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Nicholas Rowe (writer) (1,677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Nicholas Rowe (/roʊ/; 20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718) was an English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1715

1775 in literature (690 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

better success. It introduces the character of Figaro. October 19 – Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris, watch King Louis XVI

Henry Brooke (writer) (713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Henry Brooke (1703 – 10 October 1783) was an Irish novelist and dramatist. He was born and raised at Rantavan House near Mullagh, a village in the far

Authors' Club (536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in Dean Street, Soho — a house that was once home to a club run by Samuel Johnson and Thomas Gainsborough — where it remained for three years. It has

Oliver Goldsmith (2,809 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral

1773 in literature (993 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Laoghaire over the body of her husband Art Ó Laoghaire. August 6 – Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland, where on August 14 he meets James Boswell in

1791 in literature (542 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

literary events and publications of 1791. May 16 – James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is published in 2 volumes in London on the 28th anniversary of their

John Dennis (dramatist) (1,497 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Dennis (16 September 1657 – 6 January 1734) was an English critic and dramatist. He was born in the parish of St Andrew Holborn, London, in 1657. He was

List of Nigerian writers (1,139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

playwright, dramatist and scholar Uzodinma Iweala (born 1982) Festus Iyayi (born 1947) John Jea (1773–?) Elnathan John (born 1982) Samuel Johnson (1846–1901)

1749 in literature (835 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Conversations) William Hawkins – Henry and Rosamund Aaron Hill – Meropé Samuel Johnson – Irene Moses Mendes – The Chaplet (musical, with music by William Boyce)

1775 in poetry (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mrs. Robinson Richard Savage, The Works of Richard Savage, edited by Samuel Johnson, with a life of Savage by Johnson, later reprinted in Johnson's Prefaces

1763 in literature (873 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

writings in The North Briton May 16 – James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in Covent Garden, London. October 11 – The

1709 in literature (1,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

French poet and dramatist (died 1777) September 3 – Joan Claudi Peiròt, French writer in Occitan (died 1795) September 18 – Samuel Johnson, English author

1779 in literature (695 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hume (died 1776; anonymously) – Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Samuel Johnson – Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets

David Mallet (writer) (1,320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David Mallet (or Malloch) (c. 1705–1765) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to London in 1723

1709 (2,866 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jagat Singh II, Maharana of Mewar Kingdom (d. 1751) September 18 – Samuel Johnson, English poet, biographer, essayist, and lexicographer (d. 1784) September

1777 in literature (749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

monk transcribed by Chatterton. March – Fanny Burney is introduced to Samuel Johnson by her father, Charles Burney. April 1 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's

1784 in literature (853 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first published African-American female poet (born 1753) December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English poet, critic, biographer and lexicographer (born 1709) unknown

John Brougham (1,788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Popular, Spirited, And Genial Actor And Dramatist". The New York Times. 8 June 1880. p. 5. "Samuel Johnson c. 1830-1900 A Life from the Grave, by Jennie

Suspicion (emotion) (433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

suspicion as a "black poison" that "infects the human mind like a plague". Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), an English author and essayist, called suspicion a "useless

1745 in poetry (546 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

March; music by Handel Samuel Madden, Boulter's Monument, "Assisted by Samuel Johnson", according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Moses

1764 in literature (1,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

article criticizing King George III in The North Briton. February – Samuel Johnson co-founds The Club, a literary dining club in London. June 21 – The

Elizabeth Cooper (dramatist) (322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

by Thomas Chatterton are thought to have drawn on Cooper's book and Samuel Johnson is said to have used Cooper's book as a model for his Lives of the Poets

1709 in Great Britain (858 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Guayaquil, he and Selkirk will visit the Galapagos Islands. 5 February – dramatist John Dennis devises the thundersheet as a new method of producing theatrical

Thomas Otway (1,601 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Otway (3 March 1652 – 14 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd

1792 in literature (967 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Contentment) Arthur Murphy – An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson Maria Riddell – Voyage to the Madeira and Leeward and Caribbean Isles

1746 in literature (694 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

discours de réception in which he criticizes Boileau's poetry. June 18 – Samuel Johnson signs a contract to compile A Dictionary of the English Language for

1745 in literature (771 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

de todos los sitios de batallas que tuvieron los romanos en España Samuel Johnson Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth Proposals for Printing

