In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

Rep. Samuel S. Cox saw Johnson at this time and remarked that, when asked if the President would modify his views, " He got as ugly as the devil.

Johnson appointed one judge to the United States Court of Claims, Samuel Milligan, who served from 1868 to 1874.

* Rehnquist, William H. Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson ( 1994 ).

The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of " Johnson " ( including a " Howard Johnson ", a " Dr. Samuel Johnson ", a " Van Johnson " and an " Olson N. Johnson ").

* Richard Collier as Dr. Samuel Johnson

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

Conservatives also objected to Burke's support of the American Revolution, which the Tory Samuel Johnson, for example, attacked in " Taxation No Tyranny ".

* 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer ( b. 1709 )

ranging from violent diatribes by John Wilkes, to vulgar jokes and obscene cartoons in the popular press, and the haughty ridicule by intellectuals such as Samuel Johnson that was much resented by Scots.

* 1846 – Samuel Johnson, Nigerian historian and priest ( d. 1901 )

He was both gregarious and keenly intellectual, with a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann.

In 1791 James Boswell dedicated his Life of Samuel Johnson to Reynolds.

* Dr. Samuel Johnson ( September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784 )

At least since the days of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, analysis of the play has centred on the question of Macbeth's ambition, commonly seen as so dominant a trait that it defines the character.

* 1740 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson ( d. 1795 )

The English author, critic, and biographer, Samuel Johnson, was convinced that Macpherson was " a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries ".

* A Vision of Britain Through Time James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, discussion in entries for 22 and 23 September 1773.

For example, many 18th-and 19th-century scholars, including Samuel Johnson, Lewis Theobald, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, and James Halliwell-Phillipps, placed the composition of Henry VIII prior to 1604, as they believed Elizabeth's execution of Mary, Queen of Scots ( the then king James I's mother ) made any vigorous defence of the Tudors politically inappropriate in the England of James I. Oxfordians cite these sources to place the composition of the play within Oxford's lifetime.

Shakespeare was also noted for his frequent play with less serious puns, the " quibbles " of the sort that made Samuel Johnson complain, " A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller!

* 1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

** Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1906 )

* In the 1993 film Amos & Andrew, Samuel L. Jackson's character has won the Pulitzer Prize for a play called Yo Brother, Where Art Thou?

* 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize: Untold Stories

However, the university has also contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing ; author Anthony Burgess ; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre ; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.

Professor Dennis Showalter, the 2005 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Military History, is an expert on World War II, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy, reviewer for the History Book Club, and author of Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, the 1992 winner of the American Historical Association's Paul Birdsall Prize.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Henry Festing Jones, Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon ( 1835 – 1902 )-A Memoir

* Samuel Johnson Prize: Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War

* Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2

* Samuel Johnson Prize: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Wain, Samuel Johnson

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Beckett

* Formentor Prize: Jorge Luis Borges and Samuel Beckett

It has won the £ 5, 000 Duff Cooper Prize for an outstanding literary work in the field of history, biography or politics, the £ 3, 000 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson for the best work of non-fiction published in the United Kingdom and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada.

* Samuel C. C. Ting, Nobel Prize laureate, attended NCKU prior to moving back to the United States

The best known of these is Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 1989 ), who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

Parallel Worlds was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in the UK.

The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction ( motto: " All the Best Stories are True ") is one of the most prestigious prizes for non-fiction writing.

From its inception until 2008 the award was fully named The BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize and managed by BBC Four.

In 2009 it was renamed as BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and managed by BBC Two.