All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

“Boswell’s Life of Johnson,” Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827-1855)
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Originally published in Fraser's Magazine, Vol 5, # 28 (1832). Reviewing a new 1831 edition of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson.