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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
Dear Doctor (said...
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Dear Doctor (said he one day to a common acquaintance, who lamented the tender state of his inside), do not be like the spider, man; and spin conversation thus incessantly out of thy own bowels.
Source: Johnsonian Miscellanies, Vol. I, 'Recollections of Dr. Johnson by Miss Reynolds' (G. B. Hill)
-- 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.