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

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

1884

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

CHANCERY LANE.

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

THE

LIFE

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, 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