THE WORKS O F Samuel Johnson, LL. D. TOGETHER WITH HIS LIFE, AND NOTES ON HIS LIVES OF THE POETS, By Sir JOHN HAWKINS, Knt. IN ELEVEN VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, MDCCLXXXVII. то GEORGE THE THIRD, KING OF GREAT-BRITAIN, &c. THESE VOLUMES, THE WORKS OF AN AUTHOR WHOM HIS MAJESTY'S BOUNTY RAISED FROM A STATE OF INDIGENCE TO THE ENJOYMENT OF LEARNED LEISURE, AND AN EXEMPTION FROM WORLDLY SOLICITUDE, ARE, WITH THE MOST FROFOUND VENERATION, INSCRIBED, BY HIS MAJESTY's DUTIFUL SUBJECT AND MOST devoted SERVANT, THE EDITOR. |