How To Use Dr. johnson In A Sentence
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I enclose you Dr. Johnson's definition of a vampyre, which is as follows:
Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1
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'Dr. Johnson has rightly said that the incommodities of a single life are necessary and certain, but those of a conjugal state are avoidable.
Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
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Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell's intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to _write his life_ he would prevent it by _taking Boswell's!
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
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It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.'
On Dictionaries
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Lamb (who drank only water) retired almost with the dinner itself, nothing remained for men of our principles, the rigor of which we had illustrated by taking rather too much of old port before the cloth was drawn, except talking; amoebaean colloquy, or, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, a dialogue of "brisk reciprocation.
Biographical Essays
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He is what Dr. Johnson calls a rapturist, and I saw plainly he meant to pour forth much civility into my ears.
Life Of Johnson
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‘It is useless,’ Dr. Johnson once remarked, ‘to criticize an unresisting imbecility.’
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On Saturday, July 30, Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
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Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin from bump; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard: in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from thence applied to a large flagon, or full glass.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
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[Dr. Johnson again.] acorn ... the nut of the oak usu. seated in or surrounded by a hard woody cupule of indurated bracts.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
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From Dr. Johnson to Winston Churchill, it is the idiosyncratic individual who stirs their imagination, not some unpalatably abstract truth.
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It is, indeed, to this latter description of persons that I would especially recommend a residence in a country town; and, as Dr. Johnson said, that "wherever he might dine, he would wish to breakfast in Scotland;" so, wherever I may pass my youth, let my days of old bachelorship, if to such I am doomed, be spent in a country town.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829
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Dr. Johnson said she ‘loves pediatrics, geriatrics, the whole spectrum of family medicine.’
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_fag_ is not to be found in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary; but the verb to fag is there a verb neuter, from fatigo, Latin, and is there explained to mean, "to grow weary, to faint with weariness.
Tales and Novels — Volume 01
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'De brevete is de sole of de feet,' as you great philosophere, Dr. Johnson, do say, in dat amusing little vork of his, de Pronouncing Dictionnaire; and, derefore, I vill not say ver moch to de point.
Public Speaking
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John remembered, Dr. Johnson had lived, and he tried to imagine the scene that took place on the night of misery when Oliver Goldsmith went to the Doctor and wept over the failure of _The Good Natured Man_, and was called a ninny for his pains.
The Foolish Lovers
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Dr. Johnson said that Wednesday would be a half - holiday.
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The age is approaching when Dr. Johnson will define network as 'anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections,' or will modify his hasty statement that Buckingham's comedy, the Rehearsal, had not 'wit enough to keep it sweet,' with the corrected version: 'It has not vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction.'
On Dictionaries
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Upon which Dr. Johnson wrote one of his sesquipedalia verba [1102], which was pronounced by the scholars, and he was satisfied.
Life of Johnson
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I wanted to call upon Dr. Johnson, and it is so disagreeable to me to go to him alone, now poor Mrs. Williams is dead, on account of the quantity of men always visiting him, that I most gladly accepted, almost asked, his 'squireship.
Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney
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I never heard the word quotidian in this sense, and I imagined it to be a word of Dr. Johnson's own fabrication; but I have since found it in
Life of Johnson
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My father whispered to him that music was going forward, which he would not, my father thinks, have found out; and, placing him on the best seat vacant, told his daughters to go on with the duet, while Dr. Johnson, intently rolling towards them one eye -- for they say he does not see with the other -- made a grave nod, and gave a dignified motion with one hand, in silent approvance of the proceeding. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776
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Robert Craft replies: Richard Taruskin, the meticulous scholar I first met eight years ago and through correspondence came to know and like, has lately turned into a sloppy, thersitical journalist, more judgmental than Dr. Johnson.
'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange
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In 1774 Dr. Johnson, in a letter, wished that “what is undeservedly forgotten of our antiquated literature might be re - vived” and John Berkenhout in 1777 subtitled his Biog - raphia Literaria, A Biographical History of Literature, in which he proposed to give a “concise view of the rise and progress of literature.”
LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
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Dr. Johnson calls a thoroughly "clubbable" man, eminently social and familiar; in private interviews and sometimes in public, overflowing with
Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln
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Dr. Johnson said she ‘loves pediatrics, geriatrics, the whole spectrum of family medicine.’
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Dr. Johnson epigrammatized Spenser's indictment into
Among My Books Second Series
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What is pathetic about the anemic-brained man in the ulster is that he has been misled, that the tablet will not fulfill his earnest belief in its power as a representation of Dr. Johnson, and yet the man will continue to believe in the tablet.
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Dr. Johnson's statue can be seen any day for twopence, which is tenpence less than Madame Tassaud charges for admission to her wax effigies, and must therefore be considered cheap.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Nobody can say that the abominable misconduct of Maulincour -- who is a hopeless "cad" -- is too much punished, though an Englishman may think that Dr. Johnson's receipt of three or four footmen with cudgels, applied repeatedly and unsparingly, would have been better than elaborately prepared accidents and duels, which were too honorable for
The Thirteen
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Dr. Johnson said she ‘loves pediatrics, geriatrics, the whole spectrum of family medicine.’
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Yet, the tireless efforts of Dr. Johnson and other churchmen clergy and laity -- to relieve the suffering in Biafra is evidence enough of the primary and essential role of the church: the maintenance of the highest standard of human concern.
Nigeria-Biafra Tragedy: Any Hope?
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Dr. Johnson, the great exemplar of British common-sense, observing in autumn the gathered swallows skimming over pools and rivers, pronounced it certain that these birds sleep all the winter -- "A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river": how sensibly, too, did he dispose of Berkeley's
Art
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Mr. Croker is perpetually stopping us in our progress through the most delightful narrative in the language, to observe that really Dr. Johnson was very rude, that he talked more for victory than for truth, that his taste for port wine with capillaire in it was very odd, that Boswell was impertinent, that it was foolish in Mr.. Thrale to marry the music-master; and so forth.
Famous Reviews
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[830] Dr. Johnson, describing her needle-work in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale, vol.i. p. 326, uses the learned word sutile; which Mrs. Thrale has mistaken, and made the phrase injurious by writing 'futile pictures.'
Life of Johnson
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Dr. Johnson shunned tonight any discussion of the perplexed question of fate and free will.
