Samuel Johnson Quote

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets, concluded. Miscellaneous lives (ed. 1787)

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside