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PREFACE TO MR. CROKER'S EDITION
ORIGINAL TITLE
ORIGINAL DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
MR. BOSWELL'S ADVERTISEMENTS
MR. MALONE'S ADVERTISEMENTS
CHAPTER I. 1709-1716.
Introduction. Johnson's Birth and Parentage. He inherits
from his Father "a vile melancholy." His Account of
the Members of his Family. Traditional Stories of his
Precocity. Taken to London to be touched by Queen
Anne for the Scrofula
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CHAPTER II. 1716-1728.
Johnson at Lichfield School. Boyish Days. Removed to
Stourbridge. Specimens of his School Exercises and early
Verses. He leaves Stourbridge, and passes two Years
with his Father
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CHAPTER III. 1728-1731.
Enters Pembroke College, Oxford. His College Life. The
"Morbid Melancholy" increases. Translates Pope's Mes-
siah. Course of Reading. Quits College
CHAPTER IV. 1731-1736.
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Death of his Father. Gilbert Walmesley. Captain Garrick.
Mrs. Hill Boothby. "Molly Aston." Johnson becomes
Usher of Market-Bosworth School. Removes to Birming-
bam. Translates Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia. Returns
to Lichfield. Proposes to print the Latin Poems of Poli-
tian. Offers to write for the Gentleman's Magazine.
His juvenile Attachments. Marries. Opens a private
Academy at Edial. David Garrick his Pupil. Commences
" Irene "
CHAPTER V. 1737-1738.
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Johnson goes to London with Garrick. Lodges in Exeter
Street. Retires to Greenwich, and proceeds with " Irene."
Projects a Translation of the History of the Council of
Trent. Returns to Lichfield, and finishes" Irene." Re-
moves to London with his Wife. List of Residences.
Becomes a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine - 27
CHAPTER XIV. 1760-1763.
Miscellaneous Essays. Acquaintance with Murphy. Aken-
side and Rolt. Mackenzie and Eccles. Letters to Baretti.
Painting and Music. Sir George Staunton. Letter to a
Lady soliciting Church Preferment for her Son. John-
son's Pension. Letters to Lord Bute. Visit to Devon-
shire with Sir Joshua Reynolds. Collins
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CHAPTER XV. 1763.
Boswell becomes acquainted with Johnson. Derrick. Mr.
Thomas Sheridan. Mrs. Sheridan. Mr. Thomas Davies.
Mrs Davies. First interview. Johnson's Dress. His
Chambers in Temple Lane. Dr. Blair. Dr. James Fordyce.
Ossian. Christopher Smart. Johnson, the Equestrian.
Clifton's Eating House. The Mitre. Colley Cibber's Odes.
Gray. Belief in Apparitions. Cock-Lane Ghost. Churchill.
Goldsmith. Mallet's "Elvira." Scotch Landlords. Plan
of Study
131
CHAPTER XVI. 1763.
Suppers at the Mitre. Dr. John Campbell. Churchill.
Bonnell Thornton. Burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's
Day." The Connoisseur. The World. Miss Williams's
Tea Parties. London. Miss Porter's Legacy. "The
King can do no wrong.' Historical Composition. Bayle.
Arbuthnot. The noblest Prospect in Scotland. Rhyme.
Adam Smith. Jacobitism. Lord Hailes. Keeping a
Journal.
Johnson's
The King of Prussia's Poetry.
Library. "Not at Home." Pity. Style of Hume. In-
equality of Mankind. Constitutional Goodness. Miracles.
Acquaintance of Young People. Hard Reading. Me-
lancholy. Mrs Macaulay. Warton's Essay on Pope.
Sir James Macdonald. Projected Tour to the Hebrides.
School-boy Happiness
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CHAPTER XVII. 1763.
Table-Talk. Influence of the Weather. Swift. Thomson.
Burke. Sheridan. Evidences of Christianity. Derrick.
Day at Greenwich. The Methodists. Johnson's "Walk."
Convocation. Blacklock. Johnson accompanies Boswell
to Harwich. The Journey. "Good Eating. Abstinence
and Temperance." Johnson's favourite Dishes. Bishop
Berkeley "refuted." Burke. Boswell sails for Holland
154
CHAPTER XVIII. 1763-1765.
