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April; August; BOSWELL; Bishop; Burke; Burney; Croker; DEAR; December; Diary; Doctor; Dr.; England; English; Fox; GOD; Garrick; Gent; Greek; Hawkins; Hebrides; House; Johnson; Joshua; June; King; Langton; Letters; Lichfield; Life; London; Lord; Madam; March; Memoirs; Milton; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; November; Oxford; Piozzi; Pope; Reverend; Reynolds; SAM; Scotland; September; Sir; St.; Thrale; Walpole; Works; lordship; man summary = doubt he is a little of an infidel[82]."--"Sir, (said Johnson) I will I laid my hands on: my veneration for your great and good friend, Dr. Johnson, and the pride, or I hope something of a better sentiment, which Edwards[291], to whom I said, ''I think, Sir, Dr. Johnson and you meet ''Sir, (said Johnson to me, with an air of triumph,) Mr. Berrenger knows the world. ''But, Sir, (said she to Johnson,) I should like to hear _you_ ''Sir, (said Johnson,) I should like to stay here four-and-twenty hours. little merit, that he said, ''Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, Sir, (said Johnson); they consider it as a compliment to be talked to, Johnson, recollecting himself, said, ''Sir, I knew him; we called him the Of Dr. Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, Johnson said to a friend, ''Hurd, Sir, Mr. Lowe told me that Johnson said to him, ''Sir, your picture is id = 10451 author = Boswell, James title = Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) date = keywords = Aberdeen; Alexander; Allan; Ante; August; BOSWELL; Burke; Charles; Church; Col; Dr.; Duke; Earl; Edinburgh; England; English; Garrick; George; Highland; Hume; James; Johnson; Journal; King; Lady; Laird; Letters; Life; London; Lord; M''Lean; M''Leod; M''Queen; Macdonald; Macleod; Malcolm; Miss; Monboddo; Mr.; Mrs.; Mull; November; October; Piozzi; Pope; Prince; Rasay; Robertson; Scotland; Scott; September; Sir; Sky; St.; Thrale; William; Works; great; man summary = Of Dr. Beattie, Mr. Johnson said, ''Sir, he has written like a man ''Nay, (said Dr. Johnson,) a man may write at any time, if he will set For Dr. Johnson gave him this character: ''Sir, he is a civil man, and a conversation at dinner, Dr. Johnson, in very good humour, said, ''I I mentioned my doubts to Dr. Johnson, who said, he would go two miles out of his way to see Lord Dr. Johnson said, ''So great a number as a thousand is better. Mr. Grant having prayed, Dr. Johnson said, his prayer was a very good agreeable and polite, and Dr. Johnson said, he was a very pleasing man. Having expressed a desire to have an island like Inchkenneth, Dr. Johnson set himself to think what would be necessary for a man in such a Sir," said Johnson, "do you know who was the author of the Lord''s id = 11729 author = Boswell, James title = Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. date = keywords = Bishop; Boswell; Burke; Charles; Club; College; Court; Dictionary; Dr.; Duke; Earl; Edinburgh; England; English; Essay; Garrick; George; Goldsmith; Henry; History; House; Hume; James; Johnson; Journey; King; Lady; Letters; Lichfield; Life; Literary; London; Lord; Memoirs; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Ode; Oxford; Pope; Professor; Rambler; Rev.; Reynolds; Richard; Robert; Samuel; Scotch; Scotland; Shakespeare; Sir; St.; Strahan; Street; Thomas; Thrale; University; Vol; Walpole; William; Works; iii summary = CROKER, Right Hon. John Wilson, _Boswell''s Life of Johnson_, 1 vol. NAPIER, Rev. Alexander, _Boswell''s Life of Johnson_, 5 vols., London, praised by Burke and Johnson, iii. Johnson''s birth-day dinners, at, iii. Johnson intends to edit his works, iii. invites Johnson to meet Boswell at his house, iii. _A Conversation between George III and Samuel Johnson_, (in 1777 Boswell met Johnson in Ashbourne, iii. BRISTOL, Boswell and Johnson''s visit in 1776, iii. CARLISLE, Boswell proposes to meet Johnson there, iii. CARMICHAEL, Miss, Johnson lodges her in his house, iii. a young clergyman, Johnson''s letter to, iii. Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. Johnson and Boswell visit it in 1777, iii. EDWARDS, Rev. Dr., Johnson''s letter to him, iii. neglects Johnson''s proposal to write Garrick''s Life, iii. _Life_, by Johnson, iii. HUSSEY, Rev. John, Johnson''s letter to him, iii. Argyll Street, Johnson''s room in Mrs. Thrale''s house, iii. id = 1564 author = Boswell, James title = Boswell''s Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood date = keywords = April; BOSWELL; Beauclerk; Bishop; Burke; College; Dictionary; Dr.; England; English; Friday; Garrick; General; Goldsmith; Johnson; Joshua; King; Langton; Lichfield; London; Lord; Madam; March; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Oxford; Pope; Reynolds; SAM; Scotland; Shakspeare; Sheridan; Sir; St.; Sunday; Taylor; Thrale; Williams; life; lordship; man summary = Johnson said, ''Nay, Sir, Alexander the Great, marching in triumph into Mr. Langton having signified a wish to read it, ''Sir, (said he) you shall been to see Johnson ride upon three horses, he said, ''Such a man, Sir, ''Why, Sir, (said Johnson,) it has been accounted for in three ways: Johnson said (sarcastically,) ''It seems, Sir, you have kept very good ''Sir, (said Johnson,) you talk of language, as if you had never done ''Sir, (said Johnson,) I am a great friend to publick amusements; mentioned, that an Irish gentleman said to Johnson, ''Sir, you have not situation?'' Johnson answered, ''Sir, he said all that a man SHOULD say: Mr. Green told me that Johnson once said to him, ''Sir, I should as soon Johnson said, ''Sir, I have seen him but once these twenty years. to whom I said, ''I think, Sir, Dr. Johnson and you meet only at id = 6018 author = Boswell, James title = The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. date = keywords = Alexander; Allan; BOSWELL; Charles; Col; Edinburgh; England; English; Highland; James; Johnson; Lady; Laird; London; Lord; M''Lean; M''Leod; M''Queen; Macdonald; Macleod; Malcolm; Monboddo; Mrs; Mull; October; Rasay; Scotland; September; Sir; Sky; footnote; good; great; man summary = ''Sir,'' said Mr Johnson, ''a lawyer has no business Of Dr Beattie, Mr Johnson said, ''Sir, he has written like a man Johnson said nothing at the time; but when we came to the great door Dr Johnson gave him this character: ''Sir, he is a civil man, and a Johnson, after they were acquainted, said, ''I take great delight in Dr Johnson said, ''So great a number as a thousand is better. Mr Grant having prayed, Dr Johnson said, his prayer was a very good Dr Johnson said, that ''a chief and his lady should make their house dependence on his will, Dr Johnson said, ''You are right: it is a man''s Dr Johnson said nothing at the time; but when we were in our ''True, sir,'' said Dr Johnson: ''but you may ''True, sir,'' said Dr Johnson: ''but you may ''Why, sir,'' said Dr Johnson, ''I shall say nothing as to the id = 8918 author = Boswell, James title = Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 date = keywords = A.D.; April; August; Bishop; Boswell; Burney; Cave; Chesterfield; College; Croker; December; Dictionary; Dr.; Earl; England; English; February; Garrick; Gent; Gentleman; George; Goldsmith; Hawkins; Hebrides; House; January; Johnson; Joshua; July; June; King; Langton; Letters; Lichfield; Life; London; Lord; Magazine; March; Memoirs; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; November; October; Oxford; Piozzi; Pope; Post; Preface; Rambler; Reynolds; SAM; Savage; September; Sheridan; Sir; St.; Thomas; Thrale; University; Walpole; Warton; Works; page summary = Boswell''s _Life of Johnson_ I read for the first time in my man, had known _Johnson_ from his early years, and was his friend this year, and the last 17th of March 1752, the day on which Mrs. Johnson died. In the _Gentleman''s Magazine_ of this year, Johnson gave a Life of Sir Thomas Brown[658], whose