Boswell the Biographer

by George Mallory

INDEX

[A] | [B] | [C] | [D] | [E] | [F] | [G] | [H] | [I] | [J] | [K] | [L] | [M] | [N] | [O] | [P] | [R] | [S] | [T] | [U] | [V] | [W] | [Y] | [Z]
(Note: The Page number is the link to the reference.
123^x indicates that the reference is only in the Footnote; 123,^x indicates that the reference is also in the Footnote).

A

• Aberbrothick, [245]
• Academy, [303]
• Account of Corsica, [56-64], [114], [178]¹⁶, [268], [275], [276], [302], [317]
• Adam, Mr. R. B., [251]⁵
• Adamtown, [93], [100]
• Address to the Real Freeholders of the County of Ayr, [177]
• Akerman, [251]
• Aldus, [30]
• America, [181]
• Arbuthnot, [118]
• Argyll, Duke of, [35]
• Aristotle, [157]
• Ashbourne, [272]
• Auchinleck, [6], [91], [92], [105], [133], [136], [165], [166], [168], [301]¹, [311], [318-9], [325]
• Auchlinleck, Lord, [7], [8], [9], [76], [83], [162-6], [171], [175], [218]
• Ayrshire, [176], [177], [318]

B

• Baden, [50]
• Bagnal, Miss, [309], [310]
• Bar, the English, [84], [137], [167-172], [310]
• ——, the Scottish, [80], [82], [84], [85], [105], [133], [162], [164], [166], [168], [171], [174], [186], [203]
• Barbauld, Mrs., [66]
• Barclay, Mr., [266]
• Baretti, [38], [108], [248], [303]
• Barrington, Mr. Daines, [251]
• Beattie, Dr., [214]
• Beauclerk, [86], [106], [107], [108], [262]
• ——, Lady Di, [107], [261]
• Bedford, Duke of, [74]
• ——, Duchess of, [74]
• Birrell, Rt. Hon. A., [252]⁶
• Blacklock, Rev. Mr., [19]
• Blair, Miss, [64], [91-7], [100]
• Bolingbroke, [118]
• Bosville, Miss, [91], [95], [98-9]
• Boswell:
  • Accent in speaking English, [21];
  • accuracy, [228], [267-82];
  • actor, [24];
  • advertisement, [65], [76], [199];
  • affectation, [103], [132], [157-8], [184-94], [221], [224], [320-1], [326];
  • ambition, [12-13], [39], [59], [61-4], [74-6], [80], [160]; [166-208] passim, especially [166-8], [170], [174-6]; [209], [217], [226], [301], [310], [311];
  • amours, [14], [88-100];
  • animosities, [237-8], [241];
  • artistic qualities, [2], [61-4], [283-4], [287-93];
  • authenticity, [229], [267], [269-70], [282];
  • autobiography, [300];
  • Bachelors, views on, [89];
  • biography, [1-4], [21], [59-60], [67], [77], [93], [118], [128], [135], [144], [159]; [227-99] passim, especially [231], [235-6], [247], [265-6], [267], [284]¹; [313-8];
  • boasting, [204-5];
  • boyishness—boy longer than others, [16], [163], [208];
  • buffoonery, [28], [65-6], [199], [246];
  • Candour, [38-9], [60], [64], [86], [118], [208], [209], [212-13], [302], [303], [322], [325];
  • castles in the air, [12], [190], [310];
  • ceremonial, love of, [137], [171];
  • childhood, [6-9];
  • cleverness, [18-19], [30];
  • collection of original poems, B. contributes, [25], [27];
  • commonplace book, see Boswelliana;
  • consciousness of absurdity, [321-6];
  • conspicuousness, [171], [204], [320];
  • controversy about, [4-5];
  • conventionality, [136-7], [146-50], [320],
    • see also respectability;
  • conventions, disregard of, see rudeness;
  • cow, B. imitates, [29];
  • criticism of literature, [109];
  • curiosity, [72], [129], [131], [173-4], [208], [266];
  • Death, [300];
  • dedication, addressed to, [22];
  • dignity, [62], [97], [121], [265], [305], [324-5];
  • diligence, see industry;
  • disappointment, [17], [66], [133], [161], [168], [170], [219], [226], [311-2], [317];
  • drinking habits, [15], [127], [220], [223-6], [227-8], [311];
  • Eccentricity, [172];
  • egoism, [73], [75], [77], [80], [195-6];
  • essays, [139-44];
  • executions, present at, [172-4];
  • experiments, [129];
