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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 [[Joshua3 KB (510 words) - 13:40, 27 January 2009
- ...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 th8 KB (1,288 words) - 15:33, 19 January 2014
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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 t7 KB (999 words) - 03:16, 20 September 2009
- Boswell's ''Life of Johnson'' gives an account of [[Samuel Johnson]]'s visit to Burnett at Monboddo, and is full of references to the natural10 KB (1,570 words) - 13:51, 23 July 2011
- ...ume]] and [[Adam Smith]] in Scotland; [[John Locke]], [[Edward Gibbon]], [[Samuel Johnson]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]] in England; and [[Johann Herder]], [[Gotthold Less7 KB (951 words) - 23:49, 15 July 2011
- ...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 "Ther21 KB (3,240 words) - 12:33, 20 April 2024
- [[Samuel Johnson]] is one of the College's more famous old members, though he did not comple7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:32, 11 March 2024
- ...ington Macaulay]] on the lives of [[John Bunyan]], [[Oliver Goldsmith]], [[Samuel Johnson]] and [[William Pitt the Younger]] ;[[Robert Louis Stevenson]] on the lives9 KB (1,287 words) - 08:24, 7 January 2014
- ...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 the9 KB (1,494 words) - 13:34, 23 July 2011
- ...rary political events. He was a member of the intellectual circle around [[Samuel Johnson]].9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:08, 26 March 2024
- ...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 Islands15 KB (2,567 words) - 08:57, 21 February 2014
- ...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 from14 KB (2,268 words) - 12:14, 14 February 2024
- ..... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company|Samuel Johnson}}13 KB (1,961 words) - 14:12, 13 June 2024
- ...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/Blockhe13 KB (2,139 words) - 08:50, 4 May 2024
- ...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, W16 KB (2,439 words) - 15:19, 20 March 2023
- 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:/82 KB (12,424 words) - 15:58, 2 August 2016
- ...a view further codified by such authorities as [[Ephraim Chambers]] and [[Samuel Johnson]]. ... "DEISM," writes [[William Stephens|Stephens]] bluntly, "is a denial59 KB (9,159 words) - 14:29, 19 March 2023
- ...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 it56 KB (9,059 words) - 07:32, 20 April 2024
- ...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. Engla75 KB (11,181 words) - 10:20, 14 June 2024