life Johnson wrote, was remarkably fond of Johnson said, ''Nay, Sir, Alexander the Great, marching in triumph into we had left the lodgings, Johnson said to me, "_There_ lives a man, who [51] Johnson said of him:--''Sir Joshua Reynolds is the same all the year all published while Boswell was writing _The Life of Johnson_, were [549] ''Mr. Macbean,'' said Johnson in 1778, ''is a man of great learning, an edition of Dr. Johnson''s works, and to write his Life. [766] In 1790, the year before the _Life of Johnson_ came out, Boswell id = 9072 author = Boswell, James title = Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 date = keywords = April; August; BOSWELL; Baretti; Burke; Charles; Court; Croker; DEAR; Dictionary; Doctor; Dr.; ESQ; Edinburgh; England; English; February; Garrick; General; George; Goldsmith; Hailes; Hebrides; House; Hume; JAMES; Johnson; Joshua; June; King; Langton; Letters; Life; London; Lord; March; Memoirs; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; November; October; Oxford; Paoli; Piozzi; Pope; Reynolds; SAM; Scotch; Scotland; September; Sir; St.; Temple; Thrale; Walpole; Works; man; write summary = Johnson said (sarcastically,) ''It seems, Sir, you have kept very good Such specimens of the easy and playful conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are, I think, to be prized; as exhibiting the little ''Sir, (said Johnson,) you talk of language, as if you had never done any known who had written it, Johnson wondered how Sir Joshua could like ''Sir, (said Johnson,) I am a great friend to publick amusements; Lord Chesterfield''s Letters being mentioned, Johnson said, ''It was not mentioned, that an Irish gentleman said to Johnson, ''Sir, you have not situation?'' Johnson answered, ''Sir, he said all that a man _should_ say: day on which he wrote to Johnson, he said in a letter to Temple, ''Old April 14, 1775, where Johnson said:--''Sir, there is a great cry about [709] Johnson said to Boswell:--''Sir, they knew that if they refused you man there.'' ''Sir,'' (said Johnson,) ''I thank you. id = 9180 author = Boswell, James title = Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 date = keywords = Ante; April; August; BOSWELL; Bishop; Burke; Burney; Croker; DEAR; Dodd; Dr.; Edinburgh; England; English; Garrick; General; George; Goldsmith; Hebrides; Horace; House; JAMES; Johnson; Joshua; Journal; July; June; King; Langton; Letters; Life; London; Lord; Madam; March; Memoirs; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; November; October; Percy; Piozzi; Pope; Reynolds; SAM; Scotland; September; Sir; Taylor; Thrale; Walpole; Wilkes; Works; lordship; man summary = Johnson said of Chatterton, ''This is the most extraordinary young man worthy man, has frequently had agreeable parties at his house for Dr. Johnson, and will be vexed if the Doctor neglects him to-day. Talking of shaving the other night at Dr. Taylor''s, Dr. Johnson said, ''Sir, of a thousand shavers, two do not ''Sir, (said he,) Johnson, the great writer; _Oddity_, as A gentleman has informed me, that Johnson said of the same person, ''Sir, Four days later Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale:--''Boswell shrinks from the Boswell wrote to Johnson this year (_ante_, iii. Boswell''s _Hebrides_, Oct. 27, 1773, where Johnson said:--''Sir, I look [597] Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale:--''Boswell says his wife does not took a very long time to this great potation; and I have heard Dr. Johnson say, ''Sir, if a man drinks very slowly, and lets one glass [892] Johnson said to me afterwards, ''Sir, they respected me for my id = 37764 author = Callender, James Thomson title = Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from His Works date = keywords = Callender; Critical; Deformities; Dictionary; Doctor; Dryden; England; English; Gray; Ibid; Johnson; Life; Pope; Rambler; Review; Samuel; Shakespeare; Theobald; University; man summary = _A Critical