“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.

LONDON:
ROUTLEDGE, WARNES, & ROUTLEDGE,

FARRINGDON STREET.

NEW YORK: 56, WALKER STREET.

1859.

от

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 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 DBSIONS,

ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES,

IN FOUR VOLUMES:

-POL. III.

LONDON:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL.
NEW YORK: 129, GRAND STREET.

1866.