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- ...ynolds.jpg|right|150px|Dr Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1772}} '''Samuel Johnson''' (1709-1784) was one of the leading figures of [[English literature]]'s [ Samuel Johnson was born September 18th 1709 in Lichfield, Staffordshire to Michael and Sar6 KB (908 words) - 06:34, 14 August 2014
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- *{{cite web |url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/ |title=Samuel Johnson |accessdate=2008-07-17 |last=Lynch |first=Jack |authorlink= |coauthors= |da ...|url=http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/178.html|title=Selected Poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |accessdate=2008-07-17 |last=Lancashire |first=Ian |authorlink671 bytes (81 words) - 04:04, 17 July 2008
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- *[[William Samuel Johnson]]--signatory of the U.S. Constitution202 bytes (27 words) - 09:17, 30 August 2013
- | title = Samuel Johnson | title = The life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. : complete and unabridged with notes1 KB (180 words) - 01:58, 9 December 2008
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- A person, according to [[Dr. Samuel Johnson]], who writes for any reason other than money.126 bytes (18 words) - 12:32, 25 January 2014
- *{{cite web |url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/ |title=Samuel Johnson |accessdate=2008-07-17 |last=Lynch |first=Jack |authorlink= |coauthors= |da ...|url=http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/178.html|title=Selected Poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |accessdate=2008-07-17 |last=Lancashire |first=Ian |authorlink671 bytes (81 words) - 04:04, 17 July 2008
- {{r|Samuel Johnson}}265 bytes (35 words) - 10:20, 25 January 2009
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- ...ynolds.jpg|right|150px|Dr Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1772}} '''Samuel Johnson''' (1709-1784) was one of the leading figures of [[English literature]]'s [ Samuel Johnson was born September 18th 1709 in Lichfield, Staffordshire to Michael and Sar6 KB (908 words) - 06:34, 14 August 2014
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- ...rplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy". [[Samuel Johnson]] picked up the term metaphysics in his Life of Cowley<ref>Johnson, S. Liv ...tic conventions approved by such writers as Dryden and [[Alexander Pope]]. Samuel Johnson's account of them continued by saying that "the metaphysical poets were men3 KB (487 words) - 14:39, 27 April 2018
- {{Image|Samuel_Johnson_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg|left|150px|Dr. Samuel Johnson, a man who wrote only for money, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1772}} "No man but a '''blockhead'''," the august lexicographer [[Dr. Samuel Johnson]] famously declared in 1766, "ever wrote, except for money." <ref>Boswell</3 KB (493 words) - 14:47, 24 January 2014
- ...s and stones do not exist. For example, on hearing of Berkeley's theory, [[Samuel Johnson]] famously kicked a stone and remarked: "I refute it thus!" `However, Berke1,014 bytes (144 words) - 12:05, 15 February 2011
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- ...nfessions (Augustine)|Confessions]],'' and [[James Boswell]]'s ''[[Life of Samuel Johnson]].'' In the political arena, however, biographies of presidents and presid2 KB (305 words) - 03:37, 9 October 2019
- *1746 a group of London booksellers approached [[Samuel Johnson]] to write a dictionary; he completed it, almost singled handed, in 1755.2 KB (267 words) - 17:03, 22 March 2010
- .... 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 [Berke4 KB (632 words) - 00:11, 6 February 2009
- ...een 1759 and 1767. It amused and delighted many, scandalised some (like [[Samuel Johnson]])<ref>Drabble, M, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford2 KB (330 words) - 13:31, 11 July 2014
- ...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]9 KB (1,291 words) - 09:04, 3 March 2021
- Writing in 1766, Dr [[Samuel Johnson]], after reproving Boswell for some bad Latin, adds - "Ruddiman is dead." W5 KB (825 words) - 06:16, 30 January 2011
- ...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 (1,960 words) - 08:58, 4 May 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. E75 KB (11,181 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024