Boswell the Biographer

INDEX 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

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