Boswell the Biographer

by George Mallory

[12:] For an account of Boswell's family, see Dr. Rogers in Boswelliana, pp. 192-7.

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]