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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
The most heterogeneous...
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises. . .
Source: Lives of the English Poets, Cowley (1779 --81), on metaphysical poets.
-- 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.