Saturday, May 7, 2011

Daily Dose

From The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language, by Melvyn Bragg

CAME THE HOUR

"Came the hour, came Dr. Samuel Johnson, an intimidating scholar, the monarch of London wits, a beacon of his age, a savage melancholic and, like Newton, an effortless eccentric."

From Chapter 16, Mastering the Language

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