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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER 1.
1781.
-
The "Lives of the Poets" completed. Observations upon,
and various Readings in, the Life of Cowley. - Waller.
Dryden. Pope. Broome.
Blackmore. Philips.
Milton.
Parnell.
Addison.
Congreve. - Tickell.
-Young. - Swift.
CHAPTER II.
Warren Hastings.
Liberty and Necessity.
Man, by Shakspeare and by Milton. - Registration of
Deeds. Duty of a Member of Parliament.
Sir Philip Jennings' Clerk. · American War.
Veracity. Death of Mr. Thrale.
Arms Club. - Constructive Treason. -
Passion Week. Addison. Blackstone. - Steele.
CHAPTER III.
Dinner at Mrs. Garrick's. Miss Hannah More.
Mudge's
"Sermons."- A Printer's Devil. Quotation. Letter.
1
Talking for Victory. A Cui Bono Man.
19-
-"Heroic Epistle."
--
Lord Carlisle's Poems. - Dr.
Barnard. -"Of Tory and Whig.". Visit to Welwyn.
Dr. Young.
Trusting to Impressions.
Ancient Egyptians. Wealth.
Original Sin.-
Memory and Recollec-
Marrying a pretty Woman. Thrale's Brewery. —
Mr. Bewley. Johnson's Hearth-broom.
Death of Robert Levett. Verses to his Memory.
Debt. Six Rules for Travellers.
chinleck. "Kindness and Fondness." Life. Old
Age. - Evils of Poverty. — Prayer on leaving Streatham.
- Visit to Cowdry. Nichols's" Anecdotes." Wilson's
"Archeological Dictionary.”- Dr. Patten
of Merit. Use of Riches. · Crabbe's "Village."— Keep-
ing Accounts. Lois Mansfield, Loughborough, and
Thurlow. Harrington's Nugæ Antique.. "Quos Deus
Prince of Wales. - Burney's Travels.
vult perdere," &c. -
Chinese Architecture.
Hurd.
Parentheses. -"Derrick or Smart."-"The
great Twalmley." Owen Cambridge.
- Tyburn. — Dr.
Family His
Oratory.
Page 150
tories. "Turkish Spy.". Orchards.
Origin of Language. Madness.
ton
Rev. James Comp
CHAPTER VI.
1783.
Population of London.- Natural Affection.- Self-defence.-
Duelling. Corpulency. Government of India.
"Alias." —Virgil. - Cant. — Hospitality. — Miss Burney.
Barry's Pictures.
Johnson attacked with a Stroke of the Palsy. — Recovery.
- Visit to Langton at Rochester
Ec-
Burke's Conversation.
Foote. The Empress of Russia. Mrs. Thrale.
clesiastical Discipline. - Fear of Death. Capel Lofft.-
Dr. Douglas.-Editions of Horace.
Page 252
Knotting. - Oxford. Newton on
the Prophecies. -- Nonjurors. — Infidel Writers.
of Rome. Whig and Tory. — Miss Adams.
Pitt. Radcliffe's Travelling Fellowships.
Church
Fox and
Prayer. -
Rev Henry
- Balance of Misery
CHAPTER X.
1784.
279
Anonymous Writings. Pope.- David Lewis. —
"The Rehea sal."— Painting. - Cross Readings.
Dinner at the Club. Italy. Free Will. - Miss Se-
Projected Tour to Italy. Reynolds.-Thurlow. Rev.
Excursion to Staffordshire and Derby.
Lichfield. Uttoxeter. The Learned Pig. - Last Visit
to Oxford. Return to London.
History
Ancient Universal
Page 350
CHAPTER XII.
Last Illness, and Death
1784
CONCLUSION
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