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Sêve. Bellevue. Meudon. Grand-Chartreux.
Luxembourg. - Friar Wilkes. —St. Denis. — Chantilly..
Cambray. State of Society in France..
Compeigne.
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Dr. Burney's Collec-
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CHAPTER II.
1776.
Law of Entail.
- Boswell's Melancholy. - John Wesley.
Clarendon Press. ·Booksellers' Profits. - Bolt Court.
Smith's "Wealth of
- Scotch Militia Bill.
"Johnsoniana."
Value of Truth. - Monastic Orders. — Carthusians. — Re-
ligious Austerities. — Wine-bibbing.— Fasting. — Influence
CHAPTER III.
Excursion to Oxford with Boswell.
ture.
- Statuary. — Advice to Hypochondriacs. -"Anato-
my of Melancholy."-Dr. Wetherell. - Dr. Adams.
Conversation. Bishop Horne. -Walton's "Lives.".
Biography.-Dartineuf. Gibbon.-Steele. -"Tristram
Shandy." Burke. Blenheim.
Grainger's "Sugar Cane."
- Legitimation.
Holidays. Nelson's "Festivals."- Soho.- Mr. Boulton.
- 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. Wedder-
burne. Marrying for Love. Dr. James. Melan-
choly. Captain Cook. Omai. Character of a Soldier.
-Good Humour of ancient Philosophers.— Public Schools.
- English Universities. Libels on the Dead.
- Gaming. — Card-playing.-Conjugal Obligations.
- Law of Usury. — Beggars. — Dr. Cheyne. Solitude.
son.
The Reviews. Lord Lyttelton.
tor."-Dr. Barry.
- Dinner at General Paoli's. - Abel
Drugger.- Italy.-The Mediterranean. Poetical Trans-
lation. Art of Printing. - Education of the People.
"Othello." - John Dennis.
Purpose of Tragedy.
Swearing. - Wine-drink-
ing. - Cumberland's " Odes." — Savage Life.
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"Letters." -"To be, or not to be." Luxury. Ogle-
thorpe. Lord Elibank. Conversation. Egotism.
Dr. Oldfield. Commentators on the Bible. - Lord Thur-
low. 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.
The Round Robin. Employment of Time.
Sermons.-Easter Day. - Prayer. · Sir Alexander Dick.
Johnson engages to write
"The Lives of the English Poets."- Edward Dilly.
Correspondence. Charles O'Connor. Dr. Zachary
Pearce's Posthumous Works.
"Word to the Wise."
Prologue to Hugh Kelly's
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CHAPTER VIII.
1777.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Savage's "Sir Thomas Over-
bury.". .Thomson. Mrs. Strickland. The Townley
Collection. Dr. Dodd. Boswell at the Tomb of Me-
lancthon. Isaac De Groot. - Dr. Watts. - Letter to
Mrs. Boswell. Visit to Ashbourne.
Sidney's "Arcadia.”.
- Projected Trip to the
Baltic. Grief for the Loss of Relatives and Friends.
Incomes of Curates. - Johnson's humane and zealous In-
terference in behalf of Dr. Dodd.
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CHAPTER IX.
Mr. Fitzherbert. Hamilton of Bangour.
Hume. · Fear of Death. Duties of a Biographer.
Stuart Family. Birthdays. Warton's Poems. — Ked-
dlestone. Derby. Shaving. Nichols's "De Animâ
Medicâ." Dr. Dodd. Blair. Goldsmith. - Mon-
boddo's "Air-bath." - Early Rising. - Sleep. - Water-
drinking. Rutty's "Spiritual Diary.”— Autobiographers.
- Imitators of Johnson's Style. - Biographia Britannica.—
Melancholy and Madness. Life in London. Profession
of the Law. Employment.— Dr. Taylor's "Sermons.”—
Authors.
NOTE ON CIBBER'S "LIVES OF THE POETS"
ARGUMENT, BY DR. JOHNSON, IN FAVOUR OF
MR. JAMES THOMPSON, MINISTER OF DUMFERMLINE
No. III. NOTE ON WILKES'S INTERPRETATION
HORACE'S" DIFFICILE EST," &c.
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