 Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - עמוד 56מאת Samuel Johnson - 1806תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 דפים
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Preface to Dr. Johnson'' s Dictionary. — COUUTENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution... | |
 | 1833 - 310 דפים
...Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Chesterfield, on the other hand, ridiculed Johnson's deportment and manners, of which he gave a satirical... | |
 | 1833 - 360 דפים
...conclude without alluding to one very interesting circumstance, — that these Songs have not been written "in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers," but in the intervals of relaxation from employments not favourable in any way to poetic feeling. Lord Craig... | |
 | 1834 - 440 דפים
...Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Chesterfield, on the other hand ridiculed Johnson's deportment and manners, of which he gave a satirical... | |
 | 1834 - 426 דפים
...author declares, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow." Lord Chesterfield, at that time, was universally esteemed the Mascenas of the age; and it... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 דפים
...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to which he here alludes is probably that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who died... | |
 | Théodore de Bèze - 1836 - 352 דפים
...labours were pursued ' with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow' — An exile from his native soil, and living in an age when the mingled storms of controversy and... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 דפים
...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to which he here alludes is probably that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who died... | |
 | 1837 - 352 דפים
...the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience, and distraction ; in sickness and sorrow." 39. Men resemble the gods in nothing so much, as in doing good lo their fellow creatures.... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 דפים
...the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction; in sickness and sorrow." DCCLXXII. Modern Honour.—The only ti1ing of weight that can be said against modern honour... | |
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