| 单词 | Samuel Johnson |
| 例句 | By what right did Samuel Johnson deny him, John Adams, the freedom to fashion his own vocabulary? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Difficult do you call it, Sir?” the lexicographer Samuel Johnson once said after hearing a violinist perform. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The plot in “Strange Bodies” spins around Dr. Nicholas Slopen, an impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar whose wife, a classical musician, has left him. Books of The Times: Marcel Theroux’s Eccentric ‘Strange Bodies’ 2014-02-13T20:41:07Z From that position, the influence of his early subjects, such as Jonathan Swift and Samuel Johnson, became evident in his scalpel-like dissections of American society. Paul Fussell 2012-05-24T17:27:46Z By 1751, Samuel Johnson could write that England was passing through the Age of Authors, as men and women delved into the birth and growth of their own consciousness. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z At the risk of sounding unduly flippant, I want to put in a good word for books that contribute to what Samuel Johnson called “the gaiety of nations” and “the public stock of harmless pleasure.” Review | Cheer yourself up with light comedies from another era 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z There, conversation among thinkers fizzing with originality had its acme in a club founded in 1764 by the dictionary-maker Samuel Johnson and the portrait painter Joshua Reynolds. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Many potential castaways would immediately grab James Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson,” probably the most entertaining work of nonfiction in English literature. Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Far from being indulgent and indolent, the practice may spark creativity and productivity – memorably, Samuel Johnson, Edith Wharton, Marcel Proust, Florence Nightingale and William Wordsworth all worked from bed. Why you shouldn’t work from bed (and a guide to doing it anyway) 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z For example, Samuel Johnson’s journals contained meticulous records of his gross sluggishness, dissipation, excess, and negligence. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z “I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram, a man noble without generosity,” wrote Samuel Johnson. | 'All?s Well That Ends Well' : Flawed Man Draws a Good Woman 2011-06-26T22:27:12Z She charted the conflict in her 2002 debut, The Devil that Danced on the Water, a memoir that was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z Samuel Johnson grew nearly as frustrated with his patron, the Earl of Chesterfield. Suffering for Your Art? Maybe You Need a Patron 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z If Samuel Johnson were asked today whether he preferred Nahum Tate’s version to Shakespeare’s, he would have to answer: Which one? Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “Women chat of fucus this, and fucus that,” sighed Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1755. Don’t get butthurt over the OED’s awesomesauce — ephemeral slang in the dictionary has a rich and delightful history 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z At the level of language, Riordan’s books make J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series seem as if it were written by Samuel Johnson. The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z We see a first edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language in which he used the 18th-century equivalent of Post-it notes to add Shakespearean citations. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z “Nothing odd will do long,” Samuel Johnson said. Experiments Succeed — and Fail — Spectacularly in Robert Coover’s Lab 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It was Samuel Johnson who said, wrongly but amusingly, that no one except a blockhead writes for any reason but money. Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z "He is engaged in a single-minded mission to get justice for his daughter, Flora," said Benson, a Fringe veteran who has created plays about Noel Coward, Samuel Johnson and the death of Princess Diana. Lockerbie play draws attention at Edinburgh Fringe 2010-08-06T16:39:00Z “It was born with a grey Beard,” Samuel Johnson famously declared of the charter. Last Chance: Magna Carta at the Morgan Library: Its Birth Was a Royal Pain 2010-05-21T22:51:00Z As Samuel Johnson said, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” You’ve seen the new ‘Star Wars’ movie — should you read the book tie-in? 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Living on Sarcoma Penitentiary’s death row surely concentrates the mind, in Samuel Johnson’s dry phrase. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z And Samuel Johnson, its chief tormenter, said that to discuss the play “were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.” Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z Unlike Boswell transcribing Samuel Johnson’s conversation, Haydon never sets down much of what his dinner guests actually said. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly The poetry of Whitman, and the leadership of King and Jackson offer insight into the distinction that the British poet and pamphleteer, Samuel Johnson, made in his essay on patriotism. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z And in his famed Dictionary, Samuel Johnson turned to Locke’s authority 138 times. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z In this delightful — and very British — novel, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Bishop, Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron all make cameos, along with, of course, Jane Austen. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Granny is a small fierce fighter and, when Samuel Johnson's uncle is captured by the Monkey King, GS looks after him. Granny Samurai by John Chambers- review 2013-05-24T14:00:00Z In his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson suggested that “lunch” was derived from foreign words referring to “a small piece” or “clutch.” Exhibition Review: ‘Lunch Hour NYC’ Opens at the New York Public Library 2012-06-22T22:04:35Z In 1750, Samuel Johnson wrote that a good biography can “enchain the heart by an irresistible interest.” The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Two hundred and fifty years ago Samuel Johnson disparaged "an unnecessary word which is creeping into the language". Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z Wade Davis, the winner of this year's Samuel Johnson prize, is a Canadian writer – and scientist, film-maker and explorer. Michael Jacobs's top 10 Colombian stories 2012-12-05T13:01:06Z Nor was it just selections from the great essayists, including William Hazlitt, Thomas de Quincey and Samuel Johnson. The new Penguin English Library is a far cry from its 1963 version 2012-05-24T07:00:00Z The same goes for Costa, Samuel Johnson, the book prize formerly known as Orange, and many lesser awards. The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle 2013-03-12T10:48:31Z Writer Dame Beryl Bainbridge won readers and awards with her novels about her Liverpool roots and historical figures such as Samuel Johnson and Scott of the Antarctic. Beryl Bainbridge's secret artwork 2011-01-27T11:25:29Z For 20 years, starting in 1764, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith met regularly at the Turk’s Head tavern in London for conversation and conviviality. Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Do you share Samuel Johnson’s moral outrage at the death of Cordelia in the last act? | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z It was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award and took home the Samuel Johnson Prize in Britain. ArtsBeat Blog: Toward a North Korea Reading List 2011-12-28T22:38:00Z BBC2 This weighty Culture Show special comes from the Royal Institute Of British Architects, where the winner of this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction will be announced. Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne 2010-07-01T07:00:00Z Taken as a whole, the paper’s coverage of the last half-century of exercise recalls the old joke, Samuel Johnson by way of Oscar Wilde, about second marriages: a triumph of hope over experience. The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z He began to work as a butler for the Duke of Montagu and wrote poetry and plays, composed music and became a part of London literary circles, corresponding with Samuel Johnson among others. Paterson Joseph Brings Charles Ignatius Sancho to Life at BAM Fisher 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z One thinks of Samuel Johnson’s comment on women preachers. REVIEW: 22 Jump Street Goes Meta on Your Ass 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson, Herman Melville and, best of all, Charles Dickens are probably quoted most often. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The book was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's leading nonfiction book award. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners 2010-04-12T22:55:00Z Perhaps the best thing about the strange plot of “Strange Bodies” is that it gives us the splendid vista of Dr. Samuel Johnson, seemingly reborn in a thuggish body, in 21st-century London. Books of The Times: Marcel Theroux’s Eccentric ‘Strange Bodies’ 2014-02-13T20:41:07Z Samuel Johnson once said: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” Perhaps he meant this as self-critique. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z Samuel Johnson, one recalls, a ferociously unsociable reader, and blind as a bat, was constantly in danger of singeing his wig against his candle. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Seacrest appears in Clark’s obits like the Boswell to Clark’s Samuel Johnson, quoted instead of family members as the apparent authority on Clark’s life and legacy. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z The Samuel Johnson Prize recognizes English-language books from any country in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. ‘The Pike’ Wins Samuel Johnson Nonfiction Prize 2013-11-04T22:10:22Z When I wrote my first novel nearly 30 years ago, my reading was not Jewish American but mainly the English novelists such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. Q&A: Howard Jacobson, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question 2010-10-15T16:25:00Z This year's Samuel Johnson prize appears to be just as diverse: from Charles II to a cultural history of the British roads system. Samuel Johnson literary prize longlist 'takes us from China to the Arctic' 2010-04-21T23:05:00Z Samuel Johnson wrote that “the safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment,” a sentiment that might underpin the entire genre of grief memoirs. This Memoir About the Contradictions of Grief Plays by Its Own Rules 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Ben Macintyre, historian, journalist and chair of the Samuel Johnson prize judges, called Mao's Great Famine the book of the year. Samuel Johnson prize won by 'hugely important' study of Mao 2011-07-06T19:00:25Z “To be tired of London is to be tired of life,” Samuel Johnson said, and here you might say the same of that river view. Perspective | Show tunes on the summer breeze 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z For neoclassical writers like Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, writing in the 18th century, the essence of poetic creation was mimetic, or imitative. M.H. Abrams, Who Shaped Romantic Criticism, Dies at 102 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z We hear about people like Samuel Johnson, Martin Luther, Hans Christian Anderson and Mademoiselle F, the patient zero of OCD from the turn of the 19th century. 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' a rich, reasonable look at OCD 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z In his early career, he wrote "Poetic Meter and Poetic Form," a well-regarded textbook for understanding poetry, and an analysis of Samuel Johnson. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z Karr is smart to acknowledge both literary economics and Samuel Johnson, who famously said, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” ‘The Art of Memoir’ review: Mary Karr’s advice for telling your life story 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson's biographer James Boswell examined the documents and pronounced them glorious and certainly authentic. Mistaken identity 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z After being labeled best book of the year by the Guardian and the Economist and winning the Samuel Johnson Prize, “H Is for Hawk” went on to win the Costa Book Award in February. “You can’t tame grief”: Helen Macdonald on her bestselling memoir “H Is for Hawk” 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Biography is fascinating whether you’re talking about Plutarch or one of my favorite writers, like James Boswell’s “The Life of Samuel Johnson.” It’s almost like working with a ventriloquist’s dummy. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Here's another favorite quote: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life" - Samuel Johnson. T Magazine: The Manhattan Project 2012-11-30T14:00:46Z In this novel Samuel Johnson discovers the old lady next door is a 'small fierce fighter' who can help protect him against bullies! Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-03T11:00:00Z The king looks like Samuel Johnson afflicted by gout. Greenwood Gardens in Short Hills, N.J. 2013-04-25T20:46:49Z Samuel Johnson’s commas, in the mid-18th century, were not only heavy; many would be ungrammatical today, and this style persisted into the first editions of The Economist in 1843. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The OED also notes early attempts at a definition by Jonathan Swift and Samuel Johnson. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z A book that traces the history of slavery over four centuries is among six books shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, one of the world's richest non-fiction awards. Study of slavery makes shortlist for Samuel Johnson book prize 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z In his famous dictionary Samuel Johnson notoriously, and gloriously, defined the word “network” as “any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.” ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z “Nothing to Envy” was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award and took home the Samuel Johnson Prize in Britain. ArtsBeat Blog: Toward a North Korea Reading List 2011-12-19T22:54:44Z We love prizes", a post on their website announced, before adding: "Not so much your common or garden prizes like the Booker or the Samuel Johnson. Christopher MacLehose: A life in publishing 2012-12-28T22:55:09Z Named in honor of the 18th-century essayist and lexicographer, the Samuel Johnson Prize is open to English-language books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. Book about secretive NKorea wins UK literary prize 2010-07-01T20:09:00Z Samuel Johnson prize – Into the Silence by Wade Davis focuses on the doomed attempts by George Mallory, above, to scale Everest. Into the Silence author Wade Davis wins Samuel Johnson award 2012-11-12T21:50:01Z When Slopen comes across apparently new prose from Samuel Johnson, the style is so familiar to him that he becomes emotional. Books of The Times: Marcel Theroux’s Eccentric ‘Strange Bodies’ 2014-02-13T20:41:07Z “You know, Samuel Johnson was a reference book editor. He defined a lexicographer, a compiler of dictionaries, as a harmless drudge.” Frederick G. Ruffner Jr., titan of reference books, dies at 88 “How is it,” asked British author Samuel Johnson, who loathed slavery, “that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?” Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In 2014 none of these high school seniors can identify Samuel Johnson. A master class in writing from John McPhee 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it. David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z Maybe the biggest reason of all that Epstein and Franzen — and the Goncourts and Samuel Johnson before them — have been so ineffective at defending the novel is that they’ve been ineffective at defining it. Yet another critic on the Death of the Novel: What he and everyone else are missing 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z I’m going to buy a first edition of the Samuel Johnson dictionary.’ The first 10 words of the African American English dictionary are in 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony bestows awards in more than a dozen categories, and — as Samuel Johnson once said of “Paradise Lost” — “no one ever wished it longer.” There is no 'Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf': a critic's requiem for all the forgotten books 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Judges have chosen six of the 24 past winners of the award — known until 2015 as the Samuel Johnson Prize — as finalists for the one-off accolade. 6 books compete for nonfiction ‘winner of winners’ prize 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z His first novel, “Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return,” had a narrator whose consciousness moved helplessly among bodies as he searched for his lost son — imagine an existentialist “Quantum Leap.” The book world needs practical dreamers. Enter publisher-novelist Martin Riker 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Riker’s first novel — 2018’s “Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return” — is also about a fierce internal struggle to retain a sense of self. Review | A failing academic tries to retain her optimism in ‘The Guest Lecture’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Being an idealist, I think you should, though certain classics — Samuel Johnson’s moral essays, George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” — are best appreciated in middle age, when they will pierce you to the marrow. Perspective | Why read old books? A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected. 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Samuel Johnson, who took up the roll of TCA chief executive in 2020, had been on paid administrative leave since Sept. 5, when the investigation began. Orange County Transportation Corridors Agencies head resigns after investigation into alleged misconduct 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Of this election season, we may say what Samuel Johnson said of Milton’s “Paradise Lost”: No one ever wished it longer. Opinion | The 2022 campaign has taught us much about America, much of it unpalatable 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z I often quote Samuel Johnson: “We come to the arena uncalled to seek our fortune and hazard disgrace.” After a rich career, here's why Walter Hill is back in the saddle with 'Dead for a Dollar' 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z As his subtitle suggests, Edwards also loves what Samuel Johnson called “the biographical part” of literature. Review | Martin Edwards’s ‘The Life of Crime’ will thrill mystery fans 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z One, who is quite optimistic, quotes the 18th century writer Samuel Johnson: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." New PM's political challenge is to unify a divided Conservative party 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Later, the great English writer Samuel Johnson, who had secretly written the appeal, tried to insist that Dodd was capable of such elegant prose. Opinion | The future of America’s water cannot be won without changing America’s farms 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The famous British writer Samuel Johnson once criticized a political opponent's self-described patriotism by memorably pointing out that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." An empire state of mind: The science behind what makes patriots susceptible to becoming nationalists 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Patriotism, Samuel Johnson said, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Let's talk about Tucker Carlson's obsession with "legacy Americans" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The Connecticut delegates—Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth, and William Samuel Johnson—presented their compromise to the convention as a means to end the deadlock between the supporters of the rival New Jersey and Virginia plans. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The belief that the Democratic Party offers an alternative to militarism is, as Samuel Johnson said, the triumph of hope over experience. Democrats won't oppose the war state: Are they the lesser evil — or the more effective one? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z “A man would turn over half a library to make one book,” claimed Samuel Johnson. Review: The real-life demons that drove Dostoevsky to write his masterpiece 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z He injects into the narrative such destabilizing texts as Samuel Johnson’s “Taxation No Tyranny,” which, in “defiance of traditional codes of etiquette,” offered a delirious takedown of colonial excuses. Review | The true character of the American Revolution? It’s complicated. 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z As Samuel Johnson wrote, “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Column: Why you shouldn't believe the GOP has suddenly come around on COVID-19 vaccines 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z To rephrase Samuel Johnson's famous question: How is it that a country that flaunts its love of liberty contains so many people who fear or despise it? "Big government" and other lies we live by: How one Orwellian concoction consumed America 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson once observed that “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Commentary: What 'Hamlet' has to say about Trump's impeachment trial 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Definitions from Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” open every chapter, and the twins’ conversations sparkle as they move through their not-quite-conjoined lives. Stay in, read up: These 6 paperbacks go nicely with a cup of tea and a cozy armchair 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z In the words of Samuel Johnson: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Real-life Giacomettis take a rainy riverside stroll: Alan Schaller's best photograph 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z “How is it,” asked Samuel Johnson, “that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers” of enslaved workers? Opinion | Black Lives Matter is America’s ray of light this Independence Day 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson Jr. grew up in Middletown and is now a high school principal in Columbus. Ohio small towns see something missing for decades: Protests 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Constitutional scholars have sparred about the clause for centuries, citing authorities such as the 1785 edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary and an 1824 case about steamboat routes. Corporate coronavirus liability immunity faces serious obstacles 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Kerry Samuel Johnson did not appear for arraignment on a charge of felony obstruction of justice. 2 women arraigned in Montana man’s strangulation death 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z But as Samuel Johnson observed, “A play read affects the mind like a play acted.” A theater critic's letter to his students, past, present and future 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “Here’s to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies,” Samuel Johnson once toasted at an Oxford dinner party, or so James Boswell claims. The Long War Against Slavery 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Neither had graduated from college, although both had literary temperaments; Edmund said that he fell in love with Mrs. Morris after spotting a worn leatherbound set of Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson” in her apartment. Sylvia Jukes Morris, biographer of Edith Roosevelt and Clare Boothe Luce, dies at 84 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Samuel Johnson wrote that to be happy at home is the ultimate aim of all human endeavor. Opinion | Set political disagreements aside for the holidays 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” per Samuel Johnson. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Not that everybody, then or now, is automatically filled with the zeal for reform; for a classic statement of the libertarian approach, try Samuel Johnson, whose brisk Tory tolerance had an answer for most conundrums. The Intoxicating History of Gin 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Dr. Bloom openly acknowledged his own heroes, among them Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson and the 19th-century critic Walter Pater. Harold Bloom, literary critic who wrote of the ‘anxiety of influence,’ dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Bloom openly acknowledged his own heroes, among them Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson and the 19th century critic Walter Pater. Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The Mueller report probed this concept of “faithful execution” and, to interpret it, cited a 1755 dictionary written by Samuel Johnson, which defined the term as “strict adherence to duty and allegiance.” Opinion | In an impeachment hearing, we are all jurors 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z There is a passage in James Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson” in which Johnson expresses satisfaction in his company the previous night. Martin Bernheimer, prizewinning music critic with a lacerating pen, dies at 83 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z To understand the original meaning of “faithfully,” Mueller’s team cited a 1755 dictionary written by Samuel Johnson that defines the term as “strict adherence to duty and allegiance.” Opinion | Don’t forget there’s an impeachment inquiry underway 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z As W. Jackson Bate observed of Samuel Johnson in his magnificent biography, whatever we experience, we find Beethoven has been there before us, and is meeting and returning home with us. Review | Beethoven: The genius who broke all the rules 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The scene was a grotesque inversion of Samuel Johnson's famous stone-kicking episode. My Encounter with the Late Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chaos Pioneer and Critic 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The republic was founded by slave owners, a hypocrisy called out by Samuel Johnson: “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” Paths from the past: historians make sense of Brexit and our current political turmoil 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z In 1773, Samuel Johnson visited the Hebrides and found that second sight was nothing unusual among the islanders. The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z As a scholar of 18th-century English literature, Dr. Hart was guided by the orderly writing and minds of historian Edward Gibbon, essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson and political philosopher Edmund Burke. Jeffrey Hart, conservative stalwart who denounced modern-day GOP, dies at 88 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z This act of placing stone on stone is what makes it Britain’s “first essay … in architecture”, as Samuel Johnson put it. The battle for the future of Stonehenge 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Admittedly, the bar is pitifully low for Brits speaking a foreign language: like Samuel Johnson’s dog walking on its hind legs, it’s not done well but people are surprised it’s done at all. 'Victor Hugo becomes a sex god in my mind' – how to get better at French 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z But Samuel Johnson said that after the holidays are over, all of the social-media hoopla leaves him uninspired. Christmas shopping in the age of Instagram, where teens hang out instead of the mall 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Samuel Johnson once remarked that “being in a ship is being in a jail, with the added chance of being drowned”. Explorers at sea: centuries of science afloat 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z I know more about Samuel Johnson than you know about your hand and if you don’t comport yourself properly you’ll be out on the sidewalk. The Initiation of a Young Irishman, by Frank McCourt 1999-02-15T05:00:00Z Trump, the kind of scoundrel who Samuel Johnson warned us about, is taking advantage of the protests to appeal to flag-waving supporters, many of whom also nurse racist resentment against highly paid African American athletes. Opinion | Protest is as American as football. Why doesn’t Trump get it? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “Voluntary submission to equality with inferiors” was how Samuel Johnson defined “condescension” in his 1755 dictionary. Thank You for ‘Condescending’ 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson befriended him in London, where Psalmanazar published a travelogue about his “native” island which included translations from its language—an ingenious pastiche of his invention. The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z It will be followed a few months later by an auction of books and manuscripts from Bergé’s celebrated library, including first editions of Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson and Oscar Wilde. Yves Saint Laurent co-founder’s rare art and artefacts to go on sale 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Tom nudges me and whispers, For Christ’s sake, stop the Samuel Johnson stuff, ask her home. The Initiation of a Young Irishman, by Frank McCourt 1999-02-15T05:00:00Z Patriotism, Samuel Johnson told us long ago, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Opinion | With no Eagles around, Trump acts a turkey 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson saw patriotism as “the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Opinion | What NFL owners can learn from the history of Memorial Day 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z To some, it is reminiscent of what Samuel Johnson said of second marriages: a triumph of hope over experience. Europe, Again Humiliated by Trump, Struggles to Defend Its Interests 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z It was 1775 when the intellectual giant of the enlightenment Samuel Johnson wrote his note to the American Congress Taxation no Tyranny. Trump’s New Judicial Litmus Test: Shrinking ‘the Administrative State’ 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z I ask if they have a book called “The Lives of the Poets,” by Samuel Johnson, and they say, My, my, my, you’re reading Johnson. The Initiation of a Young Irishman, by Frank McCourt 1999-02-15T05:00:00Z In 2014, Ms. Thorn’s duo partner and husband, Ben Watt, was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the top British award for nonfiction, for “Romany and Tom,” a memoir about his parents. Trading One Stage for Another 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z It wasn’t until 1746, when a consortium of publishers managed to convince Samuel Johnson to take on this “great and arduous post”, that it seemed remotely likely to be completed. Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Her disappearance was described as "highly irregular" and prompted public pleas from police, her family, and even prominent local actor Samuel Johnson. Husband charged in Australia death mystery 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z As Samuel Johnson was growing up, his parents argued constantly. Opinion | Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting? 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z The beer is working on me and I’m feeling braver and I don’t feel shy about sitting at the girls’ table and telling them about Tim Costello and Dr. Samuel Johnson. The Initiation of a Young Irishman, by Frank McCourt 1999-02-15T05:00:00Z Samuel Johnson was wrong when he said that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Opinion | Sarah Huckabee Sanders is wrong about John Kelly 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z On his tour of Scotland, Samuel Johnson wrote of the dangers of brooding brought on by small islands: “The evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness.” This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Just as the prospect of a hanging concentrates the mind, paraphrasing the British writer Samuel Johnson, so a massive natural disaster tends to sweep aside the trivial and the unnecessary. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Education Department financial aid website — even before he was accused of anything, Treasury Department Special Agent Samuel Johnson testified. Man Accused of Trying to Obtain Trump's Tax Returns Is Arrested Again 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z As 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson famously said: “Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.” Silicon Valley’s advertisements aren’t just selling products — they’re selling an ideology 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z As Samuel Johnson said about second marriages, this sounds like a triumph of hope over experience. Trump asked when the world will start laughing at the US. It already is 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Education Department financial aid website before he was accused of anything, Treasury Department Special Agent Samuel Johnson testified. Agent feared leak of Trump tax returns could affect election 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Her biography of the Italian poet and demagogue Gabriele d’Annunzio, The Pike, published relatively quietly nine months earlier, won, among others, the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction and the Costa prize for biography. Lucy Hughes-Hallett: ‘Here I am, late in life. I wanted to write a novel all that time’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson famously defined it, more than 260 years ago, as “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge.” The Nerds That Make English 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z He attended City College, where his skill at poker and billiards helped defray his living expenses, and earned a master’s degree in English from New York University in 1951, writing a thesis on Samuel Johnson. George Weinberg Dies at 86; Coined ‘Homophobia’ After Seeing Fear of Gays 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson he hardly appears, despite having been a great friend of Johnson’s in the 1740s, as well as his colleague at the Gentleman’s Magazine. Lynne Truss: ‘A bad book review can kill you – look at the case of John Hawkesworth’ 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z “How is it,” Samuel Johnson caustically remarked in 1776, “that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?” The Divided States: Trump's inauguration and how democracy has failed 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z “When a man knows he is to be hanged,” Samuel Johnson once said, “it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Donald Trump goes to the dogs 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z It seems that they believe, as Samuel Johnson did when he wrote: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Liberty and Mercury Players Join Anthem Protest Before Playoff Game 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Formerly called the Samuel Johnson Prize, the award recognizes English-language nonfiction from any country. Svetlana Alexievich, Margo Jefferson up for nonfiction prize 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Gottlieb tells the story of how James Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson, visited Hume on his deathbed, hoping to find that at the last minute the philosopher would abjure his doubts and embrace Christianity. Are We Really So Modern? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Fire department spokesman Samuel Johnson says crews rescued the infant and extinguished the fire within 30 minutes. Infant rescued from Baltimore fire is in serious condition 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z “H is for Hawk” won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2014 and the Costa Book of the Year award. White House releases Obama’s summer reading list 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Fire department spokesman Samuel Johnson said Tuesday the car containing the flammable solvent was removed from the Howard Street tunnel, where at least 13 cars in a freight train derailed early Monday. Crews work to clear derailed train in Baltimore tunnel 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Samuel Johnson says firefighters responded to the fire and were able to prevent the flames from spreading from the junkyard lot to adjacent buildings. Official: Nearly 100 cars catch fire in Baltimore junkyard 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The winner of the award, previously known as the Samuel Johnson Prize, will receive £30,000. Stephanie Flanders to chair £30,000 non-fiction writing prize - BBC News 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson once argued that Shakespeare’s fatal flaw was his addiction to puns. Selfies, puns and codpieces galore at the Shakespeare street festival 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Instead, “H Is for Hawk” went on to win the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction and appeared on 25 “best books of 2015” lists. What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson, 35, of Sterling took life skills classes offered by OAR when he was in the Loudoun Adult Detention Center for selling drugs. Reentry groups invest in ex-inmates to break the cycle of crime 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The lexicographer Samuel Johnson wrote, “May my country never be cursed with another such conquest!” The Mosquito-Borne Ailments That Changed the World Before Zika 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Samuel Johnson would have called Mencken "a very good hater." A Field Guide to Spin 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Last autumn, the UK’s biggest literary award for non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson prize, longlisted 12 titles – just one of which was by a woman. Popular history writing remains a male preserve, publishing study finds 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z A first edition of Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson," errata uncorrected. Not bound by history, L.A.'s Caravan Book Store continues to turn pages 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Samuel Johnson said that a performer riding on three horses may not accomplish anything, but he increases our respect for the faculties of man. Is Science Kind of a Scam? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z I find some satisfaction in Boswell’s famous description of Samuel Johnson disputing Bishop Berkeley’s contention that the world is all in our minds. Struggling to Get a Handle on the Flavorful Neutrino 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z A spokesperson for the Samuel Johnson Prize declined to comment on the row. Ted Hughes book incites war of words with widow - BBC News 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Last week the book, Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate, was one of 12 works of non-fiction to be longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Ted Hughes 'was in bed with lover' when Sylvia Plath died - BBC News 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Fire department spokesman Samuel Johnson says their injuries were not life-threatening. 3 injured by fire at Baltimore apartment building 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z A book about poet Ted Hughes, which triggered a dispute with his estate, is one of 12 works of non-fiction on the longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Contentious Ted Hughes book makes Samuel Johnson Prize longlist - BBC News 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z As Samuel Johnson said about second marriages, this prospective third bailout of Greece is a triumph of hope over experience. Deal on Greek Debt Crisis Exposes Europe’s Deepening Fissures 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, one of six titles up for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize, is accused of containing "significant errors" by Hughes' estate. Ted Hughes book incites war of words with widow - BBC News 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Both the Folio Prize, for literary fiction, and the Samuel Johnson Prize, for non-fiction, are looking for new sponsors. All must have prizes 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson nailed the bogus quality of all this more than two centuries ago. The Unstoppable Appeal of ‘Going Forward’ 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z According to Anne Applebaum, chair of judges for the Samuel Johnson Prize, this year's selection contains "something for everybody". Contentious Ted Hughes book makes Samuel Johnson Prize longlist - BBC News 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The court ruled in favor of Samuel Johnson, who was given 15 years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm. U.S. top court rules for white supremacist over sentencing 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Fire department spokesman Samuel Johnson Jr. says firefighters called to the home on Madison Street around 10:45 a.m. Fire breaks out at West Baltimore home of Rep. Cummings 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Fire officials say they are still investigating the cause of the fire, one of 61 that raged April 27 and 28, according to Samuel Johnson Jr., spokesman for the city’s Fire Department. A mom, a disabled son and a home that blazed amid Baltimore’s riots 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The case before the court involved a white supremacist named Samuel Johnson. Court considers limits to vagueness in statutes 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Several of the nine justices indicated a willingness during the one-hour oral argument in the case to vote in favor of defendant Samuel Johnson, although it is unclear exactly how they will rule. Justices weigh white supremacist's challenge to sentencing law 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Waxman said old dictionaries, including ones from Noah Webster and Samuel Johnson, supported his side. Justices Show Skepticism on Independent Redistricting Panel in Arizona Case 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z There's a streak of James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's biographer, in observations that come from a knowing character study. Nixon's Relationship With Daniel Patrick Moynihan Was Mutually Beneficial 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The estimable Doctor Samuel Johnson was often confronted by his friends with what they took to be burning problems. The Real Reason We're So Obsessed With Deflategate 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The 18th century essayist and moralist Samuel Johnson knew a thing or two about human nature. Change Agent: Taking (Serious) Charge Of Your Habits 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z If the story did not compel you to guffaw, no worries—when Samuel Johnson published parts of Philogelos, he said that the punch line left him befuddled. A New Book Examines What Laughter Was All about in Ancient Rome 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson once remarked that “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”. Tax Court Refuses To Extend Home Concrete Logic 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The choices are eclectic: Along with Holmes, who laments the absence of Dr. Watson by his side at Baker Street station, there's author Samuel Johnson's cat Hodge and an unnamed couple on a bench. Ring, ring: London statues want to talk to you 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z “How is it,” said Samuel Johnson, “that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?” Declaring equality and living equality are two different things The 18th Century English poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said it best when he said: The Big List of Little Things That Destroy Your Customer Experience 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is open to books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. Prize for 'repellent' poet biography 2013-11-04T21:41:05Z Margaret Thatcher chose former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore to write her biography Six titles, including books about bees and a former prime minister, are on the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Thatcher's story in prize shortlist 2013-09-29T23:28:04Z A history of Judaism, a biography of Margaret Thatcher and a book about bees are all nominated for this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Schama history book up for prize 2013-09-06T02:40:55Z Perhaps, as Samuel Johnson intuited, all diseases bring egotism in their wake. Well: Living With Cancer: Is It Back? 2013-08-29T16:53:26Z “The story everyone has heard seems pretty odd and unfathomable,” said Samuel Johnson, executive director of the Military Museum of Southern New England, which became one of Mr. Valluzzo’s passions. In Connecticut, a Police Killing That Seemed to Go Against Type 2013-06-01T02:33:53Z Henry Digby, the writer, recalled a visit by Samuel Johnson to Digby's great aunts, who congratulated the great man on omitting all unsavoury words from his newly published Dictionary. Finding joy in the hypocrisy of others 2013-04-22T11:56:16Z As Samuel Johnson said ““Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Financial Firms Struggle With Compliance -- Reuters 2013-02-27T11:43:50Z "Knowledge is of two kinds," Samuel Johnson said. Programmer Bob who outsourced his job was a model modern employee 2013-01-17T14:30:01Z Samuel Johnson asked back in the 18th century. Well: Living With Cancer: Is It Back? 2013-08-29T16:53:26Z Money — nope; and I violently disagree with the Samuel Johnson adage that “only a fool writes for anything but money.” Note to Self on New Year's Eve: "You Are What You Write" 2012-12-31T21:14:05Z In the words of the 18th-century English author Samuel Johnson, “Remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” Optimism bias: Why the young and the old tend to look on the bright side 2012-12-31T19:55:00Z Samuel Johnson was just as shrewd, if less cynical. Baby, You're a Rich Man 2012-12-29T03:50:21Z To go way back, there is James Boswell, as in Samuel Johnson's Boswell. City Room: The Day: After Petraeus and Broadwell, Considering the Ethics of Biographies 2012-12-11T14:16:35Z Ultimately, “kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not,” noted Dr. Samuel Johnson. The Most Gratifying Gift You Can Give This Holiday 2012-11-17T02:24:00Z Samuel Johnson, both a great biographer and the subject of one of the greatest biographies of all time, was himself of two minds on the matter. How Paula Broadwell wronged her readers 2012-11-13T14:36:00Z Samuel Johnson may have been overstating things when he said “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” Did Woody Allen Rip Off William Faulkner? 2012-11-05T12:30:07Z “Public affairs vex no man,” said Samuel Johnson once. What Are You Eating During Hurricane Sandy? 2012-10-29T20:30:46Z A biography of the playwright August Strindberg, and an exploration of a Mumbai slum are the focus of two books competing for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Six vie for Samuel Johnson Prize 2012-10-05T00:30:36Z "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life," read one prominently featured line from Samuel Johnson. Britain bids lyrical farewell to Games 2012-08-13T00:51:00Z "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel," Samuel Johnson said. The Olympics have been the most inclusive event in Britain in my lifetime 2012-08-10T23:05:41Z As English language godfather Samuel Johnson once proclaimed, “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” London 2012: 6 Tips for Saving Money at the Olympics 2012-07-24T13:35:37Z Samuel Johnson goes on, in his Lives Of The Poets, to make clear his distaste for Milton's language, politics, religious beliefs and behaviour towards his wife. 7 questions on poetry 2012-06-27T08:37:15Z Samuel Johnson, the poet and lexicographer, said in 1758: "When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather." How can you talk interestingly about the weather? 2012-06-06T08:45:05Z Before him, 18th century writer Samuel Johnson felt that, "by seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show." Column: Olympic first, a home from home in London 2012-05-15T08:56:10Z On his retirement from teaching he devoted himself to the study of English 18th-century literature, and established his reputation as the most learned commentator on the works of Samuel Johnson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Suddenly we turn the corner, and we see him walking arm in arm with so great a man as Dr. Samuel Johnson. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Samuel Johnson was an excellent writer of latinized English, but I am confident that he never saw a real ghost. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Such is Burnet's account of the derivation of this word, in which he is followed by Samuel Johnson, who has transcribed the above passage in his Dictionary. