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n. 2 Only two of his personal definitions seem to have caused Johnson any trouble... [2] And Johnson’s view of a pension as ‘pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country’ was the source of much merriment, some quite vindictive, when he accepted just such a pension (of £300) from the king in 1762.
— Mar 26, 2022 06:16PM
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W.D. Clarke
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Sometimes Johnson simply gives up: drayplough (‘A plough of a particular kind’), sonata (‘A tune’), surprise sense 2 (‘A dish, I suppose, which has nothing in it’).
— Mar 30, 2022 06:06PM
W.D. Clarke
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...we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay…
— Mar 27, 2022 04:42PM
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Had to jump ahead and check "Banker" first...
— Mar 05, 2022 05:58AM
'By powerful charmes of gold and silver led,Modern day Lombards: https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/...
The Lombard bankers and the change to waste.' —Dryden
