The life of Samuel Johnson, , comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons . Cornelius Ford, and Cousin the Rev. Dr. Ford — Sentto School at Stourbridge—Translations and original Compositions while atthis Place—Return Home—Arrival at Pembroke College, Oxford—His Tutor— Translation of Popes Messiah—Attack of Hypochondria—ReligiousImpressions—Course of Reading—Love of Literature—Apparent Recklessness-Real state of ^liND—Struggles with Poverty—Leaves the Univees
The life of Samuel Johnson, , comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons . Cornelius Ford, and Cousin the Rev. Dr. Ford — Sentto School at Stourbridge—Translations and original Compositions while atthis Place—Return Home—Arrival at Pembroke College, Oxford—His Tutor— Translation of Popes Messiah—Attack of Hypochondria—ReligiousImpressions—Course of Reading—Love of Literature—Apparent Recklessness-Real state of ^liND—Struggles with Poverty—Leaves the Univeesity. AMU EL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield inStaffordshire, on the 18th of September, N. ; and his initiation into the Christian churchwas not delayed ; for his baptism is recorded, inthe register of St. Marys parish in that city, tohave been performed on the day of his birth : hisfather is there styled Gentleman, a circumstance ofwhich an ignorant panegyrist has praised him foinot being proud ; when the truth is, that theappellation of Gentleman, though now lost in the indiscriminate assump-tion of Esquire, was commonly taken by those who could not boast of VOL. I. B. 2 BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON. [1709. gentility. His father was Michael Johnson, a native of Derbyshire, ofobscure extraction, who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and mother was Sarah Ford, descended of an ancient race of substantialyeomamy in AVarwickshire. They were well advanced in years whenthey married, and never had more than two children, both sons;Samuel their first born, who lived to be the illustrious character whosevarious excellence I am to endeavour to record, and Nathanael, whodied in his twenty-fifth year.]VIr. Michael Johnson was a man of a large and robust body, and of a strong and active mind ; yet, as inthe most solid rocks veins of unsoundsubstance are often discovered, therewas in him a mixture of that disease,the nature of which eludes the most
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