1. Samuel Johnson - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Facsimile Reprint of First Issue of the First Edition, bound with The Principal Corrections and Additions to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

Samuel Johnson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For other persons named Samuel Johnson, see Samuel Johnson (disambiguation) Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds Born September 18 O.S. September 7] Lichfield England Died 13 December (age 75) London England Occupation essayist ... poet Samuel Johnson LL.D. MA September 18 O.S. September 7] 13 December ), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson , is one of England 's best known literary figures: an essayist biographer lexicographer and a critic of English Literature . He was also a great wit and prose stylist, well known for his aphorisms Dr Johnson is the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare and has been described as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century England. Contents Biography Early life and education Early career The Dictionary ... edit Biography edit Early life and education Johnson's birthplace in Market Square, Lichfield Dr Johnson's House , 17 Gough Square, London Johnson had rooms as an undergraduate on the second floor above the entrance of Pembroke College, Oxford 250th anniversary of the publication of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language commemorated on a British 50 pence coin The son of a poor bookseller, Michael Johnson, and his wife, Sarah Ford, Johnson was born in

2. Samuel Johnson Quotes - The Quotations Page Samuel Johnson; Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation Samuel Johnson; Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Samuel_Johnson

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 50 total A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. Samuel Johnson A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. Samuel Johnson Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. Samuel Johnson - More quotations on: [ Mankind Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. Samuel Johnson - More quotations on: [ Language Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. Samuel Johnson Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

3. Samuel Johnson - Wikiquote The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) by James Boswell. The following page numbers are taken from the Great Books edition (see Sources), which is fairly easy to http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

Samuel Johnson From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed. Dr Samuel Johnson 18 September [7 September O.S. 13 December ) was a British author linguist and lexicographer . He is often referred to as simply Dr. Johnson Contents Sourced Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre (1747) Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) The Rambler (1750-1752) ... edit Sourced Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest London: A Poem , lines 166-167 This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed — Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed. London: A Poem (1738), lines 176-177 Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. Prologue to the Tragedy of Irene It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say. The Adventurer, # 84 (August 25, 1753) The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. The Life of Sir Thomas Browne A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. Consider, sir; what is the purpose of courts of justice? It is, that every man may have his cause fairly tried, by men appointed to try causes. A lawyer is not to tell what he knows to be a lie: he is not to produce what he knows to be a false deed; but he is not to usurp the province of the jury and of the judge, and determine what shall be the effect of evidence — what shall be the result of legal argument.

4. GovTrack: Samuel (Sam) Johnson Samuel Johnson missed 534 of 7010 votes (8%) since Jan 7, 1997. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400206

5. Samuel Johnson --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Samuel Johnson English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108566/Samuel-Johnson

var britAdCategory = "literature"; Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Early life The Gentleman's Magazine and early publications Maturity and recognition The Vanity of Human Wishes The theatre From The Rambler to The Adventurer The Dictionary ... Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles Pope David Garrick Shopping New! Britannica Book of the Year The Ultimate Review of 2007. 2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set) Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM The world's premier software reference source. Samuel Johnson Page 1 of 18 born Sept. 18, 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Eng. died Dec. 13, 1784, London Samuel Johnson, painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. The Granger Collection, New York byname Dr. Johnson English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson, Samuel...

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9. Samuel Johnson - LoveToKnow 1911 SAMUEL JOHNSON (17091784), English writer and lexicographer, was the son of Michael Johnson (1656-1731), bookseller and magistrate of Lichfield, http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Samuel_Johnson

Samuel Johnson From LoveToKnow 1911 SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784), English writer and lexicographer, was the son of Michael Johnson (1656-1731), bookseller and magistrate of Lichfield , who married in 1706 Sarah Ford (1669-1759). Michael's abilities and attainments seem to have been considerable. He was so well acquainted with the contents of the volumes which he exposed for sale that the country rectors of Staffordshire and Worcestershire thought him an oracle on points of learning. Between him and the clergy, indeed, there was a strong religious and political sympathy. He was a zealous churchman, and, though he had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession, was to the last a Jacobite in heart . The social position of Samuel's paternal grandfather, William Johnson , remains obscure; his mother was the daughter of Cornelius Ford, "a little Warwickshire Gent." At a house (now the Johnson Museum) in the Market Square, Lichfield, Samuel Johnson was born on the 18th of September 1709 and baptized on the same day at St Mary's, Lichfield. In the child the physical, intellectual and moral peculiarities which afterwards distinguished the man were plainly discernible: great muscular strength accompanied by much awkwardness and many infirmities; great quickness of parts, with a morbid propensity to sloth and procrastination; a kind and generous heart, with a gloomy and irritable

