The Rambler
- Etext from the University of Virginia.
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all

Preface to Shakespeare's Plays
- Johnson's preface to his 1765 edition of Shakespeare's Plays.
- http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/criticism/johns_il.html

The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated
- Excerpts at the University of Toronto.
- http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/johnson1.html

The Vanity of Human Wishes
- Text at University of Pennsylvania.
- gopher://dept.english.upenn.edu/00/E-Text/PEAL/Johnson/vanity.49

Rasselas
- University of Pennsylvania's hypertext edition.
- gopher://dept.english.upenn.edu/00/E-Text/PEAL/Johnson/rasselas

Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-lane, 1747
- Text of the speech in HTML format.
- http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/johnson1b.html

Samuel Johnson Quotations
- From Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th edition.
- http://www.bartleby.com/99/249.html

One-and-Twenty.
- Johnson poem from The Oxford Book of English Verse.
- http://www.bartleby.com/101/450.html

The Life of Savage
- Etext of the work.
- http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/savage.html

Johnson's Plan of an English Dictionary
- 1747 proposal for an English dictionary.
- http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/plan.html

The Life of Ascham
- Text of the biography.
- http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/ascham.html

On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet.
- Short poem by Johnson from The Oxford Book of English Verse.
- http://www.bartleby.com/101/451.html

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
- The complete online HTML text.
- http://www.selfknowledge.com/rslas10.htm