MACAULAY'S

LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON

WITH A SELECTION FROM HIS
ESSAY ON JOHNSON

EDITED

WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

CHARLES LANE HANSON

INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH, MECHANIC ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, BOSTON
EDITOR OF CARLYLE'S "ESSAY ON BURNS," "REPRE-
SENTATIVE POEMS OF BURNS," ETC.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF
PROF. GEORGE F. SWAIN
OCT. 20, 1933

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY

CHARLES LANE HANSON

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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PREFATORY NOTE

The editor explains the difference between Macaulay's Life of Johnson and Macaulay's Essay on Johnson in the Introduction, IV, p. xxviii, and gives his reason for printing only a portion of the Essay.