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 Satir
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.  