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

SECOND EDITION.

OFFICE OF THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON LIBRARY, 227, STRAND.

L. If. Farrit –

JOURNAL

OF A

TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES

WITH

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

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 INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,

BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS, Esq.,

OF INVERNESS.

LONDON:

OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY,

227, STRAND.

"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.

BODLEIA

1 APR1932

LIBRARY

PETTER, DUFF, AND CO. PLAYHOUSE YARD, BLACKFRIARS