Boswell at Utrecht. Letter from Johnson. The Frisick
Language. Johnson's Visit to Langton. Institution of
"The Club." Reynolds. Garrick. Dr. Nugent. Granger's
Sugar Cane." Hypochondriac Attack. Days of Ab-
straction. Odd Habits. Visit to Dr. Percy. Letter to
Reynolds. Visit to Cambridge. Self-examination. Letter
to, and from, Garrick. Johnson created LL. D. by Dublin
University. Letter to Dr. Leland. Engaging in
Politics." William Gerard Hamilton
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State of Johnson's Mind. Visit to Town-Malling. Prologue
to Goldsmith's "Gool-natured Man." Boswell's "Ac-
count of Corsica." Practice of the Law. Novels and
Comedies. The Douglas Cause. Reading MSS. St.
Kilda. Oxford. Guthrie. Hume. Robertson. Future
Life of Brutes. Natural History. Bell's Travels.
Chastity. Choice of a Wife. Baretti's Italy. Liberty.
Kenrick. Thomson. Monsey. Swift. Lord Eglintoune.
Letter on the Formation of a Library. Boswell at the
Stratford Jubilee. Johnson's Opinion of his Corsica"
188
CHAPTER XXII. 1769.
Boswell at the Jubilee. His Account of Corsica. General
Paoli. Observance of Sunday. Rousseau and Monboddo.
Love of Singularity. London Life. Artemisias. Second
Marriages. Scotch Gardening. Vails. Prior. Garrick's
Poetry. History. Whitfield.
Good
The Corsicans.
Breeding. Fate and Free-will. Goldsmith's Tailor. The
Dunciad. Dryden. Congreve. Sheridan. Mrs. Monta-
gu's Essay. Lord Kames. Burke. Ballad of Hardyk-
nute. Fear of Death. Sympathy with Distress. Foote.
Buchanan. Baretti's Trial. Mandeville
198
Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea. Johnson's Politics, and general
Mode of Life. Opulent Tradesmen. London. Black-
letter Books. Anatomy of Melancholy." Government
of Ireland. Love. Jacob Behmen. Established Clergy.
Dr. Pri-stley. Blank Verse. French Novels. Père Bos-
covich. Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues. Ossian. The Poet-
ical Cobbler. Boetius. National Debt. Mallet. Marriage.
Foppery. Gilbert Cooper. Homer. Gregory Sharpe.
Poor of England. Corn Laws. Dr. Browne. Mr. Burke.
Economy. Fortune-hunters. Orchards. Irish Clergy 215
CHAPTER XXV. 1771.
"Pamphlet on Falkland's Islands." George Grenville.
Junius. Design of bringing Johnson into Parliament.
Mr. Strahan. Lord North. Mr. Flood. Boswell's Mar-
riage. Visit to Lichfield and Ashbourne. Dr. Beattie.
Lord Monboddo. St Kilda. Scots Church. Second
Sight. The Thirty-nine Articles. Thirtieth of January.
Royal Marriage Act. Old Families. Mimickry. Foote.
Mr. Peyton. Origin of Languages. Irish and Gaelic.
Flogging at Schools. Lord Mansfield. Sir Gilbert Elliot
221.
George Steevens. Goldsmith and Evans. Dalrymple's His-
tory. Action in Speaking. Chesterfield and Tyrawley.
The Spectator. Sir Andrew Freeport. Burnet's Own
Times. Good Friday. Easter Day. A Dinner at Johnson's.
Wages to Women Servants. Keeping a Journal. Luxury.
Equality. The Stuarts. Law Reports. "The Gentle
Shepherd." Whigs and Tories. Sterne. Charles Towns-
hend. 66
Happy Revolution." "She Stoops to Conquer."
Short-Hand. Dedications. James Harris. The Fiddle.
Duelling. Lord Chatham's Verses to Garrick. Savage
Life. Suicide. Budgell. The Douglas Cause
CHAPTER XXIX. 1773.
246
Dinner at Beauclerk's. Boswell elected of the Club. Gold-
smith in Company, and in his Study. His Roman History.
"Talking for Victory." Pilgrim's Progress. Monuments
in St. Paul's. Pope. Milton. "The Whole Duty of
Man." Puns. Lay Patronage. The Bread Tree. Savage
Life.
Reasoning of Brutes. Toleration. Martyrdom.
