Samuel Johnson

Johnson, Samuel

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Samuel Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".[1] He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.[2] ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

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Dictionary of the English Language
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Six Volumes From the Text of J. Upton; 1
Representative edition published 2021
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Lives of the English Poets; 1
Representative edition published 2021
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Works
Representative edition published 2020
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Representative edition published 2019
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La historia de Rásselas príncipe de Abisinia
Representative edition published 2018
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The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 63
Representative edition published 2018
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The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare
Representative edition published 2018
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
Representative edition published 2018
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Stenography; or, short-hand improved
Representative edition published 2018
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Letters of Samuel Johnson, 1782-1784
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The Life of Mr Richard Savage
Representative edition published 2016
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Letters of Samuel Johnson
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Christian Morals
Representative edition published 2015
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Henry VI, Part 3
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Course of Lectures on the English Law, 1767-1773
Representative edition published 2014
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Papers from the Idler
Representative edition published 2013
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Zhuan ji qi pa
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Selected Writings
Representative edition published 2011
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The Poems Of Edward Young, Volume 2
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Jing shi zhi lü
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets
Representative edition published 2010
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Selected writings
Representative edition published 2009
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The lives of the poets
Representative edition published 2009
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