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.
    old members meet in 1783, iv. 253, 435-6;
  Johnson’s definition of a club, iv. 254, n. 5;
  Literary Club, account of it, i. 477-81; v. 109;
    attendance expected, ii. 273;
    attendances in 1766, ii. 17, 201;
    Althorpe, Lord, iii. 424;
    Banks, Sir Joseph, iii. 365;
    Beauclerk, described by, ii. 192, n. 2;
      loss by his death, iii. 424;
    black-ball, exclusion by a single, iii. 116;
    books, some of the members talk from, v. 378,_ n._4;
    Boswell’s election:  See BOSWELL, Literary Club;
    Boswell’s account of meetings at which he was present,
      his introduction, ii. 240;
      Johnson’s apology to Goldsmith, ii. 255;
      talk of second-sight and Swift, ii. 318;
      Mrs. Abington’s benefit, ii. 330;
      Travels, Ossian, the Black Bear, and patriotism, ii. 345;
      speakers distinguished by initials, iii. 230;
      Johnson’s last dinner, iv. 326;
    Boswell’s reports of meetings generally brief, ii. 242, n. 1,
345, n. 5;
    Burke’s company lost to it, ii. 16;
    Bunbury elected, ii. 274;
    Camden Lord, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2;
    day and hour of meeting, i. 478, 479; ii. 20, n. 1, 330, n. 1;
iii. 128, 365, 368;
    described in 1774 by Beauclerk, ii. 274, n. 3;
    Dodd sought admittance, iii. 280;
    Dunning, John, elected, iii. 128;
    first meeting of the winter, iii. 210;
    Fordyce elected, ii. 274;
    foundation, and list of members, i. 477-9, 481, n 3;
    Fox elected, ii. 274;
      talked little, iii. 267;
    Garrick elected, i. 480;
      his vanity, iii. 311, n. 3;
    Gibbon elected, i. 481, n. 3;
      describes it, ii. 348, n. 1;
      poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1;
    Goldsmith recites some absurd verses, ii. 240; iv. 13;
      he wishes for more members, iv. 183;
      his epitaph to be shown to the Club, iii. 81;
    hanged or kicked, members deserving to be, iii. 281;
    hogshead of claret nearly out, iii. 238;
    imaginary college at St. Andrews, v. 108-9;
    increase of members proposed, iii. 106;
    Johnson’s attendance in his latter years, iii. 106, n. 4;
      attends after his attack of palsy, iv. 232-3;
      his last dinner, iv. 326,
        (for attendances with Boswell, See just above, under BOSWELL);
      dislikes several members, iii. 106;
      his friends of the Club, iv. 85;
      his funeral, iv. 419;
        subscriptions for his monument, iv. 423, ns. 1 and 3;
      incompliance with a Call, iv. 84;
      mentions the Club in a letter, ii. 136;
      reads his epitaph on Lady Elibank, iv. 10;
      talks of Mrs. Lennox’s play, iv. 10;
    Jones, Sir W., described by, v. 109, n. 5;
    motto, its, i. 478, n. 3;
    name, i. 477; v. 109, n. 5;
    number of members, i. 478, n. 2, 479; iii. 106;
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