The Life of Samuel Johnson Lld With Critical Observations On His Works
The Life of Samuel Johnson Lld With Critical Observations On His Works
Robert Anderson
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25S, IR JOHNSON. 219 Dictionary^ he retained the Grammar of the English Tongue, This year, he resumed the scheme of giving a new edition of Shakespeare, which had formerly miscarried, and issued Proposals of considerable length. The booksellers readily agreed to his terms, and his friends exerted themselves to procure subscriptions, as a re- source for the supplies of the day ; which, as he confessed, was the inciting motive to the undertaking. Such was his fancied activity, that he promised hi...s work should be published before Christmas 1757, though it was nine y^ars before it saw the light, Thte narrative of the occurrences of this year having brought the present writer to the com- Biencemement of Bishop Percy's acquaintance with Johnson, through his intimacy with Dr Grainger, * a familiar visitant in Goiigh- square, he will be pardoned for pausing to re- * See the Life of Grainger, « Works of the British Poets, " vol. X. P. 891. An enlarged account of the author of « the Sugar-cane, '* has been drawn up by the 250 THE LIFE OF fleet on th€ friendship of the venerable prelate, whose recollections concerning him occasion- ally .
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