  • extravagance:
    • of disposition, [31], [54], [64], [77], [83], [141], [184-94], [320-1],
      • see also affectation;
    • in financial matters, [31], [163-4];
  • Fame, see reputation;
  • family, [6], [30], [164], [218], [318-20];
  • family life, [6-9], [105-6];
  • father, see Lord Auchinleck;
  • fidelity, conjugal, [104];
  • flattery, [45-6], [75];
  • foolishness, [4-5], [38]; [182-208] passim, especially [182], [184], [194], [206], [208]; [216], [322];
  • frankness, see candour;
  • friends:
    • as a young man, [10-16], [19-25]:
    • the Johnsonian circle, [106-12]:
    • at the close of life, [305-8];
  • frolic, [28], [66];
  • Gaiety, [16], [30-1], [52-4], [78], [138], [224], [304];
  • generosity, [54], [79-80], [119], [320];
  • genius, [5-6], [156-7], [210], [217], [224], [241], [247], [320];
  • good-humour, [16], [47], [78], [86], [108], [119], [126], [138], [142], [304];
  • good-nature, [22], [24], [79-80], [174], [214-6], [305];
  • goodness, [144-5];
  • 'great man,' Boswell the, [74], [166], [204], [314];
  • great men, admiration for and relations with, [50], [54], [55], [57], [67-77];
  • Happiness, [147];
  • hermit, taste for being a, [189];
  • honesty, [157], [200], [321];
  • human nature, Boswell's interest in, [24], [46], [69-73], [208], [211], [241], [321], [326];
  • humour, [3], [16], [30], [42], [131], [200-1], [203], [287-91], [308];
  • hypochondria, see melancholy;
  • Ignorance of what others thought of him, [182-4], [216];
  • images, [120], [144], [203];
  • imagination, [26];
  • inconstancy, [38], [92];
  • indiscretion, see candour;
  • indulgence, [222-6];
  • industry, [36], [82], [227-9], [247-52];
  • insanity, [92], [225];
  • interest in, [3-4];
  • intolerance, [68], [71];
  • Johnson, Dr. Samuel:
    • admiration for, see veneration;
    • affection for, [48-9], [119], [131], [132], [153], [218-9], [306-8];
    • conception of, as awful, [293-9];
    • enjoyment of, [285-7], [291], [324];
    • experiments with, [110-2], [257-66], [321-3];
    • friendship with, [40-9], [112-34], [306-8];
    • humiliated by, see roughness;
    • imitation of, [109], [144], [191-3];
    • influenced by, [68], [150-61], [191];
    • jealousy with regard to, [128];
    • letters to, [48], [77-8], [79], [114], [115], [124], [188];
    • letters from, [48], [58], [114], [124], [132], [155-7], [160], [166];
    • loss by his death, [132-4], [218-9];
    • quarrels with, [116-23];
    • questions, [130], [258], [261];
    • roughness to Boswell, [47], [116], [117], [118], [210-4], [259-66];
    • talks freely to, [43], [44], [45], [47];
    • tour in Hebrides with, [125-131], [260];
    • veneration for, [36], [49], [109], [130], [238-9], [307];
    • visit to Boswell's home, [7], [260];
  • jokes, see wit;
  • journal, [21], [36], [227-8], [261], [268-76];
  • Landlord, [318-9];
  • law, [34-6], [76], [79], [80-5], [87], [105], [125], [133], [162], [164], [166-72], [203], [205] [219], [310];
  • lawyers, relations with, [162], [164], [169-72], [203], [205];
  • letters:
    • to Burke, [179-87];
    • to Chatham, [75-6], [179-82];
    • to Erskine, [30-3];
    • to Johnson, see Johnson under Boswell;
    • Temple, quoted, [11], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [21], [34], [35], [70], [78]⁶, [82]¹⁰, [100-1], [104]^15-16, [113], [153], [155], [163], [164], [165], [167]¹, [169]^2-3, [170], [172], [173], [175], [177]^10-12, [178]^14-17, [183-4], [185-6], [187], [204], [207], [218], [219]³, [220], [221], [222], [223]⁶, [226]^8-9, [230], [231]^5-6, [300], [310-12], [320], [325];
