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...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

...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

...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]].

...a writer in the ''Gentleman’s Magazine'', <ref>The writer may have been [[Samuel Johnson]]. According to Boswell, Dr Johnson, on his return from the Western Islands

...vers as "kings of crekettes", a word of apparent Middle Dutch origin. In [[Samuel Johnson]]'s ''Dictionary of the English Language'' (1755), he derived cricket from

..... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company|Samuel Johnson}}

...be about what *I* want to write about. And this month it's gonna be "Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Concept of Blockheads". (see http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Blockhe

...onor" instead of "honour." He also added American words that were not in [[Samuel Johnson]]'s famous dictionaries like "skunk" and "squash." At the age of seventy, W

According to a famous anecdote, [[Samuel Johnson]] responded to Berkeley's views by kicking a stone and saying 'I refute it {{cite book |last=Boswell|first=James |title=The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1 |year=1859 |publisher=Routledge, Warne, and Routledge |url=http:/

...a view further codified by such authorities as [[Ephraim Chambers]] and [[Samuel Johnson]]. ... "DEISM," writes [[William Stephens|Stephens]] bluntly, "is a denial

...journals and diaries. These included notes of his tour of Scotland with [[Samuel Johnson]] (1709-1784), who was no fan of Scotland. When asked what he thought of it

...y others remain read and studied around the world. Among men of letters, [[Samuel Johnson]], [[William Hazlitt]] and [[George Orwell]] are some of the most famous. E