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Table of Contents Table of Contents VOLUME I. VOLUME I. Table of Contents BOSWELL’S PREFACE. ERRATA. DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. ADVERTISMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION. A CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PROSE WORKS[81] OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. APPENDIX A APPENDIX B. APPENDIX C. APPENDIX D. APPENDIX E. APPENDIX F. FOOTNOTES VOLUME II. VOLUME II. Table of Contents BOSWELL’S THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. APPENDIX A. (Page 17.) APPENDIX B. (Page 312.) FOOTNOTES VOLUME III. VOLUME IV. VOLUME V. VOLUME VI. BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON

BOSWELL’S

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

APPENDIX A. (Page 17.)

APPENDIX B. (Page 312.)

FOOTNOTES

In 1764 and 1765 it should seem that Dr. Johnson was so busily employed with his edition of Shakspeare, as to have had little leisure for any other literary exertion, or, indeed, even for private correspondence[1]. He did not favour me with a single letter for more than two years, for which it will appear that he afterwards apologised.

He was, however, at all times ready to give assistance to his friends, and others, in revising their works, and in writing for them, or greatly improving their Dedications. In that courtly species of composition no man excelled Dr. Johnson. Though the loftiness of his mind prevented him from ever dedicating in his own person[2], he wrote a very great number of Dedications for others. Some of these, the persons who were favoured with them are unwilling should be mentioned, from a too anxious apprehension, as I think, that they might be suspected of having received larger assistance[3]; and some, after all the diligence I have bestowed, have escaped my enquiries. He told me, a great many years ago, ‘he believed he had dedicated to all the Royal Family round[4];’ and it was indifferent to him what was the subject of the work dedicated, provided it were innocent. He once dedicated some Musick for the German Flute to Edward, Duke of York. In writing Dedications for others, he considered himself as by no means speaking his own sentiments.

Notwithstanding his long silence, I never omitted to write to him when I had any thing worthy of communicating. I generally kept copies of my letters to him, that I might have a full view of our correspondence, and never be at a loss to understand any reference in his letters[5]. He kept the greater part of mine very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to seal them up in bundles, and order them to be delivered to me, which was accordingly done. Amongst them I found one, of which I had not made a copy, and which I own I read with pleasure at the distance of almost twenty years. It is dated November, 1765, at the palace of Pascal Paoli, in Corte, the capital of Corsica, and is full of generous enthusiasm[6]. After giving a sketch of what I had seen and heard in that island, it proceeded thus: ‘I dare to call this a spirited tour. I dare, to challenge your approbation.’

This letter produced the following answer, which I found on my arrival at Paris.

A Mr. Mr. BOSWELL, chez Mr. WATERS, Banquier, à Paris.

‘Apologies are seldom of any use. We will delay till your arrival the reasons, good or bad, which have made me such a sparing and ungrateful correspondent. Be assured, for the present, that nothing has lessened either the esteem or love with which I dismissed you at Harwich. Both have been increased by all that I have been told of you by yourself or others; and[7] when you return, you will return to an unaltered, and, I hope, unalterable friend.

‘All that you have to fear from me is the vexation of disappointing me. No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour; and the pleasure which I promise myself from your journals and remarks is so great, that perhaps no degree of attention or discernment will be sufficient to afford it.