 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
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 strani
...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great," was not likely to be caught by the lure, thrown out by lord... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 strani
...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, "not," as he says himself, "in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great," was not likely to be caught by the lure, thrown out by lord... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 strani
...English Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage from the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. ... I may be surely... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 188 strani
...English Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage from the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. ... I maybe surely... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 strani
...English Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage from the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. ... I may be surely... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 strani
...that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the " English Dictionary" was academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | 1881 - 846 strani
...preface, " the dreams of a poet ; " he was " doomed at last to wake a lexicographer " ! He wrote having {Ctpp, [Q m/ n S D k h ` = ܌ +A q* 0 $k ɦ ...\ v}Mt o <A ҫб ; Tڛ \ } l Y; ե .i \` d v p Yes. His "Tetty" died during the nine years his dictionary occupied him ; he was not able during the... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 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...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow; and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1928 - 664 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 academick towers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow : and it may repress the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1928 - 770 strani
...to confess that how he employed himself on his first coming to London is not particularly known. ' With little assistance of the learned and without...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' The familiar words from the Preface to the Dictionary suggest in dignified and pathetic outline the... | |
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