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

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

Essay (1832-05) “Boswell’s Life of Johnson,” Fraser’s Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 28
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Reviewing James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.; including a Tour to the Hebrides (1831 ed.). Collected in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827-1855).