| rdfs:comment | - Private Samuel Johnson is a character in the film Jason X, in which he is portrayed by Jeff Geddis. A soldier working at the Crystal Lake Research Facility, Johnson is employed to guard the captive Jason Voorhees, who is being held in the facility. He is the first person to be killed in Jason X.
- Samuel "Big Boy" Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr 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 one of the touchstones of English literature. His most famous work is Life of Johnson, which -- ironically -- was written by James Boswell. Johnson knew quite well that he was a touchstone, and rather resented it: He was also a complete bellend.
- Samuel Johnson was a worker at L.O.B. Enterprises before the Great War.
- Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 CE – 13 December 1784 CE) was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. One of his quotes, remembered by Michelle Henke in 1914 PD, was: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." (HH9)
- Samuel Johnson was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. In Blackadder the Third he is portrayed by Robbie Coltrane in the episode "Ink and Incapability".
- Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 O.S. 7 September - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr 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". 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.
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| abstract | - Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 O.S. 7 September - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr 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". 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. Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford for just over a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher he moved to London, where he began to write miscellaneous pieces for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, and the play Irene. After nine years of work, Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755; it had a far-reaching impact on Modern English and has been described as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship". The Dictionary brought Johnson popularity and success. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary, 150 years later, Johnson's was viewed as the pre-eminent British dictionary. His later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of William Shakespeare's plays, and the widely read tale The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. In 1763, he befriended James Boswell, with whom he later travelled to Scotland; Johnson described their travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poets. Johnson had a tall and robust figure, but his odd gestures and tics were confusing to some on their first encounter with him. Boswell's Life, along with other biographies, documented Johnson's behaviour and mannerisms in such detail that they have informed the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome (TS), a condition not defined or diagnosed in the 18th century. After a series of illnesses he died on the evening of 13 December 1784, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In the years following his death, Johnson began to be recognised as having had a lasting effect on literary criticism, and even as the only great critic of English literature.
- Private Samuel Johnson is a character in the film Jason X, in which he is portrayed by Jeff Geddis. A soldier working at the Crystal Lake Research Facility, Johnson is employed to guard the captive Jason Voorhees, who is being held in the facility. He is the first person to be killed in Jason X.
- Samuel "Big Boy" Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr 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 one of the touchstones of English literature. His most famous work is Life of Johnson, which -- ironically -- was written by James Boswell. Johnson knew quite well that he was a touchstone, and rather resented it: He was also a complete bellend.
- Samuel Johnson was a worker at L.O.B. Enterprises before the Great War.
- Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 CE – 13 December 1784 CE) was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. One of his quotes, remembered by Michelle Henke in 1914 PD, was: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." (HH9)
- Samuel Johnson was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. In Blackadder the Third he is portrayed by Robbie Coltrane in the episode "Ink and Incapability". Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) seeks Prince George's patronage for his new book, A Dictionary of the English Language. The Prince – seeking to amend his reputation as an "utter turnip-head" – is interested, but Blackadder tries to turn him against the idea, condemning the dictionary as "the most pointless book since How to Learn French was translated into French". It soon emerges that Blackadder resents Johnson for apparently ignoring his novel. Johnson has a meeting with the Prince, during which George fails to grasp the purpose of the Dictionary and Blackadder infuriates Johnson by continuously inventing and using new words in order to convince him that his work is incomplete. However, on learning that Dr. Johnson had also intended, if given the Prince's patronage, to promote Edmund: A Butler's Tale – a book Johnson considers to be the only one better than his – Blackadder persuades George that he should, in fact, support the dictionary. However, Baldrick had burnt the novel earlier and there was no way to prove Blackadder was the author, to which Samuel comments "a burnt novel is like a" at which point a frustrated Blackadder cuts him off. Later Baldrick shows Samuel his novel, to Samuels horror he forgot to put in the word sausage in the dictionary and shouts "SAUSAGE, SAUSAGE!" before throwing the dictionary away, frustrated that his dictionary was incomplete and that he had forgotten such a common word. Blackadder also discovers that Johnson forgot the word Aardvark as well.
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