Choisi.—Palais-Royal.—Mrs. Fermor.- Palais-Bourbon.

Fontainebleau. - Versailles.

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Trianon. Santerre the

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Brewer. - King's Library. — Sorbonne. St. Cloud.

Sêve. Bellevue. Meudon. Grand-Chartreux.

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Luxembourg. - Friar Wilkes.—St. Denis

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Chantilly.

Compeigne. Cambray. - State of Society in France. -

Madame de Boufflers. - Voltaire. - Dr. Burney's Colleo-

Letters to Mrs. Montagu, &c.

tanea.

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CHAPTER II.

1776.

Law of Entail.

Boswell's Melancholy. — John Wesley.

Clarendon Press. - Booksellers' Profits.

Mrs. Thrale's Birthday. - Entails.

Nations." - Lawyers and Lawsuits.

- Obligation in settling Estates.

Value of Truth. - Monastic Orders. Carthusians. Re-

ligious Austerities.—Wine-bibbing. Fasting. -Influence

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CHAPTER III.

1776.

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Excursion to Oxford with Boswell.. · Ornamental Architec-

ture.- Statuary. Advice to Hypochondriacs. "Anato-

my of Melancholy."- Dr. Wetherell. Dr. Adams.

Conversation.. Bishop Horne. Walton's "Lives."

Biography. - Dartineuf. - Gibbon.-Steele. - -"Tristram

Burke. Blenheim. - Taverns and Inns.

Shandy."

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Sugar Cane."

Quakers.

Birmingham. Legitimation. — Marriage.

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Holidays. - Nelson's "Festivals.' Soho.-Mr. Boulton.

Lichfield. Peter Garrick.. Death of Mr. Thrale's only Son

Shakspeare's Mulberry-tree.-Lord Bute.-Marriage.—

Questioning. Sir Fletcher Norton.

Taylor. Old Men putting themselves to nurse. "Il

Marrying for Love. Dr. James. Melan-

Omai.

Captain Cook.

· Character of a Soldier.

-Good Humour of ancient Philosophers.- Public Schools.

English Universities. Libels on the Dead.

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Gaming, Card-playing.-Conjugal Obligations.

Law of Usury. — Beggars. · Dr. Cheyne.. Solitude.

Cibber's "Lives.” — Gray. — Akenside. — Ma-

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son. The Reviews.

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Lord Lyttelton.

"The Specta-

Abel

tor."-Dr. Barry. Dinner at General Paoli's. -

Drugger.- Italy.-The Mediterranean. - Poetical Trans-

lation..

Thomson.

Art of Printing.

Hudibras.

"Othello."-John Dennis,

Education of the People.

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Purpose of Tragedy.

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"Letters."—"To be, or not to be."- Luxury. — Ogle

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.

Sermons.-Easter Day. - Prayer. Sir Alexander Dick.

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Shaw's Erse Grammar.

Johnson engages to write

"The Lives of the English Poets.". - Edward Dilly.

CHAPTER VIII.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

1777.

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Savage's "Sir Thomas Over-

bury." Thomson. Mrs. Strickland. The Townley

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Collection. Dr. Dodd.

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Boswell at the Tomb of Me-

lancthon. Isaac De Groot. Dr. Watts. · Letter to

Mrs. Boswell. Visit to Ashbourne. Harry Jack-

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.

son.

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Hume. Fear of Death. Duties of a Biographer.

Birthdays. Warton's Poems. — Ked-

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.-

Profession

Melancholy and Madness. — Life in London.

of the Law. Employment.- Dr. Taylor's "Sermons."—

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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Monks.- - Choisi.

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- Palais-Royal. - Mrs. Fermor、

- Palais-Bourbon. - Fontainebleau. Versailles.

Trianon.-Santerre, the Brewer.-King's Library.

Sorbonne. St. Cloud.- Sêve. Bellevue. Meudon. Grand-Chartreux. Luxembourg.

Friar Wilkes. St. Denis.

peigne.

Cambray.

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Chantilly.

Com

State of Society in France.

- Madame de Boufflers.- Voltaire. — Dr. Burney's Collectanea. Letters to Mrs. Montagu, &c.

Ir is to be regretted, that Johnson did not write an account of his travels in France; for as he is re ported to have once said, that "he could write the life of a broomstick (1)," so, notwithstanding so many former travellers have exhausted almost every subject for remark in that great kingdom, his

(1) It is probable that the author's memory here deceived him, and that he was thinking of Stella's remark, that Swift could write finely upon a broomstick.-J. BoswELL, jun.