 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 inconveniences and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Samuel...  The American Educational Monthly - Stran 3061871Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 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...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. " The sorrow to which he here alludes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 strani
...meanness of f< dedication." Such aman when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under " the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst f e inconvenience and distraction, in sickness '•' and in sorrow, and without the patronage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 strani
...of 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... | |
 | 1808 - 614 strani
...least ten years, we are sorry, for our country's honour, to say, is undertaken as Johnson's dictionary was written, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great." So incompetent are the author's resources to the expenses of the under, taking, that we understand... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 strani
...of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 strani
...of that which it condemns,) yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, hut ami<lst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 530 strani
...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely, is not the least of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 528 strani
...to happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely, is not the least of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 532 strani
...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-crea-r tures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; butamidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely, is not the least... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 strani
...faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
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