  • literary executors, [300]¹;
  • literature, interest in, [11], [18], [20], [25], [35], [46], [53], [193-4], [230], [312-5];
  • London:
    • B. visits, [17], [25], [124], [218];
    • love of, [34], [69], [105], [167], [168], [218];
  • Marriage, [88], [89-90], [100-4], [133], [164], [309-10];
  • meeting with Johnson, [16], [17], [40-4];
  • melancholy, [30], [124], [132], [138], [140-1], [157], [187], [224-6];
  • memorandising, [21-2], [246], [266-74];
  • modesty, [57];
  • morality, interest in, [9], [46], [159], [188], [206], [233-7];
  • mother, [6];
  • Notebook, see memorandising;
  • Observation, powers of, [183], [217], [242-7], [257-62];
  • ode to Tragedy, [25], [29], [30];
  • opinions about himself, [28], [29], [30];
  • optimism, [142-3], [229-30];
  • Patron of the drama, [22-3];
  • patrons, [175-6], [178-84], [200];
  • philosophy:
    • affectation of, [13], [17], [32], [75], [94], [173];
    • views of life, [88], [147-50], [187-8], [285];
  • pleasure an object of life, [88], [147];
  • poetry, Boswell's, [25-7], [200-2];
  • politics, [133], [137], [174-82], [209], [219], [310-11];
  • popularity, [304-5];
  • prejudices, [136-7], [153];
  • pride, [30], [116], [164], [179], [204], [253];
  • profession chosen, [34-5];
  • profligacy, [14-15];
  • prologue, Boswell writes one for Ross, [24];
  • proof-sheets, [250-1];
  • property, [136-7], [166], [218];
  • publications, [25-7], [29-32], [59-66], [81], [82], [133], [176], [209], [310];
  • Recording:
    • conversations, [227], [242], [266];
    • observations, [217];
  • religion, [9], [22], [36-7], [147-50], [188-9], [206];
  • reputation, [1], [39], [58], [61], [66], [172], [199], [209], [213-4], [300-4], [314], [317];
  • respectability, [37-9], [62], [105], [150-61], [166], [209], [236-7];
  • rivals, [237-8];
  • romantic, [31], [186];
  • rudeness, [38], [252-5], [266];
  • Satisfaction with literary work, [229-33], [313-8];
  • scholar, [189];
  • school, [10];
  • scientific spirit, [241], [256-66];
  • selfish, [15];
  • self-revelation, [14], [139];
  • sentimentality, [39], [184-6],
    • see also affectation;
  • seriousness, [140-2];
  • shorthand, [270];
  • simplicity, [182], [204], [206];
  • sings:
    • to Corsican peasants, [52-3]:
    • at mayoralty dinner, [197-9];
    • songs of his own composition, [204];
  • snobbishness, [71-7],
    • see also under Boswell, 'great men';
  • social qualities, [16], [24], [30-1], [46], [52-4], [86], [108], [126], [206], [304-5], [308];
  • solemnity, [192];
  • Tablets, see memorandising;
  • talks very freely, [43], [44], [64], [204-8];
  • taste, [22];
  • tenants, [79], [318-9];
  • Tory, a, [8], [137], [153], [176], [181];
  • travels on the Continent, [50-8], [93], [125];
  • truth, Boswell's attitude towards, [38-9], [118], [210], [216], [228], [233], [236-7], [241], [249], [255], [284-5], [294], [324-6];
  • Vanity, [38], [73], [77], [103], [194-7], [205], [206], [316], [322], [326];
  • verse, see poetry;
  • vows, [99], [223];
  • Wife, see Mrs. Boswell;
  • will, [216], [318-9];
  • wit, [200-3], [308]
• Boswell, Mrs., [84], [100-4], [219-22], [309]
• Boswell, Robert, [300]¹
• 'Boswelliana,' [79]⁷, [190], [200], [203], [214]², [274-82], [301]¹
• Boydell, Alderman, [197]
• British Essays to the Brave Corsicans, [78]
• Browning, [1]
• Burke, Edmund, [106], [107], [108], [150], [179-182]
• Burney, Miss, [21], [108], [128], [130], [191-2], [237], [246-7], [253-4], [255], [263-5], [268]¹, [290], [294-5], [298]
• ——, Dr., [130]
• Burns, [20]
• Bute, Lord, [248]
• Byron, [1]

