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 PUBLISHED:

THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY
MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN, FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY

DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. RICHARDSON AND CO.; G. OFFOR; J. SHARPE AND

SON; ROBINSONS AND CO.; G. WALKER; J. EVANS AND SONS;
R. DOBSON; J. JONES; AND J. JOHNSON: ALSO, J. CARPRAE, AND
J. SUTHERLAND, EDINBURGH ; AND R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW.

1821.