146; alluded to by Churchill, i. 419, n. 1; astonish a young girl, iv. 183, n. 2; lose him an assistant-mastership, iv. 407, n. 4; described by Boswell, v. 18; by Reynolds, ib., n. 4; entering a room, i. 484; gesticulation, mimicked by Garrick, ii. 326; half-whistling, iii. 357; inarticulate sounds, i. 485; iii. 68; march, iv. 71, 425; pronunciation: see under JOHNSON, pronunciation; puffing hard with passion, iii. 273; riding, iv. 425; rolling, iii. 294, 357; iv. 109; v. 40; shaking his head and body, i. 485; striding across a floor, i. 145; talking to himself, i. 483; iv. 236, 399, n. 6; v. 306-7; touching posts, i. 485, n. 1; Boswell tells him of some of them, iv. 183, n. 2; he reads Boswell's account, v. 307, n. 2; Pembroke College: see under OXFORD, Pembroke College; penance in Uttoxeter market, iv. 373; penitents, a great lover of, iv. 406, n. 1; pension: see PENSION; personal appearance, described by Boswell, iv. 425; v. 18; by Miss Burney, i. 144, n. 1; ii. 141, n. 2; v. 23, n. 4; by Mrs. Piozzi and Reynolds, i. 94, n. 4; in The Race ii. 31; 'A labouring working mind, an indolent reposing body,' iv. 444; fingers and nails, iv. 190; 'ghastly smiles,' ii. 69, n. 1; v. 48, n. 1; 'majestic frame,' i. 472; robust frame, i. 462; youth, in his, i. 94; philology, love of, iv. 34; philosophy, study of, i. 302; physicians, pleasure in the company of, iv. 293; physick, knowledge of, i. 159; iii. 22; 'great dabbler in it,' iii. 152; physics himself violently, iv. 135, n. 1; 229, n. 1; writes a prescription, v. 74; picture of himself in [Greek: Gnothi seauton] i. 298, n. 4; piety, maintained the obligations of, v. 17; plagiarism, i. 334; players, prejudice against: see PLAYERS; please, seeking to, iii. 54, n. 1; poems of his youth, i. 50; poetical mind, iii. 151; iv. 428; v. 17; poetry, pleasure in writing, iv. 219; v. 418; Politian, proposal to publish the poems of, i. 90; politeness, his, acknowledged, i. 286; ii. 36; iii. 81, 331; iv. 126; v. 23, 82, 98-9, 363; thinks himself very polite, iii. 337; v. 363; political economy, ignorance of, ii. 430, n. 1; political principles, his, described by Dr. Maxwell, ii. 117-8; politician, intention of becoming a, i. 489; 518-520; 'Pomposo,' i. 406; poor, loved the, ii. 119, n. 4; Pope's Messiah turned into Latin, i. 61; porter's knot, advised to buy a, i. 102, n. 2; portraits, list of his, iv. 421, n. 2; Burney, Miss, finds him examining one, ii. 141, n. 2; Reynolds, portraits by,--one with Beauclerk's inscription, iv. 180, 444; 'blinking Sam,' iii. 273, n. 1; Doughty's mezzotinto, ii. 286, n. 1; one engraved for Boswell's Life, presented by Reynolds to Boswell, i. 392; v. 385, n. 1; one admired at Lichfield, ii. 141; one at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; other portraits, iv. 421, n. 2; Reynolds, Miss, by, ii. 362, n. 1; iv. 229. n. 4; post-chaise, delight in a: See POST-CHAISE; praise and abuse, wishes he had kept a book of, v. 273; praise, loved, but did not seek it, iv. 427; v. 17; disliked extravagant praise, iii. 225; iv. 82; prayers: See PRAYERS, and Prayers and Meditations; prefaces, skill in, i. 139; preference to himself, refused, iii. 54, n. 1; Presbyterian service, would not attend a, iii. 336; v. 121, 384; attends family prayer, v. 121; pride, described by Reynolds, iii. 345, n. 1; defensive, i. 265; no meanness in it, iv. 429, n. 3; princes, attacks, i. l49, n. 3; principles and practice: See PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE; prize-fighting, regrets extinction of, v. 229; profession, regrets that he had not a, iii. 309, n. 1; professor in the imaginary college, v. 109; promptitude of mind: See JOHNSON, mind; pronunciation--excellent, v. 85; provincial accent, ii. 159, 464; property, iv. 284, 402, n. 2; public affairs, refuses to talk of, iv. 173; public singer, on preparing himself for a, ii. 369; public speaking, ii. 139; punctuality, not used to, i. 211; Punic war, would not hear of the, iii. 206, n. 1; punish, quick to, ii. 363; puns, despises, ii. 241; iv. 316; puns himself, iii. 325; iv. 73, 81; questioning, disliked, ii. 472, n. 1; iii. 57, 268; iv. 439 (See, however, iii. 24, n. 2); quiet hours, seen in his, iii. 81, n. 1; quoting his writings against him, iv. 274; races with Baretti, ii. 386; Ranelagh, feelings on entering, iii. 199; rank, respect for: See Birth; rationality, obstinate, iv. 289; read to, impatient to be, iv. 20; reading, amount of his, i. 70; ii. 36; before college, i. 56, 445; at college, i. 70; ii. 36; read rapidly, i. 71; iv. 334, n. 3; ravenously, iii. 284; like a Turk, iv. 409; did not read books through, i. 71; ii. 226; reads more than he did, ii. 35, n. 3; iv.