Johnson, Samuel

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1. An eighteenth-century English author known for his wit and for his balanced and careful criticism of literature. Johnson compiled an important dictionary of the English language. The story of his life is told in The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell.

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Johnson, Samuel

Johnson, Samuel, joint editor of "Hymns of the Spirit," 293.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe

Johnson, Samuel, 201, 244, 366, 369, 419, 420.

From Unitarianism in America by George Willis Cooke

Johnson, Samuel, 137, 140, 148, note, 163, 165, 166, 169.

From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos

Johnson, Samuel, 2, 59, 276, 284, 307, 308.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

Johnson, Samuel, the Magnus Apollo of Lexicographers, 218; criticised by N. W., 219-225; N. W.'s preface compared with S. J.'s, 242; his Dictionary and N. W.'s compared, 246, 260-263, 273.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder

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