AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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love.”
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honor.”
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money.”
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his party.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the greatest biographies ever written was James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson. The biography contains a quotation from Johnson that many writers repeat: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” I must confess that, per his universal claim, I am that blockhead.
Detailed explanation-2: -Johnson’s travel writings include A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775). His Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (1779–81) was a significant critical work.
Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 in Lichfield, Staffordshire. The son of a bookseller, he rose to become one of the greatest literary figures of the eighteenth century, most famously compiling A Dictionary of the English Language.
Detailed explanation-4: -Samuel Johnson was an English poet, essayist, and lexicographer who produced a pioneering and influential Dictionary of the English Language. However, he is less well-known today for his writings than as the biographical subject for Boswell, a lawyer from Scotland who first met Johnson in 1763.