The poets Dryden and Pope gave us many new words too. Dr. Johnson, the maker of the first great English dictionary, added some words to the language. As everybody knows who has read that famous book, Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, Dr. Johnson was a man who always said just what he thought, and had no patience with anything like stupidity. The expression _fiddlededee_, another way of telling a person that he is talking nonsense, was made by him. _Irascibility_, which means "tendency to be easily made cross or angry," is also one of his words, and so are the words _literature_ and _comic_. The great statesman and political writer, Edmund Burke, was the inventor of many of our commonest words relating to politics. _Colonial_, _colonization_, _electioneering_, _diplomacy_, _financial_, and many other words which are in everyday use now, were made by him. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there was a great revival in English literature, since known as the "Romantic Movement." After the rather stiff manners and writing of the eighteenth century, people began to have an enthusiasm for all sorts of old and adventurous things, and a new love for nature and beauty. Sir Walter Scott was the great novelist of the movement, and also wrote some fine, stirring ballads and poems. In these writings, which dealt chiefly with the adventurous deeds of the Middle Ages, Scott used again many old words which had been forgotten and fallen out of use. He made them everyday words again. The old word _chivalrous_, which had formerly been used to describe the institutions connected with knighthood, he used in a new way, and the word has kept this meaning ever since. It has now always the meaning of courtesy and gentleness towards the weak, but before Sir Walter Scott used it it had not this meaning at all. Scott also revived words like _raid_ and _foray_, his novels, of course, being full of descriptions of fighting on the borders of England and Scotland. It was this same writer who introduced the Scottish word _gruesome_ into the language. Later in the century another Scotsman, Thomas Carlyle, made many new words which later writers and speakers have used. They are generally rather forcible and not very dignified words, for Carlyle's writings were critical of almost everything and everybody, and he seemed to love rather ugly words, which made the faults he described seem contemptible or ridiculous. It was he who made the words _croakery_, _dry-as-dust_, and _grumbly_, and he introduced also the Scottish word _feckless_, which describes a person who is a terribly bad manager, careless and disorderly in his affairs, the sort of person whom Carlyle so much despised.