I have thought...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

WRITERS I-Z > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson

I have thought...

Vendor: WRITERS I-Z

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the vis inertiae and give elasticity to the muscles. . . .

Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 19 Sept. 1777 (1791).
-- 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.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA