The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [724]
IV Writings (including diaries, journals and projected works, but
excluding epistolary letters) and matters relating to them
Specific works are entered in the Index of Works and Literary Characters under their titles.
adversaria 114; advertisements 12, 14; Annales 46; see also diaries; biography, excellence in 19, 139; Biographia Britannica, asked to edit 791; catalogue of his prose works 10–17; complete list asked for by his friends 66, 697; his own imperfect list, Historia Studiorum 697; one supplied to J.B. by Percy 697; charade 871; college and school exercises 32, 39, 40, 44, 935; composition: general 268, 322, 446, 884, 969; in Debates 994; in Life of Savage 96; in Rambler 113, 540; in Rasselas 182; in translation from the French 834; in Vanity of Human Wishes 108, 268; never wrote fair copies 782, 935; rapidity 62, 446, 881; shown in college exercises 40, 44; wrote not for pleasure 884; dedications: skill in writing 262, 379–80; written by him 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 53, 92, 139, 188, 195, 196, 204, 262, 276, 286, 581; diaries: Annales 46; Diary, burnt 19, 137, 992; fragments preserved 20, 46, 139; quoted by J.B. 44, 46, 50, 256, 276, 285–6, 336, 416, 917; seen by J.B. 992; ‘a small duodecimo volume’ owned by J.B. 114; diary of his tour to France 469–78; see also journal; Index of Works and Literary Characters: Prayers and Meditations; dictionary-making, see Index of Works and Literary Characters: Dictionary of the English Language; election addresses 16, 752, 762; epitaphs: Essay on Epitaphs 11, 85, 179; wholly or partly composed by him 562–3, 768, 793, 957, 984; fable, sketch of one 383; Greek Anthology, translates from 979; Greek epigrams 72, 82; introductions, see prefaces; journal: attempts to keep a 375; specimens of 164, 261; see also diaries; Latin poems 40, 67, 291, 336, 421; Latin versions of English poems 40, 91; Latin versions of Greek epigrams 979; poemata, ed. Langton, see Others: Langton, Bennet; law arguments dictated to J.B. 15, 16, 357–9, 363–7, 389–92, 460, 461, 548–51, 632–3, 805, 835–6; letter to General Advertiser 12, 126; to Gentleman’s Magazine 95; payments received (chronological): for translation of Lobo’s Abyssinia, five guineas 51; for London, ten guineas 73; translation of Sarpi, £49 78; part payment for Historical Account of Parliament, two guineas a sheet 90; for correction of Boulter’s Monument, ten guineas 171; for Dictionary, £1, 575 (out of which payments to amanuenses were made) 104, 165; for introduction to London Chronicle, one guinea 171; for Rasselas, £100 + £25 for the second edition 182; for Lives of the Poets, 200 guineas originally agreed on 580, 781; £100 added 781; poetry: juvenile poems 32, 54; made verses and forgot them 268; pleasure in writing poetry 884; political writing 15, 16, 199, 414, 431–2; see also election addresses; postscript by him 12, 127–8; prefaces: skill in writing 81; prefaces, introductions, or preliminary addresses written by him, wholly or in part 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 81, 86, 88, 89, 100, 108, 127–8, 166, 171, 185, 188–9, 191–2, 196, 276, 369, 417, 446, 868; projected works: account of Parliament 88; a Bibliothèque 154–5; edition of Cowley 533; life of Alfred 101; life of Bacon 628; life of Cromwell 892; history of British Arms 189; on fictions 892; on Italy 529; translation of the Lusiad 901; prologues by him 103, 110–11, 126, 285, 287, 581–2, 776; proposals written by him 12, 16, 53, 100, 171–2, 417, 530, 577; reply to an attack 14; reviews by him 13, 14, 15, 166–9, 218, 253; one by Murphy ascribed to him 167; revision of his writings 331; school exercises, see college and school exercises; sermons: asked to write a funeral sermon 324; composed by him 17, 132, 598, 621; style: account of it 121–5; ‘Brownism’ 123, 166; caricatures of it 286, 456, 616, 981; compared with Addison’s 125; criticized by others 616, 789; criticizes it himself 616; defends it 616; dislikes Gallicisms/‘the former, the latter ‘/parentheses 868; formed on writers of seventeenth century 122; formed on Temple and Chambers 122; imitations of it 616,