Dr Johnson's House.
"While the Dictionary was going forward, Johnson lived
part of the time in Holborn, part in Gough Square, Fleet Street; and he had an
upper room fitted up like a counting-house for the
purpose, in which he gave to the copyists their several tasks. The words, partly taken from
other dictionaries, and partly supplied by himself, having
been first written down with spaces left between them,
he delivered in writing their etymologies, definitions, and
and for his learning I respect him, and I wish to serve him."
Extract from "The Life of Samuel Johnson" (Open Library)
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