The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [713]
Trip to Devonshire with Reynolds 201
1763 Meets Boswell for the first time 204, 207
Trip with him to Harwich 243, 247
Writes ‘Character’ of Collins for Fawkes and Woty’s Poetical Calendar 203
Writes dedication to Hoole’s Tasso 204
1764 Editing Shakespeare 253
Visit to Langton, Lincolnshire 251
The Club founded 251
Visits Percy at Easton Maduit 255
Reviews Grainger’s Sugar Cane and Goldsmith’s Traveller 253
Seriously ill in this year and/or the next 254
1765 Friendship with the Thrales begins 257
Visits Cambridge 256
Receives the degree of LLD from Dublin 256
Publishes his Shakespeare 260
‘Engages in politics’ with W. G. Hamilton 257
1766 Contributes to Miss Williams’s Miscellanies 278
Writes dedication to Adams’s Treatise on the Globes 286
Writes dedication to Gwynn’s London and Westminster Improved 276
Spends more than three months at Streatham 276
Passes a month at Oxford 276
1767Interview with the King 281
Writes dedication to Hoole’s Metastasio 963
Spends nearly six months in Lichfield 279
1768Writes prologue to Goldsmith’s The Good-natured Man 287
Spends about two months at Oxford 288
1769Appointed professor in ancient literature to the Royal Academy 296
Writes the character of Dr Mudge 806–7
Spends at least a month at Oxford 297
Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne 296
Stays with the Thrales at Brighton for some five weeks 297
Appears as a witness at Baretti’s trial in October 309
1770Revising his edition of Shakespeare 319–20
Publishes The False Alarm 318
1771Revises the Dictionary 335
Writes Thoughts on… Falkland’s Islands 331
Recommended to Lord North as an MP 332
Spends six weeks in the summer at Lichfield and Ashbourne 335
1772Revises the Dictionary 336
1773Publishes the fourth edition of the Dictionary 369, 371
Writes preface to Macbean’s Dictionary of Ancient Geography 369
Tour to Scotland 402–4
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces published by Davies 405
Johnson–Steevens edition of Shakespeare published 369
1774Death of Goldsmith (4 April) 410–11
Visits Burke at Beaconsfield 414
Publishes The Patriot 414
1775Writes proposals for publishing the works of Mrs Lennox 417
Controversy with Macpherson 422
Publishes Journey to the Western Islands 423
Publishes Taxation no Tyranny 430
Receives the degree of DCL of Oxford 439
Writes preface to Baretti’s Easy Phraseology 417
Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Asbourne in the summer 464
Tour to France 466
1776Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Ashbourne, with Boswell 493, 498, 521
Applies to Lord Chamberlain for rooms in Hampton Court 536
Stays at Bath with the Thrales 541
Goes to Bristol with Boswell 544
First dinner with Wilkes 555
Publishes Political Tracts 431
Stays at Brighton with the Thrales 569
1777 Writes dedication to Bishop Pearce’s Four Evangelists and numerous additions to the ‘Life’ prefixed 502–3, 581
Writes proposals for Shaw’s Analysis of the Galic Language 577
Engages to write The Lives of the Poets 579
Exerts himself on behalf of Dr Dodd by writing The Convict’s Address to his unhappy Brethren, Speech to the Recorder of London, Petitions and ‘Occasional Papers’ 586, 597
Writes prologue to Kelly’s A Word to the Wise 581
Visits Oxford, Lichfield and Ashbourne (where Boswell joins him) 591, 592–3, 636
Pays a short visit to Brighton 636
1778Writing The Lives of the Poets 718
Writes dedication to Reynolds’s Discourses 262
Visits Warley Camp in the summer 718, 723
Visits Winchester 722
1779Publishes the first four volumes of The Lives 724
Writes preface to Maurice’s translation of Oedipus Tyrannus 724
Death of Garrick 724
Visits Lichfield and Ashbourne 736
1780Writing the last volumes of The Lives 749, 754
Death of Beauclerk 751
Contributes to Davies’s Life of Garrick 758
1781Publishes the last six volumes of The Lives 781
Death of Thrale 811
Second dinner with Wilkes 819
Pays a short visit to Southill with Boswell 828–37
Visits Oxford, Birmingham, Lichfield and Ashbourne 839
Beauties of Johnson first published 847
1782Revising The Lives 850
Death