BONIFACE in _The Beaux Stratagem_, ii. 461; iii. 89, n. 2.
BONNER, Bishop, i. 75, n. 3.
BONNETTA of Londonderry, v. 319-20.
BONSTETTEN, ----, v. 384, n. 1.
_Book of Discipline_, ii. 172.
BOOK-BINDING, i. 56, n. 2.
BOOK-TRADE, ii. 425.
BOOKS, abundance of modern, iii. 332;
death, leaving one's books at, iii. 312;
early printed ones, ii. 399; v. 459;
every house supplied with them, iv. 217, n. 4;
getting boys to have entertainment from them, iii. 385;
high price, complaints of their, i. 438, n. 2;
Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 425;
knowledge of the world through books, i. 105;
talking from them, v. 378;
looking over their backs in a library, ii. 364;
poorest book, if the first, a prodigious effort, i. 454;
prices at which they were sold:
Boswell's edition of _Johnson's Letter to Chesterfield_, 105. 6d.,
i. 261, n. 1;
Churchill's _Rosciad_, 1s., i. 419, n. 5;
Dodsley's _Cleone_, 1s. 6d., i. 325, n. 3;
Goldsmith's _Traveller_, 1s. 6d., i. 415;
Johnson's _London_, 1s., i. 127, n. 3;
_Marmor Norfolciense_, 1s., i. 143, n. 3;
_Observations on Macbeth_, 1s., i. 175, n. 3;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, 1s., i. 193, n. 1;
_Irene_, 1s. 6d., i. 198, n. 2;
_Rambler, 2d_. a number, i. 209, n. 1;
_Rambler_, 4 vols. in 12mo., 12s., i. 212, n. 3;
_Dictionary_, 2 vols., 4l 10s., i. 290, n. 1;
_Idler_, 2 vols., 5s., i. 335, n. 1;
_Rasselas_, 2 vols. 12mo., 5s., i. 340, n. 3;
_Journey to the Western Islands_, 5s., ii. 310, n. 2;
Macpherson's _Iliad_, two guineas, ii. 298, n. 1;
Percy's _Hermit of Warkworth_, 2s. 6d., ii. 136, n. 4;
Pope's '1738,' 1s., i. 127, n. 3;
Robertson's _Scotland_, two guineas, iii. 334, n. 2;
'quarterly-book,' the, ii. 426;
seldom read when given away, ii. 229;
uncertainty of profits, iv. 121;
variety of them to be kept about a man, iii. 193;
Voltaire on the rapid sale of books in London, ii. 402, n. 1;
willingly, not read, iv. 218. See READING.
BOOKSELLER, a drunken, iii. 389.
_Bookseller of the Last Century_,
sale of _The Rambler_ and _Rasselas_, ii. 208, n. 3;
Newbery, v. 30, n. 3.
BOOKSELLERS, Boswell's vindication of them, ii. 426, n. 1;
'Bridge, on the,' iv. 257;
copyright case, ii. 272, n. 2;
copyright, their honorary, iii. 370;
improvement in their manners, i. 305, n. 1;
Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 425;
uniform regard for them, i. 438;
calls them liberal-minded men, i. 304; iv. 35, n. 3;
literary property, their, iii. 110;
London booksellers, denominated _the Trade_, iii. 285, n. 2;
publish Johnson's _Lives_, iii. 110;
oppressors of genius, i. 305, n. 1; ii. 345, n. 2;
patrons of literature, i. 287, n. 3, 305.
BOOTH, Barton, the actor, account of him, v. 126, n. 2;
manager of Drurylane, v. 244, n. 2.
BOOTH, Captain, in _Amelia_, i. 249, n. 2.
BOOTHBY, Sir Brook, i. 83.
BOOTHBY, Miss Hill, Johnson's friendship for her, i. 83;
prescription of orange-peel, ii. 331. n. 1;
supposed jealousy of Lord Lyttelton, iv. 57, n. 2;
letters to her. See JOHNSON, Letters.
BORLASE, William, _History of the Isles of Scilly_, i. 309.
BORNEO, v. 392, n. 6.
