Blackmore.

lines on Prince Voltiger, ii. 124; Swift, ridiculed by, iv. 92, n. 2. BLACKSTONE, Sir William, Borough English, v. 365, n. 1; Commentaries written when he had little practice, ii. 492; composed with the help of port wine, iv. 105; crown revenues, ii. 405, n. 3; Hackman's trial, iii. 436; Hawkins's Siege of Aleppo, approves of, iii. 294; House of Hanover, right of the, v. 230; legal succession, ii. 475, n. 1; Pembroke College, member of, i. 87; portrait in the Bodleian, iv. 105, n. 3; stultifying oneself, v. 389, n. 3. BLACKWALL, Anthony, i. 98; iv. 360,

470, n. 2.

BLACKWELL, Thomas, Memoirs of the

Court of Augustus, i. 357, 361. BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 540, n.2. BLAGDEN, Dr., iv. 35. BLAINVILLE, H., ii. 396.

BLAIR, Rev. Dr. Hugh, Boswell, letter to, iii. 457; Boswell's lowing like a cow, v. 452; composed slowly, v. 75; conversation, his, iii. 385, n. 5; v. 453, n. 2; Dissertation on Ossian, i. 458; ii. 339, 345, n. 3; iii. 58; Johnson, in awe of, ii. 72; 'den,' i. 458; misunderstanding with, ii. 315, 318; record of a talk with, v. 454; Johnsonian style, remarks on the, iii. 195, 196; Lectures on Rhetoric, iii. 195; Pope, anecdotes of, iii. 457-8; preached in a shamefully dirty church, v. 46; Scotchman, though the dog is a,' &c., iv. 113; Sermons, publication, iii. III; price paid, iii. 112; popularity, iii. 190, n. 1, 239; Johnson praises them, iii. III, 118, 124, 190, 239; iv. 113; but criticises the Sermon on Devotion, iii. 385; whist, learns, v. 461, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 60, n. 1; v. 441, 449.

Bodens.

BLAIR, Rev. Dr. John, iii. 457.
BLAIR, Rev. Robert, iii. 55, n. 3.
BLAIR, Robert, Solicitor-General of
Scotland, iii. 55, n. 3.
Blake, Life of, i. 170, n. 4.
BLAKESLEY, Dean, iv. 145, n. 2.
BLAKEWAY, Rev. J., i. 18.
BLANCHARD, —, iv. 413, n. I.
BLANCHETTI, Marquis, ii. 447.
BLAND, J., i. 142, n. 4.
BLANEY, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 44; iv. 429.
BLANK VERSE, Goldsmith and Gray's
estimate of it, i. 495, n. 1; Johnson's
estimate of it, i. 495; ii. 142; iv. 24,
50, 51, 70; verse only to the eye,'
iv. 51; described by a shepherd, ib.,

BLIND, distinguishing colour by the touch, ii. 218.

BLOCKHEAD, Churchill, applied to, i.
485; Fielding, ii. 199; Sterne, ib., n.
2; woman, a, ii. 522.
BLOIS, i. 450, n. I.
'BLOOD,' Johnson had no pretensions
to it, ii. 299; Boswell's pride in it, v.
57, 58.

BLOUNT, Martha, i. 269, n. I.
BLOXAM, Rev. Matthew, iii. 345.
BLUEBEARD, ii. 208.
BLUE-STOCKING MEETINGS, iii. 483, n.
I; iv. 125; v. 36, n.
BOARS, statues of, iii. 262.
BOCCAGE, - ii. 447.
BOCCAGE, Mme. du, makes tea à l'An-
gloise, ii. 462; her Columbiade, iv.
382; mentioned by Walpole and
Grimm, ib., n. I.

BODENS, George, iii. 486, n. 4.

Bodleian Library.

Books.

resem

nights, iv. 443, n. I. BOETHIUS (Hector Boece), favourite writer of the middle ages, ii. 146; Johnson translates some verses by him, i. 161; tries to get his portrait, iv. 306.

BOHEMIA, iii. 520.