Review of the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson_ (1783)--were not these pages will endeavour to ascertain the genuine importance of Dr. Johnson''s literary character" (pp. _Deformities_), who "''denied the existence of Gaelic poetry....''" "Dr. Johnson was his patron; and THEREFORE this Essayist, ''by fair and Critical Review of the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson_, the statement is Doctor''s English Dictionary." Thirty-one pages later, having vented his 7. _Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. With Critical Observations on His probably also the author of _Deformities of Dr. Samuel Johnson_") twenty years buried, the Doctor, in his life of Pope, studies to revenge In his dictionary the Doctor, without a word of _accidental_ I believe that Dr Johnson has written better verses than any man now have said or thought, had Dr Johnson''s dictionary been published in his Speaking of Pope''s edition of Shakespeare, Dr Johnson observes, ''That on Doctor''s works, though not in his Dictionary. id = 29324 author = Courtenay, John title = A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) date = keywords = Boswell; Courtenay; Dr.; James; Johnson; Mr.; Oxford; Review; Samuel; University; William summary = first-rate wit, and as an intimate friend of Boswell, Courtenay Club, Courtenay did not join this group until four years after Johnson shortly after Johnson''s death, a valued member of the Boswell circle. The period following Johnson''s death was for Boswell a time of intense happy note, for Boswell''s final mention of Courtenay in his journal minimized the subject''s weaknesses, a man like Johnson presented Courtenay, like many others, saw in Johnson a Courtenay was the only writer before Boswell to praise Johnson''s Latin revision, he forms his general evaluation of Johnson''s writing into Chesterfield, and Dr. Samuel Johnson_ (1787) protested that Courtenay from the anonymous author of _A Poetical Epistle from the Ghost of Dr. Johnson_, mentioned earlier, who charged Courtenay with poor taste and many published attacks on Johnson, Boswell must have appreciated See _Boswell''s Life of Johnson_, [19] Boswell quoted Courtenay''s compliment in _Life_, II, 268. id = 10835 author = Johnson, Samuel title = Dr. Johnson''s Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes date = keywords = ABDALLA; ASPASIA; Addison; Arab; Boswell; CALI; CARAZA; CHAP; DEAR; DEMETRIUS; Dr.; England; Garrick; God; Greece; Greek; HASAN; Imlac; Irene; Johnson; LEONTIUS; Lauder; Lichfield; Lobo; London; MAHOMET; MUSTAPHA; Macleod; Magazine; Milton; Mr.; Mrs.; Nekayah; Nile; Pekuah; Pope; Raarsa; Rambler; Rasselas; Scotland; Shakespeare; Skie; Stella; THRALE; day; english; great; hope; leave; life; long; love; man; mind; new; scene; shall; thy; time; translation; turkish; year summary = It may be said, the death of Dr. Johnson kept the public mind in Johnson is a very good scholar and a poet, and, I have great hopes, will It is said, upon good authority, that Johnson once received from lord said Mr. Boswell, "that I am come to London, at a bad time, when great know that I cannot help coming from Scotland." "Sir," said Johnson, "no on every Wednesday evening; and, to serve a man whom he had known in Mr. Thrale''s household for many years, the place was fixed at his house, in writer''s end." Johnson went to see men and manners, modes of life, and "You know," said the prince, "how little my life has made me acquainted "Great prince," said Imlac, "I shall speak the truth; I know not one of your mind," said Imlac, "with other hopes or fears than reason may id = 2064 author = Johnson, Samuel title = A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland date = keywords = Allan; Boswell; Col; England; Hebrides; Highlands; Islands; Laird; Macdonald; Maclean; Macleod; Mr.; Mull; Raasay; Scotland; Sir; Sky; english; great; man summary = We left this little island with our thoughts