"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
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;.