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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765 - Stran 298avtor: James Boswell - 1887Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 504 strani
...may gratify curiofity to inform it, that the Englijb Difliouary was written with little afTiftancc of the learned* and without any patronage of the great; not in the foft obfcurities of retirement, or under the fbelter of academick bowers, but am id ft inconvenience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 456 strani
...may gratify curiofity to inform it, that the Engli/h DiSfionary was •written with little affiftance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the foft obfcurities of retirement, or under the fhelter of academick bowers, but amidft inconvenience... | |
 | 1755 - 694 strani
...it may gratify curiolity to inform it, that the Englim Dictionary was written with little affifhnce of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the foft obfcurities of retirement, or under the ihelter of academic bowers ; but amidft inconvenience... | |
 | 1804 - 712 strani
...» fpecimen of very eocfiderable poetic powers. The poems have been written without any afliftance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the foft (hades of retirement, nor under the ftielier of academic bowers, but amidft inconvenience and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 strani
...it was A 6 finifbed finiflied fo foon, firice it was written, as he fays, " with little affiftance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the foft obfcurities of retirement, or under the fhelter of academic bowers, but amidft inconvenience and... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1803 - 530 strani
...See WiNDEBoati'i England, &c. which had gone before it; and taking into the account also, that it was written " with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow," it must be regarded... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 596 strani
...number and nature of the works q which he published. These, it should be remembered, were written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic GILBERT WAKEFIELD. 311 bowers, but"' at intervals snatched from liis daily avocations, and... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 570 strani
...number and nature of the works' 1 which he published. These, it should be remembered, were written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but" 1 at intervals snatched from his daily avocations, and amidst a variety of embarrassments,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 strani
...undertaking, it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. " The sorrow... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 strani
...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the gfeat; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst... | |
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