Authority Cited: Ascham
Author name and dates: Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
BKG Bio-tweet: Greek and Latin scholar; tutor to Queens; simple English prose style in works on education; emphasized youth fitness
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 53 Ascham cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 71 Ascham cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four Ascham cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Two items in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. are: 58 8. . . . Aschami epistola, &c. and 276 2. Ascham's works by Bennet. . . . Donald Green, in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, indicates that the 1761 Bennet edition, including the Life of Ascham, are thought to be by Johnson.]
Author name and dates: Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
BKG Bio-tweet: Greek and Latin scholar; tutor to Queens; simple English prose style in works on education; emphasized youth fitness
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 53 Ascham cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 71 Ascham cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four Ascham cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. Two items in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. are: 58 8. . . . Aschami epistola, &c. and 276 2. Ascham's works by Bennet. . . . Donald Green, in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, indicates that the 1761 Bennet edition, including the Life of Ascham, are thought to be by Johnson.]
- Schoolmaster; The scholemaster: shewing a plain and perfect way of teaching the learned languages: by Roger Ascham, ... Now revised a second time, and much improved, by James Upton, 1743 London : printed for W. Innys; and S. Birt. Yale Vol. 18, p.310 suggests this edition as a source of the 1st edition Dict. quotations and the quotation of Ascham in the Dict. "Grammar of the English Tongue." The first edition of the Schoolmaster (published posthumously) was in 1570: The scholemaster or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in ientlemen and noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge ... By Roger Ascham. Margaret Ascham, An. 1570. At London : Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate; (the following are example headwords) babish, bachelor; beater, big, breed, brittleness, buzzard, carry, comely, conference, dissensious, drown, fast, freely, frounce, groundly, hold, inventive (inventivest), larder, leasy, maker, manslaughter, mar, marrer, master, meanly, men, miss, nightwalker, nip, nipper, odd, one* (etym.), papistry, parse, rash, relative, sharpen, stoutness, to, uncourteously, wearisomeness, weerish, wring; advisedly (also from the Schoolmaster); antecedent; drive; gairish
- Ascham (no work cited = *) 1755 Dict.: fond*, indifferent*, keep*, life*, misliker*, pure*, smally*, trimly*, truantship*, turn*, untwine*, womanish* [BKG Note: These are all likely from the Schoolmaster]