"And who is the gentleman in lace?"-" Mr. Wilkes, Sir." This information confounded him still more: he had some difficulty to restrain himself, and taking up a book sat down upon a window-seat and read.-Page 43. OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND NUMEROUS WORKS, A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS; AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION, NEVER THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN, FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED. BY JAMES BOSWELL, Esq. A NEW EDITION, ELUCIDATED BY COPIOUS NOTES, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS, VIEWS, AND CHARACTERISTIC DESIGNS, ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES. IN FOUR VOLUMES-VOL. III. J LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, NEW YORK: 129, GRAND STREET. 1866. |