CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Excursion into France.

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Choisi. Palais-Royal.—Mrs. Fermor.-Palais-Bourbon.

Fontainebleau. - Versailles. Trianon. Santerre the

Brewer.- King's Library. – Sorbonne. St. Cloud.

Sêve. Bellevue. Meudon. Grand-Chartreux.

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Luxembourg. - Friar Wilkes.—St. Denis Chantilly.

Compeigne.-Cambray. - State of Society in France.

Madame de Boufflers. - Voltaire. Dr. Burney's Colleo-

- Letters to Mrs. Montagu, &c.

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CHAPTER II.

1776.

Law of Entail. Boswell's Melancholy. - John Wesley.

Clarendon Press. Booksellers' Profits. -

Mrs. Thrale's Birthday. — Entails. Smith's "Wealth of

ligious Austerities. —Wine-bibbing.— Fasting.—Influence

CHAPTER III.

1776.

ture.

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Excursion to Oxford with Boswell. Ornamental Architec-

Statuary. Advice to Hypochondriacs. "Anato-

my of Melancholy."- Dr. Wetherell. - Dr. Adams.

Conversation.—Bishop Horne. - Walton's "Lives.”·

Biography. Dartineuf. Gibbon.-Steele.

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Taverns and Inns.

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Dyer's "Fleece.". Grainger's "Sugar Cane."

Birmingham. - Legitimation. — Marriage. - Quakers.

Holidays. - Nelson's "Festivals."- Soho.- Mr. Boulton.

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· Shakspeare's Mulberry-tree.—Lord Bute.—Marriage.—

Questioning. Sir Fletcher Norton.

Taylor.

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Old Men putting themselves to nurse.

Palmerino d'Inghilterra."— Ingratitude. Mr. Wedder-

Ellis. Gaming.-Card-playing.-Conjugal Obligations.

Law of Usury. — Beggars. — Dr. Cheyne.

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tor."-Dr. Barry. — Dinner at General Paoli's. -

Drugger.- Italy.-The Mediterranean. Poetical Trans-

Education of the People.

Purpose of Tragedy.

"Letters."

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"To be, or not to be."- Luxury. - Ogle-

thorpe. Lord Elibank. Conversation.

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Dr. Oldfield. Commentators on the Bible. - Lord Thur-

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low. - Sir John Pringle. — Dinner at Mr. Dilly's. - John

Wilkes. Foote's Mimicry.-Garrick's Wit. -Biography.

-Cibber's Plays.—" Difficile est propriè,"&c.— City Poets.

"Diabolus Regis.' Lord Bute. Mrs. Knowles.

Sermons.- Easter Day. — Prayer. — Sir Alexander Dick.

Shaw's Erse Grammar. Johnson engages to write

"The Lives of the English Poets." - Edward Dilly. -

Correspondence. Charles

CHAPTER VIII.

1777.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Savage's "Sir Thomas Over-

Mrs. Strickland. The Townley

bury." Thomson.

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Collection. Dr. Dodd.

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Boswell at the Tomb of Me-

lancthon. Isaac De Groot. - Dr. Watts.

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Letter to

Mrs. Boswell. Visit to Ashbourne. Harry Jack-

Sidney's "Arcadia.".

son.

Baltic.

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Projected Trip to the

Grief for the Loss of Relatives and Friends.

Incomes of Curates. -Johnson's humane and zealous In-

Hume. Fear of Death. Duties of a Biographer.

Stuart Family. — Birthdays. Warton's Poems. - Ked-

Derby. Shaving. Nichols's "De Animâ

Blair. Goldsmith. - Mon-

drinking. — Rutty's "Spiritual Diary."— Autobiographers.

-Imitators of Johnson's Style. - Biographia Britannica.—

Melancholy and Madness. — Life in London. - Profession

of the Law. - Employment.-Dr. Taylor's "Sermons.”—

Authors.

NOTE ON CIBBER'S "LIVES OF THE POETS"

ARGUMENT, BY DR. JOHNSON, IN FAVOUR

MR. JAMES THOMPSON, MINISTER OF DUMFERMLINE

No. III. NOTE

ON WILKES'S

HORACE'S" DIFFICILE EST," &c.

INTERPRETATION

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Monks. Choisi.

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- Palais-Royal. - Mrs. Fermor. - Palais-Bourbon. - Fontainebleau.- Versailles. Trianon.-Santerre, the Brewer.-King's Library. Sorbonne. St. Cloud. Séve. Bellevue. Meudon. Grand-Chartreux. Luxembourg. Friar Wilkes. St. Denis. Chantilly. peigne.

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Cambray. State of Society in France. Madame de Boufflers.- Voltaire. — Dr. Burney's Collectanea. · Letters to Mrs. Montagu, &c.

Ir is to be regretted, that Johnson did not write an account of his travels in France; for as he is reported to have once said, that "he could write the life of a broomstick (1)," so, notwithstanding so many former travellers have exhausted almost every subject for remark in that great kingdom, his

(1) It is probable that the author's memory here deceived him, and that he was thinking of Stella's remark, that Swift could write finely upon a broomstick.-J. BosWELL, jun.