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CONTENTS OF VOL. 111.
CHAPTER I.
1773.
Edinburgh-Lord Elibank-Edinburgh Castle-Fingal-Credulity-Second Sight-Garrick and
Foote as Companions-Moravian Missions and Methodism-History-Robertson-Rebellion
-Lord Mansfield-Richardson-Private Life of a Judge-Blair-Boswell's Imitations-
Officers of the Army-Academy for Deaf and Dumb-Scotch Highlander and English
Sailor-Roslin and Hawthornden-Cranston-Sir John Dalrymple-Johnson's Departure
for London-Letters from Lord Hailes and Mr. Dempster,
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CHAPTER II.
1774.
Letters to Boswell, &c.-Religious Festivals and Pilgrimages-Death of Goldsmith-Greek
Epitaph-Diary of a Tour into Wales-Chatsworth-Dovedale-Keddleston-Derby-Com-
bermere-Hawkestone-Chester-St. Asaph-Denbigh-Holywell-Rhudlan Castle-Pen-
maen-Mawr-Bangor-Caernarvon-Bodville-Conway Castle-Ombersley-Hagley-The
Leasowes-Blenheim-Beaconsfield,
CHAPTER III.
1774-1775.
Mr. Thrale's Political Position-Johnson's "Patriot"-Death of young Col-Mr. Perkins→→→
Hoole's Tragedy-Charlotte Lennox-Baretti's "Easy Lessons "-Case of Dr. Memis-
Lord Hailes's "Annals "-Mary Queen of Scots-American Politics-Ossian-Letter to
Macpherson--Personal Courage-Foote-Publishes "Journey to the Western Islands ❞—
Mr. Knox-Mr. Tytler-Mr. Windham-Irish and Scotch Impudence compared-Ossian
Controversy-Visit to Oxford,
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CHAPTER IV.
1775.
Boswell revisits London-Peter Garrick-"Taxation no Tyranny"-Dr. Tower's “Answer"
-Gerard Hamilton-Sheridan's Gold Medal to home-Mrs. Abington-Cibber's "Non-
juror "-Boswell's "Surveillance"-Garrick's Prologues-The Adams-Garrick's Imita-
tions of Johnson-Gray's Odes-Lord Chesterfield's Letters-Johnson's Diploma of
LL.D.-Abyssinian Bruce-Coleman's "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion "-Mason's
"Elfrida," and "Caractacus "The Bath-Easton Vase-Fleet Street and Charing
Cross,
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CHAPTER V.
Public Speaking Statutes against Bribery-Cibber's Comedies-Gentility and Morality-
Charles II.-George I.-Trading Judges-Christopher Smart-Twiss's Travels-Addison's
Italy-"Lilliburlero"-Gibbon-Patriotism-Mrs. Pritchard-Happiness-General Ogle-
thorpe-Middle-rate Poets-Patronage-Lord Bute-Good Friday-London-Commerce-
Value of Knowledge-Literary Fame-Infidelity-"Nil admirari”—Advantages of Read-
ing,
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Dinner at Owen Cambridge's-Female Portrait Painters-" Good-humoured Fellows "—
Isaac Walton's "Lives"-Flattery-History-Early Habits-"The Beggar's Opera "—
Richard Brinsley Sheridan-Modern Politics-Sir Roger de Coverley-Visit to Bedlam—
Sunday Consultations-Gray's Letters-Alchymy-Johnson's Laugh-Letters to Langton,
Mrs. Thrale, &c.—Ramble into the Middle Counties-Tour to France,
CHAPTER VII.
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Excursion into France-Paris-Benedictine Monks-Choisi-Palais-Royal-Mrs. Fermor-
Palais-Bourbon - Fontainebleau-Versailles-Trianon-Santerre, the Brewer-King's Li-
brary-Sorbonne-St. Cloud-Sêve - Bellevue-Meudon-Grand-Chartreux-Luxembourg
-Friar Wilkes-St. Denis-Chantilly-Compiegne-Cambray-State of Society in France-
Madame de Boufflers-Voltaire-Dr. Burney's Collectanea-Letters to Mrs. Mon-
tagu, &c.,
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CHAPTER VIII.
1776.
Law of Entail-Boswell's Melancholy-John Wesley-Clarendon Press-Booksellers' Profits→→→
Bolt Court-Mrs. Thrale's Birth-day-Entails-Smith's "Wealth of Nations "-Lawyers and
Lawsuits-Scotch Militia Bill-Obligation in settling Estates-"Johnsoniana"-Value of
Truth--Monastic Orders-Carthusians-Religious Austerities-Wine-bibbing-Fasting-
Influence of Education-Arithmetic-Sea Life,
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Frcursion to Oxford with Boswell-Ornamental Architecture-Statuary. -Advice to Hypo
chondriacs-" Anatomy of Melancholy "-Dr. Wetherell-Dr. Adams-Conversation-
Bishop Horne-Walton's "Lives "-Biography-Dartineuf-Gibbon-Steele-" Tristram
Shandy"-Burke-Blenheim-Taverns and Inns-Dyer's "Fleece "-Grainger's "Sugar
Cane "-Birmingham-Legitimation-Marriage-Quakers-Holidays-Nelson's "Festivals "
-Mr. Boulton-Lichfield and its Inhabitants,
CHAPTER X.
