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<blockquote data-quote="resu" data-source="post: 13662" data-attributes="member: 246"><p>I've been re-reading some works of Samuel Johnson and lately started reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, too. Johnson's best known for having written the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, one to rival those of the Italian or French, but whereas they had academies who worked out their dictionaries, Samuel Johnson wrote his alone, only using the help of amanuenses. And he wrote much else besides, but I like him best for his poetry: his <a href="https://www.jacklynch.net/Texts/vanity.html" target="_blank">Vanity of Human Wishes</a> is the best poem of its kind (verse satire).</p><p></p><p>If the name's not familiar, maybe one of his portraits is:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]2331[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]2332[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="resu, post: 13662, member: 246"] I've been re-reading some works of Samuel Johnson and lately started reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, too. Johnson's best known for having written the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, one to rival those of the Italian or French, but whereas they had academies who worked out their dictionaries, Samuel Johnson wrote his alone, only using the help of amanuenses. And he wrote much else besides, but I like him best for his poetry: his [URL='https://www.jacklynch.net/Texts/vanity.html']Vanity of Human Wishes[/URL] is the best poem of its kind (verse satire). If the name's not familiar, maybe one of his portraits is: [ATTACH type="full" width="365px"]2331[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" width="333px"]2332[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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