AN (Johnion Boswell

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 PUBLICHID :

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,

FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY W. ANDREWS AND L. BLAKE.

GREENOUGH AND STEBBINS, PRINTERS.

1807.