Samuel Johnson was no Mel Gibson ... where he was an impoverished but extremely well-read student. Johnson, Boswell wrote, "felt himself overwhelmed with an horrible hypochondria, with perpetual ...

And then, late in 1784, Samuel Johnson died of congestive heart failure at age 75. The news left Boswell “stunned, and in a kind of amaze.” It was well known that he had long intended to write ...

Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Johnson's birth ...

Samuel Johnson was also praised by the Earl of Chesterfield ... His biographer, James Boswell, wrote that Johnson was once invited to give a toast at Oxford University and raised his glass ...

In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his friend, the Scotsman James Boswell ...

Like many of us living in the 21st century, Samuel Johnson could not get on in the morning without a cup of some restoring and energizing beverage. According to James Boswell, he would habitually ...

It was there that he met with Samuel Johnson. On Samuel Johnson’s death, Boswell moved to London and spent the final 10 years of his life there. Despite his relative literary success with ...