Doctrine of the Trinity. Government of Ireland. Invoca-
tion of Saints. Goldy." Literary Property. State of
Nature. Male Succession. Influence of the Seasons on
257
the Mind. Projected Visit to the Hebrides
CHAPTER XXX. 1773.
Johnson sets out on his visit to the Hebrides. Sketch of his
Character, Figure, and Manner. He arrives in Scotland.
Memorabilia. Law of Prescription. Trial by Duel. Mr.
Scott. Sir William Forbes. Practice of the Law. Emi.
gration. Rev. Mr. Carr. Chief Baron Orde. Dr. Beattie
and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr. Burke. Genius.
Whitfield and Wesley. Political Parties. Garrick - 267
CHAPTER XXXI. 1773.
Edinburgh. Ogden on Prayer. Lord Hailes. Parliament
House. The Advocates' Library. Writing doggedly.
The Union. Queen Mary St. Giles's The Cowgate.
The College. Holyrood House. Swift. Witchcraft. Lord
Monboddo and the Ouran-Outang. Actors. Poetry and
Lexicography. Scepticism. Vane and Sedley. Maclaurin.
Literary Property. Boswell's Character of Himself.
They leave Edinburgh
275
CHAPTER XXXII. 1773.
Frith of Forth. Inch Keith. Kinghorn. Cupar. Com-
'position of Parliament. Influence of Peers. St. Andrews.
Literature and Patronage. Writing and Conversation.
Change of Manners. Drinking and Smoking. The
Union. St. Rule's Chapel. John Knox. Retirement
from the World. Dinner with the Professors. Subscrip-
tion of Articles. Latin Grace. Sharpe's Monument. St.
Salvador's. Dinner to the Professors. Instructions for
Composition. Supper at Dr. Watson's. Uncertainty of
Memory. Observance of Sunday. Trees in Scotland.
Leuchars. Transubstantiation. Literary Property
Montrose
280
Ulinish. Tanning. Butchers. Learning of the Scots.
Ship worse than Jail. Peter the Great. "Island Isa."
Talisker. Scottish Clergy. French Hunting. Cuchillin's
Well. Young Col. Birch. Percy. Every Island is a
Prison." Corriehatachin. Good Fellowship and Head-
ache. Kingsburgh's Song. Lady Margaret Macdonald.
Threshing and Thatching. Price of Labour. Ostig.
Shenstone. Hammond. Sir C. H. Williams. Burke.
Young. Doddridge's Motto. Adventures of a Guinea.'
Armidale. German Courts. Goldsmith's Love of Talk.
St. Kilda
348
64
Cel Blenheim. Tenants and Landlords. London and
Pekin. Superstitions. Coarse Manners. Bustle not ne-
Oats. Mull. Addison. French
Cessary to Despatch.
Ana Racine. Corneille. Molière. Fenelon. Voltaire.
Huet. Massillon. Bourdaloue. A Printing House.
Ere Poetry. Music. Reception of Travellers. Spence.
Mas Maclean. Account of Mull. Ulva. Second Sight.
Mercheta Mulierum. Inch-Kenneth. Sir Allan Maclean.
Sunday Reading. Dr. Campbell. Drinking. Verses on
Fan-Kenneth. Young Col's good Qualities.
Burke. Johnson's Intrepidity. Singular Customs. French
Credulity
Solander.
369
CHAPTER XLIII. 1773.
Vorage to Iona. Death of young Col. M'Kinnon's Cave.
"La Crédulité des Incrédules." Coast of Mull. Nuns'
Island. Icolmkill. Quotation from Johnson's Tour,
Return to Mull. Pulteney. Pitt. Walpole. Wilkes.
English and Jewish History compared. Turkish Spy."
Moy. Lochbuy's War-saddle. Sheep's-heads. Sail to
Oban. Goldsmith's "Traveller." Shenstone's Observa-
tions on Pope. Inverary, Letter from Garrick. Hervey's
"Meditations." "Meditation on a Pudding.' Country
Neighbours. Castle of Inverary. Duke and Duchess of
Argyle. Influence of Peers -
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Inverary Castle. Bishop Archibald Campbell. Douglas.
Juvenal. Religious Buildings. Rosedow House. Loch-
lomond. Cameron House. Smollett's Monument. Glas-
gow. The Foulises, &c. Loudoun Castle. Treesbank.
