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    The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of English writer and literary critic Samuel Johnson. The work was from the beginning...
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    Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions...
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    Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784) was an English author born in Lichfield, Staffordshire. He was a sickly infant...
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  • Life of Samuel Johnson is partly to blame. Boswell did not meet Johnson until later in life and was unable to discuss how politics affected Johnson during...
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  • The Life of Samuel Johnson or Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. was written by John Hawkins in 1787. It was the first full biography of Samuel Johnson—with...
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  • Samuel Johnson: A Life is a prize-winning biography of 18th-century English lexicographer Samuel Johnson by British literary critic David Nokes. It was...
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    James Boswell (category Samuel Johnson)
    Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography...
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    Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among...
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    William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727 – November 14, 1819) was an American Founding Father and statesman. He was the only man to attend all of the four...
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  • Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr. (March 2, 1928 – May 22, 2004) was an American businessman. He was the fourth generation of his family to lead S. C. Johnson...
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    the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. was written by Arthur Murphy and published in 1792. The work serves as a biography of Samuel Johnson and...
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  • health of Samuel Johnson has been a focus of the biographical and critical analysis of his life. His medical history was well documented by Johnson and his...
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    Samuel Johnson (October 14, 1696 – January 6, 1772) was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America...
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    Dr Johnson's House is a writer's house museum in London in the former home of the 18th-century English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. The house...
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  • of the British writer Samuel Johnson's life written by his contemporaries. They are listed by date of publication. The Annals: An Account of the Life...
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    Samuel Joseph Johnson OAM (born 8 February 1978) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Evan Wylde in the television series The Secret...
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    Hester Thrale (category Samuel Johnson)
    was an important source on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century British life. She belonged to the prominent Salusbury family of Anglo-Welsh landowners, and...
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    Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. (October 11, 1877 – October 23, 1937) was an American businessman and politician. He was a six-term Democratic member of the Texas...
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    The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English...
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    apologue about bliss and ignorance by Samuel Johnson. The book's original working title was "The Choice of Life". The book was first published in April...
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    Dietaries". Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 1859. p. 169. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including...
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    the evolution of the genre, was James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, a biography of lexicographer and man-of-letters Samuel Johnson published in...
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    Green room (category Parts of a theatre)
    Green-Room, and all the Girls and Women~Actresses there." In his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), James Boswell mentions visits by his subject to the Green...
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    maint: date and year (link) Boswell, James (1832). The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen 1. Carter, Hendee and...
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  • The religious views of Samuel Johnson are expressed in both his moralistic writings and his sermons. Samuel Johnson regarded himself as a moralist during...
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    Plutarch (redirect from Life of Alcibiades)
    lives, rather than biographies, in the introduction to his own Life of Samuel Johnson. Other admirers included Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Alexander Hamilton...
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  • Robert Anderson (editor and biographer) (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings (Edin., 1796) Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with Critical Observations...
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    Portrait of Samuel Johnson, also known as Blinking Sam, is an oil-painted portrait of English lexicographer Samuel Johnson reading, created by English...
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  • Bishop of Ely, and includes the motto of the Marquesses of Northampton. Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick and other members of the Garrick...
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    Hodge (cat) (category Samuel Johnson)
    1769) was one of Samuel Johnson's cats, immortalised in a characteristically whimsical passage in James Boswell's 1791 book Life of Johnson. Although there...
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