1724 in literature (1,204 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

public library membership required.) James Boswell (1899). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. John W. Lovell

1750 in Great Britain (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

March – a second more powerful earthquake is felt in London. 20 March – Samuel Johnson begins publication of the periodical The Rambler. 11 April – Jack Slack

Thomas Francklin (1,388 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1721 – 15 March 1784) was an English academic, clergyman, writer and dramatist Francklin was the son of Richard Francklin, bookseller near the Piazza

1760 in literature (682 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

family move to London, where her father teaches music and she meets Dr Samuel Johnson. Jupiter Hammon's poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with

1774 in literature (841 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America Samuel Johnson – The Patriot Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz – The History of Louisiana

1758 in literature (737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

information about the literary events and publications of 1758. April 15 – Samuel Johnson begins publishing a series of essays, The Idler (1758–1760), in the

1778 in literature (1,435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare is published, edited by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. It includes Edmond Malone's essay "An Attempt to

1767 in literature (811 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

February – King George III of Great Britain requests an introduction to Samuel Johnson from his librarian, Frederick Augusta Barnard. They meet in the library

1603 in literature (872 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Percy and James I". Notes and Queries. 161: 13–14. William Shakespeare; Samuel Johnson; George Steevens (1813). The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one

Arthur Murphy (writer) (941 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, he introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. He was appointed Commissioner of Bankruptcy

Robert Jephson (438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Jephson (1736 – 31 May 1803) was an Irish dramatist and politician. He was born in Ireland, a younger son of John Jephson, Archdeacon of Cloyne

1764 in poetry (402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

or France). February – The Club, a London dining club, is founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds. Charles Churchill (see "Deaths", below): The Candidate

John Delap (518 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1725–1812) was an English churchman and academic, known as a poet and dramatist. The son of John Delap, of Spilsby in Lincolnshire, he entered Trinity

1974 in literature (1,813 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Darkness James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Wain, Samuel Johnson Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ted Hughes Frost Medal: John Hall Wheelock

List of poets (22,526 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Canadian writer, performer and poet marking First Nations heritage Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English poet, essayist and lexicographer George Benson

1738 in literature (792 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

eventually be given into the care of a legal guardian. September 18 – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785). James Anderson –

Timeline of Shakespeare criticism (4,054 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

began to consider him as the supreme dramatist and poet of all times of the English language. No other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often

Jasper Mayne (439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

December 1672) was an English clergyman, translator, and a minor poet and dramatist. Mayne was baptized at Hatherleigh, Devon, on 23 November 1604, and educated

2005 in literature (2,661 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(first award): Ismail Kadare Man Booker Prize: John Banville, The Sea Samuel Johnson Prize: Jonathan Coe, Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson

1781 in poetry (450 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1729), German poet March 17 – Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet May 8 – Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet

John Gay (2,271 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's

1765 in poetry (499 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

poet Poetry portal Poetry List of years in poetry Wain, John (1974). Samuel Johnson. New York: Viking Press. Bross, Fabian; Kreuzmair, Elias (2016). Basiswissen

1786 in literature (1,089 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

French by Antoine-Joseph Pernety) Hester Thrale – Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson John Horne Tooke – 'Epea Pteroenta' – The Diversions of Purley (Winged

2002 in literature (2,249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Heeley, Judith Lal, David Leonard Briggs, Eleanor Rees, Kathryn Simmonds Samuel Johnson Prize: Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of

1781 in literature (1,019 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and Fall of the Roman Empire Henry Home – Loose Hints Upon Education Samuel Johnson The Beauties of Johnson Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets Immanuel

List of Welsh writers (7,266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dramatist and scholar Vaughan Wilkins (1890–1959, E), historical novelist and journalist Anna Williams (1706–1783, E), poet and companion to Samuel Johnson

1743 in literature (1,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theatre in Dublin. August – Shortly after the death of Richard Savage, Samuel Johnson announces his intention to publish a biography of Savage. unknown dates

Hugh Kelly (poet) (815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Hugh Kelly (1739 – 3 February 1777) was an Irish dramatist and poet. From the 1760s he was employed as a propagandist for the British government, attacking

William Shakespeare (11,869 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or

