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SAMUEL JOHNSON
BY
LESLIE STEPHEN
NEW YORK
1878
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE
CHAPTER II.
LITERARY CAREER
CHAPTER III.
JOHNSON AND HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER IV.
JOHNSON AS A LITERARY DICTATOR
CHAPTER V.
THE CLOSING YEARS OF JOHNSON'S LIFE
CHAPTER VI.
JOHNSON'S WRITINGS
SAMUEL JOHNSON.
CHAPTER I.
CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE.
Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709. His father, Michael
Johnson, was a bookseller, highly respected by the cathedral clergy, and
for a time sufficiently prosperous to be a magistrate of the town, and,
in the year of his son's birth, sheriff of the county. He opened a
bookstall on market-days at neighbouring towns, including Birmingham,
which was as yet unable to maintain a separate bookseller. The tradesman
often exaggerates the prejudices of the class whose wants he supplies,
and Michael Johnson was probably a more devoted High Churchman and Tory
than many of the cathedral clergy themselves. He reconciled himself with
difficulty to taking the oaths against the exiled dynasty.
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