BOSWELL'S

LIFE OF JOHNSON

INCLUDING BOSWELL'S JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES
AND JOHNSON'S DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES
EDITED BY
GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD
IN SIX VOLUMES
VOLUME V. TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES (1773)
AND
JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES (1774)

 

 

 

 

THE

JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES,
WITH
SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.
BY JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
CONTAINING
Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. JOHNSON,
relative to the TOUR, and never before published;

A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes,
and Opinions of Men and Books:

WITH AN AUTHENTICK ACCOUNT OF

The Distresses and Escape of the GRANDSON of
KING JAMES II. in the Year 1746.
THE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

       O! while along the stream of time, thy name     Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame,     Say, shall my little bark attendant fail,     Pursue the triumph and partake the gale?    POPE.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY HENRY BALDWIN,
FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.
MDCCLXXXVI.






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