amanuenses

Some of them are near-perfect embodiments of the genre which their near word-perfect amanuenses have bodied forth, but that perfection pushes them far away from literature itself …

Zadie Smith, Mark Thwaite, Negativity and Whining for the New 2008

Some of them are near-perfect embodiments of the genre which their near word-perfect amanuenses have bodied forth, but that perfection pushes them far away from literature itself …

2008 November 15 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

For example, we learn that Milton's three daughters did not, as legend has it, serve as adoring amanuenses to the blind poet when he was writing "Paradise Lost" but instead were illiterates whose rebellious behavior so infuriated their father that he left them nothing in his will.

A Sleuth Goes to the Library Charles Harrington Elster 2009

After a period of time, they were sorted by the amanuenses into alphabetical order and, much later, were either copied or pasted into the manuscript of the Dictionary, with Johnson then adding word-headings, etymologies, definitions, and notes on usage.

Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash 2008

Back in his home city after his release, Polo may well have recounted further details of his time in the service of Khubilai Khan to other amanuenses.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Alexander the physician would have done by lapis lazuli, fifty times washed before it be used, I should have revised, corrected and amended this tract; but I had not (as I said) that happy leisure, no amanuenses or assistants.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

My idea of running amanuenses is by praise, not pudding, flattery and not coins!

Vailima Letters 2005

One, for example, professed all manner of translation, at so much per sheet, and actually kept five or six amanuenses continually employed, like so many clerks in a counting-house, by which means he was enabled to live at his ease, and enjoy his friend and his bottle, ambitious of no other character than that of an honest man and a good neighbour.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

His intimacy with many gentlemen of Scotland, and his employing so many natives of that country as his amanuenses, prove that his prejudice was not virulent; and I have deposited in the

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

We have seen that the reward of his labour was only fifteen hundred and seventy-five pounds; and when the expence of amanuenses and paper, and other articles are deducted, his clear profit was very inconsiderable.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004