This author of The Rambler promised to "correct what is corrupt, and to explain what is obscure" in his edition of Shakespeare's plays.
This man declared "Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again." He critiqued the work of Thomas Hanmer in some "Miscellaneous Observations" on Macbeth. This man has been misinterpreted as "declaring independence from patronage" in his Letter to Chesterfield. This man discussed his infamous tendency to procrastinate in one of a series of 208 short moralizing essays inspired by The (*) Spectator. This man, who was famous for his odd gestures and foul mouth, probably had Tourette's Syndrome. This author of The Rambler promised to "correct what is corrupt, and to explain what is obscure" in his edition of Shakespeare's plays. He critiqued poets like Milton and Gray in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. For 10 points, name this 18thÂ­century English author and compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language.
This man declared "Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again."
Samuel  Johnson 