BOHEMIAN LANGUAGE, ii. 179. BOHEMIAN SERVANT, Boswell's.

RITTER, Joseph.

BOILEAU, corrected by Arnauld, iii. 395; cultivez vos amis,' iv. 406; despised modern Latin poets, i. 104, n. 4; Imitation of Juvenal, i. 137; imitated by Murphy, i. 412, n. 1; 'Le vainqueur des vainqueuers,' &c., i. 303, n. 1; Life by Desmaiseaux, i. 34; on the neglect of a book, iii. 426, n. 3. BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, first Viscount, Burnet's History of his Own Time, ii. 245, n. 3; Booth's Cato, v. 143, n. 3; crown revenues, ii. 405, n. 3; dictionary-makers, i. 343, n. 3; English historians, ii. 271, n. 2; Garrick's Ode, i. 313; history to be read with suspicion, ii. 245, n. 3; authorised romance, ii. 419, n. 3; House of Commons, describes the, iii. 266, n. 2; Johnson's attack on his fame, i. 311, 382; Leslie and Bedford, iv. 331, n. 1; Mallet's edition of his Works, i. 311, 382, n. 1; Oxford, Lord, character of, iii. 267, n. 5; Patriot King, i. 382, 11. 1; Pope, enmity against, i. 381-2; Essay on Man, share in, iii. 457; executor, iv. 60; friendship with,

BONIFACE in The Beaux Stratagem, ii. 528; iii. 102, n. 2. BONNER, Bishop, i. 87, n. 4. BONNETTA of Londonderry, v. 363-4. BONSTETTEN, —, v. 437, n. 3. Book of Discipline, ii. 197. BOOK-BINDING, i. 65, n. 2. BOOK-TRADE, ii. 486–7. BOOKS, abundance of modern, iii. 378; death, leaving one's books at, iii. 355; early printed ones, ii. 457-8; v. 523; every house supplied with them, iv. 251, n. 3; getting boys to have entertainment from them, iii. 438; high price, complaints of their, i. 508, n. I; Johnson's letter on the booktrade, ii. 486-7; knowledge of the world through books, i. 122; talking from them, v. 431; looking over their backs in a library, ii. 417; poorest book, if the first, a prodigious effort, i. 526; prices at which they were

Books.

sold: Boswell's edition of Johnson's Letter to Chesterfield, 10s. 6d., i. 302, n. 4; Churchill's Rosciad, Is., i. 486, n. 2; Dodsley's Cleone, Is. 6d., i. 376, n. 3; Goldsmith's Traveller, Is. 6d., i. 481; Johnson's London, Is., i. 147, n. 3; Marmor Norfolciense, Is., i. 165, n. 3; Observations on Macbeth, Is., i. 202, n. 3; Vanity of Human Wishes, Is., i. 224, n.1; Irene, 1s. 6d., | i. 229, n. 2; Rambler, 2d. a number, i. 242, n. 2; Rambler, 4 vols. in 12mo., 12s., i. 246, n. 1.; Dictionary, 2 vols., 4/. 10s., i. 335, n. 3; Idler, 2 vols., 5., i. 388, n. 1; Rasselas, 2 vols., 12mo., 5s., i. 394, n. 2; Journey to the Western Islands, 5s., ii. 354, n. 3; Macpherson's Iliad, two guineas, ii. 340, n. 2; Percy's Hermit of Warkworth, 2s. 6d., ii. 157, n. 1; Pope's 1738,' Is., i. 147, n. 1; Robertson's Scotland, two guineas, iii. 380, n. 2; quarterly-book,' the, ii. 488; seldom read when given away, ii. 264; uncertainty of profits, iv. 140; variety of them to be kept about a man, iii. 219: Voltaire on the rapid sale of books in London, ii. 461, n. I; willingly, not read, iv. 252. See READING.

