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The great Duchess and the white
mice......
Tea party at the White Conduit
Gardens . . ...
Supper party at the Chapter
Coffee-house . ...
Dinner at Blaekwall .
Boubiliac and Goldsmith . .
Hawkins's exposure exposed .
Humble recreations . . .
Polly and the Pickpocket .
The State reminded of its duty
Editing the Lady'i MagaAm
Writing prefaces
Better lodgings . ...
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Combe's pretended Letters o
Lord Lyttelton •
Visitors at Islington .
William Hogarth . • . • Sympathies with Goldsmith Admiration of Johnson . Portrait of the Landlady • Joshua Reynolds Not a petty quarrel • • Bast and West in Leicester-aq. |
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CHAPTER V.
1701-1762.
FELLOWSHIP WITH JOHNSON.
1701. Wine-Office Court . . .294
Mt. 33. A supper in honour of Johnson. 295
Johnson in a new suit . . . 290
Lost anecdotes . . . .296
Booksellers better than patrons. 297
1762. Pamphlet on the Cock-Lane
JEt. 34. Ghost...... 298
Drudging for Newbery . . 299
Small debts . . . . 300 Visits Tunbridge and Bath . 300 LifeafBmu, Nasli, . . . . 301 Unconscious self-revelations . 302 A good-natured man . . . 303 Johnson pensioned . . . 304 Shebbeare (of the pillory) pen- sioned ...... 805
A literary Prime Minister . . 305
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1763.
THE CLUB AND ITS P1BST MBMBEB8. |
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1763. A plub proposed. . •
JEt. 35. Members and rules • . • •
What it became . . What it was at first Mr. John Hawkins . . . . Loose characters . . . • • An unclubable man - . . • Irish adventurers . . • • Burke's outset in life What kept him down . • . • A wonderful talker . . . Johnson and Burke talking Conversational contests . . Bennet Langton. . . Topham Beauclerc . .
A prudent mother and a frisking
philosopher
A man of fashion among seliolftrtt
Beau's secret charm Boing superior to one's subject .Beauclerc's sallies . . .
Goldsmith at the club . .
Dick Eastcourt's example Doubtful self-asserbion . . . Self-distrust .... " It comes!" . . . , ,
Boswell sees Johnson
Shock the first ....
The Mitre......
The Turk's Head . ....
The sage taken by storm , , Boswell criticizing Goldsmith , A roar of applause Easy familiarity . . ,
Johnson's pensioners and oharl»
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Miss Williams ....
Levees at Inner Temple Lnno . The countess and the scholar . A singular appearance Goldsmith becomes a Templar , |
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CHAPTER VI.
1762.
INTEODXJCTIONS AT TOM DAVIES's.
1762. An actor turned bookseller . 306
JEt. 34. The shop in Russell-street . . 807
Garrick and Davies . . . 307
A Patron ...... 308
Men of feeling . . . .308
Johnson and Poote . . . 309
Caliban and Punchinello . . 309
Burke at the Robin Hood . . 310
A Master of the Rolls . . 310
Goldsmith and Johnson as de-
baters ...... 311
The Cherokee Kings . . . 812
Peter Annet . . . . . 313
Completing a history . . 313
Memorializing Lord Bute . . 314
At work on the Vicar of WakeJieU 815
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At dinner with Tom Davies . Gray and Johnson . . James Boswell . . . |
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CHAPTER IX.
1763—1764.
THE ABKEST AND WHAT PREOBDIBD I'j'.
1763.., Compiling.for Dodsley . •
Et. 35. Growing importance . . Secret labours Singing birds captive and free Distress \. ... Kit Smart and Gray ., . A letter to Dpdsley . 1764. Johnson and Smart !t. 86. Goldsmith's Oratorio . ' . |
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Boswell and the Cow
A strange dispenser of fame
Robert Levett . .
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1762-1763.
HOGARTH AND BEYNOLDS.
1762. Mrs, Fleming at Islington
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