| British essayists - 1802 - 220 strani
...dictionaries, and temporary poems :" and, " Lexicographer, a writer of Dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." The reflections on death in No. 41, were the first effusion of the author's sorrow on the death of... | |
| 1822 - 430 strani
...production is called grub-street. '• LBXICOQRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." His fondness for social meetings and dulis at taverns is well known. We learn from Boswell lhat he... | |
| 1823 - 442 strani
...production ia called grub-street. " LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." His fondness for social meetings and clubs at taverns is well known. We learn from Boswell that he... | |
| 1829 - 762 strani
...lexicographer, " that harmless drudge," ns Johnson, himself one of the craft, has de•ignatcd him, " that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words,'* is of necessity an historian — and Elymoloi/g becomes History. If we inquire inlo the character of... | |
| John Rowbotham - 1838 - 404 strani
...and ypaijiw (grapho), I write. A writer of dictionaries; " a harmless drudge," says Johnson, " that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words." Mac'-ro-dac"-ty-li, s. — fiaKpoe (makros), long; and SaKrv\oe (daktulos), a finger. A class of birds... | |
| 1892 - 688 strani
...tenant is. der Donnergott. The lexicographer, according to Dr. Johnson, is " a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words." But he can scarcely be called harmless anless he does his work accurately. He is not expected to command... | |
| 1864 - 808 strani
...would be sufficient to account for the nature of the production to say that it was the outburst of arr impetuous man of genius chained down to dictionary...research of etymology, the various yet accurate display df definition, and the rich collection of authorities, were reserved for the superior mind of our great... | |
| 1865 - 980 strani
...to purify and to enrich their mother »gué." — Goethe. "A LEXICOGRAPHES is u harmlese drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words," — Wfib is the definition which Dr. Johnson gives of the nature of the tut of " the writer of dictionaries... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1870 - 868 strani
...quotations, the " original Johnson " s " LKXICOORAPHKR, ni A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." would be worth to the common reader ten times as much as either of the " unabridgeds." What is the... | |
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