 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
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 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; and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 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 ; and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that, if our language is not here fully... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 דפים
...maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 דפים
...maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 דפים
...was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage from 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. ... I may be surely contented without... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 דפים
...Dictionary" was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not ose renew The juice nectareous, It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 דפים
...Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 238. 5 No. 196. ' Boswell's Life of Johnson, i. 354, «. 2. 7 Ib. iii. 419. under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. I have protracted my work,' he continued, ' till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 דפים
...to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of " an Englishman to a Frenchman." 1 It was written " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under " the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst in" convenience and distraction, in sickness and in " sorrow." 2 His wife's health, as I have shown,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 72 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. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 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. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
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