Download or read book Dr Johnson s Dictionary of Modern Life written by Dr. Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious update of his original Dictionary, bewigged lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson takes a curmudgeonly look at modern life, from Celebrity Big Brother to dubstep In 2009 Dr Samuel Johnson made a surprise reemergence from 18th century retirement and began Twittering. It proved the perfect vehicle for his acerbic, aphoristic wit and he has quickly become the darling of the site. The Guardian calls him the "greatest" thing on Twitter and the Telegraph dubs him its "star." Our gouty man of letters finds the modern world in a parlous state. It is peopled with fools like "Raisin-ey'd Tyrant Mister Nick GRIFFIN" and "BABOON-SLAYER, Fop, Macaroni, Dandy & Folderol, Mister AA Gill." His attempts to negotiate a path through the vagaries of modern life do not fare well either--for instance, on a trip to "Mister LIBERTY'S blast'd Haberdashery," upon finding "all else clad as Lumber-Jacks, I left thwart'd & alone... unwilling to dress as an unmanly Pastiche of Mister COBAIN." From Top Gear and the Daily Mail to David Cameron and Celebrity Big Brother, nothing escapes his sardonic gaze.
Download or read book Dr Johnson s Dictionary of Modern Life written by Dr Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009 Dr Samuel Johnson made a surprise re-emergence from eighteenth century retirement and began Twittering. It proved the perfect vehicle for his acerbic, aphoristic wit and he has quickly become the darling of the site. The Guardian calls him the 'greatest' thing on Twitter and the Telegraph dubs him its 'star'. Our gouty man of letters finds the modern world in a parlous state. It is peopled with fools like "Raisin-ey'd Tyrant Mister Nick GRIFFIN" and "BABOON-SLAYER, Fop, Macaroni, Dandy & Folderol, Mister AA Gill". His attempts to negotiate a path through the vagaries of modern life do not fare well either - for instance, on a trip to "Mister LIBERTY'S blast'd Haberdashery", upon finding "all else clad as Lumber-Jacks, I left thwart'd & alone... unwilling to dress as an unmanly Pastiche of Mister COBAIN." In his Dictionary of Modern Life, our gouty man of letters takes a wickedly funny look at all things modern. From Top Gear and the Daily Mail to Dubstep and Celebrity Big Brother, nothing escapes his sardonic gaze.
Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the Dictionary. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Johnson s Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Johnson s Dictionary written by Samuel Johnson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1981 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, this volume tells the story of Samuel Johnson's endeavor to create an authoritative English dictionary. Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure--his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Download or read book Johnson s Dictionary written by Samuel Johnson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browse through 5,000 of Samuel Johnson's extraordinary contributions to the English language. You know you're not looking up ordinary definitions when you read that a lexicographer is "a writer of dictionaries: a harmless drudge". Many of the words have gone completely out of fashion (abecedarian, billingsgate, clapperclaw, yux, and zeugma), but once you see their meanings, you may want to bring them back.
Download or read book Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language" from Samuel Johnson. English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer (1709-1784).
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries written by Sarah Ogilvie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding of objectivity, prescription, and description? Since the first monolingual dictionary appeared in 1604, the genre has sparked evolution, innovation, devotion, plagiarism, and controversy. This comprehensive volume presents an overview of essential issues pertaining to dictionary style and content and a fresh narrative of the development of English dictionaries throughout the centuries. Essays on the regional and global nature of English lexicography (dictionary making) explore its power in standardising varieties of English and defining nations seeking independence from the British Empire: from Canada to the Caribbean. Leading scholars and lexicographers historically contextualise an array of dictionaries and pose urgent theoretical and methodological questions relating to their role as tools of standardisation, prestige, power, education, literacy, and national identity.
Download or read book The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time written by Robert McCrum and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Oldcastle Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers to which are Prefixed a History of the Language and an English Grammar written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Universal Etymological English Dictionary written by Nathan Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1731 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dr Johnson s Dictionary written by Henry Hitchings and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnson rose to the challenge, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his Dictionary. He imagined it would take three years. Eight years later it was finally published, full of idiosyncrasies, but complete nevertheless. It would become the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century. This is the story of Johnson's attempt to define each and every word. In wonderfully engaging chapters, Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way and his ultimate triumph.
