OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

COMPREHENDING

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES,

AND NUMEROUS WORKS,

In Chronological Order;

A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE;

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 HE FLOURISHED.

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