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
Saturday, May 7, 2011
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