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The Vanity of Human Wishes, and brought out, with dubious success, under Garrick's auspices, his tragedy of _Irene_. In 1750, he commenced the _Rambler_. In 1752, the year his wife died, he laboured on at the Dictionary. In 1753, he became acquainted with Bennet Langton. In 1754 he wrote the life of his early patron, Cave, who died that year. In 1755, the great Dictionary, begun in 1747, was at last published, and Johnson wrote that scathing letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, who, too late, thrust upon him the patronage the poor scholar had once sought in vain. In 1756, the still struggling man was arrested for a paltry debt of £5 18_s._, from which Richardson the worthy relieved him. In 1758, when he began the _Idler_, Johnson is described as
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Johnson, says Boswell,
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Boswell's account of the manner in which Johnson compiled his Dictionary, he says,
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To these accounts, Hawkins adds his usual carping, pompous testimony.
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Dr. Johnson, he says,
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Bailey's Dictionary,
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Mr. Burney, says Boswell,