THE LIFE OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

TOGETHER WITH

THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES

BY

JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.

NEW EDITIONS

WITH NOTES AND APPENDICES

BY THE LATE

ALEXANDER NAPIER, M. A.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, VICAR OF HOLKHAM,

Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Theological Works of Barrow.

VOL. I.

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET

COVENT GARDEN

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE HRY OF
PROF. CEABLE F. SWAIN
OCT. 20, 1983

CHISWICK PRESS: C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT.

CHANCERY LANE,

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[COPY OF THE TITLE OF THE ORIGINAL QUARTO EDITION.]

THE

LIF E

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.

COMPREHENDING

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES

AND NUMEROUS WORKS,

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;

A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS;

AND

VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION,
NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED:

THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT-BRITAIN, FOR NEAR

HALF A CENTURY, DURING WHICH HE

FLOURISHED.

Br JAMES BOSWELL, Esq.

Quò fit ut OMNIS

Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella
VITA SENIS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

HORAT.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY HENRY BALDWIN,

FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.

MDCCXCI.