Dr. Johnson : interviews and recollections

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