 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
 | Théodore de Bèze - 1836 - 352 strani
...whose well-known language we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued ' 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'—An exile from... | |
 | Théodore de Bèze - 1836 - 346 strani
...we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued ' with little assist ance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great;...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow'—An exile from... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 strani
...undertaking, it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so sooti, 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 to... | |
 | 1837 - 352 strani
...gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with very little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bovvers, but amidst inconvenience, and distraction; in sickness and... | |
 | Ann Hasseltine Judson, James Davis Knowles - 1838 - 430 strani
...might 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. Judson returned... | |
 | 1839 - 630 strani
...gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with very little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bower*, but amidst inconvenience and distraction; in sickness and... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1841 - 212 strani
...during the compilation of his work, invented that beautiful piece of mechanism, called the mule, " with little assistance of the learned, and without...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The parallel is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 strani
...that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the Knglish Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 772 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...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | 1833 - 310 strani
...informed the world in his preface, that " the English Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great;...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Chesterfield,... | |
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