This author's only play is titled after a friend of Aspasia who converts to Islam to gain favor with a sultan named Mahomet, and he also wrote an allegorical tale in which Pekuah wants to live in a convent after she accompanies the title character and his advisor, Imlac, on a quest for happiness.  "When Statutes glean the Refuse of the Sword, / How much more safe the Vassal than the Lord" is a line from one of his poems whose second section tells of how, "With chearful Wisdom and instructive Mirth," Democritus will rise once more from the Earth
This author's only play is titled after a friend of Aspasia who converts to Islam to gain favor with a sultan named Mahomet, and he also wrote an allegorical tale in which Pekuah wants to live in a convent after she accompanies the title character and his advisor, Imlac, on a quest for happiness.  "When Statutes glean the Refuse of the Sword, / How much more safe the Vassal than the Lord" is a line from one of his poems whose second section tells of how, "With chearful Wisdom and instructive Mirth," Democritus will rise once more from the Earth.  That poem, a reworking of Juvenal's Tenth Satire, is titled "The (*) Vanity of Human Wishes."  Also the author of a noted dictionary, he wrote a travelogue detailing his trip to the Scottish isles with a friend who would write his biography.  For 10 points, name this author whose "Life" was written about by James Boswell.
This author's only play is titled after a friend of Aspasia who converts to Islam to gain favor with a sultan named Mahomet, and he also wrote an allegorical tale in which Pekuah wants to live in a convent after she accompanies the title character and his advisor, Imlac, on a quest for happiness.  