 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
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 strani
...faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionaty was written with little assistance of the learned,...retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | 1927 - 984 strani
...circumstances under which it was composed: 'with,' as its author says, ' little assistance of the learned; without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' 'What do you... | |
 | 1911 - 672 strani
...were more pictures. The author excuses deficiencies in the words of Dr. Johnson : "It was written, not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction." An introductory chapter of much value is written by Dr. Л. W. Brayton,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 strani
...circumstances in which he had to work on the Dictionary were a fair image: "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." Written, that... | |
 | Geoffrey Macnab - 1993 - 324 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. (Preface to... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 strani
...of our countrymen who have deserved well of letters, be 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 honourable profession.... | |
 | Donald R. DeGlopper - 1995 - 316 strani
...solving software problems. Much of the work was done (if I may echo Johnson) without patronage, and not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, which made the forbearance and assistance of my family even more necessary. The final version of the... | |
 | Donald Robert DeGlopper - 1995 - 314 strani
...solving software problems. Much of the work was done (if I may echo Johnson) without patronage, and not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, which made the forbearance and assistance of my family even more necessary. The final version of the... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 strani
...further. "The English Dictionary"—already referred to here as a standard work, the dictionary—"was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow ... I have protracted... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 strani
...the Preface to the Dithona,y¿ “it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the &glish Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow” (¿, 328). Such a spectacle of heroic... | |
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