employed awhile on the Elgin seems a place of little trade, and thinly inhabited. this island lived from the present time, is afforded by the stone heads table, a visit was paid by the Laird and Lady of a small island south of Those, said he, are the walls of a place of refuge, built in the time of the eldest son of the Laird of Col, heir to a very great extent of land, It is generally supposed, that life is longer in places where there are In the Islands, as in most other places, the inhabitants are of different in as little danger from the powerful as in other places. English, and had never seen any other places than the Islands of Sky, thoughts that naturally rise in places where the great and the powerful id = 42971 author = Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron title = Macaulay''s Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson date = keywords = Boswell; Dictionary; Edinburgh; England; English; History; House; Johnson; Life; London; Lord; Macaulay; Mrs.; Oxford; Parliament; Pope; Sir; Trevelyan; great; man; year summary = The editor explains the difference between Macaulay''s _Life of Johnson_ The very year in which the last volumes of Johnson''s _Lives of the glance at the following topics: Literary Life in London in Johnson''s Time, Johnson''s Love Affair, The Dictionary, The Turning Point in what is generally called the _Life of Samuel Johnson_. English, and whether he gives us a better notion of Boswell and Johnson. knows his subject is Boswell''s _Life of Johnson_; not the edition _Life_ ranks with Boswell''s _Johnson_. _Essay on Boswell''s Life of Johnson_ stands out first. Life of Johnson including Boswell''s Journal of Johnson''s life, during about sixteen years, was passed under FROM MACAULAY''S ESSAY ON CROKER''S EDITION OF BOSWELL''S LIFE OF JOHNSON him in Boswell''s _Life of Johnson_. of Johnson''s remark that "a man may write at any time if he will set Johnson and Macaulay do not tell enough about these men, Boswell does. id = 15045 author = Piozzi, Hester Lynch title = Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings date = keywords = Anecdotes; April; Baretti; Bath; Boswell; Burney; D''Arblay; Doctor; Dr.; England; God; Italy; January; Johnson; July; June; Lady; London; Lord; Madame; March; Miss; Montagu; Mr.; Mrs.; October; Piozzi; Sir; Streatfield; Streatham; Street; Thrale; Thraliana; footnote; letter; life summary = untimely death by drowning in North America, were a copy of Mrs. Piozzi''s "Travel Book" and a copy of Johnson''s "Lives of the Poets," from "Thraliana," on the alleged rupture between Johnson and Mrs. Piozzi, that I have re-cast or re-written the part of the Johnson used to give this account of the rise of Mr. Thrale''s father: ''He worked at six shillings a week for twenty years day when walking in the country to meet a fortune-hunting gipsy, Mrs. Johnson made the wench look at my hand, but soon repented of her intimacy between Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale, in 1765, the lady was [Footnote 1: "Pray, Doctor, said a gentleman to Johnson, is Mr. Thrale a man of conversation, or is he only wise and silent?'' ''Why, "''Miss Burney,'' said Mrs. Thrale, laughing, ''you must take great care [Footnote 1: Madame D''Arblay reports Mrs. Thrale saying to Johnson at id = 2423 author = Piozzi, Hester Lynch title = Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life date = keywords = Doctor; Dr.; England; Johnson; London; Mr.; Mrs.; Sir; Streatham; Thrale; day; find; friend; good; life; little; man; people; reply; talk; time; year summary = Mrs. Piozzi, by her second marriage, was by her first marriage the Mrs. Thrale in whose house at Streatham Doctor Johnson was, after the year of complain, sir," says Johnson, "that the accounts of time are kept by the grieved me, sir," said Mr. Johnson, "to see so much mind as the science hear, sir," said Johnson, "no general abuse; the law is the last result dipped people in the