LIFE AND CONVERSATIONS

OF

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.

LIFE AND CONVERSATIONS

OF

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

(FOUNDED CHIEFLY UPON BOSWELL).

BY

ALEXANDER MAIN.

WITH A PREFACE BY GEORGE HENRY LEWES.

"Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner; but no man alive has a more
tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.”—OLIver Goldsmith.

LONDON:

BRADLURY, AGNEW, & co., PRINTERS, WHItefriars

THE AUTHOR DEDICATES

THIS RE-TELLING OF AN OLD TALE

ΤΟ

CHARLES AND MARY COWDEN CLARKE

IN TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO PERSONAL FRIENDS

AND ADMIRATION OF FAITHFUL WORKERS

IN A NOBLE FIELD.