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n. (obsolete spelling of author English)
Usage examples of "authour".
And such was the tenderness of his conscience, that a short time before his death he expressed his regret for his having been the authour of fictions which had passed for realities.
Richardson, son of the painter, to endeavour to find out who this new authour was.
Richardson, authour of Clarissa, and other novels of extensive reputation.
Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he met with it in Devonshire, knowing nothing of its authour, and began to read it while he was standing with his arm leaning against a chimney-piece.
Johnson, hearing of their tendency, which nobody disputed, was roused with a just indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble authour and his editor.
It must undoubtedly seem strange, that the conclusion of his Preface should be expressed in terms so desponding, when it is considered that the authour was then only in his forty-sixth year.
Joseph Simpson, Barrister, and authour of a tract entitled Reflections on the Study of the Law.
Though then but two-and-twenty, I had for several years read his works with delight and instruction, and had the highest reverence for their authour, which had grown up in my fancy into a kind of mysterious veneration, by figuring to myself a state of solemn elevated abstraction, in which I supposed him to live in the immense metropolis of London.
Sir, it was like leading one to talk of a book when the authour is concealed behind the door.
Goldsmith is one of the first men we now have as an authour, and he is a very worthy man too.
Had it been foretold to me some years ago that I should pass an evening with the authour of The Rambler, how should I have exulted!
Goldsmith was the authour of An Enquiry into the present State of polite Learning in Europe, and of The Citizen of the World, a series of letters supposed to be written from London by a Chinese.
I mentioned a certain authour who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to noblemen into whose company he was admitted.
At this time Sir Joshua himself had received no information concerning the authour, except being assured by one of our most eminent literati, that it was clear its authour did not know the Greek tragedies in the original.
Letters to Lord Mansfield: a copy of which had been sent by the authour to Dr.