(FORMING VOL. V. OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.)

LONDON:

227, STRAND.

OF

A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES

WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

BY JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.

CONTAINING

SOME POETICAL PIECES BY DR. JOHNSON, RELATIVE TO THE TOUR, AND NEVER
BEFORE PUBLISHED;

A SERIES OF HIS CONVERSATION, LITERARY ANECDOTES AND OPINIONS OF
MEN AND BOOKS:

WITH AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF

THE DISTRESSES AND ESCAPE OF THE GRANDSON OF KING JAMES II.
IN THE YEAR 1746.

"O! while along the stream of time, thy name

Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame,

Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,

Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?"-POPE.

A NEW EDITION,

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,

BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS, VIEWS, AND
CHARACTERISTIC DESIGNS.

LONDON:

OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY,

227, STRAND.

1858.
210.c.27.

1951

"HE WAS OF AN ADMIRABLE PREGNANCY OF WIT, AND THAT PREGNANCY MUCH IMPROVED BY CONTINUAL STUDY FROM HIS CHILDHOOD; BY WHICH HE HAD GOTTEN SUCH A PROMPTNESS IN EXPRESSING HIS MIND, THAT HIS EXTEMPORAL SPEECHES WERE LITTLE INFERIOR TO HIS PREMEDITATED WRITINGS. MANY, NO DOUBT, HAD READ AS MUCH, AND PERHAPS MORE THAN HE; BUT SCARCE EVER ANY CONCOCTED HIS READING INTO JUDGMENT AS HE DID." Baker's Chronicle.