10. Samuel Johnson - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre Translate this page Dr Samuel Johnson (Lichfield, Staffordshire, 18 de septiembre de 1709 - Londres, 13 de diciembre de 1784), comúnmente conocido simplemente como Dr Johnson, http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

Samuel Johnson De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Dr. Samuel Johnson Dr. Samuel Johnson Lichfield Staffordshire 18 de septiembre de Londres 13 de diciembre de ), comºnmente conocido simplemente como Dr. Johnson , fue una de las figuras literarias m¡s importantes de Inglaterra poeta ensayista bi³grafo ... lexic³grafo , y considerado por muchos como el mejor cr­tico literario en idioma ingl©s . Johnson era poseedor de un gran talento y de una prosa con un estilo inigualable. El Dr. Johnson es quiz¡s m¡s conocido entre estudiantes de filosof­a por su “refutaci³n” del idealismo propuesto por Berkeley . Durante una conversaci³n con James Boswell , Johnson se enfureci³ ante la sugerencia de que el Idealismo subjetivo berkeleyano era irrefutable; dirigiendo su vista al suelo, inmediatamente pate³ con fuerza una piedra cercana y proclam³: ¡As­ es como lo refuto! Tabla de contenidos Vida y obra Personalidad Obras selectas Biograf­as, cr­ticas, trabajos lexicogr¡ficos ... editar Vida y obra Hijo de un pobre librero, Johnson nace en

11. Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was a secondgeneration Transcendentalist, graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, and nondenominational minister. http://www.alcott.net/alcott/home/champions/Johnson.html

Samuel Johnson, 1822 - 1882 Samuel Johnson was a second-generation Transcendentalist, graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, and nondenominational minister. In fact, he was opposed to organized religion and remained unordained throughout his life. With his friend Samuel Longfellow he compiled two hymn books, A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (1846) and Hymns of the Spirit (1864). Johnson was fascinated with the Orient, and his greatest contribution to Transcendental thought is his comparison and synthesis of the major Oriental religions with Christianity. His three-volume series, Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion: India China (1877), and Persia (1885), though dated and unreliable, remains significant as the most comprehensive work of the time to address the union of Eastern and Western spirituality that enchanted so many of the Transcendentalists. Johnson has been written about as follows by Octavius Brooks Frothingham , the first historian of American Transcendentalism A more remarkable instance of this tendency is Samuel Johnson's volume on the religions of India. None save a Transcendentalist could have succeeded in extracting so much deep spiritual meaning from the symbols and practices of those ancient faiths. The intuitive idea takes its position at the centre, and at once all blazes with glory. "Man is divinely prescient of his infinity of mind as soon as he begins to meditate and respire."

12. Samuel Johnson - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Samuel Johnson (born Lichfield, Staffordshire, England 18 September 1709; died London 13 December 1784) was a famous writer. When he was famous he was given http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

Samuel Johnson From Simple English Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can change Jump to: navigation search Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds Samuel Johnson (born Lichfield, Staffordshire , England 18 September ; died London 13 December ) was a famous writer. When he was famous he was given a doctorate , so he is often called "Dr Johnson". He wrote some of his own stories, but more often he wrote criticisms about what other people had written. He is especially famous for writing a dictionary . He said a lot of witty, amusing things, which are still remembered today. We know about some of the funny things he said because his friend James Boswell wrote a book about him. change Life Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire. His father had a bookshop, but he was very poor. Samuel went to school in Lichfield. When he was nineteen he went to Oxford University , but he was so poor that he had to leave without taking a degree. A few years later he married a woman 21 years older than him. They went to live in London, where he tried to make a living by writing but for many years he was very poor. It was not until that he became famous and the government gave him a pension of three hundred pounds a year. He started a club (called "The Club") which included a lot of famous people like the painter