C

• Cadogan, Lord, [315]
• Cambridge University, [21]
• Campbell, Dr. Thomas, [130]
• —— diary of, [130]⁷
• Carlisle, [170], [175]
• —— Recorder, [176], [179], [301]
• Carlyle, [2], [5]
• Catherine II. of Russia, [251]
• Charlemont, Lord, [288]
• Chatham, Earl of, [75-6], [178], [179], [182], [187], [189]
• Chesterfield, Lord, [248]
• Church of England, [9]
• Cicero, [53], [142]
• Clarke, Dr., [323]
• 'Cocker's Arithmetic,' [245]
• 'Collection of Original Poems,' [19], [27]
• College upon Roman Antiquities, [35]
• Commonplace book, Boswell's, see 'Boswelliana'
• Corrichatachin, [127], [322]
• Corsica, [51-60], [65-6], [74-8], [114], [195]
• Corsican Journal, see account of Corsica
• Courtenay, [215], [220], [299], [304]², [306]
• Covent Garden, [23]
• Crichton, the Admirable, [30]
• Croker, [118]
• Cromwell, [7]
• 'Cub at Newmarket,' [26], [27]

D

• Dalrymple, Sir David, [17], [21], [73], [178]
• D'Arblay, Madame, diary of, see under Miss Burney
• Davies, Tom, [40-2], [44], [291-2]
• Dempster, George, [19], [33], [151], [230], [306]
• Derrick, [25], [40]
• Dictionary, Johnson's, [1], [243], [274]
• 'Dictionary of National Biography,' [176]⁶
• Dilly, Charles, [19], [111], [202], [248], [306]
• Dilly, Edward, [188]
• Dodd, Dr., [79]
• Douglas, Mr., [81]
• Douglas Cause, [81-4]
• 'Dorando: a Spanish Tale,' [82]
• Drury Lane Theatre, [20], [23], [29]
• Dunciad, [118]
• Dundas, [179]
• Dunn, Mr., [9]

E

• Edinburgh, [6], [12], [17], [19], [20], [23], [24], [27], [34], [84], [90], [95], [103], [123]
• Edinburgh, traditions of, [304]³
• Edinburgh University, [10], [12], [17], [20], [35], [89]
• Eglinton, Earl of, [26], [100], [177], [178], [196]
• Eldon, Lord Chancellor, [169]
• 'Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady,' [25], [26]
• England, [85], [87], [106], [210], [220]
• Epictetus, [188]
• 'Epistle of a London Buck to his Friend,' [27]
• Erskine, Honourable Andrew, [19], [20], [25], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33]
• Eton, [216], [320]

F

• Ferney, [50], [54]
• Fitzgerald's 'Life of Boswell,' [81]⁹, [82]¹¹, [83]¹², [177]⁹, [199], [200]³⁵, [204]³⁶, [212], [273], [278], [290]⁴
• Flanders, [315]
• Fleet ditch, [240]
• Foote, [207]
• Forbes, Sir William, [214], [275], [300]¹, [306]
• France, [235]
• Franklin, Dr., [74]
• Frederick the Great, [54]
• Froude, [1]

G

• Garrick, [23], [43], [44], [61], [74], [107], [109], [262]
• Gay, [118]
• Gentleman, Francis, [22], [25]
• 'Gentleman's Magazine,' [61]⁸, [63]¹⁰, [178]¹³, [215], [225]⁷, [304]², [306]⁶, [307]
• Gibbon, [68]
• Gilmour, Sir Alexander, [97]
• Glasgow, [22]
• —— University, [17], [36]
• Glenelg, [122]
• Goldsmith, [106], [108], [179]
• Goldsmith, Prior's Life of, [195]³³, [206]³⁸
• Graham, [201]
• Gray, [4], [11], [12], [94], [109], [302]
• ——, Mason's Life of, [231-2]
• Greenwich, [268]
• Guards, [34]

H

• Hackman, [173]
• Hailes, Lord, [17], [36], [69], [268]
• Hamlet, [41]
• Harris, [35]
• Harwich, [48]
• Hawkins, Sir John, [107], [108], [227]¹, [237], [290], [302]
• Hebrides, [172], [211]
• Henley, W. E., 'Views and Reviews,' [284]³
• Hill, Dr. George Birkbeck, [58], [250-1], [276], [290]⁴, [293]
• Hodge, [244]
• Holcroft, Thomas, Memoirs of, [252]
• Home Circuit, [310]
• Homer, [2]
• Howard, [98]
• Hume, David, [18], [35], [53], [68], [69], [70], [71], [74], [151], [175], [207]
• Hypochondriack, the [in 'London Magazine'], [124], [137-44], [145-6], [147], [148], [224]

I

• Inner Temple, [137], [167]
• Ireland, [22]
• Ireland, Mr., [193-4]

