TY - JOUR
AB - 58 CORRESPONDENCE lines which Roscommon 'of the unspotted bays', the subject of an interesting article in the same number as the letter, translated as follows: Men ever had, and ever will have, leave To coin new words well suited to the age. Words are like leaves, some wither every year, And every year a younger race succeeds. I am, Sir, Yours faithfully, B. B. G. T o the Editor of English. Dea r Sir, I enjoyed the article by Mr. Guy Boas, 'Dr. Johnson on Schools and School- masters'. It may interest him t o know that Dr. Johnson and Garrick were in even worse plight than he thought, if 'ride and tie ' mean t the same then as i t means in New Zealand now. They would have ha d only one horse: Johnson would have ridden, say, half a mile past Garrick and tied the horse to the hedge and walked on : Garrick on foot comes up to the horse, mounts, overtakes Johnson, rides on another half-mile, dismounts, ties up , walks on—and so on. I used to think it was a New Zealand trick, and remember being surprised by the phrase in Boswell; bu 
TI - PROCEEDINGS OF BRANCHES
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/2.7.58-b
DA - 1938-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/proceedings-of-branches-riYHLdk5II
SP - 58-b
EP - 62
VL - 2
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -