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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
It is very...
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
Source: Hester Piozzi, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786; repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 1, ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, 1897).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.