BOSWELL'S

LIFE OF JOHNSON

THIN

LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW
NEW YORK AND TORONTO

1904

[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 fit ut OMNIS

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VITA SENIS.-

THE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED,
IN FOUR VOLUMES.

HORAT.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN & SON,

FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.

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.' Typographical errors, however, have been corrected, and the spelling of proper names in the Index has been made to conform to received usage.