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| | Samuel Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Johnson proceeded to attack the claims that James Macpherson's Ossian poems were translations of ancient Scottish literature, on the false basis that the Scottish Gaelic language "never was a written language." However, Johnson also aided Scottish Gaelic by calling for a Bible translation, which was produced soon afterward. | | | Johnson, was one of England's greatest literary figures: a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and often considered the finest critic of English literature. | | | At some point, however, Johnson gained a notoriety for dilatory writing; contemporary poet Charles Churchill wrote of him that "He for subscribers baits his hook / and takes your cash, but where's the book?" [1]. |
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| | Samuel Johnson |
| | Johnson has been described as representing the ‘puritan mind in transition’, and examination of his writings bears this out. | | | Perhaps the most controversial of Johnson’s works are the Letters Concerning the Sovereignty of God. | | | Educated at Yale, Samuel Johnson became a tutor there and worked his way through the new learning represented by the Dummer gift of books to its library. |
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| | SAMUEL JOHNSON - LoveToKnow Article on SAMUEL JOHNSON |
| | Johnson, not content with turning filthy savages, ignorant of their letters, and gorged with raw steaks cut from living cows, into philosophers as eloquent and enlightened as himself or his friend Burke, and into ladies as highly accomplished as Mrs Lennox or Mrs Sheridan, transferred the whole domestic system of England to Egypt. | | | Indeed Johnson, though he did not despise or affect to despise money, and though his strong sense and long experience ought to have qualified him to protect his own interests, seems to have been singularly unskilful and unlucky in his literary bargains. | | | But it is not probable that his curiosity would have overcome his habitual sluggishness, and his love of the smoke, the mud, and the cries of London, had not Boswell importuned him to attempt the adventure, and offered to be his squire. |
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| | Samuel Johnson, Writer |
| | Johnson's answer is that he ought to behave as if he did trust God, and that means obeying God. | | | A problem for Johnson was that, although he had no trouble seeing that his attitude toward God ought to be one of trust and dependency, his constant struggle since infancy with his physical disabilities had instilled in him a strong habit of self-reliance and rejection of help from others. | | | Johnson determined to write an imitation of the satires of Juvenal. |
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| | Johnson's grotesque appearance did not prevent her from saying to her daughter on their first introduction, ``This is the most sensible man I ever met.'' Her praises were, we may believe, sweeter to him than those of the severest critics, or the most fervent of personal flatterers. | | | Johnson's life of him written soon after his death is one of his most forcible performances, and the best extant illustration of the life of the struggling authors of the time. | | | Johnson corked the bottle, and a discussion of ways and means brought out the manuscript of the _Vicar of Wakefield._ Johnson looked into it, took it to a bookseller, got sixty pounds for it, and returned to Goldsmith, who paid his rent and administered a sound rating to his landlady. |
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| | Johnson, Samuel, English author. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Johnson, as he is universally known, was England& first full-dress man of letters, and his mind and personality helped to create the traditions that have guided English taste and criticism. | | | Rasselas, a moral romance, appeared in 1759, and The Idler, a collection of his essays, in 1761. | | | In that same year Johnson’s long-heralded edition of Shakespeare appeared. |
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| | Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, revised. By Adam Kirsch |
| | Johnson's dictionary, on the other hand, implies a reader much like Johnson himself: a curious and intelligent speaker of English who comes to the dictionary not to learn the meanings of familiar words, but to gain a fuller sense of them—their overtones, history, and idiomatic use. | | | Johnson's dictionary may not be perfect, but it's still the greatest work of literature in the reference section. | | | First, it illustrates most words with quotations, making the book as much an anthology as a dictionary: With its passages from Addison and Swift, Locke and Milton, Pope and Newton, there could be no better way to get a sense of classic English prose and verse style. |
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| | BOOKFORUM Oct/Nov 2005 |
| | Johnson had the help of a half-dozen assistants—most of whom, by the way, were Scots—but their role was chiefly to help him manage the quotations, not to write definitions. | | | While Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, which celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary this year, is a greatly admired book, it is also surely one of the least read. | | | Johnson’s “Preface,” like the Plan, is one of the great works of English prose. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK Magazine The A-Z of Samuel Johnson |
| | Y is for Yuck - Samuel Johnson described the word "yuck" only as "itch" in his Dictionary, and wrote the word's origins to be Dutch. | | | S is for Sausage - A well-known scene in an episode of the comedy series Blackadder, Ink and Incapability, sends up Samuel Johnson and his dictionary. | | | Apparently while travelling, Johnson, inspired by the tales from James Cook's first voyage, imitated a kangaroo and allowed Boswell to dress him up in highland costume. |
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| | Samuel Johnson - Wikiquote |
| | Johnson observed, that "he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney. | | | Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. | | | A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. |
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| | Johnson Society of London - a Samuel Johnson bibliography |
| | The standard edition of the letters is Bruce Redford (ed), The Letters of Samuel Johnson (The Hyde edition) (Oxford, 1992-94). | | | There are many editions of works by Johnson. | | | Edward Tomarken, A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson (1994). |
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| | Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum |
| | Visitors will also have the chance to view a limited edition 22 caret gold proof 50p, one of only a thousand Johnson gold coins issued by the Royal Mint. | | | The commemorative coin was commissioned by the Royal Mint and produced earlier this year. | | | Link to The Johnson Collection at Birmingham Central Library |
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| | Samuel Johnson, English author |
| | Thomas Warton's "Observations on the 'Faerie Queene' of Spenser", Samuel Johnson's "History of the English Language," and Warton's History of English Poetry": reciprocal indebtedness? | | | Interview: Simon Winchester and Jack Lynch talk about the history of English lexicography and their respective books on the Oxford English Dictionary and Samuel Johnson's dictionary | | | Review: Recent revision of "A Dictionary of the English Language" by Samuel Johnson |
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| | The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Brief Biography |
| | Once, when his babysitter failed to pick him up on time from nursery school, Johnson decided he would get home on his own, crawling on all fours in order to see the gutter and avoid falling in. | | | The availability of the books in his father's shop, and his natural proclivity for learning, contributed to his having extensive knowledge at an early age. | | | Johnson obtained some notice with his works London (1738) and The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) -- both of which are considered great poems -- but his efforts in the 1750's are part of why he's considered a titan. |
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| | Samuel Johnson - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Samuel Johnson |
| | He then brought out his long-promised edition of Shakespeare, The Lives of the English Poets, and the account of his Scottish tour with Boswell. | | | Published after his death, Prayers and Meditations (1785) shows Johnson to have been a deeply religious man. It revealed the secret doubts and fears of a man known to the world as defiant and overbearing in argument. | | | A master of words, Dr Johnson, the English writer, critic, and journalist, was famous for his wit and his dislike of Scotland. |
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| | The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page |
| | Samuel Johnson (often referred to as "Doctor Johnson"), literary titan of the 18th century &; essayist, lexicographer, poet, editor, critic, and famous talker — is the second most quoted person in the English language, after Shakespeare. | | | Over 1,800 quotes from Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), one of the most quoted men of the 18th century. | | | Want ready access to some Samuel Johnson quotations and some of his more concise thoughts? |
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| | Malaspina Great Books - Samuel Johnson (1709) |
| | For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Samuel Johnson. | | | Dr Johnson's last great work was the ten-volume Lives of the English Poets&; published between 1779 and 1781. | | | Johnson began his Dictionary of the English Language in 1747&; but did not complete it until 1755. |
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| | Samuel Johnson |
| | Macaulay's review of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life (1831) — I hope to work on an abridged version to provide along with the complete text | | | Beginners might start with my Guide to Samuel Johnson, which includes introductions to Johnson and his works and selected bibliographies on some of the major works. | | | the eighteenth century, I offer this page as your place for one-stop-shopping for Johnson and his circle on the Internet. |
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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: William Samuel Johnson |
| | Johnson retired from the college in 1800, a few years after his wife died, and in the same year wed Mary Brewster Beach, a relative of his first bride. | | | Johnson finally decided to work for peace between Britain and the colonies and to oppose the extremist Whig faction. | | | Johnson did not shirk the civic responsibilities of one of his station. |
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| | The Johnson Society of London Home Page |
| | The Society, which was founded in 1928, is made up of people with interests in the life and work of Samuel Johnson, his circle and his times. | | | More general subjects have been the Bluestockings, the eighteenth century response to miracles, and the moral responsibility of the novelist. | | | In recent years, there have been papers on such topics as Johnson on the theatre and on Shakespeare, The Rambler, the Dictionary, Irene, and the Life of Pope. |
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| | Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum |
| | Following several years of hack-work writing in London, Johnson was offered the major task of compiling an English Dictionary, a project which brought him fame though little financial reward. | | | She was twenty years older than Samuel, with three grown-up children from a previous marriage. | | | It was in Birmingham that he met Elizabeth Porter whom he was later to marry. |
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| | 1306. Samuel Johnson (1709-84). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989 |
| | With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.”—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, at entry for patriotism, The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, p. | | | H. Mencken added this to Johnson’s dictum: “But there is something even worse: it is the first, last, and middle range of fools.”—The World, New York City, November 7, 1926, p. | | | “In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. |
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| | The San Antonio College LitWeb Samuel Johnson Page |
| | See the following for Johnson in print: Rasselas, Poems and Selected Prose. | | | Contains a guide to Johnson, numerous links to on-line works and other Web sites. | | | A Guide to Samuel Johnson by Jack Lynch. |
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| | By samuel - alexandrasamuel.com |
| | Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635). | | | Nicknamed "Scalito" for views resembling those of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito Jr. | | | Samuel P. Huntington Samuel P. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. |
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| | Samuel Johnson |
| | Find where Samuel Johnson is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Samuel Johnson | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. |
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