Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing

actual Ambrose Philips appearance Arthur Murphy audience begin biographical Boerhaave boredom Boswell Boswell's Caligula character Chesterfield Christian comic context conventional critical David Garrick death definitions delight Dictionary Dryden eighteenth-century elegy English essay example expected finally folly Garrick genre goes happiness Henry Thrale hope Human Wishes Idler imagination imitation Imlac ironic irony James Boswell John Johnson says Johnsonian kind labor language learning letter lexicographer Lichfield Lichfield Grammar School literature Lives London Lord Lycidas means mind moral nature never notice obligation occasion once Paradise Lost passage perceive perhaps piety poem poetic poetry Poets prayer Preface quotations Rambler Rasselas reader reason rhetorical Samuel Johnson satire Savage Savage's schemes seems sense Shakespeare skepticism sort style substance Suetonius theme things thought Thrale tion turn Vanity of Human virtue Vitellius W. K. Wimsatt whole words writing written wrote