OXFORD EDITION BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I.-1709-1776 DOM MINA ILIV MEA HENRY FROWDE LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW 1904 [Title-page to the Third Edition.] THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES 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 & SON, FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY. M DCCXCIX. |