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-07T03:00:08.550Z From Samuel Johnson onwards literary England has had a kindness for the pugilist, although the magistrate has long, and rightly, ruled him out as impossible. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z He criticized Samuel Johnson’s efforts, and in 1790 he claimed to have collected 11,000 words used by excellent authorities but omitted by Johnson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z No modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster ponders each prospective entry there. Novelties: Wordnik?s Online Dictionary: No Arbiters, Please 2011-12-31T19:28:36Z It boldly appears in all its dulness in the criticisms which Dr. Samuel Johnson made on particular plays of Shakespeare, for he very naïvely laments its entire absence. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z This period corresponded pretty closely with that of our own Samuel Johnson, Fielding, Goldsmith, Reynolds, David Hume. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z When Samuel Johnson was fined for neglecting a college lecture to go "sliding on Christ Church Meadow," he exclaimed, "Sir, you have fined me twopence for missing a lecture that was not worth a penny!" An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Woty seems to have been on the periphery of Samuel Johnson's list of acquaintances. Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.883Z Is not the alderman—the Lord Mayor, perhaps, of next year—riding in his gilt chariot, more worthy much than Samuel Johnson in the attic vegetating on fourpence-halfpenny a day? Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z In the number of men who dishonour their own genius, ought to be ranked Dr Samuel Johnson; for his abilities and learning are not accompanied by candour and generosity. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Samuel Johnson was an extraordinary person to look at. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z I can imagine him doing what sturdy old Samuel Johnson did when he rescued the outcast woman in the Strand, and himself bore her away to a place of safety. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z There was a large number of shades present, and Dr. Samuel Johnson was unanimously voted to the chair. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:16.737Z Called on Lord Melbourne, and found him reading the Acts, with a quarto Greek Testament that belonged to Samuel Johnson.' Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z Introduction" to A Critical Review, the statement is made that "The author of the present trifle was last year induced to publish a few remarks on the writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson.... Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Samuel Johnson was an enthusiastic evolutionist, but of mind itself, not of matter as ripening into mind. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z In a letter to Doctor Samuel Johnson, of Connecticut, Franklin tells him that he will shortly print proposals for publishing the Doctor's pieces by subscription, and disperse them among his friends "along the continent." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z His Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson is an incomparable work. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z In England, the reactionary orthography of Samuel Johnson is no longer accepted by all. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Before his life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell wrote his Edinburgh Journals based on his nocturnal adventures in this most historic of streets. Zara Phillips weds Mike Tindall but the royals keep it simple 2011-07-30T19:27:10Z In Samuel Johnson's case there was no question of this. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z One of his most earnest desires was to secure the celebrated Episcopal clergyman, Dr. Samuel Johnson, of Connecticut, afterwards the president of King's College, New York, as its Rector. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z "If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone," said Samuel Johnson. The re-rise of the acquaintance 2011-07-20T12:49:22Z What is needed is the consciousness that neither Samuel Johnson nor Noah Webster compiled his dictionary under direct inspiration. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z It is not saying much; but it is not the first remark an acquaintance would probably have made about Ben Jonson or Samuel Johnson. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Sir Thomas More believed in transubstantiation, and Samuel Johnson believed in ghosts. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Samuel Johnson, before he was two, had begun to take a permanent hold upon events. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Leaving poetry aside, the different sentence rhythms of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, the different consonant patterns of Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson, are in part bodily matters. Curing the Pelvic Headache 2011-06-24T16:25:18Z Queen Anne resumed the practice, and Dr. Samuel Johnson, as a boy of five, was touched by her with some hundreds of others in 1712. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z And although they are not less likely to divorce, they are more likely to remarry — an act that is, as Samuel Johnson wrote, the triumph of hope over experience. The Optimism Bias 2011-05-26T08:05:00Z It is not until the days of Samuel Johnson that the subject of literary earnings is of much importance; yet we may with advantage glance at a few payments made prior to his age. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z Even George III. invited him to the royal palace,—a strange contrast to a few years before, when Samuel Johnson was under arrest for a debt of thirty dollars! Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z He seems to have had the same feeling for London that Samuel Johnson and Charles Lamb had: he could not live elsewhere. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z His retorts were like those of Dr. Samuel Johnson, but without the healing balsam of Johnson's tenderness. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z But," you say, "we are told that Samuel Johnson, Tennyson and Macaulay, and many other great thinkers, usually monopolized the conversation when they were in company, and their friends delighted to listen to them. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z Little is known of the remuneration of authors until the days of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z In a quaint old house in Lichfield, England, now used as a draper's shop, Samuel Johnson, son of a poor bookseller and bookbinder, was born. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z In Samuel Johnson's retrospective view, the Yale of 1710 at Saybrook was anything but progressive with its "scholastic cobwebs of a few little English and Dutch systems." Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Of Dr. Samuel Johnson it is related, that his cat having fallen sick and refused all food, he became aware that cats are fond of fish. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z That last is what Samuel Johnson would have called a beaut. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z We may smile at Samuel Johnson's remark upon it in his Life of Roscommon, but on reflection we find that he was, after all, right. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Since Samuel Johnson toiled in Grub Street, London, literature has scarcely furnished a more pathetic or inspiring illustration of struggle to success than that of Bayard Taylor. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z Strahan was a man of parts, a great letter writer, and a friend of David Hume and Samuel Johnson. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z George Daniel's own copy, in which he has inserted his own private portrait, proof on India paper, also portraits of Samuel Johnson, proof before the letters, R. Owen, L. Sterne, Scott and his family, etc. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z Witticisms, Anecdotes, Jests, and Sayings, of Dr. Samuel Johnson, during the whole course of his life. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z I have shown that the view was not wholly originated by Freud, but stated by various English critics like Samuel Johnson, Hazlitt, Lamb and Kingsley. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z With an account of the Life and Writings of the author, by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z Among the local characters relished by Mrs. Jameson in Canada was Mr. Justice Hagerman, who added some of the bluntness of Samuel Johnson to the physique of Charles James Fox. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Dr. Samuel Johnson is believed to have written the Preface. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. now first collected in one volume. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:34.387Z The last of the worthies of old English literature is Dr. Samuel Johnson, whose monumental figure casts a long shadow over most of his contemporaries. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Contains a Life of Tasso and a Dedication to the Queen, the latter written by Samuel Johnson, though signed by Hoole. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 3 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:32.387Z Dr. Samuel Johnson declared that "Thomas � Kempis must be a good book, as the world has opened its arms to receive it." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Before leaving the town, admirers of English literature will do well to visit the house in which Dr. Samuel Johnson was born. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Perhaps Samuel Johnson, LL.D., was near the mark when he said that the author that thinks himself weather-bound will find, with a little help from hellebore, that he is only idle or exhausted. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Esquire is the title of the book that has preserved for us one of the most interesting figures in all literature. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Paraphrasing Samuel Johnson, he added: “Nothing focuses the mind quite like an execution.” Long Road for Lawyer Defending Health Care Law 2010-12-09T21:17:00Z Samuel Johnson, in the "History of the English Language," prefixed to his dictionary, devotes nearly one-third of all the space that he takes for his purpose to More. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The euro was—as the English essayist Samuel Johnson said about second marriages—the triumph of hope over experience. Can the Euro Survive? 2010-12-02T22:00:00Z “Life is not long,” Samuel Johnson said, “and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.” Findings: When the Mind Wanders, Happiness Also Strays 2010-11-16T05:10:00Z Samuel Johnson, more robust, nevertheless complained that "human life is everywhere in a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed." Yount: Finding meaning in despair and disappointment 2010-10-20T19:55:00Z When he made that famous jibe, Samuel Johnson was referring to patriotism. Rebalancing of global economy still divides east and west 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z "A cucumber should be carefully dressed with salt and pepper, and then thrown out the window as good for nothing," declared Samuel Johnson, Britain's 18th century man of letters. On Twitter, Foodies Need to Spice It Up 2010-08-24T08:30:00Z Samuel Johnson and Robert Louis Stevenson came in for similar grammatical reproach. In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic 2010-04-19T01:27:00Z It is also associated with creative personalities: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, writer Samuel Johnson and jazz great Thelonious Monk may have had it. 'American Idol' segment helps push Tourette's syndrome into cultural mainstream 2010-04-13T04:00:00Z They flocked to the site despite the lukewarm views of some, like Samuel Johnson - the 18th century essayist - who wrote that the Causeway was "worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see." 2010-01-22T10:37:00Z A monument to Dr. Samuel Johnson, a bust of Garrick, and a mutilated statue of Captain Stanley, serve to remind us of their departure from this world. Cathedral Cities of England It contains the panelling of a room from the house of Edmund Hector, which formerly stood in Old Square, Birmingham, where Dr Samuel Johnson was a frequent visitor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Samuel Johnson was, I think, saddened by the making of fresh plans of conduct for each new year. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Up to the eve of his last illness Boswell had been busy upon his magnum opus, The Life of Samuel Johnson, which was in process of crystallization to the last. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Samuel Johnson praised them warmly, and they were translated into almost every language of Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Even his figure and face were repellent enough to stand between Socrates and Samuel Johnson, as the most familiar ugly old men upon the stage of the world's life. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII To piece together and write out the speeches for this publication was Samuel Johnson’s first literary employment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" He writes of Samuel Johnson: “How much good and entertainment did not the very necessities of such a man help to produce us.” Stevenson's Perfect Virtues As Exemplified by Leigh Hunt The authentic history of draughts in England commences with William Payne’s Introduction to the Game of Draughts, the dedication of which was written by Samuel Johnson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Samuel Johnson was very zealous in pleading for a pardon, and a petition from the city of London received 23,000 signatures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Since there was no English “Academy,” it was necessary that the task should fall to some one whose judgment would command respect, and the man who undertook it was Samuel Johnson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" "Hymns of the Spirit," collected by Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, 293. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 And Samuel Johnson corroborates and enlarges the self-praise. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 He became acquainted with the celebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia That suing thus for a patron did not always have the effect of destroying an author's self-respect is shown by a letter written by Dr. Samuel Johnson to Lord Chesterfield. The Book of Courage The Employments of a Housewife in the Country Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 51 147 50. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time It must be confessed that he enjoyed the work, and, like Samuel Johnson, was not displeased to be told that he had “tossed and gored several persons.” Studies in Contemporary Biography Tired out with failure or importunity, other men of kindly heart might leave the incorrigible to their fate, but not Samuel Johnson nor Oliver Goldsmith. Oliver Goldsmith It was a theory among us that when Samuel Johnson wrote "The Vanity of Human Wishes" he had been pulling proofs from copper. Aliens Dear Sir I am again your petitioner, in behalf of that great Cham of literature, Samuel Johnson. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Uncle Moses, you see, was a fine man in his own way of the prizefighter type; and now, in his old age, worked out a little like Dr. Samuel Johnson. When Ghost Meets Ghost Petruchio and Catherine, like Dr. Samuel Johnson and Hetty, made their wedding tour on horseback; p. 29and each trip ended with a similar result—the temporary obedience of the fair brides to the marital yokes. Old Roads and New Roads Macrobius, a critic and grammarian of celebrity, flourished in the fourth or fifth century, and interests us as being one through knowledge of whose works Samuel Johnson first attracted notice at Oxford. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 On the cover was inserted a copy of "Lines addressed to a Young Lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton's School, at the Mall; by the late revered Dr. Samuel Johnson." Eighth Reader Dr. Samuel Johnson once said, "Above all, accustom your children constantly to tell the truth; without varying in any circumstance." Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order I scarcely know what exceptions to cite to this universal vice except only and always Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson.” The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 It was one of Samuel Johnson’s wishes that he might be driven rapidly in a post-chaise, with a pretty woman, capable of understanding his conversation, for his travelling companion. Old Roads and New Roads Him Samuel Johnson called "a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The chief remembrance of Pembroke is of Dr. Samuel Johnson, who occupied apartments over the original gateway, but was compelled by poverty to leave the college before taking his degree. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel He knew the great actor, David Garrick, too, who used to come there to see his brother; and the famous Dr. Samuel Johnson, who had been born and brought up at Lichfield. The Fairchild Family But an older and more characteristic door-knocker may be found well within a mile of Doughty Street, still on the door of a house once inhabited by the great sage Dr. Samuel Johnson himself. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 At the end of the Journal had appeared a notice: 'preparing for the Press, in one volume quarto, the Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by James Boswell, Esq.' James Boswell Famous Scots Series John Dryden and Samuel Johnson resemble one another very strongly in their treatment of Shakspeare. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 It was said of Thomson the poet by Samuel Johnson, that he could not look at two candles burning other than poetically. Leading Articles on Various Subjects This addiction was nowhere better demonstrated than by the countless reflections, sermons, poems, pamphlets, biographical sketches, and biographies about Samuel Johnson. A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) The chief of the essays which he produced at Craigenputtock are those on Burns, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History But now he is firm, and, 'as my revered friend Mr Samuel Johnson used to say,' he feels the privileges of an independent human being! James Boswell Famous Scots Series The first it ever had, when founded as King's College in 1700, was the Rev. Samuel Johnson, D. D., her great-great-grandfather. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III When Samuel Johnson and David Garrick came together to London, literature was temporarily in a bad way, and the hack writers of the time dwelt in Grub Street. All About Coffee Dr. Samuel Johnson's charge that the Americans were a race of convicts, if he meant it to be taken seriously, is of course absurd. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion It seems unfortunate that the epigrammatic sentences, for example, of grand old Dr. Samuel Johnson have become almost obsolete. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century I wish to publish as a regale to him a neat little volume—The Praises of Doctor Samuel Johnson, by co-temporary writers. James Boswell Famous Scots Series Her mother's maiden name was Sarah Elizabeth Johnson of Stratford, Connecticut, a descendant of William Samuel Johnson who was one of the first two senators from that State. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Also a letter from the Rev. Samuel Johnson, of Salem, Massachusetts, which would be read by Mr. Higginson. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Samuel Johnson resided both in Gray's Inn and the Temple, and his friend Boswell was an advocate of respectable ability as well as the best biographer on the roll of English writers. A Book About Lawyers Samuel Johnson, hearing that a man had read Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy,” exclaimed, “If I knew that man I could hug him.” The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson Even the great Samuel Johnson said that Shakspere "sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct that he seems to write without any moral purpose." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Chesterton's point of view is distinctly like Samuel Johnson's in more respects than one. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study With sincere respect, I am truly your friend, Samuel Johnson. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Zangwill has written engagingly of spooks, with a laughable story about Samuel Johnson. Humorous Ghost Stories She, almost on the eve of marriage in her nineteenth year, to Mr. Porter, brother to Mrs. Lucy Porter of Lichfield, and son-in-law to Dr. Samuel Johnson, died in June, 1764. Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield Dr. Samuel Johnson visited him during his tour of the Hebrides, and was so delighted with the baronet and his amiable daughters that he broke out into a Latin sonnet. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America The best known reports of this kind were those contributed by Samuel Johnson to the Gentleman's Magazine. History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 My dears, this is the other Doctor!" said Miss Wealthy, bending to caress the new-comer "Dr. Samuel Johnson, at your service. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Passing from the imprimatur to a closer consideration of our subject, it is above all things necessary to take the advice of Samuel Johnson and clear our minds of cant. Science and Morals and Other Essays To Samuel Johnson, the sweetest airs and most superb harmonies were but unmeaning noises. Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield Here she was visited, in 1773, by the celebrated Samuel Johnson. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Samuel Johnson was in his lifetime a well-known figure in the streets, a popular name in the press. Dr. Johnson and His Circle This is likely to be a topic of offence, for many readers will start at hearing the upright Samuel Johnson and the good-humoured, garrulous Plutarch denounced as traffickers in libel. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 And Samuel Johnson said, "Sir, it is barely possible that you did not use the language as I have written it out; but you should." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators As the great Samuel Johnson declared, a sailor is worse off than a man in jail, for the sailor is not only a prisoner, but he is in danger all of the time! Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers Samuel Johnson and his wife had their first quarrel on the way from the church, and Auguste Comte and his wife tiffed going down the steps from the notary's. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 His account is given in two books, the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., published in 1785, and the Life which followed in two volumes in 1791. Dr. Johnson and His Circle In her early days she had been an associate of Samuel Johnson, Burke, and Goldsmith, and Reynolds, and she had known Macaulay from his childhood. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV This is patriotism, concerning which Samuel Johnson, reporter in the House of Commons, once made a remark slightly touched with acerbity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The conditions of political life in England in the eighteenth century made it impossible for such a man as Samuel Johnson ever to be the chosen counsellor, the minister of an English king. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III In 1755 appeared, in two volumes folio, the English Dictionary by Samuel Johnson. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Samuel Johnson was very far from being heir to a large estate and an ancient name. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Samuel Johnson thought the law of primogeniture a most excellent thing, since it insured there being only one fool in the family. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Pitt could think on his feet, while Samuel Johnson never made but one speech and broke down in that. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Samuel Johnson, then a child of about three years of age, was one of the last who tested the efficacy of this superstitious rite, and without success. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery If I remember rightly, Samuel Johnson would have approved of the same course. