“ Seven years, my lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door.”—Johnson's Letter to Lord Chesterfield, p. 145.

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 WHOLB BINIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY XRN IN GRRAT BRITAIN,

FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH IR FLOURISIRD.

BY JAMES BOSWELL, Esq.

A NEW EDITION,
ELUCIDATED BY COPIOUS NOTES,

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ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.- VOL. I.

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"After my death I wish no other herald,
No other speaker of my living actions,
To keep mine honour from corruption,
But such an honest chronicler as Griffith."]

SHAKSPEARF, Henry VIII.

i See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale, dated Ostick in Skie, September 30, 1773: “Boswell writes a regular Journal of our travels. which I think contains as much of what I say and do, as of all other occurrences together; for such a faithful chronicler is Griffith."BOSWELL.