 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
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 796 strani
...glare. Do we not sympathize with Dr. Johnson when he tells us that the English Dictionary was " written, not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sor* In the pathetic... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 736 strani
...glare. Do we not sympathize with Dr. Johnson when he tells us that the English Dictionary was " written, not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sor* In the pathetic... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 1829 - 344 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." MJJS. Judson... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 1829 - 340 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 académie bowers ; but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Mrs. Judson... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 1829 - 340 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 strani
...that which it condemns, yet it may gr ¡tify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obsenritiee of retirement, or under the fhclier of academic bowers, but amid Inconvenience and distraction,... | |
 | John CAWOOD (Perpetual Curate of Bewdley.) - 1831 - 82 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! I have protracted... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 652 strani
...that the tip 11 ' Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any pM; of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of ««v bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." P"j" 1 to Dr. Johninm'i... | |
 | 1834 - 426 strani
...will rise in the estimation of all who are informed that it was written, as the author declares, " 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 sorrow. " Lord Chesterfield,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 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...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to... | |
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