189
Lichfield-Peter Garrick-Death of Mr. Thrale's only Son-Shakspeare's Mulberry Tree-
Lord Bute-Marriage-Questioning-Sir Fletcher Norton-Ashbourne-Dr. Taylor-" Old
Men putting themselves to nurse "—"Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra "-Ingratitude-Mr. Wed-
derburne " Marrying for Love "-Dr. James-Melancholy-Captain Cook-Omai-Cha-
racter of a Soldier-Good humour of ancient Philosophers-Public Schools-English Uni-
versities-Libels on the Dead,
CHAPTER XI.
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Popish Corruptions-Licensed Stews-Seduction-" Jack Ellis "-Gaming-Card-playing-
Conjugal Obligations-Law of Usury-Beggars-Dr. Cheyne-Solitude-Joseph Simpson-
Children-Cowley-Flatman's Poems-Cibbers's "Lives "-Gray-Akenside-Mason-The
Reviews-Lord Lyttelton-"The Spectator "-Dr. Barry-Dinner at General Paoli's-
"Abel Drugger "-Italy-The Mediterranean-Poetical Translation-Art of Printing-
Education of the People-Thomson-" Hudibras "-Purpose of Tragedy-" Othello"-
John Dennis-Swearing-Wine-drinking-Cumberland's "Odes"-Savage Life,
CHAPTER XII.
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Excursion to Bristol-Rowley's Poems-Chatterton-Garrick's "Archer "-Brute Creation-
Chesterfield's "Letters ""To be, or not to be "-Luxury-Oglethorpe-Lord Elibank-
Conversation-Egotism-Dr. Oldfield-Commentators on the Bible-Lord Thurlow-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-Mrs. Rudd, •
CHAPTER XIII.
1776-1777.
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Bir Joshua Reynolds's Dinners-Goldsmith's Epitaph-The Round Robin-Employment of
Time-Blair's Sermons-Easter Day-Prayer-Sir Alexander Dick-Shaw's Erse Grammar
--Johnson engages to write "The Lives of the English Poets,"-Edward Dilly-Correspon-
dence Charles O'Connor-Dr. Zachary Pearce's Posthumous Works--Prologue to Hugh
Kelly's "Word to the Wise,"
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CHAPTER XIV.
1777.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan-Savage's "Sir Thomas Overbury "-Thomson-Mrs Strickland-.
The Townley Collection-Dr. Dodd-Boswell at the Tomb of Melancthon-Isaac De Groot-
Dr. Watts-Letter to Mrs. Boswell-Visit to Ashbourne-" Harry Jackson-Sidney'
"Arcadia "-Projected Trip to the Baltic-Grief for the Loss of Relatives and Friends→→→
Incomes of Curates-Johnson's humane and zealous Interference in behalf of Dr.
Dodd,.
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CHAPTER XV.
Mr. Fitzherbert-Hamilton of Bangour-Bleeding-Hume-Fear of Death-Duties of a Biogra
pher-Stuart Family-Birth-days-Warton's Poems-Keddlestone-Derby-Shaving-Ni-
chols's "De Animâ Medicà "-Dr. Dodd-Blair-Goldsmith-Monboddo's "Air-bath "-
Early-rising-Sleep-Water-drinking-Rutty's "Spiritual Diary "-Autobiographers-Imita-
tors of Johnson's Style-Biographia Britannica-Melancholy and Madness-London Life-
Professor of the Law-Employment-Dr. Taylor's Sermons-Actors,.
CHAPTER XVI.
1777-1778.
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Ashbourne-Personal Disputes-Duke of Devonshire-Burke's Definition of a Free Government
-Ilam-The Christian Revelation-Mungo Campbell-Dr. Taylor's Bull-dog-"Esop at
play "-Memory-Rochester's Poems-Prior-Hypochondria-Books-Homer and Virgil—
Lord Bacon-Topham Beauclerk-Grainger's "Ode on Solitude "-Music-Happiness-
Future State-Slave Trade-American Independence-Corruption of Parliament-Planting
-"Oddity Johnson"-Decision of the Negro Cause-Mr. Saunders Welch-Advice to
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Travellers-Correspondence,
CHAPTER XVII.
1778.
Inmates of Bolt Court-Tom Davies-Counsel at the Bar of the House of Commons-Thomas à
Kempis-Uses of a Diary-Strict Adherence to Truth-Ghosts-John Wesley-Alcibiades's
Dog-Emigration-Parliamentary Eloquence-Place Hunters-Irish Language-Thicknesse's
"Travels"-Honesty-Temptation-Dr. Kennedy's Tragedy-Shooting a Highwayman—Mr.
Dunning-Contentment-Laxity of Narration-Mrs. Montagu-Harris of Salisbury—Defini-
tion-Wine drinking-Pleasure-Goldsmith-Charles the Fifth-Best English Sermons-
66 Seeing Scotland"-Absenteeism-Delany's "Observations on Swift,"
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CHAPTER XVIII.
Horace's Villa-Country Life-Great Cities-French Literature-Old Age-" Unius Lacertæ ”
-Potter's Eschylus-Pope's Homer-Sir W. Temple's Style-Elphinston's Martial-Hawk-
ins's Tragedy-Insubordination-Fame-Use of Riches-Economy-Soldiers and Sailors—
Charles Fox-De Foe-Cock-Lane Ghost-Asking Questions-Hulks-Foreign Travel-Short
Hand-Dodd's Poems-Pennant-Johnson and Percy-Stratagem-Correspondence,
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