Dundonald Castle. Eglintoune Castle. Auchinleck. Bos.
well's Father. Anecdotes. Hamilton. Edinburgh 388
CHAPTER XLIV. 1773.
Edinburgh. Lord Elibank. Edinburgh Castle. Fingal.
Credulity. Second Sight. Garrick and Foote as Com-
panions. 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 Haw-
thornden. Cranston. Sir John Dalrymple. Johnson's
Departure for London. Letters from Lord Hailes and
Mr. Dempster. Correspondence with Rasay. Conclusion
of the Tour to the Hebrides
398
CHAPTER XLVIII. 1775.
Boswell revisits London. Peter Garrick. "Taxation no
Tyranny." Dr. Towers's "Answer." Gerard Hamilton.
Sheridan's Gold Medal to Home. Mrs. Abington. Cibber's
"Nonjuror." Boswell's" Surveillance." Garrick's Pro-
logues. The Adams. Garrick's Imitations of Johnson.
Gray's Odes. Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Johnson's
Diploma of LL.D. Aby sinian Bruce. Colman's" Odes
to Obscurity and Obliviou." Mason's "Elfrida," and
"Caractacus." The Bath-Easton Vase. Fleet Street and
Charing Cross
434
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CHAPTER XLIX. 1775.
Public Speaking. Statutes against Bribery. Cibber's Come-
dies. Gentility and Morality. Charles 11. George 1.
Trading Judges. Christopher Smart. Twiss's Travels.
Addison's Italy. "Lilliburlero." Gibbon. Patriotism.
Mrs. Pritchard. Happiness. General Oglethorpe. Mid-
dle-rate Poets. Patronage. Lord Bute. Good Friday.
London. Commerce. Value of Knowledge. Literary Fame.
"Nil admirari." Advantages of Reading
Infidelity.
443
CHAPTER L. 1775.
Dinner at Owen Cambridge's. Female Portrait Painters.
"Good humoured Fellows." Isaac Walton's "Lives."
Flattery. History. Early Habits. "The Beggars' 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
451
Counties. Tour to France
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. Cib-
ber's "Lives." Gray. Akenside. Mason. The Reviews.
Lord Lyttelton. "The Spectator." Dr. Barry. Dinner
at General Paoli's. "Abel Drugger." Italy. The Medi-
terranean. Poetical Translatio.. Art of Printing. Edu-
cation of the People. Thomson. "Hudibras." Purpose
of Tragedy. "Othello." John Dennis. Swearing. Wine-
drinking. Cumberland's " Odes
CHAPTER LVI. 1776.
499
Boswell's Visit to Bath and Bristol. Rowley's Poems.
Chatterton Garrick's" Archer." Brute Creation. Ches-
terfield's "Letters." Notes on Shakspeare. Luxury.
Oglethorpe. Lord Elibank. Conversation. Egotism.
Dr. Oldfield. Commentators on the Bible. Thompson's
Case. Dinner at Mr. Dilly's. John Wilkes. Foote's
Mimicry. Garrick's Wit. Biography. Dryden. Cibber's
Plays. "Difficile est propriè," &c. City Poets. " Dia.
bolus Regis." Lord Bute. Mrs. Knowles. Mrs. Rudd 509
Personal disputes. Duke of Devonshire. Burke's Defi-
nition of a Free Government. Ilam. The Christian
Revelation. Mungo Campbell. Dr. Tavlor'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. Ameri-
can Independence. Corruption of Parliament. Planting.
Oddity Johnson." Decision of the Negro Cause.
Mr. Saunders Welch. Advice to Travellers. Corre-
556
spondence
CHAPTER LXII. 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 Wes-
ley. Alcibiades' Dog. Emigration. Parliamentary Elo-
quence. Place Hunters. Irish Language. Thicknesse's
Travels." Honesty. Temptation. Dr. Kennedy's Tra-
gedy. Shooting a Highwayman. Mr. Dunning." Con-
tentment. Laxity of Narration. Mrs. Montagu. Harris
of Salisbury. Definition. Wine-drinking. Pleasure.
Goldsmith. Charles the Fifth. Best English Sermons.
"Seeing Scotland." Absenteeism. Delany's "Observa-
tions on Swift "
CHAPTER LXIII. 1778.
570
CHAPTER LXV. 1778.
Good Friday. Bad Housewifery. Books of Travels. Fleet
Street. Meeting with Mr. Oliver Edwards. Lawyers.
