I've been on holiday for the last 10 days so catching up here. I believe folk dancing in aggregate was simply called "country dancing" or "country dances",...
I'm forwarding this message from the exlibris list. What an opportunity for the qualified person! Jerry Morris [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Thanks for your input! We are arranging Morris dancers in Gough Sq this summer, to dance some traditional Lichfield dancers - it should be fun! Natasha McEnroe...
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Burney Society Conference 2004 When: October 7, 2004 Where: The Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA The Burney Society of North America invites...
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Supposedly this volume of Yale's Johnson works is out. My copy has yet to arrive. Has anyone gotten theirs? Frank www.samueljohnson.com/...
Dr Johnson's House Events 2004 Museums and Galleries Month Attention All Children - Come and try on Dr Johnson's Coat for size! This May, Dr Johnson's House is...
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Hi. I'm new to the group but have been interested in Johnson for a long time. I saw reference in an earlier posting to Lydia Davis' book Samuel Johnson Is...
shandydidnotlast writes: Does anyone know about a new book on the Dictionary which is due out next year? Not Jack Lynch's very appealing edition, but an actual...
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I can't believe we're getting junk postings. These hucksters get everywhere. Thanks, Jack, for your info about the book you are doing with Anne McDermott. I am...
shandydidnotlast writes: Thanks, Jack, for your info about the book you are doing with Anne McDermott. I am guessing this will be published by a scholarly...
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Folks on this list aren't likely to care for this comment; but it fairly represents, no only Hazlitt on Johnson, but the reaction of Romantic sensibility to...
Hazlitt, himself, evidently a practitioner of tall, opaque words. GG "Roaring*Girle" -- "Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the...
Greetings, I am the (silent) Listowner of "Johnsonian". Hitherto, this group has escaped the junk emails that have afflicted other mailing lists. Should ...
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Jack Lynch very thoughtfully flagged my forthcoming book earlier today, in response to a question originally posed by shandydidnotlast. Just to clarify: this...
... "first row of the rubric." Many syllables, for sure. But why first row, and what rubric? I believe the expression, "the first row of the rubric," is a...
A Night at Old Slaughter's Coffee House Thursday 15th July 2004 Coffee-houses played an important part in the social life of eighteenth century London. One of...
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Fellow Johnsonians - I'm afraid that I'll have to withdraw from this group if we cannot do something about the spam problem. It was something that I suspected...
I know Yahoo has a horrid reputation, but I have began with onelist and egroups before Yahoo took over both groups and have never noticed an increase in spam....
Alas, I'm getting it daily, on an accelerating basis. The first law of SPAM: The more you get, the more you get. GG [Non-text portions of this message have...
Jan - Thank you for your kind reply and for the information - the stuff coming through on this list isn't a big deal, it's the sudden increase in off-list...
This email address is my only personal one (I have a lot of business accounts), which makes me suspicious as I had not gotten yahoo spam on this email address...
I am the Listowner for the Johnsonian mailing list. I have been out of town for the past week and have been unable to keep an eye on the postings to this...
Two items of spam on the page don't exactly constitute a deluge. All users will doubtless receive spam on a daily basis if they have accounts with the likes of...
