...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...

...as he says, " with little assistance ef the learned, and without any patrón-lijo 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...

...checked the flight, of less aspiring and persevering minds ; and much of his useful life was spent, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Scheele's first publication, which...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...— he may adopt the language of our great lexicographer, and say that his work was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction." The ardour of literary inquiry is not easily repressed ; and Mr....

...be alleged, in the melancholy words of the great English lexicographer, that it was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Mrs. .1 ml sou returned to Massachusetts...

...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." Prefact to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. — COUIITENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution...