OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. BY JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. CONTAINING SOME POETICAL PIECES BY DR. JOHNSON, RELATIVE TO THE TOUR, AND NEVER A SERIES OF HIS CONVERSATION, LITERARY ANECDOTES AND OPINIONS OF WITH AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISTRESSES AND ESCAPE OF THE GRANDSON OF KING JAMES II. "O! while along the stream of time, thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?"-POPE. A NEW EDITION, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS. ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS, VIEWS, AND LONDON: OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY, 227, STRAND. 1858. 1951 "HE WAS OF AN ADMIRABLE PREGNANCY OF WIT, AND THAT PREGNANCY MUCH IMPROVED BY CONTINUAL STUDY FROM HIS CHILDHOOD; BY WHICH HE HAD GOTTEN SUCH A PROMPTNESS IN EXPRESSING HIS MIND, THAT HIS EXTEMPORAL SPEECHES WERE LITTLE INFERIOR TO HIS PREMEDITATED WRITINGS. MANY, NO DOUBT, HAD READ AS MUCH, AND PERHAPS MORE THAN HE; BUT SCARCE EVER ANY CONCOCTED HIS READING INTO JUDGMENT AS HE DID." Baker's Chronicle. |