This man's life was the subject of an influential biography by James Boswell.
This author noted that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life." He included fifty-two critical biographies in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. This man described one of his trips in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. This man's life was the subject of an influential biography by James Boswell. This writer created a work which pioneered giving quotes as context for definitions. For 10 points, name this lexicographer and critic who authored A Dictionary of the English Language.
This author noted that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life."
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