 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
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 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 shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 258 דפים
...called the mule, "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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The parallel is rendered more striking,... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 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 thing of weight that can be said against modern honour... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - 1847 - 120 דפים
...his countrymen who have deserved well of letters, he has been obliged to prosecute his studies, ' not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers,' but amidst the inconveniences and distractions of public life, and the fatigues of his honorable profession. He... | |
 | 1850 - 790 דפים
...from encouraging: "with little assistance of the learned, and without auy patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Though the Dictionary brought him £1,575, his expenses exceeded what the booksellers had agreed to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 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 shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may represthe triumph of malignant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 דפים
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not a man at «very blow : When they wheeled and turned, as many more bower!, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 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 shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction ; in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | 1854 - 706 דפים
...the learned, and without the 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 in sorrow), instead of affording matter for envy or malignancy to prey upon, it must excite wonder and admiration... | |
 | 1854 - 768 דפים
...the learned, and without the 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 in sorrow), instead of affording matter for envy or malignancy to prey upon, it must excite wonder and admiration... | |
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