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 RT. HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER, .P.

AND COPIOUS NOTES

BY HAWKINS, PIOZZI, MURPHY, TYERS, REYNOLDS, MALONE, NICHOLS, STEEVENS,
CUMBERLAND, SCOTT, MARKLAND, BURNEY, BLAKEWAY, CHALMERS,

PORTER, LANGTON, AND OTHERS.

COMPLETE IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

NEW YORK:

DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOL. IV.

CHAPTER I.

1778

food Friday-Bad Housewifery-Books of Travels-Fleet Street-Meeting with Mr. Oliver

Edwards-Lawyers-Tom Tyers-Choice of a Profession-Dignity of Literature-Lord Cam-

den-George Psalmanazar-Daines Barrington-Punishment of the Pillory-Insolence of

Wealth-Extravagance-" Demosthenes Taylor "-Pamphlets-Goldsmith's Comedies-

"The Beggar's Opera "-Johnson's "Historia Studiorum "-Gentleman's Magazine-

Avarice--Bon-Mots-Burke's Classical Pun-Egotism,

CHAPTER II.

1778.

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-Imagination-Existence-Virtue and Vice--The

Bat--Lord Marchmont-" Transpire "-House of Peers-Pope's "Universal Prayer "-Di-

vorces-Parson Ford's Ghost-Lord Clive,.

81

CHAPTER III.

1778-1779.

11

Lord Kames-Sir George Villiers's Ghost-Innate Virtue-Native Modesty-Foreign Travel-

Lord Charlemont-Country Life-Manners of the Great-Horne's "Letter to Dunning

Dr. Mead-Rasselas and Candide-Francis's Horace-Modern Books of Travels-Lord

Chatham-Vows-Education-Milton's "Tractate "-Locke-Visit to Warley Camp-Dr.

Burney-Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Discourses "-Publication of the "Lives of the Poets "-

Death of Garrick-Correspondence,
55

CHAPTER IV.

1779.

Mr. Tasker's "Ode "--Man of the World-" Vicar of Wakefield "-Junius's Letters-Paren-

tal 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-Parental Affection-Lord Marchmont-Pope-Parnell's "Hermit "—

Correspondence,
74

CHAPTER V.

1779.

Experiments on the Constancy of Friends-Colonel James Stuart-Choice of Guardians-

Adventurers to the East Indies-Poor of London-Pope's "Essay on Man"-Lord Boling-

broke-Johnson's Residences in London-Conjugal Infidelity-Roman Catholics-Helps to

the Study of Greek-Middlesex Election-House of Commons-Right of Expulsion-George

Whitfield-Philip Astley-Keeping company with Infidels-Irish Union-Vulgar Prosperity

"The Ambassador says well "-Correspondence,

CHAPTER VI.

1780.

"Lives of the Poets " completed-Dr. Lawrence-Loss of a Wife-Death of Topham Beauclerk

-Letter-writing-Mr. Melmoth-Fitzosborne's Letters-Somerset-House Exhibition-Riots

in London-Lord George Gordon-Mr. Akerman-Correspondence-Dr. Beattie-Davies's

"Life of Garrick "—Advice to a Young Clergyman-Composition of Sermons-Borough

Election-Lady Southwell-Mr. Alexander Macbean-Lord Thurlow-Langton's Collec-

tanea-Dr. Franklin's "Demonax,"
116

CHAPTER VII.

1781.

95

The "Lives of the Poets" completed-Observations upon, and various Readings in, the

Life of Cowley-Waller-Milton-Dryden-Pope-Broome-Addison-Parnell-Blackmore

-Philips-Congreve-Tickell-Akenside-Lord Lyttelton-Young-Swift,

CHAPTER VIII.

1781.

163

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-" Merri-

ment 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-

surrection-Apparitions,
187

CHAFTER IX.

1781.

Dinner at Mrs. Garrick's-Miss Hannah More-Mudge's "Sermons "-A Printer's Devil-

Quotation-Letter-writing-Bet Flint-Oratory-Beauclerk's Library-English 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 Sin-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,

CHAPTER X.

1782.

CHAPTER XI.

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 Cowdry-Nichols's "Anec-

dotes"-Wilson's "Archeological Dictionary "-Dr. Patten,
242

1783.

Country Gentleman-House of Hanover-Conversation-Lies of Vanity-Opium-Exaggera-

tion-Neglect of Merit-Use of Riches-Crabbe's "Village"-Keeping Accounts-Lords

Mansfield, Loughborough, and Thurlow-Harrington's Nuge Antiquæ-" Quos Deus vult

perdere," &c.-Prince of Wales-Burney's Travels-Chinese Architecture-Innovation-

Tyburn-Dr. Hurd-Parentheses-"Derrick or Smart"-" The great Twalmley "-Owen

Cambridge-Family Histories-" Turkish Spy " "--Orchards—Oratory-Origin of Language-

Madness--Rev. James Compton,

CHAPTER XII.

1783.

211

CHAPTER XIII.

1783.

Population of London-Natural Affection-Self-defence-Duelling-Corpulency-Government

of India-Reviewers-Horace-Sickness-Liberty of Teaching-" Alias "-Virgil-Cant-

Hospitality-Miss Burney-Barry's Pictures-Baxter's Works-Devotion-Johnson at-

tacked with a Stroke of the Palsy-Recovery-Visit to Langton at Rochester,
297

262

Death of Mrs. Williams-Conversation-French Literature-Dr. Priestley-Candour-Mrs.

Siddons-Mrs. Porter-Kitty Clive-Mrs. Pritchard-John Philip Kemble-George Anne

Bellamy-Lord Carlisle's Tragedy-Unconstitutional Influence of the Scotch Peers-Old

Horses-Mickle's "Lusiad "-Ossian-Rules for the Essex Head Club,

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