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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Sir, it is...
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Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found it.
Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. III
-- 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.