"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. OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. COMPRISING A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN, BY JAMES BOSWELL, Esq. A NEW EDITION, ELUCIDATED BY COPIOUS NOTES. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JULIAN PORTCH. LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE. NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET. [1867] |