Tom Tyers. Choice of a Profession. Dignity of Litera-
ture. Lord Camden. George Psalmanazar. Daines
Barrington. Punishment of the Pillory. Insolence of
Wealth. Extravagance. "Demosthenes Taylor."
Pamphlets. Goldsmith's Comedies. The Beggars' - Opera.
Johnson's His oria Studiorum." Gentleman's Magazine.
Avarice. Bon Mots. Burke's Classical Pun. Egotism.
CHAPTER LXVI. 1778.
697
Buying Buckles. "The first Whig. Wine. Tasso. Homer.
Adam Smith. Pope. Voltaire. Henry's History. Modern
Writers. Greece. Rome. Old Age. Dr. Robertson.
Addison. Chinese Language. Interest of Money. Ima-
gination. Existence. Virtue and Vice. The Bat. Lord
Marchmont. 'Transpire." House of Peers. Pope's
"Universal Prayer." Divorces. Parson Ford's Ghost.
Lord Clive
605
CHAPTER LXVIII. 1779.
CHAPTER LXXIV. 1782.
Death of Robert Levett. Verses to his Memory. Chatterton.
Dr. Lawrence. Death of Friendship. "Beauties" and
"Deformities" of Johnson. Misery of being in Debt.
Six Rules for Travellers. Death of Lord Auchinleck.
"Kindness and Fondness." Life. Old Age. Evils of
Poverty. Prayer on leaving Streatham. Visit to Cowdrey.
Nichols's "Anecdotes." Wilson's " Archæological Dic-
tionary." Dr. Patten
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CHAPTER LXXV. 1783.
Country Gentleman. House of Hanover. Conversation.
Neglect of
Lies of Vanity. Opium. Exaggeration.
Merit. Use of Riches. Crabbe's Village." Keeping
Accounts. Lords Mansfield, Loughborough, and Thurlow.
Harrington's Nuga Antiquæ. Quos Deus vult perdere,"
&c. Prince of Wales. Burney's Travels. Chinese Ar-
chitecture. Innovation. Tyburn. Dr. Hurd. Paren-
thesis. "Derrick or Smart." "The great Twalmley."
Turkish Spy."
Owen Cambridge. Family Histories.
Parnell's
Orchards. Oratory.
Madness.
Origin of Language.
Rev. James Compton
Tasker's "Ode." Man of the World. "Vicar of Wake-
field." Junius's Letters. Parental Authority. London.
"Government of the Tongue." Good Friday. Easter
Day. Eel-skinning. Claret, Port, Brandy. Shakspeare's
Witches. Lochlomond. Liberty. Hackman. Johnson
and Topham Beauclerk. Mallet. Friendship. Eulogy
on Garrick. "Art of getting drunk." Empirics. Pa-
rental Affection. Lord Marchmont. Pope.
"Hermit." Correspondence
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Warren Hastings. Liberty and Necessity. Picture of a Man,
by Shakspeare and by Milton. Registration of Deeds.
Duty of a Member of Parliament. Deportment of a
Bishop. **Merriment of Parsons. " Zachariah Mudge.
Dr. Walter Harte. Scale of Liquors. Dancing. Sir
Philip Jennings Clerk. American War. Dudley Long.
Exaggerated Praise. Learning to Talk." Veracity.
Death of Mr. Thrale. Queen's Arms Club. Constructive
Treason. Castes of Men. Passion Week. Addison.
Blackstone. Steele. Educating by Lectures. The Re-
Apparitions
surrection.
CHAPTER LXXIII. 1781.
675
Dianer at Mrs. Garrick's. Miss Hannah More. Mudge's
"Sermons.'" A Printer's Devil, Quotation. Letter-
writing. Bet Flint. Oratory. Beauclerk's Library. En-
glish Sermons. Blue-Stocking Clubs. Miss Monckton.
Talking for Victory. A Cui Bono Man. "Heroic Epistle."
Lord Carlisle's Poems. Dr. Barnard. "Of Tory and
Whig." Visit to Welwyn. Dr. Young. Trusting to
Impressions. Original Sín. Ancient Egyptians. Wealth.
Memory and Recollection. Marrying a pretty Woman.
Thrale's Brewery. Mr. Bewley. Johnson's Hearth-
broom. Dr. Patten. Visit to Ashbourne and Lichfield
685
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