OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

BY

JAMES BOSWELL.

WITH NOTES BY

JOHN WILSON CROKER,

HAWKINS, PIOZZI, MALONE, SCOTT, CHALMERS, AND OTHERS.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

ALBANY :

JAMES B. LYON.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FEB 11 1962

CONTENTS OF VOL. IV.

CHAPTER 1.

1778

Food Friday-Bad Housewifery-Books of Travels-Fleet Street-Meeting with Mr. Onver

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 11.

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,.

CHAPTER III.

1778-1779.

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Lora 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,