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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
It seems not...
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It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
Source: Lives of the English Poets, Milton (1779-81), discussing Milton's Areopagitica.
-- 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.