About Samuel Johnson
1709 – 1784
English writer, critic and lexicographer, compiler of 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), whose conversation was recorded by James Boswell.
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“Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”
“I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.”
“Music is the universal language of mankind—poetry their universal pastime and delight.”
“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”