Hi everyone:
Here’s a link to an electronic book containing Henry Fielding’s essay “An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men”:
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03349159&id=HDromOmR3tMC&pg=RA3-PA279&lpg=RA3-PA279&dq=%22on+the+knowledge+of+the+characters+of+men%22&as_brr=1#PRA3-PA281,M1
Here are the Samuel Johnson links:
Life of Milton:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/milton.html
Life of Savage:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/savage.html
Life of Cowley: [the third biography]:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5098
Life of Pope:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/pope.html
Samuel Johnson’s Rambler 60:
http://www.samueljohnson.com/ram60.html
Samuel Johnson’s Idler 84:
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/idler84.html