, 300, n. 1; for his Scotch tour, v. 19, 82; lost, v. 318; oath, his pardon asked by Murphy for repeating an, iii. 41; obligation, drawn into a state of, iii. 345, n. 1; impatient of them, i. 246, n. 1; obstinacy in supporting opinions, i. 293, n. 2; 'Oddity,' iii. 209; offend, attentive not to, iii. 54, n. 1; 'oil of vitriol,' his, v. 15, n. 1; old, never liked to think of being, iii. 302, 307; old man in his talk, nothing of the, iii. 336; oracle, a kind of public, ii. 118; orange-peel, use of, ii. 330; oratorio, at an, ii. 324, 72. 3; original writer, ii. 35; Oxford undergraduate, an, i. 58; pain, courage in bearing, iv. 240; easily supports it, i. 157, n. 1, 215; never totally free from it, i. 64, n. 1; operates on himself, iv. 399; painting, account of his feelings towards it, i. 363, n. 3; allegorical, historical, and portrait painting, compares, i. 363, 72; v. 219, n. 3; Barry's pictures, praises, iv. 224; Exhibition, despises the, i. 363; laughs at talk about it, ii. 400, n. 3; prints, a buyer of, i. 363, n. 3; iv. 202, n. 1, 265; sale of his, i. 363, n. 3; Thrale's copper, asks Reynolds to paint, i. 363, n. 3; Treatise on Painting, reads a, i. 128, n. 2; palsy, struck with, iv. 168, n. 2, 227-33; pamphlets written against him, iv. 127; papers, burns his, i. 108; iii. 30, n. 1 iv. 405, 406, n. 1; papers, not to be burnt, ii. 420; Papist, if he could would be a, iv. 289; pardon, once begs, iv. 49, n. 3; Parliament, attacked and defended in it, iv. 318, n. 3; eulogised in it by Burke, iv. 407, n. 3; attempts made to bring him into it, ii. 137-139; projects an historical account of it, i. 155; parodies on Percy, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4; Warton, iii. 158, n. 3; party-opposition, averse to, ii. 348, n. 2; passions, his, iv. 396, n. 3; Passion-week, Johnson has an awe on him, ii-476; dines out every day, iii. 300, n. 1; dines with two Bishops, iv. 88; paper on it in The Rambler, i. 214; iv. 88; pastoral life, desires to study, iii. 455; pathos, want of, iv. 45; patience, iii. 26; v. 146-7; payment for his writings: see JOHNSON, works; peats, brings in a supply of, v. 303; peculiarities absence of mind, ii. 268, n. 2; iv. 71; avoiding an alley, i. 485; beating with his feet, v. 60, n. 3; blowing out his breath, i. 485; iii. 153; convulsive starts, i. 95; mentioned by Pope, i. 143; described, ib., i. 144, n. 1; astonish Hogarth, i.