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CONTENTS OF VOL. 111.

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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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,

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,

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

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-

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,

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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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,

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

Frcursion to Oxford with Boswell-Ornamental Architecture-Statuary. -Advice to Hypɔ

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,

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,

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,

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,

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,"

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.

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 Medicâ "-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,.

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

Travellers-Correspondence,

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-

"Seeing Scotland "-Absenteeism-Delany's "Observations on Swift,"

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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