BOROUGH, corruption in a, ii. 373.
_Borough English_, v. 320.
BOSCAWEN, Hon. Mrs., iii. 331, 425; iv. 96.
BOSCOVICH, Pere, ii. 125, 406.
BOSSUET, ii. 448, n. 2; v. 311.
BOSVILLE, Squire Godfrey,
invites Johnson to meet Boswell at his house, iii. 439;
belonged to the same club as Johnson, ib.;
mentioned, ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 359.
BOSVILLE, Mrs., ii. 169.
BOSVILLE, Miss, ii. 169, n. 2;
afterwards Lady Macdonald, v. 147.
BOSWELL, various spellings of it, v. 123-4.
BOSWELL FAMILY, Johnson's projected history of it, iv. 198.
BOSWELLS of Fife, ii. 413.
BOSWELL, Sir Alexander, Baronet, Boswell's eldest son,
birth, ii. 386; iii. 86;
at Eton College, iii. 12;
described by Scott, v. 385, n. 1;
killed in a duel, ii. 179. n. 3, 386, n. 2.
BOSWELL, David, a remote ancestor, ii. 413.
BOSWELL, David (Boswell's younger brother),
devotion to Auchinleck, iii. 433;
return to it, iii. 438;
ill-used by Dundas, iii. 213, n. 1;
Johnson, calls on, iii. 433-4;
liked by him, 442;
residence in Spain, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 182;
leaves in consequence of war, 433-4.
BOSWELL, David (Boswell's third son), iii. 94;
death, iii. 106, 109.
BOSWELL, Dr., account of him, v. 394;
Johnson, meets, v. 48;
description of, iii. 7;
mentioned, i. 437; iii. 116.
BOSWELL, Euphemia (Boswell's second daughter), ii. 422.
BOSWELL, JAMES.
CHIEF EVENTS OF HIS LIFE.
1740 Birth, October 29th, i. 147, n. 3.
1759 Keeps an exact journal, i. 433, n. 3.
Enters at Glasgow University, i. 465.
1760 First visit to London, i. 385.
1761 Publishes an _Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady_,
and _An Ode to Tragedy_, i. 383, n. 3.
1762 Contributes to a _Collection of Original Poems, ib.
The Club at Newmarket, ib_.
Second visit to London, i. 385.
1763 _Critical Strictures_, i. 383, n. 3.
_Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine, ib._
Gets to know Johnson, i. 391.
Goes to study at Utrecht, i. 473.
1764 & 1765 Travels in Germany, Switzerland,
and Italy, iii. 122, n. 2; 463, n. 2.
1765 Visits Corsica, ii. 2.
1766 Visits Paris, ii. 3.
Returns from abroad, ii. 4.
Visits London, ii. 4-15.
Admitted as an Advocate, ii. 20.
1767 Is acquainted with men of eminence, ii. 13, n. 3.
Corresponds with the Earl of Chatham, ii. 59, n. 1.
_Dorando, a Spanish Tale_, ii. 50, n. 4.
_Essence of the Douglas Cause_, ii. 230.
1768 Visits London and Oxford, ii. 46-66.
_Account of Corsica_, ii. 46.
Raises a subscription to send ordnance to Corsica, ii. 59, n. 1.
1769 Visits Ireland, ii. 156, n. 3.
Visits London, ii. 68-111.
First visit to Streatham, ii. 77.
Attends the Stratford Jubilee, ii. 68.
Married, ii. 140, n. 1.
_British Essays in favour of the Brave Corsicans_, ii. 59, n. 1.
1770-1 Gap in his correspondence with Johnson of nearly a year and
a half, ii. 140.
1772 Visits London, ii. 146-200.
1773 Visits London, ii. 209-263.
Elected a member of the Literary Club, ii. 240.
Gets to know Burke, ib.
Tour to the Hebrides with Johnson, ii. 266.
1775 Visits London, ii. 311-377.
Johnson assigns him a room in his house, ii. 375.
Visits Wilton and Mamhead in Devonshire, ii. 371.
Enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4.