J

• James, King, [8]
• Jockey Club, [26]
• Johnson, Lionel, [189]
• Johnson, Samuel:
  • better known to us than other literary men, [1-2];
  • interest in, [3-4];
  • argument with Lord Auchinleck, [7];
  • retort to Mr. Dunn, [9];
  • Temple contrasted with, [13];
  • condemnation of Dempster, [19];
  • commends Boswell's accent, [21];
  • opinion of Derrick, [25];
  • great writer, [36];
  • becomes friends with Boswell, [40-50];
  • conversation, [45-7];
  • liked admiration, [45];
  • strength of personality, [49];
  • Frederick the Great and Voltaire, [54];
  • compared with Paoli, [56-8];
  • approves Boswell's adventures in Corsica, [58];
  • opinion of Boswell's account of Corsica, &c., [59];
  • opinion of Gibbon and condemnation of 'infidelity,' [68] seq.;
  • talks of going to Sweden, [71];
  • dines with Boswell, [74];
  • writes on behalf of Mr. Dodd, [79];
  • legal help to Boswell, [83-4];
  • on Scotchmen, [85-7];
  • on Mrs. Boswell, [100-1];
  • Mrs. Boswell's opinion of, [102];
  • the Johnsonian circle, [106] seq.;
  • meeting with Wilkes arranged, [110-12];
  • friendship with Boswell, [112-34];
  • lack of sympathy and blunt advice, [114];
  • irritated by Boswell, [115];
  • quarrels, [116-24];
  • no venom in his wounds, [120];
  • very angry, [121];
  • in the Hebrides, [125] seq.;
  • at Streatham, [128];
  • at Lochbuy, [129];
  • use of images, [144];
  • influence on Boswell, [150-61];
  • conventional prejudices, [153] seq.;
  • talks for victory, [121], [153-4];
  • truth, honesty, [155];
  • dislikes affectation, [157-8];
  • a moralist, [159-60];
  • Lord Auchinleck's opinion of, [165];
  • on Lord Auchinleck as Boswell's father, [166];
  • knows nothing of Scotch law, [171];
  • view of Boswell's attendance at executions, [173];
  • discourages Boswell's political ambitions, [175];
  • Boswell's imitation of, [191-2];
  • 'just frown,' [155], [201];
  • mot about Boswell's boasting, [204];
  • fear of death, [206];
  • Gargantua, [207];
  • records of the tour in the Hebrides, [209-14];
  • little taste for rural beauties, [210];
  • interest in human nature, [211];
  • remarks on his host's avarice, [212-13];
  • introduced to Temple, [215];
  • moral support, [222];
  • melancholy, [225];
  • faults of the great moralist, [233-4];
  • love of truth applied to biography, [235-7];
  • Hawkins' Life, and Mrs. Thrale's Memoirs, [237-8];
  • Boswell's conception of, [238-40];
  • description of, [242];
  • physical characteristics, [244];
  • his cat, [244-5];
  • Latin quotations, [245];
  • presents a Highland lass with 'Cocker's Arithmetic,' [245];
  • letter to Lord Chesterfield, [248];
  • his pension, [248-9];
  • gay Sam, [254], [295];
  • a great talker, [256];
  • not expansive, [257];
  • baited by Boswell, [259];
  • the subject of Boswell's experiments, [260] seq.;
  • questioned by Boswell, [261] seq.;
  • helps Boswell in his biographical work, [272];
  • the Johnsonian æther, [286-7];
  • the dictator, [288-93];
  • dancing lessons, [288];
  • the element of humour, [289];
  • his humanity and tenderness, [291];
  • Tom Davies put down, [292];
  • his 'awfulness,' [293-8];
  • Miss Burney's account, [294] seq.;
  • his gallantry, [294-5];
  • his rebuke to Hannah More, [295];
  • his kindness, [295];
  • the dogmatist, [296];
  • pompousness and playfulness, [297];
  • his 'formality,' [298];
  • public interest in, [302];
  • his share in Boswell's great work, [315-6];
  • talked about, [317];
  • fertility and readiness of his wit, [323];
    • See also under Boswell.
• Johnson, Boswell's Life of:
  • universality, [2-3];
  • self-expression in, [14];
  • 'Tour in Corsica' compared with, [59-60];
  • tells a story of friendship, [113];
  • attitude towards Johnson involved, [131];
  • not a complete expression of Boswell's views, [137];
  • proves Boswell's ability, [138];
  • an edifying book, [145];
  • humour, [201];
  • Malone the first editor, [210]¹;
  • connection of the 'Tour to the Hebrides' with, [217], [227-8];
  • not the official life, [227],¹;
  • industry of the author, [227-9];
  • Malone revises, [229-30];
  • Boswell's conviction that it will be a masterpiece, [229-33];
  • his conception of, [231-3];
  • nature of moral purpose in, [233-7];
  • Boswell's conception of Johnson's character, [238-41];
  • his qualifications, [242] seq.;
  • his care, [247-5];
  • the proof-sheets, [250-1];
  • interest in Johnson's talk, [256];
  • the author's questions and experiments, [258-66];
  • his note-taking, [266] seq.,
    • see Boswell;
  • compiled from documents not extant, [273];
  • the process of Johnsonising, [278-82];
  • artistic nature of the representation, [283-93];
  • the 'shades' in Johnson's character emphasised, [286];
  • the comedy scenes, [288-92];
  • is Boswell's Johnson in any degree his own invention? [293-9];
  • Boswell's account accepted as the truth, [299];
  • contains occasional autobiography, [300];
  • solidifies Boswell's reputation, [303];
  • Malone prepares the third edition, [307];
  • Malone's opinion of, [308];
  • additions and corrections, [313];
  • its popularity and Boswell's triumph, [314-15];
  • Dr. Johnson's share, [315-16];
  • Boswell necessarily appears in, [321-2];
  • the dedication, [324];
    • see also under Boswell, biography, &c.
• 'Journey to the Western Islands,' [87], [236]

