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* [[Samuel Johnson|Dr. Johnson]]-a few months

...nfessions (Augustine)|Confessions]],'' and [[James Boswell]]'s ''[[Life of Samuel Johnson]].'' In the political arena, however, biographies of presidents and presid

*1746 a group of London booksellers approached [[Samuel Johnson]] to write a dictionary; he completed it, almost singled handed, in 1755.

.... This idealism of Berkeley's was mocked in Boswell's ''Johnson,'' when [[Samuel Johnson]], again no anti-intellectual, kicked a stone and said, "I refute it [Berke

...een 1759 and 1767. It amused and delighted many, scandalised some (like [[Samuel Johnson]])<ref>Drabble, M, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford

...sm. The title comes from a [[The Idler (1758-1760)|series of essays]] by [[Samuel Johnson]], published in 1758–59. ...25. The title came from a [[The Idler (1758–1760)|series of essays]] by [[Samuel Johnson]]. In it, Johnson wrote on such subjects as [[sleep]] and [[laziness|sloth]

Writing in 1766, Dr [[Samuel Johnson]], after reproving Boswell for some bad Latin, adds - "Ruddiman is dead." W

...orge III; and a Crown pension of 200 pounds a year. [[Edmund Burke]] and [[Samuel Johnson]] were among those impressed, and his portrait was painted by Sir [[Joshua

...n Dryden’s ''The State of Innocence'', 1674.</ref> In the next century, [[Samuel Johnson]] called it "a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim th

...r desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. –[[Samuel Johnson]], lexicographer (1709-1784)

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...ment of which we enjoy the benefit and solicit the protection," declared [[Samuel Johnson]] in his political pamphlet ''Taxation No Tyranny.'' He rejected the plea t

Boswell's ''Life of Johnson'' gives an account of [[Samuel Johnson]]'s visit to Burnett at Monboddo, and is full of references to the natural

...ume]] and [[Adam Smith]] in Scotland; [[John Locke]], [[Edward Gibbon]], [[Samuel Johnson]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]] in England; and [[Johann Herder]], [[Gotthold Less

...Wordsworth|Wordsworth]]'s "Earth hath not anything to show more fair", and Samuel Johnson's "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life", to Kipling's "Ther

[[Samuel Johnson]] is one of the College's more famous old members, though he did not comple

:::William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth, George Read, Gunning Bedford Jr., Richard

...ington Macaulay]] on the lives of [[John Bunyan]], [[Oliver Goldsmith]], [[Samuel Johnson]] and [[William Pitt the Younger]] ;[[Robert Louis Stevenson]] on the lives

...language of the stage, which has been lost for these hundred years," but [[Samuel Johnson]] was less impressed; he declared that there were not ten good lines in the

...rary political events. He was a member of the intellectual circle around [[Samuel Johnson]].