{"id":5863,"date":"2007-01-05T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T13:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2010-07-16T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:22:33","slug":"samuel-johnson-and-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5863","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Johnson and the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;<i>The English Dictionary<\/i> was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. . . . I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please, have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Samuel Johnson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Utilities\/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13104&#038;R=111D93934\">Insightful article<\/a> about <i>The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson<\/i> &#8211; which has been in the editing and preparation process since the 1950s &#8211; now being released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1910],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21614,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions\/21614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}