THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. I N 1764 and 1765 it should seem that Dr. Johnson was so busily employed with his edition of Shakspeare, as to have had little 1eisure for any other literary exertion, or, in. deed, even for private correspondence 1. He did not favour me with a single letter for more than two years, for which it will appear that he afterwards apologised. He was, however, at all times ready to give assistance to his friends, and others, in revising their works, and in writing for them, or greatly improving their Dedications. In that courtly species of composition no man excelled Dr. Johnson. Though the loftiness of his mind prevented him from ever dedicating in his own person he wrote a very great number I Had he been' busily employed' he would, no doubt, have finished the edition in a few months. He himself had recorded at Easter, [765: 'My time has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream that has left nothing behind.' Pro and J1/ed., p. 6Table of Contents...

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