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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Youth enters the...
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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve.
Source: Rambler, no. 127 (London, 4 June 1751; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol 4, ed. by W. J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss, 1969).
-- 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.