Electronic Texts

Scanned and edited by Jack Lynch

• John Dryden, "Alexander's Feast"
• Johnson's Life of Ascham
• Bedlam Visits
• Johnson on The Beggar's Opera
• Johnson's Life of Browne
• Johnson's Life of Collins
• John Denham, "Cooper's Hill"
• Johnson's Fear of Damnation
• Johnson on Death
• Johnson and Dodd
• An Essay on Criticism
• Katherine Philips, "Friendship's Mystery"
• Johnson's Life of Gray
• Johnson's Annotations on Hamlet
• Johnson, Account of the Harleian Library
• Bernard Mandeville, "The Grumbling Hive"
• Selected Hogarth Prints
• Johnson on Hume
• Johnson, Review of Soame Jenyns
• Mary, Lady Chudleigh, "To the Ladies"
• Pope: "To a Lady"
• Johnson's Letter to Chesterfield, 7 February 1755
• Johnson, "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet"
• Selections from Locke's Essay
• Locke, Essay, Book II, Chapter 1 (selections)
• Locke, Essay, Book IV, Chapter 19
• Johnson, "London" (1738 Edition)
• Boswell's London Journal
• Katherine Philips, "Orinda to Lucasia Parting"
• Macaulay's Review of Croker's Boswell
• From The Man of Feeling
• Johnson's "Morbid Melancholy"
• A Modest Proposal
• From the Newgate Calendar
• On-Line Texts for English 3
• Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy
• Johnson's Plan of an English Dictionary
• Johnson, "The Life of Pope" (Abridged)
• Johnson, "The Life of Pope"
• Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary
• Johnson on the Death Penalty
• Johnson, Rambler 12
• Johnson, Rambler 32
• Johnson, Rambler 60
• The Rape of the Lock
• Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
• The Life of Savage
• Texts Scanned by Jack Lynch
• Jack Sheppard
• Selected Opinions of Samuel Johnson
• Johnson's Prayers and Meditations
• Johnson on Smart
• Sprat, "History of the Royal Society" (selections)
• From "A Digression on Madness"
• Johnson's Review of Hanway on Tea
• Johnson on Executions
• Boswell's Visit to Tyburn and Newgate
• Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1749
• Defoe, Apparation of Mrs. Veal
• From The London Spy
• Jonathan Wild
• James Thomson, "Winter, A Poem"