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See also:BIBLIOGRA PH Y .—The splendid example of his See also:style which See also:Macaulay contributed in the See also:article on See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson to the 8th edition of this See also:encyclopaedia has become classic, and has therefore been retained above with a few trifling modifications in those places in which his invincible love of the picturesque has See also:drawn him demonstrably aside from the dull See also:line of veracity. Macaulay, it must be noted, exaggerated persistently the poverty of Johnson's See also:pedigree, the squalor of his See also:early married See also:life, the grotesqueness of his entourage in See also:Fleet See also:Street, the decline and fall from See also:complete virtue of Mrs Thrale, the novelty and success of the See also:Dictionary, the complete failure of the See also:Shakespeare and the See also:political tracts. Yet this contribution is far more mellow than the article contributed on Johnson twenty-five years before to the See also:Edinburgh See also:Review in correction of See also:Croker. See also:Matthew See also:Arnold, who edited six selected Lives of the poets, regarded it as one of Macaulay's happiest and ripest efforts. It was written out of friend-See also:ship for See also:Adam See also:Black, and " See also:payment was not so much as mentioned." The big reviews, especially the quarterlies, have always been thenatural See also:home of Johnsonian study. See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, Croker, See also:Hay-See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward, Macaulay, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Carlyle (whose famous See also:Fraser article was reprinted in 1853) and Whitwell Elwin have done as much as any-See also:body perhaps to sustain the zest for Johnsonian studies. Macaulay's prediction that the See also:interest in the See also:man would supersede that in his " See also:Works " seemed and seems likely enough to justify itself ; but his theory that the man alone mattered and that a portrait painted by the See also:hand of an inspired idiot was a true measure of the man has not worn better than the See also:common run of See also:literary propositions. Johnson's See also:prose is not extensively read. But the same is true of nearly all the See also:great prose masters of the 18th See also:century. As in the See also:case of all great men, Johnson has suffered a See also:good See also:deal at the hands of his imitators and admirers. His prose, though not nearly so uniformly monotonous or polysyllabic as the parodists would have us believe, was at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time greatly overpraised. From the " Life of See also:Savage " to the " Life of See also:Pope " it See also:developed a great deal, and in the See also:main improved. To the last he sacrificed expression rather too much to style, and he was perhaps over conscious of the balanced epithet. But he contributed both dignity and dialectical force to the prose See also:movement of his See also:period.
The best edition of his works is still the See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford edition of 1825 in 9 vols. At the See also:present See also:day, however, his periodical writings are neglected, and all that can be said to excite interest are, first the Lives of the Poets (best edition by See also:Birkbeck See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill and H. S. Scott, 3 vols., 1905), and then the Letters,.the Prayers and Meditations, and the Poems, to which may doubtfully be added the once idolized Rasselas. The Poems and Rasselas have been reprinted times without number. The others have been re-edited with scrupulous care for the Oxford University See also:Press by the pious See also:diligence of that most enthusiastic of all Johnsonians, Dr Birkbeck Hill. But the tendency at the present day is undoubtedly to See also:prize Johnson's See also:personality and sayings more than any of his works. These are preserved to us in a body of See also:biographical See also:writing, the efficiency of which is unequalled in the whole range of literature. The See also:chief constituents are Johnson's own Letters and See also:Account of his Life from his See also:Birth to his See also:Eleventh See also:Year (1805), a fragment saved from papers burned in 1784 and not seen by See also:Boswell; the life by his old but not very sympathetic friend and See also:club-See also:fellow, Sir See also:John See also:Hawkins (1787); Mrs Thrale-See also:Piozzi's Anecdotes (1785) and Letters; the See also:Diary and Letters of Fanny See also:Burney (D'Arblay) (1841); the shorter Lives of See also:Arthur See also:Murphy, T. Tyers, &c.; far above all, of course, the unique Life by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Boswell, first published in 1791, and subsequently encrusted with vast masses of Johnsoniana in the successive See also:editions of See also:Malone, Croker, See also:Napier, See also:Fitzgerald, See also:Mowbray See also:Morris (Globe), See also:Birrell, Ingpen (copiously illustrated) and Dr Birkbeck Hill (the most exhaustive).
The sayings and Johnsoniana have been reprinted in very many and various forms. Valuable See also:work has been done in Johnsonian See also:genealogy and See also:topography by Aleyn See also:Lyell See also:Reade in his Johnsonian Gleanings, &c., and in the Memorials of Old See also:Staffordshire (ed. W. See also:Beresford). The most excellent See also:short Lives are those by F. See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant (Eng. Writers) and Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen (Eng. Men of Letters). See also:Professor W. See also:Raleigh's See also:essay (Stephen Lecture), See also:Lord See also:Rosebery's estimate (1909), and Sir Leslie Stephen's article in the Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography, with bibliography and See also:list of portraits, should be consulted. Johnson's " Club " (" The Club ") still exists, and has contained ever since his time a large proportion of the public celebrities of its day. A " Johnson Club," which has included many
Johnson scholars and has published papers, was founded in 1885. See also:Lichfield has taken an active See also:part in the See also:commemoration of Johnson since 1887, when Johnson's birthplace was secured as a municipal museum, and Lichfield was the chief See also:scene of the Bicentenary Celebrations of See also:September 1909 (fully described in A. M. Broadley's Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale, 1909), containing, together with new materials and portraits, an essay dealing with Macaulay's treatment of the Johnson-Thrale episodes by T. Seccombe). Statues both of Johnson and Boswell are in the See also:market-See also:place at Lichfield. A statue was erected in St See also:Paul's in 1825, and there are commemorative tablets in Lichfield See also:Cathedral, St See also:Nicholas (See also:Brighton), See also:Uttoxeter, St See also:Clement Danes (See also:London), Gwaynynog and elsewhere. (T.
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