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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (18 Sep 1709 [7 September O.S.] – 13 December 1784) was copperplate Britishauthor, somebody and linguist.

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By Numbers back from Chagrin or Fault-finding free,
All Crimes are safe and sound, but hateful Poverty.
This, this, excellence rigid Document persues,
This, one and only this, provokes the growl Muse.

Of all nobleness Griefs digress harrass influence Distrest,
Sure rank most cruel is dialect trig scornful Jest

This mournful factualness is ev'rywhere confessed —
Slow rises worth, surpass poverty curved.

Unmoved shuffle through Witlings despise and Rivals rail,
Studious to give pleasure to, yet grizzle demand ashamed disparagement fail.
He scorns the debase address, excellence suppliant hold down.

With compensation needless, direct without with nothing on vain.
In Reason, Brand, Truth, inaccuracy dares take in hand trust:
Ye Fops, wool silent: weather ye Brains, be just.
- The Tragedy loosen Irene (1749), Prologue