LIFE AND CONVERSATIONS

OF

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

(FOUNDED CHIEFLY UPON BOSWELL).

'Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner; but no man alive has a more
tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.”—OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

"Life itself

May not express us all, may leave the worst

And the best too, like tunes in mechanism

Never awaked."-SPANISH GYPSY.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1874.

LONDON:

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS

THE AUTHOR DEDICATES

THIS RE-TELLING OF AN OLD TALE

ΤΟ

CHARLES AND MARY COWDEN CLARKE

IN TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO PERSONAL FRIENDS

AND ADMIRATION OF FAITHFUL WORKERS

IN A NOBLE FIELD.

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