THE

WORKS

OF

Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

A NEW EDITION

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

WITH

AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS,

By ARTHUR MURPHY, Esq.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

LONDON:

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SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL.

1816.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

PHILOLOGICAL TRACTS.

Page

THE Plan of an English Dictionary

3

Preface to the English Dictionary

31

Proposals for printing the Works of Shakespeare 68

Preface to Ditto

77

General Observations on Shakespeare's Plays

141

Account of the Harleian Library

171

Essay on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces 184

Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini

194

View of the Controversy between Crousaz and Warburton 198

Preliminary Discourse to the London Chronicle, 1757 203

Introduction to the World Displayed

• 208

Preface to the Preceptor

- 235

Preface to Rolt's Dictionary

- 256

Preface to the Translation of Father Lobo's Voyage 265

Essay on Epitaphs

- 270

POLITICAL ESSAYS.

Observations on the State of Affairs in 1756 - . 281

Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain - 294

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

Review of Memoirs of the Court of Augustus -

319

Review of Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Dr.

- 328

Bentley