Samuel Johnson





Samuel Johnson

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born
September 18, 1709 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, The United Kingdom

died
December 13, 1784

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Samuel Johnson was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of one of the most celebrated biographies in English, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. Boswell's Life, along with other biographies, documented Johnson's behaviour and mannerisms in such detail that they have informed the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome (TS), a condition unknown to 18th-century physicians. He presented a tall and robust figure, but his odd gestures and tics were conf...more


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The History of Rasselas, Pr...
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A Journey to the Western Is...
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Samuel Johnson: The Major W...
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Selected Essays
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Vanity of Human Wishes
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Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1
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Preface to Shakespeare
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The Selected Essays from th...
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Lives of the Poets, Vol. 2
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More books by Samuel Johnson…
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
Samuel Johnson

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
Samuel Johnson