Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, And Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master

More than 300 barbs collected from Samuel Johnson's famous 1755 dictionary comprise some of his most scathing and humorous insults, including several lesser-known examples that have fallen out of popular use, in a volume of terms complemented by whimsically affronting definitions. By the author of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson. Reprint.