 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...own laborious task. Thus • " Grvb-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems:...whence any mean production is called Grubstreet."—" Lexicographer, a writer of dic;ionaries, a harmless drudge2." At the time when he was concluding his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...own laborions task. Thus: " Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by writers — " Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge*." At the time when he was concluding... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...own laborious task. Thus: " Grub Street, the name of a street in 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." At the time when he... | |
 | John Walker - 1836 - 800 pages
...grob'bl. vn 405. To feel in the dark. GRUB-STREET, grnb'street. a. The name of a street in London, formerly much inhabited by writer* of small histories,...temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called Grib-street. To GRUDGE, grfldje. va To envy, to see any advantage of another with discontent ; to give... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 pages
...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, who, in... | |
 | William Bolles - 1845 - 954 pages
...grntortrS't, n. Originally the name of a street near Moorfields, in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and 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 - 1846 - 602 pages
...own laborious task. Thus: ' Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems;...whence any mean production is called Grubstreet." — " Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless, drudge^." At the time when he was concluding... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 734 pages
...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 mean production is called Grub' street.' Why, a man might enter even Grub-street, then, with bold and cheerful heart, seeing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...own laborious task. Thus : " Grub Street, the name of a street in 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." At the time when he... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...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 mean production is called Grub' street.' Why, a man might enter even Grub-street, then, with bold and cheerful heart, seeing... | |
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London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems ; whence any mean production is called Grub-street. 
