...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...the occupation, for he defines a lexicographer : ' A writer of dictionaries ; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words : ' saying in effect that the employment was beneath the attention of the ' leviathan of literature,'...

...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...

...would be sufficient to account for the nature of the production to say that it was the outburst of an impetuous man of genius chained down to dictionary...research of etymology, the various yet accurate display of definition, and the rich collection of authorities, were reserved for the superior mind of our great...

...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...

...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...