London : the promised land
Utrecht : acquiring a noble character
'Let me be Boswell' : touring Germany and Switzerland
"Above the vulgar crowd : meeting Rousseau and Voltaire
'Like embroidery upon gauze : Corsica, law, and propaganda
'Happy as an unmarried man can be'
Settling down : 'The antechamber of his mind'
Post-Hebrides : ominous Edinburgh flatness
'Inexplicable dilatory disease'
Later thirties - 'the author and the gentleman united'
No considerable figure : politics, family, hypochondria
The road to Ulubrae-Auchinloeck
'Oh, if this book of mine were done!'
The Life of Johnson and its aftermath.
