In Reply to: Re: posted by Darryl on October 21, 1997 at 22:34:58:
: : 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.