1798 in literature (863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Present. Cambridge University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-521-49914-9. Samuel Johnson (1841). Johnson's Dictionary of the English language, containing many

The Winter's Tale (5,509 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Written," The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes. Eds. Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. 2nd ed. London, 1778, Vol. I: 269–346; 285. Tannenbaum

1804 in poetry (677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(born c. 1730), British author, playwright and poet associated with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson January 24 – Joseph Fawcett

1731 in poetry (655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

article: January 9 – John Scott (died 1783), English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson April 16 – Jacob Bailey (died 1808), Church of England clergyman and

List of Yoruba people (3,286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ajibade, Nigerian actor, producer, model and presenter Gloria Bamiloye, dramatist, film actress, producer and director, co-founder of Mount Zion Drama Ministry

17th century in philosophy (868 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of John Locke's argument for religious toleration (d. 1737) 1649 – Samuel Johnson (pamphleteer) - One of the major developers of the Whig resistance theory

William Hawkins (priest) (918 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

William Hawkins (1722–1801) was an English clergyman, known as a poet and dramatist. He was eldest son of William Hawkins, serjeant-at-law, by his first wife

1729 in poetry (567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

clergyman and poet Also – John Cunningham (died 1773), Irish poet and dramatist Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January

1750 in literature (756 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

founded by Edward Cave; it lasts for 208 issues, and is mostly written by Samuel Johnson. March 5 – Shakespeare's Richard II (in Colley Cibber's version) is

1757 in poetry (758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which he prayed loudly in public places, soliciting others to join him. Samuel Johnson visits him and considers he should be at large, saying, "I'd as lief

Omai (753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

arranged meetings with notable celebrities, including Lord Sandwich, Dr Samuel Johnson, Frances Burney and Anna Seward, among others. Richard Holmes remarks

George Peele (3,103 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

July 1556 – death date uncertain) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not universally accepted collaboration

The Gentleman's Magazine (2,507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

author and friend of Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole Rev. William Hawkins (1722–1801), English clergyman, poet, and dramatist Susanna Highmore (1690–1750)

1771 in literature (784 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Five Checks to Antinomianism Oliver Goldsmith – The History of England Samuel Johnson – Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands Martinez

1770 in literature (792 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gronniosaw, an African Prince Baron d'Holbach – The System of Nature Samuel Johnson – The False Alarm Immanuel Kant – Dissertation on the Form and Principles

Roger Ascham (2,900 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ascham's English works were edited by James Bennett, with a life by Samuel Johnson in 1771, reprinted in 1815. John Allen Giles in 1864–1865 published

The History of King Lear (4,717 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

sentimentality, it was popular with theatregoers, and was approved by Samuel Johnson, who regarded Cordelia's death in Shakespeare's play as unbearable.

1759 in literature (876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(dated 1760) Sarah Fielding – The History of the Countess of Dellwyn Samuel Johnson – The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (on Wikisource). Gotthold

1703 in literature (884 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saint-Évremond, French essayist and literary critic (born 1631) unknown date – Samuel Johnson, English pamphleteer (born 1649) Thomas Wright (1894). The Life of Daniel

Cock Lane ghost (7,939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

suspected of being her murderer. But a commission whose members included Samuel Johnson concluded that the supposed haunting was a fraud. Further investigations

Henry Killigrew (playwright) (593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Robert Killigrew and his wife Mary Woodhouse. He was the brother of the dramatist Thomas Killigrew and of Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon, mistress

2014 in literature (3,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows SAARC Literary Award: Tarannum Riyaz Samuel Johnson Prize: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Scotiabank Giller Prize: Sean

Alfred Harbage (355 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

seventeenth-century figures. In this area, his books Thomas Killigrew, Cavalier Dramatist 1612-1683 (1930), Sir William Davenant, Poet Adventurer 1606-1668 (1935)

List of English Heritage blue plaques in the City of Westminster (821 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Russell Street "In this house occupied by THOMAS DAVIES Bookseller DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON first met JAMES BOSWELL in 1763" 8 Russell Street Covent Garden WC2B

John Galsworthy (6,983 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the same year his first play, The Silver Box was staged in London. As a dramatist he became known for plays with a social message, reflecting, among other

1787 in literature (1,064 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III) John Hawkins – Life of Samuel Johnson 'Publius' (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay) – The Federalist

Frank Frankfort Moore (1,820 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frank Frankfort Moore (1855–1931) was an Irish journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet. He was a Belfast Protestant and a unionist, but his historical

List of Scottish writers (7,475 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

broadcaster James Boswell (1740–1795), biographer and diarist, Life of Samuel Johnson Alexander Bower (fl. 1804–1830), biographer Walter Bower (c. 1385–1449)

1747 in literature (1,198 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kames – Essays Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities Samuel Johnson – The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language Charlotte Lennox

2001 in literature (2,293 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Celan Hugo Award: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Samuel Johnson Prize: Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:

M. Gopala Krishna Iyer (3,305 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

quarter of the twentieth century. Ma.Ko. was a poet, translator, essayist, dramatist, editor of literary journals and above all a patriot. A student of the

British literature (16,605 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1672–1729), Alexander Pope (1688–1744), Henry Fielding (1707–54), Samuel Johnson (1709–84). The Union of the Parliaments of Scotland and England in 1707

List of diarists (6,849 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Polish dwarf musician James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish chronicler of Samuel Johnson Jimmy Boyle (born 1944), Scottish gangster, sculptor and novelist Jocelyn

2000 in literature (2,560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Orange Prize for Fiction: Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:

1999 in literature (2,499 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Orange Prize for Fiction: Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood Samuel Johnson Prize (first award): Antony Beevor, Stalingrad Whitbread Best Book Award:

Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship (8,129 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel Johnson, "[... A] Dictionary of the English language might be compiled from Bacon's writing alone". Boswell, James: The Life of Samuel Johnson

Frances Burney (7,618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

for satirical caricature was widely acknowledged: figures such as Dr Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Hester Lynch Thrale, David Garrick and other members

Augustan literature (10,051 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

made it a shorthand designation for a somewhat nebulous age of satire. Samuel Johnson, whose famous A Dictionary of the English Language was published in

1819 (2,374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Emmanuel IV of Savoy, King of Sardinia (b. 1751) October 7 – William Samuel Johnson, American Founding Father (b. 1727) October 13 – Imperial Concubine

Literature of Birmingham (15,290 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

authorised edition of The Bible to appear in the English Language; Samuel Johnson was the leading literary figure of 18th century England and produced

Ireland Shakespeare forgeries (4,217 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

manuscripts, such respected literary figures as James Boswell (biographer of Samuel Johnson) and poet laureate Henry James Pye pronounced them genuine, as did various

September 18 (5,970 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (d. 1748) 1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (d. 1784) 1711 – Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian

English literature (17,662 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sensibility, but it is also sometimes described as the "Age of Johnson". Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author

1810s in Wales (715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cambrian Pictures (1810) Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816) Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816) Thomas

Henry Irving (4,048 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

inexperienced Irving got stage fright and was hissed off the stage the actor Samuel Johnson was among those who supported him with practical advice. Later in life

1708 (2,732 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(d. 1742) October 27 Hill Boothby, English friend and late love of Samuel Johnson (d. 1756) Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French architect and structural engineer

Nahum Tate (1,239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Although Joseph Addison protested at this mutilation of Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson defended the poetic justice of Tate's adaptation. Coriolanus became

October 29 (7,910 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2004). "Boswell, James (1740–1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University

1712 (3,201 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the last time; 300 scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom is Samuel Johnson. April 6–7 – New York Slave Revolt of 1712: An insurrection in New York

Convoy HX 300 (835 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

United States Europe 7,176 General cargo including explosives Liberty ship Dramatist (1920) United Kingdom Liverpool 5,443 General cargo Eastern Guide (1918)

1740s (18,131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Piacenza: Austrian forces defeat French and Spanish troops. June 18 – Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language. June

1700s (decade) (29,123 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

(d. 1742) October 27 Hill Boothby, English friend and late love of Samuel Johnson (d. 1756) Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French architect and structural engineer

Great Lives (175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

composer, director, actor and singer Humphrey Carpenter Kit Wright, writer Samuel Johnson, author and lexicographer Kate Adie, war reporter Flora Sandes, pioneer

Fleeming Jenkin (6,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

electrician and cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the engineer Charles Frewen Jenkin

