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.

STUNNED.  ‘We are not to be stunned and astonished by him,’ iv. 83.

STYE.  ‘Sir, he brings himself to the state of a hog in a stye,’ iii. 152.

STYLE.  ’Nothing is more easy than to write enough in that style if once you begin,’ v. 388.

SUCCEED.  ‘He is only fit to succeed himself,’ ii. 132.

SUCCESSFUL.  ‘Man commonly cannot be successful in different ways,’ iv. 83.

SUICIDE.  ‘Sir, It would be a civil suicide,’ iv. 223.

SULLEN.  ‘Harris is a sound sullen scholar,’ iii. 245.

SUNSHINE.  ’Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man,’ iii. 355.

SUPERIORITY.  ’You shall retain your superiority by my not knowing it,’ ii. 220.

SURLY.  ‘Surly virtue,’ i. 130.

SUSPICION.  ‘Suspicion is very often an useless pain,’ iii. 135.

SWEET.  ‘It has not wit enough to keep it sweet,’ iv. 320.

SWORD.  ‘It is like a man who has a sword that will not draw,’ ii. 161.

SYBIL.  ’It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration,’ iv. 59.

SYSTEM.  ’No, Sir, let fanciful men do as they will, depend upon it, it is difficult to disturb the system of life,’ ii. 102.

SYSTEMATICALLY.  ’Kurd, Sir, is one of a set of men who account for everything systematically,’ iv. 189.

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TABLE.  ’Sir, if Lord Mansfield were in a company of General Officers and Admirals who have been in service, he would shrink; he’d wish to creep under the table,’ iii. 265;
  ‘As to the style, it is fit for the second table,’ iii. 31.

TAIL.  ‘If any man has a tail, it is Col,’ v. 330;
  ’I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that?
why is a cow’s tail long? why is a fox’s tail bushy?’ iii. 268.

TAILS.  ‘If they have tails they hide them,’ v. 111.

TALK.  ‘Solid talk,’ v. 365:’ 
  There is neither meat, drink, nor talk,’ iii. 186, n. 3;
  ‘Well, we had good talk,’ ii. 66;
  ‘You may talk as other people do,’ iv. 221.

TALKED.  ‘While they talked, you said nothing,’ v. 39.

TALKING.  ‘People may come to do anything almost, by talking of it,’ v. 286.

TALKS.  ’A man who talks for fame never can be pleasing.  The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you,’ iii. 247.

TASKS.  ‘Never impose tasks upon mortals,’ iii. 420.

TAVERN.  ‘A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity,’ ii. 452, n. 1.

TEACH.  ’It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first,’ i. 452.

TEA-KETTLE.  ’We must not compare the noise made by your tea-kettle here with the roaring of the ocean,’ ii. 86, n. i.

TELL.  ‘It is not so; do not tell this again,’ iii. 229;
  ‘Why, Sir, so am I. But I do not tell it,’ iv. 191.

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