THE

LIFE

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

INCLUDING

A JOURNAL OF HIS TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES ;

BY

JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.

NEW EDITION,

WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS AND NOTES,

BY

THE RIGHT HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER, M.P.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

TWO SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES OF JOIINSONIANA,

BY HAWKINS, PIOZZI, MURPHY, TYERS, REYNOLDS,
MALONE, NICHOLS, STEEVENS, CUMBERLAND,

AND OTHERS.

JOHNSONIANA - CONTINUED.

CONTENTS.

PART XXI. ANECDOTES BY NORTHCOTE

PAGE 1

XXII.
Miss SEWARD

9

XXIII.
PARR

22

XXIV.
BARETTI

35

XXV.
PERCY

40

XXVI.
LADY KNIGHT

48

XXVII.
STOCKDALE

51

XXVIII.
Miss HAWKINS

56

XXIX.
NICHOLS

62

XXX.
MURPHY

66

XXXI. CRITICAL REMARKS BY DRAKE

76

XXXII. ANECDOTES, OPINIONS, AND REMARKS,

BY VARIOUS PERSONS

96

XXXIII. JEUX D'ESPRIT ON Johnson's B10-
GRAPHERS

182
XXXIV, MEMOIR OF BosWELL; EXTRACTS FROM
HIS LETTERS, &çi&c.

203

on

Blue-stocking Parties, 116. Cibber, Colley, 119.

Bolingbroke, Lord, 67. “ Clarissa," 2.

Bolt Court, 57.

Cobb, Mrs., 13.

Book and Author, 113. Colloquial eloquence, John.

Books, 151.

son's, 101.

Books of Travels, 152. Colman, George, his “ Post-

Boothby, Miss Hill, 9. 244. humous Work of S. John-

249.

son,” 193. ; his Imitation

Boswell, 18. 60, 61. 71. 123. of Johnson's Style, 286.

141. 143. 145. 149. ; brief Complainers, 60.

Memoir of, by Malone, 201.; Compliments, 7.

his Letters to Malone, 209.; “ Completely wicked man,"

his Tour to Corsica, 221. 3.

Boyse, Samuel, 63.

Cowper, William, on Bos-

Buchan, Earl of, 122.

well's Life of Johnson,

Building without a scaffold, 145.; on Johnson's Criti.

110.

cism on Watts, 160. ; on

Burney's History of Music, the " Lives of the Poets,"

31.

161.; his Epitaph

Burke, Edmund, 60. 121. Johnson, 162.

Burke and Johnson com- Coxe, Rev. William, 118.

pared, 139.

Curiosity, 2.

Byron, Lord, on the “ Vanity

of Human Wishes," 165. ; Death, 47, 71. 89.

on the “ Lives of the

Des Cartes, 246,

Poets," 165.

Designs, list of Johnson's,

294.

Cambridge, 263

Dictionary, the, 43. 129. 173.

Carter, :Mrs.; on Johnson's Dide, : Reed's tragedy of,

36 "

death, 117.

Chalmers Alexander, :en: Dinner at University, 137.

Johnson's 36 Linde Labor, Disorděts of intellect, 92.

131.; his

« Lesson in Dodd, Dr., 126,

Biography,"184.

Donne v. Pope, 135.

Change, love of, 11%. Drake, Dr. Nathan, his cri.
Charles the Twelfth, 53.

tical remarks on “Lon-
Chedworth, Lord, 118.

don," 76.; on “ Vanity of
Chesterfield, Lord, 25. 142. Human Wishes,” 78. ; on
Choice of a wife, 111.

Trene," 80. ; on “ Ram.

63.

94

1,119.