K

• Kames, Lord, [18]
• Keats, [1]
• Killaloe, Bishop of, [289]
• King George III., [177], [182], [196], [255], [295]
• King of Prussia, [191]

L

• Langton, [106], [119], [248], [266], [281-2], [293]
• Leask, W. K., James Boswell, [313]¹¹
• Letters between the Honourable Andrew Erskine and James Boswell, Esq., [30], [31], [32], [33]
• Letters, Boswell's political, [136-7], [176-7], [195]
• Letters to Temple, see under Boswell
• Lettsom, Dr., [202]
• Lisburne, [178]
• Literary Club, [68], [106-7], [133]
• Literature, see under Boswell
• 'Lives of the Poets,' [109]
• Lochbuy, [129], [131], [260]
• ——, Lady, [129]
• Lockhart, [1]
• London, [17], [20], [25], [34], [36], [97], [103], [105], [106], [124], [165], [167], [168], [177], [182], [189], [218-19], [229], [306], [307], [318]
• 'London Magazine,' [8], [46]³, [65], [102], [103], [124], [137], [138], [148]^2-3, [157]
• Lonsdale, Lord, [175-6], [179]
• Loughborough, Lord, [248-9]
• Love, Mr., [20], [21], [22]
• Lowe, Mr., [252-3], [255]

M

• Macaulay, Lord, [2], [4], [5], [61]
• ——, Mrs., [61], [262]
• Macdonald, Sir Alexander (afterwards Lord), [212-14], [216]
• Mallet's 'Elvira,' [33]
• ——, critical strictures on, [33]
• Malone, Edmund, [47], [48], [107], [171], [210], [215], [220], [225], [229-30], [300]¹, [305-8], [313], [320]
• Mamhead, [10], [215]
• Marlborough, Duke of, [315]
• Mason, [11], [231-2]
• Maxwell, Jeany, [96]
• Mayo, Dr., [191]
• McLeod, Colonel, [72]
• Meadows, Captain, [74]
• Melancthon, [188]
• Michael Angelo, [145]
• Milton, [2], [145]
• Mitchell, Sir Andrew, [50], [178]
• Molière, [2]
• Monboddo, Lord, [261]
• Monckton, Miss, [201-2], [204]
• Montaigne, [299]
• Montgomerie, Miss, [100], [197]
• Montrose, Lord, [201]
• More, Hannah, [109], [237], [284], [289], [295]
• ——, Memoirs of, [109], ³
• Mounsey, Dr., [291-2]
• Mountstuart, Lord, [178]
• Mull, [205]
• Murphy, [68], [248-9], [302]

N

• Nash, Beau, [324]
• Newgate, [174]
• Newmarket, [26-27],
• Nichols, John, [185]
• ——, 'Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century,' [178]¹³, [306]⁸
• ——, 'Literary History,' [132]⁹, [306]⁵, [307]⁹
• ——, 'Literary Illustrations of the XVIIIth Century,' [176]⁶, [231]⁷, [284]²
• Northern Circuit, [17], [21], [169], [268]
• Northumberland, Duke of, [292]

