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 . mode oftreating his Mends, have arraigned my judgment, instead of seeingthat I was sensible of all that they could observe. It is related of the great Dr. Clarke, that when, in one of his leisurehours, he was unbending himself with a few friends in the most playfuland frolicsome manner, he observed Beau Nash approaching ; uponwhich he suddenly stopped:— My boys, said he, let us be grave ;he
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 . mode oftreating his Mends, have arraigned my judgment, instead of seeingthat I was sensible of all that they could observe. It is related of the great Dr. Clarke, that when, in one of his leisurehours, he was unbending himself with a few friends in the most playfuland frolicsome manner, he observed Beau Nash approaching ; uponwhich he suddenly stopped:— My boys, said he, let us be grave ;here comes a fool. The world, my friend, I have found to be a greatfool, as to that particular on which it has become necessary to speakvery plainly. I have, therefore, in this work been more reserved ; andthough I tell nothing but the truth, I have still kept in my mind thatthe whole truth is not always to be exposed. This, however, I havemanaged so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which mybook should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be disappointedof its gratifications. I am, my dear Sir, Your much obliged friend, And faithful humble servant, JAMES , April 20, JAMES BOSVrELL ADVEKTISEMENT TO THE FIEST EDITION. I AT last deliver to the world a work which I have long promised, and ofwhich, I am afraid, too high expectations have been raised. The delay of itspublication must be imputed, in a considerable degree, to the extraordinaryzeal which has been shown by distinguished persons in all quarters to supplyme with additional information concerning its illustrious subject; resemblingin this the grateful tribes of ancient nations, of which every individual waseager to throw a stone upon the grave of a departed Hero, and thus to sharein the pious office of erecting an honourable monument to his memory. The labour and anxious attention with which I have collected and arrangedthe materials of which these volumes are composed, will hardly be conc
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