13. Samuel Johnson Online electronic texts, scholarly materials, historical, biographical and bibliographical data, and the usual links to yet more pages on the web about http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Johnson/

NOW AVAILABLE: Johnson's Dictionary The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson Samuel Johnson This page is maintained by Jack Lynch Suggestions and corrections are welcome. Since I wrote my dissertation on Johnson, I edit The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual , I've published several books , both scholarly and popular, on Johnson, and I maintain other pages devoted to the eighteenth century , I offer this page as your place for one-stop-shopping for Johnson and his circle on the Internet. Suggestions are always welcome. Guide 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. As always, I invite comments. Electronic Texts By Johnson I used to maintain a list of texts by Johnson on the Web, but since I also catalogue all electronic texts from the eighteenth century as part of another site, I now refer readers to a full list of Johnson's texts available on-line. By Others Boswell's Life of Johnson The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page Macaulay's review of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life Frances Burney

14. The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page The most comprehensive collection of samuel johnson quotes on the web. Over 1800 quotes from the great English lexicographer and essayist samuel johnson, http://www.samueljohnson.com/

The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page The most comprehensive collection of Samuel Johnson quotations on the web. Over 1,800 quotes from Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), one of the most quoted men of the 18th century. Samuel Johnson: Brief Biography Right? Left? Time Line Picture ... Books The Quotes: Sampler Topical Guide Search The Site Quote of the Week ... Apocrypha The website: Sources Links Email Us Who Would DO This? No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. Topical Guide ), and Searchable . (If you're not searching for a specific Samuel Johnson quote, you might look at the Sampler of Popular Johnson Quotes to get an initial idea.) Special notice: Johnson's Tercentenary isn't far away New quotes last added October 3, 2007.

15. Samuel Johnson johnson s literary reputation is part dependent on James Boswell s (17401795) biography The Life of samuel johnson LL.D. (1791). The writer Ford Madox Ford http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/samuelj.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) - Byname Dr. Johnson English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer, conversationalist, regarded as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson's literary reputation is part dependent on James Boswell's (1740-1795) biography The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D . (1791). The writer Ford Madox Ford has considered Johnson the most tragic figures of English literature, "whose still living writings are always ignored, a great honest man who will remain forever a figure of half fun because of the leechlike adoration of the greatest and most ridiculous of all biographers. For it is impossible not to believe that, without Boswell, Johnson for us today would shine like a sun in the heavens whilst Addison sat forgotten in coffee houses." (from The March of Literature - Johnson became Doctor Johnson when Dublin University gave him the honorary degree in 1765. He had a huge, strong athletic build, his appetite was legendary and it is said that he often drank over 25 cups of tea at one sitting. "One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."

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Sir Leslie Stephen: Samuel Johnson an electronic edition Version 1.0 - 1997-03-15 For details about the transcription and the source edition, please see the notes at the end of the file. - CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE Childhood and Early Life . . . . . . . CHAPTER II. Literary Career . . . . . . . . . CHAPTER III. Johnson and his Friends . . . . . . . CHAPTER IV. Johnson as a Literary Dictator . . . . . CHAPTER V. The Closing Years of Johnson's Life . . . . CHAPTER VI. Johnson's Writings . . . . . . . . SAMUEL JOHNSON. CHAPTER I. 50,077 18_s._ had been paid to writers and printers of newspapers. Arnall, now remembered chiefly by Pope's line,- Spirit of Arnall, aid me whilst I lie! had received, in four years, 2000 for the same work. Gay made 700 a volume; Smollett made 2000 by his catchpenny rival publication; Henry made 3300 by his history; and Robertson, after the booksellers had made 4500. Amongst the novelists, Fielding received

