Two additional volumes have been found re

quisite to embrace these various JOHNSONIANA ; and with Vol. X., to be published on the 1st of December, there will accordingly be given a fresh set of titlepages for the whole of this collection.

London, Sept. 20. 1835.

CONTENT S.

CHAPTER I.

1781.

The "Lives of the Poets" completed.

Observations upon,

and various Readings in, the Life of Cowley. Waller. -

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Parnell. — Blackmore. — Philips. — Congreve. — Tickell.

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- Akenside. Lord Lyttelton. Young. - Swift.

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Registration of

Deeds. Duty of a Member of Parliament. - Deportment

of a Bishop. "Merriment of Parsons.

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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. O Castes of Men. -

Passion Week. Addison. Blackstone. Steele.

Educating by Lectures. The Resurrection. -

CHAPTER III.

1781.

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Dinner at Mrs. Garrick's. Miss Hannah More. - Mudge's

"Sermons."- A Printer's Devil.

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Quotation. Letter-

writing. Bet Flint. Oratory. -Beauclerk's Library.

-English Sermons.

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"Heroic

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Blue-Stocking Clubs. Miss

Monckton. Talking for Victory. A Cui Bono Man.

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 Recollec-

tion. Marrying a pretty Woman. — Thrale's Brewery. —

Mr. Bewley. Johnson's Hearth-broom. Dr. Patten.

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Visit to Ashbourne and Lichfield

CHAPTER IV.

1782.

Death of Robert Levett. Verses to his Memory.

terton. Dr. Lawrence. - Death of Friendship.-"Beau-

ties" and "Deformities" of Johnson. - Misery of being in

Debt. Six Rules for Travellers. O Death of Lord Au-

chinleck. "Kindness and Fondness." Life.

Age.Evils of Poverty. - Prayer on leaving Streatham.

-Visit to Cowdry. Nichols's "Anecdotes." - Wilson's

"Archeological Dictionary."— Dr. Patten

Country Gentleman. - House of Hanover. - Conversation.

-Lies of Vanity. Opium. Exaggeration. - Neglect

of Merit. Use of Riches. Crabbe's "Village."- Keep-

ing Accounts. Lords Mansfield, Loughborough, and

Thurlow. Harrington's Nugæ 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. -

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tories. "Turkish Spy." Orchards.

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Family His-

Oratory.

Origin of Language. Madness. Rev. James Comp-

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Population of London.- Natural Affection.-Self-defence.-

Duelling. Corpulency. - Government of India.

"Alias."-Virgil. Cant. - Hospitality. Miss Burney.

Barry's Fictures. Baxter's Works.

Johnson attacked with a Stroke of the Palsy. - Recovery.

-Visit to Langton at Rochester

Philip Kemble. - George Anne Bellamy. - Lord Car-

lisle's Tragedy. -Unconstitutional Influence of the Scotch

Peers. Old Horses. Mickle's "Lusiad."

Dr. Gillespie. Drs. Cullen, Hope, and Monro. — Divine

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Interposition. Lord Monboddo. Dr. Ross.

Steevens.

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Mrs. Montagu. Burke's Conversation. —

Foote. The Empress of Russia. - Mrs. Thrale. - Ec-

clesiastical Discipline. - Fear of Death. Capel Lofft.-

Thomas à Kempis. -Dr. Douglas. -Editions of Horace.

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Pitt. Radcliffe's Travelling Fellowships. - Prayer. —

Jeremy Taylor. Iffley. Dr. Nowell.

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Rev. Henry

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CHAPTER X.

1784.

Milton. Anonymous Writings.- Pope.- David Lewis. —

Sackville Parker.- Cook's Voyages. - Barristers. — Lord

Hale. Attornies. Puns.

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"Tommy Townshend."—

"The Rehearsal."- Painting. - Cross Readings.- Last

Dinner at the Club. Italy. - Free Will.- Miss Se-

ward. Lord Chesterfield. Carleton's Memoirs. In-

tuition and Sagacity. - Lord Thurlow. - Country Life.-

Mrs. Piozzi's "Anecdotes"

Projected Tour to Italy. Reynolds. Thurlow. Rev.