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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Your levellers wish...
Vendor: WRITERS
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. I
-- 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.