List of years in poetry (7,105 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cowper publishes The Task 1784 in poetry Birth of Leigh Hunt; Death of Samuel Johnson English author, wrote Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, (1779–81)

Sarah Siddons (5,331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

adapted to her acting powers as that of Lady Macbeth. She once told Samuel Johnson that Catherine was her favourite role, as it was the most natural. Sarah

Richard Sharp (politician) (3,358 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

a young man Sharp met Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke, and dined regularly with Boswell. He was close friends with the dramatist Richard Cumberland, Mrs

List of Anglicans (1,963 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jeffrey John Boris Johnson, convert from Catholicism Lady Bird Johnson Samuel Johnson Absalom Jones Trevor Jones (priest) Benjamin Jowett Bernard Judd Jan

Authorship of Titus Andronicus (4,974 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Shakespear (1725), Lewis Theobald in Shakespeare Restored (1726), Samuel Johnson and George Steevens in The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) and Edmond

Paul Whitehead (satirist) (1,587 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Captain Edward Thompson's Life in Poems, 1777; Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1787, 2nd edit. pp. 330 sqq.; Chalmers's English Poets, vol. xvi. Wikisource

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (978 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett Lillian Hellman, American dramatist and screenwriter (1905–1984), and Dashiell Hammett, American writer (1894–1961)

Peg Woffington (1,629 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with society figures, having entertained such illustrious names as Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding, Peg Woffington was not always favoured by her competition

Reputation of William Shakespeare (8,778 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself"), and Samuel Johnson (who scornfully dismissed Voltaire's and Rhymer's neoclassical Shakespeare

Joseph Reed (playwright) (961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

essayed a tragedy on the subject of Dido, and obtained an introduction to Samuel Johnson, with a view to submitting his labours to him. "I never did the man

John Mein (publisher) (1,821 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

(writer) John Hill (author) Nathaniel Hooke David Hume Mary Johnson Samuel Johnson Charles Johnstone Jorge Juan y Santacilia Basil Kennett John Knox Alain-René

Scottish Enlightenment (8,759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Hebrides (1785) drew on his extensive travels and whose Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) is a major source on one of the English Enlightenment's major

Henry VI, Part 1 (20,184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

written. As this implies, there is no critical consensus on this issue. Samuel Johnson, writing in his 1765 edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, pre-empted

1730s (15,076 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

after three weeks; they are later decimated by plague. September 18 – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785). October 22 – The

Augustan drama (5,785 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

although Brooke would claim that he meant only to write a history play. Samuel Johnson wrote a Swiftian parodic satire of the licensers, entitled A Complete

1780s (25,344 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wheatley, first published African-American author (b. 1753) December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer, lexicographer (b. 1709) December 25 – Yosa Buson, Japanese

Peter Ustinov (4,338 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Humphrey Bogart and Aldo Ray in We're No Angels (1955). His career as a dramatist continued, his best-known[clarification needed] play being Romanoff and

National Book Award for Nonfiction (3,205 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Art Finalist 1978 Biography and Autobiography W. Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson Winner James Atlas Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American

List of Yale University people (23,274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Oregon Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1714, M.A. 1717), first president of Columbia University (then known as King's College), father of William Samuel Johnson, signer

Alfred Deakin (8,384 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

literary aspirations as a poet. His private prayer diaries, like those of Samuel Johnson, express a profound contemplative (though more ecumenical) Christian

List of people from Edinburgh (6,231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

religion and author James Boswell (1740–1795), lawyer and biographer of Samuel Johnson Thomas Brown (1778–1820), moral philosopher and philosopher of mind;

List of Freemasons (E–Z) (34,276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina in 1826. Eben Samuel Johnson (8 February 1866–9 February 1939), Anglo-American bishop of the Methodist

1710s (30,798 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the last time; 300 scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom is Samuel Johnson. April 6–7 – New York Slave Revolt of 1712: An insurrection in New York

List of alumni of Wesley College, Melbourne (2,169 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alibrandi) Jane Harber, actor Alan Hopgood, actor and dramatist Lachy Hulme, actor Samuel Johnson, actor, AFI recipient and Logies nominee, radio host

Grub Street (5,514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

shaped tygers, senseless yelping curs..." In describing his profession, Samuel Johnson, a Grub Street man himself, said "A news-writer is a man without virtue

