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" Dictionary was 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 academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. "
Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 470
by Nathan Drake - 1810 - 499 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...Dictionary was 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. It may repress...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 366 pages
...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...bowers, " but amidst inconvenience and distraction, 18 " in sickness and in sorrow, and without the pa" tronage of the Great," was not likely to be caught...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 1

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...checked the flight, of less aspiring and persevering minds ; and much of his useful 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." Scheele's first publication, which...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...Dictionary" was 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. It may repress...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...finished hie Dictionary, " not," as be says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under tbe shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and In sorrow, and without tbe patronage of the Great," was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...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. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully displayed,...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...Dictionary was 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. It may repress...
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The Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 3

Theology - 1826 - 576 pages
...business ; — he may adopt the language of our great lexicographer, and say that his work was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction." The ardour of literary inquiry is not easily repressed ; and Mr....
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The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volume 4

Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - Theology - 1828 - 796 pages
...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...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sor* In the pathetic close of the narrative which Mr. Fox has given us of Argyle's death, there are...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Preface to Dr. Johnson'' s Dictionary. — COUUTENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution...
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