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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08Samuel Johnson The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 / The Lives of the Poets, Volume II PRIOR Matthew Prior is one of those that have burst out from an obscure original to great eminence. He was born July 21, 16...

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeSamuel Johnson Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope INTRODUCTION When, at the age of sixty-eight, Johnson was writing these “Lives of the English Poets,” he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Roch...

Preface to a Dictionary of the English LanguageSamuel Johnson Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure, without hope ...

Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Volume 2Samuel Johnson Johnson's Lives of the Poets – Volume 2 INTRODUCTION This volume contains a record of twenty lives, of which only one—that of Edward Young—is treated at length. It completes our edition of Johnson's Lives of the Poets, from which a few only of ...

Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Volume 1Samuel Johnson Johnson's Lives of the Poets – Volume 1 INTRODUCTION Johnson's "Lives of the Poets" were written to serve as Introductions to a trade edition of the works of poets whom the booksellers selected for republication. Sometimes, therefore, they deal...

Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, CowleySamuel Johnson Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley INTRODUCTION Samuel Johnson, born at Lichfield in the year 1709, on the 7th of September Old Style, 18th New Style, was sixty-eight years old when he agreed with the booksellers t...

Preface to ShakespeareSamuel Johnson Preface to Shakespeare PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to trut...

Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaSamuel Johnson Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia INTRODUCTION Rasselas was written by Samuel Johnson in the year 1759, when his age was fifty. He had written his London in 1738; his Vanity of Human Wishes in 1740; his Rambler between March, 1750, and March, 1752. In 1755 ...

A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandSamuel Johnson A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland INCH KEITH I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 ind...

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The TragediesSamuel Johnson Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Introduction on Tragedies Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange...