Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
  variety of them to be kept about a man, iii. 193;
  Voltaire on the rapid sale of books in London, ii. 402, n. 1;
  willingly, not read, iv. 218.  See READING. 
BOOKSELLER, a drunken, iii. 389.
Bookseller of the Last Century,
  sale of The Rambler and Rasselas, ii. 208, n. 3;
  Newbery, v. 30, n. 3. 
BOOKSELLERS, Boswell’s vindication of them, ii. 426, n. 1;
  ‘Bridge, on the,’ iv. 257;
  copyright case, ii. 272, n. 2;
  copyright, their honorary, iii. 370;
  improvement in their manners, i. 305, n. 1;
  Johnson’s letter on the book-trade, ii. 425;
    uniform regard for them, i. 438;
    calls them liberal-minded men, i. 304; iv. 35, n. 3;
  literary property, their, iii. 110;
  London booksellers, denominated the Trade, iii. 285, n. 2;
  publish Johnson’s Lives, iii. 110;
  oppressors of genius, i. 305, n. 1; ii. 345, n. 2;
  patrons of literature, i. 287, n. 3, 305. 
BOOTH, Barton, the actor, account of him, v. 126, n. 2;
  manager of Drurylane, v. 244, n. 2. 
BOOTH, Captain, in Amelia, i. 249, n. 2. 
BOOTHBY, Sir Brook, i. 83. 
BOOTHBY, Miss Hill, Johnson’s friendship for her, i. 83;
  prescription of orange-peel, ii. 331. n. 1;
  supposed jealousy of Lord Lyttelton, iv. 57, n. 2;
  letters to her.  See JOHNSON, Letters. 
BORLASE, William, History of the Isles of Scilly, i. 309. 
BORNEO, v. 392, n. 6. 
BOROUGH, corruption in a, ii. 373.
Borough English, v. 320. 
BOSCAWEN, Hon. Mrs., iii. 331, 425; iv. 96. 
BOSCOVICH, Pere, ii. 125, 406. 
BOSSUET, ii. 448, n. 2; v. 311. 
BOSVILLE, Squire Godfrey,
  invites Johnson to meet Boswell at his house, iii. 439;
  belonged to the same club as Johnson, ib.;
  mentioned, ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 359. 
BOSVILLE, Mrs., ii. 169. 
BOSVILLE, Miss, ii. 169, n. 2;
  afterwards Lady Macdonald, v. 147. 
BOSWELL, various spellings of it, v. 123-4. 
BOSWELL FAMILY, Johnson’s projected history of it, iv. 198. 
BOSWELLS of Fife, ii. 413. 
BOSWELL, Sir Alexander, Baronet, Boswell’s eldest son,
  birth, ii. 386; iii. 86;
  at Eton College, iii. 12;
  described by Scott, v. 385, n. 1;
  killed in a duel, ii. 179. n. 3, 386, n. 2. 
BOSWELL, David, a remote ancestor, ii. 413. 
BOSWELL, David (Boswell’s younger brother),
  devotion to Auchinleck, iii. 433;
    return to it, iii. 438;
  ill-used by Dundas, iii. 213, n. 1;
  Johnson, calls on, iii. 433-4;
  liked by him, 442;
  residence in Spain, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 182;
    leaves in consequence of war, 433-4. 
BOSWELL, David (Boswell’s third son), iii. 94;
  death, iii. 106, 109. 
BOSWELL, Dr., account of him, v. 394;
  Johnson, meets, v. 48;
    description of, iii. 7;
  mentioned, i. 437; iii. 116. 
BOSWELL, Euphemia (Boswell’s second daughter), ii. 422. 
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