 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...playful allusion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus : ' Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by...Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge*.' ' ' There have been great contests in the Privy Council about the trial of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...playful allusion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus : ' Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by...Grub-street''.' — Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a Jiarmless drudge'.' 1 ' There have been great contests in the Privy- Council about the trial of the... | |
 | John Walker - 1807 - 1108 páginas
...GRUB-sTREET,grub'str6et.s. Thename ; — me, mdt ; — pine, pin ; — of a street in London, formerly much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...whence any mean production is called Grub-street. To GRUDGE, grfidje. va To envy, to see am advantage of'another with discontent; to gheortake unwillingly.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...playful allusion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus; " Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, ilictionarie.s.nn] temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street." — " Lexicographer,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 páginas
...playful allnsion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborions task. Thns; s' Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by...drudge." At the time when he was concluding his very eloqnent Preface, Johnson's mind appears to have been in such u state of depression, that we cannot... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 páginas
...playful allusion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus ; " Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by...Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge" be legally obtained. I wished to have procured for my readers a copy of the opinion which he gave,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 páginas
...playful allusion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus ; " Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by...temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called Grub -street." — " Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge" be legally obtained.... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 710 páginas
...dark. GRUB-STREET, grubUtr££t, *. Tlie name of a street In London, formerly much inhabited by wriiers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems...whence any mean production is called Grub-street. To GRUDGE, gt'udjc, va To envy, to see any advantage of another with discontent ; to give or take unwillingly.... | |
 | 1822 - 430 páginas
...GRUB-STREET. Originally the name of a street in Moortields, London, much inhabited by writers of a nail histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence, any mean production is called grub-street. '• LBXICOQRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 808 páginas
...grubbl. vn 40i. To feel in the dark. GRUB-STREET, grnb'strW.ts The. name of a street in London, formerly much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...whence any mean production is called Grub-street. To GKUDGE, grmlje. va To envy, to sec any advantage of another with discontent ; to give or take unwillingly.... | |
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London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called Grub Street. 
