BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON INCLUDING BOSWELL'S JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO The hebrides AND JOHNSON'S DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES EDITED BY GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L. PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD IN SIX VOLUMES VOLUME I.-LIFE (1709-1765) NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1891 [Title page to the Third 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, 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 fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS. HORAT. THE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED, LONDON: PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY. MDCCXCIX. |