BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON Volume I. 1709-1776 GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS London New York Toronto RUTGERS UNIVERSITY This edition of "Boswell's Life of Johnson" was first published in 1904 and reprinted in 1922, 1924, 1926, 1931, 1933, 1938 and 1942. It was first reprinted as one volume in 1946 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY LATIMER, TREND & CO. LTD. [Title-page to the Third Edition.) THE LIFE 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. BY JAMES BOSWELL, Esq. Quò At ut oMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS. HORAT THE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED, IN FOUR VOLUMES. LONDON: PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN & SON, FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY. MDCCXCIX. ADVERTISEMENT THE text adopted for the present publication is that of the third edition, issued under the superintendence of Edmond Malone in 1799. The notes at the foot of the page are Boswell's own, with the exception of those added by Malone, which are marked [M.]. Boswell's spelling and punctuation have been retained, in accordance with his own ideas as expressed in the preface to An Account of Corsica. 'If this work,' he writes, 'should at any future period be reprinted, I hope that care will be taken of my orthography.' Typogra phical errors, however, have been corrected, and the spelling of proper names in the Index has been made to conform to received usage. |