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.

——Quò fit ut OMNIS
Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella
Vita senis.——
Horat.

VOLUME THE FIRST.