Birth of his eldest son, Alexander, ii. 386.
1776 Disagrees with his father about the settlement of his estate,
ii. 412.
Visits London, ii. 427-438; iii. 4-80.
Becomes Paoli's constant guest when in London, iii. 34.
Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield, and Ashbourne with Johnson,
ii. 438-475; iii. 1-4.
Visits Bath, iii. 45-51.
Introduces Wilkes to Johnson, iii. 64.
1777 Meets Johnson at Ashbourne, iii. 136-208.
Begins The _Hypochondriack_ in the _London Magazine_,
iv. 179, n. 5.
1778 Visits London, iii. 222-359.
Attacked violently by Johnson, iii. 337.
_The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1779 Visits London (in the spring), iii. 373-394.
Tries Johnson's friendship by a fit of silence, iii. 394.
Visits London (in the autumn), iii. 399-411.
Visits Lichfield and Chester, iii. 411-415.
_The Hypockondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1780 _The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1781 Visits London, iv. 71-118.
Visits Southill with Johnson, iv. 118-132.
_The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1782 Death of his father, iv. 154.
_The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
1783 Visits London, iv. 164-226.
Hopes for an appointment through Burke, iv. 223.
Ends _The Hypochondriack_, iv. 179, n. 5.
_Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the
Nation_, iv. 258.
1784 Stops at York on his way to London, iv. 265.
Hurries back to Ayrshire with the intention of becoming a
candidate for Parliament, ib.
Visits London, iv. 271-339.
Visits Oxford with Johnson, iv, 283-311.
Johnson's death, iv. 417.
1785 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, v. 2.
_Letter to the People of Scotland against the attempt to
diminish the number of the Lords
of Session_, iv. 173, n. 1.
1786 Called to the English Bar, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5.
First joins the Home Circuit, then goes the Northern, lastly
returns to the Home Circuit,
_Letters of Boswell_, p. 341, and iii. 261, n. 2.
Third edition of the _Journal of a Tour_, v. 4.
Canvasses Ayrshire, iv. 220, n 4.
Courts Lord Lonsdale, ib.
Elected Recorder of Carlisle, _Gent. Mag_. for 1788, p. 470.
Takes a house in Queen Anne Street West, Cavendish Square,
_Letters of Boswell_, p. 267.
Takes chambers in the Inner Temple, iii. 179, n. 1.
Death of his wife, i. 236, n. 1.
Joins in raising a subscription for a monument to Johnson,
_Letters of Boswell_, p. 317.
1790 _The Letter from Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Chesterfield_,
i. 261, n. 1.
_A Conversation between George III and Samuel Johnson_,
ii. 34, n. 1.
Suffers from Lord Lonsdale's brutality, ii. 179, n. 3.
1791 _The Life of Samuel Johnson_, i. 9.
Appointed Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal
Academy, iii. 462.
Returns to the Home Circuit, _Letters of Boswell_, p. 341.
