Selections From Samuel Johnson

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300258004

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Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11330715

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Selections from Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:489893663

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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637254996

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Selections from ... Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1420950630

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The Major Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

As a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson's contributions to English literature cannot be understated. His single greatest achievement is widely considered to be his "Dictionary of the English Language," which after nine years of research was first published in 1755. Until the publication of the "Oxford English Dictionary" over a century and a half later it was widely considered to be the preeminent dictionary of the English language. The work brought him much fame and success and had a profound impact on modern English literature. Johnson's contributions to the periodicals "The Rambler" and "The Idler" are considered to be some of the greatest examples of literary criticism of all time. This collection includes some of the best examples of his essays from those periodicals as well as a representative selection of his poetry, prose as well as his famous allegorical novel "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia." Readers of this volume will most assuredly agree that Johnson was a writer of immense talent whose genius is exhibited by the sheer breadth of his body of work.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221121449

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Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1067730900

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Selections from Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson,Edward Lippincott McAdam (Jr.),George Milne
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39076000488887

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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary by Samuel Johnson,Edward Lippincott McAdam (Jr.),George Milne Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : LCCN:54004092

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The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Charles Grosvenor Osgood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1331060125

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Selections From the Works of Samuel Johnson by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Pdf

Excerpt from Selections From the Works of Samuel Johnson: With an Introduction and Notes One day at Mrs. Thrale's, Johnson remarked, in an 'indulgent humor': 'I think there is no impropriety in a man's publishing as much as he chooses of any author, if he does not put the rest out of the way.' His words lend one perhaps the best excuse for a book of this kind. It is in the hope of putting the rest in the way that these selections have been gathered and edited; ind enough will have been done, if they should prove the means of correcting some error of vision, or of helping to find life in that which has seemed dead. The introduction may appear at times too emphatic and opinionated, or too condensed and barren of illustration. But opinion often creates opinion in others, if only by reaction; and such passages as those on Johnson's style or his theory of criticism, or on the poetry of his time, may suggest to teachers various useful and agreeable studies in quest of illustration and evidence. Rasselas is unrepresented because it has been well edited in this series by Professor Emerson. The selections are entire, except the Life of Addison, from which the long quotation of Dennis's tedious remarks on Cato has been in large part omitted. No biographical sketch of Johnson beyond a chronological outline has seemed necessary. If a shorter account than Boswell's is desired, it may be found in Sir Leslie Stephen's Life of Johnson (English Men of Letters), or, shorter still, in his article in the Dictionary of National Biography. Macaulay may be read with interest, but not for Johnson's sake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:61585316

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Selections from James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Martin Riker
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566895361

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Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return by Martin Riker Pdf

A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world. Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:49015000594292

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Selected Poetry & Prose by Alexander Pope Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290418446

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Selections from James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Chosen and Edited by R W Chapman by James Boswell Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : 184354296X

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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Samuel Johnson's massive two-volume, 2,300 page dictionary was first published on 15 April 1755, nine years after he began writing it. It marked a milestone in the English language: it was the first English dictionary to focus on everyday words, rather than the obscure ones that lexicographers had concocted, and was the first dictionary to enlist the works of Shakespeare and other great writers to illustrate a word's usage. It would be England's definitive dictionary for over 150 years.