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Date: Saturday, December 21, 1751
"The writer of essays escapes many embarrassments to which a large work would have exposed him; he seldom harasses his reason with long trains of consequences, dims his eyes with the perusal of antiquated volumes, or burthens his memory with great accumulations of preparatory knowledge."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Saturday, December 21, 1751
"A careless glance upon a favourite author, or transient survey of the varieties of life, is sufficient to supply the first hint or seminal idea, which, enlarged by the gradual accretion of matter stored in the mind, is by the warmth of fancy easily expanded into flowers, and sometimes ripened in...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
