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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
To Oliver Goldsmith,...
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To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn.
Source: Epitaph on Goldsmith. 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.