The writings of the English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) express a profound reverence for the past modified by an energetic independence of mind. The mid-18th century in England...
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At the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum is displayed a copy of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, printed at Birmingham by John Baskerville in 1773, that Johnson borrowed from his friend John Hoole. ...
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Samuel Johnson (10 October 1822-19 February 1882), Transcendentalist minister and Orientalist, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Johnson refused ordination and i...
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Samuel Johnson, educator and Anglican minister, is today remembered chiefly for his attempt to reconcile enlightenment philosophy and science with the basic teachings of reformed Christianity. He is a...
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Though the phrase "the Age of Johnson" is less used than it once was, Samuel Johnson, whose life spanned most of the eighteenth century and whose writings embraced an astounding variety of genres, rem...
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Samuel Johnson , the premier English literary figure of the mid and late eighteenth century, was a writer of exceptional range: a poet, a lexicographer, a translator, a journalist and essayist, a trav...
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The life of Alexander Pope, the longest, most carefully labored, and last to be written of Samuel Johnson's fifty-two "Lives of the Poets" (Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the E...
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A second-generation Transcendentalist, Samuel Johnson is best known as an orientalist. Though generally dismissed for their reliance on texts in translation, the three volumes of Johnson's Oriental Re...
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Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), American clergyman and educator, was the first Anglican minister in Connecticut and first president of King's College, later Columbia University.Samuel Johnson was born in ...
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