The Yale publications (got in through the sound byte page links) had a list of their publications of Bosewell's journals. [Non-text portions of this message...
To be clear, I'm wondering about something more detailed than a list of what the journal volumes are and the periods they cover... If you have the Hill-Powell...
I'm pretty sure no such index exists, but it would certainly be useful. The individual volumes themselves are very well indexed and it wold be a long, but not...
IMO it definitely would be an exercise in drudgery... But it occurred to me a couple weeks ago when someone asked me to verify a Johnson comment on John...
lynch_frank writes: But I myself would be willing to pay $10+ for a comprehensive index. Yet I can't do it myself... And I wonder if anyone at Yale has...
Jack Lynch
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Jul 12, 2002 1:56 am
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... OK. For you, I'll make a deal... :-) Would a comprehensive index be of sufficient added value that it wou'dn't violate copyright? How many $10 copies...
I stumbled across this site and thought that it would be of interest to those of you who have not yet found it. http://home.pacbell.net/zbyte/sj.html Hope you...
Uh oh, someone at salon.com has been reading too much Samuel Johnson - - in a column on Connie Chung's new show on CNN, we read "Chung still inexplicably...
Someone on the group just emailed me in response to my last post, and I erroneously deleted it, thinking it was posted here in the group and I should reply in...
lynch_frank writes: Uh oh, someone at salon.com has been reading too much Samuel Johnson - - in a column on Connie Chung's new show on CNN, we read "Chung...
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Now come on, Frank! "Perspicacious" is a perfectly good English word, with a meaning that is not exactly cognate with other words that hover on its edges,...
I thought that "perspicacious" was a welcome change from the "dumbing down" common in news reporting . More "hard words" would be refreshing. [Non-text...
... Of COURSE perspicacious and vicissitudes are perfectly legitimate words. But I think they have their place - - Johnson essays being one of them! (I...
lynch_frank writes: The primary purpose is to communicate, not to send someone to a dictionary. Unless, of course, that happens to be _Samuel Johnson's ...
Jack Lynch
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I didn't get Frank's original comment, since I actually use "perspicacious" on a regular basis. Too regular, perhaps. It's my code word for, Is this person...
Wasn't it Richard Baxter who advised his preachers to include at least one hard word, obscure allusion, or difficult word into their sermons? The congregation...
I guess the cure for that is to watch less tv and read more ... Regarding current affairs- I was so impressed with last week's quote of the week on the sound...
A hasty PS- I meant the quote for the week of July 7th. Sorry for any obfuscation!- ... of ... to ... her ... that ... for, ... place. ... just ... legitimate ...
... Why <blush>thanks!</blush> (That would be http://www.samueljohnson.com/qotw02q3.html#0707) Although, in fairness, when I first wrote it I wasn't thinking...
Frank, In relation to your citation of The Oxford Book of Death, it might be worth noting that there's a new edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy--THE BEST ...
... They -do- seem to die at the end of the biographies, don't they? Clifford's 2 Johnson volumes are a bit of an exception. For an exception of -another-...
Sorry not to reply sooner! I have two copies of the Rambler. One is an Everyman Library edition and it's selected Ramblers. The other is a two volume edition...
... Hopefully when your friends return them they're in better shape! I was just curious about the editions that are out there - - I didn't think there was an...
... I was just curious about the editions that are out there - - I didn't think there was an edition any one would trust with a friend. (I know the Yale...
