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.
1;
  character, influence of vice on, iii. 350;
  children, her,
    births, ii. 46, n. 3, 280; iii. 210, n. 4, 363, 393;
    deaths, ii. 281, n. 2; iii. 109;
    three living out of twelve, iv. 157, n. 3;
    unfriendly with her married daughter, v. 427, n. 1;
    Johnson’s kindness to them, iv. 345;
  clerk, gives a crown to an old, v. 440;
  clippers, warned of, iii. 49;
  common-place book, iv. 343;
  conceit of parts, iii. 316;
  Congreve, quotes from, ii. 227;
  dates, neglects, i. 122, n. 2; iv. 88, n. 1;
  Demosthenes’s ‘action,’ ii. 211;
  ‘despicable dread of living in the Borough,’ iv. 72, n. 1;
  divorces, iii. 347-8;
  ‘dying with a grace,’ iv. 300, n. 1;
  Errol, Lord, at the coronation, v. 103, n. 1;
  estate, prefers the owner to the, ii. 428;
  fall from her horse, ii. 287;
  Fermor’s, Mrs., account of Pope, ii. 392, n. 8;
  flattery, coarse mode of, ii. 349;
    Johnson talks with her about it, v. 440;
  Foster’s Sermons, quotes, iv. 9, n. 5;
  France, tour to, ii. 384-401;
  French, contentment of the, v. 106, n. 4;
    Convent, visits a, ii. 385;
    maxims, attacks, iii. 204, n. 1;
  Garrick’s poetry, praises, ii. 78;
  good breeding, want of, iv. 83;
  Gordon Riots, alarmed at the, iii. 428, n. 4;
  Gray’s Odes, admires, ii. 327;
  Grosvenor Square, removes to, iv. 72, n. 1;
  Hogarth’s account of Johnson, i. 147, n. 2;
  illness, in 1779, iii. 397;
  inaccuracy,
    her extreme,
      in general, i. 416, n. 2; iii. 226, 229;
      no anxiety about truth, iii. 243, 404;
      her defence of it, iii. 228;
      instances of it—­Anecdotes, iv. 340-7;
      anecdote about in vino veritas, ii. 188, n. 3;
    Barber’s visit to Langton, i. 476, n. 1;
    Garrick’s election to the Club, i. 481;
    Goldsmith and the Vicar of Wakefield, i. 415, 416, n. 2;
    Johnson’s answer to Robertson, iii. 336, n. 2;
      and G. J. Cholmondeley, iv. 345;
      harshness, i. 410;
      lines on Lade, iv. 412, n. 1;
      mother calling Sam, iv. 94, n. 4;
      and small kindnesses, iv. 201, 343-4;
      Verses to a Lady, i. 92, n. 2;
    ‘natural history of the mouse,’ ii. 194, n. 2;
    sutile mistaken for futile, iii. 284, n. 4;
  indelicacy, iv. 84, n. 4;
  insolence of wealth, shows the, iii. 316;
  interpolation in one of Johnson’s letters, suspected, ii. 383, n. 2;
  Italian, an, on clean shirts, v. 60, n. 4;
  jelly, her, compared with Mrs. Abington’s, ii. 349;
  Johnson’s account of French sentiments and meat, ii. 385, n. 5;
    advice about the brewery, iii. 382, n. 1;
      about sweet-meats, iii. 186; iv. 90;
      on Mr. Thrale’s death, iii. 136, n. 2;
    anxiety not to offend, iii. 54, n. 1;
    appeals to her love and pity,
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