 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 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... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1873 - 386 strani
...sp'vit in man, and whose inspiration giveth him understanding." Scheele, much of whose 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, was an acute and... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 strani
...faults 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... | |
 | 1875 - 174 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...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 358 strani
...and whose minuter criticisms will be disarmed by the reflection, that these lines were conceived " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of Academic Groves, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." I am more anxious... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 960 strani
...preface, " the dreams of a poet ; " he was " doomed at last to wake » lexicographer ! " He wrote having " little assistance of the learned, and without any...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Yes. His " Tetty " died during the nine years his Dictionary occupied him ; he was not able during... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 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...the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 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 amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow ; and it may repress... | |
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