Johnson, Samuel. 1705–1773. Dramatist. Author Hurlothrumbo, etc.
Johnson, Samuel. 1709–1784. Lexicographer and miscellaneous writer. Author of London, a poetical satire, Rasselas, a didactic novel, Lives of the Poets, Dict. of the Eng. Lang., and numerous other works. His style is heavy and ponderous, but dignified, sonorous, and peculiarly his own. He was the greatest literary figure in England between 1745 and 1784. See Boswell's Life of, edited by J. W. Croker; also Johnson by Leslie Stephen in Eng. Men of Letters. Pub. Har. Le. Lit. Mac.
Johnston, Arthur. 1587–1641. Scotch poet. Noted for a fine Latin translation of the Psalms.
Johnstone, Charles. —— 1800. Novelist. His Adventures of a Guinea was once popular. See W. Scott's Lives of Eminent Novelists.
Jones, Sir Wm. 1746–1794. Poet, Orientalist, and translator. See edition of 1807 with Life.
Jonson, Ben. 1574–1637. Dramatist. A robust, dignified writer, more popular in his day than Shakespeare. Volpone, Silent Woman, Alchemist, Every Man in his Humor, and Every Man out of his Humor are his best comedies: Catiline and Sejanus his only tragedies. His pastoral drama, The Sad Shepherd, is graceful and sweet. See Cunningham's edition of Johnson, 1870, and Schlegel's Dramatic Literature. Pub. Apl. Rou.
Jortin, John. 1698–1770. Ecclesiastical historian.
Jowett, Benjamin. 1817 ——. Greek scholar. Translator of Plato and Thucydides. Pub Scr.
Junius. See Francis, Sir Philip.