Samuel Johnson and Hodge black plaque

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# Samuel Johnson and Hodge at Gough Square Standing before number 17 Gough Square, you are standing at the threshold of one of English literature's most industrious sanctuaries, where Samuel Johnson spent seventeen formative years (1746-1759) compiling the Dictionary of the English Language—a monum...
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Gough Square
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Hodge 'a very fine cat indeed' belonging to Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) of Gough Square. 'Sir, when a man is tired of London he is tired of life:for there us in London all that life can afford.' 'The chief glory of every people arises from its authors'