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Hace 3 días · Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
Hace 1 día · Samuel Johnson's "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a travel narrative documenting his journey through Scotland in the autumn of 1773, alongside his companion, James Boswell. This journey, notable for its exploration of the remote regions of Scotland, offers insights into the landscape, culture, and society of 18th-century ...
Hace 6 días · In the making of his Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson took the best conversation of contemporary London and the normal usage of reputable writers after Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86) as his criteria. He exemplified the meanings of words by illustrative quotations.
5 de jun. de 2024 · And then there’s The Secret Life of Us star Samuel Johnson. He developed a phobia of hospitals after his sister experienced cancer when they were kids. Co-founding the charity. Love Your Sister. together, she tragically died at 40.
Hace 3 días · Though his star has somewhat dimmed in the fogs of contemporary ideology, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was a literary colossus during his lifetime and well into the twentieth-century. Born in the midlands of England, by the 1760s Johnson was already widely celebrated as “Dictionary Johnson,” the man who nearly single-handedly wrote the first ...
12 de jun. de 2024 · Samuel Johnson bravely opens up about his sister’s tragic death in new SBS series The Hospital: In the Deep End. In the heart-wrenching series, Johnson visits an onconology ward that sparks him to open up about his own tragic personal experience with cancer.
7 de jun. de 2024 · The heroism of Johnson ultimately consists of the fact that, for all the dark pathways of his imagination, he was loyal to sanity. He was often ill, melancholy, in debt, perhaps half-mad, but when he sat down at his desk to be “Samuel Johnson,” he spoke in the style of normality:
