Which of these is a central idea in the section "A Famous Visitor"?

The colonists had difficulty coming together to revolt because they

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

Which of the following characters from a midsummer night's dream is used as an allusion to earlier english poetry