Blind of one eye ["of his left eye."-Hawkins.].
His brother Nathanael, the other child of his
parents, born

1713-17 4-8 At Dame School with Mrs. Oliver in Lichfield,
and taught by "Tom Brown, who published a
spelling book, and dedicated it to the Uni-

verse

His power of memory

1717-19 8-10 At Lichfield School under Mr. Hawkins, the under

1720-24 11-15 In the upper school at Lichfield; in latter years

under the head master, Mr. Hunter

Approves use of the rod

1725 16

"In the autumn of the year 1725, he received an

Date.

Age.

Vol.

Page.

invitation from his cousin [his uncle, see note,
p. 20], Cornelius Ford, to spend a few days with
him at his house, but it seems that discovering
that the boy was possessed of uncommon parts,
he was unwilling to let him return, and to make
up for the loss he might sustain by his absence
from school, became his instructor in the classics,
and further assisted him in his studies, so that
it was not till the Whitsuntide following that
Johnson went back to Lichfield, but after his
long absence was not received back into the
school."-Hawkins. Left Lichfield School. . I 20
Returned to Lichfield at Whitsuntide, according to
Sir John Hawkins, in his seventeenth year,
applied unsuccessfully for admission to the
grammar school at Newport, Shropshire, was
then placed in a school at Stourbridge "under
the care of a master named Winkworth, but
who, affecting to be thought allied to the Straf-
ford family, assumed the name of Wentworth."
He remained at Stourbridge little more than a
year.
I 21
Left Stourbridge School towards the middle of
the year, according to Sir John Hawkins's
dates. Boswell has not given dates, but says
that Johnson, after leaving Stourbridge, was at
home for two years before being sent to Oxford.
Hawkins's dates reduce this time of loitering to
a year and a quarter or a year and a half
Verse exercises written while at Stourbridge
School.

Desultory reading at home

Entered to Pembroke College, Oxford, on the 31st
of October.

I 21, 27

I 22-26

Questions as to provision of means

His life at college

Mr. Jorden, his tutor

Influence upon

a Holy Life

At Christmas translated Pope's Messiah into Latin

Reference of his case to Dr. Swinfen; annoyance

at the disclosure of his statement

Religious impressions

his mind of Law's Serious Call to

His studies at Oxford

His room at Pembroke College on the second floor

over the gateway

I 39

His gaiety as a student, "It was bitterness which
they mistook for frolic"

I 39, 40

His friend Dr. Adams, then one of the junior

October, 1729, Desidia valedixi

December 12, 1729, last entry of Johnson's name

on the buttery books of his college.

His love for his college.

I 39, #., 40

Ι 41

I 29, ".
I 41, 42

June.-Johnson inherited twenty pounds.
adeo mihi fortuna fixgenda est"

Usque

I 44, 45

I 48, 49

I 49

Left Market Bosworth in July (Hawkins), after a
few months of misery

Went to stay with his old schoolfellow Hector,
lodging in the house of Mr. Warren, bookseller,
at Birmingham

After staying six months with Hector, went into
lodgings of his own at Birmingham. In June
was lodging with a person named Jarvis, in
whose house (Hawkins) he translated Father
Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia

Early in the year returned to Lichfield
August.-Published proposals for an edition of the

Latin Poems of Politian. He and his brother
Nathanael bookseller, of Lichfield," would
receive subscriptions

Nov. 25.-Wrote from Birmingham to Edward
Cave, offering to supply a literary column to
The Gentleman's Magazine (which had been
established in 1731)

July 9.-Married Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, of
Birmingham, aged forty-eight, whose first hus-
band, a draper, had died insolvent, and who
had, by her first marriage, two sons and a
daughter, Lucy

His personal appearance at that time.

The journey to church from Birmingham to Derby
Opened a school at Edial near Lichfield; had
David Garrick among his few pupils
His physical disqualifications. Garrick's account
of Mrs. Johnson.

His scheme for the classes of a grammar school
While school was failing, he began his play of
Irene with which to make his first trial for
success in literature