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.
  Travels, wishes to publish his, iii. 300, 301, n. 1;
  truthfulness:  See AUTHENTICITY;
  ‘universal man, a,’ iii. 375, n. 2;
  ‘unscottified,’ ii. 242;
  Utrecht, goes to, i. 400, 473;
  vanity, avows his, i. 12;
    in his youth, i. 436, n. 3;
  variety of men and manners, sees a, ii. 352, n. 1, 378, n. 1;
  Voltaire, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2;
    visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5;
  vows, love of making, ii. 20, 24:  see below, WINE, vows of sobriety;
  Walpole, Horace, calls on, iv. 110, n. 3;
    who is silent in his presence, iv. 314, n. 5;
  Warren, Dr., attended on his death-bed by, iv. 399, n. 5;
  water-drinking, tries:  See below, WINE;
  welcome where-ever he goes, iii. 414;
  wife, his search of a, ii. 47, n. 2, 56, n. 2, 169, n. 2;
  wife, his, ‘a true Montgomerie,’ ii. 140, n. 1;
    his praise of her, v. 24;
    bargain with her, ib. n. 3;
    death, i. 236, n. 1;
    See BOSWELL, Mrs.;
  will, his, iii. 400, n. 1;
  Williams, Miss, tea with, i. 421, 463; ii. 99;
  Wilkes, dines with, ii. 378, n. 1:  See under Wilkes, John;
  Wine, bruised and robbed when drunk, i. 13, n. 3;
    ‘intoxicated, but not drunk,’ ii. 436, n. 1;
    intoxicated at Bishop Shipley’s, iv. 88, n. 1;
      at Miss Monckton’s, 109;
      in Sky on punch, v. 258;
      penitent, v. 259;
      thinks it good for health, v. 260;
    Johnson advises him to drink less, ii. 377, n. 1; iv. 266; 274;
      to drink water, iii. 169;
    life shortened by his indulgence, iii. 170, n. 1;
    lover of it, a, iii. 243, n. 4; v. 156;
    nerves affected by port, i. 434, iii. 381;
    vow of sobriety under the venerable yew, ii. 381, n. 1, 436, n. 1;
      to Paoli and Courtenay, ib.;
    water-drinking, tries, iii. 170, n. 1, 328;
  wits, one of a group of, ii. 324;
  works, list of his projected, v. 91, n. 2
    (to this list should be added
    An account of a projected Tour to the Isle of Man, iii. 80);
  writings, early, i. 383, n. 3;
  York, at, in 1784, iv. 265, 267;
  Zelide, a Dutch lady, in love with, ii. 56, n. 2. 
BOSWELL, Mrs. (the author’s wife),
  Boswell praises her as ‘a true Montgomerie,’ ii. 140, n. 1;
    a valuable wife, iii. 160, n. 1, 416;
    she describes him as a man led by a bear, ii. 269, n. 1;
  death, i. 7, n. 2, 236, n. 1; iv. 136, n. 2;
  health, iii. 130-1, 215, 362; iv. 155;
  Johnson, feelings towards, ii. 269, n. 1, 272, 275, 379, 380, 383,
387, 411, 412, 418, 420, 422, 424; iii. 86, 93, 95, 104, 105, 210, 372,
436, 442; iv. 149, 155, 226, 264;
    hospitality to, v. 23-4, 45, 395;
    invites her to his house, iii. 216, 316;
    letter to, iv. 157.  For letters from—­:  See JOHNSON, Letters;
    sends marmalade to, iii. 105, 108, 120, 129;
  receives a set of The Lives and
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