To many of us, I suppose, an intimacy with that Johnsonian group has been a first introduction to an interest in English literature.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Even the Johnsonian conservatism implies hatred for cant, for mere foppery and sham sentimentalism; and though it uses them, insists with Crabbe upon keeping in contact with fact.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
"Sir, honest poverty is to be respected, but not when it is allied to pretension"-a good, thorough Johnsonian speech!
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey