| Weekly Scribblers English 218, Advanced Composition Spring 2008 La Salle University |
| For growing Names the weekly Scribbler lies, To growing Wealth the Dedicator flies, From every Room descends the painted Face, That hung the bright Palladium of the Place, And smoak'd in Kitchens, or in Auctions sold, To better Features yields the Frame of Gold; --Samuel Johnson, "The Vanity of Human Wishes" |
| SCRI' BBLER. n.s. [from scribble.] A petty author; a writer without worth. The most copious writers are the arrantest scribblers, and in so much talking the tongue runs before the wit. L'Estrange. The actors represent such things as they are capable, by which they and the scribbler may get their living. Dryden. The scribbler, pinch'd with hunger, writes to dine, And to your genius must conform his line. Granv. To affirm he had cause to apprehend the same treatment with his father, is an improbable scandal flung upon the nation by a few bigoted French scribblers. Swift. No body was concerned or surprised, if this or that scribbler was proved a dunce. Letter to Pope's Dunciad. --Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language |