Johnson

( Dr. Samuel ), lexicographer, e ayist, and poet (1709-1784). I own I like not Johnson’s turgid style, That gives an inch th’ importance of a mile: Casts of manure a wagon-load around, To raise a simple daisy from the ground; Uplifts the club of Hercules—for what? To crush a butterfly or brain a gnat; Creates a whirlwind from the earth, to draw A goose’s feather or exalt a straw; Bids ocean labor with tremendous roar, To heave a cockle-shell upon the shore. Alike in every theme his pompous art, Heaven’s awful thunder or a rumbling cart. Peter Pindar [Dr. John Wolcot] (1816).