Before opposing the American independence activists in Taxation No Tyranny, this author used Juvenalian satire as a model for his poem "The Vanity of Human Wishes." He was the first to include real literary quotations as usage examples, in his monumental Dictionary of the English Language. He may be best-known not as an author but as a subject of a work based on two decades of friendship with a Scottish attorney. For 10 points, name this eighteenth-century literary figure, the subject of a noted biography by James Boswell.
Before opposing the American independence activists in Taxation No Tyranny, this author used Juvenalian satire as a model for his poem "The Vanity of Human Wishes." He was the first to include real literary quotations as usage examples, in his monumental Dictionary of the English Language. He may be best-known not as an author but as a subject of a work based on two decades of friendship with a Scottish attorney. For 10 points, name this eighteenth-century literary figure, the subject of a noted biography by James Boswell.
Before opposing the American independence activists in Taxation
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