Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language
Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This anthology includes 4,000 of the most representative, entertaining, and historically fascinating entries, covering subjects from fashion to food, science to sex, and given in full with original spelling and examples of usage from Shakespeare to Milton.
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Johnson的解釋很富文學性,但畢竟隻是字典,整體性上的欠缺也是有的。
评分窮餓無聊看字典=。=||
评分: H316/J69
评分: H316/J69
评分‘I bought a dictionary for myself, I said. And it’s my resolution to study it every day.’
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