337; pious books, iv. 88, n. 1; on hearing Dr. Hodges's story, ii. 341, n. 3; kissing Streatham church, iv. 159; and the old willow-tree at Lichfield, iv. 372, n. 1; in reciting Beattie's Hermit, iv. 186; Dies Irae, iii. 358, n. 3; Goldsmith's Traveller, v. 344; lines on Levett, iv. 165, n. 4; Vanity of Human Wishes, iv. 45, n. 3; terror, an object of, i. 450, n. 1; theatres, left off going to the, ii. 14; thinking, excelled in the art of, iv. 428; thought more than he read, ii. 36; thoughts, loses command over his, ii. 190; 202, n. 2; Thrales, his 'coalition' with the, i. 493, n. 3; his intimacy not without restraint, iii. 7; gross supposition about it, iii. 7; supposed wish to marry Mrs. Thrale, iv. 387, n. 1: see THRALES, and under JOHNSON, Streatham; toleration, views on, ii. 249-254; Tory, a, 'not in the party sense,' ii. 117; his Toryism abates, v. 386; might have written a Tory History of England, iv. 39; 'tossed and gored,' ii. 66; tossed Boswell, iii. 338; town, the, his element, iv. 358: see. LONDON; 'tragedy-writer, a,' i. 102; reason of his failure, i. 198, 199, n. 2; translates for booksellers, i. 133; travelling, love of, Appendix B., iii. 449-459; 'tremendous companion,' i. 496, n. 1; 'true-born Englishman,' i. 129; ii. 300; iv. 15, n. 3, 191; v. 1, n. 1, 20; truthfulness, exact precision in conversation, ii. 434; iii. 228; Rousseau, compared with, ii. 434, n. 2; truth held sacred by him, ii. 433, n. 2; iv. 305, n. 3; all of his 'school' distinguished for it, i. 7, n. 1; iii. 230; scrupulously inquisitive to discover it, ii. 247; talked as if on oath, ii. 434, n. 2; tutor to Mr. Whitby, i. 84, n. 2; 'un politique aux choux et aux raves,' iii. 324; uncle, account of an, v. 316; unobservant, iii. 423, n. 1; unsocial shyness, free from, iv. 255; Ursa Major, v. 384; utterance, slow deliberate, ii. 326; iv. 429; v. 18; verse-making, ii. 15; made verses and forgot them, ib.; youthful verses, i. 92; Vesey's, Mr., surrounded by great people at, iii. 425; Virgil, quoted 'Optima quceque dies,' ii. 129; reads him, ii. 288; iv. 218; Vision of Theodore, thought by him the best thing he ever wrote, i. 192; vocation to public life, iv. 359; to active life, v. 63; Wales, tour to: see WALES; walk, his, in a court in the Temple, i. 463; wants, fewness of his, ii. 474, n. 3; warrants said to be issued against him, i. 141; watch, dial-plate of his, ii. 57; watched, his door, v. 248; water, lectures on, v. 64; water-fall, at Dr. Taylor's, iii. 190-1; weather, influence of: see WEATHER; Westminster Police Court, attendance at the, iii. 216; whisky, tastes, v. 346; 'Why, no Sir!' iv. 316, n. 1; wife, affection for his, i. 96, 234-241; ii. 77; disagreements, i. 239; reported estrangement, i. 163, n. 2; death, her, i. 234, 238, 277; alluded to in his letter to Chesterfield, i. 262; anniversary of the day, i. 236; iii. 98, n. 1; 317, n. 1; funeral sermon, i. 241; iii. 181, n. 3; grave and epitaph, i. 241; iv. 351, 369, n. 3, 394; 'resolves on Tetty's coffin,' i. 354, n. 2; grief, his, i. 235-241; almost broke his heart, iii. 305, 419; 'recommended,' i. 190, n. 2, 240, n. 5; ii. 476-7; saucer, her, iii. 220, n. 1; wishes for her in Paris, ii. 393; at Brighton, ib., n. 8; wig, his, a bushy one, i. 113, n. 1; Paris-made, ii. 403, n. 5; iii. 325; fore-top burnt, ib., n. 3; Wilkes, compared with, iii. 64, 78; will, averse to execute his, iv. 402; makes it, ib., n. 2; wine, use of, i. 103, n. 3; wisdom, his trade was, iii. 137, n. 1; wit, extraordinary readiness, iii. 80; Garrick's account of it, ii. 231; woman, rescues an outcast, iv. 321; talks with others of the class, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396; wonders, distrust of, iii. 229, n. 3; words, charged with using hard and big words, i. 184, 218, n. 2; iii. 190; sesquipedalia verba, v. 399; in the Rambler, i. 208, n. 3; in Lives of the Poets, iv. 39; needs words of larger meaning, i. 218; iii. 173; 'terms of philosophy familiarised,' i. 218; words added to the language, i. 221; iv-39, n. 3; v. 130; work, did his, in a workmanlike manner, iii. 62; Works, those ascertained marked *, conjectured +, i. 112, n. 4; Booksellers' edition, edited by Hawkins and Stockdale, i. 190, n. 4; iii. 141 5 iv. 324; right reserved by him to print an edition, i. 193; iv. 409; catalogue of his Works, i. 16-24; asked for by his friends, i. 112; iii. 321; Historia Studiorum, ib.; one made by Boswell, iii. 322; iv. 383, n. 1; projected works, ib.; payments received, Translation of Lobo's Abyssinia, five guineas, i. 87; London, ten guineas, i. 124; translation of part of Sarpi's History, L49, i. 135; Historical Account of Parliament, part payment, two guineas for a sheet of copy, i.

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