Find text drawn from James Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, "Life of Johnson." Select a chronological category from the contents.
Subscribers can browse this famous dictionary by page or letter or conduct complex searches of its content. From the University of Michigan.
J section of link resource to online texts includes several for Johnson, including "Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" and "Vanity of Human Wishes."
Reproduction of a Samuel Johnson essay on criticism from June 9, 1759.
Reproduction of a Samuel Johnson essay on Mr. Minim and his proposed academy of criticism.
Project Bartleby and the Oxford Book of English Verse make it possible for everyone with Internet access to read the text of this poem.
Read the text of Johnson's poem, courtesy of the Oxford Book of English Verse and Project Bartleby.
Points the way to numerous places users can go to download various works by Johnson in either text of .zip files.
Features a number of quotable quotes from his writings and also the entire text of his essay on procrastination.
Samuel Johnson's "History of Rasselas, Prince of Abbissinia." The text dates to 1759.
Find a small collection of online texts of Johnson's writings, courtesy of the University of Toronto. Includes "The Vanity of Human Wishes."
View the 1749 edition of "Tenth Satire of Juvenal as Imitated by Samuel Johnson."