Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Life of Samuel Johnson" by Boswell, 3 volumes...
...ever given to library is that of Charles Sumner, who left all his books, in themselves a library, to the college. Many of his books are of interest on account of their former owners, two or three having belonged to Louis XIV, one to Milton, and one to Samuel Johnson, besides Bunyan's Bible and Lord Byron's poems of Ossian. Others are interesting on account of their editions several belonging to the original editions of the fifteenth century. Among the rarest is a book of Aquinas' printed by Guttenberg There are also several illuminated manuscripts, one of the "Order...
Lessing was perhaps the greatest critic that ever lived. His superiority was demonstrated in his judgment of Shakespeare, whom he understood far better than his English contemporary, Johnson. His literary reviews were fearless, and even his personal friends were not spared. He freed the German drama from its slavery to the French school, and showed how the French drama failed to conform not only to the German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion...
...following men be at Bartletts at 3 p. m. sharp today to go to Springfield Hallowell, Crosby, McDonald, Stickney, Blanchard, P. Trafford, Fitzhugh, Tilton, Cranston, Campbell, Upton, Johnson, Hutchinson, Dean, Lee, Saxe, B. Trafford, Kendricken, Fearing, White. All these men be at Gymnasium some time between 9 and 11 to see about suits...
...following men will be on Jarvis at 3.45 o'clock sharp, dressed: Crosby, Hutchinson, Curtis, '92, Wrenn, Goldthwaite, Upton, Stickney, Tilton, Cranston, Campbell, Johnson, L. S., Blanchard, Fitzhugh, Trafford, Mason, Higgins, Bangs, Grimes, Steedman, McDonald, Slocum, Aiken, Pulsifer, Tyson, Faulkner, Darling...