485;
beating with his feet, v. 60, n. 3;
blowing out his breath, i. 485; iii. 153;
convulsive starts, i. 95;
mentioned by Pope, i. 143;
described, ib., i. 144, n. 1;
astonish Hogarth, i. 146;
alluded to by Churchill, i. 419, n. 1;
astonish a young girl, iv. 183, n. 2;
lose him an assistant-mastership, iv. 407, n. 4;
described by Boswell, v. 18;
by Reynolds, ib., n. 4;
entering a room, i. 484;
gesticulation, mimicked by Garrick, ii. 326;
half-whistling, iii. 357;
inarticulate sounds, i. 485; iii. 68;
march, iv. 71, 425;
pronunciation: see under JOHNSON, pronunciation;
puffing hard with passion, iii. 273;
riding, iv. 425;
rolling, iii. 294, 357; iv. 109; v. 40;
shaking his head and body, i. 485;
striding across a floor, i. 145;
talking to himself, i. 483; iv. 236, 399, n. 6; v. 306-7;
touching posts, i. 485, n. 1;
Boswell tells him of some of them, iv. 183, n. 2;
he reads Boswell's account, v. 307, n. 2;
Pembroke College: see under OXFORD, Pembroke College;
penance in Uttoxeter market, iv. 373;
penitents, a great lover of, iv. 406, n. 1;
pension: see PENSION;
personal appearance,
described by Boswell, iv. 425; v. 18;
by Miss Burney, i. 144, n. 1; ii. 141, n. 2; v. 23, n. 4;
by Mrs. Piozzi and Reynolds, i. 94, n. 4;
in _The Race_ ii. 31;
'A labouring working mind, an indolent reposing body,' iv. 444;
fingers and nails, iv. 190;
'ghastly smiles,' ii. 69, n. 1; v. 48, n. 1;
'majestic frame,' i. 472;
robust frame, i. 462;
youth, in his, i. 94;
philology, love of, iv. 34;
philosophy, study of, i. 302;
physicians, pleasure in the company of, iv. 293;
physick, knowledge of, i. 159; iii. 22;
'great dabbler in it,' iii. 152;
physics himself violently, iv. 135, n. 1; 229, n. 1;
writes a prescription, v. 74;
picture of himself in [Greek: Gnothi seauton] i. 298, n. 4;
piety, maintained the obligations of, v. 17;
plagiarism, i. 334;
players, prejudice against: see PLAYERS;
please, seeking to, iii. 54, n. 1;
poems of his youth, i. 50;
poetical mind, iii. 151; iv. 428; v. 17;
poetry, pleasure in writing, iv. 219; v. 418;
Politian, proposal to publish the poems of, i. 90;
politeness, his, acknowledged, i. 286; ii. 36; iii. 81, 331; iv. 126;
v. 23, 82, 98-9, 363;
thinks himself very polite, iii. 3