Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

by Samuel Johnson

  X.

  XAVIER, Francis, v. 392, n. 5.

  XENOPHON,

  delineation of characters in the Anabasis, iv. 31;

  Memorabilia, iii. 367, w. 2; v. 414;

  Treatise of Oeconomy, iii. 94.

  XERXES,

  described in Juvenal, ii. 228;

  weeping at seeing his army, iii. 199.

  XYLANDER, i. 208, n. 1.

  Y.

  YALDEN, Rev. Thomas,

  Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 370;

  his Hymn to Darkness, ib., n. 8.

  YATES, Mr. Justice, i. 437, n. 2.

  YAWNING, anecdote of, iii. 15.

  YONGE, Sir William,

  character, i. 197, n. 4;

  Epilogue to Irene, i. 197;

  pronunciation of great, ii. 161.

  Yorick’s Sermons, iv. 109, n. 1.

  YORK, Address to the King, iv. 265; mentioned, iii. 439.

  YORK, Archbishops of, their public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3.

  See MARKHAM, Archbishop.

  YORK, Duke of (James II), v. 239, n. 1.

  YORK, Duke of,

  goes to hear the Cock Lane ghost, i. 407, n. 1;

  Johnson dedicates music to him, ii. 2;

  kindness to Foote, iii. 97, n. 2.

  YORK, House of, iii. 157.

  YORKSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 362.

  You was, iv. 196, n. 1.

  YOUNG, Arthur,

  Birmingham manufacturers in 1768, ii. 459, n. 1;

  roads in the north of England, iii. 135, n. 1;

  mentioned, iii. 161, n. 2.

  YOUNG, Dr. Edward,

  blank verse of Night Thoughts, iv. 42, n. 7, 60;

  Britannia’s daughters and Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1;

  Brunetta and Stella, v. 270;

  Card, The, ridiculed in, v. 270, n. 4;

  Cheyne, Dr., iii. 27, n. 1;

  compared with Shakespeare and Dryden, ii. 86, n. 1;

  Conjectures on Original Composition, v. 269;

  critics, defies, ii. 61, n. 4;

  ’death-bed a detector of the heart,’ v. 397, n. 1;

  epigram on Lord Stanhope, iv. 102, n. 4;

  ’For bankrupts write,’ &c., iii. 434, n. 6;

  gloomy, how far, iv. 59, 120;

  ’Good breeding sends the satire,’ &c., iv. 298;

  housekeeper, his, v. 270;

  Johnson and Boswell visit his house, iv. 119-21;

  Johnson calls him ‘a great man,’ iv. 120;

  describes meeting him, v. 269;

  Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3;

  estimate of his poetry, ii. 96; iv. 60; v. 269 — 70;

  knotting, on, iii. 242, n. 3;

  knowledge not great, v. 269, n. 3;

  Langton’s account of him, iv. 59;

  Life by Croft, iv. 58; v. 270, n. 4;

  Love of Fame, v. 270;

  Mead, Dr., compliments, iii. 355, n. 2;

  Night Thoughts, ii. 96; iv. 60-1; v. 270;

  ’Nor takes her tea,’ &c., iii. 324, n. 3;

  ’O my coevals,’ in. 307;

  preferment, pined for, iii. 251; iv. 121;

  quotations, iv. 102, n. 1;

  ’quotidian prey,’ v. 346;

  Rambler, his copy of the, i. 215;

  ’Small sands the mountain,’ &c., iii. 164;

  sundial, iv. 60;

  Universal Passion,

  money received for it lost in the South Sea, iv. 121;

  ’Words all in vain pant,’ &c., iv. 25, n. 3.

  YOUNG, Mr. (Dr. Young’s son),

  Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 119-21;

  quarrel with his father, v. 270.

  YOUNG, Professor, of Glasgow, imitates Johnson’s style, iv. 392.

  YOUNG PEOPLE,

  generous sentiments, i. 445;

  Johnson loves their acquaintance, i. 445.

  YOUTH,

  companions of our, iv. 147;

  scenes, i. 370; ii. 461, n. 1; v. 450.

  Yvery, History of the House of, iv. 198.

  Z.

  ZECK, George and Luke, ii. 7.

  ZECKLERS, ii. 7 n. 3.

  ZEILA, i. 88.

  ZELIDE, ii. 56, n. 2.

  ZENOBIA, ii. 127, n. 3.

  Zobeide, iii. 38.

  ZOFFANI, J., iv. 421, n. 2.

  ZON, Mr., i. 274.

  ZOZIMA, i. 223.

  DICTA PHILOSOPHI. A CONCORDANCE OF JOHNSON’S SAYINGS.

  ABANDON. ‘Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it,’ iv. 183.

  ABSTRACT. ‘Why, Sir, he fancies so, because he is not accustomed to abstract,’ ii. 99.

  ABSURD. ‘When people see a man absurd in what they understand, they may conclude the same of him in what they do not understand,’ ii. 466.

  ABUSE. ‘Warburton, by extending his abuse, rendered it ineffectual,’

  v. 93;

  ’They may be invited on purpose to abuse him,’ ii. 362;

  ’You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one,’ i. 409.

  ACCELERATION. ‘You cannot conceive with what acceleration I advance towards death,’ iv. 411.

  Accommodé. ‘J’ai accommodé un dîner qui faisait trembler toute la France’ (recorded by Boswell), v. 310, n. 3.

  ACTION. ‘Action may augment noise, but it never can enforce argument,’ ii. 211.

  ADMIRATION. ‘Very near to admiration is the wish to admire,’ iii. 411, n. 2.

  AGAIN. ‘See him again’ (Beauclerk), iv. 197.

