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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Mrs. Montagu has...
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Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. IV
-- 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.