1792
1793 Second edition of the _Life of Johnson_, i. 13.
1794
1795 Death, May 19th, i. 14.
BOSWELL, James,
account of himself, i. 383, 404; iii. 416, n. 3; v. 51;
birth, his, i. 147, n 3;
death, i. 14;
_Account of the Kirk of Scotland,_ v. 213;
accuracy: See below, Authenticity;
activity, v. 52, n. 6, 168;
Address to the King, carries an, iv. 265, 267;
Advocate, admitted as an, ii. 20: See below, Counsel;
affectation of distress, iv. 71, 379;
allowance from his father of L300 a year, iii. 93, n. 1;
Alnwick, visits, ii. 142;
ambiguous prayer, his, iii. 391, n. 3;
ambition, iii. 179, n. 1;
America, ignorance of, ii. 293, 312, n. 4;
Americans, sides with the, ii. 294, 312; iii. 205-7; iv. 81, 259;
ancestry, Thomas Boswell, ii. 413; iv. 198;
Veronica Sommelsdyck, v. 25, n. 2;
Robert Bruce, ib.;
Boswells of Balmuto, v. 70;
anonymous mention of himself, ii. 14, 56, 84, 193, 227, n. 1, 330,
n. 2, 436, n. 1, 449, n. 1; iii. 49, n 2, 57, n. 3, 237, n. 3, 407, n. 1;
iv. 173, 274;
antiquary, an, iii. 414, n. 3;
archives, his, iii. 271, n. 5; 3O1, n. 1;
army, wishes to enter the, i. 400; v. 52;
fancies himself a military man, v. 125;
Ashbourne, visits, iii. 127,131, 135-208;
Auchinleck Castle, describes, i. 462; iii. 178; v. 379;
authenticity, love of, i. 7; ii. 350, 434, n. 1; iii. 209, 299, n. 2;
iv. 83; v. 1, 419;
avidity for delight, iii. 415;
bar, enters at the: See below, English Bar;
Barbauld's, Mrs., lines on him, ii. 4, n. 1;
Baretti, dislike of, ii. 97, n. 1;
Bath, visits, iii. 45;
Bristol, 50;
bear, led by a, ii. 269, n. 1;
Beauclerk's hit at his talk, ii. 192, n. 2;
birth-day, ii. 69, n, 3;
birth and gentility, love of, i. 490-2; ii. 261, 328-9; v. 51, 103, 380;
birthright, granted his father a renunciation of his, ii. 415, n. 1;
bishops, on, iv. 75;
'Blood:' See above, Birth and Gentility;
boastful, iv. 193;
Bologna, at, v. 115;
books, slight knowledge of, ii, 360;
Johnson buys him some, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 86-8, 91;
_Boswell_, all that is comprehended in, ii. 382, n. 1;
'Boswell, Mr. James, a native of Scotland,' i. 190, n. 4;
boy, longer than others, v. 308;
'Bozzy,' ii. 258;
_British Essays in favour of the brave Corsicans_, ii. 59, n. 1;
Burke, visits, iv. 210;
bustle, makes a, iii. 130, n. 1, 372
Cambridge, visits, ii. 335, n. 1;
cards, spends a night at, iii. 377;
Carlisle, invites Johnson to meet him at, iii. 107, 118, 123, 127;
celebrated men, acquaintance with, ii. 13; iii. 64:
See below, Great Men;
changefulness, wretched, iii. 193;
character,
Johnson's account of his, i. 474; ii 267, n. 4, 278, n. 1; v. 52;
Paoli's, i. 6, n. 2;
Lord Stowell's, v. 52, n. 6:
See above, Account of himself;
Chatham, Earl of, correspondence with the, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1;
Chester, visits, iii. 413;
his journal there a log-book of felicity, iii. 415;
'Chief, my Yorkshire,' ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 439;
children, his, ii. 265, 280, 386; iii. 366;
blessed by a non-juring Bishop, iii. 372;
loved by Johnson, iii. 436;
church, not easy unless he goes to it, i. 418, n. 1;
fondness for going, iii. 180;
'would pray with a Dean and Chapter,' iii. 375, n. 2;
chymistry, his intellectual, iii. 65;
citizen of the world, a, ii. 306; v. 20;
classical quotation apt, v. 56;
_Clubable,_ iv. 254, n. 2;
Cocoa-tree Club, at the, v. 386, n. 1;
_Collection of Original Poems_, i. 383, n. 3;
collection of Scotch words, begins a, ii, 91;
and of Scotch antiquities, ii. 92; iii. 414, n. 3;
consecrated ground, comfort in nearness to, v. 169;
divinely cheered by the nearness of Carlisle Cathedral, iii. 416, 417;
consecutive paragraphs, iii. 339, n. 1; iv. 223, n. 2;
_Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty, &c_., ii. 34, n. 1;
_conspicuonsness, his_, iv. 248, n. 2;
convict unjustly condemned, ii. 285;
correspondence with Adams, i. 8; iv. 376;
Beattie, ii. 148, n. 2; v. 15;
Blair, iii. 402; v. 398;
Blacklock, v. 417;
Chatham, Earl of, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1;
Cullen, iv. 263;
Dempster, v. 407;
Dilly, iii. 110;
Elibank, Lord, v. 181;
Forbes, Sir W., v. 413;
Garrick, ii. 279, n. 1; iii. 371; v. 347-50, 382, n. 2;
Hailes, Lord, i. 432; v. 406;
Hastings, Warren, iv. 66;
Hector, iv. 375;
Johnson: See below, JOHNSON, and under JOHNSON;
Langton, iii. 424;
Monboddo, v. 74;
Parr, iv. 47, n. 2;
Percy, iii. 278;
Pitt, iv. 261, n, 3;
Rasay, v. 410-1;
Robertson, v. 14, 32;
Reynolds, iv. 259, n. 2;
Thurlow, iv. 327, 336;
Vyse, iii. 125;
Wilkes, ii. 11, n. 3; iv. 224, n. 2;
_Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine_, i. 383;
_Corsica, Account of_: See CORSICA;
Corsica, his head filled too much with it, ii. 22, 58, 59;
his memory honoured there, ii. 3, n. 1;
a tradition of him, ii. 451, n. 3;
Corsicans, raises a subscription for the, ii. 59, n. 1;
Counsel, engaged as, Douglas Cause, iii. 219, n. 2; v. 378, n. 2;
Ecclesiastical censure case, iii. 58;
House of Lords, before the, ii. 144, 375, n. 4, 377, n. 1; iii. 219;
House of Commons, iii. 224; iv. 73, 259, n. 1;
Dr. Memis's case, ii. 291;
schoolmaster, prosecution of a, iii. 212;
Society of Solicitors' case, iv. 128;
country-house, takes a little, iii. 116, 128;
Court of General Assembly, despises pleading at the, ii. 381, n. 1;
Court of Sessions, little dull labours, ii. 381, n. 1;
_Court of Session Garland_, i. 432, n. 3; ii. 200, n. 1;
Courtenay's lines on him, i. 223;
cow, lows like a, v. 396;
cowardly caution, iii. 210-1;
critical skill, v. 214;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 383, n. 3, 409;
critics 'cannot or will not understand him,' v. 259, n. 1;
_Cub at Newmarket_, i. 383, n. 3;
curiosity, his wise and noble, ii. 4, 59;
Dalblair and Young Auchinleck, known as, v. 116;
daughters, on the treatment of, ii. 420, n. 1;
'dazzled' by Johnson and Paoli, i. 460;
death, at times not afraid of, iii. 153;
debts, i. 2, n. 2; ii. 275;
paid by his father, iii. 93;
Johnson's warnings, against incurring any, iv. 148-9, 152, 154, 163;
dedications, his, i. 1; ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1;
delights to talk of the state of his mind, iv. 249;
describes visible objects with difficulty, v. 173, 219;
desert, has wished to retire to a, ii. 75;
Devonshire, visits, ii. 371;
dignity, hardly possible uniformly to preserve, ii. 69, n. 3;
acquires 'dignity in London,' 375, n. 4;
dinners, gives admirable, ii. 59, n. 3;
gives one to some Hebrideans and Highlanders, ii. 308, 380;
goes without one, ii. 178;
displays his classical learning, v. 15, n. 5;
dissatisfaction, too much given to, iii. 225;
_Dorando, A Spanish Tale_, ii. 50, n. 4;
'Drawing-room' dress, his, ii. 83, n. 1;
Dresden, visits, i. 266, n. 2;
drudges in an obscure corner, ii. 381, n. 1;
duel, risk of having to fight a, ii. 179, n. 3;
early rising, difficulty of, iii. 168;
Easter meetings with Johnson, iv. 148. n. 2;
elated at getting Johnson to the Hebrides, v. 215;
_Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady_, i. 383, n. 3;
elevated by pious exercises, iv. 122;
English Bar, enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 178;
eats his dinners, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 45, n. 1;
called, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5;
discouraging prospects, iii. 179, n. 1;
takes chambers, ib.;
attends the Northern Circuit, iii. 261, n. 2;
discussion with Johnson on the way to success at the bar, iv. 309;
enthusiasm of mind, solemn, iii. 122, n. 2;
