LIFE OF JOHNSON

EDITED BY

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

AND ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS

SELECTED BY

ERNEST RADFORD

VOLUME II

WESTMINSTER

ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO., LTD.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO.

1901

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. II.

1758-1771

FRONTISPIECE-

WILLIAM COLLINS, 1721-1759,

Monument by Flaxman in Poplar Chapel.

PAGE

v. p. 50

By Sir Joshua Reynolds. Of uncertain date.

G. Zöbel sc. (Private plate.)

FRANCIS BARBER,

23

By Sir Joshua Reynolds, from a copy by Henry

Drawn by George Dance, R.A. (1794). National

Portrait Gallery.

THOMAS SHERIDAN, 1719-1788,

115

'Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.'

V

By Sir Joshua Reynolds (1766). National Portrait

'A man of mark even among such men as Burke,

Johnson, and Reynolds.'

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