...account ; for I remembered Dr. Johnson's definition of " LEXICOORAPHKB. . . 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 Laws and Definitions I have,...

...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...

...and temporary poems": and " Lexicographer," as a " writer " of Dictionaries, a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and " detailing the signification of words." The learned lexicographer, however, was not free from slips with the pen, as where he writes that "...

...definitions: The first is introspective: "Lexicographer: A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words." The second is suggestive of his irrepressible dislike of the Scotch : " Oats : A grain which in England...

...quadrangle of the University Press. Dr. Johnson defines a lexicographer as ' a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.' With learning no less encyclopaedic than Dr. Johnson's, and with a linguistic equipment such as Dr....

...dictionary compiling, defined a lexicographer as a " writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words." There were many of these harmless drudges among Johnson's predecessors in dictionary work, who compiled...

...definition in his " Dictionary of the English Language " : — " LEXICOGRAPHER : A harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." AND IN SIMILAR VEIN, John Howard, the Philanthropist, compares himself to the plodder who goes about...

...There is both humor and pathos in his definition of the word Lexicographer, " a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words." Perhaps the finest quality in the Dictionary is the fulness of the quotations illustrating the meanings...

...nor to indulge in such pleasantry as, 'Lexicographer: Writer of dictionaries : a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.' " "The work of the lexicographer nowadays," wrote Dr. Funk, "is much more prosaic, and the glasses...

...himself. His own profession of lexicographer was degraded into the business of 'a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words '. Johnson had many places of abode, but his permanent address for many years was that of Grub Street....