O

• 'Ode to Gluttony,' [31]
• 'Ode to Tragedy,' [25], [29], [30]
• Odyssey, [235], [315]
• Oglethorpe, General, [74]
• Othello, [95], [258]

P

• Paoli, General, [51], [53], [55-60], [67], [69], [70], [74], [75], [76], [187], [189], [215], [267-8], [275], [306]
• Paris, [53]
• Parnell, [234]
• Parr, Dr., [251]
• Paul, the Apostle, [234]
• Pembroke, Earl of, [74], [178]
• Pennant, Mr., [235]
• Pepys' Diary, [33]
• Percy, Bishop, [132]⁹, [175], [176]⁶, [231-2], [284], [291-2]
• Piozzi, Mrs., see Mrs. Thrale
• Pitt, William (the younger), [183], [196], [197-200]
• Pocock's Johnsonian Catalogue, [273]
• Pope, [118]
• Presbyterian, Boswell's father a, [7]
• Prince of Wales, [177]
• Pringle, Sir John, [74]
• Prussia, [50]
• Pythagoras, [64]

R

• Racine, [2]
• Raleigh, Professor, [5], [40], [86]
• Rambler, [127], [238], [297], [299]
• Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [106], [108], [116], [118], [119], [173], [216], [220], [249], [259], [291], [299], [306], [323]
• ——, Life of, [73]³, [108]¹, [303]
• Robertson, Dr., [18], [191], [259]
• Rochefoucauld, [56]
• Rogers, Rev. Charles, LL.D., Memoir of James Boswell, [22], [23], [92]¹⁴, [176]⁶, [225]⁷, [300]¹, [304],², [319]
• Roman Catholic, Boswell a, [36-37]
• Ross, Mr. David, [23], [24], [25]
• Rousseau, [19], [50], [51], [69], [93], [151]
• Rudd, Mrs., [73]³, [173]
• Russia, [311]

S

• Sallust, [53]
• Saxe-Gotha, [50]
• Schwellenberg, Mrs., [255]
• Scotland, [24], [30], [42], [78], [85], [87], [105], [106], [111], [127], [165], [167], [168], [169], [209], [210], [235-6]
• Scott, Sir Walter, [2], [7], [85], [174], [225]
• Seccombe, Mr., [11], [15], [215]
• Select Society, [19], [20]
• Seward, [128]
• Shakespeare, [2], [65], [193], [195], [297]
• Shaw, Dr., [251]
• Shelley, [1]
• Shenstone's 'Pastoral on Absence,' [32], [33]
• Sheridan, Mr. Thomas, [248-9], [279]
• Skye, [122]
• 'Slavery, No Abolition of,' [310]
• Smith, Adam, [17], [68]
• Soaping Club, [27], [28]
• Somerville, Lord, [178]
• Southern's 'Tragedy of Oroonoco,' [22]
• Southill, [248]
• St. Gluvias, [10]
• Stone, Mr., [251]
• St. Paul's, [100], [137], [142]
• Stratford, Shakespeare Jubilee at, [65-6], [204]
• Streatham, [128], [263]
• Stuart, Lord Mount, [50]
• Sweden, [71]
• Swift, [118], [292]

T

• Taylor, John, [197-8], [304]
• ——, records of, [198]³⁴, [305]⁴
• ——, Tom, 'Life of Reynolds,' [73]³, [108]¹, [303]
• Temple, William, [10-16], [61], [64], [70], [73], [79], [81], [84], [88], [92], [96], [98], [100], [178], [183], [185-6], [187], [215], [225]⁷, [300]¹, [306], [309-12]
• ——, 'Essay on the Clergy,' [11]
• Temple, William, Boswell's letters to, see Boswell
• Temple Bar, [240]
• Temple Gate, [240]
• Templeton, John, [319]
• Tennyson, [1]
• Terentia, [53]
• Thérèse le Vasseur, [53]
• Thrale, Mrs., [72], [100], [108], [126], [237-8], [259], [266-7], [302]
• ——, Anecdote of Dr. Johnson, [237]
• ——, Autobiography, Letters, &c., [72],², [258]¹, [284]¹
• ——, Johnson's letters to, [126], [176]⁶
• Tory, Boswell a, [8], [137], [153], [176], [177], [181]
• Tour to the Hebrides, [7], [68], [71],¹, [78], [107], [121-3], [125-7], [131], [190], [201], [205], [209-18], [227-8], [230], [234], [245], [257], [269]⁴, [270],⁵, [297-9], [302], [303], [307], [314], [322]
• Tour in Corsica, see account of Corsica
• Trelawney, Sir Jonathan, [97]
• Trevelyan, Sir George, [1]
• ——, 'Life of Fox,' [175]⁵
• Turbulent, Mr., [254]
• Turks, [311]
• Twalmley, [205]
• Tyers, Tom, [257]