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BOOKSELLER, a drunken, iii. 442-3. Bookseller of the Last Century, sale of The Rambler and Rasselas, ii. 238, n. 5; Newbery, v. 33, n. 2. BOOKSELLERS, Boswell's vindication of them, ii. 488, n. 1; Bridge, on the,' iv. 297; copyright case, ii. 312, n. 2; copyright, their honorary, iii. 421; improvements in their manners, i. 353, n. I; Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 486-7; gard for them, i. 507; - calls them liberal-minded men, i. 352; iv. 41, n. 3; literary property, their, iii. 125;

- uniform re

BORLASE, William, History of the Isles
of Scilly, i. 358.
BORNEO, v. 447, n. 4.

BOROUGH, corruption in a, ii. 428.
Borough English, v. 364.
BOSCAWEN, Hon. Mrs., iii. 376, 483;
iv. III.

BOSCOVICH, Père, ii. 144, 465.
BOSSUET, ii. 513, n. 1; v. 354.
BOSVILLE, Squire Godfrey, invites
Johnson to meet Boswell at his
house, iii. 498; belonged to the
same club as Johnson, iii. 499; men-
tioned, ii. 194, n. 2; iii. 147, n. 2,
408.

BOSVILLE, Mrs., ii. 194.
BOSVILLE, Miss, ii. 194, n. 2; after-
wards Lady Macdonald, v. 168.
BOSWELL, various spellings of it, v.
141.

BOSWELL FAMILY, Johnson's projected
history of it, iv. 229.
BOSWELLS of Fife, ii. 473.
BOSWELL, Sir Alexander, Baronet,

Boswell's eldest son, birth, ii. 443;
iii. 99; at Eton College, iii. 14; de-
scribed by Scott, v. 438, n. 3; killed
in a duel, ii. 206, n. 1, 443, n. I.

Boswell, David.

Boswell, James.

CHIEF EVENTS OF HIS LIFE.

1740 Birth, October 29th, i. 170, n. 2.

1759 Keeps an exact journal, i. 502, n. I. Enters at Glasgow University, i. 538. 1760 First visit to London, i. 445. 1761 Publishes an Elegy on the death of an Amiable Young Lady, and An Ode to Tragedy, i. 444, n. I.

1762 Contributes to a Collection of Original Poems, ib.

The Cub at Newmarket, ib.

Second visit to London, i. 446.

1753 Critical Strictures, i. 444, H. I.

Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew
Erskine, ib.

Gets to know Johnson, i. 453.

Goes to study at Utrecht, i. 547.

1764 & 1765 Travels in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, iii. 139, n. 1; 526, n. 2.

1765 Visits Corsica, ii. 3.

1766 Visits Paris, ii.

3.

Returns from abroad, ii. 5.

Visits London, ii. 5-17.

Admitted as an Advocate, ii. 23.

1767 Is acquainted with men of eminence, il 15,

12. 2.

Account of Corsica, ii. 52.

Raises a subscription to send ordnance to
Corsica, ii. 67, n. 1.

1769 Visits Ireland, ii. 179, #. 3.

Visits London, ii. 77–127.

First visit to Streatham, ii. 88.

Attends the Stratford Jubilee, ii. 78.

Married, ii. 161, . 1.

Enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 430, n. 4.
Birth of his eldest son, Alexander, ii. 443.

1776 Disagrees with his father about the settlement of his estate, ii. 473.

Visits London, ii. 488-501; iii. 4-97.
Becomes Paoli's constant guest when in
London, iii. 40.

Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and
Ashbourne with Johnson, ii. 501-44; iii.

1-5.

Visits Bath, iii. 52-9.

Introduces Wilkes to Johnson, iii. 74.

1777 Meets Johnson at Ashbourne, iii. 154–237. Begins The Hypochondriack in the London Magazine, iv. 207, n. 3.

1778 Visits London, iii. 251-408.

Attacked violently by Johnson, iii. 384. The Hypochondriack, iv. 207, n. 3. 1779 Visits London (in the spring), iii. 424–48. Tries Johnson's friendship by a fit of si

lence, iii. 448.

67, n. 1.

Dorando, a Spanish Tale, ii. 57, n. 2.

Essence of the Douglas Cause, ii. 264.

Visits Southill with Johnson, iv. 137-52. The Hypochondriack, iv. 207, n. 3. 1782 Death of his father, iv. 177.