Samuel Johnson's dictionary was influential in establishing a standard form of______.

A、Thomas Nash

B、Samuel Johnson

C、Edmund Spenser

D、Francis Bacon

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson was an English writer. He was born on 18 September 1709. He was_31_ at a grammar school. He spent a brief_ 32_ at Oxford University. However, he was forced to leave due to lack of money. Unable to find teaching work, he drifted into writing. In 1735, he married. In 1737, Johnson _33 _ to London. He wrote on a _ 34_variety of subjects. He_ 35_ became famous in the literary field. His Dictionary of the English Language was_ 36__ in 1755. It was the most_ 37_ dictionary at that time. Johnson was_ 38__ short of money, despite the _ 39_ _ of his dictionary. In 1762,his_ 40 situation changed with a government pension (养老金) Johnson died on 13 December 1784.

A. huge B. formally C. success D. important

E. moved F. period G. continually H. financial

I. published J. book K. educated L. Gradually

Who published An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828?

A．Samuel Johnson

B．Noah Webster

C．William Cullen Bryant

D．Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature". Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, Johnson attended Pembroke College, Oxford, for just over a year, but a lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher, he moved to London, where he began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography Life of Mr Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, and the play Irene. After nine years of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755. It had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship". This work brought Johnson popularity and success. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later, Johnson's was the pre-eminent British dictionary. His later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, and the widely read tale The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. In 1763, he befriended James Boswell, with whom he later travelled to Scotland; Johnson described their travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poets. 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 Johnson's 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 on the evening of 13 December 1784, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In the years following his death, Johnson began to be recognized as having had a lasting effect on literary criticism, and he was claimed by some to be the only truly great critic of English literature. 18.Which one is the last work of Samuel Johnson?

A、A Dictionary of the English Language

B、A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

C、Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

D、The Gentleman's Magazine

Samuel Johnson was known in review of _____.

A、Homer

B、Shakespeare

C、Plato

Samuel Johnson's unhappiness was caused by______.

A．his melancholy nature

B．his physical disabilities

C．his strength of character

D．his ill-temper

A Dictionary of the English Language, ______ by Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the first real attempt as a systematic and interestingly written survey of English usage.

A．constructed

B．composed

C．compiled

D．collected

A Dictionary of the English Language, _______. by Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the first real attempt at a systematic and interestingly written survey of English usage.

A．constructed

B．composed

C．compiled

D．collected