At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
A Definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Do you ever open the dictionary right to the page you want? Doesn’t that feel good?
Had Johnson left us nothing but his Dictionary, we might have traced there a great intellect, a genuine man.
