ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION. In this edition are inserted some new letters of which the greater part has been obligingly communicated by the Reverend Doctor VYSE, Rector of Lambeth. Those written by Dr. JOHNSON concerning his mother in her last illness, furnish a new proof of his great piety and tenderness of heart, and therefore cannot but be acceptable to the readers of this very popular work. Some new notes also have been added, which, as well as the observations inserted in the third edition, and the letters now introduced, are carefully included within crotchets, that the authour may not be answerable for any thing which had not the sanction of his approbation. The remarks of his friends are distinguished as formerly, except those of Mr. MALONE, to which the letter M. is now subjoined. Those to which the letter K. is affixed were communicated by my learned friend, the Reverend ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION. XXV Doctor KEARNEY, formerly Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and now beneficed in the diocese of Raphoe in Ireland, of which he is Archdeacon. Of a work which has been before the publick for thirteen years with increasing approbation, and of which near four thousand copies have been dispersed, it is not necessary to say more; yet I cannot refrain from adding, that, highly as it is now estimated, it will, I am confident, be still more valued by posterity a century hence, when all the actors in the scene shall be numbered with the dead; when the excellent and extraordinary man, whose wit and wisdom are here recorded, shall be viewed at a still greater distance; and the instruction and entertainment they afford will at once produce reverential gratitude, admiration, and delight. June 20, 1804. E. M. VOL. I. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION. In this fifth edition some errours of the press, which had crept into the text and notes, in consequence of repeated impressions, have been corrected. Two letters written by Dr. JOHNSON, and several new notes, have been added; by which, it is hoped, this valuable Work is still further improved. January 1, 1807. E. M. CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PROSE WOKKS* OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. [N. B. To those which he himself acknowledged is added acknowl. To those which may be fully believed to be his from internal evidence, is added intern. evid.] 1735. ABRIDGEMENT and translation of Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia. acknowl. 1738. Part of a translation of Father Paul Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent. acknowl. [N. B. As this work, after some sheets were printed, suddenly stopped, I know not whether any part of it is now to be found.] For the Gentleman's Magazine. Preface. intern. evid. Life of Father Paul. acknowl. 1739. A complete vindication of the Licenser of the Stage from the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr. Brooke, authour of Gustavus Vasa. acknowl. Marmor Norfolciense: or, an Essay on an ancient prophetical inscription in monkish rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne in Norfolk: by PROBUS BRITANNICUS. acknowl. For the Gentleman's Magazine. Life of Boerhaave, acknowl. Address to the Reader. intern. evid. Appeal to the Publick in behalf of the Editor. intern. evid. sible attempt to prove that an authour's work may be *I do not here include his Poetical Works; for, excepting his Latin Translation of Pope's Messiah, his London, and his Vanity of Human Wishes imitated from Juvenal; his Prologue on the opening of DruryLane Theatre by Mr. Garrick, and his Irene, a Tragedy, they are very numerous, and in general short; and I have promised a complete edition of them, in which I shall with the utmost care ascertain their authenticity, and illustrate them with notes and various readings. 1740. 1741. 1742. For the Gentleman's Magazine. Life of Admiral Drake. acknowl. Life of Philip Barretier. acknowl. For the Gentleman's Magazine. Preface. intern. evid. A free translation of the Jests of Hierocles, with an intro- Debate on the Humble Petition and Advice of the Rump Translation of Fontenelle's Panegyrick on Dr. Morin. For the Gentleman's Magazine. Preface. intern. evid. Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of An Account of the Life of Peter Burman. acknowl. The Life of Sydenham, afterwards prefixed to Dr. Swan's Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, or a Catalogue 1743. Dedication to Dr. Mead of Dr. James's Medicinal Dictionary. intern. evid. For the Gentleman's Magazine. Preface. intern. evid. Parliamentary Debates under the name of Debates in the Senate of Lilliput, from Nov. 19, 1740, to Feb. 23, 1742-3, inclusive. acknowl. Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and Warburton on Pope's Essay on Man. intern. evid. A Letter, announcing that the Life of Mr. Savage was speedily to be published by a person who was favoured with his confidence. intern. evid. |