[1] From Boswell's "Life of Johnson."
[2] The author of the "Lectures on Rhetoric," who was born in 1718 and died in 1800.
[3] From Boswell's "Life of Johnson."
[4] From Boswell's "Life of Johnson." Wilkes was the famous publicist and political agitator who was expelled from Parliament, imprisoned and outlawed, but afterward elected Lord Mayor of London and allowed to sit in Parliament many years.
[5] From Boswell's "Life of Johnson." Johnson was married in 1734, when his age was twenty-five.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Born in 1770; died in 1850; graduated from Cambridge in 1791; traveled on the Continent in 1790-92; settled at Grasmere in 1799; married Mary Hutchinson in 1802; settled at Rydal Mount in 1813; traveled in Scotland in 1814 and in 1832; traveled on the Continent again in 1820 and in 1837; became poet laureate in 1843; published his first volume in 1793 and his last, "The Prelude," in 1850.