In Reply to: Samuel Johnson posted by Richard Boyko on September 28, 1997 at 11:03:18:
: Ahoy, everyone! : (My, this hall has a mighty big echo :-)) : Its good to see a Lecture Hall devoted to the : writings of one of my favorite authors. My advice to : you? Don't read Boswell's Life of Johnson until : after you have read Johnson's major works. : What are they? Well, there's Relas: The wisest : and saddest book in all literature, with the sole : exception of Ecclesiastes. The Rambler Essays. One of : whichm, on the importance of planning and the dangers : of sloth, was written in haste while the printer's boy : was waiting at the door. His Dictionary was the first : English dictionary in the modern sense. In fact, the : OED was intended as a revision of Johnson's Dictionary. : There's also "London", an imitation of one of the odes of : I think it was Juvenal. : My library is currently (28 September 1997) in : storage, but, I can try to introduce as many of you as : I can to this truly great writer. : I'll put a link to my homepage at the bottom here. : Its not much, but I'm still learning the art of HTML : and web page design.