Samuel Johnson
Σάμιουελ Τζόνσον
サミュエル・ジョンソン
새뮤얼 존슨
Samuel Johnson (schrijver)
Семюел Джонсон
Джонсон, Сэмюэл
صمويل جونسون
塞缪尔·约翰逊
英国作家、词典学家、评论家（1709–1784）
סופר בריטי
scríbhneoir Sasanach
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
イングランドの文学者、王党派 (1709-1784)
نویسنده انگلیسی
ინგლისელი მწერალი
ލިޔުންތެރިއެއް
angol tudós, költő
critico letterario, poeta e saggista britannico
Nhà Văn Người Anh
englischer Gelehrter, Schriftsteller, Dichter, Kritiker und Lexikograf
İngiliz yazar ve leksikograf (sözlük bilimci) (1709–1784)
angleški pisatelj, pesnik, esejist, biograf in leksikograf (1709–1784)
llenor a geiriadurwr Saesneg (1708-1784)
écrivain anglais, poète, essayiste, biographe, lexicographe
escriptor i lexocògraf anglès
كاتب إنجليزي
ensayista y poeta inglés
အင်္ဂလိပ်ကဗျာဆရာ
anglický spisovatel a lexikograf
अंग्रेज़ कवी, जीवनी लेखक, निबंधकार, कोशकार (1709-1764)
pisarz i leksykograf angielski
brittisk författare och lexikograf
ఆంగ్ల కవి,వ్యాసకర్త
lexicograaf uit Koninkrijk Groot-Brittannië (1709-1784)
английский критик, лексикограф, поэт
англійський поет, біограф, есеїст, лексикограф
Life of Johnson
Lichfield, England
London, England
A literary party, 1781, of Johnson and other members of "The Club"
The Vanity of Human Wishes title page
Portrait 1772
Johnson's Dictionary Vol. 1 title page
Johnson's Dictionary Vol. 2 title page
Plays of William Shakespeare title page
Portrait of Samuel Johnson in 1772 painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Boswell's Life of Johnson
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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Plays of Shakespeare title page.jpg
Johnson Dictionary3.jpg
Johnson Dictionary2.jpg
Dr Johnson
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Samuel Johnson signature.svg
During the whole of the interview, Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing-room. After the King withdrew, Johnson shewed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr Barnard, 'Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.'
When he was a child in petticoats, and had learnt to read, Mrs. Johnson one morning put the common prayer-book into his hands, pointed to the collect for the day, and said, 'Sam, you must get this by heart.' She went up stairs, leaving him to study it: But by the time she had reached the second floor, she heard him following her. 'What's the matter?' said she. 'I can say it,' he replied; and repeated it distinctly, though he could not have read it more than twice.
A few days before his death, he had asked Sir John Hawkins, one of his executors, where he should be buried; and on being answered, "Doubtless, in Westminster Abbey," seemed to feel a satisfaction, very natural to a Poet.
Mr Thrale's death was a very essential loss to Johnson, who, although he did not foresee all that afterwards happened, was sufficiently convinced that the comforts which Mr Thrale's family afforded him, would now in great measure cease.
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.'
His necessary attendance while his play was in rehearsal, and during its performance, brought him acquainted with many of the performers of both sexes, which produced a more favourable opinion of their profession than he had harshly expressed in his Life of Savage. With some of them he kept up an acquaintance as long as he and they lived, and was ever ready to shew them acts of kindness. He for a considerable time used to frequent the Green Room, and seemed to take delight in dissipating his gloom, by mixing in the sprightly chit-chat of the motley circle then to be found there. Mr. David Hume related to me from Mr. Garrick, that Johnson at last denied himself this amusement, from considerations of rigid virtue; saying, 'I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.