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I The name of Samuel Johnson is, of course, not the greatest in English prose, but even to-day, when he has been dead more than a century and a quarter, it is still the most familiar. Dr. Johnson and His Circle I rather fancy that I can rescue Samuel Johnson from the fangs of Gilbert Wakefield, by the supposition of an error of the press. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the father of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Connecticut, and the first President of King's College, now Columbia College, in New-York, was one of the most interesting characters in our social history. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 It is that Johnson's Dictionary is not, as is generally supposed, the work of Ben Jonson, but of Samuel Johnson, the son of a Lichfield bookseller. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 Dr. Samuel Johnson confidently remarked that we know no more about ancient Britain than the old writers have told us, nor can we ever know any more than this. The Booklover and His Books Examine the following: A certain Scotch family cherishes this anecdote of a trip which Dr. Samuel Johnson made to Scotland. Practical Grammar and Composition He was living, at the time, at 16, Great Newport Street, which had formerly been a residence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and subsequently that of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Masters of Water-Colour Painting The mothers of Samuel Johnson, and of Alfred the Great, and Isaac Newton, and of St. Augustine, and of Richard Cecil, and of President Edwards, for the most part were industrious, hard-working mothers. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Let us drink in solemn silence, upstanding, “The Immortal Memory of Dr. Samuel Johnson.” Immortal Memories The poor, scrofulous, and almost blind boy, Samuel Johnson, was taken by his mother to receive the touch of Queen Anne, which was supposed to heal the "King's Evil." Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power You all of you now know something of Samuel Johnson, his trials, temptations, and struggles as a Christian total abstainer. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found But the recognised representative of the moralists was the ponderous Samuel Johnson. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century "To see Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great champion of the English Tories, salute Miss Flora Macdonald in the isle of Skye, was," as Boswell observes, "a striking sight." Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Even Samuel Johnson, who did p. 119what he could for Dodd, did not find, as he should have done, his whole soul revolted by such a punishment for a crime against property. Immortal Memories He has himself taught us to separate these two sides of a man, and we have learnt from him to love Samuel Johnson without reading much or a word that the old sage wrote. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle I couldn’t tell what to say, for I’d made up my mind as I’d drop the name of Samuel Johnson, but I hadn’t got any other at hand to take to. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found And a fellow like Jefferson, full of books and literary lore—he'd be breaking off work half his time to talk110 Montaigne and Samuel Johnson and—and Bernard Shaw with you. Under the Country Sky Among the statues of the men of peace, that of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great lexicographer, particularly interested me. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland There would have been no Samuel Johnson, and there would have been no Johnson Club—a catastrophe which the human mind finds it hard to conceive of. Immortal Memories That the “Variety” bears no xi resemblance to that of serious art, however, should be as obvious as the difference between a William Blake and a Samuel Johnson of Cheshire. The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 It was now the middle of October, just three days after the flight of Samuel Johnson from Langhurst, as recorded in the opening of our story. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found The little man's name is David Garrick; the other is Samuel Johnson. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Mr. Samuel Johnson, whose comprehensive and vigorous understanding, has by long observation, attained to a perfect knowledge of human nature, when treating of biography has this reflection. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica I have since found that sentiments very like his about the Navy have been uttered by Dr. Samuel Johnson. The Adventures of Harry Revel True, Dr. Samuel Johnson had denounced the whole thing as an imposition 'as gross as ever the world was troubled with.' Art in England Notes and Studies English literature during the eighteenth century presents no more distinguished name than that of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer and essayist. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals The homelier prose of Bunyan and Defoe gradually gave place to the more elegant and artificial language of Samuel Johnson, who set the standard for prose writing from 1745 onward. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin On one of the days that my ague disturbed me least, I walked from the convent to Corte, purposely to write a letter to Mr. Samuel Johnson. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Well might Carlyle in later days find a hero in tough old Samuel Johnson, whose sufferings were due to similar causes. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies Another Latin inscription in St. Paul's is also deserving notice, both on account of its merit, and the individual it commemorates—that on Dr. Samuel Johnson, written by the famous Dr. Parr. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II At one time he thought of writing a life of his friend Dr Samuel Johnson, but he retired before the crowd of biographers who rushed into that field. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" It is said that the best parts of Boswell's famous biography of Samuel Johnson are those parts where Boswell permits Johnson to tell his own story. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin I gave Paoli the character of my revered friend Mr. Samuel Johnson. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica From Samuel Johnson to George Bernard Shaw literary England has had a kindness for the pugilist, although the magistrate has long, and rightly, ruled him out as impossible. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Dr. Samuel Johnson was the first Parliamentary reporter. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 The eccentric figure of Dr. Samuel Johnson was one of the familiar sights of London during the middle of the eighteenth century. Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation In the Autobiography a no less remarkable man and talker than Samuel Johnson is telling his own story throughout. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin The resentment of some has evidently arisen from the grateful admiration which I have expressed of Mr. Samuel Johnson. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Listen to this embryonic Samuel Johnson the Second. The Idiot They were honorable men, as the world goes, but not one of them, except Edmund Burke, ever acknowledged his indebtedness to Samuel Johnson. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Ritson flung his arrows far and wide, for he called Dr. Samuel Johnson himself "that great luminary, or rather dark lantern of literature." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters I have cast my eyes on an edition of Shakespeare issued by Master Samuel Johnson. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary The whole chapter entitled "Lichfield and Uttoxeter" is a sort of graceful tribute to Samuel Johnson, who certainly has nowhere else been more tenderly spoken of. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) We have had to wait until our own century for the pioneer work on this writer, since he cannot have been considered a sufficiently major poet by Samuel Johnson's sponsors, and Langbaine's account is sketchy. Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden But it may serve our immediate purpose to say with Samuel Johnson that humour is "grotesque imagery"; and "grotesque" is "distorted of figure; unnatural." Studies in Early Victorian Literature The great Doctor Samuel Johnson, the compiler of the famous dictionary and author of "Rasselas," heartily disliked young travellers, for, he said, "They go too raw to make any great remarks." A Girl's Student Days and After And yet the fact remains, for how about Doctor Samuel Johnson—and did not our own Robert Louis fall desperately in love with a woman sixteen years his senior? Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Pass a few years, and with Samuel Johnson it is taken for granted. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Yonder heavy, ragged-looking youth standing at the corner of Regent Street, with a slight and rather more refined-looking companion, is the obscure Samuel Johnson, quite unknown to fame. The Great German Composers As he complained about Samuel Johnson, he runs into "big words about little things." Studies in Early Victorian Literature "And Samuel Johnson and ever so many more," continued Bessie, pleading his sympathy. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Dr. Samuel Johnson, whom it employed in this business, was so savage that even the ministers had to tone down his pamphlets before printing them. History of the United States All Boswell testifies to this: and this is why Samuel Johnson survives. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Richardson, Sterne, Smollett, and Fielding, Gay, Samuel Johnson, Chesterfield, and Walpole, were all familiar with and fond of Horace, and took him unto themselves. Horace and His Influence Among Evangelical laymen are we to place the revered name of Samuel Johnson. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century She had several children by him, one of whom lived to receive, in 1750, the proceeds of a theatrical benefit promoted by Bishop Newton and Samuel Johnson. Life of John Milton Samuel Johnson, a clumsy boy in his father's bookshop, searching for apples, came upon Petrarch, and was destined henceforth to be a man of letters. Books and Culture Or take a critic—a literary critic—such as Samuel Johnson, of whom we are used to think as of a man artificial in phrase and pedantic in judgment. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 The Rambler, by Samuel Johnson LL.D., with a sketch of the author's life by Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Dr. Samuel Johnson was an eminent English scholar of the eighteenth century. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Samuel Johnson, who had pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing a wallet, was sentenced to three months' hard labour." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920 Dr. Samuel Johnson said: "We all know what light is; but it is not so easy to tell what it is." Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking But he had sound sense and perfect self-assurance, which made him something of a Samuel Johnson in the little provincial Kristiania of his day. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Dr. Samuel Johnson’s were not common ears, but even he comments on these beautiful words with a wooden-headedness almost past belief. Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation But like Samuel Johnson he was not often prone to substitute theory for experience, and like most of his contemporaries he felt Shakespeare's power to move and to convince. Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) In 1775, Dr. Samuel Johnson, champion of the heavy-weights of English literature, the "Great Moralist," the typical Englishman of his time, wrote the pamphlet called "Taxation no Tyranny." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Why, that's the famous Doctor Samuel Johnson, who, they say, is the greatest and learnedest man in England. True Stories of History and Biography So shrewd an observer as Samuel Johnson once remarked that it was surprising to find how much more kindness than justice society contained. Democracy and Social Ethics And, how a man of Samuel Johnson’s insight, good sense, and pious feeling could have so missed the mark in this case, I cannot understand. Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Samuel Johnson," he said sorrowfully, "you is gone. More Toasts First among the incredulous, as might be expected, was Dr. Samuel Johnson, who, in his Journey to the Hebrides, lashes Macpherson for his imposture, and his insolence in refusing to show the original. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Yes; the poor boy—the friendless Sam—with, whom we began our story, had become the famous Doctor Samuel Johnson! True Stories of History and Biography Dr. Samuel Johnson once declared, "There are two objects of curiosity, the Christian world and the Mohammedan world; all the rest may be considered as barbarous." Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Samuel Johnson fully knew the straits of poverty. Thrift Johnson went to Oxford, and afterwards, in 1736, opened a school near Lichfield, advertising in the Gentleman's Magazine for young gentleman "to be boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by Samuel Johnson." From John O'Groats to Land's End But at present turn to his admirable estimation of Dr Samuel Johnson, and the noble regret which he throws over the memory of Burns. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 One was thick-set, heavy and uncouth, and years afterward became known to men and fame as Samuel Johnson: the other was bright, slender, active, and was called David Garrick. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 When you begin to study English literature you will hear a great deal about Samuel Johnson, who wrote one of the first English dictionaries, and was a great scholar. Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls They were thus rendered into Latin by the late Dr. Samuel Johnson. An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 Doctor Samuel Johnson, who nowise resembled Ursa Major, was the president of the College at that time. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen For on that day, in the year 1763, James Boswell first met Dr. Samuel Johnson. Mince Pie If Boswell has reinforced fact with fiction, and given us art for truth, then his character of Samuel Johnson is the most vividly conceived and deeply etched in all the realm of books. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Great Samuel Johnson assisted at the beginning of Bibliopoly; small Thomas Carlyle assists at the ending of it: both are sorrowful seasons for a man. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I The character of Samuel Johnson has, I trust, been so developed in the course of this work that they who have honored it with a perusal may be considered as well acquainted with him. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The remark sounds a little like that of Samuel Johnson, who on hearing that Goldsmith was owing four hundred pounds exclaimed, "Was ever poet so trusted before?" Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen In point of fact, if he had had the pen of Samuel Johnson, or the tongue of Edmund Burke, he would not have made the impression he did. The Personal Life of David Livingstone Samuel Johnson, I have said, was a Grind of the pure type. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. appeared in 1791, and at once commanded an admiration which has suffered no diminution since. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature In consequence, it is hardly possible to consider Boswell as a writer without some reference to Samuel Johnson. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Samuel Johnson's bare feet at Oxford showed through the holes in his shoes, yet he threw out at his window the new pair that some one left at his door. An Iron Will I can easily discover the constituent elements of the beef pudding of which Samuel Johnson was so fond by writing to the old Cheshire Cheese in London. Reveries of a Schoolmaster Whether Samuel Johnson, of Lichfield, ever read Montaigne or not is a question; but this we know, that when he was twenty-six he married the Widow Porter, aged forty-nine. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors I am again your petitioner in behalf of that great chum of literature, Samuel Johnson.—Smollett, in Boswell. A Collection of College Words and Customs Boswell lacked some of the great literary powers, but he possessed others, and those that he did possess happened to be precisely the ones necessary to the writer of the life of Samuel Johnson. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Samuel Johnson, a clergyman of the Church of England, who had issued a tract entitled "A humble and hearty Appeal to all English Protestants in the Army," was flung into gaol. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History His prodigious capacity for work made Dr. Samuel Johnson seem an idler, and his varied attainments and activities were fairly a match for Gladstone. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography A world made up of such men as Samuel Johnson would be a wild chaos of tasks undone. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors It is said Dr Samuel Johnson joined in this sarcastic humour. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character The view from the mountain which is Samuel Johnson is so familiar, and has been so constantly analysed and admired, that further description would be superfluous. Books and Characters French and English For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner—Samuel Johnson. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Samuel Johnson, who read it in manuscript, advised its publication, and his opinion was vindicated, for it proved a huge success. The Glories of Ireland As an introduction to "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D."--perhaps the greatest of all biographies--we can hardly do better than use the words of the biographer himself. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters As a writer of dedications, Samuel Johnson was the giant of his time. Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850 Dear Father Hopper, I see by the papers that Samuel Johnson has gone home. Isaac T. Hopper Philosophic words: a study of style and meaning in The Rambler and Dictionary of Samuel Johnson. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson occasioned by his late political Publications, ii. Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. Dr. Samuel Johnson ably seconded the holy Jeremy's advice by declaring that there is a boundless difference between the infidelity of the man and that of the woman. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. A catalogue of the valuable Library of Books of the late learned Samuel Johnson, Esq., Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850 Samuel Johnson was a free colored man in the state of Delaware. Isaac T. Hopper I am sure Samuel Johnson had this in mind when he said: "'Tis a terrible thing that we cannot wish young ladies well without wishing them to become old women." From a Girl's Point of View And we can smile together when he says that somebody or other is "not even" a Cockney humourist like Samuel Johnson or Charles Lamb. All Things Considered Ben Joc'hanan, in the satire of Absalom and Achitophel, by Dryden and Tate, is meant for the Rev. Samuel Johnson, who suffered much persecution for his defence of the right of private judgment. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Nevertheless, as was lately observed by a respectable journal, "there must have been something good about him, or Samuel Johnson would not have loved him." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 Isaac T. Hopper drew up a deed of manumission, in which the purchaser requested him to insert that Zeke was now commonly called Samuel Johnson. Isaac T. Hopper By 1730 the authors whose work made the "classic" school in England were dead or had ceased writing; by the same date Samuel Johnson had begun his career as a man of letters. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Perhaps no literary man ever exerted, during his lifetime, the same personal influence as Samuel Johnson. Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Here he first met Charles James Fox and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and through the latter soon became acquainted with Samuel Johnson, on whom he called in Bolt Court. English Men of Letters: Crabbe Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption." The Devil's Dictionary "How is it," asked Samuel Johnson, "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" The Black Experience in America On the cover was inserted a copy of "Lines addressed to a young lady on quitting Miss Pinkerton's school, at the Mall; by the late revered Doctor Samuel Johnson." Vanity Fair When Doctor Samuel Johnson was told that Boswell proposed to write his life, he threatened to prevent it by taking that of his would-be biographer. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Samuel Johnson once rolled into a London bookseller's shop to ask for literary employment. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac "All wonder," said Samuel Johnson, "is the effect of novelty on ignorance." The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé This seeming ambivalence concerning the future of slavery on the part of the Continental Congress left Samuel Johnson's ironic question about American hypocrisy unanswered. The Black Experience in America Samuel Johnson, although he was very sorry to be poor, "was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty" in his ill days. Familiar Studies of Men and Books It is not surprising that the great literary dictator in Percy's day, Dr. Samuel Johnson, should treat the old ballads with ridicule. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Even Samuel Johnson's satire of "London" was pronounced a plagiarism. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Fuller and Anthony a Wood bestowed exaggerated praise on it, while Samuel Johnson regarded it as the only Latin verse worthy of notice produced in England before Milton's elegies. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Here lies the duck that Samuel Johnson sat on, eh? The Voyage Out Here is a touching story told of the famous Dr. Samuel Johnson which has had an influence on many a boy who has heard it. Stories Worth Rereading Do you remember what Samuel Johnson said about some one's distaste for clean linen—'And I, sir, have no passion for it!' The Lovels of Arden Why, that's the famous Doctor Samuel Johnson, who they say is the greatest and learnedest man in England. Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") Taylor published in 1787 A Letter to Samuel Johnson on the Subject of a Future State. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 In 1790, Boswell published in a quarto sheet of eight pages A conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty George III. and Samuel Johnson, LLD. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 Who can forget that almost terrible picture of Dr. Samuel Johnson? Lady Audley's Secret As to Samuel Johnson, we seem to know every turn of his mind, having had a Boswell. The Life of Cicero Volume One Yes; the poor boy, the friendless Sam, with whom we began our story, had become the famous Doctor Samuel Johnson. Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") He gave two toasts, which you will believe I drank with cordiality, Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Flora Macdonald. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 I promised to send him some English books… I have sent him some of our best books of morality and entertainment, in particular the works of Mr. Samuel Johnson.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 There can be no doubt that the figure marked by Richardson as Dr. Johnson is not Samuel Johnson, who did not receive a doctor's degree till more than four years after Richardson's death. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 The study of natural science is deserving of the contempt which Samuel Johnson bestowed upon it, if it be not a study of the thoughts of the Divine Mind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Even these clumsy fictions might have passed without detection at that uncritical period of our literature, and under the shelter of the name of Samuel Johnson. Milton The particulars of this note were furnished by the late Dr. Samuel Johnson; at whose request some considerable part of what was originally written, and printed on this subject was cancelled. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 One was, A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late political Publications. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 |
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