In the passage above quoted I have restored the
ampersands and capitals of Boswell's manuscript.
2. See F.A. Pottle, _The Literary Career of James Boswell_, Clarendon
Press, 1929, pp. 6, 12.
3. "The Life of Mallet," in _Lives of the Poets_.
4. James Boswell's _Life of Samuel Johnson_, ed. G.B. Hill and L.F.
Powell, Clarendon Press, 6 vols., 1934-1950, i. 268. (Hereafter referred
to as _Life_.)
5. Douce MS 193, 93^v, quoted with permission of the Curators of the
Bodleian Library.
6. LJ, pp. 154-155, 162, 163-164, 172, partly paraphrased, partly quoted.
7. John Genest, _Some Account of the English Stage from ... 1660 to
1830_, 10 vols., Bath, 1832, v.12-13.
8. _Life_, i. 409 _n._ 1; _The Critical Review_, xv (Feb.
1763). 160.
9. _The Monthly Review_. xxviii (Jan. 1763). 68, written by the
editor, Ralph Griffiths (B.C. Nangle, _The Monthly Review, First Series
1749-1789_, Clarendon Press, 1934, p. 84, no. 995).
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