List of English writers (D–J) (9,240 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Richard Johnson (1573 – c. 1659), writer Samuel Johnson (1649–1703), pamphleteer and cleric Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784) writer, poet and lexicographer

Titus Andronicus (23,550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

works. It seems rather a heap of rubbish than a structure." In 1765, Samuel Johnson questioned the possibility of even staging the play, pointing out that

List of English Heritage blue plaques in London (980 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Subject Inscription Location Year installed Photo Open Plaques ref Notes Samuel Johnson 1709–1784 "Author lived here" Dr Johnson's House, Gough Square Holborn

1690s (36,566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

English courtier, political writer and memoirist (d. 1743) October 14 – Samuel Johnson, President of Columbia University (d. 1772) October 17 – Augustus III

Columbia University Bicentennial (6,626 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

involved a reenactment of the school's opening: Dean Harry Carman, as Samuel Johnson, delivered an address based on Johnson's original June 3, 1754, advertisement

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Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740–1795), author of The Life of Samuel Johnson, which is discussed in Sisman's biography Geoffrey Wall Flaubert: A

Age of Enlightenment (22,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

However, its leading intellectuals such as Gibbon, Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson were all quite conservative and supportive of the standing order. Porter

Derby (13,646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

born in Wilderslowe Charles Rann Kennedy (1871–1950), Anglo-American dramatist Ernest Townsend (1880–1944), portrait artist Marion Adnams (1898–1995)

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atmosphere on the Moon. James Boswell 1740–1795 Scottish Biographer of Samuel Johnson, helped established the norms for writing biography in general. G.L

Chronology of Shakespeare's plays (36,915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

quarto theory was generally accepted by scholars. First suggested by Samuel Johnson in the original edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765),

List of blue plaques (1,625 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ebenezer Street, Swansea, SA1 5BJ 2013 City and County of Swansea Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds Founders of The Club 9 Gerrard Street, W1 Westminster

The Taming of the Shrew (19,365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lewis Theobald (1733), Thomas Hanmer (1744), William Warburton (1747), Samuel Johnson and George Steevens (1765) and Edward Capell (1768). In his 1790 edition

Henry VI, Part 2 (17,899 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reconstruct the original play from memory and sell it. Originated by Samuel Johnson in 1765 and refined by Peter Alexander in 1929. Traditionally, this

Shakespeare authorship question (18,493 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bretchgirdle for "the common use of scholars". Later critics such as Samuel Johnson remarked that Shakespeare's genius lay not in his erudition, but in

List of Old Stonyhursts (4,767 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger; friend of Henry Thrale and Samuel Johnson; introduced Thale to Johnson; Commissioner of Bankruptcy; coined the

Culture of England (26,008 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

prominent philosophers of the Enlightenment were John Locke, Thomas Paine, Samuel Johnson and Jeremy Bentham. More radical elements were later countered by Edmund

Henry VI, Part 3 (26,580 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the original play from memory and sell it. The theory originated with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and was refined by Peter Alexander in 1928. True Tragedy is

Characters of Shakespear's Plays (22,669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare's plays typified by Samuel Johnson, it was among the first English-language studies of Shakespeare's plays

List of breast cancer patients by survival status (20,461 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theage.com.au. Accessed September 13, 2022. "Connie Johnson, sister of Samuel Johnson, passes away from cancer". The Sydney Morning Herald. September 8, 2017

List of last words (18th century) (8,698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

philosopher (31 July 1784) "God bless you, my dear.": 79 : 92 : 28 — Samuel Johnson, English writer (13 December 1784), to Miss Morris, a young woman "I

List of music biographies in Rees's Cyclopaedia (579 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

example. In his biographies Burney mirrored the Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson, namely: a short summary of the subject's reputation, with a summary

List of Williams College people (15,991 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bahá’í Faith John McClellan Holmes 1853, Christian minister and author Samuel Johnson Howard 1973, 8th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida Charles

Articles by John Neal (2,792 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1818 Magazine The Portico Literary criticism A critique of The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell originally read by Neal before the Delphian Club April

The Spirit of the Age (37,619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the "portrait essay" (although elements of it had been anticipated by Samuel Johnson and others). The book is now frequently viewed as "one of Hazlitt's