 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
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 258 strani
...lexicographer, 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... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 1846 - 380 strani
...might be alleged, hi 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 inconvenisnce and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Mrs. Judson returned... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 754 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... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1849 - 468 strani
...others which arose from his own straitened position. ' The English Dictionary,' he reminds us, ' was written with little assistance of the learned, and...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' It was even so, as JOHNSON here states it. He had a right to look for 'assistance of the learned ;'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 760 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... | |
 | 1850 - 790 strani
...prosecuted these literary labours, so extraordinary at the time, he observed were far from encouraging: "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." Though the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 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... | |
 | Wooster Beach - 1851 - 930 strani
...the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that this work was written with little assistance of the learned, and...great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction." " Friends may flatter,... | |
 | George Higby Throop - 1851 - 250 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...great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shade of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in... | |
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