"I suppose, Sir, he has thought superficially, and seized the first notions which occurred to his mind. … Why then, Sir, still he is like a dog"
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
5 entries in ESTC (1791, 1792, 1793, 1799).<br>
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See <u>The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During Which He Flourished. In Two Volumes. By James Boswell, Esq.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T64481">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004839390.0001.001">Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004839390.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;<br>
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My main reading text is James Boswell, <u>The Life of Johnson</u>, ed. Claude Rawson, (New York: Knopf, 1992). Also reading in David Womersley's Penguin edition, 2008.<br>
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First edition in Google Books, &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=P-INAAAAQAAJ">Vol. I</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=0OINAAAAQAAJ">Vol. II</a>&gt;. See also Jack Lynch's online e-text, prepared from the 1904 Oxford edition &lt;<a href="http://ethnicity.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/BLJ/front.html">Link</a>&gt;.