TABLE OP CONTENTS.

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 . ...

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

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
Johnson, and Burton .
At dinner with Tom Davies .
Gray and Johnson . .
James Boswell . . .

Boswell and the Cow

A strange dispenser of fame

Robert Levett . .

CHAPTER VII.
1762-1763.

HOGARTH AND BEYNOLDS.

1762. Mrs, Fleming at Islington
JEt. 34. The publisher-paymaster

815
816
317
317
318
319
319
320

321
322

1763. Compiling .

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.

CHAPTER VIII.

1763.
THE CLUB AND ITS P1BST MBMBEB8.

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»

' ties ......

Miss Williams ....
Levees at Inner Temple Lnno .
The countess and the scholar .
A singular appearance
Goldsmith becomes a Templar ,

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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saa and poverty . ... 280