U

• Ulysses, [315]
• Utrecht, [50], [91], [155]
• Uxoriana, [102]

V

• Vestris, [288]
• Vilette, Rev. Mr., [251]
• Voltaire, [50], [54], [93], [149]

W

• Walcot, [216]
• Walpole, Horace, [61], [109], [302]
• ——, Letters of, [109]²
• Warburton, [251]
• Wedderburne, [248-9]
• Wellesley, Marquess of, [118]
• Westminster Hall, [168], [170], [215]
• Westminster School, [320]
• Whig, Boswell's father a, [7], [8]
• ——, Boswell becomes a, [9]
• Whitehead, Mason's Life of, [231]
• Wilkes, Jack, [19], [50], [55], [69], [70], [110], [112], [117], [250], [282]
• Williams, Miss, [43]
• Wordsworth, [1]
• Wren, Sir Christopher, [142]

Y

• York, [177]
• York, Duke of, [26], [27]
• Young's Night Thoughts, [188]

Z

• Zelide, [91], [95], [98]

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A List of Contents has been added by the transcriber, and placed in the Public Domain.

The original page headings are of interest, so they have been retained, in the online version, and moved to appropriate positions in the right-hand margin, close to the text to which they refer, so as not to interrupt the flow of the text.

The book contains some foreign words and a few old spellings, e.g., 'authour', 'tenour', etc., and also instances of hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants of some words. These have all been retained.

Instances of both 'adhaesit' and 'adhæsit' appear in the text. Both have been retained.

Punctuation is not always consistent. Some punctuation has been amended for conformity; sundry missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired.

Page 28: Extraneous closing quote removed after "alive.'"

"There is no better fellow alive."

Page 56: 'Rochefoucault' is the spelling used by Boswell; Rochefoucauld appears in the Index. Both have been retained.

Page 65: 'possble' corrected to 'possible'

"... there can be no possible doubt that Boswell wrote it...."

Page 108: 'Boswell:' changed to 'Boswell:' for consistency.

"... Boswell: 'They were afraid of you, Sir, as...."

Page 200: 'compositon' corrected to 'composition'.

"... and he was so vain that he was undoubtedly proud of what must have been an absurd composition."

Page 336: 'Tory, Boswella corrected to 'Tory, Boswell a'

"Tory, Boswell a, 8, 137, 153, 176, 177, 181"

• Akerman, ... 251 (250)
• Boswell:
  • law ... (187) (204)
  • lawyers ... 205 ()
  • letters:
    • Temple, quoted ... 70 (69) ... 167¹ () ... (179) ... 185-186 (186)
• Eglinton, Earl of ... 197 (196)
• Graham, ... 201 (202)
• Hypochondriack, ... 145-6 (146)
• Samuel Johnson:
  • talks for victory, ... 121 ()
  • 'just frown', ... 155 ()
  • gay Sam, ... 254, 295 (246)
• Lisburne, ... 178 (179)
• Lochbuy, ... 260 (258)
• London Magazine, ... (69) (104)
• Lowe, ... (255)
• Macaulay, ... 2 (1) ... (61)
• Macaulay, Mrs., ... 61 ()
• Montgomerie, ... 100, 197 (98-9, 100)
• More, Hannah, ... 284 (283)
• Nichols, John,
• ——, 'Literary History,' ... 307⁹ (308)
• Paoli, General, ... 67 (66) 187 ()
• Percy, Bishop, ...284 (283)
• Reynolds, Sir Joshua, ...249 (248) ...259 (258)
• Robertson, Dr., ... 259 (258)
• Rogers, Rev. Charles, LL.D., Memoir of James Boswell, ... (216)
• Temple Gate ...240 (229)
• Thrale, Mrs., ... (290), (295), (297)
• Turbulent, Mr., ... 254 (253)
• Tyers, Tom, ... 257 (256)
• Vilette, Rev. Mr., ... 251 (250)