 | R. R. K. Hartmann - 2003 - 504 páginas
...then come a time when in Dr. Jobnson's famous definition of a lexicographer. 'a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words', at least the 'drudge' part can safely be dropped. Postscript The above article grew out of a public... | |
 | Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of the History of English Lynda Mugglestone - 2005 - 310 páginas
...dictionary. Scores of other entries such as oats, patron, or indeed lexicographer ('a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words') do the same. The OED, if less overtly, displays similar indications of the human factors which influence... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic - 2005 - 546 páginas
...Dictionary of the English Language, 1755) Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. Patron. A wretch who supports with indolence, and is paid with flattery. There is a tale behind this... | |
 | Sol Steinmetz - 2005 - 234 páginas
...work, a fact noted long ago by Samuel Johnson, who defmed a lexicographer as "a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification, of words." The Anglo-Jewish periodicals from which citations were excerpted for this book are mostly the familiar... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 678 páginas
...lexicographer, " that harmless drudge," as Johnson, himself one of the craft, has designated him " that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words," is of necessity an historian — and Etymology becomes History. If we inquire into the character of... | |
 | 1884 - 594 páginas
...dictionaries, in his great work of 1755, in which he defines a lexicographer as " a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." Johnson's method of quotations was carried much farther by Charles Richardson, and brought to perfection... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1915 - 588 páginas
...the lexicographer was defined as "a writer of dictionaries" and described as "a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." When in 1857 the Philological Society, acting on the suggestion of Archbishop Trench, the eminent philologist... | |
 | 1854 - 820 páginas
...cannot but feel the full force of Johnson's definition of a lexicographer : " A harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words." There are two plans upon which a lexicon may be constructed. One of these is the plan of the cyclopedia.... | |
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A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. 
