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CONTENTS OF VOL. III. OF VOL. III.
CHAPTER I.
1773.
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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CHAPTER II.
1774.
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,
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CHAPTER III.
1774-1775.
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,
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CHAPTER IV.
1775.
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
Cross,
88
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-
ing, 109
CHAPTER VI.
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,
CHAPTER VII.
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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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CHAPTER VIII.
1776.
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,
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CHAPTER IX.
Excursion to Oxford with Boswell-Ornamental Architecture-Statuary-Advice to Hypo-
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,
CHAPTER X.
189
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,
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CHAPTER XI.
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 '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,
CHAPTER XII.
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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,
CHAPTER XIII.
1776-1777.
255
Sir 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,"
277
CHAPTER XIV.
1777.
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's
"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.
Dodd, .
306
CHAPTER XV.
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, .
CHAPTER XVI.
1777-1778.
332
Ashbourne-Personal Disputes-Duke of Devonshire-Burke's Definition of a Free Government
-Ilam-The Christian Revelation-Mungo Campbell-Dr. Taylor's Bull-dog-" Æsop 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, 360
CHAPTER XVII.
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 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," 890
CHAPTER XVIII.
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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