Samuel JohnsonViking Press, 1975 - 388 páginas |
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... word with a definition and an etymology , and this much of the material he seems to have written out in his own hand ... word . These quotations he provided from his vast reading , the bulk of which he did at an early stage in the work ...
... word with a definition and an etymology , and this much of the material he seems to have written out in his own hand ... word . These quotations he provided from his vast reading , the bulk of which he did at an early stage in the work ...
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... word by word . It is easy enough to define words like ' expostulation ' or ' wardrobe ' , but how does one define ' put ' or ' take ' or ' sour ' ? Confronted by a word like ' set ' , how does one sort out which of its meanings are ...
... word by word . It is easy enough to define words like ' expostulation ' or ' wardrobe ' , but how does one define ' put ' or ' take ' or ' sour ' ? Confronted by a word like ' set ' , how does one sort out which of its meanings are ...
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... word in his columns did not imply approval of its correctness or elegance . A reader who looked for a word was entitled to find it , but not necessarily to go away and employ it . Thus ' fuss ' is ' a low cant word ' ; ' fib ' is ' a ...
... word in his columns did not imply approval of its correctness or elegance . A reader who looked for a word was entitled to find it , but not necessarily to go away and employ it . Thus ' fuss ' is ' a low cant word ' ; ' fib ' is ' a ...
Contenido
Introduction | 13 |
From Wolstan to Werburgh | 58 |
Time of Decision | 68 |
Derechos de autor | |
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Anna Williams Bennet Langton Birmingham Boswell Boswell's Cave century Charlotte Lennox Chesterfield comfort conversation David Garrick death Dictionary Edial edition eighteenth eighteenth-century Elizabeth Porter emotional England English enjoyed essay fact feel Garrick give hand happened happiness Hawkins Hector Henry Thrale Hester Thrale hope human idea interest Johnson wrote Johnsonian journey judgement kind knew Langton later letter Levet Lichfield literary literature living London look Lord Lucy Porter matter memory Michael Johnson mind nature never once Oxford perhaps poem poet poetry political published Rambler Rasselas reason remarked Reynolds Sam Johnson Samuel Johnson Sarah Savage seems sense Shakespeare society St John's Gate story Stourbridge Streatham Street talk Taylor Tetty Tetty's things thought took turn Walmesley wanted Warton Whig wife word writing young
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