Johnson's Plan of an English Dictionary
1747 proposal for an English dictionary.
Lives of the Poets
Etext with extensive links for works of each poet.
On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet.
Short poem by Johnson from The Oxford Book of English Verse.
One-and-Twenty.
Johnson poem from The Oxford Book of English Verse.
Preface to Shakespeare's Plays
Johnson's preface to his 1765 edition of Shakespeare's Plays.
Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of t
Text of the speech in HTML format.
Rasselas
University of Pennsylvania's hypertext edition.
Samuel Johnson Quotations
From Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th edition.
The Rambler
Etext from the University of Virginia.
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Text at University of Pennsylvania.
The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Ju
Excerpts at the University of Toronto.