17. Samuel Johnson: A Brief Biography samuel johnson was born on September 18, 1709 (N.S.) in the country town of Lichfield in Staffordshire, the son of Michael johnson, aged 50, a bookseller http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/johnson/sjbio.html

Samuel Johnson: A Brief Biography David Cody , Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College Samuel Johnson was born on September 18, 1709 (N.S.) in the country town of Lichfield in Staffordshire, the son of Michael Johnson, aged 50, a bookseller and stationer, and his wife Sara, aged 37. The elder Johnson was prone, as his son would be, to bouts of melancholy, but he was a man of some local reputeat the time of Johnson's birth, he was Sheriff of the city. Johnson, a sickly child, was not expected to live: in 1711, at the age of two, he was taken, nearly blind, partially deaf, suffering from scrofula and a tubercular infection, to be touched for the "King's Evil" by Queen Anne, the last of the Stuarts to rule England. No miraculous cure, however, took place. In 1716 Johnson, sensitive, clumsy, and precocious, entered the Lichfield Grammar School which was headed by the scholarly but brutal John Hunter, who beat his students, as he said, "to save them from the gallows." Later in life Johnson would insist that had he not been beaten he would have done nothing, but under Hunter's tutelage he learned Latin and Greek and began to write poetry. In 1725 at the age of sixteen, a very provincial Johnson came for a six-month visit with his cousin, Cornelius Ford, a sophisticated and somewhat rakish former Cambridge don, and became aware for the first time of the existence of the larger intellectual and literary world represented by Cambridge and London. In 1726 Johnson left school and went to work in his father's bookshop, which was failing: he spent the next two years were unhappy ones, but during this time he continuedavidly if unsystematicallyto study English and classical literature. In 1728, with a small legacy of forty pounds left to his mother upon the death of a relative, he wasvery unexpectedlyable to enter Pembroke College at Oxford. At Oxford, however, he was unable to keep himself adequately supplied with food or clothinga problem which he would have for many yearsand though he occasionally displayed considerable erudition symptoms of the melancholia which would haunt him for the remainder of his life were already beginning to manifest themselves. He paid, in consequence, little attention to his studies, and in 1789, extremely depressed and too poor to continue, he left Oxford without taking a degree.

18. Samuel Johnson Quotes 198 quotes and quotations by samuel johnson. samuel johnson A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_johnson.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Samuel Johnson Quotes Type: Author Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Date of Birth: September 18 Date of Death: December 13 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Samuel Johnson Related Authors: Anthony Trollope C. S. Lewis Walter Bagehot H. G. Wells ... Penelope Lively A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. Samuel Johnson A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. Samuel Johnson A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. Samuel Johnson A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. Samuel Johnson A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Samuel Johnson A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Samuel Johnson A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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20. Samuel Johnson, Writer Next only to William Shakespeare, samuel johnson is perhaps the most quoted of English writers. The latter part of the eighteenth century is often (in http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/20.html

Next only to William Shakespeare , Samuel Johnson is perhaps the most quoted of English writers. The latter part of the eighteenth century is often (in English-speaking countries, of course) called, simply, the Age of Johnson. Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, in 1709. His mother did not have enough milk for him, and so he was put out to nurse. From his nurse he contracted a tubercular infection called scrofula, which inflamed the lymph glands and spread to the optic and auditory nerves, leaving him deaf in the left ear, almost blind in the left eye, and dim of vision in the right eye. It also left scar tissue which disfigured his face, as did a later childhood bout with small-pox. Young Johnson responded to his disabilities by a fierce determination to be independent and to accept help and pity from no one. When he was three or four years old, a household servant regularly took him to school and walked him home again. One day the servant was not there in time, and Johnson started for home by himself. Coming to an open ditch across the street, he got down on all fours to peer at it before attempting to cross. His teacher had followed to watch him, and now approached to help. He spied her, and angrily pushed her away. Throughout his life, he feared that ill health would tempt him to self-indulgence and self-pity, and bent over backwards to resist the temptation. He had an uncle who was a local boxing champion, and who taught him to fight, so that years later he walked without fear in the worst sections of London. Once four robbers attacked him, and he held his own until the watch arrived and arrested them.

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