Life of Johnson.
“ JJE SPOKE with much contempt of the notice taken of Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker. He said, it was all vanity and childishness: and that such objects were, to those who patronised them, mere mirrours of their own superiority. ‘They had better (said he), furnish the man with good implements for his trade, than raise subscriptions for his poems. He may make an excellent shoemaker, but can never make a good poet. A school-boy’s exercise may be a pretty thing for a schoolboy ; but it is no treat for a man.’"
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20231, 15 February 1934, Page 8
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93Life of Johnson. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20231, 15 February 1934, Page 8
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