  ALIVE. ‘Are we alive after all this satire?’ iv. 29.

  ALMANAC. ‘Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanac’ (Boswell), ii. 366.

  AMAZEMENT. ‘His taste is amazement,’ ii. 41, n. 1.

  AMBASSADOR. ‘The ambassador says well,’ iii. 411.

  AMBITION. ‘Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag,’ iv. 1, n. 2.

  AMERICAN. ‘I am willing to love all mankind, except an American,’ iii. 290.

  AMUSEMENTS. ‘I am a great friend to public amusements,’ ii. 169.

  ANCIENTS. ‘The ancients endeavoured to make physic a science and failed; and the moderns to make it a trade and have succeeded’ (Ballow), iii. 22, n. 4.

  ANGRY. ‘A man is loath to be angry at himself,’ ii. 377.

  ANTIQUARIAN. ‘A mere antiquarian is a rugged being,’ iii. 278.

  APPLAUSE. ‘The applause of a single human being is of great consequence,’ iv. 32.

  ARGUES. ‘He always gets the better when he argues alone’ (Goldsmith), ii. 236.

  ARGUMENT. ‘Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged

  to find you an understanding,’ iv. 313;

  ’Nay, Sir, argument is argument,’ iv. 281;

  ’All argument is against it; but all belief is for it,’ iii. 230;

  ’Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow’ (Boyle), iv. 282.

  ASINUS. ‘Plus negabit unus asinus in una hora quam centum philosophi probaverint in centum annis,’ ii. 268, n. 2.

  ASPIRED. ‘If he aspired to meanness his retrograde ambition was completely gratified,’ v. 148, n. 1.

  ATHENIAN. ‘An Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads,’ i. 73.

  ATTACKED. ‘I would rather be attacked than unnoticed,’ iii. 375.

  ATTENTION. ‘He died of want of attention,’ ii. 447.

  ATTITUDENISE. ‘Don’t attitudenise,’ iv. 323.

  ATTORNEY. ‘Now it is not necessary to know our thoughts to tell that an attorney will sometimes do nothing,’ iii. 297; ‘He did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney,’ ii. 126.

  AUCTION-ROOM. ‘Just fit to stand at the door of an auction-room with a long pole, and cry “Pray gentlemen, walk in,”’ ii. 349.

  AUDACITY. ‘Stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt,’ ii. 292, n. 1.

  AUTHORS. ‘Authors are like privateers, always fair game for one another,’r />
  iv. 191, n. 1;

  ’The chief glory of every people arises from its authors,’ v. 137, n. 2.

  AVARICE. ‘You despise a man for avarice, but do not hate him,’ iii. 71.

  B.

  BABIES. ‘Babies do not want to hear about babies,’ iv. 8, n. 3.

  BAITED. ‘I will not be baited with what and why,’ iii. 268.

  BANDY. ‘It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign,’ ii. 35.

  BARK. ‘Let him come out as I do and bark,’ iv. 161, n. 3.

  BARREN. ‘He was a barren rascal,’ ii. 174.

  BAWDY. ‘A fellow who swore and talked bawdy,’ ii. 64.

  BAWDY-HOUSE. ‘Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods,’ iv. 26.

  BEAST. ‘He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man,’ ii. 435, n. 7.

  BEAT. ‘Why, Sir, I believe it is the first time he has beat; he may have been beaten before,’ ii. 210.

  BEATEN. ‘The more time is beaten, the less it is kept’ (Rousseau), iv. 283, n. 1.

  BELIEF. ‘Every man who attacks my belief … makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy,’ iii. 10.

  BELIEVE. ‘We don’t know which half to believe,’ iv. 178.

  BELL. ‘It is enough for me to have rung the bell to him’ (Burke), iv. 27.

  BELLOWS. ‘So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonder she is not by this time become a cinder,’ ii. 227.

  BELLY. ‘I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else,’ i. 467.

  BENEFIT. ‘When the public cares the thousandth part for you that it does for her, I will go to your benefit too,’ ii. 330.

  BIG. ‘Don’t, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters,’ i. 471.

  BIGOT. ‘Sir, you are a bigot to laxness,’ v. 120.

  BISHOP. ‘A bishop has nothing to do at a tippling-house,’ iv. 75;

  ’I should as soon think of contradicting a Bishop,’ iv. 274;

  ’Queen Elizabeth had learning enough to have given dignity to a

  bishop,’ iv. 13;

  ’Dull enough to have been written by a bishop’ (Foote), ib. n. 3.

  BLADE. ‘A blade of grass is always a blade of grass,’ v. 439, n. 2.

  BLAZE. ‘The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,’ iii. 423.

  BLEEDS. ‘When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his country he has in fact no uneasy feeling,’ i. 394.

  BLOOM. ‘It would have come out with more bloom if it had not been seen before by anybody,’ i. 185.

  BLUNT. ‘There is a blunt dignity about him on every occasion’ (Sir

  M. Le Fleming), i. 461, n. 4.

  BOARDS. ‘The most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon boards’

  (Garrick), ii. 465.

  BOLDER. ‘Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think, never were brought together,’ iv. 13.

  Bon-mot. ‘It is not every man that can carry a bon-mot’ (Fitzherbert), ii. 350.

  BOOK. ‘It was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is concealed behind the door,’ i. 396; ‘You have done a great thing when you have brought a boy to have entertainment from a book,’ iii. 385; ‘Read diligently the great book of mankind,’ i. 464; ‘The parents buy the books, and the children never read them,’ iv. 8, n. 3; ‘The progress which the understanding makes through a book has more pain than pleasure in it,’ iv. 218; ‘It is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold,’ ii. 237.