Johnson era conosciuto come un tenderhearted, tipo l'uomo, e inclinata per visualizzare le proprie colpe gravi. Rimase sotto la pioggia a Lichfield marketplace tutti un giorno, in auto-imposto la penitenza per essere stato maleducato con suo padre. Samuel Johnson (Settembre 18, 1709 - Decem
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Johnson was known as a tenderhearted, kind man, and inclined to view his own faults severely. He stood in the rain in Lichfield marketplace all one day, in self-imposed penance for having been rude to his father. Samuel Johnson (September 18, 1709 - December 13, 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. He is the subject of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. Johnson obtained some notice with his works London (1738) and The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) - both of which are considered great poems - but his efforts in the 1750's are part of why he's considered a titan. This decade saw the creation of his Dictionary (1755), his Rambler essays (1750-52), his Idler essays (1758-60), and Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759). Johnson was a tall and robust man. His odd gestures and tics were disconcerting to some on first meeting him. Boswell's Life, along with other biographies, documented his behavior and mannerisms in such detail that they have informed the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome, a condition not defined or diagnosed in the 18th century. After a series of illnesses, he died in 1784, at the age of 75, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
