The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell James Boswell (1740-1795) was a young, funloving, aristocratic, would-be man-abouttown when he came to London from his native Scotland in 1762. He soon became a compulsive writer, beginning a detailed journal...

Johnson, Samuel(1709–1784) Samuel Johnson, the English man of letters, poet, lexicographer, moralist, and humanist, was born in Lichfield, the son of an indigent bookseller. After his early education at Lichfield Grammar School, he tried...

Samuel Johnson LL.D. MA (September 18 [O.S. September 7] 1709[1] – 13 December 1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is one of England's best known literary figures:[2] an essayist, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English...

Remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience, wrote Samuel Johnson, the famous 18th century English essayist. People show the same optimism today."Still, a little advance planning can help you avoid problems," said attorney Marty Shenkman of Teaneck, N.J. Among the items to consider:Prenuptial agreement....

Table XII is on the ground floor of the Lombardy Hotel, which was once a house owned by the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. It’s one of the most opulent Beaux-Arts dining rooms in the city, with a marble fireplace, gilded ceilings, chandeliers, elaborately carved...

Table XII is on the ground floor of the Lombardy Hotel, which was once a house owned by the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. It’s one of the most opulent Beaux-Arts dining rooms in the city, with a marble fireplace, gilded ceilings, chandeliers, elaborately carved...

If my last venture in charity had been the Oil for Food program, which fleeced the starving in order to enrich Saddam Hussein, I would not have criticized America's first response to the tsunami. But now that the choppers and the money (public and private)...

In the following essay, Hagstrum analyzes the philosophical positions on the nature of fear and hope advanced by Samuel Johnson and William Blake.