| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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