From an

BOSWELL'S

LIFE OF JOHNSON

IN TWO VOLUMES
Volume I. 1709-1776

LONDON

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

HUMPHREY MILFORD

1927

PR 3533 .B6 1927 501675

v. 1-2

Printed in England At the OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

By John Johnson

Printer to the University

India Paper *

[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 FLOUFISHED.

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

LONDON:

PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN & SON,

FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.

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