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This lesson from a Restoration and Eighteenth Century unit focues on the Age of Sensibility and Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, the first English dictionary. It provides a link to a Discovery Channel Video (requires login) about the dictionary and a link to a PDF excerpt from the dictionary "Defining Travel and Travels." It also provides a link to "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" in text with commentary and in audio.
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"defining travel and travels" excerpt from dictionary, "elegy written in a country churchyard" text and commentary and audio, "restoration and eighteenth century: the age of sensibility", georgia virtual learning, restoration and eighteenth century, samuel johnson's "a dictionary of the english language", the age of sensibility, first english dictionary, over 40,000 words, illustrating them with 114,000 quotations, dictionary of the english language
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- Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)