Portrait of Samuel Johnson commissioned for Henry Thrale’s Streatham Park gallery (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The two most engaging powers of an author are, to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” — Samuel Johnson
(Grumpy looking SOB. I’d rather look at his lovely wife! But, I gave her blog-time last Fall. Very easy solve. Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Didn’t find this an easy solve at all. Having a verb before a comma – incorrectly – was misleading, and I couldn’t justify the first word being THE for quite a while. And in general it didn’t seem to have many particularly-familiar letter patterns. Guessing that the last name might be JOHNSON seemed to open it up.
I must’ve been in that zone, Art! — YUR 🙂