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LIFE AND CONVERSATIONS
OF
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
(FOUNDED CHIEFLY UPON BOSWELL).
BY
ALEXANDER MAIN.
WITH A PREFACE BY GEORGE HENRY LEWES.
"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.
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.