Deliberate aim
Note from 'Johnson' By A. R. Humphreys from The Pelican Guide To English Literature (1968)

Besides contemporary evidence, such as Boswell's Life, and the Piozzi and Murphy reprints in Johnsonian Miscellanies, ed. G. B. Hill (London, 1897), see J. W. Krutch, Samuel Johnson (London, 1948) and F. R. Leavis's ' Johnson and Augustanism' in "The Common Pursuit" (London, 1952).