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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
In a man's...
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process.
Source: Letter, 27 Oct. 1777, to Hester Thrale (published in The Letters of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2, no. 559, ed. by R. W. Chapman, 1952). In his biography, Johnson is reported as saying, It is now become so
-- 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.