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Johnson's Dictionary, sixth folio edition, 1785 : Volume 1 and Volume 2 at the Internet Archive. Plan and Preface of A Dictionary of the English Language public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Web site : Samuel Johnson Dictionary Sources, an extensive examination of the sources of quotations in Johnson's Dictionary.
Johnson's Dictionary had far-reaching effects on Modern English, [2] and was pre-eminent until the arrival of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later. [9] Boswell's Life was selected by Johnson biographer Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
In 2005, Hitchings published Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, [4] a biography of Samuel Johnson's epochal A Dictionary of the English Language (1755). The first popular account of Dr Johnson's magnum opus, it "charts the struggle and ultimate triumph of one of the first attempts to 'fix' the ...
Johnson's thoughts on biography and on poetry found their union in his understanding of what would make a good critic. His works were dominated with his intent to use them for literary criticism, including his Dictionary to which he wrote: "I lately published a Dictionary like those compiled by the academies of Italy and France, for the use of such as aspire to exactness of criticism, or ...
Chesterfield sent Johnson £10 but offered no greater support to Johnson through the seven further years it took him to compile the Dictionary. A degree of genteel mutual antipathy thereafter existed between the two men, Chesterfield regarding Johnson as a "respectable Hottentot , who throws his meat anywhere but down his throat" and as ...
A supplementary volume of his dictionary appeared in 1727, and in 1730 a folio edition, the Dictionarium Britannicum [9] containing many technical terms. [8] Bailey had collaborators, for example John Martyn who worked on botanical terms in 1725. [10] Samuel Johnson made an interleaved copy the foundation of his own Johnson's Dictionary. [8]
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It was begun and completed while Johnson was busy writing A Dictionary of the English Language and it was the first published work to include Johnson's name on the title page. As the subtitle suggests, it is an imitation of Satire X by the Latin poet Juvenal. Unlike Juvenal, Johnson attempts to sympathize with his poetic subjects.