"Seven years, my lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door."-JOHNSON's Letter to Lord Chesterfield, p. 177

THE LIFE

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON,

COMPREHENDING

LL. D.

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

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS, VIEWS, AND
CHARACTERISTIC DESIGNS, ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.-VOL. I.

LONDON:

OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY,

198 STRAND.

"After my death I wish no other herald,
No other speaker of my living actions,
To keep mine honour from corruption,
But such an honest chronicler as Griffith."

SHAKSPEARE, Henry VIII.

1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale, dated Ostick in Skie, September 30, 1773 : "Boswell writes a regular Journal of our travels, which I think contains as much of what say and do, as of all other occurrences together; "for such a faithful chronicler is Griffith."-BoSWELL.

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