sea at Brighthelmstone acknowledged; for seeing Mr. Johnson swim, in the year 1766, "Why, sir," says the dipper, "you must should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible the friendship, of Dr. Johnson, whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, "like Titian''s Johnson loved his dinner exceedingly, and has often said in my hearing, mind--"It may be so," said Mr. Johnson, "but you cannot know it yet, nor "I think," said Mr. Johnson, when "Why, Mr. Pearson," said she, "you are just like Dr. Johnson, I think: I id = 45869 author = Roberts, S. C. (Sydney Castle) title = The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell''s Life date = keywords = Boswell; Dictionary; Garrick; Goldsmith; Johnson; Joshua; Langton; Lichfield; London; Mrs; Oxford; Reynolds; Sir; Thrale; illustration; man summary = Of old Mr Johnson Boswell says that "he was a pretty good Latin "Sir," said Johnson to a friend years afterwards "it was a love "I came to London" said Johnson in later years "with two-pence A few years later Johnson wrote a _Life_ of his friend, sitting up all "''Sir'' said Johnson to a friend, ''the fellow wants me to make Mahomet Nor was the lady''s dinner forgotten when Boswell and Johnson went off ''What, Sir, a good book?'' JOHNSON. When Johnson went to stay with his friend in Scotland, Mrs Boswell ''Why, Sir,'' said Johnson, ''I hear that Goldsmith, who "''Dr Goldsmith,'' said Johnson, ''something passed to-day where you and At another time "Johnson being at dinner at Sir Joshua''s in company conversation of Johnson; and nothing shews more the greatness of Sir "Sir," said Dr Johnson "I look upon every day to be lost, in which I id = 21869 author = Shorter, Clement King title = Immortal Memories date = keywords = Borrow; Boswell; Cowper; Crabbe; Dr.; East; England; George; Helen; Johnson; Lassalle; Letters; Library; Lichfield; Life; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Norwich; Professor; Sir; Thomas; Works; english; volume summary = with the great city which Johnson came to love so much, is to let in a read Johnson''s biography of Milton in the _Lives of the Poets_: "Oh! greatest letter-writer in a language which has produced many great letterwriters--Walpole, Gray, Byron, Scott, FitzGerald, and a long list. series of little books as _The English Men of Letters_ and the _Great find certain letters to Thomas in Birkbeck Hill''s edition; Dr. Johnson many years'' work, and the book has not yet gone into a second edition. "The great thing is to get people to read the Borrow books: there is book is in 2 volumes in Bohn''s Library--an excellent edition. is that published in 8 volumes, edited by George A. should be read in the edition published in 2 volumes by David Nutt, with volumes, _The First Forty Years_ in 1882 and _Life in London_ in 1884. id = 11031 author = Stephen, Leslie title = Samuel Johnson date = keywords = Boswell; Burke; Dictionary; Dr.; Garrick; Goldsmith; Johnson; Lichfield; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Oxford; Pope; Rambler; Reynolds; Scotch; Sir; Street; Thrale; friend; life; man summary = eminent men with whom Johnson came in contact in later life, had also "No man but a blockhead," said Johnson, "ever wrote except for money." "The great," said Johnson, "had tried him and given him up; they had Reynolds said that Johnson considered Garrick to be his own property, Johnson, that he would be glad to write the life of his friend. getting a friend to leave London, Johnson said in revenge for a previous recommendation enough to Johnson." Another time, when Boswell had "Mr. Johnson," said Boswell, "I do indeed come from Scotland; "I find," said Johnson afterwards, "that it does a man good to be talked written so well." "No man," said Johnson, "could have paid a higher learned much by art." Johnson said afterwards that Mrs. Boswell was in a "Sir," said Johnson, "don''t should consider, sir," said Johnson, "that by every one of your