"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. SAMUEL JOHNSON, English writer and lexicographer, was the son of Michael Johnson (1656-1731), bookseller and magistrate of Lichfield, Samuel Johnson, the premier English literary figure of the mid- and late eighteenth century, was a writer of exceptional range: a poet, a lexicographer, Next only to William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson is perhaps the most quoted of English writers. The latter part of the eighteenth century is often (in 1-208. (1750-52) [with the exception of five, all essays Johnson] [Written William Guthrie, edited Samuel Johnson; First appeared in
Charleston Conference Proceedings 2007, 7th Edition