Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), from the West Midlands of England, “wrote in almost every possible genre from advertisement to epitaph, from prayer to parody, from satire to tragedy.”

republications

Sermon XXIV

* The following undated sermon was left by Dr. Johnson to be published by the Rev. John Taylor. The Johnson scholar Donald Greene noted of this sermon and another accompanying sermon: “That they were written by the Tory Johnson to be delivered by the Whig Taylor from his pulpit demonstrates to