A "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. 145. OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND NUMEROUS WORKS, A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION, NEVER THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN, BY JAMES BOSWELL, Esq. A NEW EDITION, ELUCIDATED BY COPIOUS NOTES, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS, VIEWS, AND CHARACTERISTIC DESIGNS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.-VOL. I. LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, AND ROUTLEDGE, BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL. NEW YORK: 129, GRAND STREET. 1865. "After my death I wish no other herald, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith." SHAKSPEARF, 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 I say and do, as of all other occurrences together; for such a faithful chronicler is Griffith.”— BOSWELL. |