...small histories, 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...

...to criminal pleasures. Shakttptare. LEXICOGRAPHER, i. [Xifwoy and wfr*] A writer of dictionaries ; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing 'he signification, of words. Watts, LEXICOGRAPHY,?. p^«oy and ypa$«.] The art or practice of writing...

...poems; whence, any mean 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...

...poema; whence, any mean 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...

...Indeed, he seems to despise 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...

...bolide); and, lastly, Jupiter 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....

...authority, as a reformer of the language, has been owing. Dr. Johnson defines a lexicographer to be " a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the significations of words," — and had Webster confined himself to this, his legitimate province, he...

...the best minds at once to purify and to enrich their mother tongue." — Goethe. " A LEXICOGRAPHER is a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words," — such is the definition which Dr. Johnson gives of the nature of the task...

...reprinted, with all its 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."...

...nothing like pride on that account ; for I remembered Dr. Johnson's definition of " LEXICOGRAPHER. . . A harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." This character I humbly imitated ; and for every detail contained in those...