Dr Johnson

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Early Days....Pages 3-7
First Lessons....Pages 7-9
Schooldays....Pages 9-10
Oxford....Pages 10-12
Marriage....Pages 12-14
The Dictionary....Pages 14-17
Johnson Receives the News of his Pension....Pages 17-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
‘Born a logician’....Pages 21-23
‘An Irish chairman’....Pages 23-24
‘Continual agitation’....Pages 24-26
‘Well, thou art an ugly fellow …’....Pages 26-28
‘So extremely short-sighted’....Pages 28-30
‘At length he began …’....Pages 30-31
‘A bountiful disposition’....Pages 31-33
Eating and Tea-drinking....Pages 34-34
‘Rather a disgraceful visitor’....Pages 35-36
‘This extraordinary man’....Pages 36-41
Johnson and Reynolds....Pages 41-50
Johnson and Dr Burney....Pages 50-55
Cradock is ‘landed’....Pages 55-59
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
A Visit to Johnson....Pages 59-60
‘His intellectual storehouse’....Pages 60-61
Anecdotes of Johnson....Pages 61-64
Dr Johnson at the Chelsea China Manufactory....Pages 64-65
Perambulating with Johnson....Pages 65-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Life at Streatham I....Pages 69-84
Life at Streatham II....Pages 84-88
Life at Streatham III....Pages 88-100
Life at Streatham IV....Pages 101-107
Life at Streatham V....Pages 107-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen....Pages 115-116
Cambridge (1765)....Pages 116-122
Scotland (1773)....Pages 123-130
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (1774)....Pages 130-131
France I (1775)....Pages 131-132
France II (1775)....Pages 133-134
Oxford (1782)....Pages 134-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
‘A very melancholy spectacle’....Pages 139-140
‘Extremely far from well’....Pages 140-143
‘This great and good man’....Pages 143-151
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
‘A prey to melancholy’....Pages 152-154
The Final Weeks I....Pages 154-163
The Final Weeks II....Pages 163-171
Last Requests to Reynolds....Pages 172-172
‘Genius, learning and piety’....Pages 172-173
Back Matter....Pages 174-176