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"Male"
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"English"
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"Preface to the Dictionary [from A Dictionary of the English Language]"
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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1755
"The imperfect sense of some examples I lamented, but could not remedy, and hope they will be compensated by innumerable passages selected with propriety, and preserved with exactness; some shining with sparks of imagination, and some replete with treasures of wisdom."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)