From the portrait painted for Topham Beauclerk

now belonging to M. Hallam Murray.

CONTEMPORARY

CRITICISMS

OF

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

HIS WORKS, AND HIS BIOGRAPHERS

COLLECTED AND EDITED

BY JOHN KER SPITTAL

WITH FRONTISPIECE

LONDON

IN MUKRAY, ALBEMARLE REET, W.

CONTEMPORARY

CRITICISMS

OF

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

HIS WORKS, AND HIS BIOGRAPHERS

COLLECTED AND EDITED
BY JOHN KER SPITTAL

WITH FRONTISPIECE

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

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Printed in Great Britain by

Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.