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To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Samuel Johnson
Disappointment, Darkness, Labyrinth
Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.422, OUP Oxford
To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets