 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...commonly entertained of his own laborions task. Thus: " Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grubstreet." — " Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge*." At the time when he... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1857 - 672 pages
...what was once distinguished as Grubstreet, " much inhabited," we are told by a great lexicographer, " by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called Grub-street." Its present name is derived from the neighbourhood being hallowed by the memory of Milton,... | |
 | William Bolles - English language - 1845 - 954 pages
...(See GRABBLE.) QBOB8TREET, grntortrS't, n. Originally the name of a street near Moorfields, in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...temporary poems : whence any mean production is called /rrvittrcet. GRUDGE, grij1, vt. To envy; to Bee any advantage of another with discontent To give or... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...commonly mtertainedof his own laborious task. Thus: ' Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grubstreet." — " Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless, drudge^." At the time when... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus : " Grub Street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub Street" — " Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge." At the time when he... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...Grub-street altogether. 'It is a street in London,' was Johnson's definition, four years before the present, 'much inhabited ' by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...temporary ' poems : whence any mean production is called Grub' street.' Why, a man might enter even Grub-street, then, with bold and cheerful heart, seeing... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus : " Grub Street, the name of a street in London, ve, that constitutional goodness, which is not founded upon principle. Grub Street." — "Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge" * At the time when he... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...Grub-street altogether. 'It is a street in London,' was Johnson's definition, four years before the present, 'much inhabited ' by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...temporary ' poems : whence any mean production is called Grub' street.' Why, a man might enter even Grub-street, then, with bold and cheerful heart, seeing... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 pages
...altogether. 'It is a street in London,' was Johnson's definition, four years before the present, fmuch inhabited ' by writers of small histories, dictionaries,...temporary ' poems : whence any mean production is called Grub' street.' Why, a man might enter even Grub-street, then, with bold and cheerful heart, seeing... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...Grub-street altogether. 'It is a street in London,' was Johnson's definition, four years before the present, 'much inhabited ' by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary ' poems : whence any meau production is called Grub' street.' Why, a man might enter even Grub-street, then, with bold and... | |
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London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. 
